Why does everyone have the false impression that the AIW Radeons have hardware mpeg2 encoders? They don't even have hardware decoders.. and why do you think the minimum specs for PVR functionality are as high as they are? ATI has done a wonderful job of making it look like there is hardware mpeg2 encoding and preventing anyone else from saying one way or the other. Search long and hard enough and you will find that behind ATI's confusing marketing there is no hardware encoder.
If you want a REAL PC PVR unit look at the soon to be released WinTV-PVR 350. Mpeg2 decoding/encoding, s-video/composite/coax input, s-video output, and OSD all built into it... altho the software admittedly blows and the remote is a total piece of shit... however if you really wanted to hauppauge has a really easy to use api for making 3rd party programs for their cards and you can get a better remote.
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There is no point.... why do you need one? I don't know of much else that can cause quite as intense of a rush.
No. It doesn't. Never has. Never will. Linux is a kernel, not a political platform, no matter how RMS and a subset of its users try to turn it into one. I get really tired of people assuming that all Linux users support some particular goals.
nit picker... apparantly everyone but you understands the essence of the phrase and doesn't waste their time and energy trying to inteprit it as literally as possible in a desperate effort to find flaws to bitch about. I don't even want to know the motivation behind such efforts...
First you appear to promote choice, and then you seem to degrade it. What is your actual stance? A lot of people have this weird idea that removing all choice from linux and creating a single conforming system where everything is exactly the same is a good thing. If anything like that happened I'd pack my bags and move to windows land not out of spite, but because windows will have suddenly become better. I get a single unified eXPerience (excuse the pun =) with no choice in windows too, but I get it with a lot more apps and extra hardware support.
This reminds me of a time I was at an ice cream shop and some woman ordered a banana split. With that you have your choice of a myraid of toppings... 5-6 iirc. The girl behind the counter kept asking which of this and which of that the woman wanted and the woman actually got MAD and started YELLING at the poor girl telling her "JUST MAKE ME A $%@$^% BANANA SPLIT!" This kind of person should use windows and shouldn't touch linux with a 10 foot pole. I on the other hand will piss of the girl behind the counter 'cause I take an hour carefully contemplating which toppings I want... anybody like me would be much happier running linux on their PC than windows.
I simply don't know what else to say to make people realise that this kind of split is a GOOD THING. I prefer KDE 'cause it has certain advantage over Gnome that I prefer. Other people will say the same about Gnome. Don't like one use the other. Wait... no lets create a single unified desktop... don't like it? Well too f***ing bad... use Windows. I personally wish there were 5 different high quality desktops to choose from.
People really need to stop this "linux should takeover the world" crap and just focus on making linux excel at what it is there for... to be an alternative, not a clone. If some people don't want to use it because it gives too much personal freedom and choice then hey... their loss. Why should we care? For everyone like that there's someone else who will say "wow! look at all the different stuff I can have!"
Anyways I'm done trying to explain myself now... either ya get it or ya don't. Hopefully you do...
Either your vision or monitor... or both.. really suck. I run a 19" fd trinitron monitor at 1600x1200 and I can all to easily see individual pixels. Hell even with AA enabled in games running at 1600x1200 pixels are still badly apparant.
Actually, I think it's kind of sad that it might possibly turn out to be something as lame as Gnome or KDE that unseats Windows. But sometimes I think peoples' standards just may be low enough (after all, they accepted Windows).
Such an obvious troll but I'm gonna bite anyways. Anyone who speaks so low o fthese two environments really needs their sense of reality checked. Just because a software suite is made to be easy to use and attractive does not mean it is incapable of being functional and very useable. Stop the idealistic "if it's not hard to use it sucks" bullshit crusade and try to analyze things from a neutral and objective viewpoint. KDE especially is a very well designed, functional and modular system. From a code standpoint you simply cannot deny the skill behind it.
I had this idea for quite a while. I just didn't think it'd be feasible until a reliable way of recording and emitting light from and to all angles from a point was developed. =/ It still isn't imho.
The hype is being generated by you guys, not the folks at Lionhead.
"We're not sure just how much we can accomplish yet."
This was the last line in the article... who read it? They state what they are working on, what they've accomplished so far, and what they hope to be able to implement into the game. They ALSO state what I pasted above.
