Personally, I'm great with a QWERTY keyboard, even knowing that it is designed to be an inefficient system and would never change to an alphanumerical keyboard, despite the ultimate benefits.
The alphabetic keyboard has come and gone multiple times already. I know it was a contender when QWERTY came out, but QWERTY won cause it jammed less, but then I seem to remember it resurfacing (or perhaps it never really left) when DVORAK proposed his keyboard. That leaves me to question: this guy got a patent for his keyboard in the US and UK. What did he patent? The color scheme? This really seems like an old and failed idea...
yes, that's easy to reach. Undo? Why that's simply Ctrl-Shift-minus. Oddly however, once you get used to using the modifier keys these shortcuts seem natural rather than hard to reach. Any keyboard layout is good if you get used to it.
That's great. So EMacs has different shortcuts than other programs, and that's fine. I can deal with that, cause the association is gone. But I am a touch typist. When I see a webbrowser, or an e-mail client or etc on the screen and want to copy something, I don't think "Ctrl+C" I think pinky here and index there.
If I were able to switch to dvorak and the keyboard driver in the OS was able to also remap shortcuts for me somehow so I could use Ctrl+J instead of Ctrl+C I would switch instantly (since those keys are in the same physical location and copy would feel the same in my head). I've tried switching numerous times and it's always been nice (but slow, cause I'm always just starting out.. again) but as the grandparent states, the shortcut issue can really hold on back.
Sure, I could learn the new shortcut keys--or rather, the new possitions of the old shortcut keys--but this is many many years of habbit and is strangely more difficult than learning an entirely new typing layout.
Video is very cycle intensive. Look at the amd and intel benchmarks for video. Intel always wins because their clockspeed is faster.The 1.25 ghz mac mini isnt going to cut it.
Intel doesn't win cause their clockrate is faster, intel wins because the P4 architecture was built specifically for tackling video! (and as far as I can tell, that's all it does well)
My girlfriend has a 1.8ghz P4 Northwood Dell that just sucks, but it gets twice the DivX encoding frame rate as my AMD Barton clocked at 2.4ghz and 4 times the RAM. Now, my barton does a lot of things Pentiums clocked up around 3Ghz can't do, but even a 1.8Ghz pentium blows my system out of the water doing video.
Kudos to Intel! (but I'll keep my AMD...)
Now, for Mac, the G4 processor is also designed quite well for video. That 1.25ghz probably competes with a P4 1.5-2ghz in just about anything quite well, maybe even faster...
if by "crush" you mean it would have run anti-spy-ad-thing-a-jig daily as opposed to the mini. then yes. it would "crush" the mini.
I think by crush he was speaking in terms of decibels. I'm picky when it comes to computer noise (think, Zalman) so when I sit down next to one of those Shuttle cubes all I think of is freight trains.
Wanting to buy/build a small computer for my already cramped breakfast bar
I've heard this so many times over and over. Perhaps I'm not nerdy enough, but what do you do with a computer in your breakfast bar? Or kitchen for that matter.. I understand the looking up recipies thing, but other than that?
This program is NOT written by the guys at SuprNova.org. It is simply endorsed by the guys at SuprNova.org. Listen to the radio interviews with for verification.
Does the law differentiate between a "bit identical" copy and a "funtionally identical" copy? If i were to somehow create an audio format where the audio chunks can be in any order and still produce the same output, would that count?
I suppose you could store the segments of the audio in a linked list and then write the segments non-sequentially to the disk. This would basically be the same as a heavily fragmented MP3.
And no, there's nothing in the bill that differentiates "bit identical" and "functionally identical." Unless the bill gets changed before it becomes a law, it would be up to the courts to decide.
Lets compare the ratio of copyright breaking activities VS non copyright breaking activities those protocols have and compare them with p2p's ratio. I think you may find p2p to have a significantly higher ratio
Well, seeing as FTP is the Protocol of choice on much of the back end for piracy groups, FTP probably has a really high ratio of illegal MB/legal MB transfered, probably similar to the ratio seen through Bittorrent. IRC most definatly has more illegal traffic (MB/MB) than legal traffic, but it's also used quite a bit for legal discussions which don't use quite so much bandwidth...
