No comment on closed/open source drivers but I was just thinking about that problem. If there is no working driver for Win8, maybe your dad could run a little virtual machine as a printer server using an older version of Windows? So you would pass through the printer USB device to the VM. It's a bit clunky solution, but might keep the printer going.
Many games ported to use Linux and OpenGL natively show up FASTER than their Windows relation, either OpenGL (being faster on Windows than DirectX) or DirectX on Windows.
My experience is the opposite. In most cases Windows runs rings around Linux in terms of desktop effect and game performance. For example, take the low-end Radeon 6320 Brazos APU (paired with AMD E-450 cpu). This setup can run Source based games fluidly under Windows, but under Linux they drop to 10-15 fps, which is about half the frame rate. Also, even simple desktop effects are jerky, while on Windows they are silky smooth. Linux experiment was made using the closed source 'fglrx' driver, the open source 'radeon' driver is even slower.
So this is one of the main reasons why I run Linux only rarely this days. A decade ago it gave a significant performance increase over Windows, but the roles have changed. I get more juice out of my computer with Windows, so of course I prefer that. The Metro aspect of Windows 8 is garbage, though.
In modern Mandarin, chopsticks are known as "kuai zi", but in Japanese as well as in Hokkien, chopsticks is written (sorry, Slashdot can't display the word here) in a character with the pronunciation as "zhu".
I had to read the summary a couple of times and was still left wondering why would one need that fancy machine to copy e-books -- why not just copy the files, I thought. Then the three letters "DRM" popped in my mind and I realized that he had to construct that all to just circumvent that stupid protection. Ah well, at least that was probably a fun project to work on.
Let me guess, you were controlling a toy radio helicopter while reading Slashdot and the parent's comment made you laugh which caused the copter to crash on your monitor and keyboard.
Pah, amateurs! At least enable NAT, which is a synonym to "ultimate firewall". To remove the last doubt of security, hide your WiFi SSID, which means your network is completely cloaked like a stealth fighter.
BIOS password would still improve security. It would take more time for the attacker to open the case, find the location of the reset pins and then reset the CMOS settings and close the case. If the attacker is only after the low-hanging fruit, he might not bother to even do open the machine and go away. Or maybe the attacker does not even know that you could reset the p/w by shorting out a couple of pins.
So, even if some security feature isn't perfect, it might add some extra obstacles to the attacker, which is a still good thing.
That's actually an interesting security consideration. You should indeed at least raise some kind of red flag and require a confirmation from the original card holder's account to create another one with the same CC number. On the other hand, it would also require browsing through all the other user accounts on new account creation (to see if there is a similar CC number there somewhere) which might be a performance and security issue from the server's perspective.
As a U.S.-born U.S. resident with a B.Sc. in computer science, I sort of feel locked into U.S. services. What other country would let me use its services instead?
If you get the M.Sc., you will know answers to all questions!
happens with cleartype disabled...
doesnt happen with anything except HDMI.
Could be that the HDMI picture in your television is routed through a different way than other input signals, and there happens some image processing which ruins the image quality. The HDMI standard in general is able to deliver the picture as-is without any kind of distortion.
an LCD doesn't go to black between refreshes so it doesn't suffer from flicker at any signal rate
This is slightly unrelated to your comment, but the brightness control of most LCDs is implemented using PWM (captured with a high speed camera) so when you deviate from max brightness, you get flicker. A while ago I posted a rant about the carrier wave being too low-frequency which might cause annoyance for some people. This does not depend on the input signal of course (but might be a multiple of it).
Back to your point. I have never wished more than 60fps, but I just wish we had much more 60fps content. There are some sports torrents in The Pirate Bay at 60fps, but that's pretty much all I have found. Oh, and often guys broadcast games at 60fps at Twitch.tv, those are really nice to watch.
Android 4.5, brought to you by Pepsi can't be far from here.
Screw you and your cross marketing opportunities.
As the cute code names for software releases have gained some popularity during the recent years, I wonder if some OSS project could also use the "KitKat" trick and get some sponsor money to accelerate development.
