The disappointment expressed at Gibson's proprietary specs for this system isn't especially fair. One must remember--Gibson is a musical instrument manufacturer that trades off of its past (the most recently designed Gibson that anyone ever buys is the Les Paul bass, designed in 1969). It's not exactly known for forward-thinking, revolutionary designs in the here and now--and even though this is a huge step forward, there are certain things that have to give. Open-specing a piece of hardware that took years and millions of dollars to develop is a difficult idea to swallow for many American companies, especially one so firmly rooted in the past.
If you're using the red, white, and yellow A/V cables, those aren't magnetically shielded. Although they carry a miniscule amount of current, they still kick out a considerable magnetic field, which will move the drivers in non-shielded speakers. I would try to move the cables around; changing the orientation of the magnetic field might help. (This assumes, of course, that I remember my E/M well at all.)
There needs to be an impartial international agency that handles all this stuff. (Lord only knows that the UN, with its emphasis on "intellectual property protection," isn't it.) I like capitalism, but it sure breaks down when the government hands monopolies to unethical companies.
Actually, no, the Federalist Papers don't. One must also consider the context of when the 2nd Amendment was written; most of the American soldiers in the first few years of the Revolution were farmers carrying weapons that they, not the fledgling US government, owned. The Framers wanted protection of the right to bear arms so that the people could overthrow the government if stopped representing them. (The hydrogen bomb sorta ruins all of that--see the relevant passage in Snow Crash.) Ultimately, compromises must be made--the NRA and such must accept that unlimited availability of firearms is not a Good Thing, but the gun-banners need to understand the legitimacy of the firearm-owning tradition in this country, for hunting and personal defense. (Notwithstanding all of that, a good gun is a hell of a lot more reliable than this thing is going to be. I don't anticipate the cops trading in their Berettas any time soon.)
Excellent point. For some reason, most businesses insist on having the newest and most expensive hardware available. Linux was designed to not need it.
The media hype surrounding the fact that Linux is free has caused many to ascribe features to it that it really does not have, and won't for a long time. Linux was written by a college student for his personal computer, essentially (yeah, I'm probably oversimplifying it). The fact that it has been adapted as well as it has to high-end systems is a testament to its fundamentally sound nature, as well as the superiority of the open-source development model.
What I want to see is one of these benchmark tests against one of the BSDs. I have a slight hunch that a FreeBSD box could kick the tar out of NT.
Bootlegged movies are pathetic. The movie industry should laugh at the idiots who try to smuggle low-quality camcorders into theaters and then make MPEG-2s of the results.
Once digital projection of movies becomes more common, though, movie piracy may become a big issue--if some 31337 haXor d00dZ crack a movie distributor's system and download the (hopefully higher-quality than MPEG-2) film, box-office revenues could plummet dramatically.
BIG WHOOP. The man is still one of the veritable gods of computer technology. If you want to make yourself feel superior to this PhD'd genius by the fact that you love using a remote control and he doesn't, you have a real self-esteem problem.
rotten.com should have known that they were on extremely shaky ground when they decided to use pre-existing, copyrighted Dilbert art, instead of making their own drawings. They deserve to get that page shut down.
I did what the company said would be the standard motion for moving the mouse, and I could tell that even ten minutes of such activity would be hellish on the wrists. I'll wait for monocle mice, equivalents of which have been available on the AH-64 Apache since the mid-80s.
You're missing the point. If Utah were a "Mormon Republic," as you call it, wouldn't kids be able to look at the Bible online?
I find this symptomatic of America's desire for compromise at any cost, running over the civil liberties of left and right alike for the sake of quashing potential arguments. It's disgusting, don't you think?
After all, many struggling farmers and widows and orphans depended upon slavery for their daily bread.
You have a very shaky understanding of American history. Slavery benefited a tiny minority of the population (at least in the South), while the 80% or so who didn't own any slaves ended up doing the bulk of the fighting (and dying) in the Civil War to defend the institution.
This adds even more credibility to your argument, though--if copyright slavery only benefits a very few (and, indeed, it does--for example, there are but 5 major record companies today, and they each insist on owning the copyrights of their artists' work), then it should be abolished in the name of equality.
Ah, well...has anyone ever done any benchmark tests pitting the various Linux-supported architectures against each other, with systems identical other than CPU architecture?
The day OS X can touch a hard-core distro (like Debian) is the day a Voodoo3 outperforms a TNT2. This is just like the whole G3 vs. PII deal--tweaking one benchmark and beating statistics into a form that Apple likes.
