Most likely, they will only GPL it if it is determined to have no economic value. Otherwise it will probably be sold to pay off debts. At least, that is what would happen if they were in the US, I don't know how.nl works.
Yeah, I was one guy who bought the manual. I guess I'm fine as long as the version on the disk continues to work, which should be at least for a few years before the rest of the world moves on too much. I don't think I ever saved the downloaded file for any of the newer versions though (which is bad because the newer versions had sub-division surfaces, which is my favorite way to work).
The HeroineWarrior people have a wierd way of interpreting things, and are their writings are really paranoid.
But, it is only a small loss in my book, since Broadcast 2000 was pretty awefull. They went all out optimizing it for Linux on Intel (and/or AMD) without first working out all the bugs or making an less optimized version in plain platform independent C that could be ported to other platforms (like Irix since O2s with video IO are pretty cheap).
The other major flaw of Broadcast 2000 was that it kept trying to produce flashy effects without focussing on the basics (which are extremely important for making fancy effects work and blend into the project).
Basically, it seemed to suffer from the by programmers for programmers problem, which is bad when one is trying to make software for artists.
Kino (http://www.schirmacher.de/arne/kino/) looks superior. Sure, it doesn't have the same feature list, but from the descriptions, the workflow is more usefull. But, I haven't tried it since they work only with firewire style DV, and some of us prefer to capture video on a dedicated capture machine through high end capture cards from professional grade analog tape rather than stick firewire in a machine, so I can't use Kino either until they see the light.
I upgraded my two lintel machines to the 2.4 kernal quite some time ago.
One of them, my fileserver, got a new IDE controller and I decided to upgrade it to a 2.4 kernel for better support of the IDE controller. Luckily, this machine only serves files, and it does it over a 10mbps network, so even when it is saturating the network, in no way is it being stressed or strained. Still, I want to move to NetBSD for the file server. This machine is only linux for historical reasons (NetBSD has come a long ways in the past 5 years, and I didn't care for FreeBSD). But I probably won't do that until I actually replace the file server which could be several years yet.
My other lintel machine is my main workstation. It probably will always be a linux box. I upgraded it for hardware support reasons. Since upgrading it, it has been horribly unstable. I usually have it crash at least once a week. I've upgraded the kernel several times (now running 2.4.16), and I update XFree everytime. The main cause of instability seems to be the NVidea drivers, although some times I get crashs that aren't as easy to blame on those drivers.
Frankly, on my workstation, I'm extremely appalled by the problems I've been having. If things don't improve soon (and going back to 2.2 isn't an option on this machine), I'm likely to switch to an SGI for all my development work, then just backport to linux.
In one of the animation rags I used to subscribe to, they had an article on claymation. The man had played with it as a kid, before he became a professional computer animator. So, his daughter wants to try claymation. He used an old video camera with a broken record mechanism (but it took changable lenses compatible w/ the old film camera he had used for claymation) and hooked it up to a snappy (the parrallel port frame grabber that was able to do an amazing job of up-scaling the resolution) on a 486. He and his daughter then did a short film with this setup and modelling clay.
One interesting bit about it was that they used Elastic Reality (now from Avid, then a seperate company) to fix most of the dialog shots. Recently I've been playing with doing animation buy just keyframing the puppet, then morphing between the keyframes. I've noticed that you need more keyframes then one might expect or the motion is too linear. It seems to me that if I wrote my own software I might be able to add function curves to the morph to fix that. Some times the quality is really good. Other times the morph has problems with layered objects. I think the approach is worth more research though. But thats getting away from my point.
Also, I'm not sure about the Ardman stuff, but most stop motion work is built on metal skelatons. There is an article on building such things at http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=cat&category1= Tutorials&article_no=565 This is a more labour intensive method that probably shouldn't be attempted until after you have done some pure clay work to make sure you really like doing this.
You are surprised that there are Grad students who don't know malloc? Dude, you are very familiar with typical undergrad programs are you? Most schools use C++ and/or Java for everything. You aren't supposed to use malloc in either language. In my school (which has an accredited computer science program and large numbers of CS students who go on to grad school) even the professor who does use C for upper level classes doesn't use malloc (he tends to use static arrays).
Who knows what MS wants long term, but in the near future, Direct3D isn't ready to replace GL for real work. I'm sure MS wants to move in that direction though.
