If I went back to school now I'd study: History???
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College educations have a nasty habit of typecasting you. Once typecasted as non-technical, forget everything you know about computers. You're not working in IT. Would there be a web browser for Linux if Mark's degree said "history" or "philosophy" instead of computer science 6 years ago? You don't see Hemos working for RedHat.
The seti client alone uses 16 megs of memory. Now there's a Java application which requires 20 megs for the JVM. On a dual processor you'll want to run two in parallel which adds another 16 megs. By that time a $70 128 Meg SDRAM isn't so big anymore. I'll stick to tkseti.
What's so great about the AMD K7? Is www.firingsquad.com offering jobs? Do millions of people have $950 to spend on Athlons? I'm going to stick to the old overclocked Celeron 466 for $144.
How many millions and millions of resumes do companies who so much as imply the tiniest, slightest, smallest, miniscule chance of a job opening get hit with when they appear on Slashdot? Or is it billions of resumes. You could see Borland's mail server explode from 3000 miles away.
> what happen when you drag a file > into a directory with a property of "tar zxvf -C > . %f" - gee -
Is entering "tar zxvf -C %f" in a properties box really easier than typing it on a commandline?
> we do cool stuff - Linux looks cooler - > their Linux hardware sells more:)
See, VA Research makes money selling the base system so they fund basic system development. But there's only so much you can do with a window manager and a bunch of system utilities. How do you make them fund application development?
You ever notice in the kodak photo CD commercials the fact that photo CD's get higher resolution than any desktop scanner is completely ignored? You don't see anyone mass selling HDTV on the basis of its resolution either for that matter. Unless high resolution becomes a factor in the minds of consumers don't expect the cost of 4000x3000 cameras to drop.
The idea of using Celerons only works if you can overclock them. It may go well for hacks and tinkers, but for the heavy video and I/O, a 66Mhz bus frequency is unacceptable. The chances of overclocking single celerons to a 100Mhz bus is 75%. For both processors in a dual processor system, the success drops to 56%. Also since people are much less willing to report failure publicly, the percentages may even be lower in real life. You won't see anyone post a failed overclock on slashdot.
The problem is in order for an application to "exist" in the Linux community it has to come at no cost to the end user. Linux users, unlike Windows users, just as well pretend something doesn't exist than pay a fee for it. This is a stark contrast to the Windows community where end user payment is so routine that the existance of those programs is openly acknowledged.
Cinepak is the codec of choice for Linux viewing, followed by JPEG Photo. Cinepak only plays on XAnim with no stereo sound. JPEG Photo plays on XAnim and XMovie with stereo sound but requires twice the bandwidth. Whatever the contract, be sure to use 10fps, normalized sound, and at least 240x180. Always encode audio using IMA4 never ever QDesign.
Your next full night's sleep won't happen until you retire. In this economy if you expect to do anything with only a four year degree, let alone become an executive assistant, you're going to work 24/7.
The only VCR I use is Linux/Broadcast 2000 (commercial). It records, loops, scrubs, composites, edits, all in realtime. The looped recording lets you record infinitely and keep the scenes you like. The realtime JPEG capture can record as much as you want on a hard drive, in twice the resolution of VHS. The scrubbing feature lets you fast forward scenes while still comprehending what's being said. You can write out clips to RealProducer and email them to your friends in the background. You can fix the audio tracks or simulate stereo in realtime. The possibilities of a Linux VCR are worlds ahead of VHS, even if it is commercial today.
After wavering on the issue ever since elementary school, I decided I would never marry anyways several years ago. It's just too damn patriarchal. You don't love anything. You just act out a ritual involving a breadwinner and some female thing he's supposed to win the bread for and drag around like a slab of meatloaf. Maybe the 5000 engineers just didn't want to be breadwinners.
With egcs-19990524 and -O2 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -malign-loops=2 -malign-functions=2 -malign-jumps=2
bladeenc runs twice as fast as it did before. Too bad releasing the source code didn't improve the quality too. I'm still going to have to use Lame for quality.
If the economy is so great why isn't there enough money to sustain the independant internet site? Well now we can look forward to even drier stories, harsher moderation, and more banners. We're about to find out why traditional news sites like wired and cnet continue to run the way they do even after the 1998 slashdot.
Last month we griped about how more and more ISP's were banning servers. Now there's not even uploading. Aren't these the same CEO's who said years ago the internet would never be more than a toy?
The AMD K7 can play a 44100 16 bit mp3 using 5% less CPU time than the K6. The K7 can play a 24 fps movie using 5% less CPU time than the K6. The K7 boots Linux 5% faster than the K6. Is the K7 going to do anything new instead of running the same applications 5% faster?
