You can emulate valve clipping with a couple of small FETs and a handful of passive components per channel. It's basically just soft clipping, although it's easy enough to add in some hum (high-value resistor and capacitor from the top of the power supply's main rectifier, assuming a series-regulated or similar PSU), and white or pink noise (capacitor from the top of an unfiltered zener diode).
No one at Redmond is going to see or say that the Emperor has no clothes. They get paid too much money not to bolt on the rose colored glasses. (welding helmet?) So don't accuse Microsoft of being clueful. If they were, we would have seen some evidence of it by now.
I think it's a little more subtle than that. I suspect that what really led them into their current financial box-canyon is Bill setting his stamp on all of the original participants, and the next generation inheriting that, and so on. This is a thing which happens a lot in network marketing: your more enthusiastic "downline" tend to act/think/look more and more like you as time passes. Role modelling writ large.
Read Bill's original "open letter to hobbyists" and you can quickly see why Microsoft is as it is today. All of the markers are laid down in that one short letter, including the kind of blindness we're describing here. Key line:
One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
Of course, in FOSS he has his answer. He just doesn't want to see it. I leave you to consider his now-sidesplitting closing line in the context of ex-Microserfs and there comments here about MS whipping the people they have rather than hiring enough to get the job done at a humane pace:
Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Here's a teaser, but when you get to the bit near the end with Thandi Palane and Victor Cachat (as observed by Princess Ruth Winton), you'll turn into a regular fire suppressant station.
The only reason stem cell research exists is because of medical and scientific advances waiting to happen.
I'll ignore all of the unwarranted dribble about reverting to the stone age, and just answer this one point very, very clearly:
Stem cell research does not require stem cells from unborn babies. There is a hyperabundance of suitable stem cells from a variety of other sources. There is no justification for taking babies for their stem cells.
What does that tell you (you as in Tree131) about the motivations of the people originally establishing facetious positions such as that one?
It tells me that the stem cells are an excuse, not a reason, not a cause. Somebody wants their own way, and screw the rationality of it all, and screw the damage to others.
Welcome to real life. Stripping away illusions like that is seldom pleasant, but it makes us more rational, capable people every time.
As to "opposing abortion", that's a complex question. What it basically boils down to is whether you're willing to speak for those who have no voice or not.
Too many people are willing to tie reason up and burn it on the altar of convenience - and one example of that is people arbitrarily decreeing unborn babies to in some way not be human. That in turn allows them to argue for the rights of the poor suffering mother (who in the vast majority of cases was just careless and is now trying to elude the consequences, hard as that observation may be on rape victims in the same predicament), while ignoring the rights of her totally helpless child.
If a mother shakes her newborn to death because it won't stop crying, she gets charged with murder. She would also be charged with murder if she got a thug to put a knife through her child. Yet if she gets a doctor to put a knife through that very same child only a few days or weeks earlier... nothing.
It's about human rights. Who will speak for those who have no voice?
...they didn't have to do so much work to make this happen, may or may not have been able to start with a Mandrake kernel instead of a vanilla one, may or may not have had to acquire various of the utilities outside the normal RPM tree... I'd like to see that documented as well.
Or do you not find there to be a problem with following a religion which adapted almost all of it's basic principles from Ancient Egypt, including the parting of the red sea,
The principles from ancient Egypt is hogwash. Egypt copied a lot of stuff from Israel. Specifically, Moses and the people he was imported with had a massive impact on their culture. Their medicine and stuff is totally different - you won't find lizard blood and camel dung in Irael's prescriptions - and so are most other things, despite the obvious influence of the imports. Including the theology - the soterology has different bases, and is distinct in every important detail.
As to the Red Sea, because it is impossible ("Circular Reasoning, v: see "Circular Reasoning"), you will not look. Several friends of mine have been there, donned the aqualungs, done the dive, the whole kit and kaboodle, and yes, things there are as stated.
Do some actual research before propagating your prejudices.
At the point where these cells are useful they are less human than the living cells in a blade of grass. Or do you feel there are moral issues to consider when debating mowing your lawn?
My goodness, it'd be hard for you to be wronger! (-:
The cells at that point are totally human and nearly undifferentiated, which is quite a different thing to being grass cells or whatever. What you're promulgating is exactly the same lie as the "it's only a fish... it's only a reptile..." bullshit which was common a decade or two ago.
There is no such thing as a baby in the womb.
Yeah? So what is it that our local maternity hospital almost routinely rescues halfway to term? A ball of grass? A mystery mass of foetal cells? At what point does a baby stop being that mythical lump of cells and start being a baby? It's certainly not at term. And if babies can survive at 20 weeks prem, how about 21?
I have a nephew who was waaaay prem, and aside from the fact that his sister was nearly the same size as him while they grew up ("are they twins?"), you'd never know. He's a normal adult now, the same as you or I.
Get an education - you don't need to be a conservative or a religious bigot to see a fact when one whacks you across the face, and the real-life observation here is that the only difference between a baby in utero and one in Daddy's arms is that the second one is breathing and the first is on a lifeline.
