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AMD Subpoenas Skype
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>They're talking about VoIP, not Ogg
Actually, I was talking about vorbis, not Ogg. Ogg is a container format. It's like the difference between XVID and AVI. With me? Alright.
I mentioned this originally because it demonstrates the immense compression power of the AMD platform, and it's quite relevant; speex, which is based on vorbis, IS used for voice-compression (and coincidentally, I use it every other day for just voice comms over the internet). I'd also assume that a Skype client (which this is about, right?) only need to encode one stream but decode N streams, which generally is an even simpler problem. I haven't tried it, but I'm sure I could decode at well above 100 times real-time, so decoding and mixing 10 streams shouldn't even fucking register on the CPU-meter.
(I understand that they could use some more advanced topology req. more encodes, but that just makes my original comparison more relevant, not less.)
All I know is that using oggenc/lancer I'm getting 35 times real-time encoding on my dual-core AMD 3800+ rig (a single-core Athlon64 at 2.7GHz encodes at 45 times real-time -- or to put it another way -- a six minute track is encoded in less than 8 seconds).
Did I mention oggenc is single threaded? I'm not naive enough to believe this translates to 2*35=70 real-time encodes, but less than ten?! No. Way.
seem to think that a commercial manufacturer's wishes for its products amount to nothing (e.g., via the EULA, perhaps claiming EULAs aren't enforceable in your jurisdiction)
Once I've bought my copy, the manufacturer's "wishes" for its product amount to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to me, you're right.
Tell you what, if I write down -- on the money itself that I use to pay for the product -- conditions for its use by the recieving company, are you of the impression that a) They would honor my wishes and b) That they SHOULD honor my wishes?
I'm in the progress of doing an hardware upgrade, and while I don't care one iota about Vista, I know that my motherboard is sold as "Windows Vista Hardware Ready". Not sure exactly what that means in practice, I guess it's just marketing.
What release of IWD: Heart of Winter came with Starforce? I know mine didn't. In fact, I don't know of ANY of the IE-games (I own BG, BG:TotSC, BG2:SoA, BG2:ToB, PS:T, IWD1, IWD1:HoW, IWD2) shipping with copy-protection beyond a simple GetDriveTypeA-check.
"Bush's eavesdropping program was explicitly anticipated in 1978, and made illegal by FISA. There might not have been fax machines, or e-mail, or the Internet, but the NSA did the exact same thing with telegrams" -- Project Shamrock
Sorry, that's movement resolution (after whatever processing they do). Thinko on my part. I'm sure the sensor isn't all that. Still be interesting to "see" though.
These greedy guys can't just use the internet like it's mean to be used. No, there'll have to be segmentation of the world into suitable geographic pieces, each with its own special DRM, licensing deals, branding-tiens, 'broadcast' delays, etc.
Sheeeesh, simply allow anyone to give them money for their product, at any time from any place? That's just crazy talk.
Saw this funny thing today at TechReport, a PCIe card where you can mount two mobile graphics modules/cards (MXM) for SLI in desktop systems. Weird prototype thingy. Not sure what market this is targeting...
What we need now is for someone to find a remote exploit in a popular webserver and combine both exploits into a worm, 'cause then we're all really fucked.
The law should say that whoever is advertised as being the originator of "the message", no matter who they contracted to do the dialing, they're still responsible for how their contractor behaves in their name. Now, if there's a problem, the original company pays the fine, and if they're not happy with it they get to go after their contractor in court (and if they subcontracted, they get to do the same, all the way down the chain).
This closes the whole "set up shell company and fuck people over in the name of holy capitalism" loop-hole quite nicely, don't you think?
>The rest of us have been using IM too long to get away [...]
My experience is the opposite, it's the new folks who use crap like MSN. I've been IMing for a relatively long time, starting with ICQ (six digit UIN), and all but one of my friends are on ICQ.
I anyone wants to reach me by IM, that's where they'll have to go.
Unfortunately gnupg doesn't go well with ICQ due to message size limitations (especially with offline messaging). The secureim plugin however works very well (and I think it's compatible with Trillian, but I'm not certain).
New builds of Miranda features a tabbed message GUI by default. Selecting "User details" will try to identify the client, but this isn't always possible.
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be the FSM... Is that the Finite State Machine or the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
So it's all ok.
Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer
>They're talking about VoIP, not Ogg
Actually, I was talking about vorbis, not Ogg. Ogg is a container format. It's like the difference between XVID and AVI. With me? Alright.
I mentioned this originally because it demonstrates the immense compression power of the AMD platform, and it's quite relevant; speex, which is based on vorbis, IS used for voice-compression (and coincidentally, I use it every other day for just voice comms over the internet). I'd also assume that a Skype client (which this is about, right?) only need to encode one stream but decode N streams, which generally is an even simpler problem. I haven't tried it, but I'm sure I could decode at well above 100 times real-time, so decoding and mixing 10 streams shouldn't even fucking register on the CPU-meter.
