Do you have a color profile installed in your Firefox?
If so -- uninstall it.
png's are not color-managed. So no matter what profile you have installed, if the svg profiles read as color managed, they will look different from the png's.
Second, do you have a generic profile installed in FF or have you profiled and calibrated your monitor and have a specific monitor profile for your monitor installed in FF (which is what you probably should have if you have any). sRGB and sRGBv4 don't appear suitable, *to my eyes*, for web images designed for display on good monitors -- especially not LCD's. LCD's have considerably more color range than what sRGBv4 was designed for (not to mention FF doesn't grok v4 color profiles). Applying sRGB to an image, vs. say the one for my monitor, dims out the colors and reduces the gamut size -- perfect for lower quality monitors and, perhaps printing to home printers, that have smaller color-range capacities (gamuts), but for looking at them on monitor, you'll be ripping off the color you could be experiencing with a profile suited to your monitor.
So before you complain about FF's SVG being screwed up, make sure your system is ready to display accurate ouput -- have your DPI set correctly for your monitor and get your monitor profiled (and calibrated if you can). The Win7 built-in util is adequate for generating a reasonable color profile. You can use that to install in FF (because FF doesn't use the system's profile, it will default to sRGBv2 if unconfigured (at least that's what it's documented to do...) which will usually be wrong if you've profiled your monitor.
I tried the URL's listed, and so far, after about going through 2/3rds of them, nearly all work as expected. No animation. The fonts won't look identical as in the png version unless you have your system resolution set correctly (most people don't), and have the fonts that are used in the tests, loaded onto your system. I didn't have all the fonts, and I'm pretty sure I have more than most people.
Do your your fonts display identically in all your other applications? I.e. when you display a page in multiple browsers, -- how about when you print to PDF and display in Acrobat? If your fonts are consistent aross all those (might as well throw in your favorite WYSISWYG editor as well). Oh -- and finally -- if you print it out and hold copy up against your screen, are the fonts identical on paper as on screen?
If all that is true, then you probably have your fonts configured right on your system reasonably well. Even then, you have to have the right fonts loaded onto your system -- specifically the ones used in the tests.
So give FF a break on its SVG tests regarding the fonts -- because getting those "perfect" will take the most configuration on your part. Some of the tests even say that you should ignore differences in font sizes and styles because they are likely to be misconfiguration on your machine for use as a test verification device.
Please make sure your DPI are set accurate and try to look through the sources to find what fonts you will need to have things look correctly. These are tests designed to operate under specific circumstances.
Some things are obviously broken -- like text displays one place, but not another, and the animation stuff not displaying at all. Not good. But other stuff...my only main gripe with SVG so far is execution speed on more complex images. But getting it working is probably the best first priority.
The SVG font tests I saw looked fine on my monitor. But I do have alot of fonts loaded on my machine (~2059 families).
That's been superceded -- last year the Supreme Court, as much as I understand these things, said that evidence gathered 'illegally' (w/o warrent) was no longer subject to being thrown out -- but that applicable laws could be pressed against the perpetrators who gathered the evidence. However, also, as far as I know, there are no laws prescribing penalties for those who violate the provisions of that section of the constitution.
That's the big hole, right there -- there are no criminal penalties for those who are supposedly representing the government, who violate constitutional provisions.
So they can violate to their hearts content until they are caught and someone wins a court case against them -- and often, even then they can continue where they left off, unless every court case orders them to cease and desist under contempt of court penalties. Without penalties -- government people won't abide by and follow constitutional provisions.
In a suite? That you pay for? That staff said had only restrictions on number of occupants (so as to comply with legal fire codes)?
I'd say they have grounds for a lawsuit.
Imagine going to any comic con, or sci-con and being thrown out of a room where you were hosting a party?! It would be outrageous! People often rent large rooms -- suites to be able to throw parties with lots of people sharing interests of the convention. How is this any different?
Sounds like complete bull to me from what the story says. Unless there was some written agreement prohibiting them from discussing or showing their interests at the convention, I'd be feeling more than a bit litigious right about now.
