On CPU-bound tasks like transcoding, it scales 1:1. I have a Q6600 overclocked from 2.4 ghz to 3.0 ghz - a 25% bump which is all-but-guaranteed with this chip (even higher overclocks are easily attainable, the Core line overclocks ridiculously well). This results in a 25% reduction in transcode times. Whether this is worth it to you, I suspect, is dependent on how many cpu-limited tasks you do.
We'll just have to agree to disagree. I have a preference to let the market correct itself rather than to throw good money after bad, which in my opinion will just prolong the crisis and delay the recovery. Better a large pain over a short period than a moderate pain over a huge period.
And for those of us who didn't make mistakes? Those who didn't get into ridiculous amounts of debt, or finance houses they couldn't afford? Fair payback for them as well?
Ubuntu doesn't ship with VLC, you download it just as you would for Windows. But in Windows, it can decode dvds regardless of whether you have in any other way obtained the mpeg-2 codec. When you download it for Linux, it doesn't work. I know there are patents involved, but why does the Windows version have the ability to play dvds, and why can't that same functionality be carried over to Linux?
Thanks for this viewpoint. It is sadly too rare in the Linux community, based on my brief experience. I know nothing about Linux but decided to install Ubuntu as I'd heard so much about it. For reference, I'm a systems admin of an all-Windows network. This is just to give you a bit of background - I may not be the brightest admin the world has seen, but I know my way around computers.
The install was nice, very easy and straightforward on a Dell Latitude, and to my recollection all hardware worked straightaway. The two main problems I had, and that I was unable to find answers for, were:
1) I have all my media on a Windows-based NAS. From what I understand, I need to connect to Windows shares with Samba. I tried that and it wouldn't connect. Couldn't find any help as to why this would be.
2) In Windows, I use VLC to watch dvds. It works straight out of the box, with all necessary codecs bundled with the app. I used the package manager to install VLC, but it refused to launch the dvd, basically acting like there was no mpeg-2 decoder.
Frustrated, I wiped it and reinstalled XP, where things are not necessarily easier but where I at least know how to do them. Changing operating systems is a major step, much larger than moving from one image editing app to another, or one movie editing app to another. It might not be "fair" that I require any OS other than Windows to be easy to learn, but that's the reality of the situation. Currently, Linux is only free if your time has no value, and I'm afraid mine does.
People give up their legal rights all the time. Every fly on an airplane? You're agreeing to cursory searches without probable cause, in direct violation of the 4th amendment. It's a tradeoff - the convenience of air travel is, for most, enough to outweigh the negligable infringement of a right. Same with Steam.
But your S2000 gets the same mileage as many a 'large vehicle', so it's rather a moot point. It's not like you're doing the environment any favors by shunning SUVs in favor of a sports car.
That said, I drive an RX-8 in the summer and love every minute of it. But I have no illusions that it's a more environmentally conscious vehicle than, say, a Ford Windstar or Expedition.
Just to clarify, you agree with the GP's statement that a single post on Slashdot is applicable to and proves a stereotype regarding "most" (i.e., more than 50%) Americans?
This proves a major prejudice about Americans: Most of you don't know shit about the world (outside of your borders).
Was this some kind of self-deprecating meta-ironic remark, or did you really extrapolate to all Americans (which you accuse us of doing) based on one anecdotal example and honestly consider that "proof"? And here I thought Europeans were more culturally aware than us lowly Americans.
I'm actually really impressed with it as a workstation OS. It is as fast as XP due to the significantly fewer number of background services running as compared to Vista, with the prettiness and features of Vista (including Direct X 10 for gaming). Vista drivers work just fine. I installed it mostly as a joke after having received it at one of those Heroes Happen Here conferences, but now I don't even boot to my XP partition anymore.
I think the anti-DRM forces should proceed carefully here. The Law of Unintended Consequences has a way of biting you in the ass. One important thing to keep in mind is that in addition to the question of "Does DRM work?", an equally important consideration is "Do game publishers *think* it works". I predict that if DRM were somehow decided to be a detriment to the consumer and declared illegal, there would be a mass exodus of game publishers (and possibly developers) from the PC world, fearful of the impending piracy wave. Those few left would make MMOs exclusively, as there is, for all intents and purposes, built-in anti-piracy by the very nature of such games.
To put it another way, be careful what you ask for -- you just might get it.
So, what exactly does he do for a living now? He must have bills and apparently has enough free time to pursue these inane antics. Where is his income coming from?
Never recovered? Even if it ran for 10,000 years? I find such claims to be highly suspect, as any ongoing routine maintenance must require less power then the windmill produces (otherwise, there would be no incentive to install it at all - it would be a drain on the current power grid instead of supplementing it).
