we can look forward to ever application having a confusing interface that contradicts itself on every page in its style and functionality. It will also shuffle where to find things every month, so things are never in the same place twice.
Because so many artists are know by only one name. Madonna, Rianna, Michaelangelo
mcgrew?
Joking aside, your first two are no more "artists" than I am, and it was Michaelangelo Bonnoratti (and I may have spelled his name wrong). Da Vinci, on the other hand, was known simply as "Leonardo"; Da Vinci is Italian for "of Venice".
The future always ends up looking remarkably like the present, just with a few more cool toys, and a higher degree of complexity to our lives.
I see you're not very old yet. have you ever been had surgery and been anesthetized by ether? That is some wicked nasty shit that is a true nightmare going under (you literally think you're dying) and when you wake up, youre sick as a dog. Now? In the sci-fi 21st century, they say "ok, you're going to sleep." You say "how long until I'm unconscious?" and they reply "we're done, you're in the recovery room." Have a cataract? Sorry, you're going to need a guide dog. Today? A CrystaLens implant gives you better than 20/25 at all distances, even if you were severely nearsighted before.
When you left the grocery store carrying big paper bags of groceries, you have to pull the heavy door open to get out of the store; no magic doors that opened when you got close.
Your car had no ABS, air bags, seat belts, disk brakes, cruise control, air conditioning, or fuel injection. Your small car was lucky to get 20 mpg on the highway, and the lead fumes it belched made children mentally retarded. There was no EPA so when you drove past the Monsanto plant you rolled the windows up even if it was a hundred degrees outside, because the air would burn your lungs. Want to go fishing? Fine, but I'd advise you not to eat the fish... the lakes and rivers were all horribly polluted.
Speaking of children, many of them died or were crippled for life from polio.
Want to eat a TV dinner? No microwaves to do it in five minutes, you had to pre-heat the oven for ten minutes and cook the TV dinner for half an hour. Popcorn? Again, you couldn't just toss a bag in the nuker and hit the popcorn button, you got out a pan and some butter, melted the butter in the bottom of the pan, pour the popcorn in, put the lid on, and stand there shaking the pan for ten minutes or so until the popcorn stopped popping.
Cool toys? Sheesh.
Make a phone call? Well, first you have to find a phone booth, get out of the car, look the number up unless it was one you dialed every day (with a real dial on the phone).
Want to watch a movie? You have to go to the theater. Balance your checkbook? Do the math with a pencil, there weren't any calculators; not affordable ones, anyway.
Drill a hole? Drills all had power cords.
Complexity? Life was far more complex back then. Everything was harder to do.
Oh, I don't know... a printed image in a book has a pretty limited resolution. An on-line image can offer a lot more... take a look at the very high resolution imagery provided by http://googleartproject.com./ You can see the work as a whole or if you'd like to you can zoom in to see more detail than you could see if you were standing in front of the real piece.
I don't care how high the resolution is, it's not going to look as good as the original unless the original is crap, and if it's crap you won't see it in a museum or an art history class... well, ok I take that last back, many hitsorians will show slides of crappy work that went for big money two centuries ago that are worthless now because they were always artistically worthless. But he'll have slides, the pictures won't be in any book I know of. Also, you're not going to need a magnifying glass to look at a one square inch piece of a six by ten foot painting, not even in a drawing class.
The book illustration is to show the artists' style, composition, and... well, for use of color you're going to have to see the original work, because neither in a book or a web page will the colors match the actual work exactly.
You are not allowed to make an identical painting. That would be punished as counterfeit.
You are indeed allowed to make an identical painting, so long as the original isn't under copyright protection and you don't try to pass it off as the original.
Make an exact copy of the Mona Lisa and sell it as a reproduction, legal.
Make an exact copy of a Rothenberg, punished for copyright infringement.
Make an exact copy of the Mona Lisa and sell it as the original, punished for fraud.
Well, there are guys like me: I have a tower running kubuntu, a notebook running W7, and an old Dell someone gave me that I repaired, including XP install disks. I want to use that box to sample LPs and cassettes and burn them to CD. EAC won't run on Linux or on any machine without an optical drive, and Audacity simply lacks the features I need. My only choices are XP on the old junker or buy a brand new computer, or build one from new parts and buy W7.
Nope, XP has to stay until they port EAC to Linux or the computer fairy buys me a new computer. You expect grandma, who's had her computer for ten years and only uses it for surfing and email, to spend a couple hundred bucks just to keep your spam box empty? Even the price of W7 is way too much, even if that old computer could run W7. As long as there are XP computers still useable, Microsoft should support it. It's their buggy code and bad design, after all.