The content is 'an idea'. And it is the most valuable part. But unless it is able to be conveyed from one person to another, it's worthless. Without the ability to convey the 'important part' it's importance is never realized. Thus, as DRM as added, the ability to convey that importance 'drops', in proportion to the manner in which the restrictions inhibit transmission. DRM is essentially "anti-thought". It deletes or hides content and makes it though it doesn't exist. One must always presume that any and every DRM mechanism will require some technology to read and that every technology will be obsolete and unusable in some number of years. How many people can read 5.25" floppies or 5" hard drives or paper tape? How many people can read a DOS 1.0 formatted floppy? Or Word 1.0 file? Eight-track tapes, analog TV signals...time passes and the ability to read obsolete technology disappears. Printed ink on acid free paper will last decades if stored right, if not centuries. No technology required. Only thing better might be engraved stone tablets...
XFS was designed with media streaming in mind -- and designed for large file, high performance. It had a defragmenter to keep disks in optimal condition before Windows98 had come out (was one at the request of a large, customer who had an especially pathological case -- before that there was normally not considered a need for it).
Files can be 'normal', have up to and addition 256K of resource-fork related into (extended attribute info), AND you can have a real-time section that can allow for completely bypassing the file system. It was sufficiently fast for video even back when disks were 1/10th the speed they are now.
On it's native OS, it could handle multiple streamed data to the same disk and keep it separate by allocating the separate channels out of disparate allocation groups on disk. I don't know how that works on linux. Unfornately, on linux even under x64, file block sizes AFAIK, are still limited to 4K. XFS has a 64K limit, but under linux is hamstrung to 4k. Of course Windows NT allows 64K block sizes. But not linux...hmmm....very weird. XFS minimizes impact of linux's tiny allocation block size by using a extents which can be at least 256k -- but believe the actual limit is in megabytes. Been a while since I read that stuff...
Of course -- not to be linux centric, but have heard ZFS is pretty good, but no idea of how it compares for anything.
Most of that low wage is due to the US embargo. We cost them tons of $$. It's shameful. As for their healthcare, I guess they do well with what they have, which isn't much.
Locked out of their potential biggest trade partner, how can they make money?
earmuffs? Maybe try some noise cancelling earphones? Tell him they cut out the background noise -- now if they also happen to play music as well as cancel noise?
Or get some Leightning L3 Earmuffs. About -29 to -31 dB depending on the sound. Wear those for a few weeks, then when they become of no notice, try some ear buds under them.
Screw the what and whyfor -- where do we who bought monitors during that period get our refunds...I assume the DOJ will be distributing the fines to those in in the affected class, I mean they are our government and they were representing us, right?
And exactly how does the remote assistance allow function through http?
My mom is behind NAT and I'm behind a http proxy. Windows remote assistance won't work if one of us isn't exposed to the internet, let alone with both of us behind barriers.
Neither of us have an address to connect to -- though we could both connect through an http tunnel -- as I have with support personnel at large companies who are used to dealing with customers behind firewalls.
It's obviously a political maneuver. If they can show the big american company as being a copyright violator, then they can use that as leverage in accusations that they don't enforce american copyrights in china.
That doesn't work for me -- I copy a image into my brain cells when I look at it. The image may be modified or compressed in real time, as my visual subprocessors ignore or tune out parts of the visual stimuli around me, but if I don't make a copy I can't see anything. The information goes from the external world, through my eyes and is copied into my internal representation of the world.
Isn't everything we receive as information copied, in some form, into our brain?
How can one respond to what someone else has said if one doesn't hold it in their own memory long enough to decode and comprehend the meaning? Copies are the only way we experience the world around us.
>Man, you really need a reality check. My Linux system (x64, of course) is currently using only 308M total, with the KDE beast and whatever crap it thinks it needs, and firefox. There's absolutely no reason to require ungodly amounts of RAM for normal operation, whether on x32 or x64. ---
My FF alone uses twice that -- often. But it has a large memory cache. Alot better to store things in memory and get faster access for me than wait around on it to reload from somewhere....
It's also not uncommon for me to run FF for over a day or two -- and it doesn't like to let go of memory. Bring up about 50 tabs - on complex pages...you'll get your memory exercised...
