Buggy is a generic term for not working (like crashing or showing a black screen and no idea what to do), unconfigured is a cop out term for "I don't know how to configure it". I think one emulator worked nice after setting up keyboard or gamepad keys the ugly way and launching it from command line every time but I can't tell which it was.
I think I ran fceux in mint 13 (ubuntu 12.04, linux version) and that the sound was garbled. I've just tried it in Mint 16 and the sound is excellent:), with Snake Rattle'n'Roll as a quick test. Selecting full screen crashes the program instantly though. I'll eventually migrate to Mint 17 and haven't tried the program in there yet. On linux you have a great variation between xorg, pulseaudio versions, plus shit like gcc and libc etc. so I'm sure some people have shit working in 2010 already and some other have crap in 2013. I don't want to blame anyone in particular!, it's a marvel that stuff works at all (even in Windows or on the web)
Aren't auto shifts an old US thing?:). In other countries it wasn't picked up at all except in some contexts like high end sedan/limo with chauffeur. I think it was a matter of high disposable income and only driving in straight lines more than tech. Only recently are auto gearbox gaining traction (eh) in other countries, when highly computerized cars (hybrid or not) can actually get higher mileage with an auto gear box than a manual.
The bit about Vinyl can be found in the digital realm as well, it's the experience of a sizeable physical product and wandering in a big vinyl collection, serendipitously discovering stuff. (Artwork and titles listing are especially accessible given the format). The analog (duh!) is DVD versus computer files, SNES carts vs a hundred random roms in a folder, or e-books vs paper books.
Vinyl also has some qualities for DJ use, scratch, varying playback speed. Can't seek to a particular track like a playlist on PC software allows, though. What I hate about it is a turn table, reading cell and pre-amp add up to the cost of a desktop PC, and then they take up room. (even with a cheaper digital set up, I like joking that I'd like a $1000 pair of speakers, $50 amp and a $400,000 flat to have a nice enough big living room)
I happen to like flash technology. Hell, it's less CPU intensive than html5 + javascript crap or maybe that's because it supports a video codec much less CPU hungry than H264. Used as in the Pentium 1 and Cyrix days it's also a very good platorm for animated and optionally interactive vector graphics (similar to the good old Another World/Out of this World game). Animated PNG and animated SVG were a failure I think.
Open source / Free software world failed to make a good enough clone, except as a toy project to run antique flash objects stored in off-line folders. It could have worked out better. Hell, a decade ago slashdot was littered with "warning! pdf link" and "pdf is evil".
Vimeo is (IMO) never a site you choose to go to, rather you stumble upon embedded videos or links in other websites. So it's more used as a CDN like e.g. Akamai than some place where the video can live on its own.
To make a stupid analogy, imagine Coca Cola Coke has a 90% monopoly, and people say "but when you go into certain fast food restaurant you get Pepsi". Youtube has 100+ million people casually going to it to find something to look at, and a staggering amount of the content just exists there, not backed by a traditional website or a SEO campaign.
Wow they are mostly all unknown to me, beside Dailymotion. I thought Liveleak was a place to post torture videos, dismemberments, executions etc. "Youku" phonetically reads as "you arse" in my language lol.
It's a waste, but with computer CPU so powerful and years of over-optimizing javascript engines we'll soon be able to enjoy 1990s level of gaming in the web browser, assuming some game are of good quality and can be found along the heaps of garbage.
You jest but when I wanted to play NES games under linux, the emulators I found in apt-cache search were garbage or unusable. Best one had garbled sound, others were buggy, command-line only, unconfigured etc. I tried using good old Nesticle under Dosbox, it was almost good except that Dosbox only recognized two joystick buttons and not four.
They seem to be competent at managing their network and have some good resources put on supporting the client and their 1st party games:), there's a constant flux of updates fixing many minor bugs.
They work at least, hell even slashdot coped out and stopped requiring <br> or <p> (just after I had learnt to use <p> in slashdot comments, grrr) and now parses pressing "Enter". I guess that's evil but there are a lot less comments that failed to contain newlines.
Also Samsung 840 (non pro) is TLC chips, three bits stored per flash cell. They'd be the drives that suffer the most from that write amplification, with 840 EVO that is similar and is very aggressive in working with very few overprovisioning.
840 Pro would have taken a lot longer to die, while still being a consumer drive. Still that was an interesting experiment.
But the SSD controllers aren't fully aware of what is going on and the free or reserved space for wear leveling is splitted as many times as you have drives. A n times bigger SSD are still better than n SSD in a RAID 0. Then we're limited by interface for speed, but we have good incremental progress on the horizon. PCIe storage is already standardized in the form of M2 and SATA Express, the latter works in PCIe 2.0 2x or 4x, the latter is 2x : that gives a theoretical 1GB/s and 2GB/s. Upgrade to PCIe 3.0 doubles that. SAS 12Gb/s is also an option.
