The current UK government, despite borrowing £900bn ($1.4Trillion) and climbing, is not cutting the £10bn+ black-ops DPI upgrade of the UK telephone network, which is in conjunction with BT (who just announced increased charges to their customers and all ISP's to cover the cost).
Why do you think there is such an interest in phones having IP addresses in stead of an ADC?
Sandboxing Adobe PDF? How about just burying this bloated, slow, insecure garbage in the sand so it never shows again. Then in 200 years it's discovered in an archaeological dig, and people marvel at how badly written software was ever unleashed to market.
Picking the right CPU is quite easy, it's the motherboard that's the problem, especially with the current fad of putting on the board as few PCI slots as possible. No wonder there's not the problem there once was with IRQ conflicts, because there's not enough slots to make conflicts!
The Times / Sunday Times used to have a paid archive on CD-ROM circa 1992. On the internet, there were no articles over about a week old IIRC, the articles went into those CD-ROM archives. There was no great demand for that either, so the whole concept of charging got ditched and they got advertisers to relaunch a free expanded website.
I wonder that now that it's a paid for website, how the advertisers feel about the massive drop in people being able to view their ads (assuming you're not crunching the ads with plug-ins for the likes of Firefox).
Youtube makes a horrible mess of 1080p Hi-Def video and uses far too much CPU to display, on my system much more than the original HD video does, what would it do to video with more detail than Hi-Def?
Based on what I have experienced of my own pocket DAB radio, there are multiple reasons for the formats failure. In no particular order...
1) Battery life. My pocket FM radio lasts for 1.5 weeks typical usage on a pair of AA batteries. My DAB radio with uprated Ah AA batteries just about last the night (about 8 hours).
2) Mains powered sets are mostly mono (most popular selling type of set). Where is the improvement in technology when you go from stereo to mono, AND pay a premium for it? The stereo versions charge silly money just for an extra speaker. You get better sound out of a 'crappy' boom-box.
3) Despite being near a transmitter (and line-of-sight so no excuses for reception problems), FM plays flawlessly, DAB likes to break up for no reason.
4) The amount of compression on DAB should be a scandal, it is ultra low bit rate to get more stations into the multiplexes.
5) Many _STEREO_ FM stations are in _MONO_ on DAB, all to squeeze more stations into a multiplex.
6) The error correction for DAB is not very good, it's ancient technology after all. With FM if you have a noisy signal you can open up the radio and change the amount the radio clips off of the FM signal* (some FM radios can do this with a button), but with DAB, you just get a lot of burbling mess for sound, or no sound at all.
7) The audio CODEC is ancient and does not give good results for the low bit rates the broadcasters are using. Other countries are already switching to DAB+, but the UK doesn't want to change to it, so continue to flog an ancient technology which is not very good.
So overall, there is no claimed improvement from switching to DAB from FM, like those pushing that dead format claim.
* IIRC it's before the demodulation stage.... long time since I needed to adjust an FM radio.
I don't trust ANY banks. As for ATM security, the new "chip / pin" on credit and debit cards in Europe is insecure, even more so as cards STILL have the magnetic strip on them, which has the exact same details in the chip on the magnetic strip, making the inclusion of the chip pointless.
eBooks are slower to read than a normal paper book?
Welcome to the wonderful world of [charge battery] computing. In this ebook you will discover the [charge battery] way computing has [charge battery] changed our lives in all sorts of [charge battery] gadgets.
I just used the middle click / cube shrinks and becomes semi-transparent and can be rotated... effect in Compiz, which immediately shot up the CPU usage for both cores of my processor from 20% to around 60% per core. Under Beryl the CPU usage changed about 2% over what the system was already running at. I would say that Compiz does not use the graphics card like Beryl did, and the Compiz devs deny there is a problem.
Since having the enforced change from the ultra fast, ultra stable Beryl to the not very fast Compiz, I have not been very impressed with Compiz. The developers told me they didn't change anything to get the Beryl fork back into Compiz, but the fact on _MY_ system is simple.
With Beryl I could run whatever effect I wanted and even multiple effects at the same time, and the CPU was barely used, about 98% of the work was offloaded to the graphics card. Now with Compiz if I do something like rotate the cube or some other effect, the CPU ends up doing most of the work, which is ridiculous. Same distro, same graphics card. Obviously something changed.
Actually looking at the process usage right now, Compiz is using 3.9% of the CPU just doing nothing AND with an upgraded CPU. Under Beryl with a same type of processor but slower processor, the maximum CPU usage was 5% doing whatever effect you wanted. This is not right.
Enforcing a change from Beryl to Compiz was wrong.
Where you stand with the ACTA agreement if implemented.... no need to worry about it, it will cut the legs off of ordinary people, whilst pandering to big money to tighten it's grip on the little people. Thus the problem of "where you stand" will be eliminated.
