The Financial Times (p22) also relates how Intel is going to follow Ford Motors by supplying their 70,000 employees with free PCs and internet access. To this end the are inviting bids from PC manufacturers, but they cannot have an AMD processor in them. They are also including a digital camera, printer and home networking as well as a toy from the Play Line. Employees can do what they want with these including selling them on the open market. I wonder if Apple is also excluded;-)
The Real freebe server delivers about 20 streams, the 2k version 60, 6k for 100, 12k for 200, 22k for 400, 40 k for 1000, 80k for 2000. The larger servers also include other wistles and bells.
Links to my stuff won't do you any good since it in a secure area of our server. It is a quarter ending market commentary by the fund managers in a money management firm with 30 bn under management. Would like to provide them to you, but can't.
One thing that I recognize is that the purpose of these lectures is not for general webcasting. For the internal consumption then ASF may be adequate. For external webcasting it is a poor choice.
To deliver video to the real world and get paid for it (in some general sense), you have to deliver the video dependably to a random audiance connected via random methods. ASF just doesn't hack it.
As someone who does net video, I find this particular presentation as a reason why I would much, much, rather use Real than Windoze. On a T1, my media player spent so much of its time buffering, that the entire enterprise is useless. While this is perhaps my corporate firewall getting in the way, a Real Media Surestream would have negotiated its speed down to where the video would have been watchable rather than a total loss. The Windoze seems to be using some rather chunky progressive motion jpeg to boot (viewing cnnfn with it sucessfully). Both Real and streaming Quicktime are using a spline interpolation which is a lot easier on the eyeballs.
The current alpha of the Real Player for the Mac can do a FULL SCREEN talking head that is worthwhile at 112 kbs. Sad to say, but the only reason that Windoze streaming media is around at all is the constant "Lets all pretend that its really nice" syndrome by the Microsquish syncophants.
In any event, (to be charitable) a lot does depend on the skill of the person doing the encoding. Understanding some of the trade-offs in how to spend your bandwidth (no matter what encoder you use) can make all the difference in the world. Web video is still not a turnkey operation in any sense of the word, if you do it right. However, in this video we do have an example of how you can produce a product that would not play in the real world to a real world commercial audiance. Contrast this with the quicktime streaming demo on the os-x server by Steve Jobs at Apple's Site where it is streaming quicktime to 50 imacs...
Alas, I must concur with your judgement. And I am afraid that they "We will do anything to be safe and fuzzy" crowd here in the US is not far behind. For the amount of money being spent on such despotic security measures, a great number of lives could be improved or saved if the money were spent on medicine.
To be forced to supply a decryption key that will make potentially damaging material available to whomever wants it is I am afraid a form of self-incrimiation. Theoretically, that is unconstitutional here in the states, but with the pro-active, revisionist legal system, I would not be surprised if such rights were to go out the window here too. The recent effort to have a "trap-door" key on file comes to mind.
Yasee the plan is to first cut off their hair, then give them a m16 and then tell them that those funny looking folks over there are the enemy..."
Can't say but I agree with you about the potential for abuse. Its one thing for me to do stuff pro-bono and open source since I don't make my living at it. Its quite another to openly pirate other folks stuff without their consent. While I would like to see a general sharing of the mp3 processing load, the concept of show me that you own the cd before you can get the mp3 of it has some merit. Someplace there has to be a middle ground between the overt legal beating down of the means of transmitting this stuff and the snareware community who are using it to get a free ride at someone else's expense.
It has been a well known fact that there are dust clouds at the LeGrange points with the earth/moon system. I remember reading pieces about this in the early 1970s and I suspect that there were even earlier ones. Because such points form a potential energy well, random cruft collects there. However, for anything to be called a true moon, I would propose the following tests: 1) Is it bigger than a breadbox? 2) Is the orbit stable over several million years. The second is true with the dust clouds, and the first is true with this object. Both are not true with either this object or the dust clouds. Not to detract from the research which has more to do with the probablility of becoming toast from an asteroid collision and is well done, but a second moon? I think not.
As anyone who has done any video will tell you, you can never have enough speed or disk. My nle system for dig editing has roughly.1 terabyte of striped wide and its a squeeze to do a conference of length 6 hours on it. 2 gby = 9 min or there abouts of digital video.
I detect a bit of hyperbole here in their requirements. But what do you want. If it doesn't work with your config, ask for double your money back...
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The Financial Times (p22) also relates how Intel is going to follow Ford Motors by supplying their 70,000 employees with free PCs and internet access. To this end the are inviting bids from PC manufacturers, but they cannot have an AMD processor in them. They are also including a digital camera, printer and home networking as well as a toy from the Play Line. Employees can do what they want with these including selling them on the open market. I wonder if Apple is also excluded ;-)
My friend for those who like their stout, it is Harp Colone.
Not sure what the evil empire charges...
One thing that I recognize is that the purpose of these lectures is not for general webcasting. For the internal consumption then ASF may be adequate. For external webcasting it is a poor choice.
This is true on the x86 platform, but not true on the Mac. ASF will work within Netscape under the MacOs.
To deliver video to the real world and get paid for it (in some general sense), you have to deliver the video dependably to a random audiance connected via random methods. ASF just doesn't hack it.
The current alpha of the Real Player for the Mac can do a FULL SCREEN talking head that is worthwhile at 112 kbs. Sad to say, but the only reason that Windoze streaming media is around at all is the constant "Lets all pretend that its really nice" syndrome by the Microsquish syncophants.
In any event, (to be charitable) a lot does depend on the skill of the person doing the encoding. Understanding some of the trade-offs in how to spend your bandwidth (no matter what encoder you use) can make all the difference in the world. Web video is still not a turnkey operation in any sense of the word, if you do it right. However, in this video we do have an example of how you can produce a product that would not play in the real world to a real world commercial audiance. Contrast this with the quicktime streaming demo on the os-x server by Steve Jobs at Apple's Site where it is streaming quicktime to 50 imacs...
To be forced to supply a decryption key that will make potentially damaging material available to whomever wants it is I am afraid a form of self-incrimiation. Theoretically, that is unconstitutional here in the states, but with the pro-active, revisionist legal system, I would not be surprised if such rights were to go out the window here too. The recent effort to have a "trap-door" key on file comes to mind.
Yasee the plan is to first cut off their hair, then give them a m16 and then tell them that those funny looking folks over there are the enemy..."
hmm... the sun neither rises nor sets by east coast time. it was 2 pm in Germany...
Can't say but I agree with you about the potential for abuse. Its one thing for me to do stuff pro-bono and open source since I don't make my living at it. Its quite another to openly pirate other folks stuff without their consent. While I would like to see a general sharing of the mp3 processing load, the concept of show me that you own the cd before you can get the mp3 of it has some merit. Someplace there has to be a middle ground between the overt legal beating down of the means of transmitting this stuff and the snareware community who are using it to get a free ride at someone else's expense.
It has been a well known fact that there are dust clouds at the LeGrange points with the earth/moon system. I remember reading pieces about this in the early 1970s and I suspect that there were even earlier ones. Because such points form a potential energy well, random cruft collects there. However, for anything to be called a true moon, I would propose the following tests: 1) Is it bigger than a breadbox? 2) Is the orbit stable over several million years. The second is true with the dust clouds, and the first is true with this object. Both are not true with either this object or the dust clouds. Not to detract from the research which has more to do with the probablility of becoming toast from an asteroid collision and is well done, but a second moon? I think not.
I detect a bit of hyperbole here in their requirements. But what do you want. If it doesn't work with your config, ask for double your money back...