What I would really like is to have found software that would take PC Speaker output and force it through the sound card. There were some old games that were great but sound like crap on new pc speakers.
Many newer mother boards with onboard audio can do this. Mine can.
Bench it again when the G5 Xserves come out--it totally depends on your application, but I believe that in some cases you will get substantially more bang for your buck.
What I care about is FPU, bus, memory latency, and gigabit ethernet. Being able to rack mount them is nice too. They don't need a video card, sound card, mouse, or keyboard.
Although you don't say what scientific community you represent, the one that I support--biotech (genome research)--is actually dominated by Macs.
Physics, so we have much, much less money than you guys. We are cheap bastards and I don't think Apple will ever cater to us.
I am sorry that I am biased and isolated. When I say science, I really mean physics/chemistry/meteorology... I sometimes forget that bio people use math and vast numbers of computers too.
There machines are now VERY excellent with a unix-based OS but they are still somewhat pricey. I can see them making significant inroads into scientific computing.
Nope. We are now switching from the decaying Suns, Alphas, and a few SGI's to Linux on Intel. Only die hard apple nuts and people with big grants would waste so much money.
How the computer looks and how pretty the GUI is doesn't matter when you have 20-2000 sitting in the corner running batch jobs over ssh. And I don't think the MFLOP/$ is good enough (this is the main factor), though I haven't compared everything lately. Last time I did comparisons was a bit after the Pentium IV came out, and that point the Pentium III gave the best results for the dollar.
When I learned JavaScript, it was not my first programming language. I used the Netscape ECMA references heavily to figure out the DOM and all the features of the language.
That said, I went on to write programs, each a few thousand lines of very dense code. My platform at the time was Netscape 4.*. For each program I had to write around at least 2 bugs in Netscape's implementation of JS.
One of those programs was incapable of running in Netscape 3.* because of its absense of window.parent stuff. I could get the other program to run in Netscape 3.*. but only after working around another bug. And in only one of those programs was I able to figure how to get working with IE.
My opinion of JS at the time was that it had too many neet programming features to be properly implemented by the terrible programmers at Netscape and Microsoft.
Do IE and Mozilla actually run standards based JScript well today?
That said, vinyl has a superior frequency response (potentially 5Hz-27kHz) than CD. To someone with odd hearing (yes, I knew someone who could hear that high) this makes a difference
I can hear far past the normal human range, and I can tell you that in my experience there are few if any pleasant sounds out at that range. And I have never heard anything at this frequency (above 22k) play from a record player.
Mostly all I hear is this constant hissing from old televisions and other unknown electronics, it sounds like "eeeeeeeeeeeee". I thought everyone could hear those sounds 'till I went to visit a university in mississippi that specializes in the science of sound. There is a bar in my neighborhood that I hate visiting because all of the televisions ring in my ears.
Personally I can't wait till my high range hearing degrades with old age.
Do you have any idea how many people use Linux clusters to predict the weather!
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Iceland's Institute for Meteorological Research Pennsylvania State University Defense Department University of British Columbia GeoDisaster Center...
The NOAA contract alone was 15 million dollars! and the UBC contract was to IBM!
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Ah yes, I do not disagree with that statement. But earlier you remarked about "pulp production" and not exporting pulp. I am not aware of any standard paper mills exporting mass amounts of pulp.
I think it is sad about the situation in Canada, and I will have to ask my friend about it.
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There are people at all time doing calculations. When the profit from paper is less than lumber, the trees are sold as lumber.
Most of the paper trees are pines. They feel just like regular pines. Oak is expensive (in the US at least) and houses are generally not made entirely of Oak here. But maybe you are from Brasil or something, so I don't know how things work down there.
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I speak of only, by far, the LARGEST paper company in the world, International Paper - I am not talking about logging in general. They have trees all over the US, Brasil, Russia, and many other countries. The topic was paper companies for some strange reason.
Now IP did buy out a company in BC named Weldwood that distributes pulp. And I don't know if that is the offender, but on the face of it, knowing all of the paper mills that I do, you are entirely incorrect about your ranking of paper pulp production.
