That's exactly what happened with the telephone. And because of it, Alexander Graham Bell made a fortune, and 'that other guy' (I can never remember his name) lapsed into obscurity.
Patents don't cause trouble just in the software world. They're a two-edged sword.
Vector based fonts are much nicer than TrueType fonts.
I hope you're kidding. TrueType fonts are vector-based. Also, X already has plenty of vector-based (scalable) font support; however, there aren't that many good vector-based fonts in X. 'All' of the good fonts would appear to be TrueType nowadays.
Or, in other words, the conspiracy is so good it doesn't even know of its own existence. Which is, of course, a sure sign that there is a universal conspiracy going on - just not necessarily an orchestrated one.
I should get around to reading "Revelation X" like my roommate insists I do... (No, he's not a "bobby," he just knows what's going on.)
Eek, forgot to check for responses to my post. Hopefully it's not too late that you don't get this (I'd have emailed you if I had some way of knowing your address)...
Anyway. From what I can tell, the Asus's SVideo output isn't a true SVideo output; notice that there are six holes on it, rather than the usual four. Also, notice that the SVideo cable has only the four standard pins on it. Then notice that the composite adaptor only has the other two pins on it. Basically, I think that Asus saves space on the connector edge by combining the svideo and composite plugs into one plug. I seriously doubt that adaptor cable will work on normal SVHS sources.:)
"Whatever he did" was to have the server go down so nobody was viewing any pages or taking up any bandwidth; I'm sure that it'll get nice and slow again once everyone realizes that it's back up. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Hm, that's odd. We have a v3800 at work and it works just fine, though I don't know what motherboard's in it. I don't think it's an Asus though. I think you likely just had a bad card or something. Weird.
Of course, since you don't care about video quality, there's no real point in worrying about what tv-in chip is used. As I think I stated above, I wouldn't use any TNT-based solution for serious video work; TNTs are great 2D/3D chips which just happen to have tv in/out functionality, usually as an afterthought. The Asus and Leadtek cards are the only ones AFAIK with a decent TV out, and of the few with a TV input, the quality is just suckiness. Not to mention not Linux-supported yet.:) Hence why I got a Leadtek S320 instead of an Asus v3400 and saved about $40... I figure if I want TV capture eventually, there's lots of much-better cards for about $50-$60 which are supported in Linux.
I'm personally most interested in alternate colorspaces and in effects layers. Tool plug-ins would be real nice, too. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Regarding TNTs, the Asus v3400/TV and v3800 (TNT1 and TNT2, respectively) both have a video capture. I don't know what quality they have, but yeah, they're certainly not as good as the G200 or G400's optional captures are, but they're also a lot cheaper. Also, don't blame the TNT1 for crappy MPEG scaling, because they don't do any MPEG at all; blame whatever software decoder you were using.:) To blame the TNT1 for crappy MPEG scaling is about akin to blaming the C64's VIC-II chip for the same thing.
I believe the Asus v3800 has an MPEG decoder chip on it, in the meantime. I dunno. I recently wasted $400 on a Sony DVP-S550D DVD player and don't really care about out-of-region playback or VHS bootlegging, and would rather just go with something high-quality. As good as PC-based DVD playback is, PCs still just can't match the output quality or features of even a midrange player like the DVP-S550D. (FWIW, all reviews I've seen of this player, not including ones of units with older, buggier firmware, are absolutely glowing, and put the quality on par with the DVP-S7700, apparently the best player on the market. Having a variety of options which make this player scale with my needs doesn't hurt any, either.) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Is that all you remember? I can go all the way to 3.14159265358979323846264338 without a problem.:) I used to know this one person who claimed to know 100 digits or so, but I certainly couldn't verify it, and even my knowledge is at the point where any difference between measured and calculated circumferi is beyond insignifigant. But still...:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I recommend you get The Best of the Annals of Improbable Research, a collection of some of the better articles of the AIR. One of them is specifically about comparing apples and oranges - using a mass spectrometer.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Hey wow, that really fouled up due to some less-thans I used. Let's try again...
What I personally do is, in making the distinction, is I use kilo/mega/gigabytes in referring to 1<<(10*i), and say 'thousand/million/billion bytes' in referring to pow(10,3*i). For example, "My system has 128 megs of memory and a 6.4 billion byte drive." Of course, then someone corrects me and says "6.4 gigs, you moron." sigh
What I personally do is, in making the distinction, is I use kilo/mega/gigabytes in referring to 1sigh --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I use it all the time at work. My main project involves coding something on an SGI Octane using a library which we only have licensed for the Octane. My workstation is an O2. So, I remotely display the program from the Octane onto the O2, and it works great. Of course, it runs much fasbter when/if I runt it locally on the Octane, but since the Octane sits on my manager's desk and not mine, that's a bit difficult.
Ennyhoo. The reason the TNT driver currently only does GLX is because GLX is just so much simpler to implement and keep synchronized. That's what the DRI is all about. And anyway, q3test runs adequately on my TNT even through the GLX-only driver, as long as I turn off lightmaps (admittedly, GLX really sucks when it comes to texture thrashing, and it doesn't help that the GLX driver has no AGP support yet). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
If it runs as some user with no permissions to do anything (such as, say, 'nobody') then there's no problem. Well, assuming you're in a UNIX which isn't rootshellable from the 'nobody' user. (Hint: there's a reason most well-behaved daemons run as 'nobody'.) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
What the heck is a hamdinger, anyway? I've yet to figure this out, yet it at least used to play a major role in MST3k...
Man, I wish I didn't keep forgetting to watch it, specially now that some of their good later shows (like "Trucking With Death" and "Time Chasers") have been making it into reruns. This last season has kinda sucked, but seasons 8 and 9 were generally pretty good.
