I would love to have some 5.1 surround music. Classical music would kick ass if you could hear where the violins were and so on. Normal rock would also benefit to a degree.
I got lent a reasonably new laptop with Vista on it from my boss. I put Linux on it.
His mouth dropped when he saw me using it. He couldnt believe how responsive it was alt-tabbing and just generally using it.
OEMs dont help, but Vista isnt winning any speed competitions.
And Microsoft is to blame for the crappy drivers. AMD and nVidia have teams working on them full time. Their XP and Linux drivers were fine at the time - it was only the Vista ones which had major problems.
From what I can see The Matrix and LOTR were the peak of CG animation.
These days they arent pushing the boundaries because thats expensive and people are more than happy to pay the same price for something which takes half the time to make.
Using another filesystem with more 'fragmentation' wont boost SSD performance. I cant think of any way you can make a FS for SSDs faster than the ones optimised for hard drives.
NTFS would get a massive speed boost though. But thats just because it sucks.;)
A building with solar panels on it cannot power the building. Google's doing it and over their entire campus they can only get 30% of their power from solar.
Usually its just for myself, but occasionally other people need to look at it.
One example is a daemon with a very large 5mb or so multidimensional array in memory. No idea how many dimensions it is actually. Its quite large. Another guy had to extend a bit of my code. He managed to do it fairly easily.
He is however shit scared of my code and doesnt even bother trying to understand the main part of it.:)
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My main box running KDE 4.1 with Seamonkey works fine with 512mb ram.
More would only benefit me slightly when I go on insane coding sprees.
Thats not AND, thats OR. One taskbar which you can move around.
People have gotten pretty smart about regions on DVDs you know.
Nah the DOJ wont care.
I *really* like our ACCC.
They really keep companies in line.
You mean the US should be more like Australia, where Paypal has to follow certain rules, just like a bank? :)
No, but it adds to the experience.
I would love to have some 5.1 surround music.
Classical music would kick ass if you could hear where the violins were and so on.
Normal rock would also benefit to a degree.
Thats got nothing to do with the network and everything to do with not having enough servers.
$65 for a 1gig stick of DDR in Australia? No thanks.
I dont actually need more ram. I get by on 512 fine.
KDE 4.1 helps a lot fyi.
Err shouldnt I be? :P
Slashdot + GMail plus a compile or two on 512mb ram does the trick. ;)
Real life scenario. Thats what I'm doing right now.
Speed for the sake of speed isnt bad anyway.
I dunno about you but I like zippy computing experiences.
Yeah but thats not something the politicians want.
In a election campaign, a trial isnt required to do damage.
I got lent a reasonably new laptop with Vista on it from my boss.
I put Linux on it.
His mouth dropped when he saw me using it.
He couldnt believe how responsive it was alt-tabbing and just generally using it.
OEMs dont help, but Vista isnt winning any speed competitions.
And Microsoft is to blame for the crappy drivers.
AMD and nVidia have teams working on them full time.
Their XP and Linux drivers were fine at the time - it was only the Vista ones which had major problems.
From what I can see The Matrix and LOTR were the peak of CG animation.
These days they arent pushing the boundaries because thats expensive and people are more than happy to pay the same price for something which takes half the time to make.
Using another filesystem with more 'fragmentation' wont boost SSD performance.
I cant think of any way you can make a FS for SSDs faster than the ones optimised for hard drives.
NTFS would get a massive speed boost though. ;)
But thats just because it sucks.
I'm a Aussie and I've only seen that being used for divide where it makes a certain amount of sense.
Never multiply.
...by putting the turbines above the panels?
Great way to make shadows.
A building with solar panels on it cannot power the building.
Google's doing it and over their entire campus they can only get 30% of their power from solar.
USB spec says half a amp, less means that the device is charged slower.
Not a big issue.
And the regulators are mandatory anyway. CPUs dont run on the 3.7v or so of Lithium cells.
Boost/Buck converters negate those factors.
E.g. phones which can charge over USB dont use 5v batteries.
Ideally that is. It wouldnt surprise me if it didnt occur.
Usually its just for myself, but occasionally other people need to look at it.
One example is a daemon with a very large 5mb or so multidimensional array in memory.
No idea how many dimensions it is actually. Its quite large.
Another guy had to extend a bit of my code. He managed to do it fairly easily.
He is however shit scared of my code and doesnt even bother trying to understand the main part of it. :)
Thanks for summing it up nicely. :)
They are 'lumpy' arrays. The values arent distributed in them evenly.
Yeah I've had arrays with double digit dimensions.
I think my record is 16 or so.
I dont know why but I work with them incredibly easily.
Without them its like programming with a hand tied behind your back.
Cant visualize them at all, I can work with them though.