Radeon 9200SE on Mandrake 10.0, one screen on each port. OTToMH, I had to fudge with some permissions etc. The kids play with a lower-quality monitor on the second port.
I guessing that it's OT because the cost of MS-Windows-XP-Pro plus the seat licences would exceed that of the computer, and you'd need to pay for more RAM as well, and the reliability-and-security gets somewhat diluted... and so on.
I personally would have rated it informative, but I ain't everybody.
You need to start using KDE. First language on that long list (87 languages, not - for some odd reason - including English) is Africaans, second-last is Xhosa.
They've had stuff on the box for decades about individual kernels being lovingly toasted. So they built k3b into their kernels? Well... they were just a bit ahead of the "rip, mix, burn" curve, that's all.
I could have discussed Mandrake's rpmDrake instead, in which case I would have criticized the way it's buried four menus deep
I see most of your points, but they're all still arguable. In particular, I want to see how many levels deep you have to go to find Microsoft's package manager.
In my case, if I keep digging for Microsoft's package manager I come out somewhere near the Bermudas. How many menus deep is that?
The closest Microsoft come is that some software - including some of their own - registers itself enough that you can de-install it. Dependencies? We don' need no steenkin' dependencies, we 0wn3rZ the desktop, dude!
The vast majority of the problems you raised have to do with un-learning and presumption inherited from MS-Windows land. They are not shortcomings in Linux, and I sincerely hope that Mandrake et al don't turn to emulating MS-Windows so slavishly that you're happy with the result.
Many of your criticisms would be as appropriate to the Mac, which is indeed a shiny, user-friendly gem of an OS in comparison. That alone should be a wake-up call.
Having said all of that, the original article is indeed a lot less Linux-hostile than some of the complete drivel I've seen posted as a review by others in the last year or so. If you can just be more aware of your MS-Windows "provincialism", your future reviews should be just fine.
It took J Random Backpacker (Dave "FreeSounds2000", in case you happen to know him) about half an hour, and most of that was because his Yahoo account had expired and he couldn't be bothered reading the login screen. Kopete rocks! (-:
This is still too far away to make any really revealing below-atmospheric level observations, as the atmosphere is so opaque and dense.
If you do your looking with certain wavelengths, the atmosphere is no longer opaque. At that point, the density doesn't matter very much 'coz you can mathematically correct for any distortion it induces.
I want a clearer picture of the "dragon" that ESO mentioned, 'coz I bet it's structurally similar to Valles Marineris on Mars. And won't that pose a pretty puzzle for cosmologists? (-:
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Misses treating a couple of the columns as columns, but at least you can copy and paste line-by-line in those parts (en masse elsewhere).
That's about as home-made as you can get, given how cheap "real" (but crap quality) USB webcams are these days.
You can emulate valve clipping with a couple of small FETs and a handful of passive components per channel. It's basically just soft clipping, although it's easy enough to add in some hum (high-value resistor and capacitor from the top of the power supply's main rectifier, assuming a series-regulated or similar PSU), and white or pink noise (capacitor from the top of an unfiltered zener diode).
Or you can get silly about it and emulate the valve clipping and noise in each stage of the amp instead.
I think it's a little more subtle than that. I suspect that what really led them into their current financial box-canyon is Bill setting his stamp on all of the original participants, and the next generation inheriting that, and so on. This is a thing which happens a lot in network marketing: your more enthusiastic "downline" tend to act/think/look more and more like you as time passes. Role modelling writ large.
Read Bill's original "open letter to hobbyists" and you can quickly see why Microsoft is as it is today. All of the markers are laid down in that one short letter, including the kind of blindness we're describing here. Key line:
Of course, in FOSS he has his answer. He just doesn't want to see it. I leave you to consider his now-sidesplitting closing line in the context of ex-Microserfs and there comments here about MS whipping the people they have rather than hiring enough to get the job done at a humane pace:
Here's a teaser, but when you get to the bit near the end with Thandi Palane and Victor Cachat (as observed by Princess Ruth Winton), you'll turn into a regular fire suppressant station.
What does that tell you (you as in Tree131) about the motivations of the people originally establishing facetious positions such as that one?
It tells me that the stem cells are an excuse, not a reason, not a cause. Somebody wants their own way, and screw the rationality of it all, and screw the damage to others.
Welcome to real life. Stripping away illusions like that is seldom pleasant, but it makes us more rational, capable people every time.
As to "opposing abortion", that's a complex question. What it basically boils down to is whether you're willing to speak for those who have no voice or not.
Too many people are willing to tie reason up and burn it on the altar of convenience - and one example of that is people arbitrarily decreeing unborn babies to in some way not be human. That in turn allows them to argue for the rights of the poor suffering mother (who in the vast majority of cases was just careless and is now trying to elude the consequences, hard as that observation may be on rape victims in the same predicament), while ignoring the rights of her totally helpless child.
If a mother shakes her newborn to death because it won't stop crying, she gets charged with murder. She would also be charged with murder if she got a thug to put a knife through her child. Yet if she gets a doctor to put a knife through that very same child only a few days or weeks earlier... nothing.
