How does Vorbis really compare against AAC? Besides the whole royalty/patent free issue, does Vorbis really beat out AAC? (Ignoring royalty/patent issues here because you also mentioned H264)
I think MS-DOS (or a variant) is the answer. It should boot almost instantly. Even though you get the 8.3 filename limitation, you have DOS Edit or QBasic to edit text files.
Someone in another thread once mentioned builds of Mozilla Firefox which were modified to add spyware and adware to the program. Mozilla has their trademark protection so they can legally go after those guys.
ISPs DON'T want to sell bandwidth, they want people to buy their flat-rate service, then use as little bandwidth as possible. ISPs throttle or kick off the bandwidth hogs.
Javascript-like languages can be compiled to bytecode as well, then the bytecode gets interpreted. Flash is the best example, all actionscript code gets compiled to actionscript bytecode, which Flash then interprets.
The biggest bottleneck for Javascript is the dynamic typing system. But there are still possibly ways to optimize around that. If you run through the code and find out what type a variable is really used as, you can remove the overhead of checking a variable's type all the time.
In this case, there is a distributed bunch of servers, so when a user requests a file, it's not even reaching the internet backbone, it's reaching a dedicated video server which is local to the ISP. Net neutrality has nothing to do with this, this is just agreements between companies to make highly demanded video available to users without costing the ISPs as much bandwidth.
The Standalone Flash Player works flawlessly on Wine, yet the Flash Player plugin for Linux Firefox just really really sucks. That means somewhere in the linux porting chain, someone is doing a really bad job at programming.
Is Firefox 3 still looking like ass on KDE, and when you attempt to make it use KDE themes, the scrollbars disappear? Does KDE still ignore any preferences about what you set your resolution to, then suddenly switch your resolution only when you open the resolution changer program?
Is there a significant difference between TV/Radio signals and Cell Phone signals? Do people who spend significant amounts of time underneath towers where TV is broadcast experience any higher risk of cancer?
They used a lockout chip which could was only manufactured by Nintendo. The system contains one lockout chip, and a game cartridge must have a corresponding lockout chip inside as well. Whenever the lockout chip fails to authenticate, the power light on the NES flashes and the system resets every second. Now you know what component to blame for the flashing gray screen.
Other manufactures used tricks, such as zapping the lockout chip with high negative voltage, to get their unlicensed games running on a NES.
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He made me his bitch.
Probably because there is a 5:1 ratio of women to transsexuals?
Get Jackie Chan to portray Chun Li. (video clip from City Hunter 1993 movie)
How does Vorbis really compare against AAC? Besides the whole royalty/patent free issue, does Vorbis really beat out AAC? (Ignoring royalty/patent issues here because you also mentioned H264)
I think MS-DOS (or a variant) is the answer. It should boot almost instantly.
Even though you get the 8.3 filename limitation, you have DOS Edit or QBasic to edit text files.
Wouldn't this take stuff before people have the ability to filter what they say and speak it out loud?
Someone in another thread once mentioned builds of Mozilla Firefox which were modified to add spyware and adware to the program. Mozilla has their trademark protection so they can legally go after those guys.
Bwahahahahah! That's a good one!
Copyright law being taken seriously in China? You're a great comedian.
The SD slot on the Wii is very, very slow.
So, what's stopping Sugar from running on these things?
If it's made out of Platinum-Iridium, you can make a wedding band which weighs exactly one kilogram.
ISPs DON'T want to sell bandwidth, they want people to buy their flat-rate service, then use as little bandwidth as possible. ISPs throttle or kick off the bandwidth hogs.
Damn... Why do I keep replying to the wrong post on slashdot?! This was meant to go in the Javascript can't be as fast thread...
Javascript-like languages can be compiled to bytecode as well, then the bytecode gets interpreted. Flash is the best example, all actionscript code gets compiled to actionscript bytecode, which Flash then interprets.
The biggest bottleneck for Javascript is the dynamic typing system. But there are still possibly ways to optimize around that. If you run through the code and find out what type a variable is really used as, you can remove the overhead of checking a variable's type all the time.
In this case, there is a distributed bunch of servers, so when a user requests a file, it's not even reaching the internet backbone, it's reaching a dedicated video server which is local to the ISP. Net neutrality has nothing to do with this, this is just agreements between companies to make highly demanded video available to users without costing the ISPs as much bandwidth.
The Standalone Flash Player works flawlessly on Wine, yet the Flash Player plugin for Linux Firefox just really really sucks. That means somewhere in the linux porting chain, someone is doing a really bad job at programming.
So what's so hard about writing a program to read in COBOL and output something that looks like javascript?
I used the previous recent beta version, so I doubt that it's changed, but if it has, it would be a nice surprise.
Is Firefox 3 still looking like ass on KDE, and when you attempt to make it use KDE themes, the scrollbars disappear?
Does KDE still ignore any preferences about what you set your resolution to, then suddenly switch your resolution only when you open the resolution changer program?
Is there a significant difference between TV/Radio signals and Cell Phone signals?
Do people who spend significant amounts of time underneath towers where TV is broadcast experience any higher risk of cancer?
You know who else sued AOL for a critical blogger's name?
They used a lockout chip which could was only manufactured by Nintendo. The system contains one lockout chip, and a game cartridge must have a corresponding lockout chip inside as well. Whenever the lockout chip fails to authenticate, the power light on the NES flashes and the system resets every second. Now you know what component to blame for the flashing gray screen.
Other manufactures used tricks, such as zapping the lockout chip with high negative voltage, to get their unlicensed games running on a NES.
Finally! Now I have someone to call up so I can say "Aardwolf" at them!
MRAM does exist, it replaces battery backed 32KB SRAM chips.
Yes, great idea! Punish the innocent students who get creationism shoved down their throats against their will!