No, but what about all the old vids? Can't we leave them alone? Google can spend a billion on re-encoding all of theirs and don't care about the expense but I find it a bit pointless. 8-bit ASCII doesn't stop working because we have unicode, or MP3 doesn't stop working because we have something else. I like my offline xvid files fine for that matter. They look good enough to me, it's the 128K or less soundtrack that sucks and H264 or VP8 files with 128K or less soundtrack aren't any better.
If converting, I also don't trust people to leave a 4:3 video alone : they're too dumb to check what they have done and will stretch it to 16:9 (squashed people) or put the black bars in the picture (fuck you to people that don't use a mail slot computer monitor). Though a decent automated system may avoid this.
Can you make stuff work with the Opus codec? I know, may not solve cell phone too old issue etc. Also, I've researched the issue and there's a quite heavy handed way : decode the audio stream with javascript. Sounds insane but it does work. Found this and this. https://github.com/audiocogs/o... http://audiocogs.org/codecs/mp...
Given that Chrome is that browser that needs gigs of ram to even run it seems fair to waste the user's CPU cycles in that case.. Might be too much on old phone, I don't know.
It is working fine for me, in fact better than flash did with many tabs open - for that issue, I created a shortcut that runs a second firefox with a different profile just so that people can waste CPU cycles with youtube music and have this "youtube browser" work reliably.
The single one great thing with it is the sound volume control is reliable. Google hasn't found useful to fix it for YEARS on the flash player version.
And when will the Sorenson Spark or H263 patents expire? What a shame that html5 video can't use a goddamn codec from the 1990s that's all over the place.
But there is or may be some javascript shmoo to load the videos, so it's also about controlling the flow of a computer program not just a document. In fact we used to have browser options about what javascript can do (resizing windows etc.) now they are gone. I hope we do get some option eventually. Else I think I'll install an extension that simply blacklist javascript etc. for a news site or other that autoplays video.
For the last few years there's been a cat and mouse game with HTML5 video, every time it's done there are new extensions or features. A few years ago when there was already slashdot rage about flash needing to die immediately, HTML5 video was to be some raw dump of theora or maybe webm VP8 that you would probably just have been able to save or open in 3rd party video player instead of implementing real support in a browser, now there are "MSE" and "Dash" (if I'm not mistaken) which well, do things. The silent masses on 10-year-old PC that have to run all of this on the CPU have also needed actual smooth full screen playback, not that flash is much better, needed about a 1GHz CPU to play low def video. Firefox 40 only came out a few days ago!, bringing 'off-thread main compositing' to linux ; before that it was enabled in Firefox 33 for the Windows version. For linux with Firefox ESR, wait for version 45!
And now that I can run youtube html5 (without logging in) it has 360p as the minimum setting for video, no 240p or 144p ; all old videos seem to have been re-encoded. So I have yet to see how slow (or fast?) that runs on a slow enough PC. Other videos offer a choice of 360p and 720p. No 480p for you! So if you lack CPU power or bandwith for 720p, too bad for you. But enough ranting, at least it works.
I'm tired at the state of PC gaming, so I guess I'm gonna use an old Pentium II or III one of these days, with ISA slots to get full sound support under DOS. To make it neat and silent.. there's software to run DOS from iSCSI:)
Each core has six RISC-like execution units, including two integer units, two load-store units, one binary floating point unit and one decimal floating point unit. The zEC12 chip can decode three instructions and execute seven operations in a single clock cycle.[4] Attached to each core is a special co-processor accelerator unit; in the previous z CPU there were two shared by all four cores.
PCIe is built in the CPU, even in $40 consumer ones. I guess that's not too bad. Else have a look at next-gen Intel high-end, that goes full-on "Itanium is dead". One variant has what was described as a "100G" interconnect, so that's something you might use though that's yet another interconnect.
The Skylake-F will incorporate one link of first generation Storm Lake Fabric. The Skylake-F will use Multi-Chip packaging, that will house two dies, a Skylake die and a Storm Lake die. In all other aspects, the Skylake-F will be identical to the Skylake-EP.
