The iRiver SlimX line of MP3 players is probably the best one of the MP3/CD. They are small, come with a remote, come with high-capacity flatpack rechargeable batteries (which are replaceable). New ones have Ogg support, I believe. They also have a built-in FM tuner and a VERY nice GUI that supports directories and hierarchy.
Lindows is trying to solve the very problem you are looking at. Sure, people bitch about them (mainly due to the elitism of many Linux users), but I heard it's a nice solid distro, and things like click-and-run make it very easy to install software.
Here's my favorite. BY FAR. Who the fuck accepted this into the kernel?
[from drivers/usb/spca50x.c, a usb camera driver]
/*
* Function compares two strings.
* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
*/ static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2) {
int len1 = strlen(prick);//length of male string
int i;//just an index variable
const char* tmp;//temporary pointer for my own pleasure// We skip all spaces and tabs
for (i = 0; i len2)
return -1;//Fuck off, no fucking
if (!strncmp(prick, tmp, len1))
return i + len1;
return -1; }
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And how, pray tell, will they ever "demonstrate" that you read and/or copied the code? Just don't go bragging about it on public mailing lists or forums and you will be fine.
You are a misinformed idiot. No way in hell you can be an EE.
First, the size of batteries DOES matter, because batteries are not ideal voltage sources. Larger batteries have smaller internal resistance than do smaller batteries. "Industrial" batteries might have smaller internal resistance than ordinary ones.
If you don't believe me, try starting your car with 9 AAs. Sure, they'll put out the same voltage as a car battery -- until you connect the load.
Second, even 100A will NOT electrocute you UNLESS it passes through the heart (in which case it will cause cardiac arrest). Of course, it would cook the area of your body the current passed through.
So no, there is zero chance of getting electrocuted from licking a 9V battery. Even if you stick your tongue in the outlet you will probably not get electrocuted (assuming you are standing on a rubber mat when you do that). Of course, it would hurt like a bitch and you might get burns, but current passing through your tongue will not cause cardiac arrest.
First, it attempts to justify something which has not been shown to be true, namely that living near HV power lines is harmful. Every properly-conducted study that studied rates of disease has come out inconclusive.
Second, this experiment studied effects of CORONA DISCHARGES (translation: HUGE SPARKS). If HV power lines produce corona discharges, they need to be immediately repaired. They do not do that normally.
Please keep these two facts in mind when considering anything else those "researchers" had found. Looks to me like we are looking at some amateurish attempt at doing research.
The only reason developer consoles are usually faster is so that you can test and debug unoptimized code. I'm sure all of the final play testing and such is done on a standard console.
simplyspeakers.com has great product and reasonable prices. I ordered from them a couple of times and service has always been excellent.
Of course, this all makes sense only if the speakers were actually high quality in the first place. If they use cheap generic drivers, you might want to just replace the drivers entirely. Of course, you have to be careful to not ruin the voicing of the speaker.
That's not a problem on the corporate desktop. There is plenty of well-supported hardware out there these days, so choosing a supported configuration is not a big deal. Companies could simply replace outdated unsupported hardware with supported configurations as they upgrade.
And I think you will agree that once a manufacturer's sales drop slightly because of lack of support for a popular OS, it will ll write a driver pretty damn fast.
You don't know what you're talking about. I highly doubt Microsoft loses too much money because of people modding xboxes. I doubt there's even a thousand people who run Linux on their xbox. There's really not much point in doing that.
On the other hand, a hard drive is a very substantial expense. It's simply not possible to build a hard drive for less than $50, regardless of capacity. In a $99 system (that probably has to be sold to stores for around $85, that's more than half the cost. That's a HUGE expense that does not get cheaper over time, and it's obvious why Microsoft is getting rid of it.
There is no physical possibility of having *good* onboard audio. Even with all the above construction techniques, it's damn near impossible to completely isolate the prodigious amounts of digital noise that a typical computer produces.
A much better idea is to run a digital link to an outboard DAC that has its own power supply and is outside the computer. That would actually give you extremely high quality audio, assuming the DAC box is properly designed.
Last I checked, $300,000 was in excess of $5,000. What's your point? The main reason they said it that way is because $5000 is the trigger for the FBI to step in. Did he actually dispute the figure?
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He did nothing of REAL financial damage.
He didn't run more than $300K worth of searches on LexisNexis on somebody else's dime? Please consider the actual facts before starting a campaign.
Add that to the cost of making the plastic blocks themselves.
Nope. Plastic blocks cannot cost much more than a few cents. It's simple injection molding, the same way they make CDs. Not much material in each block. The only reason lego charges such outrageous prices for them is because they can.
