Well, hopefully the game makers will start to 'think big' on the PS3. We already know that the Audio system will have, what was it, 7 channels? And I believe in 96 kHz, but I'm not totally sure. There will also be room for much more of it, both background music, spoken content and sound effects. I believe spoken content will begin to get really popular shortly ater PS3 release. Also don't forget that the PS3 targets an international audience. It sure wouldn't hurt that the same BD-ROM had the English, Frensh, Spanish, German, Russian (dare I suggest Danish) text and audio all there from the beginning. The Game makers only need the one BD-ROM and should you happen to have someone over that speaks a different language than, say, English, better then they could enjoy some time with the game in their native tounge. It might even be fun for you to listen to.:)
I am sure that textures will be larger and more plentiful as well and the *real* kicker would be much more content. We'll have to see of course.
I imagine e.g. a car racing game with pretty much every track and car on the planet on one BD-ROM. To my knowledge this has not been done in any DVD game...
If this happens, I think we can fill up at least a 25 GB BD-ROM without any prerendered HD scenes. The problem as always is cost. Is it feasible? Will people pay what they ask for 'the-game-that-has-everything'?
I would think making the 'special' characters a different color would at least highlight possible issues. I wouldn't care if www.rødgrød.dk had, say green 'ø's while the rest of the line was black (customizable, of course), but I would certainly think twice if I say www.paypal.com in the URL. I'm sure there would be people not noticing still, though...
The one part of the Nero suite that I would really like to see on Linux is NeroVision Express. It is very easy to make basic DVD's with or without animated buttons and stuff with that program. The more complex things is apparently out of its league (like designing each menu page and out-of-order chapter placing), but for most things, it's quite good.
It doesn't seem to be included in their Nero for Linux stack (yet?). I think they could easily make some money on that program if it had at least the feature-set of the current Windows version as regards VCD/SVCD/DVD creation and movie editing, etc...
If there's actually a NeroVision program that has more features then bring it:)
I haven't looked at too many software patents (and none that weren't), but from those I did look at, there is something that seems at odds with the supposed benefit of the patent system:
They do not tell you how to reproduce the 'invention'.
They weave and wave in strange tones about this and that, but are not concrete about much of anything. How is that helpful to anyone?
Wasn't the idea that patents would allow the public to use the 'idea' after the monopoly ran out by referring to the patent and reimplementing it as you saw fit? Or am I ill informed (certainly a possibility)....
This is not in any way an attack on you, it's just something I have wondered about repeatedly...
I sure hope patents in other areas are more 'recipe' like, or are you supposed to have an expert of the field and a very good patent lawyer present to decipher anything?
PS: Maybe that's not quite true. Looked up a couple of patents on swpat.ffii.org and the description part seem reasonably fleshed out and somewhat understandable - fairly free of lawyer speak. So that leaves the 'invention height' of most of these patents which are often quite low indeed. Hmm....
I have had Mozilla Firebird stall when entering certain flash enabled sites using 'esddsp MozillaFirebird', which makes it a solution I cannot use in many cases. It *does* work with libaudiooss, but for some reason it seems that network conflicts abound when doing so (may help with better networking of course, but it's rather strange that the conflicts almost only happens when sound is transmitted via libaudiooss)...
(Unfortunately I am posting rather late, so you probably won't see this:-/)
I wonder if the RIAA will be the ones that make warp speed possible. After all, there's a load of freeloading aliens out there that should be paying royalties, right?!
I haven't seen anyone market a non region-free DVD player in Denmark in at least 2 years now, so in the current situation it would seem to be very good to live outside of America. Region-free DVD drives is another matter, though. For some reason they do not seem to be so common. As far as I know, though, no law here says anything about you not being allowed to *make* it region free.
Honestly, I wish the DVD consortium would just let the regions slide. What's so bad about people in region 2 playing region 1 DVDs? Or any other region for that matter. Most people in Europe bye the Region 2 DVDs anyway, but it seems ludicrus to expect people to only be able to view other regions than their own a set number of times before it's all over. I hope they realize at some point that all they gain is bad publicity and most likely very little extra capital. Most of us in Europe like titles subtitled in our own language, which is doubtfull would be on the DVD region 1 media, unless they finally decided to make one big region 0 disc...
