TVTime had the absolute best motion adaptive de-interlace filter I'd ever seen...
TVtime doesn't have a motion-adaptive deinterlacer, unless it was recently added. It has the equivalent of an advanced line-doubler, which is known as tfields in MPlayer.
Sadly, far too many people, with no idea what they are talking about, refer to these as deinterlacers.
I can't speak for 3rd party add-ons for virtualdub, but it certainly isn't included in the default filters...
None of these groups want anybody else to contend with when the shit is hitting the fan. The vocabulary is different. The lingo is different. The culture is different.
This is nonsense. With trunked radio, you're all on the same range of frequencies, but your reciever only outputs the messages marked for your group.
You can essentially have radios with a switch on them, that takes them from transmitting to Fire, Police, EMS, etc. So you have your nice FD radio, but when you can't reach the command, you can switch over to the Police channel and tell them directly that you need a hand.
We don't want it. We don't need it.
YOU don't want it, because you're probably some fireman in the middle of nowhere, who has never seen a disaster, and have no understanding of the system to begin with.
So you think it adequate that, if that were the case, that the residents were merely warned?
My example was (hopefully) an obvious exaggeration.
Whether a warning, or condemnation is appropriate, depends on the overall risk. If there's only some 5% chance that you'll develop cancer, if you live in the apartment your whole life, I'd say a warning is the best you can hope for, and SURELY better than NOT warning people at all, which is the current state of affairs in the rest of the country.
Consigning the GP to "enjoy his toxic apartment" on the one hand, and applauding the warning labels on the other is hypocricy itself.
No, it's sarcasm, which you seemed to have missed.
If you wish to ignore warnings, you can do so, just as it's perfectly legal to go sky diving, and other risky, life-theatening behaviors. If you get your thrills off of living in a (potentially) hazardous place, I'm not going to step in and tell you that you absolutely can't.
THAT would be the real nanny state... not a few stickers which inform people of the risks.
The fact is that DOS (and its clones, such as FreeDOS) are not really OSs, they're just a think library layer between the application software and the hardware. So probably your compatibility issues have more to do with hardware than your OS.
I've run the same programs, on the same hardware under MS-DOS. This was probably a year ago now, since I tried FreeDOS, but it doesn't change quickly, so I doubt it's been fixed.
I realize DOS programs are rather low-level, but they don't just run on the hardware directly. They make numerous calls to different parts of the OS, directly address RAM where it expects certain drivers to be loaded, etc. Anything less than a 99% exact copy of MS-DOS, and high-end DOS programs have trouble.
You might have more luck running old games under DOSBox than on a system booted up with FreeDOS.
It certainly is possible that FreeDOS and MS-DOS only act differently when given hundreds of GBs of RAM to play with, and a multi-GHz CPU:-)
Buggy package? It runs, then doesn't burn anything. If it's a bug, it's almost certainly a but in cdrtools,
Not true at all. See the homepage for cdrtools for more info.
MANY distros ship packages of programs like cdrtools, MPlayer, X.org, NTP, etc., which are just utterly broken, through no fault of the programs in question. I've seen it extensively.
Less complex programs can handle broken build environments, and half-assed patches without problems, but the more complex ones exhibit very, very mystifying bugs.
In other words, unless you've compiled from source, don't blame the program.
There's a Prop 65 warning on the door of my appartment.
Have you considered that, maybe, you should move?
It's a nice upscale facility.
That doesn't mean there isn't asbestos all over the place, and lead paint on the walls.
You should be happy that you've gotten the warning, and can look into the problem further.
If CA passed a law requiring cars with defective brakes to be marked with a sticker saying so, I wouldn't just ignore the sticker myself, and keep on buying cars with the label, and doing nothing about it... But that's just me.
a "limited" resource is one that can't be renewed. Like petroleum, iron ore, or real estate.
Petroleum is only a limited resource, because we use it so much faster than it is produced. Biological matter is still dying, and decaying underground.
People do conserve electricity and gasoline, because those resources still have a significant market component to their pricing.
