This "but you have to be nice to every piece of shit" typically comes from people who have made it a point in their life not to understand things, and build a career on butt-licking and cock-sucking.
There is a difference between "every piece of shit", often people with an attitude (like you), and people like the one the GP was referring to, being people that just don't have a technical background. Backups are important indeed, but don't forget that making backups is not the core business of most companies, and these "pieces of shit" are probably making the money that pays the IT department.
Capacitors are generally used for filters and timing circuits...... or some USB port hardware runs 15 times as fast, but I'd say that I'll never notice either with this getup.
Capacitors can indeed be used for timing circuits, but elco's will not normally be used for anything precise. They are way unaccurate (read: +100%/-50%), have aging etc. Theis only advantage is their high (but unsure) capacitance and low price. For any precise application, ceramic or better will be used. Horowitz and Hill (a bible of electronics) call their performance "terrible", "ghastly" and "awful".
Also can't believe this is generally true. Bear in mind that elco's are not only used in mother boards, but in almost every power supply. If they are worn the net frequency is no longer filtered, for audio amplifiers this would lead to 50/60Hz hum. Yet we don't throw away our radio's after that time, do we? A few weeks ago I revived an old tube amplifier. It kept playing for two seconds after being switched off, meaning that the caps were still ok after 30 years.
what's the difference between a policeman watching you in person and a policeman watching you by camera?
The differences are:
- the policeman is also there, which makes the situation more balanced
- you know people can be watching you, because you see them
- the policeman does not keep a permanent visual record
- you know the one watching you is the policeman you can see. In case of camera surveillance you don't know who is watching them, what they do with the images, how lang they are kept etc
- the policeman will judge your behaviour and give you feedback immediately
If Microsoft wasn't so bent on keeping everything proprietary, there really would only be the cost of the media. Look, for instance, at organizations like Debian -- you don't see them paying for "key management," now do you?
Duh! What did you expect? When I am not mistaking, Debian/Fedora/... do NOT develop software of their own (except maybe an installer or so). They are in the business of distributing something other people (volunteers) make.
Microsoft is in the business of creating software. Maybe it is unstable, maybe you don't like it, maybe they steal ideas - I don't know. But does Autodesk give its software away for free? With what money would they pay their developers (.. developers... developers) if they didn't try to sell as much of their OS as possible (instead of seeing it copied)?
An evolution I also went trough: initially your self-imposed deadlines are enough. After this they need to be external. After this nothing really helps anymore. Also, this procrastinating doens't make me feel happy. In general I am much happier having stuff behind me, so in the end this self-created 'vacation' was no gain at all.
This even extends to my sleep; I have serious problems making myself go to bed, even when incredible tired and having to go to work te next day. Even though all indications say 'go to sleep now', I'd rather wach repetitions of the weather forecast. Anything but going to bed...
Sometimes you are just not supposed to be objective.
Why not?
Some topics do not invite that form of discussion. Is the Earth flat? I don't think anybody expects you to present the supporting opinion in equal length. Did holocaust happen? Again, not really a question in need of giving equal space to both sides. So why 'Is Microsoft crooked and do they intentionally cripple their product to harm consumer and competition?' needs any more discussion...
Disclaimer: I don't want to choose sides here. But apart from being subject to Godwin's law, your argument doesn't hold for 100%. Assuming that 'earth flatness' and 'holocaust realness' are in a set of undisputable facts (most people agree here. anyway: not the topic now), it is imho a subjective act to put the Microsoft stuff there as well. To the NRA the right to bear arms may appear as obvious as the danger of doing so may appear to others.
Thanks for the link! From the video it appears that then put together different machinery they were already producing. This gives the machine a more or less homebrew touch. I also wonder how reliable it is. Considering the number of paper jams in average copiers, I fear the worst. Not something I would leave unattended all day. But a cool machine nevertheless!
You are making fun of the GP without actually addressing his point, which imho is a good one. In case you just want to perform ONE task, are there players that exploit the presence of the two cores? I don't care of another cpu runs another job, I want them to cooperate. The algorithms need to be parallellised and will not just use two CPUs/cores just because they are there.
What I want to know is, when will the ice in the antarctic melt? Real estate is just too expensive, we could use another continent, especially once we flood the ones we've already got. d^_^b
Especially because the sea level will only (ok, maybe 'mainly') rise due to the melting of ice on land...
Lets get some higher resolution in these things and start doing some augmented reality!
Why do you need a higher resolution for that? There was a time when computers worked with 320x200 resolution and people seemed to do well. How much info do you really need to be there? How well will you be able to focus on both the digital info and the reality in front of you? It's not because 1600x1200 is now the lower limit for graphics cards that _every_ application suddenly needs them.
Indeed, to digital communications people this is nothing special. Moreover: it is rather meaningless to say how many bits/s/Hz you get without any mention of distance, power or SNR (signal to noise ratio). I don't think the achievement has anything to do with clever modulation techniques, just with the large bandwidth emerging from just one transmitter.
