Is a solid technological solution. I ran across a piece of software that's supposed to take mpeg-2 data streams (decrypted using DeCSS) and allow you to translate language tracks in real time. I'm too busy to look up the web site, but it was called the Content Library Internet Translator for Online and Realtime Interpolation of Sound. Do a google search for the acronym, it should be near the top. --Shoeboy
We can now get "we're sorry, dsl won't be in your area for X months" messages at a rate of 40Gb/s. Qwest's broadband technology should let them enter a whole new world of high speed customer disservice. Imagine being told "I'm sorry I can't help you." in seconds rather than having to wait on hold for hours.
Myself and most people I know have had some delightful experiences with USWEST -can you tell?
--Shoeboy
Depends on the format of the film...
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disclaimer: I work for AtomFilms.com , but the views express are my own and my employer isn't happy about all the time I spend on/. so I'm unlikely to run this post by them.
I don't believe that the theater will be obsolete. It's too much fun. My house doesn't have 1) a concession stand 2) rowdy kids yelling "focus" 3) sticky floors 4) complete darkness Some of these seem like nuisances, but I think they're critical to the movie going experience. It's fun. It's not something that you can duplicate in your living room, and not something you'd want to.
That being said, there are a lot of formats that don't work well in the big theater setting. A 7 screen theater is expensive and really only hollywood features have the financing to support the theater distribution model. Online is a lower cost medium that's very friendly to short films, expirimental formats and interactive technology. But there's a limit to how interactive you can get, you can't reproduce the Rocky Horror experience in your living room, and again, you wouldn't want to.
Online movies are going to revolutionize the way content is created, marketed and viewed, but it won't kill theaters. There's always going to be a demand to GO OUTSIDE and see a film. I suspect the people saying 'I can do everything in my living room and don't need to leave the house' don't date much.
Anyway, what online films can and will do is increase the market and exposure for innovative and expirimental films, showcase new technologies, improve audience interaction and empower (I can't believe I just used that word) consumers.
Actually my friend, you are the one who is mistaken. The williamette is pretty massively different from the p6. A good overview is here and here. --Shoeboy
The idea is to have a competition for moderations. There will be a new contest announced every week and the contest will run for 2 weeks. Contests will be things like getting the most +1 insightfuls for a post containing at least 3 repetitions of 'Taco Sux'
It also stands a good chance of kicking the Alpha 21264's A**! Kicking it at what? Alphas are moving.18 later this year and should top 1 ghz. That will ensure a comfortable fp edge over everyone. On the integer front it should be close, but I suspect it'll be the alpha's win here too. The williamette core is too deeply pipelined and has too much of a branch mispredict penalty. --Shoeboy
The dread donkpunch and I are planning a 'slashdot olympics' and we neeed you. Let me know if you're willing to put your reputation as ultimate poster on the line in the quest to bring home the gold.
I believe that the new intel mobile chips with speedstep actually consume fewer watts than the G4.
What's definite is that x86 slaps the g4 all over the place on both bandwidth and integer performance. And the ghz t-bird beats the 500mhz g4 by a very wide margin in floating point.
As far as your assertion that x86 instructions require a lot of transistors, that's only if they're implemented in hardware. The crusoe uses software translation. (not the same as software emulation)
It's the slowest high end chip. It's the only performance processor that posts lower specfp2000 numbers than the x86. The 450 mhz us II is less than half the speed of the 667 mhz ev67 alpha. Sun needs the us III core more than intel needs the p7.
It's amazing to think that they have spent so many years getting away with regurgitating the pentium pro core, without any solid competition. And just what, pray tell, is wrong with the p6 core? It's gone from 150 to 1000 mhz. (if you can get one.) It stomped every competitor in integer performance when it came out. It still powers past everything but the athlon and alpha in integer speed. It's proven to be flexible and scalable. Is it a problem that they've been improving a good core rather than making a new one? If you want to bash a company for regurgitating an obsolete core, pick Sun.
