I used the Santa Cruz until I realized that there was no hope for getting a real 5.1 driver for it, and I think there was a bug that caused it to produce funky sound every once in a while. M-Audio Revolution 7.1 r0x0r5!! That said, I don't get good enough broadcast reception to really take advantage of MythTV, even though I successfully set it up (God that took a long time!). Looks nice, though. I tried to record once and it sucked up my partition real fast. I haven't tweaked it all. XawTV is good enough for me for now.
I'm assuming that they wanted to have 10 integers of rating in their system. Since only programmers start counting at 0, they started counting at 1, meaning that you could rate the game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 or 10, an even number of options. 0 through 10 would give you 11 integers of rating. Or maybe they are doing it statistically and throwing out the outliers 1 past 10 and 1 before 1, sort of like on the SAT's where you can't score lower than a 200 or greater than an 800 on either test because they throw out anything lower than a 200 or greater than an 800 on their 1000 point scale.
That has got to be the funniest scene ever! Imagine hundreds of angry penguins coming up to Darl, surrounding him, and falling over on him as he crouches, screaming "Linus, get these damn penguins off of me!"
But at the expense of using the money for something that will more directly affect mankind? We can't even spare 8 x 10^9 dollars on a nice particle accelerator, let alone what it would take for a moonshot. The Apollo program cost 25 x 10^9 dollars 30+ years ago. Inflation should make the modern cost much more, even though we already have most of the research to get to the moon. So, why not build a 40 mile particle accelerator BECAUSE WE CAN? But that doesn't get you reelected.
Maybe he is doing root@here:/# cp -r */mnt/backupdrive instead of root@here:/# cp/dev/hda1/dev/sda1 on an oldish Windows (shudder) or Linux box.
(please don't critique my/bin/sh-ish or what is proper for Windows)
Re:I'm wondering...
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They know pretty precisely how fast the particles are moving, since the accelerator has to know these things to be able to accelerate them. Therefore they can calculate how much kinetic energy they have, which is proportional to the temperature. You can also determine the mass from how much energy it has. They can also probably estimate what the size of the blob of stuff is by setting a max on how far a particle can move in that amount of time. From there, you can deterimine density.
CNet.com review NewEgg.com listing
It doesn't look like the iHP-120 plays FLAC, but it is firmware upgradable so it may someday. USB mass storage device so it will work with Mac, Linux, and Windows without extra software (If that's important to you). The Rio Karma's ethernet interface is Java/Swing based, so you must have that on your computer. However, I don't own either of these, yet; this is just the research I have done. I'm seriously considering the iHP-120, but it is rather expensive.
Well... I just downloaded 2.6.1 and the help note in menuconfig says that nobody has had any problem with the NTFS writing, since it is limited to not changing the file size or creating new files. This is different from earlier kernels which pretended that they knew how to write NTFS and would actually mess up your partition. It says they have no reports of corruption, though:-)
I think that many copiers double as fax machines which, oddly enough, have phone lines attached. The cops then trace the call and voila, you have your crooks. Why they would be dumb enough to attach the line, I don't know.
How about use another language, like not C? Or use a gc library. I have heard of many, but it really should be part of the language so people will actually use it.
I don't think there is much point. Once you have the equation, you must prove that it works. It is impossible to prove that the equation is true by testing each value (unless you specifically limit the values to all integers from, say, 0 to 10) because there are an infinite number of values. I haven't learned anything more than derivatives yet, but I assume that once you have all the equations needed for a proof, it is relatively trivial to plug and chug symbolically by hand. The problem is getting those equations, which, as we have seen, is very non-trivial. Sure, computers could symbolically try to create equations too, but the vast majority probably wouldn't mean anything. Currently, we can only give computers knowledge; we can't give them wisdom, which is required to solve these problems.
I knew that slashdotters had bad writting, but you certainly take the cake. I'm surprised you made it past the lameness filter, although your post is rather informative.
I know that this is hearsay, but I think they are by a firmware update. From NewEgg.com and Amazon.com. But then again, I don't have one and can't try. Ogg Vorbis discs are not any different from MP3 discs: they are simply data files that are put on the disc.
It seems like (unofficial) Linux support is coming along too. Many are USB mass storage devices, like the iRiver iHP-1[02]0 (but need special software to index by ID3/Ogg tags), Creative MuVo, and Archos thingies. The Rio Karma can be networked, although it may be a little limited. I'm sure there are others that are mass storage also, but almost all the other Creative offerings require special software.
How is 500 kbps reasonable quality? It is damn close to the maximum it can go. As an example, I just encoded a pseudo-random song (okay, it was "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence) and I only got 475 kbps anyway, using "oggenc -q 10" The WAV is 41.8 MB, the FLAC is 30.5 MB and the Ogg Vorbis is 14.1 MB (numbers truncated). I doubt that a portable player would even be able to output something with that kind of quality and not being in an quiet/acoustically perfect room, let alone using headphones/earbuds. Oh, and I use "oggenc -q 6"
I don't agree. While virtual directories are cool, how many files actually have that much metadata? Many audio files, some MPEG, and many office suite files (OOo, MS Word). Many other formats do, but it is inconsistant or is some useless (and inconsistant) comment, like "Created by the GIMP". Other than that, with virtual directories, you are adding massive overhead that could easily be avoided by even half-assed file organization and using a good file manager.
