I wonder what they added that slowed it down so much. Multitasking is disabled in the 3G. As far as I can tell the new version has added folders, desktop pictures and some minor changes to the email. Yet it feels considerably slower.
I had 4.0 running on my 3G for a couple or three weeks. I got tired of apps not starting up, extreme sluggishness, etc., so I ended up downgrading to 3.1.3. I enabled native multitasking (my phone is jailbroken), but it seemed to be less capable than the multitasking provided by Backgrounder. If I left a webpage or two open in Safari, odds were good that attempts to start other apps would fail. Even if I rebooted the phone, it'd take an interminably long time to open most apps. I had half a thought to have PwnageTool make an image with native multitasking disabled, but the final straw that sent me back to 3.1.3 was that 4.0 broke AirVideo's TV-out capability. The ability to group related apps together was nice (went from six or seven pages of apps down to just two), but iOS 4.0 caused too much other breakage for my taste.
Hint to those in "the scene": fuck DivX and fuck MKV, start using H.264+AAC in standard mp4 containers.
.m4v files can't contain AC3 or DTS audio. Reencoding audio to AAC results in getting it downmixed to stereo on playback over a S/PDIF or HDMI connection unless you have one of the handful of cards that implement Dolby Digital Live and/or DTS Connect. That probably doesn't matter much if you're only going to play your movies on an iPhone, but it's not so good if you're feeding your home-theater setup from a MythTV box.
Right on! Since we can't filter all the garbage out it isn't worth picking up ANY of the garbage at all.
That's the approach the EPA is taking with European ships that could suck up 96% or so of the oil out of the water...because some small amount gets put back in (which you could probably pick up later in another pass through the area), they're saying this tech is unacceptable. Wouldn't a 96% reduction be better than nothing?
I'm all for the great "we'll all be free to pursue our passions instead of being a slave to wages" dreams, but the fact is that most of the degenerate scum on the earth here have no higher passions to pursue, and would simply resort to violence for fun.
Perhaps the thought that their would-be victims could replicate a Ma Deuce, a BFG9000, or whatever to deal with that problem would keep that tendency in check.
For full D1(720x480) you only get 7.5 frames/sec from 16 cameras, but for security that is plenty. I think the 4 port cards may be able to do 30 fps per camera.
I checked their website; the 4-input card is capable of full-framerate (30000/1001 fps) video at 720x480. The company for which I previously worked (and still do some work on the side) built a DVR system around cards that used four CX23416s to encode four inputs to MPEG-2 at the same resolution and framerate. We've been having trouble getting someone to build more cards for us. It also doesn't help that this chip is no longer in production; we're sitting on maybe a few hundred of them, but those won't last forever. I might end up taking a look at this card as a replacement, especially if it'll work with Linux as well as Windows.
In this case I can understand why RUNscript was binary. If it had been a BASIC program, with tons of lines of DATA statements, it would have taken twice as many pages to print in the magazine. The binary/hexadecimal saved both space and money for the publisher.
Didn't they at least publish source code along with it? Yes, the output from the assembler (which usually had ) takes more space than a hexdump, but you can't learn anything from a hexdump. I usually punched in the source code for programs published in Nibble and assembled it myself; it took longer, but was usually less error-prone (you're less likely to flub JSR COUT than 20 ED FD, and if you do screw it up, the assembler will usually complain about it) and it was easier to modify if you wanted to make your own improvements.
accessories is pretty much the only place money lies. well, and services
Nothing new there. I worked at Best Buy from '94 to '99, and the story was pretty much the same back then. The employee discount usually didn't save a huge amount on hardware (best I managed was $40 or so off of a $450 laser printer; it was usually a good bit less effective), but I could buy a $30 printer cable for maybe $3.
I have a 386SX (sits on a 16 bit databus). Does that make it a 16 bit CPU?;-)
That was probably a rhetorical question...but nope. It's still a 32-bit processor; otherwise, I wouldn't have had Linux running on one (with 4 MB RAM, 120 MB disk, and a monochrome VGA (640x480 only) monitor on which I was running X at 800x600 by creating a 50-Hz modeline and adjusting the vertical sync knob on the monitor to lock to the signal. I downloaded SLS to a stack of 5.25" floppies in the computer lab, headed home, and installed it. Good times...would've been around '93 or so.
That is because IIRC Firefox under Windows takes advantage of SSE extensions, and the one under Linux don't, something about GCC not supporting it or some such.
gcc supports SSE (and other SIMD extensions) just fine. I'm not sure if it's capable of generating SIMD code by itself or if it only supports inline assembly code that uses SIMD instructions...though I think it can be told to use SSE instructions instead of x87 instructions on AMD64 hardware to speed up floating-point math.
