Ok, for 256kbit mp3s, it's approx 2 megs per minute...that means 512 minutes per gig. So 512 minutes * 73 gigs means approx. 37376 minutes, or just under 623 hours, which is just under 26 days, a few days short of a month.
Now if we're talking 128kbit mp3's, well then you're good for a few months.
Not that anyone would *EVER* hoard that much copyrighted material, oh no, not us, that would be wrong...
The article is correct. Linux is too unstandard currently for any mass deployment. Though a person can follow their own standards, there are simply too many different choices in linux (choices mean less-standardness...). What am I speaking of you say? well:
KDE vs Gnome QT vs GTK vs Motif vs TK vs etc... WM vs E vs fvwm(2) vs blackbox vs etc... Redhat vs Slackware vs Debian vs etc...
While you'll think these are good, great right, more choices for you, but for businesses these can be bad. It's too much variety to keep large companies (500+ employees) all the same. People will want KDE, others Gnome, this (generally) means different apps are used. That means possible incompatibilities.
Sure you can configure them all identically, but do you want to configure 500+ boxes when with windows xx you just have to install and it's all the same?
Linux isn't necessarily ready, but it doesn't mean it can't be made ready. Just realize that so much choice isn't always a benefit.
I'll admit I only took a glance, but not including src is by no means a violation of the GPL. I can release hundreds of programs w/o src, and do so rightfully under the GPL...the GPL simply states that src must be made available per request.
Now, if you ask for the mods and they say nay, THEN it's a violation.
Being a gameboy programmer, I'll tell you this guy is on crack (or maybe some other drug...but anyways...). I've made a tri-plotter for GB, and even though I limited it (triangles where limited to 1 8x8 sprite), I was easily able to push out 100+ triangles per second. You're probably thinking, 100+, bah, but when you're on a screen so small, it works.
Now, this guy is doing voxels, which while it can be faster (since it's so limited), it can't be done on a gameboy...hell, the SNES couldn't do a voxel routine well w/o the help of the trusty SuperFX chip.
Looking at the example it seems to be just that - voxels...why this is a huge concept, I don't know, I have an old intro that's around 2k, that ran on my 486sx25 that does voxels...(and looks better than this I might add)...
Actually, Wolfenstein used Ray-Casting, which is different than raytracing...
What ray-tracing does it take a light source, and see where the light reflects (giving color). Ray-casting on the other hand takes your field of view, and sees what it hits, i.e. what you would see. It limits itself by not allowing for reflections, etc.
Wow, gotta love those fruity (literally) colors...I was kinda hoping they'd abolish that...oh well:)
Anyways, they seem to be semi powerful when you think about it...Firewire and DVD would make one worth buying, if some good OS supported them...but a lack of DVD Support in Linux (only other PPC OS that I can think of) sucks
I'm actually worried about the stress on backward compatibility...while it is good for desktop uses and such...the people that will be running their windows applications.
But for the majority of us who are using unices...why worry about backwards compatibility? Isn't a major point of open source os's/software the ability to recompile it on this new cpu, and have it go...why worry about backwards compatibility when we just have to recompile/run?
That is one of the reasons I like to run FreeBSD and/or Linux. I can upgrade my hardware to something else (switch to a PPC if I so wish) and recompile my linux programs, and I'm set. While this isn't true 100% of the time, a good 95% is good enough for most.
This just might be a good idea...who'd've thought right?
Anyways, think of it this way, parents scream for security from the evils of the 'net for their children, well, this way you can say, look, this page was judged appropriate by [insert company/organization name/random person here].
While this still goes by others opinions...you can choose who's opinion you'll go by...some may be good, some may be bad (i.e. Disney deeming Britney Speares half-nekkidness appropriate to hit kids with...but that's another story for another time).
Good help deal with spam, and while the article seemed to focus mainly on NNTP, it could work...maybe.
I wouldn't use it, but hell, it'll shut up the parents...and after all, isn't that what we really want?:)
Ok, so this company comes along called Transmeta...featuring some pretty talented people, and what...they have some patents, but no product that's been announced...
Suddenly we hear about the CIA going for VC companies....
Cooincidence? I think not.
(note, this was supposed to be a joke, but I'm too tired to be funny...)
I've had some problems with Q3a on a Riva TNT in full screen...what I've found is that full screen anything over 640x480 will get screwy...so I just play @ 800x600 in a window and it's fine.
Something to note, you won't get uber-godly rates upwards into the 60fps area, so don't expect those...I average 30fps personally on a celeron 400.
Finally, someone who sees the evils of those things...you disagree that they're evil, look at it this way:
1) They've replaced a perfectly good cartoon with the Pokemon cartoon (obviously evil)
2) Everytime I go to the mall, instead of seeing posters of women, I have to look at posters of Pikachu (not exactly my bag...)
