I just hate it when they're approved for dual purpose. A software patent shouldn't cover basic ideas of commerce or advancements in technology as a whole.
Like google slipping in contextual advertising patents - by a "software" patent - thus working towards being the defacto monopoly because the software patent basically patents the idea of the advertising method thus stemming competition and not protecting any specific technology or research or ideas.
If you follow the Lucene (Index) and Nutch (spider) mailling lists you will see the talented bunch of people that work on this project. From the likes of people who worked at the original Webcrawler.com, Excite, Inktomi and even Yahoo and Overture systems.
I think we can do it:)
Upcoming Open Source Alternative to Google...
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http://www.mozdex.com:)
Search engine built on Open Source technologies and will never have to worry about coming too corporate.
Goal is to use an open api, open algorithm and disclose everything there is about search and search technologies. Will even be launching a blog shortly.
Well, this isn't about the Google IPO, but it is about an open source project with ambitions to play the game google does without all the corporate mumbo jumbo and no need to IPO.
Index is about 50 million pages during beta but we are about to roll out our 250 million page corpus.
*EVERY* OS has had/comes with/includes a media player. It is a functional part of the OS to support the playback of audio/video sounds in everything from user-interface, alters, notifications and theme support.
Heck, its even part of the mandated accessibility/disability acts for people who require audio/visual/tactile feedback.
I for one preferr the free stuff then Real or even Quicktime.. atleast i don't have things popping up telling me useless facts (even after being disabled) or having mime type wars on my pc.
I bought windows because it was easy.
I bought linux and still do because it was powerfull.
Each has there own use, but this has got to be the most retarded lawsuit i've EVER heard of.
If you have been affected by this, visit this website and file for a class-action for unfair business practices.
http://www.bigclassaction.com/
Lawyers shark this website and take up suits that feel will earn them money or reputation. Anyone standing up against Viacom and MTV in an election year has a good chance of getting some publicity.
I would recommend that you file as unfair business practices that you lost channels you were paying for because Viacom was trying to force new channels down your provider and pass the cost to you even though you didn't want them. You should be able to mantain the contract you have with your network and not be responsible for paying what Viacomm is trying to force upon you.
Just like you got a PS2 to play your games, i got an xbox to play mine.
Plus i have 110" projection screen that looks like utter crap on a PS2 and beatifull as can be on an Xbox. Especially in 720p, 480p and 1080i.
Fact of the matter is Sony's console sucks ass and all you fan boys are trying to justify something that is sitting around collecting dust with more FUD:)
Thank god for the new GM on star that usually routes things through a proprietary stereo that you can't replace.
Don't bother using your diagnostic computer as well - your going to have to buy new codes.
Oh yeah, don't even think about replacing some of the electronics or upgrading the GPS system.
Your analogy of the car is pointless. The PC isn't changing and if your comparing apples ot apples a PC that can run Linux is no different then a PC that can run Windows. The choice is yours and microsoft isn't making that for you.
However, i you will never get anywhere if you try replacing the OS, the Guts and the controls of any car you buy today without as much work as it would take to do the same to windows.
You need to quite blowing smoke out your but. WM9 is a tremendously advanced and well designed codec.
You just have to know what your doing as the default encoding is 64kbps or 96kbps for music - you can always push it to 192k and get cd quality +.
WM9 is the only codec to reliably handle HDTV (1080P yes Progressive scan 1080 signal (thats 1920x1080 resolution). That is freely distributeable and easily licensed for commercial applications.
True, you never really have no purpose to stop watching what you already have, but part of the spec would be to support your existing dvd collection and the new stuff.
New dvd players are already scaling, processing and upconvering DVD to 720p or similar displays and they're getting pretty common in the market. (and only 200 bucks to boot).
Just like with any technology as soon as you buy it, its obsolete in some respects:)
As i highly doubt the next DVD standard will allow anything less than copy protected DVI (or any digital cable) with HDCP.
The big push isn't just quality, its DRM and protection.
With any luck the movie industry will not allow this technology to be licensed for PC's that don't support internal bus copy protection as well. (getting the infamous macrovision garbly goup on your screen).
Get HDCP or your new digital set will be useless in the very near future!
Uhm, you have it backwards. The new DVD player would be capable of supporting your current DVD collection and supporting the Hi-def format to boot.
It would be a waiste of space to try and achieve both on a single disk as you would be taking away from the much needed storage capacity for hi bit rate audio and video formats that HDTV signals are.
You won't loose rights or functionality of your current collection.
Heck, Samsung and V Inc Bravo DVD players can already output 720p video of current dvd's so just think of what these new systems could be capable of doing to your "old" stuff and the new stuff.
Believe me.. once you go HD all the way your current dvd collection will seem like your VHS collection.. collecting dust.
