Take into account that Windows 2000 is NT 5.0 (the first versions said it directly, now they don't acknowledge the NT part), while Windows XP is (NT) 5.1.
In my opinion the analogy is quite good. Yes, you have not (yet) bumped into an application that requires XP, but there are some good things about XP that some developers will eventually want to use.
And anyway, many Windows ME users find programs that require 2000 or XP (e.g. iTunes), even though ME was released between them (if my memory doesn't fail).
Yes, we know that ME is actually a Win9x, but most consumers don't know or care, for them it's simply a "newer version of Windows".
Yup, as I said in my post (sic): "for some genres/ears it is not wuch a big deal"
And I'm not bitching. As I said, Apple's restrictions are OK for me, so I don't really need to worry about this.
And about my mileage... I listen mainly to rock, so sound quality is not so critical. I may notice a difference for classical music. But again, I don't really care, the original AAC files are good enough for me.:-)
Of course if you do that you will get music of lower quality due to the double lossy compression: The defects of the AAC compression of the original DRM'd file (which you don't recover when burning to CD), and the losses introduced by the MP3 or AAC compression you do afterwards.
Of course, this was necessary to get the RIAA & record companies happy, and for some genres/ears it is not wuch a big deal.
Anyway, given Apple's DRM rules the only reason why I would not be happy enough with my DRM'd AAC songs + the CD burned with them is if I wanted to pirate the new, non-DRM'd files. And well, that's a crime, no wonder Apple doesn't allow you to do it without penalty.
Probably the iPod will interact directly with iPhoto and upload the photographs automatically, in a similar way in which songs are downloaded automatically from iTunes to the iPod.
Actually, through iSync, my iPod gets updated information from AddressBook and iCal (the calendar application in OS X).
You can also access the files directly if you activate the FireWire Disk option in the iPod (I actually have a backup of all my important files in my 20 GB iPod), so most certainly you can hack a way to make it interact with other programs, and not only in OS X and Windows (I use it on Linux also).
The trick here is that with Apple's combination of OS, SW and HW, everything happens automatically.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but if you go to the VT Terascale Cluster site, and download the slide presentation, you will find (on slide 13) that "The system will run the Mac OS X operating platform".
I agree with most of eskimo232's opinions. I would probably not mod him "insightful", though; maybe "interesting", but that's a mater of taste.
On the other hand, the parent post was simply expressing his opinion. He thinks that eskimo232's post does not deserve to be modded as "insightful". And he has a right to think differently. He even acknowledged that "[the Mac] looks like a winner so far".
If moderators don't agree with him, that's OK, leave him alone. But modding him as a Troll is unacceptable, and yes, a despicable example of zealotry.
By the way, I finally bought a Mac on Saturday (a new 15" PB), my first Mac in five years. It's sad to see that some of us, Mac users, are in fact Mac zealots.
I know you're trolling, but just in case someone is interested, this is due to a terrible choice of fonts, and can be easily corrected.
Some older versions of LaTeX will by default use hideous bitmapped fonts, and that is what the parent is referring to. If you use LyX, this can be easily corrected by changing the line
\font_encoding "T1"
to
\font_encoding default
in the file lyxrc.
By the way, I use LyX + MiKTeX on Windows, and the PDFs look really gorgeous. On Linux, I use LyX + teTeX, and the results are like Glassner's paper: really good unless you zoom in a lot, then you see some aliasing. So I currently don't need this fix.:-) (Although I don't know if I may need it again when I buy a Powerbook if the new models are ever released.)
That's a very nice, flawlessly formatted article. The PDF was generated by Acrobat Distiller, from a (presumably PS) document created by dvips.
By all means this seems some kind of LaTeX document. Although Andrew Glassner works as a researcher for Microsoft, he is apparently not forced to use MS Word (which would be awful for this purpose).
For once, kudos for Microsoft!
(On the other hand, why do they use Distiller instead of ps2pdf or, even better, make the PDF directly using pdflatex?)
If it works why is there articles in the papers saying that Maine has the lowest SAT scores in hte Northeast?
The project started last year with seventh graders. Those kids are now in eighth grade, so I don't think they have affected (yet) the SAT scores of the state.
>>They want somebody else to build and test the machines, and that somebody to be responsible when they fail.
And there are many companies already building 2 and 4 processor Operton boxes right now. What's your point?
The grandfather of your post said that you could buy 4 top-of-the-line AMD processors for the cost of a G5. (Of course, he meant complete systems, not only the processors).
There are several companies building 2 and 4 processor Opterons, but NOT for costs such that each G5 can be replaced by 4 Opterons.
