I think flac is cool but is too little, too late at this point. With 500 gig I don't need to compress at all, saving my time, and as my music collection grows it won't outstrip hard disk gains.
DVD iso's are a totally different story though:-P
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right,.... but it ran on 64-bit hardware. That was me point. =)
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Doh, and let's not forget NT 3.5 ran on Mips and Alpha like ~8 years ago.
I love pixar movies, but ellen de generes?? snooze...
And if it takes place on the great barrier reef, how come the two main characters sound like they are from california? The fish should have aussie accents, mate =)
84% of males state they don't want to be kicked in the balls, 6% stated they had enjoyed their balls being kicked, while 10% were undecided on the matter.
Unlike seti or the other clients mentioned here, this type of problem requires huge amounts of data and gigabytes of RAM that dwarfs the computation itself.
Do you really think Pixar is willing to give anyone on the internet full quality Woody models, textures, _and_ Renderman? The crown jewels, as it were. That's absurd.
Even if they were willing, i.e. we lived in some kind of parallel universe, the bandwidth required would still make it impractical. Why would they want to wait a week for you to download the scene and render it when they can do it locally in 6 hours?
Even chopping each frame into little pieces would make things extremely complicated on already too complicated renders. Just because you render only a portion of the frame doesn't mean you don't need most of the full models, materials, etc... in memory (radiosity?). A giant complex pipeline would have to be developed to figure out exactly what each tile of the render needed, truncate all the elements, package it for download, and wait, wait wait, for someone out there to return the result.
whew... unlike seti, cgi rendering typically has an artist/tech at the other end waiting for the answer. They don't have time to sit and wait days/weeks because 10 distributed renders just got stopped because the Joes just got back from lunch, or maybe one landed on a 386. As soon as the render comes in, it is tweeked and another render is submitted. If they have the capacity for the daily renders, then they have it for the final.
This idea *might* be interesting for low res free content rendering on clients with dedicated OC12's but it isn't practical for anything else really, sorry. I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything, but were talking fantasy here.
Not so insightful when you realize that you might need to download a gigabyte of proprietary content and software before even starting the render on one frame.
Unlikely from either a practical or security standpoint.
Been wishing for a hotkey for that for a while now. Glad to finally find it, although ctrl-pagedown is quite clumsy, not nearly as nice as alt-tab. I can probably change it I guess, but am too lazy right now, gotta figure out how-maybe later.
Sounds reasonable. I don't have that problem tho' cuz I moved my taskbars to the top.
The best part about the tabbed browsing is that you can middle click 5 links, for example, let them download in the background while you are still reading the current page. Then you check them and BAM!! They are already there. GREAT for slashdot.
The little feature has increased my page-reading bandwith by 3 times at least. =)
it may have been shown at the theater in this resolution, but I'm sure it was not scanned/rendered/composited at 1k. Prolly 2 or 3 minimum, sometimes space scenes are done at 4k+ because the stars get lost otherwise.
I seem to remember a 3k frame with 48 bit color uncompressed coming out to about 47MB a piece in an uncompressed cineon file. To lazy to check calculations....
Ha! With all due respect, any idiot who is still using win9x on a modern computer gets what he deserves in my opinion. There is no reason to still be using an operating system designed in 1982 in 2002.
True, if you jump through 15 hoops you can get it to work halfway decently.... (maybe, if you're lucky) SO WHAT!
My computer works for me, not the other way around. I'll take XP Pro (fischer price addons turned off) or OS X puhleaze. Linux is stable too, just needs a little more work.:)
it's 24 frames per second. And the reason it works by the way is because you are sitting in the dark. Flicker is more noticeable on a bright picture than a dark one. blah blah blah
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I've got 377G of wav files, 30gb of mp3, and 330G of dvd iso's on an array at work. heh heh
I'll take two. =P
forget crappy mp3....
:-P
I think flac is cool but is too little, too late at this point. With 500 gig I don't need to compress at all, saving my time, and as my music collection grows it won't outstrip hard disk gains.
DVD iso's are a totally different story though
right,
Doh, and let's not forget NT 3.5 ran on Mips and Alpha like ~8 years ago.
Good lord why would you use a ram disk for swap space? Don't you see the contradiction there?
Better to have no swap than to make a ram disk for it.
I love pixar movies, but ellen de generes?? snooze...
And if it takes place on the great barrier reef, how come the two main characters sound like they are from california? The fish should have aussie accents, mate =)
Not true, at my last job we often had hair renders taking 2GB of physical ram per process.
