If Linux"takes off", I'll eat my hat. It is a nice academic project, but just doesn't have the development speed to ever get anywhere. Linux has been around since at least 1994, and before that as Minux (in essence). Lo these many years later, you still can't use Linux for anything other than developing Linux.
Unix hasn't had such mainstream acceptance as it does now. It might not have stood a chance ina purly corporate world, but now when Linux and everything that comes with it is Free it isn't such a harsh transition to give people a choice between X and something with a compatibility layer for X and GTK.
I think that one thing they could do to help themselves in make a mini widget set that is basic but uncomplicated for very simple creation of very simple GUIs.
I don't know what compression techniques they will be using, but they don't have any incorporated right now, and when they do, I think it will make a big difference in size.
I just realized that the best way to play Divix based burned CD movies is probably the x-box or playstation 2. Why not the gamecube? The x-box and the playstation 2 will both have hardware for mpeg 2 decoding alla dvd playing. mpeg 2 acceleration can be put towards mpeg 4 acceleration because the algorithms have some simililarities (decreet cosine transform or something like, someone help me out here). I know that playing.asf's and Divix movies on my computer is much much faster than it used to be before I got dvd hardware decoding. I guess my point is that the dreamcast is definitly not powerful enough to support it, but if someone made a program that would take a movie and burn a cd with that and the neccesary startup and program files on it, you'd be in buisness.
I guess it is kind of unfair to compare the two because vorbis isnt' really out of beta yet, but I hope there is this kind of dynamic conversion associated with Vorbis. I know I am going to rip CD's to no end once vorbis support compression of the redundancy between audio channels, just so I can distribute it out to get a little more ogg action out there.
Stop trying to defend someone who has become nothing more than a money grubbing wank spoiled by his own unearned success. He is one the biggest sell out's of all time and you are trying to defend him saying that he is just trying to do what he likes. Give me a break, you are a tool, and most people on slashdot are not, and that's why you have such a conflicting view. Even micheal jordan doesn't have as many product tie-ins and cheap, quick dollar mearchandise as Episode I did. America as a whole was taken advantage of by the one person you are trying to defend so pipe down.
George Lucas seems so obssesed with being "the first" to do everything. Maybe he shoudl concentrate on tryng to make a good movie instead of thinking up more usless but "groundbreaking" applications of CGI while trying to make as much money as possible. I am not looking forward to all the marketing slop being thrown around again.
IF you are just learning programming, I would actually recommend something other than perl (although you seem like you are doing ok with it). The conventions used are getting kind of messy and don't really coincide with any other languages. Perl rocks, but as for making it a first a language it wouldn't be my choice. You can learn python pretty easily through the online tutorials on the python site so the you wouldn't have to worry about written help, although there is alot more perl out there than python code.
You didn't even need to say that you won't consider python as your language, it is obvious from your lack of open-mindedness. When I first used it I thought that it would a difficult transition. Within two days I liked python's methods of doing things much much better. Python codee is very very clean and makes working with other people a breeze. It is elegant and the more you know, the more precise it can get. Try reading the official tutorials, they don't take too long and you can learn python in anywhere from 2 days to a week. It took me about 4 days of alot of reading. You should try it before you bash it.
There is some truth to this, but I was at a small bank the other day an noticed they had small weak machines running windows but they used some kind of proprietary app to do everything in. This took up the whole screen and I don't think that they really even had to deal much with windows to do their work. So this could eaisly be done with Linux to save on OS costs, but then again, they couldn't usethe computers for personal stuff, so I don't know if this would be a plus or a minus.
There is such thing a quad data rate SDRAM, the memory clock is at an offset to the processor clock or something like that. I am not sure where I read it, it might have been here.
right on, right now I am having trouble finding a programming job, but if it means all the dumbasses who go for a computer science degree or devry thinking that they are going to make bank for knowing nothing more than the bare basics of programming, I'm willing to make the sacrifice.
But you can't always have hardware acceleration for everything. I don't think anyone will be making hardware acceleration for encoding vorbis files or encoding mpeg 4 because it only serves a very small market that can change on a whim.
Maybe I didn't do a good job, but I was trying to focus my point on being encoding speed and not decoding speed. Yes higher end computers can do decoding of mpeg2 and 4 in software as well as sorenson, but none of them can do mpeg 4 compression in software, in realtime and that would be very useful for video conferencing. I don't really know about mpeg 2 or sorenson encoding, I haven't really done straight tests of them.
Another common use for CPU power is just plain video and audio. Few computers can do mpeg 2 and mpeg 4 in software right now. Computers are starting to be able to do mp3 encoding in real time. I don't think there is any computer that I know of that can do real-time mpeg 4 and real time mp3 or voirbis compression. Why would this be useful? Video conferencing of course! right now video conferencing kind of sucks because you can't really use the same codecs that you can use for web page video like mpeg 4 or sweet sweet sorenson. Maybe you could do better audio by using a vorbis or mp3 encoding decoding scheme but video is not as good as it could be if we all had faster computers. Its sad when bandwidth isn't the only bottlneck anymore.
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If Linux"takes off", I'll eat my hat. It is a nice academic project, but just doesn't have the development speed to ever get anywhere. Linux has been around since at least 1994, and before that as Minux (in essence). Lo these many years later, you still can't use Linux for anything other than developing Linux.
Unix hasn't had such mainstream acceptance as it does now. It might not have stood a chance ina purly corporate world, but now when Linux and everything that comes with it is Free it isn't such a harsh transition to give people a choice between X and something with a compatibility layer for X and GTK.
