...because I bought a Creative Zen Touch 40 GB for 1/4 the asking price it (Zune HD = $299). LAME 3.97 still sounds decent. Now I have 3 working mp3 players, two 20 GB, and one 40 GB and i don't use them all that much. The Zune HD is supposed to be better than the 3rd gen iPod Touch due to better battery life. Zen Touch would have the same battery life as the Zune HD.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/zune-hd-review/
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
AMD Bulldozer 12 core in 2011
This is going to be a long stretch from the Intel QX6700 (3 GHz) and the new Bulldozer 12 core processor in 2011. I doubt there will be more than one DirectX 11 game that I want throughout the next 2 years. They'd all be DirectX 10. I have two Geforce GTX 280s, well enough to play any game at the highest settings until 2011. I tried out hardware acceleration and Windows 7 is very, very fast on an mediocre Athlon 64 X2, 3 GB of RAM thanks to a Geforce 8800 GTX. The Geforce GTX 280 SLI has 4 times the stream processors and almost 3 times the memory. AMD is always cheaper than Intel, only that Intel had a Quad core CPU at the right price in 2k7. 32 nm CPU so power it uses less voltage than my current quad-core. All my DirectX 11 games could very well be Xbox 720 if I even care to play.
In 2011, you still probably see all these new DirectX 9 games. The game developers said on gameindustry.biz that the current generation won't end until 2011. Then what's next? I say a DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 dual specd games? A technology I had since November 2006! Not to worry, I'll have DirectX 11 GPU by December 2012 in THE PC (not counting Xbox 720) when there is an awesome DirectX 11 game worth having. By then the AMD R800 core GPU will be very affordable. My next PC is probably due 2011 or 2012 depending on both money flow, and worthy software. If the word crazy enters your mind, just remember that the 16 core is due in 2011 around the same time and that the 1st gen of 12 core CPUs is due 2010.
I had my new PC just before the White house called it an official recession.
That's my Intel Core i7 980x from Christmas 2010
In 2011, you still probably see all these new DirectX 9 games. The game developers said on gameindustry.biz that the current generation won't end until 2011. Then what's next? I say a DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 dual specd games? A technology I had since November 2006! Not to worry, I'll have DirectX 11 GPU by December 2012 in THE PC (not counting Xbox 720) when there is an awesome DirectX 11 game worth having. By then the AMD R800 core GPU will be very affordable. My next PC is probably due 2011 or 2012 depending on both money flow, and worthy software. If the word crazy enters your mind, just remember that the 16 core is due in 2011 around the same time and that the 1st gen of 12 core CPUs is due 2010.
I had my new PC just before the White house called it an official recession.
That's my Intel Core i7 980x from Christmas 2010
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Holy Hell! Win2003 and IIS is easy to crack.
I am getting a MCSE and Security+ degree. O_o. I've only taken 3 Linux class in my life time. I don't think that Win2008 R2 (kernel 6.1) would make too much difference from Win2003. This is why pros need the latest OS due to 'security holes'. I won't care unless this means my job, it'll probably come to that too.
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/17/cracks-thanks-to-windows/
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/16/korean-united-states-windows-siege/
I still believe Windows Vista/7 is great for gaming.
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/17/cracks-thanks-to-windows/
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/16/korean-united-states-windows-siege/
I still believe Windows Vista/7 is great for gaming.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Update OS day Episode IV: Why not?
OpenSuse 11.2 Milestone 7, KDE 4.3.1, Gnome 2.28.1 Linux kernel 2.6.31 RC9
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Puppy Linux 4.3 beta 3, Linux Kernel 2.6.30
Even I know about PS3 firmware ;) Cos I'm just that smart!
I thought why not?...the Linux apocalypse is over since Update OS day episode III earlier this year. Isn't KDE, 4.3.1 a looker! There are bugs, for example I had to install Nvidia drivers. I got Computer Garage to download me the latest Milestone for $15. The final version comes out Nov. 15. At last, GRUB has EXT4 support so the bootup process can be in EXT4. In Fedora 11 [since May], it used ancient EXT3 file system for bootup. I also have Gnome 2.28 installed. Episode V should be around November 15, 2009.
