"...and just so that we all know what we're talking about, I've brought some of this stuff with me. Two bars, ladies and gentlemen, of weapons-grade plutonium. A lethal dose at 20 yards! Get it while it's hot!" -- Jedburgh, Edge of Darkness.
Funny that, I always thought that Grogan (the villain) looked like Bill Gates.
Exactly. It's interesting that the Bioware drone mentions Dragon Age, since the DLC was advertised IN the game. You reached a quest giver, and he told you that you had to buy his quest!
And that is the reason I never completed the game, I got sick to death of having the suspension of disbelief ruined by its blatant attempts to nickle-and-dime me.
Okay, so I was kind of pissed that I wasn't going to get the Werewolf Army I'd hoped for to battle the undead, but what pushed me to breaking point was finding someone on the way to the Dwarf City who was desperate to have their Significant Other rescued or somesuch. I figured it would help me get over losing the wolf army, so I agreed - and he demanded money for the privilege of having his beloved back. So I played System Shock instead.
The UK is expecting Ecuador to back down and hand Assange over.
If they (the UK) were to actually storm the embassy they would be immediately putting their diplomats around the world at risk because they would have just shown how little they think of another country's embassy.
The coalition is looking a bit shaky at the moment. Something like that could bring down the government, IMHO.
No, it's an nVidia GPU. For the most part it will be running the Android drivers. For Linux... who knows. I dunno if Nouveau supports the Tegra yet, but even if it does, performance is liable to be a bit feeble.
When it's etched on a PCB, it's either going to be two shades of green (if part of the traces) or white if it's silkscreened on along with the part numbers.
There are a variety of different ongoing tests to look at how long drives actually last. Looking at a fairly standard older Intel 320 40GB drive, it went 190TB written before the MWI threshold was reached, and continued on until 685TB. That means it completely rewrote the drive 17500+ times.
Yeah, but the problem is they keep reducing the size of the flash cells. It's getting to the point where they're actually having to expend write cycles to prevent the data evaporating, and with smaller gates you get significantly less write cycles to begin with, and once you start going from MLC to TLC, it starts to look kind of ugly.
That and I am kind of worried about data retention in these things. I have some EPROMs from 1988 which were rated for about 10 years, though the contents were still readable (and the machine still worked) in 2010 when I made a backup. I'd be impressed if 20nm TLC flash can retain data for 5.
Worked on mine with a custom 3.4 kernel (on AMD64) and with Nvidia 304.22. I'm going to upgrade to 3.5 and see if that makes any difference. Unsurprisingly, but annoyingly, it's knackered VGA mode so I can't switch back to the VTs.
I wonder how fuzzy the matching is? Will you suddenly end up with a different mix or remastered version of the song because it assumed they were the same?
Why I say Surface RT and not just Surface. Same operating system as my computer at home. I can use the same software.
I think you may be confused, because you can't do what you're claiming. Unless things have changed, RT is the brain-damaged one that can only run Metro apps, 'pro' is probably the one you're thinking of.
I wouldn't put it beyond Mike Oldfield to experiment with perfect thirds and fifths in a non-transposable key, though. But at the time Ommadawn was made, only voice and a few select instruments would have had that ability.
I wasn't really being completely serious. Supposedly what actually happened on that album was that they did so many overdubs that they wore through the master, copied what they could salvage to another tape, did the same thing and the final version of the album had some tracks as third generation copies. If the master and slave machines weren't running at quite the same speed, you would get drift like that. In fact that actually happened to me, once - I copied a shedding tape onto a good one, but then had to run the tape very slightly fast when overdubbing because it was slightly off key.
Yet, in some cases, classical music is even more complex, not being shackled by equal temperament or autotuning. My favourite example is Lassus' Ave, Regina Coelorum which finishes a quarter of a note lower than it starts when sung correctly in just intonation. Chord transitions like that just aren't possible anymore (in part, due to Bach).
