I was hoping to have a test under windows to eliminate the PCWX factor.
I guess I'll have to put mine under a scope here at work and see what I see. I am astonished that Sony/Phillips/Logitech would be so underhand as to advertise a VGA webcam with only 160x120 CCD! I'm also wondering why nobody else has noticed this? The same CCD is being used in a number of differing cameras including some firewire models.
My understanding was that the webcam took the image at 640x480 but dropped the frames per sec due to the bandwidth of USB. I'm pretty sure they never said the camera could do VGA at 30fps, I think 15 was the max with compression. If all they were doing was some simple image manipultation in the driver there would be no need to drop the fps.
My opinion at this stage is that the CCD is 640x480 and the driver does decompression not interpolation. If PWCX was open source I could eliminate that from this issue.
The reason I'm sceptical is that my Pro3000 uses a SONY ICX098AK CCD. The overview and tech specs would tend me to believe that the device can do VGA without software. Why would Phillips/Logitech fake it?
I have one of the very nice Logitech Orbit cameras as well as a PRO3000. I was thinking of going getting a second Orbit to do Stero vision, I probably won't.
If I'm reading your post correctly you're saying that the 640x480 mode is just a software manipulation of the 160x120 video stream?
If ths is the case then quite probably this is why Phillips doesn't want the driver opened.
Can you explain the lower fram rate for 640x480 compared to 160x120?
I'll go an rip my Pro3000 and check the specs for the CCD.
The USA doesn't give a fuck about individuals. The reason they want the pilot back rather than the plane is that during a war planes are easier to make than pilots.
I'm not saying the US is better or worse than other nations, I believe in the WWII the Russians had more troops than munitions so they valued the munitions more than the men and women.
GPL, simply the best driving sim as was. Great physics engine, good graphics and modeled the best period in F1, well aside from all the deaths.
But seeing how he just paid for the source I bet he has other plans, rather than GPLing the source. Wonder if he's open to donations when it hits the purchase price he GPLs it?
For christ sakes it's just a law, you know those man made things. Usually written to protect the people with money. It's not like there's anything special about them. In fact every so often they get changed what was legal is now ILLEGAL and what was ILLEGAL is now legal.
But I guess writng ILLEGAL in big letters makes it in some way important.
The only problem with my view point is that the people who write and enforce the law know it's a pile of shit but they get really ticked off if anybody outside the club explains this to them, they get doubly annoyed if said person is addressed as the accused and happens to be explaining as to why he should not have to pay a fine for drunk and disorderly. They usually start shouting about contempt and 30 days and stuff like that. I find it best to shut up in those situations.
Laws are for the obidience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Given the current fucked up state of the law a good dose of civil dis-obdience would be most welcome.
If everybody broke into a network would it still be unlawful. Or to give an example what would happen if everybody drove at 95 a) everybody would be arrested, b) a small minority would be arrested and heavily punished or c) the law would be changed and the speed limit is now 95?
Obviously you know nothing about good investigative journalism. It would seem the only journalism worth a dman is when the writer feel sthe issue is worth risking his liberty.
I hope the two students in question counter sue the university for lapse protection of their student records.
Go take a look at croquet and see if he's some washed up old has been. It's the first 3d environment I can see myself using. Forget looking glass or some other simple hack, I'm blown away by the possibilities of croquet.
16K you lucky bastard I had only 1K for the first year, and I liked it. It would seem that Z80 assembler is pretty easy to pick up when you have no other option.
No, leave XFCE alone. I'm already concerned about the bloat in XFCE.
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That was take as well.
Why did you change something that was working? Why did you not test something before it went live? Why are you blaming eFax? Why do you still have a job?
We all screw up but most of us do not broadcast the fact on/.
Yet antoher war for the US to lose. In fact the one sure way for something to be succesful is for Washington to declare war on it. I dream of the day I write a piece of software that the US declares war on, my fortune would be made.
Until we can breed an AI that is self aware robots will continue to be the sum of their programming. Nothing wrong with that but it's hardly anything new. all that's happening is that hardware is getting better.
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I was hoping to have a test under windows to eliminate the PCWX factor.
I guess I'll have to put mine under a scope here at work and see what I see. I am astonished that Sony/Phillips/Logitech would be so underhand as to advertise a VGA webcam with only 160x120 CCD! I'm also wondering why nobody else has noticed this? The same CCD is being used in a number of differing cameras including some firewire models.
My understanding was that the webcam took the image at 640x480 but dropped the frames per sec due to the bandwidth of USB. I'm pretty sure they never said the camera could do VGA at 30fps, I think 15 was the max with compression. If all they were doing was some simple image manipultation in the driver there would be no need to drop the fps.