Where, and by who? I seem to have missed it. It seemed like an obvious thing, but I like to think that my execution could scarce be improved upon. --Shoeboy (former microserf)
Allrighty Smoking Joe, we'll find signal 11, lure him into my lair truss him up and convert him to the donk side. His karma will not protect him from my vicious crew of vampire lesbian NASCAR drivers. (they wear asbestos undergarments in case of fire!) Portman pics are here. When I say badly faked, I mean fat chicks who look nothing like NP and don't pretend to.
This is an offtopic post. You can tell that it is offtopic by the complete lack of any reference to the article or anything related to it.
The correct action to take is to moderate this post down as offtopic.
You might be tempted to moderate it down as overrated as I am posting with +2. Fight that temptation - this path leads to madness. The correct mod is offtopic.
You might also consider me a troll. I'm not. Look up troll in the jargon file. Trolls have a sense of humor - this post does not. Go with offtopic.
Under no circumstances should you choose flamebait. No one cares enough to flame this post.
Ok, this sucks for the independent short filmmaker. Short films have been underappreciated in the US for far too long simply because there hasn't been a good distribution infrastructure. The web promises to change this, since short films are ideal for streaming media. The academy's decision basically ignores the economic realities facing short filmmakers. If it's not on TV, the web or airline distribution, where do you see shorts? How often do you attend film festivals? The ruling makes sense for feature films, since they have a large and profitable distribution network, but not shorts.
Views expressed in this post are mine and don't reflect those of my employer etc...
And can I get a hallelujah? The MP3's you get off of the net sound like crap. They get played back on crap equipment.
The whole napster debate pisses me off. You are not getting cd quality digital audio. You are getting 128k crap. Sure you can make perfect copies of this 128k crap, but what good is a perfect copy of a piece of shit?
And what's up with cd anyway? Vinyl is the best medium for audio. (If only it didn't degrade so #$%^ fast.)
With an open source OS and some hard thinking, it should be possible to come up with an instruction set for the Crusoe and a "port" of gcc which produces a very fast OS optimized specifically for your new instruction set. You seem to be out of touch with the trends in cpu design. Here's a nice simple intro -- it may have been a/. story, I can't remember.
Basically, you don't want to code to the bare crusoe metal since that will keep transmeta from improving the architecture without breaking your software.
The translation of x86 instructions can be done better than transmeta is currently doing it. By only exposing the x86 layer, transmeta gains the ability to totally redesign their chip without breaking any code. This is more important in the long run than a small speed increase.
Also, the crusoe is optimized for translating x86. There's no guarantee that coding on the bare metal would be an improvement.
Konstant is my favorite Microserf, I believe he's a tester on the outlook(?) team. Anyway, what would be WAY cooler than the EROS operating system would be an OS that exposes transactions at a very low level. So basically you'd have a transaction server that would communicate with the file server and other basic services as well as exposing transactions to user space. (I'm on 3 hours of sleep here, so my terminology may be inexact.) So any program can obtain a transaction id, write to multiple files and either rollback or commit all those writes as a single atomic act. This would make your RDBMS a small SQL parser that uses the transactional features of the OS. This would rock. Backups could be made much more flexible and useful.
See Jim Gray's (my second favorite microserf) "Transaction Processing" book for a coherent explanation.
All I can say is that this guy should not be allowed to comment on UI issues. The color scheme in that last page made my eyes bleed.
7.1 seems decent though. I'm building a linux box in a couple of weeks and I think it's what I'll install.
Wish the colored stars on the install screens had some extra visual cues to help out the color blind, but I believe most(?) color blind people can still detect orange, so that's not that big of a deal.
Clearly, then, what happened with Win95 can be expected to hold true for all software, regardless of the possible, hypothetical existence of things referred to in some rogue scientific circles as "other factors".
Ah, I see, when you refer to Daikatana it's a valid example, but when I refer to Win95 it's generalizing from a single example. My bad. I cringe before your debating skills.
