The failure of Titan AE, the 360 layoffs at Fox Animation had most everyone in the industry calling it quits for line animation. What audiences want is computer animation.
If we can get a heroine in the oval office we might be able to put a human on Mars but we can't even get a heroine to RUN for president so I say never.
For computer animation HDTV is real. For a gadget guru it's real. For high resolution live action it sucks. The current CCD technology only utilizes 1/3 of the total pixel count. All the live action HDTV looks more like standard definition 20 years ago because the technologies are at equivalent stages of development.
EDA tools finally ported to Linux after 3 years of user protests:
http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20000417S0090
Then again you could just read about electronic valves for diesel engines on slashdot.
Everything in Slashdot is uninteresting these days
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3 years ago I read more Slashdot. Today I read more Wired and EE Times. Ever since Columbine, Slashdot comments have consisted of mainly high school students ranting about how life sucks. The shift toward politics and cryptography is so boring it might just be the reason everyone would rather talk about Natalie Portman at senior prom than what new crypto export regulation came out yesterday. Even CNN doesn't focus as much on politics as Slashdot does because it's too boring.
All the Linux companies are either getting abandonned by their CEO's or have lost 75% of their stock value in the last 3 months. Red Hat has a larger market share than Apple yet Red Hat is trading at 1/4 what Apple is. Caldera is now $16. Linux wizardry systems is 3 1/8. The problem seems to be the margin from support and hardware isn't producing enough revenue to support application development. With all the support calls they answer, the only software RedHat can skim off their margin is installers but there's only so much you can do with an installer.
You'll get a limited time license. At a certain date the program will refuse to start until you download another 100 meg update. Secondly, the improvements are restricted to linking everything to Sun's portal not functional improvements.
The way to succeed in biological sciences is to study what the media is interested in and not necessarily what's practical. Gene sequencing today has the media attention yet the foundation of gene sequencing, bioinformatics and protein modeling is impossible to get grants in. Since the DNA sequence is useless unless you can process the data we see how important media coverage is in the world of biology even though none of the data can be used for anything.
There was a DVD player in January. I watched Contact on it, but in the Linux world simply getting a solution out the door doesn't count. Only a clean, academic implementation of an MPEG2 decoder, built on dynamically linked plugins in ANSI C will suffice. It's merely a question of when the Linux DVD players will reach the standards of computer science in the Linux world.
The LinDVD product will at least show the world that DVDs are playable in Linux. Unless they use the existing publicity of a Windows version, a new software product for Linux usually won't get discovered and it'll be like Linux never supported the format. Linux is pretty well known for office suites and window managers because they all try to clone Microsoft. Linux isn't known for DVD players because none of the Linux DVD players clone an existing Microsoft product yet it supports the format just fine. With LinDVD being marketed as a clone of WinDVD we at least show Linux as capable of playing DVDs.
Linux boxes were doing this years before Playstation 2 became the media darling. All you needed was an LML33 and a DVD drive, plus you could do color correction.
As long as you didn't run into power lines and passenger jets, this would be the answer to many traffic conjestion problems and chronic gas shortages. At $30,000 it's cheaper a car but how reliable is it? The landing gear, gearbox, and gimballing mechanism look really flimsy. How efficient will it be when a parachute and life jacket are added?
I was shut down by an ISP in March because I wasn't using Microsoft Windows. And this was 15 years after the first antitrust suit was brought against Microsoft. They've been trying to break up Microsoft for 15 years. In 1997 people started paying attention to it because of the internet, but these stories have never amounted to any improvement for 15 years and they won't in 15 more years.
One of the points in their 1999 injunctions was that since they acted within 2 months of deCSS it warranted the court's upholding of their injunctions. Today we see nothing in the news about the MPAA banning deCSS nor do we see any more states filing injunctions. It's as if the public has lost interest in it. On the other hand, computer DVD drives are twice as expensive as they were before deCSS and most manufacturers appear to have suspended DVD-ROM production. Perhaps the MPAA has taken action in more subtle ways. It's much cheaper to get an appliance for playback only than a DVD-ROM which can copy them on a computer where 6 months ago the DVD-ROM was a steal.
the Windows world. In the Windows world you just throw together an end user program that runs out of the box and gets a job done and forget about it. We've got plenty of those in the Linux world and the Windows world. What we're talking about regarding a lack of professional tools is professional tools that cut the mustard in the Linux world. That means a complete build environmant which allows students just entering the world of CS to compile the program themselves, an interface based more on programming, and a heavy integration of the scientific aspect of sound programming in the interface. That's what it takes to get really defined as a legitimate Linux program.
Synchronization didn't work with OSS commercial in their last release (1997). Since my soundcard only works with OSS commercial this is an issue, but since my ethernet access was disabled for running Linux in a Microsoft shop, it would be nice to know if their 2000 release functions under OSS commercial before the 7 meg download finishes.
Yes, I'm -$100 richer because deCSS allowed me to play DVDs on a Linux box and I'm unemployed.
Sort of like Slashdot readers playing women
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Back when I used to play Quake I sometimes took the opposite gender just because it was cool to watch a heroine doing things she'd never do in real life. Just like women programming, women running for president, women participating in the economy in a meaningful way, these are all erotic ideas we can only realize through virtual reality.
Just because Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Media Server would be built into Windows 2000, does that mean we should match their every move with exactly the same thing or should we try to offer something better? All Redhat is doing is waiting for Microsoft to make every move and then they mirror the same move. That's why Rasterman left. RedHat doesn't want to create anything new. They just want to clone Microsoft by repackaging existing products that don't work.
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The failure of Titan AE, the 360 layoffs at Fox Animation had most everyone in the industry calling it quits for line animation. What audiences want is computer animation.
Numlock key which actually works. Like it was in 3.3.