(I understand that they could use some more advanced topology req. more encodes, but that just makes my original comparison more relevant, not less.)
All I know is that using oggenc/lancer I'm getting 35 times real-time encoding on my dual-core AMD 3800+ rig (a single-core Athlon64 at 2.7GHz encodes at 45 times real-time -- or to put it another way -- a six minute track is encoded in less than 8 seconds).
Did I mention oggenc is single threaded? I'm not naive enough to believe this translates to 2*35=70 real-time encodes, but less than ten?! No. Way.
seem to think that a commercial manufacturer's wishes for its products amount to nothing (e.g., via the EULA, perhaps claiming EULAs aren't enforceable in your jurisdiction)
Once I've bought my copy, the manufacturer's "wishes" for its product amount to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to me, you're right.
Tell you what, if I write down -- on the money itself that I use to pay for the product -- conditions for its use by the recieving company, are you of the impression that a) They would honor my wishes and b) That they SHOULD honor my wishes?
They won't, so I won't. It's that simple.
I'm in the progress of doing an hardware upgrade, and while I don't care one iota about Vista, I know that my motherboard is sold as "Windows Vista Hardware Ready". Not sure exactly what that means in practice, I guess it's just marketing.
What release of IWD: Heart of Winter came with Starforce? I know mine didn't. In fact, I don't know of ANY of the IE-games (I own BG, BG:TotSC, BG2:SoA, BG2:ToB, PS:T, IWD1, IWD1:HoW, IWD2) shipping with copy-protection beyond a simple GetDriveTypeA-check.
Yes I know, the so called "Black Chambers" go way back. It's in Kahn. However, the difference is not the act, it's the legislation.
"Bush's eavesdropping program was explicitly anticipated in 1978, and made illegal by FISA. There might not have been fax machines, or e-mail, or the Internet, but the NSA did the exact same thing with telegrams" -- Project Shamrock
>Nobody wants Xeon.
Except the people over at The Pirate Bay, who are happy to take donations and flush them down the toilet.
Yeah, you won't see me donating.
Whaaa? I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the iAudio playing Machinae Supremacy vorbis files.
Sorry, that's movement resolution (after whatever processing they do). Thinko on my part. I'm sure the sensor isn't all that. Still be interesting to "see" though.
Logitech claims 800DPI for the MX1000.
Not. A. Chance.
These greedy guys can't just use the internet like it's mean to be used. No, there'll have to be segmentation of the world into suitable geographic pieces, each with its own special DRM, licensing deals, branding-tiens, 'broadcast' delays, etc.
Sheeeesh, simply allow anyone to give them money for their product, at any time from any place? That's just crazy talk.
Saw this funny thing today at TechReport, a PCIe card where you can mount two mobile graphics modules/cards (MXM) for SLI in desktop systems. Weird prototype thingy. Not sure what market this is targeting...
What we need now is for someone to find a remote exploit in a popular webserver and combine both exploits into a worm, 'cause then we're all really fucked.
Lite-On is also one of few brands for which you can actually verify the burn quality. Well, you can if you believe in Kprobe.
Assuming it's true he said that, I wish someone had stepped up and replied "... and the bible is just a god damned [human authored] book"
The law should say that whoever is advertised as being the originator of "the message", no matter who they contracted to do the dialing, they're still responsible for how their contractor behaves in their name. Now, if there's a problem, the original company pays the fine, and if they're not happy with it they get to go after their contractor in court (and if they subcontracted, they get to do the same, all the way down the chain).
This closes the whole "set up shell company and fuck people over in the name of holy capitalism" loop-hole quite nicely, don't you think?
Is it legal to sell "Slasher" the 812 page non-graphical novel to a 12y/o?
PDF SpeedUp 1.42 (win32)
Not only a fancy way to disable the plugins, it actually removes the splash screen, removes crappy GUI elements (advertisments), etc.
Using Google Talk with Miranda
>The rest of us have been using IM too long to get away [...]
My experience is the opposite, it's the new folks who use crap like MSN. I've been IMing for a relatively long time, starting with ICQ (six digit UIN), and all but one of my friends are on ICQ.
I anyone wants to reach me by IM, that's where they'll have to go.
Unfortunately gnupg doesn't go well with ICQ due to message size limitations (especially with offline messaging). The secureim plugin however works very well (and I think it's compatible with Trillian, but I'm not certain).
New builds of Miranda features a tabbed message GUI by default. Selecting "User details" will try to identify the client, but this isn't always possible.