It's just incredible. I don't even blame Microsoft that much. What the hell was the Nokia board thinking? "Oh, this guy has run our company to the ground, he seems ok! Let's give him a few more years as CEO."
Duh. It wasn't Elop who ran the company to the ground. Nokia was fucked up looong before Elop arrived at the scene. The core of the problem was them being stuck with Symbian, which was a slow, clunky to use and very buggy phone operating system. Then Android and iPhone arrived which basically stomped all over Nokia. At that point Nokia accepted the Windows Phone deal as an emergency solution. And then we can fast forward to the present day.
Wow, Dr. Sbaitso is a true classic. The Creative Labs software bundle included also some other cool apps, like the talking parrot. I wish HW manufacturers still would ship that kind of funky software with their products.
Soon he will be the only survivor and laughing hysterically carrying a shotgun and traveling across buildings which are on fire. He has created all sorts of gizmos to defend himself, such as a running diesel engine which as a sharp blade mounted to the axis, creating an automatic zombie chopper.
But anyway, "Kaveri APU chip" quite literally says "helper buddy chip" -- the name of this AMD product sounds incredibly cute to the Finnish ear. Even though Kaveri is actually a river.
As a sidenote, Roccat is a German company which makes PC peripherals which carry Finnish names.
TL;DR: Calculus and Physics are shit at teaching problem solving compared to even BASIC.
You should move the TLDR to the beginning of the post. If it's at the bottom, it's useless as I probably have already read the complete text. Unless you wanted to say "to summarize", but then you should say that instead.
If we grab an old basic SSD from Transcend or Super Talent, I guess there are good chances that it does not do compression. I'm not sure if the first-generation Intel drives (X25-V, X25-M) do either. Maybe all new SSDs do compression, that could be.
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What on earth are you talking about?
No comment on closed/open source drivers but I was just thinking about that problem. If there is no working driver for Win8, maybe your dad could run a little virtual machine as a printer server using an older version of Windows? So you would pass through the printer USB device to the VM. It's a bit clunky solution, but might keep the printer going.
Many games ported to use Linux and OpenGL natively show up FASTER than their Windows relation, either OpenGL (being faster on Windows than DirectX) or DirectX on Windows.
My experience is the opposite. In most cases Windows runs rings around Linux in terms of desktop effect and game performance. For example, take the low-end Radeon 6320 Brazos APU (paired with AMD E-450 cpu). This setup can run Source based games fluidly under Windows, but under Linux they drop to 10-15 fps, which is about half the frame rate. Also, even simple desktop effects are jerky, while on Windows they are silky smooth. Linux experiment was made using the closed source 'fglrx' driver, the open source 'radeon' driver is even slower.
So this is one of the main reasons why I run Linux only rarely this days. A decade ago it gave a significant performance increase over Windows, but the roles have changed. I get more juice out of my computer with Windows, so of course I prefer that. The Metro aspect of Windows 8 is garbage, though.
In modern Mandarin, chopsticks are known as "kuai zi", but in Japanese as well as in Hokkien, chopsticks is written (sorry, Slashdot can't display the word here) in a character with the pronunciation as "zhu".
And in Korean, "chokkara".
I had to read the summary a couple of times and was still left wondering why would one need that fancy machine to copy e-books -- why not just copy the files, I thought. Then the three letters "DRM" popped in my mind and I realized that he had to construct that all to just circumvent that stupid protection. Ah well, at least that was probably a fun project to work on.
He could make a good candidate for a Darwin Award.
Let me guess, you were controlling a toy radio helicopter while reading Slashdot and the parent's comment made you laugh which caused the copter to crash on your monitor and keyboard.
Pah, amateurs! At least enable NAT, which is a synonym to "ultimate firewall". To remove the last doubt of security, hide your WiFi SSID, which means your network is completely cloaked like a stealth fighter.
BIOS password would still improve security. It would take more time for the attacker to open the case, find the location of the reset pins and then reset the CMOS settings and close the case. If the attacker is only after the low-hanging fruit, he might not bother to even do open the machine and go away. Or maybe the attacker does not even know that you could reset the p/w by shorting out a couple of pins.
