___ Dan Miller
(++,) CTO and founder, On2 Technologies
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 volsung@asu.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Daniel B. Miller wrote:
>
> > Hi fellow Ogg-oids --
> >
> > I wanted to let everyone know that VP3, our open-source video codec that
> > is commonly used with QT5, is being re-released under the LGPL. We are
>
> Really!?! All I can say is wow. What about the patent issues? Are you
> granting royalty-free license to the required patents along with the license
> to the code?
What I want that's close to this, but not quite, is the ability to have macros as part of bookmarks.
Speecifially I dual boot between Windows & Linux, and like to use the same set of bookmarks on both OS's (I just copy then via a shared drive). The trouble is that my local links (to documention and locally cached websites - I wget them if they're slow) are file://c:\ in windows, and file:///mnt/c/ in Linux.
It seems the way to be able to use these bookmarks from either OS would be to define them as $(prefix)/ with some convenient way to set the macro $(prefix).
Considerig that some of the biggest investors in Linux are companies like IBM and Sun, good luck to you if you want to start a patent war!
How do you know that Windows or other Microsoft software isn't similarly a patent timebomb waiting to go off, or that they may have inadvertently stelled into the GPL minefield they're so afraid of?
If you're OS becomes illegal would you prefer to have the source so you can resolve it quickly, or be frozen into a closed source vendor and therefore be totally screwed?
Err, arn't the fastest computers in the world clusters of Intel processors?
For that matter, what'd you prefer to have on your desk, a SunBlade "workstation" or a 2GHz PC?
Sun's hardware is basically crap nowadays. 500MHz processor, 128M RAM, IDE disk and a display card with 4M memory don't make a workstation even if you put it in a Sun Pizza box and add top it with a 21" Sun monitor. I'll take the monitor and attach it to a PC thanks!
Maybe Michael Dell, Ted Waite (? - Gateway) etc, should go visit Bill Gates accompanied by a bunch of "pipe totin' niggas" and "remind" Billy why it's smart not to fuck with them.
So this thing could transmit my entire mp3 collection in under a half second.
Sure, and unless you have a storage device that can accept data at that speed, the only place your MP3s are going is/dev/null, so you may as well save the net bandwidth and use the mv command.
It seems to me there's plenty of kernel competition... If you read lkml you'll notice many kernel trees other than Linus's - Alan Cox's, Marcello's, Dave Jones's, AA's, etc... and the differences from the mainstream kernel can at times be as great as you could imagine while remaining compatible - different VM (AA/RVR), different scheduling (O(1), preempt), low latency, etc... or how about competition in journaling filesystems: reiserfs, ext3, xfs, jfs, etc.
A bit more outside of the mainstream you have things like the RT-Linux kernel or the L4 etc microkernel based Linux implementations, or for that matter even HURD as a Linux kernel alternative.
Finally, how many people even use Linus's kernel trees other than unstable version developers? The stable kernel trees leave Linus's hands before they ever become stable and actually usable, and the distributors like RedHat, Mandrake and SuSE never use his trees anyway.
ACPI support just went into the 2.5 kernel, but considering I'm a programmer yet don't even know what it does (I dual boot Mandrake 7.1 & Win 98SE on a Dell 266MHz PII), I can't say I'm very excited about it.
Having just been through installing a cheap OEM (computergeeks.com) TV card in my PC, I can honestly say that it was massively easier to do so in Linux than in Windows, beacuse the Linux drivers are much more flexible - one size fit's all vs having Windows incorrectly second guess which of many versions of drivers for similar cards was called for.
That's like saying that the brain is slow because it's based on chemical reactions...
The whole point of this "DNA computer" is that it's massively parallel - it evaluates all possible solutions in parallel. Increase the size of your problem.. no biggie - just add another pint of "computer".
The reason Russia was able to make money off Tito (and will from Mark Shuttleworth), is because their costs are MASSIVELY (about 10 x) less than NASA's. I think that's why NASA put up such a stink about it - because it was embarrassing to have the numbers come to light.
I don't see Sorenson holding on for too much longer. Apple is their only customer, and are rapidly switching to MPEG-4 (which thankfully is an open standard), and nowadays there are other CODECs like On2's VP5 which kick the snot out of Sorenson.
I wouldn't be surprised if lawsuits make commercial space outfits economically non-viable in the US. The same thinng has all but killed the private plane manufacturing business, and you can't even buy cool gadgets like hover mowers here for the same reason.