He clearly doesn't understand the first thing about the human ear or brain. The *bitrate* is 5% of the original CD, but the human-effective *datarate* is ~95%. That last ~5% of the signal is various harmonics, twitchy bits, and other stuff that the human ear is simply incapable of hearing,
I think you're the one who doesn't understand sound or hearing. The human ear/brain is indeed capable of hearing the difference between a pure sine wave at 440 Hz and a middle C tone played on a piano. The only difference between the pure sine and the piano is harmonics. If you couldn't hear harmonics you couldn't tell the difference between a guitar or a piano -- the only difference is the harmonics.
Human hearing ranges from ~20-30 Hz to 15-22kHz. Most teenagers can hear all the way to 20 kHz. If you take three electronically produced 15kHz tones, one a sine wave, one a sawtooth wave, and one a square wave, that teenager can tell the difference between them. But record those three tones at 44.1k samples per second and you have only three samples per crest; not nearly enough to discern what the shape of the wave it is. That's why vinyl sounds better than CDs if your turntable and speakers are good enough -- and most aren't. In fact, with your average non-super speaker system, the lossy compression will indeed sound no different than the CD it was ripped from.
You are correct, however, about the ear/brains' inability to hear a soft sound when overlaid by a louder sound; IOW its lack of dynamic range. Another lossy compression trick does the opposite; introducing gain on softer parts to make up for a lack of dynamic range compression introduces, and this is clearly audible on samples of LPs and cassettes; the scratches and hisses are magnified. You'll hear tape hiss on the MP3 that you couldn't hear on the original cassette (that said, by the time CDs came out, Dolby had made hissing cassettes a thing of the past).
I also agree that he's shilling for a lock-in; when FLAC or SHN are uncompressed, you get an exact copy of the original digital signal. There's no need for a new, proprietary codec.
DOOOOOOD.... Big woosh. It was a joke; Dice didn't censor his comment. He wrote it exactly as it was presented on the page.
He did the same thing yesterday, only under his user name. I countered by responding to his post with a vicious diatribe against Dice which would indeed have been censored if Dice did such a thing here. They don't. Both posts were modded -1 offtopic, as they should have been, but neither was actually removed.
As to "Who gave the owner mod points?", admins and editors here have always had unlimited mod points. If Samzepus thinks your comment sucks, he can drag that +3 insightful to -1 troll any time he wants to. However, I think it's rear that they do that.
I love the fact so many people still refer to it as âoeTin Foilâ despite the fact we've been using aluminum foil, not tin, since the middle of last century.
Tin was first replaced by aluminium in 1910, when the first aluminium foil rolling plant, "Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie." was opened in Emmishofen, Switzerland. Not the middle of the last century, the very beginning.
This gives me hope for such phrases as âoedialing the phone.â
Well, you'd have to come up with a short enough replacement for "dialing". It's phone dials that have been gone since the middle (or shortly after anyway) the last century. What would you replace "dialing" with? Buttoning? I don't think you need to worry about "dialing" being replaced for some time.
Not to mention companies like to keep things confidential and out of view from competitors
What I want to know is why a bunch of nerds like us would listen to anything a CEO has to say about the future of software development? That's like an astronomer telling a room full of physicists about the future of physics.
Audiophiles prefer vinyl because they think it gives better sound because they prefer the analog artefacts.
Incorrect; audiophiles (I wish I could afford to be one) hate the artifacts. However, they hate CDs' limited frequency response and aliasing distortion.
Now, for you or I, who can't afford a $500 turntable and $2000 speakers, that CD is going to beat that vinyl every time. Your cheap turntable will have rumble (the expensive one won't), will have the bass attenuated to combat that rumble, and the treble attenuated to compensate for the changed tone.
If you have good (read: expensive) equipment, your frequency response on an LP will range from almost zero Hz to past dog whistles -- when they introduced quadraphonics in the 1970s, they added the extra two channels by modulating them with a 40kHz tone, which was demodulated by the turntable. Meaning, of course, vinyl will go past not just CD's Nyquist limit, but even its sampling rate.
The benefit is you save thousands of dollars on snake oil audiophile gear.
Like those Monster Cables? People buy them out of ignorance; out of not understanding the difference between analog and digital. For a middle class guy like me, digital beats analog. For a rich audiophile, CDs can't hold a candle.
