Using an Oxford 911 based firewire enclosure the performance will be about the same as the IDE... perhaps slightly slower. CPU usage will be much lower (if you have a good FireWire implementation in your kernel;) (like SCSI firewire transfers are essentially free))
If you are using a USB2.0 drive, I think you'll have to wait a while... mainly for the drives... I really don't think USB2.0 drives actually exist at this point:)
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IEEE1394 actually does have a chapter in The Spec for SCSI.
I haven't checekd yet, but I really think its that simple:)
There is a new little app call "iPodFreeFileAccess" or something which makes the iPod's music collection easily available on the mounted disk.
That means the directory is actually there... and for a simple program to be able to do it, I'd expect it to be simply just an invisible directory.
And let's admit it, the iPod hidden music directory will stop Joe RIAA violator from copying music amongst his mates via iPod.
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Have you ever used a USB hard-drive?
What about a FireWire Hard-drive.
Okay, I have, I do, USB HDs suck.
With the worst FW bridge chip you will get 4-5MB/s transfer, with the best you will get up to about 35MB/s or so (the main bottleneck will be the IDE drive on the inside)
The best firewire drives use the Oxford 911 bridge chip (I actually like the case OWC sell (the round clear one) OtherWorld Computing
Now, USB HDs suck!
Imagine an HD which transfers 250-500KB/s
yeah... imagine it.
imagining it?
think about it...
to help you imagine it... your Cable internet is probably faster...
That means instead of saving your MP3s to your HD, it'd be faster to redownload them....
USB HDs suck!
USB should be used for keyboards and mice... Printers are a stretch, as are scanners.
FireWire rocks, but is overkill for input devices:)
A programmer's job is generally to program a computer, you can't program a computer if it's been locked down to prevent modification, because programming it is modifying it.
Meanwhile, if you are an artist, and you have your paintbrush and canvas (painter + tablet) then you can paint.
A programmers canvas is his computer, and that computer must not be behind a wall in order for him to 'paint' on it.
Artists and Programmers make quite different use of computers.
Essentially its a 1.8".2" thick 5GB HD encased in a FireWire box, plays MP3s, fits in your pocket, and actually integrates with the Jukebox software (read iTunes)
Have you ever wondered why real don't just stream using an ASF format? (or anyone else?)
After all, ASF streamhandling is implemented in all current versions of windows...
...
Well the answer is because microsoft holds a patent on the file format.
No reason really, except to create/stream an ASF file you need a patent license (which you don't get) so the only streamers which can stream to media player are microsoft streamers...
Its not because its hard to do... hell an GPL'd video editing program which could output ASF (virtualdub) had to remove the ability after they received threats from MS Legal
MS most certainly don't play with a straight cue...
OSX is not a good gui. Bah, it blows the crap out of anything available for any other platform.
1 - dock icon areas do not extend to edge of dock.
Yes they do.
2 - dock changes size and icons move as it gets used
Any real OSX user knows this is not the case. Magnification is off, dock hiding is off, and all your common apps are in the dock... hence static... all that changes is the activity triangle underneath running apps.
3 - what if you don't like grey or blue? Maybe OSX.2 will have green and OSX.3 will have purple....
Then install one of the 3 current OSX Appearance Managers (they allow you to load custom themes). The very active OS9 theming community is now diverting their energies to bring as good or better theming techniques to MacOS X.
4 - it has vi so when I go to the apple help and type in vi I expect to see at least something.
"man vi"
same place where all the other man pages are... the apple help is for newbie stuff... and application level stuff (ie it has a gui). The terminal is where you run vi, and that's where you do man vi...
This is simple stuff, and is GOOD.
5 - stupid windowesque scroll bars - the scroll-bars were one of the things which NeXT got right for Steve's sake;-)
What the hell are you talking about? Them's MacOSesque scroll bars..
That's the way its done on a MacOS... wouldn't want it any other way.
The menubars are on a different side to NeXT, but they do have the NeXT double arrows.
6 - way too much eye-candy, at least I can not install Enlightenment.