Cut, copy, and paste is an application thing, not really so much an X thing. If the app doesn't know how to retrieve a PNG or XLS from the clipboard, no amount of X advancement or extension is going to fix that. I haven't found X to be really slow, but Xinerama definately is (well unoptimized, at least). X in general may be funky in that it seems to be very serial and synchronous, but it is not necesarily slow. I cite how my Enlightenment applets and XMMS visualizations don't update when I'm moving windows around. But then I've got 256 MB RAM and an Athlon 1333.
Oh, and the parent is not a troll!
Re:The unintended benefits of pollution
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Global Dimming
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Riddle me this: clouds are white(ish) and therefore reflect light. Will the sunlight bounce off them into space or be absorbed and turned into heat? The problem is that nobody really knows because it is a combination of the two. Nobody knows how to calculate how much heat is trapped, how much light is converted to heat, or how much is reflected. You can create models and postulate all you want, but nobody knows the solution.
In New Jersey, most roads are still 55, with only some streches of roads, like 295, at 65. Thankfully, most of the two lane roads are already at 45 or 50, where I would say that 55 is probably the maximum you could safely do, considering how winding they tend to be. The multilane highways could definately all be made 65, and 295 could even be made 75. Route 1 would be dangerous above the posted 55, and during rush hour you are lucky if you go above 45. Maryland is horrible, since it is one giant city and every road is 35 MPH. Of course, I drive a 4 cylinder Geo Tracker, so I couldn't make use of an 85 MPH speed limit.:-)
No, but with the right materials and time to develop a Pentium with superconducting transistors, they are only 13 K away from being able to use a "high temperature" superconductor. -100 C is 173 K, and according to my link, one of the highest temperature superconductor they have found works at 160 K. Not that I RTFA; it was/.ed at 50 posts.
Don't be so sure. In 3 billion years, they are going to collide! Forget Earth, out entire galaxy is going to be destroyed! Not really, but both galaxies will merely merge into a single elliptical galaxy.
Wasn't XUL designed to be the exact same thing? Or is it more like SVG? Either way, I think we've already cracked this nut before. It looks nothing like a programming language, as the article implies, but a way to create Mickey-Mouse-Mode GUIs, for which Visual Studio will have a Wizard for anyway.
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I used the Santa Cruz until I realized that there was no hope for getting a real 5.1 driver for it, and I think there was a bug that caused it to produce funky sound every once in a while. M-Audio Revolution 7.1 r0x0r5!! That said, I don't get good enough broadcast reception to really take advantage of MythTV, even though I successfully set it up (God that took a long time!). Looks nice, though. I tried to record once and it sucked up my partition real fast. I haven't tweaked it all. XawTV is good enough for me for now.
I'm assuming that they wanted to have 10 integers of rating in their system. Since only programmers start counting at 0, they started counting at 1, meaning that you could rate the game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 or 10, an even number of options. 0 through 10 would give you 11 integers of rating. Or maybe they are doing it statistically and throwing out the outliers 1 past 10 and 1 before 1, sort of like on the SAT's where you can't score lower than a 200 or greater than an 800 on either test because they throw out anything lower than a 200 or greater than an 800 on their 1000 point scale.
That has got to be the funniest scene ever! Imagine hundreds of angry penguins coming up to Darl, surrounding him, and falling over on him as he crouches, screaming "Linus, get these damn penguins off of me!"
But at the expense of using the money for something that will more directly affect mankind? We can't even spare 8 x 10^9 dollars on a nice particle accelerator, let alone what it would take for a moonshot. The Apollo program cost 25 x 10^9 dollars 30+ years ago. Inflation should make the modern cost much more, even though we already have most of the research to get to the moon. So, why not build a 40 mile particle accelerator BECAUSE WE CAN? But that doesn't get you reelected.
Maybe he is doing /mnt/backupdrive /dev/hda1 /dev/sda1
/bin/sh-ish or what is proper for Windows)
root@here:/# cp -r *
instead of
root@here:/# cp
on an oldish Windows (shudder) or Linux box.
(please don't critique my
They know pretty precisely how fast the particles are moving, since the accelerator has to know these things to be able to accelerate them. Therefore they can calculate how much kinetic energy they have, which is proportional to the temperature. You can also determine the mass from how much energy it has. They can also probably estimate what the size of the blob of stuff is by setting a max on how far a particle can move in that amount of time. From there, you can deterimine density.
CNet.com review
NewEgg.com listing
It doesn't look like the iHP-120 plays FLAC, but it is firmware upgradable so it may someday. USB mass storage device so it will work with Mac, Linux, and Windows without extra software (If that's important to you). The Rio Karma's ethernet interface is Java/Swing based, so you must have that on your computer. However, I don't own either of these, yet; this is just the research I have done. I'm seriously considering the iHP-120, but it is rather expensive.
