NVidia's Tegra is sort of proof that you don't need to worry too much about this.
With all sorts of things built in e.g. powervr 3d, dsp etc, and with multiple cores, ARM CPUs can be quite powerful - enough to do a lot of cool stuff. I should think that consumer-type video editing would be no problem on some of the recent CPUs. A lot of arm SOCs are designed for phones with video cameras and they have hardware assisted compression/decompression. They are starting to have enough RAM too, although that uses more power.
What will be nice will be that you can use the thing the whole day and take it with you everywhere and not worry about finding places to recharge it or about carrying the transformers etc.
You can still do your hardcore 3D rendering at home if that's what interests you, because the cost of your device will be low enough to allow you to still buy a stonking-great, deskbound number cruncher.
GNOME and KDE compete with each other in things that don't matter much (e.g. effects) but don't solve real user experience issues.
e.g. I find a photo in my file browser (e.g. Nautilus) which has previews and so on to make it easy, then I try to upload it to a website - this means that within my browser I have to navigate my way to the file again, using a different and inferior UI (the filechooser) - very annoying.
Another example: It's incredibly difficult to select multiple files with a rubber band in List views in nautilus (or any gtk treeview apps) because it keeps thinking that you are trying to drag and drop an item instead of starting a selection.
These UIs don't have very "joined up" thinking when it comes to the user's experience. They need to get past the "application" model and start thinking about objects and what people want to do with them, so that the browser and the filemanager, for example, can work together to allow someone to upload some selection of files.
Another Example: why do I need to load up a program to view a photo? Why can't I just zoom in on the photo in my file manager - after all the file manager shows me a thumbnail that can be zoomed into up to a point, so why do I suddenly have to have to click and see some other window appear with totally different navigation etc.
Also, why is there a need to load different programs to edit and display images? Why does that make sense outside of the old considerations of memory usage and performance? Can't I just get a paint tool from my toolbox and start editing the image wherever it is on the screen (even in my file manager)?
From what I have read, Android's GUI seems to have a much more intelligent approach - I wonder if it could be applied to a PC DE. Then we could dump both KDE and GNOME and end the war.
VLC is built with ffmpeg inside, ffmpeg has had all these features for ages - this news is only new because there's a "release" - not because the features are new in ffmpeg or in the programs that use it.
I think it's more along the lines that even if you know about someone's genes you still can't predict their life. It's akin to predicting the future which we don't expect to be able to do.
To put it another way: if you don't know the future then how do you know what genes are important? perhaps in the upcoming unplanned world scenario the gene for determination and desire is more important than the one for perfect fitness?
If we plan too much and optimise too much then we are very vulnerable to risk.
If you are writing code that only works on x86 then there's a problem straight away.
The code should also probably be written using some library that abstracts some of the details so it should be possible to change hardware at some point.
Then all that matters is whether or not the design of the machine fits the problem. PCs just might not do it.
At what point will it take a person their whole life to know enough about their subject to drop dead just as they are about to add a bit of new knowledge?
We can only escape this by becoming more and more narrow but that might present it's own limitations.
Perhaps we need to live longer and develop larger brains?
IMHO Western countries are *not* comparable to dictatorships at all - not in the slightest. I am from Zimbabwe - that's all I claim as qualification.
Whether or not they are heavily influenced by powerful individuals, there are a lot more powerful and rich people in democracies so there are many interests to be satisfied and compromises to be made to keep parties in power. i.e. nobody can have it all their own way.
In dictatorships, anyone who appears even as if they *could* provide some challenge is mown down. This way the dictator *can* have everything the way they like it and in my country's case that turns out to be a very bad thing for everyone else.
Sure, but if your blu-ray player can decode the disc then there must be a fixed key stored in it's memory. It would have to be the same key for all players too. That would mean that one only had to find the key once to be able to play all discs.
It would be rather nasty if the players didn't store the keys but downloaded them. It will probably be a long while before consumers are prepared to accept a player that has to have a net connection to work.
Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, I think - like all things in life. It's the politicians who are most responsible and the politicians get elected by people who believe them - i.e. the public.
I bet some of them are clever and some are not. All you can say is that there must be more heroes in the Military than in most other professions because it's about living or dying. Being prepared to take big risks is something that's impossible not to respect.
Slashdot Mirror
NVidia's tegra can handle high-def - read it up. No problem.
You have to look at the literature that says "handles 1080p" in the same way you'd buy an HD video camera (which probably has at least one ARM CPU).
NVidia's Tegra is sort of proof that you don't need to worry too much about this.
With all sorts of things built in e.g. powervr 3d, dsp etc, and with multiple cores, ARM CPUs can be quite powerful - enough to do a lot of cool stuff. I should think that consumer-type video editing would be no problem on some of the recent CPUs. A lot of arm SOCs are designed for phones with video cameras and they have hardware assisted compression/decompression. They are starting to have enough RAM too, although that uses more power.
What will be nice will be that you can use the thing the whole day and take it with you everywhere and not worry about finding places to recharge it or about carrying the transformers etc.
You can still do your hardcore 3D rendering at home if that's what interests you, because the cost of your device will be low enough to allow you to still buy a stonking-great, deskbound number cruncher.
