Why not put that digital camera to work?
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Every geek compound must have a digital camera because it's cool. Surely with the flat panel displays and gadgetry in the geek compound you've got a digital cam. Why not use it to show us the damage?
Lots of companies pledge their support of open source software but no-one's actually put money on the table. You don't ask for a Linux job at IBM. SGI laid off 3000 Linux candidates. Sun made a pledge and how much of Sun's engineering are you using on your Linux box? Sun is building instant access to their portal into StarOffice. No features are being improved. No bugs are being fixed. StarOffice is still incompatible with libc2.1 a year after libc2 was obsoleted and they're not ever going to port it. Sun wants to get hits, not make a better word processor.
Well the digital camcorder itself uses MPEG-II compression, hence the "enormous" capacity. You could just encode your data in an MPEG-II movie and achieve the same enormous capacity out of a CD-R. There's one problem. The enormous capacity exists because MPEG-II throws out 90% of the information. For highly repetitive data you might get some of your data back but for varying data you wouldn't be able to recover anything after MPEG-II compression.
Also normally you capture video off a camcorder and store it on a CD because the quality and reliability is better, hence the existance of capture boards. You're trying to do the opposite: go from a high quality storage medium to a low quality, unreliable medium.
Interesting how StarOffice is getting hyped so much. Their product won't run at all on libc2.1 and it's been over a year since libc2.1 came out. All Sun is doing is building in more support for their own portal yet they abandonned ever migrating the software to libc2.1. Sun may have made some pledges but there's been no evidence of any money being spent on software for over a year. Eventually as more and more people migrate to libc2.1 Sun will get more hits and StarOffice is going to vanish.
It helps to have that male breadwinner working at Micron or something so you can actually do stuff. This is definitely a phenomenum of the 21st century. Men winning the bread but instead of cleaning house, the women build stuff at home. They still depend on men for financial means but it's a progressive dependance.
There are lots of programs out there besides Enlightenment, the Gimp, and Netscape. What does it take for an app to get posted on/. every time it's revised by a minor verson?
Whatever. Maybe there's a shortage of suits because it's so damn hot but you have better luck getting oil out of a water spout than a programming job in Fl*rida. No entrepreneurs. No venture capitol. Just a lot of unemployment.
We had some doubts there, but at least this suckup piece reaffirms Slashdot's ownership by Andover. See, everyone back east wears a suit and short circuits when productivity takes over formality. Got forbid the grey and blue of formalware get replaced by the green and yellow of power computing. There are too many companies who aren't Andover to do away with the word "suit" Instead of renaming them ITS let's instead create a new category for just Andover.
Yes, in 1995 anyone could be a programmer. Today your BS must be in an engineering field to even get looked at. The best coders at today's database firms are answering phones by day and hacking the software of tomorrow by night. The surplus of genious isn't in the future. It's right now.
Remember back in the 80's when they said 20 Mhz computers were pushing the outer limits of semiconductors. They thought increasing prevalence of electron tunneling at subatomic levels would doom computers to stay below 25Mhz forever.
Then in the early 90's they said the cost of developing faster chips was becoming a vertical line. Computers would never get far beyond 200Mhz because of the brick wall of development costs.
Well electron tunneling became our friend. Design tools outpaced their costs. Maybe we'll find a way to turn the physical limits to our advantage.
I tried 466s at 588 and a 366s at 550 for several months. The bus speed makes a huge difference.
The 466s encoded MPEG video and tested RC5 keys faster than anything but compiling was dog slow.
The 366s are slower at MPEG encoding and RC5 than the 466s but compiling is light speed faster. You need to get those 366s pretested from a company which has been testing them for a while. My untested pair of 366s was stable running RC5, Seti, and Prime95 for days on end but attempting to composite video at 550Mhz crashed them every time.
I got a tested pair of 366s and these are stable compositing video. While they run Prime95 at 574Mhz the video compositing crashes them every time above 560Mhz, You need a really small heat sink to fit in the BP6. My dual 550 uses Radio Shack blowers on the default heat sinks and stays at 104F.
Well let's see. Did they use emacs to composite the text? Did Apache capture the video? Did they scale down, sharpen, and white balance the images using The Gimp? One frame at a time or did they edit 130 layers one layer at a time? The only problem is that unless they were visited by an alien race, they had to use NT to produce the very footage which criticizes it.