That's the point of the parent post: you can get extremely cheap AMD boxes (specially if you build them yourself). And you can get multiprocessor AMD machines fully supported and guaranteed by serious companies. But you can't get both on the same package.
The cheap ones are not an option for a serious massive project like Virginia Tech's. The classy ones are (price ways) on the same ball park as the G5 (admittedly cheaper but by no means by a factor of four).
The AC said: they actively develop their own operating systems (one of which is open source)
He was talking about MacOS X and Darwin, which are two separate systems. Of course, MacOS X is based (and virtually contains) Darwin, but you can have a Darwin-only installation. He meant Darwin when he said one OS is open source.
As far as I know RedHat doesn't have a version for PPC. On the other hand, I'm almost sure that Yellow Dog Linux is based on RedHat, and so is Mandrake for PPC. You can also find Debian, Suse, Gentoo and other non RH-like distributions for PPC.
Now, to answer your question, I don't think that the G5 is supported yet by any of the distributions. Just give them some time (Yellow Dog is very diligent when porting to new models, and the rest follow naturally). I may be wrong on this, since IBM plans to use the PPC970 on some of their products and they would probably want to launch them with Linux.
Windows 2000 is not UNIX, very far from it. It's nice that you don't limit your students and faculty to a single platform and use what's best for each particular job.
No, no. He (vergil) ment that all the PCs are at least dual bootable to Linux.
Hummm... I don't see how "not living in the US" has much to do with your opportunities of getting reliable LASIK. It's not like other countries don't have the required technology. And, living in the US, I have concluded that the doctors here are not necessarily the best ones.
As a matter of fact, both the original corrective corneal surgery and LASIK (laser-based) were invented in Colombia (yes, South America) by Drs José Barraquer and Luis Antonio Ruiz, respectively. And, in general, Barraquer's students have a practically spotless success rate for their refractive surgeries.
I got LASIK nearly two years ago, performed by Luis Ruiz and couldn't be happier. Some doctors operate on many patients that travel from the US for their surgeries since the costs are much lower (even counting airline tickets and hotel fares).
There was an interesting story on Slashdot about LASIK some months ago. You can also corroborate everything I'm telling you by doing a quick Google search.
As another poster said, since your myopia is extremely high, maybe it will not be fully corrected by LASIK. But it's possible that it will improve your eyesight enough so that you can use more comfortable lenses or much thinner (and lighter) glasses, thus improving your quality of life.
The problem is that you are using the wrong definition of "standard". Check for example the relevant definitions provided by Merriam-Webter's Dictionary:
3 : something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example : CRITERION
4 : something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality
You are saying that MP3 is "the standard" format because most people use it. You are using definition #3.
But when technical people say that a format or a technology is "a standard" they are using definition #4: a recognized organization such as ISO, IEEE, ITU, etc. determines the required specifications that the involved elements must follow in order to comply with the standard and therefore maintain compatibility. Following this definition, the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats as well as their audio layers (MP3 and AAC) are "standards" since they are carefully defined by experts designated by ISO and ITU. Some companies love "embracing and extending" standards thus braking them.
Note: Techweb does not allow direct links, so you will need to reload the URL to view the page.
Actually, he had the same problems with a Powermac 8500 or 8600 a couple of months back... it actually amuses me, for I rarely use Macs since those machines were shipping and I remember perfectly that even back then Macs were FAR more efficient than what he claims.
I suppose trolls don't have a life...
Re:Quick Review of SoundTrack (as used with FCP 4)
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Well, I was quite impressed by the Quick Tour in Apple's Soundtrack site. But we all know that these demos are actually made by professionals who have a lot of time to explore the software, choose really compelling examples, and make everything look "easy" and almost magical.
So yes, I would actually like to see your "rookie" experiment. I think it will give us a better idea of what we can do with the software without extensive training.
Even if 10.2.7 does not support more than 2 or 4 GB, you can use enjoy the additional speed of the G5 for a month or two while 10.3 and 64 bit optimized software are launched, and THEN buy the rest of the RAM to maximize it.
Anyway you should NOT be buying the obscenely overpriced RAM from Apple. After waiting for so many years, a couple of months are nothingâ¦
the user experience is very good, and with the "1-Click" feature I could easily spend $100 without even noticing
Personally I see this as a bug, not a feature...
Ohhhh... another addict.;-) Fortunately, you can turn off 1-Click purchasing and use a traditional "shopping cart". It's much safer for those who tend to buy by impulse, since it gives them an opportunity to reconsider the purchase.
