If you were to say, take the interquartile range, I still wonder if a geometric would not be more sensible than the arithmetic mean, because people often tend to go more 'crazy' as numbers go higher.
For instance if there were 500,000 beans, one may easily guess one million, or 250,000. The magnitude of the amount seems to come into play.
Just out of interest, would you mind people mixing your stuff is they did a *really* good job (rather than a crappy one), and gave you at least half the credit? 90% of the time, the original is best, but occasionally, you do get stuff which is at least different.
I think more to the point, mixing music like this usually ruins it, as the chord sequences and rhymths are meant for the piece it was originally written for.
I for one am disappointed with this result, and truly hope that IE6 makes a comeback, perhaps so that W3C can adopt its idiosyncrasies. My tricks, hacks and all-round experience with the workarounds for IE6 are going to waste, and suddenly my knowledge isn't so valuable in the workplace.
IE6 creates jobs, in abundance, and even creates higher paid jobs over those web developers who are obviously less talented. It gives people something to do over these new fangled 'web browsers' that tend to simplify everything.
Indie music won't completely take off, until anyone can quickly and efficiently submit MP3s to giant (and reasonable) outlets such as Amazon MP3, and have them for sale that minute. Something like submitting videos to Youtube, but for selling music instead.
It wouldn't be necessary, but a rating system in place such as the type from reddit.com would help to filter out the crud music, though of course, one could still find the crud if one wanted to.
Wouldn't it just be better to get a quadcore, with around 16 - 64 GB of memory, and rarely reset? After a day or two wouldn't this perform even more snappily than the SSD?
No, it's just that I didn't think the Google thing was as bad as some people here on/. thought, so because I didn't know much about this Nokia/Iran story, I was using that as a yardstick comparison so that I can judge whether this is as bad as some people think too.
So... in your opinion, was it worse than the Google/China deal?
I don't know the story there, but was it no worse than when Google helped China with censorship? To me that was a grey area as it was the better of the two 'evils' in my opinion.
Yes, that would be a lot worse, but at least they're noticable and can be reported. Having thousands of 'barely noticable' lags may add up the same time as occasional 15s lags, and would also be much harder to put in as a claim for bad OS behaviour, since they're on the threshold of perception.
Just out of interest, why is there this gulf between desktop and server anyway? Shouldn't both just simply be extra software code on top of the core of the OS?
In other words, shouldn't "server activity" simply be another piece of software like a browser?
I also have been offering software at "choose your price" for quite a while. Interestingly, a good number of people pay twice as much as the 'recommended' price. I suppose it depends on the market.
Yes, because the real life equivalent will 'subsume' the lower quality muddy bass speakers every time. In other words, the better speakers can do everything the crappier speakers can, but not vice versa. So if the listener prefers muddy bass, then that can be 'emulated' perfectly with the better speakers by adjusting the original mp3/WAV data.
Then it can be up to the composer or bass/treble controls what sound is desired.
Quick quessie which you may or may not know. I can only make arrays in Microsoft Visual C+++ 2008 express around 2^30 chars big (around 2 billion chars). If I move to Windows 7 and use MSVC on there, can I instantly start creating mallocing char arrays say 2^62 chars big instead?
No it's not just personal taste. Having a summary where the 'title' 'should be' makes it possible to get a better idea of the contents without even opening it up. In many cases, it then itself becomes the email.
Only because things are so unstructured at the moment.
Once everything becomes unified (such as the graphics/audio stack), and old cruft is removed, and hardware interfaces and other stuff themselves become more standardized, that'll make it much easier to cater to all groups. That will help make the code base smaller. Otherwise, complexity in one area helps create (even more) complexity in a different area, and things go pear shaped.
See what I mean about standards. Having 10 different OSs with 10 different ways of handling gfx hardware is basically hell for developers - I can't see how that would even remotely be a good thing, apart from the initial stages where choice helps everyone to see what approaches are best. In the end though, it all needs to be unified and modularized/compartmentalized.
Look how small Haiku is, AND it has to cater to many different gfx/audio cards.
We're also ignoring capitalism and greed. Why would someone want to adhere to OOTRTA if they could come out with something else that might make them money?
Because it will be the best. Haiku already has something of that philosophy. People won't pay for something better if one OS is the best. And of all the possible pieces of software that should be free or nearly free (as in beer), the OS should be one of them.
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If you were to say, take the interquartile range, I still wonder if a geometric would not be more sensible than the arithmetic mean, because people often tend to go more 'crazy' as numbers go higher.
For instance if there were 500,000 beans, one may easily guess one million, or 250,000. The magnitude of the amount seems to come into play.
For the jelly beans, do they take the arithmetic average or the geometric average? It would be interesting to see which comes closer.
Just out of interest, would you mind people mixing your stuff is they did a *really* good job (rather than a crappy one), and gave you at least half the credit? 90% of the time, the original is best, but occasionally, you do get stuff which is at least different.
