You do see a lot of people buying expensive monitors because they like to have real colors, and more generally a much better experience.
That's because like audio systems, and unlike paintings, you have to use an elecronic device to reproduce the thing you're watching.
Obviously, the quality of reproduction is capital in such systems, since if the reproduction is bad, you simply don't hear or see the media the same way it was recorded. For example, very cheap integrated audio systems have all those surround speakers wich add ten times more basses than they should, and very very bad tweeters, which make things like cymbals seem totally melted in the resulting sound. That makes a totally desequilibrated sound, and everything sounds the same. Basically, everything sounds like if it had be recorded in a dance studio. How nice...
I'm not advocating spending huge amounts of money into audio equipment, but really for something like $1500 you can have a fantastic equipment if you choose right, and buy kit speakers. You'll have to follow a plan to build the case, or find someone to make it for you. But this way you can afford speakers that you can only find at the double or the triple of the price you'll pay them in a kit. And yes, it makes a fucking difference !
Oh wait, we never needed him, only him thought so. This guy has 0% credibility from my point of vue, just like any stoopid politician who tries to push his agenda while telling you he's defending your freedom or whatever... Get a job, and stop annoying us.
I still think that Dungeon Master is the best game that has ever be released... seriously no other game have had the impact on me that this one have.
At the time it went gold on the ST (which is at least one or two years before the amiga, IIRC), it was simply totally unbelievable. A fucking real time rpg, in 3D, with astounding graphics and sound, a dangerous, big and exciting dungeon to explore, monsters that were truly unique and had all very special abilities, a very, very mature spell system... this game had really 0 defects, and no other game has ever come close to getting so many things right at the same time, in one shot, period.
as Scott mc Loud would say 100x better, using symbols in drawing, or graphics allows the brain to treat the data it's presented in a totally different way than if the subject was looking a a detailled drawing.
You instantly know when you look at a symbolic graphic that there's more to it that what you see.
Old games used symbols to display things on screen almost of the time, because the machines couldn't do more. But you didn't treat the things displayed on screen as if they were realistic drawings anyway, you knew they were just symbols which meant tree, kobold, or whatever and all the real action had to happen in your imagination.
So everyone in fact had a different, and extremly rich perception of the game.
Constrast that with 3D. The things you're looking at are generally not symbols, they're literally what you, or your character, see. That means your imagination can't interface with what is displayed. Those realistic, tangible objects aren't compatible with it.
That means that if the illusion isn't 100% perfect, the charm will be broken.
Now, you're just consuming a world someone as prepared for you, the same as everyone else. Before, your brain had to build it itself, but it was incomparable.
Not sure if that's what you mean or not, But RAID is *not* a replacement for backup. If you don't pay attention and delete a file, a backup should be able to give you that file back. A RAID setup will ensure that the file gets deleted on all the mirrors...
On the other hand if you use an external RAID server to store backups on yep it's not bad. But i'd say that it would be even better to just have a regular ide disk to make backups on, and a remote location you can upload your backups to... RAID is good, but what happens if you PSU goes crazy and kills all the disk in the array (happened to me:( ) ? Or if the physical location the server is in catches on fire ? So if you can have a place to upload to and it's doable for the amount of data you need to transfer, it'll probably be much cheaper, and much more secure than a RAID array.
Sure, but it's still a usability "bug" because it would be much better ask if you need to browse windows shares or not. To the new user it will simply mean that "linux can not see windows". That said, i'm gladly surprized to see that such "details" seems to be taken seriously and as real issues now. Not so long ago everybody would just have said "So what ? RTFM or go back playing with winblowz U NOOB!!" or something like that;)
They probably make much more money by selling games (or the right to develop games) than consoles. I'm not sure the situation is equivalent to, say microsoft's. Because in microsoft case, the mind share they gain by having pirated versions everywhere is directly correlated to the number of licenses that legit businesses have to buy because everyone knows windows. Here there is no professionnal use, and if the psp gains market share because it can be modded to play warez games well it just means that everybody will buy one to mod it and have free games... or run whatever they want which isn't allowed without modification.
But it's definitely good for the consumer... In fact it gives them their rights back. If i buy some hardware not only should i have the right to mod it, but it should probably come with all the specs. If i want to have linux run on my psp and it is somehow possible with the hardware, then i shoudln't have to reverse engineer games and make guesses on how the hardware works. I bought the hardware, it's my right to use it the way i want, damnit !
Their new automator
framework, which let applications send streams of objects to each other and have them propose interfaces to interact with. (Well that's how it seems to work at least). It looks like the equivalent of unix pipes for desktop apps. Something i've been waiting for for years.
