You can't hear any occasional click on heavy metal anyway because it's so damned distorted. That was the guy's point. And second, most of that increased fidelity is psychosomatic - if you listen hard enough, you will hear that crap from CD's. Finally, any increase in fidelity on vinyl is for the first play - after that, it deteriorates pretty quick, and I don't care how good your needles are.
I would like to see some of these audiophiles take the Pepsi challenge on a piece of musoic they haven't heard, and see if they can tell the difference to a 95% confidence interval. And recognizing the one with the nasty analog hiss doesn't count.
Who the hell actually watches crappy-quality movies from a freaking camcorder? Seriously, if you're cheap, pay your $5 and go to a matinee. How much filesharing is actually camcorder rips?
I have never bought anything over the phone, and never will. However, I still get calls galore, if for no other reason than your credit card company(ies), your bank, all your magazine subscriptions, etc SELL YOU OUT. And it's so cheap that they don't get screwed by having a list full of people who don't want calls.
I have to say, if they didn't call purposefully AT DINNER then I wouldn't get pissed. But dammit, that's the one time I really don't want to be called.
You know what WILL get you off of a call list? You know how when you pick up, there's a pause (since it's transferring you, a live body, to an operator)? If that happens, it's always a telemarketer. When they come one the line, I fake a strange Asian accent. They keep saying "Hello? Sir?" ANd I keep saying "Ni-Hao, Ni pu nan jiba!" (That's a bit vulgar in Chinese), or something similar. They get the hint quickly, and it's fun!
I don't think it's fair to characterize the parent poster's comments as elitism since he's not an astronaut. I think the point is that we've all paid a lot of money to make a space station for scientific purposes, and the Russians are treating it like freaking Disneyland. I don't believe we've sent any undeserving astronauts to the space station. We've sent two on the shuttle; one a teacher we blew up, and one was John Glenn - one of the first guys we ever sent up in the 60's, so I think he deserved another trip.
I'm sure your daughter, like everybody's kid, wants to be an astronaut. Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to send everybody's kid up there. So we have to pick and choose, and the people who get to go are the people whose experiments need to be done in zero-g. Pretty geeky, but it's the only way to make fair decisions. As for making space travel "cool" and commonplace...well...not in our lifetimes.
Bottom line is, if we want to make a tourist space station, fine. But I'm not interested in financing Russian tourism with my tax dollars.
DOJ don't always get their guy...those offshore bookies have been running for years. They can't come back here, but I don't think they care, living in their Caribbean tropical paradise and all...
This seems only important to people counting rocks and not to people with any hope of visiting them or furthering our understanding of the one we're on.
People said this about the moon landing 40 years ago. Let's try to have some creativity.
Last I checked, the grocery store doesn't have braille prices on all their stuff. I think part of the law has to do with alternate access - in the grocery store analogy, they let in guide dogs, or the blind can bring someone along to assist them.
For southwest, that alternative access is called a freaking PHONE. Pick up the phone and CALL THEM, since the phone doesn't depend on sight. I know there are internet only specials, but I'm sure if the person were blind they would give them access to whatever discounts exist.
I'm sure this exists, but if not, couldn't someone make a bootable CD with the compiler and whatever else you need, so you can boot straight from there and never use another bastard distro?
Well, if Mac OS is doing it....
on
LFS 4.0 Released
·
· Score: 1
...then, goddammit, I guess we better switch!
I've heard a lot of insane reasons for switching OS's, but I think that one wins.
I still say this is the only supposedly egregious decision I agreed with. What would have happened if the lady had used the product as intended? Gotten third degree burns along her esophagus?
I agree with you completely - I think the people who want complete lack of copyright protection give the rest of us who don't like the Berman bill a bad name. I simply don't like the "vigilante justice" nature of the bill. Why shouldn't we legislate similar laws elsewhere?
His logic is that the cops don't have time to track down a bunch of filesharers so we have to let the **AA take the law into their own hands. Nice precedent. I think I should have the right to break into any house I want, then, if I suspect someone of stealing from me. I won't break anything, I swear. It's the same thing, really.
I love how congress through the DMCA made hacking illegal. Except now, it's legal, as long as you have a copyright.
I'm sure there are scant XP Pro boxes on campus, as the cost and lack of piratability make it unlikely. I'm sure they will ban XP Pro if it makes it in. They are undoubtedly recmmending an upgrade (downgrade?) to XP home.
