The whole Alice and Bill thing got boring after about the first two articles they wrote. I got tired of the 'reader-centric' articles that mostly focused on how misanthropic Bill was.
But we loved CS when it was an inch or more thick! We used to call it the 'God Book' in our early ISP days!
A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America said his organization had not reviewed the software, but said that in principle it was disturbed by the idea. "We remain concerned about any devices or software that permit listeners to transform a broadcast into a music library," RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said.
In an unrelated note, a spokesman for Hizbollah, commenting on the latest U.N. effort at ensuring peace in the Middle East, said, "We have not reviewed the document, but are in principle against any plan which allows Jews to continue to live."
"This is your Controller speaking! All Microsoft Reality-Realignment Commandos to their disembarkation tubes!"
"This is not a drill. I repeat - this is not a drill. We have identified a Clear and Present danger to our Cash-Cow-Money-Factory (TM) scam of charging for operating systems and commodity applications!"
"The Governor of California is a threat to Capitalism! Parachute in there and give away a bunch of our crap, while pretending it has more value than free alternatives. Those techno-schmucks will never know the difference. We know what is good for everyone, everywhere."
I read the article, which was fine until the MS droids started claiming they are as flexible in their pricing as they always have been.
*Snort*! Ask vendors like Dell, Micron, Gateway, and IBM if Microsoft was EVER flexible with their licensing policies. No, actually, MS would aggressively PUNISH any vendor who sold alternate operating systems on their hardware by increasing the per-box fee.
Anyway, the FUD from MS is just so much fart gas. My real life practical experience with XP is that if I connect it to the internet, I can't keep viruses off it. I waste more time trying to slap a condom over my system with XP. This OS is leakier than a Saudi terrorist holding cell.
Fedora: I haven't had to delouse it once. I haven't had to reboot or reinstall. It just works.
You and the other slashdotters who think that.NET and Mono is a sinister Deathstar being built by Microsoft to wipe the Resistence from the Galaxy forever need to re-think that position.
Oh, I don't doubt that Microsoft would love to keep control of.NET like they'd like to control everything else in the world, but the genie is out of the bottle, and can't be stuffed back in.
Linux programmers have adopted a GREAT development platform. I'm talking C# and.NET. This stuff works, it is elegant, makes for rapid development, and CAN NOT BE CONTROLLED ONLY by Microsoft. What are they going to do, break compatibility? What about all those Windoze hoards out there that are busy developing on the platform right now? And even if M$ comes up with an incompatible upgrade, how does that affect the Linux apps that I've written already? My code still works, and I'm free to use the cross-platform GUI libraries that are a couple months away.
Slashdotters, this is a non-issue. What ever happened to adopting the best and most powerful technologies to get the job done?
I tell you, C# is a joy to develop with. I tried my hand at Java development for about a year, and C# beats Java hands-down for ease of use, and functionality per line of code.
Face it, Microsoft has engineered the programming language that will hurt them more than Java ever will.
Ted's main thrust is to legislate arbitrary media assert ownership rules to create an environment which fosters independent growth.
Well, that's fine for all that, but his approach is to have the FCC rule that, for instance, all TVs must be manufactured with both UHF and VHF receiving capabilities. Or, say, that HDTV sets must implement the copy protection bit.
No thanks. The Internet really is the answer here, let NBC, CBS, CNN, and Pizza Hut own as much of the shlock out there as they want; I can find (or create!) far more compelling content and distribute it to the world without even having to deal with FCC oversight.
Well, I've just spent 24 hours poking around with dyne:bolic and I gotta say it sure is interesting. My primary interest is 24P video editing, with the eventual transition to various HD frame sizes, while doing it all on the cheap and in Linux.
I've kept my eye on Cinelerra for a couple years now, but every time I've got around to downloading and trying to build it, there's always a problem, and I've given up, thinking, it just isn't there yet.
Dyne:bolic sort of changed that; at least I can boot up a system which allows me to start playing with Cinelerra without a lot of time or effort spent getting to a starting point. I have learned now what Cinelerra can do and what one needs to edit with it on a day-to-day basis.
So, thanks for the heads-up on dyne:bolic, it really helped me.
Like others have already said, Tivo announced that they are considering offering on-demand-style programming separate from live broadcast network fare. This is no different from normal on-demand material, except that it is a Linux box smartly going out over your net connection to retrieve the content.