Its unfortunate that so many slashdotters' confuse open source as being some kind of socialistic movement, and Microsoft is the Proletariat to them.
I believe that you meant that Microsoft is bourgeois. In Marxist thought, bourgeois is the property owning class that exploits the working class. In socialism, the proletariat (working class) are supposed to benifit.
So, unless you think that Microsoft is the working class and that the free software movement (or open source movement) want to benefit Microsoft, I would suggest that you meant to indicate that Microsoft is the opressive property owning class by calling them the bourgeois.
On a side note, bourgeois historically applied mainly to the middle class. In this country, the majority of people outside of cities tend to be property owners who would consider themselves working class. However inside of cities, property owners tend to be people who don't really labor and the working class tend to rent.
So, to myself (who doesn't live in a city) the lines seem extremely blurry since I wouldn't be considered a labourer, and I don't own property, and both are by choice. Many many people I know are in the same situation (not a labourer and not a property owner). It seems to be the common lot for 20 somethings who don't want to settle down yet.
I think it is a great idea. I've thought so for sometime because I'm taking the approache 1 server-1 task at my house, and having a different distro for each task could be usefull.So far I have a boot server, a router/NAT, and a file server (at the moment this is also a web server and database server, soon I will have a dedicated web and database appliances), and a web cache. Soon I intend to get a pair of more recent sparc stations, one for postgres, and one for apache for personal web applications, as well as for contracting development work. With only one application per box, it makes things easier to configure than it is to run everything on one server (plus if you screw up, you only effect one thing rather than everything), but really it could and should be easier still, like by a distro having a selection of several basic configurations that will work for most people. IE, a home router distro that consists of strictly a stripped web server set to work on only one ethernet port and roaring penguin on the other port with preconfigured settings for most of the national (I don't know how much PPPoE is used overseas) cable and DSL providers. So, you turn on the machine, go to the URL for the router, enter your username and password, and what machine (if any) you want to be designated the DMZ, plus an optional section for more complex portforwarding setups.
I don't know if general release special distro's are the way to go for hardware complexity reasons. It might be better to go with custom installs that are sold only with bundled hardware, but that hardware needs to be cheap.
Also, I'd like to see more attention paid to getting good specialty distros for SBUS based Sparcstations. These machines tend to be very cheap. A Sparc2 maxs a great low volume server, and a relatively maxed out configuration will only set you back $75. A max out IPX is even less. A midrange Sparc10 (with dual or quad processors) is only going to cost you a little over $100. Don't be fooled by low CPU clocks, most Sparc based Suns can play MP3s (although a lot of the lowend ones also only have 8bit audio). But, old intel stuff is cheap also. What really makes old Suns appropriate for small server tasks is the fact that so much hardware is supported by firmware drivers (Intel people think bios calls, except this isn't super slow like Intel bioses), so hardware configuration consists of plugging in your new card (for SCSI and network cards at least) and having the kernel automatically notice it. That's it. No messy IRQs. No PnP that works badly. No wierd addressline problems. Nothing. It just works.
I think that PCI suns are going to be more problematic here, mainly because Sun specific PCI cards cost a fortune, and if you use PC PCI cards you start running into the same old wierd hardware problems (but not as severely at least).
Here in the US, diesel is usualy more expensive than gasoline, per gallon. However, if instead of looking at mpg, you look at miles per dollar, the two come out close.
Anyway, I drive a german car (VW Jetta), and I used to get just under 30 miles per gallon for the driving I do (mixed highway city). Then it was down to 24 or so. I'm not sure where it is now since my odometer totally broke (before it was only partially broken).
I'm sorry, ever since Greenpeace called it the Ford Valdez, I've never managed to remeber the real name. I'm not overly environmentally concerned, but I do think that vehicle is just plain ridiculous.
Err, that is a longer (and more complete) version of what I said in a comment to that guy. However, you version does have one slight flaw in it. The bit about NASA's copyright to a picture of earth specifically. All intellectual property works created by directly by NASA (as opposed to a contractor) are public domain. In particular, all pictures that they release, whether regular camera shots or hubble telescope pictures, are public domain. There are searchable databases of all public domain government pictures on the net which are usefully if you want pictures of either space or underwater.
