I develop a camera surveillance system. So, I see machines with constant I/O. 25fps (PAL) on several cameras. So, an average system configured in full-recording will be saving 200fps to disk. All the cameras are shown on the screen through SDL on X11. When WD rolled out it's new 4k sector sized disks, I had to figure out how to make them work properly on GNU/Linux, since they came with a special format utility for XP, but no docs on what was required on GNU/Linux. They report to the machine a 512b sector size, but I know they are 4k. So, I managed to align partitions with cylinders properly, and the disk performance spiked. If you didn't do this, partitions and cylinders would end up unaligned, and disk performance would suck. The whole machine would slow down badly, even the SDL windows showing video. That video comes straight from V4L, and disk-output happens later in another thread (i.e, no the same doing the SDL visuals). SDL windows would only show 4-5 fps for several seconds (after every disk flush), then go back to normal.
There are serious I/O issues. Actually, the IO model is ok for servers, but for anything realtime, it fucking sucks.
No, not really. First, it wasn't the US that defeated the Nazis, it was the USSR.
And, I'd also be happier if the Nazis had managed to kill a lot more jews before they got their ass kicked by the USSR. The perfect scenario would have been: The Nazis eliminate the Jews, the Russians eliminate the Nazis, the US and the Russians eliminate each other. Then we could maybe have peace in the world right now.
How many world powers have ongoing wars right now? How many countries have an active military that is actively invading countries and conducting worldwide operations? How many countries spend more in intelligence and the military than on anything else?
The answer is simple: Only the US. The US spends 46.5% of the worlds military spending. No other country has intelligence and military operations deployed all around the world, no other country is at war at all times, no other country has had 20 major wars in the last 200 years, no other country has murdered so many people in such short time.
Therefore, it's very logical that most leaks comes from the US.
Weird. The country with the world-record in political assassination is the US. Explain to me why I should be more scared of the shitty remains of the USSR than of your chacals?
I have a better idea: Stay the fuck away from that country. What none of you question, ever, is the real reason and validity of being there in the first place.
Give me one fucking valid reason why you need your troops anywhere outside your own territory murdering people.
Except all the "other side" of the 'truth' has already been published. It's actually the ONLY fact presented so far.
If nobody ever had said anything anywhere about the US military, and wikileaks published this, then it might have been a half truth, or at least something to be taken with a grain of salt. But what actually happens is that everyone, always and everywhere is fucking talking about the "heroes" that are "fighting for freedom" over there at the "axis of evil". Everything we've heard so far is their side. So, accusing wikileaks of being one sided is fucking stupid. The other side is the whole fucking media. All the fucking media against a single fucking website. Don't be such a fucking hypocrite.
You are not a "veteran". You are a murderer. You talk about the "laws of war". You are attacking foreign countries that are clearly overpowered by you, who pose no threat to your country, and there's a fucking ocean in between your country and your 'enemy'. The only reason your country is there is because it needs the war machine to keep its economy alive. And the only reason you are there is because you enjoy killing people.
Exactly my thoughts. Also, there is a simple clue as to why facebook succeeded: Zuckerberg is a disgusting jew. He just played his cards right, screwed up the people he had to screw up, smelled the money and went after it.
Well, first we would need to re-design roads to be auto-driving friendly. All corners need semaphores. We also need to develop a new code for roadsigns that is OCR-friendly. In general, we'll need to change the roads a little bit when we get a decent ai-driven car. Then, we need to let evolution do the rest. That is, cars WILL obey the traffic laws. If they don't, it'll be a bug, and instead of a ticket they'll get a patch. If an accident occurs, the bug that caused it will be found and fixed. Of course, people will go crazy the first time an ai-driven car kills someone in an accident... but that's just hypocrisy. Human drivers kill people all the time, and deaths caused by ai-driven cars will be very few compared to human drivers. Driving is not such a complex task, and after making some changes, and re-writing traffic laws so they are centered around the idea of ai-driven cars, those cars will be very good at it. Eventually, they'll become virtually perfect. After that, of course, accidents will still occur because people will disobey the rules (people disengaging the AI because they were late for work, pedestrians ignoring semaphores, etc, etc. We'll have to let evolution handle that issue. It'll eventually go away too.
Yeah, the question is, why the fuck do we need the olpc project then? The hardware is already out there. Do you want a tougher *Pad? add a rubber case.
The software was heavily developed by the community (until olpc sold out to microsoft). Now we have android. So OLPC software is rendered obsolete.
The OLPC project went nowhere. They took money and work from the community, then they sold themselves to microsoft, and achieved none of all their goals. The project went nowhere.
There are already awesome tablets like the aPad that exist right now and retail for less than 200 dollars. I'm sure you could drive them below 100 if you built enough and bought them altogether.
