Never has a corporation so blatantly and publicly violated federal law in such obvious ways, and, via the internet, been so widely documented.
Never has the US judicial and legislative systems been exposed as being fundamentally incompetent/inadequate to deal with rogue, illegal corporations.
Never has the effect of "dumbing down" of the US population been more obvious than when people support Microsoft without bothering to read the facts of the case or understand the consequences of allowing monolithic control of software systems or development.
Microsoft has done so much more than just screw the public over a span of a couple decades...they have exposed fundamental flaws in the legislative, judicial and education systems of the USA in a very painful way.
Yup...his dad destroyed the economy, and his dad wasn't an idiot. This does not bode well for the next four years.
Add the (at least) two rightists he will put in the supreme court, squandering the SSN funds to his investment pals on wall street...
The way his dad ignored the pleas from the DOJ that the S&Ls/Insurance companies were ripping off america...and kept it all under wraps til america got totally screwed and it was too late to fix.
Finally, the house, senate and president are all republicans...Bill Gates just got his reprieve.
They said you'd never support open source or provide a quality programming environment for your PS2.
Well, you've certainly showed them. Now that hackers everywhere have a rudimentary basic that does a primitive 3D, golly, you're just gonna take the market by storm.
A call to developers : gorilla.bas clone needed.
[OT] Some people were helping me get video capture working on linux box...just so you know, I've got both realproducer and bcast2000 cranking out.rm's and mpeg1 videos on my linux box now! everything is working now. Thanks.
Geez, all all you people really in it for the money? money? money? money? Buy that SUV or BMW, tailgate and swerve around people, show the world what a superior primate you've become.
This is directly contrary to the spirit of the GPL and most of what the green party stands for.
I'm a centrist for the most part, but I'm just taking a moment to point out that greed is not always good.
Although I don't have links, there are several websites that point out (with proof to back it up) that american corporations often waste money on worthless projects, with do-nothing people, and no chance of success, on a scale that would make Lincoln break dance in his grave.
Personally, I thought there was already an infrastructure in place that tried to keep civil service salaries in line with locally employed private sector people, but I guess I'm thinking about something else.
Anyway, I applaud people who work hard and have their efforts pay off, but to simply go for the juiciest bait without any focus on what YOU PERSONALLY WANT TO CREATE IN YOUR LIFE seems awfully ludicrous and un-geekly.
This is a application where users need to show incoming video (NTSC) off a bttv card. Basically realtime video in an Xwindow...plus controls to adjust contrast, etc. and (optionally) save the stream to a video file (format somewhat irrevelant, no audio required for now, maybe later).
I was getting ready to poke at some of the apps I saw over at Building #3, but thought I'd ask here, since a similar topic is up. As I recall, most of the apps to do this are somewhat primitive, grainy, unreliable, and don't have much of any controls.
The gqcam application is very cool, but is only for the qcam. I'm almost thinking about trying to make something similar to that for bttv, presumably using the V4L api.
BTW, if anyone sees this and knows something about the S-video inputs on many bttv cards (what they can/can't do -- typical resolution, etc) please enlighten me.
Some years ago, I saw the CEO of a medium sized corporation blanch when the contractor told him to write a check to M$HAFT for $120K+...200+ users, 8 NT servers (fairly loaded).
This was a upgrade after about three years of the previous M$ stuff, which had cost them $80K.
Now, imagine what happens when M$ moves forward with their goals of application rentals and the elimination of CDs (the elimination of CDs means only channel resellers have OS cds, you only get an OS with a complete system, and a replacement requires the return of the HD).
Many companies/government orgs are not willing (or legally able) to connect their machines to the internet just to have them boot or run apps. Nor are they willing/able to send used hard drives to anyone (sensitive data).
This gives these end users two options : buy a new machine when the hard drive fails (keeping a inventory of spares) or use free software. Note also that the license starts to apply to the physical box, not the bits of the harddrive. For the truly anal, who keep software in libraries, that's quite a bit of shelf space!