Both electricity and gasoline are barely being affected by market forces. Despite dramatic increases in the cost of electricity in CA, and dramatic increases in gasoline prices, neither has significantly reduced demand. Now, demand might be reduced by the higher price, over the course of several decades, but that kind of practically fixed demand isn't what capitalism is good at.
It's a specious argument to suggest we have to wait until the pipes are dry before we raise the price.
No, it's not. We don't know when it's going to rain next, we don't know how much snowfall there is going to be, etc. Running a dam, and the like, is a fixed cost, right up until the instant it looks like the rain isn't going to come soon enough. Then, suddenly, the need to significantly reduce water output appears. It doesn't cost them any more to run the dam at 100% full, or at 50% full. It's only when it gets down to the quota, that suddenly, the price changes. It's not a smooth curve, it's not a situation where people paying more allows the company to go out and purchase more expensive sources of water, etc. It's a very, very sharp cut-off.
Electricity, at least has some semblance of supply/demand economics, as more demand means buying more fuel, and incentive for building more plants. Though there, like water, once everyone is maxed-out, the price goes from dirt cheap, to infinitely expensive, in an instant.
Water isn't a limited resource as it is fully recyclable and have oceans and oceans of it.
Fresh water, is a limited resource.
The cost of desalination are extremely high, and therefore impractical. Give me enough energy, and I can make unlimited ammounts of petroleum too...
While low flow toilets make sense in Las Vegas, they make no sense in Seattle.
Instead of Washington, let me swap Colorado in there, for a more relevant example.
While CO may appear to have a significant supply of water, while NV does not, the situation isn't nearly as simple. Colorado, Nevada, and California all draw water from the Colorado River, in equal quantities. So, while Colorado may seem to have limitless water, it really doesn't have (or rather, isn't allowed to use) significantly more than Nevada. The issues is a bit more complicated by per-capita issues, but that's not important here.
But if it costs you $5 more a month to use the "high flow" toilet, you might consider replacing it to save money, or water the lawn less, or other conservation practices.
We have water meters here (CA), and you know something, economics isn't a big motivator... The cost of water is so low that buying a new toilet would take many, many years to pay off. What's more, raising the price for a gallon of water to alter the economics, to something that would impact those regularly flooding their lawns, would make water devastatingly expensive to those who aren't being wasteful.
Water is just the kind of limited resource that is incredibly cheap... right up until you run out of it. It, like gasoline, electricity, and many other limited resources, works infinitely better on an enforced ration system, than a supply/demand system.
A marine expert is quoted as saying about 30 people died in the last couple of years.
Got a source for that? That sounds extremely high.
A couple other issues to consider, though.
Most stingray deaths are in small children, and in 3rd world countries, where envenomated victims get poor or no treatment after the incident. They also practically only happen when the stingray has been violently attacked, or the stinger accidentally stepped-on. They are regarded as passive creatures.
The stingrays found in other parts of the world are also very different than those found in Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. There had been only 2 recorded stingray fatalities in Australia, and the most recent was 1945. And the later was unconfirmed, only suspected to be a stingray wound.
Freshwater stingrays (found in Columbia) are much more dangerous, and drive up the statistics dramatically, if you include them with salt-water stingrays.
There is no legal MS-DOS in those situations, so an alternative is required.
Exactly. DR-DOS, PTS-DOS, OpenDOS, etc. These operating systems do not exist, are not free for you to use, and source code for the latter is certainly not available......
California has more warning stickers than just about any other state.
Don't you hate it when there's a sticker or sign that warns you of life-threatening risks?
I mean, sure, now I know that the wood sold by my local hardware store may cause cancer, but avoiding cancer surely isn't worth having to pull little stickers off of a small percentage of the things you buy.
Lots of gear can `receive' WiFI signals. I've got a cordless phone that uses 2.4 GHz -- it cannot decode WiFi signals, but it certainly can receive the signal.
By that crazy definition, I've got a 3" piece of wire that can `recieve' Wifi signals.
`Receive' certainly is not the proper word.
Did you read the full text of the law, and see "recieve" in there, with no definition of it?... Or are you just taking something some reporter wrote out of context, and acting as if it came from the pens of the lawmakers?
Next thing you know, they'll be telling you how much water you legally can use to flush your crap down the toilet.