His style is smoother than Katz', and the unsupported claims that he puts out are at least wrapped in pretty language, rather than Katz' huffing, puffing rants.
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That said, I'm still a Fender man.
I was gonna say...
If you're using the red, white, and yellow A/V cables, those aren't magnetically shielded. Although they carry a miniscule amount of current, they still kick out a considerable magnetic field, which will move the drivers in non-shielded speakers. I would try to move the cables around; changing the orientation of the magnetic field might help. (This assumes, of course, that I remember my E/M well at all.)
There needs to be an impartial international agency that handles all this stuff. (Lord only knows that the UN, with its emphasis on "intellectual property protection," isn't it.) I like capitalism, but it sure breaks down when the government hands monopolies to unethical companies.
Actually, no, the Federalist Papers don't. One must also consider the context of when the 2nd Amendment was written; most of the American soldiers in the first few years of the Revolution were farmers carrying weapons that they, not the fledgling US government, owned. The Framers wanted protection of the right to bear arms so that the people could overthrow the government if stopped representing them. (The hydrogen bomb sorta ruins all of that--see the relevant passage in Snow Crash.) Ultimately, compromises must be made--the NRA and such must accept that unlimited availability of firearms is not a Good Thing, but the gun-banners need to understand the legitimacy of the firearm-owning tradition in this country, for hunting and personal defense. (Notwithstanding all of that, a good gun is a hell of a lot more reliable than this thing is going to be. I don't anticipate the cops trading in their Berettas any time soon.)
Excellent point. For some reason, most businesses insist on having the newest and most expensive hardware available. Linux was designed to not need it.
The media hype surrounding the fact that Linux is free has caused many to ascribe features to it that it really does not have, and won't for a long time. Linux was written by a college student for his personal computer, essentially (yeah, I'm probably oversimplifying it). The fact that it has been adapted as well as it has to high-end systems is a testament to its fundamentally sound nature, as well as the superiority of the open-source development model.
What I want to see is one of these benchmark tests against one of the BSDs. I have a slight hunch that a FreeBSD box could kick the tar out of NT.
Bootlegged movies are pathetic. The movie industry should laugh at the idiots who try to smuggle low-quality camcorders into theaters and then make MPEG-2s of the results.
Once digital projection of movies becomes more common, though, movie piracy may become a big issue--if some 31337 haXor d00dZ crack a movie distributor's system and download the (hopefully higher-quality than MPEG-2) film, box-office revenues could plummet dramatically.
So he doesn't like remote controls.
BIG WHOOP. The man is still one of the veritable gods of computer technology. If you want to make yourself feel superior to this PhD'd genius by the fact that you love using a remote control and he doesn't, you have a real self-esteem problem.
rotten.com should have known that they were on extremely shaky ground when they decided to use pre-existing, copyrighted Dilbert art, instead of making their own drawings. They deserve to get that page shut down.
Getting a contract for 4000 servers is nothing to sneeze at. It speaks volumes for Linux's reputation for stability.
I did what the company said would be the standard motion for moving the mouse, and I could tell that even ten minutes of such activity would be hellish on the wrists. I'll wait for monocle mice, equivalents of which have been available on the AH-64 Apache since the mid-80s.
You're missing the point. If Utah were a "Mormon Republic," as you call it, wouldn't kids be able to look at the Bible online?
I find this symptomatic of America's desire for compromise at any cost, running over the civil liberties of left and right alike for the sake of quashing potential arguments. It's disgusting, don't you think?
You have a very shaky understanding of American history. Slavery benefited a tiny minority of the population (at least in the South), while the 80% or so who didn't own any slaves ended up doing the bulk of the fighting (and dying) in the Civil War to defend the institution.
This adds even more credibility to your argument, though--if copyright slavery only benefits a very few (and, indeed, it does--for example, there are but 5 major record companies today, and they each insist on owning the copyrights of their artists' work), then it should be abolished in the name of equality.
True.
Ah, well...has anyone ever done any benchmark tests pitting the various Linux-supported architectures against each other, with systems identical other than CPU architecture?
CGW's 3D GameGauge, which is used for testing 3D accelerators, is pretty accurate.
The day OS X can touch a hard-core distro (like Debian) is the day a Voodoo3 outperforms a TNT2. This is just like the whole G3 vs. PII deal--tweaking one benchmark and beating statistics into a form that Apple likes.
His style is smoother than Katz', and the unsupported claims that he puts out are at least wrapped in pretty language, rather than Katz' huffing, puffing rants.
Keep him.