There are no algorithms involved. It's just a straight blow-up.
a straight blow up is a very bad algorithm.
MPEG-2 has an encoded resolution
True, that is the resolution at which the MPEG was recorded. Merely a quality setting. You can compare that with a JPEG resolution... The more pixels, the less bits per pixels for the same file size.
and the decoder decodes it to a raster of that size in memory.
Nope. I would say: and some decoder decodes it to a raster of that size in memory.
scaled to fit the screen, if you're running in 1600x1200, or scaled in the LCD hardware if you're running 640x480.
That, I don't get... What's the difference? Why is a LCD 640*480 only? Why 1600x1200 cannot be LCD?
First of all, you're confusing DCT with MPEG
Re-read my post, I said that MPEG is based on DCT, not that MPEG is DCT...
you've got a truly fucked-up understanding of what the "cosine" in "discreet cosine transform" means
Well, what's sure is that we don't understand it the same way! Mpeg uses DCT to encode the spatial information into the frequency domain, that's what the book says. So at first you have an array of samples. And then you have an array of Cosine/Sine curves. That's what I was talking about. Tell me where I fucked up please.
No, I use Linux. And I want to sell my music only to people using Linux. Sure, I'll starve probably to death very soon, but at least, I'll stand up to my ideal: Free software.
These resolutions do not scale up to 1600x1200 evenly
If you use a VERY BAD resize algorithm, then yes, the picture will look terrible.
On my machine, - equipped with an ATI XPert@Play 98, yes, a Rage Pro chip, 5 years old!!! - The image is incredibly crisp. On a bad DVD I will see the artifacts so clearly that is becomes hard to watch.
The fact is it doesn't work as you said it does. It doesn't decode the image in 720x480 (or 576) and then resize it in the resolution of the screen. It just does decode the MPEG directly in the native resolution. As you know, the MPEG encoding is based on sine/cosine curves, and these curves doesn't have any resolution, they are "analogic" in some sense. So you can actually decode a 10x10 MPEG file to a 20x20 screen by getting a BETTER quality than a stupid 10x10 decoding coupled with the best algorithm you can find for doubling your image size.
You obviously never had to do a double blind test with a WAV and a 192kbps LAME MP3. You'll need a lot more than a dinky little headphones to vbe able to tell any difference!
I'm still waiting with a CD-R at home for people to be able to tell em the difference...
First his stocks are worth a lot more than they were worth before, plus his company has now a field where they do make money. All of that and they still don't have a product, a business, an IP or anything.
Please, give me a break. SVG's main purpose is not even to cover all of Flash features. While I hate flash, and love SVG, let's just not see one as the replacement of the other. Not counting that more that 85% of the browsers out there already support VML... (Yes IE5+ is more than 85%).
Live in guilt??? WTF is this all about?? I I develop programs for a company whose CEO is an asshole makes me guilty of what exactly?
Following this line of thinking makes me wonder why all the americans that did disagree with the Irak war are still living in the US "in guilt". It's the same idea, to do the "right thing" they should have all left the country.
There is assholes in every single company in this planet. You can't just leave them all!!!
Actually, in both ways. Lawfully is not to be demonstrated. The Just way depends on if you believe in Karl Marx or not. Saying that everything produced whould go directly to the community without generating a cent for the author (aka Copyright owner - not the same thing, but the legal way of representing it) is just pure communism. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's just the idea.
Actually, if I did music, I'd hate for people to be able to listen to it without me getting anything in return, unless I chose willingfully to do so.
I actually managed - back in the good old days - to boot up a Linux on a 486 33MHz with 1MB RAM. The only problem is that I couldn't log in: it took the system more than 1 minute to prompt me for my password when I entered my nickname. As the timeout is set to 1 minute, I got prompted for my nickname again, without getting a chance of typing my password!!!
More than being relevant, I actually think they are right to do what they do now. They might be evil and all, but fileswappers put themselves on the other side of the law. I hope they know they can be sued for that, because they will.
Whether the RIAA is relevant or not is not the issue there. The issue is people are stealing music online, and that is bad, whatever way you look at it.
If you don't like the RIAA, don't buy from it's members, but don't steal from them either!
Suits is perhaps not the answer. We should just remove them the rights to see/raise their kids.
You can't raise them ? We'll make sure you won't.
I think a lot of parents are just too lazy! How convenient is it to let your kids play the XBox the whole afternoon compared to spending some time with them, trying to "educate" them?
