It sounds like becomming a physician is what Hemos has always and still always wants to do, whether you listen to Geeks in Space or read the posts. Sometimes a taste of the real world is all it takes to make you realize changing out of something was a bad idea.
I just got done reading about yet another technology company losing $300 million in 1999 but like the others, its stock price continues to rise. It seems that out of all the technology companies that are out there, only one or two are making money while all the rest are consistantly losing money, yet investor speculation continues to raise their stock higher and higher. Are technology companies really profitable or are we merely seeing a huge amount of credit developed in the early 90's finally being taken out, eventually to be exhausted?
Well as far as I know, the DCT is hundreds of times faster than the wavelet transform. Compare the CPU usage during mp3 compression to the CPU usage during noise reduction and you'll see the mp3 compression infinitely less intensive than the noise reduction. The heart of the noise reduction filter is a wavelet transform. Mp3 compression uses a DCT plus FFT. When they switch to wavelet based compression you can forget about making movies in software. Nevertheless if they offer a no-cost implementation Linux will be the first platform to support JPEG 2000 in Quicktime.
Look at every small utility coming out nowadays, every company making pledges, and every diagnostic ever done to Linux and it's a server and only a server. Send an email to VA Linux with the word "video" in it and you'll be exiled from California forever. The guys whose job it is to promote Linux professionally are actually the most vehemently opposed to its use as a movie platform. They do not want it to be used for anything but a web server. It might be because the internet and the movie industry are at each other's throats. It might be because changing a marketing scheme which isn't broken is a bad idea. They sell web servers and they don't want Linux to get any other reputation.
I'm going to release 26 versions, starting with 2000a and ending in 2000z. Hopefully I'll have a job and give up writing software by then.
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Theoretically you can still make movies on Linux and create your own DVDs. This brings up the same problem that the suits who generate encrypted DVDs point out every time. There aren't enough people using Linux to justify offering a legal solution and the people using it are getting younger. When I started, the average user was a college senior who had a reasonable amount of money to throw at DVDs. Today the average user is a highschool sophomore who isn't going to throw any money at DVD sales or have the resources to create their own footage. It's pretty expensive to pay someone to get a closed decryption engine on Linux. Even if today's Linux user had enough money, there isn't the multimedia market in Linux users that there was before BeOS came out. Even VALinux and RedHat brush off the slightest idea of Linux as a multimedia platform.
The real interesting effects won't happen until 2038 when all 32 bit time structures roll over to 1901. Unfortunately, since the average suit can't relate to a base 16 rollover in the same way they can relate to a base 10 rollover you can be sure the 2038 overflow won't make so much as a blip on the public consciousness. Just think about how many programs hard code their time structures in int32 to avoid debugging on 64 bit chips, how many solid state devices rely on 32 bit registers to cut costs.
Running as a router and NFS server I got 90 days out of Linux before the power was shut off by construction. On SMP however, forget it. NFS crashes Linux SMP instantly.
99% of all the posts are concerning corporate projects and every business I've ever seen is doing all their work in Java/Corba so you can satisfy yourself that Java/Corba is required if you want to be employed. At the same time in the non-business world, take a look at Freshmeat and you'll see almost everything done in C and Python. So we have the corporate world using Java almost strictly and the private world using C. Why is the corporate world so allied with Java and the private world so focused on C?
Is this going to affect all implementations of MPEG2 and VOB file formats? Are MPEG2 and VOB decoders forever going to be the sole territory of private corporations? "any proprietary property or trade secrets relating to the CSS technology" is pretty vague.
Take any semiconductors course and 99% of all the material you study is based on Einstein's equations. Are semiconductors important? You might argue that a biologist should be man of the century but the fact is, you're not a biologist. It's semiconductors which feed you, semiconductors which clothe you, semiconductors which allow biologists do get research grants. Well that just about qualifies Einstein for man of the century doesn't it.
Let's face it. Hotmail going down is no big news. What is interesting is how 90% of the internet goes down every time there's a holiday because no-one's around to maintain the servers yet as far as the news media is concerned, Y2K is the only problem.
There is one program on my system which uses Java. It was written by professionally employed programmers, crashes constantly, and the GUI has tons of bugs. The GUI is your #1 use of Java and it really isn't functional anyway. My opinion: use Java when an employer asks for it and when you code for money. Use C when you're trying to get something done.