I'm always running up against memory limits in 32-bit XP, but then I'm limited to 3GB because the OS is handicapped by MS to ignore any memory mappable above the 4GB mark (even though the HW supports it) -- but in general, 64-bit is faster.
15k ~ 1/5, so 30k ~ 2/5 or certainly no more than 50%... is that what you mean by close?
They could get faster by using multiple heads out of phase from each other by either 180 or 120 degree's.
that AND multiple read heads in parallel/platter -- say add 2-3 then seek distance could be reduced by half.
If you use 2 arms at 180 degrees, you can read the disk in half the time.
I'm surprised no one has designed this type of disk -- all seem to stick to 1 head/platter-surface.
Maybe it's a form factor thing -- but maybe they could use the multiple heads on 2.5" platters in a 3.5" FF.
Of course they need to be sensitive to heat buildup under load -- maybe slow down the spin rate or something.
Worst thing I've seen on disks was in all the consumer-grade enclosures I looked at for external SATA's. At idle, they kept the disks in the mid 30C range. Consumer grade disks usually have a max temp of 40C. Under load, all of them, easily exceeded that safety margin. Only disks in the computer had enough cooling to stay below 40 consistently.
If you are on the do-not-call list, you won't get any calls ANYWAY.
The problem I have is from the 'oh-so-many' organizations, now (including my local Salvation Army Store!), that robocall for charity -- and I have NOT done business with them.
I think they get their numbers from the public phone book -- I rarely get calls on an unpublished number (have to pay extra for), but get scads on my public number.
I suppose a stickler accountant might ask if it was going to be added to your 1040 (US pay summary for tax purposes) at the end of the year..
If not, then your boss could later claim it was company property if you ran into difficulties.
All depends on your working relationship w/your boss. If he's new, might want to keep things official, if you don't mind the possibility of him rescinding the offer...
Is this before or after we... run out of electricity due to world energy crisis... or before the big 'EMP' that thows the US[World] back into the the 1800's... or... (be sure to include an power generator?....:-)) Maybe have it be self-booting and require no reading -- just a giant pictograph?
Those self mutating viruses that destroy read/write ability.......what if they don't recognize it as a computer or a message? Should it contain motion or light detection and start automatically?
They could think it a virus threat from the past: they are all tech-merged people who hear horror stories about virus ridden computers from the past and will be afraid to activate it...?
Etc...all sorts of things to watch out for if you watch enough SyFy...;^)
Dunno why, but that was banned some number a years ago. They used to do it. Started with some masculine looking women from old-USSR... But somehow it was an invasion of privacy....
Deceptive? As long as it is 'DRM'ed, it is 'owned' by the company, plain and simple.
The whole idea of DRM is to move toward a pay-to-play (per item, per song, per instance), market.
Just because DivX take-home movies that could be watched for a few days before self-destructing, failed, what makes anyone think the "Intellectual Property" Industry won't continue trying in other ways. They turn up the temperature too fast, and people balk, but if they do it slowly enough -- how many people download the same tunes on their ipod or smart phone that they already own -- and then download the same song again in a ringtone, then again in a ring-back tone...etc. Then they pay a monthly fee to play music on their computer... or access sat-radio. Just recently, 'they' have forced users to have to pay again for their songs on internet Radio (moving away from the charge/listener/song model on 'old radio'....bit-by-bit, they turn up the heat and take away more rights -- all to make you pay more an more for less and less.
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And your machine is pixel perfect?
You have your color profiled and your screen dpi set to be consistent across your apps and system?
I'd be very surprised since most people don't even know these things need any adjustment whatsoever.
You have all the fonts that are used in the tests loaded on your system?
Again, I'd be surprised since they aren't even listed.
Expecting pixel perfection from a system that's entirely uncalibrated is a bit ludicrous, don't ya think?
Do you have a color profile installed in your Firefox?
If so -- uninstall it.
png's are not color-managed. So no matter what profile you have installed, if the svg profiles read as color managed, they will look different from the png's.
