In the transistion from P3 to P4 Intel did one of the smartest things they could, replace the former's small high-speed fan with a large sink and a bigger, lower-speed cowled unit. The end-of-line P3s were AMD loud, the P4s whisper in comparison.
No offense but Slashdot has been an OSS/Linux-centric board from its inception. You'd get the same response proclaiming your preference for Fords on a Chevy fan forum.
Two small quibbles. Germany was saddled with massive reparations after the war, which did nothing to alleviate tensions when the Great Depression began. The Treaty of Versailles had as much to do with the crushed economy as the GD. It wasn't just about bruised egos.
Also, anti-Jewish sentiment was universal prior to WW2. It's not often remembered just how viciously they were treated as part of a Christian tradition extending centuries. Hitler didn't invent resentment against the Jews, he just lit a fire beneath because A) he believed the old lies and B) it drew attention away from the actions of his party, as you said.
Then everyone is ignorant since none of us know everything. Any term applicable to all loses it's differentiating power and becomes useless, so I'm guessing the grandparent post meant "ignorant" in a more limited, less pleasant way.
Telcos are moving an awful lot of digitized data. Any bandwidth they save translates to big savings in equipment and transport. BTW, no regular call approaches 64 Kbs data rates. That's ISDN territory.
The MP2 issue is exacberated by the use of computer automation on-air systems, almost all of which still run 4:1 lossy compression of one sort or another. Many stations also converted to lossy microwave links from studio to transmitter to maximize bandwidth usage and save buying new gear. The net result is often you're hearing an mpeg of an mpeg of an mpeg. Fed clean source material Canadian DAB isn't too bad, especially since program directors don't care about it and haven't yet demanded their station be THE LOUDEST ON THE DIAL!!!
The Canadian system operates at approximately 1.5 GHz (think 1500 MHz on your FM dial) on it own transmitters. In Toronto most (all?) DAB signals emanate from the CN Tower (look for small vertical antennas arrayed along the roof of the observation deck), 5 stations per transmitter. It's as different from FM as the latter is from AM. In the States digital is (IIRC) broadcast as part of the originating FM signal using the same transmitter and antenna. The digi signal is injected spread-spectrum-ish at hopefully inaudibly low levels in the regular programming. American broadcasters settled on this standard partially to avoid capitalizing all new gear and partly because the spectrum used in Canada and Europe for DAB is owned by the military in the US. And they weren't relinquishing it.
The American digital broadcast standard is in-band, in other words it occupies roughly the same bandwidth as the concurrent analogue FM it simulcasts. To fit a digital signal within one FM space allocation requires intense lossy data compression. The analogue FM doesn't undergo data compression (dynamic compression is an entirely different beast.) There's your catch. Digital in this case is less effecient.
Do they include the damage costs of viruses, worms and exploits? The press is full of catastrophic estimates whenever an "I Love You" makes the rounds or someone's screaming for legislation, are those figures rolled into this TCO estimate?
Violence may have an effect but your reasoning does nothing to demonstrate that the representation of violence does. The proper conclusion is don't beat your kids for playing GTA.
Couldn't agree more. Apple was a non-factor when Linux started to get serious geek attention in the dark 9.x/ME days. I had a feeling well before its release that 2k would be a huge step up because of it. I'd probably use it more at home if I didn't have such a strong dislike of the limited desktop but, permissions locked down hard, it's been solid for us at work.
"After all, if their operating systems are actually just as or more secure, proponents of alternative operating systems can no longer use that as ammunition, can they?"
If by some folks you mean 5%, granted. Most people are just cynical from the years of constant promises and security FUD from MS, the real reason they're happy to see them take a shot in the chones evry once in a while. But maybe this linux user's just torqued from spending a quarter his xmas vacation helping XP users clean the redirectors and spyware from their machines.