Just like a 1000 ton car consuming 1000 liters of fuel per km is no great technological achievement (in terms of theoretical efficiency), but a 1000 car would be the biggest ever made and not easy to construct.
Bear in mind that Microsoft != Bill Gates. He can do whatever he wants with his own money, but not with Microsofts. They have shareholders and stuff, you know?
To convert sound into a digital format, you must sample it. No matter how small your sample, there are gaps between them. The gaps are lost when you digitize the music.
This is not entirely true. The Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem states that a band-limited signal can be reconstructed perfectly if you sample it at minimally twice the bandwidth. The intuitive understanding is that because of the limited frequency content, the signal cannot make very fast jumps in between the sampling points and is not just 'free to do as it wants', and can be reconstructed. CD sampling is at 44100 Hz, meaning that signals upto 22500Hz can be perfectly reconstructed. In practice this is a bit lower due to non-ideal filters etc. A normal person's hearing goes only to say 16kHz, maybe 20kHz. When making a CD, everything above (which is not much to start from, and is inaudible anyway) is filtered away, and this filtered signal (limited to 20kHz) is than sampled and later on reconstructed.
In case the sampling resolution (16 bits for a CD) is lower than the noise on the signal, again this will not be perceptible.
In other words: it is possible to make a digital recording which is _completely_ indicernible from the original, at least to the human ear. This is not the case for perceptual coding such as mp3, even though it should be.
Willingly is way off. He had a monopoly position in operating systems that made it literally impossible to buy computer equipment without giving Microsoft money.
Maybe I wanted to spend my money on a different, worthwhile cause?
If I understand well you complain about the charitable cause a businessman donated his private money to???
What you got for your money was Windows or whatever product you bought. That's where the deal ends.
Besides, he never forced you to buy his products.
If you want to give (the rest of) your money to other charitable causes, go ahead, but don't come whining here.
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This "but you have to be nice to every piece of shit" typically comes from people who have made it a point in their life not to understand things, and build a career on butt-licking and cock-sucking.
There is a difference between "every piece of shit", often people with an attitude (like you), and people like the one the GP was referring to, being people that just don't have a technical background. Backups are important indeed, but don't forget that making backups is not the core business of most companies, and these "pieces of shit" are probably making the money that pays the IT department.
Capacitors are generally used for filters and timing circuits... ... or some USB port hardware runs 15 times as fast, but I'd say that I'll never notice either with this getup.
Capacitors can indeed be used for timing circuits, but elco's will not normally be used for anything precise. They are way unaccurate (read: +100%/-50%), have aging etc. Theis only advantage is their high (but unsure) capacitance and low price. For any precise application, ceramic or better will be used. Horowitz and Hill (a bible of electronics) call their performance "terrible", "ghastly" and "awful".
Also can't believe this is generally true. Bear in mind that elco's are not only used in mother boards, but in almost every power supply. If they are worn the net frequency is no longer filtered, for audio amplifiers this would lead to 50/60Hz hum. Yet we don't throw away our radio's after that time, do we? A few weeks ago I revived an old tube amplifier. It kept playing for two seconds after being switched off, meaning that the caps were still ok after 30 years.
what's the difference between a policeman watching you in person and a policeman watching you by camera?
The differences are:
- the policeman is also there, which makes the situation more balanced
- you know people can be watching you, because you see them
- the policeman does not keep a permanent visual record
- you know the one watching you is the policeman you can see. In case of camera surveillance you don't know who is watching them, what they do with the images, how lang they are kept etc
- the policeman will judge your behaviour and give you feedback immediately
Hm, I have to give you that. Thirteen wrongs make a right :-)
The meaning of the acronym FORD will now changed...
Only FORD is no acronym...
If Microsoft wasn't so bent on keeping everything proprietary, there really would only be the cost of the media. Look, for instance, at organizations like Debian -- you don't see them paying for "key management," now do you?
Duh! What did you expect? When I am not mistaking, Debian/Fedora/... do NOT develop software of their own (except maybe an installer or so). They are in the business of distributing something other people (volunteers) make.
Microsoft is in the business of creating software. Maybe it is unstable, maybe you don't like it, maybe they steal ideas - I don't know. But does Autodesk give its software away for free? With what money would they pay their developers (.. developers... developers) if they didn't try to sell as much of their OS as possible (instead of seeing it copied)?
am I the only one who read this and thought "wow, these id games are really hitting it off in taiwan" ?
No. Actually everyone here immediately tought of it. Except maybe those too young to know Quake.
I suddenly had this deja vu feeling where I'm hearing my ex-wife talk on the phone with her girlfriends.
Hans, is that you?
This even extends to my sleep; I have serious problems making myself go to bed, even when incredible tired and having to go to work te next day. Even though all indications say 'go to sleep now', I'd rather wach repetitions of the weather forecast. Anything but going to bed...
