It's only sad if people tried to make a video editor for linux and somehow were denied by forces outside their control. If the only reason is that nobody has bothered to write a good one, then that's not sad.
As a Linux user I think it's sad that we don't yet have a decent video editing solution on Linux...
I agree with what you say that Final Cut Pro itself isn't "sad" - but the fact that Linux users making a video about using Linux don't have a decent tool to edit their videos with is kind of a drag...
Linux has really come into it's (AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!) own, but I don't think anybody will ever mistake it for a hobbyist niche again.
What you're talking about is largely a matter of appearances. Linux provides something that people can take advantage of in their businesses, and so they have. But the people who use it because they enjoy it are still out there, they just don't advertise.
So let me get this straight. You set up your new Linux machine, and it's working well. You've compiled everything you need to compile, and since you're compiling anything at all it's pretty apparent that you're a geek. Now you set up your machine to dual-boot into Windows, and you stop being a geek all of a sudden? Specifically at what point does that occur?
Around the time the start-up chimes would play on a default install. XD
I understand your point, but if you really have a love for computers what's making you have to stick to one OS? I dual boot with Windows & Linux. I get to have my fun with both.
Personally I've found that this increases maintenance issues without substantially improving the overall experience. If I played a lot of PC games I might see things differently: Windows would be nearly essential in that case. (I only say nearly because some folks apparently do well with Wine, etc. And there's still a few games being published for Linux...) But running two different operating systems means each is taking its own chunk of hard drive, shared volumes need to be something both systems can understand, and I wind up having to keep software on two systems up-to-date instead of just one. When I was using my Powerbook it was frustrating when VLC or Mplayer on the Mac couldn't play the same stuff as the same programs on Linux (due to version lag between the two platforms, and later my unwillingness to upgrade Mac OS). It's nice to have one fairly coherent environment - though I do feel that I miss out on learning about other platforms this way.
> Internally, there is a SD socket which can be used as a low cost boot or storage device. There is also space for a 2.5 inch hard disk. Externally there is another SD socket. that can be used for transferring data from mobile phones, digital cameras or other devices.
Perhaps you could use the external SD socket as, well, an external SD socket.
I did see that - but the review seems to contradict that information (actually, the reviewer specifically complained that there's no external SD slot...) - I'm not sure which bit of info to believe, honestly. <shrug> doesn't matter really.
SD slot??? WHY??? How about just a USB reader and a USB port on the machine?
Then you can use SD, CF, microSD, xD, miniSD, MMS,...
If you look at the pictures: the SD slot is internal. It's one of the options for primary storage. I can only hope the thing has a very good SD card interface... The reason they included this slot is to provide a cheap way to configure the machine with solid-state storage. SD cards can't compete with good-quality SSDs, but it's very cheap to add an SD slot to a machine, the SD cards themselves are cheap and easy to find, and it doesn't take much physical space inside the machine.
I own a EEE 901 - personally I find the built-in card reader quite convenient. IMO it beats dragging around a USB accessory, at least in cases where I'm just dealing with one memory card format. (It's actually very rare these days that I have to deal with anything other than SD - though I do sometimes travel with a USB card reader just in case.) I like that even if I forget to bring a card reader with me, my 901 can read SD cards for me... Other netbooks are even more handy in this regard, as they feature multiformat readers...
I honestly wouldn't want to run a machine like this on AA's, and I'm not sure that having that capability is worth the trouble - but I do kind of like that they threw that feature in there. I can imagine a couple years down the road having trouble finding a replacement battery for my 901 (well, Asus uses the same battery pack in other models, so maybe I've got a while before that would be a problem) It's kind of nice that this machine uses "off-the-rack" li-po batteries instead of proprietary packs, and the AA fallback option is interesting... Reminds me of my old TRS-80 model 100, actually.:) I've seen tons of old laptops at flea markets - rendered not only obsolete but fairly useless as well as a result of the batteries having gone. Meanwhile, I was using my model 100 to type up reports in the late 1990s. The idea of a machine like this being genericized to the point where replacement batteries can be found anywhere is really appealing - even if the machine is very weak by today's standards.
Overall, I'd say the machine is pretty much junk. XD But it's fun junk, like the way the original EEE 7 and 9 inch models were fun junk. When they mention an internal USB slot it makes me think that they've got hobbyists in mind as much as anything... Netbook hackers just love an internal USB slot.:)...Though it does seem that you need that slot for wi-fi, so maybe not?