One of these assholes saying chocolate is good for your heart. What kind of wishful thinking would lead a sane person to believe in that level of horseshit?
Very often, science trumps logic, and even more often it trumps public perception. This is one of those times. Science has demonstrated (others have posted links to studies) that chocolate, especially unsweetened or semi-sweet chocolate, is in fact good for you.
Of course, public perception is that anything that tastes good is bad for you -- and THAT is the rankest horseshit.
Please clear this up, I fear you're making a thinly veiled racist statement about blacks and hispanics, or a classist statement about poor people. Crime doesn't fit any subculture; every culture has honest people, peaceful people, thieves and murderers.
Why would hospitals worry about the dose of X-rays they give you if "no scientific study has yet proved that electromagnetic stimulus adversely impacts personal health"?
Because the danger from X-rays isn't that they're electromagnetic, it's because the radiation is ionizing. Normal radio waves aren't.
Do you really need a 3d printer, or is it just a toy?
Your question reminds me of questions people asked when I bought my first computer in 1982. "Why in the hell would anyone need a computer?" Compared to today's computers it WAS a toy -- but an incredibly useful toy.
The copyright to the original paintings hanging in a museum expired some years after the painter died.
Art produced before the 20th century usually went out of copyright BEFORE the artist died; copyright lengths used to be reasonable. OTOH, 20th century paintings are almost all still under copyright, and a lot of these will be in art textbooks.
But $180 for an artless art book? I'd never attend a university run by anyone so stupid. I have several high quality art books with very large pages and very large reproductions, and I don't think I paid more than $40 for any of them.
This is nothing short of a ripoff and it's inexcusable.
And this is why Linux will never be more than just an "alternative" desktop OS.
No, the reason it will never be more than an alternative OS is because nobody but us nerds have ever heard of it. Windows and iOS have million dollar ad budgets, Linux doesn't.
Because its user base is always assumed to just KNOW how everything works, and if you pose a question that some neckbeard thinks is "stupid", he'll let you know it, and you'll be the focal point of mockery and derision.
That hasn't been my experience. I found that if I asked a legitimate question politely, I'd almost always get a good answer, whether asking in a slashdot comment, help board, or even from my own site I'd get helpful emails from readers.
OTOH I have seen idiots come up with "WTF?? Where's the C: drive in this stupid OS?" I say idiot because you'd be incredibly stupid to expect anything but "RTFM n00b" from a question posed like that. Say "I'm confused, I have two drives in this machine, how do I find them? Thanks." and you'll almost always get a good answer.
When you call a proprietary help desk that have to politely answer questions asked impolitely or even insultingly -- it's sales and money to them. If you're used to getting answers to rude questions, don't bother asking Linux questions until you learn to behave like an adult.
Oh, and I WILL be modded down for this, and it WILL validate my point even more.
Wrong, n00b. You're sitting at +4 right now, as an AC and you started at 0. It's perfectly understandable why you get dissed.
So at some level we will be able to store more than off/on information?
You could do that now, but you would need a completely new archetecture. You could have a three state machine, positive, negative, and off. It would work in trinary rather than binary (000 001 002 010 011 012 020 021...)
back in the fifties through seventies they had "infinite state" analog computers in many universities. I built a primitive one when I was 12 (more of an electric slide rule than a computer). But the big fancy ones did real math for real scientific research.
It depends on the museum. You're not allowed to take pictures in the Dali museum, but you can (haven't been there in a while, they may have changed it) in the St Louis Art Museum. Much of what's there is in the art history books, it's a very good museum.
The difference being that you can't do anything with a single bit, although this will of course lead to better things, but a single vaccuum tube, a diode, wire, and a speaker will make a radio (without the tube you need headphones). A single vaccuum tube is an amplifier..
If people are worried about someone's cry for help, call someone who can help, not the law. They have no ways - nor intentions - of helping the person.
There's an article in today's local paper about just that.
When the Jacksonville Developmental Center finally closes its doors, police there are worried that the 130 or so remaining residents will simply be released into the community because there is nowhere else for them to go.
"And they're going to end up in jail," said Jacksonville Police Chief Tony Grootens. "That's the shame about it."
Law enforcement officials and mental health professionals met Wednesday at the University of Illinois Springfield to hear about what they called Illinois' mental health crisis and how police and the community need to respond.
"The word 'crisis' couldn't be a greater understatement," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, the keynote speaker at the symposium. "There is less attention and fewer resources being given to it, and the mentally ill are being thrown in jail.
