Ovonix???
Props to Mark Minasi, author. "The complete PC upgrade & maintenance guide" identified Ovonix at least five years ago as an important development to watch out for in storage technology.
I think that deserves a plug.
If you've ever tried to multitrack using Audacity and ended up with mush, you'll know why this is great news. It will sound in sync while you're recording to the first track, but upon playback the 30 ms (or longer) delay wreaks havoc.
Planet CCRMA http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ a Fedora Core distro that uses the realtime preemption patch by Ingo Molnar to achieve low-latency. DeMuDi is Debian customized for audio production by the Agnula project http://demudi.agnula.org/ and uses JACK. I'm curious to see what this development will have on these and like-minded audio production Linux distros.
No. No it does not highlight a positive. While what you say may be accurate except for the word "highlight", what this will actually highlight is a negative perception of an OS project.
The bad press in this one is not of the there-is-no-bad-press kind. It has the potential of having the effect on ReiserFS that Jonestown did on Flavor-Aid or OJ's effect on Isotoner gloves. People won't be interested in the robustness of a project to survive its namesake's (possible) conviction on a murder charge -- they'll be interested in the murder charge.
Sex and violence -vs- advantages of project administration.
Please folks -- if your name is so strongly associated with a key part of an OS project, please don't *appear to have quite possibly* killed your wife, or anyone else, and hid the body. K?
What plane can hang on its prop? I've never seen it.
But I HAVE seen the old airshow trick with planes that can't manage it -- the plane flies straight up, decelerating as it goes, it hangs for an instant, then stalls, it falls backwards and the nose drops, once it has speed enough for the wings to produce lift it pulls out of the dive. Makes your gut hang just watching it.
Incidentally, at the moment it hangs the engine noise is considerably louder than it is otherwise.
It's ear-training software, it's OSS, it works when you don't have someone else to train with. Ear-training is the musical equivalent of kung-fu training, regardless of instrument. Sing the intervals while you play them; it's not so important that you know it's a fifth or a fourth or a b-flat etc as that you can sing the note/interval/line AND play it. And if you want to be a music ninja, do the ear-training WHILE you're doing your kung-fu forms.
Here's how it works: your goal is to be able to reproduce the sounds in your head on your instrument, preferably instantaneously. These sounds get into your head in various ways -- via the written page, songs you hear, if you're a composer your imagination. Miles Davis talked about being able to call the pitch of a door squeak.
For instrumental technique and skill, metronome work is key. Beginners often want to work directly on developing speed, which actually delays progress. Develop proper technique first (is it a bad hurt? Technique needs work.) During your metronome sessions start slow, slower than you think you need to. You can always end the session by playing as fast as you can, but always begin slowly and work up incrementally. Listen to the difference between 40 bpm and 140 bpm. One notch per day will get you there; trying to hit your speed limit every practice will not.
Use voice recognition on a phone tree lately? It is improving. Hell the default voice-recognition that comes with XP works accurately enough with a little training. Application commands are part of the package -- why not OS commands?
I can map my own shortcut keys if I desire. Have I simply missed the possibility of how to map a selected vocabulary of voice commands to my OS? Without having to pay for Dragon Naturally Speaking, that is. (I'm cheap, and I have good projection.)
If the crime had been not the destruction of property but violence against one or more persons there'd be little debate on whether or not allowing investigators to view the tapes would be the right call.
If it wasn't a police car on fire but a human victim lying on the sidewalk, would you support Josh's decision not to let investigators view the whole tape?
I wouldn't.
There's nothing wrong with writing your password down and keeping it in your wallet. You keep your credit cards, money, social insurance card, and a lot of other important stuff in your wallet. Why wouldln't your passwords be safe in your wallet. Besides, if you write them in a secret code, then nobody else can read them.
Just don't keep the key to the secret code in an encrypted file guarded by a password written in secret code, or your wallet.
Instead, bury it in a hidden location and make a map. In another secret code.
...especially if you can make it through the following:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
if you can raed tihs psas it on !!
This thoroughly details which claims of the patent have been rejected (page 5) and which claims were found patentable (page 26).
http://www.pubpat.org/672OA060525.pdf
I write this as a FreeBSD user who just about went crazy trying to configure X the first time (ah, the XFree86 menu...) The documentation CAN be improved, as often you won't know precisely what you need to look up to solve your problems.
Not to insult you further with accusations of not following instructions, but did you also try this:
# xorgcfg -textmode
You didn't mention using this line:
# Xorg -config xorg.conf.new
To test your X configuration after you configured X using this line.
# Xorg -configure
After this I find I have to add the whichever of the following lines are missing in 'Section "Screen"' to the xorg.conf.new file:
option above lets you do so interactively instead of manually editing xorg.conf.new.
