@Boris_yo I'm sure there will be lots of new phones by the time the Edge comes out, but no, I don't have faith that they will get anywhere close to what the Edge is trying to do in terms of technological advances.
@Boris_yo No promises at all! The first iPhone was revolutionary. Everything was incremental since then. Slightly better battery because we could push li-ion 1% more. Slightly denser screens, more megapixels on the camera
@Bob No extra power is useless when devs stuff bloatware. My GF can't run facebook on her gingerbread android, I bet she'll need a four-core phone just to be able to login without dzens of force-closing...
@Bob Here's how the industry work: hardware manufacturers aim to make hardware with increasingly higher specs and performance, and software devs are pushed to deliver more and more features in less and less time, no optimization, and they expect people to have always latest software, so in practice you either have state-of-the-art equipment or a lagging experience. :(
@Boris_yo Planned obsolescence. Not that much intentional as conspirators might sound. That's an expected result, but not a hidden agenda IMHO. On the other hand, I've watched "The Lightbulb Conspiracy", and that deactivate-printer-after-nnn-prints-even-if-perfectly-good thing is real. topdocumentaryfilms.com/light-bulb-conspiracy
I would like to see a properly developed smart watch from Apple that fully integrates with my phone and the ecosystem. Much like the Pebble, but with Siri access as well.
No, I SAID SIRI. NOBODY WANTS TO INTEGRATE WITH YOU, CLIPPY. GO AWAY.
I understand that IP addresses are hierarchical, so that routers throughout the internet know which direction to forward a packet. With MAC addresses, there is no hierarchy, and thus packet forwarding would not be possible. So, MAC addresses are not used for packet transfer.
So, where does a MAC...
@JourneymanGeek the Pentium M was a very important chip, architecturally, as it ultimately ended up inspiring Nehalem, which brought us from the bad old days of slow CPUs to modern quad cores with hyperthreading, high clock rate, and high-end integrated graphics
as far as core engineering principles and architecture goes, Nehalem is closer to a Pentium M than a Core 2
and Sandy/Ivy/Haswell just iterated on top of Nehalem
@Gowtham a quick google shows that Avast, like most commercial virus scanning engines (even Microsoft's own Defender), uses a kernel module to do scanning
it runs user-space processes too, but their role is just to provide user GUI
the actual important security-sensitive stuff is in the kernel
Task Manager, etc. can't tell the difference between a kernel module reading files, or the Windows Executive (the microkernel itself), and can't easily tell which kernel module is reading
technically, from the info you've provided, it could be a rootkit reading those files. because the behavior patterns of rootkits and very good/thorough virus scanners are similar
but (we hope), a trusted virus scanning company that scans your files with a kernel module black box isn't transmitting them to the internet for people to look through :P
a malicious rootkit does the same thing but sends useful stuff (passwords, bookmarks, cookies, etc) to a malicious server ;p
@Gowtham wireshark uses its own packet capturing kernel module to intercept network traffic at a device driver API level, although, a kernel module, once loaded, can technically do anything, it can even prevent other kernel modules from functioning normally
so the answer to your question is "yes", but (1) it's very hard to do correctly without crashing the system, and (2) even most smart rootkits aren't smart enough to correctly hide from wireshark while still allowing normal system operation
> The Soviet tests sound even more fun, but the relevant details are a little harder to track down:
“…it knocked out a major 1000-kilometer (600-mile) underground power line running from Astana to the city of Almaty. Several fires were reported. In the city of Karagandy, the EMP started a fire in the city’s electrical power plant, which was connected to the long underground power line.” (ref.)
@Gowtham yes, but I've read most of the first book, and I think the plan is to have a total of 3 books, only 2 are released
it's excellent stuff and really important if you want to be a leet programmer on Windows
you can also learn about UNIX stuff by comparing and contrasting what Windows does with what UNIX or Linux does, so that's also helpful
in general I highly recommend the (latest revision of) the Windows Internals book series because it teaches you how to be a systems hacker (where "hacker" == "dabbler" or "T-shaped generalist with lots of in-depth knowledge"; and "systems" == "low level operating system components")
once you're a systems hacker for one operating system, it's much easier to become a systems hacker for any other operating system desired
I actually became a systems hacker for Linux first, then translated that to Windows
if you are a systems hacker and a good programmer, you can probably get hired almost anywhere once you get a college degree
also, systems hacker knowledge prepares you for the domains of security / pen testing, security auditing, forensics, advanced system administration and troubleshooting (useful for answering SU questions), etc.
