It amazing how our bandwidth requirements have increased so fast that 99% of all our modern communication is carried through only the newest lines. What would happen if the phone companies stopped increasing bandwidth for just a second?
Damn. Realplayer G2 no longer offered on Linux
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Well like the small number of us who actually use Linux as a movie platform, we found out that RealNetworks dropped the Realplayer G2 for Linux. Now none of the content I created since 1998 will play on Linux anymore. Did anyone else in the world use Linux to create Realplayer G2 content back in the day?
By the way. I originally preferred the famous Microsoft mouse because it fit in my hand but being out of the work force now I've been using the original 3 button Logitech bear paw for about 2 years. Originally the Logitech seemed too big and that was probably what made them discontinue it, but that big feel was probably more ergonomically correct. A few hours of the Microsoft mouse now causes excruciating pain in the wrist while the Logitech does not.
Professional programmers seem accustomed tobending their wrists for the Microsoft mouse and they wear splints to sleep. I'm accustomed to a bigger Logitech and don't wear a split to sleep.
It sounds like you haven't even seen a doctor about it yet. There's a lot you can do before surgery becomes necessary so you need to try those options.
When my dad had carpel tunnel surgery in the early 90's, the surgery costed a two week sick leave, and pretty much cost him the use of his hands. The purpose of surgery was pain reduction, not recovery of the use of your hands.
Who knows how it is nowadays, but you need to get it treated quickly. If you can't take time off and get it done now you won't recover from the disease. Unfortunately in CS you can't afford to have surgeryat every whim and take sick leave so the mere acquisition of the disease itself can be considered lethal.
Too bad Tom's Hardware and all the main overclocking sites use nothing but Windows to demonstrate the hardware. How fast is the floating point in Linux? How many 640x480 JPEG frames can it compress in a second?
Really this is a case of politics. His contribution amounts to a small amount of one element of the computer system. His name rarely appears in any of the man pages or kernel source files and how much are you actually going to get done with just the kernel? How many times is Linus the one to ask when you're having trouble getting something done on Linux?
Well now instead of coding DB clients at least some people can build something exciting. We're probably in a lot more danger of nuclear attack than the TV says. If a top secret spy satellite shows nuclear missiles in India they're not going to broadcast it but they will spend a lot of money on defense. There's a big difference between military intelligence and microbiology.
If you're obsessed about quality just play back at 1/3 speed and capture at 640x480 8fps. Use Quicktime JPEG at quality 80. Capture audio onto another track at 44100 16 bit seperately. Set the frame rate to 24 and render another Quicktime movie with audio and video. This resolution is overkill for 8mm film and Hi-8 video. 320x480 might be sufficient for home movies. If you can't play back at 1/3 speed play at full speed and capture at 10fps. Capture a second copy at 320x240 24fps and archive two movies at the different resolutions.
As long as there is UNIX and a C compiler you'll be able to play back Quicktime JPEG. Who knows what's going to happen with the Microsoft and MPEG formats. MPEG is heavily patented and Microsoft is Microsoft.
I predict writing gigantic, all-purpose software in C++ for income is a thing of the past. To earn a living programming you'll need to consult and do small, specific, internal company projects in a scripted language. All-purpose software in legacy languages, to make grown women cry will be the domain of dorm hackers in their sophomore years.
I doubt purpose built devices will benefit anyone but the manufacturers. I do everything on one computer because it's cheaper than having a dedicated TV for TV, a dedicated VCR for VCR, and a dedicated stereo for stereo, but Transmeta is of course in the embedded system business so his opinion is reasonable.
A $3.1 million loss would be fine and dandy if it wasn't for the many closed source companies not posting $3.1 million losses, with not 8 full time developers but 50. In fact the existance of other companies making profits makes it hard to connect a $3.1 million loss with wide acceptance of open source software. What I see is RedHat spending enourmous amounts of money on PR and CD printing to get a very large amount of users to try it, but they're not retaining users and while they spend lots of money on the basic system, they're doing nothing to create productivity applications, further aggrivating the high turnover rate.
Look like interix had trouble getting clients. Their last effort was a possible open sourcing of their work in June. Looks like Microsoft stepped in right when they were going to drop the bomb and offered a bit more for the code than publicity, so now they're a Microsoft subsidiary and not open sourcing Jack. Well at least the suits at Microsoft read LinuxToday. How many potential open source projects never see the light of day because Microsoft buys them out and shuts them down?
Notice how companies like SGI, Real, and Microsoft give out betas of their software to test the Linux waters but never release a final version. The problem with using betas to test the waters is that no-one wants to download a beta when they're expecting a final version to come out later. The company sees no interest and either drops the project after the first beta or renames the beta as the final version and then drops it. It happened with RealPlayer, Netshow, and IE4.
