flash can also use hardware acceleration to play h264 video, exactly like it does in your pc. problem is that apple does not allow it do this on iphone.
Flash kills battery life and stability. After 10 years, it still doesn't work well on modern computers or mobile devices and is likely to never be a good solution. The video tag is young, not quite there yet, and will probably be a better bet in the long run.
it does work on 90% computers and 100% smartphones (if you exclude iphoes). if you have a computer on which flash does not work properly perhaps your computer has shoddy/outdated hardware/software. for me, flash video works flawlessly on every computer i've ever used, from windows 2000 to ubuntu 9.10 to windows xp to windows vista to windows 7 to opensuse 11.2. on my 2yr xp laptop (with crappy intel graphics), 720p on youtube plays like butter, though 1080p is unwatchable. on my nokia e71, youtube plays in a sort of lite flash player. the ui looks and behaves just like on a pc. hell, the majority of games that i played on my se phone were in flash lite. i've heard flash performance is crap on apple pcs. i've also heard that unil a couple of weeks ago, apple had not exposed the apis needed for flash to use hardware acceleration to play videos. it seems to me that this is apple's fault.
this is because we do not understand the algorithms/software running inside the brain.
I thought that enough was known to suggest that the brain works more like a neural net than a digital computer.
how is a neural network different from a multi-core digital computer? you input data into it. it processes the provided data using pre-defined algorithms and generates output. are you suggesting that a neural net does not need any software/firmware? i am almost completely ignorant about the working of a neural net (and i didn't find anything of value in wikipedia). but still i find it hard to believe that neural nets can do speech-to-text, recognize faces, match images without being given some software/algorithms.
Seriously, though, Neural Net != Digital (Turing/Von Neumann) computer. No real concept of an algorithm, no real concept of "computability" (only ever delevers a good guess, not an analytic solution, doesn't even require the problem to be formulated).
how can something function if it does not know what to do? an algorithm is what tells a computer what to do. a neural net has to have some sort of instructions given to it before it can do any worthwhile work. and how can anyone/anything answer a question without it being formulated?
ok, then how can you catch a ball i throw at you? unless your brain is parallely solving quadratic equations, alongwith estimating the result continuously (in parallel to the main calculation), theres no way any human can catch the ball.
on the contrary, i can't wait for sentient machines. at last we will be free of shoddy human programming. no vendor lockins and other such stuff. just tell your computer to write a specific program you desire for a specific purpose, and he will write it for you.
Computers are consistant and predictable. The human brain is not.
this is because we do not understand the algorithms/software running inside the brain. believe me, to a newbie computer user, a computer is just as unpredictable as a normal person. sometimes computers are unpredictable even to me, especially if they are running m$ software! i also think that the brain is exactly analogous to a digital computer.
p.s. As an interesting experiment. If you have WiFi and a microwave oven in your house/apartment, start downloading a large file. Look at the download rate (300kB/sec. or whatever). Then, start the microwave and look at the download rate. Mine drops to about 10-20kB/sec., because the microwave interferes with the WiFi signal.
yeah but what happens if my original, no interference speed is 10-20kbytespersecond? i guess this is why i dont see any kind of interference. its already so slow that there's nothing to interfere with.
but how can 1.3ghz be better than 5ghz? surely more ghz is better? like a six year old pentium 4 @3.8 ghz is much better than a new core i5 @ 2.2ghz. its a shame you can't buy them anymore.
just because idiots like you don't understand feynmann does not mean he is a bad teacher. myself, i learnt much more from feynman than any other teacher.
what he said ^^ seriously people, most religious, god-believing individuals have these exact same notions and concepts like you atheists. please stop pretending to be enlightened elitist bastards.
get a second hand nokia e71. do not insert sim card. download skype app from ovi store. log in with your skype id. pay some money to skype to get credit. it works perfectly like a phone, just that it works only over wifi.
yes i had the same lazy eye problem as you but it was noticed quite early by my eye-doctor. he gave me a card with two incomplete cats printed on it side-by-side. i have to look at it and cross my eyes to make it combine into one cat and see a 3d picture. this i have to do for 10 minutes every day for a decade. sometimes when it gets really severe they put a sellotape on one lens of the spectacles. but thankfully that has never happened to me.
awww....arent you special? but seriously, if you can't see 3d then there is some serious malfunction in your eyes and possibly your brain too. you should get them checked.
Truecrypt might be the weak one that they'have already defeated, but the guy was smart and layered even stronger cryptography, that they can't beat, and don't want to name?
i know, he must have used the greatest, toughest crypto in the world: bitlocker by microsoft!!1
its not enough just to boycott. you have to turn up the torrenting. i can imagine their pain when they see 3347 seeders on every latest album. so, please download all music torrents you want and even those you dont want.
Sarcasm? What sarcasm? I stated my honest beliefs. I'm sure in Pakistan they would want me executed. In fact, as a gay atheist I should probably avoid the entire Middle East.
i'm sure of that. but please notice the detail that i replied to elloGov, not you. and i feel that if you can't exercise your right to free speech you don't have the right to free speech.
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flash can also use hardware acceleration to play h264 video, exactly like it does in your pc. problem is that apple does not allow it do this on iphone.
