No. Sadly, pulseaudio exists simply to copy Vista. Vista introduced per-application mixers and apparently this is a Cool New Feature that everybody supposedly wants, even if it's a shitty implementation that slows down what was a perfectly working sound system.
I gotta say, per-application volume control -- in whatever OS -- always seemed like a fairly useless feature to me. Virtually all applications that generate sound already have an internal volume control independent from the system master. I've had PulseAudio for over a year now, and I haven't used this feature once.
What I DO need is easy configuration of multi-channel audio. First of all, all the channels (front left, rear right, etc) need to be mapped correctly. And I'd like for stereo inputs (e.g. music) to be expanded to the rear channels. PulseAudio does this, but it wasn't easy to set up. I really, really want a GUI for it. More and more it seems like going back to alsa would have few downsides and a couple of upsides. I think I'll try it out on my netbook, which is more resource-starved anyway.
Because Ubuntu is Linux for human beings, and human beings tend to like iTunes and similar players. I know you don't, but there are plenty of options catering to people who like using minimalist players and managing their music themselves. And I hear foobar2k works great using Wine.
Well, most netbooks have a 10" 1024x600 display, which implies a higher ppi resolution than that Dell laptop. They're certainly not worse, just smaller. Furthermore, you can get some 10" netbooks (e.g. Dell's) with a higher-res screen. And the Dell 12" netbook has a res of 1280x800, again, higher than your old one. So much for that.
Furthermore, nobody is suggesting using a projector like that -- or really ANY consumer projector -- for a "reasonable computing experience". They're built for watching movies and playing games... If that's not the thing you do then you're really not the target demographic.
One tip would be to get an intern, and dump some of the support tickets on them. Honestly, I'm not sure how viable a solution that is.
Not very viable if you call it an internship, which it isn't. Very viable if you call it a side job for a teenager with technical experience. Paper route for the geek. I did something like that when I was like 17. Can't say it gave me a lot of useful experience -- really, none, apart from dealing with working environments -- but I sure could use the money. Of course that assumes people don't mind being helped by a snotty brat, but particularly those in management (read: old timers) are pretty much used to young people running circles around them when it comes to computers.
That said, even as a snotty brat I resented having to do super menial tasks like refilling paper trays...
Not an AV geek, but I just checked, and a "Belkin - Video / audio cable - Male 19 pin HDMI Type A to M 19 pin HDMI Type A" is available from lots of places for between $10 to $15. Not exactly cheap, but from these threads I would have expected at least triple that amount.
True! And since it now comes with QGtkStyle, which uses GTK+ engines and widgets to render stuff, you can use it and have a nice looking app at the same time.
Opera Mini runs on pretty old phones and works extremely well with Wikipedia. The new mobile version uses less bandwidth, but apart from that the full version is fine. The mobile version also loads REALLY quickly -- much faster than full Wikipedia -- on my desktop browser, that's what's really amazing.
Also: Wikipedia on War crimes of the Wehrmacht (I haven't actually checked the article, this topic has an extremely high chance for NPOV violations.)
And calling the SS a paramilitary organisation doesn't mean much. The the Waffen SS was a military organisation which at its peak had close to a million soldiers. Wikipedia says: "The Waffen-SS, an initially-small paramilitary section of Heinrich Himmler's Allgemeine SS that grew to nearly a million strong during World War II was, De Facto, a fourth branch of the Wehrmacht, under operational and field command of OKW and OKH [central army command]."
It's easy not to care when it's lies and misinformation. It's harder when it's true... And who the hell knows what this Slashdot story is about, anyway.
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The "speed differences" are largely imaginary as the USB connection bottlenecks access times anyways. Hardly. Access times might be terrible either way, but there's a significant (order of magnitude) difference in throughput between different flash drives. Not a big deal when all you're copying is 2 MB PPTs, but a potential deal breaker if you occasionally want to use it for 700 MB, uh, media files.
You could fix the ring thing by sticking 3 or 4 pieces of teflon tape under the mouse. It's sold for exactly that purpose. I still won't get a mouse where the right-click functionality could "use some improvement", but then again I'm not using OS X.
