Modern life seems to cherish the idea of everything being fun and giving immediate reward, even in areas like technology which in general needs long-winded learning process to bear fruit and to master complex systems.
Touching the topic, let me ask a video question that I have been wondering for a while. My challenge to you is to find a way to center the 720p image from PlayStation 3 to a 1366x768 screen. My display only supports scaling the image to full screen. Are there external video processors (probably expensive solution) which have this feature, or possibly other solutions to the problem?
Fingerprints are good because they replace ZERO security.
Mod parent up. So often geeks think that if they can find some fancy way to overcome a security feature, it somehow automatically makes it completely useless.
Can't we just use an SSD? I think a cooler hack would be to have programmable FPGAs directly attached to your computer, acting as fast custom hardware which you can reshape on the fly to be anything you want.
When we get good resolution-independence to operating systems, all GUI elements and fonts could be adjusted big or small depending on the user's preference, not the monitor size.
Konqueror, the closest example I have used, ran on my ancient Toshiba Satellite Pro 660Mhz laptop off a live disc with 512MB USB pen for storage and 1GB RAM flawlessly, not even remotely as slow as Steam runs. What is up with that Valve? Why?
Agreed, Steam has always been quite puffy. It's also a bit crazy that the client gobs 100MB of memory when it only sits in the system tray. Modern machines have a lot of RAM, but it could still be engineered much better.
Something like that would be quite interesting movement actually. To start communicating in Facebook using some obfuscated data which would "jam" the advertising and datamining systems.
I agree that even 2ms is quite crappy. The networks can do much better. Personally I have been stuck with DSL connections which seem to always introduce a 20ms overhead. In my current apartment I was lucky enough to get a 12Mbit VDSL2 line, but even this kind of slightly beefier connection does not mitigate that problem. Actually it might even make it worse, especially if we crank the link speed to 100Mbit, as the copper line gets noisier and more error correction is used.
Exactly. For most scenarios a high-bandwidth link is not that useful if the latency goes to hell.
Even for my normal internet usage, I'd rather take a 5Mb/s connection with 2ms latency (to ISP's default GW) than a 100Mb/s connection with 20ms latency.
While I was looking for a citation, I found that if I look into Wikipedia I get differing results. It says there that the amount of ethanol produced by the body is about 3g per day. Now if we look up the density of ethanol, we find that it is 0.789 g/cm^3 (cm^3 = ml). By plugging in the numbers, 3g / 0.789g/ml gives me 3.8ml.
Actually, this isn't even a new product category for Intel. They already have the NUC (Next Unit of Computing), remember? The DCCP847DYE barebone box sells for €160. Sure, you have to add RAM and mass media storage, but it's still a nicer deal. Especially when it comes with a dual-core Celeron and an Intel HD Graphics GPU.
It also gave me cold shivers when I saw the GPU spec. According to Wikipedia the GMA600 really is just that old stupid PowerVR core with the clock cranked to 2x speed. At least it supports programmable shaders, hooray. But I think I'm done torturing myself with the old world GMA crap-chips. No thanks.
The modern Windows 6.x core was a big change and improvement over XP. I wouldn't be surprised if it actually took a lot of development resources to build that foundation.
Has there been a public reaction from olli-pekka kallasvuo or jorma ollila?
At least Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo commented on it. Basically his general opinion was that "sure it is dramatic, but I am sure the board made the right decisions".
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Modern life seems to cherish the idea of everything being fun and giving immediate reward, even in areas like technology which in general needs long-winded learning process to bear fruit and to master complex systems.
Touching the topic, let me ask a video question that I have been wondering for a while. My challenge to you is to find a way to center the 720p image from PlayStation 3 to a 1366x768 screen. My display only supports scaling the image to full screen. Are there external video processors (probably expensive solution) which have this feature, or possibly other solutions to the problem?
Does microsoft snoop on the data passed through?
You are automatically subscribed to the Customer Experience Improvement Program which sends the full HDMI data stream to Microsoft.
Fingerprints are good because they replace ZERO security.
Mod parent up. So often geeks think that if they can find some fancy way to overcome a security feature, it somehow automatically makes it completely useless.