True, windows media "hd" has been around for a little bit with some releases - including T2 and such but it hasn't really taken off for reasons you can find on many popular forums.
Just as long as a good format comes out that everyone can agree on and we don't have a BetaMax vs VHS and 1/3rd of the sold products ending up junk i will be happy.
Now is the time to achieve a standard and give people and affordable and usefull upgrade.
I'm still suprised there was even an effort for D-VHS in the first place!
I've been pushing for a single - easy and affordable HD format because i find D-VHS to be annoying and costly. I'm simply not fond of moving back to cassette tapes either.
Keep on pushing your support for Single format DVD because we won the war in the beginning and shouldn't give up now!
You should also stand up and watch out for DVI/HDCP and SDI inputs. Make sure you retain rights to the media and don't let publishers enforce encryption on everything or else 99% of the sets sold today compatible of HDTV will become useless.
With this DVD format becoming "standard" don't let them throw us off with some off the wall copyprotection and drm stuff!!!
You can find my info at:
DVDsite.org
as well as my sig below
Uhm, Digital VCR's do use a codec, do have fast forward, rewind, pause and if you have two tuners you can watch and record at the same time or do PIP.
Tivo is blowing smoke. The ability to use of the shelf technology and software to achieve functionality of archiving and recording shouldn't have been patentable.
Now if tivo had patented a HIGH QUALITY CODEC that had specific features for high quality video playback/recording they could have patentend that specific piece.
But they didn't do anything that i can't do on a much bigger and better scale 4 years ago and now.
I wonder when microsoft will be sued for the media pc?
Figure a 4 way SMP machine with hotswappable CPU's. THere is only 1 i repeat 1 linux compatible machine and it costs 25,000.00 for a 4 way Pentium 3 700 mhz machine with a backplane/hotswappable chasis system.
For 25 grand i have a 4 way 1.2 ghz Ultra64 V880 with nearly 8 gigs of ram and 512 gigs of fibre channel disk.
Also figure this.. I can buy a Sun netra X1 with OS cheaper then a comparibly priced linux, dell, redhat, suse system.
1. The sun has a watchdog card built in 2. The sun has a warranty with onsite support for 1 year and extendable through service contracts 3. The sun usually runs for 1-2 years without hitches.. i mean 0 hitches.
Quit posting your BS and maybe i'll believe you.
We are talking *UNIX* systems. Redhat AS is the only linux i owuld consider "Unix" from corporate support, applicaiton support and from the "TCO" perspective.
Just because linux is free, doesn't mean it is cheap. Hell, i run it. Doesn' tmean because i have the kernel source i know what the hell i'm doing to try and fix something. Open source doesn't mean jack for me because i'm still relying on someone to compile, test and make sure it isn't a trojan or whatnot.
Open source doesn't mean lower TCO..
how many of you people who replied to my thread have ever worked for a real IT organization??? or MANAGED one for that matter?
Some of them cost only $900+. So it isn't a bad deal at all.
Have you ever looked at the cost Redhat Workstation on AMD 64/Intel and Servers? crazzzzy.
Solaris X86 is no different than a Linux distro.
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It takes time for you to get the system the way you like. Right now Solaris 9 is the absolute lowest "TCO" unix/linux for enterprise to servers and down to workstations. Redhat workstation costs hundreds more and has less true application support (certified vendor support) then Solaris9 X86.
And your lying through your teeth if you say there is no support.
Software: http://www.sunfreeware.com
Help/Guides: http://www.sunhelp.org
Patches: http://sunsolve.sun.com
Solaris9 X86 is a good stepping stone, a good resource to learn from and if accepted by the industry a very stable platform.
Sun DOES provide security updates, sun DOES provide software updates and there is already a ton of Gnome/KDE/Enlightenment stuff ported to solaris.
Give it a try, i'm sure you may like to see what an industrial strength workstation feels like to run. Honestly.
Everyone gets DoS'd, they should be happy it stopped.
With SCO there is just no telling if this was a PR stunt, if they set this up or if they really got attacked.
At this juncter, i don't think it really matters because of the simple fact we don't know what SCO is up to and with everything going on we have lost faith in SCO.
Attack or No attack is a trivial question compared to what we really know about SCO and there business practices.
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How many google ads are we going to see? Didn't they just announce there own blogs? :)
I just hate it when they're approved for dual purpose. A software patent shouldn't cover basic ideas of commerce or advancements in technology as a whole.
Like google slipping in contextual advertising patents - by a "software" patent - thus working towards being the defacto monopoly because the software patent basically patents the idea of the advertising method thus stemming competition and not protecting any specific technology or research or ideas.
I'd hate to see them fire everyone and relocate it.
