Really? I'm not the only one? I thought maybe my projector was too loud or I was losing my hearing when I was turning my movies up to -32db for Dolby Digital or -28 for DTS sound tracks so that the dialog would come through, and then suddenly there's a big musical punch combined with a big sound effect and... gah! Distortion! I've tried turning on DRC, which just sounds worse. I've tried turning up the center channel, but there are effects and music in the center channel too, plus the unbalanced audio harms the immersiveness of the sound.
Just for a reference, I listen to most music at about -65db when I want to be causal, -70 to -75 for quiet, and -55 to -40 for really rocking the house down insane volume levels.
Now to bring this back on topic.. Man, when I saw those zoomed-in waves from the newest Rush CD, I almost got sick to my stomach looking at the clipping. You can tell it was from a compressor/limiter because instead of being a square like ___ it kinda slowly decays like __,. I bet you could caculate the decay time of their equipment by looking at that wave if you knew the scale of those images.
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I wasn't complaining about SDL in any way. It does a great job at what it's meant to do. I was just pointing out that it has very little to do with OpenML.
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OpenML and SDL are hardly the same thing... Check out the Jahshaka home page for an idea of the kind of application OpenML will benefit. OpenML is really an awesome thing. It finally brings together 2D and 3D raster graphics (OpenGL) with video processing and synchronization capabilites, providing a standard platform for applications to perform accelerated compositing, editing, effects, and other operations on various media. Hopefully we'll see an Open Source implementation of the SDK in the future.
SDL is simply a low-level hardware abstraction layer. It doesn't even have geometric drawing code.
I had the same idea a couple months ago, except it was about DVD's. I was talking to my dad about it! I have a witness! A DVD co-op where people buy DVD's and share them with each other. Kind of like a private library. You have to pay a fee to get access to DVD's, and you are rewarded by a fee reduction for sharing your own DVD's, plus maybe priority access to DVD's you've submitted.
That never happened. The people posting contradictory things in different stories are not the same people. And if IBM did pay some research firm to say Linux was great, I'd be equally disappointed.
Look, seriously... There simply cannot possibly be more people than there are particles in the universe. The Earth is only supposed to be able to sustain about one billion people according to some estimates, to ten or eleven according to others. If we ever begin colonizing other planets, which seems unlikely at our current rate, other technologies will need to be developed for communicating at such long distances with such high latencies, unless we figure out some way to transmit at the Planck energy, allowing us to bend spacetime into a loop and make the distance between two points very small, so that signal transmit time is also very small.
Consider the number of neutrons/protons required to create a person. Divide the number of particles in the universe by that number, and that's how many individuals could have their own single IP address. Divide that number by 256, and that's how many individuals can have 256 IP addresses, etc.
Even 2000 years from now, it's impossible, without insane mismanagement like giving away millions of IPv6 addresses to individuals, to run out of IPv6 addresses.
I bought Hyperspace used and it is indeed a very thought provoking reading. There are probably some newer theories that aren't discussed in the book, but it's still pretty decent popular science. One thing I didn't like about it is in some parts the author seems to try to aggressively imply that there is proof that God doesn't exist, when of course, such proof is currently impossible to obtain using current methods and technology, as is proof that God does exist.
It's quite similar to what SCO is trying to do. Some scientists and others apparently believed that if they say it loud enough long enough, eventually it will be accepted as truth. Guess what: in large part, it worked. In reality, there cannot be a proof for everyone that God does or does not exist. The only way to find out is to look for yourself.
It's impossible to run out if IPv6 addresses. There are more IPv6 addresses possible than there are particles in the universe! Even if you give everyone on the planet an average of one hundred twenty seven IP addresses you'll still have a lot of space left over. NAT for the purpose of sharing a single "real" IP address is just a neat trick; nothing more. NAT does have uses, but those are in the realm of transparent proxies and the like.
It's called an HTPC. Better interpolation than all but the most insanely expensive scalers that do actual filtering rather than linear or cubic interpolation.
You're using DVD software that doesn't do deinterlacing or 2-3 pulldown removal. Ogle and mplayer support 2-3 pulldown removal based on encoding flags (I don't know about xine, but I bet it does too). Mplayer also supports a simple deinterlace filter for non-pulldown stuff. Rumor has it there's also work being done to bring the deinterlacers from tvtime and dscaler to xine and mplayer.
Child pornography in any form, whether encrypted ones or zeros, or the decoded png file itself, cannot in any logical way be described as a right. Pedophiles have no right to speak, as their words infringe on the rights of children to NOT BE ABUSED. All these slashdot morons seem to think they can do whatever they want without consequence. Guess what: your rights only extend as far as they don't infringe on those of another. There are some things that are just plain morally wrong, and exploitation of the defenseless is one of those things. Yes, no matter what anyone says, there are absolute truths.
Firstly, child pornography is not speech. It is not expression. It is not even worthwhile or helpful. It is proof of exploitation, or in the case of virtual child porn, enticement to commit exploitation. Children probably don't know why they're being forced to do things they don't understand, or if they do, they aren't capable of resisting because they are physically weak.
