Samsung and iRiver have improved by leaps and bounds in this area recently.
You can now get for example the Samsung YP-U1 ogg player, a direct competitor to the iPod Shuffle (that knocks the Shuffle's socks off) for less than $100.
See here for more info on what hardware supports Ogg Vorbis.
Try opening a photo with a decent dynamic range. Open up the Levels dialog, look at the pretty luminosity distribution curve. Adjust the levels a bit, click OK. Open up the same dialog again. Look at the curve now. Now try adjusting the colour saturation, brightness or contrast. How about running that Denoise plugin? Now sharpen the blurry bits. You're telling me your colour tones are still smooth and continuous, cause they sure as eggs aren't here or anywhere else.
Yes, that's because they have an organized development community established since day 1. MySQL doesn't have that save for the actual company. Take away the company (ie fork the code) and you'll need to forge such a community. I'm not saying it can't happen but it's not going to happen overnight and will at the very least result in a long period of no new releases.
USB 2 has plenty of sustained bandwidth available for several simultaneous DV streams.
I think what you've just discovered through your experiment is that the iPod has crappy USB2 support. Not surprising, since Apple owns the FireWire brand (of the IEEE 1394 implementation) are you surprised they'd rather you used it instead of USB?
Baloney. That may have been true in 2002 but not now. There are plenty of DV cameras that let you use either USB or IEEE 1394 (or FireWire(TM) if you must).
Since the vast, vast, vast majority of PCs have USB connectors and don't have 1394 connectors guess what people who own these cameras use? Vast. And since it's DV, the quality is exactly the same over the USB connection as the 1394 one. Perhaps it's not "proper" since it's not an open standard and required drivers. Some users would still be better off with 1394 for the short term since DV over USB isn't yet very well supported by Linux.
Perhaps you're confused with cameras a couple of generations ago that would capture low-resolution low-frame-rate video to an SD card which was transferred to PC via USB mass storage emulation.
Nothing wrong with the UI. If you know how to use it properly. Perhaps your problem is that it doesn't feel exactly like Photoshop (for which we can be thankful)?
Maybe some UI changes would be useful, but fix what's missing or broken first.
All the colour matching and post-conversion in the world isn't going to help if the RGB value you arrive at is outside the CMYK gamut.
High colour support (>=12-bits per channel) is a killer feature IMO. The current 8-bit limitations lead to horrible colour aliasing very quickly when working with any continuous tone images such as photos.
Where do you propose we get uranium from? I don't believe it's that abundant in the earth's crust. What happens when we hit 'peak uranium' in a few years?
Well would you look at that. After R'ing TFA I found the option right there taking up half the article:
For those who remain concerned, here's how the feature works. Firefox has a preference browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers which by default is set to -1. When set to this value, Firefox calculates the amount of memory in the system, according to this breakdown: RAM Number of Cached Pages 32MB 0 64MB 1 128MB 2 256MB 3 512MB 5 1GB 8 2GB 8 4GB 8
(reference: nsSHistory.cpp)
No more than 8 pages per tab are ever cached in this fashion, by default. If you set this preference to another value, e.g. 25, 25 pages will be cached for every tab. You can set it to 0 to disable the feature, but your page load performance will suffer.
I'm still not fully convinced though - I can have a dozen windows open with 20 tabs each and after a few days that takes up a lot of memory as expected. However you would expect that memory to be released when you close most of the windows/tabs. Not the case. You have to actually exit the entire program before any memory will be freed. And it's not just 'ps' reporting shared libraries since the entire system performance suffers noticeably.
I wonder if the CloseTab() function forgets to clear the history buffers for that tab? Maybe it's time to investigate talloc().
I can confirm that XQuest runs fine in DOSBox, and with sound! I notice that your web site says that sound doesn't work but it works just fine here.
With the default configuration the sound does lag by about half a second, but changing blocksize from 2048 down to 512 in the [mixer] section of ~/.dosboxrc fixes that. Maybe a note to that effect on your web site?
And thanks for the many hours wasted in this addictive little game when I should have been studying:)
I don't get why Google doesn't just direct the Chinese Government to it's own constitution that guarantees freedom of speech and press and be done with it.
Surely it's own constitution isn't a farce, right?
