Humph. I tried Premiere and would do pretty much anything to avoid using it again. (I use EditDV on a Mac).
If this is really real time, it's a significant breakthrough - real time typically requires horribly expensive equipment. Only reason I'm not downloading it in a rush now is that I need support for my FireWire video camera.
What decent bcards are compatible with Video for Linux, anyway? I had the impression it was for pretty low-quality cards.
From what I've seen, you can do a lot with iMovie on an iMac DV. I've played around a little with the software in the store, and I was pretty impressed at its smoothness and capability. That system costs in the $ 1,299 range.
Right now, I use EditDV for the Mac. I'd probably try B2000 if it had support for QuickTime, since I know of no FireWire capture software for Linux. Anyone have information on that?
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Isn't the solution just to switch to 64-bit hardware (with the larger time_t) before the year 2038? With the cost of most Linux hardware being what it is, I'd be really surprised if any computers running today would still be mission-critical come 2038.
The problem should solve itself with a recompile, unless I'm missing something really strange.
I suppose the value of that support is, perhaps, too well known to require comment - especially since I believe all non-premium Microsoft support lines require toll calls to Redmond.
That's interesting about e-Machines - I didn't know that. Good for them for giving refunds. I wonder how they negotiated such a good deal - I was under the impression that the $80-odd price was pretty inflexible. If the "windows tax" is really just $ 30, I see the financial argument for alternative operating systems fading fast. I wonder how much Be would charge for preloading BeOS?
Well, since Red Hat et al have made installation easy, it's certainly not impossible that someone has installed Linux and doesn't know how to delete the partitions - especially since the process is so arcane.
If MS is really worried about this, they really/should/ make their own tool to deal with it.
I agree with others on this thread that the most characteristic thing in this article is the fact that they don't discuss dual booting - they want Windows2000 to be the only OS on your machine, bar none.
Interesting thought. At the present price structure, I believe it's much, much more expensive to buy Windows as a consumer than as an OEM, so it would be a really, really dumb idea to buy a Linux or Be machine and replace the existing OS with Windows. I believe the actual list price of Windows 98 is something like $ 200.
Andover's sole connection to the open source world is in buying various open source-oriented web sites, and as far as I know, all of them have run open source operating systems.
That being said, I don't see running Solaris as being an unforgiveable sin. Sun isn't without flaw, but it's no Microsoft.
In brief, the really big catch is that you have no control whatsoever on flight times. So if you're staying an hour and a half away from the airport, and they put you on a 7:25 am flight, you're going to have to get out the door at 5:30am and still barely make it.
In my rush to make the flight, I lost both my cell phone and camera battery charger. Oops.
Don't use Priceline unless there's no other way in the world you can travel.
I believe that one was about a 7.x. Woke me up, shook me up a bit, but caused essentially no damage. The only injuries came from an Amtrak train that got unlucky.
But even the Northridge earthquake, with an epicentre right in the middle of a heavily populated area, only killed 16-odd people. It was a smaller earthquake, but the really big ones are only expected to occur in the boonies. The effects of the 7.x in a distant area of Southern California were way less than the effects of a 6.x in a major population centre.
I read the article that allegedly implied that Cato might support North Carolina's efforts to collect sales tax.
I could see no such implication - to me the article supported the status quo, where mail order businesses do not wind up paying tax on sales outside of their state.
Needless to say, I'd be extremely shocked if Cato actually supported any such proposal.
My personal feeling is that bricks and mortar stores aren't going away any time soon. Online purchases are perfect for some things (obscure or expensive books) and lousy for others (books you buy on impulse). And I don't see us moving towards buying groceries or eating at restaurants in a way we can avoid sales tax.
Sales tax is here to stay, more's the pity. I just don't see this kind of rule as being necessary, and I doubt that it's enforcable - the data processing overhead is just too high.
I hate to say this, but that just doesn't make sense to me. amazon.com is, as far as I know, not deploying its own army, nor is it attempting to influence our government to fight. Furthermore, I see absolutely no reason why it would want to do either of those things.
I think the great untold story of the late 20th century is how money replaced war as a way of keeping score. Germany is no longer attacking its neighbors; it's building Mercedes-Benz cars instead. Japan is not bombing Pearl Harbour; it's sending us cars and consumer electronics. And the countries resorting to military force are the ones behind, not the ones ahead.