Windows XP is probably very nice in many respects, but what keeps me from using it is, mostly, three things:
1) The draconian licensing 2) The general behaviour of Microsoft (as a corporation) 3) The limited experiance inherent in all versions of Windows I have tried.
Of number three: I used DOS, Win 3.1 -> 3.11 -> 95 -> 98 for a long time (didn't know much about the alternatives). Then OS/2. Then Linux. I have tried NT 4.0 and W2K also, if only for short periods. While OS/2 was a great OS, only Linux seems to be genuinely *FUN* to use. I believe this is at least partly because you can never know all there is to know about it (with Windows you can at least pretend;)) and the powerfull way piping data from one program to another helps define the problem you are solving. I could wish for some more flexibility in sed, though, but that just means I have to narrow my searches that much more.
What was it this was all about? Ah yes: Why Linux?
Because it's..: 1) Fun 2) Powerfull 3) Evolving 4) Community driven 5) Flexible 6) Open! .. and all the other points I cannot articulate at this time:)
The one thing I dislike most in the Windows world is all these EULA's, all slightly different, all mostly crap. I have read, and (I think) understood the GPL, Artistic and BSD/MIT licenses. They are well written, not too lawyerish and above all used by many projects. I pretty much know what I can expect with these licenses.
Compare to the mile-long EULA's typical in Windowsland: I don't believe I know anybody who have read one of them all the way through. They are tediously written, far too long to be good to anyone but lawyers (and the corporations?). You always have a knawing feeling you're not quite sure what you signed up for and the exact terms of it all. If you're lucky, somebody that read the full text and recounted it in understandable language at a place like this one, if not, then you either have to simply not care (a rather typical approach, it would seem) or just live with the jitters. I far prefer to stay away from that when possible.
Ooops. That was a wee bit ranting, wasn't it? I better stop now.
Will we *finally* see holographic storage, then?
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It is way more than 5 years ago that I first heard of IBM doing research on holographic storage. At that time they could, I believe, hold somewhere between several hundred GigaBytes of data to several TerraBytes of data in a matrix the size of a sugar cube. What ever happened to that? It seemed to have such great potential, so why isn't it available yet, or even mentioned all that much..?
Admittedly, I haven't scoured the net before posting this, but none of the magazines I subscribe to has mentioned anything about holographic storage in at least 5 years...?
KFontInst covers most font woes, although I've so far had to lock it down to iso8859-1 encoding only to get predictable results (SuSE 7.x). It doesn't have 'sets' of fonts and no 'disable' option, only add and delete, but it does those extremely well. Handles GhostScript, X11, StarOffice 5.2...
Haven't found anything else in that category though. Design lies close to Adobe Type Manager.
I'd hate to be a Windows Tech Support guy these days;) -- I'm sure quite a lot of people will call their designated helpdesk about defective speakers and whatnot in the wake of this. Oh dear...
What is the likelyhood of being able to seal off a certain range of memory, ports, etc. that a certain piece of hardware uses and pass it directly to the Guest system? This would be great for hardware Linux does not yet support or which doesn't have all that great support. It could also be great for a second video-card reserved for that Guest (mainly for games) if it is at all possible.
I can't see why it wouldn't be, but then I don't know how to make it reality either;)
This is one area where VMWare is rather limited at present.
Also, certain videocards emulated in the Guest modeled from existing ones (thereby having DirectX work from the get go, automatic support in most systems?) - That would be great. Matrox and/or Voodoo, perhaps?
Hmm, late time for this question. Wonder if anyone sees it?
The thing that strikes me about this 'notion' is that all the pre-existing packages generated for Cobalt products would not work on future models (most would need a version check update anyway, but that would be it). Unless Solaris kan install RPM's flawlessly and run Linux binaries I think most of the 3rd party stuff will die out. Is that really preferable? I think not.
As for Sun not wanting to deal with two Operating Systems: Why would they need to? The Cobalt Guys already have this knowledge. Those of us who are currently distributing Cobalt Servers do, too. If they let the current arrangements be, they really wouldn't incur much, if any extra cost.
Do they also intend to be the only ones that may log in through telnet/ssh? This is just plain odd, the way I see it. Why not keep on good terms with those, who helped Cobalt get to where it is today?
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On my Linux machines using 'clock=pit' as a boot option is all it takes (and then letting the vmware tools sync to the host, of course :))
I didn't see this mentioned in the other replies so I thought I'd mention it.