That entire analysis is a cartoon version of what really happens here, a fiction appealing to the anti-Slashdot "groupthink". The last sentence contains more irony than you intended. (BTW, Forbes opinion about a tech forum? I prefer "Better Homes and Gardens" when I need an outside perspective on Slashdot.)
What does radio have to do with the best music? Working in radio, for me the very definition of hell is hearing the same Stones, Zep or Geils tune for the millionth time. No pop song - forever frozen in a single performance and interpretation - no matter how good, bears that level of repetition. There's plenty of excellent unheard music out there.
Second off, If this were M$ testing 2k3 and publishing the paper, everyone here would be crying foul. But because its, "Linux" it must be 100% unbais and true.
An ironic assertion regarding bias. IBM isn't the author of Linux or any of its tools, add-ons, servers, etc. as Microsoft is of 2k3 and its support software. Microsoft also has a long and distinguished history of FUD. IBM doesn't have anywhere near the historical attachment to Linux that MS has to Windows, and IBM hasn't been caught lying about it yet. It would be irrational to treat the two equally at their word.
Let's be cautious not to confuse "legal protections" with "rights". Industry bodies are become active partners in the wording of legislation and though the result is goverment protection calling them "rights" is abusing the term.
As opposed to the the GPL, which exists as Stallman's attempt to redefine "Free Software" as any software that suits his political ideology.
A fairer perspective is that the BSD License and the GPL represent competing political ideologies, your assessment is a loaded one. Is the BSD a 'more free' license? Likely. Is it a better one for it? Debatable. 'More free' is not necessarily always better, crying 'fire' in a crowded theatre for example. From this non-developer's perspective, proprietary software will always live in conflict with OSS - SCO as another example - and the BSD license gives companies the means to do BSD harm. They take without giving. The GPL might be less free and, by forcing cooperation, the better for it and the future of the software under its wing.
That's a statement as silly as following with "therefore complexity is user friendly." Your analysis might be relevant at the Ion WM level but you're hard pressed to make a case at the XFce level this way.
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As far as I can tell, this would save me exactly one PC in the lkiving room.
In the transistion from P3 to P4 Intel did one of the smartest things they could, replace the former's small high-speed fan with a large sink and a bigger, lower-speed cowled unit. The end-of-line P3s were AMD loud, the P4s whisper in comparison.
No offense but Slashdot has been an OSS/Linux-centric board from its inception. You'd get the same response proclaiming your preference for Fords on a Chevy fan forum.
Also, anti-Jewish sentiment was universal prior to WW2. It's not often remembered just how viciously they were treated as part of a Christian tradition extending centuries. Hitler didn't invent resentment against the Jews, he just lit a fire beneath because A) he believed the old lies and B) it drew attention away from the actions of his party, as you said.
Then everyone is ignorant since none of us know everything. Any term applicable to all loses it's differentiating power and becomes useless, so I'm guessing the grandparent post meant "ignorant" in a more limited, less pleasant way.
Telcos are moving an awful lot of digitized data. Any bandwidth they save translates to big savings in equipment and transport. BTW, no regular call approaches 64 Kbs data rates. That's ISDN territory.
The MP2 issue is exacberated by the use of computer automation on-air systems, almost all of which still run 4:1 lossy compression of one sort or another. Many stations also converted to lossy microwave links from studio to transmitter to maximize bandwidth usage and save buying new gear. The net result is often you're hearing an mpeg of an mpeg of an mpeg. Fed clean source material Canadian DAB isn't too bad, especially since program directors don't care about it and haven't yet demanded their station be THE LOUDEST ON THE DIAL!!!
The Canadian system operates at approximately 1.5 GHz (think 1500 MHz on your FM dial) on it own transmitters. In Toronto most (all?) DAB signals emanate from the CN Tower (look for small vertical antennas arrayed along the roof of the observation deck), 5 stations per transmitter. It's as different from FM as the latter is from AM. In the States digital is (IIRC) broadcast as part of the originating FM signal using the same transmitter and antenna. The digi signal is injected spread-spectrum-ish at hopefully inaudibly low levels in the regular programming. American broadcasters settled on this standard partially to avoid capitalizing all new gear and partly because the spectrum used in Canada and Europe for DAB is owned by the military in the US. And they weren't relinquishing it.
