The DB server can keep up now, and the protocol is stable. The radio even works fairly well, but during peak hours it sometimes has trouble connecting (I've only ever used it at my Grandmother's house, and her cable net connection is kind of shitty so it may have been that).
A year ago last.fm/as weren't really usable. Now they are fairly solid. It's worth another shot.
My friend Mike has a tablet laptop, and that is better than a pen and paper. You get all of the power of the notepad, but without the mess of the paper, easier erasing ability, multiple colors, and easy storage. Tablet Laptops are a good idea for college.
You can pry my paper notebooks out of my hands... once there is GNU/Linux support for the hardware used in them, and working rotate support in RandR on a non-nvidia board...
Bullshit, if you're looking at performance. I think it's a valid comparison since an iPod looks better than a Karma or Neuros, but the Karma or Neuros performs better just like a Camaro will destroy a 911 in a street race.
Huh? I have an old MacWorld lying around somewhere (back from when I had a 7100/66; I saved a few issues like the one from which I first heard of UNIX) that says Red Box = Carbon, Blue Box = Classic Mac OS, and Yellow Box = OpenSTEP. Hell, I remember in old version of Mac OS Server you had to manually switch between Red and Blue box mode to show native OS X apps vs. Classic apps (I got to futz around with a G3 tower running in, back when OS X still had the Platinum interface).
OpenSTEP used to run on Windows. There are patches floating around that make GNUStep run on Windows so it's easier to target OpenSTEP and then get your app to run on any UNIX, OS X, and Windows... If anything, I imagine that Apple would release a new version of OpenSTEP to run on top of Windows (doubt it).
Yech, a few counties around here (Maryland, US) are trying to get speeding cameras installed, but the governor has so far vetoed them. I don't like him, but now I hate him a little less.
The planned ones in my area would all be in definite revenue generating areas (places with no shoulders that go straight and everyone does at least 20 mph over the limit all the time).
Lazy cops getting even lazier. They won't make anything safer, they'll just end up costing me a ton of money. My plan is to burn them if they get approved.
I have had a picnic with timothy before. Yes, a picnic. At the Pink House. The Pink House is gone now:-(. Timothy gave me his speaker stands in exchange for a voodoo3. That was the best trade ever, until my brother broke the polycarbonate rings. Bastard. Timothy gave me a Socket 7 board and a 500Mhz k6-2 that he didn't need; I used it for years. Timothy is awesome.
I met jeff covey and daniel from freshmeat too. And I even met roblimo at a LUG meeting (slashdot ended up interviewing me when I was a loser 15 year old and the answers SUCKED because I was überlame). Roblimo moved from ten minutes from where I live to Florida.
I am cool. NOTE: above post was written under the influence of various chemical agents so the grammar is probably terrible.
The Neuros Firmware has had its source released and contains a copy of Tremor ported to run on the c54x, if the the Nokia 770 uses the ARM9/c54x combined core I'm sure it could be ported to the 770. The hard part (getting it to run at an acceptable speed on the c54x) has already been done at least.
Sean Starkey is also in the middle of getting libflac to compile with the TI Compiler right now. In theory it should be able to decode without needing any serious optimisations.
I code a lot of Lisp, so I remapped my 9 and 0 keys to produce (/) unshifted, and 9/0 shifted. If you do a lot of C, it's worthwhile to set [ and ] to produce {/} unshifted and [/] shifted. If you use a readable_code_style in C, then setting - to produce _ unshifted is a HUGE help for your pinky fingers. When I was being a PHP whore for money, I set 4 to produce $ unshifted too.
xkb is a wonderful thing (xkeycaps makes it übereasy to set up the remapping too).
Yeah, I have a 91 Camaro. I think I can live with having a power steering pump and fuel injection:-)
The ECM actually died in my computer four months ago and I didn't notice at all except that the radiator fan didn't come on. I figured the was dead so I got one from the junkyard and swapped that in and it was still dead. Took it to the shop...dead ECM. Now that I have a working ECM it can adapt the throttle settings (so I get 240 a tank instead of 220), but it's nice to know that I have a car that doesn't need the computer to run...