TLDR: buy Windows Internals books; go through them and the exercises; become a systems hacker; use that as leverage to launch your career in one or more of: software development, security testing (white hat OR black hat), or sysadmin
it is NOT EASY, but it is at least a clear, well-defined path. you just have to commit to doing it.
and you learn infinitely more by being a systems hacker than anything you'll learn in college, so just do enough to pass your classes then move on :P
I hate form-letter advice. All my advice is hand-crafted and tailored to the specific situation and based on what I know about the person. Meaning, some of you here are the best possible recipients for my advice, since I know some of you reasonably well (for an internet friend) :P
I mean, how is that still possible in a first world country, in the middle of what's supposedly the number one city in the "quality of living" surveys.
you guys need to use codel on your routers and stop downloading movies and your internet will be much better.. just sayin... just sayin (</CoDelTroll>)
"premiere paid off at the box office leading to an unprecedented $119 million on 10,013 prints in its first five days in 107 territories, including 18 Imax screens, setting a new international box office record." What do they mean by prints? What movie premiere has to do with revenue by prints?
@76987 You can out bounty, minimum 50. Depends on your level.
@76987 A process is already running, you could inspect its threads to see what it was doing; but if you just want to fix it, starting a new profile should work.
@Gowtham Yeah, spotted that as well; so, two options here: Either it is the vidmminterface that plays the file; or we're looking at a false positive, it could be just the virus scanner monitor scanning the file.
@Gowtham He was talking to me: "@76987 A process is already running, you could inspect its threads to see what it was doing; but if you just want to fix it, starting a new profile should work."
> Under the Windows Driver Model (WDM), DirectSound does not have direct access to the sound hardware, except in the case of hardware-accelerated buffers. Instead, DirectSound sends data to the kernel mixer.
@Gowtham: Ah, so it is the System process doing it; probably the vidmminterface. Though to be really sure, you would need to get rid of the virus scanner. It probably doesn't matter anyway; yet somewhat interesting, it could be seen as a potential attack vector.
@76987: When troubleshooting problems or people; "why" isn't the right question, "how" is. Once you know how things are done, you'll figure out why soon enough; it requires some effort and figuring out, but it is a valuable thing once learned...
I've got a 7GB .mkv file that I need to encode and get onto a 4.7GB DVD...any suggestions? DVD Flick would do the conversion but I've never had any luck with it shrinking the video files.
I was just studying my computer organization topic and came across words and the time taken to access words, memory access time. So this has something to do with the processor. Then I thought of the clock speed, how many instructions it executes or reads. And I just want to know whether there is ...
@slhck I can go into "Project settings" and set a "Target Size" of 4.7GB, yes, but I've never actually seen DVD flick do that - it's always ended up as a 5GB+ video.
Plus DVD flick only seems to use one core - on a quad-core machine it's kind of pointeless.
@OliverSalzburg You can actually install or bundle Mono's Xbuild project if you are concerned about people lacking Visual Studio being unable to run MSBuild
@somequixotic Hmm. I remember the ATI Radeon suite does have some video encoding capabilites...but I didn't install it apart from the drivers because OMG BLOATWARE.
there are entire encoding pipelines accelerated by the GPU on the commercial market; for example, Sony Vegas Pro, which uses OpenCL on any OpenCL 1.2-compatible GPU to accelerate your video encoding and compositing
although admittedly it goes a lot faster on a discrete Radeon/Nvidia than an Intel IGP
AMD Radeon HD7000 series and later have the Video Codec Engine (VCE) functionality, which is a tiny hardware ASIC part built into the GPU that is specifically designed to do super fast GPU encoding; unfortunately, general-purpose OpenCL can't take advantage of it because accessing the VCE requires a custom API
there are probably some high-end softwares on the market by now that use VCE because it has the potential to be really fast
@tombull89 If it doesn't work with GUI, use ffmpeg with ffmpeg -i video.mkv -aspect 16:9 -target pal-dvd dvd.mpg or something it should set everything automatically.
