Unfortunately, Service Electric is still in business for exactly the reasons you commented on. They do everything they can, IMHO, to watch the bottom line. Still, as far as cable companies go - and it pains me to say this - they're far from the worst. Ironically, SE has been subcontracted to do the on site installation for Kutztown's fiber internet and TV packages. I guess you're familiar with the old saying "those who understand the technology never manage it, those who manage technology never understand it".
Cool.... now we can all shelter whenever there is a SEVERE LINUS WARNING. The required Tanenbaum front has been too quiet and the Gnome index has been low lately to issue such warnings. All we have is CFS overcast, at worst, so far as I can tell.
Perhaps we should get RMS and ESR to bug him a bit? Or we could lock him in a room with John Dvorak for a few hours and insist they discuss "the problem with current operating systems", until they have an RFC drafted that they both agree on?
Huh? Are we using JBuilder? Bean... ah, we're talking J2EE. Something to build...something to build... if only we had 'factories' or something. You do realize that 'factories' are old hat? You need a factory factory factory these days... What can I say, I'm old skool for a 23 year old;) Besides, I took Java twice with a semester in between and the language changed (5 to 6); that makes me an old timer with 'back in the day' war stories or something. Joel on Software, good call, man! One of the few management figureheads from Microsoft that I actually care to pay attention to! Perhaps that's also because he's no longer with Microsoft... but, I digress.
That's not the submitter's problem. You need to bone up on some acronyms, or you'll never make a goodJavaProgrammer. Here's a quick lesson in what you should do:
Write a thousand different programs using acronyms that start with J that do nothing except fuck up the data as it's being transmitted between the database and your application. Then, you have to write automated tools that also are acronyms that start with J and contain the word "Bean" in there somewhere, and those exist to generate parts of those previously mentioned thousand programs. Huh? Are we using JBuilder? Bean... ah, we're talking J2EE. Something to build...something to build... if only we had 'factories' or something.
Then, write some Swing components that have nothing to do with all of this, and call those by almost exactly the same names, so that people get confused and can't do a proper Google search for documentation. Name an IDE after the Swing components, too.
How about that 60 meg folder called 'Docs' that comes with the JDK? It's even got pictures! You can drill down to the 'swing' section (think about the naming and that 'J' thing again while viewing this vs. the SWT;) )
Finally, call it all "middleware," give it yet ANOTHER name and bundle it all together, making sure that everything breaks if you don't include fifty different XML configuration files in the proper directory hierarchy that changes with each version.
I guess it could be called 'glueware'. Try starting with '.', the hierarchy descends from there. Regardless of what your manager read in 'Buzzword of the Moment Daily', you don't have to use any XML.
Then when all of this doesn't work for more than one project because it's hopelessly complex, do it all over again and call it the next greatest revolution in Java middleware.
Trying using SCM, separation of concerns, encapsulation, and polymorphism.
All that being said, I don't much like java; I just think you're flaming it for the wrong reasons. How about if statements, operator overloading (or lack, thereof), switch statements, and the fact that it FINALLY just got autoboxing? Oh, yeah, and could they make the object names any longer? I can usually almost instantiate an object on a single 80 column line if my variable name is less than 4 letters. And why the crap am I always having to manually repaint the screen?! Just my $.02, YMMV. Fire in the hole!
The real kicker is that the town put in fiber because the telco's couldn't bother. We're out in the corn fields and probably wouldn't be worth the trouble. It's rumored that when the telco found out, it sounded something like, "Oh, what's that... a fiber backbone you say? Payed for with bonds? Breaking even and starting a profit in 7 years? This must be illegal! If not, it should be!"
They were really, really ticked! Here's a snippet from Wired News, it's from late '04 when this whole thing was going down: (FTA @
Public Fiber Tough to Swallow):
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Kutztown Borough manager James Vettraino said his town's fiber-access project is on schedule to break even after seven years. Vettraino said there are currently 600 customers using data, video and voice services in the community.
"We wanted to have broadband throughout the community as an economic development tool for businesses, and we were not happy with the availability (at the time)," he said.