So? Even if context switches are faster you still have the issue of sync I/O in L4 being zero-copy while Mach I/O copies the data at least three times.
There are other reasons for Mach being slow. It was one of the first stabs at making a microkernel and it is great for that reason alone. The modern world, however, has moved onto the second generation with L4.
Mach is painfully slow. It's an old microkernel and it uses async IPC (to allow for passing messages over the network). This is slow because you have to do a ton of context switches and copy the message between address spaces.
L4, on the other hand, uses sync IPC. It has a bunch of neat optimizations, but the main reason why it's faster than Mach is that it doesn't have to copy messages. You send an IPC and it goes into the part of your VM space that L4 sets aside for IPC and then L4 does a quick context switch to the target task, it processes the IPC, and then you get your data back. (Simplifyed a ton).
IIRC, all that would be needed for WebCore to work on GNUStep is Objective-C++ support for GCC. Which isn't there because... the GCC developers didn't like the way the Apple patches worked.
I have one complaint about GNUStep: it sucks when you are using focus-follows-mouse mode because the menu and dialogs for each window disappear as soon as you mouse out of the window (this is with windowmaker). Other than that, it rocks. It's amazing how far GNUStep has come in the last few years.
The digital->analog degradation is completely different than the degradation that happens with a lossy codec. With FM you lose the top 3kHz of the signal (which a lot of people have trouble hearing anyway...if you can hear an 18kHz test tone then you haven't gone to enough concerts in your life;-) ) but otherwise the signal is unchanged.
With a lossy codec certain frequencies are removed entirely. It's a lot easier to notice this since things are literally just not there whereas with the FM signal it's all there (except for the top 3kHz) it's just a little fuzzy.
The quality difference between a cd and a clean FM signal are small for most music (Queensrÿche is noticeable affected as the singer disappears entirely from their songs when broadcast over FM radio).
Yeah, but your puny little engine will be pushing itself to the max when cruising at 70-80MPH whereas a decent V6 with a 0.50 final gear ratio will be in the 30-40MPG spot for the engine (depending on the HP@RPM and blah blah).
Hell, the next set of Chevy smallblock V8s will have this neat thing where they'll be able to cut off fuel to half of the cylinders when you don't need the power and then the throttle will be able to open wider and the engine will have to work less to maintain speed (keep in mind that cruising down the highway at 70MPH with the AC and stereo on only requires around 40-50HP to keep you moving). Then you'll see 6L V8s with 40MPG on the highway...(you can already get 35MPG from the 5.7L LS1 if you have a T56 and keep the car in 6th gear [0.50] and stay around 70MPH).
A Hybrid wouldn't help you since they get terrible highway gas mileage. What you want is a good V6 car with a six speed transmission and a low final gear ratio (0.50 is good). Then you can cruise at 70MPH at around 1500-2000 RPM and get 40MPG or so and still have decent power.
There's nothing wrong with the Qualcomm chipset, it's just that Nokia has their own CDMA chipset and thus won't carry Nokia phones. That may change as people want more smart phones.
I can read more characters in a minute than I can say. If I need to imply tone, I can spend two or three characters on an emoticon [eww, I haven't seen anyone use that word in years...and I just used it; shoot me now] to imply tone. For me, the more SMS I use, the cheaper it gets (I have $10 unlimited SMS on my plan) so it doesn't bother me at all to send or receive a lot.
SMS is really useful in a ton of situations. If I'm out with friends, I don't want to be rude and make a phone call if I need to ask someone a question. If I need to leave a short message for someone, I can just SMS it to them and they don't have to go through the hassle of checking their voice mail (or talking to me and then having to write it down to remember it). If I'm in a loud environment (the number of good concerts in the DC area is huge this summer, so that's once or twice a week now) like a concert where I can't talk, SMS is infinitely more useful than trying to call someone. If I'm on the phone with someone else, I can still tap off a quick SMS to someone without interuptting the call (I usually use a headset because it's easier than holding the phone to my ear).
When making a voice call, you also have to factor in the time it takes for the phone to ring, to make sure you have the right person, to say hello, engage in the invetable smalltalk, and then say goodbye. Just dealing with the boilerplate of a voice conversation can take over a minute by itself, especially if the person you're calling is a girl.