I mean, a microcontroller with three inputs and outputs, 32 kB RAM, and some ROM (512 kiB IIRC) has to cost at least $100
If you think that a microcontroller with 32kB RAM and 512 KB ROM costs >$100 you have never priced one. A microcontroller such as a PICmicro, an Atmel, a Zilog, and so on costs at most $10 for a "deluxe" version with about 30 I/O pins and Flash memory. What Lego is using is most likely a pre-programmed chip w/o Flash, which are about 1/3 of the price. A 512 KB FlashROM chip costs about $6. These are RETAIL prices, what you can get one single chip for. Lego probably gets them for a fraction of the price since they need quite a few of the things.
I am willing to bet that most of the money from the cost of a Mindstorms kit goes towards marketing and product development. Not towards manufacturing. I'm sure the software inside (and outside) the mindstorms thing cost much more to develop than the hardware.
We were talking about a cluster, I believe. A cluster node should not require anything except a kernel and maybe some required libraries. It does not need a graphical user interface, and such an interface is best left disabled so that it doesn't hog resources.
Why is it everyone gets the hang-ups over a freakin' FILE SELECTOR?
Ummm... It wouldn't be because it's an important part of the GUI interface that is used countless times a day and that is a major source of frustration? The GTK file selector is absolutely hideous. It's significantly worse than its Windows 3.1 equivalent. I'm sure you would bitch if, say, your car had a headlight switch that was impossible to use. Little things are often the most important ones.
Now that the fileselector is improved, what will you bitch about now?
Lots of things. GTK is incredibly buggy, hard to program, fairly ugly, and rather hackish. GNOME suffers from most of those faults; in addition, it's rather unpolished and hogs lots of resources. If you think it doesn't suck, try Qt and/or KDE sometime. You will not go back.
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Of course, it's completely impossible to install software if you are not root. Right.
I grepped for "fuck". Then I saw "pussy" in the same line and thought "WTF". Then I found that little gem.
By the way, this is the Mandrake kernel, version 2.4.22-10mdk. So it may not be in the vanilla kernel.
The iRiver SlimX line of MP3 players is probably the best one of the MP3/CD. They are small, come with a remote, come with high-capacity flatpack rechargeable batteries (which are replaceable). New ones have Ogg support, I believe. They also have a built-in FM tuner and a VERY nice GUI that supports directories and hierarchy.
First, this is only the default. Second, Windows XP does this exact thing without any ill effects.
Lindows is trying to solve the very problem you are looking at. Sure, people bitch about them (mainly due to the elitism of many Linux users), but I heard it's a nice solid distro, and things like click-and-run make it very easy to install software.
This is not a troll! Check for yourself with grep or something.
Here's my favorite. BY FAR. Who the fuck accepted this into the kernel?
/* //length of male string //just an index variable //temporary pointer for my own pleasure // We skip all spaces and tabs //Fuck off, no fucking
[from drivers/usb/spca50x.c, a usb camera driver]
* Function compares two strings.
* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
*/
static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
{
int len1 = strlen(prick);
int i;
const char* tmp;
for (i = 0; i len2)
return -1;
if (!strncmp(prick, tmp, len1))
return i + len1;
return -1;
}
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And how, pray tell, will they ever "demonstrate" that you read and/or copied the code? Just don't go bragging about it on public mailing lists or forums and you will be fine.
You are a misinformed idiot. No way in hell you can be an EE.
First, the size of batteries DOES matter, because batteries are not ideal voltage sources. Larger batteries have smaller internal resistance than do smaller batteries. "Industrial" batteries might have smaller internal resistance than ordinary ones.
If you don't believe me, try starting your car with 9 AAs. Sure, they'll put out the same voltage as a car battery -- until you connect the load.
Second, even 100A will NOT electrocute you UNLESS it passes through the heart (in which case it will cause cardiac arrest). Of course, it would cook the area of your body the current passed through.
So no, there is zero chance of getting electrocuted from licking a 9V battery. Even if you stick your tongue in the outlet you will probably not get electrocuted (assuming you are standing on a rubber mat when you do that). Of course, it would hurt like a bitch and you might get burns, but current passing through your tongue will not cause cardiac arrest.
This study is so bad, it's not even funny.
First, it attempts to justify something which has not been shown to be true, namely that living near HV power lines is harmful. Every properly-conducted study that studied rates of disease has come out inconclusive.
Second, this experiment studied effects of CORONA DISCHARGES (translation: HUGE SPARKS). If HV power lines produce corona discharges, they need to be immediately repaired. They do not do that normally.
