This genious needs to get his medication changed, it cannot be working right, for him to actually want to trash peoples PCs
Even if it was snowing in hell and he got his way, and made it legal for the MPAA/RIAA to damage or even just delete data from p2p users machines. Just think of the amount of damage when some of these victims take revenge
I do some of this VHS to Digital conversion commercially, using a hardware analog to DV convertor that will do realtime encoding to 25mbs DV which gives 13GB/Hour at the best possible quality, which is far far far better than even high end video capture cards can do.
Once in DV format I use transcode to filter and encode to more or less any video format, usually MPEG4
With NTSC VHS conversions I can get 3-4 Hours of MPEG4 onto a 4.7GB DVDR
The hardware is not that expensive to get, the DV encoder is a datavideo DAC-100 (ebay for $200)
I did look at Gnome 2 when it first shipped, but it drove me nuts very fast, it was far too slow, buggy, windoze like, buggy etc. And that was on a high end SMP Xeon Box, with 2GB of RAM and SCSI RAID array.
I did have a go at getting Gnome to run at a speed that made it usable, but even after disabling as much eye candy as possible, source building optimized binaries libs, and disabling as much junk as possible, it was not even close to WindowMaker, or even KDE.
To me CDE is more dated than butt ugly, but I agree that its not for everyone, and for the newbee out there, terrifying, complex to do anything with etc.
If sun does the sensible thing and includes an alternative to gnome, I will still use it, I care not if its CDE, OpenWindows (still in use by several of my clients), or even WindowMaker (my choice).
There is no way that I would use gnome (or KDE), and even created a mini-gnome library install to let me run the apps without installing full gnome.
I do not use, support, or recommend Gnome or KDE to my Linux clients, which would be the same approach that I will take with Solaris 10.
BTW. My original post was not a Troll, just my take on Gome being bad for Solaris. I just forgot to log in to post it.
Sure they claim that the use of MP3/Ogg and file sharing is costing them money. well they are probably right, just not to the excess they claim.
whats really hurting them is the cost of CDs, the quality of the music, and the numerous attempts at stopping you using what you pay for.
In my case I buy lots of CD (my collection is heading for 400), and yes every CD I buy is ripped to ogg or mp3 format, but not to be shared, but to make life easier for me to listen to them, on my laptop, as I work, which does not have a CD drive, not that I want to have to carry large numbers of CDs anyway.
I do not share these rips, not though any dislike of piracy, but more selfeshness, a real case of I paid through the nose for the CD, why should others benefit for free.
Mandatory copy protection on music CDs is total madness, and all its going to do is piss off lots of CD buyers, driving them to the file shares.
A far better solution would be to provide legal Mp3/ogg downloads, that are water marked, so they can be traced back to the purchaser.
Sure someone can share these mp3/ogg files, but they can be traced. Given a stiff penality, the sharing would be reduced to a trickle.
There has been discussion of using DRM from the beast to allow for secure digital distribution of music legally. Sure this may work, but again its limiting what you can do with your own property, and will/has pissed off lots of people.
As a non-windoze user, all the beasts DRM is off limits to me, which when/if music distribution happens in this format, will drive me to the file sharers.
I would like to be able to buy single tracks in MP3 or ideally ogg format, straight of the internet. But provided that they are not restricted in any way.
Buying single tracks in this way would save us consumers lots of money, which is why its not likley to ever happen! Just think about it how many cds have you bought that you like every track? very few right?
Message to the RIAA, remember DVD regions? its hard to find a player thats not been cured of the region madness these days, which is just what will happen with your CD copy protection, sooner or later it will be cracked, there is no way you can stop it.
Far better save your self truck loads of pain, and money, and embrace digital distribution before you are sent broke by it. Digital watermarking is the way to go....
The first copy protected CD that I buy, will be the last CD I buy, and I will not be alone in that.
The first problem that got me was the dependanies, one of which is quicktime which includes vorbis 1.0rc2 which will not build with gcc 2.95-3. It gives sig 11.
I am working on the HOWTO compile under slack 8 at the moment.
I would be very happy to have a 3GB cap for NG use, here in Sydney on the worlds worse broadband service we get 3GB/Month for everything then get charged for excess traffic.
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This genious needs to get his medication changed, it cannot be working right, for him to actually want to trash peoples PCs
Even if it was snowing in hell and he got his way, and made it legal for the MPAA/RIAA to damage or even just delete data from p2p users machines. Just think of the amount of damage when some of these victims take revenge
I do some of this VHS to Digital conversion commercially, using a hardware analog to DV convertor that will do realtime encoding to 25mbs DV which gives 13GB/Hour at the best possible quality, which is far far far better than even high end video capture cards can do.
Once in DV format I use transcode to filter and encode to more or less any video format, usually MPEG4
With NTSC VHS conversions I can get 3-4 Hours of MPEG4 onto a 4.7GB DVDR
The hardware is not that expensive to get, the DV encoder is a datavideo DAC-100 (ebay for $200)
If you want to really travel try the Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong.
I watched this bridge being built
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/CIVCAL/book/bridge.html
It spans the ma wan channel between lantau and kowloon, and is unusual as there is a train line inside the road deck.