I know the Windows Task Manager's accuracy isn't always the best, but... were the numbers you quoting from before Steam switched to Webkit in 2010?
The numbers are from today (and the Steam client has updated itself to the most recent version). Steam.exe has allocated 107,888K memory.
Most game developers have not even figured out how to use more than 2GB of main memory or more than one core.
You're correct about the memory, but quite a lot of games are multi-threaded already.
Can't we just use an SSD? I think a cooler hack would be to have programmable FPGAs directly attached to your computer, acting as fast custom hardware which you can reshape on the fly to be anything you want.
I switched to Linux Mint Debian Edition.
It's like the vegetarian joke...
Q: How do you know if there is a Linux Mint user at a dinner table?
A: Don't worry, he will tell you about it
I agree with this. From quality assurance perspective, Ubuntu has a long way to go to even touch Windows or Mac.
This means:
1) high performance
2) applications which do not crash
3) features which are fully functional
4) consistent and stable APIs
When we get good resolution-independence to operating systems, all GUI elements and fonts could be adjusted big or small depending on the user's preference, not the monitor size.
Did the interview include a question which asked you to describe what command to use to find out if the host "pong" is alive in a computer network?
id Software worked around all the color limitations quite cleverly in their older games as they used only two colors: dark brown and dark grey. ;)
I hope it means "we will humbly listen to your feedback" rather than "we will rigorously datamine everything you do when you are gaming".
Konqueror, the closest example I have used, ran on my ancient Toshiba Satellite Pro 660Mhz laptop off a live disc with 512MB USB pen for storage and 1GB RAM flawlessly, not even remotely as slow as Steam runs. What is up with that Valve? Why?
Agreed, Steam has always been quite puffy. It's also a bit crazy that the client gobs 100MB of memory when it only sits in the system tray. Modern machines have a lot of RAM, but it could still be engineered much better.
Something like that would be quite interesting movement actually. To start communicating in Facebook using some obfuscated data which would "jam" the advertising and datamining systems.
I agree that even 2ms is quite crappy. The networks can do much better. Personally I have been stuck with DSL connections which seem to always introduce a 20ms overhead. In my current apartment I was lucky enough to get a 12Mbit VDSL2 line, but even this kind of slightly beefier connection does not mitigate that problem. Actually it might even make it worse, especially if we crank the link speed to 100Mbit, as the copper line gets noisier and more error correction is used.
Exactly. For most scenarios a high-bandwidth link is not that useful if the latency goes to hell.
Even for my normal internet usage, I'd rather take a 5Mb/s connection with 2ms latency (to ISP's default GW) than a 100Mb/s connection with 20ms latency.
While I was looking for a citation, I found that if I look into Wikipedia I get differing results. It says there that the amount of ethanol produced by the body is about 3g per day. Now if we look up the density of ethanol, we find that it is 0.789 g/cm^3 (cm^3 = ml). By plugging in the numbers, 3g / 0.789g/ml gives me 3.8ml.
Then we also have IDE for Integrated Drive Electronics and Integrated Development Environment.
Unless it's a companion cube.
Actually, this isn't even a new product category for Intel. They already have the NUC (Next Unit of Computing), remember? The DCCP847DYE barebone box sells for €160. Sure, you have to add RAM and mass media storage, but it's still a nicer deal. Especially when it comes with a dual-core Celeron and an Intel HD Graphics GPU.
I challenge slashdot to go a full month without shilling some fucking product or another.
I challenge Slashdot to go a full month without calling every another person a shill all the time!
It also gave me cold shivers when I saw the GPU spec. According to Wikipedia the GMA600 really is just that old stupid PowerVR core with the clock cranked to 2x speed. At least it supports programmable shaders, hooray. But I think I'm done torturing myself with the old world GMA crap-chips. No thanks.
The modern Windows 6.x core was a big change and improvement over XP. I wouldn't be surprised if it actually took a lot of development resources to build that foundation.
Has there been a public reaction from olli-pekka kallasvuo or jorma ollila?
At least Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo commented on it. Basically his general opinion was that "sure it is dramatic, but I am sure the board made the right decisions".