wolfwings

...I have to say this.

If you're going to leave that archive because they chose the road both of least administrative work for a free site, but more importantly the road of least censorship, please ask yourselves why you were even there in the first place in a place that allows art depicting drug-use, openly sexual art at all, violence, robbery, or any number of other equally-illegal crimes, some of which carry higher penalties than being convicted of being a pedophile.

The "slippery slope" may be as overused as "It's to protect the children!" to my ears, but it doesn't make the former quote any less valid a way to refute the latter quote. If you support censorship of artwork at any level, you are still supporting censorship of artwork. Any 'moral' arguments you make to the contrary are still arguments supporting censorship. And at the same time, you can already opt out of seeing adult artwork at all, and FA is adding support for much higher-granularity blocking of artwork you don't want to see. Don't like it? Guess what, like LJ, you aren't being forced to view everyone's journal entries. Don't argue for a ban when a simple 'Ignore' will function just as well.

And if the above makes you want off my friends list, lemme know. This is just about the only time I'll ever actually remove someone from my actual friends list instead of just my default view, is over issues like censorship, and by request to boot. My outlook is that it is not for myself, or anyone else, to judge another's choices of artwork to draw or share. The risk is entirely their own, and they can and will be judged properly in their own time. But not by me. I may choose not to associate with them, but I have no right to make outright judgements on them.

Okay... general notice to all my friends.

That 'accent' meme? It's corrupting my friends-page layout something fierce thanks to an improperly closed table row near as I can figure. For now, I'm gonna be punting folks off my default view that post the meme and it breaks my friends-page. I'm not removing you from my friends-list, just I don't feel like trying to scroll across a badly-broken friends page. :-)

Time to be a Ninja... =^.^=

...first furson that wants to meet up with me tonight, post a comment, I'll head out and we can meet up.

My current location, for mapping purposes, so you can make sure you're not asking me to go 700 miles each way. =^.^=

...but it must be done or else you will stay forgotten in the ditch.

Just spent the last couple of hours finally going through five or six varied-size boxes, sorting things and mostly throwing out older crap.

Properly 'flattened' instead of simply 'crumpled' the trash took up so much less space that the second-largest box of the lot (the one in the best condition more-or-less) is currently holding all the rubbish, and the smallest box (amusingly the only one competing with the second-largest for best-shape) is currently holding everything I'm keeping. The second-largest box, I might add, is holding the folded-and-flattened remains of all the other boxes in addition to the actual rubbish.

The only exception to those two boxes are a stack of 'documents to be shredded in the morning to avoid waking anyone up' which'll take about 5-10 minutes to shred.

But just clearing (literally) a car-load of useless crap from my life is a huge load off my mind. Now I just have to sort and trash all the rubble taking up a largish shelving unit, most of which is organizing all the CD cases I have to ditch dead or missing cases, strip usable cases to hold caseless CD's, etc, etc. Then I can head by the PS, and load up the couple of boxes I have in storage there, and go through them similairly. And maybe after all that, scan all the 'salvaged' artwork I've collected over the years, mostly napkin-doodles (literally) that I sneak out of restraunts. :-)

Death of Habeus Corpus, Your Words are Lies, Sir

In a more-convenient 'download and watch later' format instead of posting directly to YouTube, since I can't watch it natively in my browser either.

...got me playing around with spreadsheets set up with various CPU frequency scaling math splashed all over the place while I rooted around in the 'deep art' of automatic frequency scaling. And I realized something, at least from my perspective of battery-savings.

First, too many CPU-scaling systems bump the frequency too early. WAY too early. If you're not maxxing out the system (or very, VERY nearly so, 99.5% load here or better) what business do you have trying to turn up the frequency? The existing speed is obvious enough to handle the load, so why burn more power right now?

Second, many of the same systems bump the frequency down way too late. Several defaults out there are eighty-percent being a good break-point for increasing the frequency, and twenty-percent being a good breakpoint for dropping the frequency. This, despite the fact that all major CPU's in common use today accept high-precision frequency adjustment. (Well, except under Linux. Surprisingly, there's better frequency-adjusting and voltage-control tools available for Windows than Linux, since the Kernel Folks insist on following 'the holy recommended specs' the latest BIOS chipsets report for abilities instead of the actual chipset/CPU abilities.) When you can set your frequency between 800Mhz and 2000Mhz in 100Mhz steps, the old 'two gear' CPU frequency scaling mindsets simply don't work.

Unfortunately, this is the same logic I think that drives the companies building CVT-based vehicles to make the car 'lurch' by purposefully shifting badly, and in steps to 'simulate' a normal transmission instead of getting people used to highly-effecient CVT behavior. Sure, a CVT perfectly run may not 'launch' and beat a normal transmission in the first 60 feet, but every inch after that it can blow right past most normal transmissions.

Anyways... long story short, I've figured out that (perhaps amusingly) the existing breakpoint for increasing the frequency is actually a very prime point to drop the frequency at. And near as I've been able to figure out, check about once every ten seconds, and if you have (essentially) maxxed CPU load, don't peg the frequency all the way up, but don't only push it up one step. Generally, maxxed load means more on the way, so kick it up to around 1.5x what it currently is seems to work very well. Heavy loads tend to cause a 'blip' before the CPU frequency settles again, so it's far from perfect, but it's certainly a lot nicer on the battery.

...I've officially found a 'must watch' series.

I'd been vaguely interested by the simple billboards for the new series, Heroes.

Heard they'd re-showed the pilot episode on multiple different networks two or three times each already, before the second episode had been shown. That made me much more interested, and willing to give it a shot.

I finally had some time, and looked for torrents. Found one on Pirate Bay, started downloading it.

Um, a torrent with 80 seeds and 15 peers at the time of completion? Wow. I was maxxing out my downstream and my upstream was barely at 10k, colour me impressed. =o.O= That's unheard of in my life, incredibly so for most TV shows. Just... wow. If you're a fan of almost any fandom or hero-mythology set in the modern day, go, watch the show.

otana, go watch or I can burn the episode to CD/DVD and bring it up for you to watch at your leisure. Hell, all of you go watch. It's... wow, a series I'm actually looking forward to.

...I'm lusting over Sony's electronic-ink-based reader/MP3 player.

Want. Want so badly.

Note the ten times lower weight than a proven space-engine design, nine times greater lifespan, and approximately ten percent greater thrust for the same electrical input. This is all versus the recently-impacted Ion-drive engine tested extensively and proven to function quite well in space. So sure, the thrust sounds unbearably tiny, but a working (and cheap!) prototype that can keep up with a multi-million-dollar bleeding-edge engine design? Sold.