How ever getting Linux people does not imply any change to the game clients. For Valve to work, and it does, one has to assume it runs on Unix and and in this day Linux is the #1 Unix. So getting Linux developers to make the Valve servers better is a no brainier.
Yeah, but going by the summary, they've just hired game engine and graphics toolkit developers.
Number one thing i want in CM. Is for them to stop overlooking legacy devices like the nexus one.
If that's the G1, the base code is too bloaty and slow to run nicely on the hardware now. The G1 has limited RAM and flash space, sadly and there's a limit to how much you can optimise someone else's code like that.
Why are people posting about their very specific needs, and overstating the impact those needs have for everyone else? Your vertical market is the minority.
Yes, but there are shitloads of minority vertical markets which are currently served by the PC and for which tablets and phones are not viable replacements.
And that's just in industry, never mind that there are a lot of people recording music at home, putting heavily-edited videos on youtube and tens of thousands of webcomics being done in photoshop etc. That said, it would be nice to have tape machines back in production...
No, at $199 it is another tethered media consumption device. No external ports. Add an SD slot (not Micro) and I'd probably have a pre-order in already. Add a USB host port and/or HDMI out and it would be a game changer.
I've been wondering about that too. Apparently USB-on-the-go will work, but you have to root it first.
Intel publishes ( for free ) nearly all their architecture documents. It's been their business model since the beginning... how else would the X86 platform exist?
Someone clearly fell asleep in the 1990s, when Intel were so terrified of the V86 extensions being copied by AMD that they wouldn't tell anyone except Microsoft how they worked. People actually reverse-engineered it and released their own documentation before Intel was willing to allow things like Linux DOSEMU to use it. This did not endear me to Intel back in the day.
Indeed, an interesting relic from that era is my Turbo Assembler 5 manual. It has a number of blank entries in it for Pentium instructions, e.g. RDTSC (Proprietary instruction. Contact Intel for more Information.") - Turbo Assembler Quick Reference, p.118
This simply isn't true. While solid state drives will ultimately fail, they are reliable enough that you will have exhausted that storage device and have upgraded to something else long before physical failure.
Depends on the drive. Mine destroyed itself in just under a year, and that was with it 50% full, with noatime, swap on an HDD and various other things to try and keep it going. It was a Kingston, mind you, but there also seem to be a lot of unhappy OCZ users and even Intel did this thing where the drive suddenly became 8MB.
The other thing is that the more modern drives are using higher density flash, and by virtue of how it works, flash is less and less stable the smaller the charge gates are.
The open source drivers miss hardware acceleration, and various video resolutions/modes on my card, and the closed source ones often don't have the acceleration working right either, and sometimes cause X to crash.
What was the card? I've been using nVidia for years now, because although the closed-source driver is a PITA to set up and occasionally needs care and feeding if the OS updates (e.g. the kernel and when Ubuntu updates X), once it is working it is screams and has been very reliable.
I've been using the 6200, the 7600 and now the GTX550TI. I forget what before that, but I've only been using nVidia cards for at least a decade because if it won't work well in Linux it's a waste of money and gaming-level cards aren't cheap.
h.264 licensing is different than normal patents, like say, cellphones.... They decided to create the MPEG Licensing Authority (MPEG-LA) to manage the patent portfolio.
This is true, but the patent pool only protects you from other people within the patent pool. If an external entity won't join the pool (and an actual patent troll probably wouldn't) and starts suing people instead, the situation would look very much like what we're seeing here. I'm not saying that's definitely what we're seeing here, but it's possible.
That would work only if the writer actually owns the copyright in the show's setting. If the publisher owns it, and the publisher wants it canceled, no amount of crowd funding is going to bring it back.
I think what they mean is that this project is not beholden to a publisher.
the biggest obstacle for us with Gimp now is that it doesn't open PSD layers properly. whenever we receive a PSD file from a designer, which includes layers, we have to open a virtual machine with Photoshop in it to just to open it properly.
but I don't see PSD layer support in the new features list - I wonder when gimp will support this?
