So when AMD was trouncing Intel in 32-bit (and 64-bit) mode, it was AMD's strength... Now it is their weakness?
What are you talking about? 32-bit was never faster than 64-bit mode.
Also, running 64-bit programs doesn't automatically mean massive performance increases...
There are never any guarantees. However, the VAST MAJORITY of programs benefit, and CPU-intensive applications in particular almost always benefit from it.
With no magnetic field to shield them what kind of strategies will the base need to use to cope with solar radiation and not have the astronauts fried? Is it as simple as building the base in a crater permanently in shadow?
? When I started using Redhat, it ran very well in 16MB, with X.
It ran, but not "very well". I'm sure you'd have been happy to plop 512MBs in there if you possibly could.
No doubt you had a reasonably large swap file that was written to constantly, which simply isn't an option with Flash. Ditto for/tmp,/var, etc. So the ammount of RAM has to be significantly larger for that reason alone.
IMHO, Linux is bloated today, but only slightly so. On my system (admitedly FreeBSD5, not Linux) I've got numerous large applications running, and all together they're using just a bit more than 128MB. Still, I'm happy to have the extra RAM for caching and faster response, perhaps the same reason OLPC is using it.
As it is, your average desktop will not handle anything even close to 100G Ethernet.
AND? What would you expect the average desktop users to WANT 100G networking for? So they can fill-up their hard drive in 7 seconds (far faster than the drive can write)?
At that point, your bottleneck is the PCI or PCI-X bus.
Well then, thank goodness PCI-express is becomming quite popular on newish systems.
As the bus has been one of the slowest PC components to innovate,
See above.
PCI was significantly over-engineered (and AGP took over the task of graphics), so upgrades weren't needed for a very long time.
The proprietary CDROM interface on soundblaster cards died out, because it was proprietary and IDE was preferred.
Not really, but what was your point?
The proprietary zip format has died too,
Obviously.
they were never as popular as you describe and quite quickly faded away again...
You're just simply wrong. They were selling just under 10 million drives per year, and the decline lasted several years, not because of propritary tech, but because of price, reliability, and capacity.
As for the solid state media cards, true there are too many formats, but they're not proprietary, there are many implementations of each format from multiple vendors, and the vast majority of cameras actually support the usb-storage standard anyway.
xD and Memory Stick are both just as proprietary as anything else. The relevant companies have licensed the standard out, but they still own and control it.
I fail to see how camera interfaces have any relevance to the formats they use being proprietary.
Consider for a minute, what if you had lots of your personal data stored on an LS-120 disk, and the drive had long ago failed... How would you retrieve this data?
You could say the same about ANY old format, whether proprietary or open and standard. Even if it's open, unless it's wildly popular, don't expect to find compatible equipment in the distant future.
I doubt OpenXML is any more patent-ridden than the.doc format
The.doc format has been around for a very long time. It's quite likely that most old patents on it have expired. No such problem with their new formats, though.
or that there aren't any patent violations in the Linux kernel or OO.o already.
There is a great difference between incidentally stumbuling upon something patented, and intentionally copying a patent...
MS and IBM have so many ambiguous patents that they can sue any Linux user for the indefinite future.
You can start a case with a bad patent, but you won't get very far.
Tailgaters frustrate people because they don't know what to do to get them to back off. It's really quite simple...
When someone is following too close, gently beigin releasing the accelerator over the course of just a few seconds. Slowing down too quickly is dangerous, but gradually slowing is extremely safe.
They usually will go around, or get the message and back off. Until they do, continue slowing down, until the (short) distance they've left is a safe distance at the speeds you're traveling, even if you have to drive 20MPH on a 55MPH road for a couple miles until they get the hint.
Do not accelerate, or continuing at your current speed when being tailgated, either is very dangerous. Also, it should be noted that unmarked police cruisers regularly tailgate to try and get you to speed (they say it's for pacing your vehicle, but a safe distance would work just as well in that case), so accelerating when tailgated is also likely to get you ticketed for speeding.
'Course, unless you run Linux but have never watched a DVD, you've pretty much already opened that door.
