well yes/no I beleive it's always been a bit that way. Yet it's sooo much better than so many other news site that we're still there, and I don't think it sucks.
Some karma farmers do make the balance go slightly wrong at times, but it's once again so far from the issues on other websites in that regard.
omap4, and all new dual core phones are based on the arm9.. aka cortexa9.. I wouldn't say its more powerfull than an atom (of 2011) but they are sure damn close for a fraction of the energy useage
You're modded funny but i guess you meant it seriously. The new dual cores draw less power for the same tasks then their old counterpart (in the very case of the ARM8 vs ARM9 CPUs), partially due to their dual core architecture. So anyway just had to put that somewhere.
Then why not let the market decide? I'm happy with either format, it is up to the content providers to decide what is best for them, if they choose to use flash I don't like it, but such is life.
Why not let the market decide? If Googledecides to use WebM in THEIR software, and THEIR distribution channels (yep, they're even a provider too), it's their damn own right and decision following the VERY LOGIC you have just been writing about...
I don't have a problem with google being a super corporation (it is already) as long as it releases everything for free both as in speech and freedom, as it guarantees they can't go super bad with any of these things. The day they change, if we stop trusting them, they aren't left with any of the previous technologies, since they belong to everyone. Can't loose here.
To me it's better than the super corporations behind h264 which are enforcing their standard to be able to racket some money off the users later on, which is what would already happen without the competition and specially Google. (even if Google does that to protect it's interests)
FOSS doesnt force you to use their software, and doesn't force you to use only their software if you do use some of it. On the contrary, proprietary software forces you into many things (including the fact that you don't even own the said software you pay for). So you're free, you can use FOSS or not, with or without proprietary software that permits it. There is no *you have to use FOSS* *put gun on your head*.
On the other hand... FOSS usually still recommands using only FOSS because there's no restrictions (unlike proprietary software).
Choosing a path that will lead you to less choices.. aka less freedom is the future is not freedom in the view of the FSF and many. Call if preemptive freedom if you will. It doesn't mean they're right, but it's the sole reason for this kind of stuff.
Slashdot is moderated by the users. you can downrank entire stories. If many people uprank this story, it means most are ok with the contents.
Of course you need nice karma to be able to moderate that stuff. But hey. Slashdot is still the best large volume user moderated news site i know by light years. I can't count how many website comment and story moderation process is utterly useless and crappy in comparison. (even if bashing slashdot is normally a karma setter.. on slashdot:P)
Firefox memory management beats chrome by a large margin. Funny that this argument is still being brought up. Chrome has faster JS in *some cases* and much faster startup time in all cases. That's all. Firefox has more extensible framework, faster HTML rendering, better compatibility (that's why you still use it, if you did not know) and even faster JS in *some cases*. Slow startup indeed. Major perceived slowness issue. (and major issue on mobile platforms)
Flash H264 is hardware accelerated on many plaftorms (and probably all major ones soon). In fact, Flash's H264 videos usually play faster/use less CPU than their HTML5 counterparts as many lack hardware acceleration (it will be fixed eventually, too).
One difference here is that it's actually likely he get sentence to life in a high security prison (hell) or death. Politicians also asked for this to happen to him in different countries. Except he deserves none of it of course. So yeah, that's actually why it makes it to the news.
The reason is of course that they want him out of there, not that the legal system would bring him to death or life sentence if he was an average joe.
Unfortunately it's more of an advertising paper. It's just another ARM9 as far as I'm concerned, with nvidia extensions (each vendor adds it's extensions - usually just a "own" GPU)
According to the ARM9 papers (which I'm too lazy to link, sorry:p) most of the efficiency comes from the CPU architecture itself, aka 1 ARM9 core is more efficient than 1 ARM8 core.
Then both ARM9 cores at middle capacity use less energy than 1 ARM8 core at full capacity.
Both ARM9 core at full capacity uses still slightly more than 1 ARM8 core (but also is a lot more powerful)
Eventually, since most really intensive apps use 3D, the GPU will play a big part in really intensive apps anyway, and this part seems to be always different. Some other optimizations depending on the vendor might also make some differences, as well as the software part, yada yada.
That doesn't make sense. A single core.. guess what.. can be underclocked as well, and there's no second core to turn off, as it doesn't exists. In a perfect (and very simplified) world a single core CPU would use as much or less power than a multi-core of equal technology level.
However, ARM 9 multi-core CPUs are more power efficient - this means they are "faster" while using less energy than the ARM 8 generation (single core). So in practice, battery life depends on the implementation of the CPU, and ARM 9 dual core CPUs use (average) less power (battery) than the ARM 8 single cores. At least, recent implementations such as the OMAP4 follow that trend.
I haven't watched Atlantis cause I thought it's not SG1 it sucks etc..
then later I did watch it and Atlantis is GREAT.
Universe is pretty crappy however... they could have made it good, but they choosed to replace action by romance and shit like that.. seriously.. which Stargate fan cares about endeless romance and crews "oh so bad feelings"?
Not sure when "fearing" death has become an aberration of nature. It's self regulation. When people go too far, too long, others will do whatever it takes to make it stop. Including losing their lives. You know, like when you're at war. It's just a different scale.
