I'm more l33t than you because I can expand those acronyms:
Signal to Noise ratio
Total Harmonic Distiortion
Analog to Digital (would be DIGITAL to analog, or DAC. it's a digital player and you have analog ears
Sound Pressure Level
HZ Hertz? You mean sampling rate?
BR Bitrate? does that have anything to do with the quality of the PLAYER itself?
Meyer: Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? [backpedaling] Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. [pause] I'm fired, aren't I?
Myers: Oh, yes.
just leave low-end to AMD. newsflash, intel: latin america and most of the world (the third world if you want) still needs low-end because of costs, so unless your high-end chips will cost the same as low-end you'll just be leaving the chipset market to SIS, VIA and the rest of cheap chip-makers. and knowing how bad these chips perform, people will just buy athlons for the same price (well, just like we used to do a couple of monts ago with athlon vs. p4).
yea or just plug the bare wires into the outlets. heh, silly americans with "blade" pins can't plug a bare wire right in like I do in my country. or did. now they outlawed round-pin outlets and we have oblique-blade:(
education in the US sucks in a weird way. kids have so many things to do at school: sports, assorted libraries, extra curricular activities, and still they manage to be among the most average in the planet, while many other countries, even latin american, top the US in education without all these things to support students. I think it's just the people, not the school system. what would happen if we take a bunch of kids from other countries and teach them in a US school (isolated from american kids, of course)? I think they would be about the brightest kids in the world. It's always the same thing, taking everything for granted and not be grateful about what you have.
I'm not so sure that the IA64 ISA is all that great. THe main problem is the VLIW instructions.
Let me translate for you "Must Be New Here"s. This guy, who apparently calls himself "AuMatar" is the typical ultra-conservative slashdotter. He thinks he knows better than the rest of us. I happened to click on 3 random comments on his profile and found him bashing perl and praising C, and talking shit about innovation on Wolfenstein. So disregard his opinions about what HE thinks is right. Let me put it this way. The guys at intel decided to do the processor that way for some reason, which we, the rest of the mortals, maybe will never understand, because -- well, most of us mortals don't design processors.
IMHO (that is, *I THINK*), the VLIW stuff was decided in an very early stage of development, and the engineers said, well, if this isn't the processor for Joe Sixpack and will not be running your regular, generic, one-size-fits-all code, then we can do a processor that will be exceptionally efficient when it's correctly programed, a situation that WILL happen in the environment Itaniums are used. Take for example, particle simulation. The guys using that kind of app will squeeze every last drop of performance they can get -- and if that means coding some parts in assembler, they will.
So, new people here, take my word and try to ignore comments from people who think they know it all -- at least I say "I THINK INTEL DID THIS BECAUSE OF THAT" and not try to play smart and say "INTEL IS WRONG, WHAT I THINK IS RIGHT".
true. a few years ago the new telco replaced all the lines in my country. there was a LOT and i mean a FUCKING LOT of CAT3 of all sorts of colors, and all kids were wearing them!
wrong. i have a realtek on my 486 linux router and dmesg is full of "eth0: TOO MUCH WORK AT INTERRUPT". and i have a 512k dsl.
imagine what happened when I used (boss' orders) a onboard 8139 on a server. yes. 10 users and it goes mad with too much work. that server has been running over a year already with a 3C905C and not a single problem. tcp offloading really helps in that situation too.
And if they used proprietary encription by something like Cisco, 3Com or some IBM storage solution, and that got cracked, then/. would be filled with 500 messages about how they didn't use an open source solution.
Oh and if they used an open source solution and that got cracked, the fault would also be theirs, and they would also get 500 messages on how they used an older (or newer!) release, or because they didn't use an obscure "x" patch which you can find in "y" page, hosted in some east european country and in a language used only in that country... etc.
why not? Apple itself claims that their target is creative professionals. So why would a mac used in a recording studio or a graphics workstation need to be online?
then you're just proving that you are an asshole. I happen to live in a PAL country (Argentina, PAL-N) and screen doesn't "flicker". Asshole.
Also, if that was even close to the truth, then the whole world would have used NTSC or PAL-M (30 fps). But no. Most european countries use PAL-B/G/I. And I don't think they notice the suppossed flicker, as I don't notice it with PAL-N.
Jackass
thats because you're stupid. I can't watch NTSC either because it has 100 less lines and I can see the scanlines. Don't be stupid, PAL-N/B/G/I have 25FRAMES per second, but 50 FIELDS per second, as they are interlaced.
The only way you would see the flicker is watching a 25fps PAL under a 60HZ fluorescent lamp.
