Absolutely. Got an address we can all send messages to? Perhaps someone could set up an address we can all send mail to one address, then have someone archive a day's worth of mail, then send that multi-meg message to Apple.. it should get their attention;-)
I hate to say it, but WINE is just a cop-out, IMO.. It's exactly what everybody that ran OS/2 had to do ("This program will work with OS/2 in running under 16-bit Win-OS/2")
I really don't want to put any more Windows software on my computer than I absolutely have to..
Umm.. With the MPEG version, what player does it work with? I couldn't get it to display correctly in xanim (all blocky and chunky 'n' stuff) -- I had to get mpegtv (which sucks, IMO.. SHAREWARE - eww..)
Does anyone use MP3 (the best (mostly) open audio format)? Yeah, but there are _tons_ of people that are scared shitless about it.. Almost all other audio encoding routines are proprietary or suck.
For video, there's MPEG-1 and MPEG-2.. I really don't know why that's not being used more often..
When a QT3 player gets released for Linux, I'll quiet down. Until then, this is STUPID.
Also, just because MPEG-4 is _going_ to use QT as a base _sometime_in_the_future_, doesn't mean that it's going to help me at all _today_...
If these pages ever load, I'm going to e-mail the system admins.. I'm pissed that the files are in QT3 format..
Heh.. They must be from the Windoze world -- that's the first thing I started wondering about..
Perhaps Mozilla's Open Directory or whatever should be put up to the task of having a new CD database.. You could 'integrate' it with the directory system and allow users to go to a page about the artist that made the CD or something..
This is RealNetworks' problem, not Linux's.. I'm annoyed that Real hasn't put out a new G2 player for Linux (RealPlayer 5.0 is pretty unstable)
Of course, the configuration of MIME types and whatnot is a little more difficult on Linux than it is under Windows (it doesn't automatically prompt you for the type..), but if you take 5 minutes to think it through and learn it, it's not too terrible.. (unfortunately, it's highly undocumented, so you spend an hour just to find the info to spend 5 minutes reading:-/ )
Anyone know if there will be a RealVideo stream of it anywhere or anything? Otherwise, I'll have to try and go down to the single TV in my entire dorm that has cable, and see if I can find CNN (although I don't know if there'll be tons of people down there trying to watch something else.. that'd be annoying..)
I think this whole thing is silly.. It's stupid to use this chip ID as a person ID.. People change processors and systems and everything else.. Even cookies are more reliable.
I don't mind the ID being there, since it's a good way of verifying the intended clockspeed of the chip (since you can't alter the chip ID, it will prevent resellers from putting out overclocked chips.. (A side note -- I think Intel's clockspeed locking strategy is dumb, but hey...) OEMs could add in a simple routine to any testing they do to check the chip ID, verify it with a database that Intel has.. (of course, many OEMs don't test their machines any more..)
Oh well, I guess I'm just weird (since everyone else seems to think it's a bad idea -- I just think it's media hype..)
I've been pretty surprised to see RealPlayer G2 for Linux taking so long to show up.. Hopefully, the release of this content creation software means that the client side will be showing up soon (although I'm not making any bets)
Regardless, I would have liked to see a RealPlayer 5.0 with some bugfixes show up.. Right now, I'm getting "audio write error" messages all the time, requiring me to re-connect to the streams I'm watching.. It gets to be a real pain sometimes, since some sites seem to produce more of these errors somehow.. They're bugs that are in the Linux (and presumably UNIX) version, and they should have been fixed long ago...
I will give the Free Software hyper-advocates a few points here -- if RealPlayer was open-source, these bugs wouldn't be here (at least I believe that to be true). I wish there were better alternatives that were open-source, but I haven't seen many (MP3 is getting close - but the creators of the technology still want to make money off of everyone who creates MP3s.. There is no alternative to RealVideo on Linux, AFAIK).
If there are people that are knowlegeable about audio and video technology, I'd encourage them to make an open-source alternative. However, I don't know if there is a large enough group of those people to actually make anything.. Hard to say, I guess..
I've looked through a couple of reports on this so far today, and I'm getting a little worried. They all seem to keep mentioning that the PC 300 series of systems are "commercial desktops".
What exactly does that mean? I hope I can still be an individual and buy a single computer with Linux on it at a fair price...
Heh.. I sent an email to one of the local news stations (WCCO, in Minneapolis, MN) I wrote a little story about someone walking into McDonald's and being forced to buy Coke with her Big Mac, and then compared that to how people get treated when they ask for something other than Windows on new PCs.. I think it was the best way of getting them to understand;-)
I hope it got them interested, but you can never tell...
Heh.. well, IIRC, there's a little bit of a joke here -- People were supposed to get back a few Presidents (a.k.a. Dollars) on Presidents' day.. Made sense to me;-)
But yeah, it's kind of bad to have it on a holiday..
I had no idea that the Rio skipped at all.. I figured they'd give the things enough processor power to handle, oh, probably 256 kbit without trouble.. Of course, maybe it's just Rob;-)
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Video? In Java?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
*cough*
sorry, it's just that Java isn't exactly known for, uh, speed...
WCCO also has a RealVideo clip that it looks like they stole from some channel in LA..
http://www.wcco.com/news/s tories/news-990311-201025.html
Absolutely. Got an address we can all send messages to? Perhaps someone could set up an address we can all send mail to one address, then have someone archive a day's worth of mail, then send that multi-meg message to Apple.. it should get their attention ;-)
I hate to say it, but WINE is just a cop-out, IMO.. It's exactly what everybody that ran OS/2 had to do ("This program will work with OS/2 in running under 16-bit Win-OS/2")
I really don't want to put any more Windows software on my computer than I absolutely have to..