I'm sure they have systems that arn't connected to the internet in any way however remotely, but also seeing as the CIA snoops on the internet, they obviously have some machines connected to the internet that they would be upset if you hacked into (not that hacking into any of them would be very wise).
I think this story points to the demise of slashdot rather than Google. Google is doing exactly what is expected here, and the bloggers are only hurting themselves by ensuring that Google will make sure that the karma they can confer on a link is reduced.
Slashdot OTOH now seems desperate for revenue to the extent that they twist an amusing geek hack into the projected demise of one of the nets most respected, useful and smart corporations... for the purpose one can only suppose of upping their ad hits.
I just read on one of Microsoft's Usenet groups (speechsdk?) that the speech recognition can degrade over time if you leave the mike on because rather than adapting to your voice it'll adapt to background noise.
Also, FWIW in same group a lot of complaints over how crappy the recognition accuracy was, and the general response (not denied by the Microsoft people there to help) was "what do you expect for free?". I guess the general idea is that you actually care about speech recognition you'll buy a better engine (SAPI just provides a general speech API which uses whatever engine you've configured - Microsoft's by default).
Funny thing is that from reading the research literature it sounds as if Microsoft Research's "Whister" engine is pretty good, but maybe that's not what they release with XP.... Dunno.
Slashdot Mirror
The doom9 site only tested VP3, not VP4 nor the latest VP5 -- they're 2 whole CODEC generations behind.....
___ Dan Miller
(++,) CTO and founder, On2 Technologies
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 volsung@asu.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Daniel B. Miller wrote:
>
> > Hi fellow Ogg-oids --
> >
> > I wanted to let everyone know that VP3, our open-source video codec that
> > is commonly used with QT5, is being re-released under the LGPL. We are
>
> Really!?! All I can say is wow. What about the patent issues? Are you
> granting royalty-free license to the required patents along with the license
> to the code?
That's a requirement of the LGPL, so, yes.
How about building one into a giant pumpkin for halloween?!
You could cut out drive bays and a power cord hole, then jam all the guys in there and top it up with foam. Spray any extruding bits orange.
.. leave the sucker running on the doorstep for trick or treaters, running some suitable halloween screen savers or whatever.
... or just do it right and spray it with hot liquid manure so it steams, smells right and attracts hoards of flies.
WinTurd computers - "we're #2 in computing"
I'm all for cool robotic NASA expeditions, but what about also using these things on earth - there's plenty to discover here.
We KNOW the oceans here are teraming with giant squid and giant red octopii (octocpussies?) yet can't find the damm things!
How can we be sure we don't roam around Europa's oceans, find nada, yet maybe there's a giant red octopii there too!
What I want that's close to this, but not quite, is the ability to have macros as part of bookmarks.
Speecifially I dual boot between Windows & Linux, and like to use the same set of bookmarks on both OS's (I just copy then via a shared drive). The trouble is that my local links (to documention and locally cached websites - I wget them if they're slow) are file://c:\ in windows, and file:///mnt/c/ in Linux.
It seems the way to be able to use these bookmarks from either OS would be to define them as $(prefix)/ with some convenient way to set the macro $(prefix).
Or maybe there's already a way to do it?
Considerig that some of the biggest investors in Linux are companies like IBM and Sun, good luck to you if you want to start a patent war!
How do you know that Windows or other Microsoft software isn't similarly a patent timebomb waiting to go off, or that they may have inadvertently stelled into the GPL minefield they're so afraid of?
If you're OS becomes illegal would you prefer to have the source so you can resolve it quickly, or be frozen into a closed source vendor and therefore be totally screwed?
Err, arn't the fastest computers in the world clusters of Intel processors?
For that matter, what'd you prefer to have on your desk, a SunBlade "workstation" or a 2GHz PC?
Sun's hardware is basically crap nowadays. 500MHz processor, 128M RAM, IDE disk and a display card with 4M memory don't make a workstation even if you put it in a Sun Pizza box and add top it with a 21" Sun monitor. I'll take the monitor and attach it to a PC thanks!
I wouldn't bet that Windows is the most stable way to run Windows apps. OS/2 (RIP) was demonstrably better at it than Windows was.
Maybe Michael Dell, Ted Waite (? - Gateway) etc, should go visit Bill Gates accompanied by a bunch of "pipe totin' niggas" and "remind" Billy why it's smart not to fuck with them.
So this thing could transmit my entire mp3 collection in under a half second.
