You're thinking too small. If it did have 180 IQ:
It'd learn to STFU. And with 4-6 GHz chips... it'd do so in record time.
Or, heck, maybe it can get wine working in Linux for me.
Because you never do any serious research on the web, nobody else needs to?
No one needs that many tabs open - the function is better served with bookmarks. In fact, you can even bookmark sets of tabs (tab 1-n) as one bookmark!
So bugs are OK, as long as they only affect other people in their productivity?
It's not a bug. Just like it's not a bug that I can't use my $500 computer to host multiple terabytes of RAID drives. If it were as overpowered as you seem to think it should be, it might be more crash prone, and it would certainly be more bloated.
Actually, Firefox is designed to browse the web. That's why it's called a web browser. The memory leaks and the crashing are not intentional. This is called a bug. [...] So Firefox isn't supposed to be a web browser? Better go and tell the developers then.
And it does browse, quite well. But rational use is necessary. Is it rational to complain that OpenOffice runs slowly when I have 50+ documents open? No. Just as your complaint is not rational.
Not that it would bother you, obviously. [...] I guess it wouldn't really be a/. discussion without some incoherent ramblings thrown in.
Ad hominem meter is now pinned.
I don't know what to say about this, really. Do you suffer from narcolepsy?
Ad hominem, AND insulting to those folks who actually do have narcolepsy or similar conditions - I don't have it myself, but I know it sucks big time. Not a laughing matter.
Yeah, I know. IHBT. IHL. HAND.
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As I understand it, two ultrasound beams are used. They are directed to create an interference pattern. The nature of such patterns, and of the focusing abilities of ultrasound, is that the relevant portion of the pattern can be focused on a pretty small region.
The ultrasound beams create "beats" - they superimpose so that the frequencies "created" are audible (rather than being greater than 20 kHz, as the original ultrasound beams are, they're somewhere between 20 Hz and 20-ish kHz).
Lots of jargon, but it's basic high school physics.
"I ran [ReactOS] in Bochs on my Fedora box once, and it's making me consider buying a small (cheap) hard drive to run it natively.
However, while some bugs can be fixed, and it will be possible to make it run faster, how do you know which bugs (or other non-standard behavior) are taken advantage of by programs that won't run on ReactOS if the bug is fixed?"
How is this being handled by the developers? What is the plan?
I agree with most of what you said; I think ReactOS will fill an important niche. I ran it in Bochs on my Fedora box once, and it's making me consider buying a small (cheap) hard drive to run it natively.
However, while some bugs can be fixed, and it will be possible to make it run faster, how do you know which bugs (or other non-standard behavior) are taken advantage of by programs that won't run on ReactOS if the bug is fixed?
Warning: This post may contain gratuitous expletives. If you are offended by such material, please do not continue reading this post. Thanks.
I thought this kind of "contract" was invalid? Or is it just a warning. Either way, it's a little late now, [multiple expletives deleted].
They're using ultrasound to make the interference pattern as tight as possible.
Very cool - I can see, say, clipping a tracker pin (Wi-Fi, perhaps?) on my shirt, then telling my computer or stereo speakers to track that. That's probably one of the harder parts, though, making it self-directing like that. Bet your PVC couldn't do it.
Could be a better way to listen to TV at night, or to play the FPS games whose sound effects my family loathes. Or... well, there are oodles of applications that are consumer oriented
To me, it would make more sense if they renamed it with the first word being the "core" (Fire) and the second word being the same - "bird". Like, different animals, but with a firey theme. 'Course, I believe there's already a conflict for Firebird...
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You're thinking too small. If it did have 180 IQ: It'd learn to STFU. And with 4-6 GHz chips ... it'd do so in record time.
Or, heck, maybe it can get wine working in Linux for me.
Because you never do any serious research on the web, nobody else needs to?
/. discussion without some incoherent ramblings thrown in.
No one needs that many tabs open - the function is better served with bookmarks. In fact, you can even bookmark sets of tabs (tab 1-n) as one bookmark!
So bugs are OK, as long as they only affect other people in their productivity?
It's not a bug. Just like it's not a bug that I can't use my $500 computer to host multiple terabytes of RAID drives. If it were as overpowered as you seem to think it should be, it might be more crash prone, and it would certainly be more bloated.
Actually, Firefox is designed to browse the web. That's why it's called a web browser. The memory leaks and the crashing are not intentional. This is called a bug. [...] So Firefox isn't supposed to be a web browser? Better go and tell the developers then.
And it does browse, quite well. But rational use is necessary. Is it rational to complain that OpenOffice runs slowly when I have 50+ documents open? No. Just as your complaint is not rational.
Not that it would bother you, obviously. [...] I guess it wouldn't really be a
Ad hominem meter is now pinned.
I don't know what to say about this, really. Do you suffer from narcolepsy?
Ad hominem, AND insulting to those folks who actually do have narcolepsy or similar conditions - I don't have it myself, but I know it sucks big time. Not a laughing matter.
Yeah, I know. IHBT. IHL. HAND.
As I understand it, two ultrasound beams are used. They are directed to create an interference pattern. The nature of such patterns, and of the focusing abilities of ultrasound, is that the relevant portion of the pattern can be focused on a pretty small region.
The ultrasound beams create "beats" - they superimpose so that the frequencies "created" are audible (rather than being greater than 20 kHz, as the original ultrasound beams are, they're somewhere between 20 Hz and 20-ish kHz).
Lots of jargon, but it's basic high school physics.
Since you're a ReactOS dev, I'll ask again.
"I ran [ReactOS] in Bochs on my Fedora box once, and it's making me consider buying a small (cheap) hard drive to run it natively.
However, while some bugs can be fixed, and it will be possible to make it run faster, how do you know which bugs (or other non-standard behavior) are taken advantage of by programs that won't run on ReactOS if the bug is fixed?"
How is this being handled by the developers? What is the plan?
I agree with most of what you said; I think ReactOS will fill an important niche. I ran it in Bochs on my Fedora box once, and it's making me consider buying a small (cheap) hard drive to run it natively.
However, while some bugs can be fixed, and it will be possible to make it run faster, how do you know which bugs (or other non-standard behavior) are taken advantage of by programs that won't run on ReactOS if the bug is fixed?
Warning: This post may contain gratuitous expletives. If you are offended by such material, please do not continue reading this post. Thanks. I thought this kind of "contract" was invalid? Or is it just a warning. Either way, it's a little late now, [multiple expletives deleted].
WTF are harkonens? The first thing I thought of was those alien dogs from Half-Life, the ones that sent out the (oddly visible) sounds that hurt you.
They're using ultrasound to make the interference pattern as tight as possible. Very cool - I can see, say, clipping a tracker pin (Wi-Fi, perhaps?) on my shirt, then telling my computer or stereo speakers to track that. That's probably one of the harder parts, though, making it self-directing like that. Bet your PVC couldn't do it. Could be a better way to listen to TV at night, or to play the FPS games whose sound effects my family loathes. Or ... well, there are oodles of applications that are consumer oriented
maybe it could come with a default corpus (body of knowledge)? Either way, I volunteer to do the training!
To me, it would make more sense if they renamed it with the first word being the "core" (Fire) and the second word being the same - "bird". Like, different animals, but with a firey theme. 'Course, I believe there's already a conflict for Firebird ...