"In order to allow passthrough to work with PulseAudio then it MUST be set to use a 2.0 channel configuration, despite the 2.0 setting this will still allow 5.1 audio from AC3, DTS, and EAC3." -- ie. no surround-sound if you are playing something that doesn't use one of those codecs, thanks to PulseAudio messing things up. "PulseAudio does not currently allow TrueHD or DTS-MA passthrough, this is a PulseAudio limitation and not a limitation of the Kodi implementation." -- And lookie here: PulseAudio goes and prevents you from doing passthrough of certain codecs just by being there. Nope, you get only stereo-sound when playing those codecs, mister, PulseAudio knows best!
Removing PulseAudio from the equation and just using ALSA, though? Why, you can play surround-sound even when using non-passthrough-capable codecs, and you can actually use passthrough for all the codecs your end-receiver supports! And all this without any stupid "magic!"
There've been lots of studies finding "psychological differences between the sexes". But when you look into them the statistical correlations are usually terribly weak, barely above statistical significance.
Personally, I believe most of the differences stem from hormonal differences and environment, not from structural differences. If we could have two childs, both with different sex, but the same hormonal levels and the exact same environment while growing I doubt there would be much of any difference.
Personally, I don't put much weight on the return rates at all; a humongous amount of people don't really understand what they're buying, then when they receive the package they realize it's not what they actually intended and then return it -- none of that says anything about the product itself. Warranty repairs, on the other hand, tell a whole lot more about the products themselves.
Before you get your knickers in a bunch: this is most likely just a bug, not intentional. Microsoft pulled 1511 temporarily because it thinks it's doing a fresh install of Windows 10 or upgrade from a previous Windows - version instead of just being an update to an already-installed Windows 10 and ends up resetting some settings because of that, and Windows 10, when doing an upgrade from 7/8/8.1, does remove applications it thinks may be incompatible and/or interfere with the upgrade.
A large scale problem is the over-used of antibiotics in agriculture. Livestock are given antibiotics in their feed as a precaution, and this is still going on on a large scale in most Western countries.
Such use has been illegal in Finland for a long time and as such Finland is, at least in this matter, one of the Good Guys(TM). Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time before the resistant strains spread here, too; we are not helping this problem develop and spread, but as long a single country continues to feed antibiotics to their livestock as a daily routine a resistant strain will sooner or later emerge and spread.
The problem is that we're talking about a cable modem, not just a regular router. I'm not aware of a single cable modem that's supported by OpenWRT or similar.
You seem to have misunderstood the whole argument: it's not about needing a huge horde of lawyers to win a case because they can magically come up with the most logical arguments, rather, it's about the one with the larger team and more resources often being able to draw the fight on for so long that you'll incur some severe drop in your financials and even possibly going bankcrupt. The one with limited resources often has no choice but to just accept the other one's demands as they never would have the money to be able to fight the thing to conclusion. Also, court cases rarely come down to the party with the most logical argument winning and instead they often come down to which party can find the most favourable loopholes or past judgements, and for those a larger team is definitely an advantage.
Misread title as "underwear drones" and already got excited that for once there's something new to read. Such a shame, underwear drones sounds like a much more fun topic than underwater drones.
More like $10. You can buy an OEM-license for Windows for bits and peanuts, like I had to buy a new license for a machine I just set up yesterday for a customer. If you save $10 by going to Linux, but lose 40% of your performance... well, I don't quite think it is worth it.
If Intel jacks up the prices System vendors will just move to ARM.
That's hogwash. Almost *none* of all the available Windows-software is available for ARM, including games -- no chance in hell of people moving to ARM and letting go of all of their software, especially so for gamers and people with specialized software. Basically the only people capable of moving between x86 and ARM are those who only use F/OSS-software.
AMD has always been behind Intel in the performance area for most of its life.
Well, there was the Athlon - era where they were sweeping the floors with Intel; the classic Athlons and Athlon XPs were phenomenal CPUs at the time and highly overclockable. It was glorious, but yeah, I think that was pretty much the only time they beat Intel.
