DVD now has lossy compression as does MJPEG as will MJPEG2000 (I can't wait for this year to be over already so we can stop having EVERY product have 2000 tacked on the end). Of course you can set the compression to zero on all of the formats if you so desire (not positive about MJPEG2k, but most likely). What is the market for MJPEG anyway? The same market that will be for MJPEG2k I would guess (not just pirates). Amateur filmmakers, small budget prodution houses, your average Joe who wants to transfer his family vacation videos to CD, maybe add a few whiz bang special effects, pirates...etc.
I can convert a DVD to a VCD without using DeCSS. I have been able to for a long time now ever since I got a video capture board. DeCSS allows one less step though, I guess it is a bit easier, big deal. If you can see it or hear it, it can be pirated no matter what type of copy protection you use.
I think that the reference to fit a movie on a CD is wondering if you can get better compression than what DVD now uses without quality loss to reduce the file size to be able to fit it on CD. But I am not Polo, so who knows.
I hate Fry's, there is no reason to go there. You can get all of the computer supplies they have for a lot less online. You can get CDs and DVDs online (Fry's CDs are cheap, but they have the worst seelction I have ever seen). All of the home entertainment stuff they sell is cheap consumer grade crap, go to a dedicated Home Theater store and get better stuff and better service.
Hmm about the only thing useful there is the home appliances...
Fry's is nice if you need to get something in a hurry, but of course you will most likely have to pay through the nose for it.
Uh, it is kind of difficult to fix a closed source program. If they would have just coded the thing to OpenGL then we wouldn't have this problem. So those of us without Voodoo graphics cards will have to wait till it is put in.
Hopefully releasing some of the Linux code will speed up the process.
No, first of all Tom uses different D3D games for benchmark, so you can't compare those. Let's concentrate on the Quake 3 benchmarks.
Tom has two different GeForce benchmarks. One is for an SDRAM GeForce the other is for a DDR SDRAM configuration. As you can see from the benchmarks at Tom's this makes a HUGE difference, especially in 32-bit mode. The SDR card is beaten consistently by the ATI card.
Sharky and the gamersdepot benchmarks use the SDR version of the GeForce, thus the ATI card can beat the Geforce, and Gamersdepot is clueless enough to even blaim poor drivers on the GeForce's poor showing. It is not the drivers it is the crappy memory configuration.
I am not sure if the DDR GeForce's are available yet.
This is nothing new. About a year ago a huge flamewar erupted in comp.os.linux.x about XFree 4.0, the participents included Jeremy Chatfield and Thomas Roell of Xig (me too). It was all extremely ugly and distasteful. I lost all respect for Xig after this, they acted in a very unprofessional manner (and I wasn't too proud of my own actions, but I wasn't representing a company). The thread is here.
Apologies if this doesn't work right, dejanews has sucked ever since they changed their interface.Just do a search of "XFree86 4.0/X11R6.4 ".
Why are they complaining about having to install 21 patches? They needed to install 4 with the config they were using; cron, kernel, net-tools, and dev updates. None of the other services were installed thus they did not need updating. Maybe update X if they actually installed it and libtermcap (this is a fix for a local exploit, but better safe than sorry). So maximum of 6 updates.
On NT they installed SP5, IE 4.01, option pack 4 and SQL server SP1. That is 4 updates.
Actually you can get a remote for the PC based DVD kits. Go to the Remote Selector site. Works great, not only does it allow you to use a remote, but it also removes macrovision, lets you change regions an infinite number of times and switch between PAL and NTSC.
It wil be several years before HDTV is fully deployed. It will be several years before most people have an HDTV capable vide monitor. HD-DVD players will most likely be backward compatible with regular DVD. So you can get a DVD now and enjoy the benefits now, or you can get your digital VHS and wait several years before you can get much use out of it. Digital VHS blows for archival, it wears out just like analog VHS. I want to be able to watch my movies in 20 years... Recordable DVD will come in a few years (there are already affordable DVD-RAM and DVD-R drives for PC).