The bad thing is that 1-Click is the default and some people may not realize that they have an option.
Microsoft seems to twiddle their thumbs when security issues are found. Apple has been pretty good with security issues, even in their beta software like Safari.
His second post says:
However, it's refreshing that Apple doesn't release security updates every week like Microsoft. That shows that their products are generally more secure.
I don't see why you imply that he said:
"It's good that Apple releases more security updates than Microsoft."
Therefore I don't see the "whoosh". The first post says that Apple's security bug fixes are fast. The second one, that they are not needed as frequently as for Windows. Those are two separate but non-exclusive ideas. You may not agree with him, but he doesn't contradict himself.
How is constructing an isoceles right triangle to compute sqrt(2) different from constructing a circle to compute pi?
OK, in layman's terms:
You give me a line segment and call it a "unitary" segment (that is, you define your unit of measure to be the length of the line).
To construct sqrt(2), I can build (using only pencil, ruler and compass) a square with unitary sides and it's diagonal. This is analogous to your isosceles triangle. The length of the diagonal is sqrt(2) units.
To construct pi, I build a circle with unitary diagonal (again using only pencil, ruler and compass). The (length of the) circumference of the circle is pi units.
So, what's the difference? Well, the diagonal is a straight line, the circumference is not. You can construct straight lines which lengths are algebraic numbers, you cannot construct them with transcendental lengths.
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Take into account that Windows 2000 is NT 5.0 (the first versions said it directly, now they don't acknowledge the NT part), while Windows XP is (NT) 5.1.
In my opinion the analogy is quite good. Yes, you have not (yet) bumped into an application that requires XP, but there are some good things about XP that some developers will eventually want to use.
And anyway, many Windows ME users find programs that require 2000 or XP (e.g. iTunes), even though ME was released between them (if my memory doesn't fail).
Yes, we know that ME is actually a Win9x, but most consumers don't know or care, for them it's simply a "newer version of Windows".
And I'm not bitching. As I said, Apple's restrictions are OK for me, so I don't really need to worry about this.
And about my mileage... I listen mainly to rock, so sound quality is not so critical. I may notice a difference for classical music. But again, I don't really care, the original AAC files are good enough for me. :-)
Of course if you do that you will get music of lower quality due to the double lossy compression:
The defects of the AAC compression of the original DRM'd file (which you don't recover when burning to CD), and the losses introduced by the MP3 or AAC compression you do afterwards.
Of course, this was necessary to get the RIAA & record companies happy, and for some genres/ears it is not wuch a big deal.
Anyway, given Apple's DRM rules the only reason why I would not be happy enough with my DRM'd AAC songs + the CD burned with them is if I wanted to pirate the new, non-DRM'd files. And well, that's a crime, no wonder Apple doesn't allow you to do it without penalty.
Probably the iPod will interact directly with iPhoto and upload the photographs automatically, in a similar way in which songs are downloaded automatically from iTunes to the iPod.
Actually, through iSync, my iPod gets updated information from AddressBook and iCal (the calendar application in OS X).
You can also access the files directly if you activate the FireWire Disk option in the iPod (I actually have a backup of all my important files in my 20 GB iPod), so most certainly you can hack a way to make it interact with other programs, and not only in OS X and Windows (I use it on Linux also).
The trick here is that with Apple's combination of OS, SW and HW, everything happens automatically.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but if you go to the VT Terascale Cluster site, and download the slide presentation, you will find (on slide 13) that "The system will run the Mac OS X operating platform".
On the other hand, the parent post was simply expressing his opinion. He thinks that eskimo232's post does not deserve to be modded as "insightful". And he has a right to think differently. He even acknowledged that "[the Mac] looks like a winner so far".
If moderators don't agree with him, that's OK, leave him alone. But modding him as a Troll is unacceptable, and yes, a despicable example of zealotry.
By the way, I finally bought a Mac on Saturday (a new 15" PB), my first Mac in five years. It's sad to see that some of us, Mac users, are in fact Mac zealots.
I know you're trolling, but just in case someone is interested, this is due to a terrible choice of fonts, and can be easily corrected.
:-) (Although I don't know if I may need it again when I buy a Powerbook if the new models are ever released.)
Some older versions of LaTeX will by default use hideous bitmapped fonts, and that is what the parent is referring to. If you use LyX, this can be easily corrected by changing the line
\font_encoding "T1"
to
\font_encoding default
in the file lyxrc.
