I saw my first 2.88MB Floppy on an IBM PS/1 in 1990. Zip drives didn't hit the market until 1994. That's time enough for Moore's law to kick people twice and it still didn't make it!
I love the ghost stories like this one that are so short-lived... Someone should make an index of these. Sometimes the blurb is more informative than the story that gets left on the homepage. What is the criteria for this? Does taco get a posting point even though the story gets remarked?
Anyway, visit the link above to see the OTHER story about the IBM drive. It's like driving through a ghost town!
Maybe because it's already been ported to the processor in this thing and there have been several projects specifically attacking the Dreamcast for a port. Since someone's got some homebrew development going on it, it's a logical next step for the people who were already working on it.
To all the fools up in arms just because someone didn't get the dreamcast processor right........ SHUT UP AND POST SOMETHING USEFUL.
The Super Hitachi chips (including the SH3 and SH4) are very very similar to MIPS processors and most of the code ported to these processors is a result of MIPS work that other people have done. If someone says "The HP Jornada can run Linux" nobody really bothers to think that it's an SH3!
Linux is already running on SH3 and about 99% running on SH4. This Page is a pretty comprehensive list of Linux-on-SuperHitachi resources.
If this can be done for a video codec, then can someone please do this for WMA audio and Windows Media's streaming? Microsoft is maybe never going to release WMP for Linux and the number of content providers using this format is increasing every day (namely to the restrictive licensing that Real networks imposes on their software)
This really is a relevant issue. Please don't moderate this down just because it has Microsoft smeared all over it. I (frankly) find it quite amazing the support that you all are giving Microsoft's (broken) MPEG4 stuff!
I have a rack of machines with FM tuner cards that recieve and stream FM radio for local radio stations on the net. The things are all hooked up to a cybex KVM switch (AutoView 200) with a "longview" extension that runs the video, kbd, mouse, etc over a piece of Cat5 200 feet away.
For some bizzare reason, the Longview box spews all over 107.9MHz making it impossible to recieve that radio station inside of the office (I had to go with a roof-mounted antenna)... The other funny problem with 107.9MHz was that whenever I tuned one of the radio cards in the rack to the station, one of the computers would crash! I taped a piece of lead foil around the chassis. I think it was screwing up the SDRAM (whose oscillator was probably a little bit funky and going at 107.9MHz!)
You don't believe we have the technology to put a computer in a satellite? Christ, man, screw your head back on. Nobody ever said this was a "stock" Mac G4 either. They're just playing the PR game. 386's are all over satellites. So what?
Satellites also generally spin to counter the temp. problems. Oh and they are covered in gold foil to reflect most of that IR radiation back out. The stuff inside stays at a nice even temperature.
And as for your GPL code stuff, Debian has been used on the shuttle, and I would be very suprised if Russia didn't have any GPL programs running on systems up in Mir (probably for experiment control, etc)... and I'm also not so sure that there isn't a satellite somewhere that just might have a chunk of GPL software burned into its ROM. I mean, with as many satellites as are up there, the chances that there's *not* are pretty slim, IMO.
If you do this, you are jerks. What is the definition of free? I didn't think it was this nazi-esque holier than thou attitude on, "My software has a superior license, therefore we are not going to allow your software in our distribution or waste our time even considering its existance."
What happened to freedom of choice? I *refuse* to use an e-mail client other than Pine in Linux because it's just plain better than the rest of them. Give me a browser that can match Netscape in features and maybe I'll use it. Making this software harder for people to install will make your distribution less accessible and more unattractive to a lot of your potential base of new users.
And I will drop you too, Nazi punks.
~GoRK
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Why does everybody bother saying IANAL all the time anyway? I for one am sick of seeing it. This is an opinion piece for god's sake!
As far as the YRO stories go, I don't care how much money you have; it's just not going to be feasable to pay a lawyer to review everything you have said -- plus they might be wrong.
Most of these issues are called into question because there hasn't been a legal ruling of any sort regarding the specific issue. All you're going to end up doing is plunking down about $500-600 bucks for a lawyer to punch something into weslaw and tell you he can't give you a definate answer. For another few hundred or thousand dollars (and a couple of days time) he'll research the situation and give you possibilities of whether this is legally possible, rights infringement, etc...
Or michael can just write his piece and you can write yours and maybe a real lawyer can chime in or maybe not. Maybe the whole thing will *gasp* at least raise an issue and get the "common geeks" "geeking out" so to speak. I frankly don't want to read a lawyer's boring analysis of this story anyway.