Oh and don't ever think of watching progressive-scanned DVD or going to the movie theater because they play movies at (**EWW!**) 24 FPS!!!.. wait. progressive scan and the cinema look great. so, the problem is just you. ignorant asshole.
This kind of articles show that people aren't really ready for open-source. It's the kind of people who don't really understand the nature of it, accusing open source advocates of poisoning the world with a bad product. First of all, it's not a bad product. Google has shown the world what can be done with an open source OS. I would invite this guy over to a "villa miseria" ("misery village") in my country where people don't die of starvation but are close to that. Imagine how many things you could do with US$ 199 (XP Pro) instead of having to pay a license for every computer the government owns!. US$ 199 could pay for 1 month basic salary of the IT workers. And there are far less IT technicians than computers. But I don't know what drives these people. It's like my Java teacher, he thinks this open source movement just "can't be. why would people give away what they write?". Once, I asked him "why not?". So he goes because you gotta make a living and stuff. So I go, "well, yes, but suppose you have a good life and program just for fun. Would you keep all your discoveries to yourself? you think linus torvalds released a full operating system? no, he set the foundation for it, and thousands of people chipped in with tiny lines of code, and now we have this big monster, owned by nobody and everybody at the same time. Also, you have the possibility to use things like a database server, which you wouldn't be able to use. Face it, not many of us can get a job at the gov't data center which 30 years ago started with huge mainframes. Sure, it's been a long time since PCs can run database servers. But they ain't free. In order to use them, you had to be an employee in a big company, or at a college. Or use a pirated copy, which, I suppose, you don't support. If you don't want to give away your code, I suppose you don't want it to ve given away either. But with the open source licenses, you can work with a free full-featured database and you can also make a living out of it. In a company, what you write belongs to the company, not you. But what you do at home is another story. And finally, I know you're a big fan of IBM. They support open source. If it's such a bad thing, they wouldn't support it. They aren't that stupid". The guy just didn't see all that coming. But well, most people who think that way are just dinosaurs who live in another era. And dinosaurs are extinct now.
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I'm more l33t than you because I can expand those acronyms: Signal to Noise ratio
Total Harmonic Distiortion
Analog to Digital (would be DIGITAL to analog, or DAC. it's a digital player and you have analog ears
Sound Pressure Level
HZ Hertz? You mean sampling rate?
BR Bitrate? does that have anything to do with the quality of the PLAYER itself?
and run linux on them. not bsd, because bsd is dead anyway.
Meyer: Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? [backpedaling] Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. [pause] I'm fired, aren't I? Myers: Oh, yes.
virus don't run in BSD
just leave low-end to AMD. newsflash, intel: latin america and most of the world (the third world if you want) still needs low-end because of costs, so unless your high-end chips will cost the same as low-end you'll just be leaving the chipset market to SIS, VIA and the rest of cheap chip-makers. and knowing how bad these chips perform, people will just buy athlons for the same price (well, just like we used to do a couple of monts ago with athlon vs. p4).
yea or just plug the bare wires into the outlets. heh, silly americans with "blade" pins can't plug a bare wire right in like I do in my country. or did. now they outlawed round-pin outlets and we have oblique-blade :(
yeah but then they call you a nazi for such an idea... it's a sad world ruled by ignorants.
education in the US sucks in a weird way. kids have so many things to do at school: sports, assorted libraries, extra curricular activities, and still they manage to be among the most average in the planet, while many other countries, even latin american, top the US in education without all these things to support students. I think it's just the people, not the school system. what would happen if we take a bunch of kids from other countries and teach them in a US school (isolated from american kids, of course)? I think they would be about the brightest kids in the world. It's always the same thing, taking everything for granted and not be grateful about what you have.
Let me translate for you "Must Be New Here"s. This guy, who apparently calls himself "AuMatar" is the typical ultra-conservative slashdotter. He thinks he knows better than the rest of us. I happened to click on 3 random comments on his profile and found him bashing perl and praising C, and talking shit about innovation on Wolfenstein. So disregard his opinions about what HE thinks is right. Let me put it this way. The guys at intel decided to do the processor that way for some reason, which we, the rest of the mortals, maybe will never understand, because -- well, most of us mortals don't design processors.
IMHO (that is, *I THINK*), the VLIW stuff was decided in an very early stage of development, and the engineers said, well, if this isn't the processor for Joe Sixpack and will not be running your regular, generic, one-size-fits-all code, then we can do a processor that will be exceptionally efficient when it's correctly programed, a situation that WILL happen in the environment Itaniums are used. Take for example, particle simulation. The guys using that kind of app will squeeze every last drop of performance they can get -- and if that means coding some parts in assembler, they will.