I'm not a big fan of Verizon. Sure, it's $5 a month for unlimited SMS/MMS to other Verizon customers, but now I have people who sms me back when I sms them telling me never to sms them again because they dropped their sms plan and switched the IN SMS plan because most of their friends are on Verizon. Oh well, I'm not going to switch to Verizon and pay 4x as much and be stuck not being able to use my Series60 phone anymore.
They also refuse to enable an MMS gateway between their network and Cingular/T-Mobile. So I can send MMS to anyone I know on Cingular or T-Mobile, but no one on Verizon. And they can't send to me either. It's stupid! They only stand to make money from charging people for MMS by letting everyone interoperate, but they're Hell bent on keeping everyone inside of their network.
Sprint is an ok provider. Their usage of CDMA instead of GSM gives you similar issues with phones that Verizon has, but they're at least willing to carry phones that don't use the Qualcomm chipset (read: Nokia phones so soonish you'll be able to get the CDMA version of the 6630). Their data rates are great, but their voice rates suck. And the coverage. They're like the T-Mobile USA of CDMA.
Are you on an old CellularONE local plan? That's the only way that would make sense since they unified their national rate plans to have the same rates for data/sms/mms everywhere (easier to do advertising).
Bullshit. I pay $10 a month for unlimited SMS. And I live in the US.
You can get 1000 for $7 from T-Mobile, $9 from Cingular. Verizon charges something like $20 a month for that (disclaimer: it's been a year since I had Verizon so they may have changed the prices now). You really only get screwed on SMS/data if you use Verizon.
And overage is usually $.05 per message ($.10 for Cingular, but incoming is free...so it balances out). That's way less than the $.40 per minute I pay for voice overage. For the same price, I could send eight text messages. You can say a lot in 1280 characters.
Slashdot Mirror
The DB server can keep up now, and the protocol is stable. The radio even works fairly well, but during peak hours it sometimes has trouble connecting (I've only ever used it at my Grandmother's house, and her cable net connection is kind of shitty so it may have been that).
A year ago last.fm/as weren't really usable. Now they are fairly solid. It's worth another shot.
It would help if your web comic didn't suck.
My friend Mike has a tablet laptop, and that is better than a pen and paper. You get all of the power of the notepad, but without the mess of the paper, easier erasing ability, multiple colors, and easy storage. Tablet Laptops are a good idea for college.
You can pry my paper notebooks out of my hands ... once there is GNU/Linux support for the hardware used in them, and working rotate support in RandR on a non-nvidia board...
Bullshit, if you're looking at performance. I think it's a valid comparison since an iPod looks better than a Karma or Neuros, but the Karma or Neuros performs better just like a Camaro will destroy a 911 in a street race.
I think a better comparison would be someone who is in love with his Porsche 911 after driving a Z28 Camaro.
The Camaro does everything the 911 does for a quarter of the price.
Huh? I have an old MacWorld lying around somewhere (back from when I had a 7100/66; I saved a few issues like the one from which I first heard of UNIX) that says Red Box = Carbon, Blue Box = Classic Mac OS, and Yellow Box = OpenSTEP. Hell, I remember in old version of Mac OS Server you had to manually switch between Red and Blue box mode to show native OS X apps vs. Classic apps (I got to futz around with a G3 tower running in, back when OS X still had the Platinum interface).
OpenSTEP used to run on Windows. There are patches floating around that make GNUStep run on Windows so it's easier to target OpenSTEP and then get your app to run on any UNIX, OS X, and Windows... If anything, I imagine that Apple would release a new version of OpenSTEP to run on top of Windows (doubt it).
Yech, a few counties around here (Maryland, US) are trying to get speeding cameras installed, but the governor has so far vetoed them. I don't like him, but now I hate him a little less.
The planned ones in my area would all be in definite revenue generating areas (places with no shoulders that go straight and everyone does at least 20 mph over the limit all the time).
Lazy cops getting even lazier. They won't make anything safer, they'll just end up costing me a ton of money. My plan is to burn them if they get approved.