Direct AC connection? 110-240V? I don't know about you guys, but I ain't gonna put that damn thing on my lap. This is a laptop. I have spilled coffee, juice, other drinks on my laptops. I don't want 240V shock on my private parts. I let my young kids to use laptop too and certainly wouldn't allow this one to them.
Most likely the AC-DC power converter is sealed up. Take a look at a "wall wart" power supply sometime - do you see anywhere for liquid to leak in? Even my EEE's AC adaptor, which isn't sealed, also doesn't feature any openings into which liquid could readily flow.
And then, what do you think this combination of liquid and voltage is going to do, exactly? Is the voltage going to follow the liquid's electrical path out of the abundantly ground-planed environment of the power supply and computer, and follow a path up your arms, through your heart, and then back down to the computer to get to a ground path?
Yes, we can talk about hardware without making a bunch of stupid jokes about its name*.
One of the great features of the Optimus chipset is its pipelining architecture, called the "Convoy". With this system a number of pending GPU tasks can be stored into containers, and the GPU hardware will process them quickly, moving the data to its destination, transforming it as necessary, etc. But the hardware apparently kept dying on them during the demonstration: they were able to get it up and running again each time, but it happened at least three times.
Rumors are already spreading about the planned successor technology, known simply as "Ultra". It will basically be a beefed-up version of "Optimus"... Though there are rumors it won't be quite as flexible.
AMD is working on their own competing product, called "Hot Rod" - it really hasn't gained much of a following so far, though. I've also heard about something called "Ironhide" - apparently it's designed to provide a GPU for processing functions on headless systems...
oh happy memories. I'm sure you're finding the massive 640x480 resolution just as awesome as I do.
Well, you're clearly not aware of the nature of the sham that pervades high-resolution graphics.
For instance, graphics hardware manufacturers will happily tell you that a resolution like 1920 x 1080 has nearly seven times as many pixels as 640 x 480. But what they don't tell you is that all of these pixels are a whole hell of a lot smaller than the ones on your good old VGA monitor! With my monitor, I may not have a lot of pixels, but I'm damn sure I'm getting my money's worth out of every single one!
don't worry, though, a common enemy will help them come around....
Yeah, but we'll still have to give them Venus... And just what are all those Venusian colonists supposed to do, eh? Their families have been there for generations!
Well, see, while the Valkyries were developed to work in both atmospheric and space flight, the intakes (which act as hydrogen scoops for the fusion reactors in the engines) aren't able to get sufficient fuel out in space, so the fighter's operational range is quite limited. The FAST packs address this problem by providing a large reserve of fuel for the fighter, as well as a bit of extra armor and missiles to increase the fighter's offensive power... But with the added bulk of the FAST packs the Valkyrie ceases to be effective in atmospheric combat, so they must be ejected prior to atmospheric flight.
All the hype about 2012 is wrong. The Zentradi bombardment will be happening later this year...
I mean, those guys are still holding a grudge for being sent up there as slave labor a few generations back... Expect any attempt to exploit the water on Enceladus to be met with fierce resistance.
I tried to translate your sentence multiple times, then back to English so I could post the ridiculous result.
Except google's translation was actually pretty good.
Try a more complicated example. For instance, starting here:
"It's probably pretty good at translating translations it produces back into the same source text. If you figure that a phrase structure in one language corresponds to a certain data structure in Google Translate, then it makes sense that this data structure would survive multiple passes through the same restructuring algorithm..."
translating to Japanese and back to English yields this:
"It is translated to produce translated text back to the very same source is probably a good thing. Cases, one single phrase structure of language specific data structures in the Google translation, it is this data structure makes sense and survival of multiple paths through the same algorithm structure corresponding figures..."
Here you've got badly handled idiomatic phrases all around... Like the Google translation to Japanese used "seiseisuru honyaku no honyaku dewa ii koto da" at the end of the first sentence ("created-translation's translation is good" or something like that). On the translation back the connection between "good" and "translation" was lost - Google slapped on a fairly generic "is probably a good thing" - picking the bit of uncertainty out of the start of the Japanese sentence and combining that with the "dewa ii koto da" - but dropping the whole idea of what it is that's good... Which is something that can be kind of vague in the structure of Japanese... Meanwhile, the phrase "source text" was transliterated into katakana, but it got broken up in the translation back to English and wound up in two different locations in the sentence...