If you're rooting for them, you have to realize that most of the shipping there goes INTO Africa.
Um, no. Most of the shipping off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden goes to the Suez canal and on to Europe (or the other way). I'm too lazy to search for actual figures, but I'm sure only a small fraction of the goods is intended for Somalia, or even Africa.
Talking about degraded living conditions -- when I was in the US, none of the tap water was what I consider drinkable. I have seen swimming pools around here with lower amounts of chlorine. Blegh. Even showering was disgusting. I'm sure water quality varies by state, though.
Yeah, but the hot water has likely been sitting in a tank for a while.
Having a tank is just one way to get hot water. I prefer having it heated on the fly when I need it -- that way I get hot water for as long as I like and without any health issues. It's also fairly energy efficient when using natural gas as opposed to electricity. And I have NEVER seen or even heard of an open topped hot water tank here in Germany, certainly not for home use.
Today, few cell phones have GPS, but many can roughly localize using cell phone towers. Users easily could select an exact destination using a map displayed on the screen -- if that's even necessary in NYC. And I'm sure the number of GPS phones will vastly increase in the coming years. But I guess calling the dispatch line works, too.
So, overall efficiency when using fossil fuels would be: (ideally) 85% * Efficiency of transmission * Efficiency of battery recharge * Efficiency of battery storage * Efficiency of electric motor (taking into account regenerative braking). How efficient is charging a battery these days? It sucks for small consumer devices, that much seems clear.
For comparison: Efficiency of a Diesel engine: 35% - 50%
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You're shaped like a cock?! I'd get that looked at.
No. Sadly, pulseaudio exists simply to copy Vista. Vista introduced per-application mixers and apparently this is a Cool New Feature that everybody supposedly wants, even if it's a shitty implementation that slows down what was a perfectly working sound system.
I gotta say, per-application volume control -- in whatever OS -- always seemed like a fairly useless feature to me. Virtually all applications that generate sound already have an internal volume control independent from the system master. I've had PulseAudio for over a year now, and I haven't used this feature once.
What I DO need is easy configuration of multi-channel audio. First of all, all the channels (front left, rear right, etc) need to be mapped correctly. And I'd like for stereo inputs (e.g. music) to be expanded to the rear channels. PulseAudio does this, but it wasn't easy to set up. I really, really want a GUI for it. More and more it seems like going back to alsa would have few downsides and a couple of upsides. I think I'll try it out on my netbook, which is more resource-starved anyway.
Because Ubuntu is Linux for human beings, and human beings tend to like iTunes and similar players. I know you don't, but there are plenty of options catering to people who like using minimalist players and managing their music themselves. And I hear foobar2k works great using Wine.
Well, most netbooks have a 10" 1024x600 display, which implies a higher ppi resolution than that Dell laptop. They're certainly not worse, just smaller. Furthermore, you can get some 10" netbooks (e.g. Dell's) with a higher-res screen. And the Dell 12" netbook has a res of 1280x800, again, higher than your old one. So much for that.
Furthermore, nobody is suggesting using a projector like that -- or really ANY consumer projector -- for a "reasonable computing experience". They're built for watching movies and playing games... If that's not the thing you do then you're really not the target demographic.
One tip would be to get an intern, and dump some of the support tickets on them. Honestly, I'm not sure how viable a solution that is.
Not very viable if you call it an internship, which it isn't. Very viable if you call it a side job for a teenager with technical experience. Paper route for the geek. I did something like that when I was like 17. Can't say it gave me a lot of useful experience -- really, none, apart from dealing with working environments -- but I sure could use the money. Of course that assumes people don't mind being helped by a snotty brat, but particularly those in management (read: old timers) are pretty much used to young people running circles around them when it comes to computers.
That said, even as a snotty brat I resented having to do super menial tasks like refilling paper trays...
