they thought i had it... i have most of the symptoms except i don't stop breathing. during my sleep test my eeg showed that i was waking up over 30 times in a 6 hour period. the sleep lab dropped me because a second appointment with a cpap machine would have done nothing.
i finally got a specialist who sent me for a spec scan (can't remember what it stands for) but what happens is: you're injected with a radioactive tracer and your head is scanned by what is essentially a large geiger counter that rotates slowly around you while being scanned. turns out i have a bloodflow impairment in the right half of my brain; it can't properly process information (like pins and needles when you make a leg go to sleep). i get almost no rem sleep and no stage 3 & 4 sleep at all. i'm sleeping 10+ (sometimes as much as 16) hours a day and not feeling rested. all the doctors can do is give me morphine to help with the false pain signals. so far no other treatments have had any effect.
my life has been ruined by this. my memory's fscked, i have no energy, can't even guarantee if i'll be up at a given time on any day, and now i'm addicted to narcotics.
OGG files seem to represent the latest in "CPU usage creep" (as opposed to the better known "feature creep/bloat"). The older Nitrane MP3 decoding engine took a mere 1.5% CPU usage, while current versions of Winamp,using the ISO decoder, use 3% CPU usage.
Not much to whine about but it does represent the application using twice the CPU power to the the same thing! Now along comes OGG. Great idea considering all the intellectual property BS happening. I am not a programmer and don't claim to know the slightest bit about the algorithms used in the OGG file format but the decoders out there sure seem to be poorly optimized for a 1.0 release. Now, playing a 128 kilobit file requires 9-10% CPU usage! What gives?
Can anyone give some insight as to why is this format so hungry that it has to gobble up over six times the CPU time it took to play a 128 kilobit file 8 months ago?
(ever seen a hot-pink currency note anywhere in the world?)
Yes... well maybe not "hot" pink...but pink enough to stand out. The Canadian $1,000 bill. It sure caught my eye when the guy in front of me pulled one out to pay for a $10 purchase. mind you stranger things have happened at the Canex store...
Actually, the 2 largest ISPs here (who have more than 1/2 the population of this country in their coverage area) are in the process of implementing usage caps. They won't stop you from downloading once you reach the "limit" but they will charge accordingly. For example Bell Sympatico (Ontario and Quebec) is limiting the amount of bandwidth in their $44.95/month package to 5 gigabytes per month (each direction)... while that's a good amount higher than the 3 gigabyte limit offered in Australia, Bell is going to charge $7.90 per gigabyte after the original monthly "allotment".
Christ, i don't claim to know what moving bandwidth really costs, but i'd be willing to bet that for a company that both lays the pipes as well as sells the pipes it's probably 1/10th of that cost, which would mean that users of this service will be severly gouged.
Now, depending on the modem you get with the service, your sync speed will be either 1024/128 or 960/128 to the CO linecard. If your speed is the faster of the two, you can use that *whopping* 5 gigabyte limit by using the full download bandwidth of the modem for only 23 minutes a day. I don't know about the rest of you, but i don't consider anyone who downloads for 30 minutes a day to be an "abuser" or a "bandwidth hog" (which is what the telco implies).
Note for Americans: before you say "it's Canadian money and it's only $xx USD...", it's not that simple... if someone chages $100 for something it's pretty safe to say that a Canadian paying $100 CAD feels the same hit to the pocketbook as an American who pays $100 USD. Payscales and cost of living factor in too.
q quick check of the logs shows i'm currently getting hits from 64.xxx.xxx.xxx addresses. even with the code red stuff.. i find it rather odd that i seem to only get hits from within my isp's class a address range.
just move along to another provider, unless she has a vendetta which is not written going on against the provider.
Easier said than done here in Canada. Where you live determines who you'll end up with for the cable (and cable internet) provider. For the majority of southern Ontario it's Rogers. Sure there's DSL, but coverage areas are not the same between the two. Here at home i have Sympatico HSE (DSL) and cannot get cable internet because Rogers have not upgraded their infrastructure in this area which is a small town outside of Ottawa. Even with DSL there's hardly any competition although it does exist in some areas. If I were to have "unsolvable" connectivity problems caused by wiring/hardware problems i'd have no choice but to go back to dial-up.