Just admit it: you're a sick person, and you need help.
Negative numbers are higher priority. Positive numbers are lower priority. 0 is the default priority. -20 is realtime, 19 is idle-only. So, if you set your freenet process to -15 or -18, it will take over your system. You probably want it at +19. Your CPU usage will probably still be at 100%, but when you want to do something else, freenet will be put to sleep and you shouldn't notice any sluggishness in higher priority processes, unless external requests are overloading your net connection.
In my mind the problem with Freenet is that you have no idea what you're storing. (theoretical situation) What if I just want to put out some sensitive material, like corporate documents detailing the harmful effects of a chemical being released by my employer without public knowledge? I don't want my computer to be used to store somebody's kiddie porn.
This is just a myth. Talk to somebody in #XFree86 on irc.freenode.net. I know of at least one person who has access to specs on just about every ATI card under NDA, but he's free to write an Open Source driver. No, the XFree86 drivers suck because, well, in the words of many others (I'm just paraphrasing here), "Some (not all) of the developers are incompetent morons who wouldn't know an mmap() from a direct read() on/dev/mem."
This story was hit by the biggest crapflood I have ever seen.. Is this what all those trojaned Windoze computers are used for? Trolling on dotslash?
Speaking of patents, one of the most ridiculous software patents I've seen in the US is the interface to the game The Incredible Machine. Nobody can make a game with gizmos used from a gizmo-bar to make things happen.
Uh... neutral also carries current when things are running. Anyone who's going to be opening the electrical box ought to know that. The black/hot wire comes from the transformer to the breaker box, then to the equipment, and from the equipment the white/neutral wire goes into the ground (yes, the ground) for 120v AC, or an inverted phase wire is used for 240v.
I've done this test before. My dad was able to read his weather updates and send e-mail alerts when storms were coming. My mom was able to type her documents and check her e-mail as well. My sister was able to play Frozen Bubble and the stacked tile game, and use Gaim for IM. Nobody had any problems using LindowsOS, except my brother, who really really wanted to play Diablo II.
They got along fine for months, until my mom decided to cave into my game-addicted brothers' incessant whining.
Hey, if somebody criticizes you, and they're required to post your rebuttal, you could basically force them to host something like decss if you make it part of your response.
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Really? I'm not the only one? I thought maybe my projector was too loud or I was losing my hearing when I was turning my movies up to -32db for Dolby Digital or -28 for DTS sound tracks so that the dialog would come through, and then suddenly there's a big musical punch combined with a big sound effect and ... gah! Distortion! I've tried turning on DRC, which just sounds worse. I've tried turning up the center channel, but there are effects and music in the center channel too, plus the unbalanced audio harms the immersiveness of the sound.
Just for a reference, I listen to most music at about -65db when I want to be causal, -70 to -75 for quiet, and -55 to -40 for really rocking the house down insane volume levels.
Now to bring this back on topic.. Man, when I saw those zoomed-in waves from the newest Rush CD, I almost got sick to my stomach looking at the clipping. You can tell it was from a compressor/limiter because instead of being a square like ___ it kinda slowly decays like __,. I bet you could caculate the decay time of their equipment by looking at that wave if you knew the scale of those images.
Rugby.. Now there's a sport...
I wasn't complaining about SDL in any way. It does a great job at what it's meant to do. I was just pointing out that it has very little to do with OpenML.
OpenML and SDL are hardly the same thing... Check out the Jahshaka home page for an idea of the kind of application OpenML will benefit. OpenML is really an awesome thing. It finally brings together 2D and 3D raster graphics (OpenGL) with video processing and synchronization capabilites, providing a standard platform for applications to perform accelerated compositing, editing, effects, and other operations on various media. Hopefully we'll see an Open Source implementation of the SDK in the future.
SDL is simply a low-level hardware abstraction layer. It doesn't even have geometric drawing code.
traceroute does something similar. It displays latency to all the hops between you and the traceroute parameter.
I had the same idea a couple months ago, except it was about DVD's. I was talking to my dad about it! I have a witness! A DVD co-op where people buy DVD's and share them with each other. Kind of like a private library. You have to pay a fee to get access to DVD's, and you are rewarded by a fee reduction for sharing your own DVD's, plus maybe priority access to DVD's you've submitted.
That never happened. The people posting contradictory things in different stories are not the same people. And if IBM did pay some research firm to say Linux was great, I'd be equally disappointed.
Look, seriously... There simply cannot possibly be more people than there are particles in the universe. The Earth is only supposed to be able to sustain about one billion people according to some estimates, to ten or eleven according to others. If we ever begin colonizing other planets, which seems unlikely at our current rate, other technologies will need to be developed for communicating at such long distances with such high latencies, unless we figure out some way to transmit at the Planck energy, allowing us to bend spacetime into a loop and make the distance between two points very small, so that signal transmit time is also very small.
