I didn't want to argue or anything, I really didn't know what the word "fedora" means... I'm not a native speaker. Of course it IS somewhat nice fitting with connection to "Red Hat" and all that. So forget my comment. For me it was a weird name.:)
96 kHz Sounds are fairly useless. The higest Frequencies you (or any human) can hear are around 20 kHz, and much lower if you are more than 5 years old. To sample a signal with a max frequency of 20 kHz you need a sampling rate of 40 kHz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist-Shannon_samp ling_theorem). CD-quality is 44.1 kHz.
96 kHz is nice in audio production because you mix, process and mash up sounds, which can lead to rounding errors in the high frequencies.
Now 24 Bit sample resolution... Thats another question;) But even that is pretty much unhearable on any sound system that games are played on for the massive majority of gamers.
> Moreover, nuclear power scales better for the future. Like it or not, our energy usage is only going to go up.
Not true. Uranium is a very limited ressource. Just like oil and coal, someday it will all be "burned" away. If I remember correctly, with the current amount of nuclear reactors the uranium in the world will be depleted in, like, 65 years (according to greenpeace). So how does that scale? And even if greenpeace is off, if there is more uranium that can be mined if the price is higher... Lets say ressources for 200 years. Now, say, quadruple the amount of energy generated by nuclear reactors to use less oil and coal... Thats 50 years.
There is the breeder technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_breeder_reactor) that could possibly extend the timespan those ressources last, but as far as I hear it is not coming along well.
When will people get it? There is obviusly a cyclic development. When new game consoles come out, PC gaming suffers. When the consoles are a bit outdated, PC gaming will rise again. And so on and so on.
Steganography is a good way to fight censorship, true. The problem about it is, you do not only need to get the data in, you also need to get the information where the data is and how to access it. If you have a channel for this information you can use it right away for all the sensible data you have, as I would suspect that important subversive data is fairly small.
And its predecessor Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast. Damn. That was a good game, with maybe the greatest soundtrack ever in a video game.
Lets say they should also forbid all the games where private or public property is damaged in any way. In addition to every game where lifelike things are damaged in any way. phew. Breakout... Are these public walls you are destroying brick for brick?
So lets say, for a perspective... How many of these turbines are needed to generate 100% of the planets energy need? Or 1%? And how much energy do you have to take out of the gulf stream for an effect on temperature in europe? Or any other effect? 10%, 1% or 0.1%? How much is that in GW?
It is easy to see that one device like this will make no difference. But it is not easy to see how far you can go.
> Will Nintendo deliver? Who knows, they succeeded with the DS in deliviring fun games on inferior hardware BUT not with the gamecube.
The GC is in no way inferior hardware. It is better than the PS2 performance wise and, depending on your point of view, a bit better, as good or a bit worse than the xbox. The DS on the other hand is fairly limited compared to the PSP, yet sells better.
This is simply wrong. I have a PPC iBook with VPC and you can not even install DirectX inside the Guest Windows, let alone play games on it. This is not a CPU problem, as you can see with the rosetta layer in Mac OS for Intel. If the drivers, OS and APIs are native, CPU emulation can be quite fast.
No, because the drive obviously needs other parts in addition to the memory chips, there is development / marketing cost and the company selling them wants to make a profit.
I've been at a course of nuclear physics last year at university. The professor told us that in his time, the phenomenon of critical mass was demonstrated the following way: The teacher brings two subcritcal masses of (not sure but I think) uranium. He then brings those two masses together, and combined they are critical. The students can verify this by feeling that the combined masses get warm. My heart stopped for a second or so when he told that story, but while it is not exactly healthy to do that experiment, there is no danger of an explosion, I think because the melting of the uranium cools down the reaction or something. In a bomb, an intitial explosion builds up pressure to hold the mass together.
Text is the most important part of a webpage. It should fucking behave in a standard way. If I select text, rightklick on it, and only get a generic context menu instead of one with "search for this term" and "go to this url", it has no use for me. I'm all for good looking designs, nice fonts etc. But do not hack into a feature that is essential to reading: Text.
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> java is a multithreaded platform that runs across most servers that you can meet > todays. it runs on windows,linux,os x, solaris, bsd so it has most of the parts > covered. it doesn't need code recompilation nor does it need the developer to be > aware of what the platform actually does beneath. people that have done lots of > cross platform stuff in C know that this is a living hell from some point on.
Damn, if only this was true. One of java strongest point for enterprise applications are application servers like Weblogic, Websphere etc. Unfortunately, this also mostly kills the compatability... Our company needed about a week to lift a somewhat big application from Weblogic 8.1 to 9.0...
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I didn't want to argue or anything, I really didn't know what the word "fedora" means... I'm not a native speaker. Of course it IS somewhat nice fitting with connection to "Red Hat" and all that. So forget my comment. For me it was a weird name. :)
How is "Fedora" a less wierd name than "Ubuntu"?