What are you talking about, non-hollywood movies? Umm, lets see, PI, BlairWitch, City of Lost Children (keeps getting postponed though dammit), Trainspotting, a whole plethora of Japanese animation, many different music releases, probably many more, I only know the ones I am interested in.
And hey man, you can get some of that DVD porn in dts!!!!:)
Service packs require much more testing than a hotfix or Redhat update. the reason is that Service packs fix a whole slew of different componants of the OS. A hotfix or Redhat update fixes one thing. I will go even farther saying that Redhat updates are still even easier to test than a hotfix. A hotfix can involve several different applications to fix one bug. A Redhat update fixes one application, that is all, much easier to test just one application than several.
Furthermore, there was no reason for PCWeek to even install all 20 patches. They needed 3, yes 3, the cron update, the net-tools update and the kernel update, that is the extent of the security fixes they needed for their configuration. Now if we look at what they installed with the NT server, uh well, they start with SP3, then install IE4, then Option pack4, then install SP5. Well, that is 4 updates, more than the RH install. So which one is going to take more to beta test for their production server??
The PCWeek Lessons Learned is one giant page of FUD.
SCSI is overrated, I get 8 MB/s sustained with my wimpy little 6 GB UDMA 33 drive. Newer drives will get you a couple more MB/s. Plenty for me, I even do video capture on this thing with fairly low compression (4:1). The only reason to go SCSI is if you are using a multiuser system, need stupidly fast transfers with RAID 0 or need high data integrity with RAID 5.
For a single drive/single user system IDE (UDMA33 or higher) is the way to go.
I see a lot of people disappointed in the lack of bump mapping. I wonder however if you will need bump mapping with this card. Just make your models with more polys. I think that is why nvidia let off this feature, they want people to make higher poly count models instead of cheating with a bump map. Will it look better? We shall see.
My only guess is that they are officially moving out of beta to a general release. Flash player has been available for Linux and Solaris since November of last year.
They also mention a source liscense, so I guess they are releasing some sort of source now, not sure if this too is already available.
The little cartoons are pretty amusing, but I think that they miss the point (calling KDE and Gnome development pointless double effort is very clueless).
The people that are coding now have been doing it for months without any monetary reward, several have been doing it for years now. They do it because they like it. Suddenly they are paid for it. Perhaps some of the coders will fall victim to the evils of money, perhaps some new people will join up hoping to get rich. The folks who have been doing this out of love aren't going to care, they still love to fiddle with the code, in fact this may help them, maybe they will be able to quit there day job and fiddle full time now.
Personally I wonder how market forces are going to be able to influence Linux development. Most coders out there don't have a marketing team telling them "what the people want". Sure perhaps Redhat or Caldera or "insert favoprite Linux company here" sponsored development efforts will be market driven, but there is nothing barring any Joe Blow from going the opposite direction.
We shall see, I personally have more faith in my fellow man than Suck apparently does.
Perhaps, however if anyone has ever seen and believes those quizes that appear on the Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno, well, needless to say we have A LOT of dumb people in this country. They always go to college graduations and what not too!
SGI has been taking emergency measures for awhile now, what do you think that Visual Workstation was all about? SGI has been hurting for awhile now, but it looks like they might be able to recover faily well if everything pans out the way they hope.
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A prorpietary memory bus which gives them something like 3.2 GB/s bandwidth, shared with graphics card. Integrated video I/O, very nice, uncompressed 30 fps video capture. 64-bit PCI slots. They really aren't much more expensive than dell workstations. These things are pretty sweet.
Now I wonder, if they are really going full tilt with Linux is Alias|Wavefront going to be porting their software over? That would be pretty huge.
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DVD now has lossy compression as does MJPEG as will MJPEG2000 (I can't wait for this year to be over already so we can stop having EVERY product have 2000 tacked on the end). Of course you can set the compression to zero on all of the formats if you so desire (not positive about MJPEG2k, but most likely). What is the market for MJPEG anyway? The same market that will be for MJPEG2k I would guess (not just pirates). Amateur filmmakers, small budget prodution houses, your average Joe who wants to transfer his family vacation videos to CD, maybe add a few whiz bang special effects, pirates...etc.