The fact is that the bill in question defines P2P as: software that once installed and launched, enables the user to connect his or her computer to a network of other computers on which the users of these computers have made available recording or audiovisual works for electronic dissemination to other users who are connected to the network. When a transaction is complete, the user has an identical copy of the file on his or her computer and may also then disseminate the file to other users connected to the network.
Under this definition, IRC, HTTP, and FTP all clearly fall into this category since they can allow you to get a full copy of the file. Technically speaking, a combination of Google, HTTP/FTP and my webbrowser constitutes a P2P network. We may as well just ban the internet, and in this case it's not a straw-man argument but based off of the language of the bill.
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Aerodynamics. Drive heads need to run at a certain (*exceedingly* small) height from the platter, and they achieve this by being aerodynamically shaped as to use the air flowing over the platter to remain in flight. Change platter speed -> change the height the heads will fly at. It's not a simple case of making the motor variable-speed and modifying the controller.
I wouldn't doubt that's something that they do, but do they really rely on it that much? What of drives that tout huge shock tolerances (like 225 g's over 2ms) while operating. I always thought that that meant while that impulse, the head wouldn't hit the platter. Does it mean the head can hit the platter that hard without causing damage?
What you're saying just seems too probable, though... I guess I'll just sit here and hope R&D can solve this for me.
1) The drives are smaller, right? Might be harder to design hardware for that small space. 2) Thermal death. Just because it's plugged in doesn't mean all those parts aren't still living right next to each other, trying not to kill each other.
You can buy a laptop HD with 7200 rpm. Why can't you buy one that spins at both speeds at different times?
I want a drive with more features for notebooks...
Sure 4200rpm may save battery life, but they're so god aweful slow. Why don't they make a drive that has variable rpm? You could even have the OS control the speed: 4200 when on battery and 7200 when plugged into an outlet. Maybe even have an override so you can make it fast at the expense of battery life, should you want to.
Yeah... how you were able to get a deadly currently through a phone line, for 1.
Oh, and why a puddle at your feet has any effect in a DC telephone system for another.
I wouldn't press the leads of a phone wire across my tongue like some kiddlings do to test 9-volt batteries, but touching both leads with your bare hands is not going to kill you, either.
Hard-wiring additional phones will most likely require an electrician.
I don't know why they always say crap like this. All you have to do is go outside your house the to telephone box, disconnect your phone line from the local network (it's a good idea to leave a note saying that it should remain disconnected and tape the leads, just so it doesn't get reconnected...)
Once you've disonnected your house from the POTS, you can plug your analog telephone adapter into ANY telephone wall outlet in the house! This makes all of your phone jacks live with telephone service from your VOIP connection.
That is, unless of course you have DSL. In that case you should either use a 2-line adapter to run your VOIP phones on line 2, or change your DSL connection to line 2 and plug in your ATA normally.
the master machine is the display, keyboard, and mouse only. All processing is done on the dual 400mhz PPC processors on the MPS. Display is sent over the USB to the host machine where it's probably displayed by a VNC client of sorts.
I'd expect a VNC client to be used rather than something proprietary since the MPS itself runs linux and VNC is already cross platform, allowing anything to be the host machine.
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Personally, I'm great with a QWERTY keyboard, even knowing that it is designed to be an inefficient system and would never change to an alphanumerical keyboard, despite the ultimate benefits.
The alphabetic keyboard has come and gone multiple times already. I know it was a contender when QWERTY came out, but QWERTY won cause it jammed less, but then I seem to remember it resurfacing (or perhaps it never really left) when DVORAK proposed his keyboard. That leaves me to question: this guy got a patent for his keyboard in the US and UK. What did he patent? The color scheme? This really seems like an old and failed idea...
but in OSX you can have your keyboard mapped to dvorak-qwerty where if you hold ctrl or alt, the keyboard reverts back to qwerty for just that reason.
