This is why we should have elected Gore the Bore, Georgy Jr will just allow the coporations and the government take over the Net which was meant for us all to be used.
If all the computers in the world are dead, maybe it's time for us to get a life, you know, spend some time with something else than machines, get a girlfriend, make friends, read good books, in one word : live.
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why do I care if my fonts are "anti-aliased". what does this mean?
Alias is a phenomenon you get whenever you sample a system under the nyquist frequency of the system, which is half the highest frequency of the system. Typically, the frequency components above the nyquist frequency will be mirrored -folfing- with respect to the nyquist frequency, and will thus create noise in the frequency band we are looking at.
This is typically what happens when you listen to an old sound file. Of course a significant part of the noise comes from the fact the bit resolution is low, which gives an SNR of 48dB. Whith 16-bit sound you have a SNR of 96 dB which is much better. But you also get much noise because you sampled at say 22.050 kHz, which sucks.
This is also what happens to be a big drawback to DIVX;-) movies I used to download from the Internet : most stupid people encode the movies at 48kHz, and don't take the time to downsample (lowpass filtering) the sound stream to 44.100 kHz, which happens to be the playback frequency of most consumer soundcards. As a result, you get a sound that sucks on most systems, while taking more space.
As I just mentionned, you can elimlinate much of the alias problems by filtering out the frequency components, a process that will also throw out some of the useful components, because an infinite order filter is not realizable.
Let's now take a look at the alias phenomenon on computer graphics. As there is no more analog computer with a full analog display, you have to take samples -pixels- of the idealized image. Typically on white-and-black text, the idealized color will go from white to black as fast as possible, maybe in one tenth of a pixel distance. This is by definition not realizable, as the sampler -the rendering subprogram- will only see black, and then white on the next pixel. I don't have enough insight to tell how this folding results in bad quality images, maybe someone can take over at this point.
Again, the solution to graphical aliasing is easy : do lowpass filtering. You might want to take a 2D-fft of the image, and filter it in the frequency domain, and then go back to the "time"-domain, but you can also do something easier : calculate 4 times as much pixels, and take the mean out of them. This is in fact the same, as what you then just have done is integrating and the Laplace-transform of an integrator is 1/s , which is a lowpass filter.
you can also take in account that the 4X supersampling mentionned above also is alias, because of the INFINITE bandwith of the idealized system to be rendered. So again, you can decide to supersample the subpixels. Of course after a certain depth, it won't matter anymore to your eyes, and you can stop. In a well designed system, there will generally be a an automatic choice whether or not to supersample a pixel. This is then called adaptive supersampling
I agree completely ! Especially if you are an independent consultant. The more money you take from them, the less money will come in the pocket of old stinking capitalists that will only use that money to make yet more money, while we are young and beautiful and need money for our children, our playstation 2, our girlfriends and to stay young and beautiful. Companies are not there to make money, they are there to give you some !
If a company is dumb enough to pay me $750 for 4 stupid ASP pages and a stupid 500 line c++ datamining proggie, their problem !
I don't want to flame, but if those old farts are dumb enough to buy it, it's their own fault. If they had been too poor to buy it, the seller would have tried to sell the next lower end computer. At least now, the grandchildren have good reasons to go to their grandparents. Besides, 21" is the right screen size for their deficient eyes.
Now, they have given a certain amount of money to a computer manufacturer, making that company financially more profitable. This will basically de two things :
1)the company stock price will raise, and they will probably make money on that, since the stocks are probably owned by a retirement fund like everything nowadays.
2)being profitable, the company will not fire people, or will at least fire less people.
I don't think any "irresponsible" action makes a woman deserve to be the slave of someone for the next 18.75 years of her life (and the better ones OTOT).
I really think this sucks. Kubrick was the guy who took years to finish his movies. Now not even two years after he's died, Spielberg, the king of fastfood movies, finishes his next film in two years. This is sacrilege !
Is the producer Jerry Bruckenheimer ? Does Tom Hanks play in it ? Does it have an happy end ? Are there stupid kids-with-the-cute-pet-dog-that-are-smarter-than-a dults ?Is the soundtrack yet another from John Williams ?
Why don't they emulate it in software ? My guess is it would run fine on any decent 486. With a basic mobo it should just run fine, full emulators that do more than just the sound work fine on 486 cpus.
Then again, supply of 486 cpus and 32-pin RAM can also run short...
Yeah Now I can buy yet another cd-drive that will last no longer than one year, while still not being able to read DVDs at a decent speed, and making more noise than a washing machine.
CD-ROM still stands for "Consumer Device - Rendered Obsolete in Months" I guess
And why would I want a CD-burner anyway ?
And why would I want a T1/cable/DSL anyway ?
And what Joe-sixpack computation except Flask require a Pentium 4 or a Thunderbird?
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And anyone would be forced to drink a MS Beer XP when they buy a new glass, even if you want to pour D*FFIX in it.
If you can't reach the server because of the /.-effect, here is one link
At least Aussies don't elect fascists
We all know the people who invented COBOL and FORTRAN were geniusses.
If all the computers in the world are dead, maybe it's time for us to get a life, you know, spend some time with something else than machines, get a girlfriend, make friends, read good books, in one word : live.
