This looks exactly like the data compressor the kid in Australia developed in 1997 that compressed a 1 gig hard drive into a floppy. The only catch was the data was all 0's.
What about the other kid who developed the video compressor that compressed hour long TV shows on a floppy, as long as the screen was black.
The hypercomputer can process all the hundreds of billions of instructions they claim and the whole thing is for real. Except for the one or two highly redundant, staged instructions it runs at hypercomputer speeds don't expect anything else to run faster than a pentium.
Why not code this for a PC?
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Now we see how a team of EE's, an MPEG-2 board, and a few $100,000 salaries can pound out a hard drive VCR. What if we get some weekend warriors, a WinTV card, and a Linux box and do this in software? The system is really a dead simple 2 hour hack. Just start a thread capturing data to the hard drive and flashing to the display. If replay is desired, start another thread playing back from any point in the file. Maybe open up two windows: one or the live feed and one for replay. American TV sucks to hard for me to do it, but maybe you Japanese might find it worthwhile.
Can the K7 compress 30 jpeg images a second at 640x480? Can the K7 encode video to MPEG in realtime? How long does the K7 take per setiathome block? How long does bzip2 take to compress a 200 meg file on the K7?
Theoretically with these hard drive based mp3 players, you can encode at high bitrates. I read an article where mp2 was preferred over mp3 at high bitrates because it drops fewer details. I bounced some mp2 and mp3 recordings around to see which one degraded faster and the mp3 recording fell apart long before the mp2 recording.
Whatever happened to 64 bits?
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Wasn't there a time when 64 bit processors were going to reign over the world by mid 1999 and Linux was going to take over the world as the only 64 bit operating system? Instead we have yet another generation of 32 bit processors coming out. We're still stuck with the 1 gig maximum file size.
My ISP is very aggressive about no servers. They don't firewall anything but portscan, packet sniff, and traffic monitor the hell out of you. They read your email, look at where you're surfing, what you're uploading, what ports you use. It's very fast but as far as we're concerned, it's a half duplex, non private connection.
Anyone can build a chip with no floating point unit and sell it for free. That's not really reducing the price of anything. What we need is a commodity 64 bit processor.
Only kernel level development and very basic servi
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There still isn't enough of a margin to finance any more than the most basic kernel and desktop development because these are what bring in the revenue for a company like VAResearch. People don't buy VAResearch systems because it comes with a word processor. They buy VAResearch systems because of the low level kernel drivers and desktop managers built into it which they add applications to from someone else.
After the nuclear weapons fiasco this week, the years and years of encryption regulation, and the news from Australia, you didn't really think your emails were going across the backbones uninspected did you? A certain fraction of all our email is going to get inspected, no way around it.
There are already lots of competitors in the bandwidth market. You can get uninterrupted gigabit bandwidth across the US for a few thousand dollars. This is used for video operations.
I agree, Jar Jar sucks, but the comment about the queen not very convincing was wrong. In fact, the queen is most convincing when she's blasting droids to lead her team to the palace, but maybe that's why I don't have GF's to impress. George should have built up the romance between the queen and Anakin more.
Why does it seem like 1998 was Linux's banner year and 1999 is the year everyone switched back to Win? In 1998 we got The Gimp, KDE, and Gnome, Enlightenment, Kernel 2.2, the NetWinder, Mozilla, Mnemonic, really groundbreaking ventures. In 1999, what have we gotten to parallel The Gimp? The NetWinder was a flop. Mozilla was a flop. Mnemonic vaporized. We got a few games but those quickly wore off. Meanwhile all these new multimedia formats came out only for Windows.
> I will be glad to see the movie released > just so the hype can die out some.
The GF is having a bad effect on/. First the article about 50's cooking and now the negative comments about StarWars. I know it's the 90's but let's try to keep the women geeky.
Notice the people who develop the software to render these things, just like the guy who developed Sorenson video aren't CS majors but EE's. Interesting how they don't use Linux for any rendering, but as a router, the mainstay of Linux for the last 5 years. They use SGI for rendering.
Instead of trying to market to a user base that isn't there, market to the hobbyists, I always say. If Linux isn't a corporate phenomenum, it's the student movement of the 90's.
What do you do when your real estate in Aspen Colorado is worth $5 million? Create more real estate like yours to lower the price? No way. I guarantee we're going to be living with IPv4 for a long long time. Academics and charities don't run the internet, suits and ISP's do, and they're going to charge you to the grave for static IP's for as long as possible.