Just get the name Linux on it and people will buy it. Even if they gave out some source code to compile instead of running a binary, Linus only admits into the kernel 1 out of every 1000 hacks he recieves so it would just be a curiosity.
The movie showed the distinct difference between a company which split its resources between building hardware and writing the software for it and a company which specialized only in software. The company which split its resources drove its employees 50 hours at a time, and virtually drove itself out of business for less than 5% of the PC market. Apple's biggest problem is that they kill themselves building the hardware and software themselves.
We can only assume Steve really interrupted interviews, put his feet on the table, and asked candidates if they had sex before tearing them apart. It's a perfect explanation for the "think different" campaign. One can only wonder if the intensely competitive computer industry just demands that nihilistic personality of any entrepreneur.
Theoretically the more suckers who buy into flat panel displays the lower CRTs are going to cost. For the first time ever, we're seeing CRTs dropping below $150. Now that my ValueColor is dying, we need to get more people buying flat panels. Drive those CRT prices down.
I always wondered why I got instantly moderated to -1 whenever I said something negative about Linux. So far today/dev/hda has thrashed solid for 3 hours and Linux has crashed twice, with the only consolation from Linux users being "Cyrix sucks. Get a real chip."
I recorded the whole thing on my Linux box. 240x180 6fps but deleted it, it was so depressing. One look at that depiction of the way Steve treated his employees will make you never want to enter technology. Everyone agrees Steve was a nutcase in real life. He really made his employees work 48 hours at a time, especially as the Macintosh was pushed farther and farther behind schedule. He was obsessed with innane details that no-one would ever notice, to the point of completely scrapping a nearly finished project just to get the boot time 1 second faster. In comparison, we hear exactly the opposite about how Bill treated Microsoft employees in real life. More important is how competing with something as powerful as Microsoft can turn you into a complete looney.
What 64 bit hardware?
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What's cheaper for getting a 64 bit fs: getting a 64 bit PC or installing Win NT? Linux bails out at 0x3fffffff bytes or 3 minutes of video, whichever comes first. Don't give me an anecdote. Give me a price.
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College educations have a nasty habit of typecasting you. Once typecasted as non-technical, forget everything you know about computers. You're not working in IT. Would there be a web browser for Linux if Mark's degree said "history" or "philosophy" instead of computer science 6 years ago? You don't see Hemos working for RedHat.
The seti client alone uses 16 megs of memory. Now there's a Java application which requires 20 megs for the JVM. On a dual processor you'll want to run two in parallel which adds another 16 megs. By that time a $70 128 Meg SDRAM isn't so big anymore. I'll stick to tkseti.
What's so great about the AMD K7? Is www.firingsquad.com offering jobs? Do millions of people have $950 to spend on Athlons? I'm going to stick to the old overclocked Celeron 466 for $144.
Soundforge for Win95?
How many millions and millions of resumes do companies who so much as imply the tiniest, slightest, smallest, miniscule chance of a job opening get hit with when they appear on Slashdot? Or is it billions of resumes. You could see Borland's mail server explode from 3000 miles away.
> what happen when you drag a file
:)
> into a directory with a property of "tar zxvf -C
> . %f" - gee -
Is entering "tar zxvf -C %f" in a properties box really easier than typing it on a commandline?
> we do cool stuff - Linux looks cooler -
> their Linux hardware sells more
See, VA Research makes money selling the base system so they fund basic system development. But there's only so much you can do with a window manager and a bunch of system utilities. How do you make them fund application development?
You ever notice in the kodak photo CD commercials the fact that photo CD's get higher resolution than any desktop scanner is completely ignored? You don't see anyone mass selling HDTV on the basis of its resolution either for that matter. Unless high resolution becomes a factor in the minds of consumers don't expect the cost of 4000x3000 cameras to drop.
The idea of using Celerons only works if you can overclock them. It may go well for hacks and tinkers, but for the heavy video and I/O, a 66Mhz bus frequency is unacceptable. The chances of overclocking single celerons to a 100Mhz bus is 75%. For both processors in a dual processor system, the success drops to 56%. Also since people are much less willing to report failure publicly, the percentages may even be lower in real life. You won't see anyone post a failed overclock on slashdot.
The problem is in order for an application to "exist" in the Linux community it has to come at no cost to the end user. Linux users, unlike Windows users, just as well pretend something doesn't exist than pay a fee for it. This is a stark contrast to the Windows community where end user payment is so routine that the existance of those programs is openly acknowledged.
