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    Re: What do you think about Mozilla supporting h.264?

    common sense to use the available OS codecs, thats what they are there for. Not doing it is rather poor propaganda, especially since WebM was little more than a PR Stunt for google.
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    Re: what do you call people who resist linux

    people with higher/other standards than you?
  3. Re: C++ global class instance's static member not same between functions

    what likely happens is that the constructors are called in this sequence:
    a.entity(); // accesses uninitialized entity::vec -> size = 1
    b.entity(); // accesses uninitialized entity::vec -> size = 2...
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    Re: C++ help using valarray and struct

    lose the (10), if you want to initialize for 10 elements you need to write an constructor


    #include <valarray>
    #include <string>

    struct myvec {
    std::string name;
    ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: x86 register question

    Well, have you considered not starting from scratch but using gcc or llvm. That way you only have to do the "language part" (overly simplified) and get all supported architectures from their...
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    [SOLVED] Re: x86 register question

    32bit ops are plain alot faster on current CPUs than fractional (8/16bit ones).
    The reason is that a 32bit ops sets all bits, while a fractional leaves some untouched and the ISA requires them to...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Problem with try/catch block

    im not sure how segmentation faults are handled with Linux, but I guess it just sends a signal to the process.
    unless gcc does some complicated magic, you wont catch this kind of lowlevel error with...
  8. Re: Opera 11 alpha released, along with hardware acceleration

    its opera 12, and appart from some graphic demos running faster I dont see much difference, except regular stuttering with scrolling and such.
    its also subject to the same crash-the-whole-OS issues,...
  9. Re: 1,000 times faster than today’s fastest processor

    this is a thing that will be interesting for servers and mobiles.
    More transistors equals more heat, and heat is already the primary concern for CPUs.
    This tech will help putting more CPUs in small...
  10. Thread: C++

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    Re: C++

    node is not a fully defined type when you declare "next". means its size is not know (amongst other things).
    now say node has size k. the definition of node says.
    sizeof (node) = sizeof(int) +...
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    Re: Installing Ubuntu on a regular LG TV ?

    they have specialized hardware for decoding. 500MHz should be enough for SD-Material still.
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    Re: Installing Ubuntu on a regular LG TV ?

    New TVs play media files fine, from usb or network. for old ones you can get the "lg smart tv", "WDTV live" or similar... not that expensive.

    Oh, and LGs have a 500MHz MIPS Cpu, newer ones...
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    Re: Count to 200 before a Windows user resets back to One!

    Reset.
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    Re: Installing Ubuntu on a regular LG TV ?

    why would you want to connect a computer to a TV, if you could just run your stuff directly there?

    (Probably because you would be on your own figuring it out, its complicated and your HDMI ports...
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    Re: Lossy text compression.

    translate it into chinese, you will end up with 1 letter per word.
  16. Re: Thanks to Microsoft the Desktop PC market is going to fall; what does mean for Li

    Yeah, I am sure a browser-app where you cant even save your stuff offline is a valid comparison to these office suits :roll:

    its a guess at best that it eats into desktop-share (as in replacing...
  17. Re: Thanks to Microsoft the Desktop PC market is going to fall; what does mean for Li

    on android (and I believe ios too) you dont even have a good equivalent for word/openoffice so far.

    smartphones, tablets might replace a slew of other devices (navigational devices and portable...
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    Re: A new approach to handling encryption

    whats "community supported authority"?
    Either one entity is giving out certificates (for free or paid) or there is really no sense in doing it.

    And if certificates are just given out to anyone,...
  19. Re: I always wonder how many Web apps and sites are developed on Linux?

    I wonder why it matters?
    Most of the food and goods I buy are transported by trucks or trains. Does this mean I`m more likely to drive one? or that I want to get transported between packaged meat...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Programming in C

    More than just a doubt, if not he can prove me wrong, quote my post and say something thats more fitting than random fortune cookies for IT personal
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    [SOLVED] Re: Programming in C

    Hes is more than an expert, he is a script himself (look at his location). None of his posts take anything said in the thread in context, even if it sometimes fits the topic.
  22. Re: What happens when two threads call the same function?

    dunno, either the universe explodes or it just works fine.
    Depends on what you do in this function, if you arent writing static or global (atleast shared between the threads) data then everything is...
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    Re: Windows 7 style libraries in Ubuntu

    There is a common concept below Explorer and the Media Players - and thats the Windows Shell. The basic idea is that you arent limited to one Media Player (from MS) handling your music, you can use...
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    Re: atomic and non atomic operations in C

    there currently is nothing in C/C++ that allows you to guarantee atomic operation, next versions of those standards will define it. It will look like this:

    atomic_int b = ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(1000);...
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    [SOLVED] Re: how to make this C code optimized...??

    you shouldnt use dynamic allocation when you can use stack variables. However you shouldnt treat stack like a big resource either.
    Big or potentially big allocations should be done dynamically, even...
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