I think you need to either: - STFU - Read a goddamn book about digital signal processing - Listen to an SACD If you weren't such an idiot, you would know that a sampling rate of 44.1KHz is not enough to adequately reproduce the audio spectrum (which goes up to 22KHz). You can't make a perfect filter, can you, moron?
What the fuck are you smoking? CDDA sucks donkey balls. And if you can't hear 20KHz, you need to go to a doctor.
Most people with decent hearing can hear up to 22KHz. CDs start to roll off at 16KHz, otherwise you would have nasty aliasing due to the low sampling rate. The fact that they are 16-bit doesn't help, either. Modern studio equipment is 24-bit for a reason. Vinyl may not have great noise performance, but it has considerably greater accuracy.
Anyway, stop reciting bullshit you read 20 years ago in Popular Mechanics. It's not true.
Unfortunately, it isn't even that. It's simply a way for the GOP to give more tax money to large, influential corporations such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin. NASA is already doing most of its work through private companies like this, and look where it got them.
For-profit companies are not interested in space exploration, they are interested in making money. Therefore, they will find loopholes in NASA contracts (which will be there on purpose), abuse the hell out of programs, and so on. Basically, this is a plan to dismantle NASA and to give the money to various campaign donors instead.
My point is that most modern Linux distributions are not designed for slow, old machines. If you need a fast desktop, you can use something like iceWM or XFCE. Even then, XFree86 will chew up most of your memory. You wouldn't try to run XP on that box, so don't expect KDE 3.2 to work.
You don't seem to have a fucking clue. The reason Word loads quickly is not because it's pre-loaded (which it isn't). It's simply because it doesn't use a bloated, platform-independent, and mostly redundant framework. Openoffice (which is mostly StarDivision's old code) is extremely old, and is built on UNO, which is large, complex, slow, and duplicates many OS functions needlessly. It's a relic of the era when a cross-platfrom program was supposed to look the same everywhere.
Windows's main strength is that it is not fragmented. If you need an IPC mechanism, it has ONE as opposed to 10 different ones. If you need a toolkit, it has ONE toolkit. If you need to save settings, it has ONE mechanism for doing that. Since you don't have 30 different crappy libraries for doing one thing, it takes up less memory and less CPU time.
Stop trying to justify Linux's problems by lying. You only make yourself (and other linux users) look stupid.
This isn't about being "as bad" as Windows. This is about dropping off the cliff beyond that.
Windows never had a bloat problem. It had many stability problems, bugginess, and so on, but bloat was never a problem. I remember people running Win95 on a 16MHz 386 with 4 megs of RAM. It was slow, but it ran.
I'm trying to adapt to Linux, but it's painfully slow. I've got a 300MHz K6-2 with 192MB RAM
That wouldn't be your problem right there, would it? Even Win98 would run slow on such an old POS box. Considering that you can get a 2GHz computer these days for less than $500 (with a monitor, no less), I fail to see your point. Old computers just aren't that useful as a full-featured desktop machine, despite what slashbots say.
In any case, my computer is a 700MHz Duron with 256 megs of RAM and a shitty videocard. XP runs like a slideshow, Mandrake 10 with KDE runs reasonably fast. Again, what's your point?
The video sender variety can be used to send digital SPDIF signals around (in perfect digital quality, of course). SPDIF is a 6MHz 1vpp signal, as is composite video. Just plug the coax digital out into the video sender and plug the wireless receiver into a DAC or receiver of some kind. Worked perfectly for my setup, and a very cool hack.
If your only edge is the POS software, then don't release it as open-source. That would ruin your company, and I thought that was pretty obvious. The only time it would make sense to make software for a POS thing open-source is if the SOFTWARE is a commodity (Linux is an example of this, except with operating systems). Otherwise, it would simply give your competitors a boost.
Of course, if your customers want access to the source, then you can give it to them under a restrictive license (so they still have to buy your hardware). But you don't want to lose your competitive edge.
Do you understand that the money schools get from these kinds of programs CAN ONLY BE USED TO PURCHASE NETWORK EQUIPMENT? That's what the word 'earmarked' means. I think you need to take a reading comprehension class.
Parents don't pay the school 10 million just for networking, they pay them a fee, and the school decides what is most important to spend it on.
That's not generally the case. For instance, the university in my town is barely making ends meet due to budget cuts, but are building a new sports stadium. Why? Because someone donated a shitload of money to build a stadium, and they can't use it for anything else. That's generally how donations work. That's also how many federal programs work.