Second, do you have a generic profile installed in FF or have you profiled and calibrated your monitor and have a specific monitor profile for your monitor installed in FF (which is what you probably should have if you have any). sRGB and sRGBv4 don't appear suitable, *to my eyes*, for web images designed for display on good monitors -- especially not LCD's. LCD's have considerably more color range than what sRGBv4 was designed for (not to mention FF doesn't grok v4 color profiles). Applying sRGB to an image, vs. say the one for my monitor, dims out the colors and reduces the gamut size -- perfect for lower quality monitors and, perhaps printing to home printers, that have smaller color-range capacities (gamuts), but for looking at them on monitor, you'll be ripping off the color you could be experiencing with a profile suited to your monitor.
So before you complain about FF's SVG being screwed up, make sure your system is ready to display accurate ouput -- have your DPI set correctly for your monitor and get your monitor profiled (and calibrated if you can). The Win7 built-in util is adequate for generating a reasonable color profile. You can use that to install in FF (because FF doesn't use the system's profile, it will default to sRGBv2 if unconfigured (at least that's what it's documented to do...) which will usually be wrong if you've profiled your monitor.
I tried the URL's listed, and so far, after about going through 2/3rds of them, nearly all work as expected. No animation. The fonts won't look identical as in the png version unless you have your system resolution set correctly (most people don't), and have the fonts that are used in the tests, loaded onto your system. I didn't have all the fonts, and I'm pretty sure I have more than most people.
Do your your fonts display identically in all your other applications? I.e. when you
display a page in multiple browsers, -- how about when you print to PDF and display in Acrobat? If your fonts are consistent aross all those (might as well throw in your favorite WYSISWYG editor as well). Oh -- and finally -- if you print it out and hold copy up against your screen, are the fonts identical on paper as on screen?
If all that is true, then you probably have your fonts configured right on your system reasonably well. Even then, you have to have the right fonts loaded onto your system -- specifically the ones used in the tests.
So give FF a break on its SVG tests regarding the fonts -- because getting those "perfect" will take the most configuration on your part. Some of the tests even say that you should ignore differences in font sizes and styles because they are likely to be misconfiguration on your machine for use as a test verification device.
Please make sure your DPI are set accurate and try to look through the sources to find what fonts you will need to have things look correctly. These are tests designed to operate under specific circumstances.
Some things are obviously broken -- like text displays one place, but not another,
and the animation stuff not displaying at all. Not good. But other stuff...my only
main gripe with SVG so far is execution speed on more complex images. But getting it working is probably the best first priority.
The SVG font tests I saw looked fine on my monitor. But I do have alot of fonts loaded on my machine (~2059 families).
That's been superceded -- last year the Supreme Court, as much as I understand these things, said that evidence gathered 'illegally' (w/o warrent) was no longer subject to being thrown out -- but that applicable laws could be pressed against the perpetrators who gathered the evidence. However, also, as far as I know, there are no laws prescribing penalties for those who violate the provisions of that section of the constitution.
That's the big hole, right there -- there are no criminal penalties for those who are supposedly representing the government, who violate constitutional provisions.
So they can violate to their hearts content until they are caught and someone wins a court case against them -- and often, even then they can continue where they left off, unless every court case orders them to cease and desist under contempt of court penalties. Without penalties -- government people won't abide by and follow constitutional provisions.
-l
In a suite? That you pay for? That staff said had only restrictions on number of occupants (so as to comply with legal fire codes)?
I'd say they have grounds for a lawsuit.
Imagine going to any comic con, or sci-con and being thrown out of a room where you were hosting a party?! It would be outrageous! People often rent large rooms -- suites to be able to throw parties with lots of people sharing interests of the convention. How is this any different?
Sounds like complete bull to me from what the story says. Unless there was some written agreement prohibiting them from discussing or showing their interests at the convention, I'd be feeling more than a bit litigious right about now.
They do this on my unclaimed minutes each month...er is that not the same?