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The Rebels have infringed upon our Death Star plans, Lord Vader!
That is just simply not true. Islam is not a peaceful faith by any definition of the term. Well it is, in that peace is promised once your foot is on your brothers' neck.
With the arrival of Christ on earth, Love Thy Neighbour took precidence over any past enmity between people. In fact pre-Christ writings (latter books of the Old Testament) are already heading in this direction. One example from the OT: "Do you think I enjoy seeing people suffer? No, I'd rather they repented, and obeyed me".
Islam, however is just about the other way around. Muhummad came along and preached all sorts of lovely peaceful messages, then picked up a sword and said "Right enough talk, let's go cut up some infidel".
That's why we see what's hapenning right now in the Philippines:
(knock knock) "who's there?" "Are you Christian or Muslim?" "Christian" *BLAM* *BLAM* "Allah Ackbar!"
The billion or so Muslims who you claim are peacefully living their lives are either taking a very narrow distorted view of the Koran or (more likely) quietly desire to see the black flag of Islam over the worlds capitals, and silently support the actions of the extremists.
They're trying to establish every country as Muslim states, of course. All the beef you eat is already halal, right? Don't be surprised if pork and skanty clothes are outlawed in a few years if the current population trends continue.
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Well, I was told that a secret is something you tell one other person.
Killing doctors. Presumably you're referring to the couple of baby-killing doctors who were killed by a few nutters some years ago.
Crusade. Do you even know what the crusades were about? What they were in response to?
Spanish Inquisition. Is that the best you can do?
Since some people have "killed in the name of" throughout history, Christianity must obviously be as evil as Islam I guess.
Look, the epitome of the good Christian is to live like Christ, yeah?
And the epitome of the good Muslim is to live like Mohammod, right?
Now go read up on what both of them did with their time on earth and get back to me for lesson #2.
Samsung and iRiver have improved by leaps and bounds in this area recently.
You can now get for example the Samsung YP-U1 ogg player, a direct competitor to the iPod Shuffle (that knocks the Shuffle's socks off) for less than $100.
See here for more info on what hardware supports Ogg Vorbis.
You're right, I didn't realise it was quite that abundant.
My bad. I guess it pays to do a bit more homework next time.
Really?
Try opening a photo with a decent dynamic range. Open up the Levels dialog, look at the pretty luminosity distribution curve. Adjust the levels a bit, click OK. Open up the same dialog again. Look at the curve now.
Now try adjusting the colour saturation, brightness or contrast. How about running that Denoise plugin? Now sharpen the blurry bits. You're telling me your colour tones are still smooth and continuous, cause they sure as eggs aren't here or anywhere else.
Yes, that's because they have an organized development community established since day 1. MySQL doesn't have that save for the actual company. Take away the company (ie fork the code) and you'll need to forge such a community. I'm not saying it can't happen but it's not going to happen overnight and will at the very least result in a long period of no new releases.
USB 2 has plenty of sustained bandwidth available for several simultaneous DV streams.
I think what you've just discovered through your experiment is that the iPod has crappy USB2 support. Not surprising, since Apple owns the FireWire brand (of the IEEE 1394 implementation) are you surprised they'd rather you used it instead of USB?
burst speed != throughput
You're right.
480Mbps != 320Mbps
As the GP stated, there's still plenty of bandwidth to play with.
Baloney. That may have been true in 2002 but not now. There are plenty of DV cameras that let you use either USB or IEEE 1394 (or FireWire(TM) if you must).
Since the vast, vast, vast majority of PCs have USB connectors and don't have 1394 connectors guess what people who own these cameras use? Vast. And since it's DV, the quality is exactly the same over the USB connection as the 1394 one. Perhaps it's not "proper" since it's not an open standard and required drivers. Some users would still be better off with 1394 for the short term since DV over USB isn't yet very well supported by Linux.
Perhaps you're confused with cameras a couple of generations ago that would capture low-resolution low-frame-rate video to an SD card which was transferred to PC via USB mass storage emulation.
Nothing wrong with the UI. If you know how to use it properly. Perhaps your problem is that it doesn't feel exactly like Photoshop (for which we can be thankful)?
Maybe some UI changes would be useful, but fix what's missing or broken first.
