If your sound card is not powered then you can ignore your power supply as a source of noise. But if your sound card is powered, then it's got a direct electrical connection to your power supply through the PCI slot. The power lines lead directly out of the power supply and directly into your PCI connector.
Ain't no amount of shielding going to help you, if there's noise on the power supply. Switching-mode supplies produce a godawful lot of noise.
Apparently you think economics began and ended with Adam Smith.
In fact, the past 100 years of theoretical, experimental, and applied economics shows that there are many situations in which regulation is necessary in order to preserve market efficiency.
Being ignorant of a subject does not entitle you to go spouting off pseudo-libertarian aphorisms. Please go to your nearest university library and look up "market failures."
What have you done about your power supply? The switching supplies usually found in PCs can produce a lot of noise which will find its way to the sound card no matter how well it's shielded.
The kernel interrupt handler don't bother to save the state of the FP registers, mainly for performance reasons. That means if you use FP in the kernel you'll probably fubar any user-space process that's using the FPU.
It's not specific to IA64 or Linux-- PPC and IA32 also work this way, and Windows does the same thing. You can get around it, possibly, by inlining some assembly which saves and restores the FP registers before and after you use them. You need to be careful that the kernel won't switch out of context or go back to userland while you're using FP registers--preemptive kernels make this much harder.
However, there really aren't many reasons why you would want to use FP in the kernel in the first place. Real-time data acquisition and signal processing is the only example that comes to mind, but you'd be better off using something like RTLinux in that case.
It's some masturbatory "new Economy" business-Internet tripe. Nothing to do with your beloved anime show, and the logical connection is tenuous at best.
ID cards that need to be electronically verified imply the possibility of a centralized database that tracks the usage of the ID card. If that database is not created by the government, it will be created by private interests.
I have a right (for example) to buy liquor, pay cash for it and not have that purchase recorded in a national database. That is a privacy issue.
I also have a right to buy pornography, pay cash for it and not have the purchase recorded in a national database. That is also a privacy issue.
Anonymity in certain situations IS a prerequisite for privacy.
There's a pretty strong line of evidence from ergonomics research showing that even though most people can't spot the difference between, say, 75Hz and 120Hz, it still has a big impact on reading speed and eyestrain. Reason being, your eyes move (saccade) from location to location very quickly, and they need visual information during the saccade in order to "lock-in" to their targets. At lower refresh rates, that information isn't always available during the saccade, so it takes longer for the eye to get where it's supposed to be going.
If you want a dongle that plugs in to your video port and gives 800x600x60Hz video at 16 bits, that works out to 460 Mbits of bandwidth. So "Wireless Video" is somethere around "Wireless Gigabit Ethernet" in terms of feasibility. I don't even know if the FCC has a big enough chunk of bandwidth left that it hasn't sold.
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Of course the images selected for the demo could have been optimized for the compression scheme. B-)
One of the images was the Lenna centerold, which has long been a de facto test for image compression algorithms.
Frame rate isn't constant. When there are lots of objects/explosions/players on the screen at once, frame rate drops. So if your card produces 60 fps on "average," it might only get 8 or 10 if the scene becomes really busy. Typically, when the scene is busy, responsiveness is most important. If your frame rate goes to shit when everyone is shooting at you, you die.
If your "average" frame rate is something absurd like 300 fps, that means you get acceptable frame rates (30-40) in the really nasty bits. So you don't die as much.
They don't provide all of the specifications. For instance, ATI has consistently refused to give specifications for the inverse DCT and motion compensation features of their cards (features integral to MPEG playback.) Because of this, I have a laptop whose battery lasts maybe 90 minutes watching a DVD under Linux (because all the decoding is in software,) as opposed to 3 hours watching the same DVD in a proprietary OS.
Jesus Christ, do you realize you sound like the Timecube guy? No one likes a blowhard, especially when he's wrong.
The missing keypress events aren't "not sent." They're merely sent in a nonstandard way.
I mean, all you needed to do was go to the Debian mailing list search like I told you earlier, type in "caps lock" and scroll down to serarch the "powerpc" list. Problem solved.
I should mention that I am using this patch on a recent iBook RIGHT NOW to map my Caps-lock to a Ctrl.
IIRC, you can shock people on the other end of the line if you're on an extremely old telephone system (the kind that uses rotary switches and pulse dialing). You just connect the power mains to the phone line.
"The brain must have some sort of internal gravitation model." -- You live all of your life under the earth's gravity, so your brain is used to how things react in that system.