'Ommadawn' by Mike Oldfield opens somewhere between G-minor and F#-minor, but that was probably because the tape machine wasn't functioning correctly...
The same goes for many 1970s prog rock acts like Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes. Some of the progressive rock musicians, like Robert Fripp, Chris Squire, Bill Bruford, Neil Peart, Tony Banks, David Gilmour and Rick Wakeman are considered some of the most talented musicians to play "popular" music..... But also keep in mind here that most popular musicians from the post-war period onward did not receive any kind of formal training.
Keith Emerson and Wakeman were classically trained, I'm not sure about the others. I do have to wonder if the dearth of that is what's contributed to the relative lack of experimentation recently.
For my part, I'm hopeless - no music theory, can't even play. Have to sequence everything in SONAR, though I've got good enough at it that most people can't easily tell and assume just the drums and the bass guitar are programmed. And the whole thing of not really knowing what I'm doing musically does allow for some interesting accidents and unusual chord changes made from scrawling notes in the piano roll and tweaking them until they 'work'.
If it were actually a problem with the OS then it would happen to everyone. I've got a mini (on 10.6) that has happily sat beside my TV for something like five years now, connected through wifi. I've never noticed a problem with it.
It happens to enough people for there to be discussions of it, complaints about it and partial workarounds like the ping trick. I was hoping that 10.7 would fix it, but making it awkward to get on physical media and the very real possibility of it not supporting the most stable wifi module are putting me off upgrading. I don't think 10.8 will work on this mac anyway. Oh, and it's worth mentioning that the problem didn't occur at all until 10.6.
Supposedly things are a lot more stable if you don't use WPA or WPA2, but frankly, that's a very bad idea. It's worth pointing out that the mac is the only one on the network which craps itself like this, the linux boxes and laptops with a myriad of different wifi adaptors are all completely stable, even when pulling down a gigabyte or so for a distro upgrade.
get your hardware fixed. I dont have that problem on my horribly old 2009 17" macbook pro or the out of date 2011 13" macbook pro my wife has.
The only time I experienced that ws with a piece of crap Wireless router from belkin. Ripping it off the wall and smashing it solved the problem, well after it was replaced with a netgear.
No, for me at least, it's definitely failing inside the operating system (which ATM is still 10.6).
For starters I've used three different types of Wifi module on this mac mini, and as many different brands of AP. I'm currently using an Airport Express as the access point, and for a long time I ran both the internal wireless and an external USB dongle on the mac to try and give me some failover capability.
What always happens is that the Wifi stack reports station disconnection "due to inactivity", which is perverse because it normally happens while watching youtube or some other high-bandwidth operation (hence, downloading 10.7 is going to be impossible). Once the failure has occurred the entire network stack will go down permanently, taking out all the wifi modules and making it impossible to bring them back up again without rebooting the mac.
A Google search found that it is possible to prolong things by setting a terminal to ping the router continuously in the background. IME that will usually get you about a week of connectivity before it crashes again. If you don't, expect to have the network stack die several times a day.
Great. Now we'll see the same fragmentation Windows CE had all those years. Most games use the NDK and contain binary compiled specifically for ARM. Obviously those apps will not run on the MIPS processor.
The NDK now has MIPS support out of the box. Going forward it would probably be a good idea to compile for all supported targets.
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i know the specs are less but ive seen LTO-4 tapes hold close to 4GB of data.
That's 4TB, right?
"...and just so that we all know what we're talking about, I've brought some of this stuff with me. Two bars, ladies and gentlemen, of weapons-grade plutonium. A lethal dose at 20 yards! Get it while it's hot!" -- Jedburgh, Edge of Darkness.
Funny that, I always thought that Grogan (the villain) looked like Bill Gates.
Exactly. It's interesting that the Bioware drone mentions Dragon Age, since the DLC was advertised IN the game. You reached a quest giver, and he told you that you had to buy his quest!
And that is the reason I never completed the game, I got sick to death of having the suspension of disbelief ruined by its blatant attempts to nickle-and-dime me.
