Here is an excerpt from their 'Supported compression formats':
Video
Win32 VfW DLLs:
Indeo Video 3.2, 4.1
Microsoft MPEG-4 v1 & v2 beta
Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 ( also known as DivX;-) )
Cinepak Video
ATI VCR-2
I263
Win32 DirectShow filters, decompression-only support:
Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 ( this decoder is slower than VfW one, but offers wider range of picture control features )
Windows Media Video 7
Indeo Video 5.0
Motion JPEG ( using Morgan Multimedia shareware codec )
Open-source plugins:
Motion JPEG ( using libjpeg, very slow ) Audio
Win32 ACM DLLs, decompression-only support:
Windows Media Audio ( also known as DivX;-) Audio )
MS ADPCM
Intel Music Codec
Open-source plugins, decompression-only support:
PCM
AC3
IMA ADPCM
MPEG Layer-1,2,3 ( compression into MP3 is also supported )
MSN Audio
GSM 6.1 Audio
Win32 DirectShow filters, untested decompression-only support:
Voxware Metasound
ACELP.net
But how can battles fought without a loss of life allow for this acquisition? Sooner or later you still end up with a bunch of humans that won't give up their possesions, so you still have to torture/slaughter them.
I honestly don't see this type of war for the future of mankind. Without trying to sound morbid, the whole point of war is _not_ to blow up your enemies' toys, but to kill the opposing legion's fighters.
I do agree that this sort of project is almost inevitable, but isn't it a little too early in tech-time to tackle these kinds of challenges?
As the body of this posting states, prices in hardware will drop. These kinds of drops are cause for changes of plans. The bureaucracy involved in this sort of matter is high and can only slow down or kill the project all together.
This kind of advancement also implies freedom of information (which I'm completely for), but there will always be men in suits that will have agendas to slow down the project.
Although most people will be bashing IBM for asking for such a wad of cash, you must take into account that something as little as ALT tags come with a big price this late in developement.
AFAIK, the ALT tags were not a part of there initial contract. This gives them the right to demand money for their extra services. Secondly, you must take into account of all the QA work involved in having usable ALT tags. This alone would cost MUCH more than the $30,000 to $40,000 that 'Simon Moran of the Public Access Internet Advocacy Centre' says it should. Think of ALT tags like browsing a completely multimedia site using lynx. Now take away the capability to easily skim over the links that don't interest you. Creating an entire site with useable ALT tags is a PITA. IBMs demands aren't that ludicrous when you take into account the reality behide it.
Re:This is berlin without the complications?
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I kinda disagree with you when you say:
Berlin uses CORBA so thus remote corba objects thus you can use your own widget set.
Berlin uses a 'visual' hierarchy of objects within the server. I agree that custom widget sets can be made to work alongside with the server, but hacking them in to work from the x-client is *not* what Berlin was intended to do. The one problem with this kind of ideology is that there'll be no easy way to have two widget sets along side each other on the same screen.
Although I may be wrong or they may have changed this since last I heard (a year ago?).
This is a slightly useful network monitor graphing thing for Win32. It just sits in its own window, pinging a host, and giving you a graph of how long it takes each time.
How useful, now we can have more lamers transmitting unnessecary traffic so they can have a little graph show up. Just another reason to drop all incoming icmp.
This is berlin without the complications?
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The Berling Consortium has all these neat little features (blending, rotations, AA-fonts..), but no one ever pays attention to them...
It should be noted that Berlin uses a completely different approach to visuals than anything X ever had. It takes the approach that the application never need know or assume what the visual will look like. 'Widget's for lack of a better term are coded modularly into the server, creating a single unique interface for all applications to call upon. No more need for Qt/Gtk wars, just pure simplification. Hell, no more SQUARE windows like X is limited to. (anything none-square is a hack...)
I wish these guys would get more support and maybe one day it'd even be accelerated:)
The problem with solely using lower-level languages like C or assembly is that security is still a problem. When dealing with such languages, implementing security is not that difficult, but how often do we hear about buffer overflow exploits? Microsoft's Outlook Date Buffer overflow comes to mind as a stupid bug that could have easily been fixed prior to FCS but was never noticed until recently.
