Power consumption on modern hard drives has dropped over time, so if you switched the hard drive recently, you might be getting a benefit from improved efficiency or power management. On the other hand, if you had opted for the same hard disk when you bought your laptop, you might have noticed a more significant difference.
By one hell of an undertaking you mean a massive endeavor but one that can accomplished? Because Apple essentially wrote a new OS from scratch recently, and new versions of Windows have featured massive rewrites (thankfully progressively getting better, sans some of the nastier uglier side of "trusted computing.")
I don't know, if Apple can do it, I think Google can too. Maybe Google should just acquire Canonical and work from there though? They already employ Andrew Morton I believe.
Thank you for enlightening me on the process by which an MP3 becomes stale.
I am encouraged by my business comrades to hire you for your superior sector of technology information abilities and would like to offer you your current salary to work with us.
We have recently had problems with our code growing mold and this has affected increasing numbers of our computer cluster and Sasha just recently came down with an illness from breathing in so many of the contaminated spores.
You parsed the adjectives wrong: [[[[Alienware] Planning] Android] [iPhone Killer]]. Last two words are a noun phrase, Android is used as an adjective describing said noun phrase, and then you have the verb and subject.
Easy mistake to make but you shouldn't be modded insightful for pointing out the grammatical reason the title sucks. Then again, given when you posted, you would have gotten modded redundant for calling out the Editor for calling a fictional and unsubstantiated device with crappy drawings an "iPhone Killer."
Does anyone else feel like low digit number UID people sit around (on their porch) all day waiting for a discussion like this?
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Let me put it this way. If we were to come up with say, a new open standard for a window system API, and all the associated drivers necessary for it, etc., and we were to submit that to ISO, we would call it something like the Open Window Standard or somesuch. X.Org would rename themselves to "Open X.Org." X is as much a defacto standard as.doc, but that doesn't make it good. And anyone whose ever had X break on them can testify to the fact that it's just not an elegant solution for how to do things. It's inefficient, it's monolithic, it doesn't play well with multiple processors, it has all these flaws. I didn't think I had to bring those things up: this is Slashdot, we know the flaws are there. Dammit, we should be complaining about them shouldn't we?
Since when does Open Source mean we have to be content with what we have and bitch at people who say what we have isn't better than the competition? I love Open Source, I'd eat, drink and sleep with Open Source. My toaster should be Open Source. And in some ways it's really, spectacularly advanced. Server applications for example, top-notch. But for desktop users we have a monolithic window system that breaks, all the damn time, and has fallen so far behind the competition that it's only recently become usable and with an enormous investment of effort into hacking 3d rendering into it.
I shouldn't need to say those things though, as I said, this is Slashdot. People here know what the problems with X are, dammit, I'm announcing my dissatisfaction. People reply with "You don't like it, code your own," ok. Let's start. Let's make a development program for a replacement for X that will correctly process the hooks for a few popular toolkits (QT,GTK+) and work from there. If we can get QT4 and GTK+2 working on something -other- than X, that will be major progress.
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I wasn't aware a lot of programs interfaced directly with X. I'm sure there are some that for whatever reason feel like they must interact with X directly, but wouldn't say, X2 or X+ or whatever with GTK/QT4 be sufficient to run -almost everything-?
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I know X is entrenched and all, but really, aren't we all fed up with this dinosaur? A new window system might be a good thing for Linux as a whole.
Presume AMD and Intel both do this, throwing caution to the wind. Do you think the government or big business, or IBM would ever agree to install CPUs that allow an arbitrary third party's software to look at every piece of data processed by the system?
Are you kidding me?
Please, Trusted Computing will never be anything more than an option for those willing to build a platform around it, a choice if you will. There's no way it would become required and the companies involved would come out of that unscathed.
Perhaps it's too late for my reply to be seen by the temperamental moderators, but I'll give it a go.
Apple's design philosophy is wrong for geeks. It's great if you don't care about stepping outside of the box (remarkably, this is the last thing Apple wants you to do with any of their products) but the Apple philosophy has always been: you get the whole experience, or you get nothing.