Vettraino said the incumbent cable TV provider, Service Electric, voiced opposition to the project at several town hall meetings. He said the cable provider also dropped prices to be more competitive in Kutztown while not changing rates in areas where it continues to have a monopoly.
Kutztown was the first community in Pennsylvania to offer fiber to the home for its residents, and a bill in the Pennsylvania House could make it the last. The aim of the Government Competition Against Private Enterprise Act (HB298) is to "protect economic opportunities for private enterprise against unfair competition by government agencies" in services "beyond their government function."
The bill, which was drafted a few months after Kutztown began providing fiber to the home, is a direct result of the threat of competition to cable TV and telecommunications providers, according to Nicholas Giordano, a telecommunications strategist at consulting firm Affinity Group.
Giordano, who previously worked for Pennsylvania's telecommunications department, said that data and video services providers have made it known to state legislators that they do not want to battle with municipalities for market share.
"It shows how threatened they are by that activity (in Kutztown)," he said.
Giordano said small municipalities might encounter difficulties in delivering fiber-based services because "they aren't familiar with managing these kinds of information systems." But he believes communities that are not receiving adequate broadband and cable service from the private sector should be able to fill the void themselves.
"Bandwidth is a necessity for the public good like water or electricity," he said. "You are not going to get a creative society (which) will be the engine of job growth in places where they can't have access to information."
They should tell us how many parsecs it could do the Kessel run in.
A parsec is a measure of distance... and the Kessel Run is a measure of distance (18 parsecs). So we're measuring how far we can travel in... a given distance?
I don't even want to think about the equations required to move in 3D^2 space. Must be some kind of wormhole involved in there somewhere.
Correction - 4D^2 space. We still include time where or not we're measuring it. Good luck sleeping tonight!
Are you talking about Kutztown, PA? The entire town is fiber with a 68 strand backbone, and 40-something strand branches. I'm on 10-mbit down, 1 (although they give me 2) mbit up, and the fiber also provides TV. $45 a month for internet, $60-something for internet+TV (with premium channels and a sports package of some type. I only got the internet package.) Afterwards, Pennsylvania effectively made towns doing this illegal. Comcast, Service Electric, Verizon, etc. were not happy campers when they were trying to sell 1 mbit/256 kbit internet packages for $60/month. Oh, yeah, and the tech support is top notch. Even the utilities are remote administered from the borough, water, gas, electric - they monitor it all in real time and bundle your services on a single bill that you can have them put on your credit card. You get a single statement in the mail with a breakdown of your utilites, and can write a single check (I just have them charge my card each month). Beautiful system.
Yeah, but I couldn't find a way to get AMD to mail me a hard copy of their documentation (at least, not for free). If they do so, please correct me, as I haven't looked in quite a few months.
If you root around Intel's site a bit, you can get the developer manuals for asm on their chips; I think there's like 5 of them @ 300 pages+ each. It's all the documentation, I think only 1 book is the actual language specs. Anyways, if you ask them nicely via email, they'll send the manuals to you for free. I got mine in under a week from when I emailed them. They even pay shipping.
Also, I know from asm on SPARC that many op codes are really just variations of other ops (and/or pseudo ops). For instance, (I'm not sure of the x86 equivalent).mul is a pseudo op for sll (shift left logical), IIRC. And almost every op has a data type specific variation (byte, half, word, double, etc), on top of that.
Unix *is* open source. Between *BSD and Solaris, pretty much all the Unix code you might want is available. Seriously - what useful code is in some version of Unix that Novel may hold copyrights for that isn't in *BSD or Solaris?
Well... I'd like to compile my own Solaris kernel, please?
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Once Silverlight takes off and displaces Flash as the delivery system of choice for shitty-assed content, Microsoft will be free to extend Silverlight in any way they desire, without passing those changes on to the Mac or to Mono. I really have no idea what the answer to the question I'm about to ask is, so I'm prepared for the worst (so long as no one links John Dvorak - that's more than I can take today)...
