....and that is that HTML5 video has apparently done nothing to address the CPU usage issues I was having with flash video. On OS X 10.5.8 HTML5 video playback on Youtube is *at least* as much of a resource hog as Flash. I was seeing my quad core system routinely hitting 100%+ CPU usage during playback of videos, where I'd usually expect around 85-90% with Flash. I was really holding out for this being the answer to my perpetual Youtube headaches. Good job I didn't hold my breath.
You've got it the wrong way round. Yes, some of us are deaf, but most of us aren't. So if you need it, turn it on, not vice verse. I'm left handed, so I have to move the mouse to the other side of the keyboard every time I use someone else's computer or a public terminal. Do I have a problem with this? No. It's hardly a huge inconvenience (much like enabling annotations on a per-video basis isn't either), and the people that DO "suffer" this inconvenience represent only ~10% of the population. The hard of hearing I'm confident make up an even smaller group. I'm all for making things accessible, but having things turned on by default just so that a tiny % of the population don't have to omg click a button is political correctness gone insane. Besides, I don't know why you're getting so hot and bothered. As was clearly said already, this is only a limitation of the current beta. These features will undoubtedly be back to annoy the majority of us and appease yourself by the time it's fit for a full release.
"Thats half-way there. Observe, then theorise, then make a prediction, and test that. The problem is that we have General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and both describe their own domains very well (the very large and very small, respectively) - but we have no way of combining the two into a single, unified theory."
Paging Nassim Haramein. I went up to London last week to witness Haramein give a talk on a paper he has just submitted for peer review entitled "The Schwarzschild Proton" (Best Paper Award at the CASYS09 conference), where he outlines some very specific ways in which we can begin to unify the two apparently conflicting theories.
He has a model for the mechanics of the Universe that dispenses with the need for String Theory, the Strong and Weak Forces, and Dark Matter, and can show how this model would fully support General Relativity all the way down to the Planck Scale.
http://theresonanceproject.org/pdf/schwarzschild_proton_a4.pdf
I say "for once" simply because the UK has a history of paying over-the-odds prices for almost everything when compared to the US. Look at the prices of consumer electronics, fuel, food, clothing, or pretty much anything else you can think of, and compare the UK prices to those of the US. For example, the new Canon EOS 500d is retailing over here at £869 (> $1250) compared to the $999 US price tag. After the most cursory investigation you may appreciate why I use the term "for once".
Also, to clarify a point raised by a prior reply, I am getting a 24mbps ADSL2 service via BeUnlimited. Uncapped. £21.50 per month. Average realistic download of 19mbps, 1.5 mbps upload.
At current exchange rates, $150 works out to be about £100. By comparison, I'm getting uncapped 24mbps ADSL downloads for £22 per month in the UK. I think this might be the one sole instance where the UK gets a better deal on something than the US.
At least this happened in a geographically fortuitous area when it comes to repairing the damage. I hear San Francisco has some of the most experienced pipe specialists in the country
Meh. As long as the whole violation of human rights thing has stopped I don't care.
The thing is, it hasn't. Shutting down one sector of Guantanamo Bay is not the same as cessation of human rights violations. Extraordinary rendition is still a fact. Moreover, there have been recent moves to reopen a USAF base in Kazakhstan - a base that was shut down under the Bush admin because of the appalling human rights track record in that country (and how bad does something had to have been for Bush to have distanced himself from it?). A former British ambassador to Kazakhstan has recently petitioned to have his evidence heard in a British hearing claiming that he saw intel passed to MI6 via the CIA that was obtained from extraordinarily renditioned prisoners in Kazakhstan ( http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/03/trying_again_my.html ) - a number of whom were tortured to death whilst extracting information. This is political sleight of hand - closing down a section of Gitmo gives the impression that something is being done to address human rights issues - shipping kidnapped suspects off to other parts of the world to be subjected to interrogation under torture simply reveals that all this human rights talk was simply lip service being paid to garner public support during the election campaigns.
Because I know of at least one person in the Theoretical Physics department at Cambridge University who will be stuck reading scope.org.uk in perpetuity if it isn't.....
You guys piss and moan all you like. Personally, I can't wait to watch James Siberius Kirk getting into a punch-up with an angsty emo-Spock on the bridge of the Enterprise. Luckily they got somebody with the integrity and credibility of JJ Abrams to steer the good ship Trek this time round, and not some opportunistic, over the top Hollywood schmoozer who thinks all you need is a couple of badly thought out twists and a sackful of explosions to make a decent movie....
...its own position in the foodchain and start paying every time it reports on a current event. 300 killed in an earthquake in India? Then for every copy of a newspaper you sell that reports the story, send a % to the relief fund. Either that or accept the fact that you're in the business of making money out of the successes and failures of others, and be prepared to accept that you're as viable a target for that as anybody else.
It remains however that the parent is way off base, and if this article had been about somebody in Waverly, IA or Charleston, SC then the chances of an issue being made out of not stating the country would be close to 0%. This entire discussion emerged out of parent's need for intellectual hand-holding.
"You mean: "A woman in Bushton, UK"."
Right on! I'd go one further - they should have said Bushton, UK, Europe, followed by a map with a big red arrow pointing to Europe. How dare a UK daily newspaper not cater to your ignorance?
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....and that is that HTML5 video has apparently done nothing to address the CPU usage issues I was having with flash video. On OS X 10.5.8 HTML5 video playback on Youtube is *at least* as much of a resource hog as Flash. I was seeing my quad core system routinely hitting 100%+ CPU usage during playback of videos, where I'd usually expect around 85-90% with Flash. I was really holding out for this being the answer to my perpetual Youtube headaches. Good job I didn't hold my breath.
