I really don't think laptops were designed to run at 100% all the time anyway, so yeah, I'd avoid any distributed computing projects on your computer.
I run it on my two desktops at home though, and there's barely any difference in my electric bill. Idle vs load for me is about 40W difference -- I could save more by turning off a fairly dim bedside lamp.
If you're talking about the UI, then I'll agree it needs a bit of work, but then it is still a "nerd project" at this point. With any nerd project, the interface is at the bottom of the TODO list.
If you're talking about the code, care to explain? I've never looked at it.
So the thing common to Seinfeld, South Park, and Family Guy, is that they do have good endings: at the end of each episode.
South Park: "You know what? I've learned something today."
Family Guy: "Yes, but theoretically, if someone watched the events of that simulation from start to finish, only to find out that none of it really happened...I mean, you donâ(TM)t think that it would be just like a...giant..middle finger to them?" "Well, hopefully, they would have enjoyed the ride." "I dunno, man, I think you piss a lotta people off that way."
Well, you have to balance it all out. Music can't be too robotic, or it sounds emotionless, but it can't be too "raw", or you cringe every time you listen to it.
About 7 years ago, music listeners were becoming jaded and bored with over-engineered pop and rock, from people like Britney Spears, Linkin Park, and so on. Then Metallica came out with "St. Anger", a raw, essentially one-take-and-it's-done album. The band and its producers made an album that sounded like it had production values like that of a garage band. James' voice cracked on several occasions, and the snare drum sounded like an empty coffee pot, especially when broadcast over the radio (the album version isn't quite so bad, trust me).
People hated it, myself included. However, I dare say that they were the first established band to predict the coming trend -- the past several years have seen tons of bands do one-take albums, intentionally going for "indie cred". Look at the popular bands of today: Fallout Boy, My Chemical Romance, etc. I hate them, but they have that "raw" sound.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Dream Theater, cause I love hearing the amount of pure orchestration that goes into their music -- every note has been pre-planned, and they execute it perfectly. However, when I want straight-up metal, Zakk Wylde can't be beat. Black Label Society is the one band that I've found I can listen to at any time without getting frustrated. It's edge-of-the-seat metal, with a heavy blues influence which gives it a much more enjoyable feel than manufactured rock.
Don't forget that the government even wants to ban kitchen knives!
All for the sake of reducing "knife violence".
Remember folks: "gun violence" and "knife violence" are already illegal. In every jurisdiction in the U.S., there's already a law against "assault with a deadly weapon". I'm sure that U.K. jurisdictions have a similar law.
I'm relatively new at Intel, but it seems to me that the employees knew this was coming eventually, regardless of economic conditions.
Intel tends to use a fab for several years, until that process technology has become outdated. At that point, they close down the fab, selling it off about half the time, and starting the long task of re-tasking the fab for a smaller process the other half. The fabs being closed in this case are all on a process greater than 100nm -- remember that with the Prescott, launched in early 2004, Intel moved the P4 from 130nm to 90nm.
This isn't like GM closing down a factory, this is more like a school building a new facility because their old one asbestos, and old wiring. They could just renovate the current building, but it would be easier and less costly to make a whole new building, even if that means Timmy can't walk to school anymore.
Yes, because The Guardian immune from sensationalism. I'm not even British and I can make this comment!
There is hope for me about the UK. People are starting to realize that the government isn't looking out for their best interests, especially among the younger generations.
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but I'm not involved in manufacturing, so I only know what the public knows.
From what I understand, pretty much every employee at the fabs being closed are being offered jobs at other fabs, and pretty much the only way that anyone's losing their job is if they can't move, or refuse to do so.
Unless I'm mistaken, the closing of the fabs is merely a consolidation of resources, as well as an elimination of older process technologies, without a reduction in workforce.
Is there a different popular video hosting site that old people use?
I bet if there was, he would've concentrated on YouTube more than that.
I'm in Obama's target demographic, and he was marketing towards my peers and me. When it came to older people, Obama was like "Oh yeah, sure, they can vote for me too." He really wanted the votes of young people.
Well, I'm not sure if there's some crazy DNS/softlinking stuff going on that the bandwidth isn't being taken from whitehouse.gov, but it looks like the technology is being provided by Vimeo, whoever they are.
And if you want to download the video, it's in.mp4 format, with AVC1 and AAC-LC codecs. Personally I'd rather see H.264/Vorbis.MKVs, but...