even the freetard developers can jump on that bandwagon now, because Gallium3d On Linux has both general-purpose OpenCL on the CPU for any hardware (slow, but good for debugging) via llvmpipe, and GPU-accelerated OpenCL on AMD hardware, with Intel and Nvidia hardware slowly gaining a little bit of OpenCL as well
even the FSF monks could work on that, because they don't have to install any kernel ROM blobs into their GPU to use llvmpipe OpenCL on the CPU, which is perfectly suitable for developing software and testing it
> With Android 4.3, we’re introducing hardware-level encryption for DRM. The first group we’re partnering with this is Netflix, allowing you to stream 1080p netflix content to your Android device.
"When you think of all the suffering that goes into keeping just one person clothed, fed, sheltered, and healthy — the suffering both for those who have to pay for these requisites, as well as those who have to labor or die in their production — you see how exploitative even the most rudimentary process of world-building can be"
@somequixotic GPU encoding. my problem is can it do a 2 Pass VBR? all the best of the high compressed videos are VBR. analise the video, put data where it is needed most
There is no way to put data where it is needed most, when it is "stream encoded" because you dont know what the whole video needs
I have decided that I don't need a faster internet connection, for a very very very very long time, until a dumb phone / feature phone sold for $20 USD can play Quad HD Deep Color video in its sleep
I'm going to be a late adopter of Quad HD video, meaning that my bandwidth needs are going to remain pretty constant -- what I have can stream HD 1080p video just fine, and I don't need more
I would probably be happy with my current LTE for 10 years if they let me keep unlimited data
@OliverSalzburg well I just don't think I'd mind in 10 years with the current Internet connection I have. Over the weekend, I just downloaded one of the largest games in existence today in about 4-5 hours. Even if games get much larger due to texture quality etc, I don't mind waiting a day or two for a download of a major game title.
for well over 10 years, my primary bandwidth consumption sources have been: watching video, downloading PC games, and downloading miscellaneous software and operating systems including Linux ISOs
out of those, watching video requires the largest per-second streaming throughput, and downloading PC games requires the largest single file downloads
since I do not need my video per-second bandwidth requirements to increase beyond 1080p HD, and since I'm willing to wait a couple days to download a ~100GB game in 2023, I don't think I will need faster internet for 10 years
although in 2024 I'll totally be ready for gigabit internet, when by then it should be pretty common
I can not even find on the web a "quality" or generational loss analisis of the intel GPU quickee video transcoding. performace sure. minus all the programming that it would require, isnt gpu encoding, just playing a video tossing it up on a 3d texture, then sucking that back down to re-compress?
Way back in time when doing video professionally, the toss it to the GPU really fast realtime always changed the video ever so slighty (compared). fast yes, but same no.
High speed doesnt have to mean low quality, but it often has with video encoding
Even take the example of games and nivida vs geforce. I spend 5 hours gleeing over toms hardware tests to see which GPU card will do games best (that i can afford). One is certannly faster.
A few days later I find an analisis of the 2 pictures that the video cards will be displaying. via a few tricks with antialising and ansitropic filtering (or whatever) the 2 video cards (and thier software) did not put out the same picture. The Slower gaming card, had a few less "problems"
@MichaelFrank no the differances represented would usually be meaningless to me . like after getting into the game, and not analising it.
a few Examples: your going by a fence, or see some power lines, and thin edges , and the many different ways to render that. Dissapear it into mud, a bit pixelated, flashing a bit. stuff that i am oblivious to when death in the game is a priority
On the other hand, many of the things like that, change the view for "reality" looks. when sightseeing. . Rarely a poorly rendered something makes finding things different. seeing 3pix enemies sharpness differances (and choices of render) have ramifications both ways.
The person showing the pictures displaying the differance between AMD and Nvida, was just trying to indicate that it is comparing apples and oranges. One very similarly priced and similarly powerfull video card , was compared at the exact same settings. But they were not rendering the same way.