I own an aiwa z3c player (8cm CDs) and have had so far no problem with sound getting jumpy. There is a reasonnable buffer (120 seconds approx) and the CD is still most of the time. That also increase the battery life (12 hours with one set of battery, 24 hours with two set - you can add an extra set)
It is also pretty small (fit on the back pocket of my jeans).
Media is.50$ apiece and stores ~200MB.
I would buy the same one again if I had to buy one. Oh, and I got it for $50 at Fry's Electronics. Try and beat that!
They're just granting the license for FreeBSD, nothing else. Now the other JDKs will come in very quickly and in no time, FreeBSD will be an "official" Java platform.
It doesn't mean anything technically, since all JDKs are supported natively for a long time, btu in terms of marketting, it is a major step.
You are talking from a functionnal standpoint when the original post was talking about GUI. This has nothing to do with the original post discussion.
I agree that the search function of Windoze is a little too basic, but I was just pointing that the discussion was off-topic.
Unless you include RegExp/AND/OR/... in the GUI. The GUI is how things look and feel, not the content of an eventual combo box or the syntax of a search field.
Can't you see that around you, there is a lot of people that are not as geeky as you?
I personnally know some people that did believe (after I installed it on their computers) that Napster was the only way to play an MP3. Every time they would want to listen to some music, they would launch Napster and would be sharing all of "their" music.
Please, step back a little and see that not everyone has your computers skills and vision for god's sake!
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There are no algorithms involved. It's just a straight blow-up.
a straight blow up is a very bad algorithm.
MPEG-2 has an encoded resolution
True, that is the resolution at which the MPEG was recorded. Merely a quality setting. You can compare that with a JPEG resolution... The more pixels, the less bits per pixels for the same file size.
and the decoder decodes it to a raster of that size in memory.
Nope. I would say:
and some decoder decodes it to a raster of that size in memory.
scaled to fit the screen, if you're running in 1600x1200, or scaled in the LCD hardware if you're running 640x480.
That, I don't get... What's the difference? Why is a LCD 640*480 only? Why 1600x1200 cannot be LCD?
First of all, you're confusing DCT with MPEG
Re-read my post, I said that MPEG is based on DCT, not that MPEG is DCT...
you've got a truly fucked-up understanding of what the "cosine" in "discreet cosine transform" means
Well, what's sure is that we don't understand it the same way! Mpeg uses DCT to encode the spatial information into the frequency domain, that's what the book says. So at first you have an array of samples. And then you have an array of Cosine/Sine curves. That's what I was talking about. Tell me where I fucked up please.
You're a fucking moron.
We're all the (fucking) moron of someone else.
No, I use Linux. And I want to sell my music only to people using Linux. Sure, I'll starve probably to death very soon, but at least, I'll stand up to my ideal: Free software.
I'd better die free that live tied to M$!
These resolutions do not scale up to 1600x1200 evenly
If you use a VERY BAD resize algorithm, then yes, the picture will look terrible.
On my machine, - equipped with an ATI XPert@Play 98, yes, a Rage Pro chip, 5 years old!!! - The image is incredibly crisp. On a bad DVD I will see the artifacts so clearly that is becomes hard to watch.
The fact is it doesn't work as you said it does. It doesn't decode the image in 720x480 (or 576) and then resize it in the resolution of the screen. It just does decode the MPEG directly in the native resolution. As you know, the MPEG encoding is based on sine/cosine curves, and these curves doesn't have any resolution, they are "analogic" in some sense. So you can actually decode a 10x10 MPEG file to a 20x20 screen by getting a BETTER quality than a stupid 10x10 decoding coupled with the best algorithm you can find for doubling your image size.
Sorry, but you're wrong on this one, big time.
Hmmm. You sure?
You obviously never had to do a double blind test with a WAV and a 192kbps LAME MP3. You'll need a lot more than a dinky little headphones to vbe able to tell any difference!
I'm still waiting with a CD-R at home for people to be able to tell em the difference...
First his stocks are worth a lot more than they were worth before, plus his company has now a field where they do make money. All of that and they still don't have a product, a business, an IP or anything.
Seems to me that the guy is pretty smart...
Please, give me a break. SVG's main purpose is not even to cover all of Flash features. While I hate flash, and love SVG, let's just not see one as the replacement of the other. Not counting that more that 85% of the browsers out there already support VML... (Yes IE5+ is more than 85%).
Except that they were right where the US were wrong. Both reactions are childish, but only one is justified...
I'd choose to live in guilt
Live in guilt??? WTF is this all about?? I I develop programs for a company whose CEO is an asshole makes me guilty of what exactly?