Want iTunes on Windows? Be prepared for Apple to ignore any complaints about usability with respect to native look and feel, be prepared for Apple to sacrifice speed for appearance and effects. No one who has used iTunes on Windows is particularly impressed by the fact that Apple jarringly transports you to the user interface ideology of a foreign operating system. No one I know likes iTunes when they are shown Winamp's media library, or any comparable application. iTunes is dog-slow and they've never given us a good reason why. (Programmers will know why, but I digress.)
Want the iPhone? Be prepared to only get it from one person. If you aren't prepared to fork over for the whole experience, top to bottom, don't expect anything. Apple has always had the goal of delivering an experience, not a product. Unlike a product you buy, Apple will do everything in their power to make it difficult to tinker with for one incredibly arrogant reason: you are not worthy of using their products unless you are willing to have the -whole- experience. It's all or nothing with Apple, and it always has been. OSX on Windows? iPhone on alternative carriers in the US? Apple has a Not Invented Here syndrome that makes Microsoft jealous. Mostly because they're actually able to pull it off and keep this 'cult of Apple' alive.
The above gentleman has caused losses to my client and stolen his richly deserved karma. The thief I refer to has in fact benefited from this despicable act, having gained karma for it.
I request all meta-moderators punish this individual with the greatest penalty available under Slashdot Law: DEATH BY DOWN-MOD.
Don't interpret a remark saying that the finest resolution you can get is the planck scale as saying that Vinyl has more data than a CD. It doesn't.
As other people have proposed, get your best turntable and your best, warmest vinyl album. Use your turntable to record it in the highest quality you can, convert it to CD-quality audio. Reverse the phase on the two and listen to them simultaneously.
Name the brand of monitor that existed around the same era as DOOM that could actually show 72 full refreshes per second.
No?
They tell themselves they hear a difference. You're talking to a group of people who buy $400 wooden knobs for their stereo because the wood is supposed to... something or other blah blah blah warmer sounding.
Throwing in words like "subset" incorrectly doesn't make your argument valid. CD and vinyl mastering is done however people want to do it, and they can even be mastered by the same recording studio to have different sounds (perhaps that's where the warmth comes from, I don't know.) What I do know, however, is that CDs have vastly superior audio quality over a vastly larger number of repeated plays, and that when converted to high quality MP3, FLAC or any of a number of audio formats, they can last indefinitely on a nice RAID array where I never have to worry about their integrity degrading. Or, if I'm particularly lazy, I'll store them in a massively mirrored peer network and retrieve them later at my leisure.
That's a genius idea, I think. The barrier to entry is then sufficiently high (squatters who own thousands of domains would have to fork over much more money than they have on hand.)
This would vastly slow the ability of anyone to actually create domains. Let's say there's a squatter out there with $100,000 in the bank, they can only register 1000 domains every 6 months, and they are then out $10,000+ for the year-long registration. So if they haven't made $10,000 of those domains, they can only register another 900.
The only one resorting to logical fallacy here is you. The GP referred to the organization, not "All Catholics" and certainly not "The Pope." It is absolutely true that the organization of the Catholic Church or, as you say, the Clergy, have erred in their defense of their own members when they committed horrible crimes.
Making a list and then spewing a vitriolic, strawmanning reply does not make you right, even if your points are valid. It just means you're really bad at making your points.
I'm guessing his sharing permissions aren't set so that everyone can access everything;p
Bruce knows a thing or two about permissions management, I think he can run an open WAP and still have a secured local network. And he could always isolate the two if he wanted, too. Make the physical LAN require a VPN to get into. That's only one way of doing it.
Such internet drama! Should we, the members of the FOSS batten the hatches and man the torpedoes? Clearly if they've made an act of agression toward us we should respond! Postemptively!
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Power consumption on modern hard drives has dropped over time, so if you switched the hard drive recently, you might be getting a benefit from improved efficiency or power management. On the other hand, if you had opted for the same hard disk when you bought your laptop, you might have noticed a more significant difference.
By one hell of an undertaking you mean a massive endeavor but one that can accomplished? Because Apple essentially wrote a new OS from scratch recently, and new versions of Windows have featured massive rewrites (thankfully progressively getting better, sans some of the nastier uglier side of "trusted computing.")
