I can hear the difference on headphones between the original wav/flac and your average lossy encoding (yes, A/B/X). Of course, I've got a pro soundcard, a set of sennheiser HD 650s and a dedicated amp.
Note, I can't ABX -GOOD- lossy recordings anymore. Just the average ones.
just to prove a point, I tried going directly to the IP of a few sites.
facebook (69.63.118.11): still said "resolving host" ?!? until I gave up
google (209.86.226.99): said "Waiting for 209.86.226.99" until I gave up
cnn (157.166.224.25): didn't actually say anything at all for a long time, it sat there for a good damn long time before it loaded anything, then it loaded most of the page and "resolving host" popped back up.
it most certainly DOES have to do with chrome. I've said it like 10 times now, do a websearch on the issue. it's not just me. Google doesn't have a single damn suggestion for the issue other than to turn off dns pre-fetching which of -course- I've already tried.
My DNS is not problematic. Firefox works. synaptic works. thunderbird works. empathy works. boinc works. WoW works. hell poping open a terminal window and typing ping works. everything BUT chrome works just fine.
Here, here you go, here's GOOGLE'S OWN SUPPORT FORUM topic on this issue:
there's nothing wrong with my setup. I'm hardly the only person with this problem. as I've said several times now, do a web search on it. It's a chrome issue that's been around for several versions now.
I stand by my stance that adblock in chrome is horrible. the ads most certainly are still there, they're just not blinking at me. I don't want them loading at all. I don't want to be able to accidentally click on them. Not to mention that adblock in chrome doesn't even block everything, I still see some.
I'm sure that something must be wrong. I can't imagine anybody in the world would use chrome if it was as slow as mine (see the chrome vs firefox page load benchmark I did above).
Again, I just don't care to troubleshoot it because: A. Firefox works fine for me. It's not slow at all. B. Chrome doesn't do anything for me above and beyond what FF does.
I kind of like chrome's interface, but the rest of the browser frustrates me to no end so I don't feel like trying to troubleshoot any issues because it doesn't do anything else I really like that much better.
Trust me, it's slow as balls EVERYWHERE. It sits there at "resolving host" for anywhere from 2-3 seconds to 60 seconds or more before I give up. Sometimes the page loads, sometimes I close the browser in disgust.. and when the page DOES load, it's so slow loading that I want to claw my brains out. here's the background color. wait for it... Here's an ad at the top. wait some more... Here's the left frame. wait a little bit more, ah here is the page text.
I'm running this on a 3.8ghz multi-core cpu with 4gb of ram under a modern 64bit OS, but chrome makes me feel like I've got dialup in 1998 again.
Facebook Wikipedia CNN Slashdot Google(!!!)
I'm not hitting obscure sites here.
I just went and got a stopwatch (ok, I used my Droid's stopwatch app) to time it here. Chrome took 42.837 seconds to load facebook's login page. not my home page with tons of updates, graphics etc. the LOGIN page. Firefox loaded the same page in 1.112 seconds. Bit of a difference there.
Even reloading forum pages I've got open (i.e. 90% of the page is cached, and the rest is simple text) is an exercise in frustration.
I don't know what Chrome's problem is, but I don't care to ever find out because I've got FF handy which works wonderfully.
A. It's incredibly god damn slow, like the "I'm sure this must be broken, it's so amazingly slow". I was having a problem earlier with a page in firefox, so I loaded up chrome to see if the page had issues there. It was so slow that I gave up, loaded up my 10.04 beta VM, loaded up firefox in that, and checked the page there. It was faster to do that. really. REALLY. I'm not kidding.
B. "Adblock" in chrome is trash. The ads are still there, they're just not flashing at you. If I mis-click on an "empty" part of the page, all of a sudden I'm looking at god knows what, and who the hell knows what I "accepted" by clicking that ad. Thank god I'm in linux.
Annoyingly enough, I've been waiting for these specifically -because- I run both windows and linux, and ati drivers in linux are poop if you want to accelerate anything that's actually on store shelves.
Mostly it's annoying because I happily would have bought 5850s for myself and my wife already for $50 cheaper than the GTX 470s are going to cost for roughly the same performance.
This is pointless legislation because they very country it's targeting (*coughpeople'srepubliccough*), we refuse to recognize for their already existing undeclared "warfare" against the US, such as their currency manipulation.
"Cyber warfare" will just be one more thing we ignore for economic/political reasons.
And I can't figure out why I would want to upgrade. I didn't upgrade to Koala, because the only real change I could find was they dropped pidgen for evolution or something like that. It was seriously the least impressive OS upgrade I've ever seen. Oh, and I don't have to type my name in at the login prompt anymore, I can click an icon like xp/vista?
So aside from a new theme that I'm not finding very attractive in the screenshots I've seen anyway, I haven't seen anything that really makes me want to upgrade to lynx either.
Really, the only reason I probably will upgrade to lynx is because support on jaunty runs out in October. That's about it. I am really not looking forward to seeing what the upgrade breaks either.
I didn't know that our legal system understood computers even that well, to distinguish browser cache "oh crap, what the hell did I just see?!" from deliberate "I done saved 3115 photos to my desktop that I probably shouldn't have".