I have had a picnic with timothy before. Yes, a picnic. At the Pink House. The Pink House is gone now :-(. Timothy gave me his speaker stands in exchange for a voodoo3. That was the best trade ever, until my brother broke the polycarbonate rings. Bastard. Timothy gave me a Socket 7 board and a 500Mhz k6-2 that he didn't need; I used it for years. Timothy is awesome.
I met jeff covey and daniel from freshmeat too. And I even met roblimo at a LUG meeting (slashdot ended up interviewing me when I was a loser 15 year old and the answers SUCKED because I was überlame). Roblimo moved from ten minutes from where I live to Florida.
I am cool. NOTE: above post was written under the influence of various chemical agents so the grammar is probably terrible.
The Neuros Firmware has had its source released and contains a copy of Tremor ported to run on the c54x, if the the Nokia 770 uses the ARM9/c54x combined core I'm sure it could be ported to the 770. The hard part (getting it to run at an acceptable speed on the c54x) has already been done at least.
Sean Starkey is also in the middle of getting libflac to compile with the TI Compiler right now. In theory it should be able to decode without needing any serious optimisations.
Yeah, my left windows key is set to Meta, and the right one is set to multi (so I can be cool and type áccënted çháräctêrß with ease).
I code a lot of Lisp, so I remapped my 9 and 0 keys to produce (/) unshifted, and 9/0 shifted. If you do a lot of C, it's worthwhile to set [ and ] to produce {/} unshifted and [/] shifted. If you use a readable_code_style in C, then setting - to produce _ unshifted is a HUGE help for your pinky fingers. When I was being a PHP whore for money, I set 4 to produce $ unshifted too.
xkb is a wonderful thing (xkeycaps makes it übereasy to set up the remapping too).
K5 is not a blog.
Yeah, I have a 91 Camaro. I think I can live with having a power steering pump and fuel injection :-)
The ECM actually died in my computer four months ago and I didn't notice at all except that the radiator fan didn't come on. I figured the was dead so I got one from the junkyard and swapped that in and it was still dead. Took it to the shop...dead ECM. Now that I have a working ECM it can adapt the throttle settings (so I get 240 a tank instead of 220), but it's nice to know that I have a car that doesn't need the computer to run...
So? Even if context switches are faster you still have the issue of sync I/O in L4 being zero-copy while Mach I/O copies the data at least three times.
There are other reasons for Mach being slow. It was one of the first stabs at making a microkernel and it is great for that reason alone. The modern world, however, has moved onto the second generation with L4.
Mach is painfully slow. It's an old microkernel and it uses async IPC (to allow for passing messages over the network). This is slow because you have to do a ton of context switches and copy the message between address spaces.
L4, on the other hand, uses sync IPC. It has a bunch of neat optimizations, but the main reason why it's faster than Mach is that it doesn't have to copy messages. You send an IPC and it goes into the part of your VM space that L4 sets aside for IPC and then L4 does a quick context switch to the target task, it processes the IPC, and then you get your data back. (Simplifyed a ton).
So, microkernels rock. Mach sucks.
IIRC, all that would be needed for WebCore to work on GNUStep is Objective-C++ support for GCC. Which isn't there because ... the GCC developers didn't like the way the Apple patches worked.
I have one complaint about GNUStep: it sucks when you are using focus-follows-mouse mode because the menu and dialogs for each window disappear as soon as you mouse out of the window (this is with windowmaker). Other than that, it rocks. It's amazing how far GNUStep has come in the last few years.
The digital->analog degradation is completely different than the degradation that happens with a lossy codec. With FM you lose the top 3kHz of the signal (which a lot of people have trouble hearing anyway...if you can hear an 18kHz test tone then you haven't gone to enough concerts in your life ;-) ) but otherwise the signal is unchanged.
With a lossy codec certain frequencies are removed entirely. It's a lot easier to notice this since things are literally just not there whereas with the FM signal it's all there (except for the top 3kHz) it's just a little fuzzy.
The quality difference between a cd and a clean FM signal are small for most music (Queensrÿche is noticeable affected as the singer disappears entirely from their songs when broadcast over FM radio).
Analog Loss != Lossy Codec Loss
Yeah, but your puny little engine will be pushing itself to the max when cruising at 70-80MPH whereas a decent V6 with a 0.50 final gear ratio will be in the 30-40MPG spot for the engine (depending on the HP@RPM and blah blah).