I think more to the point, mixing music like this usually ruins it, as the chord sequences and rhymths are meant for the piece it was originally written for.
Sigh, people's tastes these days...
How far do inner pain receptors actually go in humans?
I for one am disappointed with this result, and truly hope that IE6 makes a comeback, perhaps so that W3C can adopt its idiosyncrasies. My tricks, hacks and all-round experience with the workarounds for IE6 are going to waste, and suddenly my knowledge isn't so valuable in the workplace.
IE6 creates jobs, in abundance, and even creates higher paid jobs over those web developers who are obviously less talented. It gives people something to do over these new fangled 'web browsers' that tend to simplify everything.
Indie music won't completely take off, until anyone can quickly and efficiently submit MP3s to giant (and reasonable) outlets such as Amazon MP3, and have them for sale that minute. Something like submitting videos to Youtube, but for selling music instead.
It wouldn't be necessary, but a rating system in place such as the type from reddit.com would help to filter out the crud music, though of course, one could still find the crud if one wanted to.
Wouldn't it just be better to get a quadcore, with around 16 - 64 GB of memory, and rarely reset? After a day or two wouldn't this perform even more snappily than the SSD?
No, it's just that I didn't think the Google thing was as bad as some people here on /. thought, so because I didn't know much about this Nokia/Iran story, I was using that as a yardstick comparison so that I can judge whether this is as bad as some people think too.
So... in your opinion, was it worse than the Google/China deal?
I don't know the story there, but was it no worse than when Google helped China with censorship? To me that was a grey area as it was the better of the two 'evils' in my opinion.
Every time I hear nokia, it's always positive. They like open source and dislike lock in, have the best phones, and have standard connectors.
Yes, that would be a lot worse, but at least they're noticable and can be reported. Having thousands of 'barely noticable' lags may add up the same time as occasional 15s lags, and would also be much harder to put in as a claim for bad OS behaviour, since they're on the threshold of perception.
People always seem to underestimate small latencies (even tiny 0.1s ones can irritate unconsciously). Glad your post was modded high here though.
Just out of interest, why is there this gulf between desktop and server anyway? Shouldn't both just simply be extra software code on top of the core of the OS?
In other words, shouldn't "server activity" simply be another piece of software like a browser?
I also have been offering software at "choose your price" for quite a while. Interestingly, a good number of people pay twice as much as the 'recommended' price. I suppose it depends on the market.
Yes, because the real life equivalent will 'subsume' the lower quality muddy bass speakers every time. In other words, the better speakers can do everything the crappier speakers can, but not vice versa. So if the listener prefers muddy bass, then that can be 'emulated' perfectly with the better speakers by adjusting the original mp3/WAV data.
Then it can be up to the composer or bass/treble controls what sound is desired.
Then why do I hear so many people say W7 feels snappier than Vista? Apparently Microsoft have worked hard on removing many of the latencies.
Many website addresses don't begin with "www", including the address of the page you're currently reading.
Well that needs to fixed then too.
I swear if that happens I'll start a campaign and website.
There's simply NO WAY that such a cool technology could not make it to market. It would be amazing for so many reasons.
Quick quessie which you may or may not know. I can only make arrays in Microsoft Visual C+++ 2008 express around 2^30 chars big (around 2 billion chars). If I move to Windows 7 and use MSVC on there, can I instantly start creating mallocing char arrays say 2^62 chars big instead?
I don't have many important apps that access the internet like that anyway.
I would much prefer self-contained apps, even at the slight cost of a memory/download increase.
No it's not just personal taste. Having a summary where the 'title' 'should be' makes it possible to get a better idea of the contents without even opening it up. In many cases, it then itself becomes the email.
How good would quantum computers be for raytracing (particularly of the hard-core globally illuminated variety) ?
there are different kinds of happiness
Which can be averaged out (?).
Or maybe a single type of happiness, except over different time spans (expectation of future happiness etc.).
But "lots of features" is synonymous with bloat.
Only because things are so unstructured at the moment.
Once everything becomes unified (such as the graphics/audio stack), and old cruft is removed, and hardware interfaces and other stuff themselves become more standardized, that'll make it much easier to cater to all groups. That will help make the code base smaller. Otherwise, complexity in one area helps create (even more) complexity in a different area, and things go pear shaped.
See what I mean about standards. Having 10 different OSs with 10 different ways of handling gfx hardware is basically hell for developers - I can't see how that would even remotely be a good thing, apart from the initial stages where choice helps everyone to see what approaches are best. In the end though, it all needs to be unified and modularized/compartmentalized.
Look how small Haiku is, AND it has to cater to many different gfx/audio cards.
We're also ignoring capitalism and greed. Why would someone want to adhere to OOTRTA if they could come out with something else that might make them money?
Because it will be the best. Haiku already has something of that philosophy. People won't pay for something better if one OS is the best. And of all the possible pieces of software that should be free or nearly free (as in beer), the OS should be one of them.