My opinion is this way for the following reason. IP is the world's largest paper company and most of their mills work like this: cut down some trees, replant trees, throw trees in large man made river, float trees down river to mill,... Shipping pulp from Canada would just be too prohibitive.
I don't work at IP, I just happen to be very close friends with a senior engineer, and I can find out within the week.
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>>It's not the end-all-be-all solution to cutting >>down trees, but it's a good start.
>Lets see..hemp has about 4 harvests a year (and is the ideal rotating >crop) and trees take a few decades to grow... >Id say its a hell of a good start and finish to any tree vs hemp >debate.
First of all, paper companies have NOTHING to do with deforestation. They own vast amounts of land and at all times they have trees growing at various states of development. They cut a patch of trees down every day, let the stumps rot, and plant new seedlings. In fact, clearing land to grow hemp would do far MORE deforestation than growing trees!
It is an absurd notion that a paper company would chop down random trees for pulp. Depending on what grade of paper you are making, you have to use a very specific ratio of tree pulps, cotton, and even things like clay (porcelin).
Secondly, paper companies do not grow standard trees, and they do not grow them to full size. (you could make an analogy to poultry) They have specially bred trees that grow at several times the normal rate.
I am all for legalizing and taxing the hell out of low-THC, filtered, marjuana cigarettes. But the paper companies and the educated ecologists don't give a shit, and they shouldn't.
Umm, there are a thousand different ways to do that in UNIX.
My prefered method is to have AVFS installed. Then I can treat any type of archive as a directory. For instance, say I want to pull 4.txt out of archive.tgz...
$ ls archive.tgz $ cd archive.tgz# $ ls 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt 4.txt $ cp 4.txt..
And of course you don't have to use the command line. I use my filer to do it. And I do not believe that it decompresses everything just to get that one file.
Then why don't you try the following experiment. Save the same file to two different file names. Zip one file, then add the other to that archive. Notice the size difference in the two archives.
Anyone else notice that these were the exact same movie.
A young, handsome, rule-breaking cop gets an undercover assignment to learn about a close-nit group of ultra-cool-rebel thieves that surf/race The undercover cop falls in love with the younger sister of criminal In the end the undercover cop lets the criminal leader surf/drive into the horizon
But the Dreamcast also read CD-ROM's and CDR's. And once people figured out how to make boot roms and how to read the GD-ROM's it was a short matter of time before bootable ISO's started appearing on the net. NO MOD CHIP REQUIRED!
And what of the higher memory capacity of the GD-ROM; people would just strip out some or all of the FMV's on the disc to get the ISO size down below 800MB.
I personally bought a Dreamcast when they went on sale, and I do not own a single "legal" game.
You are making a false conclusion from true statements. You can see this everyday in mathematics. You can start with some axiomic set of definitions and work your way into proofs of incredible theorems. Now, logically, you have nothing more than the definitions that you began with - but you can do so much more and your understanding is so much greater.
There was a school of thought centered upon your very argument. They were ant-logic and anti-science. I can't remember their name, but they were mostly debated into oblivion a long, long time ago.
And proving that there can be no proof of a God that performs meaningful actions is infinitely more difficult than you claim. Especially when you do not define God.
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What I would really like is to have found software that would take PC Speaker output and force it through the sound card. There were some old games that were great but sound like crap on new pc speakers.
Many newer mother boards with onboard audio can do this. Mine can.
Bench it again when the G5 Xserves come out--it totally depends on your application, but I believe that in some cases you will get substantially more bang for your buck.
What I care about is FPU, bus, memory latency, and gigabit ethernet. Being able to rack mount them is nice too. They don't need a video card, sound card, mouse, or keyboard.
Although you don't say what scientific community you represent, the one that I support--biotech (genome research)--is actually dominated by Macs.
Physics, so we have much, much less money than you guys. We are cheap bastards and I don't think Apple will ever cater to us.
I am sorry that I am biased and isolated. When I say science, I really mean physics/chemistry/meteorology... I sometimes forget that bio people use math and vast numbers of computers too.
