Astrology, piercings, fetishes, just be glad a girl's talking to you.. So what your're saying is that basically being a registered Slashdot user somehow helps me get the pierced kind of girl with weird fetishes? Tell me how...
To become an accredited engineering program in Canada, there has always been a strong requirement for a scientific background. This first created problems for computer engineering programs in Canada to become accredited, so they added courses on things like the physical properties of silicon, etc. to meet this requirement. Electrical engineering, of course, has thermodynamics, etc. Silicon is the basis for SE? What about logic and formal mathematics? It doesn't get more scientific than that, so I would argue that EE does not have a scientific basis as strong as that of SE. You need the real world for thermodynamics to make any sense - logic makes sense on its own.
I agree. My wife has it on her new laptop. It replaced her Windows ME laptop. She seldom uses it. She only uses it because 1 It's a laptop and portable, 2 It has a DVD writer in it... The rest of the time, she uses the desktop machine instead. Now if I can find a cheap XP laptop with a DVD writer, she will be happy as a clam. Ever thought about buying an XP license, repartitioning the harddrive of the laptop and installing XP? That's a lot cheaper than buying a new Laptop. Did the same with my dad's new office machine...
I wonder how gamers think it will fare better than the MPAA and RIAA. This association will promote antipiracy laws, outlaw P2P and favor big editors. Mark my works. Like Emacs? Right, that's one hell of a video game...
You simply not buy Motorola. Their Software is known to be flaky. It's almost as bad as Siemens used to be (I was a long-time Siemens user until last year).
Last year i got my Sony Ericsson k800i, and I must say its software is really great. Very usable, stable, doesn't get in my way and does the stuff I want it to. You don't need to buy apple to get a good user experience...
No, this is exactly what Nyquist's theorem says: A digital, thus time-discrete and value-discrete recording can only ever approximate the original. The approximation error only becomes irrelevant at some point because after that point it only concerns errors the human ear cannot hear anyway.
This is not quite correct. There is so-called OS-level threading, which you are referring to, and runtime or language-level threading, which is not managed by the OS. It is well possible that the latter is the case here, although I'm too lazy to RTFA...
The Problem being, this way other stores can get a competitive advantage over you by stocking the products, in effect probably driving you into ruin long before your boycott has had any noticeable impact on the manufacturer's business decisions...
...and I believe some countries in Europe (Germany?) have similar legislation.
Germany has the "Rechtsfahrgebot" ("order to drive on the right") which means you should drive as far to the right as possible and as far to the left as necessary. This means that you're only allowed on the leftmost lanes as long as you're overtaking another car or if you're driving behind somebody who is overtaking another car.
The bad thing is, this doesn't stop people from going 131 km/h while the car they are trying to overtake is going at 130 km/h. Really messes up the fun of being allowed to go as fast as your car will...
Well, it surely has standard Midi In / Midi Out connectors? If so you should be able to connect it to a standard MIDI interface (available from 20 upwards) or even to a bulk sound card with MIDI/Gameport connector using a special cable.
So recording MIDI from the keyboard or sending MIDI to the keyboard (to have the notes played back with the keyboard's synthesizer / sampler) shouldn't be the problem. Only thing you might need the windows drivers for is if it supports loading samples from the computer into the keyboard, there is no standard interface for this.
What's the point of dual and quad core, anyway? Anyone figured out why it's better than just having 2/4 CPUs?
Easy: Multiprocessor/core is not an "optional" or "high-end" feature in the multicore architectures, thus making SMP a commodity feature, which in turn results in lower prices on CPUs and Mainbords per processing core.
The other big advantage are shorter signal paths, which are faster - synchronizing processors that run at a couple of GHz that are connected by wires longer than a centimeter or so can be pretty challenging because of clock propagation issues. Also, shorter signal paths are much more energy efficient.
Actually, the "config file protection" feature is not really meant as a security measure.
Its purpose is to prevent upgraded packages from overwriting your hand-crafted configuration files on install, allowing you to decide which version to keep or even do an interactive merge of your old config file and the new one that came with the system.
I would not depend on it as a security tool for the fact that at least dispatch-conf, but if memory serves right also etc-update will both automatically merge configuration files that were not previously installed. I'm not sure if those tools will also automatically overwrite configuration files that have not been modified since install - but it would at least make sense and seems rather gentooish.
So while configuration protection is rather useful, it is actually quite short sighted to rely on it for security during package installation (called "merging" in gentoo).
Is it really only math? Of course a solid mathematical foundation is important for understanding algorithms, but what percentage of IT work really requires thinking up clever algorithms to hard problems?
