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Real Announce Helix Grant Program, Player
Rob Lanphier writes "RealNetworks made two announcements at LinuxWorld this week: we will be giving out up to $75,000 by the end of the year for development of open source projects based on the Helix multimedia platform. Also, we just formally launched the Helix Player project, which is a project to build a GTK+ based user interface for Linux, Solaris, and other UNIXy operating systems. Press releases for the grant program here and player project here"
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CAPS LOCK IS LIKE CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!
FUCK ALL NIGGERS
Go AHNALD!
Fuck you bed-wetting liberal tree-hugging FUCKERS!!
AHNALD says "YOU ARE TERMINATED!"
Does the Helix multimedia platform give developers the ability to write programs that play real media files?
I only ask because it would be brilliant to have a some software other than real player to do this job... man words cannot describe how much I hate that program!
- PS. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R where eliminated.
Welcome to the Helix Community Grant Program
Reinforcing our efforts to build the first open multi-format digital media platform, the Helix Community Grant Program will support the most promising innovations from developers and the global research community.
The grant program will ensure the Helix DNA platform incorporates cutting edge research advances and has the widest extensibility. This program welcomes ground-breaking research proposals, inventive implementations and creative project ideas from independent developers, the academic and research communities or any non-profit or commercial enterprise engaged in digital media research and development.
Click here to nominate an individual for the Helix Community Grant Review Board.
Thank you for your interest in the Helix Community Grant Program!
Program Description
The Helix Community Grant Program invites proposals to develop solutions for IP transmission of streaming data over terrestrial and wireless networks. We seek technical solutions that will improve the quality of delivery over networks, expand the functionality available to digital media users, and extend the Helix DNA platform to new devices, platforms and operating systems.
Why Does Helix Community Make Grants?
Why Participate?
What Areas of Focus Interest Helix Community?
Who Is Eligible to Apply?
What Is the Process?
How Do I Apply?
Why Does Helix Community Make Grants?
1. R&D isn't free - Quality long-term research and development efforts are costly and require support to get off the ground. Revolutionary ideas often do not have immediate commercial applicability. Helix Community pledges its support to ensure the best and brightest ideas for advancing digital media have the resources to succeed. FUCK ALL NIGGERRS
2. Talent too often goes untapped - Building the de facto digital media delivery platform requires top-flight talent. We want to encourage and reward innovation among the leading researchers and most talented independent developers in the world.
3. It's a worthy investment - This program recognizes the best people and the best ideas available. We think that unbeatable combination will catalyze the Helix Community and spur development in new revolutionary directions.
Why Participate?
1. Win financial support - You have great ideas, but you need the resources to make them happen. Here's your chance: The Helix Community will award up to $75,000 by the end of 2003, and we plan to expand the funding for this program next year.
2. Innovate now - No need to keep dreaming when you can innovate now. With the support of a Helix Community Grant, you can focus on creating the long-horizon solutions that will shape the future of digital media.
3. Get academic credit - With the approval of an eligible degree program, your research may fulfill academic requirements for an advanced degree.
Note: Please consult with your academic adviser to determine if your research proposal will fulfill academic requirements.
4. Unmatched access - If you are selected to receive a grant, you will be assigned a Technical Adviser who is familiar with the Helix DNA platform to help you navigate the code and remove any obstacles to your success.
What Areas of Focus Interest Helix Community?
The Helix Community Grant Program invites proposals to develop solutions for IP transmission of streaming data over terrestrial and wireless networks. We will consider proposals that have either clear utility in the open source community or that lend themselves to commercial applications. Broadly speaking, we expect proposals will fit into one of the three categories below:
1) Advanced Research - Solve the highest order network challenges facing digital media. Open the door to an entirely new realm for digital video and audio. Create compelling new functionality that will give digital media wider application. Test the limits of the Helix DNA platform. Apply the latest research in transport, codec, and media
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p.s: I'm back. I didn't realize you were still a gay cocksucker who expends his life posting on bullshit like Slashdot. Now that I know, though, I'm glad to bring you down again.
Why bother with IP infringing Linux?
As the US government continues its violent surge to the extreme right, no court will take the side of freedom when there is a buck to be made (by the people who already have the bucks) or a freedom to be destroyed (among the few remaining freedoms the lower classes still have).
Any Judge attempting to reestablish the concept of fair use will be ostracized by the political hierarchy. It would be the death of their career.
I have news for all you Linux people--Clinton is gone. The bums lost. I'd tell you to get a job, but since you refuse to conform and bow to your master you are useless as a slave and therefore have no value to the corporate oligarchy.
You will die lonely and afraid. Your females, your sisters and daughters (assuming you had even one), will be made whores once they have aged to the point when they are no longer desirable to us. We will sell them to immigrants and foreign powers, they will bear illegitimate bastard children and we will control them, too. We will take great satisfaction in this.
No more government handouts or unnecessary freedoms. Darwin was right, the strong dominate the weak and become stronger in the process. This is not a theory to us, it is a moral imperative, our mantra, that we dominate and control you. It is the path of history, it is your fate.
Microsoft is going to be on your computer and you will pay for and install the upgrades we demand or you can live in the wilderness with the other beasts. Should that be your choice, our controllers and catchers will hunt you down and render great justice upon you.
We will make you disappear, your ideals and beliefs relegated to the smallest footnote over time, eventually to disappear, while the glory of unhindered wealth, power and strength will shine as a beacon long into the future.
Accept this and die your well-deserved death, Linux fools. Everything you have will be taken to make us more powerful...it is our way and your destiny.