Europe and Japan also have many economic factors in their favor, owing to their population density and population centers, often poor land lines, etc. How does this speak better of foreign nations?
Yeah, right. Poor land lines, are you kidding ? France have had the first fully digital land network, the first "pre internet" (like personal TTYs, for everyone). I assume Germany public land network is not that bad, too.
Density has nothing to do with it because it's not compulsory to cover the whole country, you can cover for example East and West coasts and have a decent market.
GSM has pushed 2G telecoms (as far as I know, Us are trying to catch up but they don't have the same quality of service (ie EU-wide roaming, you can phone with any GSM phone from whole EU) as EU by far)
What you (did you guess I was from EU ?) DO lack is not , it's agreement between to a common, open standard.
Isn't is GPRS ? Which is based on GSM technology, but reserving (and sharing) N 9.6kbps slots for every user.
Rates may go as great as 144 kbps, which for mobile users may be fine, waiting for UMTS.
I think that what really got MP3 popular was Napster. As there is no Napster for.ogg, I'm not sure that ogg will be popular on the net.
Look PNG. Without good support in standard browser and players (winamp, MS player), it doesn't have a single chance to succeed
Besides, of course, if we get a killer app for this file format. Music creation may be one, because you'll need a free, good quality format to use, or in the embedded world (patent free), for answering machines, digital dictaphones, digital recording machines, "MP3 walkmans".
3D realtime (ie games) creation too !
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With the last versions of Blender, not detailed in the book, you too can design 3D games, with a geometry and physics engine (you can specify friction and gravity for example). Download the games demos & Blender and you can play those games (I think a player is on the way or even released right now), wich are really fine and professionnal.
Blender may not be (or only parts of it) OpenSource, but it IS a heck of a good proggy... except that, in my opinion, the UI designer really need to be push to the blender itself !
Of course, if you do not want to pay for the book, you still can have a look on some really good tutorials on http://www.blender.nl
Another thing that is really interesting in Blender is that it does NOT use ray tracing, so it IS really fast to render, and you can render a video sequence in human-scaled time.
TK is the standard widget toolkit interface, but right now distributions and implementations are bundled with TCL on top of python : memory consuming, not so fast, and not so well suited.
And some widgets are not present right now in TK standard distro.
Are there plans to introduce a new (cross-platform and suited for python native data types) widget toolkit like wxpython as a new standard widget library ? Or an unified widget abstraction layer (read : specification) ?
No Toolkit flamewar, please !
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Europe and Japan also have many economic factors in their favor, owing to their population density and population centers, often poor land lines, etc. How does this speak better of foreign nations?
Yeah, right. Poor land lines, are you kidding ? France have had the first fully digital land network, the first "pre internet" (like personal TTYs, for everyone). I assume Germany public land network is not that bad, too.
Density has nothing to do with it because it's not compulsory to cover the whole country, you can cover for example East and West coasts and have a decent market.
GSM has pushed 2G telecoms (as far as I know, Us are trying to catch up but they don't have the same quality of service (ie EU-wide roaming, you can phone with any GSM phone from whole EU) as EU by far)
What you (did you guess I was from EU ?) DO lack is not , it's agreement between to a common, open standard.
Like in software, I'd say.
Isn't is GPRS ? Which is based on GSM technology, but reserving (and sharing) N 9.6kbps slots for every user.
Rates may go as great as 144 kbps, which for mobile users may be fine, waiting for UMTS.
Of course, people that really want quality won't go for MP3. And won't listen to it on multimedia speakers.
That's not the majority of people.
I think that what really got MP3 popular was Napster. As there is no Napster for .ogg, I'm not sure that ogg will be popular on the net.
Look PNG. Without good support in standard browser and players (winamp, MS player), it doesn't have a single chance to succeed
Besides, of course, if we get a killer app for this file format. Music creation may be one, because you'll need a free, good quality format to use, or in the embedded world (patent free), for answering machines, digital dictaphones, digital recording machines, "MP3 walkmans".
With the last versions of Blender, not detailed in the book, you too can design 3D games, with a geometry and physics engine (you can specify friction and gravity for example). Download the games demos & Blender and you can play those games (I think a player is on the way or even released right now), wich are really fine and professionnal. Blender may not be (or only parts of it) OpenSource, but it IS a heck of a good proggy... except that, in my opinion, the UI designer really need to be push to the blender itself ! Of course, if you do not want to pay for the book, you still can have a look on some really good tutorials on http://www.blender.nl Another thing that is really interesting in Blender is that it does NOT use ray tracing, so it IS really fast to render, and you can render a video sequence in human-scaled time.
TK is the standard widget toolkit interface, but right now distributions and implementations are bundled with TCL on top of python : memory consuming, not so fast, and not so well suited. And some widgets are not present right now in TK standard distro. Are there plans to introduce a new (cross-platform and suited for python native data types) widget toolkit like wxpython as a new standard widget library ? Or an unified widget abstraction layer (read : specification) ? No Toolkit flamewar, please !