The answer to all your problems is that its still a beta. Its slow because they are still porting it to various OSes and havent started optimizing it. It is reaaaaallllly sloth-like though...
They have a working beta, available at 3ivx.com. All it is is a quicktime plugin, and it has yet to be optimized for any platform, ie. its fucking slowww....
Divx is good but I must say, WMP8 is slightly better. Those 750k streams are better looking than most 1100k+ divx files. Divx has problems in certain areas, mainly gradients and really fast motion, the fast motion part is somewhat acceptable, however if you look at a fine gradient, ie. a sky, encoded in Divx, you will see highly noticeable artifacts. The WMP8 streams arent DVD quality, yet, but they are the closest I've seen under 1000k.
True, I personally am a big fan of the BSD license although I think the perfect license would be someher in the middle of the BSD and GPL licenses, with a few of the smaller licenses added in. I think this would be a hard job, as most programmers are already dedicated to one of the licenses.....
Nope, a comet is a ball of ice, so technicly it does have water, although it is frozen solid. Comets also have lots of dust and rock chunks frozen in them, so they would not be ideal to get water from, besides comets have extremely elliptical orbits, so the massive difference between summer and winter would make life highly unlikey...
This 'ocean' is supposedly underground, so pictures wouldnt do a whole lot of good, methinks.
It's likely frozen solid anyway, unless theres some serious geothermal activity going on.
Geo is not the proper prefix, but I refuse to say Ganythermal or something... eww...
back in middle school, of course that was only 4 years ago, but it sure seems like a long time. Anyway, I don't see why it would be such a huge deal, as it seems like there should be plenty of places in the universe that likely have water, it just needs to be warm/cool enough. BTW, I don't know why everyone seems to think water=life. It would certainly be theoreticly possible for life to survive without water, and it is also possible for a planet to have no life even with water. Of course, we need water to live, so we assume that all 'life' would need it, which is certainly not true. The 'water' on ganymede is actually an underground ocean, which could be heated geothermally (I know geo- isnt the proper prefix for this, seeing as how it isnt the earth, but I dont know what else to call it.)
What I really want to see is some actual mars exploration going on. Time to terraform.... heheh, just watched The Arrival today...:)
If you had read the article, you would know it says that this tech is 5x the res. of indian satellites, and 2x the res. of russian satellites, so that makes u.s. the best I guess...
High-quality word processor - Check...(Gobe)
Spreadsheet - Check...(Gobe again)
Good web browser - Not completly ready, but hows opera 4.01 sound?
Add these together, with a few great high end apps, and many apps ported from linux, and you end up with a hell of a good OS, even for newbies. With the new BeOS networking and OpenGL, I see no reason at all why Be should not be a great OS, for anyone. IMO, Linux could learn a few things from BeOS, and vice versa. BeOS could teach linux how to be good on the desktop, and Linux would teach Be how to be a great Multi-User OS, which is the only thing that appears to be lacking from Be. The apps will come, eventually. I could use BeOS 100% of the time already, if it werent for games. I sense a new wave of game development ahead though, because of the new OpenGL implementation in Be, which is BTW faster than either windows or linux, and has no drop in framerate even when running in windowed mode.:)
Be actually has quite a few decent applications, although many of them are high end multimedia apps and stuff. Most of its normal mainstream apps arent very special though, except for a few really great apps, such as Gobe Productive, which IMHO is the best office suite there is.
I wouldnt say linux is all together not ready for the desktop, as linux is just a kernel. I think X is one of the main obstacles, and certain hardware/software vendors who refuse to support alternative oses. I personally love the BeOS and would love to see a more free version of it. Linux and BeOS have two different markets with limitied overlap, IMHO. The main overlap is people like me, who love the clean responsive feeling of BeOS's UI and hackability of linux. Now that BeOS has OpenGL and better networking (BSD TCP stack), I don't see any reason it cant reach the prime time, except software support. Most of the BeOS programs available are either high end multimedia apps or ported POSIX apps. I really dont know what I would do if it was GPL'd, probably the same thing i do now...