I completely agree. KDE is nothing if not a cheap (expensive?) Windows knock-off. That said, I use it as my default. Gnome is OK looking, but it seemed less intuitive than KDE. Coming straight from Winblows, I found everything I needed (just about) on KDE, and generally didn't have to look long.
The great thing about climate change is there is no way for ANYONE to be proven right within the next few hundred or so years - we have a sample size of 1 (planet), and there's too much noise in the signal to say that anything observable is significant. People "notice" that the last 10 years of data is a general upward trend; had we had this technology in the 1780's (I think that was the rough time period) the opposite would have been noticed - ie, cooling.
Within climate modeling, the story is even tougher. It is logical to assume that greenhouse gases = warming, but the climate model is SO much more complicated than that. We don't know to what extent that more CO2 will stimulate plant growth, lessening the effect (same for plankton in the oceans). We also don't know what the effect of more air pollution will have on cloud/aerosol formation - as they tend to produce a shielding/cooling effect. And, as the story says, possibly cooling as a result of melting.
True, the general consensus is to generate numbers that indicate a general heating, but it's partly political - the funding agencies that support climatology don't want to support models that generate negative numbers, and so predicted cooling=no funding. Also, modeling in general is more of a Rorshach of the researcher, in that what you choose to weight, in terms of variables, affects the ultimate outcome. There are many ways to build a model that predicts the current climate, and subtle differences in models will cause divergence - and climate researchers aren't likely to go with an "illogical" conclusion - ie, cooling. Even this story uses global warming to get to the ultimate global cooling.
Bottom line is that climatology ain't easy - it's hard to test a hypothesis because there's no new data. Hard to check for overtraining. So I would take climatology research with a grain of salt. So I would say that the poster you went off on was fair in saying that this isn't a clear-cut BECAUSE situation.
That said, driving big freaking SUV's isn't the best idea - best to hedge on the side of caution.
Because when you download music, you're taking bread from Britney's mouth! She can barely afford to LIVE! Please, think of the starving artists before you download that next MP3.
I believe bulimia already took the bread out of Britney's mouth. So I don't think music piracy has anything to do with it.;)
Microsoft does indeed fight piracy here (ever hear of the BSA? 'Nuff said). I contend, however, that they probably shouldn't fight piracy of windows, though with XP they have upped the ante a bit. They are benefited immeasurably by their monopoly (ask the DOJ, eh?), something that would be harmed if everyone had to pay for it, or couldn't reuse old OEM copies. I really think that people aren't going to pay an extra $150 to throw XP on their second computer - so here comes Mac OS or linux, which people might find they like more.
When you get down to it, wouldn't disregard for piracy be the best way to engage in dumping of product to eradicate competitors (a practice that would be illegal under antitrust, in their position)? This would be the best way to maintain their install base. I mean, they would still extort the OEM's to get money out of windows, but let anyone who builds their own box or wants to upgrade to do it for free. Unofficially, of course.
Seriously, there should be a BAN on anything from SciAm or NYT, or ZDNET. I mean, for Chrissakes, I read slashdot for the more obscure, cool, and important news that I can't get from mainstream. If it's just going to be a NYT/ZDNET regurgitation, why read it?
However, as you beautifully contradict yourself, it CAN BE DONE. Surprisingly, RAM can be made removeable. Maybe you've even done it yourself. Please, find me a fundamental reason why a graphics card is unique compared to a regular system bus with removeable RAM. Yes, the connection has capacitance, but it isn't sufficient to require hardwiring of the components. The capacitance argument is NOT compelling; the RAM becoming outdated is.
They do, but let's consider scale. Does it make that much of a difference for an Au/Au contact? Ultimately, they can make removeable system RAM that operates at higher bus speeds than GPU RAM, so I maintain that it should be reasonable to make a graphics card with removeable RAM. If we were talking about obscene speed requirements, maybe...
I'm calling BS on the capacitive part. Keep the metals of the contact the same and you should be fine. Regardless, CPU's are removable, and they seem to have good transfer rate. Also, the AGP transfer from your bus to the card seems OK too (obviously the card is removable), so I don't think that's a problem.
I'm betting on a combination of things. First, cost. Second, I suppose they haven't had the demand. Third, the system architecture of the GPU is about as important as the amount of RAM, and this gets outdated about as fast, it seems, than polygon loads that would eat the RAM.
Slashdot Mirror
You can't hear any occasional click on heavy metal anyway because it's so damned distorted. That was the guy's point. And second, most of that increased fidelity is psychosomatic - if you listen hard enough, you will hear that crap from CD's. Finally, any increase in fidelity on vinyl is for the first play - after that, it deteriorates pretty quick, and I don't care how good your needles are.