Depends what your PSD file is doing. I've got hundreds of them which work perfectly, and I've done back-and-forth editing work with photoshop users. However it's very likely that most of the artists I've been working with aren't doing anything sufficiently advanced to freak it out - it's almost entirely comic art.
Of the 790+ files on my system, exactly two have done strange enough layer effects to cause problems. Photoshop is $1000 in this country and I can't justify that just to look at two files. These two files are still glitching in 2.8rc1 though IMHO they look better than they have done in earlier versions, so they may have added a few more features, I don't know.
FWIW there was also an issue where it couldn't export additive layers and a couple of other effects to PSD - maybe Photoshop itself can't do it, or else the PSD export filter can't. Whatever the case, that would cause it to flatten the offending layers down in the exported file. I don't know if 2.8 still does that offhand.
I actually like the 1970s video look, there's a certain wam, comforting feel to things like Dr. Who, I Claudius etc, which seems to have been lost, probably in the switch from vidicon cameras to solid state. For that matter, I like the psychedelic colours you get when something explodes and overloads the sensor, but I'm probably in the minority there.
I wasn't planning to see The Hobbit, but this has piqued my interest somewhat, assuming it's not some artifact of it not have been colour-graded or something. That said, the local cinema is unlikely to run it in 48fps anyway...
Apple was not the first to use Animal names for OSes? (ponder). MS-DOS. MS Windows. Commodore GEOS. Atari TOS. Amiga Workbench/CLI. Macintosh System 7,8,9. I can't think of any prior examples.
LynxOS? Also, Novell DOS 7.0 was codenamed 'panther', but I don't believe that was ever used externally.
Just loaded GIMP 2.6 - and I'll tell ya' it's not fixed. it's still a hairy mess to figure out. Though has been reported they are working on a new interface (one more Photoshop like); but I don't know the status or what version it was to come out in.
2.8 does the single-window interface thing. It looks like this:
...whether that's now a single window hairy mess is not something I can really comment on. Personally, I find Photoshop to be an unintuitive horror and gimp works just how I'd expect, but that's probably because I started out with Autodesk Animator and weird things like that. If I had started on Photoshop my opinion would probably be very different.
It would have been nice to actually see some of the kit, other than the A80 (which is nice, but not particularly rare or unusual). Even after looking at their website I haven't yet been able to find a comprehensive equipment list, which is odd for a working studio.
I'm going to take a wild guess that the Scully 280 is probably their multitrack, likely a late 1960s model in either 1" 8 track or 2" 16 track format, though I think there were also 1/2" 4-track versions, depending on how retro you want to go. The stereo 280 machines have an interesting reputation as a 'tape format converter' in that they can stretch a 1/4" master recording into something that would fit happily inside a cassette tape (this is not something you ever want to have happen).
The Ampex decks are probably the 350 series from the 1950s, which people seem to like to gut into preamplifiers.
No, it's because 3 months is ridiculous. In many cases it's taken more than that to produce the song in the first place. 3 years? That's far more sensible. 'Course, it could be that old principle of asking for something insane so that any compromise is an improvement.
I dunno about that. Most of Dad's tapes were L750 which was 195 minutes long, and the L500s were 130 minutes. That was actually a strong advantage over VHS, where the E180 and E120 tapes were exactly three or two hours long and if the programme was even slightly late you'd miss the ending.
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How ever getting Linux people does not imply any change to the game clients.
For Valve to work, and it does, one has to assume it runs on Unix and and in this day Linux is the #1 Unix. So getting Linux developers to make the Valve servers better is a no brainier.
Yeah, but going by the summary, they've just hired game engine and graphics toolkit developers.
Number one thing i want in CM. Is for them to stop overlooking legacy devices like the nexus one.
If that's the G1, the base code is too bloaty and slow to run nicely on the hardware now. The G1 has limited RAM and flash space, sadly and there's a limit to how much you can optimise someone else's code like that.
