Too politcal vs. too productive
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LWCE Wrapup
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It's understandable to be too productive to be someone else's employee because you're not being most efficiently utilized, but being too political to be someone else's employee is a different story. Maybe you should look at the Santa Clara unemployment rate and figure out if political inclination is as underutilized as it feels, before resigning from HP.
Or rather, their advertizing payment finally came in. Seriously though, it was emulation that killed Loki. Why pay for a native linux game when you can have an official Microsoft Windows version of the game which runs on Windows and Linux? Linux is an emulation platform and nothing more.
Been watching HDTV for several months. You're wasting your time by watching in standard definition what is available in high definition. High definition originating from video sources is mediocre but high definition originating from film is spectacular. When you have an HDTV display you essentially have an exact replica of a 35mm print.
The main problem with QT is this thing called MOC, some kind of preprocessor you need to run. Then of course, there's the license fee for use in any commercial software. Other than that, there's just the use of Expose events in X11 making it slow and ugly.
Been using Ogg/Vorbis/Squish on Quicktime for a year. The Ogg/Vorbis/Squish codec got much better between 1.0rc2 and 1.0. At 128k it's already better than mp3 and the managed bitrate encoding is faster than the hard drive can read. The real value is of course, the ability to read these encoded files as long as there is UNIX. Mp3 is going to die and when it does there won't be any appliance makers interested in paying the $10,000 royalty to support mp3.
If it's a copy protection workaround of course they lie. That's why they're called "devices".
Maybe embedded focus but not number crunching
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Is Linux Dead?
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For number crunching behind a win98 front end and an elitist desktop it's probably alive and well. Embedded systems overall are in decline and since Linux was pushed so hard into the embedded world it's riding the wave down as an embedded operating system.
Users would happily pay for copy protected CD's if enough extra features were added to the CD. The copy protection becomes less of a drawback if the number of extra features grows.
A52dec was rewritten 3 times, resulting in the same thing every time. Ignored rewrite #2 and just merged with rewrite #3. Going to abandon it for the next 2 rewrites and merge with the 6th rewrite.
The multimedia series Linux Journal has been running since 2001 seems to be driving most of their readership, not the embedded systems, web applications stories or the security series that comprise 95% of the magazine. It's the least popular topic for publishers yet it's the most popular thing for readers. Movie making on Linux is part of a growing number of cult hobbies. No-one talks about all these uses for Linux besides embedded systems and servers. They're not regarded as the intended purpose of Linux, but everyone does them in their private time.
Involvement in open source projects is often a negative in my experience if only because it shows an inability to work in teams. Even if you're borderline the open source project is something your bosses will point to when layoff time comes. You don't want to give anyone something to point to and you don't want to get too cozy with open source projects.
With the amount of copy protection you can build into dedicated appliances and the amount consumers are willing to pay for convenience, copyright violations are hardly a problem.
The hardest part is load balancing. How do you make sure the slowest computer doesn't get the last job and force the faster computers to wait forever for the last job?
Don't think Caldera ever supported desktop Linux. For Caldera, RedHat, VA I.O.U. it was a brief experiment. Caldera and RedHat went embedded and VA I.O.U. dissappeared.
Unless you plan on using the Linux boxes as paperweights you're going to be emulating Windows using Codeweavers, VMWare, wine, or.dll linkage on anything that isn't running Windows natively so the license is justified. The only native deployment of Linux is going to be in something not a computer so those wouldn't be licensed.
Engineers were making more than managers for a short time in the 90's. This is just a return to the way it was for the rest of the 20th century. Managers are going to make more than engineers again. That's the way it is.
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It's understandable to be too productive to be someone else's employee because you're not being most efficiently utilized, but being too political to be someone else's employee is a different story. Maybe you should look at the Santa Clara unemployment rate and figure out if political inclination is as underutilized as it feels, before resigning from HP.
Or rather, their advertizing payment finally came in. Seriously though, it was emulation that killed Loki. Why pay for a native linux game when you can have an official Microsoft Windows version of the game which runs on Windows and Linux? Linux is an emulation platform and nothing more.
