The only opinion that matters is Microsoft's
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Why Kids Kill
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The government and media can spread whatever theories they want. They can call the internet as evil and destructive to the human race as they want. They can try to proxy and censor everything. We already know the true fate of the internet rests entirely on one entity: Microsoft. Microsoft creates and destroys new media technology without wincing over hype. Microsoft's decisions regarding the future of 99% of the human race are unstoppable even by the government. Microsoft tells people what they can and cannot do with their computers. Even Salami Insane, Slobodan Milsevic, and Bin Laden all must bow to Microsoft every time they write an email. Microsoft can turn the internet into a killing machine or a love machine in an instant. When the little people finish hyping internet provoked murders the internet is still going to become whatever Microsoft says it is.
And when they're done shelving it, there will be no optical mouse. Where once there was a private entrepreneur who thought he could invent something without Microsoft acquiring it for shelving purposes, there is now one less competitor against Microsoft. The same went for clear type fonts.
They'll break down and release it for Linux eventually. I'd be surprised if they didn't have at least a Linux binary by Applefest or Macworld or whatever it is. We need to show an overwhelming desire for a Quicktime compile on Linux even if it means writing our own Quicktime library and shoving it down their throat.
This assumes of course it's the quicktime API they're open sourcing. If it's just an open source server that requires a Win32 Quicktime library to run, then forget what I said and keep praying. Justin's heading made it look like the API was being open sourced when really this story is just carbon copy of the open sourced streaming server that came out in March.
It was pretty obvious that they were looking for some significant drive from the Linux community before committing their Quicktime source code. When I released Quicktime for Linux, it was more of an attempt to show Apple that we really needed a Quicktime library on Linux and it worked.
When hundreds of hits from Apple came during March, it became pretty obvious that Quicktime was very close to being opened sourced. That's why my work was never intended to be a complete port of the Quicktime API and never intended to support all the codecs and features of Apple's Quicktime.
Now let's hope Apple's code is thread safe and allows you to import bitmaps into your own code.
Since MS owns all the major media producers, their victory is ensured. Remember when MS bought CNN and CNN switched to ASX for most of its audio streams. Since MS bought NBC, MSNBC of course serves only ASX streams.
All is not lost, however, since all of MS's audio codecs are really derivatives of mp3.
Interesting a few days ago we read a story about how linux hackers, CS majors, people trained in programming were getting dream jobs: tech support and phone answering positions at Linuxcare.
Now while all those hackers are answering phones and consulting what's this guy who majored in EE doing? Writing perl scripts and C programming at a permanent job in the core engineering team of a company slightly more prestigious than Linux phone answering.
You paid $170 for a domain name to host on a Win98 box. If that's any sign of the Microsoft groveling butt kissing that computer science has become, I'd rather work as a minimum wage biology lab tech forever.
What are these news items about server downtimes and McAfree virus scan? How the hell do you give a virus to an operating system? Do tell.
The sound quality coming out of voice modems sucks. At least on my modem, using some voice modem package that was around sunsite in 1997, the modem playback was unintelligable. The modem requires some horrible variation of ulaw compression. If the sound quality on modems was usable, voice modems would make a great touch tone interface.
To get really intelligable sound, you need some kind of dedicated, expensive, phone hardware.
Looks like it's not coding but telephone skills that are in demand for Linux coders. The comment on coming out of the closet did clear things up. I always wondered why interviews seemed to go downhill after the L word leaked out. "Lin what? Oh you're a (cough) cracker jacker" I won't do that anymore.
I think of Real Networks. They were the Java of 1996. Then Microsoft decided they were too powerful and squashed them like a mosquito.
And what about Netscape, once the boom of the internet. Marc Andreesen used to appear on magzine covers and/. every day. Then Microsoft decided they were too powerful and shut them down.
What happens when Microsoft decides Amazon and ebay are too powerful?
One reason against the "unlimited jobs" quotations
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Do Geeks Need College?