Do you think the MS developers that are spending so much time and effort (read: blood, sweat, and tears - as the developers here are well aware) to work on making Silverlight work with Mono will really want to stop making their project as good as it can be? Do you think Microsoft has the loyalty from their programmers to tell them, "OK, stop adding features that work cross platform and change direction!", and have them give up on what they've been working on? Microsoft developer or not, as we (developers) write code, that code becomes our child in a sense. We want to do everything that we can to see it succeed - and management can bugger off, we know that code better than anyone else on the planet, and no one can replace us (without studying up for a good long time without touching the code).
Furthermore, don't you think these developers will have bonded quite a bit to their fellow developers over at the Mono project? They probably spend more time communicating with these guys than they do their siblings and parents. This networking probably also gives them good inroads with a good number of people and companies.
I just think that what you suggest would result in either direct insubordination or group defection. These guys (the real developers) could probably just hop over to google if they wanted to stage a protest.
What do you guys think? Am I way off base, yet again?
I just have more speakers, I'm pulling it apart so that I can have harmony playing from the back, and melody in the front, lyrics on the front center. It all mixes back the same 'in the air', and IMHO it sounds better when there isn't so much info crammed in to a single speaker. The dynamics seem better when they (melody and harmony) have their own speaker that isn't shared for melody that drowns out harmony in the background. All I'm doing is giving it an atmospheric mixing which puts me in the sweet spot. Also, I pull out the really, really low since I don't have Low Frequency Equipment, and the really, really highs since my speakers are crappy and sound horrible in the upper register (regardless of encoding). I guess my point is that (this is merely my opinion) if the engineers had more channels to play with, they wouldn't be cramming so much into the main stereo channels. However, since it's all in there, why not pull out the and allow it to highlight the main stereo channels, instead of being woven into them where it gets drown out. I hope this makes sense, it's been a long day and I'm trying to explain as I rush off to do more work. To sum it up, 3 dimensions are better than 2 (well, 4 since there is a delay on the rear to give a more '3d' sound - but you get the idea).
Check out the Kx audio drivers. I can reroute my audio chip to send the frequency ranges and such (and much, much more) to other channels (using ASIO from foobar2k), and remix them just before compressing them to PCM that goes to my receiver. I usually filter out the highs to the front, lows to the rear, and vocals to center. There's a lot more in 2 channels than you realize if you take the time to pull them apart.
As for your assertion on my mechanical abilities, I'm in the process of rebuilding my 1969 Triumph Trophy motorcycle. As well as previous work on a 1965 Thunderbird... then again, I never could get the timing right on that thing and kept throwing rods. Perhaps you've pegged me on that one.
Any layer of mechanical work will only show an improvement if the layers below it are bottle necked by said layer; a 3 GHz processor won't do anything if it's bottlenecked on the front side bus and constantly idle waiting for data.
So you can settle trivial arguments with your friends when away from an internet connection, duh!
(Or to always have something to read on your laptop while traveling - this is what I would use it for) I bet you're quite the ladies man, huh? Sorry, I couldn't resist!
I love programming useless things just for the challenge.
Have you ever worked on a project called "Clippey", by chance?
No, he said he has a love for programming; not a seething hatred for users. Besides, everyone knows programmers only hate admins.;) On behalf of the programmers, I'd like to say that this isn't true we love our admins. Who else makes sure that our connections*&#^$: Connection Reset By Peer
I broke it last week - my first encounter with Gentoo, it did go better than the week before that with Solaris, though. My normal distro is Slackware, I usually can't break it if I try.;)
Your receiver makes all the difference in the world. I have a fairly complex audio setup (kx drivers, hand crafted routing, etc) although I by no means consider myself an audiophile. I had it all hooked up to an RCA receiver and it sounded good enough, regardless of codec, bit rate and sample rate. Then I got an Onkyo receiver and the very same music now seems so much more 'alive', I can't tell you the codec or bit rate of anything that plays now, but I can tell you when I did a crappy job encoding now that the sound is so much more 'crisp'.