Higher level languages attempt to nullify such security holes by using internal means of actual data storage and recovery that are proven to not cause such exploits. This makes for languages which are in essence more secure by default, granted that bad programming can still leave holes open.
As far as I am concerned, the colour you see probably isn't the same colour I see. The same would probably apply to other senses such as the tactile sense. When I hurt myself, would you feel the same pain? Probably not. I think the interpretation of our senses is pretty much a reflection of our upbringing. Look at languages for instances. Most of us comprehend spoken english without much thought, but once you start listening to someone that speaks an unfamiliar language, all you hear is jibberish, and the interpretation of your sense is lost.
What if someone magically gave you the power to see Xray? Your mind wouldn't be able to comprehend the data it's being given, and your brain would have to learn and figure out a way to interpret it. After such an experience, could you say to My and Your Xray visions are interpreted the same?
Has anyone seen the clips of that guy who went blind some 30 years or so, and has been taking part in neural experiments for the past 25 years? Last I heard, he can now see outlines of images, kinda like a really bad emboss filter. I wonder if they can hack some code up for his implant to make this guy see. It'd only be fair to get it to work for him as he has devoted years to the cause.
Has anyone found any build instruction for cvs.gnome.org? Yes, I do know how to use CVS, it's just that a 'cvs co gnome' checks-out 34 folders, and I don't know where to start, nor what to do. I'd love to pitch-in any additions I would make, but I'm kinda stuck in a rut trying to get this build made..
I assume that to read magnetic media, one must remove the case from the drive. I don't know if the following are feasable or safe, but wouldn't it be nice if opening a harddrive and by breaking the vacuum seal, one of two (or maybe both) things may happen:
1) -Triggering of a super strong electro-magnet, followed by,
2) -An instantaneous release of acid that would eat away at the surface of the disk.
These ideas may seem stupid to most, but you must realize that by opening a harddrive, you are ruining it anyway. I got this idea from the Guinness Tall Boy cans which have a Nitrogen Booster that gets released as soon as you open the can. The drives would have to be manufactured in such a way that these mechanisms could not be interjected before opening the case. This kind of hardware would not be targeted to the average consumer, but to those who may feel a little paranoid about the MAN getting a hold of their data.
Instead, you have to get a proprietary form factor case and mobo. This puts the entry price for a bare mobo/case/cpu package at 1600+ukp, for a machine with a lot less power than a 900ukp althon box!
Isn't this what power computing is all about? I don't know much about Alpha machines in particular, but I myself have found that most alternatives to x86 provide a more robust system that can take a real server's load. My experience with x86 has been that hardware itself can often be flaky leading to hard lockups and erratic behaviours. Then again, maybe that's just my personal experience/opinion.
I would figure that by paying these extra prices, you *should* be getting a superior machine with quality assurances. As far as I can tell, you aren't considering these additions in your pricing. Then again, someone correct me if I'm wrong in saying that you get more for your money with Alpha boxen than with x86.
I hope this deal will help out compaq in their server line. Over the past couple years they have lost the desktop market to other more "e" OEMs. As for the Alpha processors themselves, I hope that this PR will somehow influence upper-management into stepping away from x86 technology.
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Rental. You may not rent, lease, sell, sublicense, or lend the Software.
Do I really want to invest in a company that has linux in it's product name and has these kind of conditions in their EULA?
First off, you treat "Free-Beer" Software just as you would happy hour at the local pub. Take advantage of it, but don't drink the same when beer is regular price. AFAIK, many linux users have installed several of the products available to them at no cost to try them out. Wordperfect/SOffice/Applix... Do they really use all these products? Chances are slim that they need all these at the same time and even slimmer that they would actually dish out cash for each of these products if they were to all be distrobuted with a price tag attached.
I think people should also realize that if these are infact the trends of free-beer software, that by the time it is implemented, the GPLed code for currently under developement office products will have matured to the point where commercial/closed options will become less and less an obligatory purchase. Several products are already under way that in most cases, can achieve the complexity needed by the *average* user. I believe that given five more years of developement would reveal several lines of open source products which will be modular in design and extremely familiar to use to the average user.