Please keep these two facts in mind when considering anything else those "researchers" had found. Looks to me like we are looking at some amateurish attempt at doing research.
The only reason developer consoles are usually faster is so that you can test and debug unoptimized code. I'm sure all of the final play testing and such is done on a standard console.
Akamai has been doing this for years.
simplyspeakers.com has great product and reasonable prices. I ordered from them a couple of times and service has always been excellent.
Of course, this all makes sense only if the speakers were actually high quality in the first place. If they use cheap generic drivers, you might want to just replace the drivers entirely. Of course, you have to be careful to not ruin the voicing of the speaker.
Some estimates put it at 80% of X-Box systems being modded in this way.
What is this, pulling numbers out of your ass day?
That's not a problem on the corporate desktop. There is plenty of well-supported hardware out there these days, so choosing a supported configuration is not a big deal. Companies could simply replace outdated unsupported hardware with supported configurations as they upgrade.
And I think you will agree that once a manufacturer's sales drop slightly because of lack of support for a popular OS, it will ll write a driver pretty damn fast.
You don't know what you're talking about. I highly doubt Microsoft loses too much money because of people modding xboxes. I doubt there's even a thousand people who run Linux on their xbox. There's really not much point in doing that.
On the other hand, a hard drive is a very substantial expense. It's simply not possible to build a hard drive for less than $50, regardless of capacity. In a $99 system (that probably has to be sold to stores for around $85, that's more than half the cost. That's a HUGE expense that does not get cheaper over time, and it's obvious why Microsoft is getting rid of it.
There is no physical possibility of having *good* onboard audio. Even with all the above construction techniques, it's damn near impossible to completely isolate the prodigious amounts of digital noise that a typical computer produces.
A much better idea is to run a digital link to an outboard DAC that has its own power supply and is outside the computer. That would actually give you extremely high quality audio, assuming the DAC box is properly designed.
It's not illegal, you moron. It's just that Tivo made a decision not to have those features.
You are an idiot. Graphics chipsets are not copy protection devices and the DMCA does not apply, dammit.
Damages were said to be "in excess of $5,000,"
Last I checked, $300,000 was in excess of $5,000. What's your point? The main reason they said it that way is because $5000 is the trigger for the FBI to step in. Did he actually dispute the figure?
He did nothing of REAL financial damage.
He didn't run more than $300K worth of searches on LexisNexis on somebody else's dime? Please consider the actual facts before starting a campaign.
Add that to the cost of making the plastic blocks themselves.
Nope. Plastic blocks cannot cost much more than a few cents. It's simple injection molding, the same way they make CDs. Not much material in each block. The only reason lego charges such outrageous prices for them is because they can.
I mean, a microcontroller with three inputs and outputs, 32 kB RAM, and some ROM (512 kiB IIRC) has to cost at least $100
If you think that a microcontroller with 32kB RAM and 512 KB ROM costs >$100 you have never priced one. A microcontroller such as a PICmicro, an Atmel, a Zilog, and so on costs at most $10 for a "deluxe" version with about 30 I/O pins and Flash memory. What Lego is using is most likely a pre-programmed chip w/o Flash, which are about 1/3 of the price. A 512 KB FlashROM chip costs about $6. These are RETAIL prices, what you can get one single chip for. Lego probably gets them for a fraction of the price since they need quite a few of the things.
I am willing to bet that most of the money from the cost of a Mindstorms kit goes towards marketing and product development. Not towards manufacturing. I'm sure the software inside (and outside) the mindstorms thing cost much more to develop than the hardware.
We were talking about a cluster, I believe. A cluster node should not require anything except a kernel and maybe some required libraries. It does not need a graphical user interface, and such an interface is best left disabled so that it doesn't hog resources.
Mach wasn't developed by Apple. It was used in a couple of Unices many years ago, for instance. And we were talking mostly about software, I believe.
Why is it everyone gets the hang-ups over a freakin' FILE SELECTOR?
Ummm... It wouldn't be because it's an important part of the GUI interface that is used countless times a day and that is a major source of frustration? The GTK file selector is absolutely hideous. It's significantly worse than its Windows 3.1 equivalent. I'm sure you would bitch if, say, your car had a headlight switch that was impossible to use. Little things are often the most important ones.
Now that the fileselector is improved, what will you bitch about now?
Lots of things. GTK is incredibly buggy, hard to program, fairly ugly, and rather hackish. GNOME suffers from most of those faults; in addition, it's rather unpolished and hogs lots of resources. If you think it doesn't suck, try Qt and/or KDE sometime. You will not go back.