Anyway all of those examples were in the FreeBSD handbook section on X-11 Configuration (Chapter 5.4). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/x-config.html While the documentation (particularly the indexing) can be much improved, I've found that particularly in terms of initial setup I initially read right over the solutions the first time through.
In my experience, getting FreeBSD up and running has far outweighed the initial investment of a bit of patience required for the learning process.
Filtering has a great UI, but it's horribly weak. It has maybe a third of the headers and options that I normally filter on. You can't OR or NOT filter conditions. The set of filter actions is anemic, even with labels. Want me to go on?
You can create multiple filters to a single label. This gives you the same result an OR filter on multiple terms would.
Wow, that's quite a leap. If an IE7 discussion leads you so quickly to subjects like "the means to living in harmony is the recognition of the unity of humanity", I'd love to hear where you go when talking about things like media player applications. Do file systems suggest to you the ultimate nature of reality? Musings about what contained the universe before the big bang?
If you can't remember if you already bought a book or not, you probably haven't read it, or even started it. Which means you're buying more books than you have the time to read.
There are far more books than can be read in anyone's lifetime; a valuable skill is the ability to select the scope of the material you will spend your precious time reading.
That's not accurate. While yes 005 is a fairly broad, general subject area, so are each digit. The tens are even moreso, and the hundreds even broader.
Each additional decimal place gets more specific. (It's the dewey decimal, remember?) Beyond that one can create custom cutters... just as you have to for LOC.
It's not as if Dewey stops at the ones.
I'm a librarian, and believe me you're making this harder than it needs to be. Barcode scanning is great... if you want to check material in and out. LOC/Dewey organization is great... if you can spend several minutes per book assigning catalog info and creating your own cutters.
You're dealing with a home collection; your main concerns are shelf space and a functional order. This may sound radical, but forget subject headings; it's unnecessary for something this size. Just get them in alphabetical order, either by title or author last name. At most, you can separate them into 2 or three different size categories for easy shelving --oversize, "regular", and etc (unusually thin or loose pamphlet-type material, books w/ CD-R cases or other packages.)
For my home collection, size is the primary sorting category -- it's easier to move around when your stacks are pyramid-shaped. It's amazing how technology can be not only sophisticated, effective, and simple... but that sometimes it doesn't even need electricity. Go figure.
Congress does have a version control system and it is very well-established. It is part of any legislative history to pull all versions of a bill --which shows the chronological development of a bill as a submitted bill is amended in the legislative process.
The main problem is, no one bothers to read even the current version, let alone all prior versions. Laziness aside, there is simply more legislative paperwork put out in a single term of Congress than one person can read. There is on the order of tens of thousands of pages of statutory material published PER YEAR.
Not to forgive our representatives their lack -- this is their job, if they can't handle it they are responsible for organizing a team structure that CAN cover this material. But it'd be different if it were interesting reading, but imagine how closely you'd pay attention to Tax Code Revisions after the first 2000 pages.
Just take some Music Theory Classes and it would make since.
Your opinion has nothing to do with Music Theory. Music Theory != "what I think about why certain music is popular." Confusing, since plenty of "music theories" have been bantied around over bong hits, but that isn't Music Theory w/ a capital MT.
Music Theory deals with the structure of the elements that create music. It is about structure, tones, organization, classification and combination of tone combinations (chords, scales), modulation, compositional techniques such as serial composition or 12 tone composition, that sort of thing.
"What makes music popular" is a marketing topic, not a music theory one.
/. likely attracts more introverts than extroverts, if stereotypes are accurate. Yes, extroverts may want attention and care what other people think... and so do YOU. We all do. Just admit it fer pete's sake. It's part of being human.
Quantity isn't quality. Having more brain activity isn't that handy if it's spent endlessly going through possible scenarios that generally trigger behavior that can be called socially unsuccessful.
Increased brain activity can also come from an introvert's tendency to be mindful of thoughts, thereby amplifying them. An extrovert's focus will be on others, which places mental activity in a secondary role, one where it has specific purposes instead of being glorified for its own sake.
AnandTech claims that most memory errors are due to bad power. So it it isn't critical, get a decent power supply and you can skip the ECC.
The driving theory behind ECC memory is that it corrects errors that occur in memory. Perhaps a transistor is faulty and flipped for the wrong reason, or a faint electrical signal pulled a transistor into the incorrect position. While researching this review and others, we have noticed the largest factor for incorrect memory blocks is faulty power supplies.
Technologies with certain characteristics --such as being easily sent over a network-- lend themselves better to distribution.
Paper and ink are so much a part of our culture they are not popularly seen as the technology that they are and their technical advantages --their inexpensice durability-- are thus missed. Aiming for a digital replacement of books is barking up the wrong tree.