I do understand that free-beer software entails many products other than office tools, but I believe them to be a prime example.
I do agree with most posts as this is the community laying the smack down to MICROS~1, but do they have to answer? no! They don't have to reply to this, knowing them, they'll probably bring this another step up in the judicial system. Thinking they are hot shit, they will cause as many legal problems for/. and the andover.net boys as they can. This is the microsoft way. I just hope to all hell that andover never backs down, and defends us from the evil empire for as long as possible. This kind of thing can have severe impacts for our kids later on in life. I can see it now, 25 years from now, all programmers will be less than 18 years old, so that they cannot legally be binded to click-wrap EULAs... Give it more time and people will be having more and more kids just to keep the economy running, and then food shortages will occur, leading us to another episode of "SOYAN GREEN"!! Ahh..
Could you change your.signature? Everytime I read it I get upset. 1984 was written between 1947 and 1948, but only got published in 1949 because Orwell was sick as a dog.
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Here is an excerpt from their 'Supported compression formats':
Video ;-) ) ;-) Audio )
Win32 VfW DLLs:
Indeo Video 3.2, 4.1
Microsoft MPEG-4 v1 & v2 beta
Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 ( also known as DivX
Cinepak Video
ATI VCR-2
I263
Win32 DirectShow filters, decompression-only
support:
Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 ( this decoder is slower than VfW one, but offers wider range of picture control features )
Windows Media Video 7
Indeo Video 5.0
Motion JPEG ( using Morgan Multimedia shareware codec )
Open-source plugins:
Motion JPEG ( using libjpeg, very slow )
Audio
Win32 ACM DLLs, decompression-only support:
Windows Media Audio ( also known as DivX
MS ADPCM
Intel Music Codec
Open-source plugins, decompression-only support:
PCM
AC3
IMA ADPCM
MPEG Layer-1,2,3 ( compression into MP3 is also supported )
MSN Audio
GSM 6.1 Audio
Win32 DirectShow filters, untested decompression-only support:
Voxware Metasound
ACELP.net
It also has support for V4L compression :)
But how can battles fought without a loss of life allow for this acquisition? Sooner or later you still end up with a bunch of humans that won't give up their possesions, so you still have to torture/slaughter them.
I honestly don't see this type of war for the future of mankind. Without trying to sound morbid, the whole point of war is _not_ to blow up your enemies' toys, but to kill the opposing legion's fighters.
What happened to the linuxtoday link?
As the body of this posting states, prices in hardware will drop. These kinds of drops are cause for changes of plans. The bureaucracy involved in this sort of matter is high and can only slow down or kill the project all together.
This kind of advancement also implies freedom of information (which I'm completely for), but there will always be men in suits that will have agendas to slow down the project.
AFAIK, the ALT tags were not a part of there initial contract. This gives them the right to demand money for their extra services. Secondly, you must take into account of all the QA work involved in having usable ALT tags. This alone would cost MUCH more than the $30,000 to $40,000 that 'Simon Moran of the Public Access Internet Advocacy Centre' says it should. Think of ALT tags like browsing a completely multimedia site using lynx. Now take away the capability to easily skim over the links that don't interest you. Creating an entire site with useable ALT tags is a PITA. IBMs demands aren't that ludicrous when you take into account the reality behide it.
Berlin uses CORBA so thus remote corba objects thus you can use your own widget set.
Berlin uses a 'visual' hierarchy of objects within the server. I agree that custom widget sets can be made to work alongside with the server, but hacking them in to work from the x-client is *not* what Berlin was intended to do. The one problem with this kind of ideology is that there'll be no easy way to have two widget sets along side each other on the same screen.
Although I may be wrong or they may have changed this since last I heard (a year ago?).
Automatically skips or overwrites existing files
Alright! just what I've been looking for, no more "Do you wish to overwrite this file?" pop-ups! WOOHOO!
This is a slightly useful network monitor graphing thing for Win32. It just sits in its own window, pinging a host, and giving you a graph of how long it takes each time.
How useful, now we can have more lamers transmitting unnessecary traffic so they can have a little graph show up. Just another reason to drop all incoming icmp.