Call me cynical, but Obama chose YouTube because it's "what young people use". That was his campaign's primary target demographic, so it's what he used. I doubt it had anything to do directly with Google's ownership of the site, but who knows.
Personally, I found/find the Poison Zombie to be one of the most frightening monsters ever to ship with a game.
It makes those low grunting sounds, the long howling moan, and it throws Poison Headcrabs, the second most frightening monsters ever to ship with a game, a huge distance.
Poison Zombies send me into panic mode, and I almost always send an SMG-grenade to them immediately if I have one, and any other explosive if I don't.
All this for a monster that cannot actually kill you.
I'm with you. I can't hear the difference most of the time between FLAC and MP3, even at moderate bitrates, but space is cheap, and if I hear something that's not supposed to be there, I can be nearly 100% sure that it wasn't the encoder (barring strange flac bugs). That narrows it down to the software, OS, sound card, and headphones/speakers.
Even when space isn't cheap (my Rockbox'd 2GB Sansa), I encode to Ogg Vorbis at "-q 6", which is about equivalent to "-V2" for Lame; VBR which usually gets around 192kbps. (shameless plug--) This is why I wrote FlacSquisher. However, if I had an 80GB or larger portable player, I wouldn't bother transcoding my music; I'd just throw it on there as FLACs.
It could be your drive. First, with EAC they ask you to calibrate the drive before doing any rips. I've never not done that, but it might have an effect on the results. Second, different drives have varying amounts of error-correction quality.
I've only had two CDs that wouldn't rip accurately with EAC, given two attempts. Both were horribly gouged enough that normal CD players wouldn't even get close to playing that section of the CD correctly. I'm running on a Samsung SATA DVD burner.
Honestly? The biggest reason I made it open-source is as an ego boost. People are using software that I wrote, and I'm much more likely to get more than 5 downloads if it's on Sourceforge than if I made a no-name site and distributed it there. This is especially true among the target audience, as nerds (like me) who listen to Flacs are much more likely to trust OSS than plain-old freeware, and they're highly unlikely to pay for small utilities.
In Linux, FlacSquisher can essentially be replaced by a small shell script. Here's the pseudocode:
foreach flacfile in flacfolder
if !Exists(destfile)
encode(flacfile, destfile)
The master CD is burned with a laser, then the distributed copies are pressed from the master.
To be honest, I don't think Sony is out to get us with this one, because these are just regular CDs, made in a better fashion. It doesn't sound like there's any DRM involved. It might be too late for Sony to make any money off of it, but I don't think it's a technology to be avoided for any reason other than possibly price.
And even if you wanted physical media, but wanted something better than a CD, DVD-Audio and SACD both provide multi-channel support, higher bitrates, and higher sampling rates. They're more DRM-laden than CDs of course, but DVD-Audio's been broken. So far, nobody cares enough about SACD to break it.
I might buy a DVD-Audio disk of an album I like, just to see if it's worth it.
That said, I do appreciate Trent Reznor providing FLACs, both in CD-quality format -- 16/44.1 -- and in 24/96.
Nope. Blu-CD is compatible with regular CD players, and still plays back at 16-bit, 44.1kHz. The theoretical quality of the output audio is exactly the same. The only difference is that the physical process of making the CD will be more precise, so playing a Blu-CD back in realtime on a regular CD player will, Sony hopes, give better measured output quality.
However, if you rip a Blu-CD and a regular CD to a computer using cdparanoia or Exact Audio Copy, you'll get exactly the same files.
In short, if you rip your CDs, Blu-CD will give you no benefit. If you play your CDs on a home-theater system, however, if Sony implements the technology correctly you'll get fewer playback errors.
I mostly buy from a used CD store in town, and even if I find an occasional new CD there, it's well under the usual price (usually around $10 for a normal CD, I got Pink Floyd's "The Wall" for $15 new). Combine the fact that I don't care if I buy a used CD (EAC does a good job with mildly-scratched CDs) with the fact that I've only bought 2 CDs made in the last 5 years, and the RIAA probably doesn't like me, even though I'm a paying customer.
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I really don't think laptops were designed to run at 100% all the time anyway, so yeah, I'd avoid any distributed computing projects on your computer.
I run it on my two desktops at home though, and there's barely any difference in my electric bill. Idle vs load for me is about 40W difference -- I could save more by turning off a fairly dim bedside lamp.
If you're talking about the UI, then I'll agree it needs a bit of work, but then it is still a "nerd project" at this point. With any nerd project, the interface is at the bottom of the TODO list.
