Yes, 3 frames of latency will the be the doom of all user experience. Why, the latency will sky rocket from.06s (double buffered) to.09s (triple buffered). Oh the humanity!
If triple-buffered means by extension what double-buffered means in computer graphics, the additional latency will be the time to blit the extra frame from memory to the frame buffer. Way less than.03s.
Therefore, anything done by the state, is derived from a mandate from the people.
And if the government violates its restricted mandate? If it has a single-digit approval rating? If the people aren't competent to make the deal? If the deal isn't hereditary?
The people are responsible for anything done by the state, QED.
More likely...they didn't want to throw them out because of revenue loss.
If it were that easy, it'd be mere corruption.
But consider that those with the libido dominandi seek money, sex, and power - in that order.
We all know that speed limit laws are often set capriciously, foolishly, and dangerously. But it's the law - and you'll obey.
It's like the marijuana debate. It doesn't matter that there's plenty of scientific evidence to show that alcohol is more dangerous, that legalizing marijuana reduces deaths and crime, etc. That's been known for at least decades. Yet the policies continue - why?
Sure, there's some financial emolument to certain players by having these laws, but there's way more benefit for the power structure. The point of these policies is to enforce the power structure. They dictate, you obey, logic and reason need not apply. Repeat until you understand who's in charge, what your position is, and how free you really are.
So then we get Supreme Court decisions like this one which takes a reasoned argument, throws it out, and that sets the new precedent. We must all obey these precedents, because that's what the system decided. We're taught that the system operates for our benefit, but primarily (literal sense) it operates for its own perpetuation. There's even SCOTUS precedent for decisions which basically say, "the defendant's claim has merit, but finding for him would threaten the system, so we find for the State."
"Follow the money" is good in business, but in politics, do that and also "follow the power".
It's almost as if the markets are allowing this behavior to reward their favored parties, rather than to aim for fairness.
So, easy enough: start a competing market that implements fair rules. I'm sure between the SEC and the mountains of financial regulations there is room for a startup to disrupt the market...
someone would need to be legally insane to willingly go to a place without society, without parks, without schools, without culture, without even atmosphere, without children, without the elderly
And somehow nobody's brought up the Slashdot basement-dweller stereotype yet...
It's a perfect network effect: People use facebook because people use facebook.
People use Facebook because everybody else has failed to standardize and confederate the necessary technology for people not to use Facebook. Google's being honest when they talk about Google Plus as an identity system. That's one piece of the puzzle.
But it'll take an industry adopting a set of open standards to get Facebook to play - they have every profit motive to remain proprietary, for now.
Yes, overly compressed music diminishes it. In a good listening environment a nice dynamic range is good.
But compression isn't inherently bad. Large dynamic range stinks in my car, which is loud (I need to do something about the gasket by the driver's window). It stinks on the crappy speakers on my netbook and the built-in speakers on this display I'm using now.
It can help (with a limiter) in having to keep going to the volume bar too, or for watching a movie at night when you don't want to wake the kids.
If anybody wants some automatic control for PulseAudio I hacked up a workable solution last summer, just 'cause I got annoyed one day. PA makes it a bitch to install these things, but I've got an SRPM at least for the library. Need to write a short doc and send the patches upstream still, but drop me a line if you want it anyway.
Last month, for example, the Peruvian Defense Ministry canceled a $114 million contract with a consortium that included U.S. defense manufacturer Northrop Grumman after a Chinese company convinced officials the project did not meet technical specifications.
You are fricking kidding me? Sorry if you hire anyone that cant do simple addition and figure out tax and change.... you deserve to be out of business.
I think the GP was figuring on time as a premium in the situation. Nobody can add n+1 columns faster than n columns. Plus,.... look, I worked tech support with some waitstaff back in the day, so there certainly are smart waiters and waitresses but being fast at math... isn't a dependable measure when hiring a waiter (or busboy). You'd much rather have somebody good at upselling food.