It's a trend we see consistantly during times of prosperity. More and more women finding their careers unjustified so they stay home and follow their husband's lead. The husbands take over more and more functions until the women lose most of their human rights. A recession happens. Women are enlisted into the workforce, fight to win the right to vote, and history repeats itself.
But I don't want to work with databases. I avoided a CS major because I didn't want to work with databases. Storing more than 2 gigs per file is a perfectly reasonable expectation of a 32 bit computer. Video editors do it all the time on Win NT and they don't really care whether if it's the programming interface, the wind direction, or whether the democrats or republicans were in power that caused Linux to only support 2 gigs.
I'd be ecstatic if Linux could just do 4 gigs natively. 2 gigs only store 5 minutes of YUV 4:2:0 video. For 29.97fps you can only fit 2 minutes in a file and it takes just as long to delete. Why wasn't ext2 designed with 64 bits? You need to perform file deletions as batch jobs they take so long.
You ever notice all Sony seems to do is take existing technology developed by others and just make it smaller and less reliable? None of the Sony products I got since 1990 are still working.
So far the commercial offerings are pretty even with open source offerings. Everything crashes. Having a source tree to compile makes no difference if you can't navigate the 100,000 lines of code that make it up. If you're dealing with a niche market of users who are less interested in CS than they are in playing guitar you won't get any feedback from the users. You're the only one who knows that source code well enough to hack it.
If you're dealing with a niche market made up of CS majors you'll get cleaner Makefiles and configure scripts but that doesn't make the software any more reliable. Only when you deal with one or two fundamental, basic necessities of computer operation does the source code become useful.
In 4 years of producing source code, the lion's share of complaints were from users who can't compile the source code while binary releases were merely a matter of resetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It's a lot easier to give them a binary than start an endless discussion on compiler flags.
The RAM is too slow. Also the biggest improvements aren't due to clockspeed but architecture improvements like branch prediction, speculative execution, parallelized arithmetic, faster instruction execution.
But memory still at 133Mhz
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My biggest problem is the memory speed and that's still 133Mhz for $400 a stick.
Last I heard, the sheep clone began to age prematurely and could not be reproduced in any other experiment. Clones of smaller organisms since 1997 have only come from thousands of failed inoculations. The only improvement they've had is the number of postdocs they can fit into a lab inoculating eggs but the success rate is still 1 in 1000. It's a mindnumbingly tedious way to make a living in which there are more biology PhDs clawing for employment than ever before. Just get an engineering degree and save your sanity.
Every time RHAT drops to 70% of its highest value they announce a release. On 8/23 they were at 63 after an opening week high of 89 and they announced a beta. That got them to 123. Now they're at 87 and sure enough, they announced a release although not an official release for a bit yet. I predict their stock will have another peak and drop back to 70% at which time an official release is announced. Red Hat is very into pushing software releases according to market value and using high version numbers to instill confidence. They rarely get on portals unless they bump up the version numbers and bump up the version numbers they do, with a vengence.
I actually got emailed by one woman in 4 years of producing open source software. It's so rare that I don't normally ponder over the all male audience as much as years ago. It seems only 40 year old ex-brah burners have any desire to manage technological operations while the 20 year old students all live to follow a husband. Only in the top 5% of the nations colleges do you start to see 1 or 2 20 year olds pursuing their dad's careers.
The CPU usage is probably caused by a busy wait they're using to achieve synchronization. This is something you do when you first start multimedia programming but get over. Surely people who get paid to do this would develop a better way.
Well the sound synchronization seems to work better where it didn't work at all previously. Sound synchronization is the bread and butter of bedroom hackers, not MSEEs staffed by a multimedia company.
Unfortunately, their RealProducer offering requires you to encode an audio track. All of this looks like a testing of the waters they tried in 1998 and since gave up on. The normal thing to do is all the video on a Win NT box and use Linux to serve it on the web, but my computer won't run Win NT long enough to encode a movie so I ended up requiring Linux to do all the production. Life sucks and then you die.
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Every geek compound must have a digital camera because it's cool. Surely with the flat panel displays and gadgetry in the geek compound you've got a digital cam. Why not use it to show us the damage?