It's about human rights. Who will speak for those who have no voice?
...then you're up the creek again, and paddle free by over 700 years. Oops. See what I mean about research? And my interest is only casual.
...they didn't have to do so much work to make this happen, may or may not have been able to start with a Mandrake kernel instead of a vanilla one, may or may not have had to acquire various of the utilities outside the normal RPM tree... I'd like to see that documented as well.
You're ahead by one. You're no longer harbouring so many illusions. (-:
I still have yet to see the news item on a cheap, reliable multi-headed multi-user XP box.
The principles from ancient Egypt is hogwash. Egypt copied a lot of stuff from Israel. Specifically, Moses and the people he was imported with had a massive impact on their culture. Their medicine and stuff is totally different - you won't find lizard blood and camel dung in Irael's prescriptions - and so are most other things, despite the obvious influence of the imports. Including the theology - the soterology has different bases, and is distinct in every important detail.
As to the Red Sea, because it is impossible ("Circular Reasoning, v: see "Circular Reasoning"), you will not look. Several friends of mine have been there, donned the aqualungs, done the dive, the whole kit and kaboodle, and yes, things there are as stated.
Do some actual research before propagating your prejudices.
Another Monty Python fan, I see. (-:
My goodness, it'd be hard for you to be wronger! (-:
The cells at that point are totally human and nearly undifferentiated, which is quite a different thing to being grass cells or whatever. What you're promulgating is exactly the same lie as the "it's only a fish... it's only a reptile..." bullshit which was common a decade or two ago.
Yeah? So what is it that our local maternity hospital almost routinely rescues halfway to term? A ball of grass? A mystery mass of foetal cells? At what point does a baby stop being that mythical lump of cells and start being a baby? It's certainly not at term. And if babies can survive at 20 weeks prem, how about 21?
I have a nephew who was waaaay prem, and aside from the fact that his sister was nearly the same size as him while they grew up ("are they twins?"), you'd never know. He's a normal adult now, the same as you or I.
Get an education - you don't need to be a conservative or a religious bigot to see a fact when one whacks you across the face, and the real-life observation here is that the only difference between a baby in utero and one in Daddy's arms is that the second one is breathing and the first is on a lifeline.
If not, and you have raw text, send it. I'll try it to make sure IW4M, and turn it into one chop-chop toot-sweet.
Radeon 9200SE on Mandrake 10.0, one screen on each port. OTToMH, I had to fudge with some permissions etc. The kids play with a lower-quality monitor on the second port.
I guessing that it's OT because the cost of MS-Windows-XP-Pro plus the seat licences would exceed that of the computer, and you'd need to pay for more RAM as well, and the reliability-and-security gets somewhat diluted... and so on.
I personally would have rated it informative, but I ain't everybody.
You need to start using KDE. First language on that long list (87 languages, not - for some odd reason - including English) is Africaans, second-last is Xhosa.
The second OOo user is up and running in a fraction of a second, 'coz practically everything they need is already in RAM.
The thing which kills a setup like this is high-bandwidth 3D, movie decodes and other heavily CPU- or buss-intensive work.
Info here.
They've had stuff on the box for decades about individual kernels being lovingly toasted. So they built k3b into their kernels? Well... they were just a bit ahead of the "rip, mix, burn" curve, that's all.
I see most of your points, but they're all still arguable. In particular, I want to see how many levels deep you have to go to find Microsoft's package manager.
In my case, if I keep digging for Microsoft's package manager I come out somewhere near the Bermudas. How many menus deep is that?
The closest Microsoft come is that some software - including some of their own - registers itself enough that you can de-install it. Dependencies? We don' need no steenkin' dependencies, we 0wn3rZ the desktop, dude!
The vast majority of the problems you raised have to do with un-learning and presumption inherited from MS-Windows land. They are not shortcomings in Linux, and I sincerely hope that Mandrake et al don't turn to emulating MS-Windows so slavishly that you're happy with the result.
Many of your criticisms would be as appropriate to the Mac, which is indeed a shiny, user-friendly gem of an OS in comparison. That alone should be a wake-up call.
Having said all of that, the original article is indeed a lot less Linux-hostile than some of the complete drivel I've seen posted as a review by others in the last year or so. If you can just be more aware of your MS-Windows "provincialism", your future reviews should be just fine.
It took J Random Backpacker (Dave "FreeSounds2000", in case you happen to know him) about half an hour, and most of that was because his Yahoo account had expired and he couldn't be bothered reading the login screen. Kopete rocks! (-:
Your link didn't work for me, but this one does. So what's the big deal? The Lips of Mars? (-:
How do I find a higher res MOC image of 28.38lat x 331.81long or thereabouts?
If you do your looking with certain wavelengths, the atmosphere is no longer opaque. At that point, the density doesn't matter very much 'coz you can mathematically correct for any distortion it induces.
I want a clearer picture of the "dragon" that ESO mentioned, 'coz I bet it's structurally similar to Valles Marineris on Mars. And won't that pose a pretty puzzle for cosmologists? (-:
...they didn't plan to drop the probe on Europa.