Why are people posting about their very specific needs, and overstating the impact those needs have for everyone else? Your vertical market is the minority.
Yes, but there are shitloads of minority vertical markets which are currently served by the PC and for which tablets and phones are not viable replacements.
And that's just in industry, never mind that there are a lot of people recording music at home, putting heavily-edited videos on youtube and tens of thousands of webcomics being done in photoshop etc. That said, it would be nice to have tape machines back in production...
No, at $199 it is another tethered media consumption device. No external ports. Add an SD slot (not Micro) and I'd probably have a pre-order in already. Add a USB host port and/or HDMI out and it would be a game changer.
I've been wondering about that too. Apparently USB-on-the-go will work, but you have to root it first.
Intel publishes ( for free ) nearly all their architecture documents. It's been their business model since the beginning... how else would the X86 platform exist?
Someone clearly fell asleep in the 1990s, when Intel were so terrified of the V86 extensions being copied by AMD that they wouldn't tell anyone except Microsoft how they worked. People actually reverse-engineered it and released their own documentation before Intel was willing to allow things like Linux DOSEMU to use it. This did not endear me to Intel back in the day.
Indeed, an interesting relic from that era is my Turbo Assembler 5 manual. It has a number of blank entries in it for Pentium instructions, e.g.
RDTSC (Proprietary instruction. Contact Intel for more Information.") - Turbo Assembler Quick Reference, p.118
This simply isn't true. While solid state drives will ultimately fail, they are reliable enough that you will have exhausted that storage device and have upgraded to something else long before physical failure.
Depends on the drive. Mine destroyed itself in just under a year, and that was with it 50% full, with noatime, swap on an HDD and various other things to try and keep it going. It was a Kingston, mind you, but there also seem to be a lot of unhappy OCZ users and even Intel did this thing where the drive suddenly became 8MB.
The other thing is that the more modern drives are using higher density flash, and by virtue of how it works, flash is less and less stable the smaller the charge gates are.
The open source drivers miss hardware acceleration, and various video resolutions/modes on my card, and the closed source ones often don't have the acceleration working right either, and sometimes cause X to crash.
What was the card? I've been using nVidia for years now, because although the closed-source driver is a PITA to set up and occasionally needs care and feeding if the OS updates (e.g. the kernel and when Ubuntu updates X), once it is working it is screams and has been very reliable.
I've been using the 6200, the 7600 and now the GTX550TI. I forget what before that, but I've only been using nVidia cards for at least a decade because if it won't work well in Linux it's a waste of money and gaming-level cards aren't cheap.
h.264 licensing is different than normal patents, like say, cellphones. ... They decided to create the MPEG Licensing Authority (MPEG-LA) to manage the patent portfolio.
This is true, but the patent pool only protects you from other people within the patent pool. If an external entity won't join the pool (and an actual patent troll probably wouldn't) and starts suing people instead, the situation would look very much like what we're seeing here. I'm not saying that's definitely what we're seeing here, but it's possible.
Not that Apple, et. al., are innocent by any means, but WTF has Technicolor contributed to humanity in the past twenty years??
From the article: Technicolor, which made the first colour movie 90 years ago, holds key patents in digital audio and video.
I hope they succeed, but... all that talent, and they couldn't think of a name better than "Space Command?"
Given the 1950s atmosphere in all the concept art, I'd guess that's deliberate.
That would work only if the writer actually owns the copyright in the show's setting. If the publisher owns it, and the publisher wants it canceled, no amount of crowd funding is going to bring it back.
I think what they mean is that this project is not beholden to a publisher.
the biggest obstacle for us with Gimp now is that it doesn't open PSD layers properly. whenever we receive a PSD file from a designer, which includes layers, we have to open a virtual machine with Photoshop in it to just to open it properly.
but I don't see PSD layer support in the new features list - I wonder when gimp will support this?
Depends what your PSD file is doing. I've got hundreds of them which work perfectly, and I've done back-and-forth editing work with photoshop users. However it's very likely that most of the artists I've been working with aren't doing anything sufficiently advanced to freak it out - it's almost entirely comic art.