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Anyone can code and everyone does, just like basketweeving.
What about these guys who eat, sleep, breathe Win NT only sysadminning UNIX at work because they have too. They always try to break into your Linux box only to give up and send you hate mail from their Micersoft exchange client about exceeding disk quotas or some other retaliation topic.
Looks more like 15 gigs. With the best lossless compressor (http://heroine.tampa.fl.us/split) maybe 20 gigs for $400. Swapping CD-RW's might be faster than tape, too.
How about six full time, paid, telecommuter positions at Red Hat, developing whatever dream Linux application you wish existed but no private company will ever pay anyone to code, with whatever hardware and OS you want, from home. Not many people can afford to take 7 days off in May and Wrightsville Beach NC definitely aint Clearwater beach FL.
Why don't we wait for Microsoft to start responding or at least acknowledging receipt of these "open letters". These things are getting tossed around the repair shops and tech support pools but never getting a glance from managers.
Having lived inside and outside the Idaho/Utah system I can say the politics in that area are as detrimental as they are beneficial to people like Jesse and Eric. On the one hand, you don't have to worry about locking your doors. You can go outside at night. The women are easy to fall in love with.
On the other hand it's a very very clickish area of the country. You're either a NonMember or a (cough) member and even the most brilliant people can end up swapping cards for the rest of their lives if they don't play the game.
Would geeks like that have become the next Steve Jobs if they lived in, say, Los Angeles or would Linus have ended up an unemployed bum if he grew up in Idaho?
I wouldn't believe the line about unlimited jobs. Like anything you read in Rolling Stone, Jesse and Eric were extremely lucky. For every Jesse and Eric there are a thousand equally skilled geeks taking the same chance, ending up on the street, and definitely not appearing in Rolling Stone.
VAResearch had the first 8 way xeon back in March. There's a picture of VAResearch's founder standing next to it at LinuxExpo, but like every other product, if you don't market it, it might as well not exist.
First of all, no soundcards greater than 2 channels are supported by any Linux sound driver today. Secondly, whether your software interfaces OSS, ESounD, WMSound, NAS, CRAPI, libmikmod, rplay, pciaudio, or any of the other abstraction layers, the libraries themselves all interface OSS.
Before Microsoft coined the term OSS to mean Open Source Software and changed the world, OSS was better known as the Open Sound System standard.
This unmicrosoftened OSS is what 99% of Linux audio applications use to interface the audio hardware. There were some attempts to improve on OSS itself, like ALSA, but these are platform dependant and dynamically linking the ALSA library, or even so much as #including the ALSA include file in your program locks you into very very restrictive licensing.
OSS is platform independant and very liberal in its licensing, so it's become the most pervasive.
OSS by definition can only support 4 channels per soundcard. Even if a 5 channel soundcard was supported by the Linux kernel, the method the software uses to interface the soundcard, the OSS API, is limited to 4 channels. Supporting more than 4 channels per soundcard is binary impossible without breaking all Linux software.
There were some attempts to support simultaneous soundcards at the application level, limiting you only to the PCI slot count. Slab tried to do this. Since OSS doesn't offer any method of synchronizing multiple soundcards or transparently rolling multiple soundcards into one, the only way to do it is a very platform and soundcard dependant DMA routine at the application level. Only a couple soundcards work with DMA methods and anyone using it has to rewrite their program everytime a new kernel comes out so it hasn't really worked.
Amazing how their focus has gone from psychofreak levels of detail like the consistancy of toothpaste to more big ticket items like car safety today. Makes you wonder how much people 50 years from now are going to care about what license the source code for their camcorder is under.
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The government and media can spread whatever theories they want. They can call the internet as evil and destructive to the human race as they want. They can try to proxy and censor everything. We already know the true fate of the internet rests entirely on one entity: Microsoft. Microsoft creates and destroys new media technology without wincing over hype. Microsoft's decisions regarding the future of 99% of the human race are unstoppable even by the government. Microsoft tells people what they can and cannot do with their computers. Even Salami Insane, Slobodan Milsevic, and Bin Laden all must bow to Microsoft every time they write an email. Microsoft can turn the internet into a killing machine or a love machine in an instant. When the little people finish hyping internet provoked murders the internet is still going to become whatever Microsoft says it is.