Except we're not talking of something physical here. Not only that, but the state should belong to the people living there, not the opposite (in an ideal world at least). They're not even intellectual property or private property actually !
Basically, you're saying something in the lines of (voluntarily using an imaginary cable leak here to demonstrate):
"there's a paper saying the govt killed 111 innocents here, but it's ok they said it's a secret paper so it belongs to them so it's normal to block it's publication and/or anyone from finding out, it's classified!". There's a little issue thinking that way.
Classified or not does not actually change a thing in this case. What should be done, is to declassify the item as it's public knowledge now. Saying it's classified won't be make more secret. That's not for the public, but only for their internal management (management, not people!).
the *idea* behind wikileaks was good, but Assange is an Ass-hat with an overinflated ego, who needs to go.
Another site that does what wikileaks does, without Assange, sounds like a good thing.
While thinking you said something smart, you're actually the freedom's (or the *idea*'s) enemy. By rallying people behind such ideas (and yes, it works, especially for the lazy minded who will always follow the easiest opinion), you're basically trying to kill the *idea* behind wikileaks. This is actually what the government wants you to say by attacking Assange's personal life with international warrants for "rape" and the like.
Without someone like Assange, there would be no successful wikileak - period. Who cares of his ego, no one could do what he's doing without it. And we all pretty well know he's not been raping anyone either by now. Can't wait the next stunt "he's been helping the talibans" or w/e shit like that to dismiss the action and keep the world's control and bad actions from the ones with power hidden from the general public.
you're dividing good and bad by the amount of people living or dying - i think that's wrong.
people aren't exactly numbers - they make choices even if their choice means death (which used to be a lot more easily accepted in the past: "live free or die") and even if their choices are limited (death by this, that or slavery for example)
beside, the amount of human on earth does not exactly represents the humanity's success or failure (unless it reaches a very low number) - i think we know that by now. There are areas we're successful at, others we're (repeatedly) plain failing at.
Haha this should be modded up. I guess all of us had all of these ideas and the same constraints. You forgot the search engine idea, and the MMO with real life elements via your smartphone (this one is not yet properly realized)
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well yes/no I beleive it's always been a bit that way. Yet it's sooo much better than so many other news site that we're still there, and I don't think it sucks.
Some karma farmers do make the balance go slightly wrong at times, but it's once again so far from the issues on other websites in that regard.
omap4, and all new dual core phones are based on the arm9.. aka cortexa9..
I wouldn't say its more powerfull than an atom (of 2011) but they are sure damn close for a fraction of the energy useage
You're modded funny but i guess you meant it seriously.
The new dual cores draw less power for the same tasks then their old counterpart (in the very case of the ARM8 vs ARM9 CPUs), partially due to their dual core architecture.
So anyway just had to put that somewhere.
Then why not let the market decide? I'm happy with either format, it is up to the content providers to decide what is best for them, if they choose to use flash I don't like it, but such is life.
Why not let the market decide? If Googledecides to use WebM in THEIR software, and THEIR distribution channels (yep, they're even a provider too), it's their damn own right and decision following the VERY LOGIC you have just been writing about...
I don't have a problem with google being a super corporation (it is already) as long as it releases everything for free both as in speech and freedom, as it guarantees they can't go super bad with any of these things. The day they change, if we stop trusting them, they aren't left with any of the previous technologies, since they belong to everyone. Can't loose here.
To me it's better than the super corporations behind h264 which are enforcing their standard to be able to racket some money off the users later on, which is what would already happen without the competition and specially Google. (even if Google does that to protect it's interests)
FOSS doesnt force you to use their software, and doesn't force you to use only their software if you do use some of it.
On the contrary, proprietary software forces you into many things (including the fact that you don't even own the said software you pay for).
So you're free, you can use FOSS or not, with or without proprietary software that permits it. There is no *you have to use FOSS* *put gun on your head*.
On the other hand... FOSS usually still recommands using only FOSS because there's no restrictions (unlike proprietary software).
Is that so hard ?
Choosing a path that will lead you to less choices.. aka less freedom is the future is not freedom in the view of the FSF and many.
Call if preemptive freedom if you will. It doesn't mean they're right, but it's the sole reason for this kind of stuff.
Sadly, we've always been retards^W^W^W^W^W^W^W humans.
Slashdot is moderated by the users. you can downrank entire stories.
If many people uprank this story, it means most are ok with the contents.
Of course you need nice karma to be able to moderate that stuff. But hey. Slashdot is still the best large volume user moderated news site i know by light years. I can't count how many website comment and story moderation process is utterly useless and crappy in comparison. (even if bashing slashdot is normally a karma setter .. on slashdot :P)
Firefox memory management beats chrome by a large margin. Funny that this argument is still being brought up.
Chrome has faster JS in *some cases* and much faster startup time in all cases.
That's all. Firefox has more extensible framework, faster HTML rendering, better compatibility (that's why you still use it, if you did not know) and even faster JS in *some cases*. Slow startup indeed. Major perceived slowness issue. (and major issue on mobile platforms)
Flash H264 is hardware accelerated on many plaftorms (and probably all major ones soon).
