It works just fine on my 64-bit machine running a 64-bit browser that uses a separate 32-bit program to run the plugins. I wish Firefox would take Konqueror's plugin approach so that a runaway plugin does not kill the browser and it's possible to do things like limit memory and CPU usage by plugins, or kill all plugins without shutting down the browser.
It's actually debatable whether or not he lied under oath. The Jones team provided a definition of sex which the Clinton team claimed was not very clear so the judge rewrote the definition, and in the process removed oral sex from the definition. In many legal circles he did not lie, but was certainly evasive. Now when he told the American people that he did not have sex, that most certainly was lying in the eyes of most people, including myself, but that was not within a courtroom.
In a legal setting, language is a bit different than everyday settings. There should be little or no ambiguity for different interpretations, and it is not uncommon to request or provide exact definitions for various terms. Try reading some legal documents and you'll often find everyday words defined, even in those license agreements you must agree to in software. In a legal framework, the definition of various words may be more limited or different than in everyday speech. Hence, if there is any ambiguity, it makes perfect sense to ask what the meaning of "is" is in a legal framework. Something like asking if someone had sex in a legal framework can be a big mess since there can be many interpretations of what the word sex means. Some would say only intercourse whereas others would include additional acts. I'm not a lawyer nor do I have a law background but have worked a bit on legal contracts with lawyers and have had to deal with the wording. If something isn't defined properly, a good lawyer will find a way around it, though to the lay person such action is pretty slimy, hence many people detest lawyers, among other reasons, however, that's what they're paid to do when they represent somebody.
If it applies to desktops, that type of support has been around a long time. I remember using tvtwm in the early 1990s and Wikipedia indicates that it was round at least since August of 1990, and twm came out in 1987. Swm, which also supported virtual desktops, came out in 1990. Gwm, which appears to also support virtual desktops, came out in 1989. Also of note, GWM is an early form of spyware since it automatically sent a UDP packet back home for usage tracking.
It should be possible to get the source code to ionice and look at that. The other big thing I would like to see in the task manager is the ability to identify which window belongs to which task.
Look at the source code to ionice at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/te sting/util-linux-2.13-pre7.tar.bz2
It contains code to set and get the IO nice properties.
I thought the Linux kernel automatically bumped up the priority of any task that makes use of audio and at least video capture. I also thought that a real-time CPU priority task got I/O priority as well, but I could be wrong here.
I don't want my news "fair and balanced". I want my news to be objective. It should not be up to the viewership to determin what is right and what is wrong by giving equal emphasis on both sides, it is up to the reporter to dig out the truth and spend time researching what they report rather than just repeat what somebody says or only skimming the surface.
If somebody says X is true, I want my news outlet to verify if X really is true, and if not, call them on it. If they are reporting on government officials, this is especially true, since one of the responsibilities of having a free press is for the press to keep the politicians honest so that people can make informed decisions during an election. Just because someone says something is true a billion times does not make it true, and if it's not then that should be reported.
Sadly, this has been sorely lacking in many news sources in the USA for a long time, especially after 9/11. For example, if the news reporters had actually bothered to research things before we invaded Iraq and talk to some of the experts on Iraq and the middle east, they would have reported that it would turn into the quagmire it has. They also might have questioned the poor intelligence the White House used to justify the war. They would have asked the hard questions, like what do you plan to do once Saddam is defeated? How do you plan to rebuild the country? And how are you going to keep the peace? Will this take resources away from our mission in Afghanistan? They would seek out generals and people at the war colleges and talk to scholars on the Middle East, not just some boob who goes by his gut feel and surrounds himself with yes-men. They also should send reporters to investigate what is really going on.
A fair and balanced new source will give equal time to X and Y, whereas in reality, there might be 95% evidence of X and 5% of Y, but the news reports them as if they were equal.
