Compression is kind of the "fairy dust" that record producers seem to believe makes their stuff sound better. It makes it sound louder, but it makes you tired. I've heard theories that it's the reason people tend to hit the SKIP button on their mp3 players so much. It's possible.
Either I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, or you're mixing up dynamic range compression (fairy dust) and file size compression (mp3).
And then there are just as many of us who have had terrible time with vista. My aunt got a dell that came loaded with vista. She has a hard time reading the screen, so first thing I did was increase the text size. Apparently that requires a reboot. On the fourth attempt at booting, it decided not to lock up, and I got back to the interface. Everything was ugly and I couldn't move any window more than 2/3s across the screen. There was an invisible wall. So I set the text back, and rebooted again.
Then I went to copy her mail form outlook express to windows mail. I moved the proper files over from the other computer, and loaded windows mail. I pointed it to the files, and it spat out "file in use, or wrong file type" or some other such BS. I tried saving the DB in different formats etc. Eventually I discovered that what this error really meant was "Windows mail can't import user data as a user. Please re-run this program as administrator" why the fuck couldn't they just say that?
My experience with that box has continued in a similar vein. The computer is as slow as her old box, yet has 4 times the memory and at least that many times the processing power. I find it simply inconcievable anyone could run this OS.
That aside, people do. Smart people too, so there must be more to this equation. I'm not really sure what it is, but this polarized opinion is confusing.
There are programs that encrypt individual files a la truecrypt too. I don't recall which off the top of my head, but I had one set up for online data storage. The big benefit of this method is when you update one file, you upload one file, rather than your whole encrypted volume. The one I used even encrypted the file names, so you couldn't guess what they were other than by size.
It's sad you were modded offtopic for this discussion while I got informative, just because the mods agree with me. Either way, I still contest that this usage is incorrect. It may be gaining acceptance, but it still makes one sound uneducated. This usage has no benefits over 'begs the question' and just confuses the issue. Obviously this is not a big deal, but why not just use the actually-correct phrase instead of the gaining-acceptance-but-often-seen-as-incorrect phrase. Or perhaps writing phrases like the previous one disqualifies me from this debate. Oh well.
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Indeed. I consider myself environmentally minded, and it frustrates me to no end when 'environmentalists' rag on nuclear. They don't want coal (who does?), or gas, or nuclear, or hydroelectric (hurts the fish), or wind (it hurts the birds). I assume there's an argument for solar too, though I haven't heard it yet. So what option do we have left? Move back into caves?
Our energy demand aren't going to decrease, short of the apocalypse occurring, so we should push the cleanest alternative. IMO that would be nuclear, with lots of funding to get some of the newer reactor types (breeders, pebble bed, whatever) so we don't have to be so wasteful of our nuclear fuel. That would give a solid backbone of power, which could be augmented with as much 'green' power as possible.
Especially if we are going to move to electric (or hydrogen, which is just electric) cars, we're going to need to significantly increase energy production. It would be a disaster if this new production had to rely on coal or natrual gas due to these so-called environmentalists.
I'm not sure who is chasing these devices, or how a device could 'now' anything, but grammar nazi-isms aside, what the GP described is pretty much what you're talking about. They measure electricity in and electricity out, and make a guess as to the energy left based on that. The only difference to your approach is you ignore the rate at which the device is consuming energy, which would make it significantly less accurate.
And rail-based rocket sleds have reached mach 8.5.
Sign me up!
At that rate I could commute to LA (from Toronto, Ontario) in less time than it takes me to ride the subway downtown! According to mygoogling it would take about 23 minutes.
Currently, the largest conventional wind turbines in the world produce only five megawatts of power. However, one large maglev wind turbine could generate one gigawatt of clean power,
I can only assume the later mentioned 400-5k watt figure was a typo, or just the initial trial runs. Obviously these small-output turbines wouldn't be mountain sized like the one in the picture.
In response, I ask you to explain why, inspite of the correlation, the number of pirates has no effect on global temperature. I would argue that there is no explanation simpler than causation.
I have an old 486 laptop with a trackball. It comes off for travel, then just snaps onto the right side of the laptop. Its a bit beat up now, but in its day, I bet it was pretty nice.
I guess these experiments must have failed, as all new laptops just have touchpads and clit^h^h^h^hTrackpoint style devices.
Yeah I get the same garbage for using linux. The solution is extremely simple.
Lie. Tell them what they want to hear. "I'm clicking on control panel. ok. tcp/ip settings?" etc. That way they aren't confused ("what did you say?" "linux" "you're running a linksys?") and you get your support.
Your chances of hitting something or someone before you can even react to it are much higher, regardless of how 'stable' your vehicle is.
Insert any other number you wish in there. I don't see your point. Are you claiming that road safety is a purely a function of speed, and independent of vehicle?
I used Mandrake 9.0 up until they switched to mandriva, and never had to edit a grub file manually. Especially considering it used (still uses?) lilo instead of grub. I'm with the AC here.
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Yeah, I also pointed out that the gp (ggp now) didn't actually say those things. He told me I was autistic.
