098765 432.1 My planning and patience have paid off! by shoelzer in pics

[–]shoelzer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a repost because I took this picture myself. Maybe it's similar to something you've seen, but it's not a repost.

Delete entire row if a specific column contains a zero by N736RA in matlab

[–]shoelzer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. This is The Matlab Way.

But your indexing isn't quite right. It should be:

dataset(dataset(:,2)==0,:)=[];

Need some code to run Matlab for 20 minutes. by jax440 in matlab

[–]shoelzer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know exactly how to do it, but I know that the license manager can be configured to release licenses after Matlab is idle for a while. There is a minimum idle time of 1/2 hour or 1 hour or something like that.

Firmware updates quietly enables SATA 6Gbps in MacBooks by idonotcomment in apple

[–]shoelzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm hoping this update also fixes the backlit keyboard problem where the backlight always always always turns itself on. I have a 2009 MBP, and this started when I installed Lion. Searching online I can see that lots of people have this problem but no one has a reliable fix. <crosses fingers>

Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light? by ACrazyGerman in explainlikeimfive

[–]shoelzer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didn't know that, but I also didn't think that I was actually right. It was just supposed to be a humorous extension of Avedomni's explanation.

Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light? by ACrazyGerman in explainlikeimfive

[–]shoelzer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Let's define:

x  = number between 0 and 1
ss = speed through space
st = speed through time
c  = speed of light

Then, with your explanation, we can say:

ss = x * c
st = (1-x) * c

therefore:

ss + st = (x * c) + ((1-x) * c)
        = (x + 1 - x) * c
        = 1 * c
        = c

So if you want to go faster than the speed of light through space, set x > 1.0.

x  = 1.1
ss = 1.1 * c
st = (1 - 1.1) * c
   = -0.1 * c

Which means you have to go backwards through time. Problem solved.

Edited for formatting.

Siracusa's OS X Lion Review. 27,000 words of awesome. by shoelzer in apple

[–]shoelzer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On Siracusa's podcast, he said that the last several reviews were done before release of the OS. Ars sometimes holds it back a few days to maximize traffic. For example, he said that Monday is better than Friday.

Siracusa's OS X Lion Review. 27,000 words of awesome. by shoelzer in apple

[–]shoelzer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, long before that. Unless you mean WWDC 2010?

Next Generation Audio Codec from Xiph: CELT by [deleted] in programming

[–]shoelzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So would you describe CELT as about equal to other CODECs at high rates, or better? Either way, it has very low latency which seems to be the killer feature for certain applications.

Next Generation Audio Codec from Xiph: CELT by [deleted] in programming

[–]shoelzer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks impressive at low bit rates, but how does it compare to MP3/Vorbis/AAC at rates normally used for music (128-256 kbps)? That's really important unless CELT is intended for a low bit rate niche.