No, with 1920x1080 24bit per pixel and 30fps I'm getting 178MB/s so six cameras almost saturate the SSD. Of course it would be a great deal more reasonable to acquire the data compressed in H264 frame by frame, or H265 if it comes out and is better for that. Though, we might get mad and use uncompressed 1080p at 60fps. Then you can have a realistic "zoom in and ehnance" sequence as in the dumb movies and TV shows, with an algorithm able to combine data from multiple pictures and see a face more clearly esp. if the subject was reasonably stationary for a short while.
Pulseaudio solved that, but was broken or misconfigured by distros early on, still can use too much CPU sometimes. But it works. What hasn't changed is half the nerds bitch about it when given the occasion. You will miss GUI environment support in most cases if you go to a competing audio stack (OSSv4) but only a subset of nerds know about that one.
For the particular page I wasn't bothered because clicking on an easy to locate and big enough "pause" button was enough. I think that long term we'll need using a html5 audio/video blocker browser extension.
Here linux is superior thanks to having the volume control as a separate panel applet, not a tiny icon hidden in the tray like Windows does. And the volume can be changed with the scroll wheel whether you open the slider or not. I have an amp at near 100% volume and never touch it.
While their fortune came from Counterstrike 1.x, a game they did not make (though the underlying game the mod it's based on is undoubtedly theirs!) Valve did go on having major successes, what with Left4Dead, TF2, DOTA 2. (and CS:Source, a worse CS 1.x but with better graphics, highly successful regardless of what my opinion on it is) Countless millions of players run those games, made to run on Intel graphics and laptops by the way.
Now, people have been hyping themselves with Half-Life 3 for a decade and Valve lets them do. I don't care, I played Half-Life 2 three years after it was out and it was a dull but pretty corridor shooter where a winning tactic was to run straight through it killing stuff and running over healthpacks every 10 meters. Steambox is a semi-failutre/vaporware, yes.
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What did you mean by "buggy" and "unconfigured"?
Buggy is a generic term for not working (like crashing or showing a black screen and no idea what to do), unconfigured is a cop out term for "I don't know how to configure it". I think one emulator worked nice after setting up keyboard or gamepad keys the ugly way and launching it from command line every time but I can't tell which it was.
I think I ran fceux in mint 13 (ubuntu 12.04, linux version) and that the sound was garbled. I've just tried it in Mint 16 and the sound is excellent :), with Snake Rattle'n'Roll as a quick test. Selecting full screen crashes the program instantly though. I'll eventually migrate to Mint 17 and haven't tried the program in there yet.
On linux you have a great variation between xorg, pulseaudio versions, plus shit like gcc and libc etc. so I'm sure some people have shit working in 2010 already and some other have crap in 2013. I don't want to blame anyone in particular!, it's a marvel that stuff works at all (even in Windows or on the web)
But if videos end up posted straight on Facebook, served by Facebook itself then we're fucked.
Aren't auto shifts an old US thing? :). In other countries it wasn't picked up at all except in some contexts like high end sedan/limo with chauffeur. I think it was a matter of high disposable income and only driving in straight lines more than tech. Only recently are auto gearbox gaining traction (eh) in other countries, when highly computerized cars (hybrid or not) can actually get higher mileage with an auto gear box than a manual.
The bit about Vinyl can be found in the digital realm as well, it's the experience of a sizeable physical product and wandering in a big vinyl collection, serendipitously discovering stuff. (Artwork and titles listing are especially accessible given the format).
The analog (duh!) is DVD versus computer files, SNES carts vs a hundred random roms in a folder, or e-books vs paper books.
Vinyl also has some qualities for DJ use, scratch, varying playback speed. Can't seek to a particular track like a playlist on PC software allows, though. What I hate about it is a turn table, reading cell and pre-amp add up to the cost of a desktop PC, and then they take up room. (even with a cheaper digital set up, I like joking that I'd like a $1000 pair of speakers, $50 amp and a $400,000 flat to have a nice enough big living room)
I happen to like flash technology. Hell, it's less CPU intensive than html5 + javascript crap or maybe that's because it supports a video codec much less CPU hungry than H264. Used as in the Pentium 1 and Cyrix days it's also a very good platorm for animated and optionally interactive vector graphics (similar to the good old Another World/Out of this World game). Animated PNG and animated SVG were a failure I think.
Open source / Free software world failed to make a good enough clone, except as a toy project to run antique flash objects stored in off-line folders.
It could have worked out better. Hell, a decade ago slashdot was littered with "warning! pdf link" and "pdf is evil".
Vimeo is (IMO) never a site you choose to go to, rather you stumble upon embedded videos or links in other websites. So it's more used as a CDN like e.g. Akamai than some place where the video can live on its own.