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9. Napster/xTorrent/Amazon/iTunes/eBay/and other Business Distribution online apps
Ten is too short a number for categories, but these IMHO all started billion dollar industry segments
Actually, number 9 also threatens to shut down a billion dollar industry. ;)
Not an AV geek, but I just checked, and a "Belkin - Video / audio cable - Male 19 pin HDMI Type A to M 19 pin HDMI Type A" is available from lots of places for between $10 to $15. Not exactly cheap, but from these threads I would have expected at least triple that amount.
True! And since it now comes with QGtkStyle, which uses GTK+ engines and widgets to render stuff, you can use it and have a nice looking app at the same time.
Fantastic video, thanks for the link.
Great, Ruby will fit right in.
Opera Mini runs on pretty old phones and works extremely well with Wikipedia. The new mobile version uses less bandwidth, but apart from that the full version is fine. The mobile version also loads REALLY quickly -- much faster than full Wikipedia -- on my desktop browser, that's what's really amazing.
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Whether or not the soldiers knew, didn't know, or chose not to notice; the Wehrmacht did plenty of horrible things all on their own.
Exhibition on Crimes of the German Wehrmacht (site looks a bit off when viewed in a big window)
Also: Wikipedia on War crimes of the Wehrmacht (I haven't actually checked the article, this topic has an extremely high chance for NPOV violations.)
And calling the SS a paramilitary organisation doesn't mean much. The the Waffen SS was a military organisation which at its peak had close to a million soldiers. Wikipedia says: "The Waffen-SS, an initially-small paramilitary section of Heinrich Himmler's Allgemeine SS that grew to nearly a million strong during World War II was, De Facto, a fourth branch of the Wehrmacht, under operational and field command of OKW and OKH [central army command]."
It's easy not to care when it's lies and misinformation. It's harder when it's true... And who the hell knows what this Slashdot story is about, anyway.
The "speed differences" are largely imaginary as the USB connection bottlenecks access times anyways.
Hardly. Access times might be terrible either way, but there's a significant (order of magnitude) difference in throughput between different flash drives. Not a big deal when all you're copying is 2 MB PPTs, but a potential deal breaker if you occasionally want to use it for 700 MB, uh, media files.
Right, you need to look at the big pigture when considering these things.
You could fix the ring thing by sticking 3 or 4 pieces of teflon tape under the mouse. It's sold for exactly that purpose. I still won't get a mouse where the right-click functionality could "use some improvement", but then again I'm not using OS X.
Since you seem to think that people shooting at and killing one another is an entertaining show, I think it's you who has watched too much TV.
People dying?
If you're rooting for them, you have to realize that most of the shipping there goes INTO Africa.
Um, no. Most of the shipping off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden goes to the Suez canal and on to Europe (or the other way). I'm too lazy to search for actual figures, but I'm sure only a small fraction of the goods is intended for Somalia, or even Africa.
Talking about degraded living conditions -- when I was in the US, none of the tap water was what I consider drinkable. I have seen swimming pools around here with lower amounts of chlorine. Blegh. Even showering was disgusting. I'm sure water quality varies by state, though.
Yeah, but the hot water has likely been sitting in a tank for a while.
Having a tank is just one way to get hot water. I prefer having it heated on the fly when I need it -- that way I get hot water for as long as I like and without any health issues. It's also fairly energy efficient when using natural gas as opposed to electricity. And I have NEVER seen or even heard of an open topped hot water tank here in Germany, certainly not for home use.
Ah, so that's how you make yourself sleep at night.
Today, few cell phones have GPS, but many can roughly localize using cell phone towers. Users easily could select an exact destination using a map displayed on the screen -- if that's even necessary in NYC. And I'm sure the number of GPS phones will vastly increase in the coming years. But I guess calling the dispatch line works, too.
So, overall efficiency when using fossil fuels would be: (ideally) 85% * Efficiency of transmission * Efficiency of battery recharge * Efficiency of battery storage * Efficiency of electric motor (taking into account regenerative braking). How efficient is charging a battery these days? It sucks for small consumer devices, that much seems clear.
For comparison: Efficiency of a Diesel engine: 35% - 50%