I would concede that we sometimes have wars over things such as oil supplies and the like, but compared to the "good old days" where men were men, women were women, and terrifying percentages of us died, I rather like our current world.
Choosing someone who made a lot of money is nicely symbolic, I think. In the first part of the century, our world was defined by war. As the 20th century comes to a close, it's defined by money.
I have to say, I think the latter is better, don't you?
They definitely/are/ cheaper. They were charging $14 for the hardcover edition of The Power Broker by Robert Caro - while everyone else was at around $28-35.
On the other hand, I really love the amazon shopping ambiance, with the great customer reviews and so on. It's hard to duplicate that on another site.
Personally, I think the amazon.com one-click suit is (perhaps even somewhat justified) revenge against B&N's suit over "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" slogan. Because of that prior suit I frankly find it a bit hard to get upset at amazon.
But they do have an interesting record infiltrating various organizations, so the thought that a Scientology-sourced program might send confidential data to the Church would not be out of line.
I realize it sounds absurd, but crazier things have happened - check the history of this bizarre organization before dismissing it out of hand.
You know, if they didn't have any, it might explain a few things:-)
Seriously, the Church of Scientology is a nasty group of people. I don't know how comfortable I am with a connection between them and the software platform virtually everyone has to use at some point.
Nothing could touch the old IBM Monochrome Display when it was introduced. It's laughable by today's standards, but certainly not by those of days gone by.
And of course CGA offered pretty nice coloured text if you used IBM's very nice display. Of course most people didn't, so you had to program for some pretty limited colour palettes, even in text mode.
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Humph. I tried Premiere and would do pretty much anything to avoid using it again. (I use EditDV on a Mac).
If this is really real time, it's a significant breakthrough - real time typically requires horribly expensive equipment. Only reason I'm not downloading it in a rush now is that I need support for my FireWire video camera.
What decent bcards are compatible with Video for Linux, anyway? I had the impression it was for pretty low-quality cards.
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Missed the "real time" part - iMovie isn't real time. But it's still pretty cool, and definitely cost-effective.
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From what I've seen, you can do a lot with iMovie on an iMac DV. I've played around a little with the software in the store, and I was pretty impressed at its smoothness and capability. That system costs in the $ 1,299 range.
Right now, I use EditDV for the Mac. I'd probably try B2000 if it had support for QuickTime, since I know of no FireWire capture software for Linux. Anyone have information on that?
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Isn't the solution just to switch to 64-bit hardware (with the larger time_t) before the year 2038? With the cost of most Linux hardware being what it is, I'd be really surprised if any computers running today would still be mission-critical come 2038.
The problem should solve itself with a recompile, unless I'm missing something really strange.
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I remember sitting down looking at that thing and thinking, "Can't they do better than that? The thing's horrid, take it away."
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I found it for $ 150 at Best Buy, which is the lowest price I've seen yet. (No, I didn't succumb).
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Check the hardware configuration page for Microsoft.com - they have a LOT of money invested in their systems. How much would the needed E10k run?
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I suppose the value of that support is, perhaps, too well known to require comment - especially since I believe all non-premium Microsoft support lines require toll calls to Redmond.
That's interesting about e-Machines - I didn't know that. Good for them for giving refunds. I wonder how they negotiated such a good deal - I was under the impression that the $80-odd price was pretty inflexible. If the "windows tax" is really just $ 30, I see the financial argument for alternative operating systems fading fast. I wonder how much Be would charge for preloading BeOS?
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Well, since Red Hat et al have made installation easy, it's certainly not impossible that someone has installed Linux and doesn't know how to delete the partitions - especially since the process is so arcane.
/should/ make their own tool to deal with it.
If MS is really worried about this, they really
I agree with others on this thread that the most characteristic thing in this article is the fact that they don't discuss dual booting - they want Windows2000 to be the only OS on your machine, bar none.
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Interesting thought. At the present price structure, I believe it's much, much more expensive to buy Windows as a consumer than as an OEM, so it would be a really, really dumb idea to buy a Linux or Be machine and replace the existing OS with Windows. I believe the actual list price of Windows 98 is something like $ 200.
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And, as far as I know, it always has.
Andover's sole connection to the open source world is in buying various open source-oriented web sites, and as far as I know, all of them have run open source operating systems.
That being said, I don't see running Solaris as being an unforgiveable sin. Sun isn't without flaw, but it's no Microsoft.