A troll ?? Insightful , maybe ? Even on $3 headphones you could tell the difference between 128 and 192. 192 is the bare minimum at 128 all cymbals sounds like if the drummer was playing under water or something. Parent is right, most people don't really listen to music, they use it as something to fill silence and don't give a flying pig about how it sounds. They don't hear the difference because they're not paying attention at all. So they mod you down because you sound elitist, seesh... train your ears, just a little, maybe ?
Sorry, but no.
mp3s really have issues when you listen to them on good quality speakers/amplifier, especially in the high frequencies (charlestons, cymbals etc). It's not a total crap either, but you can clearly tell the difference between the mp3 and the cd. The cd will sound much more precise in those frequencies, and it really makes a difference.
Yes, you probably can't tell the difference if you have a basic stock hifi system because higher frequencies are literally not rendered at all by the speakers.
For now I still encode my music as mp3s, because it would cost me too much to store everything in lossless. But i know i'll feel silly in say 5 or 10 years, when the space taken by lossless won't be an issue any more.
If you don't value your personnal data, maybe... In a personnal system, the only really important thing for 99% of users is there home directory. (yes i pulled that number from my ass but you get the point;)
OMG, i think i just saw a realistic, informed and unbiased post on slashdot regarding a windows/linux comparison ! Probably the guy thinks he is trolling and doesn't realize that what he's saying is in fact very insightful...
Try clicking on the "play here now" link inside the image... (quicktime required)
It's extremly impressive, really looks like the gui version of Unix pipes. This one might be the last straw for me.
Yep, you scored !
And btw thank you, my beloved anonymous powerbook thrower. It did hurt, but what a good surprise it was after the surgery when doc showed me what brought me at the hospital !
I haven't cleaned the blood and brain parts sticked on it yet so i can make that "bloody powerbook" joke , so funny !
Oh and those videos with horses are lots of fun but you should check out the women sections once in a while, dude.
I for one tend to think that Unix needs a major revamp if it wants to stay there in the years to come. It still works, it's clearly stuck in the past, and will die if it doesn't evolve. And as it is, it can hardly evolve...
A microkernel is one step in the good direction. But imho what is highly needed is to totally rethink Unix, remake it with the knowledge and insights we've gained in all those years. For example, it needs a real OO paradigm at the bottom of it. You can say what you want about OOP, but it's totally crazy to think having an OS today which isn't based on it. It is so much needed that C programmers reinvent it to make their software extensible, without realizing it. Anf of course, each one reinvent his own wheel. Then they go out and bitch about OOP...
Let's keep Unix simplicity, but have the simplicity be a layer on top of an extensible OOP paradigm. Or just let it die while others easily evolve...
Most computer geeks are good at logical stuff, yes.
That doesn't make them more intelligent. You talk about books. Well take your average computer geek, and your average literacy geek, have them read a novel, then sum it up for you. You'll find that the computer geek generally didn't understood what was important in the book. He can sum it up, sure, but the way he sums it shows that he didn't understood what was important and what wasn't. More importantly, He didn't get the message behind the book, at all. In fact, when the literacy geek will explain him what the book was really about, he'll laugh a lot and tell him to quit smoking pot. If the author wanted to mean that, he would have clearly written it ! The literacy geek won't care, he knows most scientists can only understand what has been clearly explained at them, and that their logical mind comes short in any situation where logic is not the key (that is, 95% of real world situations).
The literacy geeks accepts that the world, and the people around him are infinitely complex, and that every action or word can be understood when looked at in the right light. Them computer geeks just thinks that everybody is dumber than him, because their logic can't fit in their little categorizing mind. They don't even try to understand others. In other words, if the document doesn't parse, it's because the document is badly structured. It can't be my parser which needs adjustments, because i know i have the finest parser on earth !
The sentence "OSS is about choices" is generally used to say that the users can choose between several alternatives. Here the users have the choice between having a messy architecture.
OSS is about having to deal with a constant lack of consistency:)
Let's turn all those files into XML, integrate Xalan into the kernel, and change the cd command to have it evaluate XPATH requests. Then some magical thing will probably happen !
--
<runs_away type="duck" reason="run forest, run !"/>
This line of thinking is very dangerous. For example I could tell you why do you think the jews have been historically hated by so many people ?
Silly things can perpetuate and propagate without having a good reason to exist in the first place. Hate the frenchs if you want (i'm one), but not for a reason like this one. If you can't find a good reason I can insult if you want:)
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You do see a lot of people buying expensive monitors because they like to have real colors, and more generally a much better experience.
That's because like audio systems, and unlike paintings, you have to use an elecronic device to reproduce the thing you're watching.
Obviously, the quality of reproduction is capital in such systems, since if the reproduction is bad, you simply don't hear or see the media the same way it was recorded.
