On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 05:46, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > >>>And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's > >>>completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that > >>>HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds. > >>> > >>Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing? How many of you can't be > >>bothered to set the default to suit your usage? > >> > >>>It's straight from the MIDI spec. Your argument is pretty close to "the > >>>MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms". > >>> > >>No. > >> > >>YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do". > >> > >>MY argument is that this is a case of give and take. > > > >Take from "few" multimedia users, give to "many" laptop users. Where > >"few" and "many" are not very well defined quantities, but obviously > >"many" > "few" :-) > > > Of course that assumes that these are not the same users, which clearly > isn't true in all cases. Yes, indeed, the two sets do intersect, I belong to both. I can't speak for everybody in the "multimedia" set but in my musical work (and I suspect many others share this view) I would rather not sacrifice timing precision for battery life. Of course there are scenarios where the opposite can be true, but are fewer by far (IMHO). -- Fernando - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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