Of the 790+ files on my system, exactly two have done strange enough layer effects to cause problems. Photoshop is $1000 in this country and I can't justify that just to look at two files. These two files are still glitching in 2.8rc1 though IMHO they look better than they have done in earlier versions, so they may have added a few more features, I don't know.
FWIW there was also an issue where it couldn't export additive layers and a couple of other effects to PSD - maybe Photoshop itself can't do it, or else the PSD export filter can't. Whatever the case, that would cause it to flatten the offending layers down in the exported file. I don't know if 2.8 still does that offhand.
Are you talking about current Blackberry development system? Because that's the bit they're (very sensibly) leaving behind.
I actually like the 1970s video look, there's a certain wam, comforting feel to things like Dr. Who, I Claudius etc, which seems to have been lost, probably in the switch from vidicon cameras to solid state. For that matter, I like the psychedelic colours you get when something explodes and overloads the sensor, but I'm probably in the minority there.
I wasn't planning to see The Hobbit, but this has piqued my interest somewhat, assuming it's not some artifact of it not have been colour-graded or something. That said, the local cinema is unlikely to run it in 48fps anyway...
Not Quad or C-format video, then...
Apple was not the first to use Animal names for OSes? (ponder). MS-DOS. MS Windows. Commodore GEOS. Atari TOS. Amiga Workbench/CLI. Macintosh System 7,8,9. I can't think of any prior examples.
LynxOS? Also, Novell DOS 7.0 was codenamed 'panther', but I don't believe that was ever used externally.
2.8.0 RC1 is out, but it doesn't look too different on a cursory inspection.
Windows -> Single Window Mode
Just loaded GIMP 2.6 - and I'll tell ya' it's not fixed. it's still a hairy mess to figure out. Though has been reported they are working on a new interface (one more Photoshop like); but I don't know the status or what version it was to come out in.
2.8 does the single-window interface thing. It looks like this:
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/gimp28-screenshot.jpg
...whether that's now a single window hairy mess is not something I can really comment on. Personally, I find Photoshop to be an unintuitive horror and gimp works just how I'd expect, but that's probably because I started out with Autodesk Animator and weird things like that. If I had started on Photoshop my opinion would probably be very different.
Now can we pleeeaaase have a new release? Gimp 2.8 is what, 2 years behind schedule?
Have you tried RC1?
It would have been nice to actually see some of the kit, other than the A80 (which is nice, but not particularly rare or unusual). Even after looking at their website I haven't yet been able to find a comprehensive equipment list, which is odd for a working studio.
I'm going to take a wild guess that the Scully 280 is probably their multitrack, likely a late 1960s model in either 1" 8 track or 2" 16 track format, though I think there were also 1/2" 4-track versions, depending on how retro you want to go. The stereo 280 machines have an interesting reputation as a 'tape format converter' in that they can stretch a 1/4" master recording into something that would fit happily inside a cassette tape (this is not something you ever want to have happen).
The Ampex decks are probably the 350 series from the 1950s, which people seem to like to gut into preamplifiers.
No, it's because 3 months is ridiculous. In many cases it's taken more than that to produce the song in the first place. 3 years? That's far more sensible. 'Course, it could be that old principle of asking for something insane so that any compromise is an improvement.
It might cost you, but I'd ask these guys: http://www.jrfmagnetics.com/ ..they can also relap them.
I dunno about that. Most of Dad's tapes were L750 which was 195 minutes long, and the L500s were 130 minutes. That was actually a strong advantage over VHS, where the E180 and E120 tapes were exactly three or two hours long and if the programme was even slightly late you'd miss the ending.
Siri, how close is the nearest hospital? Is it too far to walk there with one leg broken from a car accident?
Sorry. I can only look for businesses inside the United States, and when you're using U.S. English. Glory to the Flesh. Glory to the Mass.
Reading his comment, I think the numbers were infra-red reflectivity. He certainly didn't say they were atmospheric concentration.