~GoRK
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What happens if you format the Dell to put some other OS on there and then have another computer hanging around that you would be (legally) entitled to run your copy of Win2K on? No dice. What if you want to upgrade your X86 Dell to a brand new Built-from-scratch Athlon box in six months? If you're going to trash the Dell, would you feel all warm and fuzzy about having to plunk down ***$400*** for a new retail copy of Win2K because the copy you own is now useless to you?
The only thing that actually switches in this device is the two port 10/100 switch (really, it's more of a bridge) These devices suck so bad, I'd rather get a 100Mbps HUB
Well, From the screenshot showing, there are a number of things that could have allowed this to happen..
First, apparently all the people of premiere services used ICQ to communicate and possibly send files and other gimmicky junk around. Tag BO onto a funny Flash animation or something...... send it to two of the premiere services people as coming from each other.. do a little social engineering so they wont suspect that it wasnt the other person that sent it.... BO is installed and running in about 30 seconds and blammo you take a screenshot. How long does it take to send 500K emails over a dialup? You have plenty of time here.
Presumably, a trojan would have been used as he's just gotten too much information off of those computers not to have used one. Either that or a problem with Windows shares..
Actually the audio system of film *IS* digital and very very good quality. It would be fairly trivial to add multilanguage audio tracks and ditally encoded subtitles onto film as-is; however, it would be incompatible with the current audio systems in theaters.
In fact; about the subtitles at least; a lot of movies already DO have them encoded on the film. Some theaters offer small portable devices (like the trivia machines in bars) for deaf people to carry into the films to read the dialogue.
Anyone remember the Italian ISP called VOL (Video Online) www.vol.it that implemented intercontinental QoS on the Internet back in like 1993?! I think they are now defunct, but this is definately not a new idea. I run this stuff over my LAN all day with good reason and little to no consequences.
Personally, I can't imagine why in the hell any of you people care whether or not Excite up's somebody's 802.1p byte between two locations on their internal network for stuff like VoIP that's really crappy without this service. It's cheaper than buying dedicated bandwidth and more efficient in the long run.
Your argument can be applied directly to other things that are already in place: Why should slashdot get a (zippy fast loading) 100K+ server setup and gobs of bandwidth when I have to host a pretty good website off a virtual hosted (slow dodgy) piece of junk behind an ISDN line? You janus-faced goons over at Andover would (and probably do) buy priority routing and dedicated bandwidth from your provider so as far as I'm concerned, you can take your whining story and shove it. If you have more money you buy more bandwidth; more priority; more promised uptime; more protection against D/DoS; more redundancy; more security. Is THIS FAIR? Put slashdot back on the old machine from which it was born and see how it holds up. Then eat your words.
What If some company goes out and buys so much bandwidth from a major provider that they dont even have bandwidth to sell to other people? Same thing only it's actually much much less likely to happen when a network is selling 802.1p bits.
Actually the problem there is your processor speed. 350Mhz really isn't enough on the Mac side to play thsese files. (Keep in mind it's MPEG-4 video AND MP3 audio - the video at least is not going to have any hardware help unlike MPEG1) - 300Mhz x86 is BARELY passable and it does drop frames too. Keep in mind that the PPC code is much more inefficient because Microsoft never really developed these things for PPC. The mac codec out there is simply fairly slow. Try it on a 450Mhz mac and you'll see what I mean.
On the other hand, they could have performed a statistical analysis of files from a random sampling of users........... users with lots/few files... high/low speed etc..... in order to determine what % were unsigned vs commercial artists...
then they set up a farm of computers that duplicate on a small scale offering a sampling of these files (or simply advertize the files for download w/o the actual files) and monitor the download requests from their own equipment..
it's statistical analysis. a measurement of this sort of thing is possible however breaking it down to say "only one" is not good form. There is probably a huge amount of error in this number. As many as 5000 or so indy songs might have been moved around and their sampling only saw one transfer.
Still, it must be said that however the measurement was taken the number of indy band songs that they saw "move" was 1.
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Just before ZIP, huh?
I saw my first 2.88MB Floppy on an IBM PS/1 in 1990. Zip drives didn't hit the market until 1994. That's time enough for Moore's law to kick people twice and it still didn't make it!
~GoRK
I love the ghost stories like this one that are so short-lived... Someone should make an index of these. Sometimes the blurb is more informative than the story that gets left on the homepage. What is the criteria for this? Does taco get a posting point even though the story gets remarked?
Anyway, visit the link above to see the OTHER story about the IBM drive. It's like driving through a ghost town!