We also had a particle render doing cyclone type simulations that took 8 or 10GB at a time.
These were on 64bit Origins with 16-24GB of RAM if you are interested, which isn't much now, but was unbelievable in '98.
84% of males state they don't want to be kicked in the balls, 6% stated they had enjoyed their balls being kicked, while 10% were undecided on the matter.
Make Shortcuts
/s
/u /s
enable:
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx
disable:
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx
here, I think
huh?
Unlike seti or the other clients mentioned here, this type of problem requires huge amounts of data and gigabytes of RAM that dwarfs the computation itself.
Do you really think Pixar is willing to give anyone on the internet full quality Woody models, textures, _and_ Renderman? The crown jewels, as it were. That's absurd.
Even if they were willing, i.e. we lived in some kind of parallel universe, the bandwidth required would still make it impractical. Why would they want to wait a week for you to download the scene and render it when they can do it locally in 6 hours?
Even chopping each frame into little pieces would make things extremely complicated on already too complicated renders. Just because you render only a portion of the frame doesn't mean you don't need most of the full models, materials, etc... in memory (radiosity?). A giant complex pipeline would have to be developed to figure out exactly what each tile of the render needed, truncate all the elements, package it for download, and wait, wait wait, for someone out there to return the result.
whew... unlike seti, cgi rendering typically has an artist/tech at the other end waiting for the answer. They don't have time to sit and wait days/weeks because 10 distributed renders just got stopped because the Joes just got back from lunch, or maybe one landed on a 386. As soon as the render comes in, it is tweeked and another render is submitted. If they have the capacity for the daily renders, then they have it for the final.
This idea *might* be interesting for low res free content rendering on clients with dedicated OC12's but it isn't practical for anything else really, sorry. I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything, but were talking fantasy here.
bye,
Not so insightful when you realize that you might need to download a gigabyte of proprietary content and software before even starting the render on one frame.
Unlikely from either a practical or security standpoint.
WAV and FLAC?
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I'm over mp3, ogg, etc. I am ripping my cd's for the *last* time.
Yes a 320G drive is in my immediate future, as soon as it comes out
I think you are missing his point. He is not telling you to get a mac.
He is saying you don't need to buy a DRM processor. Buy its competitor, and the market will decide what is viable.
Therefore your strategy about making do with old or niche hardware is not necessary.
=)
Well, it can bookmark groups now, but you can't set a group to be your home page.....
:-/
or at least I haven't been able to figure out how.
Thank you!
Been wishing for a hotkey for that for a while now. Glad to finally find it, although ctrl-pagedown is quite clumsy, not nearly as nice as alt-tab. I can probably change it I guess, but am too lazy right now, gotta figure out how-maybe later.
Sounds reasonable. I don't have that problem tho' cuz I moved my taskbars to the top.
The best part about the tabbed browsing is that you can middle click 5 links, for example, let them download in the background while you are still reading the current page. Then you check them and BAM!! They are already there. GREAT for slashdot.
The little feature has increased my page-reading bandwith by 3 times at least. =)
pr0n !!
it may have been shown at the theater in this resolution, but I'm sure it was not scanned/rendered/composited at 1k. Prolly 2 or 3 minimum, sometimes space scenes are done at 4k+ because the stars get lost otherwise.
I seem to remember a 3k frame with 48 bit color uncompressed coming out to about 47MB a piece in an uncompressed cineon file. To lazy to check calculations....
Ha! With all due respect, any idiot who is still using win9x on a modern computer gets what he deserves in my opinion. There is no reason to still be using an operating system designed in 1982 in 2002.
:)
True, if you jump through 15 hoops you can get it to work halfway decently.... (maybe, if you're lucky) SO WHAT!
My computer works for me, not the other way around. I'll take XP Pro (fischer price addons turned off) or OS X puhleaze. Linux is stable too, just needs a little more work.
whatttya think?
fp?
Why can't spammer ISP's be forced outta buisness like this? Where are you damn script kiddies when we need you?
Hi, my 2 cents regarding wording in the preferences....
I would personally prefer something along the lines of:
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x Disable window.open() on page load/unload
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Simple, to the point, and relatively short.
Thanks for listening,
Try turning off the stupid print, search, and go buttons in the prefs. Thats the first thing I do when I dload it.
it's 24 frames per second. And the reason it works by the way is because you are sitting in the dark. Flicker is more noticeable on a bright picture than a dark one. blah blah blah