A friend of mine has done at least 1000+ miles on 1W with Morse code.:)
And for 9600 bps data as is the case with this modem... Child's play/old news. 9600 can be done at a range of 40 miles LOS with only 1W even if you use FSK, which is by no means an efficient modulation scheme.
And I mean decade-old news when I say old, if not more...
Raw DV has the video and audio streams interleaved.
Some of the DV "container" formats used on PCs (such as one of the two DV-AVI types) duplicate the audio stream, with the "video" stream actually being the original raw DV (which has both video and audio)
Also, longer tapes might exist now. The typical 60-minute-standard-play tapes are 13 GB. I think that tapes exist that are 75 and even 90 minutes in standard mode now though, although last time I went miniDV shopping they were hard to find and VERY expensive. (Compared to 6-packs of 60s relatively cheap at Costco.)
See above regarding extended play tapes, which I think are 18-20 GB or so (but with a MUCH higher risk of errors) on a 60 minute tape.
Last I checked, S3TC was highly patent-encumbered and was an issue even on older Radeons. (Which is why UT2K3 wouldn't work with ATI cards for a while.)
It took them forever to support EQ, and by the time they did, they only supported an engine that was 2-3 expansion packs behind.
Same for Dark Age of Camelot - I've heard the "classic" engine works great, but as of Mythics "New Frontiers" free expansion, the classic engine has been completely obsoleted, Mythic is allowing (in fact, if you want to RvR, FORCING) people to use the Shrouded Isles engine even if they don't have the SI expansion. SI doesn't work under Cedega, let alone ToA for most people.
Same for EVE Online, it doesn't work at all either.
Back before nationwide roaming plans existed, there was this thing called a "service transfer".
And even in the age of nationwide roaming, sometimes it helps to have a local phone number.
In 4-5 years of being a Verizon (or one of their predecessors, in my case Frontier Cellular -> Bell Atlantic Mobile -> Verizon) customer, I have only needed to place a customer service call to them for reasons other than service transfers or number changes once. And that one time they fixed my problem within 2-3 minutes. It's one of the rare cases where the situation for a company's customer IMPROVES after the company gets bought out/merges.:)
On a different but related note - I believe the reason Nokia introduced no new phones for Verizon between one of the 5100 series and a phone introduced recently (3-4 year gap) was because they couldn't get any more phones past Verizon QC and simply gave up - Nokia just didn't have enough CDMA experience, which became apparent yet again with all of the handset problems UMTS has been plagued with.
Verizon has the best coverage, some of the best customer service (The ONLY time I've had any problems with their customer service was when 90% of their employees were on strike.), and the best quality control on their phones. (Which is why their selection of phones sometimes suffers.)
Don't like the v710? Go buy another phone. The article linked to is wrong - There are plenty of situations where people have activated Sprint phones on Verizon with no troubles (other than having to unlock the Sprint phone's programming mode. Sprint are bastards like that, whereas the access password for every Verizon phone I've owned has been 00000.)
I have a Kyocera 6035 Smartphone, with LOTS of features that are "direct competitors" to the ones Verizon wants to push. None of them have been crippled in any way. Same for the 7135.
XP's handling of SpeedStep (and similar technologies) absolutely sucks.
It used to be that with Windows 2000, the user could use Intel's SpeedStep applet to exercise extreme control over the CPU's SpeedStep functionality. (Forcing full-speed, forcing minimum speed, etc.)
With XP, Microsoft rolled about half of the SpeedStep control applet into the OS, MINUS the user interface, so that if the SpeedStep control mechanism got stuck on an undesirable setting, the only way was to hack the registry. The old Intel applet can't be used any more, as it conflicts.
XP's suspend features also never worked for me. My Inspiron 8200 wouldn't come back out of suspend from Day 1. On Day 2 I nuked XP and installed Windows 2000, and have been extremely happy with my laptop ever since.
Either mechanical damage was done, or possibly a misauthored disc caused the DVD players' firmware to crash. (The fact that it killed a computer's DVD player too sounds odd though...)