You say you don't have the money for shared storage and HA, but I have to assume you mean doing that at the Windows level.
You might think of implementing all that on Linux & Xen and then making those now-redundant resources available to the Windows VM. You can get a few older servers for a song off some local IT shop that's upgrading - just make sure the CPU has hardware virtualization and probably none of the other specs will matter.
Hey, good for you. Not a smart approach, IME, but kudos on having the temerity to make the stand. That's how the 'laboratory of democracy' is supposed to work.
In this case, I suspect Arizona will benefit, but not for being faster than the bear.
Not just that - you can get a FusionIO ramdisk device for really big databases and get performance that's somewhere between SSD and memory. Those are all battery backed and such, so no monkeying around with whether the ACID was done right or not.
that if the Iranians get their hands on an iPad, it's curtains for Western Civilisation.
The stupid part of all this is that the conditions in Iran would be improved by more people having Internet communications devices. But apparently this embargo stops that.
Yeah, everyone will abandon their homes and move away rather than spending a little time, effort, and money to engineer another water source.
Where's this water going to come from? If you mean from the ocean, yes, as I mentioned, but it takes a long time to engineer it. Longer than the period of time it takes for a drought to strike.
I don't know what "point in the future" you are thinking about
Nobody does.
but here in San Diego people still have lawns and landscaping that gets watered every day.
Which is insane. I don't know about San Diego specifically, but walk by an abandoned lot in Palm Springs and you'll see desert, when the two neighboring lots of land (not abandoned) are lush and green. Now consider that to achieve this, people in Colorado are being told they can't collect rainwater for their gardens. Prosecuted for doing so, even.
As long as there's enough water for frivolous aesthetics, your "future" is still unimaginably distant.
If the driver system had a stable ABI that never changed, then the HW manufacturers could deliver a single binary built "for linux" and would expect it to work. Currently, they have no such guarantee.
Is there no way to write some middleware that would at least allow the same operations to succeed across kernel releases? I mean, let the kernel guys do what they want, but chance the interface's back end to meet the kernel and keep the front-end stable.
By sending some guns to Mexico, causing violence there, maybe having them come back into the US, and getting people shot? What? He wants to get rid of guns and gun violence, so he's intentionally distributing the guns and causing causing gun violence?
Whether or not that was the intention this time, it's a time-honored tradition, and a successful one at that.
The government did the same thing, effectively, with alcohol during prohibition (TL;DR: randomly poisoning bootlegged alcohol with methanol so that people would be afraid to drink it).
Whenever you want to force policies on people that they naturally don't want, you have to do some scare-mongering first.
So, the premise isn't invalid, though the conclusion might be.
Just a slight shift in ocean currents would make that entire region a barren desert anyway
Um, it pretty much is. Southern California passed its carrying capacity a century ago. The only region it's inhabitable is that massive amounts of water are diverted from the Colorado River Basin to Southern California. It's gotten to the point where upstream governments have outlawed collecting, in rainbarrels, water that falls on your roof to water your garden, because it's "not your water". But it is Southern California's water, you see.
At some point in the future the water source will fail, and the place will become mostly inhabitable. Massive amounts of contingent wealth will be wiped out when this happens. The only thing that could really keep it going is nuclear-powered desalinization, but Californians tend to be anti-nuke (of all types, not just LWR's), so that's unlikely to help them. Even if they could be convinced, the time delay to implement is too long, because they won't act soon enough.
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Why in the fuck is the Q so expensive? No way that thing will sell against Roku, AppleTV, the consoles (this gen and next) etc.
Look at it Dennis! It's a perfect sphere!
Yes, 3 frames of latency will the be the doom of all user experience. Why, the latency will sky rocket from .06s (double buffered) to .09s (triple buffered). Oh the humanity!
If triple-buffered means by extension what double-buffered means in computer graphics, the additional latency will be the time to blit the extra frame from memory to the frame buffer. Way less than .03s.
The government is a representative democracy.
That's the claim. Have you proven it?