Yeah. The government sure is awful... Making rules about how much of a limited resource people can use. Or more specifically, making rules about the device which is the #1 consumer of a limited natural resource.
Next they'll be telling me I can't put as much toxic smoke into the air as I want to. Oh wait...
How do state mandated warning stickers, people going to jail, and other government intrusions = unlicensed and open spectrum?
Give me a break. Unlicensed spectrum already has numerous restrictions, such as transmit power and antenna gain. It's not electromagnetic anarchy in the 2.4GHz range.
Besides, I didn't see anything that explicitly singled-out 2.4GHz... This probably applies to consumer wireless networking equipment that uses FCC-licensed ranges as well.
I tried a handful of DOS games I had lying around, and always ran into one compatibility bug or another. Do the most popular ones even work for you? Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, etc.?
I never said otherwise. The installed base of DOS systems is large, but it certainly is declining, as other more advanced OSes take over. An installed base isn't something you want to aim for, as they've already got everything they need, and aren't going to be pursuing new features, or new code that does the same as the old.
Do you think there's a chance in hell they're going to rip out their commercial DOS, and replace it with FreeDOS? It's not even all that compatible, as stable, etc. If they were going to "mess" with things AT ALL, they wouldn't be making a small upgrade from one DOS to another, they'll be going to a whole new OS.
No, it just (finally) hit 1.0. That number isn't magic. New uses aren't going to just spring up when you reach that point. They've been making (beta) releases for years and years.
Someone put a tonne of effort into it, and you should have some respect for that at the very least.
I liked DOS as much as anybody, but FreeDOS is perhaps 5 years too late for anyone to care.
Most people have now (FINALLY) moved entirely off DOS (even Microsoft!), which had a solid niche until a few years ago.
FreeDOS has really poor compatibility with everything I try. Try to run some MS-DOS program, and it aborts before showing anything, or perhaps acts in very weird ways, sometimes doing real damage.
The main thing I tried it for, quite recently, was partitioning/formatting, as Windows has a few limitations in that regard. After finishing the job, Windows couldn't even read the partion. FreeDOS is a LONG way from 100% compatible.
What's more, DR-DOS has been freely available, for a very long time now. You can even get the source code to it, if needed, although it's under a restrictive license. It really is 99% compatible with MS-DOS, both applications and filesystems.
What is anyone using FreeDOS for, today, other than bragging rights?
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TVtime doesn't have a motion-adaptive deinterlacer, unless it was recently added. It has the equivalent of an advanced line-doubler, which is known as tfields in MPlayer.
Sadly, far too many people, with no idea what they are talking about, refer to these as deinterlacers.
I can't speak for 3rd party add-ons for virtualdub, but it certainly isn't included in the default filters...
This is nonsense. With trunked radio, you're all on the same range of frequencies, but your reciever only outputs the messages marked for your group.
You can essentially have radios with a switch on them, that takes them from transmitting to Fire, Police, EMS, etc. So you have your nice FD radio, but when you can't reach the command, you can switch over to the Police channel and tell them directly that you need a hand.
YOU don't want it, because you're probably some fireman in the middle of nowhere, who has never seen a disaster, and have no understanding of the system to begin with.
My example was (hopefully) an obvious exaggeration.
Whether a warning, or condemnation is appropriate, depends on the overall risk. If there's only some 5% chance that you'll develop cancer, if you live in the apartment your whole life, I'd say a warning is the best you can hope for, and SURELY better than NOT warning people at all, which is the current state of affairs in the rest of the country.
No, it's sarcasm, which you seemed to have missed.
If you wish to ignore warnings, you can do so, just as it's perfectly legal to go sky diving, and other risky, life-theatening behaviors. If you get your thrills off of living in a (potentially) hazardous place, I'm not going to step in and tell you that you absolutely can't.
THAT would be the real nanny state... not a few stickers which inform people of the risks.
I've run the same programs, on the same hardware under MS-DOS. This was probably a year ago now, since I tried FreeDOS, but it doesn't change quickly, so I doubt it's been fixed.