~GoRK
Maybe because it's already been ported to the processor in this thing and there have been several projects specifically attacking the Dreamcast for a port. Since someone's got some homebrew development going on it, it's a logical next step for the people who were already working on it.
To all the fools up in arms just because someone didn't get the dreamcast processor right........ SHUT UP AND POST SOMETHING USEFUL.
The Super Hitachi chips (including the SH3 and SH4) are very very similar to MIPS processors and most of the code ported to these processors is a result of MIPS work that other people have done. If someone says "The HP Jornada can run Linux" nobody really bothers to think that it's an SH3!
Linux is already running on SH3 and about 99% running on SH4. This Page is a pretty comprehensive list of Linux-on-SuperHitachi resources.
Think before you post.
Thank you,
GoRK
If this can be done for a video codec, then can someone please do this for WMA audio and Windows Media's streaming? Microsoft is maybe never going to release WMP for Linux and the number of content providers using this format is increasing every day (namely to the restrictive licensing that Real networks imposes on their software)
This really is a relevant issue. Please don't moderate this down just because it has Microsoft smeared all over it. I (frankly) find it quite amazing the support that you all are giving Microsoft's (broken) MPEG4 stuff!
~GoRK
Now all that's needed is MMG support in ANYTHING AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!
I have a rack of machines with FM tuner cards that recieve and stream FM radio for local radio stations on the net. The things are all hooked up to a cybex KVM switch (AutoView 200) with a "longview" extension that runs the video, kbd, mouse, etc over a piece of Cat5 200 feet away.
For some bizzare reason, the Longview box spews all over 107.9MHz making it impossible to recieve that radio station inside of the office (I had to go with a roof-mounted antenna)... The other funny problem with 107.9MHz was that whenever I tuned one of the radio cards in the rack to the station, one of the computers would crash! I taped a piece of lead foil around the chassis. I think it was screwing up the SDRAM (whose oscillator was probably a little bit funky and going at 107.9MHz!)
~GoRK
My friends put me into the original Quake. One day I got onto the server to play and I was killing myself all over the place!
This /has/ to be a hoax.
You don't believe we have the technology to put a computer in a satellite? Christ, man, screw your head back on. Nobody ever said this was a "stock" Mac G4 either. They're just playing the PR game. 386's are all over satellites. So what?
Satellites also generally spin to counter the temp. problems. Oh and they are covered in gold foil to reflect most of that IR radiation back out. The stuff inside stays at a nice even temperature.
And as for your GPL code stuff, Debian has been used on the shuttle, and I would be very suprised if Russia didn't have any GPL programs running on systems up in Mir (probably for experiment control, etc)... and I'm also not so sure that there isn't a satellite somewhere that just might have a chunk of GPL software burned into its ROM. I mean, with as many satellites as are up there, the chances that there's *not* are pretty slim, IMO.
~GoRK
If I'd have known it was really this easy, I'd have written a perl script to automatically submit slashback's as news!!!
Not if they monitor their own computer for file accesses and sniff their own network rather than watching napster directly.
A note to the Debian maintainers:
If you do this, you are jerks. What is the definition of free? I didn't think it was this nazi-esque holier than thou attitude on, "My software has a superior license, therefore we are not going to allow your software in our distribution or waste our time even considering its existance."
What happened to freedom of choice? I *refuse* to use an e-mail client other than Pine in Linux because it's just plain better than the rest of them. Give me a browser that can match Netscape in features and maybe I'll use it. Making this software harder for people to install will make your distribution less accessible and more unattractive to a lot of your potential base of new users.
And I will drop you too, Nazi punks.
~GoRK
Why does everybody bother saying IANAL all the time anyway? I for one am sick of seeing it. This is an opinion piece for god's sake!
As far as the YRO stories go, I don't care how much money you have; it's just not going to be feasable to pay a lawyer to review everything you have said -- plus they might be wrong.
Most of these issues are called into question because there hasn't been a legal ruling of any sort regarding the specific issue. All you're going to end up doing is plunking down about $500-600 bucks for a lawyer to punch something into weslaw and tell you he can't give you a definate answer. For another few hundred or thousand dollars (and a couple of days time) he'll research the situation and give you possibilities of whether this is legally possible, rights infringement, etc...
Or michael can just write his piece and you can write yours and maybe a real lawyer can chime in or maybe not. Maybe the whole thing will *gasp* at least raise an issue and get the "common geeks" "geeking out" so to speak. I frankly don't want to read a lawyer's boring analysis of this story anyway.