In fact, Flash's H264 videos usually play faster/use less CPU than their HTML5 counterparts as many lack hardware acceleration (it will be fixed eventually, too).
XHTML and HTML4 are different, but, it does not matter in your argumentation anyway.
XHTML: XML
HTML4: SGML
XHTML and HTML4 are also very close, except XHTML is more strict and easier to parse due to it's XML markup compliance.
One difference here is that it's actually likely he get sentence to life in a high security prison (hell) or death. Politicians also asked for this to happen to him in different countries.
Except he deserves none of it of course. So yeah, that's actually why it makes it to the news.
The reason is of course that they want him out of there, not that the legal system would bring him to death or life sentence if he was an average joe.
Unfortunately it's more of an advertising paper. It's just another ARM9 as far as I'm concerned, with nvidia extensions (each vendor adds it's extensions - usually just a "own" GPU)
According to the ARM9 papers (which I'm too lazy to link, sorry :p) most of the efficiency comes from the CPU architecture itself, aka 1 ARM9 core is more efficient than 1 ARM8 core.
Then both ARM9 cores at middle capacity use less energy than 1 ARM8 core at full capacity.
Both ARM9 core at full capacity uses still slightly more than 1 ARM8 core (but also is a lot more powerful)
Eventually, since most really intensive apps use 3D, the GPU will play a big part in really intensive apps anyway, and this part seems to be always different. Some other optimizations depending on the vendor might also make some differences, as well as the software part, yada yada.
That doesn't make sense. A single core.. guess what.. can be underclocked as well, and there's no second core to turn off, as it doesn't exists. In a perfect (and very simplified) world a single core CPU would use as much or less power than a multi-core of equal technology level.
However, ARM 9 multi-core CPUs are more power efficient - this means they are "faster" while using less energy than the ARM 8 generation (single core). So in practice, battery life depends on the implementation of the CPU, and ARM 9 dual core CPUs use (average) less power (battery) than the ARM 8 single cores. At least, recent implementations such as the OMAP4 follow that trend.
yeah that's right, it was getting better. However, they likely would go back to the boring stuff next season ...
I haven't watched Atlantis cause I thought it's not SG1 it sucks etc..
then later I did watch it and Atlantis is GREAT.
Universe is pretty crappy however... they could have made it good, but they choosed to replace action by romance and shit like that.. seriously.. which Stargate fan cares about endeless romance and crews "oh so bad feelings"?
Not sure when "fearing" death has become an aberration of nature.
It's self regulation. When people go too far, too long, others will do whatever it takes to make it stop. Including losing their lives. You know, like when you're at war. It's just a different scale.
I think they understand by now. But they don't want to accept it, let alone allow it. Eventually they'll just make laws against it.
Slight difference. More bad than cute, IMO.
Except we're not talking of something physical here. Not only that, but the state should belong to the people living there, not the opposite (in an ideal world at least). They're not even intellectual property or private property actually !
Basically, you're saying something in the lines of (voluntarily using an imaginary cable leak here to demonstrate):
"there's a paper saying the govt killed 111 innocents here, but it's ok they said it's a secret paper so it belongs to them so it's normal to block it's publication and/or anyone from finding out, it's classified!". There's a little issue thinking that way.
Classified or not does not actually change a thing in this case. What should be done, is to declassify the item as it's public knowledge now. Saying it's classified won't be make more secret. That's not for the public, but only for their internal management (management, not people!).
the *idea* behind wikileaks was good, but Assange is an Ass-hat with an overinflated ego, who needs to go.
Another site that does what wikileaks does, without Assange, sounds like a good thing.
While thinking you said something smart, you're actually the freedom's (or the *idea*'s) enemy. By rallying people behind such ideas (and yes, it works, especially for the lazy minded who will always follow the easiest opinion), you're basically trying to kill the *idea* behind wikileaks.
This is actually what the government wants you to say by attacking Assange's personal life with international warrants for "rape" and the like.
Without someone like Assange, there would be no successful wikileak - period. Who cares of his ego, no one could do what he's doing without it. And we all pretty well know he's not been raping anyone either by now. Can't wait the next stunt "he's been helping the talibans" or w/e shit like that to dismiss the action and keep the world's control and bad actions from the ones with power hidden from the general public.
you're dividing good and bad by the amount of people living or dying - i think that's wrong.
people aren't exactly numbers - they make choices even if their choice means death (which used to be a lot more easily accepted in the past: "live free or die") and even if their choices are limited (death by this, that or slavery for example)
beside, the amount of human on earth does not exactly represents the humanity's success or failure (unless it reaches a very low number) - i think we know that by now. There are areas we're successful at, others we're (repeatedly) plain failing at.
Haha this should be modded up. I guess all of us had all of these ideas and the same constraints.
You forgot the search engine idea, and the MMO with real life elements via your smartphone (this one is not yet properly realized)
Hire me plz.
In my opinion its more 10% inspiration 40% perspiration 50% marketing.
Proper balance is key to many things in life. (And balance does not mean 50%-50%, but neither does it means 1% 99%)