Okay, so I was kind of pissed that I wasn't going to get the Werewolf Army I'd hoped for to battle the undead, but what pushed me to breaking point was finding someone on the way to the Dwarf City who was desperate to have their Significant Other rescued or somesuch. I figured it would help me get over losing the wolf army, so I agreed - and he demanded money for the privilege of having his beloved back. So I played System Shock instead.
Does this also include oxygen-free cables and that CD that's supposed to re-tune your speakers?
The UK is expecting Ecuador to back down and hand Assange over.
If they (the UK) were to actually storm the embassy they would be immediately putting their diplomats around the world at risk because they would have just shown how little they think of another country's embassy.
The coalition is looking a bit shaky at the moment. Something like that could bring down the government, IMHO.
I think you know what THEY'RE made of...
Seaweed, probably. Soya and lentils being too expensive.
Windows 2012 doesn't boot to 'Metro' how hard can it be to change 8?
If it becomes part of the chain-of-trust in the secure boot, very hard.
Are these going to have open GPU drivers or not?
No, it's an nVidia GPU. For the most part it will be running the Android drivers. For Linux... who knows. I dunno if Nouveau supports the Tegra yet, but even if it does, performance is liable to be a bit feeble.
It looks like it is going to play PC games, since they were showing huge name titles like WOW on it already.
I doubt it, it quite clearly has an ARM processor ;-)
When it's etched on a PCB, it's either going to be two shades of green (if part of the traces) or white if it's silkscreened on along with the part numbers.
There are a variety of different ongoing tests to look at how long drives actually last. Looking at a fairly standard older Intel 320 40GB drive, it went 190TB written before the MWI threshold was reached, and continued on until 685TB. That means it completely rewrote the drive 17500+ times.
Yeah, but the problem is they keep reducing the size of the flash cells. It's getting to the point where they're actually having to expend write cycles to prevent the data evaporating, and with smaller gates you get significantly less write cycles to begin with, and once you start going from MLC to TLC, it starts to look kind of ugly.
That and I am kind of worried about data retention in these things. I have some EPROMs from 1988 which were rated for about 10 years, though the contents were still readable (and the machine still worked) in 2010 when I made a backup. I'd be impressed if 20nm TLC flash can retain data for 5.
What is an AA?
They provide a car breakdown/recovery service in the UK.
Worked on mine with a custom 3.4 kernel (on AMD64) and with Nvidia 304.22. I'm going to upgrade to 3.5 and see if that makes any difference. Unsurprisingly, but annoyingly, it's knackered VGA mode so I can't switch back to the VTs.
Use Windows and you don't get linux malware. True story, mod +5 true accordingly.
Since Nvidia's drivers share a large amount of common code, I'd say it's only a matter of time.
I heard there were licensing implications for using the Jazelle module, which is why nobody does...
I wonder how fuzzy the matching is? Will you suddenly end up with a different mix or remastered version of the song because it assumed they were the same?
No problem, just as long as you end up with the right one...
Why I say Surface RT and not just Surface. Same operating system as my computer at home. I can use the same software.
I think you may be confused, because you can't do what you're claiming. Unless things have changed, RT is the brain-damaged one that can only run Metro apps, 'pro' is probably the one you're thinking of.
I wouldn't put it beyond Mike Oldfield to experiment with perfect thirds and fifths in a non-transposable key, though. But at the time Ommadawn was made, only voice and a few select instruments would have had that ability.
I wasn't really being completely serious. Supposedly what actually happened on that album was that they did so many overdubs that they wore through the master, copied what they could salvage to another tape, did the same thing and the final version of the album had some tracks as third generation copies. If the master and slave machines weren't running at quite the same speed, you would get drift like that. In fact that actually happened to me, once - I copied a shedding tape onto a good one, but then had to run the tape very slightly fast when overdubbing because it was slightly off key.