You shouldn't be in a hurry but upgrade to Windows 8.1 will be worth it eventually, with EOL in 2023 rather that 2020 and an update from WDDM 1.1 to WDDM 1.3.
Moon is even worse than Mars, with more radiation due to the inverse square law, no CO2 to harvest from, worse lack of gravity. We should do nothing at all. Better to spend on more useful things such as another billion per year on nuclear fusion, or water treatment plants here on Earth.
I tried to make as much sense as the parent. Know what? Ubuntu has been quite similar to debian especially if you consider that LTS is the real version (that's semi-official since the other ones got reduced to 9 monthes) Currently Ubuntu LTS is more conservative than debian jessie, since the latter has systemd. I'm not up to speed about what petty things people can troll about with command-line Ubuntu LTS though.
Makes me think of DVD-RAM, which is about the only place you use UDF. Remember DVD-RAM? I've never seen one. Double-sided 8cm DVD-RAM in a cartridge, that would be kind of cool.
Or you can run any of third-party programs to format your volume under Windows, which otherwise doesn't have a real limitation. A tiny and simple one is called "fat32format". I used to have an 8GB ntfs Windows XP partition and bulk storage as fat, with the swap file and temp on one of the fat partitions which was also DOS bootable. Simpler times. With the OS on a real file system there was no great danger of corruption in case of crash (the PC was crazy stable anyway)
Regardless, the issue is fixed in LMDE 2 ! (jessie) I have to test in Mint 17.2 w/ linux 3.16. Very nice that pet issues get fixed (though I don't know if it worked years ago)
So, is the point that if you're spending millions on it, then you will be more careful with the software? Do the programmers get to wear a white lab coat?
Isn't that technology for terrorists and luddites? Writing on non-monitor surfaces ought to be banned. We need to send everything to Microsoft ; arguably we can put in a system with that high tech pen which denies inking before proprer Internet connection and authentication are established, and then the camera can film what's written. So that's good, but the pen may leave a series of words that can then be read unsupervised. So I'm on the fence whether this should be allowed or not, probably some form of paper management should exist and/or just put those that can access the paper under "closer surveillance".
I had a 7600GT work flawlessly, but resuming from suspend means the fan is stuck at 100% speed. I even had some chat with driver devs, who couldn't believe the card had fan control without PWM (fan has two wires). Closed nvidia driver isn't that much better as it does not offer fan control either, leaving it all to the graphics card's BIOS. But under Windows you CAN control the fan speed:).
If it's only branding, then what passes off as 4G is actually 4G? I don't remember that much what are the difference between LTE and LTE Advanced but we could care less about getting to 1 Gbps in unrealistic or useless conditions. The real performance is when e.g. 20 people are uploading or downloading simultaneously, in a real word setting. Does the "3.9G" LTE lose badly next to "real 4G" LTE? Or is it about the same, but the latter has a useless high-bandwith mode for feature checking and for allowing higher-up people to boast?
No, Steam is in 32bit and 32bit is the norm for games. Some of the appeal is to run a few 10 to 15 year old Valve games, after which I don't know what's worth playing.
You can with "big data"? (for lack of easier words to convey the idea quickly). Datamine the hell out of everyone and everything, with "IoT" even (yet another hateful buzzword I have to apologize for), down to every flushing toilet. If we're going to live in a futuristic dystopia, it may as well be a communistic one. The system may be gamed by facetious people, or lead to stupid fads like the Japanese were known for (Tamagotchi, etc.). Or will plain dysfunction because the data is garbage, useless, ill-weighted. But it's worth trying. Not sure if it's any better that the same capitalistic dystopia.
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No, but what about all the old vids? Can't we leave them alone? Google can spend a billion on re-encoding all of theirs and don't care about the expense but I find it a bit pointless. 8-bit ASCII doesn't stop working because we have unicode, or MP3 doesn't stop working because we have something else.