If it's a misauthored disc, then simply powercycling may fix the problem. I mean a COMPLETE power cycle - unplug it, wait 2-3 minutes (sometimes more depending on what sort of memory backup features it might have), plug it back in.
I had this problem happen shortly after getting a DVD-R drive, one of my DVDs crashed the player. I thought it was broken at first, but a complete powercycle fixed it.
Not sure if video encoding is a place where GP-GPU would do well.
Video encoding simply has too much branching and usage of lookup tables to perform well on a GPU.
There are ASICs dedicated to MPEG2 encoding that would do much better. I can record MPEG2 in realtime from an external source with no CPU usage for less than $100. (Avermedia M179).
What would be cool though is if someone found a way to pass arbitrary video data directly to the iTVC15 MPEG encoder used in the M179 and Haup PVR-x50 tuner boards, rather than only being able to encode from external sources.
Just an FYI, if you want to record at high resolutions/bitrates (I almost always record MPEG2 at 6 Mbits/sec minimum, 8 peak), you'll need an 802.11a or g setup - 802.11b isn't fast enough to handle such bitrates, but plenty of people stream Myth recordings over 802.11g connections.
8 is. Having 11 or 15 pipelines would make memory management (esp. cache management) pure hell.
Adding in the ability to disable half the pipelines as a big chunk is easy - The ability to disable individual pipelines is much more difficult and would significantly increase transistor count. (thus increasing costs)
The bug is that if you try to shut down any OGL plugin, it will cause XMMS to segfault.
Don't have the XMMS bug # offhand... Do a search for OpenGL on XMMS' bugzilla and you should be able to find the problem.
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Note my comment about using emerge -p to make sure it doesn't try to do anything funky.
I've never had ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" cause my system to upgrade dependencies to unstable versions, but it WILL install "unstable" dependencies if they are not installed.
Which is why I always use -p to check that nothing funky will happen.
Shaving 3 seconds off of your 1/4 is pretty tough... 3 seconds off of your 0-60 is even tougher, unless you have a car that's REALLY underpowered to begin with.
Especially since the main advantage of electric motors is low-speed torque (good for rice rockets, not nearly as much improvement for monster V8s) - While an electric motor can make a HUGE difference at the very low end, that is also where traction is a large problem, nullifying much of the motor's advantage.
Just an FYI - a few automotive manufacturers are planning on releasing vehicles with just such a system from the factory. (i.e. a "super alternator")
They would probably work better than a retrofit hybrid system like the one linked to, since the controls for regenerative braking would be better. (For example, causing the transmission to downshift, increasing engine and generator RPM.)
The suggestion of triggering on MAP is a good one though, although there are probably cases where the driver would want to coast rather than use regenerative braking.
You see vending machines all over in our current world. You also see payphones bearing the providers' logo/name all over (although less and less due to cellphones), but there are plenty of places where "advertising" can be put into a game without the user even thinking that it is advertising.
What about a Dell monitor box in a stack in a warehouse? Dell probably won't care if the box gets shot up/blown up, as long as the player sees the logo.
Or think of the barrels in Doom... What if those barrels were labeled Shell instead of UAC? (Assuming the environment is an appropriate one for barrels of flammable petroleum products to be appearing.)
D3 has lots of advertising/news for fictional companies.
A non-futuristic FPS occuring in current times could include Microsoft software boxes, Dell monitors on desks, maybe the occasional Coke machine, etc.
Stuff we're used to in our everyday lives that just appears natural there. (Similar to product placement in movies. I'm not speaking of the commercials beforehand, but within the movie, such as a person wearing Nike sneakers or driving a Lexus.)
Raster WAS working for RHAD Labs (RedHat's advanced development group) for a while, but left.
Not sure if he went to VA later or you're just thinking of Mandrake only. (I don't remember Mandrake's history. FYI Mandrake the E author had NO association with Mandrake the distro.)
The whole idea of pixmap-themed WM decorations (and later, pixmap-themed GTK widgets) started with E.