I've still got both of the receivers hooked up and I'd say I could probably tell you which one was active around 80% of the time (just a number I'm pulling from thin air, but I think it's fairly accurate, FWIW). The other thing that matters, IMHO, more than anything else (besides nice speakers), is the engineer that put the music together in the studio. I've heard great bands sound crappy, and crappy bands sound great merely due to how it's mixed. Most albums aren't mixed by a great engineer, and you know when you have one that is.
Regardless of what you think of the band or 'pop-punk' or 'emo' or whatever it's labeled - check out any album by Fallout Boy. Get an album copy, not an MP3. You can pick it up at wal*mart next time you need a hard drive at 2am and are in the same general area as the music. If you hate it, you're out $10 and you can brighten up the day of an emo kid by unloading it on them and their white suburbia world. Really, either of their last 2 albums are great, regardless of your taste in music. I'm eclectic and I'll listen to it back to back with Bach.
I'm not sure who they got, or what they paid him, but it was worth it. If you pull the music apart, there are beautiful piano accompaniments that are just woven into the music so perfectly that you don't know that they're there until you start pulling the tracks apart a bit. The dynamic variance of the tracks will give you a screaming guitar in the forefront, with a melody 7 or 8 db lower just beneath it. These things really come out well in a 5.1 setup, and great in a 7.1. Oh, and turn off the 1U racks in the closet; it'll make all music sound that much better. Then again, if you're holding your music on them... just unplug the fans;).
...NVidia has been pretty good about keeping pace with these, but your relying on NVidia's goodwill to continue to do so. Sorry, I disagree. If NVidia drops the ball like ATI did, they won't be seeing any of my money that was going to ATI before they dropped the ball. This is how the economy works - when someone doesn't satisfy my needs in the least bit, I vote them out with my wallet. I don't like closed drivers any more than the next guy, but if they're closed, they'd better work. ATI's didn't and now NVidia is reaping the benefits of ATIs failure. If NVidia drops the ball, I hear Intel makes a nice driver set for Linux.
Could be off topic - but check out SCO's stock as of 20 minutes ago:)
SCOX: 0.43 -1.13 (-72.43%) - The SCO Group, Inc.
Am I the only screaming, "That's what you get, that's what you friggin' get!"?
I thought that at linking time, only the parts of the library that are used are mapped to a symbol table. Or is it that it only links whole libraries if they're used, all or nothing? I haven't taken compiler design in college yet, but after SPARC assembly, well... I'm scared I'll lose whatever innocence I have left.
I live in Germany and we still got democracy here, but who guaranties me that this will be like that forever? China's use of total surveillance should be a warning to us all, what can happen too us, too.
People always say: 'I have nothing to hide, so I am not against surveillance'. They don't realize that this might change. My friend, as someone's sig puts it (my apologies, I can't remember whose sig it is): "You have 4 boxes to be used in this order: soap, jury, ballot, ammo".
I assume, perhaps erroneously, that Germany is very cautious of things like this because of Hilter's usurping of power; we Americans have not learned this lesson yet, and are in a much worse position. Governments should be afraid of their people, not the other way around. I don't think the German people would take very kindly to RFID chips, so you have that working to your advantage.
Yes, but GUIs also normally have applications to enable and disable services (which was my point). Their method is to hack in files from the command line or similar, while most distros should have an "easy to use" service management app. I know Redhat and Fedora have for ages. That has always bothered me (on RHEL, at least - Fedora is more desktop oriented than server oriented). They create these GUIs to do everything for you, which is a front end for their own interface to the flippin' etc files. I guess I just don't want to see RHEL admins become MSCEs, or it could be because my mind is warped since Slackware was my first distro. It could also be because I've lately been fighting with Solaris for control of my services (don't get me started). But I think any admin worth their salt should be able to work from a CLI. The idea that someone needs Gnome or an X app to configure a server boggles the mind if you consider that if X dies for any reason, unless they are comfortable with the CLI, they are effectively useless. I know that GUIs are nice for handling tasks that stink when you have to do them from the CLI, but again, iptables is relatively straight forward even from the CLI and it's probably a Good Idea to know how to take care of iptables via SSH. Just my $.02, YMMV.