Dont forget the pylon museum, which covers the construction, history etc in some detail, and thats only $5
The walk over the bridge is over priced, but from talking to those who have done it, worth the $150
The only spare SUN box I have is a anchient SS10, which is not really upto anything with a GUI.
:-)
If time allows I may have a play on my Ultra60 which should be much better.
confrontational me, never
I allways speak my mind, and have a long standing bitch with Gnome, and to a lesser extent KDE.
I did look at Gnome 2 when it first shipped, but it drove me nuts very fast, it was far too slow, buggy, windoze like, buggy etc. And that was on a high end SMP Xeon Box, with 2GB of RAM and SCSI RAID array.
I did have a go at getting Gnome to run at a speed that made it usable, but even after disabling as much eye candy as possible, source building optimized binaries libs, and disabling as much junk as possible, it was not even close to WindowMaker, or even KDE.
To me CDE is more dated than butt ugly, but I agree that its not for everyone, and for the newbee out there, terrifying, complex to do anything with etc.
If sun does the sensible thing and includes an alternative to gnome, I will still use it, I care not if its CDE, OpenWindows (still in use by several of my clients), or even WindowMaker (my choice).
There is no way that I would use gnome (or KDE), and even created a mini-gnome library install to let me run the apps without installing full gnome.
I do not use, support, or recommend Gnome or KDE to my Linux clients, which would be the same approach that I will take with Solaris 10.
BTW. My original post was not a Troll, just my take on Gome being bad for Solaris. I just forgot to log in to post it.
I actually like the CDE, and have never seen it break, even with me using it (sparc solaris 7/8) for some horrible dev work.
Compared to gnome its tiny, which yes I know is not hard.
I agree that the CDE needs to be replaced with something better, but gnome is a huge step backwards, even the KDE would be better.
The only hope is if they give options in addition to gnome under solaris 10
If its mandatory Gnome, thats the end of me dealing with solaris, I will move 100% to Linux
Not really in a hurry, but am currently hitting CVS
Where's the ******* source!!
The pre-built binaries suck big time
Nice thought but
CD sales fall, and the RIAA are going to claim that there copy protected CDs are being cracked, sharing is increasing, and introduce something worse.
Do you want the only music available to be tried to windoze XP?
remember we are talking about the RIAA here, and since when did they actually think before acting
Sure they claim that the use of MP3/Ogg and file sharing is costing them money. well they are probably right, just not to the excess they claim.
whats really hurting them is the cost of CDs, the quality of the music, and the numerous attempts at stopping you using what you pay for.
In my case I buy lots of CD (my collection is heading for 400), and yes every CD I buy is ripped to ogg or mp3 format, but not to be shared, but to make life easier for me to listen to them, on my laptop, as I work, which does not have a CD drive, not that I want to have to carry large numbers of CDs anyway.
I do not share these rips, not though any dislike of piracy, but more selfeshness, a real case of I paid through the nose for the CD, why should others benefit for free.
Mandatory copy protection on music CDs is total madness, and all its going to do is piss off lots of CD buyers, driving them to the file shares.
A far better solution would be to provide legal Mp3/ogg downloads, that are water marked, so they can be traced back to the purchaser.
Sure someone can share these mp3/ogg files, but they can be traced. Given a stiff penality, the sharing would be reduced to a trickle.
There has been discussion of using DRM from the beast to allow for secure digital distribution of music legally. Sure this may work, but again its limiting what you can do with your own property, and will/has pissed off lots of people.
As a non-windoze user, all the beasts DRM is off limits to me, which when/if music distribution happens in this format, will drive me to the file sharers.
I would like to be able to buy single tracks in MP3 or ideally ogg format, straight of the internet. But provided that they are not restricted in any way.
Buying single tracks in this way would save us consumers lots of money, which is why its not likley to ever happen! Just think about it how many cds have you bought that you like every track? very few right?
Message to the RIAA, remember DVD regions? its hard to find a player thats not been cured of the region madness these days, which is just what will happen with your CD copy protection, sooner or later it will be cracked, there is no way you can stop it.
Far better save your self truck loads of pain, and money, and embrace digital distribution before you are sent broke by it. Digital watermarking is the way to go....
The first copy protected CD that I buy, will be the last CD I buy, and I will not be alone in that.
OMG Its really sad but I remember that, it was playing on sat tv, at some horrible hour of the morning.
I do think that the $10K budget was being a little optimistic, I am thinking more like $10 for the whole series.
There was another terrible SciFi that I came across, the name escapes me. It was a sort of mash in space thing, that must have had a $20 budget.
Agreed, I am runing a 3 years old P2 Xeon 450 box, which does all I need with the exception of video encodeing.
It will be replaced when it dies.
Yes its hard to compile but not impossible.
The first problem that got me was the dependanies, one of which is quicktime which includes vorbis 1.0rc2 which will not build with gcc 2.95-3. It gives sig 11.
I am working on the HOWTO compile under slack 8 at the moment.
I would be very happy to have a 3GB cap for NG use, here in Sydney on the worlds worse broadband service we get 3GB/Month for everything then get charged for excess traffic.
You are lucky to be with @home