Thanks to the propellerheads who design this shit these days. Even fucking "consumer" electronics are too difficult to use.
Can someone tell me why we need several HD resolutions? No, I don't care about the reason, we don't. Aspect ratios? Six fucking different kinds of cables to connect the shit? US vs European standards?
Now, if I was the king of the world, there would be *one* digital AV standard. Perhaps 1600x900, 30 fps (or more) progressive scan only, 60hz LCD, 90 hz CRT, all connected by firewire from begining to end, and TV would autoselect aspect ratio depending on content without user intervention. Simple and idiot proof.
It is because of these reasons and also the bullshit DRM on new products that has led me to boycot any new technology purchases besides my computer. My computer is the only thing I can still trust to work, although people are working on undermining even that too. They are all designed by *idiots*.
I'd love to start cracking some skulls, because I used to love all this shit. But, every year I think more about reverting back to just curling up with a good book from the library in the evenings and never spending another cent on it.
Yeah, it's really bad in Los Angeles. Lotsa chlorine.
But the funny thing about chlorine... it is a gas. If you fill up a pitcher and let it sit for 30 mins or more the chlorine will dissipate.
The advantage is you get the best of both worlds, safe water, without the ingestion of chlorine. Also, keeping a pitcher in the fridge is an easy way to have cold water on hand.
Actually it's not needed everyday, but it's very nice with friends you don't get to see often.
I've been backpacking across South America and I can tell you it is very nice to see your family (or new friends) moving around live after 6 months. It is even worth using those shitty windows IM's at times just to do so.
- it doesn't look like a fischer-price playset - 75% of the area of the windows aren't taken up by irrelevant bullshit - nothing is flashing or animating - icons and appearance are quite nice, despite what he says (thank you gtk2)
I cringe everytime I must use MSN or YIM in an internet cafe.
Video support would be nice, but that's all I'm lookin for.
I recently mailed some stuff home to a friend: Souvenirs from Oktoberfest in Muenchen by DeutschePost.
Wouldnt you know the fuckers broke everything in the box that could be broken, even a coffee cup that was in a box, wrapped in newspaper, and then put inside the larger box. Either they shipped it under a piano, or dropped it out of the plane over California.
Python is fast enough for most applications, and it has improved significantly in the latest releases, 2.3 and 2.4. It's not much slower than perl and is a much nicer language, IMHO. I've used it on countless projects without problem or performance issues.
If performance is your primary concern, you wouldn't be using python, and you wouldn't be using CGI obviously so the question is not so relevant, I think.
As for emerge, it's slow response comes from the non optimized way it scans a database of many thousands of flat files of dependencies, etc. As far as I know it does it every time you run the command, there may be no caching or indexing at all.
Obviously, a very slow but useable implementation of one program is not python's fault. The program and even the problem itself could be optimized in any number of ways, and there is talk in the gentoo dev camp on how to do that. Whether there is the will to do it is another question. They may have to redesign the complete packaging system and portage to do it.
There is a cool chapter in the book, Dive into Python (free online, just google), which has a chapter or two on HTML processing. It may be worth a look.
You can convert to html first and then run a script to parse the html with the sgmlparser module. Then just ignore all the msword crappola when writing the output files.
I look forward to the day Totem can play for 5 minutes without crashing... Actually it can if I don't try complicated things like hitting the pause or FFWD buttons, etc. I'm using Gstreamer, maybe that has something to do with it.
Anyway, I don't watch media files much, so I can wait until it matures.
Ok, thank you. I've been thinking for a while that a bsd might be better for me, as I tend to crave order and simplicity.
The reason I haven't until now is that I've heard that hardware drivers are a big problem, and I've finally got almost eveything working on my laptop with linux, after a year trying! Everything except the webcam works now.
maybe a hybrid linux/bsd userland would be the best of both worlds?
but would you mind elaborating a little? I'd like to know more about the differences in these OS's and why the gnu utils aren't as good. Same format? do you mean man vs. info?
Ok, no big deal. You make it sound like it is so much trouble to copy files. So much trouble in fact, that it is impossible.
Digital photos taken today won't be around 60 years from now...sorry, but that's the fact. You would constantly have to keep upgrading and transfering your shots to the latest storage medium just to keep up. Can anyone honestly say that you'll be able to read a CD 60 years from now to get the pictures off? Maybe if you find an old computer in an antique shop...maybe.
Once every 10 years is constantly? The point I was making was that many photos will be around for a long time. It is quite possible, even if it takes a bit of effort.
Many of us don't keep our primary data on removable media anyway, and so upgrading formats is a non-issue, as the media is upgraded automatically. No additional effort is needed than would otherwise be exerted.
Also, I believe as the industry matures, we will see more longevity in storage formats. The future of digital photography is not nearly so dim as you describe.
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Thanks to the propellerheads who design this shit these days. Even fucking "consumer" electronics are too difficult to use.
Can someone tell me why we need several HD resolutions? No, I don't care about the reason, we don't. Aspect ratios? Six fucking different kinds of cables to connect the shit? US vs European standards?
Now, if I was the king of the world, there would be *one* digital AV standard. Perhaps 1600x900, 30 fps (or more) progressive scan only, 60hz LCD, 90 hz CRT, all connected by firewire from begining to end, and TV would autoselect aspect ratio depending on content without user intervention. Simple and idiot proof.
It is because of these reasons and also the bullshit DRM on new products that has led me to boycot any new technology purchases besides my computer. My computer is the only thing I can still trust to work, although people are working on undermining even that too. They are all designed by *idiots*.
I'd love to start cracking some skulls, because I used to love all this shit. But, every year I think more about reverting back to just curling up with a good book from the library in the evenings and never spending another cent on it.
cool.