There's every reason to believe dvdcss (and this software) is perfectly legal under the DMCA, as it falls under "interoperability":
`(3) The information acquired through the acts permitted under paragraph (1), and the means permitted under paragraph (2), may be made available to others if the person referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, provides such information or means solely for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title or violate applicable law other than this section.
Maybe because MythTV is very slow and clunky, with a convoluted interface, requiring you to navigate sub-sub-sub menus to accomplish anything.
A handful of lines of shell script, MPlayer, and a filemanager beats MythTV hands down.
I have no idea if Freevo has the same problems... last time I checked the inital setup was rather tricky and poorly documented, and I wasn't all that determined.
Where would we be if, instead of SATA/IDE/SCSI and CDs, every PC manufacturer used a proprietary type of hard drive and a proprietary form of removable media?
You mean, where would we be if SoundBlaster cards had a proprietary CD-ROM interface that everyone used at one time, Iomega's proprietary zip drives became wildly popular, and many more formats like Bernoulli, Sparq, LS-120, Orb, and others were all competing to replace it? A world were different digital cameras have entirely different and proprietary solid-state media cards?
Gee, I dunno. Sounds like quite a hellish world, from which there is no escape.
Thank god I can buy any SCSI drive on the market today, and just plug it into my 20 year-old SCSI controller.
if I can invent a cotton gin so I don't have to spend hours and hours picking seeds out of cotton by hand, what do I care if I don't have a patent on it?
If it costs you more to develop, than the inital direct benefit to you, then you just won't do it.
If, however, you know you can sell thousands of them, because your patent prevents other from copying the design you spent so much time/money on, you might just have an incentive.
This is definately the case with "pharmas to, say, develop a new treatment." After all, one person isn't going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop one single drug that cures one single disease. And any company that does so, will be undercut by another company that can copy them, without paying for all that expensive R&D.
I'm beginning to think that cooperation is a more powerful force in economics than competition, despite the prevalent thinking.
What is the incentive in cooperation? What is to prevent one single non-cooperative company (anywhere in the world) from ruining it?
No it isn't, but perhaps he is SPECIFICALLY talking about Apple's implimentation.
WMA is a container, not a compression codec.
Completely wrong. ASF is the container used by WMA and WMV files.
WMA is indeed the name of the audio codec, and WMV is a video codec.
AVI is a container and not a compression codec.
He didn't say these were codecs. Included in your own quotation, he said: "audio file formats."
Wav is not a lossless format. It is limited by in it's dynamic range (bits per sample) and sample rate. Compared to analog or a raw sound source, raw wav/pcm data loses a lot of the sound.
Yes it is. You'll get exactly the bits out that you put in. Your complaints are about DIGITAL SAMPLING OF ANALOG AUDIO AND HAVE NO SPECIFIC RELEVANCE TO WAV.
FLAC and other lossless codecs produce identical byte-to-byte output when compared to wav/pcm.
FLAC is not a lossless format. It is limited by in it's dynamic range (bits per sample) and sample rate. Compared to analog or a raw sound source, FLAC loses a lot of the sound.
Starting at 128-CBR, it got more difficult to hear the difference. At CBR/192 or VBR/medium, I could rarely distinguish MP3 from FLAC, although sometimes the high-hat cymbals sounded like they lost a little bit of brilliance.
It's ironic how MP3, once used for it's better quality at low-bitrates, is now being pushed into higher-bitrate usage, where it has sub-par performance...
Right about 160k, MP2 audio surpasses MP3. For your own tests, try compare mp3 lame encodings to twolame encodings (psy1/3, 160/192k): http://twolame.sf.net/
I have no idea about hardware player support... Maybe your player will handle.mp2 files, perhaps renamed to.mp3. If not, perhaps someone has already written a program to give MP2 files an MP3 header, since MP3 decorders are inherently backwards compatible?
I would also recomend trying Musepack (aka MPC/MP+). It really is the best codec, by far, through the entire range of bitrates that it supports, and yet it's far simpler/faster than even MP3 for both encoding and decoding.
The Verdict: Vorbis is good, really good. But MP3's produced by Lame at VBR/Medium to VBR/High are also really, really good, maybe even better.