Well if you've ever seen Jeremy Ellison in an interview at his house you know that the guys who run successful internet businesses are pretty wierd. We're talking perfectly spaced shirts, Pluto wierdness. Wierdness seems to be a prerequisite to gamble your life on something as percarious as internet startups and they're wierdness just somehow attracts fbi agents.
Remember last year when they sold land on the moon? Moon bases have been privately funded for years. I've been getting lots of email about investing in moon bases. National Enquirer also has information on moon bases long before anyone else.
If they offered anyone a job that would be stratospheric. Hacking C++ on Linux in itself is pretty useless in the professional world. It's the one reason you might want to think twice about sinking your hard earned weekends into it.
Well I figured this would make its way to Slashdot when I saw it on CNN. If the two propellers just inches away from the pilot's face don't lower the cost of ground beef the uncontrollable dive to the death in the event of an engine failure would make a better ride than Valuejet.
In the last 4 years of hacking UNIX software I must have gotten 1 email from a woman. Let's face it. Don't get excited about a %0.01 penetration when you have a much better chance of getting sunburned in antarctica during the summer solstace.
I predict that at some point in 2000 a snow storm will delay flights in the medwest, a hurricane will delay flights in the southeast, a Win NT box will crash, and widespread car crashes will cause traffic jams on highways. Instead of just focusing on January 1 we should be focusing on the entire year of problems this Y2K bug is going to cause.
Well SGI has a Linux team and they still fired 3000 employees so guess making a living on Linux isn't an option for most people. That's how problems get solved after your 4 year vacation. You either work or you don't. There's no compromise, no grading curve, no dropped test scores, just layoffs and hires.
So far all we see during trade shows is a window manager with maybe a Netscape window. Why not show those quad Xeons doing something besides booting Netscape.
Remember back in virology when they told you about viruses being constructed from synthesized protein? If you think viruses are living then we've been creating life for a long time. What no-one can figure out is how to make a living off of it.
Traditionally you expect electronics to go down in price as they get obsolete but today the trend is upwards in price due to skyrocketing labor costs and stagnating productivity. Who knows if the same trend is going to affect Camcorders, VCRs, cell phones and other electronics. Thank God I got a 128 Meg DRAM in July for $90 instead of waiting.
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It amazing how our bandwidth requirements have increased so fast that 99% of all our modern communication is carried through only the newest lines. What would happen if the phone companies stopped increasing bandwidth for just a second?
Well like the small number of us who actually use Linux as a movie platform, we found out that RealNetworks dropped the Realplayer G2 for Linux. Now none of the content I created since 1998 will play on Linux anymore. Did anyone else in the world use Linux to create Realplayer G2 content back in the day?
By the way. I originally preferred the famous Microsoft mouse because it fit in my hand but being out of the work force now I've been using the original 3 button Logitech bear paw for about 2 years. Originally the Logitech seemed too big and that was probably what made them discontinue it, but that big feel was probably more ergonomically correct. A few hours of the Microsoft mouse now causes excruciating pain in the wrist while the Logitech does not.
Professional programmers seem accustomed tobending their wrists for the Microsoft mouse and they wear splints to sleep. I'm accustomed to a bigger Logitech and don't wear a split to sleep.
It sounds like you haven't even seen a doctor about it yet. There's a lot you can do before surgery becomes necessary so you need to try those options.
When my dad had carpel tunnel surgery in the early 90's, the surgery costed a two week sick leave, and pretty much cost him the use of his hands. The purpose of surgery was pain reduction, not recovery of the use of your hands.
Who knows how it is nowadays, but you need to get it treated quickly. If you can't take time off and get it done now you won't recover from the disease. Unfortunately in CS you can't afford to have surgeryat every whim and take sick leave so the mere acquisition of the disease itself can be considered lethal.
Too bad Tom's Hardware and all the main overclocking sites use nothing but Windows to demonstrate the hardware. How fast is the floating point in Linux? How many 640x480 JPEG frames can it compress in a second?
Really this is a case of politics. His contribution amounts to a small amount of one element of the computer system. His name rarely appears in any of the man pages or kernel source files and how much are you actually going to get done with just the kernel? How many times is Linus the one to ask when you're having trouble getting something done on Linux?
Well now instead of coding DB clients at least some people can build something exciting. We're probably in a lot more danger of nuclear attack than the TV says. If a top secret spy satellite shows nuclear missiles in India they're not going to broadcast it but they will spend a lot of money on defense. There's a big difference between military intelligence and microbiology.