Well, hopefully the game makers will start to 'think big' on the PS3. We already know that the Audio system will have, what was it, 7 channels? And I believe in 96 kHz, but I'm not totally sure. There will also be room for much more of it, both background music, spoken content and sound effects. I believe spoken content will begin to get really popular shortly ater PS3 release. :)
Also don't forget that the PS3 targets an international audience. It sure wouldn't hurt that the same BD-ROM had the English, Frensh, Spanish, German, Russian (dare I suggest Danish) text and audio all there from the beginning. The Game makers only need the one BD-ROM and should you happen to have someone over that speaks a different language than, say, English, better then they could enjoy some time with the game in their native tounge. It might even be fun for you to listen to.
I am sure that textures will be larger and more plentiful as well and the *real* kicker would be much more content. We'll have to see of course.
I imagine e.g. a car racing game with pretty much every track and car on the planet on one BD-ROM. To my knowledge this has not been done in any DVD game...
If this happens, I think we can fill up at least a 25 GB BD-ROM without any prerendered HD scenes.
The problem as always is cost. Is it feasible? Will people pay what they ask for 'the-game-that-has-everything'?
The one part of the Nero suite that I would really like to see on Linux is NeroVision Express. It is very easy to make basic DVD's with or without animated buttons and stuff with that program. The more complex things is apparently out of its league (like designing each menu page and out-of-order chapter placing), but for most things, it's quite good.
:)
It doesn't seem to be included in their Nero for Linux stack (yet?). I think they could easily make some money on that program if it had at least the feature-set of the current Windows version as regards VCD/SVCD/DVD creation and movie editing, etc...
If there's actually a NeroVision program that has more features then bring it
I haven't looked at too many software patents (and none that weren't), but from those I did look at, there is something that seems at odds with the supposed benefit of the patent system:
They do not tell you how to reproduce the 'invention'.
They weave and wave in strange tones about this and that, but are not concrete about much of anything. How is that helpful to anyone?
Wasn't the idea that patents would allow the public to use the 'idea' after the monopoly ran out by referring to the patent and reimplementing it as you saw fit? Or am I ill informed (certainly a possibility)....
This is not in any way an attack on you, it's just something I have wondered about repeatedly...
I sure hope patents in other areas are more 'recipe' like, or are you supposed to have an expert of the field and a very good patent lawyer present to decipher anything?
PS: Maybe that's not quite true. Looked up a couple of patents on swpat.ffii.org and the description part seem reasonably fleshed out and somewhat understandable - fairly free of lawyer speak. So that leaves the 'invention height' of most of these patents which are often quite low indeed. Hmm....
What about apps that don't play nice with esd?
:-/)
I have had Mozilla Firebird stall when entering certain flash enabled sites using 'esddsp MozillaFirebird', which makes it a solution I cannot use in many cases. It *does* work with libaudiooss, but for some reason it seems that network conflicts abound when doing so (may help with better networking of course, but it's rather strange that the conflicts almost only happens when sound is transmitted via libaudiooss)...
(Unfortunately I am posting rather late, so you probably won't see this
Well said.
I wonder if the RIAA will be the ones that make warp speed possible. After all, there's a load of freeloading aliens out there that should be paying royalties, right?!
The idea is "to keep honest users honest".
Strange, I though the idea was to make dishonest users honest? Apparently it's okay to be dishonest, but if you are honest, you must be a crook?
It doesn't make sense. But then when did any of these restrictions make sense...
I haven't seen anyone market a non region-free DVD player in Denmark in at least 2 years now, so in the current situation it would seem to be very good to live outside of America.
Region-free DVD drives is another matter, though. For some reason they do not seem to be so common.
As far as I know, though, no law here says anything about you not being allowed to *make* it region free.
Honestly, I wish the DVD consortium would just let the regions slide. What's so bad about people in region 2 playing region 1 DVDs? Or any other region for that matter. Most people in Europe bye the Region 2 DVDs anyway, but it seems ludicrus to expect people to only be able to view other regions than their own a set number of times before it's all over.
I hope they realize at some point that all they gain is bad publicity and most likely very little extra capital.
Most of us in Europe like titles subtitled in our own language, which is doubtfull would be on the DVD region 1 media, unless they finally decided to make one big region 0 disc...