If you Linux kids want to hear the full stereo sound of the trailer, get xmovie from
d .mov
http://heroine.tampa.fl.us/xmovie
and a Linuxised trailer from
ftp://heroine.tampa.fl.us/pub/starwars_flattene
And when they're done shelving it, there will be no optical mouse. Where once there was a private entrepreneur who thought he could invent something without Microsoft acquiring it for shelving purposes, there is now one less competitor against Microsoft. The same went for clear type fonts.
They'll break down and release it for Linux eventually. I'd be surprised if they didn't have at least a Linux binary by Applefest or Macworld or whatever it is. We need to show an overwhelming desire for a Quicktime compile on Linux even if it means writing our own Quicktime library and shoving it down their throat.
This assumes of course it's the quicktime API they're open sourcing. If it's just an open source server that requires a Win32 Quicktime library to run, then forget what I said and keep praying. Justin's heading made it look like the API was being open sourced when really this story is just carbon copy of the open sourced streaming server that came out in March.
It was pretty obvious that they were looking for some significant drive from the Linux community before committing their Quicktime source code. When I released Quicktime for Linux, it was more of an attempt to show Apple that we really needed a Quicktime library on Linux and it worked.
When hundreds of hits from Apple came during March, it became pretty obvious that Quicktime was very close to being opened sourced. That's why my work was never intended to be a complete port of the Quicktime API and never intended to support all the codecs and features of Apple's Quicktime.
Now let's hope Apple's code is thread safe and allows you to import bitmaps into your own code.
Since MS owns all the major media producers, their victory is ensured. Remember when MS bought CNN and CNN switched to ASX for most of its audio streams. Since MS bought NBC, MSNBC of course serves only ASX streams.
All is not lost, however, since all of MS's audio codecs are really derivatives of mp3.
At least the movies are slashdotted. My downloads are usually at 200k/sec. Now these are coming in at only 50k/sec.
Interesting a few days ago we read a story about how linux hackers, CS majors, people trained in programming were getting dream jobs: tech support and phone answering positions at Linuxcare.
Now while all those hackers are answering phones and consulting what's this guy who majored in EE doing? Writing perl scripts and C programming at a permanent job in the core engineering team of a company slightly more prestigious than Linux phone answering.
Then of course a lot of those are
{ return depth; }
kinds of functions, inheritance, and templates like hell. And yes, I tend to omit return values.
It just shows how far people will go to make the computer do what they want yet no corporation will ever pay anyone to code it.
You paid $170 for a domain name to host on a Win98 box. If that's any sign of the Microsoft groveling butt kissing that computer science has become, I'd rather work as a minimum wage biology lab tech forever.
What are these news items about server downtimes and McAfree virus scan? How the hell do you give a virus to an operating system? Do tell.
Time to give your Win98 box a few reboots.
At least on May 14th, when Broadcast 2000 comes out, they won't be looking to real or MS for digital audio.
The sound quality coming out of voice modems sucks. At least on my modem, using some voice modem package that was around sunsite in 1997, the modem playback was unintelligable. The modem requires some horrible variation of ulaw compression. If the sound quality on modems was usable, voice modems would make a great touch tone interface.
To get really intelligable sound, you need some kind of dedicated, expensive, phone hardware.
Looks like it's not coding but telephone skills that are in demand for Linux coders. The comment on coming out of the closet did clear things up. I always wondered why interviews seemed to go downhill after the L word leaked out. "Lin what? Oh you're a (cough) cracker jacker" I won't do that anymore.
I think of Real Networks. They were the Java of 1996. Then Microsoft decided they were too powerful and squashed them like a mosquito.
/. every day. Then Microsoft decided they were too powerful and shut them down.