I've found the best solution to this is to have a car with a 9k redline. Get close up behind the person going too slow in the passing lane, drop it into 3rd gear so your engine jumps to 8000 RPM and sounds like a demon banshee from hell, and watch as they immediately try to get out of your way. Works like a charm.
Sure it seems like a tragedy now, but my gut feeling is that if she had sent one more payment, those millions would be in her bank account at this very moment. The same guy contacted me and I'm certain that with one or two more payments I will soon be rich beyond my wildest dreams.
Remember kids, quitters never win and winners never quit.
Actually, methane seems to be nearly as bad, if not worse, than carbon dioxide and is easily preventable in large part by moving to a vegetarian or vegan diet. There have been serious studies on the global warming/climate change implications of eating meat. Personally, I'm not 100% sold on the issue of man-made climate change; but considering the massive amounts of methane (a greenhouse gas far more effective at trapping heat, pound per pound, than CO2) produced by cattle, I've taken to completely disregarding those most vocal of global warming proponents who haven't taken up vegetarianism. Assuming they really and truly believe what they are saying, they need to look to their own hypocrisy first, before attempting to change the behavior of others.
General Electric (at least in Europe, can't speak for other territories) only supports IE6 on their client pc's. IE7 breaks many internal web pages and if found on a user's computer, is uninstalled immediately. Stupid policy? Horrible web page design? Sure. But with 300,000+ worldwide employees, all stuck on an older version of Internet Explorer with no upgrade path or timeline in sight, I don't see this changing anytime soon. And GE (particularly under Jack Welch) has always struck me as a fairly nimble company compared to others it's size. I wonder how many other mega-corporations are similarly locked into older versions of web browsers and how much they contribute to the overall percentage of non-updated persons.
That sound you just heard was the frantic clicking of thousands of sweaty nerds clicking your profile hoping for pics, with only a brief pause to recover from the shock of a female on the Internets, let alone Slashdot of all places.
How many "deep", character-driven games can you name that are still played by over 50,000 people online even 2 years after their release, let alone 8? Don't believe me? Load up Diablo 2 and log onto battle.net, it tells you exactly how many people are online playing Diablo 2: LoD (not counting those playing Diablo 2 vanilla or playing it offline).
I actually own one of these. Unfortunately it got bent and now some of the 1s get stuck because they don't slide through the bent area as easily as the 0s:(
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I agree, this clearly falls under the auspices of the interstate commerce clause, so the federal government should be all over this!
On CPU-bound tasks like transcoding, it scales 1:1. I have a Q6600 overclocked from 2.4 ghz to 3.0 ghz - a 25% bump which is all-but-guaranteed with this chip (even higher overclocks are easily attainable, the Core line overclocks ridiculously well). This results in a 25% reduction in transcode times. Whether this is worth it to you, I suspect, is dependent on how many cpu-limited tasks you do.
We'll just have to agree to disagree. I have a preference to let the market correct itself rather than to throw good money after bad, which in my opinion will just prolong the crisis and delay the recovery. Better a large pain over a short period than a moderate pain over a huge period.
And for those of us who didn't make mistakes? Those who didn't get into ridiculous amounts of debt, or finance houses they couldn't afford? Fair payback for them as well?
Where is this money that the government will give to the corporations coming from?
Ubuntu doesn't ship with VLC, you download it just as you would for Windows. But in Windows, it can decode dvds regardless of whether you have in any other way obtained the mpeg-2 codec. When you download it for Linux, it doesn't work. I know there are patents involved, but why does the Windows version have the ability to play dvds, and why can't that same functionality be carried over to Linux?
Thanks for this viewpoint. It is sadly too rare in the Linux community, based on my brief experience. I know nothing about Linux but decided to install Ubuntu as I'd heard so much about it. For reference, I'm a systems admin of an all-Windows network. This is just to give you a bit of background - I may not be the brightest admin the world has seen, but I know my way around computers. The install was nice, very easy and straightforward on a Dell Latitude, and to my recollection all hardware worked straightaway. The two main problems I had, and that I was unable to find answers for, were: 1) I have all my media on a Windows-based NAS. From what I understand, I need to connect to Windows shares with Samba. I tried that and it wouldn't connect. Couldn't find any help as to why this would be. 2) In Windows, I use VLC to watch dvds. It works straight out of the box, with all necessary codecs bundled with the app. I used the package manager to install VLC, but it refused to launch the dvd, basically acting like there was no mpeg-2 decoder. Frustrated, I wiped it and reinstalled XP, where things are not necessarily easier but where I at least know how to do them. Changing operating systems is a major step, much larger than moving from one image editing app to another, or one movie editing app to another. It might not be "fair" that I require any OS other than Windows to be easy to learn, but that's the reality of the situation. Currently, Linux is only free if your time has no value, and I'm afraid mine does.
