Sir, web browsers are not just web browsers anymore. The average web page has so much multimedia content and scripting, its quite impressive that, after running for 8 hours or more, it maintains only 1GB footprint.
1 GB resident for a web browser is only acceptable if the current tab has 750 MB of visible content. This is highly unlikely. Even with a video stream, you only need to keep the next eight seconds or so in memory.
Also, you can buy 2 GB of ram for less than a tank of gas.
If you want enough to keep more than 15 tabs open and run programs other than the browser, you'll need 4 GiB. If you want enough to have decent disk cache too, you'll need 8 GiB. Still relatively affordable, if you have a recent motherboard that supports DDR3. But if you don't, you're either looking at $100+ for DDR2, or building a whole new machine for $500 or so.
1. Bitcoin's protection against double-spending requires that the transaction be communicated to the P2P network.
2. You could create a wallet containing the amount of bitcoin you wanted to transfer, but sneakernet really presents no advantages over a simple encrypted email.
There are very few people left alive who listened to something that wasn't 'high-intensity hoot and thump music' in their youth. Sorry about your lawn.
I see nothing about taking control of your computer hardware nor taking your control away.
These are inherent in the process. Digital Restrictions Management systems are absolutely useless as long as the user has control of the hardware. Unless their is a cryptographically verified boot chain in use, the user can always memcpy() whatever it is right out of the framebuffer.
The word play in your signature looks like something I'd recognize if I had seen it before. Sure enough, it appears that you've been on hiatus for nine years. Congratulations on your triumphant return.
The thing is, most people who crack DRM don't do it so some megacorp can avoid paying license fees to some other megacorp. If the copy protection scheme doesn't affect home users, nobody will give a fuck.
This. Dmesg is best. The recent trend toward splash screens is quite concerning. Scrolling text is also second to none for "confirmation that something is actually happening".
You didn't say which model your monitor is, so I can't find its dot pitch, but it is very unlikely that it's better than 0.21 mm, which is what you'd need to make 2048x1536 look good on 21" viewable.
Actually, on second thought I have a much better hypothesis. The light-to-dark transition curve differs from the dark-to-light transition curve. Because they are mismatched, the average brightness flickers momentarily.
The first shimmering phenomenon is just analog interference. I'm not quite sure about the second, though I have observed it. Interference with the polarity inversion is one possibility, considering the flickering occurs at about 30 Hz on my displays. I don't see tearing, but I have vsync turned on in compiz.
With the exception of the FW900 and the GDM-F520 (which costs as much as a 2560x1600 LCD if you can actually find one in near-mint condition), I am not aware of any CRTs that actually look good at resolutions higher than 1600x1200.
I'm not talking about rights. I'm talking about what is reasonable. Preventing users from opening notepad and paint; forcing users to browse the web with Internet Explorer, ads and all; disabling Aero so that graph lines produce godawful beat frequency tearing patterns when scrolled; disabling task manager. These are obstacles to productivity which do not provide sufficient security benefit to offset the inconvenience.
Gnome 2 seems to be pretty much PPI independent. None of the Gnome 3 builds I've used have exposed the PPI setting, but you can change the text scale factor.
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Sir, web browsers are not just web browsers anymore. The average web page has so much multimedia content and scripting, its quite impressive that, after running for 8 hours or more, it maintains only 1GB footprint.
1 GB resident for a web browser is only acceptable if the current tab has 750 MB of visible content. This is highly unlikely. Even with a video stream, you only need to keep the next eight seconds or so in memory.
Also, you can buy 2 GB of ram for less than a tank of gas.
If you want enough to keep more than 15 tabs open and run programs other than the browser, you'll need 4 GiB. If you want enough to have decent disk cache too, you'll need 8 GiB. Still relatively affordable, if you have a recent motherboard that supports DDR3. But if you don't, you're either looking at $100+ for DDR2, or building a whole new machine for $500 or so.
Why? Can't you just compile it yourself? Don't tell me they put ASM in a web browser...
1. Bitcoin's protection against double-spending requires that the transaction be communicated to the P2P network.
2. You could create a wallet containing the amount of bitcoin you wanted to transfer, but sneakernet really presents no advantages over a simple encrypted email.
Pipelining.
How does one do such a statistical analysis, assuming the pedophiles are unwilling to declare themselves?
Surely, you would be better served by stock in a hearing aid company.
Note to self:
Sell stock in speech recognition company
There are very few people left alive who listened to something that wasn't 'high-intensity hoot and thump music' in their youth. Sorry about your lawn.
There are pre-roll ads on Youtube?
Thanks, adblock plus.
I see nothing about taking control of your computer hardware nor taking your control away.
These are inherent in the process. Digital Restrictions Management systems are absolutely useless as long as the user has control of the hardware. Unless their is a cryptographically verified boot chain in use, the user can always memcpy() whatever it is right out of the framebuffer.
Yes. People are, on average, idiots. Just look at the kind of things people use for passwords.
The word play in your signature looks like something I'd recognize if I had seen it before. Sure enough, it appears that you've been on hiatus for nine years. Congratulations on your triumphant return.
x264 is an encoder. There are lots of free-as-in-speech decoders out there, such as ffmpeg.
In that case, it's a good thing I don't give a fuck about infringing patents.
Did anybody else first interpret the headline as commentary on the national debt?
The thing is, most people who crack DRM don't do it so some megacorp can avoid paying license fees to some other megacorp. If the copy protection scheme doesn't affect home users, nobody will give a fuck.
and then probably launch it a second time before it was finished loading, further slowing the process.
Or, ya know, use a lock.
This. Dmesg is best. The recent trend toward splash screens is quite concerning. Scrolling text is also second to none for "confirmation that something is actually happening".
You didn't say which model your monitor is, so I can't find its dot pitch, but it is very unlikely that it's better than 0.21 mm, which is what you'd need to make 2048x1536 look good on 21" viewable.
>19"
>0.24mm dot pitch
>2048x1536
That must be blurry as fuck.
Actually, on second thought I have a much better hypothesis. The light-to-dark transition curve differs from the dark-to-light transition curve. Because they are mismatched, the average brightness flickers momentarily.
The first shimmering phenomenon is just analog interference. I'm not quite sure about the second, though I have observed it. Interference with the polarity inversion is one possibility, considering the flickering occurs at about 30 Hz on my displays. I don't see tearing, but I have vsync turned on in compiz.
With the exception of the FW900 and the GDM-F520 (which costs as much as a 2560x1600 LCD if you can actually find one in near-mint condition), I am not aware of any CRTs that actually look good at resolutions higher than 1600x1200.
Or RSFQ
I'm not talking about rights. I'm talking about what is reasonable. Preventing users from opening notepad and paint; forcing users to browse the web with Internet Explorer, ads and all; disabling Aero so that graph lines produce godawful beat frequency tearing patterns when scrolled; disabling task manager. These are obstacles to productivity which do not provide sufficient security benefit to offset the inconvenience.
Gnome 2 seems to be pretty much PPI independent. None of the Gnome 3 builds I've used have exposed the PPI setting, but you can change the text scale factor.