3) My girlfriend (well, if I had one) [would have] left me for a stuffed pikachu because it's cuter and more caring to her needs.
So as you see, Pokemon are truly evil, and should be gotten rid of at whatever the cost...and since this is America, it might as well be through Frivelous (sp?) Lawsuits, I mean, that's just about all Americans are good at these days, right?
(This advertisement paid for by MAPP, Mothers Against Pokemon especially Pikachu)
Now now, we all know how meaningful "Internet C@pital" is, but must you really call "Live Free or Die" stupid...I mean really now, I resent that being a New Hampshire resident...
(note: sarcasm intended but not evident...I'm too tired to be funny)
Ahh, but this is not the truth. I live in the wondrous state of New Hampshire, which has no sales tax. (What a difference coming from California...I still pull out $120 whenever I buy something that's $99.95)
Sales tax isn't necessary. New Hampshire makes its money from toll roads ($.75 to pass...costs some people $1.50/day to get to work, me, well, I don't go on any toll roads, so I don't pay a cent).
But even if I have to go on toll roads occasionally, it doesn't add up to 7.75% of what I make/spend.
This takes care of the roads/trans. (BTW, where I lived in cali, public transportation wasn't a state thing anyways, it was a seperate company)
As for education, well, there's still federal tax taking that 25% of my paycheck every week to deal with that.
This is more the kind of thing I'm hoping that BeOS will have support for rather than linux...because this is the kind of thing BeOS was specifically made for.
I'm all for linux getting new technologies and such, but for working with audio, linux really can't touch BeOS as of yet.
You wonder what Transmeta's product is? Well, it all started with the cyber dog...you've heard of them, right?
Well, why stop there...so, now Transmeta is one-upping it, and doing something previously unheard of...the cyber Penguin. Yes, it swims, it tries to fly (but fails), and it'll bite your hand off for a bit of herring...
And the best feature of all, it has a special sound chip, which listens for incorrect pronounciations of Linux and will bite your butt (literally) and correct you.
M$ has nothing to really fear from linux for now (atleast not of the newbie leaving).
Face it, linux is hard from easy. Until a person can get prebuild binaries for everything that requires no intelligence to setup(meaning, statically linked, etc.), it will be too daunting. You think your average computer user knows enough about C/C++ to fix even a stupid compiler bug, or even what a compiler does and how it works?
Even I get sick of having to recompile things time to time, and when I get bins they don't work because they're compiled against some lib I've never heard of. Guess what I'm getting down to, is if linux wants to be nicer in binary distros, do everyone a favor and offer a statically linked version, yes it's bigger, but it works out of the box (err, ball:P)
This past year as I enjoyed my last year of HS, I had the honor of being in a physics class with a teacher who was genuinely insane (Mr. Clark, you out there?) Anyways, he showed us movies whenever he was bored of our idiocity (by his own words I believe).
So, it is because of him that I got to witness Dr. Strangelove, and I must say, Kubrick made a great movie, and G. C. Scott did a great job.
It's sad to hear he's gone, even though I never knew him...
I noticed others sharing their experiences with XXXX provider, so here's mine:
My brother uses MediaOne, and I do as well (since I'm a freeloader at his house, I'm just masqing through his computer). The service is quick, when it works (important to note because one week last month it didn't for 3 or 4 days).
Something I do like about MediaOne is that nowhere on the acceptable usage list did I notice a "no server" policy (though I didn't look hard)...so I can run a web server, oh, but I'm not allowed to run an IRC bot, make sense?
Well, as a fellow American I share your shame, but the answer is simple...why work for a living when faking a back injury, or claiming someone caused your cat permanent psychological damage will bring in the money?
It's another way for lazy-Americans (read: 95% of Americans that I know atleast...) to try avoiding work...
Isn't this partially why we (well, most of us) run an alternative OS, so that virii are not a worry?
So you see.fi, you don't have to really outlaw virii, just outlaw Windows and the virus problem disapears, afterall, only root can truly screw a linux system over...
"Cut the fscking sh*t, when I go to the money machine I'm not looking over my shoulder for the media, I'm looking for n------"
If people didn't revel in destruction and enjoy watching such things; if shows about disasters didn't get high ratings, they'd find other news to show.
Don't blame the media, blame the viewing public. (Note: the same holds true for violent lyrics and games [I have no problems with ANY of them]).
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Ok, for 256kbit mp3s, it's approx 2 megs per minute...that means 512 minutes per gig. So 512 minutes * 73 gigs means approx. 37376 minutes, or just under 623 hours, which is just under 26 days, a few days short of a month.
Now if we're talking 128kbit mp3's, well then you're good for a few months.
Not that anyone would *EVER* hoard that much copyrighted material, oh no, not us, that would be wrong...