You can get the release candiate that is a few days old:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/
96 kHz Sounds are fairly useless. The higest Frequencies you (or any human) can hear are around 20 kHz, and much lower if you are more than 5 years old. To sample a signal with a max frequency of 20 kHz you need a sampling rate of 40 kHz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist-Shannon_samp ling_theorem). CD-quality is 44.1 kHz.
;) But even that is pretty much unhearable on any sound system that games are played on for the massive majority of gamers.
96 kHz is nice in audio production because you mix, process and mash up sounds, which can lead to rounding errors in the high frequencies.
Now 24 Bit sample resolution... Thats another question
What about "gnowlege"?
Also, just in case:
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/1b72e04bf872d6ab
Instead of the custom case you can also use mini-dvd-r.
> Moreover, nuclear power scales better for the future. Like it or not, our energy usage is only going to go up.
r ) that could possibly extend the timespan those ressources last, but as far as I hear it is not coming along well.
Not true. Uranium is a very limited ressource. Just like oil and coal, someday it will all be "burned" away. If I remember correctly, with the current amount of nuclear reactors the uranium in the world will be depleted in, like, 65 years (according to greenpeace). So how does that scale? And even if greenpeace is off, if there is more uranium that can be mined if the price is higher... Lets say ressources for 200 years. Now, say, quadruple the amount of energy generated by nuclear reactors to use less oil and coal... Thats 50 years.
There is the breeder technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_breeder_reacto
No converter needed, you can plug it right into the DVI-In of your digital TV ;)
This is like the processor market... The only way to handle the higher complexities is better tool support... And for processors, this seems to work.
When will people get it? There is obviusly a cyclic development. When new game consoles come out, PC gaming suffers. When the consoles are a bit outdated, PC gaming will rise again. And so on and so on.
Steganography is a good way to fight censorship, true. The problem about it is, you do not only need to get the data in, you also need to get the information where the data is and how to access it. If you have a channel for this information you can use it right away for all the sensible data you have, as I would suspect that important subversive data is fairly small.
And its predecessor Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast. Damn. That was a good game, with maybe the greatest soundtrack ever in a video game.
Lets say they should also forbid all the games where private or public property is damaged in any way. In addition to every game where lifelike things are damaged in any way. phew. Breakout... Are these public walls you are destroying brick for brick?
This sound as if you think tidal generators are science-fiction. If you do, go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
So lets say, for a perspective... How many of these turbines are needed to generate 100% of the planets energy need? Or 1%? And how much energy do you have to take out of the gulf stream for an effect on temperature in europe? Or any other effect? 10%, 1% or 0.1%? How much is that in GW?
It is easy to see that one device like this will make no difference. But it is not easy to see how far you can go.
European iPods have a volume limiter, too. At least I read about how to turn it off.
> Will Nintendo deliver? Who knows, they succeeded with the DS in deliviring fun games on inferior hardware BUT not with the gamecube.
The GC is in no way inferior hardware. It is better than the PS2 performance wise and, depending on your point of view, a bit better, as good or a bit worse than the xbox. The DS on the other hand is fairly limited compared to the PSP, yet sells better.
So more like, Apple is the Audi and WinTel is the Volkswagen? ;)
This is simply wrong. I have a PPC iBook with VPC and you can not even install DirectX inside the Guest Windows, let alone play games on it. This is not a CPU problem, as you can see with the rosetta layer in Mac OS for Intel. If the drivers, OS and APIs are native, CPU emulation can be quite fast.
http://nfs-swap.dot-heine.de/
No, because the drive obviously needs other parts in addition to the memory chips, there is development / marketing cost and the company selling them wants to make a profit.
I've been at a course of nuclear physics last year at university. The professor told us that in his time, the phenomenon of critical mass was demonstrated the following way: The teacher brings two subcritcal masses of (not sure but I think) uranium. He then brings those two masses together, and combined they are critical. The students can verify this by feeling that the combined masses get warm. My heart stopped for a second or so when he told that story, but while it is not exactly healthy to do that experiment, there is no danger of an explosion, I think because the melting of the uranium cools down the reaction or something. In a bomb, an intitial explosion builds up pressure to hold the mass together.
Is there a dupe icon in FF for slashdot to adopt?
Text is the most important part of a webpage. It should fucking behave in a standard way. If I select text, rightklick on it, and only get a generic context menu instead of one with "search for this term" and "go to this url", it has no use for me. I'm all for good looking designs, nice fonts etc. But do not hack into a feature that is essential to reading: Text.
> java is a multithreaded platform that runs across most servers that you can meet ,linux ,os x, solaris, bsd so it has most of the parts
> todays. it runs on windows
> covered. it doesn't need code recompilation nor does it need the developer to be
> aware of what the platform actually does beneath. people that have done lots of
> cross platform stuff in C know that this is a living hell from some point on.
Damn, if only this was true. One of java strongest point for enterprise applications are application servers like Weblogic, Websphere etc. Unfortunately, this also mostly kills the compatability... Our company needed about a week to lift a somewhat big application from Weblogic 8.1 to 9.0...