a failed product never means there isn't a market (especially in a sector that moves as fast as tech). It CAN mean that, or it can mean many other things, like the company just executed poorly on the product/marketing/pricing/whatever.
Re:Possible legal problems?
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Gentoo Games
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· Score: -1, Troll
Yeah, but whether or not they have a legal case, having a big purple spiralling G as the logo for a video game company is SUPER lame. If they put this much originality into their games, I don't think they'll be setting the world on fire.
I almost mentioned it, but this story was super terrible for noone reading the story, there are a couple of posts rated 4 or 5 where people say things from the article and treat them as if the article said the opposite. really dumb.
But I'm pretty sure it's the one I'm thinking of, which explains some stuff very boringly (but the other poster gave a less boring link!).
There is a large amount of confusion as to what progressive really means, but the frame mode the XL-1 uses is in fact very nice, but it's not true progressive unfortunately.
Also the DVX100 has a sweet cinegamma gamma setting that really looks great, it's basically a flat gamma curve with no shoulder. Also you shoot at a 1/48 second shutter speed, like film, which helps even more. The PD150 can do some nice footage, but the 24p mode is exclusive to the DVX100.
Incidentally, Sony has a prosumer model now called the PDX-10 with even more on-chip resolution than the DVX100, which lets it do 16:9 natively, but the important thing to remember is that as long as the chip has at least 345,600 pixels used, that's fine, cause they just all output 720 X 480 pixel images, so even if a chip had 1 billion pixels, it wouldn't help unless you were outputting a larger image than 720x480. The XL-1 has 280,000 , not sure on the PD-150, and the DVX100 has 410,000.
But yeah, just seeing the side by side footage of the DVX100 vs the PD150 on DVD should convince anyone that the DVX100 is one super super super awesome camera. You can get a CD showing it at promax.com i believe, you have to phone and ask I think.
Movie mode is most definnitely NOT real progressive video, and if you think Sony and Canon are the only choices, you should check out the panasonic DVX-100. I love the XL-1, but for true progressive video and the extra vertical resolution that comes with it, the DVX100 is the best choice, and has beaten the XL-1 and PD150 in all comparisons, and even the American Society of Cinematographers has called it "a breakthrough camera", etc. Very awesome camera.
I agree 100%, I think a huge amount of MySQL catching on has to do with the online docs which are great. Most people getting into mysql are new to databases, and having all that info super-handy in a great structured format is very very handy, yup. I would have never got into mysql without it either, because for years there were no books on it.
I'm very curious, what KVMwould you suggest, how woul dyou hook this up? I've wanted to do this between my imac and pc for a while, but i'm not sure how or if it's possible with an imac.. (flat screen new ones)
So hmm.. Planet of the Apes, Men in Black: Collectors Edition, Independence Day.. they're all degrading, the pattern is clear: Do not buy crappy crappy movies on DVD.
Re:sorry about the lack of breaks...
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Cross-Site-TRACE
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· Score: 2, Insightful
That's great if your server is INfected, but unfortunately, for most people their server is AFfected due to the ensuing mess the DDOS is causing, and most aren't running MSSQL.
Listen, you obviously don't grasp the complexities of this: g is a higher lette than b, and it's newer, so it's better and 802.11b sucks, it's useless, it's garbage. I know we all loved it last week, but now that Apple has announced some g units coming out, we all hate it.
You bring up a good point: I think it's time for us to all join together and thank the literally thousands of programmers who have contributed to pwd. All those that spent untold nights writing up patches for it, hanging out on the pwd-dev mailing list, going to Pwdcon every year (can't wait for April, see y'all in San Jose!), the pwd evangelists (not to mention ORA for publishing "Pwd: The Definitive Guide"), you're all part of one of the most important and underappreciated open source success stories out there. Color me/very/very/impressed/with/you/all !
You seem to waver between removing features and making the program simpler.. They can be different things you know! iTunes could easily have all the same features of MusicMatch and still hide them in an area you'd hardly notice unless you needed to. The problem isn't the existence of the features, it's the design that plops them all out in front of you when you're not going to use them very often, if at all.
Exactly, features are bad! That's why I only use a special word processor without spell-check or an undo function. Who needs bloat! I'd rather know that the program I am using has clean efficient code than know that it works and lets me get stuff done.