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My epinion on priceline, based on my own experience with the service, is probably worth reading:
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http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-13D3-FD30C0
In brief, the really big catch is that you have no control whatsoever on flight times. So if you're staying an hour and a half away from the airport, and they put you on a 7:25 am flight, you're going to have to get out the door at 5:30am and still barely make it.
In my rush to make the flight, I lost both my cell phone and camera battery charger. Oops.
Don't use Priceline unless there's no other way in the world you can travel.
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Although that was surely an unforgettable experience to live through, wasn't it last year's?
I seem to remember they did exactly that in last year's LWN.
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I believe that one was about a 7.x. Woke me up, shook me up a bit, but caused essentially no damage. The only injuries came from an Amtrak train that got unlucky.
But even the Northridge earthquake, with an epicentre right in the middle of a heavily populated area, only killed 16-odd people. It was a smaller earthquake, but the really big ones are only expected to occur in the boonies. The effects of the 7.x in a distant area of Southern California were way less than the effects of a 6.x in a major population centre.
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So you would say that folks like Jeff Bezos are responsible for Rwanda, Kosovo and/or Chechnaya?
I believe that repressive government actions are rather prominent in all three places, and that they have nothing to do with greed or business.
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Well, I would think of this another way: It's a breakthrough for Be to get any kind of relationship with a major OEM.
I'm impressed.
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I read the article that allegedly implied that Cato might support North Carolina's efforts to collect sales tax.
I could see no such implication - to me the article supported the status quo, where mail order businesses do not wind up paying tax on sales outside of their state.
Needless to say, I'd be extremely shocked if Cato actually supported any such proposal.
My personal feeling is that bricks and mortar stores aren't going away any time soon. Online purchases are perfect for some things (obscure or expensive books) and lousy for others (books you buy on impulse). And I don't see us moving towards buying groceries or eating at restaurants in a way we can avoid sales tax.
Sales tax is here to stay, more's the pity. I just don't see this kind of rule as being necessary, and I doubt that it's enforcable - the data processing overhead is just too high.
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But who would buy the shares?
Regarding the fellow posting the first message on this thread, I doubt they can legally make this retroactive.
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True, we all die eventually.
But a lot fewer of us die in wars, and I think that's an uncontestably Good Thing.
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"The two depend on each other."
I hate to say this, but that just doesn't make sense to me. amazon.com is, as far as I know, not deploying its own army, nor is it attempting to influence our government to fight. Furthermore, I see absolutely no reason why it would want to do either of those things.
I think the great untold story of the late 20th century is how money replaced war as a way of keeping score. Germany is no longer attacking its neighbors; it's building Mercedes-Benz cars instead. Japan is not bombing Pearl Harbour; it's sending us cars and consumer electronics. And the countries resorting to military force are the ones behind, not the ones ahead.
I would concede that we sometimes have wars over things such as oil supplies and the like, but compared to the "good old days" where men were men, women were women, and terrifying percentages of us died, I rather like our current world.
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Choosing someone who made a lot of money is nicely symbolic, I think. In the first part of the century, our world was defined by war. As the 20th century comes to a close, it's defined by money.
I have to say, I think the latter is better, don't you?
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They definitely /are/ cheaper. They were charging $14 for the hardcover edition of The Power Broker by Robert Caro - while everyone else was at around $28-35.
On the other hand, I really love the amazon shopping ambiance, with the great customer reviews and so on. It's hard to duplicate that on another site.
Personally, I think the amazon.com one-click suit is (perhaps even somewhat justified) revenge against B&N's suit over "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" slogan. Because of that prior suit I frankly find it a bit hard to get upset at amazon.
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Oh, not in those terms, no.
But they do have an interesting record infiltrating various organizations, so the thought that a Scientology-sourced program might send confidential data to the Church would not be out of line.
I realize it sounds absurd, but crazier things have happened - check the history of this bizarre organization before dismissing it out of hand.
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You know, if they didn't have any, it might explain a few things :-)
Seriously, the Church of Scientology is a nasty group of people. I don't know how comfortable I am with a connection between them and the software platform virtually everyone has to use at some point.
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Ah, but I did say "attractive".
Nothing could touch the old IBM Monochrome Display when it was introduced. It's laughable by today's standards, but certainly not by those of days gone by.
And of course CGA offered pretty nice coloured text if you used IBM's very nice display. Of course most people didn't, so you had to program for some pretty limited colour palettes, even in text mode.
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