Does a given individual's opinion that the company probably won't suffer for it somehow invalidate their right to pursue such a matter?
Umm... If there's no *proof* of damage and there's no reason for a reasonable individual to suspect damage, then they can't sue for damages. So yes, if you don't suffer, you can't sue.
If I were to distribute the contents of your [hard drive/filing cabinet/tax records/secret video library hidden behind an access panel in your bedroom/something containing sensitive information about yourself] after buying them from an anonymous source (who may or may not have broken into your home to steal the; who am I to care how they got it?), would you consider me absolved of all responsibility? Would you glibly shrug your shoulders and say, "Well hey, I guess it's cool, seeing as you aren't the person who actually violated the law"? Would you still see me as an innocent vessel for the dissemination of information, even though said information was acquired at some point through the violation of a law or legally binding agreement?
Can't see how I'd be irrepably harmed if you copied my 17 Gb archive of lesbian porn. Can't see how I'd be irrepably harmed if you saw a screenshot of my latest dev project either.
The question is whether or not Adobe is right to try and protect their own private intellectual property, regardless of how petty or pointless any of us may seem to think said information is.
Well since you put it that way... It is not *right* to right to file a petty and pointless lawsuit just because copyright law says you can. Seems obvious to me.
(...oh, regarding Daikatana--the very fact that you carefully explained how you pirated the game instead of ever being caught dead paying for it kinda reveals your predisposition towards the game. Had you not already formed such a powerful disgust towards the game even before it came out, you wouldn't be so compelled to disown any constructive association to the game.
Actually, I just wanted to make it clear that I didn't use a game with *some* resale value as a coaster. And my copy of half-life was pirated too.
Thing is, if you actually play Daikatana, and get past the first epoch, the game improves considerably.
Yeah, and if you smack yourself in the testicles, and you get past the initial agony, the pain diminishes considerably.
If hype about Photoshop 6 starts to ramp up six months before the intended start of their PR campaign, they'll have to deal not only with the "Well, I'll just wait for the new version now!" mentality but the "Gosh, it's taking them an awfully long time...I wonder what's wrong!" mentality, as well.
Yeah, we know how all the pre-launch hype for win95 totally damaged sales and kept it from gaining market share...
...what if one of the features released turns out to be poorly received by the community? Even if they scrap the entire feature, they'll still have to deal with the "Well, thank god they at least got rid of that stupid thing!" chatter that goes about. Certainly, it is a far better scenario for Adobe to never have to deal with such criticisms in the first place. That is what could end up costing them money--having to fight negative PR for a product that hasn't even come out of development yet.
Yeah, fighting the damage caused by the.005% of the buying public that bases it's purchasing decisions on features mentioned in beta reviews on appleinsider (but not actually in the final product) could take billions.
look at what happened to Romero with Daikatana. The game really is a passable game, in spite of it's faults, but because it has been so closely watched for four years now, it's been branded as the laughingstock of the industry for being far too little, far too late.
Passable? First (timeframe, era, epoch, whatever) was so sucky that I just quit. I'd have to say that daikatana is a laughingstock because it stinks. I'm now using the cd as a coaster. (It was a burned copy, I didn't pay for the damned thing.) Game crashed more than a little as well, and the low quality of ATI drivers for win2k doesn't explain all of that.
Basically, only companies that *KNOW* that their product sucks will take an action like adobe is taking.
Slashdot Mirror
Is a solid technological solution. I ran across a piece of software that's supposed to take mpeg-2 data streams (decrypted using DeCSS) and allow you to translate language tracks in real time. I'm too busy to look up the web site, but it was called the Content Library Internet Translator for Online and Realtime Interpolation of Sound. Do a google search for the acronym, it should be near the top.
--Shoeboy
We can now get "we're sorry, dsl won't be in your area for X months" messages at a rate of 40Gb/s.