If you're talking about the code, care to explain? I've never looked at it.
If you were really interested enough to donate your CPU cycles, is it really that much harder to install BOINC, and get a job running?
Plus then you can run native code instead of having to run in [shudder]Javascript[/shudder].
So the thing common to Seinfeld, South Park, and Family Guy, is that they do have good endings: at the end of each episode.
South Park:
"You know what? I've learned something today."
Family Guy:
"Yes, but theoretically, if someone watched the events of that simulation from start to finish, only to find out that none of it really happened...I mean, you donâ(TM)t think that it would be just like a...giant..middle finger to them?"
"Well, hopefully, they would have enjoyed the ride."
"I dunno, man, I think you piss a lotta people off that way."
Adaptations from stand-alone books, and movies based on real events, don't really count.
By your criteria, we may as well list "Valkyrie" too. ;)
Well, you have to balance it all out. Music can't be too robotic, or it sounds emotionless, but it can't be too "raw", or you cringe every time you listen to it.
About 7 years ago, music listeners were becoming jaded and bored with over-engineered pop and rock, from people like Britney Spears, Linkin Park, and so on. Then Metallica came out with "St. Anger", a raw, essentially one-take-and-it's-done album. The band and its producers made an album that sounded like it had production values like that of a garage band. James' voice cracked on several occasions, and the snare drum sounded like an empty coffee pot, especially when broadcast over the radio (the album version isn't quite so bad, trust me).
People hated it, myself included. However, I dare say that they were the first established band to predict the coming trend -- the past several years have seen tons of bands do one-take albums, intentionally going for "indie cred". Look at the popular bands of today: Fallout Boy, My Chemical Romance, etc. I hate them, but they have that "raw" sound.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Dream Theater, cause I love hearing the amount of pure orchestration that goes into their music -- every note has been pre-planned, and they execute it perfectly. However, when I want straight-up metal, Zakk Wylde can't be beat. Black Label Society is the one band that I've found I can listen to at any time without getting frustrated. It's edge-of-the-seat metal, with a heavy blues influence which gives it a much more enjoyable feel than manufactured rock.
Don't forget that the government even wants to ban kitchen knives!
All for the sake of reducing "knife violence".
Remember folks: "gun violence" and "knife violence" are already illegal. In every jurisdiction in the U.S., there's already a law against "assault with a deadly weapon". I'm sure that U.K. jurisdictions have a similar law.
I'm relatively new at Intel, but it seems to me that the employees knew this was coming eventually, regardless of economic conditions.
Intel tends to use a fab for several years, until that process technology has become outdated. At that point, they close down the fab, selling it off about half the time, and starting the long task of re-tasking the fab for a smaller process the other half. The fabs being closed in this case are all on a process greater than 100nm -- remember that with the Prescott, launched in early 2004, Intel moved the P4 from 130nm to 90nm.
This isn't like GM closing down a factory, this is more like a school building a new facility because their old one asbestos, and old wiring. They could just renovate the current building, but it would be easier and less costly to make a whole new building, even if that means Timmy can't walk to school anymore.
when they buy sensationalist, right wing papers
Yes, because The Guardian immune from sensationalism. I'm not even British and I can make this comment!
There is hope for me about the UK. People are starting to realize that the government isn't looking out for their best interests, especially among the younger generations.
A portal to a slippery slope?
Sounds fun!
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but I'm not involved in manufacturing, so I only know what the public knows.
From what I understand, pretty much every employee at the fabs being closed are being offered jobs at other fabs, and pretty much the only way that anyone's losing their job is if they can't move, or refuse to do so.
Unless I'm mistaken, the closing of the fabs is merely a consolidation of resources, as well as an elimination of older process technologies, without a reduction in workforce.
Is there a different popular video hosting site that old people use?
I bet if there was, he would've concentrated on YouTube more than that.
I'm in Obama's target demographic, and he was marketing towards my peers and me. When it came to older people, Obama was like "Oh yeah, sure, they can vote for me too." He really wanted the votes of young people.
Oh yes, and I'd also like to see a .torrent on the site, but I know that'll never happen.
Well, I'm not sure if there's some crazy DNS/softlinking stuff going on that the bandwidth isn't being taken from whitehouse.gov, but it looks like the technology is being provided by Vimeo, whoever they are.