For example, very cheap integrated audio systems have all those surround speakers wich add ten times more basses than they should, and very very bad tweeters, which make things like cymbals seem totally melted in the resulting sound. That makes a totally desequilibrated sound, and everything sounds the same. Basically, everything sounds like if it had be recorded in a dance studio. How nice...
I'm not advocating spending huge amounts of money into audio equipment, but really for something like $1500 you can have a fantastic equipment if you choose right, and buy kit speakers. You'll have to follow a plan to build the case, or find someone to make it for you. But this way you can afford speakers that you can only find at the double or the triple of the price you'll pay them in a kit. And yes, it makes a fucking difference !
Oh wait, we never needed him, only him thought so.
This guy has 0% credibility from my point of vue, just like any stoopid politician who tries to push his agenda while telling you he's defending your freedom or whatever...
Get a job, and stop annoying us.
I still think that Dungeon Master is the best game that has ever be released... seriously no other game have had the impact on me that this one have.
At the time it went gold on the ST (which is at least one or two years before the amiga, IIRC), it was simply totally unbelievable.
A fucking real time rpg, in 3D, with astounding graphics and sound, a dangerous, big and exciting dungeon to explore, monsters that were truly unique and had all very special abilities, a very, very mature spell system... this game had really 0 defects, and no other game has ever come close to getting so many things right at the same time, in one shot, period.
as Scott mc Loud would say 100x better, using symbols in drawing, or graphics allows the brain to treat the data it's presented in a totally different way than if the subject was looking a a detailled drawing. You instantly know when you look at a symbolic graphic that there's more to it that what you see.
Old games used symbols to display things on screen almost of the time, because the machines couldn't do more. But you didn't treat the things displayed on screen as if they were realistic drawings anyway, you knew they were just symbols which meant tree, kobold, or whatever and all the real action had to happen in your imagination.
So everyone in fact had a different, and extremly rich perception of the game.
Constrast that with 3D. The things you're looking at are generally not symbols, they're literally what you, or your character, see. That means your imagination can't interface with what is displayed. Those realistic, tangible objects aren't compatible with it.
That means that if the illusion isn't 100% perfect, the charm will be broken.
Now, you're just consuming a world someone as prepared for you, the same as everyone else. Before, your brain had to build it itself, but it was incomparable.
Not sure if that's what you mean or not, But RAID is *not* a replacement for backup. If you don't pay attention and delete a file, a backup should be able to give you that file back. A RAID setup will ensure that the file gets deleted on all the mirrors... :( ) ? Or if the physical location the server is in catches on fire ?
On the other hand if you use an external RAID server to store backups on yep it's not bad. But i'd say that it would be even better to just have a regular ide disk to make backups on, and a remote location you can upload your backups to... RAID is good, but what happens if you PSU goes crazy and kills all the disk in the array (happened to me
So if you can have a place to upload to and it's doable for the amount of data you need to transfer, it'll probably be much cheaper, and much more secure than a RAID array.
Sure, but it's still a usability "bug" because it would be much better ask if you need to browse windows shares or not. To the new user it will simply mean that "linux can not see windows". ;)
That said, i'm gladly surprized to see that such "details" seems to be taken seriously and as real issues now. Not so long ago everybody would just have said "So what ? RTFM or go back playing with winblowz U NOOB!!" or something like that
They probably make much more money by selling games (or the right to develop games) than consoles. I'm not sure the situation is equivalent to, say microsoft's. Because in microsoft case, the mind share they gain by having pirated versions everywhere is directly correlated to the number of licenses that legit businesses have to buy because everyone knows windows.
Here there is no professionnal use, and if the psp gains market share because it can be modded to play warez games well it just means that everybody will buy one to mod it and have free games... or run whatever they want which isn't allowed without modification.
But it's definitely good for the consumer... In fact it gives them their rights back. If i buy some hardware not only should i have the right to mod it, but it should probably come with all the specs. If i want to have linux run on my psp and it is somehow possible with the hardware, then i shoudln't have to reverse engineer games and make guesses on how the hardware works. I bought the hardware, it's my right to use it the way i want, damnit !
Will the anonymity be a trade-off for speed ?
That, and is the anonymity real, at the socket level ?
And no, i didn't RTFA. Hit me with a stick.
Earth is still in beta? After 3 billion years?
Sure but it's free software dude. If you want the releases to go out faster please submit a patch and stop bitchin', it's doens't help.
Sincerely, GOD
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Emacs is my editor of choice.
Their new automator framework, which let applications send streams of objects to each other and have them propose interfaces to interact with.
(Well that's how it seems to work at least). It looks like the equivalent of unix pipes for desktop apps.