In my humble opinion, more and more problems in IT today are words problems rather than number problems. Programming is more like writing natural language, not like performing calculus.
The biggest area for advances in computing is the man-machine interface. Which boils down to language in the end.
Still, the emphasis in cs courses is mostly on maths. No linguistics, no English or other languages. Why not mix this in with the cs courses? I would have chosen this anytime, but cs + economics, cs + math, cs + engineering? Well, then it's pure cs for me, thank you...
Gnaa, I think I'm much too tired to coherently get my point across this late...
Well, actually the protocol is redundant by factor 5*10^6 because the Link is rather "unstable". As well as a maximum inbound capacity of the receiving end of 6 billion bits. So we're talking about 6 GBit/E.
Figure out how many seconds E amounts to yourself.:)
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Last year i got my Sony Ericsson k800i, and I must say its software is really great. Very usable, stable, doesn't get in my way and does the stuff I want it to. You don't need to buy apple to get a good user experience...
No, this is exactly what Nyquist's theorem says: A digital, thus time-discrete and value-discrete recording can only ever approximate the original. The approximation error only becomes irrelevant at some point because after that point it only concerns errors the human ear cannot hear anyway.
This is not quite correct. There is so-called OS-level threading, which you are referring to, and runtime or language-level threading, which is not managed by the OS. It is well possible that the latter is the case here, although I'm too lazy to RTFA...
The Problem being, this way other stores can get a competitive advantage over you by stocking the products, in effect probably driving you into ruin long before your boycott has had any noticeable impact on the manufacturer's business decisions...
Obviously heat radiated from the core of the Earth is a much more likely cause...
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I think it's pretty good for a static typesystem..
...and I believe some countries in Europe (Germany?) have similar legislation.Germany has the "Rechtsfahrgebot" ("order to drive on the right") which means you should drive as far to the right as possible and as far to the left as necessary. This means that you're only allowed on the leftmost lanes as long as you're overtaking another car or if you're driving behind somebody who is overtaking another car.
The bad thing is, this doesn't stop people from going 131 km/h while the car they are trying to overtake is going at 130 km/h. Really messes up the fun of being allowed to go as fast as your car will...
Well anyway, that was supposed to say "available from 20 EUR upwards", but I think you can safely s/EUR/\$/ for small amounts of money...
So recording MIDI from the keyboard or sending MIDI to the keyboard (to have the notes played back with the keyboard's synthesizer / sampler) shouldn't be the problem. Only thing you might need the windows drivers for is if it supports loading samples from the computer into the keyboard, there is no standard interface for this.
Easy: Multiprocessor/core is not an "optional" or "high-end" feature in the multicore architectures, thus making SMP a commodity feature, which in turn results in lower prices on CPUs and Mainbords per processing core.
The other big advantage are shorter signal paths, which are faster - synchronizing processors that run at a couple of GHz that are connected by wires longer than a centimeter or so can be pretty challenging because of clock propagation issues. Also, shorter signal paths are much more energy efficient.
We made it go out of memory on a 32GB Box. But that's in the Nature of the stuff, probably even a Terabyte would not have been sufficient...
Its purpose is to prevent upgraded packages from overwriting your hand-crafted configuration files on install, allowing you to decide which version to keep or even do an interactive merge of your old config file and the new one that came with the system.
I would not depend on it as a security tool for the fact that at least dispatch-conf, but if memory serves right also etc-update will both automatically merge configuration files that were not previously installed. I'm not sure if those tools will also automatically overwrite configuration files that have not been modified since install - but it would at least make sense and seems rather gentooish.
So while configuration protection is rather useful, it is actually quite short sighted to rely on it for security during package installation (called "merging" in gentoo).
In my humble opinion, more and more problems in IT today are words problems rather than number problems. Programming is more like writing natural language, not like performing calculus.
The biggest area for advances in computing is the man-machine interface. Which boils down to language in the end.
Still, the emphasis in cs courses is mostly on maths. No linguistics, no English or other languages. Why not mix this in with the cs courses? I would have chosen this anytime, but cs + economics, cs + math, cs + engineering? Well, then it's pure cs for me, thank you...
Gnaa, I think I'm much too tired to coherently get my point across this late...
Only it comes with its own Rootkit called DRM...
*hands over opium pipe*
Binary on Fingers doesn't work that good...
Seems like Netburst all over again to me.
Figure out how many seconds E amounts to yourself. :)
I could actually imagine that happening here... in Germany.
"Oh, hübsches Oberteil! Was heißt das was da drauf steht?" O_o