Anyone here ever played a game when you were young where on person would think up a phrase and whisper it into the ear of another, who would in turn whisper it into the ear of another so on and so forth? By the time the message got to the last person it was usually wildly different from what it started as. This game was there to teach a lesson most of slashdot does not understand. I've seen ten times as much hype created for this game in the postings here alone than I have seen anywhere else.
Oh well. I'm gonna save up and get that WineX. BABY!
Last time I had to "save up" $15 was when I was 10 and wanting a new teenage mutant ninja turtles action figure... just how long is it going to take you to get $15?
SafeDisc and ST3C Texture compression support will not be merged into an open source tree no matter how many subscriptions transgaming gets... they had to make a deal to keep those parts closed sourced just to be able to use them.
Why settle for second best when you can have it all? Just because the cpu can handle it doesn't mean it must. In fact I'd rather it handle as little as possible. Give me sound cards with hardware mixing and 3d channels. Give me 2d/3d accelerated video cards. Give me hardware video/audio encoders/decoders. Give me a raid 5 card with onboard cpu and ram. Give me an ethernet card with it's own tcp/ip stack.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for usb2... but I also think firewire is also cool. The better planned/newer motherboards and controller cards have both firewire and usb2 support. USB 2 is more of a "here's a chunk of bandwidth.. you guys can fight over it." Where is firewire is much more complex... there's a reason video equipment uses it... it's designed to provide gaurenteed bandwidth to the best of its ability.
There's no reason to fight over thw two.. variety is the spice of life, and they are both rather different.
Corporations are on a limited basis treated like a person and given certain rights... I believe the state is treated the same. And if you ask me it's actually a rather good idea.
After having the opportunity to fully test out Opera I find that paying $39 is slightly expensive for the browser, especially if you're Canadian as that works out to $61.99. To pay $62 for a browser seems to be a little far fetched.
I wonder if the thought that the Candian Dollar is worth a different amount than the US Dollar ever crossed this guys mind? Does he even realize that just because they are both called Dollar doesn't mean they are on in ethe same? If you traded $39 US Dollars for Canadian Dollars and hiw calculations are correct, I'd guess that you'd recieve somewhere in the neighborhood of $62. Does he even realize just how ignorant that made him seem... which is exactly what you dont want to seem like as a reviewer..
It is their website. They can do whatever they please with it. How would you feel if a bunch of whiney geeks started bitching at you because you changed YOUR website. If you don't like it don't visit THEIR website. It is a rather simple idea really.. owner of website gets to do as he/she/they please with said website. Would you honestly want it any other way?
Variety is the spice of life, and it took me 10 seconds to figure out xine's UI. I don't understand why people want everything to look the same, and I don't understand why people have such a hard time dealing with new things. Yeah, the UI is different, but it was hella easy to figure out an dlearn to use. Plus, I think it's a very attractive design (the default one).
Then don't use it... Imagine if the attitude of taking what you can't afford applied to everything in the heads of software pirates. Breaking into a Best Buy to steal that TV you really want is the same as software piracy. It is theft either way.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it but Adaptec has done a very fine job supporting linux. I am not sure how many if any of the drivers they actually wrote but they have a really well designed web site to help linux and *BSD users setup and use a lot of their equipment. They also provide utility software for their hardware. For example I am running Adaptec Storage Manager right now on a linux system with an Adaptec 2400a raid card.
Belkin also does many of the same things. I know that belkin has a rather wide variety of hardware they sell, however with their UPS's I know for sure that linux is very well supported. Their upsd and ups monitor are closed source but they work very well. They are also rather well documented.
There is one company that really bugs me though and that is creative. They have opensource.creative.com. They've made many announcments and claim bragging rights for supporting the linux community. The truth is however every driver for a creative device out there has been written by the community with barely any input from creative. On the emu10k1-audigy driver mailing list there's a guy.. I forget his name.. who works for creative that does get info from time to time for the development team, but it always seems like he has to beg or plea for the info he wants to get. Usuaully it seems as if he just asks someone who is coding the windows driver or helped design the hardware without getting approval first from management. I'm not implying anything here other than creative is not actively supporting crap.
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Why does everyone have the false impression that the AIW Radeons have hardware mpeg2 encoders? They don't even have hardware decoders.. and why do you think the minimum specs for PVR functionality are as high as they are? ATI has done a wonderful job of making it look like there is hardware mpeg2 encoding and preventing anyone else from saying one way or the other. Search long and hard enough and you will find that behind ATI's confusing marketing there is no hardware encoder.
