FreeBSD with a Darwin core, you mean? I highly doubt they are using some translucent menu library in their computations. And apple really didn't develop much else than various display libraries for their system.
People like it when things are more-or-less what they are used to. Besides, what's wrong with copying good ideas? Microsoft is hated mostly because of its business practices and the shoddy quality of some of its software. It's not like there are too many people dissing the windows file dialog.
While the healthcare system in the US might need some work, an employers relationship is limited to paying the premiums.
You are forgetting the fact that those premiums have more than doubled in the last year. Not to mention the fact that the employer needs to deal with the actual insurance company, which is A LOT of paperwork. Very expensive stuff. he US healthcare system is a complete and utter wreck.
Ford might be making cars in Mexico, but the bulk of their operations is in the US.
The fact that they closed several plants in the US, laid off thousands of workers, and keep moving more and more jobs overseas doesn't tell you anything? Guess what, offshoring is not just an IT phenomenon.
You are missing the big picture. There are competent IT professionals living in India. There is absolutely no reason for American and other companies not to employ them. That's globalization for you.
As to the whole "Indian programmers are inferior" thing: that is mostly plain old racism. If you don't believe me, go to almost any U.S. university and look at who teaches computer science there. You're almost guaranteed to find a few Indian professors.
Sure, if you're willing to pay $5000 for a machine, maybe Apple is pretty competitive there. Most people out there buy something in the $1500 neighborhood (for a desktop) and there PCs clearly beat any of Apple's offerings.
Also, you have to look at how contrived the guy's examples are. He compares the desktop G5 to a server-class Intel Xeon. Obviously, the two are extremely different. The Xeon is an order of magnitude more expensive than a desktop processor. Comparing the G5 to an Athlon 64 or an Opteron would be more appropriate. Then, he goes on to compare a low-end Radeon 9600 to an Nvidia Quadro, a professional card! Then he goes on to bitch about how the soundcard sucks, and so on, when he could easily get a different one. It's more a comparison of Apple versus Dell. Which is not fair; the two serve completely different market segments.
Samsung has a nice line of laser printers. They are cheap (I got mine for $120), have linux support, and work very well. Not to mention the cartridges are cheap ($50 for a 3000 page one) and refillable (look on ebay). I owned an ML-1210 for over a year now, prints beautifully, not a single paper jam yet.
The main problem with those is that with a zener diode you can only get a tiny amount of current. Enough to power a small transistor radio, not enough to power anything else. Not to mention that the regulation is total crap. Those devices are cheap and that's their only positive side. You could make a transformer brick that's smaller and more efficient.
They are just a transformer replacement, so I would think it would still need most of the regulator electronics that a normal SMPS (switch mode power supply) has. Not sure the size will be significantly smaller, though. SMPS transformers are small.
In brief: that Kyoto is unlikely to delay that 2.2C warming by more than a miserable six years, at a cost of hundreds of billions that could be better spent preparing the hardest-hit nations for the *effects* of the warming,
Except guess what: that money won't get spent on any environmental initiatives otherwise. It will mostly go into the pockets of executives, or possibly towards more pollution.
Guess what, the act you describe is covered by many state laws. In fact, in many states simple possession of lockpicking tools is a felony. Even if you intend to pick only your own locks.
OBVIOUSLY they don't have it set to boiling, you fuckwad. That would not only be unsafe, it would also make the boiler and pipes blow up. So, the only logical choice is fahrenheit.
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- Half-wave rectifier That's basically a regular diode. That's why your LEDs flicker at 60Hz. Original waveform: (60Hz) __/^\/^\ __ \_/ \_/ Rectified waveform: (still 60hz, but with the bottom peak sliced off) __/^\__/^\__
- full wave rectifier This is the 4-diode version. You would get flicker at 120 Hz, because it makes the lower trough positive. Basically like graphing the absolute value of a sine function. Original waveform: (60Hz) __/^\/^\ __ \_/ \_/ Rectified waveform: (120Hz) __/^\/^\/^\/^\__ As you can see, the rectified current doesn't change polarity, but it's still not DC. It's AC at 120Hz.
What a capacitor does is even out the peaks and troughs. With a big enough capacitor (and perhaps other filtering elements), you can make the ripple be practically non-existent. It would look like this: __|^^^^^^^^^^^|_ and the flickering would be practically unnoticeable (because the LED would never be completely off).
You want 4 diodes and a small capacitor. Otherwise the LEDs will still flicker, at 120 Hz. I'm not sure why they don't just put these parts into the strand, because they can't cost more than 35-40 cents in quantity.
Grow a brain. Or use google. Most new phones, camcorders, laptops, and so on use Li-ion or lithium polymer batteries. Very few of them die as quickly as ipod's. And the electronics required to regulate the current cost at most a couple of bucks (more likely closer to 50 cents).
I guess you don't want commercial apps like Photoshop then for linux?
Ah yes, Adobe will just LOVE the buggy, unstable, undocumented, and ugly GTK+ toolkit. They will really appreciate spending twice the time understanding, fixing and extending GTK than developing their software. All to save a measly $1k per Qt developer.
You might as well suggest to them moving all their programmers to a crumbling, rat-infested condemned building that's missing a roof. After all, it would save on rent, no?
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FreeBSD with a Darwin core, you mean? I highly doubt they are using some translucent menu library in their computations. And apple really didn't develop much else than various display libraries for their system.
People like it when things are more-or-less what they are used to. Besides, what's wrong with copying good ideas? Microsoft is hated mostly because of its business practices and the shoddy quality of some of its software. It's not like there are too many people dissing the windows file dialog.
While the healthcare system in the US might need some work, an employers relationship is limited to paying the premiums.