You've got it the wrong way round. Yes, some of us are deaf, but most of us aren't. So if you need it, turn it on, not vice verse. I'm left handed, so I have to move the mouse to the other side of the keyboard every time I use someone else's computer or a public terminal. Do I have a problem with this? No. It's hardly a huge inconvenience (much like enabling annotations on a per-video basis isn't either), and the people that DO "suffer" this inconvenience represent only ~10% of the population. The hard of hearing I'm confident make up an even smaller group. I'm all for making things accessible, but having things turned on by default just so that a tiny % of the population don't have to omg click a button is political correctness gone insane. Besides, I don't know why you're getting so hot and bothered. As was clearly said already, this is only a limitation of the current beta. These features will undoubtedly be back to annoy the majority of us and appease yourself by the time it's fit for a full release.
"Thats half-way there. Observe, then theorise, then make a prediction, and test that. The problem is that we have General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and both describe their own domains very well (the very large and very small, respectively) - but we have no way of combining the two into a single, unified theory." Paging Nassim Haramein. I went up to London last week to witness Haramein give a talk on a paper he has just submitted for peer review entitled "The Schwarzschild Proton" (Best Paper Award at the CASYS09 conference), where he outlines some very specific ways in which we can begin to unify the two apparently conflicting theories. He has a model for the mechanics of the Universe that dispenses with the need for String Theory, the Strong and Weak Forces, and Dark Matter, and can show how this model would fully support General Relativity all the way down to the Planck Scale. http://theresonanceproject.org/pdf/schwarzschild_proton_a4.pdf
I say "for once" simply because the UK has a history of paying over-the-odds prices for almost everything when compared to the US. Look at the prices of consumer electronics, fuel, food, clothing, or pretty much anything else you can think of, and compare the UK prices to those of the US. For example, the new Canon EOS 500d is retailing over here at £869 (> $1250) compared to the $999 US price tag. After the most cursory investigation you may appreciate why I use the term "for once". Also, to clarify a point raised by a prior reply, I am getting a 24mbps ADSL2 service via BeUnlimited. Uncapped. £21.50 per month. Average realistic download of 19mbps, 1.5 mbps upload.
I should probably add that I still have to pay about 50% more for the MacBook Pro that I use to connect to internet in the first place.
At current exchange rates, $150 works out to be about £100. By comparison, I'm getting uncapped 24mbps ADSL downloads for £22 per month in the UK. I think this might be the one sole instance where the UK gets a better deal on something than the US.
At least this happened in a geographically fortuitous area when it comes to repairing the damage. I hear San Francisco has some of the most experienced pipe specialists in the country
Sorry, I meant to say Uzbekistan, not Kazakhstan.
Meh. As long as the whole violation of human rights thing has stopped I don't care.
The thing is, it hasn't. Shutting down one sector of Guantanamo Bay is not the same as cessation of human rights violations. Extraordinary rendition is still a fact. Moreover, there have been recent moves to reopen a USAF base in Kazakhstan - a base that was shut down under the Bush admin because of the appalling human rights track record in that country (and how bad does something had to have been for Bush to have distanced himself from it?). A former British ambassador to Kazakhstan has recently petitioned to have his evidence heard in a British hearing claiming that he saw intel passed to MI6 via the CIA that was obtained from extraordinarily renditioned prisoners in Kazakhstan ( http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/03/trying_again_my.html ) - a number of whom were tortured to death whilst extracting information. This is political sleight of hand - closing down a section of Gitmo gives the impression that something is being done to address human rights issues - shipping kidnapped suspects off to other parts of the world to be subjected to interrogation under torture simply reveals that all this human rights talk was simply lip service being paid to garner public support during the election campaigns.
You have been attacked by a Level 4 Lawyer. Destroy the PDf artifact or pay 1000d20 in damages.
Wouldn't this be more of a palm device than a tablet PC?
Liberal fascist is an oxymoron, genius.
Would you prefer the term Oligarchical Collectivist?
King of Kong finds himself over a barrel in the current economic climate.
By all accounts the Queen is actually into gadgets. She even has a Wii.
I assume that would be the "Royal Wii"?
Because I know of at least one person in the Theoretical Physics department at Cambridge University who will be stuck reading scope.org.uk in perpetuity if it isn't.....
Do I need to spell it out for you?
I guess you've never seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScHxUopDlKc
You guys piss and moan all you like. Personally, I can't wait to watch James Siberius Kirk getting into a punch-up with an angsty emo-Spock on the bridge of the Enterprise. Luckily they got somebody with the integrity and credibility of JJ Abrams to steer the good ship Trek this time round, and not some opportunistic, over the top Hollywood schmoozer who thinks all you need is a couple of badly thought out twists and a sackful of explosions to make a decent movie....
FIREWIRE IS DEAD! (caps filter kicks in to curb the drama)
It's clear you don't do any kind of work with digital audio.
Weren't Light Emitting Polymers supposed to have offered all of this about 10 years ago? Whatever happened to them?
...its own position in the foodchain and start paying every time it reports on a current event. 300 killed in an earthquake in India? Then for every copy of a newspaper you sell that reports the story, send a % to the relief fund. Either that or accept the fact that you're in the business of making money out of the successes and failures of others, and be prepared to accept that you're as viable a target for that as anybody else.
It remains however that the parent is way off base, and if this article had been about somebody in Waverly, IA or Charleston, SC then the chances of an issue being made out of not stating the country would be close to 0%. This entire discussion emerged out of parent's need for intellectual hand-holding.
"You mean: "A woman in Bushton, UK"." Right on! I'd go one further - they should have said Bushton, UK, Europe, followed by a map with a big red arrow pointing to Europe. How dare a UK daily newspaper not cater to your ignorance?