You may like Linux (I do to for things it is good at) but when it comes to professional music software there is very little available. There are some multitrack recording and sequencing solutions but they often lack in available effects and virtual instruments as writing good sounding and efficient filters and instruments is extremely hard. You should seriously consider having a look at the options available for OSX or even Windows. I know apple hardware is high in price but Apple's Logic is relatively cheap (compared to the competition) and contains many high quality filters and outstanding virtual instruments (they have samples on their website). For big compositions you can even use multiple macs either by syncing them using MIDI over ethernet or by harnishing the processing power using xgrid to cluster them.
iMacs and MacBooks use radial fans and you could say this is a radial fan too. However in this case the heatsink is it self the fan while macs use the normal fan with separate heatsink construction. BTW there are also PC notebooks and desktops with radial fans. Radial fans are in general quieter and are much better at building pressure so they are much better at pushing air through a heatsink. However they are more expensive.
They need the anti piracy schemes to be able to tell if it has been pirated. Most anti piracy schemes have a weak point or two at which it is easiest to crack. One approach of detecting piracy is to check if the code at that points has been changed. Other method's often adjust certain memory locations from with the anti piracy code. So if the anti piracy code has been disabled these memory locations will not be filled with the right values and the rest of the game can check on this.
There are two reasons to do this crippling instead of refusing to start up. It makes the game into a kind of demo and the crackers often don't notice they have missed something because the game starts normally and seems to run normally. If they put enough of those tricks into the game it will a certain that there is considerable time between the release of the game and the release of a full working crack.
Of course the problems with connecting and disconnecting could easily be solved by having a special notification delivered to the phone whenever something of interrest is available. If they did this the same way incoming calls are send to the phone there wouldn't be this problem and the phone could stay in it's low power standby mode until some notification comes in. Which is exactly what the notification system of the iPhone does.
But that was mostly because otherwise the letters would be to small. Ofcourse you could increase the point size of your fonts or dpi of the screen but as many applications on windows didn't (and many still don't) handle that very well decreasing the screen resolution was often the best option.
The speed of light is dependant on the material. In a vacuum it's about 3.0E5 km/s but in fibre optics which have an index of refraction of approx 1.5 it's only 2.0E5 km/s. Traveling 1.0m through fibreoptics costs 5.0ns (nanoseconds). at a bus speed of 1 GHz that is an additional latency of 10 clock ticks (5 each way for a round trip). My verdict is keep things as close as possible.
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Maybe you should make that, please keep your SQL, PHP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML seperate.
If you read the article (no i'm not new here) you would know that the claim of demo boxes was made by neweggs supplier and that newegg rejected that story. Ofcourse the summary here on slashdot changed that into newegg rejecting the story of fake cpu's all together.
Among graphics specialists it has been well known it is not linear. However many people think it is linear because most of the time you can get away with it. But if you make a grid of black and white pixels and a square of pixels with a value of 127 you can easily see there is a significant difference where you wouldn't expect one.
Actually a good scaling algorithm should perform a lowpass filter when downscaling. This is similar to downsampling of digital audio where you do need to filter out frequencies above half the sampling rate. Leafing these higher frequencies in would cause noise because they can not be faithfully represented in a lower resolution file.
Actually it is good to use a particular gamma for storing an image because the human eye is not linear. If a gamma of 1 was used to steps at the black end would be to large and at the white end to small (when using 8-bits per channel).
We are not using a gamma of 2.2 because the old CRT's did the CRT's had a gamma of 2.2 because it was determined that would work well.
Indeed while you would like to minimize body pitch and roll as caused by forces like acceleration and going through corners it actually is important also for a car to be able to quickly follow the angle of the road. That is also one of the reasons most supercars have their engine in the center. Centering the majority of the mass at the center of the car will make it turn, roll and pitch easily!
However there is another reason why you do not want the gyroscopic effect. To store enough energy in a flywheel that doesn't weight very much requires extremely high rotational speeds which means the gyroscopic effects will be very strong. Strong enough to put a high strain on the chassis and destroy the bearings of the flywheel in the process.
I actually expect they are using counter rotating flywheels with a vertical axis. Suspended in a construction allowing (limited) free rotation on the other axis's and an electrical system to transfer the energy.
Two counter rotating flywheels will NOT cancel out each other! Only the reaction (precessional is the official term i think in english) forces are canceled out!