Now if only I could get it to be as easy to install and configure as qmail I'd be SET!
Hmm, I don't know where you get the one video thing.. a 90 minute movie and some extra stuff takes up less than 5 gigs on DVD, and that's at full-screen resolution (720 x 576 i believe), so to shrink them down to 320 X 240 let's say, using a decent codec (quicktime 6 or whatever that's at that's supposed to be so good), I'd bet the 20 gig model could hold 20 full-length movies easy. I mean, you can fit a movie into 700 megs using DivX at a full resolution, so more like 50-80 movies on a 20 gig ipod if they used a codec like that!
That's crazy though, they could try all they want but unless the people in charge at OSDN are brain-dead they know that Apple would never ever buy a content website/business, much less one 90% about open source. People might think/. et. al are kissing up to Apple to be bought, but in truth they're just kissing up to the general Apple fetish around here for hits. Apple doesn't buy companies often (noone does anymore) and when they do it's extremely strategic, not a matter of "aww look, some kids put apple logos all over and list OS X software after a year of ignoring it. Let's snatch them up!".
What ideas does this give people? To set up their own telescopes you mean, or to use these in some sort of enterprising way?
new slashdot drinking game
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ISP Chief on Spam
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· Score: 1, Redundant
Everytime CmdrTaco mentions how much spam he gets (in a sort of passive agressive brag about how widespread his email address is since he's soo famous), be non-plussed and go to another site. Oh wait, I guess it's not a drinking game really..
You know what, I am so sick of people writing boring-ass essays just re-iterating the same things that everyone always says in essays on copyright. I know I'll get slapped for trolling, but I'm not, I just can't get excited over one more wannabe grad student whose big mission in life is to fight for better copyright laws by submitting long boring essays to websites that noone will read except people who agree with them anyway.
Stop linking unamerican, they are super well known for not actually mailing out items that people order, or leaving them for 6 months before shipping. I'm sure you'll say "they sent mine okay", but do some googling and you'll see you're advertising a ripoff.
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a failed product never means there isn't a market (especially in a sector that moves as fast as tech). It CAN mean that, or it can mean many other things, like the company just executed poorly on the product/marketing/pricing/whatever.
Yeah, but whether or not they have a legal case, having a big purple spiralling G as the logo for a video game company is SUPER lame. If they put this much originality into their games, I don't think they'll be setting the world on fire.
I almost mentioned it, but this story was super terrible for noone reading the story, there are a couple of posts rated 4 or 5 where people say things from the article and treat them as if the article said the opposite. really dumb.
To be fair, if the iPod came out today, at least one of the multiple submissions that got put on the front page would have an opposing view.
The other poster pointed out a good link, and here is another I think is the one I am thinking of, but it's a .pdf which I can't read right now:
B TS /papers/Progressive-WP.pdf
ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/Drivers/P
But I'm pretty sure it's the one I'm thinking of, which explains some stuff very boringly (but the other poster gave a less boring link!).
There is a large amount of confusion as to what progressive really means, but the frame mode the XL-1 uses is in fact very nice, but it's not true progressive unfortunately.
Also the DVX100 has a sweet cinegamma gamma setting that really looks great, it's basically a flat gamma curve with no shoulder. Also you shoot at a 1/48 second shutter speed, like film, which helps even more. The PD150 can do some nice footage, but the 24p mode is exclusive to the DVX100.
Incidentally, Sony has a prosumer model now called the PDX-10 with even more on-chip resolution than the DVX100, which lets it do 16:9 natively, but the important thing to remember is that as long as the chip has at least 345,600 pixels used, that's fine, cause they just all output 720 X 480 pixel images, so even if a chip had 1 billion pixels, it wouldn't help unless you were outputting a larger image than 720x480. The XL-1 has 280,000 , not sure on the PD-150, and the DVX100 has 410,000.
But yeah, just seeing the side by side footage of the DVX100 vs the PD150 on DVD should convince anyone that the DVX100 is one super super super awesome camera. You can get a CD showing it at promax.com i believe, you have to phone and ask I think.
But wait, you're saying this format is going to be less lossy than DV25 which is 25MBits/sec ?
Movie mode is most definnitely NOT real progressive video, and if you think Sony and Canon are the only choices, you should check out the panasonic DVX-100. I love the XL-1, but for true progressive video and the extra vertical resolution that comes with it, the DVX100 is the best choice, and has beaten the XL-1 and PD150 in all comparisons, and even the American Society of Cinematographers has called it "a breakthrough camera", etc. Very awesome camera.