So, even if some security feature isn't perfect, it might add some extra obstacles to the attacker, which is a still good thing.
That's actually an interesting security consideration. You should indeed at least raise some kind of red flag and require a confirmation from the original card holder's account to create another one with the same CC number. On the other hand, it would also require browsing through all the other user accounts on new account creation (to see if there is a similar CC number there somewhere) which might be a performance and security issue from the server's perspective.
As a U.S.-born U.S. resident with a B.Sc. in computer science, I sort of feel locked into U.S. services. What other country would let me use its services instead?
If you get the M.Sc., you will know answers to all questions!
Ahh, that would indeed hit the ole spot. I'd love to grab some popcorn and follow a nice crispy flamewar.
happens with cleartype disabled ...
doesnt happen with anything except HDMI.
Could be that the HDMI picture in your television is routed through a different way than other input signals, and there happens some image processing which ruins the image quality. The HDMI standard in general is able to deliver the picture as-is without any kind of distortion.
Heh, that was a nice one. :)
Buffer the signal. Trivial problem.
That will exactly lag the display. Which is not nice if you want good interactivity, such as when playing with a game console.
an LCD doesn't go to black between refreshes so it doesn't suffer from flicker at any signal rate
This is slightly unrelated to your comment, but the brightness control of most LCDs is implemented using PWM (captured with a high speed camera) so when you deviate from max brightness, you get flicker. A while ago I posted a rant about the carrier wave being too low-frequency which might cause annoyance for some people. This does not depend on the input signal of course (but might be a multiple of it).
Back to your point. I have never wished more than 60fps, but I just wish we had much more 60fps content. There are some sports torrents in The Pirate Bay at 60fps, but that's pretty much all I have found. Oh, and often guys broadcast games at 60fps at Twitch.tv, those are really nice to watch.
I see what you did there.
Android 4.5, brought to you by Pepsi can't be far from here.
Screw you and your cross marketing opportunities.
As the cute code names for software releases have gained some popularity during the recent years, I wonder if some OSS project could also use the "KitKat" trick and get some sponsor money to accelerate development.
It's just incredible. I don't even blame Microsoft that much. What the hell was the Nokia board thinking? "Oh, this guy has run our company to the ground, he seems ok! Let's give him a few more years as CEO."
Duh. It wasn't Elop who ran the company to the ground. Nokia was fucked up looong before Elop arrived at the scene. The core of the problem was them being stuck with Symbian, which was a slow, clunky to use and very buggy phone operating system. Then Android and iPhone arrived which basically stomped all over Nokia. At that point Nokia accepted the Windows Phone deal as an emergency solution. And then we can fast forward to the present day.
Wow, Dr. Sbaitso is a true classic. The Creative Labs software bundle included also some other cool apps, like the talking parrot. I wish HW manufacturers still would ship that kind of funky software with their products.
Soon he will be the only survivor and laughing hysterically carrying a shotgun and traveling across buildings which are on fire. He has created all sorts of gizmos to defend himself, such as a running diesel engine which as a sharp blade mounted to the axis, creating an automatic zombie chopper.
Indeed. "Ystävä" can be used for a close friend.
But anyway, "Kaveri APU chip" quite literally says "helper buddy chip" -- the name of this AMD product sounds incredibly cute to the Finnish ear. Even though Kaveri is actually a river.
As a sidenote, Roccat is a German company which makes PC peripherals which carry Finnish names.
TL;DR: Calculus and Physics are shit at teaching problem solving compared to even BASIC.
You should move the TLDR to the beginning of the post. If it's at the bottom, it's useless as I probably have already read the complete text. Unless you wanted to say "to summarize", but then you should say that instead.
Guys, your English is horrible. It makes me wonder if you even have your main screen turn on when you type.
If we grab an old basic SSD from Transcend or Super Talent, I guess there are good chances that it does not do compression. I'm not sure if the first-generation Intel drives (X25-V, X25-M) do either. Maybe all new SSDs do compression, that could be.