And Opera has no equals in this regard (yeah, it's not that much visible on pimped-up latest PC, or if not opening more than few tabs...but this is/., we don't deal with normal usage patterns here)
And I wonder how it compares to Richard Burns Rally;) (though TBH...I like games that know they are games, focusing more on stimulating perceptions/giving illusion to our senses; modeling with great attention to details dynamics of a car doesn't do much to increase realism...)
Well, it's a bit of a semantics issue (like my whole point;p ), but...no, garbage collection isn't that. It is reclaiming memory that IS used, but no longer needed. In case of SSDs it's NOT putting it into usable pool, just making memory that isn't used already a bit more healthy.
Furthermore, the mechanism by which SSD degrades is very similar to fragmentation.
I wonder if it can do that while block has data in some of it cells; or does it have to move, while idle, chunks of data from cells all around the disk to fill some other block and then restore, now empty of data, "garbage blocks" to pristine state...which has again some similarities to defragmentation.
But really, I wasn't going so much into technical details, more into language conventions/familiarity. From the point of view of...almost everybody this new SSD mechanism is practically synonymous with defragmentation, even if concepts behind implementation would be more reminiscent of good old garbage collection (which I doubt; it doesn't free unneeded space, it repairs unused one) - the latter only helpful to firmware/drivers/filesystem writers.
"Garbage collection" has already quite different usage in CS. And while what has to be done to those SSDs isn't technically the same as defragmentation on HDDs, it is still "performing drive maintenance to combat performance-degrading results of prolonged usage, deletion of files".
Uhmmm...you do know that both Tevatron and LHC are international efforts, contributing much effort towards each other and with helluva of researchers from across the globe working on BOTH of them, right?
Please don't try to present this as some sort of national penis wiggling, leave that to the people with Freedom Fries.
Moon impact is in its own league, considering that the impactor was very large and came in very slow/probably from one of Lagrangian points of proto-Earth ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis )
Wasn't talking about gradients specifically, just that lack of proper "natural" ones (not only gradients, also edges) in picture with lots of artifacts (almost "random noise", essentially), might end up with bigger file in the method of OP, far too often for this method to be reliable.
Using your extreme example: image that is half white and half black. Compress it with jpeg quality settings 90 and 10. Then convert both to bmp and use general purpose compressor (as OP suggested). The "10" one will most likely be bigger! (much more ringing/noise, much more "random" data in comparison to "90" one; the latter will look much closer like alternating streams of pure zeros and ones - much easier to compress by general purpose compression algorithm)
I'm also not an expert, but I suspect it might work in the other direction far too often.
Perhaps artifacts of low-quality jpeg images, embedded in simple stream of bmp, could look more like noise to general purpose compressor; more than "natural" photographs with gradual gradients.
Oh, but you are opposed to religion; don't be scared into saying otherwise.
Shaping the world of believers is ultimatelly what religion is about; philosphers toying also with theology are practically nonexistant way within the margin of error.
Shaking like that is a horrible way to be woken up. One of the many annoyances from so called "family home" was me being awoken by shaking the pillow unceremoniously.
Instant headache for the whole morning and horrible mood at the start of your day!
Yeah, coming from evil European Empire, that was somehow the point;p
(I do wonder sometimes how many of the most "anti-communist" people in the US realize that road system & military - two things they, possibly (;) ), most cherish - is also socialism in action...;p )
If implemented right - it saves first and foremost HUUUUGE amounts of time. Usually also money - while you could resale/etc. books yourself, there will also be those editions you have hard time reselling...
Yes, the cause of the second problem are schools requiring latest editions. I can see the point in college/etc. level education (though even there only with some portion of books), but there's really not much point in highschool level education.
And while schools are the cause of complications, they can be also the best solution...if there's some will to do it. Because it's not only about latest editions, it's also about students having the same edition.
Now, arguably I'm biased, since my highschool was probably the only one in medium sized-town that had a solution - give 1/8 to 1/6 of the price you'd pay yourself at the beginning of the year, and you have all the books needed. And what a convenience, having them just wait for you in the first week. Just give them back, for next year students. Everybody has the same editions, money you give is for partial replacements, oldest editions had typically 10 years.
Essentially it was for-pay library, with enough copies of each book that everybody had one for themselves. After "classic" solution of primary school, it was simply superb.
First, as another poster said, Quake Live has a skillmatching component to it that is poised to work better than any OSS alternative even simply because of sheer number of players.
Secondly - prepare for onslaught of aimbots in ArenaLive. It is, after all...open source.
There are at least two spaceports in continental Europe - one in the northern areas of Sweden, one in Russia (Plesetsk Cosmodrome).
And IMHO, as somebody fed up slightly with "polish concentration camps" you hear now and then in the news, I think that calling it European spaceport is fine. So is "European spaceport in French Guiana / South America" (even better, but slightly too long)
I'm curious, what they tell them it is for? (you can't exactly tell that it's a potential HIV vaccine...) And how they ensure later checks among vaccinated?
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And Opera has no equals in this regard (yeah, it's not that much visible on pimped-up latest PC, or if not opening more than few tabs...but this is /., we don't deal with normal usage patterns here)
Uhm, what is non-Newtonian about it?...
And I wonder how it compares to Richard Burns Rally ;) (though TBH...I like games that know they are games, focusing more on stimulating perceptions/giving illusion to our senses; modeling with great attention to details dynamics of a car doesn't do much to increase realism...)