Fuck, stravinsky wrote open source software too? That guy ruled.
You know, slashdot do shill a lot for things, but "I know of a number people who've had problems" is not the way most ads start.
I agree 100%, I think a huge amount of MySQL catching on has to do with the online docs which are great. Most people getting into mysql are new to databases, and having all that info super-handy in a great structured format is very very handy, yup. I would have never got into mysql without it either, because for years there were no books on it.
I'm very curious, what KVMwould you suggest, how woul dyou hook this up? I've wanted to do this between my imac and pc for a while, but i'm not sure how or if it's possible with an imac.. (flat screen new ones)
So hmm.. Planet of the Apes, Men in Black: Collectors Edition, Independence Day.. they're all degrading, the pattern is clear: Do not buy crappy crappy movies on DVD.
That's great if your server is INfected, but unfortunately, for most people their server is AFfected due to the ensuing mess the DDOS is causing, and most aren't running MSSQL.
Listen, you obviously don't grasp the complexities of this: g is a higher lette than b, and it's newer, so it's better and 802.11b sucks, it's useless, it's garbage. I know we all loved it last week, but now that Apple has announced some g units coming out, we all hate it.
You bring up a good point: I think it's time for us to all join together and thank the literally thousands of programmers who have contributed to pwd. All those that spent untold nights writing up patches for it, hanging out on the pwd-dev mailing list, going to Pwdcon every year (can't wait for April, see y'all in San Jose!), the pwd evangelists (not to mention ORA for publishing "Pwd: The Definitive Guide"), you're all part of one of the most important and underappreciated open source success stories out there. Color me /very/very/impressed/with/you/all !
You seem to waver between removing features and making the program simpler.. They can be different things you know! iTunes could easily have all the same features of MusicMatch and still hide them in an area you'd hardly notice unless you needed to. The problem isn't the existence of the features, it's the design that plops them all out in front of you when you're not going to use them very often, if at all.
Exactly, features are bad! That's why I only use a special word processor without spell-check or an undo function. Who needs bloat! I'd rather know that the program I am using has clean efficient code than know that it works and lets me get stuff done.
Now if only I could get it to be as easy to install and configure as qmail I'd be SET!
Hmm, I don't know where you get the one video thing.. a 90 minute movie and some extra stuff takes up less than 5 gigs on DVD, and that's at full-screen resolution (720 x 576 i believe), so to shrink them down to 320 X 240 let's say, using a decent codec (quicktime 6 or whatever that's at that's supposed to be so good), I'd bet the 20 gig model could hold 20 full-length movies easy. I mean, you can fit a movie into 700 megs using DivX at a full resolution, so more like 50-80 movies on a 20 gig ipod if they used a codec like that!
That's crazy though, they could try all they want but unless the people in charge at OSDN are brain-dead they know that Apple would never ever buy a content website/business, much less one 90% about open source. People might think /. et. al are kissing up to Apple to be bought, but in truth they're just kissing up to the general Apple fetish around here for hits. Apple doesn't buy companies often (noone does anymore) and when they do it's extremely strategic, not a matter of "aww look, some kids put apple logos all over and list OS X software after a year of ignoring it. Let's snatch them up!".
What ideas does this give people? To set up their own telescopes you mean, or to use these in some sort of enterprising way?
Everytime CmdrTaco mentions how much spam he gets (in a sort of passive agressive brag about how widespread his email address is since he's soo famous), be non-plussed and go to another site. Oh wait, I guess it's not a drinking game really..
You know what, I am so sick of people writing boring-ass essays just re-iterating the same things that everyone always says in essays on copyright. I know I'll get slapped for trolling, but I'm not, I just can't get excited over one more wannabe grad student whose big mission in life is to fight for better copyright laws by submitting long boring essays to websites that noone will read except people who agree with them anyway.
Hmm.. so wait, someone on slashdot admits that security through obscurity might have at least some tiny advantage? Yikes.
Stop linking unamerican, they are super well known for not actually mailing out items that people order, or leaving them for 6 months before shipping. I'm sure you'll say "they sent mine okay", but do some googling and you'll see you're advertising a ripoff.