If we can get a heroine in the oval office we might be able to put a human on Mars but we can't even get a heroine to RUN for president so I say never.
That would be linuxmediaarts.com
I get 200 spams a day on one email alias from 1997.
For computer animation HDTV is real. For a gadget guru it's real. For high resolution live action it sucks. The current CCD technology only utilizes 1/3 of the total pixel count. All the live action HDTV looks more like standard definition 20 years ago because the technologies are at equivalent stages of development.
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Sample HDTV image:
http://lds.org/med_inf/gen_con_pho/gen_con_sun_
Restaurants banning cell phones:
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=
EDA tools finally ported to Linux after 3 years of user protests:
http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20000417S0090
Then again you could just read about electronic valves for diesel engines on slashdot.
3 years ago I read more Slashdot. Today I read more Wired and EE Times. Ever since Columbine, Slashdot comments have consisted of mainly high school students ranting about how life sucks. The shift toward politics and cryptography is so boring it might just be the reason everyone would rather talk about Natalie Portman at senior prom than what new crypto export regulation came out yesterday. Even CNN doesn't focus as much on politics as Slashdot does because it's too boring.
All the Linux companies are either getting abandonned by their CEO's or have lost 75% of their stock value in the last 3 months. Red Hat has a larger market share than Apple yet Red Hat is trading at 1/4 what Apple is. Caldera is now $16. Linux wizardry systems is 3 1/8. The problem seems to be the margin from support and hardware isn't producing enough revenue to support application development. With all the support calls they answer, the only software RedHat can skim off their margin is installers but there's only so much you can do with an installer.
You'll get a limited time license. At a certain date the program will refuse to start until you download another 100 meg update. Secondly, the improvements are restricted to linking everything to Sun's portal not functional improvements.
The way to succeed in biological sciences is to study what the media is interested in and not necessarily what's practical. Gene sequencing today has the media attention yet the foundation of gene sequencing, bioinformatics and protein modeling is impossible to get grants in. Since the DNA sequence is useless unless you can process the data we see how important media coverage is in the world of biology even though none of the data can be used for anything.
The link is just as mythical as the Dual 1Ghz Pentium III.
There was a DVD player in January. I watched Contact on it, but in the Linux world simply getting a solution out the door doesn't count. Only a clean, academic implementation of an MPEG2 decoder, built on dynamically linked plugins in ANSI C will suffice. It's merely a question of when the Linux DVD players will reach the standards of computer science in the Linux world.
The LinDVD product will at least show the world that DVDs are playable in Linux. Unless they use the existing publicity of a Windows version, a new software product for Linux usually won't get discovered and it'll be like Linux never supported the format. Linux is pretty well known for office suites and window managers because they all try to clone Microsoft. Linux isn't known for DVD players because none of the Linux DVD players clone an existing Microsoft product yet it supports the format just fine. With LinDVD being marketed as a clone of WinDVD we at least show Linux as capable of playing DVDs.
It's on at 2am here.
Linux boxes were doing this years before Playstation 2 became the media darling. All you needed was an LML33 and a DVD drive, plus you could do color correction.
As long as you didn't run into power lines and passenger jets, this would be the answer to many traffic conjestion problems and chronic gas shortages. At $30,000 it's cheaper a car but how reliable is it? The landing gear, gearbox, and gimballing mechanism look really flimsy. How efficient will it be when a parachute and life jacket are added?
I was shut down by an ISP in March because I wasn't using Microsoft Windows. And this was 15 years after the first antitrust suit was brought against Microsoft. They've been trying to break up Microsoft for 15 years. In 1997 people started paying attention to it because of the internet, but these stories have never amounted to any improvement for 15 years and they won't in 15 more years.
Avoid the soundblasters. The soundblaster 2^n cards are limited at -2dB for recording so you only get 15 bits for recording and noise.
One of the points in their 1999 injunctions was that since they acted within 2 months of deCSS it warranted the court's upholding of their injunctions. Today we see nothing in the news about the MPAA banning deCSS nor do we see any more states filing injunctions. It's as if the public has lost interest in it. On the other hand, computer DVD drives are twice as expensive as they were before deCSS and most manufacturers appear to have suspended DVD-ROM production. Perhaps the MPAA has taken action in more subtle ways. It's much cheaper to get an appliance for playback only than a DVD-ROM which can copy them on a computer where 6 months ago the DVD-ROM was a steal.
the Windows world. In the Windows world you just throw together an end user program that runs out of the box and gets a job done and forget about it. We've got plenty of those in the Linux world and the Windows world. What we're talking about regarding a lack of professional tools is professional tools that cut the mustard in the Linux world. That means a complete build environmant which allows students just entering the world of CS to compile the program themselves, an interface based more on programming, and a heavy integration of the scientific aspect of sound programming in the interface. That's what it takes to get really defined as a legitimate Linux program.
Synchronization didn't work with OSS commercial in their last release (1997). Since my soundcard only works with OSS commercial this is an issue, but since my ethernet access was disabled for running Linux in a Microsoft shop, it would be nice to know if their 2000 release functions under OSS commercial before the 7 meg download finishes.
Yes, I'm -$100 richer because deCSS allowed me to play DVDs on a Linux box and I'm unemployed.
Back when I used to play Quake I sometimes took the opposite gender just because it was cool to watch a heroine doing things she'd never do in real life. Just like women programming, women running for president, women participating in the economy in a meaningful way, these are all erotic ideas we can only realize through virtual reality.
Just because Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Media Server would be built into Windows 2000, does that mean we should match their every move with exactly the same thing or should we try to offer something better? All Redhat is doing is waiting for Microsoft to make every move and then they mirror the same move. That's why Rasterman left. RedHat doesn't want to create anything new. They just want to clone Microsoft by repackaging existing products that don't work.