Therefore, anything done by the state, is derived from a mandate from the people.
And if the government violates its restricted mandate? If it has a single-digit approval rating? If the people aren't competent to make the deal? If the deal isn't hereditary?
The people are responsible for anything done by the state, QED.
Prove your terms first.
More likely...they didn't want to throw them out because of revenue loss.
If it were that easy, it'd be mere corruption.
But consider that those with the libido dominandi seek money, sex, and power - in that order.
We all know that speed limit laws are often set capriciously, foolishly, and dangerously. But it's the law - and you'll obey.
It's like the marijuana debate. It doesn't matter that there's plenty of scientific evidence to show that alcohol is more dangerous, that legalizing marijuana reduces deaths and crime, etc. That's been known for at least decades. Yet the policies continue - why?
Sure, there's some financial emolument to certain players by having these laws, but there's way more benefit for the power structure. The point of these policies is to enforce the power structure. They dictate, you obey, logic and reason need not apply. Repeat until you understand who's in charge, what your position is, and how free you really are.
So then we get Supreme Court decisions like this one which takes a reasoned argument, throws it out, and that sets the new precedent. We must all obey these precedents, because that's what the system decided. We're taught that the system operates for our benefit, but primarily (literal sense) it operates for its own perpetuation. There's even SCOTUS precedent for decisions which basically say, "the defendant's claim has merit, but finding for him would threaten the system, so we find for the State."
"Follow the money" is good in business, but in politics, do that and also "follow the power".
Yeah, that's how the courts used to decide this, but not anymore.
It's almost as if the markets are allowing this behavior to reward their favored parties, rather than to aim for fairness.
So, easy enough: start a competing market that implements fair rules. I'm sure between the SEC and the mountains of financial regulations there is room for a startup to disrupt the market...
It might rise 14 to 20 inches over the next century!
Nobody's ever built a 14" sea-wall.
They're all going to drown
Lucky them - the rest of us will be bursting into flames.
someone would need to be legally insane to willingly go to a place without society, without parks, without schools, without culture, without even atmosphere, without children, without the elderly
And somehow nobody's brought up the Slashdot basement-dweller stereotype yet...
It's a perfect network effect: People use facebook because people use facebook.
People use Facebook because everybody else has failed to standardize and confederate the necessary technology for people not to use Facebook. Google's being honest when they talk about Google Plus as an identity system. That's one piece of the puzzle.
But it'll take an industry adopting a set of open standards to get Facebook to play - they have every profit motive to remain proprietary, for now.
See, that's the difference between Robots and Android.
Sorry but compression isn't going to make your shitty car stereo sound good.
Certainly not good - it makes it so I can hear the quiet passages at all!
And the only reason I have to go to the "volume bar" is because of loud commercials.
Lucky you - we must visit different websites.
The summary is conflating so many issues.
Yes, loud commercials are obnoxious.
Yes, overly compressed music diminishes it. In a good listening environment a nice dynamic range is good.
But compression isn't inherently bad. Large dynamic range stinks in my car, which is loud (I need to do something about the gasket by the driver's window). It stinks on the crappy speakers on my netbook and the built-in speakers on this display I'm using now.
It can help (with a limiter) in having to keep going to the volume bar too, or for watching a movie at night when you don't want to wake the kids.
If anybody wants some automatic control for PulseAudio I hacked up a workable solution last summer, just 'cause I got annoyed one day. PA makes it a bitch to install these things, but I've got an SRPM at least for the library. Need to write a short doc and send the patches upstream still, but drop me a line if you want it anyway.
there might be some truth to that:
I don't know how contrarian this is - it sounds to me like they're just copying these guys.
You are fricking kidding me? Sorry if you hire anyone that cant do simple addition and figure out tax and change.... you deserve to be out of business.
I think the GP was figuring on time as a premium in the situation. Nobody can add n+1 columns faster than n columns. Plus, .... look, I worked tech support with some waitstaff back in the day, so there certainly are smart waiters and waitresses but being fast at math ... isn't a dependable measure when hiring a waiter (or busboy). You'd much rather have somebody good at upselling food.
