Lets face it - the general public doesn't really need to know it all. Take cars for example: we've been making them for a lot longer than computers, but do people really know what the terms mean? When I tell my mother that her van has a 3.6L V6 engine with fuel injection, does she know what that means? Absolutely not. Does she still drive her van? Yes.
Computers are the same way. Of course they are confusing to the average person. Thats why there are companies like Dell, HP-Compaq, etc that make it simple.
Say, starting tomorrow, we started buying processors not by gigahertz, but by "fast","faster","really fast","really faster"...who would really know how fast it is anyway?
I think we're doing just fine:) If the average person can't handle the big terms, then the average person shouldnt be dealing with them.
2.3. Does Ardour run on non-Linux systems?
Ardour depends on the JACK system to access the sound hardware. Jack
has (as of this writing) support for Linux, Solaris, and MacOSX. There
have not been any reports of running Ardour on any platforms besides Linux
though.
It looks like noone's done it (and reported it) but you could prolly pull it off, since it uses an abstract layer (JACK) between the software and the hardware and since JACK supports OS X, and OS X could most likely compile it, you could get lucky:)
The ISS isn't dead...we're not the only country in space, and there are others in the game working towards space. And its not like we aren't going back, as theres a tenative launch scheduled for December of this year. I really don't think that anyone could ever stop Americans from spending billions to put men & women in space!
The problem with cooling wings like that would be that the temp change would be way to drastic. at hundreds of MPH the machine is burning hot, and you release coolant in there, the particles themselves are drawn together tighter and the stuff becomes brittle.
The material used on the space shuttle is almost like a foam, minus its ability to withstand a blowtorch at 2000C. It doesn't take much to break it...the idea is that it just holds together. It worked for well over a decade - I think it worked just fine:)
Just some thoughts...
I sure hope they don't pull on me what they did last fall with the WM_TIMER update to NT4. 1/3 of our company ran on it at the time, and the "update" caused every machine to randomly crash after just a few hours uptime. I'll most definitely be waiting a few weeks to a month before I put anything on, let alone a SP!
I find it absolutely hilarious that the day after they release MS-021 and MS-022 they release SP4, which only includes up to MS-019. Just in time to make the SP not-so-up-to-date!
I may hate Microsoft, but I do side with them in this case. Forcing M$ to include Java is stupid, they can do whatever they want with their product. That would be like forcing Linux users to install Internet Explorer or something silly like that!
And Microsoft has recently been arguing that the SCO case proves that open source software is bad policy for software corporations. According to Microsoft, open source software may lead to repeat patent violation: After all, as the SCO suit shows, you can never be sure where a piece of code, contributed by a volunteer, came from.
Open Source is bad for software corporations? Or bad for money-hogging corporations that patent the blinking of a console cursor, the qwerty keyboard layout, and the use of "windows" - viewports to software outputs. Of course it's bad for the wallet of a proprietary hog. It's called fair - the developers and users are on the same level. It's called sanity in the big wide world of software.
Someone please tell me - what will the high-tech laser guided missiles aimed at terrorist hideouts that we wanna blow up do, when the controller computer BSOD's? Think the missile will just circle around waiting for a reboot while thinking "Oh it'll boot up...soon enough...come on honey, you can do it...just give me a target..."
Maybe someone should mod their Mac into a 1' sphere, with covers for all the ports, so when we get tired of playing games on the mac, we can play soccer with the mac!
We could always take Windows 2349 and put on a big 50 meter tall monitor on it and click the start menu and the flash of the BSOD will blind them while we pursue to throw our bad CD-R's at them from all the failed burns we've had and then they will bleed to death or something.
Windows destroys our sanity, so we destroy them with windows!
He said that around five blocks of "slash eight," or/8, addresses are consumed worldwide each year. Each block allows for 16 million host addresses. There are 100 blocks still available in the current IPv4 (IP version 4) system--enough for 20 years, or perhaps fewer when 3G, or third-generation, phones take off, but certainly more than the two years predicted by doomsayers, he said.
Did they bother to think that every year we rely more and more on computers? Just like hardware speeds and capabilities are said to increase exponentially over time, wouldn't IP usage do the same as the world continues to expand its use of computers?
I know it's more than two years, but its certainly less than twenty!
Very good point - The Opterons munch thru data real well, and hopefully with a little sales and some price drops will become a great platform. I cant wait to get me some of that 64 bit action...
Get one?
Why not get two, like me:) Free OS + cheap AMD procs == good times!