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they thought i had it ... i have most of the symptoms except i don't stop breathing. during my sleep test my eeg showed that i was waking up over 30 times in a 6 hour period. the sleep lab dropped me because a second appointment with a cpap machine would have done nothing.
i finally got a specialist who sent me for a spec scan (can't remember what it stands for) but what happens is: you're injected with a radioactive tracer and your head is scanned by what is essentially a large geiger counter that rotates slowly around you while being scanned. turns out i have a bloodflow impairment in the right half of my brain; it can't properly process information (like pins and needles when you make a leg go to sleep). i get almost no rem sleep and no stage 3 & 4 sleep at all. i'm sleeping 10+ (sometimes as much as 16) hours a day and not feeling rested. all the doctors can do is give me morphine to help with the false pain signals. so far no other treatments have had any effect.
my life has been ruined by this. my memory's fscked, i have no energy, can't even guarantee if i'll be up at a given time on any day, and now i'm addicted to narcotics.
OGG files seem to represent the latest in "CPU usage creep" (as opposed to the better known "feature creep/bloat"). The older Nitrane MP3 decoding engine took a mere 1.5% CPU usage, while current versions of Winamp ,using the ISO decoder, use 3% CPU usage.
Not much to whine about but it does represent the application using twice the CPU power to the the same thing! Now along comes OGG. Great idea considering all the intellectual property BS happening. I am not a programmer and don't claim to know the slightest bit about the algorithms used in the OGG file format but the decoders out there sure seem to be poorly optimized for a 1.0 release. Now, playing a 128 kilobit file requires 9-10% CPU usage! What gives?
Can anyone give some insight as to why is this format so hungry that it has to gobble up over six times the CPU time it took to play a 128 kilobit file 8 months ago?
(ever seen a hot-pink currency note anywhere in the world?)
...but pink enough to stand out. The Canadian $1,000 bill. It sure caught my eye when the guy in front of me pulled one out to pay for a $10 purchase. mind you stranger things have happened at the Canex store...
Yes... well maybe not "hot" pink
You're right. What you mentionned is *not* price gouging. Try this example on for size:
Sympatico pricing (960/128 dsl using pppoe)
before: $39.95 with unlimited usage.
after: $44.95 with 5gb per month and $7.90 per gigabyte afterwards.
Now that's gouging!
Actually, the 2 largest ISPs here (who have more than 1/2 the population of this country in their coverage area) are in the process of implementing usage caps. They won't stop you from downloading once you reach the "limit" but they will charge accordingly. For example Bell Sympatico (Ontario and Quebec) is limiting the amount of bandwidth in their $44.95/month package to 5 gigabytes per month (each direction) ... while that's a good amount higher than the 3 gigabyte limit offered in Australia, Bell is going to charge $7.90 per gigabyte after the original monthly "allotment".
... if someone chages $100 for something it's pretty safe to say that a Canadian paying $100 CAD feels the same hit to the pocketbook as an American who pays $100 USD. Payscales and cost of living factor in too.
Christ, i don't claim to know what moving bandwidth really costs, but i'd be willing to bet that for a company that both lays the pipes as well as sells the pipes it's probably 1/10th of that cost, which would mean that users of this service will be severly gouged.
Now, depending on the modem you get with the service, your sync speed will be either 1024/128 or 960/128 to the CO linecard. If your speed is the faster of the two, you can use that *whopping* 5 gigabyte limit by using the full download bandwidth of the modem for only 23 minutes a day. I don't know about the rest of you, but i don't consider anyone who downloads for 30 minutes a day to be an "abuser" or a "bandwidth hog" (which is what the telco implies).
Note for Americans: before you say "it's Canadian money and it's only $xx USD...", it's not that simple
You should see what i find in my particle trap :)
a beowu... ahh nevermind
is that they were unknowingly betatesting the new and ultimate file compression system
5 yrs ago who would have thought that one could buy linux at Walmart?
..but it has always crapped on my video card :(
q quick check of the logs shows i'm currently getting hits from 64.xxx.xxx.xxx addresses. even with the code red stuff .. i find it rather odd that i seem to only get hits from within my isp's class a address range.
It's finally good to see os's and applications that are small and efficient
so up yours! :)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these... :)
just move along to another provider, unless she has a vendetta which is not written going on against the provider.
Easier said than done here in Canada. Where you live determines who you'll end up with for the cable (and cable internet) provider. For the majority of southern Ontario it's Rogers. Sure there's DSL, but coverage areas are not the same between the two. Here at home i have Sympatico HSE (DSL) and cannot get cable internet because Rogers have not upgraded their infrastructure in this area which is a small town outside of Ottawa. Even with DSL there's hardly any competition although it does exist in some areas. If I were to have "unsolvable" connectivity problems caused by wiring/hardware problems i'd have no choice but to go back to dial-up.