And if you want to download the video, it's in .mp4 format, with AVC1 and AAC-LC codecs. Personally I'd rather see H.264/Vorbis .MKVs, but...
Call me cynical, but Obama chose YouTube because it's "what young people use". That was his campaign's primary target demographic, so it's what he used. I doubt it had anything to do directly with Google's ownership of the site, but who knows.
the Fast Zombie screech
Personally, I found/find the Poison Zombie to be one of the most frightening monsters ever to ship with a game.
It makes those low grunting sounds, the long howling moan, and it throws Poison Headcrabs, the second most frightening monsters ever to ship with a game, a huge distance.
Poison Zombies send me into panic mode, and I almost always send an SMG-grenade to them immediately if I have one, and any other explosive if I don't.
All this for a monster that cannot actually kill you.
Atheism is the belief in the lack of a god, not the lack of belief in god. As a belief, it's subject to dogma as much as any other belief.
Just like theism, most believers of atheism don't know what they're talking about.
I'm with you. I can't hear the difference most of the time between FLAC and MP3, even at moderate bitrates, but space is cheap, and if I hear something that's not supposed to be there, I can be nearly 100% sure that it wasn't the encoder (barring strange flac bugs). That narrows it down to the software, OS, sound card, and headphones/speakers.
Even when space isn't cheap (my Rockbox'd 2GB Sansa), I encode to Ogg Vorbis at "-q 6", which is about equivalent to "-V2" for Lame; VBR which usually gets around 192kbps. (shameless plug--) This is why I wrote FlacSquisher. However, if I had an 80GB or larger portable player, I wouldn't bother transcoding my music; I'd just throw it on there as FLACs.
It could be your drive. First, with EAC they ask you to calibrate the drive before doing any rips. I've never not done that, but it might have an effect on the results. Second, different drives have varying amounts of error-correction quality.
I've only had two CDs that wouldn't rip accurately with EAC, given two attempts. Both were horribly gouged enough that normal CD players wouldn't even get close to playing that section of the CD correctly. I'm running on a Samsung SATA DVD burner.
Honestly? The biggest reason I made it open-source is as an ego boost. People are using software that I wrote, and I'm much more likely to get more than 5 downloads if it's on Sourceforge than if I made a no-name site and distributed it there. This is especially true among the target audience, as nerds (like me) who listen to Flacs are much more likely to trust OSS than plain-old freeware, and they're highly unlikely to pay for small utilities.
In Linux, FlacSquisher can essentially be replaced by a small shell script. Here's the pseudocode:
foreach flacfile in flacfolder
if !Exists(destfile)
encode(flacfile, destfile)
The master CD is burned with a laser, then the distributed copies are pressed from the master.
To be honest, I don't think Sony is out to get us with this one, because these are just regular CDs, made in a better fashion. It doesn't sound like there's any DRM involved. It might be too late for Sony to make any money off of it, but I don't think it's a technology to be avoided for any reason other than possibly price.
And even if you wanted physical media, but wanted something better than a CD, DVD-Audio and SACD both provide multi-channel support, higher bitrates, and higher sampling rates. They're more DRM-laden than CDs of course, but DVD-Audio's been broken. So far, nobody cares enough about SACD to break it.
I might buy a DVD-Audio disk of an album I like, just to see if it's worth it.
That said, I do appreciate Trent Reznor providing FLACs, both in CD-quality format -- 16/44.1 -- and in 24/96.
Nope. Blu-CD is compatible with regular CD players, and still plays back at 16-bit, 44.1kHz. The theoretical quality of the output audio is exactly the same. The only difference is that the physical process of making the CD will be more precise, so playing a Blu-CD back in realtime on a regular CD player will, Sony hopes, give better measured output quality.
However, if you rip a Blu-CD and a regular CD to a computer using cdparanoia or Exact Audio Copy, you'll get exactly the same files.
In short, if you rip your CDs, Blu-CD will give you no benefit. If you play your CDs on a home-theater system, however, if Sony implements the technology correctly you'll get fewer playback errors.
Unless Amazon added lossless support recently, I'd rather just buy the CD.
I mostly buy from a used CD store in town, and even if I find an occasional new CD there, it's well under the usual price (usually around $10 for a normal CD, I got Pink Floyd's "The Wall" for $15 new). Combine the fact that I don't care if I buy a used CD (EAC does a good job with mildly-scratched CDs) with the fact that I've only bought 2 CDs made in the last 5 years, and the RIAA probably doesn't like me, even though I'm a paying customer.