Yet, in some cases, classical music is even more complex, not being shackled by equal temperament or autotuning. My favourite example is Lassus' Ave, Regina Coelorum which finishes a quarter of a note lower than it starts when sung correctly in just intonation. Chord transitions like that just aren't possible anymore (in part, due to Bach).
'Ommadawn' by Mike Oldfield opens somewhere between G-minor and F#-minor, but that was probably because the tape machine wasn't functioning correctly...
The same goes for many 1970s prog rock acts like Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes. Some of the progressive rock musicians, like Robert Fripp, Chris Squire, Bill Bruford, Neil Peart, Tony Banks, David Gilmour and Rick Wakeman are considered some of the most talented musicians to play "popular" music. .... But also keep in mind here that most popular musicians from the post-war period onward did not receive any kind of formal training.
Keith Emerson and Wakeman were classically trained, I'm not sure about the others. I do have to wonder if the dearth of that is what's contributed to the relative lack of experimentation recently.
For my part, I'm hopeless - no music theory, can't even play. Have to sequence everything in SONAR, though I've got good enough at it that most people can't easily tell and assume just the drums and the bass guitar are programmed. And the whole thing of not really knowing what I'm doing musically does allow for some interesting accidents and unusual chord changes made from scrawling notes in the piano roll and tweaking them until they 'work'.
e.g. the brief organ segment around 2:48 on http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/914355/baklawa-doom-part-ii-at-the-chippy
or again, on the organ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vkB7i-bS4Mc#t=340s
...The fact that I work this way does make me wonder what chords I'm actually using when I do some of that weirder stuff.
Maybe he can be extradited to USA to face proper conviction after a brief tour in Guantanamo?
The Crown Prosecutor? Sounds like a plan.
If it were actually a problem with the OS then it would happen to everyone. I've got a mini (on 10.6) that has happily sat beside my TV for something like five years now, connected through wifi. I've never noticed a problem with it.
It happens to enough people for there to be discussions of it, complaints about it and partial workarounds like the ping trick. I was hoping that 10.7 would fix it, but making it awkward to get on physical media and the very real possibility of it not supporting the most stable wifi module are putting me off upgrading. I don't think 10.8 will work on this mac anyway. Oh, and it's worth mentioning that the problem didn't occur at all until 10.6.
Supposedly things are a lot more stable if you don't use WPA or WPA2, but frankly, that's a very bad idea. It's worth pointing out that the mac is the only one on the network which craps itself like this, the linux boxes and laptops with a myriad of different wifi adaptors are all completely stable, even when pulling down a gigabyte or so for a distro upgrade.
get your hardware fixed. I dont have that problem on my horribly old 2009 17" macbook pro or the out of date 2011 13" macbook pro my wife has.
The only time I experienced that ws with a piece of crap Wireless router from belkin. Ripping it off the wall and smashing it solved the problem, well after it was replaced with a netgear.
No, for me at least, it's definitely failing inside the operating system (which ATM is still 10.6).
For starters I've used three different types of Wifi module on this mac mini, and as many different brands of AP. I'm currently using an Airport Express as the access point, and for a long time I ran both the internal wireless and an external USB dongle on the mac to try and give me some failover capability.
What always happens is that the Wifi stack reports station disconnection "due to inactivity", which is perverse because it normally happens while watching youtube or some other high-bandwidth operation (hence, downloading 10.7 is going to be impossible). Once the failure has occurred the entire network stack will go down permanently, taking out all the wifi modules and making it impossible to bring them back up again without rebooting the mac.
A Google search found that it is possible to prolong things by setting a terminal to ping the router continuously in the background. IME that will usually get you about a week of connectivity before it crashes again. If you don't, expect to have the network stack die several times a day.
Great. Now we'll see the same fragmentation Windows CE had all those years. Most games use the NDK and contain binary compiled specifically for ARM. Obviously those apps will not run on the MIPS processor.
The NDK now has MIPS support out of the box. Going forward it would probably be a good idea to compile for all supported targets.