Why are we still listening to the OLPC's pipe dreams about developing hardware? They already proved that they can't get anything done, and that they will sell out if necessary. Want to do something? The product you want is already out there. Buy it, drive its price down, and start delivering.
It goes something like this: "We are sending a lot of our mercenaries overseas to murder people that have done nothing to us, but some of our mercenaries are dying. The ratio is about 1/1000 (for each 1000 persons we murder, one of our mercenaries die). That is unacceptable! We need to stop this madness. Stop the massacre, save lives. Replace the mercenaries with killer droids?".
Well, they are stupid enough to enter the military in the first place. Also, most of them believe in god, and most of them believe they are fighting for freedom, while in reality they are murdering people for oil and political power.
I says "6% of printed book sales", that would imply that for every 100 physical books sold, there are 6 ebooks sold. But then it says 6% of the total market, which means that for every 100 books sold, 6 are ebooks, and 94 are paperback/hardcover.
What's the big deal? We should teach kids to speak correctly, but that means teaching them proper grammar and expanding their vocabularies. That includes all words, even those that have been categorized by the religious bastards as "bad". No, wait, specially those. Most things that the churches consider "bad" are just really fucking good.
Why are we supposed to listen to this crackpots with an imaginary friend in the sky and an agenda to push? They are full of SHIT. And children of all ages should learn to say it properly: Religion is full of shit, Anyone trying to control my thoughts is a fucking asshole, and there is no such fucking thing as "dirty" or "sinful".
It looks like an Awesome addition to Asterisk. Of course, no other platforms will support it (ATAs, ip phones or Carriers), but for asterisk-to-asterisk traffic, it would fucking rock. IAX2 trunking + this codec = WIN.
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Here's my experience with this issue:
I develop a camera surveillance system. So, I see machines with constant I/O. 25fps (PAL) on several cameras. So, an average system configured in full-recording will be saving 200fps to disk. All the cameras are shown on the screen through SDL on X11. When WD rolled out it's new 4k sector sized disks, I had to figure out how to make them work properly on GNU/Linux, since they came with a special format utility for XP, but no docs on what was required on GNU/Linux. They report to the machine a 512b sector size, but I know they are 4k. So, I managed to align partitions with cylinders properly, and the disk performance spiked. If you didn't do this, partitions and cylinders would end up unaligned, and disk performance would suck. The whole machine would slow down badly, even the SDL windows showing video. That video comes straight from V4L, and disk-output happens later in another thread (i.e, no the same doing the SDL visuals). SDL windows would only show 4-5 fps for several seconds (after every disk flush), then go back to normal.
There are serious I/O issues. Actually, the IO model is ok for servers, but for anything realtime, it fucking sucks.
No, not really. First, it wasn't the US that defeated the Nazis, it was the USSR.
And, I'd also be happier if the Nazis had managed to kill a lot more jews before they got their ass kicked by the USSR. The perfect scenario would have been: The Nazis eliminate the Jews, the Russians eliminate the Nazis, the US and the Russians eliminate each other. Then we could maybe have peace in the world right now.
You mean like the journalist that was killed by a US chopper not long ago?
Also, the US doesn't murder journalists anymore, they usually just buy them. But the chacals did a lot more journalist-murdering in the 70's.
And of course, none of them are happy with the US presence in there. Their us-appointed replacements are.
Interesting is, also, both Hussein and the Talibans where once great friends of the US, and the US helped them reach power.
Well, tell me this:
How many world powers have ongoing wars right now? How many countries have an active military that is actively invading countries and conducting worldwide operations? How many countries spend more in intelligence and the military than on anything else?
The answer is simple: Only the US. The US spends 46.5% of the worlds military spending. No other country has intelligence and military operations deployed all around the world, no other country is at war at all times, no other country has had 20 major wars in the last 200 years, no other country has murdered so many people in such short time.
Therefore, it's very logical that most leaks comes from the US.
Weird. The country with the world-record in political assassination is the US. Explain to me why I should be more scared of the shitty remains of the USSR than of your chacals?
I have a better idea: Stay the fuck away from that country. What none of you question, ever, is the real reason and validity of being there in the first place.
Give me one fucking valid reason why you need your troops anywhere outside your own territory murdering people.
Except all the "other side" of the 'truth' has already been published. It's actually the ONLY fact presented so far.
If nobody ever had said anything anywhere about the US military, and wikileaks published this, then it might have been a half truth, or at least something to be taken with a grain of salt. But what actually happens is that everyone, always and everywhere is fucking talking about the "heroes" that are "fighting for freedom" over there at the "axis of evil". Everything we've heard so far is their side. So, accusing wikileaks of being one sided is fucking stupid. The other side is the whole fucking media. All the fucking media against a single fucking website. Don't be such a fucking hypocrite.