Several reasons. First of all, MP3 does not hold to RMS's principals in that it is not free and is covered by patents. Second of all, at least several Linux distributions do not come with MP3 full support in part due to the patents and licensing fees. MP3 is not free, even though there are a number of players that support it.
I might add that FFMPEG has its own native Vorbis audio decoder implementation. FFMPEG is a popular open-source library for encoding and decoding many multimedia formats and is used in many players. It also is used in some commercial products as well (when compiled as LGPL).
There are multiple implementations. There is a fixed-point implementation designed for use in hardware playback devices which is supported by some of them. Samsung, Rio, Neuros Technology, Cowon and iRiver support it natively in their digital audio players. Also, there is at least one other implementation. Given the free nature and high quality and ease of use of the reference libraries, most programs make use of those and there is little reason to rewrite the library since the original code is very portable and easy to use. It is widely used in a number of commercial software packages, notably games like Unreal Tournament, Grand Theft Auto and others, due to the lack of licensing costs. Many free software packages include support for Vorbis as well. According to Wikipedia there are other independent implementations of Ogg used in Real Player and DirectShow.
Note that there are two formats in use. Ogg is the container format and Vorbis is the audio codec.
It is also used by some commercial Internet radio stations and supported by Shoutcast. As I said, it's about as open a standard as you can get.
Ogg is a completely open format. Ogg is the encapsulation format used for vorbis audio. Ogg is fully documented in RFC 3533. Similarly, the Vorbis specification is also readily available. It is unencombered by patents and the source code to the reference libraries is available under a BSD-like license and is free to use in both commercial and open-source software. RFC's are about as official as you can get for an open standard.
The sad part is is that there are viable methods of recycling a lot of the nuclear waste, i.e. breeder reactors. I'd love to see the US push nuclear power and build breeder reactors to deal with the waste and create more fuel.
A breeder reactor can reuse almost all of the high-level nuclear waste. I hate to see them just bury some potentially useful fuel, especially when the future supply of fissionable material is limited.
A person I know recently came upon a nasty car accident and provided aid to the driver, including mouth to mouth until the proper authorities arrived, getting the victim's blood all over him including his mouth. Later he learned that the accident victim, who survived, was infected by AIDS. They immediately put him on medication to hopefully block it, but now he's living on pins and needles hoping he did not get infected.
AIDs is not as big of a problem in western nations as it is in some parts of Africa, where a huge percentage of the population is infected, If a low cost drug can be created to block it it will help a lot of people.
I think it depends... there are now some pretty cheap FPGAs. Xilinx has one for about $2.50 now. If you can get rid of a bunch of glue logic or several chips with an FPGA, the FPGA might actually be cheaper. Though in these cases the device probably cannot be updated in the field. It takes a lot of volume before it makes sense for someone to create an ASIC these days.
You would be surprised how widespread FPGAs are. They are used in consumer devices to a limited extent. In high-end hardware where cost is not as much of an issue and the volume is lower FPGAs are very common. I know networking hardware has been using FPGAs for at least a decade, and most enterprise networking equipment I see has them. They are common in higher-end routers and other devices.
FPGAs also have come down significantly in cost while increasing their gate counts. A number of FPGA vendors also offer services where you can go straight from an FPGA to an ASIC at a much lower cost than a full custom ASIC design. Start looking inside consumer devices... look for chips that say Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, Actel and more. Some of these companies also make regular ASICs, but many of the parts you see are FPGAs.
FPGAs are nothing new, though it is not so common for consumer devices to be upgraded in the field as it is for higher-end devices.
Interlaced video has got to go. Interlaced video made sense with analog transmission and CRT tubes which rely on the persistance of the eye and the display itself is interlaced. However, virtually all non-CRT displays are inherently progressive. Doing a good job of deinterlacing video is a very difficult problem, and the results will never be as good as video that is progressive to begin with (the exception being film if the device is smart enough to know that the source material is progressive (i.e. 3:2 pulldown). MPEG encoding is also far more efficient and easier to do if the video is progressive as well, since otherwise it's much more difficult to figure out image motion if it shifts up or down an odd number of pixels (or less). Progressive video also uses less bandwidth. 1080p/30 compresses much better than 1080i/60.