Of, wait, it's not my legal system, it's Canada's. nevermind. Grats Canadians on having sane judges?
What Android phone do you have? My Motorola Droid is mostly instantious (give or take a few milliseconds) unless it's low on memory. Sure it has the occasional slowdown, but 98%+ of button presses are more or less instant.
I have no problem with the Android UI. It's pretty damn simple. Press the button on what you want to do, and there is an auxillary button for options. I havn't used an Iphone, but what do they do that's really so much better?
My droid doesn't have any problem with apps in the background eating up battery life, except for a select few apps that by their very nature have to be chewing up cycles and using phone resources (gps, 3g, etc) even while in the background, like Trapster.
I've got about 20 things running right now and my worst concern is free memory, of which I've still got 48mb. I can look at battery usage readout and see that none of them are using anything of note.
It's about time apple gave this to it's users, not that that's enough to make me even think about switching.
If they had to stick with real depictions of, well in this case hackers, every movie about it would look like Office Space and Dilbert.
Even Office Space had such ammusing "we don't know what we're talking about" moments as Peter shutting down his Mac to find it sitting at a C:/> prompt. Either that, or somebody spent a lot of time building the most elaborate windows 95 UI shell ever.
I will say though, that by having the fate of the main characters depend on code that had an off-by-one-
This is normal for Hollywood. Look at their depictions of firearms or automobiles.
Every 9mm pistol sounds like it's got a subwoofer hidden in the barrel, and can one-shot-one-kill anybody it's aimed at (as long as the hero is pulling the trigger).
Every ford focus and subaru station wagon can drift around corners in city traffic at 80mph, avoding cops and pedestrians alike, again as long as the protaganist is driving. (notice that the cops, who actually have presumably taken agressive driving courses, always run into garbage trucks)
That's the easiest bot in the world to beat. That's the type that is on the "easy" setting on poker games for your game boy or psp. You fold if he bets, you raise otherwise. Any poker player worth his salt would spot that "guy's" tendencies in a heartbeat.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm just asking?
I can hear the difference on headphones between the original wav/flac and your average lossy encoding (yes, A/B/X). Of course, I've got a pro soundcard, a set of sennheiser HD 650s and a dedicated amp.
Note, I can't ABX -GOOD- lossy recordings anymore. Just the average ones.
just to prove a point, I tried going directly to the IP of a few sites.
facebook (69.63.118.11): still said "resolving host" ?!? until I gave up
google (209.86.226.99): said "Waiting for 209.86.226.99" until I gave up
cnn (157.166.224.25): didn't actually say anything at all for a long time, it sat there for a good damn long time before it loaded anything, then it loaded most of the page and "resolving host" popped back up.
told you it wasn't my dns.
it most certainly DOES have to do with chrome. I've said it like 10 times now, do a websearch on the issue. it's not just me. Google doesn't have a single damn suggestion for the issue other than to turn off dns pre-fetching which of -course- I've already tried.
My DNS is not problematic. Firefox works. synaptic works. thunderbird works. empathy works. boinc works. WoW works. hell poping open a terminal window and typing ping works. everything BUT chrome works just fine.
Here, here you go, here's GOOGLE'S OWN SUPPORT FORUM topic on this issue:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=1bb0e9b089013d95&hl=en
I told you it wasn't me.
there's nothing wrong with my setup. I'm hardly the only person with this problem. as I've said several times now, do a web search on it. It's a chrome issue that's been around for several versions now.
I stand by my stance that adblock in chrome is horrible. the ads most certainly are still there, they're just not blinking at me. I don't want them loading at all. I don't want to be able to accidentally click on them. Not to mention that adblock in chrome doesn't even block everything, I still see some.
Don't use Windows, I use ubuntu 9.04, and it's not the OS. If it were the OS, why would Firefox work fine? it -is- chrome with the problem.
And as I said above, do a search on the string:
chrome slow "resolving host"
it isn't just me.
BTW, do a search on the string:
chrome slow "resolving host"
Seems like this happens to a LOT of people.
I'm sure that something must be wrong. I can't imagine anybody in the world would use chrome if it was as slow as mine (see the chrome vs firefox page load benchmark I did above).
Again, I just don't care to troubleshoot it because:
A. Firefox works fine for me. It's not slow at all.
B. Chrome doesn't do anything for me above and beyond what FF does.
I kind of like chrome's interface, but the rest of the browser frustrates me to no end so I don't feel like trying to troubleshoot any issues because it doesn't do anything else I really like that much better.
Trust me, it's slow as balls EVERYWHERE. It sits there at "resolving host" for anywhere from 2-3 seconds to 60 seconds or more before I give up. Sometimes the page loads, sometimes I close the browser in disgust.. and when the page DOES load, it's so slow loading that I want to claw my brains out. here's the background color. wait for it... Here's an ad at the top. wait some more... Here's the left frame. wait a little bit more, ah here is the page text.
I'm running this on a 3.8ghz multi-core cpu with 4gb of ram under a modern 64bit OS, but chrome makes me feel like I've got dialup in 1998 again.
Facebook
Wikipedia
CNN
Slashdot
Google(!!!)