And what about Netscape, once the boom of the internet. Marc Andreesen used to appear on magzine covers and
What happens when Microsoft decides Amazon and ebay are too powerful?
Anyone can code and everyone does, just like basketweeving.
What about these guys who eat, sleep, breathe Win NT only sysadminning UNIX at work because they have too. They always try to break into your Linux box only to give up and send you hate mail from their Micersoft exchange client about exceeding disk quotas or some other retaliation topic.
Looks more like 15 gigs. With the best lossless compressor (http://heroine.tampa.fl.us/split) maybe 20 gigs for $400. Swapping CD-RW's might be faster than tape, too.
How about a $250 drive that stores 650 megs on a single removable 5.25" disk. Total cost of 10 gigs: about $30. Patents pending.
How about six full time, paid, telecommuter positions at Red Hat, developing whatever dream Linux application you wish existed but no private company will ever pay anyone to code, with whatever hardware and OS you want, from home. Not many people can afford to take 7 days off in May and Wrightsville Beach NC definitely aint Clearwater beach FL.
Why don't we wait for Microsoft to start responding or at least acknowledging receipt of these "open letters". These things are getting tossed around the repair shops and tech support pools but never getting a glance from managers.
Having lived inside and outside the Idaho/Utah system I can say the politics in that area are as detrimental as they are beneficial to people like Jesse and Eric. On the one hand, you don't have to worry about locking your doors. You can go outside at night. The women are easy to fall in love with.
On the other hand it's a very very clickish area of the country. You're either a NonMember or a (cough) member and even the most brilliant people can end up swapping cards for the rest of their lives if they don't play the game.
Would geeks like that have become the next Steve Jobs if they lived in, say, Los Angeles or would Linus have ended up an unemployed bum if he grew up in Idaho?
I wouldn't believe the line about unlimited jobs. Like anything you read in Rolling Stone, Jesse and Eric were extremely lucky. For every Jesse and Eric there are a thousand equally skilled geeks taking the same chance, ending up on the street, and definitely not appearing in Rolling Stone.
VAResearch had the first 8 way xeon back in March. There's a picture of VAResearch's founder standing next to it at LinuxExpo, but like every other product, if you don't market it, it might as well not exist.
First of all, no soundcards greater than 2 channels are supported by
any Linux sound driver today. Secondly, whether your software
interfaces OSS, ESounD, WMSound, NAS, CRAPI, libmikmod, rplay, pciaudio, or
any of the other abstraction layers, the libraries themselves all
interface OSS.
Before Microsoft coined the term OSS to mean Open Source Software and
changed the world, OSS was better known as the Open Sound System
standard.
This unmicrosoftened OSS is what 99% of Linux audio applications use to
interface the audio hardware. There were some attempts to improve on
OSS itself, like ALSA, but these are platform dependant and
dynamically linking the ALSA library, or even so much as #including the ALSA
include file in your program locks you into very very restrictive
licensing.
OSS is platform independant and very liberal in its licensing, so it's
become the most pervasive.
OSS by definition can only support 4 channels per soundcard. Even if a
5 channel soundcard was supported by the Linux kernel, the method the
software uses to interface the soundcard, the OSS API, is limited to 4
channels. Supporting more than 4 channels per soundcard is binary
impossible without breaking all Linux software.
There were some attempts to support simultaneous soundcards at the
application level, limiting you only to the PCI slot count. Slab tried
to do this. Since OSS doesn't offer any method of synchronizing
multiple soundcards or transparently rolling multiple soundcards into
one, the only way to do it is a very platform and soundcard dependant
DMA routine at the application level. Only a couple soundcards work
with DMA methods and anyone using it has to rewrite their program
everytime a new kernel comes out so it hasn't really worked.
Amazing how their focus has gone from psychofreak levels of detail like the consistancy of toothpaste to more big ticket items like car safety today. Makes you wonder how much people 50 years from now are going to care about what license the source code for their camcorder is under.