If you want a REAL PC PVR unit look at the soon to be released WinTV-PVR 350. Mpeg2 decoding/encoding, s-video/composite/coax input, s-video output, and OSD all built into it... altho the software admittedly blows and the remote is a total piece of shit... however if you really wanted to hauppauge has a really easy to use api for making 3rd party programs for their cards and you can get a better remote.
There is no point.... why do you need one? I don't know of much else that can cause quite as intense of a rush.
No. It doesn't. Never has. Never will. Linux is a kernel, not a political platform, no matter how RMS and a subset of its users try to turn it into one. I get really tired of people assuming that all Linux users support some particular goals.
nit picker... apparantly everyone but you understands the essence of the phrase and doesn't waste their time and energy trying to inteprit it as literally as possible in a desperate effort to find flaws to bitch about. I don't even want to know the motivation behind such efforts...
SCSI purist..
*walks off shaking head in shame at those who support price fixing...*
Umm... he wasn't commenting on Red Hat.. he was commenting on what was said by Hemos in the news post.
First you appear to promote choice, and then you seem to degrade it. What is your actual stance? A lot of people have this weird idea that removing all choice from linux and creating a single conforming system where everything is exactly the same is a good thing. If anything like that happened I'd pack my bags and move to windows land not out of spite, but because windows will have suddenly become better. I get a single unified eXPerience (excuse the pun =) with no choice in windows too, but I get it with a lot more apps and extra hardware support.
This reminds me of a time I was at an ice cream shop and some woman ordered a banana split. With that you have your choice of a myraid of toppings... 5-6 iirc. The girl behind the counter kept asking which of this and which of that the woman wanted and the woman actually got MAD and started YELLING at the poor girl telling her "JUST MAKE ME A $%@$^% BANANA SPLIT!" This kind of person should use windows and shouldn't touch linux with a 10 foot pole. I on the other hand will piss of the girl behind the counter 'cause I take an hour carefully contemplating which toppings I want... anybody like me would be much happier running linux on their PC than windows.
I simply don't know what else to say to make people realise that this kind of split is a GOOD THING. I prefer KDE 'cause it has certain advantage over Gnome that I prefer. Other people will say the same about Gnome. Don't like one use the other. Wait... no lets create a single unified desktop... don't like it? Well too f***ing bad... use Windows. I personally wish there were 5 different high quality desktops to choose from.
People really need to stop this "linux should takeover the world" crap and just focus on making linux excel at what it is there for... to be an alternative, not a clone. If some people don't want to use it because it gives too much personal freedom and choice then hey... their loss. Why should we care? For everyone like that there's someone else who will say "wow! look at all the different stuff I can have!"
Anyways I'm done trying to explain myself now... either ya get it or ya don't. Hopefully you do...
Either your vision or monitor... or both.. really suck. I run a 19" fd trinitron monitor at 1600x1200 and I can all to easily see individual pixels. Hell even with AA enabled in games running at 1600x1200 pixels are still badly apparant.
Engage brain before speaking please. A monitor can theoretically show 256 different colors per dot.. A printer can show, what, 4?... do the math.
Ogg Vorbis doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
and MP3 does? Tho I agree with you on the divx thing....
Actually, I think it's kind of sad that it might possibly turn out to be something as lame as Gnome or KDE that unseats Windows. But sometimes I think peoples' standards just may be low enough (after all, they accepted Windows).
Such an obvious troll but I'm gonna bite anyways. Anyone who speaks so low o fthese two environments really needs their sense of reality checked. Just because a software suite is made to be easy to use and attractive does not mean it is incapable of being functional and very useable. Stop the idealistic "if it's not hard to use it sucks" bullshit crusade and try to analyze things from a neutral and objective viewpoint. KDE especially is a very well designed, functional and modular system. From a code standpoint you simply cannot deny the skill behind it.
I had this idea for quite a while. I just didn't think it'd be feasible until a reliable way of recording and emitting light from and to all angles from a point was developed. =/ It still isn't imho.
The hype is being generated by you guys, not the folks at Lionhead.
"We're not sure just how much we can accomplish yet."
This was the last line in the article... who read it? They state what they are working on, what they've accomplished so far, and what they hope to be able to implement into the game. They ALSO state what I pasted above.
