But your old software will work on new hardware and your new software will work on your old hardware. As far as the end user is concerned there should be no difference between PPC Macs and x86 Macs, period. Apple has pulled this sort of thing off before and I have a feeling that they have planned very, very well for this move. Even if you buy new software without a fat binary, I'm sure that, just as the Intel OS X will have a PPC binary compatibility layer so will the PPC OS X have an Intel compatibility layer. You will not have to shell out any more for new hardware or software than you would in the normal progression of new hardware and new software.
The future of energy production is going to be nuclear, wind, and solar.
Oh how I wish you were correct. It certainly is true that, as far as renewable energy sources go, solar and wind are the future. They are abundant (although there are issues with solar as far as placement, structure design, etc) and, most importantly, completely clean. What I would love to see is a wind/solar energy infrastructure along with hydrogen (produced from that infrastructure) to power cars. No emissions, no use of non-renewable resources (those who say using wind will "slow the Earth down" aside...).
We've even seen a relatively recent push from some of the energy/oil companies for hydrogen infrastructure. But notice the lack of information on how they're producing the hydrogen. The fact of he matter is that coal will be used long before we have large scale renewable energy, but saying that we use hydrogen will be nice; people will be able to say "my car has zero emissions."
The problem is that the emissions are sitll there (and probably worse, actually), they have just been moved to the coal plant instead of the exhaust on my car.
So I agree that oil is on the decline, but we have loads and loads of coal, which is very cheap. I don't see the end of our reliance on fossil fuels any time in the near future, and it makes me sad.
The initial assumption is that is_a_virus() works 100% of the time - no false poistivies, no false negatives - which is what the company in question claimed. So, in fact, it leads to the contradiction, meaning that _no_ is_a_virus() routine can succede 100% of the time in either direction.
Your point about milk is certainly valid, but I have to agree with Sen. Leahy's point of view. There are only a few viable industries left in VT, and he's trying to preserve one of them. Even with the farm bill independently owned dairy farms are going the way of other agricultural businesses here in the northeast; that said, Leahy's trying to preserve dairy farming in VT, which we need just as much as the Ski Industry and general tourism.
As an aside, this hits on one of the real difficulties in the New England states (especially VT, NH and ME). Namely, how do they get new industries to come to them? Agriculture doesn't work - almost anything you imagine can be grown more easily, in larger quantities in the the midwest or the south. Industry doesn't have much incentive either, everything is being outsourced to foreign countries, let alone a small state with a socialist bend to it;) None of them have a notable tech. sector ether.
All of this comes together to rationalize (even if you still disagree with it) agressive defense of existing businesses.
I'm from Vermont, so I have a bit of experience with Senator Leahy. He is legit. His policy is based (predominantly) on respecting the Constitution and the rights of his constiuents. He doesn't need to "win votes" - he's currently on his fifth term and I don't see any real possibility of him losing the next election should he decide to run again.
It's nice to think that there isn't anyone in Government who really _does_ care about his/her citizens, so that we can just say "aww, screw it, what I do/say doesn't matter anyways." But there _are_ people, like Senator Leahy, who really do care about the people in this country.
most of what comes out of a live mix (or even a commercial rock studio recording) is just not worth the system resources
Well, sure, I'll give you that - many mixes come out with undesirables, but the issue is not one of the music needing that extra bit of quality that a lossless compression scheme supplies. Rather, the use of such compression addresses the issue of multiple generations. By trading with SHN (or FLAC) we can then make an _exact_ copy of the master copy; each generation does not add any noise/distortion to the mix, as it might with audio tapes.
If a lossy compression were regularly used, and people burned to disc, encoded to OGG/MP3, decoded and burned again, distortion and data loss would be added to that copy of the source, which is unaccptable. That's why we also use MD5s as well.
I think you read the article wrong... Whis is a native implementation of Sorensen 3 that can run on all supported platforms (including x86). It used to be that watching a Sorensen 3 encoded video involved the use of Win32 DLLs (either through WINE, or later by directly accessing the DLL). Now it isn't needed. So indeed one _can_ watch a Sorensen 3 video on x86 using the lates version of xine without any nutty DLL hacks.
