Cool. I'm thinking now is there a way to insert a delay loop under an X app? It'd allow you to do some high latency profiling w.r.t user interactivity.
I know for sure that one of my programs needs it. I haven't been able to nail it down, but under certain conditions it forces full screen redraws continuously, slowing sawmill to a damn crawl.
Even better, why not solve the "stories on/. sucks" rants by making a button where you can pay some user selectable amount per story. o.w. you have something like Disneyland where you pay a grotesque amount to enter the door, just to wait a godawful amount of time to ride the good stuff. Or you can ride the shitty stuff all day. Where's the democracy in that?
btw, does anyone know if there's a goodwin-esque law for mentioning democracy?
Oops, one more rant: the newness of QDesign is irrelevant. Why I could come up with a brand spanking new audio codec. It'll be newer than anything else but I guarantee you it will fscking suck balls! Now if the QDesign people actually learned from history that would be different, but chances are all they did was look at what was patented by mp3 and said we can't use those algorithms. That's right patents fsck future technology. It would not be a suprise if an older method works better because they had a patent free workspace to implement in.
You're forgetting the most important aspect is whether or not it was transcoded. e.g., take the source audio and encode as follows:
original --> QDesign --> mp3 --> ogg --> repeat
You'll find that the artifacts introduced at each stage make it harder for the next encoder to encode. Resulting in an output file that will increase in size after each stage while simultaneously decreasing in quality.
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Re:Magnetic fluids... interesting.
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That would be pretty funny, especially the part where you realize that the oil in the ferrofluid won't come out of the fabric. And as the look of shock appears on your face, you look up at the girl in time to see her dump her beer in your face.
Actually in my case, I only want free stuff right now because we are on the threshold of losing all fair use rights. I feel that the free stuff has to be pushd and pushd some more to ensure that it is solidly in place before we can do pay for access stuff. How long do you think the web would have lasted if M$ had started earlier? They would have ensured that you had to be running the latested windows with ie and nothing else. Netscape would have been still born, and we would all be on alt.news.for.nerds.
Correction, slightly faster than several year old firewire (the one currently available as a single chip solution). Whereas the new firewire is a good clip faster.
I have some friends that were getting pissed off because the tivo would cut the last 3 minutes or so of a program because somewhere the clocks were off.
Nice analysis, but flawed. Unlike a lightbulb, the draw is not constantly 145Watts. In fact it should not even be maxed out otherwise you'd have problems handling power spikes. Two ways to figure out the actual cost: use a UPS that has power monitoring functions like some of the APC+serial port boxes. Then you can estimate the power consumed. For comparison my 300 Watt P/S linux box appears to max out at a sustained 135Watts.
The other method I've been theorizing about is to correlate the power usage to the cpu temperature. That'd be a bit harder to calibrate though.
Spoken like someone who has never actually figured out how much bandwidth usb actually provides. If you had, you would realize how laugable the concept of a usb tv capture card is.
"shafted from E-bay" = "getting fucked",
since the poster was a guy, he then feels he's been fucked. I suppose he could have alluded to being broom-handled too but e-broom-handled doesn't sound the same. Moral of the story? If you don't want your group being slandered, then you need to call yourselves something un-rhymable. Perhaps jibylients. That's so jibylient. e-jibylient. e-jiby. You fucking jiby!
Geez, I thought about reading the first sentence and firing off a "hey fscking thanks for the damn summary" but then I realized IT IS ONE SENTENCE. Maybe IBM should patent the period, they've obviously never heard of it.
I think this is great! The more examples like this, the weaker and the more plentiful, the better. An isolated incident here and there are crap. But when you get to the point that you can randomly pick a patent awarded in the last year and get complete and utter shit, then it makes it that much easier to push a reform package through.
I guess you could do that except for the fact that the heads depend on the flow of air over the surface of the disk to keep them floating above the surface. In a vacuum it would grind to death.
I can't believe no talks of this. What if all images had this kind of copy-protection built in? No one would have been able to save any images. Not to mention that none of this mirrors would have existed.
I think we should have a public archive law. All media that is distributed with copyright protection desired must make an archivable version of it available after N years. If the big money can shove stupid laws at us, we don't we shove some useful laws right back at them.
Great... the world's only lawnmower that hovers above the grass. There must be some kind of darwinesque award for intelligence. I'll assume you're being sarcastic for my own sanity.