I would like to see some of these audiophiles take the Pepsi challenge on a piece of musoic they haven't heard, and see if they can tell the difference to a 95% confidence interval. And recognizing the one with the nasty analog hiss doesn't count.
Luddites.
Who the hell actually watches crappy-quality movies from a freaking camcorder? Seriously, if you're cheap, pay your $5 and go to a matinee. How much filesharing is actually camcorder rips?
I have never bought anything over the phone, and never will. However, I still get calls galore, if for no other reason than your credit card company(ies), your bank, all your magazine subscriptions, etc SELL YOU OUT. And it's so cheap that they don't get screwed by having a list full of people who don't want calls.
I have to say, if they didn't call purposefully AT DINNER then I wouldn't get pissed. But dammit, that's the one time I really don't want to be called.
You know what WILL get you off of a call list? You know how when you pick up, there's a pause (since it's transferring you, a live body, to an operator)? If that happens, it's always a telemarketer. When they come one the line, I fake a strange Asian accent. They keep saying "Hello? Sir?" ANd I keep saying "Ni-Hao, Ni pu nan jiba!" (That's a bit vulgar in Chinese), or something similar. They get the hint quickly, and it's fun!
...is the fuckwits who buy the junk that these jackals sell. Morons.
Yes, sir, I would love a debt consolidation loan that reduces my payments by 10% but doubles the length of my payments. Where should I sign up?
I don't think it's fair to characterize the parent poster's comments as elitism since he's not an astronaut. I think the point is that we've all paid a lot of money to make a space station for scientific purposes, and the Russians are treating it like freaking Disneyland. I don't believe we've sent any undeserving astronauts to the space station. We've sent two on the shuttle; one a teacher we blew up, and one was John Glenn - one of the first guys we ever sent up in the 60's, so I think he deserved another trip.
I'm sure your daughter, like everybody's kid, wants to be an astronaut. Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to send everybody's kid up there. So we have to pick and choose, and the people who get to go are the people whose experiments need to be done in zero-g. Pretty geeky, but it's the only way to make fair decisions. As for making space travel "cool" and commonplace...well...not in our lifetimes.
Bottom line is, if we want to make a tourist space station, fine. But I'm not interested in financing Russian tourism with my tax dollars.
DOJ don't always get their guy...those offshore bookies have been running for years. They can't come back here, but I don't think they care, living in their Caribbean tropical paradise and all...
Hey, stop hogging the reefer!
This seems only important to people counting rocks and not to people with any hope of visiting them or furthering our understanding of the one we're on.
People said this about the moon landing 40 years ago. Let's try to have some creativity.
Last I checked, the grocery store doesn't have braille prices on all their stuff. I think part of the law has to do with alternate access - in the grocery store analogy, they let in guide dogs, or the blind can bring someone along to assist them.
For southwest, that alternative access is called a freaking PHONE. Pick up the phone and CALL THEM, since the phone doesn't depend on sight. I know there are internet only specials, but I'm sure if the person were blind they would give them access to whatever discounts exist.
I'm sure this exists, but if not, couldn't someone make a bootable CD with the compiler and whatever else you need, so you can boot straight from there and never use another bastard distro?
...then, goddammit, I guess we better switch!
I've heard a lot of insane reasons for switching OS's, but I think that one wins.
I still say this is the only supposedly egregious decision I agreed with. What would have happened if the lady had used the product as intended? Gotten third degree burns along her esophagus?
I agree with you completely - I think the people who want complete lack of copyright protection give the rest of us who don't like the Berman bill a bad name. I simply don't like the "vigilante justice" nature of the bill. Why shouldn't we legislate similar laws elsewhere?
His logic is that the cops don't have time to track down a bunch of filesharers so we have to let the **AA take the law into their own hands. Nice precedent. I think I should have the right to break into any house I want, then, if I suspect someone of stealing from me. I won't break anything, I swear. It's the same thing, really.
I love how congress through the DMCA made hacking illegal. Except now, it's legal, as long as you have a copyright.
I'm sure there are scant XP Pro boxes on campus, as the cost and lack of piratability make it unlikely. I'm sure they will ban XP Pro if it makes it in. They are undoubtedly recmmending an upgrade (downgrade?) to XP home.
I completely agree. KDE is nothing if not a cheap (expensive?) Windows knock-off. That said, I use it as my default. Gnome is OK looking, but it seemed less intuitive than KDE. Coming straight from Winblows, I found everything I needed (just about) on KDE, and generally didn't have to look long.