Consider the number of neutrons/protons required to create a person. Divide the number of particles in the universe by that number, and that's how many individuals could have their own single IP address. Divide that number by 256, and that's how many individuals can have 256 IP addresses, etc.
Even 2000 years from now, it's impossible, without insane mismanagement like giving away millions of IPv6 addresses to individuals, to run out of IPv6 addresses.
I bought Hyperspace used and it is indeed a very thought provoking reading. There are probably some newer theories that aren't discussed in the book, but it's still pretty decent popular science. One thing I didn't like about it is in some parts the author seems to try to aggressively imply that there is proof that God doesn't exist, when of course, such proof is currently impossible to obtain using current methods and technology, as is proof that God does exist.
It's quite similar to what SCO is trying to do. Some scientists and others apparently believed that if they say it loud enough long enough, eventually it will be accepted as truth. Guess what: in large part, it worked. In reality, there cannot be a proof for everyone that God does or does not exist. The only way to find out is to look for yourself.
It's impossible to run out if IPv6 addresses. There are more IPv6 addresses possible than there are particles in the universe! Even if you give everyone on the planet an average of one hundred twenty seven IP addresses you'll still have a lot of space left over. NAT for the purpose of sharing a single "real" IP address is just a neat trick; nothing more. NAT does have uses, but those are in the realm of transparent proxies and the like.
It's called an HTPC. Better interpolation than all but the most insanely expensive scalers that do actual filtering rather than linear or cubic interpolation.
You're using DVD software that doesn't do deinterlacing or 2-3 pulldown removal. Ogle and mplayer support 2-3 pulldown removal based on encoding flags (I don't know about xine, but I bet it does too). Mplayer also supports a simple deinterlace filter for non-pulldown stuff. Rumor has it there's also work being done to bring the deinterlacers from tvtime and dscaler to xine and mplayer.
Child pornography in any form, whether encrypted ones or zeros, or the decoded png file itself, cannot in any logical way be described as a right. Pedophiles have no right to speak, as their words infringe on the rights of children to NOT BE ABUSED. All these slashdot morons seem to think they can do whatever they want without consequence. Guess what: your rights only extend as far as they don't infringe on those of another. There are some things that are just plain morally wrong, and exploitation of the defenseless is one of those things. Yes, no matter what anyone says, there are absolute truths.
Firstly, child pornography is not speech. It is not expression. It is not even worthwhile or helpful. It is proof of exploitation, or in the case of virtual child porn, enticement to commit exploitation. Children probably don't know why they're being forced to do things they don't understand, or if they do, they aren't capable of resisting because they are physically weak.
Just admit it: you're a sick person, and you need help.
Negative numbers are higher priority. Positive numbers are lower priority. 0 is the default priority. -20 is realtime, 19 is idle-only. So, if you set your freenet process to -15 or -18, it will take over your system. You probably want it at +19. Your CPU usage will probably still be at 100%, but when you want to do something else, freenet will be put to sleep and you shouldn't notice any sluggishness in higher priority processes, unless external requests are overloading your net connection.
In my mind the problem with Freenet is that you have no idea what you're storing. (theoretical situation) What if I just want to put out some sensitive material, like corporate documents detailing the harmful effects of a chemical being released by my employer without public knowledge? I don't want my computer to be used to store somebody's kiddie porn.
BTW: I don't think the one who has the specs is the one working on the driver.
This is just a myth. Talk to somebody in #XFree86 on irc.freenode.net. I know of at least one person who has access to specs on just about every ATI card under NDA, but he's free to write an Open Source driver. No, the XFree86 drivers suck because, well, in the words of many others (I'm just paraphrasing here), "Some (not all) of the developers are incompetent morons who wouldn't know an mmap() from a direct read() on /dev/mem."
This story was hit by the biggest crapflood I have ever seen.. Is this what all those trojaned Windoze computers are used for? Trolling on dotslash?
Speaking of patents, one of the most ridiculous software patents I've seen in the US is the interface to the game The Incredible Machine. Nobody can make a game with gizmos used from a gizmo-bar to make things happen.
Uh... neutral also carries current when things are running. Anyone who's going to be opening the electrical box ought to know that. The black/hot wire comes from the transformer to the breaker box, then to the equipment, and from the equipment the white/neutral wire goes into the ground (yes, the ground) for 120v AC, or an inverted phase wire is used for 240v.
I've done this test before. My dad was able to read his weather updates and send e-mail alerts when storms were coming. My mom was able to type her documents and check her e-mail as well. My sister was able to play Frozen Bubble and the stacked tile game, and use Gaim for IM. Nobody had any problems using LindowsOS, except my brother, who really really wanted to play Diablo II.
They got along fine for months, until my mom decided to cave into my game-addicted brothers' incessant whining.
Updates are done in a very cool way through Click-N-Run. They are usually publicly beta tested before their release as well.
Lindows already has (or had) Windows migration features.
Hey, if somebody criticizes you, and they're required to post your rebuttal, you could basically force them to host something like decss if you make it part of your response.
Which country calls their fathers sir? Britan or the US? It's not quite clear from your phrasing.