It's also possible that the Firefox source has some #ifdefs to include SIMD code in Windows builds but not in Linux builds. Why they'd do this, I wouldn't know.
FWIW, I have several machines that dual-boot Windows (XP/Vista) and Linux, and Firefox doesn't seem any less snappy on Linux than it does on Windows. If it makes any difference, I'm building from source on Gentoo instead of using the Mozilla binaries.
Even if you have to use a cable box, MythTV can record the composite or component out on the way to the TV.
If your cable box has a FireWire output, MythTV can record from that as well. It captures the MPEG-2 transport stream for the selected channel as it comes down the wire, so no reencoding is done by the backend.
The driver situation has gotten much worse over the years. It used to be the case the HP Printer == PCL. Now they sell lots of "WinPrinters" that follow no particular standard.
...all but the very oldest of which are supported by HPLIP, along with the printers that do support PCL and/or PostScript. On my desk at work, I have a LaserJet 1020 (host-based) and a Photosmart C4480 (unknown). At home, I have a LaserJet 1320 (PCL and PostScript), a DeskJet 450 (PCL), and a Photosmart 3210 (unknown). All of them are fully functional under Linux. At this point, some of them may even be more functional under Linux than Windows (on Windows 7, the DeskJet 450 is supported only through a Microsoft-supplied driver which is probably less functional than the HP-supplied driver that works with earlier Windows versions).
I bet the car dealer loved having to fill out an IRS form 8300 on you.
It could've been a private sale. Someone who puts his old car up on Craigslist isn't running the sort of business described on that page you linked as needing to fill one out.
So I take it you've never been to Vegas? Even the ATM's spit out $100 bills there...
I live in Vegas, and the ATMs here are pretty much the same as everywhere else: they spit out $20s. The only exception I can recall was one ATM in front of the student union at UNLV that issued $5s.
When gas is over $3 a gallon, taking $50-$100 to fill up isn't uncommon for a large SUV.
Who pays cash for gas? Plastic (whether backed by your checking account or a credit line) saves you two trips into the store: one to pay before pumping, the other to get your change when you're done.
The only time it was necessary to carry a passport was when I wanted to have a drink at a bar. They card everyone.
Why didn't you just hand over your driver's license? That's what the rest of us do; it's a hell of a lot easier to carry around. Even if it's a license issued in a foreign country, it should've still worked. You might have to point out where the date of birth is located on yours, but I've had to do that when traveling out-of-state as bartenders don't usually know where to look right away on the licenses issued by all 50 states.
HandBrake is not a ripper. It converts video, it does not rip it byte by byte. It does not crack the latest DVD copy protection schemes hatched by the studios.
On Linux, it still functions as a ripper. That functionality might not be in whatever binary builds the HandBrake devs provide, but the binary I built with the Gentoo ebuild for 0.94 (not in Portage, but retrieved from bugs.gentoo.org) has ripped most movies I've thrown at it.
Google doesn't own the map data, they just license it.
You sure about that? Check the copyright message at the bottom of this map, for example. They've been building up their own map database, probably as a side effect of all those Street View vehicles running around. More info here.
You do realize that Presidio, TX is far inland mountainous desert, right?
That description matches Las Vegas, yet flooding is a big-enough problem that there's a county government agency whose job is to mitigate their effects. This page lists some of the bigger floods that have hit over the past 100 years.
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I take it you've never seen Caddyshack, then?
I had 4.0 running on my 3G for a couple or three weeks. I got tired of apps not starting up, extreme sluggishness, etc., so I ended up downgrading to 3.1.3. I enabled native multitasking (my phone is jailbroken), but it seemed to be less capable than the multitasking provided by Backgrounder. If I left a webpage or two open in Safari, odds were good that attempts to start other apps would fail. Even if I rebooted the phone, it'd take an interminably long time to open most apps. I had half a thought to have PwnageTool make an image with native multitasking disabled, but the final straw that sent me back to 3.1.3 was that 4.0 broke AirVideo's TV-out capability. The ability to group related apps together was nice (went from six or seven pages of apps down to just two), but iOS 4.0 caused too much other breakage for my taste.
.m4v files can't contain AC3 or DTS audio. Reencoding audio to AAC results in getting it downmixed to stereo on playback over a S/PDIF or HDMI connection unless you have one of the handful of cards that implement Dolby Digital Live and/or DTS Connect. That probably doesn't matter much if you're only going to play your movies on an iPhone, but it's not so good if you're feeding your home-theater setup from a MythTV box.
Two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch? Yes, I've heard of it.
That's the approach the EPA is taking with European ships that could suck up 96% or so of the oil out of the water...because some small amount gets put back in (which you could probably pick up later in another pass through the area), they're saying this tech is unacceptable. Wouldn't a 96% reduction be better than nothing?
