I find it hard to believe that PC hardware could be more reliable than the solid-as-a-rock iSeries. PC hardware has nowhere near the redundancy, integrity, or build quality of those systems. Neither crash often, though I've seen "kernel panic" much more often than a serious machine dump. You could argue that linux on PC hardware is cheaper, but you're completely off base with the "more reliable" statement.
What do you mean digital film? All you need are bits. The bits from a high-res high-motion camera are simply transferred via a high speed interface to hard drive, digital tape, or other bit storage medium. In fact, this can be done much more cheaply than using celluloid film. In a lower-budget movie, the most expensive part of the production is the film to shoot it on.
You're right about celluloid being higher quality...it definately has higher resolution, but lower contrast than lucasfilm's digital projectors. The problem is that celluloid degrades over multiple viewings, and produces a slightly jerky picture on all but the most finely tuned projectors.
Damnit dude, ask her for her phone number! Stop using your brain and start thinking with your...
I'm serious. You're going to regret it if you don't.
Ask her out for a low-key date. She says no.. you're dissapointed, and you stop beating yourself up. She says yes, you get to spend a bit of quality time with her. Either way you win. You only lose by not doing anything... or worse, spending money on her anonymously. Regardless of what you may have heard, women aren't impressed by anonymity. It shows a lack of courage, and if there's one thing that gets you a date, it's courage.
One thing that may help is keeping something horibly sharp and painful in your pocket. Prick your leg with it a few times whenever you think about her and don't ask her out. Wear some dark pants so any blood goes unnoticed. Repeat until you're ready for some action.
I've always thought AS/400's native compilation was very cool. The bytecode hangs around for compatibility purposes, and there's a hidden staticly compiled object that the system links to it. You probably haven't noticed a lot of performance benefit from it because you're already using compilation without knowing it (your default optimization level is 30 or higher) or you're using the JIT, which is also screaming these days. Try using optimization level *interpret and you'll see what I mean.
AS/400 can also use WPO (Whole Program Optimization) when creating the program objects... something you can't get in a JIT. However, a good JIT will selectively optimize heavily used pieces of code... something not even the best native compiler can do. However, A native compile with WPO would be hard to beat with almost any program.
Aside from it's horribly low bitrate and low capacity, this thing sports neither balanced inputs nor phantom power for condenser mics. On the upside, the mic input is low impedance, but I don't know where to find unbalanced low-z mics. That means you need a bulky transformer/XLR adapter at the recorder... The adapters to use this thing are bigger than the device itself. What sort of pro would use this? Possibly the same pro that uses Peavy equipment;)... This is useless in the pro field, but could possibly be useful to the garage band scene to send in demo mp3s to a record company (who'll either sign them up or kick them in the nuts... wait, I'm repeating myself). Could a garage band afford this? Maybe, but probably not. This thing would be more useful for reporters, but it's lacking a phone input for taping phone interviews, and a limiter for compressing the dynamic range. Almost has a market, but not quite.
I'm currently trying to get this compiler working on my system... the documentation is a bit lacking. I, for one, am extremely happy to have more choice in compilers for linux. Why is everyone else so upset about this? I'd much rather just re-compile my number-crunching software than buy new CPUs. As for it replacing GCC... no way. The intel compiler will never be distributed with linux because it's so much more expensive... not to mention it's extreme limitations in platform compatibility... hell, it won't even work on debian without major hacking.... that means future open-source software will compile under GCC or both, but not just intel. Some commercial software might require it for compilation, but who cares if you never even get to see the source? If it means faster number crunching, faster lame, and skip-free mplayer for me, I just can't see a downside. This is great!
I can "sense" TVs too.. Drives me nuts... But is this electrical sensitivity? It's more easily explained than that. It's really nothing more than a buzz slightly beyond the range of normal human hearing. I think it's at 22khz, but someone correct me if I'm wrong. The sound is hard to pinpoint and such a high frequency sound carries pretty well, but the bottom line is that you'd need earplugs rather than tinfoil to stop "sensing" TVs. High frequency hearing always degrades with age, so you won't have this problem long.