I'll never give up my Linux for a fruit company, let alone a company who claims that their software is "micro"!
I agree - anyone who is stupid enough to look at $2999 versus $3000 and think "Wow, that's so much cheaper!" is yet another idiot who deserves to be taken in!
I know! Who would'a ever thought that a company would EVER use misleading benchmarks to try to increase sales? What a scandal! What an outrage!/me shakes head at anyone who believes a benchmark run by the seller of the product...
Slashdot Mirror
Lets face it - the general public doesn't really need to know it all. Take cars for example: we've been making them for a lot longer than computers, but do people really know what the terms mean? When I tell my mother that her van has a 3.6L V6 engine with fuel injection, does she know what that means? Absolutely not. Does she still drive her van? Yes.
:) If the average person can't handle the big terms, then the average person shouldnt be dealing with them.
Computers are the same way. Of course they are confusing to the average person. Thats why there are companies like Dell, HP-Compaq, etc that make it simple.
Say, starting tomorrow, we started buying processors not by gigahertz, but by "fast","faster","really fast","really faster"...who would really know how fast it is anyway?
I think we're doing just fine
It looks like noone's done it (and reported it) but you could prolly pull it off, since it uses an abstract layer (JACK) between the software and the hardware and since JACK supports OS X, and OS X could most likely compile it, you could get lucky
The ISS isn't dead...we're not the only country in space, and there are others in the game working towards space. And its not like we aren't going back, as theres a tenative launch scheduled for December of this year. I really don't think that anyone could ever stop Americans from spending billions to put men & women in space! The problem with cooling wings like that would be that the temp change would be way to drastic. at hundreds of MPH the machine is burning hot, and you release coolant in there, the particles themselves are drawn together tighter and the stuff becomes brittle.
:)
Just some thoughts...
The material used on the space shuttle is almost like a foam, minus its ability to withstand a blowtorch at 2000C. It doesn't take much to break it...the idea is that it just holds together. It worked for well over a decade - I think it worked just fine
I sure hope they don't pull on me what they did last fall with the WM_TIMER update to NT4. 1/3 of our company ran on it at the time, and the "update" caused every machine to randomly crash after just a few hours uptime. I'll most definitely be waiting a few weeks to a month before I put anything on, let alone a SP!
I find it absolutely hilarious that the day after they release MS-021 and MS-022 they release SP4, which only includes up to MS-019. Just in time to make the SP not-so-up-to-date!
I may hate Microsoft, but I do side with them in this case. Forcing M$ to include Java is stupid, they can do whatever they want with their product. That would be like forcing Linux users to install Internet Explorer or something silly like that!
I really doubt those P4's are running cool right now since they can't hold up to being slashdotted...
Sure makes me want to buy one!
But without spam, I wouldn't get any email!
Someone please tell me - what will the high-tech laser guided missiles aimed at terrorist hideouts that we wanna blow up do, when the controller computer BSOD's? Think the missile will just circle around waiting for a reboot while thinking "Oh it'll boot up...soon enough...come on honey, you can do it...just give me a target..."
Interesting...
Maybe someone should mod their Mac into a 1' sphere, with covers for all the ports, so when we get tired of playing games on the mac, we can play soccer with the mac!
We could always take Windows 2349 and put on a big 50 meter tall monitor on it and click the start menu and the flash of the BSOD will blind them while we pursue to throw our bad CD-R's at them from all the failed burns we've had and then they will bleed to death or something.
Windows destroys our sanity, so we destroy them with windows!
Did they bother to think that every year we rely more and more on computers? Just like hardware speeds and capabilities are said to increase exponentially over time, wouldn't IP usage do the same as the world continues to expand its use of computers?
I know it's more than two years, but its certainly less than twenty!
Awesome. A life saver. Heck, it's even good!
Very good point - The Opterons munch thru data real well, and hopefully with a little sales and some price drops will become a great platform. I cant wait to get me some of that 64 bit action...
Get one? :) Free OS + cheap AMD procs == good times!
Why not get two, like me
I'll never give up my Linux for a fruit company, let alone a company who claims that their software is "micro"!
I agree - anyone who is stupid enough to look at $2999 versus $3000 and think "Wow, that's so much cheaper!" is yet another idiot who deserves to be taken in!
I know! Who would'a ever thought that a company would EVER use misleading benchmarks to try to increase sales? What a scandal! What an outrage! /me shakes head at anyone who believes a benchmark run by the seller of the product...