Yeah, it's really bad in Los Angeles. Lotsa chlorine.
... it is a gas. If you fill up a pitcher and let it sit for 30 mins or more the chlorine will dissipate.
But the funny thing about chlorine
The advantage is you get the best of both worlds, safe water, without the ingestion of chlorine. Also, keeping a pitcher in the fridge is an easy way to have cold water on hand.
Actually it's not needed everyday, but it's very nice with friends you don't get to see often.
I've been backpacking across South America and I can tell you it is very nice to see your family (or new friends) moving around live after 6 months. It is even worth using those shitty windows IM's at times just to do so.
Real needs to die ... ASAP ...
:(
Why couldn't MS have killed them first, instead of Netscape???
This guy is a TOOL...
I use gaim specifically because:
- it doesn't look like a fischer-price playset
- 75% of the area of the windows aren't taken up by irrelevant bullshit
- nothing is flashing or animating
- icons and appearance are quite nice, despite what he says (thank you gtk2)
I cringe everytime I must use MSN or YIM in an internet cafe.
Video support would be nice, but that's all I'm lookin for.
Im not sure why everyone complains about the gimp UI.
Yeah, it was pretty bad in 1.0, but Ive been using 2.x for year or so and love it. It is significantly improved. What exactly is wrong with it?
And yes, Ive used photoshop and paint shop pro lots in the past. Actually, I find photoshop the most unintuitive of the three.
Funny you mention this.
I recently mailed some stuff home to a friend: Souvenirs from Oktoberfest in Muenchen by DeutschePost.
Wouldnt you know the fuckers broke everything in the box that could be broken, even a coffee cup that was in a box, wrapped in newspaper, and then put inside the larger box. Either they shipped it under a piano, or dropped it out of the plane over California.
Ok, I'll reply.
Python is fast enough for most applications, and it has improved significantly in the latest releases, 2.3 and 2.4. It's not much slower than perl and is a much nicer language, IMHO. I've used it on countless projects without problem or performance issues.
If performance is your primary concern, you wouldn't be using python, and you wouldn't be using CGI obviously so the question is not so relevant, I think.
As for emerge, it's slow response comes from the non optimized way it scans a database of many thousands of flat files of dependencies, etc. As far as I know it does it every time you run the command, there may be no caching or indexing at all.
Obviously, a very slow but useable implementation of one program is not python's fault. The program and even the problem itself could be optimized in any number of ways, and there is talk in the gentoo dev camp on how to do that. Whether there is the will to do it is another question. They may have to redesign the complete packaging system and portage to do it.
There is a cool chapter in the book, Dive into Python (free online, just google), which has a chapter or two on HTML processing. It may be worth a look.
You can convert to html first and then run a script to parse the html with the sgmlparser module. Then just ignore all the msword crappola when writing the output files.
Dunno, maybe that is an option.
Probably wouldn't be 20 mb per user, even before optimization, thanks to shared libs.
try ^Z in the meantime.
I look forward to the day Totem can play for 5 minutes without crashing... Actually it can if I don't try complicated things like hitting the pause or FFWD buttons, etc. I'm using Gstreamer, maybe that has something to do with it.
Anyway, I don't watch media files much, so I can wait until it matures.
Well, actually everything is decentralized... meaning traffic everywhere!! ;)
> Now show me 15 million people in a single city driving cars and getting parking in the business district.
Welcome to Los Angeles, my friend!
Probably many things are native on intel, but when you hit something that needs to be emulated it slows down considerably.
Other issues:
- the amount of memory taken by the emulator
- OSX intel probably isn't as well optimized.
- OSX in general isn't well optimized.
All these issues should improve in the future.
emulation
Typos happen. Deal with it.
Ok, thank you. I've been thinking for a while that a bsd might be better for me, as I tend to crave order and simplicity.
The reason I haven't until now is that I've heard that hardware drivers are a big problem, and I've finally got almost eveything working on my laptop with linux, after a year trying! Everything except the webcam works now.
maybe a hybrid linux/bsd userland would be the best of both worlds?
sorry for the dumb question,
but would you mind elaborating a little? I'd like to know more about the differences in these OS's and why the gnu utils aren't as good. Same format? do you mean man vs. info?
heh, I can't believe you got -1 troll for that polite post. You've musta made enemies.
Digital photos taken today won't be around 60 years from now...sorry, but that's the fact. You would constantly have to keep upgrading and transfering your shots to the latest storage medium just to keep up. Can anyone honestly say that you'll be able to read a CD 60 years from now to get the pictures off? Maybe if you find an old computer in an antique shop...maybe.
Once every 10 years is constantly? The point I was making was that many photos will be around for a long time. It is quite possible, even if it takes a bit of effort.
Many of us don't keep our primary data on removable media anyway, and so upgrading formats is a non-issue, as the media is upgraded automatically. No additional effort is needed than would otherwise be exerted.
Also, I believe as the industry matures, we will see more longevity in storage formats. The future of digital photography is not nearly so dim as you describe.
Is there some reason I won't be able to copy my files to a new computer every 5 years in the future? Like I have for the last 20?
(yes, I have backups)
Hi,
The flaw in your argument is that you are comparing a 5 year-old OS to one built 18 hours ago. Of course it will have better hw support on install.
You're just gonna have to hunt down the windows drivers, it aint that hard. Copy them to the hard drive or cd and be done with it.
Thanks for the info, guys.
I'm not sure those count as "dark force powers" though, maybe just using the force in general. Kind of a ends-justify-the-means kind of thing.
Also, didn't yoda do that to the guards in Ep 3?