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mattst88
14y ago
Your Core i5 should have graphics with VA-API ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API ) support, which shouldn't have any trouble playing 1080p video.
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14y ago
The man who runs Freedom Included, Inc. (the seller of the laptop through Amazon) works at the Free Software Foundation with RMS. I don't think RMS will have trouble getting a new laptop.
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14y ago
I used to use pbzip2 before I learned about lbzip2 ( http://lacos.hu/ ) lbzip2 is able to decompress single streams using multiple threads, which apparently pbzip2 cannot do. See the thread beginning with http://lists.debian.org/debian-men
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14y ago
Conceptually back-to-front seems to make the most sense, but as the simulations show it's still not efficient. So instead of plainly loading back-to-front, load back-to-front but skip rows. That is, if there are 25 rows on the plane, load r
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14y ago
> So 5.4 | 0 will gives 5, which is a flooring operation. However, -5.4 will give -5. And that’s a ceiling operation. So, | is actually doing a round toward zero. It seems like the problem described is actually caused by simply misunder
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I signed up for this comment. I graduated from a small liberal arts school with a degree in Physics (and a minor in CS). I actually would have done Computer Science, but the university's program didn't teach the things I was interested in -