Comment: Re:Twitter needs scalability experts (Score 1) 157
If you have dealt with an EMP at your primary datacenter, you are a more hardened sysadmin than us all.
Comment: Re:The hiss is where it hides (Score 2, Funny) 849
...it's best for music with harmonies and tonal trajectories in different registers (base, tenor, trebble) and not music that has all sorts of aliased frequencies randomly jumping around in volume...
I thought I was an audiophile. You have put me to shame.
Comment: What about videos? (Score 2, Interesting) 152
What happens if we use this for videos (which are just sequences of generally overlapping images)?
If any progress could be made in this department, we could make video game maps by simply recording a factory with a video camera.
Comment: Re:distribution of primes (Score 1) 509
primes are beleived to be distributed as
#primes x ~ x/ln(x)
No longer. It is a full-blown theorem and it is a fact that the number of primes under x asymptotically approaches x/ln(x) as x approaches infinity (this is interesting as changing the ln() to a log() in any other base fails).
as can be seen the number is more linear than logarithmic.
There is some term describing O(x/ln(x)), I'm sure. But I wouldn't call it any more linear than it is logarithmic.
Comment: Re:sure it is (Score 1) 1079
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
Yes, I see it now...
College Freshman Accused of Entering CLIT
Comment: Re:Soft machines for testing (Score 2, Funny) 420
Interesting how talking about being modded down gets you modded up.
That being said, this comment will be modded down.
Comment: Re:Slashdot's awkward point of view. (Score 1) 1582
Apparently you get an achievement for posting in an April Fool's story.
So, here I am.
Multi-headed single Linux box for two locations?
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MindVirus writes "I am soon moving out of my parents' house and going off to college. This leaves my parents in a difficult situation — they depend on me for technical support and without me around they would have to hire specialists. As Linux is easier for me to work with than Windows, my parents agreed to use Linux a while back and they are now used to it. I will be moving out soon, so I would like to lessen their computer troubles as much as possible. I recently brought up the idea that it would be quite efficient to have a single computer, running Linux, sending display information to two separately-located screens (three different monitors — my father uses two) and accepting input from two different sets of keyboards and mouses corresponding to each screen. Wireless is preferred but if that is impossible then so be it. What are the pros and cons of this setup? What is the best way to implement this?"
Comment: Re:Disturbing (Score 1) 610
The way Conway and Kochen have defined "free will" is, loosely, any behavior that isn't determined by the past.
Then humans don't have free will. There is no human behavior that is independent of the past.
This is a definition seems unfit. In fact, according to this definition, nothing has free will, as everything is determined by its past.
That's why humans make terrible random number generators. All of our number choices are strongly correlated.
Comment: Re:Sarcastic or not? (Score 3, Informative) 353
Wow, way off. Mod parent down.
Speakers are themselves fundamentally flawed. Headphones can send sound to the exact location needed while speakers are "ballparking" where the listener will be.
Space limitations are null, audio positioning is null, and annoying your neighbors is null.
Furthermore, good headphones have the capacity to send much less-distorted, higher-quality sound than speakers.
Good headphones will always produce better sound than good speakers. If you don't believe me, ask your local audiophile/audio professional. I guarantee you, if he takes himself seriously, he'll agree.