I have actually followed the entire series up until the current season. I have no attention span deficit, I am not an impatient watcher, I am not hard to entertain etc. Lost is on many levels very simple entertainment. Compare it to anything from eastern or southern Europe, f.e.. I maintain that it's a dead story they've been trying to keep alive longer than should be allowed, resulting in problems of escalating "loose ends" from early on.
'Coz it seems as if she can't, or refuses to look backwards in history - the "flashback" occurance in story-telling is older than the pen and paper. Is she really implying that this is something new that popped up after the web?:D To me, her writing appears to be just vacuous bollox in fancy phrasing making it appear bigger than it is.
...and problems holding on to the "red thread", not really knowing what direction to go with it all. The writing started showing escalating signs of "crackelation" and inconsistency somewhere in the middle of the 3rd season - and by this I don't mean the "hypertext narrative" that was obvious already from the first few episodes. I tried to watch the current season recently, and I was truly more lost than ever.
I disagree about the phenomenon being "purely social due to communist ruling"; the Chinese have a more than 1000 year old reputation of being shady and dishonest in trade.
The difference is that in over 1000 years of recorded trade history, no other nation, no other people, is constantly famed and warned about for its lack of moral and ethics in trade.
It is fundamentally flawed. And, sure, the encoder might improve (even if this does not solve the fundamental problems), but with time passing by, people embracing Theora will be stuck with a lesser and thinner experience, while the rest of the world plays grande ball with the H.264 format and the superior encoders available for it, while Theora falls behind and Firefox loses ground.
Just... let it die. I know free/open is awesome, but Theora is just bad bad bad on top of awesome. If you refuse to look towards H.264, then at least now you can look towards Google and VP8 now. Bury Theora.
What is not speculation is the debate over whether or not the A4 is an ARM core: it *is* an ARM core. Just disassembling the output shows it at once. It also takes an idiot to believe Apple would spend even more time writing an ARM emulator core for PowerPC just to make sure their iPad runs software compiled with the iPhone SDK. This isn't another case of PowerPC->Intel switch. Geez.
The article is missing a big point: it IS ARM. Just debugging the code shows it is ARM, not PPC. "No one really knows." Geez. Step into the "reverse engineering" of 1980 already.
It's not a file system fragmentation issue. Also, as there is no real seek time, fs fragmentation is a non-problem on SSDs, even with slobs like NTFS/FAT.
I have a handful of friends who adopted Intel's latest G2 X25-m models at their release. With new firmware, they are all still reporting notably reduced performance over time. Everyone knows what causes it, it is entirely understandable given the storage technology in question, but that doesn't make it any less of a drag. I'll wait and see how things change before doing the switch.
The problem isn't features. A feature shouldn't be in the way or consume resources when it is not used. The exact stuff you mention - vector graphics and basic composition, coupled with audio playback - doesn't require 50% of what a single 2ghz core in a Core 2 CPU has to offer. It didn't 10 years ago, but it does today, when doing the exact same job that Flash needed not even a 600mhz P3 to perform 10 years ago.
...that Apple wants _nothing_ to do with the stinking piece of feces that is Flash? F****ng realize that this would never had happened if Flash wasn't such a slow, obese, cpu-hungry, inefficient piece of trash. Don't shift the blame on others just because they don't want your shit splashing around them.
...by the author of the article is that LF/MF/HF radio is used on boats. There isn't a yacht, small or large, on the planet, not equipped with at least a VHF radio - and LF/HF as well for those going far out on the sea. That's right, radio communication is the primary means on the seas.
Fuck Adobe and its obese Acrobat Reader. Really, throw that bloated, filthy piece of shitware to hell already and go with FoxIt. And, yes, I think my use of the word FUCK is warranted here.
...the PC game industry, has grown obese, too fat, too dumb and too clumsy to survive its own game. This is what happens when you move game production into being something akin to producing a hollywood movie, with all the inefficiencies that follow.
...comes back to us: the experiences to be had with certain drug-induced states truly widen the minds. Queue the bitter bunch saying "makes it delusional, you mean. bah."
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It's a very common phrase and metaphor in the Swedish language, symbolizing a clear path in arbitrary context.
I have actually followed the entire series up until the current season. I have no attention span deficit, I am not an impatient watcher, I am not hard to entertain etc. Lost is on many levels very simple entertainment. Compare it to anything from eastern or southern Europe, f.e.. I maintain that it's a dead story they've been trying to keep alive longer than should be allowed, resulting in problems of escalating "loose ends" from early on.