I like my offline xvid files fine for that matter. They look good enough to me, it's the 128K or less soundtrack that sucks and H264 or VP8 files with 128K or less soundtrack aren't any better.
If converting, I also don't trust people to leave a 4:3 video alone : they're too dumb to check what they have done and will stretch it to 16:9 (squashed people) or put the black bars in the picture (fuck you to people that don't use a mail slot computer monitor). Though a decent automated system may avoid this.
Can you make stuff work with the Opus codec? I know, may not solve cell phone too old issue etc.
Also, I've researched the issue and there's a quite heavy handed way : decode the audio stream with javascript. Sounds insane but it does work.
Found this and this.
https://github.com/audiocogs/o...
http://audiocogs.org/codecs/mp...
Given that Chrome is that browser that needs gigs of ram to even run it seems fair to waste the user's CPU cycles in that case.. Might be too much on old phone, I don't know.
It is working fine for me, in fact better than flash did with many tabs open - for that issue, I created a shortcut that runs a second firefox with a different profile just so that people can waste CPU cycles with youtube music and have this "youtube browser" work reliably.
The single one great thing with it is the sound volume control is reliable. Google hasn't found useful to fix it for YEARS on the flash player version.
And when will the Sorenson Spark or H263 patents expire? What a shame that html5 video can't use a goddamn codec from the 1990s that's all over the place.
But there is or may be some javascript shmoo to load the videos, so it's also about controlling the flow of a computer program not just a document.
In fact we used to have browser options about what javascript can do (resizing windows etc.) now they are gone.
I hope we do get some option eventually. Else I think I'll install an extension that simply blacklist javascript etc. for a news site or other that autoplays video.
For the last few years there's been a cat and mouse game with HTML5 video, every time it's done there are new extensions or features. A few years ago when there was already slashdot rage about flash needing to die immediately, HTML5 video was to be some raw dump of theora or maybe webm VP8 that you would probably just have been able to save or open in 3rd party video player instead of implementing real support in a browser, now there are "MSE" and "Dash" (if I'm not mistaken) which well, do things.
The silent masses on 10-year-old PC that have to run all of this on the CPU have also needed actual smooth full screen playback, not that flash is much better, needed about a 1GHz CPU to play low def video. Firefox 40 only came out a few days ago!, bringing 'off-thread main compositing' to linux ; before that it was enabled in Firefox 33 for the Windows version. For linux with Firefox ESR, wait for version 45!
And now that I can run youtube html5 (without logging in) it has 360p as the minimum setting for video, no 240p or 144p ; all old videos seem to have been re-encoded.
So I have yet to see how slow (or fast?) that runs on a slow enough PC.
Other videos offer a choice of 360p and 720p. No 480p for you! So if you lack CPU power or bandwith for 720p, too bad for you. But enough ranting, at least it works.
Niché does mean something along the line of "nidificated".
I'm tired at the state of PC gaming, so I guess I'm gonna use an old Pentium II or III one of these days, with ISA slots to get full sound support under DOS. To make it neat and silent.. there's software to run DOS from iSCSI :)
From wikipedia
Each core has six RISC-like execution units, including two integer units, two load-store units, one binary floating point unit and one decimal floating point unit. The zEC12 chip can decode three instructions and execute seven operations in a single clock cycle.[4] Attached to each core is a special co-processor accelerator unit; in the previous z CPU there were two shared by all four cores.
Sounds just like x86.
PCIe is built in the CPU, even in $40 consumer ones. I guess that's not too bad. Else have a look at next-gen Intel high-end, that goes full-on "Itanium is dead".
One variant has what was described as a "100G" interconnect, so that's something you might use though that's yet another interconnect.
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_...
The Skylake-F will incorporate one link of first generation Storm Lake Fabric. The Skylake-F will use Multi-Chip packaging, that will house two dies, a Skylake die and a Storm Lake die. In all other aspects, the Skylake-F will be identical to the Skylake-EP.