If you follow the Lucene (Index) and Nutch (spider) mailling lists you will see the talented bunch of people that work on this project. From the likes of people who worked at the original Webcrawler.com, Excite, Inktomi and even Yahoo and Overture systems.
:)
I think we can do it
http://www.mozdex.com :)
:)
Search engine built on Open Source technologies and will never have to worry about coming too corporate.
Goal is to use an open api, open algorithm and disclose everything there is about search and search technologies. Will even be launching a blog shortly.
Well, this isn't about the Google IPO, but it is about an open source project with ambitions to play the game google does without all the corporate mumbo jumbo and no need to IPO.
Index is about 50 million pages during beta but we are about to roll out our 250 million page corpus.
Let us know what you think
*EVERY* OS has had/comes with/includes a media player. It is a functional part of the OS to support the playback of audio/video sounds in everything from user-interface, alters, notifications and theme support.
Heck, its even part of the mandated accessibility/disability acts for people who require audio/visual/tactile feedback.
I for one preferr the free stuff then Real or even Quicktime.. atleast i don't have things popping up telling me useless facts (even after being disabled) or having mime type wars on my pc.
I bought windows because it was easy.
I bought linux and still do because it was powerfull.
Each has there own use, but this has got to be the most retarded lawsuit i've EVER heard of.
If you have been affected by this, visit this website and file for a class-action for unfair business practices.
http://www.bigclassaction.com/
Lawyers shark this website and take up suits that feel will earn them money or reputation. Anyone standing up against Viacom and MTV in an election year has a good chance of getting some publicity.
I would recommend that you file as unfair business practices that you lost channels you were paying for because Viacom was trying to force new channels down your provider and pass the cost to you even though you didn't want them. You should be able to mantain the contract you have with your network and not be responsible for paying what Viacomm is trying to force upon you.
Get involved and stand up for your rights!
Just like you got a PS2 to play your games, i got an xbox to play mine.
:)
Plus i have 110" projection screen that looks like utter crap on a PS2 and beatifull as can be on an Xbox. Especially in 720p, 480p and 1080i.
Fact of the matter is Sony's console sucks ass and all you fan boys are trying to justify something that is sitting around collecting dust with more FUD
har har har
Media player isn't bloatware though.
You wan't bloatware get realplayer or whatever its called today.
WM9 is a fantastic codec and has opportunity to take the industry by storm as it matures.
I guess you havn't purchased a car lately huh?
Thank god for the new GM on star that usually routes things through a proprietary stereo that you can't replace.
Don't bother using your diagnostic computer as well - your going to have to buy new codes.
Oh yeah, don't even think about replacing some of the electronics or upgrading the GPS system.
Your analogy of the car is pointless. The PC isn't changing and if your comparing apples ot apples a PC that can run Linux is no different then a PC that can run Windows. The choice is yours and microsoft isn't making that for you.
However, i you will never get anywhere if you try replacing the OS, the Guts and the controls of any car you buy today without as much work as it would take to do the same to windows.
Analogy disqualified. Thankyou DRIVE through.
Why shoul Microsoft be forced to support a competitor if Apple doesn't even bother to port to linux quicktime support?
They ported to windows because there is money to be made and its a large market.
Maybe someone will port to linux whenever there is money to be made and a large market.
You need to quite blowing smoke out your but. WM9 is a tremendously advanced and well designed codec.
You just have to know what your doing as the default encoding is 64kbps or 96kbps for music - you can always push it to 192k and get cd quality +.
WM9 is the only codec to reliably handle HDTV (1080P yes Progressive scan 1080 signal (thats 1920x1080 resolution). That is freely distributeable and easily licensed for commercial applications.
If you want proprietary get a Mac and Quicktime.
Opportunity has confirmed landing :)
wahooo
True, you never really have no purpose to stop watching what you already have, but part of the spec would be to support your existing dvd collection and the new stuff.
:)
New dvd players are already scaling, processing and upconvering DVD to 720p or similar displays and they're getting pretty common in the market. (and only 200 bucks to boot).
Just like with any technology as soon as you buy it, its obsolete in some respects
As i highly doubt the next DVD standard will allow anything less than copy protected DVI (or any digital cable) with HDCP.
The big push isn't just quality, its DRM and protection.
With any luck the movie industry will not allow this technology to be licensed for PC's that don't support internal bus copy protection as well. (getting the infamous macrovision garbly goup on your screen).
Get HDCP or your new digital set will be useless in the very near future!
Uhm, you have it backwards. The new DVD player would be capable of supporting your current DVD collection and supporting the Hi-def format to boot.
It would be a waiste of space to try and achieve both on a single disk as you would be taking away from the much needed storage capacity for hi bit rate audio and video formats that HDTV signals are.
You won't loose rights or functionality of your current collection.