Well, it's a bit of a semantics issue (like my whole point ;p ), but...no, garbage collection isn't that. It is reclaiming memory that IS used, but no longer needed. In case of SSDs it's NOT putting it into usable pool, just making memory that isn't used already a bit more healthy.
Furthermore, the mechanism by which SSD degrades is very similar to fragmentation.
I wonder if it can do that while block has data in some of it cells; or does it have to move, while idle, chunks of data from cells all around the disk to fill some other block and then restore, now empty of data, "garbage blocks" to pristine state...which has again some similarities to defragmentation.
But really, I wasn't going so much into technical details, more into language conventions/familiarity. From the point of view of...almost everybody this new SSD mechanism is practically synonymous with defragmentation, even if concepts behind implementation would be more reminiscent of good old garbage collection (which I doubt; it doesn't free unneeded space, it repairs unused one) - the latter only helpful to firmware/drivers/filesystem writers.
"Garbage collection" has already quite different usage in CS. And while what has to be done to those SSDs isn't technically the same as defragmentation on HDDs, it is still "performing drive maintenance to combat performance-degrading results of prolonged usage, deletion of files".
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Uhmmm...you do know that both Tevatron and LHC are international efforts, contributing much effort towards each other and with helluva of researchers from across the globe working on BOTH of them, right?
Please don't try to present this as some sort of national penis wiggling, leave that to the people with Freedom Fries.
...though they were under sorta US occupation for some time ;)
Uhm, in non-trivial slice of your examples that would be not C, but Ada.
Moon impact is in its own league, considering that the impactor was very large and came in very slow/probably from one of Lagrangian points of proto-Earth ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis )
Wasn't talking about gradients specifically, just that lack of proper "natural" ones (not only gradients, also edges) in picture with lots of artifacts (almost "random noise", essentially), might end up with bigger file in the method of OP, far too often for this method to be reliable.
Using your extreme example: image that is half white and half black. Compress it with jpeg quality settings 90 and 10. Then convert both to bmp and use general purpose compressor (as OP suggested). The "10" one will most likely be bigger! (much more ringing/noise, much more "random" data in comparison to "90" one; the latter will look much closer like alternating streams of pure zeros and ones - much easier to compress by general purpose compression algorithm)
I'm also not an expert, but I suspect it might work in the other direction far too often.
Perhaps artifacts of low-quality jpeg images, embedded in simple stream of bmp, could look more like noise to general purpose compressor; more than "natural" photographs with gradual gradients.
And random noise is incompressible.
Don't you have it the other way around?
If you're buying a license it means you have the right to use the thing, no mater what happens to physical media.
If you buy a product you can do whatever you want with it for personal use, including copying.
Adding to the AC above - apparently only US thing. People in Europe generally realize who Yuri Gagarin was.
(really, did US took this "hit" so badly?...)
Oh, but you are opposed to religion; don't be scared into saying otherwise.
Shaping the world of believers is ultimatelly what religion is about; philosphers toying also with theology are practically nonexistant way within the margin of error.
Shaking like that is a horrible way to be woken up. One of the many annoyances from so called "family home" was me being awoken by shaking the pillow unceremoniously.
Instant headache for the whole morning and horrible mood at the start of your day!
Yeah, coming from evil European Empire, that was somehow the point ;p
(I do wonder sometimes how many of the most "anti-communist" people in the US realize that road system & military - two things they, possibly ( ;) ), most cherish - is also socialism in action... ;p )
If implemented right - it saves first and foremost HUUUUGE amounts of time. Usually also money - while you could resale/etc. books yourself, there will also be those editions you have hard time reselling...
Yes, the cause of the second problem are schools requiring latest editions. I can see the point in college/etc. level education (though even there only with some portion of books), but there's really not much point in highschool level education.
And while schools are the cause of complications, they can be also the best solution...if there's some will to do it. Because it's not only about latest editions, it's also about students having the same edition.
Now, arguably I'm biased, since my highschool was probably the only one in medium sized-town that had a solution - give 1/8 to 1/6 of the price you'd pay yourself at the beginning of the year, and you have all the books needed. And what a convenience, having them just wait for you in the first week. Just give them back, for next year students. Everybody has the same editions, money you give is for partial replacements, oldest editions had typically 10 years.
Essentially it was for-pay library, with enough copies of each book that everybody had one for themselves. After "classic" solution of primary school, it was simply superb.
But it was also evil socialism in action...
First, as another poster said, Quake Live has a skillmatching component to it that is poised to work better than any OSS alternative even simply because of sheer number of players.
Secondly - prepare for onslaught of aimbots in ArenaLive. It is, after all...open source.
There are at least two spaceports in continental Europe - one in the northern areas of Sweden, one in Russia (Plesetsk Cosmodrome).
And IMHO, as somebody fed up slightly with "polish concentration camps" you hear now and then in the news, I think that calling it European spaceport is fine. So is "European spaceport in French Guiana / South America" (even better, but slightly too long)
Though not really applicable to general category of "shiny things that go boom", definitely true in the case of fireworks.
Really, why do people feel the need to propel thousands tons of chemicals into the air and just let them explode?
Netbook with Pixel Qi screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8WoItVRn0 (evolution of OLPC XO-1 screen)
If it would be in the form of tablet-convertible there shouldn't be much of a problem holding it.
Though it would be trivial to distinguish your fake from the real thing - while stars are the same, they don't roll around Polaris...
I'm curious, what they tell them it is for? (you can't exactly tell that it's a potential HIV vaccine...) And how they ensure later checks among vaccinated?
iPods never required DRM files. iTunes solds DRM-free tracks for some time now. Oh, and some number of DVDs is also DRM-free...