Hello?!? Why can't you change the lenght of a second? What is based on? We can make a second as long as we wish. Just because some bozo decided to divide the day by 24 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds doesn't mean that we cannot divide the day to 10/12/16 hours, 10/100 minutes and 100 seconds or whatever. 1 new second != 1 old second.
What we cannot do is change the lenght of a year (sorry, natural laws). At least not until we colonise another planet.
This is amazing - I also came up with a similar concept ages ago but alas, haven't disclosed it to anybody for fear of ridicule. 4 quarters, 91 days each with 1/2 days marking the end of the year (2 days for leap year). 31+30+30. Public holidays would be the same the world over.
Nice post. BTW - R5 has a context switch every 250us (microseconds) or sooner, not 3ms any more. Personally, I'd be happy if Be ditched original Pentium support and focused on P2 as the minimim platform. As much as I like PPC, there is no point in supporting it any more. And you forgot to mention SMP !!!!!
I dont dispute the leverage Open Source has, but face it, MP3 still skip when scrolling windows in a stock Linux distribution (that is, not in the RT Linux). Linux networking will always beat BeOS (BONE) networking, but as far as scheduling multimedia tasks (ie. MP3 playing) BeOS wins hands down. That is why the BeOS enthusiasts always fling 8-10 MP3 playing simulatanously without skipping a beat - the preemptive multitasking in BeOS is leagues above anything else outthere, probably due to the 250us (thats microseconds) context switch. Mainstream Linux faces the same problem Windows has - it wants to be compatible on the last remaining 386 machines hence their context switch of 20ms and 10ms respectively. And yes, you can recompile the kernel but that isn't something the average user should do.
Introduce SMP systems and BeOS gains an even greater lead. Why do Linux users feel more threatened by BeOS than any other OS on the market? Judging from posts in this thread, Linux users dispise BeOS users more than Win32 and MacOS evangelists. Food for thought
Imagine a centralised MP3 server networked (both 802.3 and 802.11 - thats ethernet and wireless for the young ones) to other appliances around your house. Choose a MP3 track and listen to it from your Hi-Fi / TV / Refrigerator / PC / backyard hammock on a internet appliance etc. Listen to a streaming MP3 server, and immediately download more songs from the same group. Little Johny listens to kiddie MP3's from the bedroom, Mrs Jones listens to a hip song in the kitchen while Mr Johnes listens to a blues song in the garage - all songs are streamed from one box. Stick a new CD in, convert the audio to MP3 (with online lookups) and all networked devices in the house have access to the new songs.
With MP3 storage space reaching double gig digit storage sizes (>10G) it becomes more and more cumbersom to issue searches, as well as a problem of duplicating data. I think that this custom built MP3 box on steroids provides so much more than anything I can muster myself. This appliance will be idiot proof to operate, and you'll be able to buy it at your local electronics shop. Nice.
We're here !!!!! Seriously though, given the fact that modern man appeared suddenly all over this planet 60K or so years ago, with language, pottery, alphabet etc indicates a possibility that we just might have colonised this planet. Some Polynesian tribes (isolated from Inquisitors) believe that we all lived in an egg and hatched to colonise the world.
I'm not a archelogist, but apparently there are almost no remains of human residence from a period of -60K to -800K (then you have remains of various Neanthertals). 60K years ago mankind appears all over the world, with formed culture, pottery, basic woodworking skills etc etc.
You can bet your sweet ass that BeOS will be one of the first systems to support it - a majority of the BP6 crowd (which run dual Celerons under BeOS) will flock to the AMD 760MP like there's no tommorow. I for one will get this baby as soon as it hits the streets - in a dual Duron configuration.
Cheers.
It depends on your target market. If your selling computer related hardware, you want to target the 'nerds' because they're the first ones that will adopt new technology. These 'nerds' are the people who run alternative OS's, like **nix and BeOS, so creating advertisments which are only visible from Win9x/Mac is like shooting yourself in the foot, since you're alienating your first market.
This is a blessing in disguise for the non-Micros~1 world. People will stop using pirated versions of Office, which to be frank, is what is on 90% of average users home PC's. They'll need to go down to their local computer store to buy an Office package, and it will allow other software manufacturers (Core, Sun, Gobe) to finally receive some income, which was deprived due to users running pirated versions of a competitors product. Now we're one step closer of removing Windows from the equation as well, since users can run their favourite Office package on a different OS alltogether. This new story will actually help Gobe with Productive, Sun with Star Office and Corel with its Office package. Micros~1 marketing have just decided to fire a bullet in their skulls. Yes, they will briefly experience an increase in sales, but what happens when the user base switches to competing products (which they can also pirate).
PS - I don't run have Micros~1 Office, even though I've got access to a pirated version. All my office needs are done with Gobe Productive 2.1, which I legitametely bought.