I have a Win2k box for games, and a linux box, networked and hooked to a KVM switch. Adding another box wouldnt be too hard:). BTW, my Win2k bok's uptime is better than my linux box...:)
Yeah, BeOS has Tracker and some proprietary display server, which would mean no X. I think this is a great thing, as X is frequently known to take up over 100 MB of memory on my system, and arbitrarily unload my mouse/keyboard drivers. As a matter of fact, the only times ive have a forced shutdown on linux is because of X. I think X is on its way out anyway, I'm looking forward to Berlin, when it gets more apps and more support.
... but a few of his facts were wrong, such as Capcom developing the next Resident Evils exclusively for PS2. The next RE is RE:0 in development for gamecube right now, with a strong chance of being a launch title. Aside from that, I must say I agree that the market will be strained with all these different platforms. I don't know if it will go as deep as the '84 'crash' as that was more of a industry-wide recession in the consumer electronics industry.
I think the Nintendo consoles will be the big winners in this generation, or maybe the XBox, although it doesn't seem that Microsoft will be ready for launch, IMHO.
I would recomend Storm Linux, I find that its much easier than even RedHat. And the best ting is, its based on Debian:). Storm has a great graphical installer, plus apt-get, which kicks RPM's ass. I'm about to upgrade my kernal in a few hours after I watch the Tool webchat at Toolband.com.
hey, you should look into the berlin consortium. I am currently thinking of programming some stuff for them, it looks like it has the potential to at least unify X with the many window managers, and make it a whole lot faster. I think we should work towards a more unified linux, choice is good, but when you are choosing between many incompatible platforms that all have benefits and weaknesses, it makes no sense. I like the berlin consortiums ideas alot (no more X!!!), if only we saw this kind of thing in other areas as well.
Solar power is not getting a foothold in america for a few reasons actually, one of the least being corporate interests. The main reasons are that they wear out much too fast, dont produce power economically enough, are waaaayyyy expensive, and dont work at all in certain climates.
I have a DVD rip of The Wall, which is great quality, much better than VHS, but noticeably less than DVD. In general, a DivX in between 1100-1300 kbps is slightly better quality than VHS, Of course it depends on the movie, and the encoder/person who did the encoding. The main thing is that VHS and DivX have different problems, VHS being low-res and less accurate colors, and DivX (as with most compression formats) sucks at fast motion sequences, and sometimes gradients such as clouds and other things get degraded, an example of a bad movie to use divx would be a blade runner rip I have, which is the only divx I have that looks better on VHS. It depends lots on personal preferences though...
This could actually be possible in a few year, when those plastic lcds become cheap and widespread enough. I heard that they could be made at around 10$ a sq. foot. They wouldnt have to be too high res either, just about the same as the average poster. The only other problems are the refresh rate, and color depth, which will be fixed soon anyway...
Dude, someone stole your cat? That's fucking hilarious... but I do the exact same thing, slow steady upgrades. Speaking of which, It's about time I uprgrade to a DDR athlon, when they're available.:D.. well, um, sorry about the cat...
Now we know why they call them cat burglars.... heheheh....
Hell, a packard bell 486 pos I've had for almost 6-7 years has a locked cd rom. It sucks taco that they can lock you in like that, but hey, it was only windoze 3.1 anyway...:)
I've got bellsouth fastaccess ADSL, and it's great... I'd stay away from the cheap self install kit. It comes with a USB modem that sucks taco. The only problem I've had with BS is that they seem to think a consumer doesnt know how to install a NIC and set up DHCP, but I digress. Apparently, only sites hosted by AT&T or someone on AT&T's network will have to pay the fee, and consumers have nothing to do with it at all.
I think the idea is that AT&T gets a commission on sales at the sites it hosts, on its network. Not just any traffic that goes through, as that would be fscking impossible. It's quite a stupid idea anyway, but its not nearly as evil as most people around have said...
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The answer to all your problems is that its still a beta. Its slow because they are still porting it to various OSes and havent started optimizing it. It is reaaaaallllly sloth-like though...
They have a working beta, available at 3ivx.com. All it is is a quicktime plugin, and it has yet to be optimized for any platform, ie. its fucking slowww....
