Here are some quick translations of the DivX site:
From the project page:
The DivX project is an audio visual machine like a DVD or VCR. It will be able to record or read video and audio input of more than 2 hours but on a different support: CDs.
The image quality will be comparable to that of a DVD with audio support for Dolby Surround Prologic.
It will also have a DVD player built in on some of the higher configuration machines. However, the idea is to create a DVD recorder that will burn a movie to CD, a support format that costs less than $1.
This project will allow us to replace our old VCRs.
DivX?
In a few words: DivX allows to load on a CD a video feed of up to two hours, with a quality similar to S-VHS, slighly inferior to DVD.
A lot more stuff about how great it is bla bla bla but it looks like it will no be a box you can build (read not open source) but something they plan to sell.
Seems to me that the only thing at issue here is that the guy is really lazy. I use ASP and NT on my site (it's a long story)... and I managed to create exception handling scripts to deal with some of Netscape's problems (somehow, table cells in NS6 seems to eat up a couple of pixels more than in NS4 and IE5). I'm coding to standards (using XHTML) and dealing with Netscape specific or IE specific issues on the server side. It's not that hard. Only a sloppy programmer would not do this...
TNL
Looked at the CLIE site yesterday and while interesting, there are a few things that I was surprised about:
1. No wireless modem: You'd think that with the increase in usage for those, Sony would at least have made an effort to announce one coming in the future. Nothing along those lines.
2. Bad speaker: I guess Sony doesn't want to steal marketshares away from their MP3 players. However, it would have been nice if they had put in a good speaker set and offered an MP3 expansion module.
3. Video? Interesting concept but how much will you be able to fit on each stick. Unless they have a super-compressed format, I doubt this will be any more useful than just as a gadget.
4. No color: You'd think that if they want to expand, color makes sense.
Some potential ideas for add-ons:
Those mentionned above: MP3 player and wireless modem!
Software emulator for PS games with the games coming on expansion slots
Software program tool to program AIBO brain
Bluetooh module to hook up to camera or cell phone (Sony makes both so that would make sense)
Form factor looks fine but what's the deal with the two metallic bars on the sides?
This offering has potentials BUT for now, it still looks like Handspring has the advantage.
I was the founder of Internet.com and I am surprised to see this story. Whether or not you like Internet.com, it was never policy to not report on competitors (as a matter of fact, it would now be hard for Internet.com to do so as it is covering the whole Internet industry). I seriously doubt this policy has changed. What I suspect is that the story may have been submitted but not posted (do we have any proof either way, maybe a screenshot showing that it's on linuxtoday?) and the author of this story got so pissed off he posted this comment to slashdot.
What surprises me even more is that slashdot would actually run the story without even looking into it for details. Has anyone at/. checked on the veracity of this statement? I would like to know....
TNL no longer associated with Internet.com but surprised nevertheless
PS: Recently rejected/. stories include: 2000-06-27 18:28:10 Transmeta unveils more partners (articles,transmeta) (rejected) 2000-06-26 22:24:00 Sony to unveil Palm PDA (articles,pilot) (rejected) 2000-06-23 15:02:30 Student suspended over PHP use (yro,news) (rejected) 2000-06-22 20:41:00 Ifilm finds back door to Oscar flap (articles,news) (rejected) 2000-06-22 20:49:08 NASA finds recent water on Mars (articles,space) (rejected) 2000-06-22 18:28:36 Turnkey Linux Ecommerce solution (articles,linuxbiz) (rejected) 2000-06-22 18:20:47 Usenet archives disappear from Deja.com (articles,news) (rejected) 2000-06-22 18:15:00 Viral Marketing: The Math formulas (articles,internet) (rejected) 2000-06-09 02:24:20 Microsoft to stop full distribution with PCs... (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
If printed manuals are trly dead, why do we keep buying books from O'Reilly? I think that more than a few of us still rely heavily on the books O'Reilly provide and, to a large extent, those books are more along the lines of manuals for software that comes out with less than stellar documentation. I think that printed materials will still be around for a while because they can be referenced easily (yes, I know, the search function is better) and can be taken everywhere (I'm a big fan of reading O'reilly books while I'm travelling, as a refresher for some of the stuff I used to know)... TNL
Slashdot Mirror
Here are some quick translations of the DivX site: From the project page: The DivX project is an audio visual machine like a DVD or VCR. It will be able to record or read video and audio input of more than 2 hours but on a different support: CDs. The image quality will be comparable to that of a DVD with audio support for Dolby Surround Prologic. It will also have a DVD player built in on some of the higher configuration machines. However, the idea is to create a DVD recorder that will burn a movie to CD, a support format that costs less than $1. This project will allow us to replace our old VCRs. DivX? In a few words: DivX allows to load on a CD a video feed of up to two hours, with a quality similar to S-VHS, slighly inferior to DVD. A lot more stuff about how great it is bla bla bla but it looks like it will no be a box you can build (read not open source) but something they plan to sell.
