> Personally, I stick to Wittgenstein: "What is thinkable is possible too."
I think that there's something thinkable and impossible. If I am right, there is. If I am wrong, that same assertion is impossible but i thought it. So I am right. Have a nice day.
> Those higher harmonics cannot be accurately represented with a 44.1 khz sampling rate, but since you can't hear anything above 22khz anyway it doesn't matter.
"The ear can't pick fundamental sounds at more than around 20 khz" != "the ear does a fourier transform and discard all harmonics above 22khz." The signal processing that a ear does to localize and identify sounds is a little more sophisticated.
I didn't do a double blind test, but even a seemingly small difference between a DAT recording at 44.1 and at 48 khz seems to make a slight difference in the sweetness of high end.
> What I got from reading the article was that they weren't optimizing the 'net at large but the services in one data center.
In fact the internet at large can't be mapped to the behavior of bees. Bees try just to be efficient as possible, they don't need to drive traffic to a particular site.
It would be awesome to have full frequency directed sound in a club, meaning that you can dance without disturbing the neighborhood. But I guess that to contain full range loud sound rather than whispered tinny voices is a much harder problem.
> I think that the fact that we are here, almost 14 billion years after the universe began, is a good > indication that it's not possible to "crash" the universe.
How do you know that the universe hasn't crashed and been restored from a snapshot backup? You'd have no means to know, being part of it.
Anyway since scientists studying the big bang have not discovered any sign of windows startup sequence, an uptime of 14 billion years is feasible.
You don't need to know what a regexp is, yet you'd want to find cells matching criteria that can be described with a regexp. MS should provide advanced search without forcing excel users to start up a macro (cumbersome and likely slower)
Funny, the statement 'Vi$ta is teh suxors for DRM' seemed to me a cop out saving MS.
OSX chugs along after changing architecture, when I used the mac i could run many classic apps in 10.2. Linux is another matter i won't touch here.
If Vista is slow because of backwards compatibility it means either MS APIs or their programmers, or all the other windows programmers, suck. In neither case I'd feel confident if I had to depend on that ecosystem.
It's not a matter of different needs. It's about the sheer percentage of people who use spreadsheets against those who use the equation editor, and the percentage of people who'd like advanced search vs those who need the equation editor's missing options). I suspect that makes your need statistically less important, unless you have theories or data to contradict my impression.
What I meant is that human rationality can override instinctive urges way better than other animals', so the ultimate reason might surely approximate the selfish gene theory.
In my experience a linux desktop is noticeably faster than an XP one, especially if you are doing things in the background (mastering, file transfers, network). The GUI is faster, same programs take less time to start up (gimp). MS stuff feels faster than Linux equivalents on the same OS, yes. But when i get into excel and find no regular expressions as find options, I wonder if people dissing openoffice because it lacked some equation editor options were on crack.
XP boots faster, but it's not ready when it displays the desktop, so i always get the hourglass. Notfunny.
It's an assumption, though. It's like turning back to the time when man evolved from a monkey and saying: this monkey has been driven by instinct like all animals till now, therefore it's likely to keep evolving and being driven by instinct. Instead we developed a language and started being driven by rationality. Then came the sensory overload of contemporary lifestyle, ubiquitous media and their messages, drugs, irregular sleep patterns and we are pushed into responding to instincts again. I wonder if it's progress. Anyway maybe all is not lost and we can undergo another paradigm shift, to rationality applied to life as a whole.
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As some slashdot signature somewhere points out, use compression when you're forwarding X sessions. ssh -CvX is what I use, together with 'sux' (a substitute for 'su' which correctly forwards X, on debian derived distros, at least). Since travelling between many users and hosts makes you shutdown the wrong machine or move the wrong files, i suggest launching a graphic terminal session as you log in (eg konsole&) with its own customized theme.
Your "income coming in" is an important factor to you, yet irrelevant for the definition of a high level language. For your definition of "high level" I suggest you go the gcc route.
High level means that you can open the "hard wired" class after it has been defined, override the "hard wired" method and adapt it to your toy...er.. fave OS.