In a **true** democratic society, no one can be persecuted for their political opinions, so why have secret ballots? Vote openly, and there is no way anyone can rig/alter/change your vote since you can check your vote at any time (on-line, of course). Even if you conduct old fashioned voting in polling stations, walk in, say your preference out loud, your vote gets registered in the book, no need to count millions of sheets when all votes are in a single book (or two, if you double the evidentation). Results can be counted faster, and everyone will be happier.
Imagine if your filesystem was a database. Brilliant idea, eh? Now imagine if an Operating System supported such a file system? Guess, what - there is a brilliant Media OS which does just that - BeOS!!!
http://www.benews.com/BeMag/?feature_id=52&page=4
See how you can easily organise, categorise, query, search and do virtually anything you wish with MP3 files, on a system designed to handle large media.
Its true - I've even seen people jump for cover when planes fly overhead, especially in Kosovo. A cassette bomb over a refugee column will always make people fly for cover.
What happens when you wish to render some transitions or other special effects? You can buy hardware to provide a limited number of transitions, or you can do it in software. Do you want a dedicated MP3 encoding PCI board, or do you want to do it from software. A faaaast CPU, capable of being a jack of all trades (but not specialised in one) is cheaper than buying 243 hardware boards. Besides, where are you going to plug in 243 cards? I say bring the MHZ on!!!!! (I for one need more CPU power). Do you wish to know why? Check http://members.optusnet.com.au/~delija/Pic01.jpg
Thats why.
Then why use MPEG-2 (DVD) with 8Mbps. Why not use DV footage (>27Mbps), which has better image quality. It wont fit on a 17Gb DVD though. Engineering is an art of compromises - a CD with 41Kbps looses data but the quality is good enough for most people. PAL video has 625 vertical lines (576 visible), not perfect but good enough. 24fps is not perfect but good enough. DivX is an excellent compromise, file size vs image quality. Grow up.
Compare the original DV footage vs MPEG2 footage. Now compare this with DivX. You might as well try Indeo5/Sorensson/Cinepak while your there. Now compare image size. DV is 3.6Mbytes/sec (>27Mbps), DVD can be what you want but usually is 8Mbps, DivX can be what you want (including 8Mbps) but is usually 900kbps. The other formats are not even worth comparing.
Bottom line, the ratio of picture quality vs file size makes DivX the clear champion. Using the above numbers, our final video is 30* smaller with an acceptable image quality (as acceptable as FM radio is to the original CD). Always remember that the real issue is image quality vs file size, and DivX is a champ here.
Agreed - VirtualDub kicks major ass. Besides, how long does it take you to burn 4.7Gb compared to burning 650Mb. Now imagine that you're a SE Asian movie pirate, and it wont take you that long to figure out that 9 hours for a DVD aint that long.
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A celery 300a@450 can handle images upto 640x480@25Hz. 720x576 needs something faster, but I'm using BeOS so I already have less overhead to start with.
Once you try compressing your home videos (first you try MPEG-1, then you try Indeo5, then you try Cinepak, if you've got Adobe Premiere you try Sorensson, you might even try M2v (MPEG2), and you read an article on the net somewhere, decide to give DivX a try) and.... bang!!!! You are blown away with how good the video looks for the resulting file size. Remember, lossy compression is a compromise between image quality vs file size, and after you've seen the file size, you NEVER EVER want to go back to Indeo, Sorensson, Cinepak, MPEG-1. Then only benefit MPEG-2 (DVD) has is better image quality, but at the expense of 8* the file size.
All my home videos are distributed via DivX these days. Its better than VHS, less expensive than DVD (besides, I dont have a DVD player yet, but I have CDR's with home made MPEG-2's. The same videos are recompressed with DivX, and I can fit 90 minutes worth vs 12 minutes worth for an almost identical image quality.
I have a DV camcorder, and it spits out data at 3.6Mbytes/sec (just over 27Mbps). DVD has a max data rate of 8Mbps, which means that I loose 2/3rds of the information. DVD is not perfect, artifacts are also visible. Engineering is the art of educated compromises - in the case of compressed video, its the ratio of image quality vs file size. DivX will always be inferior to DVD, but man, check out the file size. I can burn my home videos on a standard CDR and give them to my family and friends, without forking out for DVD-RAM/DVD-RW (or whatever the next standard will be). It will fill a nice gap for the next 3-4 years.
All of my DV footage is compressed with DivX. I can hand Cd's out ot my family and friends, without worrying if they have a DVD player. I figure that this technology will fill a nice gap for the next 3-4 years, until DVD is widespread and I actually buy a DVD burner. Until then, DivX rocks.
Check out 3ivX - its a project headed by the same DivX team. Basically, they wish to remove Micros~1 DLL's and replace them with GPL libraries, which no one will be able to take away from us.