"the design documents are to be public domain (with author copyrights of course)"
That doesn't make any sense. By definition, public domain means no copyright. It sounds like what you want is the GNU free documentation license. That allows you to maintain your copyright still.
A lot of SUVs, the Ford Valdez (or whatever the real name of the really big one, Expidition, I think) in particular, often require a special license, a rule that is rarely enforced.
I got the impression that the designer intends to actually use it as a work platform for himself. And that wasn't a large BMW cruiser bike. It was an over gadgeted "adventure-tourer". It isn't as heavy as a lot of BMW bikes, but still Motorcycle.com had this to say:
The R1150GS bike is not a dirt bike, yet, within reason, there's no fire or access road that cannot be competently negotiated. A few of the guys at BMW's press fleet center even went so far as to take a few GS's down to through Baja California to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, primarily on dirt roads that can only be negotiated successfully with a Global Positioning System, the sun and a huge heaping of luck. Most of the miles were on super-soft and silty roads and the GS's made it through with less effort than initially expected. One of the riders even made the trip two-up with his wife on the back.
I see that BMW bike uses a drive shaft rather than the more usual drive chain. Talk about a bike that is going to be difficult to get parts for and repair.
I also didn't consider that it wouldn't be diesel. However, I'd also add:
E) Because diesel is easy to get almost anywhere, and if diesel isn't available, you can almost substitute dirt.
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So, you get sick of your car someday and ram me in my SUV (hypothetically speaking, I really drive a VW) just so that you can take advantage of my automatic liability to get yourself a new car?
I also disagree about the built in cell phone jammers. Remeber, ideally a car has more than one
person in it. There is no reason that the other people in the car should be able to use cell phones. And this totally ignores the fact that one might want to use cell phones for other things in a car, like say a web cam, or automatic transmissions of ETA, logging audio to a remote server (so that you have an exact record of what the police officer said to you, or how the business client tried to threaten you). It's my car, and I will put in it what I want.
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If you are going off road, a truck may be more appropriate, depending on specific needs.
Maybe SUVs should require a different license, but certainly not automatic liability.
This isn't a patent issue, as I'm sure many other will be quick to point out.
However, if it was, I believe that Philips could still sue for actions taken before the patent actually expired. But that depends on where they go to court.
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Most likely, they will only GPL it if it is determined to have no economic value. Otherwise it will probably be sold to pay off debts. At least, that is what would happen if they were in the US, I don't know how .nl works.
Yeah, I was one guy who bought the manual. I guess I'm fine as long as the version on the disk
continues to work, which should be at least for
a few years before the rest of the world moves
on too much. I don't think I ever saved the downloaded file for any of the newer versions though (which is bad because the newer versions had sub-division surfaces, which is my favorite way to work).
Dude, that ain't real. Furbies don't have FDDI
interfaces, and it would cost more to add an FDDI
interface to a furby than the furby would cost.
Darn, I clicked post sooner than I meant to.
Kino is cuts only. So, it really is quite basic.
One of these days, some people will write something better and GPL it. I'm sure of that.
The HeroineWarrior people have a wierd way of interpreting things, and are their writings are really paranoid.
But, it is only a small loss in my book, since Broadcast 2000 was pretty awefull. They went all out optimizing it for Linux on Intel (and/or AMD) without first working out all the bugs or making an less optimized version in plain platform independent C that could be ported to other platforms (like Irix since O2s with video IO are pretty cheap).
The other major flaw of Broadcast 2000 was that it kept trying to produce flashy effects without focussing on the basics (which are extremely important for making fancy effects work and blend into the project).
Basically, it seemed to suffer from the by programmers for programmers problem, which is bad when one is trying to make software for artists.
Kino (http://www.schirmacher.de/arne/kino/) looks superior. Sure, it doesn't have the same feature list, but from the descriptions, the workflow is more usefull. But, I haven't tried it since they work only with firewire style DV, and some of us prefer to capture video on a dedicated capture machine through high end capture cards from professional grade analog tape rather than stick firewire in a machine, so I can't use Kino either until they see the light.
Are you sure he didn't make use of the DSP chip for a lot of the work?
I upgraded my two lintel machines to the 2.4 kernal quite some time ago.