You make a great assumption in dividing users into students and pros. Do you need to be a pro to use, say, the gimp resynthesize plugin, which is great to remove spurious stuff from a photo? Not at all. I don't understand the options, but i select the offending area and it works. The toy graphic packages i had with the digital camera and the scanner hadn't got anything similar. They have 20% of the features of gimp. And then there's xara. They lack when it's time to go to print? How many people work on stuff that ends on paper, what about the rest?
So even if professionally one can spend a grand for the software of the profession of choice, personal computing is much more than that, and i hope FLOSS keeps "missing the point" like it did till now.
About open source having to stop at a certain threshold because you can't inspect microcode and circuits, that's true. But it's also true that malicious actions then must be confined to microcode and circuits to stay undetectable. You have a harder time inserting malware and stuff because that level would have to reconstruct activity at higher levels and act accordingly. Say the random number generator hardware can't be trusted. If you have an OSS stack on top of it you can do something about that, if your whole stack is closed you are toast.
I thought web devs were thoroughly used to IE having its quirks. You think IE fought netscape, opera, and firefox only to comply in the end with somebody else's standards? LOL.
Websites and simple web apps must first be compatible, so the problem is not IE7 more than IE6.
Complex apps might benefit by targeting only "standard browsers" like Firefox and Opera, if you have to use a complex app you're literate enough to install a second browser, and the dev effort to reach compatibility takes resources away and prevents good but not cross platform stuff to be used. I'm not talking only about svg and xform, but little things which make a huge difference when you're behind a web app for hours: IIRC on IE6 you couldn't pick the correct entry in a long drop down menu by typing the first few letters when it's focused.
So this outburst of noise might just make the scheduled revamp of IE7 a "MS listen to us" propaganda stunt. Does IE7 have a revamp? Well, FF3 is round the corner and opera is fast.
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> Personally, I stick to Wittgenstein: "What is thinkable is possible too."
I think that there's something thinkable and impossible.
If I am right, there is.
If I am wrong, that same assertion is impossible but i thought it. So I am right. Have a nice day.
> Those higher harmonics cannot be accurately represented with a 44.1 khz sampling rate, but since you can't hear anything above 22khz anyway it doesn't matter.
"The ear can't pick fundamental sounds at more than around 20 khz" != "the ear does a fourier transform and discard all harmonics above 22khz." The signal processing that a ear does to localize and identify sounds is a little more sophisticated.
I didn't do a double blind test, but even a seemingly small difference between a DAT recording at 44.1 and at 48 khz seems to make a slight difference in the sweetness of high end.
With all this vista bashing, have you nonetheless considered the possibility that MS software is indeed inferior?
> What I got from reading the article was that they weren't optimizing the 'net at large but the services in one data center.
In fact the internet at large can't be mapped to the behavior of bees. Bees try just to be efficient as possible, they don't need to drive traffic to a particular site.
To me it seemed to be advocating getting hold of FOSS, whose unwanted features you can easily disable.
An "It's dead, Jim" 404 page would be most appropriate.
It would be awesome to have full frequency directed sound in a club, meaning that you can dance without disturbing the neighborhood. But I guess that to contain full range loud sound rather than whispered tinny voices is a much harder problem.
> I think that the fact that we are here, almost 14 billion years after the universe began, is a good
> indication that it's not possible to "crash" the universe.
How do you know that the universe hasn't crashed and been restored from a snapshot backup? You'd have no means to know, being part of it.
Anyway since scientists studying the big bang have not discovered any sign of windows startup sequence, an uptime of 14 billion years is feasible.
You don't need to know what a regexp is, yet you'd want to find cells matching criteria that can be described with a regexp. MS should provide advanced search without forcing excel users to start up a macro (cumbersome and likely slower)
Funny, the statement 'Vi$ta is teh suxors for DRM' seemed to me a cop out saving MS.
OSX chugs along after changing architecture, when I used the mac i could run many classic apps in 10.2. Linux is another matter i won't touch here.
If Vista is slow because of backwards compatibility it means either MS APIs or their programmers, or all the other windows programmers, suck.
In neither case I'd feel confident if I had to depend on that ecosystem.
It's not a matter of different needs. It's about the sheer percentage of people who use spreadsheets against those who use the equation editor, and the percentage of people who'd like advanced search vs those who need the equation editor's missing options). I suspect that makes your need statistically less important, unless you have theories or data to contradict my impression.