By the way, I use LyX + MiKTeX on Windows, and the PDFs look really gorgeous. On Linux, I use LyX + teTeX, and the results are like Glassner's paper: really good unless you zoom in a lot, then you see some aliasing. So I currently don't need this fix.
That's a very nice, flawlessly formatted article. The PDF was generated by Acrobat Distiller, from a (presumably PS) document created by dvips.
By all means this seems some kind of LaTeX document. Although Andrew Glassner works as a researcher for Microsoft, he is apparently not forced to use MS Word (which would be awful for this purpose).
For once, kudos for Microsoft!
(On the other hand, why do they use Distiller instead of ps2pdf or, even better, make the PDF directly using pdflatex?)
There are several companies building 2 and 4 processor Opterons, but NOT for costs such that each G5 can be replaced by 4 Opterons.
That's the point of the parent post: you can get extremely cheap AMD boxes (specially if you build them yourself). And you can get multiprocessor AMD machines fully supported and guaranteed by serious companies. But you can't get both on the same package.
The cheap ones are not an option for a serious massive project like Virginia Tech's. The classy ones are (price ways) on the same ball park as the G5 (admittedly cheaper but by no means by a factor of four).
He was talking about MacOS X and Darwin, which are two separate systems. Of course, MacOS X is based (and virtually contains) Darwin, but you can have a Darwin-only installation. He meant Darwin when he said one OS is open source.
Now, to answer your question, I don't think that the G5 is supported yet by any of the distributions. Just give them some time (Yellow Dog is very diligent when porting to new models, and the rest follow naturally). I may be wrong on this, since IBM plans to use the PPC970 on some of their products and they would probably want to launch them with Linux.
Humm, you are right... add these: lead (as in vanguard, or as in the verb) lead (as in the metal)
Hummm... I don't see how "not living in the US" has much to do with your opportunities of getting reliable LASIK. It's not like other countries don't have the required technology. And, living in the US, I have concluded that the doctors here are not necessarily the best ones.
As a matter of fact, both the original corrective corneal surgery and LASIK (laser-based) were invented in Colombia (yes, South America) by Drs José Barraquer and Luis Antonio Ruiz, respectively. And, in general, Barraquer's students have a practically spotless success rate for their refractive surgeries.
I got LASIK nearly two years ago, performed by Luis Ruiz and couldn't be happier. Some doctors operate on many patients that travel from the US for their surgeries since the costs are much lower (even counting airline tickets and hotel fares).
There was an interesting story on Slashdot about LASIK some months ago. You can also corroborate everything I'm telling you by doing a quick Google search.
As another poster said, since your myopia is extremely high, maybe it will not be fully corrected by LASIK. But it's possible that it will improve your eyesight enough so that you can use more comfortable lenses or much thinner (and lighter) glasses, thus improving your quality of life.
Anyway, good luck with whatever you decide!
Actually, Canada is part of America (the continent). Just not part of the United States of America.
Gosh, buymusic.com's search engine really sucks!
3 : something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example : CRITERION
4 : something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality
You are saying that MP3 is "the standard" format because most people use it. You are using definition #3.
But when technical people say that a format or a technology is "a standard" they are using definition #4: a recognized organization such as ISO, IEEE, ITU, etc. determines the required specifications that the involved elements must follow in order to comply with the standard and therefore maintain compatibility. Following this definition, the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats as well as their audio layers (MP3 and AAC) are "standards" since they are carefully defined by experts designated by ISO and ITU. Some companies love "embracing and extending" standards thus braking them.
Note: Techweb does not allow direct links, so you will need to reload the URL to view the page.
I suppose trolls don't have a life...
So yes, I would actually like to see your "rookie" experiment. I think it will give us a better idea of what we can do with the software without extensive training.
Anyway you should NOT be buying the obscenely overpriced RAM from Apple. After waiting for so many years, a couple of months are nothingâ¦
The codename for Itanium? I think it was Merced. And McKinlye for Itanium 2.
The bad thing is that 1-Click is the default and some people may not realize that they have an option.
OK, in layman's terms:
You give me a line segment and call it a "unitary" segment (that is, you define your unit of measure to be the length of the line).
To construct sqrt(2), I can build (using only pencil, ruler and compass) a square with unitary sides and it's diagonal. This is analogous to your isosceles triangle. The length of the diagonal is sqrt(2) units.
To construct pi, I build a circle with unitary diagonal (again using only pencil, ruler and compass). The (length of the) circumference of the circle is pi units.
So, what's the difference? Well, the diagonal is a straight line, the circumference is not. You can construct straight lines which lengths are algebraic numbers, you cannot construct them with transcendental lengths.