Let's spend another year on 2.2
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My 2.2.8 kernel crashes after less than 5 minutes up. Looks like when Alan hacked the Cyrix code he broke 5 other subsystems.
That's the last time I ever look to Ebay for an auction. With kids like that auctioning on there, who knows how man of their other products are real frauds.
I can't wait until memory management is moved to hardware only. Maybe Linux MM would stop crashing. Looks like web servers are going to be implemented in hardware real soon. Would you believe 3D graphics were once done in software?
At least on 2.0.*, Linux NFS tended to crash like crazy in my experience as well as the widely publicized Titanic file. Linux was used in making Titanic. The engineering team at Digital Domain had some comments about Linux NFS crashing constantly and having to hack the kernel to fix it. The hacks of course, were thrown out by Linus. Linux 2.2.* may be better. It does allow you to access remote block devices over NFS.
I'm afraid we're going to have to expell you from the geek kingdom. You need to get rid of that GF. What will this lead to? Marriage? WinNT? Employment? Employment means specializing in VisualBasic and then...installing WinNT on all your home computers. You shouldn't have shaved your mane off when you still had the chance to grow one.
Do engineers auction themselves during a shortage?
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If CmdrTaco wouldn't be willing to go that far to find a job, surely a few other people wouldn't be willing either, unless there was a real surplus of engineers.
Having worked with video on Linux, I see why they went with FreeBSD. Linux got really fast with the memory management in 2.2 but at the expense of stability. Any video compositing, large memory usage, or sneezing for that matter around a Linux box crashes it.
And it's all going to be patented to the bits
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Sorenson Video, QDesign audio, JPEG 2000 are all the new wave of high stakes technology that we have to deal with somehow. Every new compression algorithm for the last 4 years has been patented to the core. For a while we were able to get some codecs through Xanim, but now the money riding on video compressors is so high that not even Xanim can get licensed to use them. As the internet bandwidth increases and the stakes get higher, the patents and licenses can only get tighter. There are never going to be any more formats like JPEG and GIF.
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This looks exactly like the data compressor the kid in Australia developed in 1997 that compressed a 1 gig hard drive into a floppy. The only catch was the data was all 0's.
What about the other kid who developed the video compressor that compressed hour long TV shows on a floppy, as long as the screen was black.
The hypercomputer can process all the hundreds of billions of instructions they claim and the whole thing is for real. Except for the one or two highly redundant, staged instructions it runs at hypercomputer speeds don't expect anything else to run faster than a pentium.
Now we see how a team of EE's, an MPEG-2 board, and a few $100,000 salaries can pound out a hard drive VCR. What if we get some weekend warriors, a WinTV card, and a Linux box and do this in software? The system is really a dead simple 2 hour hack. Just start a thread capturing data to the hard drive and flashing to the display. If replay is desired, start another thread playing back from any point in the file. Maybe open up two windows: one or the live feed and one for replay. American TV sucks to hard for me to do it, but maybe you Japanese might find it worthwhile.
Can the K7 compress 30 jpeg images a second at 640x480? Can the K7 encode video to MPEG in realtime? How long does the K7 take per setiathome block? How long does bzip2 take to compress a 200 meg file on the K7?
Theoretically with these hard drive based mp3 players, you can encode at high bitrates. I read an article where mp2 was preferred over mp3 at high bitrates because it drops fewer details. I bounced some mp2 and mp3 recordings around to see which one degraded faster and the mp3 recording fell apart long before the mp2 recording.
Wasn't there a time when 64 bit processors were going to reign over the world by mid 1999 and Linux was going to take over the world as the only 64 bit operating system? Instead we have yet another generation of 32 bit processors coming out. We're still stuck with the 1 gig maximum file size.
My ISP is very aggressive about no servers. They don't firewall anything but portscan, packet sniff, and traffic monitor the hell out of you. They read your email, look at where you're surfing, what you're uploading, what ports you use. It's very fast but as far as we're concerned, it's a half duplex, non private connection.
This is a historic moment. Too bad they didn't use the Quicktime for Linux library. They should pay their Quicktime guy twice as much.
Anyone can build a chip with no floating point unit and sell it for free. That's not really reducing the price of anything. What we need is a commodity 64 bit processor.