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Hello?!? Why can't you change the lenght of a second? What is based on? We can make a second as long as we wish. Just because some bozo decided to divide the day by 24 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds doesn't mean that we cannot divide the day to 10/12/16 hours, 10/100 minutes and 100 seconds or whatever. 1 new second != 1 old second. What we cannot do is change the lenght of a year (sorry, natural laws). At least not until we colonise another planet.
This is amazing - I also came up with a similar concept ages ago but alas, haven't disclosed it to anybody for fear of ridicule. 4 quarters, 91 days each with 1/2 days marking the end of the year (2 days for leap year). 31+30+30. Public holidays would be the same the world over.
The banner above the gifs is even larger!!!!
Nice post. BTW - R5 has a context switch every 250us (microseconds) or sooner, not 3ms any more. Personally, I'd be happy if Be ditched original Pentium support and focused on P2 as the minimim platform. As much as I like PPC, there is no point in supporting it any more. And you forgot to mention SMP !!!!!
I dont dispute the leverage Open Source has, but face it, MP3 still skip when scrolling windows in a stock Linux distribution (that is, not in the RT Linux). Linux networking will always beat BeOS (BONE) networking, but as far as scheduling multimedia tasks (ie. MP3 playing) BeOS wins hands down. That is why the BeOS enthusiasts always fling 8-10 MP3 playing simulatanously without skipping a beat - the preemptive multitasking in BeOS is leagues above anything else outthere, probably due to the 250us (thats microseconds) context switch. Mainstream Linux faces the same problem Windows has - it wants to be compatible on the last remaining 386 machines hence their context switch of 20ms and 10ms respectively. And yes, you can recompile the kernel but that isn't something the average user should do.
Introduce SMP systems and BeOS gains an even greater lead. Why do Linux users feel more threatened by BeOS than any other OS on the market? Judging from posts in this thread, Linux users dispise BeOS users more than Win32 and MacOS evangelists. Food for thought
Imagine a centralised MP3 server networked (both 802.3 and 802.11 - thats ethernet and wireless for the young ones) to other appliances around your house. Choose a MP3 track and listen to it from your Hi-Fi / TV / Refrigerator / PC / backyard hammock on a internet appliance etc. Listen to a streaming MP3 server, and immediately download more songs from the same group. Little Johny listens to kiddie MP3's from the bedroom, Mrs Jones listens to a hip song in the kitchen while Mr Johnes listens to a blues song in the garage - all songs are streamed from one box. Stick a new CD in, convert the audio to MP3 (with online lookups) and all networked devices in the house have access to the new songs. With MP3 storage space reaching double gig digit storage sizes (>10G) it becomes more and more cumbersom to issue searches, as well as a problem of duplicating data. I think that this custom built MP3 box on steroids provides so much more than anything I can muster myself. This appliance will be idiot proof to operate, and you'll be able to buy it at your local electronics shop. Nice.
We're here !!!!! Seriously though, given the fact that modern man appeared suddenly all over this planet 60K or so years ago, with language, pottery, alphabet etc indicates a possibility that we just might have colonised this planet. Some Polynesian tribes (isolated from Inquisitors) believe that we all lived in an egg and hatched to colonise the world.
I'm not a archelogist, but apparently there are almost no remains of human residence from a period of -60K to -800K (then you have remains of various Neanthertals). 60K years ago mankind appears all over the world, with formed culture, pottery, basic woodworking skills etc etc.
Food for though.
Ditch visual basic and see an incredible increase in processing speed.
That will help.
You can bet your sweet ass that BeOS will be one of the first systems to support it - a majority of the BP6 crowd (which run dual Celerons under BeOS) will flock to the AMD 760MP like there's no tommorow. I for one will get this baby as soon as it hits the streets - in a dual Duron configuration. Cheers.
It depends on your target market. If your selling computer related hardware, you want to target the 'nerds' because they're the first ones that will adopt new technology. These 'nerds' are the people who run alternative OS's, like **nix and BeOS, so creating advertisments which are only visible from Win9x/Mac is like shooting yourself in the foot, since you're alienating your first market.
This is a blessing in disguise for the non-Micros~1 world. People will stop using pirated versions of Office, which to be frank, is what is on 90% of average users home PC's. They'll need to go down to their local computer store to buy an Office package, and it will allow other software manufacturers (Core, Sun, Gobe) to finally receive some income, which was deprived due to users running pirated versions of a competitors product. Now we're one step closer of removing Windows from the equation as well, since users can run their favourite Office package on a different OS alltogether. This new story will actually help Gobe with Productive, Sun with Star Office and Corel with its Office package. Micros~1 marketing have just decided to fire a bullet in their skulls. Yes, they will briefly experience an increase in sales, but what happens when the user base switches to competing products (which they can also pirate). PS - I don't run have Micros~1 Office, even though I've got access to a pirated version. All my office needs are done with Gobe Productive 2.1, which I legitametely bought.