I wasn't sure where to put this post, but this seems like the most relevant parent, as it doesn't really justify starting a new thread. Just so I'm not off topic since the mods have been trigger happy lately.
Speaking of Sun adding open source to Linux...
Isn't NFS a Sun project? What implications would this have for Novell? I'm not sure if NFS has ties to the original Unix from Dennis R. and co., but it would hurt just about every Linux server distro if somehow NFS were to be entangled to this whole thing. Along those same lines, I just started an OpenSolaris NAS using ZFS, which will probably be connected to my Linux server over NFS (or SMB, depending on the complexity of directory services). Should I be weary that in the future these might not play well together? It would be a shame as we just got ZFS via FUSE, and from what I can tell ZFS really does seem to be the "last word in file systems", as Sun has put it. At least for the near future. Any thoughts from those who have a good grasp on the issues and licensing involved?
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Unfortunately, Service Electric is still in business for exactly the reasons you commented on. They do everything they can, IMHO, to watch the bottom line. Still, as far as cable companies go - and it pains me to say this - they're far from the worst. Ironically, SE has been subcontracted to do the on site installation for Kutztown's fiber internet and TV packages. I guess you're familiar with the old saying "those who understand the technology never manage it, those who manage technology never understand it".
those who don't and think they do, post on slashdot.
When did management find out about slashdot?! Quick, distract them with a whitepaper, I have to change my bio!Perhaps we should get RMS and ESR to bug him a bit? Or we could lock him in a room with John Dvorak for a few hours and insist they discuss "the problem with current operating systems", until they have an RFC drafted that they both agree on?
Write a thousand different programs using acronyms that start with J that do nothing except fuck up the data as it's being transmitted between the database and your application. Then, you have to write automated tools that also are acronyms that start with J and contain the word "Bean" in there somewhere, and those exist to generate parts of those previously mentioned thousand programs.
Huh? Are we using JBuilder? Bean... ah, we're talking J2EE. Something to build...something to build... if only we had 'factories' or something.
Then, write some Swing components that have nothing to do with all of this, and call those by almost exactly the same names, so that people get confused and can't do a proper Google search for documentation. Name an IDE after the Swing components, too.
How about that 60 meg folder called 'Docs' that comes with the JDK? It's even got pictures! You can drill down to the 'swing' section (think about the naming and that 'J' thing again while viewing this vs. the SWT
I guess it could be called 'glueware'. Try starting with '.', the hierarchy descends from there. Regardless of what your manager read in 'Buzzword of the Moment Daily', you don't have to use any XML. Then when all of this doesn't work for more than one project because it's hopelessly complex, do it all over again and call it the next greatest revolution in Java middleware.
Trying using SCM, separation of concerns, encapsulation, and polymorphism.
All that being said, I don't much like java; I just think you're flaming it for the wrong reasons. How about if statements, operator overloading (or lack, thereof), switch statements, and the fact that it FINALLY just got autoboxing? Oh, yeah, and could they make the object names any longer? I can usually almost instantiate an object on a single 80 column line if my variable name is less than 4 letters. And why the crap am I always having to manually repaint the screen?! Just my $.02, YMMV. Fire in the hole!
They were really, really ticked! Here's a snippet from Wired News, it's from late '04 when this whole thing was going down: (FTA @ Public Fiber Tough to Swallow):
A parsec is a measure of distance... and the Kessel Run is a measure of distance (18 parsecs). So we're measuring how far we can travel in... a given distance?
I don't even want to think about the equations required to move in 3D^2 space. Must be some kind of wormhole involved in there somewhere.
Correction - 4D^2 space. We still include time where or not we're measuring it. Good luck sleeping tonight!