"By that neglect, law enforcement is the primary provider of mental health treatment," he said. "Nobody on the planet thinks that is good."
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we can look forward to ever application having a confusing interface that contradicts itself on every page in its style and functionality. It will also shuffle where to find things every month, so things are never in the same place twice.
So... in the Windows world, nothing will change?
Because so many artists are know by only one name. Madonna, Rianna, Michaelangelo
mcgrew?
Joking aside, your first two are no more "artists" than I am, and it was Michaelangelo Bonnoratti (and I may have spelled his name wrong). Da Vinci, on the other hand, was known simply as "Leonardo"; Da Vinci is Italian for "of Venice".
The future always ends up looking remarkably like the present, just with a few more cool toys, and a higher degree of complexity to our lives.
I see you're not very old yet. have you ever been had surgery and been anesthetized by ether? That is some wicked nasty shit that is a true nightmare going under (you literally think you're dying) and when you wake up, youre sick as a dog. Now? In the sci-fi 21st century, they say "ok, you're going to sleep." You say "how long until I'm unconscious?" and they reply "we're done, you're in the recovery room." Have a cataract? Sorry, you're going to need a guide dog. Today? A CrystaLens implant gives you better than 20/25 at all distances, even if you were severely nearsighted before.
When you left the grocery store carrying big paper bags of groceries, you have to pull the heavy door open to get out of the store; no magic doors that opened when you got close.
Your car had no ABS, air bags, seat belts, disk brakes, cruise control, air conditioning, or fuel injection. Your small car was lucky to get 20 mpg on the highway, and the lead fumes it belched made children mentally retarded. There was no EPA so when you drove past the Monsanto plant you rolled the windows up even if it was a hundred degrees outside, because the air would burn your lungs. Want to go fishing? Fine, but I'd advise you not to eat the fish... the lakes and rivers were all horribly polluted.
Speaking of children, many of them died or were crippled for life from polio.
Want to eat a TV dinner? No microwaves to do it in five minutes, you had to pre-heat the oven for ten minutes and cook the TV dinner for half an hour. Popcorn? Again, you couldn't just toss a bag in the nuker and hit the popcorn button, you got out a pan and some butter, melted the butter in the bottom of the pan, pour the popcorn in, put the lid on, and stand there shaking the pan for ten minutes or so until the popcorn stopped popping.
Cool toys? Sheesh.
Make a phone call? Well, first you have to find a phone booth, get out of the car, look the number up unless it was one you dialed every day (with a real dial on the phone).
Want to watch a movie? You have to go to the theater. Balance your checkbook? Do the math with a pencil, there weren't any calculators; not affordable ones, anyway.
Drill a hole? Drills all had power cords.
Complexity? Life was far more complex back then. Everything was harder to do.
How can you "click a link" from a dead tree book?
Oh, I don't know... a printed image in a book has a pretty limited resolution. An on-line image can offer a lot more... take a look at the very high resolution imagery provided by http://googleartproject.com./ You can see the work as a whole or if you'd like to you can zoom in to see more detail than you could see if you were standing in front of the real piece.
I don't care how high the resolution is, it's not going to look as good as the original unless the original is crap, and if it's crap you won't see it in a museum or an art history class... well, ok I take that last back, many hitsorians will show slides of crappy work that went for big money two centuries ago that are worthless now because they were always artistically worthless. But he'll have slides, the pictures won't be in any book I know of. Also, you're not going to need a magnifying glass to look at a one square inch piece of a six by ten foot painting, not even in a drawing class.
The book illustration is to show the artists' style, composition, and... well, for use of color you're going to have to see the original work, because neither in a book or a web page will the colors match the actual work exactly.
You are not allowed to make an identical painting. That would be punished as counterfeit.
You are indeed allowed to make an identical painting, so long as the original isn't under copyright protection and you don't try to pass it off as the original.
Make an exact copy of the Mona Lisa and sell it as a reproduction, legal.
Make an exact copy of a Rothenberg, punished for copyright infringement.
Make an exact copy of the Mona Lisa and sell it as the original, punished for fraud.
You're defending mediocrity?
Well, there are guys like me: I have a tower running kubuntu, a notebook running W7, and an old Dell someone gave me that I repaired, including XP install disks. I want to use that box to sample LPs and cassettes and burn them to CD. EAC won't run on Linux or on any machine without an optical drive, and Audacity simply lacks the features I need. My only choices are XP on the old junker or buy a brand new computer, or build one from new parts and buy W7.
