If you're getting married and want your friends and family to come I don't think its asking too much to use a phone, get a pen out or even get proper invitations created that you send by snailmail. Doing it online is all very well but just like email xmas cards , it really sends out a kind of "meh , whatever" message - that you couldn't really be bothered to make much effort and 1 minute in front of a PC is all your F & F are worth.
I'd say 7 years is a long time in the computer world!:o)
Anyway , all these old remote packages - and even some around today - simply streamed whatever the graphics card was displaying (instead of setting up an independent network desktop which X win did from the start) which is franky just retarded and useless for any serious remote usage.
The OP was saying that people no longer have to use PCAW these days because of VNC etc. My point is we never had to use PCAW anyway if we used unix or linux on a PC. If that explanation still isn't simple enough for you let me know and I'll mail you one drawn in crayon.
This isn't another juvenile does-it-run-on-linux rant, but I think its reasonable to point out that remote full screen GUI access via X windows has been around since the mid 80s. A LONG time before any remote GUI windows app or even Windows itself existed.
But it only takes a few to tar everyone with the same brush. Given the ratio of cars to motorcyclists the amount of dangerous and downright idiotic manouvers I've seen bikers make would - if I didn't know better - make me think the whole lot of you had a death wish. Its about time someone taught bikers than you can't always rely on being able to accelerate your way out of trouble and that being on a motorbike doesn't give you carte blanche to ignore the rules of the road such as cutting up other traffic, passing on the inside and riding on the wrong side of the road to pass a queue to name a few.
Memory bottlenecks might be an issue but cache generally solves a lot of them. Binning just about every advance in processor design since the Z80 simply to speed up memory access is farcical. I'm afraid this is going to sink without trace since if you need low power you can just use ARM anyway which incidentally will have a shed load more performance.
Ok , I think I understand what you're on about but if amplitudes are additive wouldn't they cancel out over the course of N whole waveform samples because you'd be adding the positive and negative values together? Or do you just sample N+1/2 waveforms?
I'm sure I'm not the only person who completely understands what a FFT does but simply can't get his head around the actual implementations details. I simply don't get how a signal of many mixed frequencies which essentially means the amplitude is moving all over the place can travel through some equations and a neat list of the fundamental and harmonics can pop out. Its mathematical magic to me. Wish I could "get" it. But I guess I'll just have to settle for using it.
Quite. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to just coding in C. It takes longer to write than C++ but its a damn sight less hassle to maintain in the long run.
Misusing inlining dozens is a piss poor way to program not least because it'll lead to huge binary sizes and the code will still be impossible to follow.
Maybe you should try writing a serious program without nested control structures then and show us how it should be done or are you going to suggest just making endless function calls so the code is unintelligable and the cost of push and popping on the stack becomes huge?
a) Picking someone up on a typo ceased to be an impressive counter argument sometime in the early 80s.
b) No one is being forced to pay FFS. Don't want to pay? Sell your TV. We're not talking food and medicine here, wer're talking a non essential piece of entertainment equipment. And what planet do you live on where you expect 100% consensus on anything before you think its worth a damn?
You'd never get a commercial channel doing live astronomy for 3 nights. In fact they barely tough science at all these days except for the occasional Discovery channel funded sensationalist drivel on channel 5 ("OMG , tidal waves, asteroids, earthquakes, we're all gonna die!! - but find out how after the break" type stuff)
This sort of program alone - almost - makes the license fee worth the money.
"Today i just missed a rescheduled meeting because my BlackBerry failed to ring the alarm"
You could always try using the memory in your , oh , whats it called, ah yes - brain. Amazingly its worked for humanity for about 2 million years and counting. Give it a try sometime.
... to no one. Apart from maybe malware writers who'll be able to put an entire virus in the filename. Whether they'll be able to hide it or even use it is another matter but I wouldn't put it past Windows to have a nice exploit available.
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I'm surprised he hasn't thought also about having the priest/vicar/whoever do it via skype on an iPad or something equally lame.
If you're getting married and want your friends and family to come I don't think its asking too much to use a phone, get a pen out or even get proper invitations created that you send by snailmail. Doing it online is all very well but just like email xmas cards , it really sends out a kind of "meh , whatever" message - that you couldn't really be bothered to make much effort and 1 minute in front of a PC is all your F & F are worth.
LOL , yeah , if you say so. I guess I must have been dreaming when I used it to connet to company networks over ISDN in the early 90s.