QEMU has emulation for a numbe of arm procesors and you can run linux etc on it. Even Symbian.
http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/about.html
I apologise for being personal.
You said it: trade. So what are you offering?
No, it isn't the reason. The reason is that they have a limited amount of time and energy and you aren't helping them to get anything done.
You think you are doing something wonderful by piling on the requests but really you are not contributing any effort and that's what is needed.
So people don't have respect for you when they are working hard in their spare time and you are not.
And here you are complaining again. Must be tiring. All those wasted keystrokes. You could have been programming.
If the user base really cares, it can fork. If you want to control your destiny you have to do the work.
It's your right to complain and the developer's right to ignore you if they wish, since you haven't paid them.
People who haven't got the time or skills to contribute must realise that they have nothing to offer so why are they expecting to receive?
GNOME and KDE compete with each other in things that don't matter much (e.g. effects) but don't solve real user experience issues.
e.g. I find a photo in my file browser (e.g. Nautilus) which has previews and so on to make it easy, then I try to upload it to a website - this means that within my browser I have to navigate my way to the file again, using a different and inferior UI (the filechooser) - very annoying.
Another example: It's incredibly difficult to select multiple files with a rubber band in List views in nautilus (or any gtk treeview apps) because it keeps thinking that you are trying to drag and drop an item instead of starting a selection.
These UIs don't have very "joined up" thinking when it comes to the user's experience. They need to get past the "application" model and start thinking about objects and what people want to do with them, so that the browser and the filemanager, for example, can work together to allow someone to upload some selection of files.
Another Example: why do I need to load up a program to view a photo? Why can't I just zoom in on the photo in my file manager - after all the file manager shows me a thumbnail that can be zoomed into up to a point, so why do I suddenly have to have to click and see some other window
appear with totally different navigation etc.
Also, why is there a need to load different programs to edit and display images? Why does that make sense outside of the old considerations of memory usage and performance? Can't I just get a paint tool from my toolbox and start editing the image wherever it is on the screen (even in my file manager)?
From what I have read, Android's GUI seems to have a much more intelligent approach - I wonder if it could be applied to a PC DE. Then we could dump both KDE and GNOME and end the war.
VLC is built with ffmpeg inside, ffmpeg has had all these features for ages - this news is only new because there's a "release" - not because the features are new in ffmpeg or in the programs that use it.
You feel that something is your "right", ok, but who is the person that must give it to you?
If it your right to be safe, whose responsibility is it to save you from a danger?
If we talked about responsibilities it would be more honest.
Did not!
find /sea -iname '*enemy*' | xargs attack --weapon torpedo --count 2
I think it's more along the lines that even if you know about someone's genes you still can't predict their life. It's akin to predicting the future which we don't expect to be able to do.
To put it another way: if you don't know the future then how do you know what genes are important? perhaps in the upcoming unplanned world scenario the gene for determination and desire is more important than the one for perfect fitness?
If we plan too much and optimise too much then we are very vulnerable to risk.
Well there are 7 SPEs on a chip right? So the latency right there must be pretty low?
His problem probably *is* "trivially" parallel so perhaps he was right to do what he did?
Later he can "upgrade" to an IBM PowerXCell 8i based blade.
If you are writing code that only works on x86 then there's a problem straight away.
The code should also probably be written using some library that abstracts some of the details so it should be possible to change hardware at some point.
Then all that matters is whether or not the design of the machine fits the problem. PCs just might not do it.
At what point will it take a person their whole life to know enough about their subject to drop dead just as they are about to add a bit of new knowledge?
We can only escape this by becoming more and more narrow but that might present it's own limitations.
Perhaps we need to live longer and develop larger brains?
IMHO Western countries are *not* comparable to dictatorships at all - not in the slightest. I am from Zimbabwe - that's all I claim as qualification.
Whether or not they are heavily influenced by powerful individuals, there are a lot more powerful and rich people in democracies so there are many interests to be satisfied and compromises to be made to keep parties in power. i.e. nobody can have it all their own way.
In dictatorships, anyone who appears even as if they *could* provide some challenge is mown down. This way the dictator *can* have everything the way they like it and in my country's case that turns out to be a very bad thing for everyone else.
. . . except that the cowboy in the advert will be "doing a line" on horseback?
Sure, but if your blu-ray player can decode the disc then there must be a fixed key stored in it's memory. It would have to be the same key for all players too. That would mean that one only had to find the key once to be able to play all discs.
It would be rather nasty if the players didn't store the keys but downloaded them. It will probably be a long while before consumers are prepared to accept a player that has to have a net connection to work.
Your explanation is something I hear far more often than the idea that long hours are good.
It's ok if you do want you want and I do what I want and we get what we are looking for - you some free time and me some advancement.
They are already working on SMP support as can be seen here:
http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2007/pr20079433.html
Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, I think - like all things in life. It's the politicians who are most responsible and the politicians get elected by people who believe them - i.e. the public.
I bet some of them are clever and some are not. All you can say is that there must be more heroes in the Military than in most other professions because it's about living or dying. Being prepared to take big risks is something that's impossible not to respect.
You're just saying that some specifications aren't as complicated as the implementation.
The GP says that some are and he cited an example.
So his prof can be a dweeb and you can be right at the same time.