People give up their legal rights all the time. Every fly on an airplane? You're agreeing to cursory searches without probable cause, in direct violation of the 4th amendment. It's a tradeoff - the convenience of air travel is, for most, enough to outweigh the negligable infringement of a right. Same with Steam.
But your S2000 gets the same mileage as many a 'large vehicle', so it's rather a moot point. It's not like you're doing the environment any favors by shunning SUVs in favor of a sports car. That said, I drive an RX-8 in the summer and love every minute of it. But I have no illusions that it's a more environmentally conscious vehicle than, say, a Ford Windstar or Expedition.
Just to clarify, you agree with the GP's statement that a single post on Slashdot is applicable to and proves a stereotype regarding "most" (i.e., more than 50%) Americans?
Was this some kind of self-deprecating meta-ironic remark, or did you really extrapolate to all Americans (which you accuse us of doing) based on one anecdotal example and honestly consider that "proof"? And here I thought Europeans were more culturally aware than us lowly Americans.
I'm actually really impressed with it as a workstation OS. It is as fast as XP due to the significantly fewer number of background services running as compared to Vista, with the prettiness and features of Vista (including Direct X 10 for gaming). Vista drivers work just fine. I installed it mostly as a joke after having received it at one of those Heroes Happen Here conferences, but now I don't even boot to my XP partition anymore.
I think the anti-DRM forces should proceed carefully here. The Law of Unintended Consequences has a way of biting you in the ass. One important thing to keep in mind is that in addition to the question of "Does DRM work?", an equally important consideration is "Do game publishers *think* it works". I predict that if DRM were somehow decided to be a detriment to the consumer and declared illegal, there would be a mass exodus of game publishers (and possibly developers) from the PC world, fearful of the impending piracy wave. Those few left would make MMOs exclusively, as there is, for all intents and purposes, built-in anti-piracy by the very nature of such games.
To put it another way, be careful what you ask for -- you just might get it.
"All These Planets Are Yours Except Europa, Attempt No Landing There"
No point pissing off the starchild
So, what exactly does he do for a living now? He must have bills and apparently has enough free time to pursue these inane antics. Where is his income coming from?
Never recovered? Even if it ran for 10,000 years? I find such claims to be highly suspect, as any ongoing routine maintenance must require less power then the windmill produces (otherwise, there would be no incentive to install it at all - it would be a drain on the current power grid instead of supplementing it).
I've found the best solution to this is to have a car with a 9k redline. Get close up behind the person going too slow in the passing lane, drop it into 3rd gear so your engine jumps to 8000 RPM and sounds like a demon banshee from hell, and watch as they immediately try to get out of your way. Works like a charm.
Sure it seems like a tragedy now, but my gut feeling is that if she had sent one more payment, those millions would be in her bank account at this very moment. The same guy contacted me and I'm certain that with one or two more payments I will soon be rich beyond my wildest dreams. Remember kids, quitters never win and winners never quit.
Hey! I work for Sony, you insensitive clod!
Actually, methane seems to be nearly as bad, if not worse, than carbon dioxide and is easily preventable in large part by moving to a vegetarian or vegan diet. There have been serious studies on the global warming/climate change implications of eating meat. Personally, I'm not 100% sold on the issue of man-made climate change; but considering the massive amounts of methane (a greenhouse gas far more effective at trapping heat, pound per pound, than CO2) produced by cattle, I've taken to completely disregarding those most vocal of global warming proponents who haven't taken up vegetarianism. Assuming they really and truly believe what they are saying, they need to look to their own hypocrisy first, before attempting to change the behavior of others.
General Electric (at least in Europe, can't speak for other territories) only supports IE6 on their client pc's. IE7 breaks many internal web pages and if found on a user's computer, is uninstalled immediately. Stupid policy? Horrible web page design? Sure. But with 300,000+ worldwide employees, all stuck on an older version of Internet Explorer with no upgrade path or timeline in sight, I don't see this changing anytime soon. And GE (particularly under Jack Welch) has always struck me as a fairly nimble company compared to others it's size. I wonder how many other mega-corporations are similarly locked into older versions of web browsers and how much they contribute to the overall percentage of non-updated persons.
Did you seriously think this hadn't already been done?
That sound you just heard was the frantic clicking of thousands of sweaty nerds clicking your profile hoping for pics, with only a brief pause to recover from the shock of a female on the Internets, let alone Slashdot of all places.
We were sadly disappointed.
How many "deep", character-driven games can you name that are still played by over 50,000 people online even 2 years after their release, let alone 8? Don't believe me? Load up Diablo 2 and log onto battle.net, it tells you exactly how many people are online playing Diablo 2: LoD (not counting those playing Diablo 2 vanilla or playing it offline).
I actually own one of these. Unfortunately it got bent and now some of the 1s get stuck because they don't slide through the bent area as easily as the 0s :(