Good deinterlacers for TVs are expensive, and few TVs use good ones. It also introduces a lot of difficulty when trying to scale video since virtually all non-CRT sets also have some fixed native resolution.
All Google has to do is ban anybody from advertising keywords from within Utah... I am sure a lot of Utah businesses which sell online will scream bloody murder and the law will be repealed. Hell, just searching on "Mormon" brings up three ads, one from the church. I guess that should be banned too.
The drivetrain in the Prius is quite simple. See http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/890029-WI fqPO/890029.PDF. The "transmission" has only 6 gears in it (not speeds, gears), no mechanical torque converter. A diagram of it is on page 18 of the PDF file. The other gears are for connecting to the differential. Electronically it is complex, but not mechanically. The engine is a conventional 1.5L 4 cylinder engine, but run with the Atkinson cycle instead of the usual Otto cycle.
Interesting you should mention the warming of Mars. I recently read an article that claims that Mars is warming because it has grown darker due to dust storms. This warming reinforces the dust storms, causing further warming.
I have the same problem with point and shoot cameras and hence use a DSLR. I can quickly change just about any option on the camera by holding down the appropriate button and turning a knob. Need to change the ISO? Takes 2 seconds. Need to set the shutter speed or aperture? Just turn the knob. Or focus? If I want to manually focus, I just grab the focus ring. Similar for zoom. Manual zoom is much faster and easier to control. Point and shoot cameras are great if you don't care about adjusting anything or worry about focusing, exposure, etc. My other big problem with them is the lag. I like the fact that my DSLR takes a picture when I push the button without delay, making action shots very easy. I can point my camera, frame the shot and click within a second by having everything as a separate knob. Even manually setting all of the exposure settings only takes a couple of seconds if I don't use the automatic mode.
The best part is I can work most of these settings without having to take my eye off of the viewfinder. Same thing with a car. I should not have to take my eyes off of the road to change the radio station, adjust the volume, change the temperature, etc. In my case, my car has both menus and a touch screen as well as all of the common controls as individual buttons on the steering wheel, and each button has a different feel so I don't need to look down. It took a bit of learning where all of the controls are, but now it's second nature. Once in a while I need to use the menus, but not very often. And there are many other functions that I can control by voice. I.e. if I don't want to take my eyes off the road to see what the temperature setting is, I just press a button and say "temperature 72 degrees" and it just does it. Or with the navigation system I say "address" and speak the address. If I'm low on gas, just say "gas stations", etc.
I was about to say the same thing with my Prius. Most of the common things I need to do I can do from the steering wheel, and in addition there is still an analog volume control (for quickly adjusting the volume). Now there are still times I need to hit the touch screen, but usually not often. The main things I usually need to adjust are the radio and climate control, and both are easily settable on the steering wheel for 90% of the things I need to do. It took me a little while to adjust to the new controls, but now that I'm familiar with them I do not need to take my eyes off of the road.
My local representative frequently sends out letters to the locals asking people to attend town hall meetings and asking what the local constituents want. I think the last one was a few weeks ago.
It *should* work, but it doesn't, at least with OpenSuSE 10.2. I suspect it might be the BIOS or something on this HP machine. In any event, the onboard graphics are useless to me since I need two monitors.
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It works just fine on my 64-bit machine running a 64-bit browser that uses a separate 32-bit program to run the plugins. I wish Firefox would take Konqueror's plugin approach so that a runaway plugin does not kill the browser and it's possible to do things like limit memory and CPU usage by plugins, or kill all plugins without shutting down the browser.