The American digital broadcast standard is in-band, in other words it occupies roughly the same bandwidth as the concurrent analogue FM it simulcasts. To fit a digital signal within one FM space allocation requires intense lossy data compression. The analogue FM doesn't undergo data compression (dynamic compression is an entirely different beast.) There's your catch. Digital in this case is less effecient.
Do they include the damage costs of viruses, worms and exploits? The press is full of catastrophic estimates whenever an "I Love You" makes the rounds or someone's screaming for legislation, are those figures rolled into this TCO estimate?
Violence may have an effect but your reasoning does nothing to demonstrate that the representation of violence does. The proper conclusion is don't beat your kids for playing GTA.
That certainly explains the massive world-wide Linux warez scene and apps "borrowed" from work. Oh wait....
In the same token, there are plenty of completely and totally clueless users of Linux.
To my ears that's great news.
Couldn't agree more. Apple was a non-factor when Linux started to get serious geek attention in the dark 9.x/ME days. I had a feeling well before its release that 2k would be a huge step up because of it. I'd probably use it more at home if I didn't have such a strong dislike of the limited desktop but, permissions locked down hard, it's been solid for us at work.
"After all, if their operating systems are actually just as or more secure, proponents of alternative operating systems can no longer use that as ammunition, can they?"
If by some folks you mean 5%, granted. Most people are just cynical from the years of constant promises and security FUD from MS, the real reason they're happy to see them take a shot in the chones evry once in a while. But maybe this linux user's just torqued from spending a quarter his xmas vacation helping XP users clean the redirectors and spyware from their machines.
Perhaps, but it's almost assured Mozilla will have an effective remedy for whatever comes next years before IE if MS keeps true to past behaviour.
That entire analysis is a cartoon version of what really happens here, a fiction appealing to the anti-Slashdot "groupthink". The last sentence contains more irony than you intended. (BTW, Forbes opinion about a tech forum? I prefer "Better Homes and Gardens" when I need an outside perspective on Slashdot.)
Now that's funny!
What does radio have to do with the best music? Working in radio, for me the very definition of hell is hearing the same Stones, Zep or Geils tune for the millionth time. No pop song - forever frozen in a single performance and interpretation - no matter how good, bears that level of repetition. There's plenty of excellent unheard music out there.
You figure that's why they titled the article:"Top Albums of 2003: A Not-Very-Scientific Analysis"?
An ironic assertion regarding bias. IBM isn't the author of Linux or any of its tools, add-ons, servers, etc. as Microsoft is of 2k3 and its support software. Microsoft also has a long and distinguished history of FUD. IBM doesn't have anywhere near the historical attachment to Linux that MS has to Windows, and IBM hasn't been caught lying about it yet. It would be irrational to treat the two equally at their word.
Let's be cautious not to confuse "legal protections" with "rights". Industry bodies are become active partners in the wording of legislation and though the result is goverment protection calling them "rights" is abusing the term.
A fairer perspective is that the BSD License and the GPL represent competing political ideologies, your assessment is a loaded one. Is the BSD a 'more free' license? Likely. Is it a better one for it? Debatable. 'More free' is not necessarily always better, crying 'fire' in a crowded theatre for example. From this non-developer's perspective, proprietary software will always live in conflict with OSS - SCO as another example - and the BSD license gives companies the means to do BSD harm. They take without giving. The GPL might be less free and, by forcing cooperation, the better for it and the future of the software under its wing.
That's a statement as silly as following with "therefore complexity is user friendly." Your analysis might be relevant at the Ion WM level but you're hard pressed to make a case at the XFce level this way.
Microsoft was found to be innocent? I don't think so. The remedy was overturned, not the findings of the court.