I highly recommend watching the movie "safe" for all the whackos who believe in electrical sensitivity. It's a pretty fair treatment of these issues... And for the rest of us, it's a lesson in how to make money off hypochondriacs. Anybody want to go into business making "electrical ray blockers" that you could discretely wear around your neck? Or the same thing in lotion form? Or perhaps "electric cancellation accupressure" shoe insoles? We'd strike a deal with Ron Popeil to get our commercials to break up his infomercials. All I need now is VC.
I had 800+ megs of VCD-compliant red dwarf, that I've been leeching for a week and a half, but all the episodes are about 90% complete. This morning I killed kazaa in order to surf the web (I can't with kazaa running, HTTP timeouts everywhere), and now I'm SOL!
Mine segfaults 9 out of 10 times on startup... big deal.. just keep trying (or put it in a script loop) and it will eventually log you in. After login it's stable and has only a few other problems. Except today... I'm having the same problem as the other linux users where I can't log in at all.
Good point! I never thought of that... That only applies, however, if they're planning to release a region 1 DVD as well... Wouldn't it be cool if the EU was able to pressure the DVD consortium into allowing the manufacture of region-free or region switchable DVD players? The DVD consortium is backed by deep pockets in Hollywood, so it's unlikely that a one-time fine will convince them... and a tax on regioned DVDs would only increase prices and hurt consumers even more. What are the other options at the EU's disposal? They would need to hurt those behind the region scam in an ongoing financial way... passing export taxes on Alan Rickman? Putting sugar in Tom Cruise's gas tank? More ideas?
Why would the the BBC region encode a circa 1990(?) miniseries? The purpose of region encoding is to ensure that a movie leaving US markets can be "staged" into foriegn markets, forcing DVD sales to be after film sales to avoid home viewing cutting into theater reciepts. Region encoding old TV material serves no purpose other than to simultaneously reduce sales and annoy customers. Why would the BBC want to stop sales of this DVD to the US? The math is simple...more sales means more money when there are no greater revenue streams to cut into. If the people at the BBC are half as smart as their accents make them seem, this DVD will be region-free;)
I'd like to see the following: Complete hardware and architecture independance. Why couldn't you use the same source tree for i386, PPC, Sparc, alpha, s390, and (once the kernel is merged) AS/400? Sure you'd have differing "boot" methods, say a MILO-imaged floppy for alpha... but because it's all just source, it would actually be possible to use a single CD image for all platforms. What do you gain? Identical system configurations and administration across heterogeneous clusters and labs. No other distribution can really do that yet... this could be the first, and has the potential for a big win in heterogeneous markets.
I can't figure out why handspring would announce this. They have, in the eyes of consumers, obsoleted their entire inventory. What are they going to do with their warehouses full of neos, prisms, and pros? I go to fry's and there are still deluxes piled up everywhere. They're not going anywhere after this. Why not announce a price cut, clear the inventory and THEN announce a product's obsolence. This current strategy places them atop piles of unsellable inventory... not to mention the fact that it kills their revenue stream for the immediate future.
* is not a star. It's an asterisk, or in computer lingo, it's a splat. How else can you come up with interesting phrases like splat-bang-hat? A few characters ARE badly named, however, I mean what is a tilde? We can form a full grammar with the following changes.
~ = My apartment.
^ = Drew barrymore
_ = Jack Daniels
With this we can actually form useful phrases and logical conjectures, for instance...
You're forgetting that probably 60% of people don't know the difference between mac and wintel, don't care, and never will. If they buy the new iMac, they won't even notice it's a Mac... ever. They buy a computer, only use the software that's already installed on it, never upgrade, and buy another one five years later, never knowing whether or not it was a mac in the first place. "Unbelievable!" you may say... but it's true. I used to work in a computer lab with 50% macs and 50% wintel machines. My first question when there was a problem was "Are you using Macintosh or Windows?"... The (college educated) users got the question wrong over 33% of the time. That's pretty bad on a 50/50 question... especially in a sampling of college educated, regular computer users. Most geeks aren't aware of the computer ignorance that exists in the general populace, but it's much, much worse than most of you think.