Seems to me that the only thing at issue here is that the guy is really lazy. I use ASP and NT on my site (it's a long story)... and I managed to create exception handling scripts to deal with some of Netscape's problems (somehow, table cells in NS6 seems to eat up a couple of pixels more than in NS4 and IE5). I'm coding to standards (using XHTML) and dealing with Netscape specific or IE specific issues on the server side. It's not that hard. Only a sloppy programmer would not do this... TNL
Some random thoughts about CLIE
Looked at the CLIE site yesterday and while interesting, there are a few things that I was surprised about:
1. No wireless modem: You'd think that with the increase in usage for those, Sony would at least have made an effort to announce one coming in the future. Nothing along those lines.
2. Bad speaker: I guess Sony doesn't want to steal marketshares away from their MP3 players. However, it would have been nice if they had put in a good speaker set and offered an MP3 expansion module.
3. Video? Interesting concept but how much will you be able to fit on each stick. Unless they have a super-compressed format, I doubt this will be any more useful than just as a gadget.
4. No color: You'd think that if they want to expand, color makes sense.
Some potential ideas for add-ons:
Those mentionned above: MP3 player and wireless modem!
Software emulator for PS games with the games coming on expansion slots
Software program tool to program AIBO brain
Bluetooh module to hook up to camera or cell phone (Sony makes both so that would make sense)
Form factor looks fine but what's the deal with the two metallic bars on the sides?
This offering has potentials BUT for now, it still looks like Handspring has the advantage.
I was the founder of Internet.com and I am surprised to see this story. Whether or not you like Internet.com, it was never policy to not report on competitors (as a matter of fact, it would now be hard for Internet.com to do so as it is covering the whole Internet industry). I seriously doubt this policy has changed. What I suspect is that the story may have been submitted but not posted (do we have any proof either way, maybe a screenshot showing that it's on linuxtoday?) and the author of this story got so pissed off he posted this comment to slashdot.
/. checked on the veracity of this statement? I would like to know....
/. stories include:
What surprises me even more is that slashdot would actually run the story without even looking into it for details. Has anyone at
TNL
no longer associated with Internet.com but surprised nevertheless
PS: Recently rejected
2000-06-27 18:28:10 Transmeta unveils more partners (articles,transmeta) (rejected)
2000-06-26 22:24:00 Sony to unveil Palm PDA (articles,pilot) (rejected)
2000-06-23 15:02:30 Student suspended over PHP use (yro,news) (rejected)
2000-06-22 20:41:00 Ifilm finds back door to Oscar flap (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-06-22 20:49:08 NASA finds recent water on Mars (articles,space) (rejected)
2000-06-22 18:28:36 Turnkey Linux Ecommerce solution (articles,linuxbiz) (rejected)
2000-06-22 18:20:47 Usenet archives disappear from Deja.com (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-06-22 18:15:00 Viral Marketing: The Math formulas (articles,internet) (rejected)
2000-06-09 02:24:20 Microsoft to stop full distribution with PCs... (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
If printed manuals are trly dead, why do we keep buying books from O'Reilly? I think that more than a few of us still rely heavily on the books O'Reilly provide and, to a large extent, those books are more along the lines of manuals for software that comes out with less than stellar documentation. I think that printed materials will still be around for a while because they can be referenced easily (yes, I know, the search function is better) and can be taken everywhere (I'm a big fan of reading O'reilly books while I'm travelling, as a refresher for some of the stuff I used to know)... TNL