Lots of companies pledge their support of open source software but no-one's actually put money on the table. You don't ask for a Linux job at IBM. SGI laid off 3000 Linux candidates. Sun made a pledge and how much of Sun's engineering are you using on your Linux box? Sun is building instant access to their portal into StarOffice. No features are being improved. No bugs are being fixed. StarOffice is still incompatible with libc2.1 a year after libc2 was obsoleted and they're not ever going to port it. Sun wants to get hits, not make a better word processor.
Well the digital camcorder itself uses MPEG-II compression, hence the "enormous" capacity. You could just encode your data in an MPEG-II movie and achieve the same enormous capacity out of a CD-R. There's one problem. The enormous capacity exists because MPEG-II throws out 90% of the information. For highly repetitive data you might get some of your data back but for varying data you wouldn't be able to recover anything after MPEG-II compression.
Also normally you capture video off a camcorder and store it on a CD because the quality and reliability is better, hence the existance of capture boards. You're trying to do the opposite: go from a high quality storage medium to a low quality, unreliable medium.
Well even if you like watching movies 5 minutes at a time, it would take hours to delete all 24 2 gig files such a movie would take.
Interesting how StarOffice is getting hyped so much. Their product won't run at all on libc2.1 and it's been over a year since libc2.1 came out. All Sun is doing is building in more support for their own portal yet they abandonned ever migrating the software to libc2.1. Sun may have made some pledges but there's been no evidence of any money being spent on software for over a year. Eventually as more and more people migrate to libc2.1 Sun will get more hits and StarOffice is going to vanish.
It helps to have that male breadwinner working at Micron or something so you can actually do stuff. This is definitely a phenomenum of the 21st century. Men winning the bread but instead of cleaning house, the women build stuff at home. They still depend on men for financial means but it's a progressive dependance.
Think about it: 1500x1000 pixels. 25fps. A HD board might cost a few $hundred and a HD cam costs $75,000 but that's real geekware.
There are lots of programs out there besides Enlightenment, the Gimp, and Netscape. What does it take for an app to get posted on /. every time it's revised by a minor verson?
Whatever. Maybe there's a shortage of suits because it's so damn hot but you have better luck getting oil out of a water spout than a programming job in Fl*rida. No entrepreneurs. No venture capitol. Just a lot of unemployment.
We had some doubts there, but at least this suckup piece reaffirms Slashdot's ownership by Andover. See, everyone back east wears a suit and short circuits when productivity takes over formality. Got forbid the grey and blue of formalware get replaced by the green and yellow of power computing. There are too many companies who aren't Andover to do away with the word "suit" Instead of renaming them ITS let's instead create a new category for just Andover.
Yes, in 1995 anyone could be a programmer. Today your BS must be in an engineering field to even get looked at. The best coders at today's database firms are answering phones by day and hacking the software of tomorrow by night. The surplus of genious isn't in the future. It's right now.
Remember back in the 80's when they said 20 Mhz computers were pushing the outer limits of semiconductors. They thought increasing prevalence of electron tunneling at subatomic levels would doom computers to stay below 25Mhz forever.
Then in the early 90's they said the cost of developing faster chips was becoming a vertical line. Computers would never get far beyond 200Mhz because of the brick wall of development costs.
Well electron tunneling became our friend. Design tools outpaced their costs. Maybe we'll find a way to turn the physical limits to our advantage.
I tried 466s at 588 and a 366s at 550 for several months. The bus speed makes a huge difference.
The 466s encoded MPEG video and tested RC5 keys faster than anything but compiling was dog slow.
The 366s are slower at MPEG encoding and RC5 than the 466s but compiling is light speed faster. You need to get those 366s pretested from a company which has been testing them for a while. My untested pair of 366s was stable running RC5, Seti, and Prime95 for days on end but attempting to composite video at 550Mhz crashed them every time.
I got a tested pair of 366s and these are stable compositing video. While they run Prime95 at 574Mhz the video compositing crashes them every time above 560Mhz, You need a really small heat sink to fit in the BP6. My dual 550 uses Radio Shack blowers on the default heat sinks and stays at 104F.