Tivo is struggling, now, to keep their customer base and to get others. They know that any geek with a Linux box and a tuner can pull together a new product that could displace them, so they are trying to keep the value of their product intact.
They have done some incredible things, and created a whole new disruptive technology, which I love. But they are making several mistakes. For one thing, I can't be the only person on the planet who wants separate folders for my search lists and content. I want all the 'Mail Calls' I can get, and my girlfriend wants all the 'SpongeBob' episodes. How about multiple users, Tivo?
Most Tivo hacking has been concerned with getting more disk space into the box. How hard would it be to allow my Tivo to archive or store overflow content on one or more networked shares?
And they are finally getting around to HDTV capability.
It will be interesting to see where Tivo is one year from now.
I've just spent 2.5 days trying to recover my system from installing Fedora Core 2 over a previously working dual-boot WinXP and Redhat 7.3 installation.
God I'm angry, because I also discovered that my 'Drive Image 7' backup software wouldn't properly restore the safety backup I did before this upgrade.
Fixmbr didn't work, all kinds of things didn't work, so I'm now back to the drawing board reinstalling everything from scrath.
Oh, and your comment about SGIs is so true. Intel is trying to get the bus up to multi-GHZ speeds, but progress is slow. Thank God that AMD is pushing the envelope with their HyperTransport technology. We're watching the Athlon 64 rather closely also!
I have been using Intel platforms for several years now to edit video, and have had to settle with hardware accellerators like Matrox RTX100 to maximize productivity while minimizing sticker shock.
My cameraman just got himself a G4, and FCP4, so he's happily doodling with that, in his qwest to get away from Windows.
We've been looking hard at Cinelerra and MainConcept as Linux solutions, but they just don't seem to be there yet. Too bad Cinelerra is so difficult to configure, and the authors are slow to introduce updates.
It just seems to me there's a lot of players in the video editing biz that have a high motivation to use Linux as the lifecycle platform for NLE work...
People, who cares what movie they initially captured and edited with this gadget?
The news here is that this hardware vendor is using Linux as the basis for a digital data recorder, that handles various HiDef formats. Try to put one of these together yourself; it ain't easy.
Those of us who shoot and edit digital video would LOVE to break away from the Windows/Mac world, and do our work on Linux, from cradle to grave.
I hate Microsoft, and I love Linux and FreeBSD. That being said, I'm putting meat on the table right now by being a C# developer in a Microsoft shop, and I'm grateful, because I've been doing scutt work at low wages for the last couple of years.
I've developed with C++, Java, and VB, and I have to say that the Visual Studio and C# development cycle kick the snot out of any previous environment I've worked with. I hate to admit it, but the tools Microsoft has developed are wonderful. And C# is much easier to work with as a language than Java, at least, in my experience.
A message to slashdotters: quit whining about how evil ol' Microsoft can't produce anything worthwhile and copy the great ideas that MS has used to make programming a pleasure again.
There's a lot of smirky comments that tapes aren't reliable, and DVD is faster and a longer-lasting backup medium.
My experience has been that 8mm DATs were terrible. I've been burned many times by unrecoverable 8mms.
I have an Ecrix (www.ecrix.com) tape drive, and 5 tapes that I've beaten the hell out of. I get read errors on them now, but that may be because my head cleaner tape is worn out. I haven't been willing to gamble a pile of cash on a new cleaner and more tapes, but until recently, Ecrix tapes always restored data.
DVD? Ok, I have a 2X burner. I like random access. But 4.7gigs isn't a lot. And how do I easily back up files bigger than 4.7gigs? Does anyone know of a burner utility that can span multiple DVD-Rs or -RWs?
Firewire drives with 120gigs of space are great, until you fill them up. I don't want to spend another $300 on another 120gig firewire drive, and my system bay is filled with internal IDEs.
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The top 500 list is interesting, and fun to read, but LinPack and other benchmarks only give us a rough feel for how well these monsters perform.
We're not comparing apples to oranges, more like ORCHARDS of apples to oranges...
The whole Alice and Bill thing got boring after about the first two articles they wrote. I got tired of the 'reader-centric' articles that mostly focused on how misanthropic Bill was.
But we loved CS when it was an inch or more thick! We used to call it the 'God Book' in our early ISP days!
I had a bet with myself that there would be a majority of self-important smarmy 'this is why the work is inferior' posts. Gosh, I win.
Let's see the stuff you've done that makes this project worthless. Oh, you haven't done any.
