The more computing power is available in the world, the less it will be used to its potential. If everyone had an Earth Simulator in their basement, how much of that power would be wasted?
Not saying that proliferation of computers is bad, just food for thought.
-:sigma.SB
P.S. SETI@home, Folding@home, etc. are cheating.:P
Panther (10.3) was so much better than Jaguar (10.2) that I switched out of 9.2.1 to use it. Tiger (10.4) blew my socks off. Leopard (10.5) makes me want to vomit with ecstacy just thinking about upgrading to it.
Then again, I've always been more vulnerable to Steve's RDF than most.
So having a TPM in my box magically means my vendor wants to eat me, and I'm a stooge for wanting the virtually undefeatable security it would offer should I use it properly.
Even if an attacker physically stole my TPM-enabled computer and applied NSA-level secret awesome techniques to it, they could not get the keys I stored with the TPM. Which is the entire POINT of the module according to the spec.
No matter how many times I tell this to my friends who have the deep, unwavering belief that TPM = evil, their eyes glaze over and they change the subject. It REALLY irritates me, in case that wasn't bloody obvious.
The reason no image format directly supports HSV or HSL is that in order to have a decent perceptual precision you have to have a LOT of actual precision. (8+8+8 bits is not enough.) In addition, if you lossily compress the H, S, and V/L channels separately, the result looks worse than for YCbCr, or even RGB.
If you have enough RAM you never touch swap. Heck, on my Windtunnel G4 I once disabled it. (Things were awesome until the one day I actually needed more than 2GB of RAM. On that day, everything exploded...)
Joe Internet (apologies to anyone reading this named Joe) doesn't know or care enough about bandwidth or the Internet to set such an elaborate policy (which means very little gain for rather a lot of work on the ISP's end), and people who want to Torrent lots would just end up paying more for the privilege (which means they'd continue to soak up the bandwidth in spite of the measure). This is probably meant to increase the overall bandwidth for everyone (though it's not the best way per se).
I'm the network administrator for a middling home network with a compulsive BitTorrent user (who will completely uncap at the slightest moment of hesitation on my part), a regular Second Lifer (who "camps" for money 8 hours a day while he does his real work, sucking up to 500 kilobits) and an Apple engineer who's constantly updating his builds of Leopard; and that's not even accounting for MY (relatively small, actually) bandwidth usage.
If only I lived somewhere other than America, then we'd all have more than 1.5Mb to share between us. >_<
First of all, I believe you really don't know what you want to do until you get (at least) a couple of years of college under your belt. Sometimes you get lucky and guess correctly before then, but most folks just aren't mature enough or have enough life experience to be able to tell what you will enjoy doing.
I've known I was going to be spending my life working in the field of computers longer than I've known how to walk. Clearly you don't know what you're--
Yes, I understand there are exceptions to this on both ends of the spectrum; I'm talking averages here.
Gwah! @_@
...This goes to show that you should not start writing a reply until you've read the comment you're replying to.:P
How many copies of $GAME would I sell before everyone starts getting it from everyone else for free? Given that the problem is as bad as it is even though piracy is illegal, I can't help but wonder...
Or, for that matter, how many copies of $GAME would I sell before someone starts selling it despite not "contributing" anything to its development? Or trivially modifies it and starts selling it as their own (which, as my own link demonstrates, is not impossible but rather harder without source code)? The GPL doesn't forbid that, in fact it stops just short of encouraging it... I'm not saying that's a universal wrong, I'm just saying I hate being coerced into opening my software up to that kind of abuse.
Free Software cultists make my blood boil. Not all of them, though, just the ones that tell me I'm EVIL for writing non-free software.
...MacInTalk came with late versions of System 6. Also, what the crap does text-to-speech synthesis have to do with full interaction for the visually impaired? Did you even click on my link? _-_
Because even my grandmother can tell the difference between a 128kbps AAC and a lossless stream!</sarcasm>
Seriously though. 16-bit, stereo audio sampled at 44.1KHz is 1378 kilobits. A 128kbps AAC is nearly 11:1 compression, while most FLACs are lucky to reach 2:1. That makes AACs at least five times cheaper to distribute (assuming the only cost involved is bandwidth, and that costs rise proportionally to bandwidth) than FLACs.
Vista is merely repsecting the Image Constraint Token of the specs.
That sounds to me like the format has a "make it suck" flag. Which I actually don't doubt at all... but it's still different from using slightly lossy compression to save half an order of magnitude on storage and bandwidth. Nobody's pro^Wmovie collection is in a lossless video codec, after all...
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The more computing power is available in the world, the less it will be used to its potential. If everyone had an Earth Simulator in their basement, how much of that power would be wasted?
Not saying that proliferation of computers is bad, just food for thought.
-:sigma.SB
P.S. SETI@home, Folding@home, etc. are cheating. :P
Call me when somebody survives being ripped to bloody shreds by red-hot shards of metal and we can start talking real-life Unreal Tournament. :P
-:sigma.SB
Panther (10.3) was so much better than Jaguar (10.2) that I switched out of 9.2.1 to use it. Tiger (10.4) blew my socks off. Leopard (10.5) makes me want to vomit with ecstacy just thinking about upgrading to it.
Then again, I've always been more vulnerable to Steve's RDF than most.
-:sigma.SB
So having a TPM in my box magically means my vendor wants to eat me, and I'm a stooge for wanting the virtually undefeatable security it would offer should I use it properly.