I realize DOS programs are rather low-level, but they don't just run on the hardware directly. They make numerous calls to different parts of the OS, directly address RAM where it expects certain drivers to be loaded, etc. Anything less than a 99% exact copy of MS-DOS, and high-end DOS programs have trouble.
It certainly is possible that FreeDOS and MS-DOS only act differently when given hundreds of GBs of RAM to play with, and a multi-GHz CPU
Not true at all. See the homepage for cdrtools for more info.
MANY distros ship packages of programs like cdrtools, MPlayer, X.org, NTP, etc., which are just utterly broken, through no fault of the programs in question. I've seen it extensively.
Less complex programs can handle broken build environments, and half-assed patches without problems, but the more complex ones exhibit very, very mystifying bugs.
In other words, unless you've compiled from source, don't blame the program.
Have you considered that, maybe, you should move?
That doesn't mean there isn't asbestos all over the place, and lead paint on the walls.
You should be happy that you've gotten the warning, and can look into the problem further.
If CA passed a law requiring cars with defective brakes to be marked with a sticker saying so, I wouldn't just ignore the sticker myself, and keep on buying cars with the label, and doing nothing about it... But that's just me.
Enjoy your toxic apartment...
Petroleum is only a limited resource, because we use it so much faster than it is produced. Biological matter is still dying, and decaying underground.
Both electricity and gasoline are barely being affected by market forces. Despite dramatic increases in the cost of electricity in CA, and dramatic increases in gasoline prices, neither has significantly reduced demand. Now, demand might be reduced by the higher price, over the course of several decades, but that kind of practically fixed demand isn't what capitalism is good at.
No, it's not. We don't know when it's going to rain next, we don't know how much snowfall there is going to be, etc. Running a dam, and the like, is a fixed cost, right up until the instant it looks like the rain isn't going to come soon enough. Then, suddenly, the need to significantly reduce water output appears. It doesn't cost them any more to run the dam at 100% full, or at 50% full. It's only when it gets down to the quota, that suddenly, the price changes. It's not a smooth curve, it's not a situation where people paying more allows the company to go out and purchase more expensive sources of water, etc. It's a very, very sharp cut-off.
Electricity, at least has some semblance of supply/demand economics, as more demand means buying more fuel, and incentive for building more plants. Though there, like water, once everyone is maxed-out, the price goes from dirt cheap, to infinitely expensive, in an instant.
Do you not realize that the BIOS flashing program you are trying to use is under a propritary license?
What possible benefit could you get from using a (buggy, unstable, etc) GPL'd DOS clone to flash your BIOS?
Ah, well I see the problem.
"estimated deaths" is different than "died", although this one isn't major.
More importantly, "recent years" is very different than "couple of years".
I've heard others say that too, but I don't see it.
Wood was a surprise to me. The only other place I tend to see it is on signs around junkyards, garbage dumps, packages of engine oil, grease, etc.
So far, I've never seen one entering any restaurants, supermarkets, electronics stores, etc. No Prop 65 warning on my TVs, shoes, DVDs, etc., etc.
What are you doing, and what are you buying, that you're seeing these warnings all over the place?
Fresh water, is a limited resource.
The cost of desalination are extremely high, and therefore impractical. Give me enough energy, and I can make unlimited ammounts of petroleum too...
Instead of Washington, let me swap Colorado in there, for a more relevant example.
While CO may appear to have a significant supply of water, while NV does not, the situation isn't nearly as simple. Colorado, Nevada, and California all draw water from the Colorado River, in equal quantities. So, while Colorado may seem to have limitless water, it really doesn't have (or rather, isn't allowed to use) significantly more than Nevada. The issues is a bit more complicated by per-capita issues, but that's not important here.
We have water meters here (CA), and you know something, economics isn't a big motivator... The cost of water is so low that buying a new toilet would take many, many years to pay off. What's more, raising the price for a gallon of water to alter the economics, to something that would impact those regularly flooding their lawns, would make water devastatingly expensive to those who aren't being wasteful.
Water is just the kind of limited resource that is incredibly cheap... right up until you run out of it. It, like gasoline, electricity, and many other limited resources, works infinitely better on an enforced ration system, than a supply/demand system.