What I meant is that human rationality can override instinctive urges way better than other animals', so the ultimate reason might surely approximate the selfish gene theory.
In my experience a linux desktop is noticeably faster than an XP one, especially if you are doing things in the background (mastering, file transfers, network). The GUI is faster, same programs take less time to start up (gimp). MS stuff feels faster than Linux equivalents on the same OS, yes. But when i get into excel and find no regular expressions as find options, I wonder if people dissing openoffice because it lacked some equation editor options were on crack.
XP boots faster, but it's not ready when it displays the desktop, so i always get the hourglass. Notfunny.
It's an assumption, though.
It's like turning back to the time when man evolved from a monkey and saying: this monkey has been driven by instinct like all animals till now, therefore it's likely to keep evolving and being driven by instinct. Instead we developed a language and started being driven by rationality.
Then came the sensory overload of contemporary lifestyle, ubiquitous media and their messages, drugs, irregular sleep patterns and we are pushed into responding to instincts again. I wonder if it's progress.
Anyway maybe all is not lost and we can undergo another paradigm shift, to rationality applied to life as a whole.
As some slashdot signature somewhere points out, use compression when you're forwarding X sessions.
ssh -CvX is what I use, together with 'sux' (a substitute for 'su' which correctly forwards X, on debian derived distros, at least). Since travelling between many users and hosts makes you shutdown the wrong machine or move the wrong files, i suggest launching a graphic terminal session as you log in (eg konsole&) with its own customized theme.
Yep, it's irrelevant what your fave OS is, it's significant you can reopen a ruby class to adapt it to whatever it is.
You'd forfeit the PDP-10 OS(es) compatibility, that way.
Your "income coming in" is an important factor to you, yet irrelevant for the definition of a high level language. For your definition of "high level" I suggest you go the gcc route.
> Now we know why they keep making windows with the same failed security schemes!
:)
I thought the answer was "Profit!!!", but I hope that in the end your perspective will be the right one
Now I know why people write blog comments.
High level means that you can open the "hard wired" class after it has been defined, override the "hard wired" method and adapt it to your toy...er.. fave OS.
Now I know why people upgrade their windows installation.
GRRRR squatters. here is the right link.
:)
Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!
You make a great assumption in dividing users into students and pros. Do you need to be a pro to use, say, the gimp resynthesize plugin, which is great to remove spurious stuff from a photo? Not at all. I don't understand the options, but i select the offending area and it works. The toy graphic packages i had with the digital camera and the scanner hadn't got anything similar. They have 20% of the features of gimp. And then there's xara. They lack when it's time to go to print? How many people work on stuff that ends on paper, what about the rest?
So even if professionally one can spend a grand for the software of the profession of choice, personal computing is much more than that, and i hope FLOSS keeps "missing the point" like it did till now.
About open source having to stop at a certain threshold because you can't inspect microcode and circuits, that's true. But it's also true that malicious actions then must be confined to microcode and circuits to stay undetectable. You have a harder time inserting malware and stuff because that level would have to reconstruct activity at higher levels and act accordingly. Say the random number generator hardware can't be trusted. If you have an OSS stack on top of it you can do something about that, if your whole stack is closed you are toast.
> So the problem is not with the websites, the problem is with IE. IE needs to be fixed or forgotten.
I meant one should follow standards which are recognized by all browsers... and IE needs to be forgotten.
I thought web devs were thoroughly used to IE having its quirks. You think IE fought netscape, opera, and firefox only to comply in the end with somebody else's standards? LOL.
Websites and simple web apps must first be compatible, so the problem is not IE7 more than IE6.
Complex apps might benefit by targeting only "standard browsers" like Firefox and Opera, if you have to use a complex app you're literate enough to install a second browser, and the dev effort to reach compatibility takes resources away and prevents good but not cross platform stuff to be used. I'm not talking only about svg and xform, but little things which make a huge difference when you're behind a web app for hours: IIRC on IE6 you couldn't pick the correct entry in a long drop down menu by typing the first few letters when it's focused.
So this outburst of noise might just make the scheduled revamp of IE7 a "MS listen to us" propaganda stunt.
Does IE7 have a revamp? Well, FF3 is round the corner and opera is fast.