Even if an attacker physically stole my TPM-enabled computer and applied NSA-level secret awesome techniques to it, they could not get the keys I stored with the TPM. Which is the entire POINT of the module according to the spec .
No matter how many times I tell this to my friends who have the deep, unwavering belief that TPM = evil, their eyes glaze over and they change the subject. It REALLY irritates me, in case that wasn't bloody obvious.
-:sigma.SB
Nice sig. That would make you... Guardian?
-:sigma.SB
Do you even know what TPM is?! The specification explicitly forbids the kind of vendor lock-in you people seem to equate it with.
I'd give my left eye for a few PCI TPMs.
-:sigma.SB
Write 50 different tests for silly things, and roll all the "real" tests into one. Bingo. Guaranteed 98% test pass rate.
-:sigma.SB
I, and the dozens of other Slashdotters who have already read your comment, now want your job.
Can we borrow it for a while? :P
-:sigma.SB
As far as I can tell, your argument is:
Sorry, but that seems a little... extreme.
-:sigma.SB
Ubuntu wins on all of those points except 5. (and "proprietary" 3D drivers...)
-:sigma.SB
I actually did some research into this.
The reason no image format directly supports HSV or HSL is that in order to have a decent perceptual precision you have to have a LOT of actual precision. (8+8+8 bits is not enough.) In addition, if you lossily compress the H, S, and V/L channels separately, the result looks worse than for YCbCr, or even RGB.
-:sigma.SB
Okay, I just had a mental image of carrying around a 300GB USB drive, with external power supply, just to boot my cell phone.
I'd do it, too. :|
-:sigma.SB
As late as six months ago, my main machine had 6GiB of storage.
160GiB is plenty for some of us.
-:sigma.SB
If you have enough RAM you never touch swap. Heck, on my Windtunnel G4 I once disabled it. (Things were awesome until the one day I actually needed more than 2GB of RAM. On that day, everything exploded...)
-:sigma.SB
There will be as soon as I catch up to his spaceship!
-:sigma.SB
disclaimer: this post contains facetiousness, which is known by the state of California to cause miscarriages in lab giraffes.
Joe Internet (apologies to anyone reading this named Joe) doesn't know or care enough about bandwidth or the Internet to set such an elaborate policy (which means very little gain for rather a lot of work on the ISP's end), and people who want to Torrent lots would just end up paying more for the privilege (which means they'd continue to soak up the bandwidth in spite of the measure). This is probably meant to increase the overall bandwidth for everyone (though it's not the best way per se).
I'm the network administrator for a middling home network with a compulsive BitTorrent user (who will completely uncap at the slightest moment of hesitation on my part), a regular Second Lifer (who "camps" for money 8 hours a day while he does his real work, sucking up to 500 kilobits) and an Apple engineer who's constantly updating his builds of Leopard; and that's not even accounting for MY (relatively small, actually) bandwidth usage.
If only I lived somewhere other than America, then we'd all have more than 1.5Mb to share between us. >_<
-:sigma.SB
P.S. parentheses much? I must think in LISP
I heartily endorse this comment or reply.
-:sigma.SB
I've known I was going to be spending my life working in the field of computers longer than I've known how to walk. Clearly you don't know what you're--
Gwah! @_@
...This goes to show that you should not start writing a reply until you've read the comment you're replying to. :P
-:sigma.SB
How many copies of $GAME would I sell before everyone starts getting it from everyone else for free? Given that the problem is as bad as it is even though piracy is illegal, I can't help but wonder...
Or, for that matter, how many copies of $GAME would I sell before someone starts selling it despite not "contributing" anything to its development? Or trivially modifies it and starts selling it as their own (which, as my own link demonstrates, is not impossible but rather harder without source code)? The GPL doesn't forbid that, in fact it stops just short of encouraging it... I'm not saying that's a universal wrong, I'm just saying I hate being coerced into opening my software up to that kind of abuse.
Free Software cultists make my blood boil. Not all of them, though, just the ones that tell me I'm EVIL for writing non-free software.
-:sigma.SB
...MacInTalk came with late versions of System 6. Also, what the crap does text-to-speech synthesis have to do with full interaction for the visually impaired? Did you even click on my link? _-_
-:sigma.SB
I've only had one of those, and I can say, "Who needs recreational drugs when you can live in an 80x24 terminal in your dreams?"
Unfortunately, I woke up when I got YASD...
-:sigma.SB
I've been known to walk at a ~30 degree angle for extra speed.
-:sigma.SB
Like this?
-:sigma.SB
Because even my grandmother can tell the difference between a 128kbps AAC and a lossless stream!</sarcasm>
Seriously though. 16-bit, stereo audio sampled at 44.1KHz is 1378 kilobits. A 128kbps AAC is nearly 11:1 compression, while most FLACs are lucky to reach 2:1. That makes AACs at least five times cheaper to distribute (assuming the only cost involved is bandwidth, and that costs rise proportionally to bandwidth) than FLACs.
That sounds to me like the format has a "make it suck" flag. Which I actually don't doubt at all... but it's still different from using slightly lossy compression to save half an order of magnitude on storage and bandwidth. Nobody's pro^Wmovie collection is in a lossless video codec, after all...
-:sigma.SB
If so, I am going to be VERY happy, as will (I should think) many thousands of other developers.
-:sigma.SB