All the colour matching and post-conversion in the world isn't going to help if the RGB value you arrive at is outside the CMYK gamut.
High colour support (>=12-bits per channel) is a killer feature IMO. The current 8-bit limitations lead to horrible colour aliasing very quickly when working with any continuous tone images such as photos.
Yeah but who's gonna maintain it, kid? You?
Where do you propose we get uranium from? I don't believe it's that abundant in the earth's crust. What happens when we hit 'peak uranium' in a few years?
... George Lucas had defecated on your childhood memories?
"You have done that yourself!"
Well would you look at that. After R'ing TFA I found the option right there taking up half the article:
For those who remain concerned, here's how the feature works. Firefox has a preference browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers which by default is set to -1. When set to this value, Firefox calculates the amount of memory in the system, according to this breakdown:
RAM Number of Cached Pages
32MB 0
64MB 1
128MB 2
256MB 3
512MB 5
1GB 8
2GB 8
4GB 8
(reference: nsSHistory.cpp)
No more than 8 pages per tab are ever cached in this fashion, by default. If you set this preference to another value, e.g. 25, 25 pages will be cached for every tab. You can set it to 0 to disable the feature, but your page load performance will suffer.
I'm still not fully convinced though - I can have a dozen windows open with 20 tabs each and after a few days that takes up a lot of memory as expected. However you would expect that memory to be released when you close most of the windows/tabs. Not the case. You have to actually exit the entire program before any memory will be freed. And it's not just 'ps' reporting shared libraries since the entire system performance suffers noticeably.
I wonder if the CloseTab() function forgets to clear the history buffers for that tab? Maybe it's time to investigate talloc().
Where is the prefs.js option that lets me turn this feature OFF ???
This is cool. Only 4k! [javaunlimited.net]
Yes, it is.
I'm still waiting for a no fully functional Java runtime available for Linux so I can play it!
the graphics, sound etc were all original.
;-)
Really? I'm sure I've heard those "doh" and "woohoo" sound effects somewhere before
Hi, at0mJack.
:)
I can confirm that XQuest runs fine in DOSBox, and with sound! I notice that your web site says that sound doesn't work but it works just fine here.
With the default configuration the sound does lag by about half a second, but changing blocksize from 2048 down to 512 in the [mixer] section of ~/.dosboxrc fixes that. Maybe a note to that effect on your web site?
And thanks for the many hours wasted in this addictive little game when I should have been studying
If by next gen consoles, you mean the XBox360, then perhaps you're right, although Nintendo still appears to have a very strong fanboy following.
But the PS3? Where are the fanboys? Where's the claptrapped hype?
What about Lintel? Don't forget Lintel. :)
Does that mean you won't be buying goods made in China either?
It's difficult these days to buy electronics, clothing or kids toys that aren't made in china.
I don't get why Google doesn't just direct the Chinese Government to it's own constitution that guarantees freedom of speech and press and be done with it.
Surely it's own constitution isn't a farce, right?
The Rebels have infringed upon our Death Star plans, Lord Vader!
That is just simply not true. Islam is not a peaceful faith by any definition of the term. Well it is, in that peace is promised once your foot is on your brothers' neck.
With the arrival of Christ on earth, Love Thy Neighbour took precidence over any past enmity between people. In fact pre-Christ writings (latter books of the Old Testament) are already heading in this direction. One example from the OT: "Do you think I enjoy seeing people suffer? No, I'd rather they repented, and obeyed me".
Islam, however is just about the other way around. Muhummad came along and preached all sorts of lovely peaceful messages, then picked up a sword and said "Right enough talk, let's go cut up some infidel".
That's why we see what's hapenning right now in the Philippines:
(knock knock)
"who's there?"
"Are you Christian or Muslim?"
"Christian"
*BLAM* *BLAM* "Allah Ackbar!"
The billion or so Muslims who you claim are peacefully living their lives are either taking a very narrow distorted view of the Koran or (more likely) quietly desire to see the black flag of Islam over the worlds capitals, and silently support the actions of the extremists.
They're trying to establish every country as Muslim states, of course. All the beef you eat is already halal, right? Don't be surprised if pork and skanty clothes are outlawed in a few years if the current population trends continue.