There machines are now VERY excellent with a unix-based OS but they are still somewhat pricey. I can see them making significant inroads into scientific computing.
Nope. We are now switching from the decaying Suns, Alphas, and a few SGI's to Linux on Intel. Only die hard apple nuts and people with big grants would waste so much money.
How the computer looks and how pretty the GUI is doesn't matter when you have 20-2000 sitting in the corner running batch jobs over ssh. And I don't think the MFLOP/$ is good enough (this is the main factor), though I haven't compared everything lately. Last time I did comparisons was a bit after the Pentium IV came out, and that point the Pentium III gave the best results for the dollar.
When I learned JavaScript, it was not my first programming language. I used the Netscape ECMA references heavily to figure out the DOM and all the features of the language.
That said, I went on to write programs, each a few thousand lines of very dense code. My platform at the time was Netscape 4.*. For each program I had to write around at least 2 bugs in Netscape's implementation of JS.
One of those programs was incapable of running in Netscape 3.* because of its absense of window.parent stuff. I could get the other program to run in Netscape 3.*. but only after working around another bug. And in only one of those programs was I able to figure how to get working with IE.
My opinion of JS at the time was that it had too many neet programming features to be properly implemented by the terrible programmers at Netscape and Microsoft.
Do IE and Mozilla actually run standards based JScript well today?
That said, vinyl has a superior frequency response (potentially 5Hz-27kHz) than CD. To someone with odd hearing (yes, I knew someone who could hear that high) this makes a difference
I can hear far past the normal human range, and I can tell you that in my experience there are few if any pleasant sounds out at that range. And I have never heard anything at this frequency (above 22k) play from a record player.
Mostly all I hear is this constant hissing from old televisions and other unknown electronics, it sounds like "eeeeeeeeeeeee". I thought everyone could hear those sounds 'till I went to visit a university in mississippi that specializes in the science of sound. There is a bar in my neighborhood that I hate visiting because all of the televisions ring in my ears.
Personally I can't wait till my high range hearing degrades with old age.
Do you have any idea how many people use Linux clusters to predict the weather!
...
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Iceland's Institute for Meteorological Research
Pennsylvania State University
Defense Department
University of British Columbia GeoDisaster Center
The NOAA contract alone was 15 million dollars!
and the UBC contract was to IBM!
Ah yes, I do not disagree with that statement. But earlier you remarked about "pulp production" and not exporting pulp. I am not aware of any standard paper mills exporting mass amounts of pulp.
I think it is sad about the situation in Canada, and I will have to ask my friend about it.
There are people at all time doing calculations. When the profit from paper is less than lumber, the trees are sold as lumber.
Most of the paper trees are pines. They feel just like regular pines. Oak is expensive (in the US at least) and houses are generally not made entirely of Oak here. But maybe you are from Brasil or something, so I don't know how things work down there.
I speak of only, by far, the LARGEST paper company in the world, International Paper - I am not talking about logging in general. They have trees all over the US, Brasil, Russia, and many other countries. The topic was paper companies for some strange reason.
... Shipping pulp from Canada would just be too prohibitive.
Now IP did buy out a company in BC named Weldwood that distributes pulp. And I don't know if that is the offender, but on the face of it, knowing all of the paper mills that I do, you are entirely incorrect about your ranking of paper pulp production.
My opinion is this way for the following reason. IP is the world's largest paper company and most of their mills work like this: cut down some trees, replant trees, throw trees in large man made river, float trees down river to mill,
I don't work at IP, I just happen to be very close friends with a senior engineer, and I can find out within the week.
>>It's not the end-all-be-all solution to cutting
>>down trees, but it's a good start.
>Lets see..hemp has about 4 harvests a year (and is the ideal rotating
>crop) and trees take a few decades to grow...
>Id say its a hell of a good start and finish to any tree vs hemp
>debate.
First of all, paper companies have NOTHING to do with deforestation. They own vast amounts of land and at all times they have trees growing at various states of development. They cut a patch of trees down every day, let the stumps rot, and plant new seedlings. In fact, clearing land to grow hemp would do far MORE deforestation than growing trees!