I hope you were trying with the latest AoTuv version of libvorbis.
In my experience, Vorbis is generally noticably betten than lame, no matter the q value or preset... HOWEVER, I have come across several specific instances where Vorbis just falls apart on certain sounds/passages, which is enough to prevent me from widely using it.
Although there are players out there that can handle Vorbis, there are many more that don't.
With the above trick, anything which handles MP3s will play MP2s.
If you don't like the limited support for Vorbis, don't even look at Musepack... You've really only got the handful of Roxbock-supported players to chose from.
Still, the player I have is the only one I care about... Who cares what formats the thousands of players (I don't have) support?
I asked him if this was Microsoft's answer to Google Earth, and he indicated that it was. There seems to be very little about this on the Web, and I found no mention of Microsoft's collection of this sort of detailed street level data.
Whaaa? I hear about this on the news over a week ago, and even saw a demo of the software navigating a few of the largest cities... Remember, this is mainstream, national, news, where it takes them 6 months to mention new computer viruses.
This nefarious activity you're so concerned about is the worst-kept secret EVER.
Am I the only one that thought that trapping your hand inside the top of the door (the first to be eaten into the ceiling) and pulling the MANUAL RELEASE LEVER is an extraordinarily bad idea?
Well, since gravity pulls things DOWN, not UP... Yes.
You can test for hardness & solubility on the fly but not duration.
False logic.
The aqueducts were working structures, NOT monuments. There's no reason to believe the Romans even cared if they would last for thousands of years or not.
It's quite likely they tested each possible mixture for a relatively short term (let's say, 5 years) and the one that held up the best in the short-term test, happens to be the one which holds up the best over the course of centuries as well. It isn't exactly a coincidence that materials which hold-up best for a few years, are the ones that hold-up best for centuries as well. So, there's no reason to assume that they must have had some long-standing examples to draw from.
Also, you are assuming the structures that are around today were 100% typical. It could well be that some structures survive, not because of great engineering, but because of great luck... A bit of local variation in mineral deposits, and by dumb luck, you might end-up with building materials that are better (in some ways, worse in others) than what you were actually trying for... Just think about it... we don't go through and think about all the Roman buildings that failed, we think about all the ones that are still standing... That very small percentage could easily be accounted for by as much luck as skill/knowledge.
25 DNCers, 15 GOPers. But I thought only GOPers who bow to big business?
No, GOPers are just FAR, FAR, FAR worse.
Democrats have their bad moments, like NAFTA/FTA, and the DMCA. The GOP has end-to-end corruption, having bills literally written by companies, and just blatantly stumping for big business.
Wake up people, no party is free of Big Business.
And no party is free of abortion advocates, but in both cases it's pretty seriously one-sided, isn't it?
The ones I've seen are rated for less than 1000mA (usually only 500mA for the cheap ones)
The cheap model I linked to is 800mA.
which isn't even close to enough for any recent gadget. For example, my MP3 player draws 1500mA, my PDA draws 2400mA.
Those devices of are the exceptions, not the rule. But yes, you should be mindful of the current-draw required.
If it is not rated for the current necessary, the adapter may overheat, possibly enough to start a fire.
That is actually very unlikely. More often, the high-power device will simply not function, or will simply its battery much slower, or won't be able to at all while in-use...
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What are you talking about? 32-bit was never faster than 64-bit mode.
There are never any guarantees. However, the VAST MAJORITY of programs benefit, and CPU-intensive applications in particular almost always benefit from it.
Does ANYBODY remember fallout shelters?
All appearances indicate otherwise. Even the VirtualPC image, distributed for nothing but IE, is 1.5GBs, straight from Microsoft.
Windows, unlike Linux, is a real monolith of interdependent libraries and programs, that are extremely hard to remove or replace, even for Microsoft.
It ran, but not "very well". I'm sure you'd have been happy to plop 512MBs in there if you possibly could.