One of them, my fileserver, got a new IDE controller and I decided to upgrade it to a 2.4 kernel for better support of the IDE controller. Luckily, this machine only serves files, and it does it over a 10mbps network, so even when it is saturating the network, in no way is it being stressed or strained. Still, I want to move to NetBSD for the file server. This machine is only linux for historical reasons (NetBSD has come a long ways in the past 5 years, and I didn't care for FreeBSD). But I probably won't do that until I actually replace the file server which could be several years yet.
My other lintel machine is my main workstation. It probably will always be a linux box. I upgraded it for hardware support reasons. Since upgrading it, it has been horribly unstable. I usually have it crash at least once a week. I've upgraded the kernel several times (now running 2.4.16), and I update XFree everytime. The main cause of instability seems to be the NVidea drivers, although some times I get crashs that aren't as easy to blame on those drivers.
Frankly, on my workstation, I'm extremely appalled by the problems I've been having. If things don't improve soon (and going back to 2.2 isn't an option on this machine), I'm likely to switch to an SGI for all my development work, then just backport to linux.
In one of the animation rags I used to subscribe to, they had an article on claymation. The man had played with it as a kid, before he became a professional computer animator. So, his daughter wants to try claymation. He used an old video camera with a broken record mechanism (but it took changable lenses compatible w/ the old film camera he had used for claymation) and hooked it up to a snappy (the parrallel port frame grabber that was able to do an amazing job of up-scaling the resolution) on a 486. He and his daughter then did a short film with this setup and modelling clay.
= Tutorials&article_no=565 This is a more labour intensive method that probably shouldn't be attempted until after you have done some pure clay work to make sure you really like doing this.
One interesting bit about it was that they used Elastic Reality (now from Avid, then a seperate company) to fix most of the dialog shots. Recently I've been playing with doing animation buy just keyframing the puppet, then morphing between the keyframes. I've noticed that you need more keyframes then one might expect or the motion is too linear. It seems to me that if I wrote my own software I might be able to add function curves to the morph to fix that. Some times the quality is really good. Other times the morph has problems with layered objects. I think the approach is worth more research though. But thats getting away from my point.
Also, I'm not sure about the Ardman stuff, but most stop motion work is built on metal skelatons. There is an article on building such things at http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=cat&category1
You are surprised that there are Grad students who don't know malloc? Dude, you are very familiar with typical undergrad programs are you? Most schools use C++ and/or Java for everything. You aren't supposed to use malloc in either language. In my school (which has an accredited computer science program and large numbers of CS students who go on to grad school) even the professor who does use C for upper level classes doesn't use malloc (he tends to use static arrays).
Who knows what MS wants long term, but in the near future, Direct3D isn't ready to replace GL for real work. I'm sure MS wants to move in that direction though.
I believe that you meant that Microsoft is bourgeois. In Marxist thought, bourgeois is the property owning class that exploits the working class. In socialism, the proletariat (working class) are supposed to benifit.
So, unless you think that Microsoft is the working class and that the free software movement (or open source movement) want to benefit Microsoft, I would suggest that you meant to indicate that Microsoft is the opressive property owning class by calling them the bourgeois.
On a side note, bourgeois historically applied mainly to the middle class. In this country, the majority of people outside of cities tend to be property owners who would consider themselves working class. However inside of cities, property owners tend to be people who don't really labor and the working class tend to rent.
So, to myself (who doesn't live in a city) the lines seem extremely blurry since I wouldn't be considered a labourer, and I don't own property, and both are by choice. Many many people I know are in the same situation (not a labourer and not a property owner). It seems to be the common lot for 20 somethings who don't want to settle down yet.
I think it is a great idea. I've thought so for sometime because I'm taking the approache 1 server-1 task at my house, and having a different distro for each task could be usefull.So far I have a boot server, a router/NAT, and a file server (at the moment this is also a web server and database server, soon I will have a dedicated web and database appliances), and a web cache. Soon I intend to get a pair of more recent sparc stations, one for postgres, and one for apache for personal web applications, as well as for contracting development work. With only one application per box, it makes things easier to configure than it is to run everything on one server (plus if you screw up, you only effect one thing rather than everything), but really it could and should be easier still, like by a distro having a selection of several basic configurations that will work for most people. IE, a home router distro that consists of strictly a stripped web server set to work on only one ethernet port and roaring penguin on the other port with preconfigured settings for most of the national (I don't know how much PPPoE is used overseas) cable and DSL providers. So, you turn on the machine, go to the URL for the router, enter your username and password, and what machine (if any) you want to be designated the DMZ, plus an optional section for more complex portforwarding setups.