I've seen EULAs before that allow the software company itself to enter and audit the suspect workplace. Wonder what the CIA or NSA would think of that scenario, particularly if a lot of M$ stock or management ends up moving overseas.
What would take precedence? A court order for M$ to enter a secure/secret facility, possibly with a crew of H1B/foreign nationals, or the secret facilities' mission to protect data? Well, since most of those facilities are authorized to use deadly force, the answer is obvious...unless M$ forms a 'leet commando team or something.
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Microsoft is awesome.
Never has a corporation so blatantly and publicly violated federal law in such obvious ways, and, via the internet, been so widely documented.
Never has the US judicial and legislative systems been exposed as being fundamentally incompetent/inadequate to deal with rogue, illegal corporations.
Never has the effect of "dumbing down" of the US population been more obvious than when people support Microsoft without bothering to read the facts of the case or understand the consequences of allowing monolithic control of software systems or development.
Microsoft has done so much more than just screw the public over a span of a couple decades...they have exposed fundamental flaws in the legislative, judicial and education systems of the USA in a very painful way.
For that alone, they should be thanked.
...on cnn, FLA just went down to 214 votes in favor of Bush, and Gore has the popular vote.
No shit! Automatic recount is being done...600-700 vote difference in FLA!
With 99% in, Bush has won Florida by 9,163 votes, from 5,757,579 votes cast!
That's the closest race I've ever heard of in politics.
Yup...his dad destroyed the economy, and his dad wasn't an idiot. This does not bode well for the next four years.
Add the (at least) two rightists he will put in the supreme court, squandering the SSN funds to his investment pals on wall street...
The way his dad ignored the pleas from the DOJ that the S&Ls/Insurance companies were ripping off america...and kept it all under wraps til america got totally screwed and it was too late to fix.
Finally, the house, senate and president are all republicans...Bill Gates just got his reprieve.
Linux Loses!
Microsoft loses!
therefore, Microsoft decides what will get released, when, and where.
...don't let them view Bush or Gore online.
Why doesn't someone just loop the frickin' benchmarks and draw the graph? It should be flat on AMD/Intel and show an increase for the Crusoe.
This seems awfully unfair to transmeta...to test their cpu against the same standard as the big guns, when their main feature in dynamicism.
Anyone who thinks dynamic code/data analysis is BS...read up on SGI/Nvidias video driver strategies.
It seems painfully obvious that a computing system should optimize itself to the task at hand.
For proving all the naysayers wrong.
.rm's and mpeg1 videos on my linux box now! everything is working now. Thanks.
They said you'd never support open source or provide a quality programming environment for your PS2.
Well, you've certainly showed them. Now that hackers everywhere have a rudimentary basic that does a primitive 3D, golly, you're just gonna take the market by storm.
A call to developers : gorilla.bas clone needed.
[OT] Some people were helping me get video capture working on linux box...just so you know, I've got both realproducer and bcast2000 cranking out
...to see a flame baiting post like this on /.
How can something that destroys freedom be good, even if it has better performance?
It's "sheeptronic"
Geez, all all you people really in it for the money? money? money? money? Buy that SUV or BMW, tailgate and swerve around people, show the world what a superior primate you've become.
This is directly contrary to the spirit of the GPL and most of what the green party stands for.
I'm a centrist for the most part, but I'm just taking a moment to point out that greed is not always good.
Although I don't have links, there are several websites that point out (with proof to back it up) that american corporations often waste money on worthless projects, with do-nothing people, and no chance of success, on a scale that would make Lincoln break dance in his grave.
Personally, I thought there was already an infrastructure in place that tried to keep civil service salaries in line with locally employed private sector people, but I guess I'm thinking about something else.
Anyway, I applaud people who work hard and have their efforts pay off, but to simply go for the juiciest bait without any focus on what YOU PERSONALLY WANT TO CREATE IN YOUR LIFE seems awfully ludicrous and un-geekly.
...about the information age causing a "vietnam like" battle between corporate greed and the people.
