Comments by "Lepus Felix" (@MasticinaAkicta) on "Computerphile" channel.

  1. Interesting stuff. And knowing how many things use ARM chips.. good to know. There are definitely inventions that wouldn't run as nicely without these low power chips.
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  2. Let me share my theory about this C:\Users\Masticina\Documents\404Theory.rtf
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  3. Gotta love how cache did make a difference. Going back to the Pentium 4 and the Celeron. In many ways they are the same except in cache size. Pretty much not not so succesful P4's became celerons. And for office tasks, light office use, it didn't matter that much. Unless you where dealing with huge sheets to work on. So many office pc's ended up with celerons. And that wasn't bad! It was slower then the P4, definitely once certain jobs really could use a bit more cache then the celeron offered. Of course nowadays cache also is used to connect multiple cores together. As a bridge between them. So you get a nice big swat of memory to function as shared cache for all cores. And locally a much smaller one for its local, one core only, calculations. So does cache influence speed? Yes but it also depends on the job it is doing. Word probably won't get much a speed boost with double the amount of cache. But encoding video, running databases or yes a huge spreadsheet then a big cache will mean more performance.
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  4. I like PDF. I work with ODT, other still with DOC's and some with DOCX's. Joy, But we all can read and print PDF files. And isn't that worth something?
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  5. +John Thimakis Remember Fraps? Remember people making gameplay videos in fraps? Well that was pretty much uncompressed AVI. It is silly big in storage and handling. Definitely compared to the H.264 codec acceleration we use these days.
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  6. Tell that to my IPTV decoder I got from my ISP. No Wifi... they don't TRUST wifi to be strong enough. Only cablese. But you can use ethernet over powerlines!
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  7. +rchandraonline A big difference in the codec settings used on video cameras is precisely that. Higher Pro models will shoot video with better quality, due to them using more keyframes. More Keyframes does means a bigger file though. But yes it lessens the amount of video you lose due to glitching.
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  8. Mmm loud, needs a big van and yet it seems like quite a nifty thing.
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  9. That are allot of chips. But good to see that ARM is so useful. Most consuments only get to meet them in their printer or their tablet.
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  10. Oh I agree you can't.  The web of trust is based upon encryption and that people are not able to look into your transactions/change them on the spot.  Worst of course is that those that ban encryption DEPEND upon it for their own safety.
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  11. It surely is allot of work to make things look nice. But isn't that true for all things.
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  12. I can't pull the name out of my head but yes I seen a few interfaces where to shut down you need to click on two different sides of the screen. Of course they do this so you don't shut down to easily.
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  13. Sure you can create a script that goes through all links, looks for error messages, logs them. Then have a second script/part of the script that searches that log and uses said information. How? Well you either directly mark the broken link or you only mark them broken after 3 days. And of course you still would keep checking them for if the website returns after a few days. After all, servers migrate, webhosts migrate, it is possible that a website/server is offline or not accessible for a while. You can. But should you? How much work is it? How costly will this be? Is it worth the time [people you put to work] and money to do this? Or do you accept that the web sometimes has a 404 error! You can code for almost everything. But does it makes sense time and money wise. Fixing this problem with a $20 000,- project if you don't make that money back is meaningless. And don't forget the CPU time the script will take up. I know that modern servers are powerful but again CPU/Server time costs money! Indirectly it does! But it does!
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  14. So, audio storage of data is FUZZY, not precisely controllable but the receiving part is smart enough to take the datastream and get a 1 or 0 out of it.
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