The whole conditional clause in the second sentence got kind of mangled. In the Japanese translation it starts with "baai wa": baai means "case" or "situation" - the structure of the sentence establishes this "case" being described as a possibility... Google lost all that, and just said "cases," Then, at the end of the sentence, after the ellipsis, "figure", from "if you figure" in the English original, was tacked on as "taiousuru zu" - "interacting drawing" or "interacting figures". In the return-to-English version this somehow wound up back before the ellipsis again.
The rest of the second sentence in Japanese is something like "if this data structure uses the same intermediary algorithm, several passes of the algorithm should be survived and it should make sense." The apparent problem there is something analogous to operator precedence in arithmetic. The "and" is meant to mean that the surviving translation should still make sense - but this clause apparently got broken up... like the reverse translation assumed that "uses the same intermediary algorithm... should be survived" was all one stand-alone clause - and so it assumed that clause had nothing to do with "this data structure", switched the order of the "and" around, etc...
My hobby is building Gundam models - one of the most comprehensive review sites for new Gundam kits is in Korean. Believe me, we all try using Google translate or Babelfish on Dalong's site from time to time, but the result is rarely worth the effort.
I was going to make a joke that maybe the GP poster meant "littoral", but that ship has sailed.
Come on, can't you look beyond the nitpicky little issues with the presentation of the message and consider the message itself? Honestly, you grammar nazis and your ad homonym* attacks...
(* Sadly, "littoral" is a homophone of "literal", so the joke fails, I'm afraid. My research staff has been working around the clock to try and refine the "ad homonym" joke into something truly viable.)
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It's only sad if people tried to make a video editor for linux and somehow were denied by forces outside their control. If the only reason is that nobody has bothered to write a good one, then that's not sad.
As a Linux user I think it's sad that we don't yet have a decent video editing solution on Linux...
I agree with what you say that Final Cut Pro itself isn't "sad" - but the fact that Linux users making a video about using Linux don't have a decent tool to edit their videos with is kind of a drag...
Linux has really come into it's (AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!) own, but I don't think anybody will ever mistake it for a hobbyist niche again.
What you're talking about is largely a matter of appearances. Linux provides something that people can take advantage of in their businesses, and so they have. But the people who use it because they enjoy it are still out there, they just don't advertise.
... with the damned "I'm a" bullshit? It's getting really old.
I'm a PC! Well I'm a Mac!
And back there you have Linux who is insecure and just has to jump onto the bandwagon.
Only video I've seen had Linux as some hot chick, not insecure at all...you'll probably be able to find it on YouTube.
Maybe the people who made the video were insecure, and that's why they arranged to have a hot chick play the part of their favorite OS?
So let me get this straight. You set up your new Linux machine, and it's working well. You've compiled everything you need to compile, and since you're compiling anything at all it's pretty apparent that you're a geek. Now you set up your machine to dual-boot into Windows, and you stop being a geek all of a sudden? Specifically at what point does that occur?
Around the time the start-up chimes would play on a default install. XD
You know, I enjoy Linux a lot - but if a video like this were actually done well I think it'd be a lot of fun. :)
I understand your point, but if you really have a love for computers what's making you have to stick to one OS? I dual boot with Windows & Linux. I get to have my fun with both.
Personally I've found that this increases maintenance issues without substantially improving the overall experience. If I played a lot of PC games I might see things differently: Windows would be nearly essential in that case. (I only say nearly because some folks apparently do well with Wine, etc. And there's still a few games being published for Linux...) But running two different operating systems means each is taking its own chunk of hard drive, shared volumes need to be something both systems can understand, and I wind up having to keep software on two systems up-to-date instead of just one. When I was using my Powerbook it was frustrating when VLC or Mplayer on the Mac couldn't play the same stuff as the same programs on Linux (due to version lag between the two platforms, and later my unwillingness to upgrade Mac OS). It's nice to have one fairly coherent environment - though I do feel that I miss out on learning about other platforms this way.
Yeah, I was getting that, too. Really annoying...
From the web site:
> Internally, there is a SD socket which can be used as a low cost boot or storage device. There is also space for a 2.5 inch hard disk. Externally there is another SD socket. that can be used for transferring data from mobile phones, digital cameras or other devices.
Perhaps you could use the external SD socket as, well, an external SD socket.
I did see that - but the review seems to contradict that information (actually, the reviewer specifically complained that there's no external SD slot...) - I'm not sure which bit of info to believe, honestly. <shrug> doesn't matter really.