Got a source for that? That sounds extremely high.
A couple other issues to consider, though.
Most stingray deaths are in small children, and in 3rd world countries, where envenomated victims get poor or no treatment after the incident. They also practically only happen when the stingray has been violently attacked, or the stinger accidentally stepped-on. They are regarded as passive creatures.
The stingrays found in other parts of the world are also very different than those found in Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. There had been only 2 recorded stingray fatalities in Australia, and the most recent was 1945. And the later was unconfirmed, only suspected to be a stingray wound.
Freshwater stingrays (found in Columbia) are much more dangerous, and drive up the statistics dramatically, if you include them with salt-water stingrays.
Sources: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/
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For both, the answer is BartPE, to make a bootable Windows LiveCD.
1. Disc IO under DOS is painfully slow, and Ghost isn't all that great.
I found and started using 'udpcast' (2 Linux floppies including ALL network drivers) and soon, NOBODY was touching the Ghost disks.
2. Many flashing utilities are becomming Win32 based, without even DOS alternatives.
Exactly. DR-DOS, PTS-DOS, OpenDOS, etc. These operating systems do not exist, are not free for you to use, and source code for the latter is certainly not available...
Don't you hate it when there's a sticker or sign that warns you of life-threatening risks?
I mean, sure, now I know that the wood sold by my local hardware store may cause cancer, but avoiding cancer surely isn't worth having to pull little stickers off of a small percentage of the things you buy.
Yeah, the 40%+ of the population of California, that votes Republican, is here illegally...
Or do people really not know that California != Los Angeles & San Francisco.
By that crazy definition, I've got a 3" piece of wire that can `recieve' Wifi signals.
Did you read the full text of the law, and see "recieve" in there, with no definition of it?
Yeah. The government sure is awful... Making rules about how much of a limited resource people can use. Or more specifically, making rules about the device which is the #1 consumer of a limited natural resource.
Next they'll be telling me I can't put as much toxic smoke into the air as I want to. Oh wait...
Give me a break. Unlicensed spectrum already has numerous restrictions, such as transmit power and antenna gain. It's not electromagnetic anarchy in the 2.4GHz range.
Besides, I didn't see anything that explicitly singled-out 2.4GHz... This probably applies to consumer wireless networking equipment that uses FCC-licensed ranges as well.
But you're willing to spend the time and effort to switch over to FreeDOS as the underlying OS, and track down any bugs that might appear?
I am actually.
I tried a handful of DOS games I had lying around, and always ran into one compatibility bug or another. Do the most popular ones even work for you? Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, etc.?
I never said otherwise. The installed base of DOS systems is large, but it certainly is declining, as other more advanced OSes take over. An installed base isn't something you want to aim for, as they've already got everything they need, and aren't going to be pursuing new features, or new code that does the same as the old.
Do you think there's a chance in hell they're going to rip out their commercial DOS, and replace it with FreeDOS? It's not even all that compatible, as stable, etc. If they were going to "mess" with things AT ALL, they wouldn't be making a small upgrade from one DOS to another, they'll be going to a whole new OS.
No, it just (finally) hit 1.0. That number isn't magic. New uses aren't going to just spring up when you reach that point. They've been making (beta) releases for years and years.
Respect doesn't change my question at all.
I liked DOS as much as anybody, but FreeDOS is perhaps 5 years too late for anyone to care.
Most people have now (FINALLY) moved entirely off DOS (even Microsoft!), which had a solid niche until a few years ago.
FreeDOS has really poor compatibility with everything I try. Try to run some MS-DOS program, and it aborts before showing anything, or perhaps acts in very weird ways, sometimes doing real damage.
The main thing I tried it for, quite recently, was partitioning/formatting, as Windows has a few limitations in that regard. After finishing the job, Windows couldn't even read the partion. FreeDOS is a LONG way from 100% compatible.
What's more, DR-DOS has been freely available, for a very long time now. You can even get the source code to it, if needed, although it's under a restrictive license. It really is 99% compatible with MS-DOS, both applications and filesystems.
What is anyone using FreeDOS for, today, other than bragging rights?
Did you dig it up all by yourself, or did you have some help?