Anyone here ever played a game when you were young where on person would think up a phrase and whisper it into the ear of another, who would in turn whisper it into the ear of another so on and so forth? By the time the message got to the last person it was usually wildly different from what it started as. This game was there to teach a lesson most of slashdot does not understand. I've seen ten times as much hype created for this game in the postings here alone than I have seen anywhere else.
Read what is there... don't insert anything else.
Yet another case of the "this game sucks because I suck at it" problem =/. Don't bitch about the game because of your inability to play it.
The bells were deregulated quite a while ago thanks to the republican party.
they don't burn 'em, they stamp em. iirc the have a machine which presses the image onto the disk and that's that.
Oh well. I'm gonna save up and get that WineX. BABY!
Last time I had to "save up" $15 was when I was 10 and wanting a new teenage mutant ninja turtles action figure... just how long is it going to take you to get $15?
SafeDisc and ST3C Texture compression support will not be merged into an open source tree no matter how many subscriptions transgaming gets... they had to make a deal to keep those parts closed sourced just to be able to use them.
Why settle for second best when you can have it all? Just because the cpu can handle it doesn't mean it must. In fact I'd rather it handle as little as possible. Give me sound cards with hardware mixing and 3d channels. Give me 2d/3d accelerated video cards. Give me hardware video/audio encoders/decoders. Give me a raid 5 card with onboard cpu and ram. Give me an ethernet card with it's own tcp/ip stack.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for usb2... but I also think firewire is also cool. The better planned/newer motherboards and controller cards have both firewire and usb2 support. USB 2 is more of a "here's a chunk of bandwidth.. you guys can fight over it." Where is firewire is much more complex... there's a reason video equipment uses it... it's designed to provide gaurenteed bandwidth to the best of its ability.
There's no reason to fight over thw two.. variety is the spice of life, and they are both rather different.
Corporations are on a limited basis treated like a person and given certain rights... I believe the state is treated the same. And if you ask me it's actually a rather good idea.
After having the opportunity to fully test out Opera I find that paying $39 is slightly expensive for the browser, especially if you're Canadian as that works out to $61.99. To pay $62 for a browser seems to be a little far fetched.
I wonder if the thought that the Candian Dollar is worth a different amount than the US Dollar ever crossed this guys mind? Does he even realize that just because they are both called Dollar doesn't mean they are on in ethe same? If you traded $39 US Dollars for Canadian Dollars and hiw calculations are correct, I'd guess that you'd recieve somewhere in the neighborhood of $62. Does he even realize just how ignorant that made him seem... which is exactly what you dont want to seem like as a reviewer..
It is their website. They can do whatever they please with it. How would you feel if a bunch of whiney geeks started bitching at you because you changed YOUR website. If you don't like it don't visit THEIR website. It is a rather simple idea really.. owner of website gets to do as he/she/they please with said website. Would you honestly want it any other way?
Variety is the spice of life, and it took me 10 seconds to figure out xine's UI. I don't understand why people want everything to look the same, and I don't understand why people have such a hard time dealing with new things. Yeah, the UI is different, but it was hella easy to figure out an dlearn to use. Plus, I think it's a very attractive design (the default one).
Then don't use it... Imagine if the attitude of taking what you can't afford applied to everything in the heads of software pirates. Breaking into a Best Buy to steal that TV you really want is the same as software piracy. It is theft either way.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it but Adaptec has done a very fine job supporting linux. I am not sure how many if any of the drivers they actually wrote but they have a really well designed web site to help linux and *BSD users setup and use a lot of their equipment. They also provide utility software for their hardware. For example I am running Adaptec Storage Manager right now on a linux system with an Adaptec 2400a raid card.
Belkin also does many of the same things. I know that belkin has a rather wide variety of hardware they sell, however with their UPS's I know for sure that linux is very well supported. Their upsd and ups monitor are closed source but they work very well. They are also rather well documented.
There is one company that really bugs me though and that is creative. They have opensource.creative.com. They've made many announcments and claim bragging rights for supporting the linux community. The truth is however every driver for a creative device out there has been written by the community with barely any input from creative. On the emu10k1-audigy driver mailing list there's a guy.. I forget his name.. who works for creative that does get info from time to time for the development team, but it always seems like he has to beg or plea for the info he wants to get. Usuaully it seems as if he just asks someone who is coding the windows driver or helped design the hardware without getting approval first from management. I'm not implying anything here other than creative is not actively supporting crap.
It was in KDE CVS long before the 3.0 release, and it is included with the 3.0 release. Just check for it yourself it's there.