Qwest's broadband technology should let them enter a whole new world of high speed customer disservice. Imagine being told "I'm sorry I can't help you." in seconds rather than having to wait on hold for hours.
Myself and most people I know have had some delightful experiences with USWEST -can you tell?
--Shoeboy
disclaimer: I work for AtomFilms.com , but the views express are my own and my employer isn't happy about all the time I spend on /. so I'm unlikely to run this post by them.
I don't believe that the theater will be obsolete. It's too much fun. My house doesn't have
1) a concession stand
2) rowdy kids yelling "focus"
3) sticky floors
4) complete darkness
Some of these seem like nuisances, but I think they're critical to the movie going experience. It's fun. It's not something that you can duplicate in your living room, and not something you'd want to.
That being said, there are a lot of formats that don't work well in the big theater setting. A 7 screen theater is expensive and really only hollywood features have the financing to support the theater distribution model. Online is a lower cost medium that's very friendly to short films, expirimental formats and interactive technology. But there's a limit to how interactive you can get, you can't reproduce the Rocky Horror experience in your living room, and again, you wouldn't want to.
Online movies are going to revolutionize the way content is created, marketed and viewed, but it won't kill theaters. There's always going to be a demand to GO OUTSIDE and see a film. I suspect the people saying 'I can do everything in my living room and don't need to leave the house' don't date much.
Anyway, what online films can and will do is increase the market and exposure for innovative and expirimental films, showcase new technologies, improve audience interaction and empower (I can't believe I just used that word) consumers.
--Shoeboy
Actually my friend, you are the one who is mistaken. The williamette is pretty massively different from the p6. A good overview is here and here.
--Shoeboy
The idea is to have a competition for moderations. There will be a new contest announced every week and the contest will run for 2 weeks. Contests will be things like getting the most +1 insightfuls for a post containing at least 3 repetitions of 'Taco Sux'
--Shoeboy
It also stands a good chance of kicking the Alpha 21264's A**! .18 later this year and should top 1 ghz. That will ensure a comfortable fp edge over everyone. On the integer front it should be close, but I suspect it'll be the alpha's win here too. The williamette core is too deeply pipelined and has too much of a branch mispredict penalty.
Kicking it at what? Alphas are moving
--Shoeboy
Uh, you mean 786 right?
Pentium was the 586, p-pro was the 686, this'll be the 786.
--Shoeboy
Sorry,
I tend to troll when I get stressed out at work. You can actually tell how much shit management is giving me based on the quality of my posts.
--Shoeboy
Signal 11,
The dread donkpunch and I are planning a 'slashdot olympics' and we neeed you. Let me know if you're willing to put your reputation as ultimate poster on the line in the quest to bring home the gold.
--Shoeboy
Link for you:
Apples power failure.
I believe that the new intel mobile chips with speedstep actually consume fewer watts than the G4.
What's definite is that x86 slaps the g4 all over the place on both bandwidth and integer performance. And the ghz t-bird beats the 500mhz g4 by a very wide margin in floating point.
As far as your assertion that x86 instructions require a lot of transistors, that's only if they're implemented in hardware. The crusoe uses software translation. (not the same as software emulation)
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
It's the slowest high end chip. It's the only performance processor that posts lower specfp2000 numbers than the x86.
The 450 mhz us II is less than half the speed of the 667 mhz ev67 alpha.
Sun needs the us III core more than intel needs the p7.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
It's amazing to think that they have spent so many years getting away with regurgitating the pentium pro core, without any solid competition.
And just what, pray tell, is wrong with the p6 core? It's gone from 150 to 1000 mhz. (if you can get one.) It stomped every competitor in integer performance when it came out. It still powers past everything but the athlon and alpha in integer speed. It's proven to be flexible and scalable. Is it a problem that they've been improving a good core rather than making a new one?
If you want to bash a company for regurgitating an obsolete core, pick Sun.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Where, and by who? I seem to have missed it.