~GoRK
What happens if you format the Dell to put some other OS on there and then have another computer hanging around that you would be (legally) entitled to run your copy of Win2K on? No dice. What if you want to upgrade your X86 Dell to a brand new Built-from-scratch Athlon box in six months? If you're going to trash the Dell, would you feel all warm and fuzzy about having to plunk down ***$400*** for a new retail copy of Win2K because the copy you own is now useless to you?
The only thing that actually switches in this device is the two port 10/100 switch (really, it's more of a bridge) These devices suck so bad, I'd rather get a 100Mbps HUB
Well, From the screenshot showing, there are a number of things that could have allowed this to happen..
First, apparently all the people of premiere services used ICQ to communicate and possibly send files and other gimmicky junk around. Tag BO onto a funny Flash animation or something...... send it to two of the premiere services people as coming from each other.. do a little social engineering so they wont suspect that it wasnt the other person that sent it.... BO is installed and running in about 30 seconds and blammo you take a screenshot. How long does it take to send 500K emails over a dialup? You have plenty of time here.
Presumably, a trojan would have been used as he's just gotten too much information off of those computers not to have used one. Either that or a problem with Windows shares..
~GoRK
I'd be willing to bet my firstborn that they will also truck a copy of the movie over there on HDD's just in case the download craps.
~GoRK
Actually the audio system of film *IS* digital and very very good quality. It would be fairly trivial to add multilanguage audio tracks and ditally encoded subtitles onto film as-is; however, it would be incompatible with the current audio systems in theaters.
In fact; about the subtitles at least; a lot of movies already DO have them encoded on the film. Some theaters offer small portable devices (like the trivia machines in bars) for deaf people to carry into the films to read the dialogue.
~GoRK
Anyone remember the Italian ISP called VOL (Video Online) www.vol.it that implemented intercontinental QoS on the Internet back in like 1993?! I think they are now defunct, but this is definately not a new idea. I run this stuff over my LAN all day with good reason and little to no consequences.
~GoRK
Personally, I can't imagine why in the hell any of you people care whether or not Excite up's somebody's 802.1p byte between two locations on their internal network for stuff like VoIP that's really crappy without this service. It's cheaper than buying dedicated bandwidth and more efficient in the long run.
Your argument can be applied directly to other things that are already in place: Why should slashdot get a (zippy fast loading) 100K+ server setup and gobs of bandwidth when I have to host a pretty good website off a virtual hosted (slow dodgy) piece of junk behind an ISDN line? You janus-faced goons over at Andover would (and probably do) buy priority routing and dedicated bandwidth from your provider so as far as I'm concerned, you can take your whining story and shove it. If you have more money you buy more bandwidth; more priority; more promised uptime; more protection against D/DoS; more redundancy; more security. Is THIS FAIR? Put slashdot back on the old machine from which it was born and see how it holds up. Then eat your words.
What If some company goes out and buys so much bandwidth from a major provider that they dont even have bandwidth to sell to other people? Same thing only it's actually much much less likely to happen when a network is selling 802.1p bits.
Think! For the love of God, please!
~GoRK
In fact I hate to have to admit it but NT's permission scheme for files is far far more robust than your everyday UN*X.
uh... VideoCD Whitebook specs don't allow for either Layer 2 or 3 audio.
Actually the problem there is your processor speed. 350Mhz really isn't enough on the Mac side to play thsese files. (Keep in mind it's MPEG-4 video AND MP3 audio - the video at least is not going to have any hardware help unlike MPEG1) - 300Mhz x86 is BARELY passable and it does drop frames too. Keep in mind that the PPC code is much more inefficient because Microsoft never really developed these things for PPC. The mac codec out there is simply fairly slow. Try it on a 450Mhz mac and you'll see what I mean.
Yeah i remember that too. Thanks for pointing it out. They successfully sued Honda for it I think... mabye Suzuki.
On the other hand, they could have performed a statistical analysis of files from a random sampling of users........... users with lots/few files ... high/low speed etc..... in order to determine what % were unsigned vs commercial artists...
then they set up a farm of computers that duplicate on a small scale offering a sampling of these files (or simply advertize the files for download w/o the actual files) and monitor the download requests from their own equipment..
it's statistical analysis. a measurement of this sort of thing is possible however breaking it down to say "only one" is not good form. There is probably a huge amount of error in this number. As many as 5000 or so indy songs might have been moved around and their sampling only saw one transfer.
Still, it must be said that however the measurement was taken the number of indy band songs that they saw "move" was 1.