It's actually debatable whether or not he lied under oath. The Jones team provided a definition of sex which the Clinton team claimed was not very clear so the judge rewrote the definition, and in the process removed oral sex from the definition. In many legal circles he did not lie, but was certainly evasive. Now when he told the American people that he did not have sex, that most certainly was lying in the eyes of most people, including myself, but that was not within a courtroom.
In a legal setting, language is a bit different than everyday settings. There should be little or no ambiguity for different interpretations, and it is not uncommon to request or provide exact definitions for various terms. Try reading some legal documents and you'll often find everyday words defined, even in those license agreements you must agree to in software. In a legal framework, the definition of various words may be more limited or different than in everyday speech. Hence, if there is any ambiguity, it makes perfect sense to ask what the meaning of "is" is in a legal framework. Something like asking if someone had sex in a legal framework can be a big mess since there can be many interpretations of what the word sex means. Some would say only intercourse whereas others would include additional acts. I'm not a lawyer nor do I have a law background but have worked a bit on legal contracts with lawyers and have had to deal with the wording. If something isn't defined properly, a good lawyer will find a way around it, though to the lay person such action is pretty slimy, hence many people detest lawyers, among other reasons, however, that's what they're paid to do when they represent somebody.
If it applies to desktops, that type of support has been around a long time. I remember using tvtwm in the early 1990s and Wikipedia indicates that it was round at least since August of 1990, and twm came out in 1987. Swm, which also supported virtual desktops, came out in 1990. Gwm, which appears to also support virtual desktops, came out in 1989. Also of note, GWM is an early form of spyware since it automatically sent a UDP packet back home for usage tracking.
It should be possible to get the source code to ionice and look at that. The other big thing I would like to see in the task manager is the ability to identify which window belongs to which task.e sting/util-linux-2.13-pre7.tar.bz2
Look at the source code to ionice at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/t
It contains code to set and get the IO nice properties.
I thought the Linux kernel automatically bumped up the priority of any task that makes use of audio and at least video capture. I also thought that a real-time CPU priority task got I/O priority as well, but I could be wrong here.
I don't want my news "fair and balanced". I want my news to be objective. It should not be up to the viewership to determin what is right and what is wrong by giving equal emphasis on both sides, it is up to the reporter to dig out the truth and spend time researching what they report rather than just repeat what somebody says or only skimming the surface.
If somebody says X is true, I want my news outlet to verify if X really is true, and if not, call them on it. If they are reporting on government officials, this is especially true, since one of the responsibilities of having a free press is for the press to keep the politicians honest so that people can make informed decisions during an election. Just because someone says something is true a billion times does not make it true, and if it's not then that should be reported.
Sadly, this has been sorely lacking in many news sources in the USA for a long time, especially after 9/11. For example, if the news reporters had actually bothered to research things before we invaded Iraq and talk to some of the experts on Iraq and the middle east, they would have reported that it would turn into the quagmire it has. They also might have questioned the poor intelligence the White House used to justify the war. They would have asked the hard questions, like what do you plan to do once Saddam is defeated? How do you plan to rebuild the country? And how are you going to keep the peace? Will this take resources away from our mission in Afghanistan? They would seek out generals and people at the war colleges and talk to scholars on the Middle East, not just some boob who goes by his gut feel and surrounds himself with yes-men. They also should send reporters to investigate what is really going on.
A fair and balanced new source will give equal time to X and Y, whereas in reality, there might be 95% evidence of X and 5% of Y, but the news reports them as if they were equal.
I wonder if these would count as examples of good news:
Blue Angles Jet Did Not Kill Anybody on the Ground And Five Pilots Are Alive and Well
Bush's Ratings Above Zero
At Least One Person Says Gonzolas Should Stay
Fallujah To Get Another New Chief
Space Engineer Will Not Get Any More Mediocre Job Reviews
Street Evangelists Rescues 300 Souls.
I guess it's possible to turn bad news into good news, but then everything will start to sound like The Onion.