Some annoying bugs [for my reference]
* grub and bootsplash still use 11.1 artwork
* HAL may crash, leaving XOrg without keyboard and mouse (Bug #537452), work-around: update with 'hal' package from Base:System
* License information on install is displayed in German (Bug #533026)
* GNOME live system asks for root password to mount file system (Bug #537343), work-around: just "Cancel"
* GNOME YaST Control Center cannot be started (Bug #537470), work-around: zypper in yast2-qt;yast2 --qt
* The PackageKit permanently requires authentication (Bug #538353), work-around: just "Cancel"
* Intel 4965 wireless is completely broken (Bug #537112)
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Game Podcast
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/12/126713/gamingpodcast100109.m4a
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/12/126713/gamingpodcast100109.ogg
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/12/126713/gamingpodcast100109.ogg
Friday, August 28, 2009
Speex 1.2 vs. Aotuv Vorbis 5.7 podcasts
I actually knew about Speex for as long as I was playing with this one encoder for 3 years now. Speex is Vorbis below 32 Kbps. At 32 Kbps Speex sounds more distorted with annoying clipping than Vorbis and saves 5 KB. Think of the old LAME 3.84 or Blade or Xing encoders in 2000 and Speex is exactly like that at low bitrates. I tried it in Firefox 3.5 and no support yet.
As far as my knowledge to achieve aotuv vorbis below 32 kbps, you must convert the podcast to 16-bit PCM first and then Vorbis can compress it down to 16 kbps with a front end GUI. That kind if erases the need for Speex at 16 kbps. This AlexSBrown does his speex at 8 kbps in narrowband, but I cannot get mine to sound nearly as good.
I am wondering if anyone would prefer future podcasts at 24 Kbps Speex instead of Vorbis? If I don't get an answer, I will take it as a no.
rev:01/2k10
As far as my knowledge to achieve aotuv vorbis below 32 kbps, you must convert the podcast to 16-bit PCM first and then Vorbis can compress it down to 16 kbps with a front end GUI. That kind if erases the need for Speex at 16 kbps. This AlexSBrown does his speex at 8 kbps in narrowband, but I cannot get mine to sound nearly as good.
I am wondering if anyone would prefer future podcasts at 24 Kbps Speex instead of Vorbis? If I don't get an answer, I will take it as a no.
rev:01/2k10
Sunday, July 19, 2009
US needs 100 more nuclear/hydrogen power plants before 2030!
United States needs to construct 100 new nuclear reactors by 2030 -- doubling the nation's current number of 104 plants -- if it is serious about slashing carbon emissions while still producing enough electricity to keep up with American needs. We haven’t built a nuclear power plant since 1977 and China is building a lot right now. One of primary driving forces, if not the primary force, of Americas GDP growth was cheap energy, something the communist state capitalist (socialist) Democrats are taking away from us! Remember 2 good jobs disappear as result of one green job in Spain and a further amount of national debt. You could apply the same money to nuclear power plants and they pay for themselves, because they’re producing a lot with so little material.
Now BIG BROTHER or the MESSIAH closed Yucca Mountain Nuclear storage construction which is supposed to be done in approximately 2020 if on time, BECAUSE HE IS ROTTEN TO THE BONE, maybe a little insane! Now, I’ll have very high energy costs for the rest of my life thanks to “THAT ONE”. So you see the craziness of the Democrat party? They screwed us, because they live a lie which is global warming. You know? Sunspots and Sun flares. They want the UN to have that IMF International Dollar? So they got what they wanted at the cost of making US a United Socialist States of America and downsizing our military spending for no clear logical reason except to make people vote for Labor Democrats or CPUSA Democrats more often. A solution to tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste piling up at reactors across the country WAS YUCCA MOUNTAIN and Reprocessing of spent Uranium! IT was going to be completed by 2030 when we’re supposed to have 100 more plants built or have severe energy shortages and blackouts. I remember that the blackout in 2003 cut electricity for North East states USA, Pennsylvania, and Nova Scotia, from a simple UNIX error. Which community wants their electricity to cut out all the time!
Think of our solitary New Yorker on the Upper West Side as a 1,400-watt bulb that never sleeps—that’s the national per-capita average demand for electric power from homes, factories, businesses, the lot. Our average citizen burns about twice as bright at 4 pm in August, and a lot dimmer at 4 am in December; grown-ups burn more than kids, the rich more than the poor; but it all averages out: 14 floor lamps per person, lit round the clock. Convert this same number back into a utility’s supply-side jargon, and a million people need roughly 1.4 “gigs” of power—1.4 gigawatts (GW). Running at peak power, Entergy’s two nuclear units at Indian Point generate just under 2 GW. So just four Indian Points could take care of New York City’s 7-GW round-the-clock average. Six could handle its peak load of about 11.5 GW. And if we had all-electric engines, machines, and heaters out at the receiving end, another ten or so could power all the cars, ovens, furnaces—everything else in the city that oil or gas currently fuels.