/dev/null, so you may as well save the net bandwidth and use the mv command.
Sure, and unless you have a storage device that can accept data at that speed, the only place your MP3s are going is
It seems to me there's plenty of kernel competition... If you read lkml you'll notice many kernel trees other than Linus's - Alan Cox's, Marcello's, Dave Jones's, AA's, etc... and the differences from the mainstream kernel can at times be as great as you could imagine while remaining compatible - different VM (AA/RVR), different scheduling (O(1), preempt), low latency, etc... or how about competition in journaling filesystems: reiserfs, ext3, xfs, jfs, etc.
A bit more outside of the mainstream you have things like the RT-Linux kernel or the L4 etc microkernel based Linux implementations, or for that matter even HURD as a Linux kernel alternative.
Finally, how many people even use Linus's kernel trees other than unstable version developers? The stable kernel trees leave Linus's hands before they ever become stable and actually usable, and the distributors like RedHat, Mandrake and SuSE never use his trees anyway.
For the price of a luixury car IMO it better have "3 functioning inputs".
Sony meets RealDoll?
ACPI support just went into the 2.5 kernel, but considering I'm a programmer yet don't even know what it does (I dual boot Mandrake 7.1 & Win 98SE on a Dell 266MHz PII), I can't say I'm very excited about it.
Having just been through installing a cheap OEM (computergeeks.com) TV card in my PC, I can honestly say that it was massively easier to do so in Linux than in Windows, beacuse the Linux drivers are much more flexible - one size fit's all vs having Windows incorrectly second guess which of many versions of drivers for similar cards was called for.
Don't laugh - they have some excellent deals:
How about a 1GHz Microsoft-free PC for $399!
Or 1.4GHz of Athlon blasting goodness for $499!
Wallyworld computers dot com
The GPL only means they have to provide source to you (at reasonable media cost) IF YOU BUY their product.
Cheap fucks like you may WISH the GPL guaranteed you a free ride, but it doesn't. They're being nice.
That's like saying that the brain is slow because it's based on chemical reactions...
.. no biggie - just add another pint of "computer".
The whole point of this "DNA computer" is that it's massively parallel - it evaluates all possible solutions in parallel. Increase the size of your problem
The reason Russia was able to make money off Tito (and will from Mark Shuttleworth), is because their costs are MASSIVELY (about 10 x) less than NASA's. I think that's why NASA put up such a stink about it - because it was embarrassing to have the numbers come to light.
I don't see Sorenson holding on for too much longer. Apple is their only customer, and are rapidly switching to MPEG-4 (which thankfully is an open standard), and nowadays there are other CODECs like On2's VP5 which kick the snot out of Sorenson.
I wouldn't be surprised if lawsuits make commercial space outfits economically non-viable in the US. The same thinng has all but killed the private plane manufacturing business, and you can't even buy cool gadgets like hover mowers here for the same reason.
I'm sure they have systems that arn't connected to the internet in any way however remotely, but also seeing as the CIA snoops on the internet, they obviously have some machines connected to the internet that they would be upset if you hacked into (not that hacking into any of them would be very wise).
Maybe ... legal until you're accused of hacking into the syetem you portscanned, then it'll be used against you as evidence of hacker intent.
This has already been done.
Agreed.
I think this story points to the demise of slashdot rather than Google. Google is doing exactly what is expected here, and the bloggers are only hurting themselves by ensuring that Google will make sure that the karma they can confer on a link is reduced.
Slashdot OTOH now seems desperate for revenue to the extent that they twist an amusing geek hack into the projected demise of one of the nets most respected, useful and smart corporations... for the purpose one can only suppose of upping their ad hits.
I rate this Google story as: -1 (Troll.)
I just read on one of Microsoft's Usenet groups (speechsdk?) that the speech recognition can degrade over time if you leave the mike on because rather than adapting to your voice it'll adapt to background noise.
Also, FWIW in same group a lot of complaints over how crappy the recognition accuracy was, and the general response (not denied by the Microsoft people there to help) was "what do you expect for free?". I guess the general idea is that you actually care about speech recognition you'll buy a better engine (SAPI just provides a general speech API which uses whatever engine you've configured - Microsoft's by default).
Funny thing is that from reading the research literature it sounds as if Microsoft Research's "Whister" engine is pretty good, but maybe that's not what they release with XP.... Dunno.
AMD's Hammer family with the HyperTransport bus controller built in will provide NUMA for the masses! Bring it on!