When is the electronic book going to be as useable as the old-fashioned kind? How do technologies need to change to bring e-books out of the geeky, early adopter ghetto and into digital bookstalls everywhere?
Answer: as soon as an electronic book will last several centuries in some clay jars in a cave and still be functional.
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Ovonix??? Props to Mark Minasi, author. "The complete PC upgrade & maintenance guide" identified Ovonix at least five years ago as an important development to watch out for in storage technology. I think that deserves a plug.
If you've ever tried to multitrack using Audacity and ended up with mush, you'll know why this is great news. It will sound in sync while you're recording to the first track, but upon playback the 30 ms (or longer) delay wreaks havoc.
Planet CCRMA http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ a Fedora Core distro that uses the realtime preemption patch by Ingo Molnar to achieve low-latency. DeMuDi is Debian customized for audio production by the Agnula project http://demudi.agnula.org/ and uses JACK. I'm curious to see what this development will have on these and like-minded audio production Linux distros.
Doesn't this highlight another positive for OS?
No. No it does not highlight a positive. While what you say may be accurate except for the word "highlight", what this will actually highlight is a negative perception of an OS project.
The bad press in this one is not of the there-is-no-bad-press kind. It has the potential of having the effect on ReiserFS that Jonestown did on Flavor-Aid or OJ's effect on Isotoner gloves. People won't be interested in the robustness of a project to survive its namesake's (possible) conviction on a murder charge -- they'll be interested in the murder charge.
Sex and violence -vs- advantages of project administration.
Please folks -- if your name is so strongly associated with a key part of an OS project, please don't *appear to have quite possibly* killed your wife, or anyone else, and hid the body. K?
What plane can hang on its prop? I've never seen it. But I HAVE seen the old airshow trick with planes that can't manage it -- the plane flies straight up, decelerating as it goes, it hangs for an instant, then stalls, it falls backwards and the nose drops, once it has speed enough for the wings to produce lift it pulls out of the dive. Makes your gut hang just watching it. Incidentally, at the moment it hangs the engine noise is considerably louder than it is otherwise.
And let's not even consider the economics of an interstellar freighter shipping ore; no ore is that valuable or rare.
That's so true. Everybody knows that interstellar freighters stick to much more valuable things than ore. I mean, come ON.
ACscommentingonadulthingssareasswipes says what?
http://www.solfege.org/
It's ear-training software, it's OSS, it works when you don't have someone else to train with. Ear-training is the musical equivalent of kung-fu training, regardless of instrument. Sing the intervals while you play them; it's not so important that you know it's a fifth or a fourth or a b-flat etc as that you can sing the note/interval/line AND play it. And if you want to be a music ninja, do the ear-training WHILE you're doing your kung-fu forms.
Here's how it works: your goal is to be able to reproduce the sounds in your head on your instrument, preferably instantaneously. These sounds get into your head in various ways -- via the written page, songs you hear, if you're a composer your imagination. Miles Davis talked about being able to call the pitch of a door squeak.
For instrumental technique and skill, metronome work is key. Beginners often want to work directly on developing speed, which actually delays progress. Develop proper technique first (is it a bad hurt? Technique needs work.) During your metronome sessions start slow, slower than you think you need to. You can always end the session by playing as fast as you can, but always begin slowly and work up incrementally. Listen to the difference between 40 bpm and 140 bpm. One notch per day will get you there; trying to hit your speed limit every practice will not.
Use voice recognition on a phone tree lately? It is improving. Hell the default voice-recognition that comes with XP works accurately enough with a little training. Application commands are part of the package -- why not OS commands?
I can map my own shortcut keys if I desire. Have I simply missed the possibility of how to map a selected vocabulary of voice commands to my OS? Without having to pay for Dragon Naturally Speaking, that is. (I'm cheap, and I have good projection.)
If the crime had been not the destruction of property but violence against one or more persons there'd be little debate on whether or not allowing investigators to view the tapes would be the right call. If it wasn't a police car on fire but a human victim lying on the sidewalk, would you support Josh's decision not to let investigators view the whole tape? I wouldn't.
There's nothing wrong with writing your password down and keeping it in your wallet. You keep your credit cards, money, social insurance card, and a lot of other important stuff in your wallet. Why wouldln't your passwords be safe in your wallet. Besides, if you write them in a secret code, then nobody else can read them.
Just don't keep the key to the secret code in an encrypted file guarded by a password written in secret code, or your wallet. Instead, bury it in a hidden location and make a map. In another secret code.
...especially if you can make it through the following: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!
This thoroughly details which claims of the patent have been rejected (page 5) and which claims were found patentable (page 26). http://www.pubpat.org/672OA060525.pdf
Filtering has a great UI, but it's horribly weak. It has maybe a third of the headers and options that I normally filter on. You can't OR or NOT filter conditions. The set of filter actions is anemic, even with labels. Want me to go on?