IIRC, the initial development on themable GTK was done by Rasterman.
I ditched E because they went from "configurable WM" to "bloated desktop environment in one package". At least GNOME is modular. (They may have changed these goals...)
Sawfish probably has E beaten in raw configurability now, thanks to the fact that it is both themable AND scriptable.
But I'll probably check E out again, for 2-3 years it was my favorite WM. (Before KDE and GNOME existed.)
Make sure it's not going to install some hideously unstable library in that cast.
Or edit/etc/portage/package.keywords, package.mask, and package.unmask. (They may need to be created.)
For example, package.keywords might have: x11-themes/ethemes ~x86 to unmask unstable versions of ethemes on x86 systems and x11-wm/enlightenment ~x86 to unmask "unstable" versions of E.
Requantization requires that the input and output video are of the same resolution and framerate. (Requant operates at the stream level, on data that has already been DCTed and does not touch the motion vectors at all.)
Requant works well for DVDShrink because you rarely shrink a DVD (after stripping out extra features, etc.) to less than 80% or so of its original size.
To go from 8+ GB/hour (typical ATSC HD bitrate) down to only 2 GB/hour or so will make MPEG-2 video unwatchable unless you reduce the resolution. Which requires a full re-encode rather than simply requantization. (You MIGHT be able to take a shortcut by reusing the motion vectors, but that's about it.)
I'm guessing from the books - IIRC a friend (who is a HUGE fan of the LOTR books and hated the movies because they weren't faithful enough to the books) told me once that the developers are producing the game with the blessing/cooperation of Tolkien's family.
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A friend of mine has done at least 1000+ miles on 1W with Morse code. :)
And for 9600 bps data as is the case with this modem... Child's play/old news. 9600 can be done at a range of 40 miles LOS with only 1W even if you use FSK, which is by no means an efficient modulation scheme.
And I mean decade-old news when I say old, if not more...
Raw DV has the video and audio streams interleaved.
Some of the DV "container" formats used on PCs (such as one of the two DV-AVI types) duplicate the audio stream, with the "video" stream actually being the original raw DV (which has both video and audio)
Also, longer tapes might exist now. The typical 60-minute-standard-play tapes are 13 GB. I think that tapes exist that are 75 and even 90 minutes in standard mode now though, although last time I went miniDV shopping they were hard to find and VERY expensive. (Compared to 6-packs of 60s relatively cheap at Costco.)
See above regarding extended play tapes, which I think are 18-20 GB or so (but with a MUCH higher risk of errors) on a 60 minute tape.
"fully free" - Are you sure?
Last I checked, S3TC was highly patent-encumbered and was an issue even on older Radeons. (Which is why UT2K3 wouldn't work with ATI cards for a while.)
It doesn't even do MMOGs that well.
It took them forever to support EQ, and by the time they did, they only supported an engine that was 2-3 expansion packs behind.
Same for Dark Age of Camelot - I've heard the "classic" engine works great, but as of Mythics "New Frontiers" free expansion, the classic engine has been completely obsoleted, Mythic is allowing (in fact, if you want to RvR, FORCING) people to use the Shrouded Isles engine even if they don't have the SI expansion. SI doesn't work under Cedega, let alone ToA for most people.
Same for EVE Online, it doesn't work at all either.
Back before nationwide roaming plans existed, there was this thing called a "service transfer".
:)
And even in the age of nationwide roaming, sometimes it helps to have a local phone number.
In 4-5 years of being a Verizon (or one of their predecessors, in my case Frontier Cellular -> Bell Atlantic Mobile -> Verizon) customer, I have only needed to place a customer service call to them for reasons other than service transfers or number changes once. And that one time they fixed my problem within 2-3 minutes. It's one of the rare cases where the situation for a company's customer IMPROVES after the company gets bought out/merges.
On a different but related note - I believe the reason Nokia introduced no new phones for Verizon between one of the 5100 series and a phone introduced recently (3-4 year gap) was because they couldn't get any more phones past Verizon QC and simply gave up - Nokia just didn't have enough CDMA experience, which became apparent yet again with all of the handset problems UMTS has been plagued with.