>When presented with views that 2.96 is nowhere >near as buggy as claimed(and in fact, quite >good),
gcc 2.96 is good? You must be smoking something great. Can I have a little;)? You may notice (as I did) that when you down(up)grade to 2.95, and recompile a few key apps, your applications will no longer have those random crashes and linker errors, and general mis-features so often associated with that other OS... but that's just a suggestion.
In my opinion, RedHat ought to formally apologize for 2.96, and promise to never touch a line of GCC code again.
I've had MANY other programs compile badly with gcc 2.96... i.e. no errors in the compilation phase, but the program will segfault... for example XMAME and MESA. Exactly the same code will work fine on gcc 2.95. Gcc 2.96 is just a hacked, buggy compiler that RedHat released without the blessing of the GCC team. Do you really epect the MPlayer coders to fix RedHat's bugs? They've got better things to work on... like the next version of MPlayer! Save yourself a lot of trouble and UPgrade to the official GCC 2.95. It's not that hard to do. Call RedHat to complain if you don't like their work.
1) Saturate your DSL line with LimeWire AND kazaa
2) simultaneously LAME-encode 2 tracks at once, one lame instance per proc
3) Do a kernel compile
4) play a DIVX movie full-screen (no skipping)
...all at the same time? I can with a couple of ancient celeron 300As @464 using SMP and the kernel-preemption patch. I'll wager most of you can't do that with your $2000 P4 systems. Enough said.
Microsoft owns the world anyway, we might as well try to enjoy the situation.
Now how do I convert movies from DIVX AVI to ASF, and play them on these players? Everyone knows it's all Microsoft MP4 anyway, so the bitstream hopefully won't change. Possibly re-multiplex the sound and slap on a new header.... bingo.
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I find it hard to believe that PC hardware could be more reliable than the solid-as-a-rock iSeries. PC hardware has nowhere near the redundancy, integrity, or build quality of those systems. Neither crash often, though I've seen "kernel panic" much more often than a serious machine dump. You could argue that linux on PC hardware is cheaper, but you're completely off base with the "more reliable" statement.
digital film?
What do you mean digital film? All you need are bits. The bits from a high-res high-motion camera are simply transferred via a high speed interface to hard drive, digital tape, or other bit storage medium. In fact, this can be done much more cheaply than using celluloid film. In a lower-budget movie, the most expensive part of the production is the film to shoot it on.
You're right about celluloid being higher quality...it definately has higher resolution, but lower contrast than lucasfilm's digital projectors. The problem is that celluloid degrades over multiple viewings, and produces a slightly jerky picture on all but the most finely tuned projectors.
Damnit dude, ask her for her phone number! Stop using your brain and start thinking with your...
I'm serious. You're going to regret it if you don't.
Ask her out for a low-key date. She says no.. you're dissapointed, and you stop beating yourself up. She says yes, you get to spend a bit of quality time with her. Either way you win. You only lose by not doing anything... or worse, spending money on her anonymously. Regardless of what you may have heard, women aren't impressed by anonymity. It shows a lack of courage, and if there's one thing that gets you a date, it's courage.
One thing that may help is keeping something horibly sharp and painful in your pocket. Prick your leg with it a few times whenever you think about her and don't ask her out. Wear some dark pants so any blood goes unnoticed. Repeat until you're ready for some action.
I've always thought AS/400's native compilation was very cool. The bytecode hangs around for compatibility purposes, and there's a hidden staticly compiled object that the system links to it. You probably haven't noticed a lot of performance benefit from it because you're already using compilation without knowing it (your default optimization level is 30 or higher) or you're using the JIT, which is also screaming these days. Try using optimization level *interpret and you'll see what I mean.
AS/400 can also use WPO (Whole Program Optimization) when creating the program objects... something you can't get in a JIT. However, a good JIT will selectively optimize heavily used pieces of code... something not even the best native compiler can do. However, A native compile with WPO would be hard to beat with almost any program.