Well let's see. Did they use emacs to composite the text? Did Apache capture the video? Did they scale down, sharpen, and white balance the images using The Gimp? One frame at a time or did they edit 130 layers one layer at a time? The only problem is that unless they were visited by an alien race, they had to use NT to produce the very footage which criticizes it.
It's a trend we see consistantly during times of prosperity. More and more women finding their careers unjustified so they stay home and follow their husband's lead. The husbands take over more and more functions until the women lose most of their human rights. A recession happens. Women are enlisted into the workforce, fight to win the right to vote, and history repeats itself.
But I don't want to work with databases. I avoided a CS major because I didn't want to work with databases. Storing more than 2 gigs per file is a perfectly reasonable expectation of a 32 bit computer. Video editors do it all the time on Win NT and they don't really care whether if it's the programming interface, the wind direction, or whether the democrats or republicans were in power that caused Linux to only support 2 gigs.
I'd be ecstatic if Linux could just do 4 gigs natively. 2 gigs only store 5 minutes of YUV 4:2:0 video. For 29.97fps you can only fit 2 minutes in a file and it takes just as long to delete. Why wasn't ext2 designed with 64 bits? You need to perform file deletions as batch jobs they take so long.
You ever notice all Sony seems to do is take existing technology developed by others and just make it smaller and less reliable? None of the Sony products I got since 1990 are still working.
So far the commercial offerings are pretty even with open source offerings. Everything crashes. Having a source tree to compile makes no difference if you can't navigate the 100,000 lines of code that make it up. If you're dealing with a niche market of users who are less interested in CS than they are in playing guitar you won't get any feedback from the users. You're the only one who knows that source code well enough to hack it.
If you're dealing with a niche market made up of CS majors you'll get cleaner Makefiles and configure scripts but that doesn't make the software any more reliable. Only when you deal with one or two fundamental, basic necessities of computer operation does the source code become useful.
In 4 years of producing source code, the lion's share of complaints were from users who can't compile the source code while binary releases were merely a matter of resetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It's a lot easier to give them a binary than start an endless discussion on compiler flags.
The RAM is too slow. Also the biggest improvements aren't due to clockspeed but architecture improvements like branch prediction, speculative execution, parallelized arithmetic, faster instruction execution.
My biggest problem is the memory speed and that's still 133Mhz for $400 a stick.
Last I heard, the sheep clone began to age prematurely and could not be reproduced in any other experiment. Clones of smaller organisms since 1997 have only come from thousands of failed inoculations. The only improvement they've had is the number of postdocs they can fit into a lab inoculating eggs but the success rate is still 1 in 1000. It's a mindnumbingly tedious way to make a living in which there are more biology PhDs clawing for employment than ever before. Just get an engineering degree and save your sanity.
Every time RHAT drops to 70% of its highest value they announce a release. On 8/23 they were at 63 after an opening week high of 89 and they announced a beta. That got them to 123. Now they're at 87 and sure enough, they announced a release although not an official release for a bit yet. I predict their stock will have another peak and drop back to 70% at which time an official release is announced. Red Hat is very into pushing software releases according to market value and using high version numbers to instill confidence. They rarely get on portals unless they bump up the version numbers and bump up the version numbers they do, with a vengence.
I actually got emailed by one woman in 4 years of producing open source software. It's so rare that I don't normally ponder over the all male audience as much as years ago. It seems only 40 year old ex-brah burners have any desire to manage technological operations while the 20 year old students all live to follow a husband. Only in the top 5% of the nations colleges do you start to see 1 or 2 20 year olds pursuing their dad's careers.
The CPU usage is probably caused by a busy wait they're using to achieve synchronization. This is something you do when you first start multimedia programming but get over. Surely people who get paid to do this would develop a better way.
Well the sound synchronization seems to work better where it didn't work at all previously. Sound synchronization is the bread and butter of bedroom hackers, not MSEEs staffed by a multimedia company.
Unfortunately, their RealProducer offering requires you to encode an audio track. All of this looks like a testing of the waters they tried in 1998 and since gave up on. The normal thing to do is all the video on a Win NT box and use Linux to serve it on the web, but my computer won't run Win NT long enough to encode a movie so I ended up requiring Linux to do all the production. Life sucks and then you die.