Spoken like someone who were so busy studying the other gender that he/she forgot to study his/her own gender. First, there is no such thing as a normal or average person. Second, I'm pretty sure that almost all differences between how we think are because of how we were raised to think by our parents and the society as a whole, the roles we are expected to play, and because of our experiences in life. Persons who are held back and downplayed tend to be more sensitive and careful because they are held back and downplayed, not because of gender. Just like poor and uneducated people tend to be more criminal because they are desperate and/or have less to live for, not because of race.
Try the full 1080p Galapagos or Planet Earth documentaries and you'll see your CPU struggle hard on those huge flocks of birds flying above waterfalls while panning the camera, etc... Those kind of extremes are mostly a problem with documentaries though, I have yet to find a movie that raises the CPU above 70% with CoreAVC but that might also be because most movies are 2.39:1. The arguments still stand on VC-1 video though.
Except that if you want to be able to play all those 1080p h.264.mkv-files you'll need at least around a 2,8 Ghz Core 2 Duo or X2 5600+ if you use the CoreAVC codec. If you want to play 1080p VC1-stuff or the use a standard unpatched ffmpeg/mplayer you'll need minimum 3 Ghz and realtime priority.
I have an AMD X2 5600+ in my HTPC and it can play 1920x800 @ 24 Hz (most movies) fine, but drops frames in high-motion scenes on full 16:9 1920x1080 videos, especially if they are 30 FPS. This is with a custom "mythplayvideo" wrapper script I wrote that sets different options depending on "pixels per second" and codec, and also changes the refresh rate to match the video FPS with xrandr. It's also using AC3/DTS-passthrough so no CPU is spent on audio decoding.
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Use, NX instead of plain remote X11, it almost feels like sitting at the local computer even over slow DSL. It's free as in GPL and very simple to set up. I really don't understand why it hasn't become THE standard for remote windowing yet.
Our GHZ-cpu clocks stopped doubling in speed long ago and I never got my expected "5 GHZ Intel by 2005" nor 2006, 2007 nor 2008, even though we all blindy recite Moore's law. Moore's law is only about the amount of transistors used, not the clock frequency of the resulting chip.
And do you also express your appreciation of Wikipedia by donating to the EFF? I really hate that attitude of yours. The guy is more generous than 99% of the population and your only comment is "Why aren't you MORE generous?". Give the dude some credit instead.
Have you even compared wxWidgets with Qt4 at any depth at all? Qt has a beautiful API, wx is a total mess in comparision. Also, Qt does a lot of things to try to make apps look and feel native on each platform, wx only takes care about the look of the widgets.
Qt 4 really is a bloody kick-ass fantastic peace of software engineering art. Too bad its license is restricting its usage so much (it got much better recently though, when they decided to allow other OSS licenses besides the GPL and QPL). They are leaving out the very big.NET-dominated small-app-outside-company-core-focus market by not having a middle ground license.
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Yes, but this time it's implemented in something that people will actually use, and it's Open Source and cross platform.
So, when will the default global SQL-mode setting be STRICT_TRANS_TABLES, STRICT_ALL_TABLES, ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO, NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER, NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO, NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION, NO_ZERO_DATE, NO_ZERO_IN_DATE, ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY, PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES ?
I really like MySQL's cluster/replication features but I'm having a hard time taking it seriously until the above is the default setting, combined with having the Falcon engine as the default one.
Sorry, it seems that I was outdated on the multichannel channel coupling part.
I know it can support 5.1 audio but afaik there is nothing in the spec that defines which channel is center, back left, subwoofer, etc, only front left and right. So if you encode 5.1 audio as OGG/Vorbis the player may play the center channel in the right surround speaker, or similar.
I have no time to check if the spec has been updated in the last 3 years so please correct me if I'm wrong on this topic also.:)
Yes, for CD-quality audio it is. The problem is that it's VERY focused at CD/music audio.
It doesn't handle multichannel audio properly. For example it doesn't have a definition of which channel belong to which speaker except for "left" and "right", and it doesn't do multi-channel "joint stereo" (comparing the channels with each other and only keeping what differs, which often is very little) compression.
It also destroys Dolby's analogue surround encoding common in 2-channel movie audio which is used by most of the 1990s home cinema equipment, because all audio data that the human ear/brain is unlikely to notice is thrown away.
Vorbis is a FANTASTIC codec for 2-channel music but not so for video audio.
Great to see that Demonoid is up again! I've missed it. But I haven't missed it nearly as much as Oink... I used to have a 1:2 ratio there with over a TB uploaded. Creative Commons stuff only OF COURSE!:D I miss it so much it hurts. If anyone wants to invite me to waffles.fm or what.cd, please send an invitation to tuxie@dekadance.se:)
I've been following I2P for a long time but progress is awfully slow. I2P is an encrypted, anonymous IP-layer on top of IP. This means that standard IP protocols like IRC, http and others can be ported to use I2P. The amount of work is similar to porting to IPv6. You can also tunnel IPv4 over I2P to connect your clients to anonymous servers. You can browse dynamic websites running PHP/RoR/etc and have absolutely no idea where the webserver is located, and the webserver have no idea where you are located.