The tuition at a private school in my town is about $12K a year. If you pay that much in education-related taxes, I don't think that kind of money would be a significant burden. Most middle-class people pay much, much less than that.
If you are motivated, you won't have any trouble in public school, either (unless it's some crime-infested inner city school). Of course, being poor is a bit of a handicap, but it's possible to work around it.
The problem is, if half your family is in jail and your parents sell drugs for a living (which is the case with many poor families), you aren't going to be motivated to go to school and learn. Which means that without mandatory, universal public schools you will be illiterate, and a useless member of society. Which means your occupation will probably involve breaking the law. This already is a major problem in the US. Do you think your life will improve if this problem is made worse?
It's not going to happen in an instant. The movement towards automation has already started, and it will keep going. I fail to see how making the world more efficient is going to give us trouble, as long as the change comes slowly.
Remember: a single bulldozer can replace a hundred men armed with shovels -- or a thousand men armed with spoons. It's a question of efficiency.
Quit listening to the libertarians. Those people are regular neo-cons. Hell, the Republican party is more liberal than the libertarians.
As an American I think we'd have a better program if the school system wasn't controlled by the government.
Really? Well, keep in mind that there is already an extensive network of non-public schools that you could go to if you have the money. How exactly does it solve the problem?
Do you think a for-profit private school would have wasted their budget money like this?
Yes. If the money was earmarked for buying network equipment, which it was, they might as well get all the network equipment they could possibly want. If I give you 10 million dollars for the sole purpose of upgrading your internet connection, wouldn't you try to spend it all? Possibly on stuff you will never need?
But Unpossible, how will poor kids go to private schools?
Quit deluding yourself. Private schools have no interest in letting poor people attend. So they will most likely simply disallow them. As in Brown vs. Board of Education.
And if you want to know how well for-profit public education works, read this.
Those that have good parents and want to be educated will be educated.
Do you think some poor kid in an inner-city ghetto is going to have good parents and the drive to succeed? Hell no. Maybe if you weren't so ignorant you would know why most civilized countries, including the US, have mandatory schooling.
What will garbage men do once the garbage machine replaces them?
Umm... perhaps something more useful/productive? Yeah, the buggy drivers lost their jobs when cars came around. So what? Granted, it will cause short-term upset, but in the long term things will get worked out just fine.
Just so you know, the PATRIOT act does not require them to have a warrant. And the cops can really fuck up you, your house, and your life if you piss them off. You would be stupid to piss them off without any reason to do so.
First, the processor/mobo requires it. Second, it doesn't affect the bandwidth, just the latency (and not that much). Third, you can actually fill all the RAM slots on the mobo without causing instability.
The FCC only defines the maximum permissible amount of interference they can generate. That level is supposed to generally not cause significant interference, but it doesn't mean it can't. If the cellphone signal is weak, there are several computers, or they are home-built, the interference might very well prevent your cellphone from working.
You can place a portable radio close to a PC and see how much interference it puts out. It's fairly noticeable with my computer.
Ummm... Lay down the crack, man. The AMD64 platform offers many more advantages than just it's 64-bitness.
First, the Opteron has an integrated memory controller. That means FAST memory access. If you are running two of them on a dual-channel board, you get a really fast NUMA configuration. That's very important for applications that actually need to calculate stuff, assuming your OS supports it.
Second, it has twice the number of registers. That gives you a large performance advantage over IA-32 because apps don't need to constantly swap out variables into RAM.
Third, the Opteron has 1 meg of L2 cache. That is twice than what Athlon 64 or Mac G5 has, for about the same price. It sure as hell makes a difference, even for normal desktop use.
Also, I see no reason whatsoever to buy an expensive pre-built system when a really nice machine can be put together in a few hours for well under $900. I just upgraded my workstation to an Opteron 140 for only about $600. That's with a server-class board, 400W power supply, and 512 megs of DDR400 registered ECC RAM. Apple doesn't even offer the same features, and a comparable machine costs about $2000 from them. Not to mention that OS X is 32-bit.
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I think you need to either:
- STFU
- Read a goddamn book about digital signal processing
- Listen to an SACD
If you weren't such an idiot, you would know that a sampling rate of 44.1KHz is not enough to adequately reproduce the audio spectrum (which goes up to 22KHz). You can't make a perfect filter, can you, moron?
What the fuck are you smoking? CDDA sucks donkey balls. And if you can't hear 20KHz, you need to go to a doctor.