Lets hope AMD gets their shit together. As I've said before. The fat lady hasn't sung yet on AMD but she is warming up in the bullpit. Lets hope that as she waddles up on stage AMD pulls a rabbit out of the hat and she falls off the stage into a tuba.
I really, *REALLY* hope they can manage to do it, but.. I just haven't heard any promising news in that regards anywhere. There's quite literally nothing to indicate that AMD has in any way or form stopped digging even further down the hole they are already in. I do dread the day when Intel becomes the sole x86 - vendor and can practically demand whatever they want, do whatever they want and laugh all the way to the bank.
The sooner AMD goes down the toilet, the sooner someone competent takes over, the sooner Intel and Nvidia get competitive again. At the moment, consumers and society as a whole are suffering from this beating of a dead horse. We need its death accelerated to the whole industry back on its toes again.
Why do you think AMD going bust would magically mean someone new stepping up to the plate? There are effing ginormous obstacles for a start-up to come and compete in the x86-scene, so much so that it's nearly impossible, and if Intel got a monopoly on the market even for a brief moment the situation would become even worse!
No, the better option is that AMD gets their shit together, never giving Intel full monopoly on the x86-market even for a bit.
Frakly this is BS... I drive a large portion of my day for work (not a trucker, IT guy going to clients.) I run into "diversions or chaning in lane markings" and have to stop and think about what to do at times too! Why should an AI have to understand the intentions of a road worker/civil engineer better than we do before it can be accepted as intelligent?
I'm not seeing anyone in TFA saying it'd have to be better at it than us, just that it'd have to be able to do it at all would be a good start. As things stand autonomous cars are not anywhere near of being capable of doing that on their own.
I will have no clue where I am and will have to basically start driving in one direction (which these cars can do) until I figure out where I am.
No, they can't. That's the whole point here: as long as they rely on GPS and very detailed mappings for navigation they won't be able to do that -- they need to know where they are to be able to start driving at all. The author wasn't saying the car should be able to magically instantly know where it is even when no mappings or GPS was available, just that the car should still be able to try and figure it out -- quite possibly doing the exact thing you suggested and trying to find a roadsign or two. The issue here is that these cars won't know even how to get off the god damn parking lot without GPS and mappings, let alone going out and figuring their own surroundings on their own without some very extensive AI.
Why not just use a portable version of some old Firefox, for example? If you use the portable, outdated version only for the outdated devices and the up-to-date Firefox everything else it shouldn't be too much of an issue?
The wording of the law where people are claiming it would be illegal to modify your own PC, specifically words "dolosamente", which roughly could be translated to "with malicious intent". So yes, the purpose of said law is to criminalize any modifications or alterations to an information system with malicious intent, not wiping your own mobile.
Unless "malicous intent" is very carefully defined in the law then it could mean whatever the government wants it to mean; for example, you installing an adblocker could be construed as "malicious intent" since you'd be deliberately negatively affecting advertising companies' profits. You're very naive if you believe it wouldn't be used for such purposes.
These should all come from a single source and be handled much more like they are handled in Linux distributions or mobile app stores.
I was just thinking to myself earlier today that Microsoft fucked up with their Windows Store. It would be a lot, lot more popular if you could install regular desktop - apps with it, too, and not just Metro - stuff and if it worked more like Linux repositories do -- including handling updating software. I, for one, would like a single tool to use for updating all the installed software instead of a billion separate tools.
That's bullshit. Routers and other kinds of Internet-connected appliances are an extremely popular way of growing out a botnet, and guess what? They don't run Windows. Wordpress is another extremely popular target, and guess what? You can run Wordpress under a whole bunch of different OSes. There are literally tens of thousands of examples out there where Microsoft doesn't play any part except as perhaps the OS on which the vulnerable software runs on, but the same applies to *BSD, Linux and so on -- on general-purpose computers it doesn't matter what the OS is if the vulnerabilities lie in the software that was installed on top of the OS. On appliances, sure, but you can't blame MS for the shit the appliance-manufacturers pull.