It is an absurd notion that a paper company would chop down random trees for pulp. Depending on what grade of paper you are making, you have to use a very specific ratio of tree pulps, cotton, and even things like clay (porcelin).
Secondly, paper companies do not grow standard trees, and they do not grow them to full size. (you could make an analogy to poultry) They have specially bred trees that grow at several times the normal rate.
I am all for legalizing and taxing the hell out of low-THC, filtered, marjuana cigarettes. But the paper companies and the educated ecologists don't give a shit, and they shouldn't.
Billy Zane
Umm, there are a thousand different ways to do that in UNIX.
...
..
My prefered method is to have AVFS installed. Then I can treat any type of archive as a directory. For instance, say I want to pull 4.txt out of archive.tgz
$ ls
archive.tgz
$ cd archive.tgz#
$ ls
1.txt 2.txt 3.txt 4.txt
$ cp 4.txt
And of course you don't have to use the command line. I use my filer to do it. And I do not believe that it decompresses everything just to get that one file.
Then why don't you try the following experiment. Save the same file to two different file names. Zip one file, then add the other to that archive. Notice the size difference in the two archives.
Dude there is no fucking way that microwave radiation from your cell phone is going to resonate with the ferromagnetic material in your compass.
It must have been something else.
yes, even today
Red Swingline Stapler
Level: 20
Equip: Held
Race: Gnome, Human
Class: Wiz, Enc, Bard
Int +20, AR +20, PoT +20
Procs a staple that does about 25 damage
Notes: Harder to find than a CV!!!
And before that it was called "Point Break"
Anyone else notice that these were the exact same movie.
A young, handsome, rule-breaking cop gets an undercover assignment
to learn about a close-nit group of ultra-cool-rebel thieves that surf/race
The undercover cop falls in love with the younger sister of criminal
In the end the undercover cop lets the criminal leader surf/drive into the horizon
But the Dreamcast also read CD-ROM's and CDR's. And once people figured out how to make boot roms and how to read the GD-ROM's it was a short matter of time before bootable ISO's started appearing on the net. NO MOD CHIP REQUIRED!
And what of the higher memory capacity of the GD-ROM; people would just strip out some or all of the FMV's on the disc to get the ISO size down below 800MB.
I personally bought a Dreamcast when they went on sale, and I do not own a single "legal" game.
because the Earth is mostly spherical and mass can be converted to force by the well agreed upon constant g=9.8 m/s^2
it is the same thing in partical physics where people measure mass in MeV , because energy can be converted to mass using c^2
But wait till the Earth is a cube, and then they will have to stop that nonsense!
12^3 is
1000 base 12
where 11 is a
and 12 is b
1000 base 12 = 1*12^3 + 0*12^2 + 0*12^1 + 0*12^0 base 10
= 12^3 base 10
You talk as if 1 kilo is some special number that everyone has a mystical understanding of because it looks so simple in our number system.
yes
go play you N64, cuz cartridges have won!
No, it doesn't contradict it at all. You see, I was talking about the english language, not the spanish.
Well I was talking about Klingon! I WIN!
Congrats, that's the dumbest thing i've heard today.
You are making a false conclusion from true statements. You can see this everyday in mathematics. You can start with some axiomic set of definitions and work your way into proofs of incredible theorems. Now, logically, you have nothing more than the definitions that you began with - but you can do so much more and your understanding is so much greater.
There was a school of thought centered upon your very argument. They were ant-logic and anti-science. I can't remember their name, but they were mostly debated into oblivion a long, long time ago.
And proving that there can be no proof of a God that performs meaningful actions is infinitely more difficult than you claim. Especially when you do not define God.
My hypothesis was that with humans, you could put them to work - as programmers. No other animal could serve any purpose asleep.
Neo for instance, worked as a programmer. And for all we know he could have been inadvertently fine tuning some subroutines for the Matrix.
then make me a map of the Earth that covers it entirely