Most people with decent hearing can hear up to 22KHz. CDs start to roll off at 16KHz, otherwise you would have nasty aliasing due to the low sampling rate. The fact that they are 16-bit doesn't help, either. Modern studio equipment is 24-bit for a reason. Vinyl may not have great noise performance, but it has considerably greater accuracy.
Anyway, stop reciting bullshit you read 20 years ago in Popular Mechanics. It's not true.
Unfortunately, it isn't even that. It's simply a way for the GOP to give more tax money to large, influential corporations such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin. NASA is already doing most of its work through private companies like this, and look where it got them.
For-profit companies are not interested in space exploration, they are interested in making money. Therefore, they will find loopholes in NASA contracts (which will be there on purpose), abuse the hell out of programs, and so on. Basically, this is a plan to dismantle NASA and to give the money to various campaign donors instead.
Most apps use MFC, and hardly anybody uses Delphi anymore. The point is, the toolkit is part of the system, so it's fast.
My point is that most modern Linux distributions are not designed for slow, old machines. If you need a fast desktop, you can use something like iceWM or XFCE. Even then, XFree86 will chew up most of your memory. You wouldn't try to run XP on that box, so don't expect KDE 3.2 to work.
You don't seem to have a fucking clue. The reason Word loads quickly is not because it's pre-loaded (which it isn't). It's simply because it doesn't use a bloated, platform-independent, and mostly redundant framework. Openoffice (which is mostly StarDivision's old code) is extremely old, and is built on UNO, which is large, complex, slow, and duplicates many OS functions needlessly. It's a relic of the era when a cross-platfrom program was supposed to look the same everywhere.
Windows's main strength is that it is not fragmented. If you need an IPC mechanism, it has ONE as opposed to 10 different ones. If you need a toolkit, it has ONE toolkit. If you need to save settings, it has ONE mechanism for doing that. Since you don't have 30 different crappy libraries for doing one thing, it takes up less memory and less CPU time.
Stop trying to justify Linux's problems by lying. You only make yourself (and other linux users) look stupid.
This isn't about being "as bad" as Windows. This is about dropping off the cliff beyond that.
Windows never had a bloat problem. It had many stability problems, bugginess, and so on, but bloat was never a problem. I remember people running Win95 on a 16MHz 386 with 4 megs of RAM. It was slow, but it ran.
I'm trying to adapt to Linux, but it's painfully slow. I've got a 300MHz K6-2 with 192MB RAM
That wouldn't be your problem right there, would it? Even Win98 would run slow on such an old POS box. Considering that you can get a 2GHz computer these days for less than $500 (with a monitor, no less), I fail to see your point. Old computers just aren't that useful as a full-featured desktop machine, despite what slashbots say.
In any case, my computer is a 700MHz Duron with 256 megs of RAM and a shitty videocard. XP runs like a slideshow, Mandrake 10 with KDE runs reasonably fast. Again, what's your point?
The video sender variety can be used to send digital SPDIF signals around (in perfect digital quality, of course). SPDIF is a 6MHz 1vpp signal, as is composite video. Just plug the coax digital out into the video sender and plug the wireless receiver into a DAC or receiver of some kind. Worked perfectly for my setup, and a very cool hack.
Go to a decent library, and you will find dozens of thick books that describe the official specification.
If your only edge is the POS software, then don't release it as open-source. That would ruin your company, and I thought that was pretty obvious. The only time it would make sense to make software for a POS thing open-source is if the SOFTWARE is a commodity (Linux is an example of this, except with operating systems). Otherwise, it would simply give your competitors a boost.
Of course, if your customers want access to the source, then you can give it to them under a restrictive license (so they still have to buy your hardware). But you don't want to lose your competitive edge.
Do you understand that the money schools get from these kinds of programs CAN ONLY BE USED TO PURCHASE NETWORK EQUIPMENT? That's what the word 'earmarked' means. I think you need to take a reading comprehension class.
Parents don't pay the school 10 million just for networking, they pay them a fee, and the school decides what is most important to spend it on.
That's not generally the case. For instance, the university in my town is barely making ends meet due to budget cuts, but are building a new sports stadium. Why? Because someone donated a shitload of money to build a stadium, and they can't use it for anything else. That's generally how donations work. That's also how many federal programs work.
The tuition at a private school in my town is about $12K a year. If you pay that much in education-related taxes, I don't think that kind of money would be a significant burden. Most middle-class people pay much, much less than that.