:-)
Personally, I'm not sure it will happen any time soon. Everyone I knew in college that was a radical is driving an SUV now.
They don't like me anymore, either...snif snif
Help make the world a little more like 1930's Germany.
xawtv.
apt-get install xawtv
quality is so-so (could be the card) but it will vidcap 12fps (avi format) on a 400mhz box, and display what appears to be full speed.
this is not a webcam though...it's a ntsc source.
:-)
I think creative bought the quickcam a year or two ago, so the usb is basically the same guts as a quickcam.
gqcam locks up if i have it use the bttv848 board, unfortunately...but it does report it properly before locking
Doh! linking /dev/video1 (where my bt848 board is) to /dev/video locks gqcam after several seconds.
The s/w does detect the device info properly, though.
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S.D.
It doesn't have to grab every frame. Most of the frames will be redundant.
I'm guessing if I can get more than 5 fps they will be happy.
Might need to pause and slew back through the actual captured frames on-the-fly, maybe 5 minutes worth.
Another poster in this thread mentioned gqcam working with devices other than the quickcam, maybe it will work with bttv?
> ...damage would be contained to a localized
> area in the 1 to 3 megaton range if a collision
> were to ever happen.
Seems odd to measure the "localized area" in "Megatons".
Appears to be yet another sample of that new "goals 2000" english the White House is so proud of.
This is a application where users need to show incoming video (NTSC) off a bttv card. Basically realtime video in an Xwindow...plus controls to adjust contrast, etc. and (optionally) save the stream to a video file (format somewhat irrevelant, no audio required for now, maybe later).
I was getting ready to poke at some of the apps I saw over at Building #3, but thought I'd ask here, since a similar topic is up. As I recall, most of the apps to do this are somewhat primitive, grainy, unreliable, and don't have much of any controls.
The gqcam application is very cool, but is only for the qcam. I'm almost thinking about trying to make something similar to that for bttv, presumably using the V4L api.
BTW, if anyone sees this and knows something about the S-video inputs on many bttv cards (what they can/can't do -- typical resolution, etc) please enlighten me.
T-again.
I noticed this is going to be under a proprietary "free for non-comm" license.
Are there any gpl'd players out there that will:
1) Use the video4linux api;
2) play realtime onscreen with controls;
3) optionally create a video file (prefer mpeg but others are ok).
TIA.
Some posters have been saying "Big Deal, RMS would do this in a second if he could".
Uh, the GPL says you can make as many copies as you want, and share them with your friends, associates, whatevuh.
If it was just one post, I'd figure it was a troll, but with several, I figure it must be people who don't know better.
Remember, these are end users, not developers. They probably have no issues with non-release of mixed code.
Some years ago, I saw the CEO of a medium sized corporation blanch when the contractor told him to write a check to M$HAFT for $120K+...200+ users, 8 NT servers (fairly loaded).
This was a upgrade after about three years of the previous M$ stuff, which had cost them $80K.
Now, imagine what happens when M$ moves forward with their goals of application rentals and the elimination of CDs (the elimination of CDs means only channel resellers have OS cds, you only get an OS with a complete system, and a replacement requires the return of the HD).
Many companies/government orgs are not willing (or legally able) to connect their machines to the internet just to have them boot or run apps. Nor are they willing/able to send used hard drives to anyone (sensitive data).
This gives these end users two options : buy a new machine when the hard drive fails (keeping a inventory of spares) or use free software. Note also that the license starts to apply to the physical box, not the bits of the harddrive. For the truly anal, who keep software in libraries, that's quite a bit of shelf space!
I've seen EULAs before that allow the software company itself to enter and audit the suspect workplace. Wonder what the CIA or NSA would think of that scenario, particularly if a lot of M$ stock or management ends up moving overseas.
What would take precedence? A court order for M$ to enter a secure/secret facility, possibly with a crew of H1B/foreign nationals, or the secret facilities' mission to protect data? Well, since most of those facilities are authorized to use deadly force, the answer is obvious...unless M$ forms a 'leet commando team or something.