The content is 'an idea'. And it is the most valuable part. But unless it is able to be conveyed from one person to another, it's worthless. Without the ability to convey the 'important part' it's importance is never realized. Thus, as DRM as added, the ability to convey that importance 'drops', in proportion to the manner in which the restrictions inhibit transmission. DRM is essentially "anti-thought". It deletes or hides content and makes it though it doesn't exist. One must always presume that any and every DRM mechanism will require some technology to read and that every technology will be obsolete and unusable in some number of years. How many people can read 5.25" floppies or 5" hard drives or paper tape? How many people can read a DOS 1.0 formatted floppy? Or Word 1.0 file? Eight-track tapes, analog TV signals...time passes and the ability to read obsolete technology disappears. Printed ink on acid free paper will last decades if stored right, if not centuries. No technology required. Only thing better might be engraved stone tablets...
Followed the link and got this message:
Track in Google Earth
In addition to tracking Santa on the NORAD Tracks Santa homepage, you can also track his flight in Google Earth. Return to this page on Christmas Eve.
Was this not true?
Maybe people didn't want to pay $100/hour to argue with you?
For $10/hour, arguing might be entertainment for some of them...? :-)
XFS was designed with media streaming in mind -- and designed for large file, high performance. It had a defragmenter to keep disks in optimal condition before Windows98 had come out (was one at the request of a large, customer who had an especially pathological case -- before that there was normally not considered a need for it).
Files can be 'normal', have up to and addition 256K of resource-fork related into (extended attribute info), AND you can have a real-time section that can allow for completely bypassing the file system. It was sufficiently fast for video even back when disks were 1/10th the speed they are now.
On it's native OS, it could handle multiple streamed data to the same disk and keep it separate by allocating the separate channels out of disparate allocation groups on disk. I don't know how that works on linux. Unfornately, on linux even under x64, file block sizes AFAIK, are still limited to 4K. XFS has a 64K limit, but under linux is hamstrung to 4k. Of course Windows NT allows 64K block sizes. But not linux...hmmm....very weird. XFS minimizes impact of linux's tiny allocation block size by using a extents which can be at least 256k -- but believe the actual limit is in megabytes. Been a while since I read that stuff...
Of course -- not to be linux centric, but have heard ZFS is pretty good, but no idea of how it compares for anything.
my 2 cents...
Most of that low wage is due to the US embargo. We cost them tons of $$. It's shameful. As for their healthcare, I guess they do well with what they have, which isn't much.
Locked out of their potential biggest trade partner, how can they make money?
earmuffs? Maybe try some noise cancelling earphones? Tell him they cut out the background noise -- now if they also happen to play music as well as cancel noise?
Or get some Leightning L3 Earmuffs. About -29 to -31 dB depending on the sound. Wear those for a few weeks, then when they become of no notice, try some ear buds under them.
Screw the what and whyfor -- where do we who bought monitors during that period get our refunds...I assume the DOJ will be distributing the fines to those in in the affected class, I mean they are our government and they were representing us, right?
-;
And exactly how does the remote assistance allow function through http?
My mom is behind NAT and I'm behind a http proxy. Windows remote assistance won't work if one of us isn't exposed to the internet, let alone with both of us behind barriers.
Neither of us have an address to connect to -- though we could both connect through an http tunnel -- as I have with support personnel at large companies who are used to dealing with customers behind firewalls.
-l
It's obviously a political maneuver. If they can show the big american company as being a copyright violator, then they can use that as leverage in accusations that they don't enforce american copyrights in china.
One experience != truth.
Just because anyone who tried the game first and DIDN'T buy it doesn't mean anything. It might have easily been crapware.
Uh...
That doesn't work for me -- I copy a image into my brain cells when I look at it. The image may be modified or compressed in real time, as my visual subprocessors ignore or tune out parts of the visual stimuli around me, but if I don't make a copy I can't see anything. The information goes from the external world, through my eyes and is copied into my internal representation of the world.
Isn't everything we receive as information copied, in some form, into our brain?
How can one respond to what someone else has said if one doesn't hold it in their own memory long enough to decode and comprehend the meaning? Copies are the only way we experience the world around us.