Yet again, I wish I could buy Mac hardware off the shelf and build my own machine... That's the best feature I've ever heard of.
yes, that's easy to reach. Undo? Why that's simply Ctrl-Shift-minus. Oddly however, once you get used to using the modifier keys these shortcuts seem natural rather than hard to reach. Any keyboard layout is good if you get used to it.
That's great. So EMacs has different shortcuts than other programs, and that's fine. I can deal with that, cause the association is gone. But I am a touch typist. When I see a webbrowser, or an e-mail client or etc on the screen and want to copy something, I don't think "Ctrl+C" I think pinky here and index there.
If I were able to switch to dvorak and the keyboard driver in the OS was able to also remap shortcuts for me somehow so I could use Ctrl+J instead of Ctrl+C I would switch instantly (since those keys are in the same physical location and copy would feel the same in my head). I've tried switching numerous times and it's always been nice (but slow, cause I'm always just starting out.. again) but as the grandparent states, the shortcut issue can really hold on back.
Sure, I could learn the new shortcut keys--or rather, the new possitions of the old shortcut keys--but this is many many years of habbit and is strangely more difficult than learning an entirely new typing layout.
Otherwise, we'd still be using Netscape for $30 to $50 a pop.
Not directly, at least.. my ISP gave it to me as part of their software bundle.
Video is very cycle intensive. Look at the amd and intel benchmarks for video. Intel always wins because their clockspeed is faster.The 1.25 ghz mac mini isnt going to cut it.
Intel doesn't win cause their clockrate is faster, intel wins because the P4 architecture was built specifically for tackling video! (and as far as I can tell, that's all it does well)
My girlfriend has a 1.8ghz P4 Northwood Dell that just sucks, but it gets twice the DivX encoding frame rate as my AMD Barton clocked at 2.4ghz and 4 times the RAM. Now, my barton does a lot of things Pentiums clocked up around 3Ghz can't do, but even a 1.8Ghz pentium blows my system out of the water doing video.
Kudos to Intel! (but I'll keep my AMD...)
Now, for Mac, the G4 processor is also designed quite well for video. That 1.25ghz probably competes with a P4 1.5-2ghz in just about anything quite well, maybe even faster...
He never finished graduate school.
He has his masters degree (according to your link). Last time I checked that wasn't an undergrad degree.
But you're right to call him a sham. I still find him interesting and insightful, non-the-less. He's way better than Anchor Desk on ZDNet...
What is a 'real computer'?
Real computers use punch-cards, you insensitive clod!
if by "crush" you mean it would have run anti-spy-ad-thing-a-jig daily as opposed to the mini. then yes. it would "crush" the mini.
I think by crush he was speaking in terms of decibels. I'm picky when it comes to computer noise (think, Zalman) so when I sit down next to one of those Shuttle cubes all I think of is freight trains.
Wanting to buy/build a small computer for my already cramped breakfast bar
I've heard this so many times over and over. Perhaps I'm not nerdy enough, but what do you do with a computer in your breakfast bar? Or kitchen for that matter.. I understand the looking up recipies thing, but other than that?
This program is NOT written by the guys at SuprNova.org. It is simply endorsed by the guys at SuprNova.org. Listen to the radio interviews with for verification.
Does the law differentiate between a "bit identical" copy and a "funtionally identical" copy? If i were to somehow create an audio format where the audio chunks can be in any order and still produce the same output, would that count?
I suppose you could store the segments of the audio in a linked list and then write the segments non-sequentially to the disk. This would basically be the same as a heavily fragmented MP3.
And no, there's nothing in the bill that differentiates "bit identical" and "functionally identical." Unless the bill gets changed before it becomes a law, it would be up to the courts to decide.
Lets compare the ratio of copyright breaking activities VS non copyright breaking activities those protocols have and compare them with p2p's ratio. I think you may find p2p to have a significantly higher ratio
Well, seeing as FTP is the Protocol of choice on much of the back end for piracy groups, FTP probably has a really high ratio of illegal MB/legal MB transfered, probably similar to the ratio seen through Bittorrent. IRC most definatly has more illegal traffic (MB/MB) than legal traffic, but it's also used quite a bit for legal discussions which don't use quite so much bandwidth...