Nope, XP has to stay until they port EAC to Linux or the computer fairy buys me a new computer. You expect grandma, who's had her computer for ten years and only uses it for surfing and email, to spend a couple hundred bucks just to keep your spam box empty? Even the price of W7 is way too much, even if that old computer could run W7. As long as there are XP computers still useable, Microsoft should support it. It's their buggy code and bad design, after all.
He clearly doesn't understand the first thing about the human ear or brain. The *bitrate* is 5% of the original CD, but the human-effective *datarate* is ~95%. That last ~5% of the signal is various harmonics, twitchy bits, and other stuff that the human ear is simply incapable of hearing,
I think you're the one who doesn't understand sound or hearing. The human ear/brain is indeed capable of hearing the difference between a pure sine wave at 440 Hz and a middle C tone played on a piano. The only difference between the pure sine and the piano is harmonics. If you couldn't hear harmonics you couldn't tell the difference between a guitar or a piano -- the only difference is the harmonics.
Human hearing ranges from ~20-30 Hz to 15-22kHz. Most teenagers can hear all the way to 20 kHz. If you take three electronically produced 15kHz tones, one a sine wave, one a sawtooth wave, and one a square wave, that teenager can tell the difference between them. But record those three tones at 44.1k samples per second and you have only three samples per crest; not nearly enough to discern what the shape of the wave it is. That's why vinyl sounds better than CDs if your turntable and speakers are good enough -- and most aren't. In fact, with your average non-super speaker system, the lossy compression will indeed sound no different than the CD it was ripped from.
You are correct, however, about the ear/brains' inability to hear a soft sound when overlaid by a louder sound; IOW its lack of dynamic range. Another lossy compression trick does the opposite; introducing gain on softer parts to make up for a lack of dynamic range compression introduces, and this is clearly audible on samples of LPs and cassettes; the scratches and hisses are magnified. You'll hear tape hiss on the MP3 that you couldn't hear on the original cassette (that said, by the time CDs came out, Dolby had made hissing cassettes a thing of the past).
I also agree that he's shilling for a lock-in; when FLAC or SHN are uncompressed, you get an exact copy of the original digital signal. There's no need for a new, proprietary codec.
DOOOOOOD.... Big woosh. It was a joke; Dice didn't censor his comment. He wrote it exactly as it was presented on the page.
He did the same thing yesterday, only under his user name. I countered by responding to his post with a vicious diatribe against Dice which would indeed have been censored if Dice did such a thing here. They don't. Both posts were modded -1 offtopic, as they should have been, but neither was actually removed.
As to "Who gave the owner mod points?", admins and editors here have always had unlimited mod points. If Samzepus thinks your comment sucks, he can drag that +3 insightful to -1 troll any time he wants to. However, I think it's rear that they do that.
I think 180 is ridiculus, but if the text was good, $50 is, IMHO, not unreasonable.
No, it is in fact very unreasonable. An art history book without photos is like a mathematics book without numbers.
I love the fact so many people still refer to it as âoeTin Foilâ despite the fact we've been using aluminum foil, not tin, since the middle of last century.
Tin was first replaced by aluminium in 1910, when the first aluminium foil rolling plant, "Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie." was opened in Emmishofen, Switzerland. Not the middle of the last century, the very beginning.
This gives me hope for such phrases as âoedialing the phone.â
Well, you'd have to come up with a short enough replacement for "dialing". It's phone dials that have been gone since the middle (or shortly after anyway) the last century. What would you replace "dialing" with? Buttoning? I don't think you need to worry about "dialing" being replaced for some time.
Not to mention companies like to keep things confidential and out of view from competitors
What I want to know is why a bunch of nerds like us would listen to anything a CEO has to say about the future of software development? That's like an astronomer telling a room full of physicists about the future of physics.
Audiophiles prefer vinyl because they think it gives better sound because they prefer the analog artefacts.
Incorrect; audiophiles (I wish I could afford to be one) hate the artifacts. However, they hate CDs' limited frequency response and aliasing distortion.
Now, for you or I, who can't afford a $500 turntable and $2000 speakers, that CD is going to beat that vinyl every time. Your cheap turntable will have rumble (the expensive one won't), will have the bass attenuated to combat that rumble, and the treble attenuated to compensate for the changed tone.
If you have good (read: expensive) equipment, your frequency response on an LP will range from almost zero Hz to past dog whistles -- when they introduced quadraphonics in the 1970s, they added the extra two channels by modulating them with a 40kHz tone, which was demodulated by the turntable. Meaning, of course, vinyl will go past not just CD's Nyquist limit, but even its sampling rate.