I can convert a DVD to a VCD without using DeCSS. I have been able to for a long time now ever since I got a video capture board. DeCSS allows one less step though, I guess it is a bit easier, big deal. If you can see it or hear it, it can be pirated no matter what type of copy protection you use.
I think that the reference to fit a movie on a CD is wondering if you can get better compression than what DVD now uses without quality loss to reduce the file size to be able to fit it on CD. But I am not Polo, so who knows.
Just unmount the filesystem during the rollover or remount it read-only.
Hey,
I hate Fry's, there is no reason to go there. You can get all of the computer supplies they have for a lot less online. You can get CDs and DVDs online (Fry's CDs are cheap, but they have the worst seelction I have ever seen). All of the home entertainment stuff they sell is cheap consumer grade crap, go to a dedicated Home Theater store and get better stuff and better service.
Hmm about the only thing useful there is the home appliances...
Fry's is nice if you need to get something in a hurry, but of course you will most likely have to pay through the nose for it.
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Uh, it is kind of difficult to fix a closed source program. If they would have just coded the thing to OpenGL then we wouldn't have this problem. So those of us without Voodoo graphics cards will have to wait till it is put in.
Hopefully releasing some of the Linux code will speed up the process.
Ok, so China attacks our internet. We pull the plug of all the routers leading outside the country, wipe all effected systems and restore from backup.
Just doesn't have the same ring as 100's of people being killed by a bomb.
No, first of all Tom uses different D3D games for benchmark, so you can't compare those. Let's concentrate on the Quake 3 benchmarks.
Tom has two different GeForce benchmarks. One is for an SDRAM GeForce the other is for a DDR SDRAM configuration. As you can see from the benchmarks at Tom's this makes a HUGE difference, especially in 32-bit mode. The SDR card is beaten consistently by the ATI card.
Sharky and the gamersdepot benchmarks use the SDR version of the GeForce, thus the ATI card can beat the Geforce, and Gamersdepot is clueless enough to even blaim poor drivers on the GeForce's poor showing. It is not the drivers it is the crappy memory configuration.
I am not sure if the DDR GeForce's are available yet.
Nt has a memory dump on crash feature.
It is about the AOL service. The whole GUI client they have to connect to AOL. This is what is inaccessbile not the website.
This is nothing new. About a year ago a huge flamewar erupted in comp.os.linux.x about XFree 4.0, the participents included Jeremy Chatfield and Thomas Roell of Xig (me too). It was all extremely ugly and distasteful. I lost all respect for Xig after this, they acted in a very unprofessional manner (and I wasn't too proud of my own actions, but I wasn't representing a company). The thread is here.
Apologies if this doesn't work right, dejanews has sucked ever since they changed their interface.Just do a search of "XFree86 4.0
I looked at a bunch of our Dell desktops (many different models) here at work, they were all using Intel OEM motherboards.
Why are they complaining about having to install 21 patches? They needed to install 4 with the config they were using; cron, kernel, net-tools, and dev updates. None of the other services were installed thus they did not need updating. Maybe update X if they actually installed it and libtermcap (this is a fix for a local exploit, but better safe than sorry). So maximum of 6 updates.
On NT they installed SP5, IE 4.01, option pack 4 and SQL server SP1. That is 4 updates.
gee, strikingly similar...
Actually you can get a remote for the PC based DVD kits. Go to the Remote Selector site. Works great, not only does it allow you to use a remote, but it also removes macrovision, lets you change regions an infinite number of times and switch between PAL and NTSC.
It wil be several years before HDTV is fully deployed. It will be several years before most people have an HDTV capable vide monitor. HD-DVD players will most likely be backward compatible with regular DVD. So you can get a DVD now and enjoy the benefits now, or you can get your digital VHS and wait several years before you can get much use out of it. Digital VHS blows for archival, it wears out just like analog VHS. I want to be able to watch my movies in 20 years...
