I reading this article on Slashdot the other day and came across an interesting comment:
i still dont see the point of virtual machines...
sure they're usefull for emulating a completely different system (as long as it doesnt need as many system resources as the
machine you're running it on) but whats the point of emulating x86 on x86...
the emulated system runs a lot slower than it would natively, as does the system doing the emulation, plus, you're not saving a
whole lot of time... i mean, when you start the new system, the virtual bios has to start, then whatever os you're running has to boot
before you can use it. so the only time you're saving is shutting down the currently running system... *snip*
He/she certainly has a point about the emulated OS really not saving that much time. I guess you could see this as a shameless feature request, but I was wondering if there were any plans to support suspended state in Plex.
Many newer laptops have this feature, which saves all the relevant state information to a particular space on the hard drive. The laptop runs on almost 0 power, until you press a key to wake it up. After a few moments of churning, it wakes up and *poof*, you're computer is in the same state it was when you suspended it, open applications and all.
This feature is also popular on (much simpler) console game emulators.
Well, I'd have to say the Princess Irulan from the mini-series doesn't even compare with the cute blonde chick from the movie. And that butterfly dress she was wearing... blehh.
If you capture the analog output, there is no way that the watermark could be preserved. Once you convert your digital music, no matter what format it is stored in, into something that the human ear can recognize it simply becomes wave of variable frequency / magnitude. If some form of digital information, such as a SDMI watermark, was stored in an analog signal, it would screw up the actual music.
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Hi Kevin,
I reading this article on Slashdot the other day and came across an interesting comment:
i still dont see the point of virtual machines...
sure they're usefull for emulating a completely different system (as long as it doesnt need as many system resources as the machine you're running it on) but whats the point of emulating x86 on x86...
the emulated system runs a lot slower than it would natively, as does the system doing the emulation, plus, you're not saving a whole lot of time... i mean, when you start the new system, the virtual bios has to start, then whatever os you're running has to boot before you can use it. so the only time you're saving is shutting down the currently running system... *snip*
He/she certainly has a point about the emulated OS really not saving that much time. I guess you could see this as a shameless feature request, but I was wondering if there were any plans to support suspended state in Plex.
Many newer laptops have this feature, which saves all the relevant state information to a particular space on the hard drive. The laptop runs on almost 0 power, until you press a key to wake it up. After a few moments of churning, it wakes up and *poof*, you're computer is in the same state it was when you suspended it, open applications and all.
This feature is also popular on (much simpler) console game emulators.
Well, I'd have to say the Princess Irulan from the mini-series doesn't even compare with the cute blonde chick from the movie. And that butterfly dress she was wearing ... blehh.
If you capture the analog output, there is no way that the watermark could be preserved. Once you convert your digital music, no matter what format it is stored in, into something that the human ear can recognize it simply becomes wave of variable frequency / magnitude. If some form of digital information, such as a SDMI watermark, was stored in an analog signal, it would screw up the actual music.