Now all that's left is to borrow the $70 for a DVD drive, but even if the software existed to play back DVDs in Linux I would buy Titanic before Star Wars.
I've been doing online purchasing since 1997 and had about a 75% success rate. The problems ranged from getting the wrong product shipped torunning out of stock. The understocking was unique to their web site because they didn't update the database.
Well seeing the space shuttle take off from 300 miles away is a religious experience. First you see the cirrus clouds way of in the distance get faint red, then you see a huge ball of fire rise right under the red clouds, illuminating them from underneath and arcing to the right. Then it punches through the clouds, flares up, and spits out two smaller balls of fire, the boosters. The white ball of fire produced by the main engines keeps burning forever and arcs right until it looks horizontal but really you're seeing the curvature of the earth. Then it becomes just another star, like Battlestar Galactica. I got the whole thing on Realvideo. It's extremely rare to get a perfectly clear night in Fl*rida in December.
First of all, we should ignore investor speculation, loans, and projected earnings and look at total earnings now to decide whether software can sustain a business, which obviously it can't unless you're Microsoft. Even after they shifted from software sales to internet portal banners, they still lost money. Well the consistant losses that not just internet companies but everyone is posting should raise a red flag. Did anyone make money last year? As far as I'm concerned, there are just a lot more people borrowing money than there were in 1993 but the underlying profits that would have distinguished us from 1929 are non existant.
This confirms everything I've heard about RMS being argumentative. That guy will never compromise no matter what.
"Linuxcare: That's not unique to LISP though." "Richard: Well, it is mostly unique to LISP." "Linuxcare: Right, but you have to count the strings." "Richard: No, you don't have to count strings." "Richard: I couldn't block approval of the standard on those grounds, so instead... I posted a notice about the coup in which the evil repressive forces of POSIX....Then a slightly prudish board member convinced me to change it to POSIXLY_CORRECT which I now think was a mistake"
You'd think of Microsoft as the economic tyrant, sucking the life out of the economy and degrading technological standards. On the other side you'd think VA Linux and Red Hat as the saviors, putting money into the economy, creating new technology, and saving the world. Yet it's Microsoft who announces job openings for FreeBSD and Linux knowledge, creating a need for these people and it's VA Linux which announces simply: "I'm not going to minimize my attachments by giving it all away, though, so you evangelists for a zillion worthy causes can just calm down out there and forget about hitting me up for megabucks. I am *not* going to be a soft touch, and will rudely refuse all importunities." Quite ironic.
Well filmmakers have been pushing for film obsolecence for years but this time it looks like it may actually happen. George Lucas is shooting Star Wars II entirely in HD. Most indy films are now shot in standard definition DV. The projection quality at most theaters these days is more like 640x480 on the first day, when they don't get it halfway up the screen so HD wouldn't hurt anything. HD is 1920x1080 so let's see, 1920*1080 / 640*480 = 675% improvement so there goes the argument for film. Current projector costs may exceed film but current DV stock is far cheaper than film stock. The digital projection technology can only surpass film sooner than you think.
Movies like this make you realize the only reason Sorenson vision became standard is because the first Sorenson movie was a copy of a first rate Star Wars master. If Vendetta was used instead, Sorenson vision would never have gotten off the ground. By the way, if anyone's got a server:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280613895 Dec 19 01:48 vendetta_flattened.mov
Because when reading all about Miguel and Eric getting free trips to NY and being able to support themselves doing whatever they want to do, not a single piece of software that I use day to day was written by either of them and I've never heard of anyone trying to integrate an actual piece of code of Miguel or Eric's into what they're doing.
The Pentium was developed because in 1993 we were in the depth of the worst recession since 1980 and engineers had two choices: work their asses off and get some major breakthroughs or join the thousands who were getting laid off. Since we don't have those pressures there's no need to develop anything new. Not until we have another crash like 1993 will there be anything phenomenal.
Did you know Microsoft was the first to make a sales pitch using the letter e? They did it with the Internet Explorer 4 campaign and since then everyone who ever wanted publicity has put e before their product without failure.