The benefit is you save thousands of dollars on snake oil audiophile gear.
Like those Monster Cables? People buy them out of ignorance; out of not understanding the difference between analog and digital. For a middle class guy like me, digital beats analog. For a rich audiophile, CDs can't hold a candle.
How do I mod the judge a Troll?
You can't, you already commented!
One of these assholes saying chocolate is good for your heart. What kind of wishful thinking would lead a sane person to believe in that level of horseshit?
Very often, science trumps logic, and even more often it trumps public perception. This is one of those times. Science has demonstrated (others have posted links to studies) that chocolate, especially unsweetened or semi-sweet chocolate, is in fact good for you.
Of course, public perception is that anything that tastes good is bad for you -- and THAT is the rankest horseshit.
violent crimes in the USA are largely committed by certain few subcultures
Do you have the balls to outright name these "subcultures"? The police subculture maybe? Or perhaps Rich people?
Please clear this up, I fear you're making a thinly veiled racist statement about blacks and hispanics, or a classist statement about poor people. Crime doesn't fit any subculture; every culture has honest people, peaceful people, thieves and murderers.
Why would hospitals worry about the dose of X-rays they give you if "no scientific study has yet proved that electromagnetic stimulus adversely impacts personal health"?
Because the danger from X-rays isn't that they're electromagnetic, it's because the radiation is ionizing. Normal radio waves aren't.
Do you really need a 3d printer, or is it just a toy?
Your question reminds me of questions people asked when I bought my first computer in 1982. "Why in the hell would anyone need a computer?" Compared to today's computers it WAS a toy -- but an incredibly useful toy.
The copyright to the original paintings hanging in a museum expired some years after the painter died.
Art produced before the 20th century usually went out of copyright BEFORE the artist died; copyright lengths used to be reasonable. OTOH, 20th century paintings are almost all still under copyright, and a lot of these will be in art textbooks.
But $180 for an artless art book? I'd never attend a university run by anyone so stupid. I have several high quality art books with very large pages and very large reproductions, and I don't think I paid more than $40 for any of them.
This is nothing short of a ripoff and it's inexcusable.
And this is why Linux will never be more than just an "alternative" desktop OS.
No, the reason it will never be more than an alternative OS is because nobody but us nerds have ever heard of it. Windows and iOS have million dollar ad budgets, Linux doesn't.
Because its user base is always assumed to just KNOW how everything works, and if you pose a question that some neckbeard thinks is "stupid", he'll let you know it, and you'll be the focal point of mockery and derision.
That hasn't been my experience. I found that if I asked a legitimate question politely, I'd almost always get a good answer, whether asking in a slashdot comment, help board, or even from my own site I'd get helpful emails from readers.
OTOH I have seen idiots come up with "WTF?? Where's the C: drive in this stupid OS?" I say idiot because you'd be incredibly stupid to expect anything but "RTFM n00b" from a question posed like that. Say "I'm confused, I have two drives in this machine, how do I find them? Thanks." and you'll almost always get a good answer.
When you call a proprietary help desk that have to politely answer questions asked impolitely or even insultingly -- it's sales and money to them. If you're used to getting answers to rude questions, don't bother asking Linux questions until you learn to behave like an adult.
Oh, and I WILL be modded down for this, and it WILL validate my point even more.
Wrong, n00b. You're sitting at +4 right now, as an AC and you started at 0. It's perfectly understandable why you get dissed.
So at some level we will be able to store more than off/on information?
You could do that now, but you would need a completely new archetecture. You could have a three state machine, positive, negative, and off. It would work in trinary rather than binary (000 001 002 010 011 012 020 021...)
back in the fifties through seventies they had "infinite state" analog computers in many universities. I built a primitive one when I was 12 (more of an electric slide rule than a computer). But the big fancy ones did real math for real scientific research.
It depends on the museum. You're not allowed to take pictures in the Dali museum, but you can (haven't been there in a while, they may have changed it) in the St Louis Art Museum. Much of what's there is in the art history books, it's a very good museum.
The difference being that you can't do anything with a single bit, although this will of course lead to better things, but a single vaccuum tube, a diode, wire, and a speaker will make a radio (without the tube you need headphones). A single vaccuum tube is an amplifier..
If people are worried about someone's cry for help, call someone who can help, not the law. They have no ways - nor intentions - of helping the person.
There's an article in today's local paper about just that.
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