Hell, the next set of Chevy smallblock V8s will have this neat thing where they'll be able to cut off fuel to half of the cylinders when you don't need the power and then the throttle will be able to open wider and the engine will have to work less to maintain speed (keep in mind that cruising down the highway at 70MPH with the AC and stereo on only requires around 40-50HP to keep you moving). Then you'll see 6L V8s with 40MPG on the highway...(you can already get 35MPG from the 5.7L LS1 if you have a T56 and keep the car in 6th gear [0.50] and stay around 70MPH).
A Hybrid wouldn't help you since they get terrible highway gas mileage. What you want is a good V6 car with a six speed transmission and a low final gear ratio (0.50 is good). Then you can cruise at 70MPH at around 1500-2000 RPM and get 40MPG or so and still have decent power.
There's nothing wrong with the Qualcomm chipset, it's just that Nokia has their own CDMA chipset and thus won't carry Nokia phones. That may change as people want more smart phones.
I can read more characters in a minute than I can say. If I need to imply tone, I can spend two or three characters on an emoticon [eww, I haven't seen anyone use that word in years...and I just used it; shoot me now] to imply tone. For me, the more SMS I use, the cheaper it gets (I have $10 unlimited SMS on my plan) so it doesn't bother me at all to send or receive a lot.
SMS is really useful in a ton of situations. If I'm out with friends, I don't want to be rude and make a phone call if I need to ask someone a question. If I need to leave a short message for someone, I can just SMS it to them and they don't have to go through the hassle of checking their voice mail (or talking to me and then having to write it down to remember it). If I'm in a loud environment (the number of good concerts in the DC area is huge this summer, so that's once or twice a week now) like a concert where I can't talk, SMS is infinitely more useful than trying to call someone. If I'm on the phone with someone else, I can still tap off a quick SMS to someone without interuptting the call (I usually use a headset because it's easier than holding the phone to my ear).
When making a voice call, you also have to factor in the time it takes for the phone to ring, to make sure you have the right person, to say hello, engage in the invetable smalltalk, and then say goodbye. Just dealing with the boilerplate of a voice conversation can take over a minute by itself, especially if the person you're calling is a girl.
I'm not a big fan of Verizon. Sure, it's $5 a month for unlimited SMS/MMS to other Verizon customers, but now I have people who sms me back when I sms them telling me never to sms them again because they dropped their sms plan and switched the IN SMS plan because most of their friends are on Verizon. Oh well, I'm not going to switch to Verizon and pay 4x as much and be stuck not being able to use my Series60 phone anymore.
They also refuse to enable an MMS gateway between their network and Cingular/T-Mobile. So I can send MMS to anyone I know on Cingular or T-Mobile, but no one on Verizon. And they can't send to me either. It's stupid! They only stand to make money from charging people for MMS by letting everyone interoperate, but they're Hell bent on keeping everyone inside of their network.
Sprint is an ok provider. Their usage of CDMA instead of GSM gives you similar issues with phones that Verizon has, but they're at least willing to carry phones that don't use the Qualcomm chipset (read: Nokia phones so soonish you'll be able to get the CDMA version of the 6630). Their data rates are great, but their voice rates suck. And the coverage. They're like the T-Mobile USA of CDMA.
Wireless in the US sucks. That's the problem.
Ah, they changed it since I last checked (in January they still had free incoming / $.10 outgoing on all plans after the AT&T merger). Evil.
Are you on an old CellularONE local plan? That's the only way that would make sense since they unified their national rate plans to have the same rates for data/sms/mms everywhere (easier to do advertising).
Bullshit. I pay $10 a month for unlimited SMS. And I live in the US.
You can get 1000 for $7 from T-Mobile, $9 from Cingular. Verizon charges something like $20 a month for that (disclaimer: it's been a year since I had Verizon so they may have changed the prices now). You really only get screwed on SMS/data if you use Verizon.
And overage is usually $.05 per message ($.10 for Cingular, but incoming is free...so it balances out). That's way less than the $.40 per minute I pay for voice overage. For the same price, I could send eight text messages. You can say a lot in 1280 characters.