Speaking as a neuroscience grad, I'm going to say this once: The second sentence above says the same thing as the first. "Internal model" is a fancy way of saying that the brain will predict the behavior of something. No more, no less.
In other words, your brain doesn't see a ball coming at you and do this: Ball approaching at 40 mph and presently 12 ft altitude. Based on calculations of gravity and wind resistance, ball will arrive at 35 mph and 4 ft altitude Move hand to location
Calculations dont have to be in base 10, or involve digits at all, in order to be calculations. Analog computers are still computers.
It's more like this: Ball approaching. Based on the millions of times I've experienced this, the ball will arrive at about right here (hand goes into place)
There's a big "at this point, a miracle happens" moment in that sentence. Unless you claim that you can only catch balls that travel in exactly the same trajectory as balls you'e seen before, you're going to need to generalize their behavior a bit. Once you generalize the behavior, you've got an internal model.
As long as we're compiling lists of references the Simpsonsa make to things, you might want to check out this list of Simpsons references to illegal drugs.
Re:Let me get this straight...
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The huge flaw in their design is that it contains Calcium Oxide. AKA Lime. AKA Quicklime. AKA a substance used in manufacturing steel and paper, in glassmaking, in waste treatment, in insecticides, and as an industrial alkali
Oh no! It's a chemical with various uses! It must be bad for you!
You forgot to mention that it's a substance that has been integral to American cuisine for just about ever.
Corn is steeped in lime, AKA quicklime, AKA Calcium Oxide, to form hominy (if you're in the South,) or posole (if you're in the Southwest.) It It is dried and ground to make masa, which is used to make corn tortillas (ordinary cornmeal won't work), and tamales. Treatment of corn with lime or other alkali unlocks essential nutrients such as niacin which our bodies cannot obtain from untreated corn.
Sheesh. Next I'll be hearing people panic about the pollution of the oceans with Sodium Chloride and Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Equalizer: Can't comment since I haven't set it for any songs.
Look in Settings->EQ. It now allows you to change the setting on the fly, whereas with the old firmware you had to set the EQ for songs with iTunes. You get to choose from a menu with such names as "Bass Booster," "Latin," "Deep," and "Pop." OK, but I would have liked a little graphic showing me what each setting did
Another change: the backlight timer can be set for 10 sec (previous max was 5 sec.)
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As advertised, two 13.3" displays. You did notice the base of this thing is a freakin' EXTENDED keyboard...?
Your sound card is powered, no?
If your sound card is not powered then you can ignore your power supply as a source of noise. But if your sound card is powered, then it's got a direct electrical connection to your power supply through the PCI slot. The power lines lead directly out of the power supply and directly into your PCI connector.
Ain't no amount of shielding going to help you, if there's noise on the power supply. Switching-mode supplies produce a godawful lot of noise.
In fact, the past 100 years of theoretical, experimental, and applied economics shows that there are many situations in which regulation is necessary in order to preserve market efficiency.
Being ignorant of a subject does not entitle you to go spouting off pseudo-libertarian aphorisms. Please go to your nearest university library and look up "market failures."
That is all.
What have you done about your power supply? The switching supplies usually found in PCs can produce a lot of noise which will find its way to the sound card no matter how well it's shielded.
Yes. Also because without copyrights, I'd be able to get the original, unfucked-with version in a decent format.
It's not specific to IA64 or Linux-- PPC and IA32 also work this way, and Windows does the same thing. You can get around it, possibly, by inlining some assembly which saves and restores the FP registers before and after you use them. You need to be careful that the kernel won't switch out of context or go back to userland while you're using FP registers--preemptive kernels make this much harder.
However, there really aren't many reasons why you would want to use FP in the kernel in the first place. Real-time data acquisition and signal processing is the only example that comes to mind, but you'd be better off using something like RTLinux in that case.
It's some masturbatory "new Economy" business-Internet tripe. Nothing to do with your beloved anime show, and the logical connection is tenuous at best.
You imply that you're still going to see Episode 2. Did you buy a ticket to Police Academy 6?
I have a right (for example) to buy liquor, pay cash for it and not have that purchase recorded in a national database. That is a privacy issue. I also have a right to buy pornography, pay cash for it and not have the purchase recorded in a national database. That is also a privacy issue.
Anonymity in certain situations IS a prerequisite for privacy.