I'd say 7 years is a long time in the computer world! :o)
Anyway , all these old remote packages - and even some around today - simply streamed whatever the graphics card was displaying (instead of setting up an independent network desktop which X win did from the start) which is franky just retarded and useless for any serious remote usage.
The OP was saying that people no longer have to use PCAW these days because of VNC etc. My point is we never had to use PCAW anyway if we used unix or linux on a PC. If that explanation still isn't simple enough for you let me know and I'll mail you one drawn in crayon.
This isn't another juvenile does-it-run-on-linux rant, but I think its reasonable to point out that remote full screen GUI access via X windows has been around since the mid 80s. A LONG time before any remote GUI windows app or even Windows itself existed.
But it only takes a few to tar everyone with the same brush. Given the ratio of cars to motorcyclists the amount of dangerous and downright idiotic manouvers I've seen bikers make would - if I didn't know better - make me think the whole lot of you had a death wish. Its about time someone taught bikers than you can't always rely on being able to accelerate your way out of trouble and that being on a motorbike doesn't give you carte blanche to ignore the rules of the road such as cutting up other traffic, passing on the inside and riding on the wrong side of the road to pass a queue to name a few.
"Because the health-care industry spends more?"
Does it?
"Or, maybe it's because it's a cash cow like the alcohol industry?"
Is it?
"How much did the environmentalists spend lobbying against it?"
And what, the government though that it would eventually get more tax money from enviromentalists than from oil companies?
Sorry, I obviously missed the bus to your paranoid fantasy world because I don't see it.
Memory bottlenecks might be an issue but cache generally solves a lot of them. Binning just about every advance in processor design since the Z80 simply to speed up memory access is farcical. I'm afraid this is going to sink without trace since if you need low power you can just use ARM anyway which incidentally will have a shed load more performance.
... how do you get from a load of say 16 bit samples into vectors? If I have sin wave sample data in an array such as the following:
0,5,10,5,0,-5,-10,-5,0
how does that then become a sequence of vectors to calculate the FT?
Ok , I think I understand what you're on about but if amplitudes are additive wouldn't they cancel out over the course of N whole waveform samples because you'd be adding the positive and negative values together? Or do you just sample N+1/2 waveforms?
I'm afraid you lost me at "long vector"
"sit down and work out the maths"
Ah , if only I could. But I'd settle for understanding it first! :o)
I'm sure I'm not the only person who completely understands what a FFT does but simply can't get his head around the actual implementations details. I simply don't get how a signal of many mixed frequencies which essentially means the amplitude is moving all over the place can travel through some equations and a neat list of the fundamental and harmonics can pop out. Its mathematical magic to me. Wish I could "get" it. But I guess I'll just have to settle for using it.
Quite. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to just coding in C. It takes longer to write than C++ but its a damn sight less hassle to maintain in the long run.
Misusing inlining dozens is a piss poor way to program not least because it'll lead to huge binary sizes and the code will still be impossible to follow.
And have you ever wondered how many are produced by pay TV companies such as HBO? I wonder why that is...
Huge hideous bugs!
Maybe you should try writing a serious program without nested control structures then and show us how it should be done or are you going to suggest just making endless function calls so the code is unintelligable and the cost of push and popping on the stack becomes huge?
a) Picking someone up on a typo ceased to be an impressive counter argument sometime in the early 80s.
b) No one is being forced to pay FFS. Don't want to pay? Sell your TV. We're not talking food and medicine here, wer're talking a non essential piece of entertainment equipment. And what planet do you live on where you expect 100% consensus on anything before you think its worth a damn?
You'd never get a commercial channel doing live astronomy for 3 nights. In fact they barely tough science at all these days except for the occasional Discovery channel funded sensationalist drivel on channel 5 ("OMG , tidal waves, asteroids, earthquakes, we're all gonna die!! - but find out how after the break" type stuff)
This sort of program alone - almost - makes the license fee worth the money.
If you can't remember the times and dates for important meetings then you're either senile or you've got learning difficulties.
... but...
"Today i just missed a rescheduled meeting because my BlackBerry failed to ring the alarm"
You could always try using the memory in your , oh , whats it called, ah yes - brain. Amazingly its worked for humanity for about 2 million years and counting. Give it a try sometime.
"The Graphical Interface in Windows is, was, and to my knowledge will be, explorer.exe. Clear?"
And wrong.
Have a nice life.
... to no one. Apart from maybe malware writers who'll be able to put an entire virus in the filename. Whether they'll be able to hide it or even use it is another matter but I wouldn't put it past Windows to have a nice exploit available.
Well thats that mystery solved. Now if only I could remember where those damn bears went after they borrowed a toilet roll...