On Android you can browse the Play Market on a desktop-browser and remotely install applications on your phone, with no confirmation or anything needed on the phone. This applies even if you have automatic updates disabled. Can you do the same on iOS-devices? If you can, then what would be stopping Apple from sending an small application this way to the device that unlocks it? This way there's no decryption needed, no passwords or anything, since they basically have a backdoor behind it all already, and Apple obviously does have access to all the low-level APIs and everything needed.
GNU/Linux Distributions have a digitally-signed audit trail that goes all the way back to multiply personally-verified GPG key signatures. *NO* malware gets through that process - absolutely none. and the reason why is very simple: anyone who dares to install malware would, by virtue of the GPG-signed audit chain, be tracked back and their reputation so publicly destroyed - forever - that they would never work in the software industry ever again.
Red herring. Efast didn't arrive to people's computers via official channels. Linux is just as vulnerable to malware when stuff is being installed via unofficial channels.
i am sorry to have to inform you that *if* you choose to install 3rd party software, you get everything that you deserve.
Looking down on people from your high horse doesn't grant you any wisdom, it seems. People have all sorts of different needs, like e.g. not all software is available for Linux or have a good, open-source alternative. Not even all F/OSS-software is up-to-date on official repos, either. Similarly, not being aware of all the implications of security-issues and computing in general does not mean a person "deserves" all the bad things arising from their ignorance. You just wish to toot your own horn in an effort to bolster your ego.
why are you risking yourself to exposure to privacy violations and data violatinos? i genuinely don't understand why you would do that to yourself. perhaps someone could explain it to me.
As said above: not all software is available under Linux, not all software have reasonable F/OSS-alternatives, not all hardware works properly under Linux and so on and so forth.
I'd really appreciate hearing those results.Theory holds that 4K, or more accurately 2160p should be around 22fps on your rig. But, that's just theory.
Please test and let us know. Also, are you doing this on Linux or Windows?
I am doing this under Windows and I seem to be getting 28 FPS while doing NVENC_HEVC. I am using a VBR 2-pass preset, which is the slowest, but highest-quality combination possible on a Maxwell 2 NVIDIA GPU -- dropping to 1-pass or using CBR would speed it up some. 28 FPS 4K H/W-based HEVC-encoding isn't bad, IMHO. On my system (Xeon 1230V3) CPU-utilization is sitting at 14% and as I have SpeedStep enabled the system hasn't even bothered to raise the CPU's clocks for this, they're sitting at the lowest speed they can go -- basically, the system is perfectly responsive and useable while doing this encoding.
I don't know what else you'd like to know, but I hope this was helpful.
I think there is some bug with VLC wrt. HEVC. No matter if I'm using H/W-acceleration or not VLC just can't play HEVC-videos smoothly, but if I'm using some other player it's silky-smooth even at 60 FPS.
HEVC is actually pretty well supported by mobile - devices and "smart-TVs" provided they are 2-3 years old or newer. Support on desktops and laptops is still lagging behind, but it's getting better fast there, too.
The fact that x265 doesn't, and perhaps won't, have any sort of hardware acceleration support just makes it awful to do 4K work.
x265, just like x264, are software-encoders; of course they're going to be slow. If you want hardware-accelerated encoding you could, for example, get yourself a GTX 960 and compile ffmpeg with NVENC - support. I have a GTX 970 and I've played around with ffmpeg with NVENC quite a bit and if my memory serves correctly I get around ~90 FPS when encoding 1080p - source using NVENC. I haven't tried with 4K - video, I'll grant you that, so I have no idea how fast it can encode that. I could try it, I suppose, if you really wanted me to.