Perhaps the thought that their would-be victims could replicate a Ma Deuce, a BFG9000, or whatever to deal with that problem would keep that tendency in check.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
I checked their website; the 4-input card is capable of full-framerate (30000/1001 fps) video at 720x480. The company for which I previously worked (and still do some work on the side) built a DVR system around cards that used four CX23416s to encode four inputs to MPEG-2 at the same resolution and framerate. We've been having trouble getting someone to build more cards for us. It also doesn't help that this chip is no longer in production; we're sitting on maybe a few hundred of them, but those won't last forever. I might end up taking a look at this card as a replacement, especially if it'll work with Linux as well as Windows.
On 6134 September 1993, what would give you that idea?
Didn't they at least publish source code along with it? Yes, the output from the assembler (which usually had ) takes more space than a hexdump, but you can't learn anything from a hexdump. I usually punched in the source code for programs published in Nibble and assembled it myself; it took longer, but was usually less error-prone (you're less likely to flub JSR COUT than 20 ED FD, and if you do screw it up, the assembler will usually complain about it) and it was easier to modify if you wanted to make your own improvements.
OTOH, it's been on coins since at least 1909.
Nothing new there. I worked at Best Buy from '94 to '99, and the story was pretty much the same back then. The employee discount usually didn't save a huge amount on hardware (best I managed was $40 or so off of a $450 laser printer; it was usually a good bit less effective), but I could buy a $30 printer cable for maybe $3.
That was probably a rhetorical question...but nope. It's still a 32-bit processor; otherwise, I wouldn't have had Linux running on one (with 4 MB RAM, 120 MB disk, and a monochrome VGA (640x480 only) monitor on which I was running X at 800x600 by creating a 50-Hz modeline and adjusting the vertical sync knob on the monitor to lock to the signal. I downloaded SLS to a stack of 5.25" floppies in the computer lab, headed home, and installed it. Good times...would've been around '93 or so.
gcc supports SSE (and other SIMD extensions) just fine. I'm not sure if it's capable of generating SIMD code by itself or if it only supports inline assembly code that uses SIMD instructions...though I think it can be told to use SSE instructions instead of x87 instructions on AMD64 hardware to speed up floating-point math.
It's also possible that the Firefox source has some #ifdefs to include SIMD code in Windows builds but not in Linux builds. Why they'd do this, I wouldn't know.
FWIW, I have several machines that dual-boot Windows (XP/Vista) and Linux, and Firefox doesn't seem any less snappy on Linux than it does on Windows. If it makes any difference, I'm building from source on Gentoo instead of using the Mozilla binaries.
If your cable box has a FireWire output, MythTV can record from that as well. It captures the MPEG-2 transport stream for the selected channel as it comes down the wire, so no reencoding is done by the backend.
...all but the very oldest of which are supported by HPLIP, along with the printers that do support PCL and/or PostScript. On my desk at work, I have a LaserJet 1020 (host-based) and a Photosmart C4480 (unknown). At home, I have a LaserJet 1320 (PCL and PostScript), a DeskJet 450 (PCL), and a Photosmart 3210 (unknown). All of them are fully functional under Linux. At this point, some of them may even be more functional under Linux than Windows (on Windows 7, the DeskJet 450 is supported only through a Microsoft-supplied driver which is probably less functional than the HP-supplied driver that works with earlier Windows versions).
It could've been a private sale. Someone who puts his old car up on Craigslist isn't running the sort of business described on that page you linked as needing to fill one out.
I live in Vegas, and the ATMs here are pretty much the same as everywhere else: they spit out $20s. The only exception I can recall was one ATM in front of the student union at UNLV that issued $5s.
Who pays cash for gas? Plastic (whether backed by your checking account or a credit line) saves you two trips into the store: one to pay before pumping, the other to get your change when you're done.
Why didn't you just hand over your driver's license? That's what the rest of us do; it's a hell of a lot easier to carry around. Even if it's a license issued in a foreign country, it should've still worked. You might have to point out where the date of birth is located on yours, but I've had to do that when traveling out-of-state as bartenders don't usually know where to look right away on the licenses issued by all 50 states.
On Linux, it still functions as a ripper. That functionality might not be in whatever binary builds the HandBrake devs provide, but the binary I built with the Gentoo ebuild for 0.94 (not in Portage, but retrieved from bugs.gentoo.org) has ripped most movies I've thrown at it.
You sure about that? Check the copyright message at the bottom of this map, for example. They've been building up their own map database, probably as a side effect of all those Street View vehicles running around. More info here.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
What if I didn't have to google it because my fiancee obsesses about such things? Oh, wai}{{f3]\66
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That description matches Las Vegas, yet flooding is a big-enough problem that there's a county government agency whose job is to mitigate their effects. This page lists some of the bigger floods that have hit over the past 100 years.