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It sounds like becomming a physician is what Hemos has always and still always wants to do, whether you listen to Geeks in Space or read the posts. Sometimes a taste of the real world is all it takes to make you realize changing out of something was a bad idea.
I just got done reading about yet another technology company losing $300 million in 1999 but like the others, its stock price continues to rise. It seems that out of all the technology companies that are out there, only one or two are making money while all the rest are consistantly losing money, yet investor speculation continues to raise their stock higher and higher. Are technology companies really profitable or are we merely seeing a huge amount of credit developed in the early 90's finally being taken out, eventually to be exhausted?
Well as far as I know, the DCT is hundreds of times faster than the wavelet transform. Compare the CPU usage during mp3 compression to the CPU usage during noise reduction and you'll see the mp3 compression infinitely less intensive than the noise reduction. The heart of the noise reduction filter is a wavelet transform. Mp3 compression uses a DCT plus FFT. When they switch to wavelet based compression you can forget about making movies in software. Nevertheless if they offer a no-cost implementation Linux will be the first platform to support JPEG 2000 in Quicktime.
Look at every small utility coming out nowadays, every company making pledges, and every diagnostic ever done to Linux and it's a server and only a server. Send an email to VA Linux with the word "video" in it and you'll be exiled from California forever. The guys whose job it is to promote Linux professionally are actually the most vehemently opposed to its use as a movie platform. They do not want it to be used for anything but a web server. It might be because the internet and the movie industry are at each other's throats. It might be because changing a marketing scheme which isn't broken is a bad idea. They sell web servers and they don't want Linux to get any other reputation.
I'm going to release 26 versions, starting with 2000a and ending in 2000z. Hopefully I'll have a job and give up writing software by then.
Theoretically you can still make movies on Linux and create your own DVDs. This brings up the same problem that the suits who generate encrypted DVDs point out every time. There aren't enough people using Linux to justify offering a legal solution and the people using it are getting younger. When I started, the average user was a college senior who had a reasonable amount of money to throw at DVDs. Today the average user is a highschool sophomore who isn't going to throw any money at DVD sales or have the resources to create their own footage. It's pretty expensive to pay someone to get a closed decryption engine on Linux. Even if today's Linux user had enough money, there isn't the multimedia market in Linux users that there was before BeOS came out. Even VALinux and RedHat brush off the slightest idea of Linux as a multimedia platform.
The real interesting effects won't happen until 2038 when all 32 bit time structures roll over to 1901. Unfortunately, since the average suit can't relate to a base 16 rollover in the same way they can relate to a base 10 rollover you can be sure the 2038 overflow won't make so much as a blip on the public consciousness. Just think about how many programs hard code their time structures in int32 to avoid debugging on 64 bit chips, how many solid state devices rely on 32 bit registers to cut costs.
Running as a router and NFS server I got 90 days out of Linux before the power was shut off by construction. On SMP however, forget it. NFS crashes Linux SMP instantly.
99% of all the posts are concerning corporate projects and every business I've ever seen is doing all their work in Java/Corba so you can satisfy yourself that Java/Corba is required if you want to be employed. At the same time in the non-business world, take a look at Freshmeat and you'll see almost everything done in C and Python. So we have the corporate world using Java almost strictly and the private world using C. Why is the corporate world so allied with Java and the private world so focused on C?
Is this going to affect all implementations of MPEG2 and VOB file formats? Are MPEG2 and VOB decoders forever going to be the sole territory of private corporations? "any proprietary property or trade secrets relating to the CSS technology" is pretty vague.
Take any semiconductors course and 99% of all the material you study is based on Einstein's equations. Are semiconductors important? You might argue that a biologist should be man of the century but the fact is, you're not a biologist. It's semiconductors which feed you, semiconductors which clothe you, semiconductors which allow biologists do get research grants. Well that just about qualifies Einstein for man of the century doesn't it.
Let's face it. Hotmail going down is no big news. What is interesting is how 90% of the internet goes down every time there's a holiday because no-one's around to maintain the servers yet as far as the news media is concerned, Y2K is the only problem.
There is one program on my system which uses Java. It was written by professionally employed programmers, crashes constantly, and the GUI has tons of bugs. The GUI is your #1 use of Java and it really isn't functional anyway. My opinion: use Java when an employer asks for it and when you code for money. Use C when you're trying to get something done.