Simple. Every other carrier's coverage sucks.
Verizon has the best coverage, some of the best customer service (The ONLY time I've had any problems with their customer service was when 90% of their employees were on strike.), and the best quality control on their phones. (Which is why their selection of phones sometimes suffers.)
Don't like the v710? Go buy another phone. The article linked to is wrong - There are plenty of situations where people have activated Sprint phones on Verizon with no troubles (other than having to unlock the Sprint phone's programming mode. Sprint are bastards like that, whereas the access password for every Verizon phone I've owned has been 00000.)
I have a Kyocera 6035 Smartphone, with LOTS of features that are "direct competitors" to the ones Verizon wants to push. None of them have been crippled in any way. Same for the 7135.
XP's handling of SpeedStep (and similar technologies) absolutely sucks.
It used to be that with Windows 2000, the user could use Intel's SpeedStep applet to exercise extreme control over the CPU's SpeedStep functionality. (Forcing full-speed, forcing minimum speed, etc.)
With XP, Microsoft rolled about half of the SpeedStep control applet into the OS, MINUS the user interface, so that if the SpeedStep control mechanism got stuck on an undesirable setting, the only way was to hack the registry. The old Intel applet can't be used any more, as it conflicts.
XP's suspend features also never worked for me. My Inspiron 8200 wouldn't come back out of suspend from Day 1. On Day 2 I nuked XP and installed Windows 2000, and have been extremely happy with my laptop ever since.
As powercycling the DVD player?
Either mechanical damage was done, or possibly a misauthored disc caused the DVD players' firmware to crash. (The fact that it killed a computer's DVD player too sounds odd though...)
If it's a misauthored disc, then simply powercycling may fix the problem. I mean a COMPLETE power cycle - unplug it, wait 2-3 minutes (sometimes more depending on what sort of memory backup features it might have), plug it back in.
I had this problem happen shortly after getting a DVD-R drive, one of my DVDs crashed the player. I thought it was broken at first, but a complete powercycle fixed it.
Not sure if video encoding is a place where GP-GPU would do well.
Video encoding simply has too much branching and usage of lookup tables to perform well on a GPU.
There are ASICs dedicated to MPEG2 encoding that would do much better. I can record MPEG2 in realtime from an external source with no CPU usage for less than $100. (Avermedia M179).
What would be cool though is if someone found a way to pass arbitrary video data directly to the iTVC15 MPEG encoder used in the M179 and Haup PVR-x50 tuner boards, rather than only being able to encode from external sources.
Considering it's possible for a Plymouth Reliant to break into the 10s for under $20k (and probably under $10k...)
But still, 3sec off the 1/4 is VERY tough without significant HP increases (100-200+ additional HP at least) and significant traction improvements.
Just an FYI, if you want to record at high resolutions/bitrates (I almost always record MPEG2 at 6 Mbits/sec minimum, 8 peak), you'll need an 802.11a or g setup - 802.11b isn't fast enough to handle such bitrates, but plenty of people stream Myth recordings over 802.11g connections.
Do a google search for "whitenoise" - somewhere within the first three pages should be a page for a Linux app that generates white noise.
If you can't find it, email me and I can send you the source. Been using it ever since having a noisy housemate and thin walls.
Simple. 15 isn't a power of two. 11 isn't either.
8 is. Having 11 or 15 pipelines would make memory management (esp. cache management) pure hell.
Adding in the ability to disable half the pipelines as a big chunk is easy - The ability to disable individual pipelines is much more difficult and would significantly increase transistor count. (thus increasing costs)
No, the speed is fine.
The bug is that if you try to shut down any OGL plugin, it will cause XMMS to segfault.
Don't have the XMMS bug # offhand... Do a search for OpenGL on XMMS' bugzilla and you should be able to find the problem.
Note my comment about using emerge -p to make sure it doesn't try to do anything funky.
