German TV is already filled with dubbed US shows like the Simpsons, Married with Children, How I Met Your Mother and so forth because German comedy is atrocious. However the more subtle the jokes, the more they suffer from translation - probably the reason why Married with Children is vastly more popular than Seinfeld for example.
However the last time I checked, you could upload videos in a dozen or so formats, which then get converted to h264 and resized into different resolutions. So there is a lot of encoding already going on.
Let me air my grievances too: I have recently set up a vps with ubuntu and was just horrified by the package management. There is aptitude, apt-*, and dpkg-*, all of them are verbose and none of them seem to do what I tell to do.
I wanted to remove apache: "aptitude remove apache" didn't do anything useful and "aptitude remove apache2.2-common" wanted to install something else. Finally I just put ArchLinux in a chroot and was done with it.
we already have the means to kill every man, woman, and child on the planet if the wrong kind of fight breaks out.
unless the actual goal is to kill everyone and everyone is in on the plan and cooperates, we don't have the means to kill everyone. Things like the "peace activist" line about having enough "bombs" to "destroy the earth (x) times over" are hyperbole. The planet is extremely large, and we are extremely small in comparison. Humans are ridiculously adaptable. There are too many of us spread out over too large an area for us to do much beyond temporarily stall technological advancement, much less throw us into the stone age or oblivion.
The problem isn't technological retardation, but a nuclear winter.
A standard desktop PC was used, using a Core i7 CPU at 2.93 GHz. This CPU contains 4 physical cores.
We put only 6 GiB of RAM to reduce the cost. It means the amount of RAM is about 170 times smaller than the size of the final result, so the I/O performance of the mass storage is critical. Unfortunately, the RAM had no ECC (Error Correcting Code), so random bit errors could not be corrected nor detected. Since the computation lasted more than 100 days, such errors were likely [12]. Hopefully, the computations included verification steps which could detect such errors.
For the mass storage, five 1.5 TB hard disks were used. The aggregated peak I/O speed is about 500 MB/s.
One other note... Webkit and Gecko have different priorities in other ways too: for example, correct behavior of CSS selectors in the face of DOM mutations is a top priority for Gecko (and hence behavior is correctin all the cases I know of) and is not for Webkit (and hence the behavior is not correct in various cases; "for now we will just worry about the common case, since it's a lot trickier to get the second case right" as the Webkit code comments say).
Webkit has a 100/100 Acid3 score and Firefox only 96/100
It isn't as bad, of course - but they are taking part of the citizens rights (free speech) and claiming ownership of it. This is seperated from taking over all of a persons rights (as in slavery) by degree.
If thats your position too regarding GPL violations, then you are at least consistent.
But of course, you think people who disagree with you are automatically not allowed to make any comparison at all, don't you?
They can make comparisons all day long. However, they will be called out if they are making stupid comparisons.
I agree on cinelerra but not on Audacity. Audacity is like Notepad for audio, it's simple and does it's thing well (and doesn't crash which makes it actually better than notepad).
Yep, wash it out. A few years ago, googling my full name pointed to a Usenet post where I was asking for advice on how to take magic mushrooms, ad position one or two. (I accidentally didn't change my profile when typing it or something). I was a little embarrassing but I don't think it had any big consequences.
Now the first google page lists bug reports, google code projects and my stackoverflow account (and related pages). The mushroom story is now on page 5 or something where I don't really care about it.
The difference is that there isn't a common software repository for windows like there is for Linux. If you want a screensaver for Linux, you can get tons with xscreensaver. For windows, the software ecosystem is much more confusing.
Google's netbook won't even have the capability to install software.
The premise is wrong. I have Win7 and a NVIDIA card and I can't easily switch resolutions or any other display settings with shortcuts without checking stupid boxes in stupid dialog boxes. Where is xrandr / nvidia-settings for windows?
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German TV is already filled with dubbed US shows like the Simpsons, Married with Children, How I Met Your Mother and so forth because German comedy is atrocious. However the more subtle the jokes, the more they suffer from translation - probably the reason why Married with Children is vastly more popular than Seinfeld for example.
Movies and television. I live in Germany and exclusively watch US TV because German TV is shit.
(And German IT sites for that matter).
I talk to myself incessantly, yeah, I'm kinda mental. I want to do it in German to add to the confusion of others.
Pass' auf, sonst endest du wie Nietzsche ;-)
I did. All of them suck.