You are forgetting the fact that those premiums have more than doubled in the last year. Not to mention the fact that the employer needs to deal with the actual insurance company, which is A LOT of paperwork. Very expensive stuff. he US healthcare system is a complete and utter wreck.
Ford might be making cars in Mexico, but the bulk of their operations is in the US.
The fact that they closed several plants in the US, laid off thousands of workers, and keep moving more and more jobs overseas doesn't tell you anything? Guess what, offshoring is not just an IT phenomenon.
You are missing the big picture. There are competent IT professionals living in India. There is absolutely no reason for American and other companies not to employ them. That's globalization for you.
As to the whole "Indian programmers are inferior" thing: that is mostly plain old racism. If you don't believe me, go to almost any U.S. university and look at who teaches computer science there. You're almost guaranteed to find a few Indian professors.
3. What bit-rate & sampling frequencies are available (I work at 24/44.1)
Why are you using such a low sampling rate? You do realize that your high frequencies turn to shit at 44.1KHz?
Sure, if you're willing to pay $5000 for a machine, maybe Apple is pretty competitive there. Most people out there buy something in the $1500 neighborhood (for a desktop) and there PCs clearly beat any of Apple's offerings.
Also, you have to look at how contrived the guy's examples are. He compares the desktop G5 to a server-class Intel Xeon. Obviously, the two are extremely different. The Xeon is an order of magnitude more expensive than a desktop processor. Comparing the G5 to an Athlon 64 or an Opteron would be more appropriate. Then, he goes on to compare a low-end Radeon 9600 to an Nvidia Quadro, a professional card! Then he goes on to bitch about how the soundcard sucks, and so on, when he could easily get a different one. It's more a comparison of Apple versus Dell. Which is not fair; the two serve completely different market segments.
Except that very few laptops fail after 11 months. Apple should improve quality control or something.
Samsung has a nice line of laser printers. They are cheap (I got mine for $120), have linux support, and work very well. Not to mention the cartridges are cheap ($50 for a 3000 page one) and refillable (look on ebay). I owned an ML-1210 for over a year now, prints beautifully, not a single paper jam yet.
For manufacturing very "special" humans?
You sure about that? Court to FBI: No spying on in-car computers. So they are trying to use those capabilities.
By the way, this is mostly because the US antitrust law was mainly designed to bust labor unions.
Was it a hot cocoa sampler box by any chance?
The main problem with those is that with a zener diode you can only get a tiny amount of current. Enough to power a small transistor radio, not enough to power anything else. Not to mention that the regulation is total crap. Those devices are cheap and that's their only positive side. You could make a transformer brick that's smaller and more efficient.
They are just a transformer replacement, so I would think it would still need most of the regulator electronics that a normal SMPS (switch mode power supply) has. Not sure the size will be significantly smaller, though. SMPS transformers are small.
In brief: that Kyoto is unlikely to delay that 2.2C warming by more than a miserable six years, at a cost of hundreds of billions that could be better spent preparing the hardest-hit nations for the *effects* of the warming,
Except guess what: that money won't get spent on any environmental initiatives otherwise. It will mostly go into the pockets of executives, or possibly towards more pollution.
Not only would it be cold, it would also be frozen. Thus you could not possibly pipe it in, much less shower in it.
Guess what, the act you describe is covered by many state laws. In fact, in many states simple possession of lockpicking tools is a felony. Even if you intend to pick only your own locks.
OBVIOUSLY they don't have it set to boiling, you fuckwad. That would not only be unsafe, it would also make the boiler and pipes blow up. So, the only logical choice is fahrenheit.
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First, let's get our rectifiers straight:
/^\ __
/^\ __
- Half-wave rectifier
That's basically a regular diode. That's why your LEDs flicker at 60Hz.
Original waveform: (60Hz)
__/^\
\_/ \_/
Rectified waveform: (still 60hz, but with the bottom peak sliced off)
__/^\__/^\__
- full wave rectifier
This is the 4-diode version. You would get flicker at 120 Hz, because it makes the lower trough positive. Basically like graphing the absolute value of a sine function.
Original waveform: (60Hz)
__/^\
\_/ \_/
Rectified waveform: (120Hz)
__/^\/^\/^\/^\__
As you can see, the rectified current doesn't change polarity, but it's still not DC. It's AC at 120Hz.
What a capacitor does is even out the peaks and troughs. With a big enough capacitor (and perhaps other filtering elements), you can make the ripple be practically non-existent.
It would look like this:
__|^^^^^^^^^^^|_
and the flickering would be practically unnoticeable (because the LED would never be completely off).
You want 4 diodes and a small capacitor. Otherwise the LEDs will still flicker, at 120 Hz. I'm not sure why they don't just put these parts into the strand, because they can't cost more than 35-40 cents in quantity.
Who the fuck writes commercial apps in fucking PYTHON, you dumbass?
Grow a brain. Or use google. Most new phones, camcorders, laptops, and so on use Li-ion or lithium polymer batteries. Very few of them die as quickly as ipod's. And the electronics required to regulate the current cost at most a couple of bucks (more likely closer to 50 cents).
I guess you don't want commercial apps like Photoshop then for linux?
Ah yes, Adobe will just LOVE the buggy, unstable, undocumented, and ugly GTK+ toolkit. They will really appreciate spending twice the time understanding, fixing and extending GTK than developing their software. All to save a measly $1k per Qt developer.
You might as well suggest to them moving all their programmers to a crumbling, rat-infested condemned building that's missing a roof. After all, it would save on rent, no?
A viable platform has to support closed applications.
Exactly. That's why TrollTech sells commercial licenses for Qt. Pay them a token sum of money and develop closed-source apps at your leisure.
Or use GCC and the w32api package.
GCC doesn't support even basic Windows things like resources. It's not possible to make a production-quality program with GCC on win32.