Aside from it's horribly low bitrate and low capacity, this thing sports neither balanced inputs nor phantom power for condenser mics. On the upside, the mic input is low impedance, but I don't know where to find unbalanced low-z mics. That means you need a bulky transformer/XLR adapter at the recorder... The adapters to use this thing are bigger than the device itself. What sort of pro would use this? Possibly the same pro that uses Peavy equipment ;)... This is useless in the pro field, but could possibly be useful to the garage band scene to send in demo mp3s to a record company (who'll either sign them up or kick them in the nuts... wait, I'm repeating myself). Could a garage band afford this? Maybe, but probably not. This thing would be more useful for reporters, but it's lacking a phone input for taping phone interviews, and a limiter for compressing the dynamic range. Almost has a market, but not quite.
I'm currently trying to get this compiler working on my system... the documentation is a bit lacking. I, for one, am extremely happy to have more choice in compilers for linux. Why is everyone else so upset about this? I'd much rather just re-compile my number-crunching software than buy new CPUs. As for it replacing GCC... no way. The intel compiler will never be distributed with linux because it's so much more expensive... not to mention it's extreme limitations in platform compatibility... hell, it won't even work on debian without major hacking.... that means future open-source software will compile under GCC or both, but not just intel. Some commercial software might require it for compilation, but who cares if you never even get to see the source? If it means faster number crunching, faster lame, and skip-free mplayer for me, I just can't see a downside. This is great!
Amen to the fact of life sentiment.
I can "sense" TVs too.. Drives me nuts... But is this electrical sensitivity? It's more easily explained than that. It's really nothing more than a buzz slightly beyond the range of normal human hearing. I think it's at 22khz, but someone correct me if I'm wrong. The sound is hard to pinpoint and such a high frequency sound carries pretty well, but the bottom line is that you'd need earplugs rather than tinfoil to stop "sensing" TVs. High frequency hearing always degrades with age, so you won't have this problem long.
I highly recommend watching the movie "safe" for all the whackos who believe in electrical sensitivity. It's a pretty fair treatment of these issues... And for the rest of us, it's a lesson in how to make money off hypochondriacs. Anybody want to go into business making "electrical ray blockers" that you could discretely wear around your neck? Or the same thing in lotion form? Or perhaps "electric cancellation accupressure" shoe insoles? We'd strike a deal with Ron Popeil to get our commercials to break up his infomercials. All I need now is VC.
that's what I meant, but slashcode filtered all my tags... :)
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Sorry, what I meant was SMEG SMEG SMEG!
I had 800+ megs of VCD-compliant red dwarf, that I've been leeching for a week and a half, but all the episodes are about 90% complete. This morning I killed kazaa in order to surf the web (I can't with kazaa running, HTTP timeouts everywhere), and now I'm SOL!
DOH DOH DOH!
Mine segfaults 9 out of 10 times on startup... big deal.. just keep trying (or put it in a script loop) and it will eventually log you in. After login it's stable and has only a few other problems. Except today... I'm having the same problem as the other linux users where I can't log in at all.
Good point! I never thought of that... That only applies, however, if they're planning to release a region 1 DVD as well... Wouldn't it be cool if the EU was able to pressure the DVD consortium into allowing the manufacture of region-free or region switchable DVD players? The DVD consortium is backed by deep pockets in Hollywood, so it's unlikely that a one-time fine will convince them... and a tax on regioned DVDs would only increase prices and hurt consumers even more. What are the other options at the EU's disposal? They would need to hurt those behind the region scam in an ongoing financial way... passing export taxes on Alan Rickman? Putting sugar in Tom Cruise's gas tank? More ideas?
Why would the the BBC region encode a circa 1990(?) miniseries? The purpose of region encoding is to ensure that a movie leaving US markets can be "staged" into foriegn markets, forcing DVD sales to be after film sales to avoid home viewing cutting into theater reciepts. Region encoding old TV material serves no purpose other than to simultaneously reduce sales and annoy customers. Why would the BBC want to stop sales of this DVD to the US? The math is simple...more sales means more money when there are no greater revenue streams to cut into. If the people at the BBC are half as smart as their accents make them seem, this DVD will be region-free ;)
I'd like to see the following: Complete hardware and architecture independance. Why couldn't you use the same source tree for i386, PPC, Sparc, alpha, s390, and (once the kernel is merged) AS/400? Sure you'd have differing "boot" methods, say a MILO-imaged floppy for alpha... but because it's all just source, it would actually be possible to use a single CD image for all platforms. What do you gain? Identical system configurations and administration across heterogeneous clusters and labs. No other distribution can really do that yet... this could be the first, and has the potential for a big win in heterogeneous markets.