You are not a "veteran". You are a murderer. You talk about the "laws of war". You are attacking foreign countries that are clearly overpowered by you, who pose no threat to your country, and there's a fucking ocean in between your country and your 'enemy'. The only reason your country is there is because it needs the war machine to keep its economy alive. And the only reason you are there is because you enjoy killing people.
Because there is no god. Also, wooosh.
Well, in this case it is precisely black or white ;)
Exactly my thoughts. Also, there is a simple clue as to why facebook succeeded: Zuckerberg is a disgusting jew. He just played his cards right, screwed up the people he had to screw up, smelled the money and went after it.
Yup. I'm going out to buy more popcorn.
Damn! Nop, I'm an Emacs user, but I posted that comment from my cellphone. I hate touchscreen keyboards.
Well, probably DUI will be an issue of the past, but we'll have the new risk, the DWI (Driving [with] Windows Installed).
If you drink, don't install microsoft software on your car.
Well, first we would need to re-design roads to be auto-driving friendly. All corners need semaphores. We also need to develop a new code for roadsigns that is OCR-friendly. In general, we'll need to change the roads a little bit when we get a decent ai-driven car. Then, we need to let evolution do the rest. That is, cars WILL obey the traffic laws. If they don't, it'll be a bug, and instead of a ticket they'll get a patch. If an accident occurs, the bug that caused it will be found and fixed. Of course, people will go crazy the first time an ai-driven car kills someone in an accident ... but that's just hypocrisy. Human drivers kill people all the time, and deaths caused by ai-driven cars will be very few compared to human drivers. Driving is not such a complex task, and after making some changes, and re-writing traffic laws so they are centered around the idea of ai-driven cars, those cars will be very good at it. Eventually, they'll become virtually perfect. After that, of course, accidents will still occur because people will disobey the rules (people disengaging the AI because they were late for work, pedestrians ignoring semaphores, etc, etc. We'll have to let evolution handle that issue. It'll eventually go away too.
The answer is simple:w
The earth was created by god. god was created by a giant frog. the giant frog was created by robotic jesus.
And all those lies were created by man, in particular, certain individuals who where trying to control the rest of the population.
So, what happened, did you ever get it, or at least got your money back?
Yeah, the question is, why the fuck do we need the olpc project then? The hardware is already out there. Do you want a tougher *Pad? add a rubber case.
The software was heavily developed by the community (until olpc sold out to microsoft). Now we have android. So OLPC software is rendered obsolete.
So, why do we need OLPC again?
The OLPC project went nowhere. They took money and work from the community, then they sold themselves to microsoft, and achieved none of all their goals. The project went nowhere.
There are already awesome tablets like the aPad that exist right now and retail for less than 200 dollars. I'm sure you could drive them below 100 if you built enough and bought them altogether.
Why are we still listening to the OLPC's pipe dreams about developing hardware? They already proved that they can't get anything done, and that they will sell out if necessary. Want to do something? The product you want is already out there. Buy it, drive its price down, and start delivering.
You are absolutely right. I Hate their reasoning.
It goes something like this: "We are sending a lot of our mercenaries overseas to murder people that have done nothing to us, but some of our mercenaries are dying. The ratio is about 1/1000 (for each 1000 persons we murder, one of our mercenaries die). That is unacceptable! We need to stop this madness. Stop the massacre, save lives. Replace the mercenaries with killer droids?".
Well, they are stupid enough to enter the military in the first place. Also, most of them believe in god, and most of them believe they are fighting for freedom, while in reality they are murdering people for oil and political power.
That is as stupid as it gets.
I says "6% of printed book sales", that would imply that for every 100 physical books sold, there are 6 ebooks sold. But then it says 6% of the total market, which means that for every 100 books sold, 6 are ebooks, and 94 are paperback/hardcover.
Actually, yeah, so fucking what?
What's the big deal? We should teach kids to speak correctly, but that means teaching them proper grammar and expanding their vocabularies. That includes all words, even those that have been categorized by the religious bastards as "bad". No, wait, specially those. Most things that the churches consider "bad" are just really fucking good.
Why are we supposed to listen to this crackpots with an imaginary friend in the sky and an agenda to push? They are full of SHIT. And children of all ages should learn to say it properly: Religion is full of shit, Anyone trying to control my thoughts is a fucking asshole, and there is no such fucking thing as "dirty" or "sinful".
It looks like an Awesome addition to Asterisk. Of course, no other platforms will support it (ATAs, ip phones or Carriers), but for asterisk-to-asterisk traffic, it would fucking rock. IAX2 trunking + this codec = WIN.