Flash kills battery life and stability. After 10 years, it still doesn't work well on modern computers or mobile devices and is likely to never be a good solution. The video tag is young, not quite there yet, and will probably be a better bet in the long run.
it does work on 90% computers and 100% smartphones (if you exclude iphoes). if you have a computer on which flash does not work properly perhaps your computer has shoddy/outdated hardware/software.
for me, flash video works flawlessly on every computer i've ever used, from windows 2000 to ubuntu 9.10 to windows xp to windows vista to windows 7 to opensuse 11.2. on my 2yr xp laptop (with crappy intel graphics), 720p on youtube plays like butter, though 1080p is unwatchable. on my nokia e71, youtube plays in a sort of lite flash player. the ui looks and behaves just like on a pc. hell, the majority of games that i played on my se phone were in flash lite.
i've heard flash performance is crap on apple pcs. i've also heard that unil a couple of weeks ago, apple had not exposed the apis needed for flash to use hardware acceleration to play videos. it seems to me that this is apple's fault.
this is because we do not understand the algorithms/software running inside the brain.
I thought that enough was known to suggest that the brain works more like a neural net than a digital computer.
how is a neural network different from a multi-core digital computer? you input data into it. it processes the provided data using pre-defined algorithms and generates output. are you suggesting that a neural net does not need any software/firmware? i am almost completely ignorant about the working of a neural net (and i didn't find anything of value in wikipedia). but still i find it hard to believe that neural nets can do speech-to-text, recognize faces, match images without being given some software/algorithms.
Seriously, though, Neural Net != Digital (Turing/Von Neumann) computer. No real concept of an algorithm, no real concept of "computability" (only ever delevers a good guess, not an analytic solution, doesn't even require the problem to be formulated).
how can something function if it does not know what to do? an algorithm is what tells a computer what to do. a neural net has to have some sort of instructions given to it before it can do any worthwhile work. and how can anyone/anything answer a question without it being formulated?
ok, then how can you catch a ball i throw at you? unless your brain is parallely solving quadratic equations, alongwith estimating the result continuously (in parallel to the main calculation), theres no way any human can catch the ball.
on the contrary, i can't wait for sentient machines. at last we will be free of shoddy human programming. no vendor lockins and other such stuff. just tell your computer to write a specific program you desire for a specific purpose, and he will write it for you.
i think you are confusing a hollywood film with the real life. rain man does not exist out of the movie.
Computers are consistant and predictable. The human brain is not.
this is because we do not understand the algorithms/software running inside the brain. believe me, to a newbie computer user, a computer is just as unpredictable as a normal person. sometimes computers are unpredictable even to me, especially if they are running m$ software!
i also think that the brain is exactly analogous to a digital computer.
p.s. As an interesting experiment. If you have WiFi and a microwave oven in your house/apartment, start downloading a large file. Look at the download rate (300kB/sec. or whatever). Then, start the microwave and look at the download rate. Mine drops to about 10-20kB/sec., because the microwave interferes with the WiFi signal.
yeah but what happens if my original, no interference speed is 10-20kbytespersecond? i guess this is why i dont see any kind of interference. its already so slow that there's nothing to interfere with.
that would hardly make any difference since 1500khz is still so far from wifi's 2400mhz.
but how can 1.3ghz be better than 5ghz? surely more ghz is better? like a six year old pentium 4 @3.8 ghz is much better than a new core i5 @ 2.2ghz. its a shame you can't buy them anymore.
how do you find out the channel of others' networks?
just because idiots like you don't understand feynmann does not mean he is a bad teacher. myself, i learnt much more from feynman than any other teacher.
what he said ^^
seriously people, most religious, god-believing individuals have these exact same notions and concepts like you atheists. please stop pretending to be enlightened elitist bastards.
Time for a movie quote...
"My name is Khan and I'm a terrorist!!1"
ftfy.
get a second hand nokia e71. do not insert sim card. download skype app from ovi store. log in with your skype id. pay some money to skype to get credit. it works perfectly like a phone, just that it works only over wifi.
what does this mean? totally lost, i am.
i had a little bit of lazy eye too. but they fixed it with about 5 years of exercise. you should try it.
yes i had the same lazy eye problem as you but it was noticed quite early by my eye-doctor. he gave me a card with two incomplete cats printed on it side-by-side. i have to look at it and cross my eyes to make it combine into one cat and see a 3d picture. this i have to do for 10 minutes every day for a decade.
sometimes when it gets really severe they put a sellotape on one lens of the spectacles. but thankfully that has never happened to me.
awww....arent you special?
but seriously, if you can't see 3d then there is some serious malfunction in your eyes and possibly your brain too. you should get them checked.
that is one cruel dad!
perhaps you could stop believing any drivel you read in a novel. van eck is a fantasy and i can see lots of problems with it becoming practical.
Truecrypt might be the weak one that they'have already defeated, but the guy was smart and layered even stronger cryptography, that they can't beat, and don't want to name?
i know, he must have used the greatest, toughest crypto in the world: bitlocker by microsoft!!1
yeah everyone knows cory doctrov is an insufferable asshole. but why are you judging all cc users to be same as him?
its not enough just to boycott. you have to turn up the torrenting. i can imagine their pain when they see 3347 seeders on every latest album.
so, please download all music torrents you want and even those you dont want.
Sarcasm? What sarcasm? I stated my honest beliefs. I'm sure in Pakistan they would want me executed. In fact, as a gay atheist I should probably avoid the entire Middle East.
i'm sure of that. but please notice the detail that i replied to elloGov, not you.
and i feel that if you can't exercise your right to free speech you don't have the right to free speech.