This GUI was thie coolest thing going and was just amazing in its flexibility. It was based on windowed interpreted PostScript. What your widow did depended on what Postscript told it to do, each window was the execution of mobile code, the Java of 1989. You could have windows based on arbitrary, and I mean completely arbitrary, polygons.
My favorite feature was round menus. You could navigate these incredibly quickly.
Sadly X took off at about the same time and no one cared whether X was INFERIOR and SLOW as long as it was free and open source. Oh wait, NeWS was open source back then too. Well mostly.
What a lot of people also don't know is that NeWS really was a practice run for Java. It heavily influenced the java architecture team.
Considering the lack of cash flow and the availability (free, as in beer) of two 7200/120's, I probably won't be investing in any additional antiquated Mac hardware. But having doubled up the RAM and disks, it would be a nice system IF ONLY there were a functional LINUX.
There's a bug in YDL 2.3 & 2.4 that causes the installation to fail on older Macs, like my 7200/120. I kinda doubt this update will fix copatibility with older boxes.
I live in Tampa, FL and many residents believe this train referendum was rammed through by special interests. This would be a huge and useless boondoggle like Boston's Big Dig.
Sure there's major congestion on the highways. The problem is that there is piss-poor mass transport in the cities. Take the train from Tampa to Orlando, and then rent a car or pay big $$$ for a taxi?
Three years ago when I was working for Pegasus Imaging, www.jpg.com, I did a study comparing the then emerging wavelet compression to JPEG. At that time using a sample of about 20 stock scanned photography images I found that wavelet was as good as JPEG in about 50% of the images. I.E. same quality, same size. Was within 80% of the size for 30% of the images. I.E. almost but not quite as good. As for 20% of the images wavelet could produce the same quality image with a smaller file size. Basically, wavelet was as good at compressing desktop images as was JPEG.
That particular implementation of wavelet was very fast and could be used for software video compression/decompression.
For that implementation there were plug-in viewers for Internet Explorer and Netscape. There were mature conversion tools, video codecs, and FDA approved medical codecs.
What never existed was a standardized file format like JPEG JFIF. In my opinion, wavelet could easily replace the utility of JPEG without most people even noticing. What doesn't exist is a standardizing committee to stamp its approval.
I should mention that JPEG2000 is wavelet based but is at least 5X slower than current JPEG software.
We priced OpenMail last year for a enterprise solution. We compared with Exchange, Sendmail, and the Iplanet solution. It was just too expensive. We ended up customizing Sendmail.
I saw recently that Cisco has started to implement its help files as multimedia Flash applications. Might was to look at those.
Also, There was a sausalito publication called New Media that used to have yearly awards for various smal and large scale multimedia projects. that may be a source of some excellent projects.
- Andrew Hudson
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This GUI was thie coolest thing going and was just amazing in its flexibility. It was based on windowed interpreted PostScript. What your widow did depended on what Postscript told it to do, each window was the execution of mobile code, the Java of 1989. You could have windows based on arbitrary, and I mean completely arbitrary, polygons.
My favorite feature was round menus. You could navigate these incredibly quickly.
Sadly X took off at about the same time and no one cared whether X was INFERIOR and SLOW as long as it was free and open source. Oh wait, NeWS was open source back then too. Well mostly.
What a lot of people also don't know is that NeWS really was a practice run for Java. It heavily influenced the java architecture team.
- Andrew
Considering the lack of cash flow and the availability (free, as in beer) of two 7200/120's, I probably won't be investing in any additional antiquated Mac hardware. But having doubled up the RAM and disks, it would be a nice system IF ONLY there were a functional LINUX.
- AndrewZ
There's a bug in YDL 2.3 & 2.4 that causes the installation to fail on older Macs, like my 7200/120. I kinda doubt this update will fix copatibility with older boxes.
- Andrew
I live in Tampa, FL and many residents believe this train referendum was rammed through by special interests. This would be a huge and useless boondoggle like Boston's Big Dig.
Sure there's major congestion on the highways. The problem is that there is piss-poor mass transport in the cities. Take the train from Tampa to Orlando, and then rent a car or pay big $$$ for a taxi?
High probable of fraud and tax money waste.
- Andrew in Tampa
Three years ago when I was working for Pegasus Imaging, www.jpg.com, I did a study comparing the then emerging wavelet compression to JPEG. At that time using a sample of about 20 stock scanned photography images I found that wavelet was as good as JPEG in about 50% of the images. I.E. same quality, same size. Was within 80% of the size for 30% of the images. I.E. almost but not quite as good. As for 20% of the images wavelet could produce the same quality image with a smaller file size. Basically, wavelet was as good at compressing desktop images as was JPEG.
That particular implementation of wavelet was very fast and could be used for software video compression/decompression.
For that implementation there were plug-in viewers for Internet Explorer and Netscape. There were mature conversion tools, video codecs, and FDA approved medical codecs.
What never existed was a standardized file format like JPEG JFIF. In my opinion, wavelet could easily replace the utility of JPEG without most people even noticing. What doesn't exist is a standardizing committee to stamp its approval.
I should mention that JPEG2000 is wavelet based but is at least 5X slower than current JPEG software.
- Andrew Hudson
What kind of G-forces do you expect to encounter on you way up?
- AndrewZ
We priced OpenMail last year for a enterprise solution. We compared with Exchange, Sendmail, and the Iplanet solution. It was just too expensive. We ended up customizing Sendmail.
- AZ
I saw recently that Cisco has started to implement its help files as multimedia Flash applications. Might was to look at those. Also, There was a sausalito publication called New Media that used to have yearly awards for various smal and large scale multimedia projects. that may be a source of some excellent projects. - Andrew Hudson