I am astounded people. This is what Final Fantasy *wanted* to be, but done by one guy and four computers. Wow.
In an unrelated note, a spokesman for Hizbollah, commenting on the latest U.N. effort at ensuring peace in the Middle East, said, "We have not reviewed the document, but are in principle against any plan which allows Jews to continue to live."
Denial of Service Attacks are the last refuge of the Incompetent.
"This is your Controller speaking! All Microsoft Reality-Realignment Commandos to their disembarkation tubes!"
"This is not a drill. I repeat - this is not a drill. We have identified a Clear and Present danger to our Cash-Cow-Money-Factory (TM) scam of charging for operating systems and commodity applications!"
"The Governor of California is a threat to Capitalism! Parachute in there and give away a bunch of our crap, while pretending it has more value than free alternatives. Those techno-schmucks will never know the difference. We know what is good for everyone, everywhere."
"That is all. For now."
I read the article, which was fine until the MS droids started claiming they are as flexible in their pricing as they always have been.
*Snort*! Ask vendors like Dell, Micron, Gateway, and IBM if Microsoft was EVER flexible with their licensing policies. No, actually, MS would aggressively PUNISH any vendor who sold alternate operating systems on their hardware by increasing the per-box fee.
Anyway, the FUD from MS is just so much fart gas. My real life practical experience with XP is that if I connect it to the internet, I can't keep viruses off it. I waste more time trying to slap a condom over my system with XP. This OS is leakier than a Saudi terrorist holding cell.
Fedora: I haven't had to delouse it once. I haven't had to reboot or reinstall. It just works.
They lie. Period.
acebone-
.NET and Mono is a sinister Deathstar being built by Microsoft to wipe the Resistence from the Galaxy forever need to re-think that position.
.NET like they'd like to control everything else in the world, but the genie is out of the bottle, and can't be stuffed back in.
.NET. This stuff works, it is elegant, makes for rapid development, and CAN NOT BE CONTROLLED ONLY by Microsoft. What are they going to do, break compatibility? What about all those Windoze hoards out there that are busy developing on the platform right now? And even if M$ comes up with an incompatible upgrade, how does that affect the Linux apps that I've written already? My code still works, and I'm free to use the cross-platform GUI libraries that are a couple months away.
You and the other slashdotters who think that
Oh, I don't doubt that Microsoft would love to keep control of
Linux programmers have adopted a GREAT development platform. I'm talking C# and
Slashdotters, this is a non-issue. What ever happened to adopting the best and most powerful technologies to get the job done?
I tell you, C# is a joy to develop with. I tried my hand at Java development for about a year, and C# beats Java hands-down for ease of use, and functionality per line of code.
Face it, Microsoft has engineered the programming language that will hurt them more than Java ever will.
Ted's main thrust is to legislate arbitrary media assert ownership rules to create an environment which fosters independent growth.
Well, that's fine for all that, but his approach is to have the FCC rule that, for instance, all TVs must be manufactured with both UHF and VHF receiving capabilities. Or, say, that HDTV sets must implement the copy protection bit.
No thanks. The Internet really is the answer here, let NBC, CBS, CNN, and Pizza Hut own as much of the shlock out there as they want; I can find (or create!) far more compelling content and distribute it to the world without even having to deal with FCC oversight.
1994 Mazda Miata, just clicked over to 100,000 miles. City milage: 30, highway: 35.
I've got both city and highway conditions, and I drive the car hard. We change the oil every 3K miles, and use a synthetic. Runs like a top.
I'm just gonna say NO to this.
Moore is a troll. A successful one.
Well, I've just spent 24 hours poking around with dyne:bolic and I gotta say it sure is interesting. My primary interest is 24P video editing, with the eventual transition to various HD frame sizes, while doing it all on the cheap and in Linux.
I've kept my eye on Cinelerra for a couple years now, but every time I've got around to downloading and trying to build it, there's always a problem, and I've given up, thinking, it just isn't there yet.
Dyne:bolic sort of changed that; at least I can boot up a system which allows me to start playing with Cinelerra without a lot of time or effort spent getting to a starting point. I have learned now what Cinelerra can do and what one needs to edit with it on a day-to-day basis.
So, thanks for the heads-up on dyne:bolic, it really helped me.
Like others have already said, Tivo announced that they are considering offering on-demand-style programming separate from live broadcast network fare. This is no different from normal on-demand material, except that it is a Linux box smartly going out over your net connection to retrieve the content.