My opinion at this stage is that the CCD is 640x480 and the driver does decompression not interpolation. If PWCX was open source I could eliminate that from this issue.
Hmmm,
Have you tried this on a Windows machine?
The reason I'm sceptical is that my Pro3000 uses a SONY ICX098AK CCD. The overview and tech specs would tend me to believe that the device can do VGA without software. Why would Phillips/Logitech fake it?
I have one of the very nice Logitech Orbit cameras as well as a PRO3000. I was thinking of going getting a second Orbit to do Stero vision, I probably won't.
If I'm reading your post correctly you're saying that the 640x480 mode is just a software manipulation of the 160x120 video stream?
If ths is the case then quite probably this is why Phillips doesn't want the driver opened.
Can you explain the lower fram rate for 640x480 compared to 160x120?
I'll go an rip my Pro3000 and check the specs for the CCD.
Here's a novel idea if people are not buying your music/attending your gigs then take it as a subtle hint and stop making music?
OTOH, if the passion to make music exists despite the lack of money, then stop whinging about the money.
The USA doesn't give a fuck about individuals. The reason they want the pilot back rather than the plane is that during a war planes are easier to make than pilots.
I'm not saying the US is better or worse than other nations, I believe in the WWII the Russians had more troops than munitions so they valued the munitions more than the men and women.
FYI,
native resolution, as discussed here, is the LCDs native resolution not the games.
LCD have an optimal resolution, running at a lower res than this causes a degredation of the image.
This is not the end,
It's not even the beginning of the end,
It might, however, be the end of the beginnning.
Huh,
GPL, simply the best driving sim as was. Great physics engine, good graphics and modeled the best period in F1, well aside from all the deaths.
But seeing how he just paid for the source I bet he has other plans, rather than GPLing the source. Wonder if he's open to donations when it hits the purchase price he GPLs it?
ILLEGAL is that bad or just ILLEGAL?
For christ sakes it's just a law, you know those man made things. Usually written to protect the people with money. It's not like there's anything special about them. In fact every so often they get changed what was legal is now ILLEGAL and what was ILLEGAL is now legal.
But I guess writng ILLEGAL in big letters makes it in some way important.
The only problem with my view point is that the people who write and enforce the law know it's a pile of shit but they get really ticked off if anybody outside the club explains this to them, they get doubly annoyed if said person is addressed as the accused and happens to be explaining as to why he should not have to pay a fine for drunk and disorderly. They usually start shouting about contempt and 30 days and stuff like that. I find it best to shut up in those situations.
Laws are for the obidience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Given the current fucked up state of the law a good dose of civil dis-obdience would be most welcome.
If everybody broke into a network would it still be unlawful. Or to give an example what would happen if everybody drove at 95 a) everybody would be arrested, b) a small minority would be arrested and heavily punished or c) the law would be changed and the speed limit is now 95?
Obviously you know nothing about good investigative journalism. It would seem the only journalism worth a dman is when the writer feel sthe issue is worth risking his liberty.
I hope the two students in question counter sue the university for lapse protection of their student records.
Very few messages in Perl, Linux or Assembler. Which leaves Java and C. Face it the ISeries is not a hackers box.
Although I am interested in running OS/5 on X86
Hmmm
he asked for techie mailing lists, not business orientated pgmrs asking how to automate ftp.
Go take a look at croquet and see if he's some washed up old has been. It's the first 3d environment I can see myself using. Forget looking glass or some other simple hack, I'm blown away by the possibilities of croquet.
Take alook at QEMU
Can you SSH through your firewall? If you can you're home free.
16K you lucky bastard I had only 1K for the first year, and I liked it. It would seem that Z80 assembler is pretty easy to pick up when you have no other option.
I still have that machine.
Sometimes not fighting for what we want is the best action. The old adage about loving someone enough to let them go, is a good example.
The book is written post mental illness, the character under went elctro shock.
I read the book as a damning indictment of the US treatment of mental illness. Rather like One flew over the cuckos nest.
You'll need more than a couple, 1TB=1,000GB
Never blackmail people for more than the cost of killing you.
No, leave XFCE alone. I'm already concerned about the bloat in XFCE.
That was take as well.
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Why did you change something that was working?
Why did you not test something before it went live?
Why are you blaming eFax?
Why do you still have a job?
We all screw up but most of us do not broadcast the fact on
Like that works!
Yet antoher war for the US to lose. In fact the one sure way for something to be succesful is for Washington to declare war on it. I dream of the day I write a piece of software that the US declares war on, my fortune would be made.
Are you sure your cat is not self aware? I'd argue that she was.
I guess my question becomes what makes you self aware but not your cat?
Until we can breed an AI that is self aware robots will continue to be the sum of their programming. Nothing wrong with that but it's hardly anything new. all that's happening is that hardware is getting better.