Using your example, the BBC and other UK broadcasters have been pushing to get rid of FM in favour of DAB radio (digital audio broadcasting). DAB has terrible audio quality, terrible error correction, and pretty bad reception compared to FM. The rest of the world is dumping or not implementing DAB and implementing DAB+ instead. DAB+ is a more up to date CODEC which is more efficient, better audio quality, better error correction, cheaper to transmit than DAB, etc. etc. So the BBC are trying to get people to accept inferior technology (just like the DVB-T "Freeview" system).
The BBC have long since given up the pretense of quality transmission, the last decent innovation of theirs being the contribution to the NICAM 728 project.... Stereo transmission of audio in the analogue TV signal....
Let me get this right, the US authorities are worried about the ICQ* service going to the Russians.... has the US seen just how much their economic rivals China own of the US economy? Get your priorities in order.
The concept of trusted ID is frightening, the recently kicked out UK government also had a warped sense of necessity for a similar project, with their IT friends getting a nice slice of taxpayers money (the ID cards project immediately springs to mind).
Mod me as flamebait if you like for the following.....
You can look on the bright side, America is nearly BROKE ! The Chinese are fed up of propping up the American economy that just spends spends spends under pretext of a stimulus package (following the discredited Keynsian economics made you bust). The UK has already shelved or about to, a lot of the previous governments IT plans because the UK is broke, the USA will HAVE to do the same.
A data packet will route whichever way it can. If the US decided to be unattainable to the rest of the world, although lots of congestion on the alternate routes, the packets would find a new route to the destinations UNLESS it's destination is within the US. However, doing such a thing to your own country would kill your commerce stone dead. Look how much money small / local outages costs some economies.
Could someone please explain to the ignorant politicians in stupid terms even they can understand, the concept of packet switching.
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The current UK government, despite borrowing £900bn ($1.4Trillion) and climbing, is not cutting the £10bn+ black-ops DPI upgrade of the UK telephone network, which is in conjunction with BT (who just announced increased charges to their customers and all ISP's to cover the cost). Why do you think there is such an interest in phones having IP addresses in stead of an ADC?
"GM estimates that the value of the stolen documents is over $40 million."
Is that using the same method of value calculation that the RIAA / MPAA use?
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(slaps face to wake up to post comment)
Sandboxing Adobe PDF? How about just burying this bloated, slow, insecure garbage in the sand so it never shows again. Then in 200 years it's discovered in an archaeological dig, and people marvel at how badly written software was ever unleashed to market.
Picking the right CPU is quite easy, it's the motherboard that's the problem, especially with the current fad of putting on the board as few PCI slots as possible. No wonder there's not the problem there once was with IRQ conflicts, because there's not enough slots to make conflicts!
The Times / Sunday Times used to have a paid archive on CD-ROM circa 1992. On the internet, there were no articles over about a week old IIRC, the articles went into those CD-ROM archives. There was no great demand for that either, so the whole concept of charging got ditched and they got advertisers to relaunch a free expanded website.
I wonder that now that it's a paid for website, how the advertisers feel about the massive drop in people being able to view their ads (assuming you're not crunching the ads with plug-ins for the likes of Firefox).
So what we're saying is that the new iPhone is getting a bad reception??? :)
Youtube makes a horrible mess of 1080p Hi-Def video and uses far too much CPU to display, on my system much more than the original HD video does, what would it do to video with more detail than Hi-Def?
Based on what I have experienced of my own pocket DAB radio, there are multiple reasons for the formats failure. In no particular order...
1) Battery life. My pocket FM radio lasts for 1.5 weeks typical usage on a pair of AA batteries. My DAB radio with uprated Ah AA batteries just about last the night (about 8 hours).
2) Mains powered sets are mostly mono (most popular selling type of set). Where is the improvement in technology when you go from stereo to mono, AND pay a premium for it? The stereo versions charge silly money just for an extra speaker. You get better sound out of a 'crappy' boom-box.
3) Despite being near a transmitter (and line-of-sight so no excuses for reception problems), FM plays flawlessly, DAB likes to break up for no reason.
4) The amount of compression on DAB should be a scandal, it is ultra low bit rate to get more stations into the multiplexes.
5) Many _STEREO_ FM stations are in _MONO_ on DAB, all to squeeze more stations into a multiplex.
6) The error correction for DAB is not very good, it's ancient technology after all. With FM if you have a noisy signal you can open up the radio and change the amount the radio clips off of the FM signal* (some FM radios can do this with a button), but with DAB, you just get a lot of burbling mess for sound, or no sound at all.
7) The audio CODEC is ancient and does not give good results for the low bit rates the broadcasters are using. Other countries are already switching to DAB+, but the UK doesn't want to change to it, so continue to flog an ancient technology which is not very good.
