or better electrical filtering between the analog circuits and bus noise... if one uses the spdif out, that's no longer an issue if the digital stream from the application is passed unmolested to it, which isn't always a given. things like bad resampling algos in drivers used to overcome single rate DACS (48khz is most common), or analog mixing using cheap components (rare, but happens occasionally on really cheap onboard sound solutions) can ruin the sound..
I think the number one issue with modern onboard solutions is impedance mismatch between the output op amps and whatever they're driving. Many people mistakenly plug headphones into these thinking they have the current to drive them. This varies depending on the impedance of the phones, which vary greatly from model to model, but most of these onboard solutions were never designed to do this, resulting in terrible sound. In addition, many of those that have dedicated headphone outputs often suffer from the same cheap-as-possible philosophy.
except that 'traditional' applications, as you call them, have functionality and flexibility that this 'ubiquitous' computing lacks. If microsoft abandons that, something else will take its place, if nothing else, so that people can have something to develop their fisher-price 'ubiquitous' app on.
why is that a surity? Unless of course by 'young' you mean 'fisher price' age, but I'll assume not.. It's likely they would initially be more accepting, but that's because they have no basis from which to compare. Older generations do have such a base and so they're in a better position to objectively compare. labeling criticism as mere fear or hatred is ad hominem, and that doesn't make a case... at all.
I'd hope so, but I don't see it so much with modern software. I disagree with his statement about performance. make sure one's code is correct before optimization would be a conservative trait as it fits better with his definition of it (slow, plodding, process driven). optimizing out of the gate would be a 'liberal' trait. Of course, if the programmer was that good, he could optimize out of the gate with as little code as possible, thus being conservative with resources..
no it doesn't disappear at the end of its halflife.. it's 1/2 as potent as it was.. still potent enough to cause serious problems. take caesium 137.. I believe the halflife for that is 30 years.. short, yes, but even at 90 years, it's still causing harm to the environment/food supply. the body treats it like calcium, so it'll end up in the bones and muscles of your grandkids. While I think nuclear power is a necessary reality, people really need to understand what all these related terms, numbers, and their scales imply.
Ah, well at least you're putting forth a calm and rational argument.
It is rational. It just isn't calm.
This argument isn't going to fly. Most hardware manufacturers don't care about Linux. How long have Slashdotters bemoaned the lack of major manufacturer Linux options, or complained about the small forays by Walmart and Dell which are then pulled back?
agreed. this argument doesn't make much sense.
This kind of commentary is not doing your argument any favors. You're shooting yourself in the foot; you obliterate any useful point you may have.
why? the whole nazi police state reference is a perfect analogy with the top down lock down that is signed UEFI. Sure, today, it can be disabled, but the slippery slope does apply here.
Says the anonymous coward.
In free societies, anonymity is perfectly acceptable. the argument stands or falls on its own. demanding id just demands an argument from authority. the only thing you might gain is slightly higher confidence in the speaker, but that doesn't prove anything either.
I have several times observed a tech expert, making a totally valid point that was 100% correct, fail utterly to win support for his argument because he made his point while raving and going over the edge.
In cases where someone is ranting, it is most likely serious, with high stakes, and the group is about to make a terrible decision. In such circumstances, these listeners are idiots for not taking sound advice because the format didn't stroke their egos sufficiently/allow them to save face/hurt their oversensitive feelings.
his argument is spot on.. obviously since the only thing you could critique was his anonymity and his nazi reference...and honestly, the former is perfectly acceptable in a free society, and the latter isn't all that far off base.
you mean so when those said drivers cause or are referenced in a dump, it can't be debugged by anyone but the vendor if it chooses? yeah wonderful.. If I want that experience, I'd use windows 24/7. If nvidia is the example by which other vendors would (ab)use such a stable ABI, I hope it's never stabilized.
so a university, probably a 'progressive' organization, manipulates stats to praise some aspect of 'multiculturalism' for an obvious profit motive. what a shock. perhaps it's just that those who can learn languages quickly are simply smarter people.
not to be pedantic, but 'modify' in the context you used suggests a binary patch, which is how I interpreted your statement.. At any rate, booting is supposed to halt once the chain of trust is broken. ntldr will only boot a signed image.
I will. it's an awesome operating system... since I spend 95% of my time in the start menu I'm glad they made it full screen and interactive.. it's like a video game!
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then, really, what's the point of wayland?
Aren't those all directly related? If the voltage swing is great enough, it'll clip, meaning insufficient current, which means impedance mismatch..
depends though.. some onboard sound drivers are known for crappy output.. they resample unnecessarily and/or they do it badly.
or better electrical filtering between the analog circuits and bus noise... if one uses the spdif out, that's no longer an issue if the digital stream from the application is passed unmolested to it, which isn't always a given. things like bad resampling algos in drivers used to overcome single rate DACS (48khz is most common), or analog mixing using cheap components (rare, but happens occasionally on really cheap onboard sound solutions) can ruin the sound..