I don't know if general release special distro's are the way to go for hardware complexity reasons. It might be better to go with custom installs that are sold only with bundled hardware, but that hardware needs to be cheap.
Also, I'd like to see more attention paid to getting good specialty distros for SBUS based Sparcstations. These machines tend to be very cheap. A Sparc2 maxs a great low volume server, and a relatively maxed out configuration will only set you back $75. A max out IPX is even less. A midrange Sparc10 (with dual or quad processors) is only going to cost you a little over $100. Don't be fooled by low CPU clocks, most Sparc based Suns can play MP3s (although a lot of the lowend ones also only have 8bit audio). But, old intel stuff is cheap also. What really makes old Suns appropriate for small server tasks is the fact that so much hardware is supported by firmware drivers (Intel people think bios calls, except this isn't super slow like Intel bioses), so hardware configuration consists of plugging in your new card (for SCSI and network cards at least) and having the kernel automatically notice it. That's it. No messy IRQs. No PnP that works badly. No wierd addressline problems. Nothing. It just works.
I think that PCI suns are going to be more problematic here, mainly because Sun specific PCI cards cost a fortune, and if you use PC PCI cards you start running into the same old wierd hardware problems (but not as severely at least).
Here in the US, diesel is usualy more expensive than gasoline, per gallon. However, if instead of looking at mpg, you look at miles per dollar, the two come out close.
Anyway, I drive a german car (VW Jetta), and I used to get just under 30 miles per gallon for the driving I do (mixed highway city). Then it was down to 24 or so. I'm not sure where it is now since my odometer totally broke (before it was only partially broken).
Second User Vehicle? Heck, I'm at least the 3, probably the forth user of my vehicle.
My sister's car, she is the sixth user (at least, I only know the history back that far).
I'm sorry, ever since Greenpeace called it the Ford Valdez, I've never managed to remeber the real name. I'm not overly environmentally concerned, but I do think that vehicle is just plain ridiculous.
Err, that is a longer (and more complete) version of what I said in a comment to that guy. However, you version does have one slight flaw in it. The bit about NASA's copyright to a picture of earth specifically. All intellectual property works created by directly by NASA (as opposed to a contractor) are public domain. In particular, all pictures that they release, whether regular camera shots or hubble telescope pictures, are public domain. There are searchable databases of all public domain government pictures on the net which are usefully if you want pictures of either space or underwater.
"My word processor was written by Stanford Professor Donald Knuth. Who wrote yours? "
What word processor is that? The only software I've seen of Knuth's in TeX. Never saw a word processor. That would be cool to see.
"the design documents are to be public domain (with author copyrights of course)"
That doesn't make any sense. By definition, public domain means no copyright. It sounds like what you want is the GNU free documentation license. That allows you to maintain your copyright still.
A lot of SUVs, the Ford Valdez (or whatever the real name of the really big one, Expidition, I think) in particular, often require a special license, a rule that is rarely enforced.
I also didn't consider that it wouldn't be diesel. However, I'd also add:
E) Because diesel is easy to get almost anywhere, and if diesel isn't available, you can almost substitute dirt.
So, you get sick of your car someday and ram me in my SUV (hypothetically speaking, I really drive a VW) just so that you can take advantage of my automatic liability to get yourself a new car?
I also disagree about the built in cell phone jammers. Remeber, ideally a car has more than one
person in it. There is no reason that the other people in the car should be able to use cell phones. And this totally ignores the fact that one might want to use cell phones for other things in a car, like say a web cam, or automatic transmissions of ETA, logging audio to a remote server (so that you have an exact record of what the police officer said to you, or how the business client tried to threaten you). It's my car, and I will put in it what I want.
If you are going off road, a truck may be more appropriate, depending on specific needs.
Maybe SUVs should require a different license, but certainly not automatic liability.
The RIAA doesn't make CDs. They only represent people who make CDs. That is an important difference to understand.
This isn't a patent issue, as I'm sure many other will be quick to point out.
However, if it was, I believe that Philips could still sue for actions taken before the patent actually expired. But that depends on where they go to court.