Following this line of thinking makes me wonder why all the americans that did disagree with the Irak war are still living in the US "in guilt". It's the same idea, to do the "right thing" they should have all left the country.
There is assholes in every single company in this planet. You can't just leave them all!!!
You think people who have amassed the financial resources to confront the RIAA have time to sit around and download music? Try again.
No, but their kids might.
No need to try again.
Are the right as in just, or right as in lawful?
Actually, in both ways. Lawfully is not to be demonstrated. The Just way depends on if you believe in Karl Marx or not. Saying that everything produced whould go directly to the community without generating a cent for the author (aka Copyright owner - not the same thing, but the legal way of representing it) is just pure communism. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's just the idea.
Actually, if I did music, I'd hate for people to be able to listen to it without me getting anything in return, unless I chose willingfully to do so.
I actually managed - back in the good old days - to boot up a Linux on a 486 33MHz with 1MB RAM. The only problem is that I couldn't log in: it took the system more than 1 minute to prompt me for my password when I entered my nickname. As the timeout is set to 1 minute, I got prompted for my nickname again, without getting a chance of typing my password!!!
More than being relevant, I actually think they are right to do what they do now. They might be evil and all, but fileswappers put themselves on the other side of the law. I hope they know they can be sued for that, because they will.
Whether the RIAA is relevant or not is not the issue there. The issue is people are stealing music online, and that is bad, whatever way you look at it.
If you don't like the RIAA, don't buy from it's members, but don't steal from them either!
Suits is perhaps not the answer. We should just remove them the rights to see/raise their kids.
You can't raise them ? We'll make sure you won't.
I think a lot of parents are just too lazy! How convenient is it to let your kids play the XBox the whole afternoon compared to spending some time with them, trying to "educate" them?
I own an aiwa z3c player (8cm CDs) and have had so far no problem with sound getting jumpy. There is a reasonnable buffer (120 seconds approx) and the CD is still most of the time. That also increase the battery life (12 hours with one set of battery, 24 hours with two set - you can add an extra set)
.50$ apiece and stores ~200MB.
It is also pretty small (fit on the back pocket of my jeans).
Media is
I would buy the same one again if I had to buy one. Oh, and I got it for $50 at Fry's Electronics. Try and beat that!
At the contrary, it is a perfect opportunity.
They're just granting the license for FreeBSD, nothing else. Now the other JDKs will come in very quickly and in no time, FreeBSD will be an "official" Java platform.
It doesn't mean anything technically, since all JDKs are supported natively for a long time, btu in terms of marketting, it is a major step.
Since when the JDK 1.4 is "production ready" ? Last time I checked, very few company dared deploy on a 1.4.x JDK....
You are talking from a functionnal standpoint when the original post was talking about GUI. This has nothing to do with the original post discussion.
I agree that the search function of Windoze is a little too basic, but I was just pointing that the discussion was off-topic.
Unless you include RegExp/AND/OR/... in the GUI. The GUI is how things look and feel, not the content of an eventual combo box or the syntax of a search field.
(Concorde factored out)
As far as I know, only one Concorde fell down in the whole history. Anyone else beat that out ?
Dude, we're talking about GUI here. What does RegExps have to do here ?
Can't you see that around you, there is a lot of people that are not as geeky as you?
I personnally know some people that did believe (after I installed it on their computers) that Napster was the only way to play an MP3. Every time they would want to listen to some music, they would launch Napster and would be sharing all of "their" music.
Please, step back a little and see that not everyone has your computers skills and vision for god's sake!
If it is illegal for a software to "spy" some personnal infos, then it is certainly illegal to do it even if the soft "believes" that it is pirated.
No matter what.
The real question is: "Is it illegal for a software to spy your infos and email them?"
My E.02
When you're running a nuclear plant, you expect (and enforce) that people do what they are allowed to, and no more.
Thing is, if you let a RC45 connected to your critical network open on a wall, you expose yourself to a lot of troubles.
That's the Graal, the ultimate challenge, not only the next one.
Think about it. Go is qualified as "Extremely difficult" to implement. Thus it is only the first step to get Windows virus free.
We're gonna need a friggin' lot of AI to achieve the Graal...
True, most of us have been "tingled" by 110/115 a few times, and didn't die...
Same thing for 220. I got shot a few time and nothing happenned to me... But for the fact that now I'm a nerd posting on Slashdot.
Maybe that's the link!
Funny, RMS says the opposite...
Apparently, GNU without Linux can still run on three kernels!
Remove GNU from Linux and you don't have much left... Sure, you've got yourself a kernel, so what?