The article is correct. Linux is too unstandard currently for any mass deployment. Though a person can follow their own standards, there are simply too many different choices in linux (choices mean less-standardness...). What am I speaking of you say? well:
KDE vs Gnome
QT vs GTK vs Motif vs TK vs etc...
WM vs E vs fvwm(2) vs blackbox vs etc...
Redhat vs Slackware vs Debian vs etc...
While you'll think these are good, great right, more choices for you, but for businesses these can be bad. It's too much variety to keep large companies (500+ employees) all the same. People will want KDE, others Gnome, this (generally) means different apps are used. That means possible incompatibilities.
Sure you can configure them all identically, but do you want to configure 500+ boxes when with windows xx you just have to install and it's all the same?
Linux isn't necessarily ready, but it doesn't mean it can't be made ready. Just realize that so much choice isn't always a benefit.
I'll admit I only took a glance, but not including src is by no means a violation of the GPL. I can release hundreds of programs w/o src, and do so rightfully under the GPL...the GPL simply states that src must be made available per request.
Now, if you ask for the mods and they say nay, THEN it's a violation.
Being a gameboy programmer, I'll tell you this guy is on crack (or maybe some other drug...but anyways...). I've made a tri-plotter for GB, and even though I limited it (triangles where limited to 1 8x8 sprite), I was easily able to push out 100+ triangles per second. You're probably thinking, 100+, bah, but when you're on a screen so small, it works.
Now, this guy is doing voxels, which while it can be faster (since it's so limited), it can't be done on a gameboy...hell, the SNES couldn't do a voxel routine well w/o the help of the trusty SuperFX chip.
Looking at the example it seems to be just that - voxels...why this is a huge concept, I don't know, I have an old intro that's around 2k, that ran on my 486sx25 that does voxels...(and looks better than this I might add)...
Actually, Wolfenstein used Ray-Casting, which is different than raytracing...
What ray-tracing does it take a light source, and see where the light reflects (giving color).
Ray-casting on the other hand takes your field of view, and sees what it hits, i.e. what you would see. It limits itself by not allowing for reflections, etc.
Since if you put 10000 monkies in a room and they'll eventually write out the complete works of Shakespeare...
:)
if you put 10000 LCD's in a room will they eventually play the complete symphonies of Mozart?
Just a though
Wow, gotta love those fruity (literally) colors...I was kinda hoping they'd abolish that...oh well :)
Anyways, they seem to be semi powerful when you think about it...Firewire and DVD would make one worth buying, if some good OS supported them...but a lack of DVD Support in Linux (only other PPC OS that I can think of) sucks
I'm actually worried about the stress on backward compatibility...while it is good for desktop uses and such...the people that will be running their windows applications.
But for the majority of us who are using unices...why worry about backwards compatibility? Isn't a major point of open source os's/software the ability to recompile it on this new cpu, and have it go...why worry about backwards compatibility when we just have to recompile/run?
That is one of the reasons I like to run FreeBSD and/or Linux. I can upgrade my hardware to something else (switch to a PPC if I so wish) and recompile my linux programs, and I'm set. While this isn't true 100% of the time, a good 95% is good enough for most.
Just some thoughts...
This just might be a good idea...who'd've thought right?
:)
Anyways, think of it this way, parents scream for security from the evils of the 'net for their children, well, this way you can say, look, this page was judged appropriate by [insert company/organization name/random person here].
While this still goes by others opinions...you can choose who's opinion you'll go by...some may be good, some may be bad (i.e. Disney deeming Britney Speares half-nekkidness appropriate to hit kids with...but that's another story for another time).
Good help deal with spam, and while the article seemed to focus mainly on NNTP, it could work...maybe.
I wouldn't use it, but hell, it'll shut up the parents...and after all, isn't that what we really want?
Actually, Real is working with BeOS to make a good version for the BeOS...so, hey, don't feel bad for too long.
Ok, so this company comes along called Transmeta...featuring some pretty talented people, and what...they have some patents, but no product that's been announced...
Suddenly we hear about the CIA going for VC companies....
Cooincidence? I think not.
(note, this was supposed to be a joke, but I'm too tired to be funny...)
If I recall correctly (which I probably don't)...the openGL standard only officially supports up to 8 lights...so I don't really think it's important.
But like I said, I'm probably wrong, because hey, it's just one of those days...
I've had some problems with Q3a on a Riva TNT in full screen...what I've found is that full screen anything over 640x480 will get screwy...so I just play @ 800x600 in a window and it's fine.
Something to note, you won't get uber-godly rates upwards into the 60fps area, so don't expect those...I average 30fps personally on a celeron 400.