I2P doesn't have a distributed storage area/cache though, Freenet's biggest feature. The developers also say that it would be outside the scope of I2P...
Would it be possible to have "live traffic" over Freenet like I2P? Would its architecture allow such a thing in a future version or would that require a complete redesign?
"If you didn't back it up, it wasn't that important in the first place, right?"
Is that what you say to your dad/mom/daughter/son/best friend/grandma when they come to you in tears because they just lost three years of photos or cubase masters?
It's true that they should had backed up the data, but it's just evil to put it in their mouth that the data was somehow unimportant for them. Just like if wake up late, risk your life in panic trying to get to work faster than it's possible, arrive 10 minutes late and then hear "I see that you don't care about your job, right?". Or to make a car analogy: If you didn't wear your seat belt, your life wasn't that important in the first place, right?
Repeat after me: People are humans. Humans error.
Not everybody have computers as their hobby like you and I. In 2008 people a LOT of people have their whole lives on their computer with no back up what so ever, but somehow I really think it's more the fault of the makers of operating systems and sellers of computer systems. Just like Windows pop up warnings saying "your antivirus is not updated", it should say "Your home folder doesn't seem to have a backup. In case of a hardware failure or a virus you may lose all your data. Do you want to back up now?". Power users like you and I can turn the warnings off and implement our own rdiff or Git backed scheme and others (and lazy power users) can use the better-than-nothing built-in system, but at least they will no longer be unaware of the problem and they can keep using computers for what they were meant for: Being lazy.
These kinds of actions will only boost projects like Freenet, GNUnet, OFF and I2P. None of them aren't really useful for the big masses yet but that's only a question of time. Maybe the amount of copyright infringing filesharing will go down for a short while, but it will still increase over time and move to completely anonymous darknets where nobody can identify anyone and nothing can ever be removed once put there, no matter how illegal or unethical the files are. In the current file sharing networks there is at least a possibility to remove for example child porn (because most file sharers agree that it shouldn't be spread). That possibility will go away in the upcoming anonymous networks.
The mission is completely voluntary and the volunteer know exactly what he or she is getting him/herself into by going on that mission. Unless there is persuasion involved, I fail to see how that can be considered unethical.
No, they don't cut of the drugs, they cut off your income/"temporary disability pension". It's like "Ok. You've got your meds now. Please start working again immediately or you won't be able to afford to live."
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Spoken like someone who were so busy studying the other gender that he/she forgot to study his/her own gender. First, there is no such thing as a normal or average person. Second, I'm pretty sure that almost all differences between how we think are because of how we were raised to think by our parents and the society as a whole, the roles we are expected to play, and because of our experiences in life. Persons who are held back and downplayed tend to be more sensitive and careful because they are held back and downplayed, not because of gender. Just like poor and uneducated people tend to be more criminal because they are desperate and/or have less to live for, not because of race.
The variation among the individuals of a gender is bigger than the difference between the genders.
Like the "Submit" button you pressed to post that message?
Except that it currently only works in Windows so it might as well not exist at all since using Windows is not an option, especially not in a HTPC.
Try the full 1080p Galapagos or Planet Earth documentaries and you'll see your CPU struggle hard on those huge flocks of birds flying above waterfalls while panning the camera, etc... Those kind of extremes are mostly a problem with documentaries though, I have yet to find a movie that raises the CPU above 70% with CoreAVC but that might also be because most movies are 2.39:1. The arguments still stand on VC-1 video though.
Except that if you want to be able to play all those 1080p h.264 .mkv-files you'll need at least around a 2,8 Ghz Core 2 Duo or X2 5600+ if you use the CoreAVC codec. If you want to play 1080p VC1-stuff or the use a standard unpatched ffmpeg/mplayer you'll need minimum 3 Ghz and realtime priority.
I have an AMD X2 5600+ in my HTPC and it can play 1920x800 @ 24 Hz (most movies) fine, but drops frames in high-motion scenes on full 16:9 1920x1080 videos, especially if they are 30 FPS. This is with a custom "mythplayvideo" wrapper script I wrote that sets different options depending on "pixels per second" and codec, and also changes the refresh rate to match the video FPS with xrandr. It's also using AC3/DTS-passthrough so no CPU is spent on audio decoding.
Amundsen was unmarried.
Don't be so anal.
Use, NX instead of plain remote X11, it almost feels like sitting at the local computer even over slow DSL. It's free as in GPL and very simple to set up. I really don't understand why it hasn't become THE standard for remote windowing yet.
"Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can"
It took me a while to parse that sentense, until I realized that they meant "can", the noun.
Have you even compared wxWidgets with Qt4 at any depth at all? Qt has a beautiful API, wx is a total mess in comparision. Also, Qt does a lot of things to try to make apps look and feel native on each platform, wx only takes care about the look of the widgets.
.NET-dominated small-app-outside-company-core-focus market by not having a middle ground license.