So overall, there is no claimed improvement from switching to DAB from FM, like those pushing that dead format claim.
* IIRC it's before the demodulation stage.... long time since I needed to adjust an FM radio.
I don't trust ANY banks. As for ATM security, the new "chip / pin" on credit and debit cards in Europe is insecure, even more so as cards STILL have the magnetic strip on them, which has the exact same details in the chip on the magnetic strip, making the inclusion of the chip pointless.
eBooks are slower to read than a normal paper book?
Welcome to the wonderful world of [charge battery] computing. In this ebook you will discover the [charge battery] way computing has [charge battery] changed our lives in all sorts of [charge battery] gadgets.
I just used the middle click / cube shrinks and becomes semi-transparent and can be rotated... effect in Compiz, which immediately shot up the CPU usage for both cores of my processor from 20% to around 60% per core. Under Beryl the CPU usage changed about 2% over what the system was already running at. I would say that Compiz does not use the graphics card like Beryl did, and the Compiz devs deny there is a problem.
Would the coding switch gain any speed increase?
Since having the enforced change from the ultra fast, ultra stable Beryl to the not very fast Compiz, I have not been very impressed with Compiz. The developers told me they didn't change anything to get the Beryl fork back into Compiz, but the fact on _MY_ system is simple.
With Beryl I could run whatever effect I wanted and even multiple effects at the same time, and the CPU was barely used, about 98% of the work was offloaded to the graphics card. Now with Compiz if I do something like rotate the cube or some other effect, the CPU ends up doing most of the work, which is ridiculous. Same distro, same graphics card. Obviously something changed.
Actually looking at the process usage right now, Compiz is using 3.9% of the CPU just doing nothing AND with an upgraded CPU. Under Beryl with a same type of processor but slower processor, the maximum CPU usage was 5% doing whatever effect you wanted. This is not right.
Enforcing a change from Beryl to Compiz was wrong.
I would have recommended ReiserFS, but the data might get buried somewhere and the system would not remember where it was....
ASCAP = All Sound Cr@p Always Prevails .....?
I've used this video clip before here, seems it has unfortunately some mileage yet for /. viewers.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWoiy3fVaQM
"Porn" and "standards". There's two words you'd never think of seeing together.
Where you stand with the ACTA agreement if implemented.... no need to worry about it, it will cut the legs off of ordinary people, whilst pandering to big money to tighten it's grip on the little people. Thus the problem of "where you stand" will be eliminated.
Using your example, the BBC and other UK broadcasters have been pushing to get rid of FM in favour of DAB radio (digital audio broadcasting). DAB has terrible audio quality, terrible error correction, and pretty bad reception compared to FM. The rest of the world is dumping or not implementing DAB and implementing DAB+ instead. DAB+ is a more up to date CODEC which is more efficient, better audio quality, better error correction, cheaper to transmit than DAB, etc. etc. So the BBC are trying to get people to accept inferior technology (just like the DVB-T "Freeview" system).
The BBC have long since given up the pretense of quality transmission, the last decent innovation of theirs being the contribution to the NICAM 728 project.... Stereo transmission of audio in the analogue TV signal....
So the BBC have found a new way to waste my BBC tax money. This is not their business.
Let me get this right, the US authorities are worried about the ICQ* service going to the Russians.... has the US seen just how much their economic rivals China own of the US economy? Get your priorities in order.
* Does anyone actually use ICQ any more?
The concept of trusted ID is frightening, the recently kicked out UK government also had a warped sense of necessity for a similar project, with their IT friends getting a nice slice of taxpayers money (the ID cards project immediately springs to mind).
Mod me as flamebait if you like for the following.....
You can look on the bright side, America is nearly BROKE ! The Chinese are fed up of propping up the American economy that just spends spends spends under pretext of a stimulus package (following the discredited Keynsian economics made you bust). The UK has already shelved or about to, a lot of the previous governments IT plans because the UK is broke, the USA will HAVE to do the same.
A message to all the people in the US.
Dear Citizen,
We don't care about the courts or the Constitution with respect to your rights and privacy, and we will carry on doing what we like in secret.
Yours Sincerely,
Past / Present / Future President of the USA
That money would sure buy a lot of smoke alarms (a legendary story). ...... Kids, don't try this.
How do you have an internet kill switch?
A data packet will route whichever way it can. If the US decided to be unattainable to the rest of the world, although lots of congestion on the alternate routes, the packets would find a new route to the destinations UNLESS it's destination is within the US. However, doing such a thing to your own country would kill your commerce stone dead. Look how much money small / local outages costs some economies.
Could someone please explain to the ignorant politicians in stupid terms even they can understand, the concept of packet switching.