Will there ever be binary patches for security bugs found in OpenBSD? It would be more convenient than recompiling every time, I wouldn't need the extra disk space and it would save some time.
You know, ten years ago, I used to be able to go see movies projected in 70mm with six-channel analog sound.
Now we have 35mm-only, with 5-channel compressed digital sound.
And you claim that 1. you can tell the difference between 35mm and 70mm and that 2. analog sound is better that Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS? I claim the opposite. Even if the quality of the sound was a little worse, at least is doesn't degrade after 1000 uses of a copy.
Soon, we'll be moving to HDTV. Yes, that's right, HDTV. That's what Lucas is using for SW Ep. II. He's using a Sony HDTV camera that captures images at 1920x1080, cropped to about 1920x800 to form a widescreen 2.39:1 "scope" image. (Compare that with the resolution of 35mm film, which is equivalent to about 4000x3000 for an anamorphically squeezed "scope" image.) Add to that the fact that the color and contrast ranges of HDTV are smaller than that of film, and you've got a nice step down (yes, down) in picture quality.
I don't know about the resolution of analog film so I cannot comment on this but I've heard that currently digital effects are done in resolutions close to that of the digital camera used by Lucas (which is done by Panavision too, not just Sony).
And why are they cropping to 1920x800, can't they use non-square pixels?
All told, this is yet another reduction in quality for theatrical presentations. What's there to be excited about?
Well, I think it would be the first and I'm not that pessimistic.
-jfedor
Yeah, with Polish customs you never know...
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That's why when I ordered Q3A from Loki back in December 1999 I asked my uncle who lives in Canada to order it for me and send the CD to Poland in a package that wouldn't make the guys at the Polish border wonder if they should put a tax (or whatever) on it...
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There's a program called fsv that looks similar and works just fine under Linux and Mesa.
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It's from Jurassic Park. The girl sits down at a console with a fake 3d window manager and says "This is unix! I know this!"
Actually, it wasn't a fake 3D window manager, it was a real 3D file manager. It is actually named fsn and you can read about it and download it from here.
Finally, even given that your argument were true: how does this change Microsoft's anti-competitive and exclusionary licensing behavior with the hardware integrators. Are you arguing that because Win9x has "preemptive multitasking" that Apple should not have been given entry into the market?
I never said that, I just didn't agree with the statement that MacOS 7 was superior to Windows 9x
"in just about every way imaginable".
MacOS was clearly superior to Windows 3.x. Hell, MacOS 7 was superior to Windows 95/98 in just about every way imaginable.
Um, MacOS 7 didn't do memory protection nor preemptive multitasking, right?
When your clueless office-mate asks you "how did Microsoft's practices hurt me?" you can point to the MacOS on Intel that never was and say "here's something you might have wanted that Microsoft made damn certain you couldn't get."
Hmm... The BeOS guys surely aren't too glad that every Macintosh must be bought with MacOS either.
- There will be a keyboard and a mouse that you can attach to Dreamcast, they were shown at QuakeCon (here is a pic of the mouse and you can see the keyboard here).
- Sega does plan to release a "LAN adapter" that will allow LAN/DSL/cable modem connection, as stated in this interview.
The GPL - and Stallman himself - are quite clear that you aren't forced to relase stuff you hack on for your own use, even if the output (eg, gcc generated binaries, HTML pages sent over HTTP) is sent out to people.
Um, I believe that if you distribute binaries, you have to give away source code.
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http://www.jfedor.org/linux-2.4.0.tar.gz
Will the next stable kernel be 2.6 or 3.0?
:)
Sorry, no bets on the release date.
-jfedor
OK, I may be wrong, I'm not a huge LotR fan myself, that's what I read somewhere.
Maybe it wasn't available for download some time ago and now it is.
(Of course I do realize that you have to be able to download it to watch it and it's the client that doesn't let you save it.)
-jfedor
They had more downloads only because you couldn't save their trailer to HDD, you had to download it every time you wanted to watch it.
I have seen the TPM trailer million times and have never downloaded it from www.starwars.com (or apple.com or whatever).
-jfedor
Will there ever be binary patches for security bugs found in OpenBSD? It would be more convenient than recompiling every time, I wouldn't need the extra disk space and it would save some time.
-jfedor
I know a certain non-profit organization that maintains helluva lot networked computers... :)
-jfedor
You know, ten years ago, I used to be able to go see movies projected in 70mm with six-channel analog sound.
Now we have 35mm-only, with 5-channel compressed digital sound.