Cinepak is the codec of choice for Linux viewing, followed by JPEG Photo. Cinepak only plays on XAnim with no stereo sound. JPEG Photo plays on XAnim and XMovie with stereo sound but requires twice the bandwidth. Whatever the contract, be sure to use 10fps, normalized sound, and at least 240x180. Always encode audio using IMA4 never ever QDesign.
Your next full night's sleep won't happen until you retire. In this economy if you expect to do anything with only a four year degree, let alone become an executive assistant, you're going to work 24/7.
The only VCR I use is Linux/Broadcast 2000 (commercial). It records, loops, scrubs, composites, edits, all in realtime. The looped recording lets you record infinitely and keep the scenes you like. The realtime JPEG capture can record as much as you want on a hard drive, in twice the resolution of VHS. The scrubbing feature lets you fast forward scenes while still comprehending what's being said. You can write out clips to RealProducer and email them to your friends in the background. You can fix the audio tracks or simulate stereo in realtime. The possibilities of a Linux VCR are worlds ahead of VHS, even if it is commercial today.
After wavering on the issue ever since elementary school, I decided I would never marry anyways several years ago. It's just too damn patriarchal. You don't love anything. You just act out a ritual involving a breadwinner and some female thing he's supposed to win the bread for and drag around like a slab of meatloaf. Maybe the 5000 engineers just didn't want to be breadwinners.
Let's hope Andover.net doesn't consider dropping slashdot.org after a year or even worse "undoing" some of its current traits.
With egcs-19990524 and -O2 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -malign-loops=2 -malign-functions=2 -malign-jumps=2
bladeenc runs twice as fast as it did before. Too bad releasing the source code didn't improve the quality too. I'm still going to have to use Lame for quality.
If the economy is so great why isn't there enough money to sustain the independant internet site? Well now we can look forward to even drier stories, harsher moderation, and more banners. We're about to find out why traditional news sites like wired and cnet continue to run the way they do even after the 1998 slashdot.
Last month we griped about how more and more ISP's were banning servers. Now there's not even uploading. Aren't these the same CEO's who said years ago the internet would never be more than a toy?
The AMD K7 can play a 44100 16 bit mp3 using 5% less CPU time than the K6. The K7 can play a 24 fps movie using 5% less CPU time than the K6. The K7 boots Linux 5% faster than the K6. Is the K7 going to do anything new instead of running the same applications 5% faster?
Just get the name Linux on it and people will buy it. Even if they gave out some source code to compile instead of running a binary, Linus only admits into the kernel 1 out of every 1000 hacks he recieves so it would just be a curiosity.
The movie showed the distinct difference between a company which split its resources between building hardware and writing the software for it and a company which specialized only in software. The company which split its resources drove its employees 50 hours at a time, and virtually drove itself out of business for less than 5% of the PC market. Apple's biggest problem is that they kill themselves building the hardware and software themselves.
We can only assume Steve really interrupted interviews, put his feet on the table, and asked candidates if they had sex before tearing them apart. It's a perfect explanation for the "think different" campaign. One can only wonder if the intensely competitive computer industry just demands that nihilistic personality of any entrepreneur.
Theoretically the more suckers who buy into flat panel displays the lower CRTs are going to cost. For the first time ever, we're seeing CRTs dropping below $150. Now that my ValueColor is dying, we need to get more people buying flat panels. Drive those CRT prices down.
I always wondered why I got instantly moderated to -1 whenever I said something negative about Linux. So far today /dev/hda has thrashed solid for 3 hours and Linux has crashed twice, with the only consolation from Linux users being "Cyrix sucks. Get a real chip."
I recorded the whole thing on my Linux box. 240x180 6fps but deleted it, it was so depressing.
One look at that depiction of the way Steve treated his employees will make you never want to enter technology. Everyone agrees Steve was a nutcase in real life. He really made his employees work 48 hours at a time, especially as the Macintosh was pushed farther and farther behind schedule. He was obsessed with innane details that no-one would ever notice, to the point of completely scrapping a nearly finished project just to get the boot time 1 second faster. In comparison, we hear exactly the opposite about how Bill treated Microsoft employees in real life. More important is how competing with something as powerful as Microsoft can turn you into a complete looney.
The only thing I could decipher from that was
"Sound on linux sucks"
"Video on Linux sucks"
"Esound sucks"
"He, he, he, he, he...yeah...he, he, he"
What's cheaper for getting a 64 bit fs: getting a 64 bit PC or installing Win NT? Linux bails out at 0x3fffffff bytes or 3 minutes of video, whichever comes first. Don't give me an anecdote. Give me a price.