Now all that's left is to borrow the $70 for a DVD drive, but even if the software existed to play back DVDs in Linux I would buy Titanic before Star Wars.
I've been doing online purchasing since 1997 and had about a 75% success rate. The problems ranged from getting the wrong product shipped torunning out of stock. The understocking was unique to their web site because they didn't update the database.
Well seeing the space shuttle take off from 300 miles away is a religious experience.
First you see the cirrus clouds way of in the distance get faint red, then you see a huge ball of fire rise right under the red clouds, illuminating them from underneath and arcing to the right. Then it punches through the clouds, flares up, and spits out two smaller balls of fire, the boosters. The white ball of fire produced by the main engines keeps burning forever and arcs right until it looks horizontal but really you're seeing the curvature of the earth. Then it becomes just another star, like Battlestar Galactica. I got the whole thing on Realvideo. It's extremely rare to get a perfectly clear night in Fl*rida in December.
First of all, we should ignore investor speculation, loans, and projected earnings and look at total earnings now to decide whether software can sustain a business, which obviously it can't unless you're Microsoft. Even after they shifted from software sales to internet portal banners, they still lost money. Well the consistant losses that not just internet companies but everyone is posting should raise a red flag. Did anyone make money last year? As far as I'm concerned, there are just a lot more people borrowing money than there were in 1993 but the underlying profits that would have distinguished us from 1929 are non existant.
This confirms everything I've heard about RMS being argumentative. That guy will never compromise no matter what.
"Linuxcare: That's not unique to LISP though."
"Richard: Well, it is mostly unique to LISP."
"Linuxcare: Right, but you have to count the strings."
"Richard: No, you don't have to count strings."
"Richard: I couldn't block approval of the standard on those grounds, so instead... I posted a notice about the coup in which the evil repressive forces of POSIX....Then a slightly prudish board member convinced me to change it to POSIXLY_CORRECT which I now think was a mistake"
You'd think of Microsoft as the economic tyrant, sucking the life out of the economy and degrading technological standards. On the other side you'd think VA Linux and Red Hat as the saviors, putting money into the economy, creating new technology, and saving the world. Yet it's Microsoft who announces job openings for FreeBSD and Linux knowledge, creating a need for these people and it's VA Linux which announces simply: "I'm not going to minimize my attachments by giving it all away, though, so you evangelists for a zillion worthy causes can just calm down out there and forget about hitting me up for megabucks. I am *not* going to be a soft touch, and will rudely refuse all importunities." Quite ironic.
Well filmmakers have been pushing for film obsolecence for years but this time it looks like it may actually happen. George Lucas is shooting Star Wars II entirely in HD. Most indy films are now shot in standard definition DV. The projection quality at most theaters these days is more like 640x480 on the first day, when they don't get it halfway up the screen so HD wouldn't hurt anything. HD is 1920x1080 so let's see, 1920*1080 / 640*480 = 675% improvement so there goes the argument for film. Current projector costs may exceed film but current DV stock is far cheaper than film stock. The digital projection technology can only surpass film sooner than you think.
Movies like this make you realize the only reason Sorenson vision became standard is because the first Sorenson movie was a copy of a first rate Star Wars master. If Vendetta was used instead, Sorenson vision would never have gotten off the ground. By the way, if anyone's got a server:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280613895 Dec 19 01:48 vendetta_flattened.mov
Does anyone know how to get Premiere to use both CPU's? Converting Sorenson video to JPEG takes hours on a dual 550 but it's only using 1 CPU.
Because when reading all about Miguel and Eric getting free trips to NY and being able to support themselves doing whatever they want to do, not a single piece of software that I use day to day was written by either of them and I've never heard of anyone trying to integrate an actual piece of code of Miguel or Eric's into what they're doing.
The Pentium was developed because in 1993 we were in the depth of the worst recession since 1980 and engineers had two choices: work their asses off and get some major breakthroughs or join the thousands who were getting laid off. Since we don't have those pressures there's no need to develop anything new. Not until we have another crash like 1993 will there be anything phenomenal.
Did you know Microsoft was the first to make a sales pitch using the letter e? They did it with the Internet Explorer 4 campaign and since then everyone who ever wanted publicity has put e before their product without failure.