Well, ultimately it's going to be the sound card driver that eventually gets called with the sound to play. The playsound API should really only care about the capabilities of the soundcard, not the details of the hardware interface.
I love Asimov's essay on the difference between our understanding of the universe now, and the understanding our ancestors had. The basic idea is that while both our understandings are incomplete and wrong, it is yet more wrong to say that our understanding is just as wrong as that of 1000 years ago.
In Canada, (at least the parts where I've been to school) high school math doesn't have the distinct stages that the wikipedia article seems to suggest. Algebra, Geometry, and Trig are taught all through high school, and calculus is taught in grade 12 (senior year for Americans), but is often optional.
Some provinces have multiple streams for math, and let those who have no university ambitions take consumer math instead, which focuses somewhat on simple trig and geometry, but mostly on things like balancing checkbooks, and doing taxes.
Well, putting aside statistical issues with sample size and whatnot, 1 / 1277 is indeed 0.00078, or as a percentage: 0.078%. Rounding that to 0.08% hardly seems like bad math.
I have the home/student version and I can click on the funny round office button -> Save as -> Word 97-2003 document. Plus it's trivial to go into options and set the default save format to the old style.
...is the level of overlap between the most capable computer programs, and the least capable people. Make the problem difficult enough for computers and you'll end up keeping out a number of real humans, either by requiring some specific sense (sight / hearing) that some people lack, or by requiring intelligence that some people lack.
I'll second this - OneNote is just awesome for grabbing stuff from everywhere, and organizing/searching it. It'll even OCR any images so that you can search them.
What kind of scientist goes about trying to "prove" some hypothesis for a year? You don't decide what result you want first and then try and get data to show that you're right. You get the data, and then decide what that data is showing you. At least he was willing to change his opinion when the facts didn't support him (or her).
It's "science" like that that is the source of most of these pseudo-science stories. The flat-earthers, and the circle-squarers, and the perpetual motion people all start out with an idea, and then try and prove they're right -- often with great amusement to others. But in cases like this wi-fi radiation story, bad science can cause big annoyances to us all.
If you're using an NVidias card, the accomanying extra software has a little utility to let you define new maximizing areas -- dividing the screen into spaces that you can maximize into. Of course by holding down a key you can force a full maximize. It's fun to play around with, but with two monitors I haven't found that I use it at all.
1) Many OSes don't tile windows well. To have two windows properly tiled on a single monitor, you need to minimize everything but those windows and then choose to tile all nonminimized windows. (At least this is my experience with Windows XP) It's faster to just drag one app to your second monitor and maximize it. Try -clicking on a bunch of windows in the taskbar. Now right click on one of them -- you can now cascade, tile, minimize, or close the whole group.
But as someone with two monitors, I agree that the one app on each screen is much faster.
I believe that consistency is one of the biggest things Microsoft was working on when they designed the ribbon. It's an attempt to keep things the same everywhere - even to the point of limiting customization. The idea is that eventually you'll build up the muscle memory to find things quickly, and you'll never have to deal with items disappearing on menus and toolbars, or toolbars getting moved around every time you resize the window.
I've been using the beta for three months now, though, and I have yet to develop any muscle memory. So far, I'm skeptical about whether to buy the full version when the beta expires.
And more so with authentication. I don't want someone to be authenticating me using the new-fangled system they wrote during a drunken craze last weekend, when they had some flash of insight that led them to believe that Diffie-Hellman is a load of crock, and is much less secure than their "guess-a-number-between-one-and-ten" system.
It's similar in Canada - we pay a levy on every blank CD, tape, etc.. which goes to the Canadian version of the RIAA to distribute amongst the artists. In return we can legally make copies of music. It's even legal to copy non-original CDs. The catch is that we can't distribute those copies. I can borrow a CD from a friend, and make a copy, but he can't make a copy for me, and then give the copy to me.
The status of P2P is a bit disputed, but generally downloading is legal, and recent rulings seem to indicate that simply sharing a folder on a P2P app is not enough action to be considered "distributing".
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Well, I live where it stays below freezing for about half the year, and we get days below -40F, and I've started my Jetta TDI in -30F from a cold start. It just takes a couple minutes while everything warms up.
Actively uploading files is still illegal, but the act of leaving a music file in a publicly shared directory is allowed, as long as no positive action is made by the person sharing the file.
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html
Is there nothing that can keep the evil that is P2P from getting to our computers?
P2P file-sharing technology can allow its users to access the files of other
users, even when the computer is "off"
Or give them some sort of autonomous control when the signal is dropped (like AI bots).
Hmm.. then again...
I for one welcome our new autonomous mech-warrior overlord.
This is already done in Canada. It's heavily regulated, but hemp farms are quite common in parts of southern Manitoba. Note that they use THC-free strains though.
It's in northern Manitoba in the bottom of an old mine where the government grows the real stuff for medicinal use.
For example, here in Winnipeg Manitoba, I pay $650 CDN a month for a newly renovated two-bedroom 950 square-foot apartment, and that's high for Winnipeg because I live close to the University.