If you are motivated, you won't have any trouble in public school, either (unless it's some crime-infested inner city school). Of course, being poor is a bit of a handicap, but it's possible to work around it.
The problem is, if half your family is in jail and your parents sell drugs for a living (which is the case with many poor families), you aren't going to be motivated to go to school and learn. Which means that without mandatory, universal public schools you will be illiterate, and a useless member of society. Which means your occupation will probably involve breaking the law. This already is a major problem in the US. Do you think your life will improve if this problem is made worse?
What are you smoking? My Mandrake 10 installation dual-boots just fine. And yes, I am using grub (although it's not the default).
It's not going to happen in an instant. The movement towards automation has already started, and it will keep going. I fail to see how making the world more efficient is going to give us trouble, as long as the change comes slowly.
Remember: a single bulldozer can replace a hundred men armed with shovels -- or a thousand men armed with spoons. It's a question of efficiency.
Quit listening to the libertarians. Those people are regular neo-cons. Hell, the Republican party is more liberal than the libertarians.
As an American I think we'd have a better program if the school system wasn't controlled by the government.
Really? Well, keep in mind that there is already an extensive network of non-public schools that you could go to if you have the money. How exactly does it solve the problem?
Do you think a for-profit private school would have wasted their budget money like this?
Yes. If the money was earmarked for buying network equipment, which it was, they might as well get all the network equipment they could possibly want. If I give you 10 million dollars for the sole purpose of upgrading your internet connection, wouldn't you try to spend it all? Possibly on stuff you will never need?
But Unpossible, how will poor kids go to private schools?
Quit deluding yourself. Private schools have no interest in letting poor people attend. So they will most likely simply disallow them. As in Brown vs. Board of Education.
And if you want to know how well for-profit public education works, read this.
Those that have good parents and want to be educated will be educated.
Do you think some poor kid in an inner-city ghetto is going to have good parents and the drive to succeed? Hell no. Maybe if you weren't so ignorant you would know why most civilized countries, including the US, have mandatory schooling.
The FCC, like the rest of the unconstitutional ways that the Fed.Gov controls your everyday life,
The FCC is unconstitutional? Since when? You may not like it, but it sure as hell isn't unconstitutional.
What will garbage men do once the garbage machine replaces them?
Umm... perhaps something more useful/productive? Yeah, the buggy drivers lost their jobs when cars came around. So what? Granted, it will cause short-term upset, but in the long term things will get worked out just fine.
Just so you know, the PATRIOT act does not require them to have a warrant. And the cops can really fuck up you, your house, and your life if you piss them off. You would be stupid to piss them off without any reason to do so.
Well, get some balls, and fight it. Except that you don't have any, and you won't. And neither will any sane, reasonable person.
First, the processor/mobo requires it. Second, it doesn't affect the bandwidth, just the latency (and not that much). Third, you can actually fill all the RAM slots on the mobo without causing instability.
and REALLY, how do you _really_ figure out what binaries were compromised on a linux system you could rescue with knoppix?
You could compare md5sums of all the executables with the ones on the installation media. RPM has an option to do that.
You do realize that if a rootkit was installed, that is unlikely to reveal anything and your system will likely remain compromised?
The FCC only defines the maximum permissible amount of interference they can generate. That level is supposed to generally not cause significant interference, but it doesn't mean it can't. If the cellphone signal is weak, there are several computers, or they are home-built, the interference might very well prevent your cellphone from working.
You can place a portable radio close to a PC and see how much interference it puts out. It's fairly noticeable with my computer.
Ummm... Lay down the crack, man. The AMD64 platform offers many more advantages than just it's 64-bitness.
First, the Opteron has an integrated memory controller. That means FAST memory access. If you are running two of them on a dual-channel board, you get a really fast NUMA configuration. That's very important for applications that actually need to calculate stuff, assuming your OS supports it.
Second, it has twice the number of registers. That gives you a large performance advantage over IA-32 because apps don't need to constantly swap out variables into RAM.
Third, the Opteron has 1 meg of L2 cache. That is twice than what Athlon 64 or Mac G5 has, for about the same price. It sure as hell makes a difference, even for normal desktop use.
Also, I see no reason whatsoever to buy an expensive pre-built system when a really nice machine can be put together in a few hours for well under $900. I just upgraded my workstation to an Opteron 140 for only about $600. That's with a server-class board, 400W power supply, and 512 megs of DDR400 registered ECC RAM. Apple doesn't even offer the same features, and a comparable machine costs about $2000 from them. Not to mention that OS X is 32-bit.