It seemed like an obvious thing, but I like to think that my execution could scarce be improved upon.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Allrighty Smoking Joe, we'll find signal 11, lure him into my lair truss him up and convert him to the donk side.
His karma will not protect him from my vicious crew of vampire lesbian NASCAR drivers. (they wear asbestos undergarments in case of fire!)
Portman pics are here. When I say badly faked, I mean fat chicks who look nothing like NP and don't pretend to.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
DonkPunch,
I'll join you on one condition:
You must refer to me as 'my young apprentice.' I'll refer to you as 'smoking joe'.
Is this acceptable?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
This is an offtopic post. You can tell that it is offtopic by the complete lack of any reference to the article or anything related to it.
The correct action to take is to moderate this post down as offtopic.
You might be tempted to moderate it down as overrated as I am posting with +2. Fight that temptation - this path leads to madness. The correct mod is offtopic.
You might also consider me a troll. I'm not. Look up troll in the jargon file. Trolls have a sense of humor - this post does not. Go with offtopic.
Under no circumstances should you choose flamebait. No one cares enough to flame this post.
So offtopic it is. Got it?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
DonkPunch,
I have 37 gallons of steaming hot grits and a 14Gb collection of badly faked Portman nude shots. I've been biding my time, waiting, preparing.
What do you have in mind oh dark^H^H^H^Hdonk one?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
When I first heard about COOL, I thought it should have been renamed to Simple Unified C++ Kit
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Disclaimer: I work for AtomFilms
Ok, this sucks for the independent short filmmaker. Short films have been underappreciated in the US for far too long simply because there hasn't been a good distribution infrastructure.
The web promises to change this, since short films are ideal for streaming media.
The academy's decision basically ignores the economic realities facing short filmmakers. If it's not on TV, the web or airline distribution, where do you see shorts? How often do you attend film festivals?
The ruling makes sense for feature films, since they have a large and profitable distribution network, but not shorts.
Views expressed in this post are mine and don't reflect those of my employer etc...
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
And can I get a hallelujah? The MP3's you get off of the net sound like crap. They get played back on crap equipment.
The whole napster debate pisses me off. You are not getting cd quality digital audio. You are getting 128k crap. Sure you can make perfect copies of this 128k crap, but what good is a perfect copy of a piece of shit?
And what's up with cd anyway? Vinyl is the best medium for audio. (If only it didn't degrade so #$%^ fast.)
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
With an open source OS and some hard thinking, it should be possible to come up with an instruction set for the Crusoe and a "port" of gcc which produces a very fast OS optimized specifically for your new instruction set. /. story, I can't remember.
You seem to be out of touch with the trends in cpu design.
Here's a nice simple intro -- it may have been a
Basically, you don't want to code to the bare crusoe metal since that will keep transmeta from improving the architecture without breaking your software.
The translation of x86 instructions can be done better than transmeta is currently doing it. By only exposing the x86 layer, transmeta gains the ability to totally redesign their chip without breaking any code. This is more important in the long run than a small speed increase.
Also, the crusoe is optimized for translating x86. There's no guarantee that coding on the bare metal would be an improvement.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Konstant is my favorite Microserf, I believe he's a tester on the outlook(?) team.
Anyway, what would be WAY cooler than the EROS operating system would be an OS that exposes transactions at a very low level. So basically you'd have a transaction server that would communicate with the file server and other basic services as well as exposing transactions to user space. (I'm on 3 hours of sleep here, so my terminology may be inexact.) So any program can obtain a transaction id, write to multiple files and either rollback or commit all those writes as a single atomic act. This would make your RDBMS a small SQL parser that uses the transactional features of the OS. This would rock. Backups could be made much more flexible and useful.
See Jim Gray's (my second favorite microserf) "Transaction Processing" book for a coherent explanation.
Don't know why I posted this.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
All I can say is that this guy should not be allowed to comment on UI issues. The color scheme in that last page made my eyes bleed.