The way I look at it, if you have a freedom you can complete the sentence: "I am now free to ______," e.g. "I am free to speak".
Sure, if you want to talk about positive freedoms. However, there are places where a negative freedom (freedom from ___) is much more useful. Take for example the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. This is much broader than a "freedom to" because it does not define exactly wahat you can do, only what is NOT allowed. I like to think that there should be a "freedom from government surveilance" but perhaps that's too optimistic.
That all sounds good, but being in the etree.org community, the _standard_ is to use ftp. It works well for the siteops and it works well for the users, once they clear that initial roadblock of learning an FTP client.
Interestingly enough, the only other emerging distribution method is BitTorrent - the distributed model helps a lot for people on cable/adsl, who do not have the luxury of a fat university pipe like me.
In any case, like I said, use the tool that suits the purpose.
The question is, "what do you want to do?" I run an FTP server (incidentally affiliated with etree.org, lossless live music!) and I need what it can give me. Namely I need multiple classes of login, each with a different
1) number of available slots 2) speed limit 3) premission set
Some people can only read files at 60KB/s, some can read and write (to the upload dir) at the same speed, come can only browse, etc. etc. For this kind of a setup, FTP is great _IF_ you keep your software up to date; subscribe to bugtraq or your distro's security bulletin or both.
On the other hand, HTTP is great when you want to give lots of people unlimited ANONYMOUS access to something. I'm sure there is a way to throttle bandwidth, but can you do it on a class by class basis? In proftpd it's a simple "RateReadBPS xxx" and I'm set.
As always, choose the tool that fits _your_ purpose, not the one that everyone says is "best"; they both have good and bad qualities. And http can be just as secure/insecure as any other protocol.
Stephen King, (bear with me!) The Dark Tower series, which is sort of dark, parallel-world fantasy drawn from contemporary popular culture, and not really like anything else King's ever written.
I was about to write a post on King's Dark Tower series (although mythos is probably a better word) myself, instead I'll second your recommendation.
The books in the serise (The Gunslinger, The Drawing Of The Three, The Wastelands and Wizard And Glass, in that order) are fantastic books in their own right, blending a world that has "moved on" (kind of a post-apocalyptic thing) with pop-culture.
However, as a big King fan, the best part about the series is the way that so many of his other books tie into this huge world he's created. I.e. The Talisman and Black House talk about a very important part of the world. And books like Insomniac and the short story "Low Men In Yellow Coats" from Hearts In Atlantis flesh out the world even more.
I have to recommend the best part of King's work, while he is an "Airport book store" author, I feel that he writes on a much deeper level than some of the others out there. Read the Dark Tower series, then The Talisman and Black House (both of which also were written by Peter Straub) and see where that takes you.
Not to get into a flame war, but case mods and RMS vs. the world arguments are more "news for nerds" than politics? I'd say that politics are VERY relevant to nerds, what with the CBDTPA, DMCA, etc. But please, correct me if I'm wrong. Tell me why politics are not for nerds.
The ever popular "everyone else is doing it so I don't have to" argument. Posted by someone who doesn't want to "soil" their good name on/. Give me a break.
We need to saturate the media with reminders to vote. We need to inform people on which topics are important, which are hotly contested. There's a reason a lot of use are not satisfied with the governement right now. We're not in the right age bracket! Pols don't think we care, because a lot of us don't vote; we don't vote cause the pols don't care. Vote for someone who DOES care about what you do. Even if they lose, you made your voice heard!
Well, no, but you shift the friction (meaning loss of energy) from something big (air) to something smaller (electricity running through wires). In large moving bodies, a very large part of the enrgy used to propel them is devoted simply to overcoming air resistance, especially at higher speeds (since air resistance increases on a logarithmic scale with speed, not linearly)... Try putting your hand out your car window at 40, then at 80 [km/h or m/h, doesn't matter;)], see if you notice the difference.
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I've been using a case sensitive HFS+ volume as my root volume for at least 6 months now without any problems at all. Hooray for anecdotes!