Well... I just downloaded 2.6.1 and the help note in menuconfig says that nobody has had any problem with the NTFS writing, since it is limited to not changing the file size or creating new files. This is different from earlier kernels which pretended that they knew how to write NTFS and would actually mess up your partition. It says they have no reports of corruption, though :-)
I think that many copiers double as fax machines which, oddly enough, have phone lines attached. The cops then trace the call and voila, you have your crooks. Why they would be dumb enough to attach the line, I don't know.
How about use another language, like not C? Or use a gc library. I have heard of many, but it really should be part of the language so people will actually use it.
I personally like this one ;-)
Yeah, sure.
I don't think there is much point. Once you have the equation, you must prove that it works. It is impossible to prove that the equation is true by testing each value (unless you specifically limit the values to all integers from, say, 0 to 10) because there are an infinite number of values. I haven't learned anything more than derivatives yet, but I assume that once you have all the equations needed for a proof, it is relatively trivial to plug and chug symbolically by hand. The problem is getting those equations, which, as we have seen, is very non-trivial. Sure, computers could symbolically try to create equations too, but the vast majority probably wouldn't mean anything. Currently, we can only give computers knowledge; we can't give them wisdom, which is required to solve these problems.
You need at least an Athlon XP or Xeon (P4EE) to run all your httpd when being Slashdotted by posting that your computer can survive a Slashdotting.
I knew that slashdotters had bad writting, but you certainly take the cake. I'm surprised you made it past the lameness filter, although your post is rather informative.
Here is a more official page from the iRiver site. Shamelessly ripped from lintux's post.
I know that this is hearsay, but I think they are by a firmware update. From NewEgg.com and Amazon.com. But then again, I don't have one and can't try. Ogg Vorbis discs are not any different from MP3 discs: they are simply data files that are put on the disc.
It seems like (unofficial) Linux support is coming along too. Many are USB mass storage devices, like the iRiver iHP-1[02]0 (but need special software to index by ID3/Ogg tags), Creative MuVo, and Archos thingies. The Rio Karma can be networked, although it may be a little limited. I'm sure there are others that are mass storage also, but almost all the other Creative offerings require special software.
How is 500 kbps reasonable quality? It is damn close to the maximum it can go. As an example, I just encoded a pseudo-random song (okay, it was "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence) and I only got 475 kbps anyway, using "oggenc -q 10" The WAV is 41.8 MB, the FLAC is 30.5 MB and the Ogg Vorbis is 14.1 MB (numbers truncated). I doubt that a portable player would even be able to output something with that kind of quality and not being in an quiet/acoustically perfect room, let alone using headphones/earbuds. Oh, and I use "oggenc -q 6"
I don't agree. While virtual directories are cool, how many files actually have that much metadata? Many audio files, some MPEG, and many office suite files (OOo, MS Word). Many other formats do, but it is inconsistant or is some useless (and inconsistant) comment, like "Created by the GIMP". Other than that, with virtual directories, you are adding massive overhead that could easily be avoided by even half-assed file organization and using a good file manager.
Cut, copy, and paste is an application thing, not really so much an X thing. If the app doesn't know how to retrieve a PNG or XLS from the clipboard, no amount of X advancement or extension is going to fix that. I haven't found X to be really slow, but Xinerama definately is (well unoptimized, at least). X in general may be funky in that it seems to be very serial and synchronous, but it is not necesarily slow. I cite how my Enlightenment applets and XMMS visualizations don't update when I'm moving windows around. But then I've got 256 MB RAM and an Athlon 1333.
Oh, and the parent is not a troll!
Riddle me this: clouds are white(ish) and therefore reflect light. Will the sunlight bounce off them into space or be absorbed and turned into heat? The problem is that nobody really knows because it is a combination of the two. Nobody knows how to calculate how much heat is trapped, how much light is converted to heat, or how much is reflected. You can create models and postulate all you want, but nobody knows the solution.
In New Jersey, most roads are still 55, with only some streches of roads, like 295, at 65. Thankfully, most of the two lane roads are already at 45 or 50, where I would say that 55 is probably the maximum you could safely do, considering how winding they tend to be. The multilane highways could definately all be made 65, and 295 could even be made 75. Route 1 would be dangerous above the posted 55, and during rush hour you are lucky if you go above 45. Maryland is horrible, since it is one giant city and every road is 35 MPH. Of course, I drive a 4 cylinder Geo Tracker, so I couldn't make use of an 85 MPH speed limit. :-)
No, but with the right materials and time to develop a Pentium with superconducting transistors, they are only 13 K away from being able to use a "high temperature" superconductor. -100 C is 173 K, and according to my link, one of the highest temperature superconductor they have found works at 160 K. Not that I RTFA; it was /.ed at 50 posts.
Don't be so sure. In 3 billion years, they are going to collide! Forget Earth, out entire galaxy is going to be destroyed! Not really, but both galaxies will merely merge into a single elliptical galaxy.
Wasn't XUL designed to be the exact same thing? Or is it more like SVG? Either way, I think we've already cracked this nut before. It looks nothing like a programming language, as the article implies, but a way to create Mickey-Mouse-Mode GUIs, for which Visual Studio will have a Wizard for anyway.