There's a pretty strong line of evidence from ergonomics research showing that even though most people can't spot the difference between, say, 75Hz and 120Hz, it still has a big impact on reading speed and eyestrain. Reason being, your eyes move (saccade) from location to location very quickly, and they need visual information during the saccade in order to "lock-in" to their targets. At lower refresh rates, that information isn't always available during the saccade, so it takes longer for the eye to get where it's supposed to be going.
Erm. "Hub" ain't "Port." Ports get full bandwidth. Hubs split it.
If you want a dongle that plugs in to your video port and gives 800x600x60Hz video at 16 bits, that works out to 460 Mbits of bandwidth. So "Wireless Video" is somethere around "Wireless Gigabit Ethernet" in terms of feasibility. I don't even know if the FCC has a big enough chunk of bandwidth left that it hasn't sold.
One of the images was the Lenna centerold, which has long been a de facto test for image compression algorithms.
Frame rate isn't constant. When there are lots of objects/explosions/players on the screen at once, frame rate drops. So if your card produces 60 fps on "average," it might only get 8 or 10 if the scene becomes really busy. Typically, when the scene is busy, responsiveness is most important. If your frame rate goes to shit when everyone is shooting at you, you die.
If your "average" frame rate is something absurd like 300 fps, that means you get acceptable frame rates (30-40) in the really nasty bits. So you don't die as much.
They don't provide all of the specifications. For instance, ATI has consistently refused to give specifications for the inverse DCT and motion compensation features of their cards (features integral to MPEG playback.) Because of this, I have a laptop whose battery lasts maybe 90 minutes watching a DVD under Linux (because all the decoding is in software,) as opposed to 3 hours watching the same DVD in a proprietary OS.
The missing keypress events aren't "not sent." They're merely sent in a nonstandard way.
I mean, all you needed to do was go to the Debian mailing list search like I told you earlier, type in "caps lock" and scroll down to serarch the "powerpc" list. Problem solved.
I should mention that I am using this patch on a recent iBook RIGHT NOW to map my Caps-lock to a Ctrl.
and check debian-powerpc archives; there is a patch that works.
There is a patch to the kernel that works for remapping capslock to control. Check the debian-powerpc archives.
IIRC, you can shock people on the other end of the line if you're on an extremely old telephone system (the kind that uses rotary switches and pulse dialing). You just connect the power mains to the phone line.
"The brain must have some sort of internal gravitation model." -- You live all of your life under the earth's gravity, so your brain is used to how things react in that system.
Speaking as a neuroscience grad, I'm going to say this once: The second sentence above says the same thing as the first. "Internal model" is a fancy way of saying that the brain will predict the behavior of something. No more, no less.
In other words, your brain doesn't see a ball coming at you and do this:
Ball approaching at 40 mph and presently 12 ft altitude.
Based on calculations of gravity and wind resistance, ball will arrive at 35 mph and 4 ft altitude
Move hand to location
Calculations dont have to be in base 10, or involve digits at all, in order to be calculations. Analog computers are still computers.
It's more like this: Ball approaching. Based on the millions of times I've experienced this, the ball will arrive at about right here (hand goes into place)
There's a big "at this point, a miracle happens" moment in that sentence. Unless you claim that you can only catch balls that travel in exactly the same trajectory as balls you'e seen before, you're going to need to generalize their behavior a bit. Once you generalize the behavior, you've got an internal model.
If you dry hominy and grind it coarsely, you wind up with a coarse, gritty substance. If you boil that in water, well, guess what you've got then?
HOT GRITS!!
As long as we're compiling lists of references the Simpsonsa make to things, you might want to check out this list of Simpsons references to illegal drugs.
Oh no! It's a chemical with various uses! It must be bad for you!
You forgot to mention that it's a substance that has been integral to American cuisine for just about ever.
Corn is steeped in lime, AKA quicklime, AKA Calcium Oxide, to form hominy (if you're in the South,) or posole (if you're in the Southwest.) It It is dried and ground to make masa, which is used to make corn tortillas (ordinary cornmeal won't work), and tamales. Treatment of corn with lime or other alkali unlocks essential nutrients such as niacin which our bodies cannot obtain from untreated corn.
Sheesh. Next I'll be hearing people panic about the pollution of the oceans with Sodium Chloride and Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Look in Settings->EQ. It now allows you to change the setting on the fly, whereas with the old firmware you had to set the EQ for songs with iTunes. You get to choose from a menu with such names as "Bass Booster," "Latin," "Deep," and "Pop." OK, but I would have liked a little graphic showing me what each setting did
Another change: the backlight timer can be set for 10 sec (previous max was 5 sec.)
Google for "ADC DVI adapter."