If you're obsessed about quality just play back at 1/3 speed and capture at 640x480 8fps. Use Quicktime JPEG at quality 80. Capture audio onto another track at 44100 16 bit seperately. Set the frame rate to 24 and render another Quicktime movie with audio and video. This resolution is overkill for 8mm film and Hi-8 video. 320x480 might be sufficient for home movies. If you can't play back at 1/3 speed play at full speed and capture at 10fps. Capture a second copy at 320x240 24fps and archive two movies at the different resolutions.
As long as there is UNIX and a C compiler you'll be able to play back Quicktime JPEG. Who knows what's going to happen with the Microsoft and MPEG formats. MPEG is heavily patented and Microsoft is Microsoft.
I predict writing gigantic, all-purpose software in C++ for income is a thing of the past. To earn a living programming you'll need to consult and do small, specific, internal company projects in a scripted language. All-purpose software in legacy languages, to make grown women cry will be the domain of dorm hackers in their sophomore years.
I doubt purpose built devices will benefit anyone but the manufacturers. I do everything on one computer because it's cheaper than having a dedicated TV for TV, a dedicated VCR for VCR, and a dedicated stereo for stereo, but Transmeta is of course in the embedded system business so his opinion is reasonable.
A $3.1 million loss would be fine and dandy if it wasn't for the many closed source companies not posting $3.1 million losses, with not 8 full time developers but 50. In fact the existance of other companies making profits makes it hard to connect a $3.1 million loss with wide acceptance of open source software. What I see is RedHat spending enourmous amounts of money on PR and CD printing to get a very large amount of users to try it, but they're not retaining users and while they spend lots of money on the basic system, they're doing nothing to create productivity applications, further aggrivating the high turnover rate.
With 16,000 people dead from earthquakes you can't help but think there's a correlation with millenial doomsday prophecies.
Look like interix had trouble getting clients. Their last effort was a possible open sourcing of their work in June. Looks like Microsoft stepped in right when they were going to drop the bomb and offered a bit more for the code than publicity, so now they're a Microsoft subsidiary and not open sourcing Jack. Well at least the suits at Microsoft read LinuxToday. How many potential open source projects never see the light of day because Microsoft buys them out and shuts them down?
Notice how companies like SGI, Real, and Microsoft give out betas of their software to test the Linux waters but never release a final version. The problem with using betas to test the waters is that no-one wants to download a beta when they're expecting a final version to come out later. The company sees no interest and either drops the project after the first beta or renames the beta as the final version and then drops it. It happened with RealPlayer, Netshow, and IE4.
Well if you've ever seen Jeremy Ellison in an interview at his house you know that the guys who run successful internet businesses are pretty wierd. We're talking perfectly spaced shirts, Pluto wierdness. Wierdness seems to be a prerequisite to gamble your life on something as percarious as internet startups and they're wierdness just somehow attracts fbi agents.
Remember last year when they sold land on the moon? Moon bases have been privately funded for years. I've been getting lots of email about investing in moon bases. National Enquirer also has information on moon bases long before anyone else.
If they offered anyone a job that would be stratospheric. Hacking C++ on Linux in itself is pretty useless in the professional world. It's the one reason you might want to think twice about sinking your hard earned weekends into it.
Well I figured this would make its way to Slashdot when I saw it on CNN. If the two propellers just inches away from the pilot's face don't lower the cost of ground beef the uncontrollable dive to the death in the event of an engine failure would make a better ride than Valuejet.
In the last 4 years of hacking UNIX software I must have gotten 1 email from a woman. Let's face it. Don't get excited about a %0.01 penetration when you have a much better chance of getting sunburned in antarctica during the summer solstace.
I predict that at some point in 2000 a snow storm will delay flights in the medwest, a hurricane will delay flights in the southeast, a Win NT box will crash, and widespread car crashes will cause traffic jams on highways. Instead of just focusing on January 1 we should be focusing on the entire year of problems this Y2K bug is going to cause.
Well SGI has a Linux team and they still fired 3000 employees so guess making a living on Linux isn't an option for most people. That's how problems get solved after your 4 year vacation. You either work or you don't. There's no compromise, no grading curve, no dropped test scores, just layoffs and hires.
So far all we see during trade shows is a window manager with maybe a Netscape window. Why not show those quad Xeons doing something besides booting Netscape.
Is there any way to compile KDE with egcs-2.95? I only get an assembler error followed by a linker error with duplicate symbols in all the libraries.
Remember back in virology when they told you about viruses being constructed from synthesized protein? If you think viruses are living then we've been creating life for a long time. What no-one can figure out is how to make a living off of it.
Now costs $240 at the same store. Holy shit.
Traditionally you expect electronics to go down in price as they get obsolete but today the trend is upwards in price due to skyrocketing labor costs and stagnating productivity. Who knows if the same trend is going to affect Camcorders, VCRs, cell phones and other electronics. Thank God I got a 128 Meg DRAM in July for $90 instead of waiting.