Windows XP is probably very nice in many respects, but what keeps me from using it is, mostly, three things:
;)) and the powerfull way piping data from one program to another helps define the problem you are solving. I could wish for some more flexibility in sed, though, but that just means I have to narrow my searches that much more.
:
.. and all the other points I cannot articulate at this time :)
1) The draconian licensing
2) The general behaviour of Microsoft (as a corporation)
3) The limited experiance inherent in all versions of Windows I have tried.
Of number three: I used DOS, Win 3.1 -> 3.11 -> 95 -> 98 for a long time (didn't know much about the alternatives). Then OS/2. Then Linux. I have tried NT 4.0 and W2K also, if only for short periods.
While OS/2 was a great OS, only Linux seems to be genuinely *FUN* to use. I believe this is at least partly because you can never know all there is to know about it (with Windows you can at least pretend
What was it this was all about? Ah yes: Why Linux?
Because it's..
1) Fun
2) Powerfull
3) Evolving
4) Community driven
5) Flexible
6) Open!
The one thing I dislike most in the Windows world is all these EULA's, all slightly different, all mostly crap. I have read, and (I think) understood the GPL, Artistic and BSD/MIT licenses. They are well written, not too lawyerish and above all used by many projects. I pretty much know what I can expect with these licenses.
Compare to the mile-long EULA's typical in Windowsland: I don't believe I know anybody who have read one of them all the way through. They are tediously written, far too long to be good to anyone but lawyers (and the corporations?). You always have a knawing feeling you're not quite sure what you signed up for and the exact terms of it all. If you're lucky, somebody that read the full text and recounted it in understandable language at a place like this one, if not, then you either have to simply not care (a rather typical approach, it would seem) or just live with the jitters. I far prefer to stay away from that when possible.
Ooops. That was a wee bit ranting, wasn't it? I better stop now.
It is way more than 5 years ago that I first heard of IBM doing research on holographic storage. At that time they could, I believe, hold somewhere between several hundred GigaBytes of data to several TerraBytes of data in a matrix the size of a sugar cube. What ever happened to that? It seemed to have such great potential, so why isn't it available yet, or even mentioned all that much..?
Admittedly, I haven't scoured the net before posting this, but none of the magazines I subscribe to has mentioned anything about holographic storage in at least 5 years...?
Can anyone explain this to me?
KFontInst covers most font woes, although I've so far had to lock it down to iso8859-1 encoding only to get predictable results (SuSE 7.x). It doesn't have 'sets' of fonts and no 'disable' option, only add and delete, but it does those extremely well. Handles GhostScript, X11, StarOffice 5.2...
Haven't found anything else in that category though. Design lies close to Adobe Type Manager.
/Martin.
I'd hate to be a Windows Tech Support guy these days ;) -- I'm sure quite a lot of people will call their designated helpdesk about defective speakers and whatnot in the wake of this. Oh dear...
;)
Glad I'm in Linux Support now
What is the likelyhood of being able to seal off a certain range of memory, ports, etc. that a certain piece of hardware uses and pass it directly to the Guest system? This would be great for hardware Linux does not yet support or which doesn't have all that great support. It could also be great for a second video-card reserved for that Guest (mainly for games) if it is at all possible. ;)
I can't see why it wouldn't be, but then I don't know how to make it reality either
This is one area where VMWare is rather limited at present.
Also, certain videocards emulated in the Guest modeled from existing ones (thereby having DirectX work from the get go, automatic support in most systems?) - That would be great. Matrox and/or Voodoo, perhaps?
Hmm, late time for this question. Wonder if anyone sees it?
Side remark: OS/2 support? How far away?
The thing that strikes me about this 'notion' is that all the pre-existing packages generated for Cobalt products would not work on future models (most would need a version check update anyway, but that would be it). Unless Solaris kan install RPM's flawlessly and run Linux binaries I think most of the 3rd party stuff will die out. Is that really preferable? I think not.
As for Sun not wanting to deal with two Operating Systems: Why would they need to? The Cobalt Guys already have this knowledge. Those of us who are currently distributing Cobalt Servers do, too. If they let the current arrangements be, they really wouldn't incur much, if any extra cost.
Do they also intend to be the only ones that may log in through telnet/ssh? This is just plain odd, the way I see it. Why not keep on good terms with those, who helped Cobalt get to where it is today?