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From: MassiveProng on 17 Feb 2007 12:57 On 17 Feb 2007 15:31:39 +0200, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> Gave us: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com writes: >> > As OSes go it is fairly good. Unlike Windows, it can >> >keep up with a 19200 baud serial stream. >> >> Oh, jeez. You are too impressed with small potatoes. It should >> be keeping up with 1000 19200 baud serial streams. > >I think you're stuck in the 80s. > Or worse... she's merely guessing.
From: MassiveProng on 17 Feb 2007 12:59 On Sat, 17 Feb 07 14:08:30 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >The CPU isn't doing that work. That's what the video card >does. WRONG. The cpu is what the video playback applets run, and THAT is 100% cpu intensive for EACH AND EVERY FRAME of video PASSED to the video card.
From: MassiveProng on 17 Feb 2007 13:03 On Sat, 17 Feb 07 14:08:30 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >Why does the CPU have to be latched with the video card painting? >Not even your computer games work this way. The CPU does not >say throw this pixel at that TTY x,y address and then get back to me >when you have lit it. >> The applet does. and the applet tracks window position and size, etc. and the codec processes the stream as it is read from the file which got buffered from the online stream, and that codec is 100% CPU intensive. That processed frame set gets passed to the video card's space as an OVERLAY. That's why a screenshot with a player running does not capture the player's frame.
From: MassiveProng on 17 Feb 2007 13:20 On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:56:11 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) Gave us: >In article <er6rf6$8ss_002(a)s994.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>In article <d1ict2h4c5s3m3e5unsu4aagl2fpj0s49n(a)4ax.com>, >> MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >>>On Fri, 16 Feb 07 12:25:03 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >>> >>>>> Right now I also have LTSpice running on another >>>>>desktop. I'm typing this while if figures. >>>> >>>>My point is that you should not have to have another computer _system_ >>>>to do any other task. >>> >>> >>> He said on another desktop. If you had any modern brains, you would >>>know that that IS the SAME computer, that has multiple "desktops". A >>>feature of Linux GUIs. >> >>IF that is true, the renaming of this term is going to cause a lot >>of problems. > >It may have been better if a new term was invented. All the existing >terms had meanings: > >"another screen" is bad because many Linux systems have more than one >screen > >"another virtual screen" is bad because many Linux systems have a non >graphics virtual screen along with the graphics one. You can configure >for only one "desk top" and still have "another virtual screen". Also >the "virtual screen" may be larger than the physical hardware screen. > >"another window" won't do because the term window is used for a part of >what is on the screen. > DESKTOP was always the right term. It refers to the PC's desktop, not another physical machine's desktop, and she is an idiot to think it would.
From: Phil Carmody on 17 Feb 2007 14:20
kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) writes: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > >MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > >> He said on another desktop. If you had any modern brains, you would > >>know that that IS the SAME computer, that has multiple "desktops". A > >>feature of Linux GUIs. > > > >IF that is true, the renaming of this term is going to cause a lot > >of problems. > > It may have been better if a new term was invented. All the existing > terms had meanings: > > "another screen" is bad because many Linux systems have more than one > screen > > "another virtual screen" is bad because many Linux systems have a non > graphics virtual screen along with the graphics one. You can configure > for only one "desk top" and still have "another virtual screen". Also > the "virtual screen" may be larger than the physical hardware screen. > > "another window" won't do because the term window is used for a part of > what is on the screen. 'Workspace' is used by some window managers. I've also seen 'pane'. I hear 'desktop' far more often though, and have done for well over a decade. I think BAH's in cloud cuckoo land again. Phil -- "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./. |