I don't know, if Apple can do it, I think Google can too. Maybe Google should just acquire Canonical and work from there though? They already employ Andrew Morton I believe.
Eh? You're accusing the Federal Government of being competent in its hiring and deployment practices with regard to information technology?
Sheesh, Bush is going to be in international war crimes court before they get convicted of that.
Sasha is a guy though sh... he still resembles that remark, you insensitive clod.
Thank you for enlightening me on the process by which an MP3 becomes stale.
I am encouraged by my business comrades to hire you for your superior sector of technology information abilities and would like to offer you your current salary to work with us.
We have recently had problems with our code growing mold and this has affected increasing numbers of our computer cluster and Sasha just recently came down with an illness from breathing in so many of the contaminated spores.
So you're wrong about NATO then because you can pronounce it as a word?
Or do you really say "N-A-T-O" instead of "Nay-toe" like everyone else?
You grammar nazis need to turn on the television or (*gasp*) go outside and determine actual usage before coming on Slashdot.
You parsed the adjectives wrong: [[[[Alienware] Planning] Android] [iPhone Killer]]. Last two words are a noun phrase, Android is used as an adjective describing said noun phrase, and then you have the verb and subject.
Easy mistake to make but you shouldn't be modded insightful for pointing out the grammatical reason the title sucks. Then again, given when you posted, you would have gotten modded redundant for calling out the Editor for calling a fictional and unsubstantiated device with crappy drawings an "iPhone Killer."
Does anyone else feel like low digit number UID people sit around (on their porch) all day waiting for a discussion like this?
Let me put it this way. If we were to come up with say, a new open standard for a window system API, and all the associated drivers necessary for it, etc., and we were to submit that to ISO, we would call it something like the Open Window Standard or somesuch. X.Org would rename themselves to "Open X.Org." X is as much a defacto standard as .doc, but that doesn't make it good. And anyone whose ever had X break on them can testify to the fact that it's just not an elegant solution for how to do things. It's inefficient, it's monolithic, it doesn't play well with multiple processors, it has all these flaws. I didn't think I had to bring those things up: this is Slashdot, we know the flaws are there. Dammit, we should be complaining about them shouldn't we?
Since when does Open Source mean we have to be content with what we have and bitch at people who say what we have isn't better than the competition? I love Open Source, I'd eat, drink and sleep with Open Source. My toaster should be Open Source. And in some ways it's really, spectacularly advanced. Server applications for example, top-notch. But for desktop users we have a monolithic window system that breaks, all the damn time, and has fallen so far behind the competition that it's only recently become usable and with an enormous investment of effort into hacking 3d rendering into it.
I shouldn't need to say those things though, as I said, this is Slashdot. People here know what the problems with X are, dammit, I'm announcing my dissatisfaction. People reply with "You don't like it, code your own," ok. Let's start. Let's make a development program for a replacement for X that will correctly process the hooks for a few popular toolkits (QT,GTK+) and work from there. If we can get QT4 and GTK+2 working on something -other- than X, that will be major progress.
I wasn't aware a lot of programs interfaced directly with X. I'm sure there are some that for whatever reason feel like they must interact with X directly, but wouldn't say, X2 or X+ or whatever with GTK/QT4 be sufficient to run -almost everything-?
I know X is entrenched and all, but really, aren't we all fed up with this dinosaur? A new window system might be a good thing for Linux as a whole.
Presume AMD and Intel both do this, throwing caution to the wind. Do you think the government or big business, or IBM would ever agree to install CPUs that allow an arbitrary third party's software to look at every piece of data processed by the system?
Are you kidding me?
Please, Trusted Computing will never be anything more than an option for those willing to build a platform around it, a choice if you will. There's no way it would become required and the companies involved would come out of that unscathed.
That thing is going to need a ton more magic than any sysadmin has ever had to wire up before.
Perhaps it's too late for my reply to be seen by the temperamental moderators, but I'll give it a go.
Apple's design philosophy is wrong for geeks. It's great if you don't care about stepping outside of the box (remarkably, this is the last thing Apple wants you to do with any of their products) but the Apple philosophy has always been: you get the whole experience, or you get nothing.