No doubt you had a reasonably large swap file that was written to constantly, which simply isn't an option with Flash. Ditto for
IMHO, Linux is bloated today, but only slightly so. On my system (admitedly FreeBSD5, not Linux) I've got numerous large applications running, and all together they're using just a bit more than 128MB. Still, I'm happy to have the extra RAM for caching and faster response, perhaps the same reason OLPC is using it.
AND? What would you expect the average desktop users to WANT 100G networking for? So they can fill-up their hard drive in 7 seconds (far faster than the drive can write)?
Well then, thank goodness PCI-express is becomming quite popular on newish systems.
See above.
PCI was significantly over-engineered (and AGP took over the task of graphics), so upgrades weren't needed for a very long time.
Only if you cripple the AMD chip, and run it in 32-bit mode. In 64-bit mode, it performs FAR better.
Not really, but what was your point?
Obviously.
You're just simply wrong. They were selling just under 10 million drives per year, and the decline lasted several years, not because of propritary tech, but because of price, reliability, and capacity.
xD and Memory Stick are both just as proprietary as anything else. The relevant companies have licensed the standard out, but they still own and control it.
I fail to see how camera interfaces have any relevance to the formats they use being proprietary.
You could say the same about ANY old format, whether proprietary or open and standard. Even if it's open, unless it's wildly popular, don't expect to find compatible equipment in the distant future.
The
There is a great difference between incidentally stumbuling upon something patented, and intentionally copying a patent...
You can start a case with a bad patent, but you won't get very far.
Tailgaters frustrate people because they don't know what to do to get them to back off. It's really quite simple...
When someone is following too close, gently beigin releasing the accelerator over the course of just a few seconds. Slowing down too quickly is dangerous, but gradually slowing is extremely safe.
They usually will go around, or get the message and back off. Until they do, continue slowing down, until the (short) distance they've left is a safe distance at the speeds you're traveling, even if you have to drive 20MPH on a 55MPH road for a couple miles until they get the hint.
Do not accelerate, or continuing at your current speed when being tailgated, either is very dangerous. Also, it should be noted that unmarked police cruisers regularly tailgate to try and get you to speed (they say it's for pacing your vehicle, but a safe distance would work just as well in that case), so accelerating when tailgated is also likely to get you ticketed for speeding.
There's every reason to believe dvdcss (and this software) is perfectly legal under the DMCA, as it falls under "interoperability":
`(3) The information acquired through the acts permitted under paragraph (1), and the means permitted under paragraph (2), may be made available to others if the person referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, provides such information or means solely for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title or violate applicable law other than this section.
Maybe because MythTV is very slow and clunky, with a convoluted interface, requiring you to navigate sub-sub-sub menus to accomplish anything.
A handful of lines of shell script, MPlayer, and a filemanager beats MythTV hands down.
I have no idea if Freevo has the same problems... last time I checked the inital setup was rather tricky and poorly documented, and I wasn't all that determined.
You mean, where would we be if SoundBlaster cards had a proprietary CD-ROM interface that everyone used at one time, Iomega's proprietary zip drives became wildly popular, and many more formats like Bernoulli, Sparq, LS-120, Orb, and others were all competing to replace it? A world were different digital cameras have entirely different and proprietary solid-state media cards?
Gee, I dunno. Sounds like quite a hellish world, from which there is no escape.
Thank god I can buy any SCSI drive on the market today, and just plug it into my 20 year-old SCSI controller.
Microsoft would sue if anybody made a Windows XP theme for MacOS. Luckily for them, NOBODY wants it.
If it costs you more to develop, than the inital direct benefit to you, then you just won't do it.
If, however, you know you can sell thousands of them, because your patent prevents other from copying the design you spent so much time/money on, you might just have an incentive.
This is definately the case with "pharmas to, say, develop a new treatment." After all, one person isn't going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop one single drug that cures one single disease. And any company that does so, will be undercut by another company that can copy them, without paying for all that expensive R&D.
What is the incentive in cooperation? What is to prevent one single non-cooperative company (anywhere in the world) from ruining it?
Perhaps you didn't notice the different formatting, to indicate I wasn't serious?
They are FLAC losses every bit as much as they are WAV losses. (ie. they aren't)
No it isn't, but perhaps he is SPECIFICALLY talking about Apple's implimentation.