Qt 4 really is a bloody kick-ass fantastic peace of software engineering art. Too bad its license is restricting its usage so much (it got much better recently though, when they decided to allow other OSS licenses besides the GPL and QPL). They are leaving out the very big
Yes, but this time it's implemented in something that people will actually use, and it's Open Source and cross platform.
So, when will the default global SQL-mode setting be STRICT_TRANS_TABLES, STRICT_ALL_TABLES, ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO, NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER, NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO, NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION, NO_ZERO_DATE, NO_ZERO_IN_DATE, ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY, PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES ?
I really like MySQL's cluster/replication features but I'm having a hard time taking it seriously until the above is the default setting, combined with having the Falcon engine as the default one.
Sorry, it seems that I was outdated on the multichannel channel coupling part.
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I know it can support 5.1 audio but afaik there is nothing in the spec that defines which channel is center, back left, subwoofer, etc, only front left and right. So if you encode 5.1 audio as OGG/Vorbis the player may play the center channel in the right surround speaker, or similar.
I have no time to check if the spec has been updated in the last 3 years so please correct me if I'm wrong on this topic also.
Yes, for CD-quality audio it is. The problem is that it's VERY focused at CD/music audio.
It doesn't handle multichannel audio properly. For example it doesn't have a definition of which channel belong to which speaker except for "left" and "right", and it doesn't do multi-channel "joint stereo" (comparing the channels with each other and only keeping what differs, which often is very little) compression.
It also destroys Dolby's analogue surround encoding common in 2-channel movie audio which is used by most of the 1990s home cinema equipment, because all audio data that the human ear/brain is unlikely to notice is thrown away.
Vorbis is a FANTASTIC codec for 2-channel music but not so for video audio.
Great to see that Demonoid is up again! I've missed it. But I haven't missed it nearly as much as Oink... I used to have a 1:2 ratio there with over a TB uploaded. Creative Commons stuff only OF COURSE! :D I miss it so much it hurts. If anyone wants to invite me to waffles.fm or what.cd, please send an invitation to tuxie@dekadance.se :)
AdBlock+ is not updated for beta 5 yet. It works fine if you force-install it but it doesn't officially support beta 5 yet, only up to beta 4.
I've been following I2P for a long time but progress is awfully slow. I2P is an encrypted, anonymous IP-layer on top of IP. This means that standard IP protocols like IRC, http and others can be ported to use I2P. The amount of work is similar to porting to IPv6. You can also tunnel IPv4 over I2P to connect your clients to anonymous servers. You can browse dynamic websites running PHP/RoR/etc and have absolutely no idea where the webserver is located, and the webserver have no idea where you are located.
I2P doesn't have a distributed storage area/cache though, Freenet's biggest feature. The developers also say that it would be outside the scope of I2P...
Would it be possible to have "live traffic" over Freenet like I2P? Would its architecture allow such a thing in a future version or would that require a complete redesign?
"If you didn't back it up, it wasn't that important in the first place, right?"
Is that what you say to your dad/mom/daughter/son/best friend/grandma when they come to you in tears because they just lost three years of photos or cubase masters?
It's true that they should had backed up the data, but it's just evil to put it in their mouth that the data was somehow unimportant for them. Just like if wake up late, risk your life in panic trying to get to work faster than it's possible, arrive 10 minutes late and then hear "I see that you don't care about your job, right?". Or to make a car analogy: If you didn't wear your seat belt, your life wasn't that important in the first place, right?
Repeat after me: People are humans. Humans error.
Not everybody have computers as their hobby like you and I. In 2008 people a LOT of people have their whole lives on their computer with no back up what so ever, but somehow I really think it's more the fault of the makers of operating systems and sellers of computer systems. Just like Windows pop up warnings saying "your antivirus is not updated", it should say "Your home folder doesn't seem to have a backup. In case of a hardware failure or a virus you may lose all your data. Do you want to back up now?". Power users like you and I can turn the warnings off and implement our own rdiff or Git backed scheme and others (and lazy power users) can use the better-than-nothing built-in system, but at least they will no longer be unaware of the problem and they can keep using computers for what they were meant for: Being lazy.
These kinds of actions will only boost projects like Freenet, GNUnet, OFF and I2P. None of them aren't really useful for the big masses yet but that's only a question of time. Maybe the amount of copyright infringing filesharing will go down for a short while, but it will still increase over time and move to completely anonymous darknets where nobody can identify anyone and nothing can ever be removed once put there, no matter how illegal or unethical the files are. In the current file sharing networks there is at least a possibility to remove for example child porn (because most file sharers agree that it shouldn't be spread). That possibility will go away in the upcoming anonymous networks.
The mission is completely voluntary and the volunteer know exactly what he or she is getting him/herself into by going on that mission.
Unless there is persuasion involved, I fail to see how that can be considered unethical.
No, they don't cut of the drugs, they cut off your income/"temporary disability pension".
It's like "Ok. You've got your meds now. Please start working again immediately or you won't be able to afford to live."