Been watching HDTV for several months. You're wasting your time by watching in standard definition what is available in high definition. High definition originating from video sources is mediocre but high definition originating from film is spectacular. When you have an HDTV display you essentially have an exact replica of a 35mm print.
The main problem with QT is this thing called MOC, some kind of preprocessor you need to run. Then of course, there's the license fee for use in any commercial software. Other than that, there's just the use of Expose events in X11 making it slow and ugly.
Been using Ogg/Vorbis/Squish on Quicktime for a year. The Ogg/Vorbis/Squish codec got much better between 1.0rc2 and 1.0. At 128k it's already better than mp3 and the managed bitrate encoding is faster than the hard drive can read. The real value is of course, the ability to read these encoded files as long as there is UNIX. Mp3 is going to die and when it does there won't be any appliance makers interested in paying the $10,000 royalty to support mp3.
Guess it wasn't the nirvana they forecasted 5 years ago. Time to join Redhat's embedded operations, Lineo, and Embedded Linux Journal.
If it's a copy protection workaround of course they lie. That's why they're called "devices".
For number crunching behind a win98 front end and an elitist desktop it's probably alive and well. Embedded systems overall are in decline and since Linux was pushed so hard into the embedded world it's riding the wave down as an embedded operating system.
It makes you wonder if there was really as much interest in keeping track of time as there are handheld PC's and advertizements for handheld PC's.
Users would happily pay for copy protected CD's if enough extra features were added to the CD. The copy protection becomes less of a drawback if the number of extra features grows.
Is it really politically correct to write native software for Linux anymore? Isn't the main focus of Linux now an emulation platform for Win32?
A52dec was rewritten 3 times, resulting in the same thing every time. Ignored rewrite #2 and just merged with rewrite #3. Going to abandon it for the next 2 rewrites and merge with the 6th rewrite.
How much should employers find out about you based on the Wayback Machine?
The multimedia series Linux Journal has been running since 2001 seems to be driving most of their readership, not the embedded systems, web applications stories or the security series that comprise 95% of the magazine. It's the least popular topic for publishers yet it's the most popular thing for readers. Movie making on Linux is part of a growing number of cult hobbies. No-one talks about all these uses for Linux besides embedded systems and servers. They're not regarded as the intended purpose of Linux, but everyone does them in their private time.
Involvement in open source projects is often a negative in my experience if only because it shows an inability to work in teams. Even if you're borderline the open source project is something your bosses will point to when layoff time comes. You don't want to give anyone something to point to and you don't want to get too cozy with open source projects.
With the amount of copy protection you can build into dedicated appliances and the amount consumers are willing to pay for convenience, copyright violations are hardly a problem.
Somehow the image of the handheld device and consumer electronics celebrities lecturing on workstations and computation farms doesn't seem to fit.
But no-one's complaining about not having to be a computer scientist to record TV shows so let them encrypt all they want in hardware.
Your liability is your job.
The hardest part is load balancing. How do you make sure the slowest computer doesn't get the last job and force the faster computers to wait forever for the last job?
Don't think Caldera ever supported desktop Linux. For Caldera, RedHat, VA I.O.U. it was a brief experiment. Caldera and RedHat went embedded and VA I.O.U. dissappeared.
Unless you plan on using the Linux boxes as paperweights you're going to be emulating Windows using Codeweavers, VMWare, wine, or .dll linkage on anything that isn't running Windows natively so the license is justified. The only native deployment of Linux is going to be in something not a computer so those wouldn't be licensed.
The internet tax in addition to 8.5% state sales tax in Calif* + 3.5% Tennesee export tax would easily push total taxes over 15%.
Engineers were making more than managers for a short time in the 90's. This is just a return to the way it was for the rest of the 20th century. Managers are going to make more than engineers again. That's the way it is.
Go for the Broadcom 7031 platform instead. For $2500 you get a real embedded system.