Divx is good but I must say, WMP8 is slightly better. Those 750k streams are better looking than most 1100k+ divx files. Divx has problems in certain areas, mainly gradients and really fast motion, the fast motion part is somewhat acceptable, however if you look at a fine gradient, ie. a sky, encoded in Divx, you will see highly noticeable artifacts. The WMP8 streams arent DVD quality, yet, but they are the closest I've seen under 1000k.
I haven't got to listen to it yet, as my speakers are currently non-functioning, but thats on of my favorite parts of the books.
Hobbitses like rabbitses? heheheheh....
This is interesting, its quite late though so I'll not be able to read the articles tomorrow... i guess you learn something every minute...
True, I personally am a big fan of the BSD license although I think the perfect license would be someher in the middle of the BSD and GPL licenses, with a few of the smaller licenses added in. I think this would be a hard job, as most programmers are already dedicated to one of the licenses.....
Nope, a comet is a ball of ice, so technicly it does have water, although it is frozen solid. Comets also have lots of dust and rock chunks frozen in them, so they would not be ideal to get water from, besides comets have extremely elliptical orbits, so the massive difference between summer and winter would make life highly unlikey...
Water vapor, supposedly, definately no liquid water on venus though, plus the whole sulfuric acid rain thing. Not my idea of a vacation, huh?
This 'ocean' is supposedly underground, so pictures wouldnt do a whole lot of good, methinks. It's likely frozen solid anyway, unless theres some serious geothermal activity going on. Geo is not the proper prefix, but I refuse to say Ganythermal or something... eww...
back in middle school, of course that was only 4 years ago, but it sure seems like a long time. Anyway, I don't see why it would be such a huge deal, as it seems like there should be plenty of places in the universe that likely have water, it just needs to be warm/cool enough. BTW, I don't know why everyone seems to think water=life. It would certainly be theoreticly possible for life to survive without water, and it is also possible for a planet to have no life even with water. Of course, we need water to live, so we assume that all 'life' would need it, which is certainly not true. The 'water' on ganymede is actually an underground ocean, which could be heated geothermally (I know geo- isnt the proper prefix for this, seeing as how it isnt the earth, but I dont know what else to call it.)
:)
What I really want to see is some actual mars exploration going on. Time to terraform.... heheh, just watched The Arrival today...
If you had read the article, you would know it says that this tech is 5x the res. of indian satellites, and 2x the res. of russian satellites, so that makes u.s. the best I guess...
Be already has most of these things:
:)
High-quality word processor - Check...(Gobe)
Spreadsheet - Check...(Gobe again)
Good web browser - Not completly ready, but hows opera 4.01 sound?
Add these together, with a few great high end apps, and many apps ported from linux, and you end up with a hell of a good OS, even for newbies. With the new BeOS networking and OpenGL, I see no reason at all why Be should not be a great OS, for anyone. IMO, Linux could learn a few things from BeOS, and vice versa. BeOS could teach linux how to be good on the desktop, and Linux would teach Be how to be a great Multi-User OS, which is the only thing that appears to be lacking from Be. The apps will come, eventually. I could use BeOS 100% of the time already, if it werent for games. I sense a new wave of game development ahead though, because of the new OpenGL implementation in Be, which is BTW faster than either windows or linux, and has no drop in framerate even when running in windowed mode.
Be actually has quite a few decent applications, although many of them are high end multimedia apps and stuff. Most of its normal mainstream apps arent very special though, except for a few really great apps, such as Gobe Productive, which IMHO is the best office suite there is.