Completely wrong. ASF is the container used by WMA and WMV files.
WMA is indeed the name of the audio codec, and WMV is a video codec.
He didn't say these were codecs. Included in your own quotation, he said: "audio file formats."
Yes it is. You'll get exactly the bits out that you put in. Your complaints are about DIGITAL SAMPLING OF ANALOG AUDIO AND HAVE NO SPECIFIC RELEVANCE TO WAV.
FLAC is not a lossless format. It is limited by in it's dynamic range (bits per sample) and sample rate. Compared to analog or a raw sound source, FLAC loses a lot of the sound.
It's ironic how MP3, once used for it's better quality at low-bitrates, is now being pushed into higher-bitrate usage, where it has sub-par performance...
Right about 160k, MP2 audio surpasses MP3. For your own tests, try compare mp3 lame encodings to twolame encodings (psy1/3, 160/192k): http://twolame.sf.net/
I have no idea about hardware player support... Maybe your player will handle
I would also recomend trying Musepack (aka MPC/MP+). It really is the best codec, by far, through the entire range of bitrates that it supports, and yet it's far simpler/faster than even MP3 for both encoding and decoding.
I hope you were trying with the latest AoTuv version of libvorbis.
In my experience, Vorbis is generally noticably betten than lame, no matter the q value or preset... HOWEVER, I have come across several specific instances where Vorbis just falls apart on certain sounds/passages, which is enough to prevent me from widely using it.
With the above trick, anything which handles MP3s will play MP2s.
If you don't like the limited support for Vorbis, don't even look at Musepack... You've really only got the handful of Roxbock-supported players to chose from.
Still, the player I have is the only one I care about... Who cares what formats the thousands of players (I don't have) support?
Whaaa? I hear about this on the news over a week ago, and even saw a demo of the software navigating a few of the largest cities... Remember, this is mainstream, national, news, where it takes them 6 months to mention new computer viruses.
This nefarious activity you're so concerned about is the worst-kept secret EVER.
A quick search yeilds more results than you could possibly read through: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Micros
Then cover it with a tarp, cut off all public streets going in and out, and perform background checks of everybody just to be sure...
Short of that, you're out of luck. When the Microsoft guy jumps over your fence to take pictures of your pool, THEN you might have something...
Well, since gravity pulls things DOWN, not UP... Yes.
False logic.
The aqueducts were working structures, NOT monuments. There's no reason to believe the Romans even cared if they would last for thousands of years or not.
It's quite likely they tested each possible mixture for a relatively short term (let's say, 5 years) and the one that held up the best in the short-term test, happens to be the one which holds up the best over the course of centuries as well. It isn't exactly a coincidence that materials which hold-up best for a few years, are the ones that hold-up best for centuries as well. So, there's no reason to assume that they must have had some long-standing examples to draw from.
Also, you are assuming the structures that are around today were 100% typical. It could well be that some structures survive, not because of great engineering, but because of great luck... A bit of local variation in mineral deposits, and by dumb luck, you might end-up with building materials that are better (in some ways, worse in others) than what you were actually trying for... Just think about it... we don't go through and think about all the Roman buildings that failed, we think about all the ones that are still standing... That very small percentage could easily be accounted for by as much luck as skill/knowledge.
So... yesterday?
No, GOPers are just FAR, FAR, FAR worse.
Democrats have their bad moments, like NAFTA/FTA, and the DMCA. The GOP has end-to-end corruption, having bills literally written by companies, and just blatantly stumping for big business.
And no party is free of abortion advocates, but in both cases it's pretty seriously one-sided, isn't it?
A tiny bit of fuding the numbers, and you have 5% of votes from people who only exist on paper...
They certainly aren't going to come forward and say that their votes weren't counted correctly...
Correction: ...or will simply CHARGE its battery much slower...
The cheap model I linked to is 800mA.
Those devices of are the exceptions, not the rule. But yes, you should be mindful of the current-draw required.
That is actually very unlikely. More often, the high-power device will simply not function, or will simply its battery much slower, or won't be able to at all while in-use...