Are you talking about Kutztown, PA? The entire town is fiber with a 68 strand backbone, and 40-something strand branches. I'm on 10-mbit down, 1 (although they give me 2) mbit up, and the fiber also provides TV. $45 a month for internet, $60-something for internet+TV (with premium channels and a sports package of some type. I only got the internet package.) Afterwards, Pennsylvania effectively made towns doing this illegal. Comcast, Service Electric, Verizon, etc. were not happy campers when they were trying to sell 1 mbit/256 kbit internet packages for $60/month. Oh, yeah, and the tech support is top notch. Even the utilities are remote administered from the borough, water, gas, electric - they monitor it all in real time and bundle your services on a single bill that you can have them put on your credit card. You get a single statement in the mail with a breakdown of your utilites, and can write a single check (I just have them charge my card each month). Beautiful system.
Yeah, but I couldn't find a way to get AMD to mail me a hard copy of their documentation (at least, not for free). If they do so, please correct me, as I haven't looked in quite a few months.
Also, I know from asm on SPARC that many op codes are really just variations of other ops (and/or pseudo ops). For instance, (I'm not sure of the x86 equivalent)
Unix *is* open source. Between *BSD and Solaris, pretty much all the Unix code you might want is available. Seriously - what useful code is in some version of Unix that Novel may hold copyrights for that isn't in *BSD or Solaris?
Well... I'd like to compile my own Solaris kernel, please?
...Once Silverlight takes off and displaces Flash as the delivery system of choice for shitty-assed content, Microsoft will be free to extend Silverlight in any way they desire, without passing those changes on to the Mac or to Mono. I really have no idea what the answer to the question I'm about to ask is, so I'm prepared for the worst (so long as no one links John Dvorak - that's more than I can take today)...
Do you think the MS developers that are spending so much time and effort (read: blood, sweat, and tears - as the developers here are well aware) to work on making Silverlight work with Mono will really want to stop making their project as good as it can be? Do you think Microsoft has the loyalty from their programmers to tell them, "OK, stop adding features that work cross platform and change direction!", and have them give up on what they've been working on? Microsoft developer or not, as we (developers) write code, that code becomes our child in a sense. We want to do everything that we can to see it succeed - and management can bugger off, we know that code better than anyone else on the planet, and no one can replace us (without studying up for a good long time without touching the code).
Furthermore, don't you think these developers will have bonded quite a bit to their fellow developers over at the Mono project? They probably spend more time communicating with these guys than they do their siblings and parents. This networking probably also gives them good inroads with a good number of people and companies.
I just think that what you suggest would result in either direct insubordination or group defection. These guys (the real developers) could probably just hop over to google if they wanted to stage a protest.
What do you guys think? Am I way off base, yet again?
I just have more speakers, I'm pulling it apart so that I can have harmony playing from the back, and melody in the front, lyrics on the front center. It all mixes back the same 'in the air', and IMHO it sounds better when there isn't so much info crammed in to a single speaker. The dynamics seem better when they (melody and harmony) have their own speaker that isn't shared for melody that drowns out harmony in the background. All I'm doing is giving it an atmospheric mixing which puts me in the sweet spot. Also, I pull out the really, really low since I don't have Low Frequency Equipment, and the really, really highs since my speakers are crappy and sound horrible in the upper register (regardless of encoding). I guess my point is that (this is merely my opinion) if the engineers had more channels to play with, they wouldn't be cramming so much into the main stereo channels. However, since it's all in there, why not pull out the and allow it to highlight the main stereo channels, instead of being woven into them where it gets drown out. I hope this makes sense, it's been a long day and I'm trying to explain as I rush off to do more work. To sum it up, 3 dimensions are better than 2 (well, 4 since there is a delay on the rear to give a more '3d' sound - but you get the idea).
As if that was possible. Touche, my good man, touche.
As for your assertion on my mechanical abilities, I'm in the process of rebuilding my 1969 Triumph Trophy motorcycle. As well as previous work on a 1965 Thunderbird... then again, I never could get the timing right on that thing and kept throwing rods. Perhaps you've pegged me on that one.
Any layer of mechanical work will only show an improvement if the layers below it are bottle necked by said layer; a 3 GHz processor won't do anything if it's bottlenecked on the front side bus and constantly idle waiting for data.
(Or to always have something to read on your laptop while traveling - this is what I would use it for) I bet you're quite the ladies man, huh?