It should be noted that Berlin uses a completely different approach to visuals than anything X ever had. It takes the approach that the application never need know or assume what the visual will look like. 'Widget's for lack of a better term are coded modularly into the server, creating a single unique interface for all applications to call upon. No more need for Qt/Gtk wars, just pure simplification. Hell, no more SQUARE windows like X is limited to. (anything none-square is a hack...)
I wish these guys would get more support and maybe one day it'd even be accelerated :)
This is great because now you'll actually be able to diff your images and have GOOD concurrent versioning of your graphics collection.
Higher level languages attempt to nullify such security holes by using internal means of actual data storage and recovery that are proven to not cause such exploits. This makes for languages which are in essence more secure by default, granted that bad programming can still leave holes open.
As far as I am concerned, the colour you see probably isn't the same colour I see. The same would probably apply to other senses such as the tactile sense. When I hurt myself, would you feel the same pain? Probably not. I think the interpretation of our senses is pretty much a reflection of our upbringing. Look at languages for instances. Most of us comprehend spoken english without much thought, but once you start listening to someone that speaks an unfamiliar language, all you hear is jibberish, and the interpretation of your sense is lost.
What if someone magically gave you the power to see Xray? Your mind wouldn't be able to comprehend the data it's being given, and your brain would have to learn and figure out a way to interpret it. After such an experience, could you say to My and Your Xray visions are interpreted the same?
Has anyone seen the clips of that guy who went blind some 30 years or so, and has been taking part in neural experiments for the past 25 years? Last I heard, he can now see outlines of images, kinda like a really bad emboss filter. I wonder if they can hack some code up for his implant to make this guy see. It'd only be fair to get it to work for him as he has devoted years to the cause.
can you spell NDA?
Has anyone found any build instruction for cvs.gnome.org? Yes, I do know how to use CVS, it's just that a 'cvs co gnome' checks-out 34 folders, and I don't know where to start, nor what to do. I'd love to pitch-in any additions I would make, but I'm kinda stuck in a rut trying to get this build made..
1) -Triggering of a super strong electro-magnet, followed by,
2) -An instantaneous release of acid that would eat away at the surface of the disk.
These ideas may seem stupid to most, but you must realize that by opening a harddrive, you are ruining it anyway. I got this idea from the Guinness Tall Boy cans which have a Nitrogen Booster that gets released as soon as you open the can. The drives would have to be manufactured in such a way that these mechanisms could not be interjected before opening the case. This kind of hardware would not be targeted to the average consumer, but to those who may feel a little paranoid about the MAN getting a hold of their data.
you realize tho that the curve you mention goes UP and not down right?
Isn't this what power computing is all about? I don't know much about Alpha machines in particular, but I myself have found that most alternatives to x86 provide a more robust system that can take a real server's load. My experience with x86 has been that hardware itself can often be flaky leading to hard lockups and erratic behaviours. Then again, maybe that's just my personal experience/opinion.
I would figure that by paying these extra prices, you *should* be getting a superior machine with quality assurances. As far as I can tell, you aren't considering these additions in your pricing. Then again, someone correct me if I'm wrong in saying that you get more for your money with Alpha boxen than with x86.
I hope this deal will help out compaq in their server line. Over the past couple years they have lost the desktop market to other more "e" OEMs. As for the Alpha processors themselves, I hope that this PR will somehow influence upper-management into stepping away from x86 technology.
Rental. You may not rent, lease, sell, sublicense, or lend the Software.
Do I really want to invest in a company that has linux in it's product name and has these kind of conditions in their EULA?
I think people should also realize that if these are infact the trends of free-beer software, that by the time it is implemented, the GPLed code for currently under developement office products will have matured to the point where commercial/closed options will become less and less an obligatory purchase. Several products are already under way that in most cases, can achieve the complexity needed by the *average* user. I believe that given five more years of developement would reveal several lines of open source products which will be modular in design and extremely familiar to use to the average user.
I do understand that free-beer software entails many products other than office tools, but I believe them to be a prime example.
so AndOver.net is our last saviour
thank you
My mistake, I misread touch pad for touch screen.