I think the dude is just trolling
And then there are just as many of us who have had terrible time with vista. My aunt got a dell that came loaded with vista. She has a hard time reading the screen, so first thing I did was increase the text size. Apparently that requires a reboot. On the fourth attempt at booting, it decided not to lock up, and I got back to the interface. Everything was ugly and I couldn't move any window more than 2/3s across the screen. There was an invisible wall. So I set the text back, and rebooted again.
Then I went to copy her mail form outlook express to windows mail. I moved the proper files over from the other computer, and loaded windows mail. I pointed it to the files, and it spat out "file in use, or wrong file type" or some other such BS. I tried saving the DB in different formats etc. Eventually I discovered that what this error really meant was "Windows mail can't import user data as a user. Please re-run this program as administrator" why the fuck couldn't they just say that?
My experience with that box has continued in a similar vein. The computer is as slow as her old box, yet has 4 times the memory and at least that many times the processing power. I find it simply inconcievable anyone could run this OS.
That aside, people do. Smart people too, so there must be more to this equation. I'm not really sure what it is, but this polarized opinion is confusing.
Microsoft couldn't figure out the first and last letters of each word, given a series of words?
They're in worse shape than I thought...
Are you saying that hardly anyone speaks french? I and, 300 million others disagree with you.
There are programs that encrypt individual files a la truecrypt too. I don't recall which off the top of my head, but I had one set up for online data storage. The big benefit of this method is when you update one file, you upload one file, rather than your whole encrypted volume. The one I used even encrypted the file names, so you couldn't guess what they were other than by size.
It's sad you were modded offtopic for this discussion while I got informative, just because the mods agree with me. Either way, I still contest that this usage is incorrect. It may be gaining acceptance, but it still makes one sound uneducated. This usage has no benefits over 'begs the question' and just confuses the issue. Obviously this is not a big deal, but why not just use the actually-correct phrase instead of the gaining-acceptance-but-often-seen-as-incorrect phrase. Or perhaps writing phrases like the previous one disqualifies me from this debate. Oh well.
Indeed. I consider myself environmentally minded, and it frustrates me to no end when 'environmentalists' rag on nuclear. They don't want coal (who does?), or gas, or nuclear, or hydroelectric (hurts the fish), or wind (it hurts the birds). I assume there's an argument for solar too, though I haven't heard it yet. So what option do we have left? Move back into caves?
Our energy demand aren't going to decrease, short of the apocalypse occurring, so we should push the cleanest alternative. IMO that would be nuclear, with lots of funding to get some of the newer reactor types (breeders, pebble bed, whatever) so we don't have to be so wasteful of our nuclear fuel. That would give a solid backbone of power, which could be augmented with as much 'green' power as possible.
Especially if we are going to move to electric (or hydrogen, which is just electric) cars, we're going to need to significantly increase energy production. It would be a disaster if this new production had to rely on coal or natrual gas due to these so-called environmentalists.
I'm not sure who is chasing these devices, or how a device could 'now' anything, but grammar nazi-isms aside, what the GP described is pretty much what you're talking about. They measure electricity in and electricity out, and make a guess as to the energy left based on that. The only difference to your approach is you ignore the rate at which the device is consuming energy, which would make it significantly less accurate.
I'm siding with Paul Brians on this one.
http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html
Raises the question != Begs the question.
At that rate I could commute to LA (from Toronto, Ontario) in less time than it takes me to ride the subway downtown! According to my googling it would take about 23 minutes.
In response, I ask you to explain why, inspite of the correlation, the number of pirates has no effect on global temperature. I would argue that there is no explanation simpler than causation.
A nice graph showing the correlation: http://static.flickr.com/35/70683016_77704cf15e.jpg
Yes I know this is overused, but its such a wonderful example of how moronic the 'correlation implies causation' argument is.
http://www.openfiler.com/docs/install/graphical_install.html
Certainly doesn't look too hard. I can't imagine this taking more than half an hour to get working.
spending $200 on a raid card is reasonable given a $500 budget?
I'd certainly like to know where you plan on buying the rest of the hardware, as you must get some pretty amazing deals.
I have an old 486 laptop with a trackball. It comes off for travel, then just snaps onto the right side of the laptop. Its a bit beat up now, but in its day, I bet it was pretty nice.
I guess these experiments must have failed, as all new laptops just have touchpads and clit^h^h^h^hTrackpoint style devices.
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=CYA
Yeah I get the same garbage for using linux. The solution is extremely simple.
Lie. Tell them what they want to hear. "I'm clicking on control panel. ok. tcp/ip settings?" etc. That way they aren't confused ("what did you say?" "linux" "you're running a linksys?") and you get your support.
Exactly. I just spend 10 minutes trying to figure it out, then just went to bittorrent instead. Why is it so hard to get?
and 60 mph is 60 mph.
Your chances of hitting something or someone before you can even react to it are much higher, regardless of how 'stable' your vehicle is.
Insert any other number you wish in there. I don't see your point. Are you claiming that road safety is a purely a function of speed, and independent of vehicle?
I used Mandrake 9.0 up until they switched to mandriva, and never had to edit a grub file manually. Especially considering it used (still uses?) lilo instead of grub. I'm with the AC here.