I'm not hitting obscure sites here.
I just went and got a stopwatch (ok, I used my Droid's stopwatch app) to time it here. Chrome took 42.837 seconds to load facebook's login page. not my home page with tons of updates, graphics etc. the LOGIN page. Firefox loaded the same page in 1.112 seconds. Bit of a difference there.
Even reloading forum pages I've got open (i.e. 90% of the page is cached, and the rest is simple text) is an exercise in frustration.
I don't know what Chrome's problem is, but I don't care to ever find out because I've got FF handy which works wonderfully.
I don't like chrome because:
A. It's incredibly god damn slow, like the "I'm sure this must be broken, it's so amazingly slow". I was having a problem earlier with a page in firefox, so I loaded up chrome to see if the page had issues there. It was so slow that I gave up, loaded up my 10.04 beta VM, loaded up firefox in that, and checked the page there. It was faster to do that. really. REALLY. I'm not kidding.
B. "Adblock" in chrome is trash. The ads are still there, they're just not flashing at you. If I mis-click on an "empty" part of the page, all of a sudden I'm looking at god knows what, and who the hell knows what I "accepted" by clicking that ad. Thank god I'm in linux.
ok, so I exagerated, they run the 4xxx series. Let me know when they run the 5850 and 5870.
I hear the ATI proprietary drivers are great as long as you don't wanna run anything newer than the 2xxx series...
And there are of course the nouveau open source drivers, whose 3d acceleration is best paraphrased as "maybe someday. stop asking dammit."
Yeah, it's pretty much Nvidia or something from someone else circa 2007, take your pick.
Annoyingly enough, I've been waiting for these specifically -because- I run both windows and linux, and ati drivers in linux are poop if you want to accelerate anything that's actually on store shelves.
Mostly it's annoying because I happily would have bought 5850s for myself and my wife already for $50 cheaper than the GTX 470s are going to cost for roughly the same performance.
For the return to tin can and string?
This is pointless legislation because they very country it's targeting (*coughpeople'srepubliccough*), we refuse to recognize for their already existing undeclared "warfare" against the US, such as their currency manipulation.
"Cyber warfare" will just be one more thing we ignore for economic/political reasons.
And I can't figure out why I would want to upgrade. I didn't upgrade to Koala, because the only real change I could find was they dropped pidgen for evolution or something like that. It was seriously the least impressive OS upgrade I've ever seen. Oh, and I don't have to type my name in at the login prompt anymore, I can click an icon like xp/vista?
So aside from a new theme that I'm not finding very attractive in the screenshots I've seen anyway, I haven't seen anything that really makes me want to upgrade to lynx either.
Really, the only reason I probably will upgrade to lynx is because support on jaunty runs out in October. That's about it. I am really not looking forward to seeing what the upgrade breaks either.
I didn't know that our legal system understood computers even that well, to distinguish browser cache "oh crap, what the hell did I just see?!" from deliberate "I done saved 3115 photos to my desktop that I probably shouldn't have".
Of, wait, it's not my legal system, it's Canada's. nevermind. Grats Canadians on having sane judges?
That's their loss.
What Android phone do you have? My Motorola Droid is mostly instantious (give or take a few milliseconds) unless it's low on memory. Sure it has the occasional slowdown, but 98%+ of button presses are more or less instant.
I have no problem with the Android UI. It's pretty damn simple. Press the button on what you want to do, and there is an auxillary button for options. I havn't used an Iphone, but what do they do that's really so much better?
My droid doesn't have any problem with apps in the background eating up battery life, except for a select few apps that by their very nature have to be chewing up cycles and using phone resources (gps, 3g, etc) even while in the background, like Trapster.
I've got about 20 things running right now and my worst concern is free memory, of which I've still got 48mb. I can look at battery usage readout and see that none of them are using anything of note.
It's about time apple gave this to it's users, not that that's enough to make me even think about switching.
Damn Google and their time-machine!
Nobody can use any sort of touch interface but the iphone! Patent infringement lawsuit from Apple lawyers inbound in 3...2...1...
If they had to stick with real depictions of, well in this case hackers, every movie about it would look like Office Space and Dilbert.
Even Office Space had such ammusing "we don't know what we're talking about" moments as Peter shutting down his Mac to find it sitting at a C:/> prompt. Either that, or somebody spent a lot of time building the most elaborate windows 95 UI shell ever.
I will say though, that by having the fate of the main characters depend on code that had an off-by-one-
This is normal for Hollywood. Look at their depictions of firearms or automobiles.
Every 9mm pistol sounds like it's got a subwoofer hidden in the barrel, and can one-shot-one-kill anybody it's aimed at (as long as the hero is pulling the trigger).
Every ford focus and subaru station wagon can drift around corners in city traffic at 80mph, avoding cops and pedestrians alike, again as long as the protaganist is driving. (notice that the cops, who actually have presumably taken agressive driving courses, always run into garbage trucks)
That's the easiest bot in the world to beat. That's the type that is on the "easy" setting on poker games for your game boy or psp. You fold if he bets, you raise otherwise. Any poker player worth his salt would spot that "guy's" tendencies in a heartbeat.