I think that one thing they could do to help themselves in make a mini widget set that is basic but uncomplicated for very simple creation of very simple GUIs.
Don't forget that he liked having older women as mistresses because they wouldn't go off and tell their friends.
I don't know what compression techniques they will be using, but they don't have any incorporated right now, and when they do, I think it will make a big difference in size.
If I got paid for my computer crashing I would never use anything other than windows me, netscape, winamp alphas, icq, diviX codecs, and powerDVD.
I just realized that the best way to play Divix based burned CD movies is probably the x-box or playstation 2. Why not the gamecube? The x-box and the playstation 2 will both have hardware for mpeg 2 decoding alla dvd playing. mpeg 2 acceleration can be put towards mpeg 4 acceleration because the algorithms have some simililarities (decreet cosine transform or something like, someone help me out here). I know that playing .asf's and Divix movies on my computer is much much faster than it used to be before I got dvd hardware decoding. I guess my point is that the dreamcast is definitly not powerful enough to support it, but if someone made a program that would take a movie and burn a cd with that and the neccesary startup and program files on it, you'd be in buisness.
dvd-RAM != dvdR
I guess it is kind of unfair to compare the two because vorbis isnt' really out of beta yet, but I hope there is this kind of dynamic conversion associated with Vorbis. I know I am going to rip CD's to no end once vorbis support compression of the redundancy between audio channels, just so I can distribute it out to get a little more ogg action out there.
It would be gimmicky, but I think its actually a pretty good idea.
Voice sythesis requires many more variables than CGI, it is not near as straightforward to generate a realistic voice.
Stop trying to defend someone who has become nothing more than a money grubbing wank spoiled by his own unearned success. He is one the biggest sell out's of all time and you are trying to defend him saying that he is just trying to do what he likes. Give me a break, you are a tool, and most people on slashdot are not, and that's why you have such a conflicting view. Even micheal jordan doesn't have as many product tie-ins and cheap, quick dollar mearchandise as Episode I did. America as a whole was taken advantage of by the one person you are trying to defend so pipe down.
Final Fantasy all the way, although the trailers make it look so bad
George Lucas seems so obssesed with being "the first" to do everything. Maybe he shoudl concentrate on tryng to make a good movie instead of thinking up more usless but "groundbreaking" applications of CGI while trying to make as much money as possible. I am not looking forward to all the marketing slop being thrown around again.
IF you are just learning programming, I would actually recommend something other than perl (although you seem like you are doing ok with it). The conventions used are getting kind of messy and don't really coincide with any other languages. Perl rocks, but as for making it a first a language it wouldn't be my choice. You can learn python pretty easily through the online tutorials on the python site so the you wouldn't have to worry about written help, although there is alot more perl out there than python code.
You didn't even need to say that you won't consider python as your language, it is obvious from your lack of open-mindedness. When I first used it I thought that it would a difficult transition. Within two days I liked python's methods of doing things much much better. Python codee is very very clean and makes working with other people a breeze. It is elegant and the more you know, the more precise it can get. Try reading the official tutorials, they don't take too long and you can learn python in anywhere from 2 days to a week. It took me about 4 days of alot of reading. You should try it before you bash it.
There is some truth to this, but I was at a small bank the other day an noticed they had small weak machines running windows but they used some kind of proprietary app to do everything in. This took up the whole screen and I don't think that they really even had to deal much with windows to do their work. So this could eaisly be done with Linux to save on OS costs, but then again, they couldn't usethe computers for personal stuff, so I don't know if this would be a plus or a minus.
There is such thing a quad data rate SDRAM, the memory clock is at an offset to the processor clock or something like that. I am not sure where I read it, it might have been here.
right on, right now I am having trouble finding a programming job, but if it means all the dumbasses who go for a computer science degree or devry thinking that they are going to make bank for knowing nothing more than the bare basics of programming, I'm willing to make the sacrifice.
But you can't always have hardware acceleration for everything. I don't think anyone will be making hardware acceleration for encoding vorbis files or encoding mpeg 4 because it only serves a very small market that can change on a whim.
Maybe I didn't do a good job, but I was trying to focus my point on being encoding speed and not decoding speed. Yes higher end computers can do decoding of mpeg2 and 4 in software as well as sorenson, but none of them can do mpeg 4 compression in software, in realtime and that would be very useful for video conferencing. I don't really know about mpeg 2 or sorenson encoding, I haven't really done straight tests of them.
Another common use for CPU power is just plain video and audio. Few computers can do mpeg 2 and mpeg 4 in software right now. Computers are starting to be able to do mp3 encoding in real time. I don't think there is any computer that I know of that can do real-time mpeg 4 and real time mp3 or voirbis compression. Why would this be useful? Video conferencing of course! right now video conferencing kind of sucks because you can't really use the same codecs that you can use for web page video like mpeg 4 or sweet sweet sorenson. Maybe you could do better audio by using a vorbis or mp3 encoding decoding scheme but video is not as good as it could be if we all had faster computers. Its sad when bandwidth isn't the only bottlneck anymore.
I think you just found a new way to rip off vending machines.
I just wrote a node on everything2.com so check it out and contribute to the lashing.
But also mentioned is his pager email address, right here -> 7142275975@mobile.att.net
Someone else (loraksus post #90) posted it but I think everyone should get a chance to tell him how they feel.
Nice, very nice, I think I might just do that.
He brought down you network for 2 days? He needs to go and get MSCE certified. If he's that clueless he could probably pass with flying colors.