So, new people here, take my word and try to ignore comments from people who think they know it all -- at least I say "I THINK INTEL DID THIS BECAUSE OF THAT" and not try to play smart and say "INTEL IS WRONG, WHAT I THINK IS RIGHT".
...does it run BSD?
true. a few years ago the new telco replaced all the lines in my country. there was a LOT and i mean a FUCKING LOT of CAT3 of all sorts of colors, and all kids were wearing them!
then ...
and then profit! of her
wrong. i have a realtek on my 486 linux router and dmesg is full of "eth0: TOO MUCH WORK AT INTERRUPT". and i have a 512k dsl.
imagine what happened when I used (boss' orders) a onboard 8139 on a server. yes. 10 users and it goes mad with too much work. that server has been running over a year already with a 3C905C and not a single problem. tcp offloading really helps in that situation too.
you insensitive clod, you murdered a spider!
this is a ripoff from a jackie chan movie! http://imdb.com/title/tt0290095/
And if they used proprietary encription by something like Cisco, 3Com or some IBM storage solution, and that got cracked, then /. would be filled with 500 messages about how they didn't use an open source solution.
Oh and if they used an open source solution and that got cracked, the fault would also be theirs, and they would also get 500 messages on how they used an older (or newer!) release, or because they didn't use an obscure "x" patch which you can find in "y" page, hosted in some east european country and in a language used only in that country... etc.
so now I'll finally get to see that Leia message?
why not? Apple itself claims that their target is creative professionals. So why would a mac used in a recording studio or a graphics workstation need to be online?
then you're just proving that you are an asshole. I happen to live in a PAL country (Argentina, PAL-N) and screen doesn't "flicker". Asshole. Also, if that was even close to the truth, then the whole world would have used NTSC or PAL-M (30 fps). But no. Most european countries use PAL-B/G/I. And I don't think they notice the suppossed flicker, as I don't notice it with PAL-N. Jackass
thats because you're stupid. I can't watch NTSC either because it has 100 less lines and I can see the scanlines. Don't be stupid, PAL-N/B/G/I have 25FRAMES per second, but 50 FIELDS per second, as they are interlaced. The only way you would see the flicker is watching a 25fps PAL under a 60HZ fluorescent lamp. Oh and don't ever think of watching progressive-scanned DVD or going to the movie theater because they play movies at (**EWW!**) 24 FPS!!! .. wait. progressive scan and the cinema look great. so, the problem is just you. ignorant asshole.
This kind of articles show that people aren't really ready for open-source. It's the kind of people who don't really understand the nature of it, accusing open source advocates of poisoning the world with a bad product.
First of all, it's not a bad product. Google has shown the world what can be done with an open source OS.
I would invite this guy over to a "villa miseria" ("misery village") in my country where people don't die of starvation but are close to that. Imagine how many things you could do with US$ 199 (XP Pro) instead of having to pay a license for every computer the government owns!. US$ 199 could pay for 1 month basic salary of the IT workers. And there are far less IT technicians than computers.
But I don't know what drives these people. It's like my Java teacher, he thinks this open source movement just "can't be. why would people give away what they write?". Once, I asked him "why not?". So he goes because you gotta make a living and stuff. So I go, "well, yes, but suppose you have a good life and program just for fun. Would you keep all your discoveries to yourself? you think linus torvalds released a full operating system? no, he set the foundation for it, and thousands of people chipped in with tiny lines of code, and now we have this big monster, owned by nobody and everybody at the same time. Also, you have the possibility to use things like a database server, which you wouldn't be able to use. Face it, not many of us can get a job at the gov't data center which 30 years ago started with huge mainframes. Sure, it's been a long time since PCs can run database servers. But they ain't free. In order to use them, you had to be an employee in a big company, or at a college. Or use a pirated copy, which, I suppose, you don't support. If you don't want to give away your code, I suppose you don't want it to ve given away either. But with the open source licenses, you can work with a free full-featured database and you can also make a living out of it. In a company, what you write belongs to the company, not you. But what you do at home is another story.
And finally, I know you're a big fan of IBM. They support open source. If it's such a bad thing, they wouldn't support it. They aren't that stupid". The guy just didn't see all that coming.
But well, most people who think that way are just dinosaurs who live in another era. And dinosaurs are extinct now.
6 ...
7. PROFIT!
it's WARRANTY, you idiot.