The fact is that the bill in question defines P2P as:
software that once installed and launched, enables the user to connect his or her computer to a network of other computers on which the users of these computers have made available recording or audiovisual works for electronic dissemination to other users who are connected to the network. When a transaction is complete, the user has an identical copy of the file on his or her computer and may also then disseminate the file to other users connected to the network.
Under this definition, IRC, HTTP, and FTP all clearly fall into this category since they can allow you to get a full copy of the file. Technically speaking, a combination of Google, HTTP/FTP and my webbrowser constitutes a P2P network. We may as well just ban the internet, and in this case it's not a straw-man argument but based off of the language of the bill.
Do the passwords work?
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Aerodynamics. Drive heads need to run at a certain (*exceedingly* small) height from the platter, and they achieve this by being aerodynamically shaped as to use the air flowing over the platter to remain in flight. Change platter speed -> change the height the heads will fly at. It's not a simple case of making the motor variable-speed and modifying the controller.
I wouldn't doubt that's something that they do, but do they really rely on it that much? What of drives that tout huge shock tolerances (like 225 g's over 2ms) while operating. I always thought that that meant while that impulse, the head wouldn't hit the platter. Does it mean the head can hit the platter that hard without causing damage?
What you're saying just seems too probable, though... I guess I'll just sit here and hope R&D can solve this for me.
Two factors possible:
1) The drives are smaller, right? Might be harder to design hardware for that small space.
2) Thermal death. Just because it's plugged in doesn't mean all those parts aren't still living right next to each other, trying not to kill each other.
You can buy a laptop HD with 7200 rpm. Why can't you buy one that spins at both speeds at different times?
oh, sorry.. I read 83... I don't know anything about the TI-82 :)
The only problem is the heatsink and fan weighs about 5x as much as the calculator itself, and it is too loud to use in class.
You need a Zalman CNPS-7700
Might still be heavy, but at least you'll be able to hear your instructor.
you should have written it in assembly instead of TI-Basic.
Oh, and a POT is a varriable resistor. I think you might mean a trimmmer.
Well maybe that's why none of the apple developers were working on OO.o Aqua... They're all working on Neoofice!
I want a drive with more features for notebooks...
Sure 4200rpm may save battery life, but they're so god aweful slow. Why don't they make a drive that has variable rpm? You could even have the OS control the speed: 4200 when on battery and 7200 when plugged into an outlet. Maybe even have an override so you can make it fast at the expense of battery life, should you want to.
need I say more?
Yeah... how you were able to get a deadly currently through a phone line, for 1.
Oh, and why a puddle at your feet has any effect in a DC telephone system for another.
I wouldn't press the leads of a phone wire across my tongue like some kiddlings do to test 9-volt batteries, but touching both leads with your bare hands is not going to kill you, either.
I myself know that when my cable ISP starts offering voip im dropping my phone service from the local provider.
Does your cable company offer broadband?
Why wait for your cable company to offer VOIP. Signup for Vonage, Broadvox, etc now.
Hard-wiring additional phones will most likely require an electrician.
I don't know why they always say crap like this. All you have to do is go outside your house the to telephone box, disconnect your phone line from the local network (it's a good idea to leave a note saying that it should remain disconnected and tape the leads, just so it doesn't get reconnected...)
Once you've disonnected your house from the POTS, you can plug your analog telephone adapter into ANY telephone wall outlet in the house! This makes all of your phone jacks live with telephone service from your VOIP connection.
That is, unless of course you have DSL. In that case you should either use a 2-line adapter to run your VOIP phones on line 2, or change your DSL connection to line 2 and plug in your ATA normally.
I first looked at the headline without my glasses and read:
$113.5 billion worth of elections sold in 2004
I thought to myself, "Well, that explains that!"
the master machine is the display, keyboard, and mouse only. All processing is done on the dual 400mhz PPC processors on the MPS. Display is sent over the USB to the host machine where it's probably displayed by a VNC client of sorts.
I'd expect a VNC client to be used rather than something proprietary since the MPS itself runs linux and VNC is already cross platform, allowing anything to be the host machine.