This all sucks. Real h4X0rZ put an osciloscope on the right pin of the cpu, and I/O through voltage sources.
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help YOU decrease perceived waiting time by 170% and
turn your business into an E-BUSINESS . You can begin
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why do I care if my fonts are "anti-aliased". what does this mean?
;-) movies I used to download from the Internet : most stupid people encode the movies at 48kHz, and don't take the time to downsample (lowpass filtering) the sound stream to 44.100 kHz, which happens to be the playback frequency of most consumer soundcards. As a result, you get a sound that sucks on most systems, while taking more space.
Alias is a phenomenon you get whenever you sample a system under the nyquist frequency of the system, which is half the highest frequency of the system. Typically, the frequency components above the nyquist frequency will be mirrored -folfing- with respect to the nyquist frequency, and will thus create noise in the frequency band we are looking at.
This is typically what happens when you listen to an old sound file. Of course a significant part of the noise comes from the fact the bit resolution is low, which gives an SNR of 48dB. Whith 16-bit sound you have a SNR of 96 dB which is much better. But you also get much noise because you sampled at say 22.050 kHz, which sucks.
This is also what happens to be a big drawback to DIVX
As I just mentionned, you can elimlinate much of the alias problems by filtering out the frequency components, a process that will also throw out some of the useful components, because an infinite order filter is not realizable.
Let's now take a look at the alias phenomenon on computer graphics. As there is no more analog computer with a full analog display, you have to take samples -pixels- of the idealized image. Typically on white-and-black text, the idealized color will go from white to black as fast as possible, maybe in one tenth of a pixel distance. This is by definition not realizable, as the sampler -the rendering subprogram- will only see black, and then white on the next pixel. I don't have enough insight to tell how this folding results in bad quality images, maybe someone can take over at this point.
Again, the solution to graphical aliasing is easy : do lowpass filtering. You might want to take a 2D-fft of the image, and filter it in the frequency domain, and then go back to the "time"-domain, but you can also do something easier : calculate 4 times as much pixels, and take the mean out of them. This is in fact the same, as what you then just have done is integrating and the Laplace-transform of an integrator is 1/s , which is a lowpass filter.
you can also take in account that the 4X supersampling mentionned above also is alias, because of the INFINITE bandwith of the idealized system to be rendered. So again, you can decide to supersample the subpixels. Of course after a certain depth, it won't matter anymore to your eyes, and you can stop. In a well designed system, there will generally be a an automatic choice whether or not to supersample a pixel. This is then called adaptive supersampling
I agree completely ! Especially if you are an independent consultant. The more money you take from them, the less money will come in the pocket of old stinking capitalists that will only use that money to make yet more money, while we are young and beautiful and need money for our children, our playstation 2, our girlfriends and to stay young and beautiful. Companies are not there to make money, they are there to give you some !
If a company is dumb enough to pay me $750 for 4 stupid ASP pages and a stupid 500 line c++ datamining proggie, their problem !
I don't want to flame, but if those old farts are dumb enough to buy it, it's their own fault. If they had been too poor to buy it, the seller would have tried to sell the next lower end computer. At least now, the grandchildren have good reasons to go to their grandparents. Besides, 21" is the right screen size for their deficient eyes.
Now, they have given a certain amount of money to a computer manufacturer, making that company financially more profitable. This will basically de two things :
1)the company stock price will raise, and they will probably make money on that, since the stocks are probably owned by a retirement fund like everything nowadays.
2)being profitable, the company will not fire people, or will at least fire less people.
This is not a zero-sum game!
If Natalie Portman dates you exclusively, she can't date me, and I lose...
I don't think any "irresponsible" action makes a woman deserve to be the slave of someone for the next 18.75 years of her life (and the better ones OTOT).
You want decent pro-choice arguments ? look here
And Canada isn't a real country anyway.
Will the Itanium 4 be able to run as fast as an Intel 4004 ?
I really think this sucks. Kubrick was the guy who took years to finish his movies. Now not even two years after he's died, Spielberg, the king of fastfood movies, finishes his next film in two years. This is sacrilege !
a dults ?Is the soundtrack yet another from John Williams ?
Is the producer Jerry Bruckenheimer ? Does Tom Hanks play in it ? Does it have an happy end ? Are there stupid kids-with-the-cute-pet-dog-that-are-smarter-than-
The fact they are different computers doesn't change the fact that they probably use the same bandwidth.
Stopping because no more SID chips ?
Why don't they emulate it in software ? My guess is it would run fine on any decent 486. With a basic mobo it should just run fine, full emulators that do more than just the sound work fine on 486 cpus.
Then again, supply of 486 cpus and 32-pin RAM can also run short...
Imagine an RAID cluster of these hard disks running...wait. You can't !
Yeah Now I can buy yet another cd-drive that will last no longer than one year, while still not being able to read DVDs at a decent speed, and making more noise than a washing machine. CD-ROM still stands for "Consumer Device - Rendered Obsolete in Months" I guess
And why would I want a CD-burner anyway ? And why would I want a T1/cable/DSL anyway ? And what Joe-sixpack computation except Flask require a Pentium 4 or a Thunderbird?
Next time, he will be suspended for launching russian missiles to Las Vegas and Seattle.
And how do you know, bad boy ?