But your old software will work on new hardware and your new software will work on your old hardware. As far as the end user is concerned there should be no difference between PPC Macs and x86 Macs, period. Apple has pulled this sort of thing off before and I have a feeling that they have planned very, very well for this move. Even if you buy new software without a fat binary, I'm sure that, just as the Intel OS X will have a PPC binary compatibility layer so will the PPC OS X have an Intel compatibility layer. You will not have to shell out any more for new hardware or software than you would in the normal progression of new hardware and new software.
The future of energy production is going to be nuclear, wind, and solar.
Oh how I wish you were correct. It certainly is true that, as far as renewable energy sources go, solar and wind are the future. They are abundant (although there are issues with solar as far as placement, structure design, etc) and, most importantly, completely clean. What I would love to see is a wind/solar energy infrastructure along with hydrogen (produced from that infrastructure) to power cars. No emissions, no use of non-renewable resources (those who say using wind will "slow the Earth down" aside...).
We've even seen a relatively recent push from some of the energy/oil companies for hydrogen infrastructure. But notice the lack of information on how they're producing the hydrogen. The fact of he matter is that coal will be used long before we have large scale renewable energy, but saying that we use hydrogen will be nice; people will be able to say "my car has zero emissions."
The problem is that the emissions are sitll there (and probably worse, actually), they have just been moved to the coal plant instead of the exhaust on my car.
So I agree that oil is on the decline, but we have loads and loads of coal, which is very cheap. I don't see the end of our reliance on fossil fuels any time in the near future, and it makes me sad.
The initial assumption is that is_a_virus() works 100% of the time - no false poistivies, no false negatives - which is what the company in question claimed. So, in fact, it leads to the contradiction, meaning that _no_ is_a_virus() routine can succede 100% of the time in either direction.
Your point about milk is certainly valid, but I have to agree with Sen. Leahy's point of view. There are only a few viable industries left in VT, and he's trying to preserve one of them. Even with the farm bill independently owned dairy farms are going the way of other agricultural businesses here in the northeast; that said, Leahy's trying to preserve dairy farming in VT, which we need just as much as the Ski Industry and general tourism.
As an aside, this hits on one of the real difficulties in the New England states (especially VT, NH and ME). Namely, how do they get new industries to come to them? Agriculture doesn't work - almost anything you imagine can be grown more easily, in larger quantities in the the midwest or the south. Industry doesn't have much incentive either, everything is being outsourced to foreign countries, let alone a small state with a socialist bend to it;) None of them have a notable tech. sector ether.
All of this comes together to rationalize (even if you still disagree with it) agressive defense of existing businesses.
I'm from Vermont, so I have a bit of experience with Senator Leahy. He is legit. His policy is based (predominantly) on respecting the Constitution and the rights of his constiuents. He doesn't need to "win votes" - he's currently on his fifth term and I don't see any real possibility of him losing the next election should he decide to run again.
It's nice to think that there isn't anyone in Government who really _does_ care about his/her citizens, so that we can just say "aww, screw it, what I do/say doesn't matter anyways." But there _are_ people, like Senator Leahy, who really do care about the people in this country.
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Just barre the open E at the first fret.
most of what comes out of a live mix (or even a commercial rock studio recording) is just not worth the system resources
Well, sure, I'll give you that - many mixes come out with undesirables, but the issue is not one of the music needing that extra bit of quality that a lossless compression scheme supplies. Rather, the use of such compression addresses the issue of multiple generations. By trading with SHN (or FLAC) we can then make an _exact_ copy of the master copy; each generation does not add any noise/distortion to the mix, as it might with audio tapes.
If a lossy compression were regularly used, and people burned to disc, encoded to OGG/MP3, decoded and burned again, distortion and data loss would be added to that copy of the source, which is unaccptable. That's why we also use MD5s as well.
I think you read the article wrong... Whis is a native implementation of Sorensen 3 that can run on all supported platforms (including x86). It used to be that watching a Sorensen 3 encoded video involved the use of Win32 DLLs (either through WINE, or later by directly accessing the DLL). Now it isn't needed. So indeed one _can_ watch a Sorensen 3 video on x86 using the lates version of xine without any nutty DLL hacks.
The way I look at it, if you have a freedom you can complete the sentence: "I am now free to ______," e.g. "I am free to speak".