That's just like dec unix, it had an option to turn this off and run in over-commit mode. Usually what it would do is every time a program requested memory, it would guarantee that there was swap to back that request up. The problem was that when we needed as much performance as possible, we had to change it to run in over-commit mode since the extra overhead of borking with swap was killing it. And in reality we didn't even need swap since we wanted to run "real-time" and bought enough ram to make sure we wouldn't do anything stupid like running a "real-time" process out of swap.
That's a roundabout way of me saying I hate swap. I think it's pointless in a development box like mine with 3/4 GBs of ram.
What me worry?
btw, I'd have to disagree with your statement, if you're running in a non-overcomit mode then you can still run out
of memory. The only difference is that the program that tries to do malloc will get a failure. If that is a very important program that has piss poor error handling then you could die really badly.
That's stupid. If you had an insane criminal with a gun and a hostage who waited for a slew of cops to arrive before shooting his hostage in the head and promptly giving himself up to the police then he would indeed be 100% guilty.
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I know for sure that one of my programs needs it. I haven't been able to nail it down, but under certain conditions it forces full screen redraws continuously, slowing sawmill to a damn crawl.
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btw, does anyone know if there's a goodwin-esque law for mentioning democracy?
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no.
terrorism -- (the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments)
Note the key word "violence". Maybe you could call it white-collar terrorism.
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original --> QDesign --> mp3 --> ogg --> repeat
You'll find that the artifacts introduced at each stage make it harder for the next encoder to encode. Resulting in an output file that will increase in size after each stage while simultaneously decreasing in quality.
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That would be pretty funny, especially the part where you realize that the oil in the ferrofluid won't come out of the fabric. And as the look of shock appears on your face, you look up at the girl in time to see her dump her beer in your face.
You have no fsking clue who Sklyarov is do you?
Actually in my case, I only want free stuff right now because we are on the threshold of losing all fair use rights. I feel that the free stuff has to be pushd and pushd some more to ensure that it is solidly in place before we can do pay for access stuff. How long do you think the web would have lasted if M$ had started earlier? They would have ensured that you had to be running the latested windows with ie and nothing else. Netscape would have been still born, and we would all be on alt.news.for.nerds.
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Correction, slightly faster than several year old firewire (the one currently available as a single chip solution). Whereas the new firewire is a good clip faster.
I have some friends that were getting pissed off because the tivo would cut the last 3 minutes or so of a program because somewhere the clocks were off.
The other method I've been theorizing about is to correlate the power usage to the cpu temperature. That'd be a bit harder to calibrate though.
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I assume you're talking about the Sony DVMC-DA2 ($400)? If so, are you getting full screen, full rate DV out of it?
Spoken like someone who has never actually figured out how much bandwidth usb actually provides. If you had, you would realize how laugable the concept of a usb tv capture card is.
"shafted from E-bay" = "getting fucked", since the poster was a guy, he then feels he's been fucked. I suppose he could have alluded to being broom-handled too but e-broom-handled doesn't sound the same. Moral of the story? If you don't want your group being slandered, then you need to call yourselves something un-rhymable. Perhaps jibylients. That's so jibylient. e-jibylient. e-jiby. You fucking jiby!
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Not the fucking ram thing again... Here's a buck, buy yourself a 128 stick.
This already happens in japan. They have a sun tax that must be paid to everyone you cast a shadow on.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=platters+head s+air+bearing
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This isn't a troll. It actually works in certain circumstances. You'll have to google it for details.
I think we should have a public archive law. All media that is distributed with copyright protection desired must make an archivable version of it available after N years. If the big money can shove stupid laws at us, we don't we shove some useful laws right back at them.
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Great... the world's only lawnmower that hovers above the grass. There must be some kind of darwinesque award for intelligence. I'll assume you're being sarcastic for my own sanity.
Speaking of R+D, has everyone forgotten the recent /. article on MS and all the dough they spent? And for what? Jack shit.
Research and Development does not guarantee results.
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That's a roundabout way of me saying I hate swap. I think it's pointless in a development box like mine with 3/4 GBs of ram. What me worry?
btw, I'd have to disagree with your statement, if you're running in a non-overcomit mode then you can still run out of memory. The only difference is that the program that tries to do malloc will get a failure. If that is a very important program that has piss poor error handling then you could die really badly.
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That's stupid. If you had an insane criminal with a gun and a hostage who waited for a slew of cops to arrive before shooting his hostage in the head and promptly giving himself up to the police then he would indeed be 100% guilty.
Absolutes are always wrong.
Generalizations are always false.