Note that I am not trying to make light of any of these issues but to show how idiotic the new Russian stance is.
Several reasons. First of all, MP3 does not hold to RMS's principals in that it is not free and is covered by patents. Second of all, at least several Linux distributions do not come with MP3 full support in part due to the patents and licensing fees. MP3 is not free, even though there are a number of players that support it.
I might add that FFMPEG has its own native Vorbis audio decoder implementation. FFMPEG is a popular open-source library for encoding and decoding many multimedia formats and is used in many players. It also is used in some commercial products as well (when compiled as LGPL).
There are multiple implementations. There is a fixed-point implementation designed for use in hardware playback devices which is supported by some of them. Samsung, Rio, Neuros Technology, Cowon and iRiver support it natively in their digital audio players. Also, there is at least one other implementation. Given the free nature and high quality and ease of use of the reference libraries, most programs make use of those and there is little reason to rewrite the library since the original code is very portable and easy to use. It is widely used in a number of commercial software packages, notably games like Unreal Tournament, Grand Theft Auto and others, due to the lack of licensing costs. Many free software packages include support for Vorbis as well. According to Wikipedia there are other independent implementations of Ogg used in Real Player and DirectShow.
Note that there are two formats in use. Ogg is the container format and Vorbis is the audio codec.
It is also used by some commercial Internet radio stations and supported by Shoutcast. As I said, it's about as open a standard as you can get.
Ogg is a completely open format. Ogg is the encapsulation format used for vorbis audio. Ogg is fully documented in RFC 3533. Similarly, the Vorbis specification is also readily available. It is unencombered by patents and the source code to the reference libraries is available under a BSD-like license and is free to use in both commercial and open-source software. RFC's are about as official as you can get for an open standard.
The sad part is is that there are viable methods of recycling a lot of the nuclear waste, i.e. breeder reactors. I'd love to see the US push nuclear power and build breeder reactors to deal with the waste and create more fuel.
A breeder reactor can reuse almost all of the high-level nuclear waste. I hate to see them just bury some potentially useful fuel, especially when the future supply of fissionable material is limited.
A person I know recently came upon a nasty car accident and provided aid to the driver, including mouth to mouth until the proper authorities arrived, getting the victim's blood all over him including his mouth. Later he learned that the accident victim, who survived, was infected by AIDS. They immediately put him on medication to hopefully block it, but now he's living on pins and needles hoping he did not get infected.
AIDs is not as big of a problem in western nations as it is in some parts of Africa, where a huge percentage of the population is infected, If a low cost drug can be created to block it it will help a lot of people.
I think it depends... there are now some pretty cheap FPGAs. Xilinx has one for about $2.50 now. If you can get rid of a bunch of glue logic or several chips with an FPGA, the FPGA might actually be cheaper. Though in these cases the device probably cannot be updated in the field. It takes a lot of volume before it makes sense for someone to create an ASIC these days.
You would be surprised how widespread FPGAs are. They are used in consumer devices to a limited extent. In high-end hardware where cost is not as much of an issue and the volume is lower FPGAs are very common. I know networking hardware has been using FPGAs for at least a decade, and most enterprise networking equipment I see has them. They are common in higher-end routers and other devices.
FPGAs also have come down significantly in cost while increasing their gate counts. A number of FPGA vendors also offer services where you can go straight from an FPGA to an ASIC at a much lower cost than a full custom ASIC design. Start looking inside consumer devices... look for chips that say Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, Actel and more. Some of these companies also make regular ASICs, but many of the parts you see are FPGAs.
FPGAs are nothing new, though it is not so common for consumer devices to be upgraded in the field as it is for higher-end devices.