The great thing about climate change is there is no way for ANYONE to be proven right within the next few hundred or so years - we have a sample size of 1 (planet), and there's too much noise in the signal to say that anything observable is significant. People "notice" that the last 10 years of data is a general upward trend; had we had this technology in the 1780's (I think that was the rough time period) the opposite would have been noticed - ie, cooling.
Within climate modeling, the story is even tougher. It is logical to assume that greenhouse gases = warming, but the climate model is SO much more complicated than that. We don't know to what extent that more CO2 will stimulate plant growth, lessening the effect (same for plankton in the oceans). We also don't know what the effect of more air pollution will have on cloud/aerosol formation - as they tend to produce a shielding/cooling effect. And, as the story says, possibly cooling as a result of melting.
True, the general consensus is to generate numbers that indicate a general heating, but it's partly political - the funding agencies that support climatology don't want to support models that generate negative numbers, and so predicted cooling=no funding. Also, modeling in general is more of a Rorshach of the researcher, in that what you choose to weight, in terms of variables, affects the ultimate outcome. There are many ways to build a model that predicts the current climate, and subtle differences in models will cause divergence - and climate researchers aren't likely to go with an "illogical" conclusion - ie, cooling. Even this story uses global warming to get to the ultimate global cooling.
Bottom line is that climatology ain't easy - it's hard to test a hypothesis because there's no new data. Hard to check for overtraining. So I would take climatology research with a grain of salt. So I would say that the poster you went off on was fair in saying that this isn't a clear-cut BECAUSE situation.
That said, driving big freaking SUV's isn't the best idea - best to hedge on the side of caution.
The last MS product I actually purchased was dos 5
I assume that you build your own since then? 'Cuz OEM counts as buying MS...
Because when you download music, you're taking bread from Britney's mouth! She can barely afford to LIVE! Please, think of the starving artists before you download that next MP3.
;)
I believe bulimia already took the bread out of Britney's mouth. So I don't think music piracy has anything to do with it.
Microsoft does indeed fight piracy here (ever hear of the BSA? 'Nuff said). I contend, however, that they probably shouldn't fight piracy of windows, though with XP they have upped the ante a bit. They are benefited immeasurably by their monopoly (ask the DOJ, eh?), something that would be harmed if everyone had to pay for it, or couldn't reuse old OEM copies. I really think that people aren't going to pay an extra $150 to throw XP on their second computer - so here comes Mac OS or linux, which people might find they like more.
When you get down to it, wouldn't disregard for piracy be the best way to engage in dumping of product to eradicate competitors (a practice that would be illegal under antitrust, in their position)? This would be the best way to maintain their install base. I mean, they would still extort the OEM's to get money out of windows, but let anyone who builds their own box or wants to upgrade to do it for free. Unofficially, of course.
Seriously, there should be a BAN on anything from SciAm or NYT, or ZDNET. I mean, for Chrissakes, I read slashdot for the more obscure, cool, and important news that I can't get from mainstream. If it's just going to be a NYT/ZDNET regurgitation, why read it?
Good luck teaching those chips to solder. ;)
Goddammit, don't post shit like that anymore. Do you want to see beer come out my nose again? And wtf is Bukka?
However, as you beautifully contradict yourself, it CAN BE DONE. Surprisingly, RAM can be made removeable. Maybe you've even done it yourself. Please, find me a fundamental reason why a graphics card is unique compared to a regular system bus with removeable RAM. Yes, the connection has capacitance, but it isn't sufficient to require hardwiring of the components. The capacitance argument is NOT compelling; the RAM becoming outdated is.
They do, but let's consider scale. Does it make that much of a difference for an Au/Au contact? Ultimately, they can make removeable system RAM that operates at higher bus speeds than GPU RAM, so I maintain that it should be reasonable to make a graphics card with removeable RAM. If we were talking about obscene speed requirements, maybe...
I'm calling BS on the capacitive part. Keep the metals of the contact the same and you should be fine. Regardless, CPU's are removable, and they seem to have good transfer rate. Also, the AGP transfer from your bus to the card seems OK too (obviously the card is removable), so I don't think that's a problem.
;)
I'm betting on a combination of things. First, cost. Second, I suppose they haven't had the demand. Third, the system architecture of the GPU is about as important as the amount of RAM, and this gets outdated about as fast, it seems, than polygon loads that would eat the RAM.
But I'm just guessing.