Want iTunes on Windows? Be prepared for Apple to ignore any complaints about usability with respect to native look and feel, be prepared for Apple to sacrifice speed for appearance and effects. No one who has used iTunes on Windows is particularly impressed by the fact that Apple jarringly transports you to the user interface ideology of a foreign operating system. No one I know likes iTunes when they are shown Winamp's media library, or any comparable application. iTunes is dog-slow and they've never given us a good reason why. (Programmers will know why, but I digress.)
Want the iPhone? Be prepared to only get it from one person. If you aren't prepared to fork over for the whole experience, top to bottom, don't expect anything. Apple has always had the goal of delivering an experience, not a product. Unlike a product you buy, Apple will do everything in their power to make it difficult to tinker with for one incredibly arrogant reason: you are not worthy of using their products unless you are willing to have the -whole- experience. It's all or nothing with Apple, and it always has been. OSX on Windows? iPhone on alternative carriers in the US? Apple has a Not Invented Here syndrome that makes Microsoft jealous. Mostly because they're actually able to pull it off and keep this 'cult of Apple' alive.
The above gentleman has caused losses to my client and stolen his richly deserved karma. The thief I refer to has in fact benefited from this despicable act, having gained karma for it.
I request all meta-moderators punish this individual with the greatest penalty available under Slashdot Law: DEATH BY DOWN-MOD.
Did you hear the warmth loud and clear or just a bunch of crackles, pops, and other problems with either your turntable or album?
Don't interpret a remark saying that the finest resolution you can get is the planck scale as saying that Vinyl has more data than a CD. It doesn't.
As other people have proposed, get your best turntable and your best, warmest vinyl album. Use your turntable to record it in the highest quality you can, convert it to CD-quality audio. Reverse the phase on the two and listen to them simultaneously.
Do you hear anything?
Name the brand of monitor that existed around the same era as DOOM that could actually show 72 full refreshes per second.
No?
They tell themselves they hear a difference. You're talking to a group of people who buy $400 wooden knobs for their stereo because the wood is supposed to... something or other blah blah blah warmer sounding.
Throwing in words like "subset" incorrectly doesn't make your argument valid. CD and vinyl mastering is done however people want to do it, and they can even be mastered by the same recording studio to have different sounds (perhaps that's where the warmth comes from, I don't know.) What I do know, however, is that CDs have vastly superior audio quality over a vastly larger number of repeated plays, and that when converted to high quality MP3, FLAC or any of a number of audio formats, they can last indefinitely on a nice RAID array where I never have to worry about their integrity degrading. Or, if I'm particularly lazy, I'll store them in a massively mirrored peer network and retrieve them later at my leisure.
Turtles never forget. Turtles never forgive. Expect them.
That's a genius idea, I think. The barrier to entry is then sufficiently high (squatters who own thousands of domains would have to fork over much more money than they have on hand.)
This would vastly slow the ability of anyone to actually create domains. Let's say there's a squatter out there with $100,000 in the bank, they can only register 1000 domains every 6 months, and they are then out $10,000+ for the year-long registration. So if they haven't made $10,000 of those domains, they can only register another 900.
Mod parent up, I couldn't.
The only one resorting to logical fallacy here is you. The GP referred to the organization, not "All Catholics" and certainly not "The Pope." It is absolutely true that the organization of the Catholic Church or, as you say, the Clergy, have erred in their defense of their own members when they committed horrible crimes.
Making a list and then spewing a vitriolic, strawmanning reply does not make you right, even if your points are valid. It just means you're really bad at making your points.
Except it's not a long-term service agreement when getting out of it is as easy as it is.
You can call it a long-term service agreement when that's actually enforced, k?
Way to ignore his points. On another note, tomorrow I'm off to buy lottery tickets with my credit card.
I'm guessing his sharing permissions aren't set so that everyone can access everything ;p
Bruce knows a thing or two about permissions management, I think he can run an open WAP and still have a secured local network. And he could always isolate the two if he wanted, too. Make the physical LAN require a VPN to get into. That's only one way of doing it.
Such internet drama! Should we, the members of the FOSS batten the hatches and man the torpedoes? Clearly if they've made an act of agression toward us we should respond! Postemptively!