You can create multiple filters to a single label. This gives you the same result an OR filter on multiple terms would.
Wow, that's quite a leap. If an IE7 discussion leads you so quickly to subjects like "the means to living in harmony is the recognition of the unity of humanity", I'd love to hear where you go when talking about things like media player applications. Do file systems suggest to you the ultimate nature of reality? Musings about what contained the universe before the big bang?
If you can't remember if you already bought a book or not, you probably haven't read it, or even started it. Which means you're buying more books than you have the time to read. There are far more books than can be read in anyone's lifetime; a valuable skill is the ability to select the scope of the material you will spend your precious time reading.
That's not accurate. While yes 005 is a fairly broad, general subject area, so are each digit. The tens are even moreso, and the hundreds even broader. Each additional decimal place gets more specific. (It's the dewey decimal, remember?) Beyond that one can create custom cutters... just as you have to for LOC. It's not as if Dewey stops at the ones.
I'm a librarian, and believe me you're making this harder than it needs to be. Barcode scanning is great... if you want to check material in and out. LOC/Dewey organization is great... if you can spend several minutes per book assigning catalog info and creating your own cutters. You're dealing with a home collection; your main concerns are shelf space and a functional order. This may sound radical, but forget subject headings; it's unnecessary for something this size. Just get them in alphabetical order, either by title or author last name. At most, you can separate them into 2 or three different size categories for easy shelving --oversize, "regular", and etc (unusually thin or loose pamphlet-type material, books w/ CD-R cases or other packages.) For my home collection, size is the primary sorting category -- it's easier to move around when your stacks are pyramid-shaped. It's amazing how technology can be not only sophisticated, effective, and simple... but that sometimes it doesn't even need electricity. Go figure.
Congress does have a version control system and it is very well-established. It is part of any legislative history to pull all versions of a bill --which shows the chronological development of a bill as a submitted bill is amended in the legislative process. The main problem is, no one bothers to read even the current version, let alone all prior versions. Laziness aside, there is simply more legislative paperwork put out in a single term of Congress than one person can read. There is on the order of tens of thousands of pages of statutory material published PER YEAR. Not to forgive our representatives their lack -- this is their job, if they can't handle it they are responsible for organizing a team structure that CAN cover this material. But it'd be different if it were interesting reading, but imagine how closely you'd pay attention to Tax Code Revisions after the first 2000 pages.
Just take some Music Theory Classes and it would make since.
Your opinion has nothing to do with Music Theory. Music Theory != "what I think about why certain music is popular." Confusing, since plenty of "music theories" have been bantied around over bong hits, but that isn't Music Theory w/ a capital MT. Music Theory deals with the structure of the elements that create music. It is about structure, tones, organization, classification and combination of tone combinations (chords, scales), modulation, compositional techniques such as serial composition or 12 tone composition, that sort of thing. "What makes music popular" is a marketing topic, not a music theory one.
This workaround makes one unable to view thumbnails when you're uploading images.
To nitpick: if you're referring to the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, it was around 90 seconds long.
/. likely attracts more introverts than extroverts, if stereotypes are accurate. Yes, extroverts may want attention and care what other people think... and so do YOU. We all do. Just admit it fer pete's sake. It's part of being human. Quantity isn't quality. Having more brain activity isn't that handy if it's spent endlessly going through possible scenarios that generally trigger behavior that can be called socially unsuccessful. Increased brain activity can also come from an introvert's tendency to be mindful of thoughts, thereby amplifying them. An extrovert's focus will be on others, which places mental activity in a secondary role, one where it has specific purposes instead of being glorified for its own sake.
AnandTech claims that most memory errors are due to bad power. So it it isn't critical, get a decent power supply and you can skip the ECC.
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The driving theory behind ECC memory is that it corrects errors that occur in memory. Perhaps a transistor is faulty and flipped for the wrong reason, or a faint electrical signal pulled a transistor into the incorrect position. While researching this review and others, we have noticed the largest factor for incorrect memory blocks is faulty power supplies.
http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx
Technologies with certain characteristics --such as being easily sent over a network-- lend themselves better to distribution.
Paper and ink are so much a part of our culture they are not popularly seen as the technology that they are and their technical advantages --their inexpensice durability-- are thus missed. Aiming for a digital replacement of books is barking up the wrong tree.
When is the electronic book going to be as useable as the old-fashioned kind? How do technologies need to change to bring e-books out of the geeky, early adopter ghetto and into digital bookstalls everywhere?
Answer: as soon as an electronic book will last several centuries in some clay jars in a cave and still be functional.