I hear stories of what people pay in some American cities, and I'm glad I live here.
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Well, ultimately it's going to be the sound card driver that eventually gets called with the sound to play. The playsound API should really only care about the capabilities of the soundcard, not the details of the hardware interface.
Read it sometime, it's called the Relativity of Wrong.
In Canada, (at least the parts where I've been to school) high school math doesn't have the distinct stages that the wikipedia article seems to suggest. Algebra, Geometry, and Trig are taught all through high school, and calculus is taught in grade 12 (senior year for Americans), but is often optional. Some provinces have multiple streams for math, and let those who have no university ambitions take consumer math instead, which focuses somewhat on simple trig and geometry, but mostly on things like balancing checkbooks, and doing taxes.
Well, putting aside statistical issues with sample size and whatnot, 1 / 1277 is indeed 0.00078, or as a percentage: 0.078%. Rounding that to 0.08% hardly seems like bad math.
Ummm... no.
I have the home/student version and I can click on the funny round office button -> Save as -> Word 97-2003 document. Plus it's trivial to go into options and set the default save format to the old style.
...is the level of overlap between the most capable computer programs, and the least capable people. Make the problem difficult enough for computers and you'll end up keeping out a number of real humans, either by requiring some specific sense (sight / hearing) that some people lack, or by requiring intelligence that some people lack.
No, but if I know 29,000,001 out of those 30,000,000 -- then I'm guaranteed to know someone who has one.
I'll second this - OneNote is just awesome for grabbing stuff from everywhere, and organizing/searching it. It'll even OCR any images so that you can search them.
What kind of scientist goes about trying to "prove" some hypothesis for a year? You don't decide what result you want first and then try and get data to show that you're right. You get the data, and then decide what that data is showing you. At least he was willing to change his opinion when the facts didn't support him (or her).
It's "science" like that that is the source of most of these pseudo-science stories. The flat-earthers, and the circle-squarers, and the perpetual motion people all start out with an idea, and then try and prove they're right -- often with great amusement to others. But in cases like this wi-fi radiation story, bad science can cause big annoyances to us all.
NVIdia has something like this already where you can split the screen into as many sections as you want.
If you're using an NVidias card, the accomanying extra software has a little utility to let you define new maximizing areas -- dividing the screen into spaces that you can maximize into. Of course by holding down a key you can force a full maximize. It's fun to play around with, but with two monitors I haven't found that I use it at all.
But as someone with two monitors, I agree that the one app on each screen is much faster.
Canadian tire here has the "soft white" versions here in Manitoba at least. Just stay away from the "cool white" ones which are the harsh blue colour.
I believe that consistency is one of the biggest things Microsoft was working on when they designed the ribbon. It's an attempt to keep things the same everywhere - even to the point of limiting customization. The idea is that eventually you'll build up the muscle memory to find things quickly, and you'll never have to deal with items disappearing on menus and toolbars, or toolbars getting moved around every time you resize the window.
I've been using the beta for three months now, though, and I have yet to develop any muscle memory. So far, I'm skeptical about whether to buy the full version when the beta expires.
And more so with authentication. I don't want someone to be authenticating me using the new-fangled system they wrote during a drunken craze last weekend, when they had some flash of insight that led them to believe that Diffie-Hellman is a load of crock, and is much less secure than their "guess-a-number-between-one-and-ten" system.
It's similar in Canada - we pay a levy on every blank CD, tape, etc.. which goes to the Canadian version of the RIAA to distribute amongst the artists. In return we can legally make copies of music. It's even legal to copy non-original CDs. The catch is that we can't distribute those copies. I can borrow a CD from a friend, and make a copy, but he can't make a copy for me, and then give the copy to me. The status of P2P is a bit disputed, but generally downloading is legal, and recent rulings seem to indicate that simply sharing a folder on a P2P app is not enough action to be considered "distributing".
Well, I live where it stays below freezing for about half the year, and we get days below -40F, and I've started my Jetta TDI in -30F from a cold start. It just takes a couple minutes while everything warms up.
Actively uploading files is still illegal, but the act of leaving a music file in a publicly shared directory is allowed, as long as no positive action is made by the person sharing the file. http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html
You probably meant MaxiVista.
I've used it and it's pretty decent.
Is there nothing that can keep the evil that is P2P from getting to our computers? P2P file-sharing technology can allow its users to access the files of other users, even when the computer is "off"
Or give them some sort of autonomous control when the signal is dropped (like AI bots). Hmm.. then again... I for one welcome our new autonomous mech-warrior overlord.
This is already done in Canada. It's heavily regulated, but hemp farms are quite common in parts of southern Manitoba. Note that they use THC-free strains though. It's in northern Manitoba in the bottom of an old mine where the government grows the real stuff for medicinal use.
For example, here in Winnipeg Manitoba, I pay $650 CDN a month for a newly renovated two-bedroom 950 square-foot apartment, and that's high for Winnipeg because I live close to the University. I hear stories of what people pay in some American cities, and I'm glad I live here.
And that's why I love Canada