You say you don't have the money for shared storage and HA, but I have to assume you mean doing that at the Windows level.
You might think of implementing all that on Linux & Xen and then making those now-redundant resources available to the Windows VM. You can get a few older servers for a song off some local IT shop that's upgrading - just make sure the CPU has hardware virtualization and probably none of the other specs will matter.
Hey, good for you. Not a smart approach, IME, but kudos on having the temerity to make the stand. That's how the 'laboratory of democracy' is supposed to work.
In this case, I suspect Arizona will benefit, but not for being faster than the bear.
how often does someone from India or Russia sneak in over the Arizona/Mexico border?
Just that one time in San Diego, but look what happened .... oh, wait .... Not the One. Won't talk. Can't talk. Not the one.
Not just that - you can get a FusionIO ramdisk device for really big databases and get performance that's somewhere between SSD and memory. Those are all battery backed and such, so no monkeying around with whether the ACID was done right or not.
that if the Iranians get their hands on an iPad, it's curtains for Western Civilisation.
The stupid part of all this is that the conditions in Iran would be improved by more people having Internet communications devices. But apparently this embargo stops that.
Well done, DC.
Yeah, everyone will abandon their homes and move away rather than spending a little time, effort, and money to engineer another water source.
Where's this water going to come from? If you mean from the ocean, yes, as I mentioned, but it takes a long time to engineer it. Longer than the period of time it takes for a drought to strike.
I don't know what "point in the future" you are thinking about
Nobody does.
but here in San Diego people still have lawns and landscaping that gets watered every day.
Which is insane. I don't know about San Diego specifically, but walk by an abandoned lot in Palm Springs and you'll see desert, when the two neighboring lots of land (not abandoned) are lush and green. Now consider that to achieve this, people in Colorado are being told they can't collect rainwater for their gardens. Prosecuted for doing so, even.
As long as there's enough water for frivolous aesthetics, your "future" is still unimaginably distant.
Exactly! It's a tragedy of the commons.
It's stupid that somebody can't collect rainwater from their roof to water their garden.
But don't let facts get in your way.
Don't let common sense get in yours.
If the driver system had a stable ABI that never changed, then the HW manufacturers could deliver a single binary built "for linux" and would expect it to work. Currently, they have no such guarantee.
Is there no way to write some middleware that would at least allow the same operations to succeed across kernel releases? I mean, let the kernel guys do what they want, but chance the interface's back end to meet the kernel and keep the front-end stable.
By sending some guns to Mexico, causing violence there, maybe having them come back into the US, and getting people shot? What? He wants to get rid of guns and gun violence, so he's intentionally distributing the guns and causing causing gun violence?
Whether or not that was the intention this time, it's a time-honored tradition, and a successful one at that.
The government did the same thing, effectively, with alcohol during prohibition (TL;DR: randomly poisoning bootlegged alcohol with methanol so that people would be afraid to drink it).
Whenever you want to force policies on people that they naturally don't want, you have to do some scare-mongering first.
So, the premise isn't invalid, though the conclusion might be.
Just a slight shift in ocean currents would make that entire region a barren desert anyway
Um, it pretty much is. Southern California passed its carrying capacity a century ago. The only region it's inhabitable is that massive amounts of water are diverted from the Colorado River Basin to Southern California. It's gotten to the point where upstream governments have outlawed collecting, in rainbarrels, water that falls on your roof to water your garden, because it's "not your water". But it is Southern California's water, you see.
At some point in the future the water source will fail, and the place will become mostly inhabitable. Massive amounts of contingent wealth will be wiped out when this happens. The only thing that could really keep it going is nuclear-powered desalinization, but Californians tend to be anti-nuke (of all types, not just LWR's), so that's unlikely to help them. Even if they could be convinced, the time delay to implement is too long, because they won't act soon enough.
Oh, but they have movie stars.