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"In order to allow passthrough to work with PulseAudio then it MUST be set to use a 2.0 channel configuration, despite the 2.0 setting this will still allow 5.1 audio from AC3, DTS, and EAC3." -- ie. no surround-sound if you are playing something that doesn't use one of those codecs, thanks to PulseAudio messing things up. "PulseAudio does not currently allow TrueHD or DTS-MA passthrough, this is a PulseAudio limitation and not a limitation of the Kodi implementation." -- And lookie here: PulseAudio goes and prevents you from doing passthrough of certain codecs just by being there. Nope, you get only stereo-sound when playing those codecs, mister, PulseAudio knows best!
Removing PulseAudio from the equation and just using ALSA, though? Why, you can play surround-sound even when using non-passthrough-capable codecs, and you can actually use passthrough for all the codecs your end-receiver supports! And all this without any stupid "magic!"
From some people who are more focused on doing things with audio, I hear that it still doesn't work right.
Doesn't even require something that fancy: if you wanna use Kodi and do proper HDMI pass-through of audio you're gonna have to get rid of Pulseaudio.
There've been lots of studies finding "psychological differences between the sexes". But when you look into them the statistical correlations are usually terribly weak, barely above statistical significance.
Personally, I believe most of the differences stem from hormonal differences and environment, not from structural differences. If we could have two childs, both with different sex, but the same hormonal levels and the exact same environment while growing I doubt there would be much of any difference.
Personally, I don't put much weight on the return rates at all; a humongous amount of people don't really understand what they're buying, then when they receive the package they realize it's not what they actually intended and then return it -- none of that says anything about the product itself. Warranty repairs, on the other hand, tell a whole lot more about the products themselves.
Before you get your knickers in a bunch: this is most likely just a bug, not intentional. Microsoft pulled 1511 temporarily because it thinks it's doing a fresh install of Windows 10 or upgrade from a previous Windows - version instead of just being an update to an already-installed Windows 10 and ends up resetting some settings because of that, and Windows 10, when doing an upgrade from 7/8/8.1, does remove applications it thinks may be incompatible and/or interfere with the upgrade.
A large scale problem is the over-used of antibiotics in agriculture. Livestock are given antibiotics in their feed as a precaution, and this is still going on on a large scale in most Western countries.
Such use has been illegal in Finland for a long time and as such Finland is, at least in this matter, one of the Good Guys(TM). Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time before the resistant strains spread here, too; we are not helping this problem develop and spread, but as long a single country continues to feed antibiotics to their livestock as a daily routine a resistant strain will sooner or later emerge and spread.
The problem is that we're talking about a cable modem, not just a regular router. I'm not aware of a single cable modem that's supported by OpenWRT or similar.
You seem to have misunderstood the whole argument: it's not about needing a huge horde of lawyers to win a case because they can magically come up with the most logical arguments, rather, it's about the one with the larger team and more resources often being able to draw the fight on for so long that you'll incur some severe drop in your financials and even possibly going bankcrupt. The one with limited resources often has no choice but to just accept the other one's demands as they never would have the money to be able to fight the thing to conclusion. Also, court cases rarely come down to the party with the most logical argument winning and instead they often come down to which party can find the most favourable loopholes or past judgements, and for those a larger team is definitely an advantage.
Misread title as "underwear drones" and already got excited that for once there's something new to read. Such a shame, underwear drones sounds like a much more fun topic than underwater drones.
More like $10. You can buy an OEM-license for Windows for bits and peanuts, like I had to buy a new license for a machine I just set up yesterday for a customer. If you save $10 by going to Linux, but lose 40% of your performance... well, I don't quite think it is worth it.
If Intel jacks up the prices System vendors will just move to ARM.
That's hogwash. Almost *none* of all the available Windows-software is available for ARM, including games -- no chance in hell of people moving to ARM and letting go of all of their software, especially so for gamers and people with specialized software. Basically the only people capable of moving between x86 and ARM are those who only use F/OSS-software.
AMD has always been behind Intel in the performance area for most of its life.