'Coz it seems as if she can't, or refuses to look backwards in history - the "flashback" occurance in story-telling is older than the pen and paper. Is she really implying that this is something new that popped up after the web? :D To me, her writing appears to be just vacuous bollox in fancy phrasing making it appear bigger than it is.
...and problems holding on to the "red thread", not really knowing what direction to go with it all. The writing started showing escalating signs of "crackelation" and inconsistency somewhere in the middle of the 3rd season - and by this I don't mean the "hypertext narrative" that was obvious already from the first few episodes. I tried to watch the current season recently, and I was truly more lost than ever.
I disagree about the phenomenon being "purely social due to communist ruling"; the Chinese have a more than 1000 year old reputation of being shady and dishonest in trade.
The difference is that in over 1000 years of recorded trade history, no other nation, no other people, is constantly famed and warned about for its lack of moral and ethics in trade.
It is fundamentally flawed. And, sure, the encoder might improve (even if this does not solve the fundamental problems), but with time passing by, people embracing Theora will be stuck with a lesser and thinner experience, while the rest of the world plays grande ball with the H.264 format and the superior encoders available for it, while Theora falls behind and Firefox loses ground.
Just... let it die. I know free/open is awesome, but Theora is just bad bad bad on top of awesome. If you refuse to look towards H.264, then at least now you can look towards Google and VP8 now. Bury Theora.
What is not speculation is the debate over whether or not the A4 is an ARM core: it *is* an ARM core. Just disassembling the output shows it at once. It also takes an idiot to believe Apple would spend even more time writing an ARM emulator core for PowerPC just to make sure their iPad runs software compiled with the iPhone SDK. This isn't another case of PowerPC->Intel switch. Geez.
The article is missing a big point: it IS ARM. Just debugging the code shows it is ARM, not PPC. "No one really knows." Geez. Step into the "reverse engineering" of 1980 already.
It's not a file system fragmentation issue. Also, as there is no real seek time, fs fragmentation is a non-problem on SSDs, even with slobs like NTFS/FAT.
They are Windows 7 and Linux users. TRIM seems to just ameliorate temporary.
I have a handful of friends who adopted Intel's latest G2 X25-m models at their release. With new firmware, they are all still reporting notably reduced performance over time. Everyone knows what causes it, it is entirely understandable given the storage technology in question, but that doesn't make it any less of a drag. I'll wait and see how things change before doing the switch.
"We're skeptical about this whole thing with colonizing the rest of the solar system. We think it's just a gimmick." Jackasses.
The problem isn't features. A feature shouldn't be in the way or consume resources when it is not used. The exact stuff you mention - vector graphics and basic composition, coupled with audio playback - doesn't require 50% of what a single 2ghz core in a Core 2 CPU has to offer. It didn't 10 years ago, but it does today, when doing the exact same job that Flash needed not even a 600mhz P3 to perform 10 years ago.
...if it hadn't been for Flash being such an inefficient, CPU hogging slob of software.
It's actually a stinking pile of crap on Windows, too :) It's not really much less of an inefficient CPU hog there.
...that Apple wants _nothing_ to do with the stinking piece of feces that is Flash? F****ng realize that this would never had happened if Flash wasn't such a slow, obese, cpu-hungry, inefficient piece of trash. Don't shift the blame on others just because they don't want your shit splashing around them.
Which is the genus for button cacti (f.e. the peyote (lophophora williamsii)). What does Sophophora mean? What does Lophophora mean?
...we just happen to know for a fact that this is the case? We don't know shit. We just theorize.
...by the author of the article is that LF/MF/HF radio is used on boats. There isn't a yacht, small or large, on the planet, not equipped with at least a VHF radio - and LF/HF as well for those going far out on the sea. That's right, radio communication is the primary means on the seas.
Except that it has been shown to not work on other PDF readers than Acrobat.
Fuck Adobe and its obese Acrobat Reader. Really, throw that bloated, filthy piece of shitware to hell already and go with FoxIt. And, yes, I think my use of the word FUCK is warranted here.
...the PC game industry, has grown obese, too fat, too dumb and too clumsy to survive its own game. This is what happens when you move game production into being something akin to producing a hollywood movie, with all the inefficiencies that follow.
...comes back to us: the experiences to be had with certain drug-induced states truly widen the minds. Queue the bitter bunch saying "makes it delusional, you mean. bah."