>Man, you really need a reality check. My Linux system (x64, of course) is currently using only 308M total, with the KDE beast and whatever crap it thinks it needs, and firefox. There's absolutely no reason to require ungodly amounts of RAM for normal operation, whether on x32 or x64.
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My FF alone uses twice that -- often. But it has a large memory cache. Alot better to store things in memory and get faster access for me than wait around on it to reload from somewhere....
It's also not uncommon for me to run FF for over a day or two -- and it doesn't like to let go of memory. Bring up about 50 tabs - on complex pages...you'll get your memory exercised...
I'm always running up against memory limits in 32-bit XP, but then I'm limited to 3GB because the OS is handicapped by MS to ignore any memory mappable above the 4GB mark (even though the HW supports it) -- but in general, 64-bit is faster.
close to the speed of sound? define 'close'.
15k ~ 1/5, so 30k ~ 2/5 or certainly no more than 50%... is that what you mean by close?
They could get faster by using multiple heads out of phase from each other by either 180 or 120 degree's.
that AND multiple read heads in parallel/platter -- say add 2-3 then seek distance could be reduced by half.
If you use 2 arms at 180 degrees, you can read the disk in half the time.
I'm surprised no one has designed this type of disk -- all seem to stick to 1 head/platter-surface.
Maybe it's a form factor thing -- but maybe they could use the multiple heads on 2.5" platters in a 3.5" FF.
Of course they need to be sensitive to heat buildup under load -- maybe slow down the spin rate or something.
Worst thing I've seen on disks was in all the consumer-grade enclosures I looked at for external SATA's. At idle, they kept the disks in the mid 30C range. Consumer grade disks usually have a max temp of 40C. Under load, all of them, easily exceeded that safety margin. Only disks in the computer had enough cooling to stay below 40 consistently.
If you are on the do-not-call list, you won't get any calls ANYWAY.
The problem I have is from the 'oh-so-many' organizations, now (including my local Salvation Army Store!), that robocall for charity -- and I have NOT done business with them.
I think they get their numbers from the public phone book -- I rarely get calls on an unpublished number (have to pay extra for), but get scads on my public number.
Just ask him -- what terms? Is it yours?
It could be considered a "pay bonus"...
I suppose a stickler accountant might ask if it was going to be added to your 1040 (US pay summary for tax purposes)
at the end of the year..
If not, then your boss could later claim it was company property if you ran into difficulties.
All depends on your working relationship w/your boss. If he's new, might want to keep things official, if you don't mind the possibility of him rescinding the offer...
Is this before or after we ... :-))
run out of electricity due to world energy crisis...
or
before the big 'EMP' that thows the US[World] back into the the 1800's...
or...
(be sure to include an power generator?....
Maybe have it be self-booting and require no reading -- just a giant pictograph?
Those self mutating viruses that destroy read/write ability... ....what if they don't recognize it as a computer or a message?
Should it contain motion or light detection and start automatically?
They could think it a virus threat from the past: they are all tech-merged people who hear horror stories about virus ridden computers from the past and will be afraid to activate it...?
Etc...all sorts of things to watch out for if you watch enough SyFy... ;^)
Dunno why, but that was banned some number a years ago.
They used to do it.
Started with some masculine looking women from old-USSR...
But somehow it was an invasion of privacy....
But genital viewing is not? *shrug*.
Yeah -- gutless, like a Mack Truck
Deceptive? As long as it is 'DRM'ed, it is 'owned' by the company, plain and simple.
The whole idea of DRM is to move toward a pay-to-play (per item, per song, per instance), market.
Just because DivX take-home movies that could be watched for a few days before self-destructing, failed, what makes anyone think the "Intellectual Property" Industry won't continue trying in other ways. They turn up the temperature too fast, and people balk, but if they do it slowly enough -- how many people download the same tunes on their ipod or smart phone that they already own -- and then download the same song again in a ringtone, then again in a ring-back tone...etc. Then they pay a monthly fee to play music on their computer... or access sat-radio. Just recently, 'they' have forced users to have to pay again for their songs on internet Radio (moving away from the
charge/listener/song model on 'old radio'....bit-by-bit, they turn up the heat and take away more rights -- all to make you pay more an more for less and less.