Yes. Please add salt. Lots and lots of salt.
A memo to the powers that be..
Please don't use sorensen codec on these. Give us a good, industry standard, MPEG1 file... Please?
I can't figure out why handspring would announce this. They have, in the eyes of consumers, obsoleted their entire inventory. What are they going to do with their warehouses full of neos, prisms, and pros? I go to fry's and there are still deluxes piled up everywhere. They're not going anywhere after this. Why not announce a price cut, clear the inventory and THEN announce a product's obsolence. This current strategy places them atop piles of unsellable inventory... not to mention the fact that it kills their revenue stream for the immediate future.
* is not a star. It's an asterisk, or in computer lingo, it's a splat. How else can you come up with interesting phrases like splat-bang-hat? A few characters ARE badly named, however, I mean what is a tilde? We can form a full grammar with the following changes.
:)
~ = My apartment.
^ = Drew barrymore
_ = Jack Daniels
With this we can actually form useful phrases and logical conjectures, for instance...
#+_+^@~ = !*** =
Going straight to hell...
You're forgetting that probably 60% of people don't know the difference between mac and wintel, don't care, and never will. If they buy the new iMac, they won't even notice it's a Mac... ever. They buy a computer, only use the software that's already installed on it, never upgrade, and buy another one five years later, never knowing whether or not it was a mac in the first place. "Unbelievable!" you may say... but it's true. I used to work in a computer lab with 50% macs and 50% wintel machines. My first question when there was a problem was "Are you using Macintosh or Windows?"... The (college educated) users got the question wrong over 33% of the time. That's pretty bad on a 50/50 question... especially in a sampling of college educated, regular computer users. Most geeks aren't aware of the computer ignorance that exists in the general populace, but it's much, much worse than most of you think.
>When presented with views that 2.96 is nowhere >near as buggy as claimed(and in fact, quite >good),
;)? You may notice (as I did) that when you down(up)grade to 2.95, and recompile a few key apps, your applications will no longer have those random crashes and linker errors, and general mis-features so often associated with that other OS... but that's just a suggestion.
gcc 2.96 is good? You must be smoking something great. Can I have a little
In my opinion, RedHat ought to formally apologize for 2.96, and promise to never touch a line of GCC code again.
I've had MANY other programs compile badly with gcc 2.96... i.e. no errors in the compilation phase, but the program will segfault... for example XMAME and MESA. Exactly the same code will work fine on gcc 2.95. Gcc 2.96 is just a hacked, buggy compiler that RedHat released without the blessing of the GCC team. Do you really epect the MPlayer coders to fix RedHat's bugs? They've got better things to work on... like the next version of MPlayer! Save yourself a lot of trouble and UPgrade to the official GCC 2.95. It's not that hard to do. Call RedHat to complain if you don't like their work.
Slackers like me only surf the web at work. At work we're required to run Windows....
Can you...
1) Saturate your DSL line with LimeWire AND kazaa
2) simultaneously LAME-encode 2 tracks at once, one lame instance per proc
3) Do a kernel compile
4) play a DIVX movie full-screen (no skipping)
...all at the same time? I can with a couple of ancient celeron 300As @464 using SMP and the kernel-preemption patch. I'll wager most of you can't do that with your $2000 P4 systems. Enough said.
Microsoft owns the world anyway, we might as well try to enjoy the situation.
Now how do I convert movies from DIVX AVI to ASF, and play them on these players? Everyone knows it's all Microsoft MP4 anyway, so the bitstream hopefully won't change. Possibly re-multiplex the sound and slap on a new header.... bingo.