Isn't E about eye candy?
Anywho, I like Aqua... its pleasant... eye candy is good... especially when its functional...
OSX isn't unix wedded with mac, its unix buried under mac. If anything its BaCKstep.
I disagree.
And I've been using OSX since it came out. Its the closest to perfect integration of unix with a gui.
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Lets see...
;) (like SCSI firewire transfers are essentially free))
:)
Using an Oxford 911 based firewire enclosure the performance will be about the same as the IDE... perhaps slightly slower. CPU usage will be much lower (if you have a good FireWire implementation in your kernel
If you are using a USB2.0 drive, I think you'll have to wait a while... mainly for the drives... I really don't think USB2.0 drives actually exist at this point
IEEE1394 actually does have a chapter in The Spec for SCSI.
I haven't checekd yet, but I really think its that simple :)
There is a new little app call "iPodFreeFileAccess" or something which makes the iPod's music collection easily available on the mounted disk.
That means the directory is actually there... and for a simple program to be able to do it, I'd expect it to be simply just an invisible directory.
And let's admit it, the iPod hidden music directory will stop Joe RIAA violator from copying music amongst his mates via iPod.
Have you ever used a USB hard-drive?
:)
What about a FireWire Hard-drive.
Okay, I have, I do, USB HDs suck.
With the worst FW bridge chip you will get 4-5MB/s transfer, with the best you will get up to about 35MB/s or so (the main bottleneck will be the IDE drive on the inside)
The best firewire drives use the Oxford 911 bridge chip (I actually like the case OWC sell (the round clear one) OtherWorld Computing
Now, USB HDs suck!
Imagine an HD which transfers 250-500KB/s
yeah... imagine it.
imagining it?
think about it...
to help you imagine it... your Cable internet is probably faster...
That means instead of saving your MP3s to your HD, it'd be faster to redownload them....
USB HDs suck!
USB should be used for keyboards and mice... Printers are a stretch, as are scanners.
FireWire rocks, but is overkill for input devices
it is not *known* :)
:)
You're making that up, or taking a silly rumours website as gospel
one reason really... bitrate
DV is about 22mbps or so
using an MPEG4 based video compression you can get about 220kbps for stationary footage...
which is 100x compression over DV, which is already a good bit over uncompressed...
you could use 3ivx
;)
Hello McFly,
A programmer's job is generally to program a computer, you can't program a computer if it's been locked down to prevent modification, because programming it is modifying it.
Meanwhile, if you are an artist, and you have your paintbrush and canvas (painter + tablet) then you can paint.
A programmers canvas is his computer, and that computer must not be behind a wall in order for him to 'paint' on it.
Artists and Programmers make quite different use of computers.
You can use it as a bootable firewire harddrive :)
;)
You may now orgasm
Of course, this is not officially supported, but is mentioned in the iPod FAQ... sorry no linkage.
MacCentral iPod Unveiling
.2" thick 5GB HD encased in a FireWire box, plays MP3s, fits in your pocket, and actually integrates with the Jukebox software (read iTunes)
;)
Essentially its a 1.8"
I'm hoping it has airport
Transfer a full CD in 10 seconds.
It's not just "a" or "b" it can be "a" and "b"- and for many things, that IS what you want.
;)
Actually it is a or b , what it most definately is not is a xor b
You might not realise this, but Windows is only used by the majority of audio people in the amateur space.
:().
Once you move into the professional space its almost totally Mac based (and VERY expensive
Bulldust :)
:(
One example...
Have you ever wondered why real don't just stream using an ASF format? (or anyone else?)
After all, ASF streamhandling is implemented in all current versions of windows...
...
Well the answer is because microsoft holds a patent on the file format.
No reason really, except to create/stream an ASF file you need a patent license (which you don't get) so the only streamers which can stream to media player are microsoft streamers...
Its not because its hard to do... hell an GPL'd video editing program which could output ASF (virtualdub) had to remove the ability after they received threats from MS Legal
MS most certainly don't play with a straight cue...
there are soooo many examples
Can you run that off the cigarette lighter in a car, though?