SD slot??? WHY??? How about just a USB reader and a USB port on the machine?
Then you can use SD, CF, microSD, xD, miniSD, MMS,...
If you look at the pictures: the SD slot is internal. It's one of the options for primary storage. I can only hope the thing has a very good SD card interface... The reason they included this slot is to provide a cheap way to configure the machine with solid-state storage. SD cards can't compete with good-quality SSDs, but it's very cheap to add an SD slot to a machine, the SD cards themselves are cheap and easy to find, and it doesn't take much physical space inside the machine.
I own a EEE 901 - personally I find the built-in card reader quite convenient. IMO it beats dragging around a USB accessory, at least in cases where I'm just dealing with one memory card format. (It's actually very rare these days that I have to deal with anything other than SD - though I do sometimes travel with a USB card reader just in case.) I like that even if I forget to bring a card reader with me, my 901 can read SD cards for me... Other netbooks are even more handy in this regard, as they feature multiformat readers...
I honestly wouldn't want to run a machine like this on AA's, and I'm not sure that having that capability is worth the trouble - but I do kind of like that they threw that feature in there. I can imagine a couple years down the road having trouble finding a replacement battery for my 901 (well, Asus uses the same battery pack in other models, so maybe I've got a while before that would be a problem) It's kind of nice that this machine uses "off-the-rack" li-po batteries instead of proprietary packs, and the AA fallback option is interesting... Reminds me of my old TRS-80 model 100, actually. :) I've seen tons of old laptops at flea markets - rendered not only obsolete but fairly useless as well as a result of the batteries having gone. Meanwhile, I was using my model 100 to type up reports in the late 1990s. The idea of a machine like this being genericized to the point where replacement batteries can be found anywhere is really appealing - even if the machine is very weak by today's standards.
Overall, I'd say the machine is pretty much junk. XD But it's fun junk, like the way the original EEE 7 and 9 inch models were fun junk. When they mention an internal USB slot it makes me think that they've got hobbyists in mind as much as anything... Netbook hackers just love an internal USB slot. :) ...Though it does seem that you need that slot for wi-fi, so maybe not?
Direct AC connection? 110-240V? I don't know about you guys, but I ain't gonna put that damn thing on my lap. This is a laptop. I have spilled coffee, juice, other drinks on my laptops. I don't want 240V shock on my private parts. I let my young kids to use laptop too and certainly wouldn't allow this one to them.
Most likely the AC-DC power converter is sealed up. Take a look at a "wall wart" power supply sometime - do you see anywhere for liquid to leak in? Even my EEE's AC adaptor, which isn't sealed, also doesn't feature any openings into which liquid could readily flow.
And then, what do you think this combination of liquid and voltage is going to do, exactly? Is the voltage going to follow the liquid's electrical path out of the abundantly ground-planed environment of the power supply and computer, and follow a path up your arms, through your heart, and then back down to the computer to get to a ground path?
I'm not feeling too scared, really.
Exactly, that's why I only have a resolution of 9x9 on my 25 inch screen.
Really, that's all you need to play a rousing game of "dot"...
But they shouldn't be too watery. Enchiladas are a casserole, not a soup.
I like to have ensaladas with my enchiladas...
Yes, we can talk about hardware without making a bunch of stupid jokes about its name*.
One of the great features of the Optimus chipset is its pipelining architecture, called the "Convoy". With this system a number of pending GPU tasks can be stored into containers, and the GPU hardware will process them quickly, moving the data to its destination, transforming it as necessary, etc. But the hardware apparently kept dying on them during the demonstration: they were able to get it up and running again each time, but it happened at least three times.
Rumors are already spreading about the planned successor technology, known simply as "Ultra". It will basically be a beefed-up version of "Optimus"... Though there are rumors it won't be quite as flexible.
AMD is working on their own competing product, called "Hot Rod" - it really hasn't gained much of a following so far, though. I've also heard about something called "Ironhide" - apparently it's designed to provide a GPU for processing functions on headless systems...
(* Doesn't necessarily mean we will...)
oh happy memories.
I'm sure you're finding the massive 640x480 resolution just as awesome as I do.
Well, you're clearly not aware of the nature of the sham that pervades high-resolution graphics.
For instance, graphics hardware manufacturers will happily tell you that a resolution like 1920 x 1080 has nearly seven times as many pixels as 640 x 480. But what they don't tell you is that all of these pixels are a whole hell of a lot smaller than the ones on your good old VGA monitor! With my monitor, I may not have a lot of pixels, but I'm damn sure I'm getting my money's worth out of every single one!
don't worry, though, a common enemy will help them come around....