I think the number one issue with modern onboard solutions is impedance mismatch between the output op amps and whatever they're driving. Many people mistakenly plug headphones into these thinking they have the current to drive them. This varies depending on the impedance of the phones, which vary greatly from model to model, but most of these onboard solutions were never designed to do this, resulting in terrible sound. In addition, many of those that have dedicated headphone outputs often suffer from the same cheap-as-possible philosophy.
I wonder if that jarring experience was intentional to get people to prefer metro apps over their win32 brethren by default.
except that 'traditional' applications, as you call them, have functionality and flexibility that this 'ubiquitous' computing lacks. If microsoft abandons that, something else will take its place, if nothing else, so that people can have something to develop their fisher-price 'ubiquitous' app on.
why is that a surity? Unless of course by 'young' you mean 'fisher price' age, but I'll assume not.. It's likely they would initially be more accepting, but that's because they have no basis from which to compare. Older generations do have such a base and so they're in a better position to objectively compare. labeling criticism as mere fear or hatred is ad hominem, and that doesn't make a case... at all.
I'd hope so, but I don't see it so much with modern software. I disagree with his statement about performance. make sure one's code is correct before optimization would be a conservative trait as it fits better with his definition of it (slow, plodding, process driven). optimizing out of the gate would be a 'liberal' trait. Of course, if the programmer was that good, he could optimize out of the gate with as little code as possible, thus being conservative with resources..
maybe this guy is just full of shit.
no it doesn't disappear at the end of its halflife.. it's 1/2 as potent as it was.. still potent enough to cause serious problems. take caesium 137.. I believe the halflife for that is 30 years.. short, yes, but even at 90 years, it's still causing harm to the environment/food supply. the body treats it like calcium, so it'll end up in the bones and muscles of your grandkids. While I think nuclear power is a necessary reality, people really need to understand what all these related terms, numbers, and their scales imply.
unless of course you don't have a gambler personality type.. then they're just annoying, pointless filler.
Ah, well at least you're putting forth a calm and rational argument.
It is rational. It just isn't calm.
This argument isn't going to fly. Most hardware manufacturers don't care about Linux. How long have Slashdotters bemoaned the lack of major manufacturer Linux options, or complained about the small forays by Walmart and Dell which are then pulled back?
agreed. this argument doesn't make much sense.
This kind of commentary is not doing your argument any favors. You're shooting yourself in the foot; you obliterate any useful point you may have.
why? the whole nazi police state reference is a perfect analogy with the top down lock down that is signed UEFI. Sure, today, it can be disabled, but the slippery slope does apply here.
Says the anonymous coward.
In free societies, anonymity is perfectly acceptable. the argument stands or falls on its own. demanding id just demands an argument from authority. the only thing you might gain is slightly higher confidence in the speaker, but that doesn't prove anything either.
I have several times observed a tech expert, making a totally valid point that was 100% correct, fail utterly to win support for his argument because he made his point while raving and going over the edge.
In cases where someone is ranting, it is most likely serious, with high stakes, and the group is about to make a terrible decision. In such circumstances, these listeners are idiots for not taking sound advice because the format didn't stroke their egos sufficiently/allow them to save face/hurt their oversensitive feelings.
his argument is spot on.. obviously since the only thing you could critique was his anonymity and his nazi reference...and honestly, the former is perfectly acceptable in a free society, and the latter isn't all that far off base.
maybe he just wants those things that linux does offer, but with a windows-like desktop. I don't see a problem with that.
you mean so when those said drivers cause or are referenced in a dump, it can't be debugged by anyone but the vendor if it chooses? yeah wonderful.. If I want that experience, I'd use windows 24/7. If nvidia is the example by which other vendors would (ab)use such a stable ABI, I hope it's never stabilized.
define 'moving forward' please.
only way to get that is a walled garden.. do not want...
yeah, but then desktop pcs will go up in price.. way up.. out of the reach of most of us.
I find it funny that many liberals actually believe he did.
except it doesn't support simple stuff like fullscreen mode changing, which makes vsync, a needed part of accurate emulation, nearly impossible.
web apps are ass.. they are antithetical to user empowerment.
he may have done those things, but they do not prevent him from being a corporate shill.. which he is as id is now owned by zendimax.
that doesn't mean learning multiple languages increases intelligence.
so a university, probably a 'progressive' organization, manipulates stats to praise some aspect of 'multiculturalism' for an obvious profit motive. what a shock. perhaps it's just that those who can learn languages quickly are simply smarter people.
not to be pedantic, but 'modify' in the context you used suggests a binary patch, which is how I interpreted your statement.. At any rate, booting is supposed to halt once the chain of trust is broken. ntldr will only boot a signed image.
I will. it's an awesome operating system... since I spend 95% of my time in the start menu I'm glad they made it full screen and interactive.. it's like a video game!