Think later, build now. Use Stimulus money for building them. Nuclear or Hydrogen power plants pay for themselves! Then we have to pay for all the illegal immigrants who don’t pay for electricity costs, all 40+ million of them who come in here. I rather have hydrogen power plants over nuclear power plants, because it’s more bang for the buck. You know fusion has much greater output than fission. Our population raises 2 million every year, and our current nuclear output on the power grid is 19.4. It would sustain that much. I’m afraid the green power plants won’t either. I don’t think we have time to wait for ITER based hydrogen power plants to be perfected. I could be wrong, but I fear Congressmen/women are pending way to long than our safety net with allow. It could be a catosphery. In other counties both liberal, conservatives, and socialists all support nuclear power? There is something wrong with the Democrats, of course they’re insane, but retarded too? God help us. The movie “China Syndrome” with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda was 30 years ago, lets start a hydrogen economy revolution spark before history books say superpower falls due to nutty politics that refused to harness the atom for energy. We’re bankrupted right now, California is bankrupted due to the improper savings measures, the 49 states are paying for it soon enough. I just don’t want be the inevitable domino effect. This is the only way to get back onto a more common sense road.
The Labor Party of Australia would never decline building fossil fuel power plants for its citizens. They’re not stupid you know. If Big Brother was trying to copy Kevin Rudd some ways, why resist that simple aspect of it? No Cap and trade (BTU tax) regime makes any sense either (ie: Bankrupts fossil fuel power plants)! BTU is a hoax to depress us Americans! Say no to smiley face fascism!
Now BIG BROTHER or the MESSIAH closed Yucca Mountain Nuclear storage construction which is supposed to be done in approximately 2020 if on time, BECAUSE HE IS ROTTEN TO THE BONE, maybe a little insane! Now, I’ll have very high energy costs for the rest of my life thanks to “THAT ONE”. So you see the craziness of the Democrat party? They screwed us, because they live a lie which is global warming. You know? Sunspots and Sun flares. They want the UN to have that IMF International Dollar? So they got what they wanted at the cost of making US a United Socialist States of America and downsizing our military spending for no clear logical reason except to make people vote for Labor Democrats or CPUSA Democrats more often. A solution to tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste piling up at reactors across the country WAS YUCCA MOUNTAIN and Reprocessing of spent Uranium! IT was going to be completed by 2030 when we’re supposed to have 100 more plants built or have severe energy shortages and blackouts. I remember that the blackout in 2003 cut electricity for North East states USA, Pennsylvania, and Nova Scotia, from a simple UNIX error. Which community wants their electricity to cut out all the time!
Think of our solitary New Yorker on the Upper West Side as a 1,400-watt bulb that never sleeps—that’s the national per-capita average demand for electric power from homes, factories, businesses, the lot. Our average citizen burns about twice as bright at 4 pm in August, and a lot dimmer at 4 am in December; grown-ups burn more than kids, the rich more than the poor; but it all averages out: 14 floor lamps per person, lit round the clock. Convert this same number back into a utility’s supply-side jargon, and a million people need roughly 1.4 “gigs” of power—1.4 gigawatts (GW). Running at peak power, Entergy’s two nuclear units at Indian Point generate just under 2 GW. So just four Indian Points could take care of New York City’s 7-GW round-the-clock average. Six could handle its peak load of about 11.5 GW. And if we had all-electric engines, machines, and heaters out at the receiving end, another ten or so could power all the cars, ovens, furnaces—everything else in the city that oil or gas currently fuels.
Think later, build now. Use Stimulus money for building them. Nuclear or Hydrogen power plants pay for themselves! Then we have to pay for all the illegal immigrants who don’t pay for electricity costs, all 40+ million of them who come in here. I rather have hydrogen power plants over nuclear power plants, because it’s more bang for the buck. You know fusion has much greater output than fission. Our population raises 2 million every year, and our current nuclear output on the power grid is 19.4. It would sustain that much. I’m afraid the green power plants won’t either. I don’t think we have time to wait for ITER based hydrogen power plants to be perfected. I could be wrong, but I fear Congressmen/women are pending way to long than our safety net with allow. It could be a catosphery. In other counties both liberal, conservatives, and socialists all support nuclear power? There is something wrong with the Democrats, of course they’re insane, but retarded too? God help us. The movie “China Syndrome” with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda was 30 years ago, lets start a hydrogen economy revolution spark before history books say superpower falls due to nutty politics that refused to harness the atom for energy. We’re bankrupted right now, California is bankrupted due to the improper savings measures, the 49 states are paying for it soon enough. I just don’t want be the inevitable domino effect. This is the only way to get back onto a more common sense road.
The Labor Party of Australia would never decline building fossil fuel power plants for its citizens. They’re not stupid you know. If Big Brother was trying to copy Kevin Rudd some ways, why resist that simple aspect of it? No Cap and trade (BTU tax) regime makes any sense either (ie: Bankrupts fossil fuel power plants)! BTU is a hoax to depress us Americans! Say no to smiley face fascism!
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