To make a stupid analogy, imagine Coca Cola Coke has a 90% monopoly, and people say "but when you go into certain fast food restaurant you get Pepsi".
Youtube has 100+ million people casually going to it to find something to look at, and a staggering amount of the content just exists there, not backed by a traditional website or a SEO campaign.
Wow they are mostly all unknown to me, beside Dailymotion.
I thought Liveleak was a place to post torture videos, dismemberments, executions etc.
"Youku" phonetically reads as "you arse" in my language lol.
I'm waiting for the video of Hitler bitching about it
In fairness, when you rely as a listener on youtube so much to play music you eventually end up installing Adblock.
It's a waste, but with computer CPU so powerful and years of over-optimizing javascript engines we'll soon be able to enjoy 1990s level of gaming in the web browser, assuming some game are of good quality and can be found along the heaps of garbage.
You jest but when I wanted to play NES games under linux, the emulators I found in apt-cache search were garbage or unusable. Best one had garbled sound, others were buggy, command-line only, unconfigured etc.
I tried using good old Nesticle under Dosbox, it was almost good except that Dosbox only recognized two joystick buttons and not four.
NES emulators with their numerous warez roms, I guess.
I refered to it as "TF2".
They seem to be competent at managing their network and have some good resources put on supporting the client and their 1st party games :), there's a constant flux of updates fixing many minor bugs.
They work at least, hell even slashdot coped out and stopped requiring <br> or <p> (just after I had learnt to use <p> in slashdot comments, grrr) and now parses pressing "Enter".
I guess that's evil but there are a lot less comments that failed to contain newlines.
Also Samsung 840 (non pro) is TLC chips, three bits stored per flash cell. They'd be the drives that suffer the most from that write amplification, with 840 EVO that is similar and is very aggressive in working with very few overprovisioning.
840 Pro would have taken a lot longer to die, while still being a consumer drive. Still that was an interesting experiment.
As far as I know SAS 12Gb gives you 1.2GB/s theoretical.
But the SSD controllers aren't fully aware of what is going on and the free or reserved space for wear leveling is splitted as many times as you have drives. A n times bigger SSD are still better than n SSD in a RAID 0.
Then we're limited by interface for speed, but we have good incremental progress on the horizon. PCIe storage is already standardized in the form of M2 and SATA Express, the latter works in PCIe 2.0 2x or 4x, the latter is 2x : that gives a theoretical 1GB/s and 2GB/s. Upgrade to PCIe 3.0 doubles that.
SAS 12Gb/s is also an option.
No, with 1920x1080 24bit per pixel and 30fps I'm getting 178MB/s so six cameras almost saturate the SSD. Of course it would be a great deal more reasonable to acquire the data compressed in H264 frame by frame, or H265 if it comes out and is better for that.
Though, we might get mad and use uncompressed 1080p at 60fps. Then you can have a realistic "zoom in and ehnance" sequence as in the dumb movies and TV shows, with an algorithm able to combine data from multiple pictures and see a face more clearly esp. if the subject was reasonably stationary for a short while.
I couldn't help reading that as "Security Without Obesity" and that it's a hard to reach goal.
Pulseaudio solved that, but was broken or misconfigured by distros early on, still can use too much CPU sometimes. But it works. What hasn't changed is half the nerds bitch about it when given the occasion.
You will miss GUI environment support in most cases if you go to a competing audio stack (OSSv4) but only a subset of nerds know about that one.
For the particular page I wasn't bothered because clicking on an easy to locate and big enough "pause" button was enough. I think that long term we'll need using a html5 audio/video blocker browser extension.
Here linux is superior thanks to having the volume control as a separate panel applet, not a tiny icon hidden in the tray like Windows does. And the volume can be changed with the scroll wheel whether you open the slider or not.
I have an amp at near 100% volume and never touch it.
too late.. I'm listening to the track to the end, because I'm too used to the notion that cutting a track is rude. Ah, it just ended lol.
These people already have or are getting cell phones. A chinese cell tower is vastly cheaper than a wastewater treatment plant, a road or a war.
While their fortune came from Counterstrike 1.x, a game they did not make (though the underlying game the mod it's based on is undoubtedly theirs!) Valve did go on having major successes, what with Left4Dead, TF2, DOTA 2. (and CS:Source, a worse CS 1.x but with better graphics, highly successful regardless of what my opinion on it is)
Countless millions of players run those games, made to run on Intel graphics and laptops by the way.
Now, people have been hyping themselves with Half-Life 3 for a decade and Valve lets them do. I don't care, I played Half-Life 2 three years after it was out and it was a dull but pretty corridor shooter where a winning tactic was to run straight through it killing stuff and running over healthpacks every 10 meters.
Steambox is a semi-failutre/vaporware, yes.