I wouldnt say linux is all together not ready for the desktop, as linux is just a kernel. I think X is one of the main obstacles, and certain hardware/software vendors who refuse to support alternative oses. I personally love the BeOS and would love to see a more free version of it. Linux and BeOS have two different markets with limitied overlap, IMHO. The main overlap is people like me, who love the clean responsive feeling of BeOS's UI and hackability of linux. Now that BeOS has OpenGL and better networking (BSD TCP stack), I don't see any reason it cant reach the prime time, except software support. Most of the BeOS programs available are either high end multimedia apps or ported POSIX apps. I really dont know what I would do if it was GPL'd, probably the same thing i do now... I have a Win2k box for games, and a linux box, networked and hooked to a KVM switch. Adding another box wouldnt be too hard :). BTW, my Win2k bok's uptime is better than my linux box... :)
Yeah, BeOS has Tracker and some proprietary display server, which would mean no X. I think this is a great thing, as X is frequently known to take up over 100 MB of memory on my system, and arbitrarily unload my mouse/keyboard drivers. As a matter of fact, the only times ive have a forced shutdown on linux is because of X. I think X is on its way out anyway, I'm looking forward to Berlin, when it gets more apps and more support.
... but a few of his facts were wrong, such as Capcom developing the next Resident Evils exclusively for PS2. The next RE is RE:0 in development for gamecube right now, with a strong chance of being a launch title. Aside from that, I must say I agree that the market will be strained with all these different platforms. I don't know if it will go as deep as the '84 'crash' as that was more of a industry-wide recession in the consumer electronics industry.
I think the Nintendo consoles will be the big winners in this generation, or maybe the XBox, although it doesn't seem that Microsoft will be ready for launch, IMHO.
I would recomend Storm Linux, I find that its much easier than even RedHat. And the best ting is, its based on Debian :). Storm has a great graphical installer, plus apt-get, which kicks RPM's ass. I'm about to upgrade my kernal in a few hours after I watch the Tool webchat at Toolband.com.
hey, you should look into the berlin consortium. I am currently thinking of programming some stuff for them, it looks like it has the potential to at least unify X with the many window managers, and make it a whole lot faster. I think we should work towards a more unified linux, choice is good, but when you are choosing between many incompatible platforms that all have benefits and weaknesses, it makes no sense. I like the berlin consortiums ideas alot (no more X!!!), if only we saw this kind of thing in other areas as well.
Solar power is not getting a foothold in america for a few reasons actually, one of the least being corporate interests. The main reasons are that they wear out much too fast, dont produce power economically enough, are waaaayyyy expensive, and dont work at all in certain climates.
Divx quality depends on many circumstances...
I have a DVD rip of The Wall, which is great quality, much better than VHS, but noticeably less than DVD. In general, a DivX in between 1100-1300 kbps is slightly better quality than VHS, Of course it depends on the movie, and the encoder/person who did the encoding. The main thing is that VHS and DivX have different problems, VHS being low-res and less accurate colors, and DivX (as with most compression formats) sucks at fast motion sequences, and sometimes gradients such as clouds and other things get degraded, an example of a bad movie to use divx would be a blade runner rip I have, which is the only divx I have that looks better on VHS. It depends lots on personal preferences though...
This could actually be possible in a few year, when those plastic lcds become cheap and widespread enough. I heard that they could be made at around 10$ a sq. foot. They wouldnt have to be too high res either, just about the same as the average poster. The only other problems are the refresh rate, and color depth, which will be fixed soon anyway...
Dude, someone stole your cat? That's fucking hilarious... but I do the exact same thing, slow steady upgrades. Speaking of which, It's about time I uprgrade to a DDR athlon, when they're available. :D.. well, um, sorry about the cat...
Now we know why they call them cat burglars.... heheheh....
Hell, a packard bell 486 pos I've had for almost 6-7 years has a locked cd rom. It sucks taco that they can lock you in like that, but hey, it was only windoze 3.1 anyway... :)
I've got bellsouth fastaccess ADSL, and it's great... I'd stay away from the cheap self install kit. It comes with a USB modem that sucks taco. The only problem I've had with BS is that they seem to think a consumer doesnt know how to install a NIC and set up DHCP, but I digress. Apparently, only sites hosted by AT&T or someone on AT&T's network will have to pay the fee, and consumers have nothing to do with it at all.
I think the idea is that AT&T gets a commission on sales at the sites it hosts, on its network. Not just any traffic that goes through, as that would be fscking impossible. It's quite a stupid idea anyway, but its not nearly as evil as most people around have said...