I agree. I am currently looking forward to a profitable deal with a business partner in Nigeria.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
However the last time I checked, you could upload videos in a dozen or so formats, which then get converted to h264 and resized into different resolutions. So there is a lot of encoding already going on.
They are already transcoding everything to .flv
Even if it's fun to imagine that, a company isn't a monolithic entity and certainly not a person like you are trying to picture.
Let me air my grievances too: I have recently set up a vps with ubuntu and was just horrified by the package management. There is aptitude, apt-*, and dpkg-*, all of them are verbose and none of them seem to do what I tell to do.
I wanted to remove apache: "aptitude remove apache" didn't do anything useful and "aptitude remove apache2.2-common" wanted to install something else. Finally I just put ArchLinux in a chroot and was done with it.
mod me -1 drunk if you must
we already have the means to kill every man, woman, and child on the planet if the wrong kind of fight breaks out.
unless the actual goal is to kill everyone and everyone is in on the plan and cooperates, we don't have the means to kill everyone. Things like the "peace activist" line about having enough "bombs" to "destroy the earth (x) times over" are hyperbole. The planet is extremely large, and we are extremely small in comparison. Humans are ridiculously adaptable. There are too many of us spread out over too large an area for us to do much beyond temporarily stall technological advancement, much less throw us into the stone age or oblivion.
The problem isn't technological retardation, but a nuclear winter.
From my understanding, this guy is just a troll - not an authority
From the PDF on his website:
A standard desktop PC was used, using a Core i7 CPU at 2.93 GHz. This CPU
contains 4 physical cores.
We put only 6 GiB of RAM to reduce the cost. It means the amount of RAM
is about 170 times smaller than the size of the final result, so the I/O performance
of the mass storage is critical. Unfortunately, the RAM had no ECC (Error
Correcting Code), so random bit errors could not be corrected nor detected. Since
the computation lasted more than 100 days, such errors were likely [12]. Hopefully,
the computations included verification steps which could detect such errors.
For the mass storage, five 1.5 TB hard disks were used. The aggregated peak
I/O speed is about 500 MB/s.
A weird choice of words...
They are easier in other programming languages (Java, Python)
I have tried to check out your dark matter video but I got distracted by a huge tarantula sitting in the "audience"
One other note... Webkit and Gecko have different priorities in other ways too: for example, correct behavior of CSS selectors in the face of DOM mutations is a top priority for Gecko (and hence behavior is correctin all the cases I know of) and is not for Webkit (and hence the behavior is not correct in various cases; "for now we will just worry about the common case, since it's a lot trickier to get the second case right" as the Webkit code comments say).
Webkit has a 100/100 Acid3 score and Firefox only 96/100
It isn't as bad, of course - but they are taking part of the citizens rights (free speech) and claiming ownership of it. This is seperated from taking over all of a persons rights (as in slavery) by degree.
If thats your position too regarding GPL violations, then you are at least consistent.
But of course, you think people who disagree with you are automatically not allowed to make any comparison at all, don't you?
They can make comparisons all day long. However, they will be called out if they are making stupid comparisons.
Riiiiiight, because copyright is like slave ownership.
that is just your gut instinct telling you this
I agree on cinelerra but not on Audacity. Audacity is like Notepad for audio, it's simple and does it's thing well (and doesn't crash which makes it actually better than notepad).
Then the world knows that a dog from an autonomous region in Spain posts on Slashdot?
Yep, wash it out. A few years ago, googling my full name pointed to a Usenet post where I was asking for advice on how to take magic mushrooms, ad position one or two. (I accidentally didn't change my profile when typing it or something). I was a little embarrassing but I don't think it had any big consequences.
Now the first google page lists bug reports, google code projects and my stackoverflow account (and related pages). The mushroom story is now on page 5 or something where I don't really care about it.
Only because this is some pretty unimaginative malware. What if the replaced sudo, dpkg and rm? Could you still trust these commands?
Have a look at this video explanation.
The difference is that there isn't a common software repository for windows like there is for Linux. If you want a screensaver for Linux, you can get tons with xscreensaver. For windows, the software ecosystem is much more confusing.
Google's netbook won't even have the capability to install software.
The premise is wrong. I have Win7 and a NVIDIA card and I can't easily switch resolutions or any other display settings with shortcuts without checking stupid boxes in stupid dialog boxes. Where is xrandr / nvidia-settings for windows?