Sure, if you want to talk about positive freedoms. However, there are places where a negative freedom (freedom from ___) is much more useful. Take for example the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. This is much broader than a "freedom to" because it does not define exactly wahat you can do, only what is NOT allowed. I like to think that there should be a "freedom from government surveilance" but perhaps that's too optimistic.
That all sounds good, but being in the etree.org community, the _standard_ is to use ftp. It works well for the siteops and it works well for the users, once they clear that initial roadblock of learning an FTP client.
Interestingly enough, the only other emerging distribution method is BitTorrent - the distributed model helps a lot for people on cable/adsl, who do not have the luxury of a fat university pipe like me.
In any case, like I said, use the tool that suits the purpose.
The question is, "what do you want to do?" I run an FTP server (incidentally affiliated with etree.org, lossless live music!) and I need what it can give me. Namely I need multiple classes of login, each with a different
1) number of available slots
2) speed limit
3) premission set
Some people can only read files at 60KB/s, some can read and write (to the upload dir) at the same speed, come can only browse, etc. etc. For this kind of a setup, FTP is great _IF_ you keep your software up to date; subscribe to bugtraq or your distro's security bulletin or both.
On the other hand, HTTP is great when you want to give lots of people unlimited ANONYMOUS access to something. I'm sure there is a way to throttle bandwidth, but can you do it on a class by class basis? In proftpd it's a simple "RateReadBPS xxx" and I'm set.
As always, choose the tool that fits _your_ purpose, not the one that everyone says is "best"; they both have good and bad qualities. And http can be just as secure/insecure as any other protocol.
Stephen King, (bear with me!) The Dark Tower series, which is sort of dark, parallel-world fantasy drawn from contemporary popular culture, and not really like anything else King's ever written.
I was about to write a post on King's Dark Tower series (although mythos is probably a better word) myself, instead I'll second your recommendation.
The books in the serise (The Gunslinger, The Drawing Of The Three, The Wastelands and Wizard And Glass, in that order) are fantastic books in their own right, blending a world that has "moved on" (kind of a post-apocalyptic thing) with pop-culture.
However, as a big King fan, the best part about the series is the way that so many of his other books tie into this huge world he's created. I.e. The Talisman and Black House talk about a very important part of the world. And books like Insomniac and the short story "Low Men In Yellow Coats" from Hearts In Atlantis flesh out the world even more.
I have to recommend the best part of King's work, while he is an "Airport book store" author, I feel that he writes on a much deeper level than some of the others out there. Read the Dark Tower series, then The Talisman and Black House (both of which also were written by Peter Straub) and see where that takes you.
No, but things in space (like a probe, for instance) do have temperature.
I prefer Guinness.
I am probably going to go through the 'offsite box at my bank' route pretty soon...
...Famous last words...
No, that's an uncomfortable place.
Not to get into a flame war, but case mods and RMS vs. the world arguments are more "news for nerds" than politics? I'd say that politics are VERY relevant to nerds, what with the CBDTPA, DMCA, etc. But please, correct me if I'm wrong. Tell me why politics are not for nerds.
The ever popular "everyone else is doing it so I don't have to" argument. Posted by someone who doesn't want to "soil" their good name on /. Give me a break.
We need to saturate the media with reminders to vote. We need to inform people on which topics are important, which are hotly contested. There's a reason a lot of use are not satisfied with the governement right now. We're not in the right age bracket! Pols don't think we care, because a lot of us don't vote; we don't vote cause the pols don't care. Vote for someone who DOES care about what you do. Even if they lose, you made your voice heard!
Damned cynics.
not very hard at all
To change the subject, did you know they've removed gullible from the dictionary?
Not from the dictionary that counts.
So air is the only thing that causes friction?
... Try putting your hand out your car window at 40, then at 80 [km/h or m/h, doesn't matter;)], see if you notice the difference.
Well, no, but you shift the friction (meaning loss of energy) from something big (air) to something smaller (electricity running through wires). In large moving bodies, a very large part of the enrgy used to propel them is devoted simply to overcoming air resistance, especially at higher speeds (since air resistance increases on a logarithmic scale with speed, not linearly)
God, I hope not. ;)
allright, ignore that, slashdot decided to mangle my post