:)
yes
Ummmm,
3ivx MPEG4 has a two frame latency... that oughta be good enough.
http://www.3ivx.com
Its actually fairly easy to decode MPEG4... well... relative to encoding it in realtime in the field :)
;) )
http://www.3ivx.com (the mpeg4 video codec that I wrote
No, the MPEG4 encoder would be implemented as a custom ASIC (chip) and would more or less have the same power requirements as the H263 encoder.
;) )
"http://www.3ivx.com" (the mpeg4 video codec that I wrote
Ahem,
:)
I design and write an MPEG4 video codec... its called 3ivx... you *might* have heard of it
Anywho,
We can realtime encode CIF type video on a PBG4 (Titanium)
With a 1 frame latency.
:)
MPEG4 is based on H263... so its perfect for this type of application.
http://www.3ivx.com
We're currently working on a next generation "VideoPhone" system using our 3ivx video compression :)
;)
Essentially you get more video in the same bitrate
Its pretty cool...
http://www.3ivx.com
OSX is not a good gui.
....
;-)
Bah, it blows the crap out of anything available for any other platform.
1 - dock icon areas do not extend to edge of dock.
Yes they do.
2 - dock changes size and icons move as it gets used
Any real OSX user knows this is not the case. Magnification is off, dock hiding is off, and all your common apps are in the dock... hence static... all that changes is the activity triangle underneath running apps.
3 - what if you don't like grey or blue? Maybe OSX.2 will have green and OSX.3 will have purple
Then install one of the 3 current OSX Appearance Managers (they allow you to load custom themes). The very active OS9 theming community is now diverting their energies to bring as good or better theming techniques to MacOS X.
4 - it has vi so when I go to the apple help and type in vi I expect to see at least something.
"man vi"
same place where all the other man pages are... the apple help is for newbie stuff... and application level stuff (ie it has a gui). The terminal is where you run vi, and that's where you do man vi...
This is simple stuff, and is GOOD.
5 - stupid windowesque scroll bars - the scroll-bars were one of the things which NeXT got right for Steve's sake
What the hell are you talking about? Them's MacOSesque scroll bars..
That's the way its done on a MacOS... wouldn't want it any other way.
The menubars are on a different side to NeXT, but they do have the NeXT double arrows.
6 - way too much eye-candy, at least I can not install Enlightenment.
Isn't E about eye candy?
Anywho, I like Aqua... its pleasant... eye candy is good... especially when its functional...
OSX isn't unix wedded with mac, its unix buried under mac. If anything its BaCKstep.
I disagree.
And I've been using OSX since it came out. Its the closest to perfect integration of unix with a gui.
Yes, I know... troll.
The terminal.app was in OPENSTEP, I think it would be included, at least as an optional install.
Remember, Apple has done unix before.
Goodluck :)
;)
I'd love to try VectorC on my video codec sometime
Commonly referred to as "Dick Smith's"
The Electronic Dick
Dicky's
Etc...
And Dick Smith makes food, if that's yet to be mentioned.
:)
;)
Thats a joke right?
Dick Smith is that guy who started the dick smith electronics chain in australia (competes with Tandy (read: RadioShack))
Then did some crazy stuff in helicopters over antartica,
Then started the australian geographic society,
Now I think he runs the Federal Aviation Thingy or something
Cool guy... looks like bill gates
(tought me electronics... the FunWay!)
Great analogy re bradman... is "who the hell is Babe Ruth"
but who the hell is this Sir Bradman
Careful, them's fighting words....
I happen to like Dicky as well...
And frankly, I think you'll find more australian's familiar with Mr Yahoo, than with Yahoo! And actually I hope YSerious wins.
An Australia.
:)
Mostly Harmless is from The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, By Douglas Adams..... he's dead now :(
;))
As in
Planet Earth:
Mostly Harmless
Or words to that effect, sorry, been a while...
Don't Panic (in large friendly letters