Something i've been waiting for for years.
A troll ?? Insightful , maybe ? Even on $3 headphones you could tell the difference between 128 and 192. 192 is the bare minimum at 128 all cymbals sounds like if the drummer was playing under water or something.
Parent is right, most people don't really listen to music, they use it as something to fill silence and don't give a flying pig about how it sounds. They don't hear the difference because they're not paying attention at all. So they mod you down because you sound elitist, seesh... train your ears, just a little, maybe ?
Sorry, but no.
mp3s really have issues when you listen to them on good quality speakers/amplifier, especially in the high frequencies (charlestons, cymbals etc). It's not a total crap either, but you can clearly tell the difference between the mp3 and the cd. The cd will sound much more precise in those frequencies, and it really makes a difference.
Yes, you probably can't tell the difference if you have a basic stock hifi system because higher frequencies are literally not rendered at all by the speakers.
For now I still encode my music as mp3s, because it would cost me too much to store everything in lossless. But i know i'll feel silly in say 5 or 10 years, when the space taken by lossless won't be an issue any more.
Either way... Not root? Not a problem
;)
If you don't value your personnal data, maybe... In a personnal system, the only really important thing for 99% of users is there home directory. (yes i pulled that number from my ass but you get the point
OMG, i think i just saw a realistic, informed and unbiased post on slashdot regarding a windows/linux comparison !
Probably the guy thinks he is trolling and doesn't realize that what he's saying is in fact very insightful...
Awfully sounds like the sound of a duck being sodomized, played backward.
(don't ask...)
This one made me laugh
you insensitive clod !
Try clicking on the "play here now" link inside the image... (quicktime required)
It's extremly impressive, really looks like the gui version of Unix pipes. This one might be the last straw for me.
Yep, you scored !
And btw thank you, my beloved anonymous powerbook thrower. It did hurt, but what a good surprise it was after the surgery when doc showed me what brought me at the hospital !
I haven't cleaned the blood and brain parts sticked on it yet so i can make that "bloody powerbook" joke , so funny !
Oh and those videos with horses are lots of fun but you should check out the women sections once in a while, dude.
Just send them a goatse link
I for one tend to think that Unix needs a major revamp if it wants to stay there in the years to come. It still works, it's clearly stuck in the past, and will die if it doesn't evolve. And as it is, it can hardly evolve... A microkernel is one step in the good direction.
But imho what is highly needed is to totally rethink Unix, remake it with the knowledge and insights we've gained in all those years. For example, it needs a real OO paradigm at the bottom of it. You can say what you want about OOP, but it's totally crazy to think having an OS today which isn't based on it. It is so much needed that C programmers reinvent it to make their software extensible, without realizing it. Anf of course, each one reinvent his own wheel. Then they go out and bitch about OOP...
Let's keep Unix simplicity, but have the simplicity be a layer on top of an extensible OOP paradigm. Or just let it die while others easily evolve...
Most computer geeks are good at logical stuff, yes. That doesn't make them more intelligent. You talk about books. Well take your average computer geek, and your average literacy geek, have them read a novel, then sum it up for you. You'll find that the computer geek generally didn't understood what was important in the book. He can sum it up, sure, but the way he sums it shows that he didn't understood what was important and what wasn't. More importantly, He didn't get the message behind the book, at all.
In fact, when the literacy geek will explain him what the book was really about, he'll laugh a lot and tell him to quit smoking pot. If the author wanted to mean that, he would have clearly written it !
The literacy geek won't care, he knows most scientists can only understand what has been clearly explained at them, and that their logical mind comes short in any situation where logic is not the key (that is, 95% of real world situations).
The literacy geeks accepts that the world, and the people around him are infinitely complex, and that every action or word can be understood when looked at in the right light. Them computer geeks just thinks that everybody is dumber than him, because their logic can't fit in their little categorizing mind. They don't even try to understand others. In other words, if the document doesn't parse, it's because the document is badly structured. It can't be my parser which needs adjustments, because i know i have the finest parser on earth !
The sentence "OSS is about choices" is generally used to say that the users can choose between several alternatives.
:)
Here the users have the choice between having a messy architecture.
OSS is about having to deal with a constant lack of consistency
Let's turn all those files into XML, integrate Xalan into the kernel, and change the cd command to have it evaluate XPATH requests. Then some magical thing will probably happen !
--
<runs_away type="duck" reason="run forest, run !"/>
This line of thinking is very dangerous. For example I could tell you why do you think the jews have been historically hated by so many people ? :)
Silly things can perpetuate and propagate without having a good reason to exist in the first place. Hate the frenchs if you want (i'm one), but not for a reason like this one.
If you can't find a good reason I can insult if you want