This particular story is interesting because it goes insides the minds of the people who make a totalitarian society work.
Even worse, imho one of the strongest parts is about how even the most convinced opponents of the system are crushed. About how you "can't win".
But what makes you think other people don't know this, just because they refer to the cameras? This is a geek web site, not a book review...
Sometimes you are just not supposed to be objective.
Why not?
Some topics do not invite that form of discussion. Is the Earth flat? I don't think anybody expects you to present the supporting opinion in equal length. Did holocaust happen? Again, not really a question in need of giving equal space to both sides. So why 'Is Microsoft crooked and do they intentionally cripple their product to harm consumer and competition?' needs any more discussion...
Disclaimer: I don't want to choose sides here. But apart from being subject to Godwin's law, your argument doesn't hold for 100%. Assuming that 'earth flatness' and 'holocaust realness' are in a set of undisputable facts (most people agree here. anyway: not the topic now), it is imho a subjective act to put the Microsoft stuff there as well. To the NRA the right to bear arms may appear as obvious as the danger of doing so may appear to others.
Thanks for the link! From the video it appears that then put together different machinery they were already producing. This gives the machine a more or less homebrew touch. I also wonder how reliable it is. Considering the number of paper jams in average copiers, I fear the worst. Not something I would leave unattended all day. But a cool machine nevertheless!
You are making fun of the GP without actually addressing his point, which imho is a good one. In case you just want to perform ONE task, are there players that exploit the presence of the two cores? I don't care of another cpu runs another job, I want them to cooperate. The algorithms need to be parallellised and will not just use two CPUs/cores just because they are there.
If he hung his wet laundry on that chandelier's hot bulbs, he could save $25 a month.
In fact, having salts dissolved in the water increases the conductivity and hence speeds up the process
These salts will also be electrolysed, leading to e.g. chlorine gaz. Maybe not something you want.
What I want to know is, when will the ice in the antarctic melt? Real estate is just too expensive, we could use another continent, especially once we flood the ones we've already got. d^_^b
Especially because the sea level will only (ok, maybe 'mainly') rise due to the melting of ice on land...
Lets get some higher resolution in these things and start doing some augmented reality!
Why do you need a higher resolution for that? There was a time when computers worked with 320x200 resolution and people seemed to do well. How much info do you really need to be there? How well will you be able to focus on both the digital info and the reality in front of you? It's not because 1600x1200 is now the lower limit for graphics cards that _every_ application suddenly needs them.
Amen, dude! Besides, those nasa guys weren't even smart enough to take the pictures during daytime. The sun is all dark and grey.
Nullity?
2.4 bits/sec/Hz is nothing new
Indeed, to digital communications people this is nothing special. Moreover: it is rather meaningless to say how many bits/s/Hz you get without any mention of distance, power or SNR (signal to noise ratio). I don't think the achievement has anything to do with clever modulation techniques, just with the large bandwidth emerging from just one transmitter. Just like a 1000 ton car consuming 1000 liters of fuel per km is no great technological achievement (in terms of theoretical efficiency), but a 1000 car would be the biggest ever made and not easy to construct.
I pop it open (which is really easy to do one-handed once you get used to it)
One-handed manipulation of electronic devices shouldn't pose much of a problem to the majority of the /. readers...
Bear in mind that Microsoft != Bill Gates. He can do whatever he wants with his own money, but not with Microsofts. They have shareholders and stuff, you know?
To convert sound into a digital format, you must sample it. No matter how small your sample, there are gaps between them. The gaps are lost when you digitize the music.
This is not entirely true. The Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem states that a band-limited signal can be reconstructed perfectly if you sample it at minimally twice the bandwidth. The intuitive understanding is that because of the limited frequency content, the signal cannot make very fast jumps in between the sampling points and is not just 'free to do as it wants', and can be reconstructed.
CD sampling is at 44100 Hz, meaning that signals upto 22500Hz can be perfectly reconstructed. In practice this is a bit lower due to non-ideal filters etc. A normal person's hearing goes only to say 16kHz, maybe 20kHz. When making a CD, everything above (which is not much to start from, and is inaudible anyway) is filtered away, and this filtered signal (limited to 20kHz) is than sampled and later on reconstructed.
In case the sampling resolution (16 bits for a CD) is lower than the noise on the signal, again this will not be perceptible.
In other words: it is possible to make a digital recording which is _completely_ indicernible from the original, at least to the human ear. This is not the case for perceptual coding such as mp3, even though it should be.
Willingly is way off. He had a monopoly position in operating systems that made it literally impossible to buy computer equipment without giving Microsoft money. Maybe I wanted to spend my money on a different, worthwhile cause?
If I understand well you complain about the charitable cause a businessman donated his private money to??? What you got for your money was Windows or whatever product you bought. That's where the deal ends. Besides, he never forced you to buy his products.
If you want to give (the rest of) your money to other charitable causes, go ahead, but don't come whining here.