Well, there was the Athlon - era where they were sweeping the floors with Intel; the classic Athlons and Athlon XPs were phenomenal CPUs at the time and highly overclockable. It was glorious, but yeah, I think that was pretty much the only time they beat Intel.
Lets hope AMD gets their shit together. As I've said before. The fat lady hasn't sung yet on AMD but she is warming up in the bullpit. Lets hope that as she waddles up on stage AMD pulls a rabbit out of the hat and she falls off the stage into a tuba.
I really, *REALLY* hope they can manage to do it, but.. I just haven't heard any promising news in that regards anywhere. There's quite literally nothing to indicate that AMD has in any way or form stopped digging even further down the hole they are already in. I do dread the day when Intel becomes the sole x86 - vendor and can practically demand whatever they want, do whatever they want and laugh all the way to the bank.
The sooner AMD goes down the toilet, the sooner someone competent takes over, the sooner Intel and Nvidia get competitive again.
At the moment, consumers and society as a whole are suffering from this beating of a dead horse. We need its death accelerated to the whole industry back on its toes again.
Why do you think AMD going bust would magically mean someone new stepping up to the plate? There are effing ginormous obstacles for a start-up to come and compete in the x86-scene, so much so that it's nearly impossible, and if Intel got a monopoly on the market even for a brief moment the situation would become even worse!
No, the better option is that AMD gets their shit together, never giving Intel full monopoly on the x86-market even for a bit.
Frakly this is BS... I drive a large portion of my day for work (not a trucker, IT guy going to clients.) I run into "diversions or chaning in lane markings" and have to stop and think about what to do at times too! Why should an AI have to understand the intentions of a road worker/civil engineer better than we do before it can be accepted as intelligent?
I'm not seeing anyone in TFA saying it'd have to be better at it than us, just that it'd have to be able to do it at all would be a good start. As things stand autonomous cars are not anywhere near of being capable of doing that on their own.
I will have no clue where I am and will have to basically start driving in one direction (which these cars can do) until I figure out where I am.
No, they can't. That's the whole point here: as long as they rely on GPS and very detailed mappings for navigation they won't be able to do that -- they need to know where they are to be able to start driving at all. The author wasn't saying the car should be able to magically instantly know where it is even when no mappings or GPS was available, just that the car should still be able to try and figure it out -- quite possibly doing the exact thing you suggested and trying to find a roadsign or two. The issue here is that these cars won't know even how to get off the god damn parking lot without GPS and mappings, let alone going out and figuring their own surroundings on their own without some very extensive AI.
Why not just use a portable version of some old Firefox, for example? If you use the portable, outdated version only for the outdated devices and the up-to-date Firefox everything else it shouldn't be too much of an issue?
The wording of the law where people are claiming it would be illegal to modify your own PC, specifically words "dolosamente", which roughly could be translated to "with malicious intent". So yes, the purpose of said law is to criminalize any modifications or alterations to an information system with malicious intent, not wiping your own mobile.
Unless "malicous intent" is very carefully defined in the law then it could mean whatever the government wants it to mean; for example, you installing an adblocker could be construed as "malicious intent" since you'd be deliberately negatively affecting advertising companies' profits. You're very naive if you believe it wouldn't be used for such purposes.
These should all come from a single source and be handled much more like they are handled in Linux distributions or mobile app stores.
I was just thinking to myself earlier today that Microsoft fucked up with their Windows Store. It would be a lot, lot more popular if you could install regular desktop - apps with it, too, and not just Metro - stuff and if it worked more like Linux repositories do -- including handling updating software. I, for one, would like a single tool to use for updating all the installed software instead of a billion separate tools.
That's bullshit. Routers and other kinds of Internet-connected appliances are an extremely popular way of growing out a botnet, and guess what? They don't run Windows. Wordpress is another extremely popular target, and guess what? You can run Wordpress under a whole bunch of different OSes. There are literally tens of thousands of examples out there where Microsoft doesn't play any part except as perhaps the OS on which the vulnerable software runs on, but the same applies to *BSD, Linux and so on -- on general-purpose computers it doesn't matter what the OS is if the vulnerabilities lie in the software that was installed on top of the OS. On appliances, sure, but you can't blame MS for the shit the appliance-manufacturers pull.