Interlaced video has got to go. Interlaced video made sense with analog transmission and CRT tubes which rely on the persistance of the eye and the display itself is interlaced. However, virtually all non-CRT displays are inherently progressive. Doing a good job of deinterlacing video is a very difficult problem, and the results will never be as good as video that is progressive to begin with (the exception being film if the device is smart enough to know that the source material is progressive (i.e. 3:2 pulldown). MPEG encoding is also far more efficient and easier to do if the video is progressive as well, since otherwise it's much more difficult to figure out image motion if it shifts up or down an odd number of pixels (or less). Progressive video also uses less bandwidth. 1080p/30 compresses much better than 1080i/60.
Good deinterlacers for TVs are expensive, and few TVs use good ones. It also introduces a lot of difficulty when trying to scale video since virtually all non-CRT sets also have some fixed native resolution.
-Aaron
All Google has to do is ban anybody from advertising keywords from within Utah... I am sure a lot of Utah businesses which sell online will scream bloody murder and the law will be repealed. Hell, just searching on "Mormon" brings up three ads, one from the church. I guess that should be banned too.
Yes.
I fqPO/890029.PDF. The "transmission" has only 6 gears in it (not speeds, gears), no mechanical torque converter. A diagram of it is on page 18 of the PDF file. The other gears are for connecting to the differential. Electronically it is complex, but not mechanically. The engine is a conventional 1.5L 4 cylinder engine, but run with the Atkinson cycle instead of the usual Otto cycle.
The drivetrain in the Prius is quite simple. See http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/890029-W
Actually human activity is putting out many times as much CO2 as all of the volcanos combined. I've seen various numbers, usually showing that human activity puts out over 100 times as much CO2 as volcanic activity.
Interesting you should mention the warming of Mars. I recently read an article that claims that Mars is warming because it has grown darker due to dust storms. This warming reinforces the dust storms, causing further warming.
-Aaron
I have the same problem with point and shoot cameras and hence use a DSLR. I can quickly change just about any option on the camera by holding down the appropriate button and turning a knob. Need to change the ISO? Takes 2 seconds. Need to set the shutter speed or aperture? Just turn the knob. Or focus? If I want to manually focus, I just grab the focus ring. Similar for zoom. Manual zoom is much faster and easier to control. Point and shoot cameras are great if you don't care about adjusting anything or worry about focusing, exposure, etc. My other big problem with them is the lag. I like the fact that my DSLR takes a picture when I push the button without delay, making action shots very easy. I can point my camera, frame the shot and click within a second by having everything as a separate knob. Even manually setting all of the exposure settings only takes a couple of seconds if I don't use the automatic mode.
The best part is I can work most of these settings without having to take my eye off of the viewfinder. Same thing with a car. I should not have to take my eyes off of the road to change the radio station, adjust the volume, change the temperature, etc. In my case, my car has both menus and a touch screen as well as all of the common controls as individual buttons on the steering wheel, and each button has a different feel so I don't need to look down. It took a bit of learning where all of the controls are, but now it's second nature. Once in a while I need to use the menus, but not very often. And there are many other functions that I can control by voice. I.e. if I don't want to take my eyes off the road to see what the temperature setting is, I just press a button and say "temperature 72 degrees" and it just does it. Or with the navigation system I say "address" and speak the address. If I'm low on gas, just say "gas stations", etc.
I was about to say the same thing with my Prius. Most of the common things I need to do I can do from the steering wheel, and in addition there is still an analog volume control (for quickly adjusting the volume). Now there are still times I need to hit the touch screen, but usually not often. The main things I usually need to adjust are the radio and climate control, and both are easily settable on the steering wheel for 90% of the things I need to do. It took me a little while to adjust to the new controls, but now that I'm familiar with them I do not need to take my eyes off of the road.
My local representative frequently sends out letters to the locals asking people to attend town hall meetings and asking what the local constituents want. I think the last one was a few weeks ago.
It's an Intel 82915/910 graphics controller.
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
It *should* work, but it doesn't, at least with OpenSuSE 10.2. I suspect it might be the BIOS or something on this HP machine. In any event, the onboard graphics are useless to me since I need two monitors.