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Recordable DVD will come in a few years (there are already affordable DVD-RAM and DVD-R drives for PC).
What are you talking about, non-hollywood movies? Umm, lets see, PI, BlairWitch, City of Lost Children (keeps getting postponed though dammit), Trainspotting, a whole plethora of Japanese animation, many different music releases, probably many more, I only know the ones I am interested in.
And hey man, you can get some of that DVD porn in dts!!!!
Service packs require much more testing than a hotfix or Redhat update. the reason is that Service packs fix a whole slew of different componants of the OS. A hotfix or Redhat update fixes one thing. I will go even farther saying that Redhat updates are still even easier to test than a hotfix. A hotfix can involve several different applications to fix one bug. A Redhat update fixes one application, that is all, much easier to test just one application than several.
Furthermore, there was no reason for PCWeek to even install all 20 patches. They needed 3, yes 3, the cron update, the net-tools update and the kernel update, that is the extent of the security fixes they needed for their configuration. Now if we look at what they installed with the NT server, uh well, they start with SP3, then install IE4, then Option pack4, then install SP5. Well, that is 4 updates, more than the RH install. So which one is going to take more to beta test for their production server??
The PCWeek Lessons Learned is one giant page of FUD.
SCSI is overrated, I get 8 MB/s sustained with my wimpy little 6 GB UDMA 33 drive. Newer drives will get you a couple more MB/s. Plenty for me, I even do video capture on this thing with fairly low compression (4:1). The only reason to go SCSI is if you are using a multiuser system, need stupidly fast transfers with RAID 0 or need high data integrity with RAID 5.
For a single drive/single user system IDE (UDMA33 or higher) is the way to go.
I see a lot of people disappointed in the lack of bump mapping. I wonder however if you will need bump mapping with this card. Just make your models with more polys. I think that is why nvidia let off this feature, they want people to make higher poly count models instead of cheating with a bump map. Will it look better? We shall see.
Nope, that is just a flash player.
My only guess is that they are officially moving out of beta to a general release. Flash player has been available for Linux and Solaris since November of last year.
They also mention a source liscense, so I guess they are releasing some sort of source now, not sure if this too is already available.
Now we just need a Shockwave player.
The little cartoons are pretty amusing, but I think that they miss the point (calling KDE and Gnome development pointless double effort is very clueless).
The people that are coding now have been doing it for months without any monetary reward, several have been doing it for years now. They do it because they like it. Suddenly they are paid for it. Perhaps some of the coders will fall victim to the evils of money, perhaps some new people will join up hoping to get rich. The folks who have been doing this out of love aren't going to care, they still love to fiddle with the code, in fact this may help them, maybe they will be able to quit there day job and fiddle full time now.
Personally I wonder how market forces are going to be able to influence Linux development. Most coders out there don't have a marketing team telling them "what the people want". Sure perhaps Redhat or Caldera or "insert favoprite Linux company here" sponsored development efforts will be market driven, but there is nothing barring any Joe Blow from going the opposite direction.
We shall see, I personally have more faith in my fellow man than Suck apparently does.
Perhaps, however if anyone has ever seen and believes those quizes that appear on the Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno, well, needless to say we have A LOT of dumb people in this country. They always go to college graduations and what not too!
Hey, you have the old sgi logo up, why not use the new one? (granted the old one looks cooler)
Because they are designed for Visual work; 3D graphics, video editing, modeling, etc.
SGI has been taking emergency measures for awhile now, what do you think that Visual Workstation was all about? SGI has been hurting for awhile now, but it looks like they might be able to recover faily well if everything pans out the way they hope.
A prorpietary memory bus which gives them something like 3.2 GB/s bandwidth, shared with graphics card. Integrated video I/O, very nice, uncompressed 30 fps video capture. 64-bit PCI slots. They really aren't much more expensive than dell workstations. These things are pretty sweet.
Now I wonder, if they are really going full tilt with Linux is Alias|Wavefront going to be porting their software over? That would be pretty huge.