Let's say the three axis are x, y and z. Then when you have a single flywheel which is rotating about the x axis it will resist rotating along the other axis and while react with a force that is perpedular to the the rotation and the force. When adding a second counter rotating flywheel it will cause a reaction force opposite to that of the first flywheel so the reaction forces are canceled out. However the combination still resist rotating along any axis other then it's axis of rotation.
A good touch interface is easy to use and can be fairly efficient however in many cases keyboard and mouse beat it speed wise. I can know, I work on a touch based point of sale application. I also can tell you those things are only comfortable to work on if you are standing. Which often puts the keyboard to low to be able to type comfortably. In my opinion apple is doing the right thing by using large multi touch touchpads and no touch screens. Especially on laptops touch screens have the problem of requiring a fairly strong hinge to standup to the poking or the touch screen has to be so sensitive that it triggers each time your fingers just brush the screen accidently.
In the property window that is true however windows explorer will report the filesize in the size column of the details view. Even a file of only 1 byte will be reported as 1kiB and this is NOT the cluster size, that's 4kiB (just verified this claim on Windows XP Professional SP3).
As far as I know NTFS and HFS+ and most other filesystems all use 4kB pages in most cases.
One nice touch about file size oreporting in OSX is the way it handles related files. I mean when you have an image there is a very good change there is also a hidden file containing a thumbnail for the file. The size of this hidden file is added to the size of the normal file in the finder. So you do not get the effect that the total of the files doesn't match the total folder size. On the other hand it can be confusing when your images decrease in size when you upload them because the hidden thumb is not uploaded.
Nope that's the wrong word. It is called copyright violation. Maybe you like to call it stealing because you think it is just as bad. Well maybe it is but that doesn't give you the right to change the meaning of the word stealing. Stealing in the context of music would be if person A composed a song and person B registers the copyrights for it. Now person B has stolen the rights on the song instead of violating them.
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You may like Linux (I do to for things it is good at) but when it comes to professional music software there is very little available. There are some multitrack recording and sequencing solutions but they often lack in available effects and virtual instruments as writing good sounding and efficient filters and instruments is extremely hard. You should seriously consider having a look at the options available for OSX or even Windows. I know apple hardware is high in price but Apple's Logic is relatively cheap (compared to the competition) and contains many high quality filters and outstanding virtual instruments (they have samples on their website). For big compositions you can even use multiple macs either by syncing them using MIDI over ethernet or by harnishing the processing power using xgrid to cluster them.
iMacs and MacBooks use radial fans and you could say this is a radial fan too. However in this case the heatsink is it self the fan while macs use the normal fan with separate heatsink construction. BTW there are also PC notebooks and desktops with radial fans. Radial fans are in general quieter and are much better at building pressure so they are much better at pushing air through a heatsink. However they are more expensive.
Actually if you read the current plan section 2.2 item 3 you would know that decimal is allowed in this case: ::FFFF:76.33.45.121
They need the anti piracy schemes to be able to tell if it has been pirated. Most anti piracy schemes have a weak point or two at which it is easiest to crack. One approach of detecting piracy is to check if the code at that points has been changed. Other method's often adjust certain memory locations from with the anti piracy code. So if the anti piracy code has been disabled these memory locations will not be filled with the right values and the rest of the game can check on this.
There are two reasons to do this crippling instead of refusing to start up. It makes the game into a kind of demo and the crackers often don't notice they have missed something because the game starts normally and seems to run normally. If they put enough of those tricks into the game it will a certain that there is considerable time between the release of the game and the release of a full working crack.
Of course the problems with connecting and disconnecting could easily be solved by having a special notification delivered to the phone whenever something of interrest is available. If they did this the same way incoming calls are send to the phone there wouldn't be this problem and the phone could stay in it's low power standby mode until some notification comes in. Which is exactly what the notification system of the iPhone does.
My response was mainly to your remark: And no OS's I've tried are very good at dpi scaling either. Personally I prefer OSX to.
Try linux with a gnome desktop (Ubuntu for instance) it's DPI setting works perfectly and has for years.
But that was mostly because otherwise the letters would be to small. Ofcourse you could increase the point size of your fonts or dpi of the screen but as many applications on windows didn't (and many still don't) handle that very well decreasing the screen resolution was often the best option.
The speed of light is dependant on the material. In a vacuum it's about 3.0E5 km/s but in fibre optics which have an index of refraction of approx 1.5 it's only 2.0E5 km/s. Traveling 1.0m through fibreoptics costs 5.0ns (nanoseconds). at a bus speed of 1 GHz that is an additional latency of 10 clock ticks (5 each way for a round trip). My verdict is keep things as close as possible.