Heck, Samsung and V Inc Bravo DVD players can already output 720p video of current dvd's so just think of what these new systems could be capable of doing to your "old" stuff and the new stuff.
Believe me.. once you go HD all the way your current dvd collection will seem like your VHS collection.. collecting dust.
True, windows media "hd" has been around for a little bit with some releases - including T2 and such but it hasn't really taken off for reasons you can find on many popular forums.
Just as long as a good format comes out that everyone can agree on and we don't have a BetaMax vs VHS and 1/3rd of the sold products ending up junk i will be happy.
Now is the time to achieve a standard and give people and affordable and usefull upgrade.
I'm still suprised there was even an effort for D-VHS in the first place!
Keep on pushing your support for Single format DVD because we won the war in the beginning and shouldn't give up now!
You should also stand up and watch out for DVI/HDCP and SDI inputs. Make sure you retain rights to the media and don't let publishers enforce encryption on everything or else 99% of the sets sold today compatible of HDTV will become useless.
With this DVD format becoming "standard" don't let them throw us off with some off the wall copyprotection and drm stuff!!!
You can find my info at:
DVDsite.org
as well as my sig below
Uhm, Digital VCR's do use a codec, do have fast forward, rewind, pause and if you have two tuners you can watch and record at the same time or do PIP.
Tivo is blowing smoke. The ability to use of the shelf technology and software to achieve functionality of archiving and recording shouldn't have been patentable.
Now if tivo had patented a HIGH QUALITY CODEC that had specific features for high quality video playback/recording they could have patentend that specific piece.
But they didn't do anything that i can't do on a much bigger and better scale 4 years ago and now.
I wonder when microsoft will be sued for the media pc?
Mirroring a drive is pointless if you get a virus.
Home users don't usually pay for iron mountain to come by and pick up tapes
And that IS affordable for what it does. You can spend 10 grand on a new flat screen tv but you can't spend 399 on backup system?
Most people spend that much on cell phones and pda's that never get that much use to begin with.
geez, thinking about it i paid that much for my RIO mp3 player when it came out.
Windows drivers have worked fine for years.
What is so difficult about drivers on linux/X11? Is it THAT bad?
Can't looking costs yourself?
Figure a 4 way SMP machine with hotswappable CPU's. THere is only 1 i repeat 1 linux compatible machine and it costs 25,000.00 for a 4 way Pentium 3 700 mhz machine with a backplane/hotswappable chasis system.
For 25 grand i have a 4 way 1.2 ghz Ultra64 V880 with nearly 8 gigs of ram and 512 gigs of fibre channel disk.
Also figure this.. I can buy a Sun netra X1 with OS cheaper then a comparibly priced linux, dell, redhat, suse system.
1. The sun has a watchdog card built in
2. The sun has a warranty with onsite support for 1 year and extendable through service contracts
3. The sun usually runs for 1-2 years without hitches.. i mean 0 hitches.
Quit posting your BS and maybe i'll believe you.
We are talking *UNIX* systems. Redhat AS is the only linux i owuld consider "Unix" from corporate support, applicaiton support and from the "TCO" perspective.
Just because linux is free, doesn't mean it is cheap. Hell, i run it. Doesn' tmean because i have the kernel source i know what the hell i'm doing to try and fix something. Open source doesn't mean jack for me because i'm still relying on someone to compile, test and make sure it isn't a trojan or whatnot.
Open source doesn't mean lower TCO..
how many of you people who replied to my thread have ever worked for a real IT organization??? or MANAGED one for that matter?
Or free with a server.
Some of them cost only $900+. So it isn't a bad deal at all.
Have you ever looked at the cost Redhat Workstation on AMD 64/Intel and Servers? crazzzzy.
It takes time for you to get the system the way you like. Right now Solaris 9 is the absolute lowest "TCO" unix/linux for enterprise to servers and down to workstations. Redhat workstation costs hundreds more and has less true application support (certified vendor support) then Solaris9 X86.
And your lying through your teeth if you say there is no support.
Software: http://www.sunfreeware.com
Help/Guides: http://www.sunhelp.org
Patches: http://sunsolve.sun.com
Solaris9 X86 is a good stepping stone, a good resource to learn from and if accepted by the industry a very stable platform.
Sun DOES provide security updates, sun DOES provide software updates and there is already a ton of Gnome/KDE/Enlightenment stuff ported to solaris.
Give it a try, i'm sure you may like to see what an industrial strength workstation feels like to run. Honestly.
Everyone gets DoS'd, they should be happy it stopped.
With SCO there is just no telling if this was a PR stunt, if they set this up or if they really got attacked.
At this juncter, i don't think it really matters because of the simple fact we don't know what SCO is up to and with everything going on we have lost faith in SCO.
Attack or No attack is a trivial question compared to what we really know about SCO and there business practices.
SCO freaking what!