And you claim that 1. you can tell the difference between 35mm and 70mm and that 2. analog sound is better that Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS? I claim the opposite. Even if the quality of the sound was a little worse, at least is doesn't degrade after 1000 uses of a copy.
Soon, we'll be moving to HDTV. Yes, that's right, HDTV. That's what Lucas is using for SW Ep. II. He's using a Sony HDTV camera that captures images at 1920x1080, cropped to about 1920x800 to form a widescreen 2.39:1 "scope" image. (Compare that with the resolution of 35mm film, which is equivalent to about 4000x3000 for an anamorphically squeezed "scope" image.) Add to that the fact that the color and contrast ranges of HDTV are smaller than that of film, and you've got a nice step down (yes, down) in picture quality.
I don't know about the resolution of analog film so I cannot comment on this but I've heard that currently digital effects are done in resolutions close to that of the digital camera used by Lucas (which is done by Panavision too, not just Sony).
And why are they cropping to 1920x800, can't they use non-square pixels?
All told, this is yet another reduction in quality for theatrical presentations. What's there to be excited about?
Well, I think it would be the first and I'm not that pessimistic.
-jfedor
That's why when I ordered Q3A from Loki back in December 1999 I asked my uncle who lives in Canada to order it for me and send the CD to Poland in a package that wouldn't make the guys at the Polish border wonder if they should put a tax (or whatever) on it...
-jfedor
There's a program called fsv that looks similar and works just fine under Linux and Mesa.
-jfedor
It's from Jurassic Park. The girl sits down at a console with a fake 3d window manager and says "This is unix! I know this!"
Actually, it wasn't a fake 3D window manager, it was a real 3D file manager. It is actually named fsn and you can read about it and download it from here.
-jfedor
Having to keep a whole operating system around just to watch movies is pretty harsh.
:)
Last time it was "just to play Diablo II".
-jfedor
The beautiful Pac-Man clone for ZX Spectrum from the year 1982?
:)
I wonder if they'll sue for that too.
-jfedor
The linked article doesn't mention Pac-Man and I thought Namco owned it?
-jfedor
I mean, its a lot nicer then sending in the legal attack sharks
Why the hell should Sega be nice to pirates? Especially in the console market where most of the income is from selling games, not hardware.
-jfedor
Finally, even given that your argument were true: how does this change Microsoft's anti-competitive and exclusionary licensing behavior with the hardware integrators. Are you arguing that because Win9x has "preemptive multitasking" that Apple should not have been given entry into the market?
I never said that, I just didn't agree with the statement that MacOS 7 was superior to Windows 9x
"in just about every way imaginable".
-jfedor
MacOS was clearly superior to Windows 3.x. Hell, MacOS 7 was superior to Windows 95/98 in just about every way imaginable.
Um, MacOS 7 didn't do memory protection nor preemptive multitasking, right?
When your clueless office-mate asks you "how did Microsoft's practices hurt me?" you can point to the MacOS on Intel that never was and say "here's something you might have wanted that Microsoft made damn certain you couldn't get."
Hmm... The BeOS guys surely aren't too glad that every Macintosh must be bought with MacOS either.
-jfedor
Tuning the user interface for ease-of-use was greatly facilitated by availability of source code for both the browser (Opera) [...]
I thought Opera wasn't open source.
-jfedor
Did you visit ILM? What are they using?
-jfedor
Another Pocket Linux project already exists.
-jfedor
Many people don't realize that:
- There will be a keyboard and a mouse that you can attach to Dreamcast, they were shown at QuakeCon (here is a pic of the mouse and you can see the keyboard here).
- Sega does plan to release a "LAN adapter" that will allow LAN/DSL/cable modem connection, as stated in this interview.
Just wanted to clarify on that.
-jfedor
It's time to change that "Quake" topic icon for an "id Software" one.
-jfedor
Some other pages with info on Carmack's QuakeCon talk:
3DActionPlanet
Stomped
PlanetQuake
-jfedor
The GPL - and Stallman himself - are quite clear that you aren't forced to relase stuff you hack on for your own use, even if the output (eg, gcc generated binaries, HTML pages sent over HTTP) is sent out to people.
Um, I believe that if you distribute binaries, you have to give away source code.
-jfedor
No matter what Mr. Scott says.
It's no news anyway, he has said that loooong ago.
-jfedor
A large portion of the Web is dynamically generated. Isn't it very hard to snapshot it automatically without human interaction?
-jfedor