Keep it? Why the hell would I keep it? I need the space for MP3s, dammit!
I just have to ask (since people keep posting mirrors of the .mov.. not many mirrors of the (converted) .mpg..)
.mov correctly? I tried xanim, and it only played the audio.
Is there a player for Linux that reads the
I just want to know if there's a good Linux player for these files before I start ranting to Lucasfilm and Apple...
Umm.. With the MPEG version, what player does it work with? I couldn't get it to display correctly in xanim (all blocky and chunky 'n' stuff) -- I had to get mpegtv (which sucks, IMO.. SHAREWARE - eww..)
just curious..
Can you say that? Good..
Does anyone use MP3 (the best (mostly) open audio format)? Yeah, but there are _tons_ of people that are scared shitless about it.. Almost all other audio encoding routines are proprietary or suck.
For video, there's MPEG-1 and MPEG-2.. I really don't know why that's not being used more often..
When a QT3 player gets released for Linux, I'll quiet down. Until then, this is STUPID.
Also, just because MPEG-4 is _going_ to use QT as a base _sometime_in_the_future_, doesn't mean that it's going to help me at all _today_...
If these pages ever load, I'm going to e-mail the system admins.. I'm pissed that the files are in QT3 format..
Heh.. They must be from the Windoze world -- that's the first thing I started wondering about..
Perhaps Mozilla's Open Directory or whatever should be put up to the task of having a new CD database.. You could 'integrate' it with the directory system and allow users to go to a page about the artist that made the CD or something..
just a thought..
This is RealNetworks' problem, not Linux's.. I'm annoyed that Real hasn't put out a new G2 player for Linux (RealPlayer 5.0 is pretty unstable)
:-/ )
Of course, the configuration of MIME types and whatnot is a little more difficult on Linux than it is under Windows (it doesn't automatically prompt you for the type..), but if you take 5 minutes to think it through and learn it, it's not too terrible.. (unfortunately, it's highly undocumented, so you spend an hour just to find the info to spend 5 minutes reading
/me raises his hand carefully
;-)
Where did the files go?!? They seem to be missing.. Even on ftp.gnome.org!! Oh well, I'm sure they'll appear soon
;-)
Now I think Rob should go ask IBM nicely for a PowerPC logo to use.. The articles about it are getting pretty frequent ;-)
Anyone know if there will be a RealVideo stream of it anywhere or anything? Otherwise, I'll have to try and go down to the single TV in my entire dorm that has cable, and see if I can find CNN (although I don't know if there'll be tons of people down there trying to watch something else.. that'd be annoying..)
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I think this whole thing is silly.. It's stupid to use this chip ID as a person ID.. People change processors and systems and everything else.. Even cookies are more reliable.
I don't mind the ID being there, since it's a good way of verifying the intended clockspeed of the chip (since you can't alter the chip ID, it will prevent resellers from putting out overclocked chips.. (A side note -- I think Intel's clockspeed locking strategy is dumb, but hey...) OEMs could add in a simple routine to any testing they do to check the chip ID, verify it with a database that Intel has.. (of course, many OEMs don't test their machines any more..)
Oh well, I guess I'm just weird (since everyone else seems to think it's a bad idea -- I just think it's media hype..)
I've been pretty surprised to see RealPlayer G2 for Linux taking so long to show up.. Hopefully, the release of this content creation software means that the client side will be showing up soon (although I'm not making any bets)
Regardless, I would have liked to see a RealPlayer 5.0 with some bugfixes show up.. Right now, I'm getting "audio write error" messages all the time, requiring me to re-connect to the streams I'm watching.. It gets to be a real pain sometimes, since some sites seem to produce more of these errors somehow.. They're bugs that are in the Linux (and presumably UNIX) version, and they should have been fixed long ago...
I will give the Free Software hyper-advocates a few points here -- if RealPlayer was open-source, these bugs wouldn't be here (at least I believe that to be true). I wish there were better alternatives that were open-source, but I haven't seen many (MP3 is getting close - but the creators of the technology still want to make money off of everyone who creates MP3s.. There is no alternative to RealVideo on Linux, AFAIK).
If there are people that are knowlegeable about audio and video technology, I'd encourage them to make an open-source alternative. However, I don't know if there is a large enough group of those people to actually make anything.. Hard to say, I guess..
The ISA bus is served off of the PCI bus.. The entire ISA bus essentially behaves like a single PCI card.
I've looked through a couple of reports on this so far today, and I'm getting a little worried. They all seem to keep mentioning that the PC 300 series of systems are "commercial desktops".
What exactly does that mean? I hope I can still be an individual and buy a single computer with Linux on it at a fair price...
Heh.. I sent an email to one of the local news stations (WCCO, in Minneapolis, MN) I wrote a little story about someone walking into McDonald's and being forced to buy Coke with her Big Mac, and then compared that to how people get treated when they ask for something other than Windows on new PCs.. I think it was the best way of getting them to understand ;-)
I hope it got them interested, but you can never tell...
I hope you were goofing off when you wrote that.. "Lunix"?!? "arguement"? "thes"?
Oh well, probably shouldn't have said anything..
You mean they locked off the single floor?!?! I have serious questions about that..
Heh.. well, IIRC, there's a little bit of a joke here -- People were supposed to get back a few Presidents (a.k.a. Dollars) on Presidents' day.. Made sense to me ;-)
But yeah, it's kind of bad to have it on a holiday..
I had no idea that the Rio skipped at all.. I figured they'd give the things enough processor power to handle, oh, probably 256 kbit without trouble.. Of course, maybe it's just Rob ;-)
Ha! I just had to say I thought that was funny.. dunno why, but I did.. ;-)