I've never had ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" cause my system to upgrade dependencies to unstable versions, but it WILL install "unstable" dependencies if they are not installed.
Which is why I always use -p to check that nothing funky will happen.
Shaving 3 seconds off of your 1/4 is pretty tough... 3 seconds off of your 0-60 is even tougher, unless you have a car that's REALLY underpowered to begin with.
Especially since the main advantage of electric motors is low-speed torque (good for rice rockets, not nearly as much improvement for monster V8s) - While an electric motor can make a HUGE difference at the very low end, that is also where traction is a large problem, nullifying much of the motor's advantage.
Just an FYI - a few automotive manufacturers are planning on releasing vehicles with just such a system from the factory. (i.e. a "super alternator")
They would probably work better than a retrofit hybrid system like the one linked to, since the controls for regenerative braking would be better. (For example, causing the transmission to downshift, increasing engine and generator RPM.)
The suggestion of triggering on MAP is a good one though, although there are probably cases where the driver would want to coast rather than use regenerative braking.
In a "mundane" place like an office building?
You see vending machines all over in our current world. You also see payphones bearing the providers' logo/name all over (although less and less due to cellphones), but there are plenty of places where "advertising" can be put into a game without the user even thinking that it is advertising.
What about a Dell monitor box in a stack in a warehouse? Dell probably won't care if the box gets shot up/blown up, as long as the player sees the logo.
Or think of the barrels in Doom... What if those barrels were labeled Shell instead of UAC? (Assuming the environment is an appropriate one for barrels of flammable petroleum products to be appearing.)
D3 has lots of advertising/news for fictional companies.
A non-futuristic FPS occuring in current times could include Microsoft software boxes, Dell monitors on desks, maybe the occasional Coke machine, etc.
Stuff we're used to in our everyday lives that just appears natural there. (Similar to product placement in movies. I'm not speaking of the commercials beforehand, but within the movie, such as a person wearing Nike sneakers or driving a Lexus.)
Raster WAS working for RHAD Labs (RedHat's advanced development group) for a while, but left.
Not sure if he went to VA later or you're just thinking of Mandrake only. (I don't remember Mandrake's history. FYI Mandrake the E author had NO association with Mandrake the distro.)
FYI, E was THE original themable WM.
The whole idea of pixmap-themed WM decorations (and later, pixmap-themed GTK widgets) started with E.
IIRC, the initial development on themable GTK was done by Rasterman.
I ditched E because they went from "configurable WM" to "bloated desktop environment in one package". At least GNOME is modular. (They may have changed these goals...)
Sawfish probably has E beaten in raw configurability now, thanks to the fact that it is both themable AND scriptable.
But I'll probably check E out again, for 2-3 years it was my favorite WM. (Before KDE and GNOME existed.)
Gentoo's Portage documentation is pretty nice.
/etc/portage/package.keywords, package.mask, and package.unmask. (They may need to be created.)
Try:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p enlightenment
Make sure it's not going to install some hideously unstable library in that cast.
Or edit
For example, package.keywords might have:
x11-themes/ethemes ~x86
to unmask unstable versions of ethemes on x86 systems
and
x11-wm/enlightenment ~x86
to unmask "unstable" versions of E.
On a *nix box - man chroot. :)
Requantization != recompression.
Requantization requires that the input and output video are of the same resolution and framerate. (Requant operates at the stream level, on data that has already been DCTed and does not touch the motion vectors at all.)
Requant works well for DVDShrink because you rarely shrink a DVD (after stripping out extra features, etc.) to less than 80% or so of its original size.
To go from 8+ GB/hour (typical ATSC HD bitrate) down to only 2 GB/hour or so will make MPEG-2 video unwatchable unless you reduce the resolution. Which requires a full re-encode rather than simply requantization. (You MIGHT be able to take a shortcut by reusing the motion vectors, but that's about it.)
I'm guessing from the books - IIRC a friend (who is a HUGE fan of the LOTR books and hated the movies because they weren't faithful enough to the books) told me once that the developers are producing the game with the blessing/cooperation of Tolkien's family.