7.1 seems decent though. I'm building a linux box in a couple of weeks and I think it's what I'll install.
Wish the colored stars on the install screens had some extra visual cues to help out the color blind, but I believe most(?) color blind people can still detect orange, so that's not that big of a deal.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Clearly, then, what happened with Win95 can be expected to hold true for all software, regardless of the possible, hypothetical existence of things referred to in some rogue scientific circles as "other factors".
Ah, I see, when you refer to Daikatana it's a valid example, but when I refer to Win95 it's generalizing from a single example. My bad. I cringe before your debating skills.
Does a given individual's opinion that the company probably won't suffer for it somehow invalidate their right to pursue such a matter?
Umm... If there's no *proof* of damage and there's no reason for a reasonable individual to suspect damage, then they can't sue for damages. So yes, if you don't suffer, you can't sue.
If I were to distribute the contents of your [hard drive/filing cabinet/tax records/secret video library hidden behind an access panel in your bedroom/something containing sensitive information about yourself] after buying them from an anonymous source (who may or may not have broken into your home to steal the; who am I to care how they got it?), would you consider me absolved of all responsibility? Would you glibly shrug your shoulders and say, "Well hey, I guess it's cool, seeing as you aren't the person who actually violated the law"? Would you still see me as an innocent vessel for the dissemination of information, even though said information was acquired at some point through the violation of a law or legally binding agreement?
Can't see how I'd be irrepably harmed if you copied my 17 Gb archive of lesbian porn. Can't see how I'd be irrepably harmed if you saw a screenshot of my latest dev project either.
The question is whether or not Adobe is right to try and protect their own private intellectual property, regardless of how petty or pointless any of us may seem to think said information is.
Well since you put it that way...
It is not *right* to right to file a petty and pointless lawsuit just because copyright law says you can. Seems obvious to me.
(...oh, regarding Daikatana--the very fact that you carefully explained how you pirated the game instead of ever being caught dead paying for it kinda reveals your predisposition towards the game. Had you not already formed such a powerful disgust towards the game even before it came out, you wouldn't be so compelled to disown any constructive association to the game.
Actually, I just wanted to make it clear that I didn't use a game with *some* resale value as a coaster. And my copy of half-life was pirated too.
Thing is, if you actually play Daikatana, and get past the first epoch, the game improves considerably.
Yeah, and if you smack yourself in the testicles, and you get past the initial agony, the pain diminishes considerably.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
If hype about Photoshop 6 starts to ramp up six months before the intended start of their PR campaign, they'll have to deal not only with the "Well, I'll just wait for the new version now!" mentality but the "Gosh, it's taking them an awfully long time...I wonder what's wrong!" mentality, as well.
...what if one of the features released turns out to be poorly received by the community? Even if they scrap the entire feature, they'll still have to deal with the "Well, thank god they at least got rid of that stupid thing!" chatter that goes about. Certainly, it is a far better scenario for Adobe to never have to deal with such criticisms in the first place. That is what could end up costing them money--having to fight negative PR for a product that hasn't even come out of development yet.
.005% of the buying public that bases it's purchasing decisions on features mentioned in beta reviews on appleinsider (but not actually in the final product) could take billions.
Yeah, we know how all the pre-launch hype for win95 totally damaged sales and kept it from gaining market share...
Yeah, fighting the damage caused by the
look at what happened to Romero with Daikatana. The game really is a passable game, in spite of it's faults, but because it has been so closely watched for four years now, it's been branded as the laughingstock of the industry for being far too little, far too late.
Passable? First (timeframe, era, epoch, whatever) was so sucky that I just quit. I'd have to say that daikatana is a laughingstock because it stinks. I'm now using the cd as a coaster. (It was a burned copy, I didn't pay for the damned thing.)
Game crashed more than a little as well, and the low quality of ATI drivers for win2k doesn't explain all of that.
Basically, only companies that *KNOW* that their product sucks will take an action like adobe is taking.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)