Tivo is struggling, now, to keep their customer base and to get others. They know that any geek with a Linux box and a tuner can pull together a new product that could displace them, so they are trying to keep the value of their product intact.
They have done some incredible things, and created a whole new disruptive technology, which I love. But they are making several mistakes. For one thing, I can't be the only person on the planet who wants separate folders for my search lists and content. I want all the 'Mail Calls' I can get, and my girlfriend wants all the 'SpongeBob' episodes. How about multiple users, Tivo?
Most Tivo hacking has been concerned with getting more disk space into the box. How hard would it be to allow my Tivo to archive or store overflow content on one or more networked shares?
And they are finally getting around to HDTV capability.
It will be interesting to see where Tivo is one year from now.
I was taught that you get away if you can, but in any case you control the situation, and do not allow the assailant to do so.
Sometimes that means you teach 'em a lesson.
I've just spent 2.5 days trying to recover my system from installing Fedora Core 2 over a previously working dual-boot WinXP and Redhat 7.3 installation.
God I'm angry, because I also discovered that my 'Drive Image 7' backup software wouldn't properly restore the safety backup I did before this upgrade.
Fixmbr didn't work, all kinds of things didn't work, so I'm now back to the drawing board reinstalling everything from scrath.
Oh, and your comment about SGIs is so true. Intel is trying to get the bus up to multi-GHZ speeds, but progress is slow. Thank God that AMD is pushing the envelope with their HyperTransport technology. We're watching the Athlon 64 rather closely also!
I hear ya.
I have been using Intel platforms for several years now to edit video, and have had to settle with hardware accellerators like Matrox RTX100 to maximize productivity while minimizing sticker shock.
My cameraman just got himself a G4, and FCP4, so he's happily doodling with that, in his qwest to get away from Windows.
We've been looking hard at Cinelerra and MainConcept as Linux solutions, but they just don't seem to be there yet. Too bad Cinelerra is so difficult to configure, and the authors are slow to introduce updates.
It just seems to me there's a lot of players in the video editing biz that have a high motivation to use Linux as the lifecycle platform for NLE work...
People, who cares what movie they initially captured and edited with this gadget?
The news here is that this hardware vendor is using Linux as the basis for a digital data recorder, that handles various HiDef formats. Try to put one of these together yourself; it ain't easy.
Those of us who shoot and edit digital video would LOVE to break away from the Windows/Mac world, and do our work on Linux, from cradle to grave.
Hear, hear!
I hate Microsoft, and I love Linux and FreeBSD. That being said, I'm putting meat on the table right now by being a C# developer in a Microsoft shop, and I'm grateful, because I've been doing scutt work at low wages for the last couple of years.
I've developed with C++, Java, and VB, and I have to say that the Visual Studio and C# development cycle kick the snot out of any previous environment I've worked with. I hate to admit it, but the tools Microsoft has developed are wonderful. And C# is much easier to work with as a language than Java, at least, in my experience.
A message to slashdotters: quit whining about how evil ol' Microsoft can't produce anything worthwhile and copy the great ideas that MS has used to make programming a pleasure again.
Hubble is being shut down for 'astronaut safety reasons'?
We might as well not implement a police force because some of the officers might get killed.
WTF? Just because this guy is geeky enough to fixate on his wearable computer, how does that make him a cyborg?
How does any of this help him 'explore his humanity?'
Waste of time.
Nitwit!
Can you do better than Jackson and Company?
There's a lot of smirky comments that tapes aren't reliable, and DVD is faster and a longer-lasting backup medium.
My experience has been that 8mm DATs were terrible. I've been burned many times by unrecoverable 8mms.
I have an Ecrix (www.ecrix.com) tape drive, and 5 tapes that I've beaten the hell out of. I get read errors on them now, but that may be because my head cleaner tape is worn out. I haven't been willing to gamble a pile of cash on a new cleaner and more tapes, but until recently, Ecrix tapes always restored data.
DVD? Ok, I have a 2X burner. I like random access. But 4.7gigs isn't a lot. And how do I easily back up files bigger than 4.7gigs? Does anyone know of a burner utility that can span multiple DVD-Rs or -RWs?
Firewire drives with 120gigs of space are great, until you fill them up. I don't want to spend another $300 on another 120gig firewire drive, and my system bay is filled with internal IDEs.
Video editing. My 120gig firewire drive just ain't cutting it any more.