Maybe you should make that, please keep your SQL, PHP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML seperate.
If you read the article (no i'm not new here) you would know that the claim of demo boxes was made by neweggs supplier and that newegg rejected that story. Ofcourse the summary here on slashdot changed that into newegg rejecting the story of fake cpu's all together.
Among graphics specialists it has been well known it is not linear. However many people think it is linear because most of the time you can get away with it. But if you make a grid of black and white pixels and a square of pixels with a value of 127 you can easily see there is a significant difference where you wouldn't expect one.
Actually a good scaling algorithm should perform a lowpass filter when downscaling. This is similar to downsampling of digital audio where you do need to filter out frequencies above half the sampling rate. Leafing these higher frequencies in would cause noise because they can not be faithfully represented in a lower resolution file.
Actually it is good to use a particular gamma for storing an image because the human eye is not linear. If a gamma of 1 was used to steps at the black end would be to large and at the white end to small (when using 8-bits per channel).
We are not using a gamma of 2.2 because the old CRT's did the CRT's had a gamma of 2.2 because it was determined that would work well.
Indeed while you would like to minimize body pitch and roll as caused by forces like acceleration and going through corners it actually is important also for a car to be able to quickly follow the angle of the road. That is also one of the reasons most supercars have their engine in the center. Centering the majority of the mass at the center of the car will make it turn, roll and pitch easily!
However there is another reason why you do not want the gyroscopic effect. To store enough energy in a flywheel that doesn't weight very much requires extremely high rotational speeds which means the gyroscopic effects will be very strong. Strong enough to put a high strain on the chassis and destroy the bearings of the flywheel in the process.
I actually expect they are using counter rotating flywheels with a vertical axis. Suspended in a construction allowing (limited) free rotation on the other axis's and an electrical system to transfer the energy.
Two counter rotating flywheels will NOT cancel out each other! Only the reaction (precessional is the official term i think in english) forces are canceled out!
Let's say the three axis are x, y and z. Then when you have a single flywheel which is rotating about the x axis it will resist rotating along the other axis and while react with a force that is perpedular to the the rotation and the force. When adding a second counter rotating flywheel it will cause a reaction force opposite to that of the first flywheel so the reaction forces are canceled out. However the combination still resist rotating along any axis other then it's axis of rotation.
Propably not
However if they made some software for some Microsoft branded computer they would be allowed to limit the use of that software to that computer.
Okay, you give me a million euro's and i'll give you a million dollars...
A good touch interface is easy to use and can be fairly efficient however in many cases keyboard and mouse beat it speed wise. I can know, I work on a touch based point of sale application. I also can tell you those things are only comfortable to work on if you are standing. Which often puts the keyboard to low to be able to type comfortably. In my opinion apple is doing the right thing by using large multi touch touchpads and no touch screens. Especially on laptops touch screens have the problem of requiring a fairly strong hinge to standup to the poking or the touch screen has to be so sensitive that it triggers each time your fingers just brush the screen accidently.
In the property window that is true however windows explorer will report the filesize in the size column of the details view. Even a file of only 1 byte will be reported as 1kiB and this is NOT the cluster size, that's 4kiB (just verified this claim on Windows XP Professional SP3).
As far as I know NTFS and HFS+ and most other filesystems all use 4kB pages in most cases.
One nice touch about file size oreporting in OSX is the way it handles related files. I mean when you have an image there is a very good change there is also a hidden file containing a thumbnail for the file. The size of this hidden file is added to the size of the normal file in the finder. So you do not get the effect that the total of the files doesn't match the total folder size. On the other hand it can be confusing when your images decrease in size when you upload them because the hidden thumb is not uploaded.
There will be a box however for tiger users containing Snow Leopard, iLife 09 and iWork 09 for $169.
But maybe they could make more money in the same time doing something else which makes doing a linux port the wrong choice for a commercial business.
I can't do without Propellerheads Reason, you insensitive clod !
Then get a Mac atleast you will have unix underneath.
stealing (yep, that's the word)
Nope that's the wrong word. It is called copyright violation. Maybe you like to call it stealing because you think it is just as bad. Well maybe it is but that doesn't give you the right to change the meaning of the word stealing. Stealing in the context of music would be if person A composed a song and person B registers the copyrights for it. Now person B has stolen the rights on the song instead of violating them.
It's a woman Nicole Noone.