In a **true** democratic society, no one can be persecuted for their political opinions, so why have secret ballots? Vote openly, and there is no way anyone can rig/alter/change your vote since you can check your vote at any time (on-line, of course). Even if you conduct old fashioned voting in polling stations, walk in, say your preference out loud, your vote gets registered in the book, no need to count millions of sheets when all votes are in a single book (or two, if you double the evidentation). Results can be counted faster, and everyone will be happier.
Imagine if your filesystem was a database. Brilliant idea, eh? Now imagine if an Operating System supported such a file system? Guess, what - there is a brilliant Media OS which does just that - BeOS!!! http://www.benews.com/BeMag/?feature_id=52&page=4 See how you can easily organise, categorise, query, search and do virtually anything you wish with MP3 files, on a system designed to handle large media.
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Its true - I've even seen people jump for cover when planes fly overhead, especially in Kosovo. A cassette bomb over a refugee column will always make people fly for cover.
What happens when you wish to render some transitions or other special effects? You can buy hardware to provide a limited number of transitions, or you can do it in software. Do you want a dedicated MP3 encoding PCI board, or do you want to do it from software. A faaaast CPU, capable of being a jack of all trades (but not specialised in one) is cheaper than buying 243 hardware boards. Besides, where are you going to plug in 243 cards? I say bring the MHZ on!!!!! (I for one need more CPU power). Do you wish to know why? Check http://members.optusnet.com.au/~delija/Pic01.jpg Thats why.
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Then why use MPEG-2 (DVD) with 8Mbps. Why not use DV footage (>27Mbps), which has better image quality. It wont fit on a 17Gb DVD though. Engineering is an art of compromises - a CD with 41Kbps looses data but the quality is good enough for most people. PAL video has 625 vertical lines (576 visible), not perfect but good enough. 24fps is not perfect but good enough. DivX is an excellent compromise, file size vs image quality. Grow up.
Compare the original DV footage vs MPEG2 footage. Now compare this with DivX. You might as well try Indeo5/Sorensson/Cinepak while your there. Now compare image size. DV is 3.6Mbytes/sec (>27Mbps), DVD can be what you want but usually is 8Mbps, DivX can be what you want (including 8Mbps) but is usually 900kbps. The other formats are not even worth comparing. Bottom line, the ratio of picture quality vs file size makes DivX the clear champion. Using the above numbers, our final video is 30* smaller with an acceptable image quality (as acceptable as FM radio is to the original CD). Always remember that the real issue is image quality vs file size, and DivX is a champ here.
Agreed - VirtualDub kicks major ass. Besides, how long does it take you to burn 4.7Gb compared to burning 650Mb. Now imagine that you're a SE Asian movie pirate, and it wont take you that long to figure out that 9 hours for a DVD aint that long.
A celery 300a@450 can handle images upto 640x480@25Hz. 720x576 needs something faster, but I'm using BeOS so I already have less overhead to start with.
Once you try compressing your home videos (first you try MPEG-1, then you try Indeo5, then you try Cinepak, if you've got Adobe Premiere you try Sorensson, you might even try M2v (MPEG2), and you read an article on the net somewhere, decide to give DivX a try) and .... bang!!!! You are blown away with how good the video looks for the resulting file size. Remember, lossy compression is a compromise between image quality vs file size, and after you've seen the file size, you NEVER EVER want to go back to Indeo, Sorensson, Cinepak, MPEG-1. Then only benefit MPEG-2 (DVD) has is better image quality, but at the expense of 8* the file size.
All my home videos are distributed via DivX these days. Its better than VHS, less expensive than DVD (besides, I dont have a DVD player yet, but I have CDR's with home made MPEG-2's. The same videos are recompressed with DivX, and I can fit 90 minutes worth vs 12 minutes worth for an almost identical image quality.
I have a DV camcorder, and it spits out data at 3.6Mbytes/sec (just over 27Mbps). DVD has a max data rate of 8Mbps, which means that I loose 2/3rds of the information. DVD is not perfect, artifacts are also visible. Engineering is the art of educated compromises - in the case of compressed video, its the ratio of image quality vs file size. DivX will always be inferior to DVD, but man, check out the file size. I can burn my home videos on a standard CDR and give them to my family and friends, without forking out for DVD-RAM/DVD-RW (or whatever the next standard will be). It will fill a nice gap for the next 3-4 years.
All of my DV footage is compressed with DivX. I can hand Cd's out ot my family and friends, without worrying if they have a DVD player. I figure that this technology will fill a nice gap for the next 3-4 years, until DVD is widespread and I actually buy a DVD burner. Until then, DivX rocks.
Check out 3ivX - its a project headed by the same DivX team. Basically, they wish to remove Micros~1 DLL's and replace them with GPL libraries, which no one will be able to take away from us.