Yeah, but we'll still have to give them Venus... And just what are all those Venusian colonists supposed to do, eh? Their families have been there for generations!
Would it kill you to spell out the damn acronym at least once in the article summary?
Fuel and Sensor Tactical
BTW: What does FAST do, anyway?
Well, see, while the Valkyries were developed to work in both atmospheric and space flight, the intakes (which act as hydrogen scoops for the fusion reactors in the engines) aren't able to get sufficient fuel out in space, so the fighter's operational range is quite limited. The FAST packs address this problem by providing a large reserve of fuel for the fighter, as well as a bit of extra armor and missiles to increase the fighter's offensive power... But with the added bulk of the FAST packs the Valkyrie ceases to be effective in atmospheric combat, so they must be ejected prior to atmospheric flight.
All the hype about 2012 is wrong. The Zentradi bombardment will be happening later this year...
You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!
I mean, those guys are still holding a grudge for being sent up there as slave labor a few generations back... Expect any attempt to exploit the water on Enceladus to be met with fierce resistance.
Damnit, I need my blanket to keep warm!
I tried to translate your sentence multiple times, then back to English so I could post the ridiculous result.
Except google's translation was actually pretty good.
Try a more complicated example. For instance, starting here:
"It's probably pretty good at translating translations it produces back into the same source text. If you figure that a phrase structure in one language corresponds to a certain data structure in Google Translate, then it makes sense that this data structure would survive multiple passes through the same restructuring algorithm..."
translating to Japanese and back to English yields this:
"It is translated to produce translated text back to the very same source is probably a good thing. Cases, one single phrase structure of language specific data structures in the Google translation, it is this data structure makes sense and survival of multiple paths through the same algorithm structure corresponding figures ..."
Here you've got badly handled idiomatic phrases all around... Like the Google translation to Japanese used "seiseisuru honyaku no honyaku dewa ii koto da" at the end of the first sentence ("created-translation's translation is good" or something like that). On the translation back the connection between "good" and "translation" was lost - Google slapped on a fairly generic "is probably a good thing" - picking the bit of uncertainty out of the start of the Japanese sentence and combining that with the "dewa ii koto da" - but dropping the whole idea of what it is that's good... Which is something that can be kind of vague in the structure of Japanese... Meanwhile, the phrase "source text" was transliterated into katakana, but it got broken up in the translation back to English and wound up in two different locations in the sentence...
The whole conditional clause in the second sentence got kind of mangled. In the Japanese translation it starts with "baai wa": baai means "case" or "situation" - the structure of the sentence establishes this "case" being described as a possibility... Google lost all that, and just said "cases," Then, at the end of the sentence, after the ellipsis, "figure", from "if you figure" in the English original, was tacked on as "taiousuru zu" - "interacting drawing" or "interacting figures". In the return-to-English version this somehow wound up back before the ellipsis again.
The rest of the second sentence in Japanese is something like "if this data structure uses the same intermediary algorithm, several passes of the algorithm should be survived and it should make sense." The apparent problem there is something analogous to operator precedence in arithmetic. The "and" is meant to mean that the surviving translation should still make sense - but this clause apparently got broken up... like the reverse translation assumed that "uses the same intermediary algorithm... should be survived" was all one stand-alone clause - and so it assumed that clause had nothing to do with "this data structure", switched the order of the "and" around, etc...
My hobby is building Gundam models - one of the most comprehensive review sites for new Gundam kits is in Korean. Believe me, we all try using Google translate or Babelfish on Dalong's site from time to time, but the result is rarely worth the effort.
Probably port 9001.
It's over 9000!
...Or 8000 in the original Japanese...
Not over 9000?
(or 8000 in the original Japanese...)
I was going to make a joke that maybe the GP poster meant "littoral", but that ship has sailed.
Come on, can't you look beyond the nitpicky little issues with the presentation of the message and consider the message itself? Honestly, you grammar nazis and your ad homonym* attacks...
(* Sadly, "littoral" is a homophone of "literal", so the joke fails, I'm afraid. My research staff has been working around the clock to try and refine the "ad homonym" joke into something truly viable.)
FYI This would effect any Verizon wireless device, unless it routes traffic through a proxy, like a blackberry.
Who would use a blackberry as a proxy? That just seems stupid.