Will "do-release-upgrade" manage to update the machine this time around without breaking Grub or anything else? Anyone wanna place bets?
On Android you can browse the Play Market on a desktop-browser and remotely install applications on your phone, with no confirmation or anything needed on the phone. This applies even if you have automatic updates disabled. Can you do the same on iOS-devices? If you can, then what would be stopping Apple from sending an small application this way to the device that unlocks it? This way there's no decryption needed, no passwords or anything, since they basically have a backdoor behind it all already, and Apple obviously does have access to all the low-level APIs and everything needed.
GNU/Linux Distributions have a digitally-signed audit trail that goes all the way back to multiply personally-verified GPG key signatures. *NO* malware gets through that process - absolutely none. and the reason why is very simple: anyone who dares to install malware would, by virtue of the GPG-signed audit chain, be tracked back and their reputation so publicly destroyed - forever - that they would never work in the software industry ever again.
Red herring. Efast didn't arrive to people's computers via official channels. Linux is just as vulnerable to malware when stuff is being installed via unofficial channels.
i am sorry to have to inform you that *if* you choose to install 3rd party software, you get everything that you deserve.
Looking down on people from your high horse doesn't grant you any wisdom, it seems. People have all sorts of different needs, like e.g. not all software is available for Linux or have a good, open-source alternative. Not even all F/OSS-software is up-to-date on official repos, either. Similarly, not being aware of all the implications of security-issues and computing in general does not mean a person "deserves" all the bad things arising from their ignorance. You just wish to toot your own horn in an effort to bolster your ego.
why are you risking yourself to exposure to privacy violations and data violatinos? i genuinely don't understand why you would do that to yourself. perhaps someone could explain it to me.
As said above: not all software is available under Linux, not all software have reasonable F/OSS-alternatives, not all hardware works properly under Linux and so on and so forth.
I'd really appreciate hearing those results.Theory holds that 4K, or more accurately 2160p should be around 22fps on your rig. But, that's just theory.
Please test and let us know. Also, are you doing this on Linux or Windows?
I am doing this under Windows and I seem to be getting 28 FPS while doing NVENC_HEVC. I am using a VBR 2-pass preset, which is the slowest, but highest-quality combination possible on a Maxwell 2 NVIDIA GPU -- dropping to 1-pass or using CBR would speed it up some. 28 FPS 4K H/W-based HEVC-encoding isn't bad, IMHO. On my system (Xeon 1230V3) CPU-utilization is sitting at 14% and as I have SpeedStep enabled the system hasn't even bothered to raise the CPU's clocks for this, they're sitting at the lowest speed they can go -- basically, the system is perfectly responsive and useable while doing this encoding.
I don't know what else you'd like to know, but I hope this was helpful.
I think there is some bug with VLC wrt. HEVC. No matter if I'm using H/W-acceleration or not VLC just can't play HEVC-videos smoothly, but if I'm using some other player it's silky-smooth even at 60 FPS.
HEVC is not supported by most HW.
HEVC is actually pretty well supported by mobile - devices and "smart-TVs" provided they are 2-3 years old or newer. Support on desktops and laptops is still lagging behind, but it's getting better fast there, too.
The fact that x265 doesn't, and perhaps won't, have any sort of hardware acceleration support just makes it awful to do 4K work.
x265, just like x264, are software-encoders; of course they're going to be slow. If you want hardware-accelerated encoding you could, for example, get yourself a GTX 960 and compile ffmpeg with NVENC - support. I have a GTX 970 and I've played around with ffmpeg with NVENC quite a bit and if my memory serves correctly I get around ~90 FPS when encoding 1080p - source using NVENC. I haven't tried with 4K - video, I'll grant you that, so I have no idea how fast it can encode that. I could try it, I suppose, if you really wanted me to.