It's clearly a driver issue of some sort - things go fast/slow/fast/slow if I use the default VIA drivers. Note that the board I'm using is very different (older) than what's being talked about in this article. It has a C7 processor, and uses the CN700 chipset, which has a built-in limit of 1024x1024 resolution for MPEG2 decoding. My board also does not have HD outputs, unless you count the analog VGA (I use the low-tech svideo to connect to my SDTV).
I'm doing just fine with MythTV on a 1.0Ghz fanless board. I can record two SD shows at once while watching a third, all from a single hard drive. Just be sure to use the Openchrome video driver if you want playback to be watchable.
It was my understanding that the uploadable microcode mainly consisted of switches to activate/deactivate various parts of the chip. Some advanced optimization feature turns out to be buggy? Just turn it off...
Whoa, hold on. His lawyer is just doing his job, man. He's just filling a role firmly established in American society, i.e. that of legal advocate. We don't sentence the lawyers of convicted killers to life without parole, now do we?
This is a CAD suite developed and used by the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Lab. See http://ftp.arl.mil/brlcad for more information. It isn't fully Open Source for a number of reasons, but they do distribute the source code free of charge. (You can modify it, but not redistribute it.) Top secret components/add-ons are compiled separately, and of course are not available to the public.
If nothing else, maybe the BRLCAD developers can answer some of your questions.
Eh. This appears typical to what (admittedly little) I've seen in the past in the way of court-ordered/legally-mandated information disclosures from government. Yes, a professional could have done a better, more thorough job, but I imagine somebody just had a whole bunch of documents dumped on their desk and were told to get it all online. The information is there, that's the important part. It seems to me that somebody could just do a wget on the DOJ, run some perl scripts on the data and generate a cross-indexed version more amenable to searching and online access. Anybody feel game?
For the record, most mice (optomechanical, that is) contain two light emitter/detector pairs to track x & y movement. Then there are a couple of simple contact switches for the buttons, and a tiny IC to transmit it all as serialized data as specified in the PS/2 mouse protocol. Serial mice work the same way, except they have to mind a few extra pins on the serial interface. All mice, including infrared ones, manage to do this by tapping the 5V power provided over the PS/2 or serial cable. (I assume, with some justification, that USB mice are comparable.)
Having spelled all of that out, you're exactly right. It's negligible. I wonder how the electromagnetic field emitted by living flesh compares...
Both candidates from the two major parties are on the record as being in support of capital punishment. Among the arguments raised against the death penalty is that it is racist; blacks and other minorities are statistically more likely to be sentenced to death than whites convicted of the same crimes. If elected president, would you do anything about this inequity (and what), or prefer not to interfere in state affairs? In a broader context, how does your answer reflect your views on affirmative action, another topic which some say involves a double standard whereby minorities benefit over whites, as opposed to the above? Why, in your opinion, has national attention been concerned about minorities having an advantage over whites, rather than whites having an advantage over minorities in a matter of life and death?
This is all the fault of a higher-up decision. Yes, getting the address is easy - if you know what you're doing. The 'techs' barely knew what a Mac was; nobody bothered to train them on anything other than PCs. BA wasn't about to assume the liability of sending them out into the field and make a real mess of things. The solution: lie. Tell them what they want to hear. The author could quite evidently set this thing up himself. Assure the installer onsite that it'll be your secret, you'll assume full responsibility, etc. He gets paid either way, and remind him of that. Of course, this assumes that *you* know what you're doing...:)
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It's clearly a driver issue of some sort - things go fast/slow/fast/slow if I use the default VIA drivers. Note that the board I'm using is very different (older) than what's being talked about in this article. It has a C7 processor, and uses the CN700 chipset, which has a built-in limit of 1024x1024 resolution for MPEG2 decoding. My board also does not have HD outputs, unless you count the analog VGA (I use the low-tech svideo to connect to my SDTV).
I'm doing just fine with MythTV on a 1.0Ghz fanless board. I can record two SD shows at once while watching a third, all from a single hard drive. Just be sure to use the Openchrome video driver if you want playback to be watchable.
It's been tried before, without much success: MPC. The problem is an old one: the bleeding edge of technology is a moving target.
It was my understanding that the uploadable microcode mainly consisted of switches to activate/deactivate various parts of the chip. Some advanced optimization feature turns out to be buggy? Just turn it off...
Whoa, hold on. His lawyer is just doing his job, man. He's just filling a role firmly established in American society, i.e. that of legal advocate. We don't sentence the lawyers of convicted killers to life without parole, now do we?
Well how do you think that makes ME feel?
This is a CAD suite developed and used by the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Lab. See http://ftp.arl.mil/brlcad for more information. It isn't fully Open Source for a number of reasons, but they do distribute the source code free of charge. (You can modify it, but not redistribute it.) Top secret components/add-ons are compiled separately, and of course are not available to the public.
If nothing else, maybe the BRLCAD developers can answer some of your questions.
-Sam
Eh. This appears typical to what (admittedly little) I've seen in the past in the way of court-ordered/legally-mandated information disclosures from government. Yes, a professional could have done a better, more thorough job, but I imagine somebody just had a whole bunch of documents dumped on their desk and were told to get it all online. The information is there, that's the important part. It seems to me that somebody could just do a wget on the DOJ, run some perl scripts on the data and generate a cross-indexed version more amenable to searching and online access. Anybody feel game?
-Sam
Arthur Andersen strikes again?
For the record, most mice (optomechanical, that is) contain two light emitter/detector pairs to track x & y movement. Then there are a couple of simple contact switches for the buttons, and a tiny IC to transmit it all as serialized data as specified in the PS/2 mouse protocol. Serial mice work the same way, except they have to mind a few extra pins on the serial interface. All mice, including infrared ones, manage to do this by tapping the 5V power provided over the PS/2 or serial cable. (I assume, with some justification, that USB mice are comparable.)
Having spelled all of that out, you're exactly right. It's negligible. I wonder how the electromagnetic field emitted by living flesh compares...
Just reporting in that Comcast in Prince George's County, MD (right next to Montgomery County, for those keeping score) is still up at this time.
Both candidates from the two major parties are on the record as being in support of capital punishment. Among the arguments raised against the death penalty is that it is racist; blacks and other minorities are statistically more likely to be sentenced to death than whites convicted of the same crimes. If elected president, would you do anything about this inequity (and what), or prefer not to interfere in state affairs? In a broader context, how does your answer reflect your views on affirmative action, another topic which some say involves a double standard whereby minorities benefit over whites, as opposed to the above? Why, in your opinion, has national attention been concerned about minorities having an advantage over whites, rather than whites having an advantage over minorities in a matter of life and death?
This is all the fault of a higher-up decision. Yes, getting the address is easy - if you know what you're doing. The 'techs' barely knew what a Mac was; nobody bothered to train them on anything other than PCs. BA wasn't about to assume the liability of sending them out into the field and make a real mess of things. The solution: lie. Tell them what they want to hear. The author could quite evidently set this thing up himself. Assure the installer onsite that it'll be your secret, you'll assume full responsibility, etc. He gets paid either way, and remind him of that. Of course, this assumes that *you* know what you're doing... :)