There still isn't enough of a margin to finance any more than the most basic kernel and desktop development because these are what bring in the revenue for a company like VAResearch. People don't buy VAResearch systems because it comes with a word processor. They buy VAResearch systems because of the low level kernel drivers and desktop managers built into it which they add applications to from someone else.
After the nuclear weapons fiasco this week, the years and years of encryption regulation, and the news from Australia, you didn't really think your emails were going across the backbones uninspected did you? A certain fraction of all our email is going to get inspected, no way around it.
There are already lots of competitors in the bandwidth market. You can get uninterrupted gigabit bandwidth across the US for a few thousand dollars. This is used for video operations.
I agree, Jar Jar sucks, but the comment about the queen not very convincing was wrong. In fact, the queen is most convincing when she's blasting droids to lead her team to the palace, but maybe that's why I don't have GF's to impress. George should have built up the romance between the queen and Anakin more.
Why does it seem like 1998 was Linux's banner year and 1999 is the year everyone switched back to Win? In 1998 we got The Gimp, KDE, and Gnome, Enlightenment, Kernel 2.2, the NetWinder, Mozilla, Mnemonic, really groundbreaking ventures. In 1999, what have we gotten to parallel The Gimp? The NetWinder was a flop. Mozilla was a flop. Mnemonic vaporized. We got a few games but those quickly wore off. Meanwhile all these new multimedia formats came out only for Windows.
> I will be glad to see the movie released
/. First the article about 50's cooking and now the negative comments about StarWars. I know it's the 90's but let's try to keep the women geeky.
> just so the hype can die out some.
The GF is having a bad effect on
Notice the people who develop the software to render these things, just like the guy who developed Sorenson video aren't CS majors but EE's. Interesting how they don't use Linux for any rendering, but as a router, the mainstay of Linux for the last 5 years. They use SGI for rendering.
Instead of trying to market to a user base that isn't there, market to the hobbyists, I always say. If Linux isn't a corporate phenomenum, it's the student movement of the 90's.
What do you do when your real estate in Aspen Colorado is worth $5 million? Create more real estate like yours to lower the price? No way. I guarantee we're going to be living with IPv4 for a long long time. Academics and charities don't run the internet, suits and ISP's do, and they're going to charge you to the grave for static IP's for as long as possible.
My 2.2.8 kernel crashes after less than 5 minutes up. Looks like when Alan hacked the Cyrix code he broke 5 other subsystems.
That's the last time I ever look to Ebay for an auction. With kids like that auctioning on there, who knows how man of their other products are real frauds.
I can't wait until memory management is moved to hardware only. Maybe Linux MM would stop crashing. Looks like web servers are going to be implemented in hardware real soon. Would you believe 3D graphics were once done in software?
At least on 2.0.*, Linux NFS tended to crash like crazy in my experience as well as the widely publicized Titanic file. Linux was used in making Titanic. The engineering team at Digital Domain had some comments about Linux NFS crashing constantly and having to hack the kernel to fix it. The hacks of course, were thrown out by Linus. Linux 2.2.* may be better. It does allow you to access remote block devices over NFS.
I'm afraid we're going to have to expell you from the geek kingdom. You need to get rid of that GF. What will this lead to? Marriage? WinNT? Employment? Employment means specializing in VisualBasic and then...installing WinNT on all your home computers. You shouldn't have shaved your mane off when you still had the chance to grow one.
If CmdrTaco wouldn't be willing to go that far to find a job, surely a few other people wouldn't be willing either, unless there was a real surplus of engineers.
Is apple now going to collect the $15,000 yearly fee for all encoders developed in the US? The bladeenc kid can't stay in Sweden forever.
Having worked with video on Linux, I see why they went with FreeBSD. Linux got really fast with the memory management in 2.2 but at the expense of stability. Any video compositing, large memory usage, or sneezing for that matter around a Linux box crashes it.
Sorenson Video, QDesign audio, JPEG 2000 are all the new wave of high stakes technology that we have to deal with somehow. Every new compression algorithm for the last 4 years has been patented to the core. For a while we were able to get some codecs through Xanim, but now the money riding on video compressors is so high that not even Xanim can get licensed to use them. As the internet bandwidth increases and the stakes get higher, the patents and licenses can only get tighter. There are never going to be any more formats like JPEG and GIF.