Finally, someone who sees the evils of those things...you disagree that they're evil, look at it this way:
1) They've replaced a perfectly good cartoon with the Pokemon cartoon (obviously evil)
2) Everytime I go to the mall, instead of seeing posters of women, I have to look at posters of Pikachu (not exactly my bag...)
3) My girlfriend (well, if I had one) [would have] left me for a stuffed pikachu because it's cuter and more caring to her needs.
So as you see, Pokemon are truly evil, and should be gotten rid of at whatever the cost...and since this is America, it might as well be through Frivelous (sp?) Lawsuits, I mean, that's just about all Americans are good at these days, right?
(This advertisement paid for by MAPP, Mothers Against Pokemon especially Pikachu)
Now now, we all know how meaningful "Internet C@pital" is, but must you really call "Live Free or Die" stupid...I mean really now, I resent that being a New Hampshire resident...
(note: sarcasm intended but not evident...I'm too tired to be funny)
Ahh, but this is not the truth.
I live in the wondrous state of New Hampshire, which has no sales tax. (What a difference coming from California...I still pull out $120 whenever I buy something that's $99.95)
Sales tax isn't necessary.
New Hampshire makes its money from toll roads ($.75 to pass...costs some people $1.50/day to get to work, me, well, I don't go on any toll roads, so I don't pay a cent).
But even if I have to go on toll roads occasionally, it doesn't add up to 7.75% of what I make/spend.
This takes care of the roads/trans.
(BTW, where I lived in cali, public transportation wasn't a state thing anyways, it was a seperate company)
As for education, well, there's still federal tax taking that 25% of my paycheck every week to deal with that.
This is more the kind of thing I'm hoping that BeOS will have support for rather than linux...because this is the kind of thing BeOS was specifically made for.
I'm all for linux getting new technologies and such, but for working with audio, linux really can't touch BeOS as of yet.
You wonder what Transmeta's product is?
Well, it all started with the cyber dog...you've heard of them, right?
Well, why stop there...so, now Transmeta is one-upping it, and doing something previously unheard of...the cyber Penguin. Yes, it swims, it tries to fly (but fails), and it'll bite your hand off for a bit of herring...
And the best feature of all, it has a special sound chip, which listens for incorrect pronounciations of Linux and will bite your butt (literally) and correct you.
Something worth getting excited for? YOU BET!
[this ad paid for by Clueless inc.]
M$ has nothing to really fear from linux for now (atleast not of the newbie leaving).
:P)
Face it, linux is hard from easy. Until a person can get prebuild binaries for everything that requires no intelligence to setup(meaning, statically linked, etc.), it will be too daunting. You think your average computer user knows enough about C/C++ to fix even a stupid compiler bug, or even what a compiler does and how it works?
Even I get sick of having to recompile things time to time, and when I get bins they don't work because they're compiled against some lib I've never heard of. Guess what I'm getting down to, is if linux wants to be nicer in binary distros, do everyone a favor and offer a statically linked version, yes it's bigger, but it works out of the box (err, ball
Odd subject? yes, but relevant for me.
This past year as I enjoyed my last year of HS, I had the honor of being in a physics class with a teacher who was genuinely insane (Mr. Clark, you out there?) Anyways, he showed us movies whenever he was bored of our idiocity (by his own words I believe).
So, it is because of him that I got to witness Dr. Strangelove, and I must say, Kubrick made a great movie, and G. C. Scott did a great job.
It's sad to hear he's gone, even though I never knew him...
I noticed others sharing their experiences with XXXX provider, so here's mine:
My brother uses MediaOne, and I do as well (since I'm a freeloader at his house, I'm just masqing through his computer). The service is quick, when it works (important to note because one week last month it didn't for 3 or 4 days).
Something I do like about MediaOne is that nowhere on the acceptable usage list did I notice a "no server" policy (though I didn't look hard)...so I can run a web server, oh, but I'm not allowed to run an IRC bot, make sense?
What is it with sue-happy americans?
Well, as a fellow American I share your shame, but the answer is simple...why work for a living when faking a back injury, or claiming someone caused your cat permanent psychological damage will bring in the money?
It's another way for lazy-Americans (read: 95% of Americans that I know atleast...) to try avoiding work...
Isn't this partially why we (well, most of us) run an alternative OS, so that virii are not a worry?
.fi, you don't have to really outlaw virii, just outlaw Windows and the virus problem disapears, afterall, only root can truly screw a linux system over...
So you see
To quote Chris Rock:
"Cut the fscking sh*t, when I go to the money machine I'm not looking over my shoulder for the media, I'm looking for n------"
If people didn't revel in destruction and enjoy watching such things; if shows about disasters didn't get high ratings, they'd find other news to show.
Don't blame the media, blame the viewing public.
(Note: the same holds true for violent lyrics and games [I have no problems with ANY of them]).