I bet you meant Haswell-E, Broadwell-E is more of the same but in 2016 or late 2016.
You shouldn't be in a hurry but upgrade to Windows 8.1 will be worth it eventually, with EOL in 2023 rather that 2020 and an update from WDDM 1.1 to WDDM 1.3.
Moon is even worse than Mars, with more radiation due to the inverse square law, no CO2 to harvest from, worse lack of gravity.
We should do nothing at all. Better to spend on more useful things such as another billion per year on nuclear fusion, or water treatment plants here on Earth.
I tried to make as much sense as the parent. Know what? Ubuntu has been quite similar to debian especially if you consider that LTS is the real version (that's semi-official since the other ones got reduced to 9 monthes)
Currently Ubuntu LTS is more conservative than debian jessie, since the latter has systemd. I'm not up to speed about what petty things people can troll about with command-line Ubuntu LTS though.
Makes me think of DVD-RAM, which is about the only place you use UDF. Remember DVD-RAM? I've never seen one.
Double-sided 8cm DVD-RAM in a cartridge, that would be kind of cool.
Or you can run any of third-party programs to format your volume under Windows, which otherwise doesn't have a real limitation.
A tiny and simple one is called "fat32format". I used to have an 8GB ntfs Windows XP partition and bulk storage as fat, with the swap file and temp on one of the fat partitions which was also DOS bootable.
Simpler times. With the OS on a real file system there was no great danger of corruption in case of crash (the PC was crazy stable anyway)
Regardless, the issue is fixed in LMDE 2 ! (jessie)
I have to test in Mint 17.2 w/ linux 3.16.
Very nice that pet issues get fixed (though I don't know if it worked years ago)
That's like saying Debian and Red Hat are for illiterate cell phone users because they have GNOME 3.
So, is the point that if you're spending millions on it, then you will be more careful with the software?
Do the programmers get to wear a white lab coat?
Isn't that technology for terrorists and luddites? Writing on non-monitor surfaces ought to be banned. We need to send everything to Microsoft ; arguably we can put in a system with that high tech pen which denies inking before proprer Internet connection and authentication are established, and then the camera can film what's written. So that's good, but the pen may leave a series of words that can then be read unsupervised. So I'm on the fence whether this should be allowed or not, probably some form of paper management should exist and/or just put those that can access the paper under "closer surveillance".
I had a 7600GT work flawlessly, but resuming from suspend means the fan is stuck at 100% speed. :).
I even had some chat with driver devs, who couldn't believe the card had fan control without PWM (fan has two wires). Closed nvidia driver isn't that much better as it does not offer fan control either, leaving it all to the graphics card's BIOS. But under Windows you CAN control the fan speed
If it's only branding, then what passes off as 4G is actually 4G?
I don't remember that much what are the difference between LTE and LTE Advanced but we could care less about getting to 1 Gbps in unrealistic or useless conditions.
The real performance is when e.g. 20 people are uploading or downloading simultaneously, in a real word setting. Does the "3.9G" LTE lose badly next to "real 4G" LTE? Or is it about the same, but the latter has a useless high-bandwith mode for feature checking and for allowing higher-up people to boast?
No, Steam is in 32bit and 32bit is the norm for games. Some of the appeal is to run a few 10 to 15 year old Valve games, after which I don't know what's worth playing.
You can with "big data"? (for lack of easier words to convey the idea quickly). Datamine the hell out of everyone and everything, with "IoT" even (yet another hateful buzzword I have to apologize for), down to every flushing toilet. If we're going to live in a futuristic dystopia, it may as well be a communistic one.
The system may be gamed by facetious people, or lead to stupid fads like the Japanese were known for (Tamagotchi, etc.). Or will plain dysfunction because the data is garbage, useless, ill-weighted. But it's worth trying. Not sure if it's any better that the same capitalistic dystopia.
It's said they have "939,500 residential phone lines" in the second article there, so boring as it is they'll deploy DSL over existing copper li
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