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
Have you ever worked on a project called "Clippey", by chance?
No, he said he has a love for programming; not a seething hatred for users. Besides, everyone knows programmers only hate admins.
I broke it last week - my first encounter with Gentoo, it did go better than the week before that with Solaris, though. My normal distro is Slackware, I usually can't break it if I try. ;)
I've still got both of the receivers hooked up and I'd say I could probably tell you which one was active around 80% of the time (just a number I'm pulling from thin air, but I think it's fairly accurate, FWIW). The other thing that matters, IMHO, more than anything else (besides nice speakers), is the engineer that put the music together in the studio. I've heard great bands sound crappy, and crappy bands sound great merely due to how it's mixed. Most albums aren't mixed by a great engineer, and you know when you have one that is.
Regardless of what you think of the band or 'pop-punk' or 'emo' or whatever it's labeled - check out any album by Fallout Boy. Get an album copy, not an MP3. You can pick it up at wal*mart next time you need a hard drive at 2am and are in the same general area as the music. If you hate it, you're out $10 and you can brighten up the day of an emo kid by unloading it on them and their white suburbia world. Really, either of their last 2 albums are great, regardless of your taste in music. I'm eclectic and I'll listen to it back to back with Bach.
I'm not sure who they got, or what they paid him, but it was worth it. If you pull the music apart, there are beautiful piano accompaniments that are just woven into the music so perfectly that you don't know that they're there until you start pulling the tracks apart a bit. The dynamic variance of the tracks will give you a screaming guitar in the forefront, with a melody 7 or 8 db lower just beneath it. These things really come out well in a 5.1 setup, and great in a 7.1. Oh, and turn off the 1U racks in the closet; it'll make all music sound that much better. Then again, if you're holding your music on them... just unplug the fans
...NVidia has been pretty good about keeping pace with these, but your relying on NVidia's goodwill to continue to do so. Sorry, I disagree. If NVidia drops the ball like ATI did, they won't be seeing any of my money that was going to ATI before they dropped the ball. This is how the economy works - when someone doesn't satisfy my needs in the least bit, I vote them out with my wallet. I don't like closed drivers any more than the next guy, but if they're closed, they'd better work. ATI's didn't and now NVidia is reaping the benefits of ATIs failure. If NVidia drops the ball, I hear Intel makes a nice driver set for Linux.Could be off topic - but check out SCO's stock as of 20 minutes ago :)
SCOX: 0.43 -1.13 (-72.43%) - The SCO Group, Inc.
Am I the only screaming, "That's what you get, that's what you friggin' get!"?
I thought that at linking time, only the parts of the library that are used are mapped to a symbol table. Or is it that it only links whole libraries if they're used, all or nothing? I haven't taken compiler design in college yet, but after SPARC assembly, well... I'm scared I'll lose whatever innocence I have left.
People always say: 'I have nothing to hide, so I am not against surveillance'. They don't realize that this might change. My friend, as someone's sig puts it (my apologies, I can't remember whose sig it is): "You have 4 boxes to be used in this order: soap, jury, ballot, ammo".
I assume, perhaps erroneously, that Germany is very cautious of things like this because of Hilter's usurping of power; we Americans have not learned this lesson yet, and are in a much worse position. Governments should be afraid of their people, not the other way around. I don't think the German people would take very kindly to RFID chips, so you have that working to your advantage.
Speaking of Sun adding open source to Linux...
Isn't NFS a Sun project? What implications would this have for Novell? I'm not sure if NFS has ties to the original Unix from Dennis R. and co., but it would hurt just about every Linux server distro if somehow NFS were to be entangled to this whole thing. Along those same lines, I just started an OpenSolaris NAS using ZFS, which will probably be connected to my Linux server over NFS (or SMB, depending on the complexity of directory services). Should I be weary that in the future these might not play well together? It would be a shame as we just got ZFS via FUSE, and from what I can tell ZFS really does seem to be the "last word in file systems", as Sun has put it. At least for the near future. Any thoughts from those who have a good grasp on the issues and licensing involved?