Does anyone know where I can get some of the other episodes on tape, though? I know that some of the important ones (such as Mitchell) are carried by Rhino, but I really want to see the last few Comedy Central episodes, particularly the very last one. Also the first Sci-Fi Channel episode, though I'm sure that'll show up in reruns soon enough (unless I missed that already, pfeh).
Wow! Someone moderated down an anti-Microsoft post as being a troll! That's gotta be a Slashdot first!:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Disclaimer: I'm not the person who moderated it down. I currently have no moderation points, anyway.
To me, his post *does* look like a standard first post. Not redundant, but offtopic; for starters, it was on Yahoo news, not ZDNet, and didn't really say anything, but was just the usual "Oh, the media is crappy" and obviously didn't read the article. Well, not obviously, but most likely didn't. If I had moderated it, though, I'd have done 'off-topic.'
A few months ago, when I was still in college (about a month from graduating), someone decided they needed my bike more than I did, and so they stole it. I was somewhat pissed (since I, of course, ended up having to walk home as a result), and so I emailed the campus police, only as a formality. I figured I'd just walk for the rest of the month, as it wouldn't have been cost-effective to buy a new bike so close to graduation. Ennyhoo, next day, I got an email back from the campus police stating that they'd already found my bike. Apparently it wasn't good enough for the thief, and so they left it on the lawn in front of the English building. The English building of all the places! I was incredibly insulted. But I got my bike back, and so all was well.
I think I had a point to all that, but it must have broken off somewhere...
This has nothing to do with X. That is an issue with XFree, the X server most people use these days. I believe the topic of conversation is why X itself should be replaced, not problems with a particular X server. Also, XFree86 4.0 fixes this anyway. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Feature freeze != code freeze. Even the best programmers occasionally have bugs in their code, and that's why a feature freeze is a Good Thing, as it lets the coders focus on fixing the bugs. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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That's exactly what happened with the telephone. And because of it, Alexander Graham Bell made a fortune, and 'that other guy' (I can never remember his name) lapsed into obscurity.
Patents don't cause trouble just in the software world. They're a two-edged sword.
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Vector based fonts are much nicer than TrueType fonts.
I hope you're kidding. TrueType fonts are vector-based. Also, X already has plenty of vector-based (scalable) font support; however, there aren't that many good vector-based fonts in X. 'All' of the good fonts would appear to be TrueType nowadays.
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Or, in other words, the conspiracy is so good it doesn't even know of its own existence. Which is, of course, a sure sign that there is a universal conspiracy going on - just not necessarily an orchestrated one.
I should get around to reading "Revelation X" like my roommate insists I do... (No, he's not a "bobby," he just knows what's going on.)
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Eek, forgot to check for responses to my post. Hopefully it's not too late that you don't get this (I'd have emailed you if I had some way of knowing your address)...
Anyway. From what I can tell, the Asus's SVideo output isn't a true SVideo output; notice that there are six holes on it, rather than the usual four. Also, notice that the SVideo cable has only the four standard pins on it. Then notice that the composite adaptor only has the other two pins on it. Basically, I think that Asus saves space on the connector edge by combining the svideo and composite plugs into one plug. I seriously doubt that adaptor cable will work on normal SVHS sources. :)
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"Whatever he did" was to have the server go down so nobody was viewing any pages or taking up any bandwidth; I'm sure that it'll get nice and slow again once everyone realizes that it's back up.
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Hm, that's odd. We have a v3800 at work and it works just fine, though I don't know what motherboard's in it. I don't think it's an Asus though. I think you likely just had a bad card or something. Weird.
Of course, since you don't care about video quality, there's no real point in worrying about what tv-in chip is used. As I think I stated above, I wouldn't use any TNT-based solution for serious video work; TNTs are great 2D/3D chips which just happen to have tv in/out functionality, usually as an afterthought. The Asus and Leadtek cards are the only ones AFAIK with a decent TV out, and of the few with a TV input, the quality is just suckiness. Not to mention not Linux-supported yet. :) Hence why I got a Leadtek S320 instead of an Asus v3400 and saved about $40... I figure if I want TV capture eventually, there's lots of much-better cards for about $50-$60 which are supported in Linux.
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I'm personally most interested in alternate colorspaces and in effects layers. Tool plug-ins would be real nice, too.
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Shift-click with the pencil or brush tool.
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Shift-click.
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Regarding TNTs, the Asus v3400/TV and v3800 (TNT1 and TNT2, respectively) both have a video capture. I don't know what quality they have, but yeah, they're certainly not as good as the G200 or G400's optional captures are, but they're also a lot cheaper. Also, don't blame the TNT1 for crappy MPEG scaling, because they don't do any MPEG at all; blame whatever software decoder you were using. :) To blame the TNT1 for crappy MPEG scaling is about akin to blaming the C64's VIC-II chip for the same thing.
I believe the Asus v3800 has an MPEG decoder chip on it, in the meantime. I dunno. I recently wasted $400 on a Sony DVP-S550D DVD player and don't really care about out-of-region playback or VHS bootlegging, and would rather just go with something high-quality. As good as PC-based DVD playback is, PCs still just can't match the output quality or features of even a midrange player like the DVP-S550D. (FWIW, all reviews I've seen of this player, not including ones of units with older, buggier firmware, are absolutely glowing, and put the quality on par with the DVP-S7700, apparently the best player on the market. Having a variety of options which make this player scale with my needs doesn't hurt any, either.)
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Is that all you remember? I can go all the way to 3.14159265358979323846264338 without a problem. :) I used to know this one person who claimed to know 100 digits or so, but I certainly couldn't verify it, and even my knowledge is at the point where any difference between measured and calculated circumferi is beyond insignifigant. But still... :)
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I recommend you get The Best of the Annals of Improbable Research, a collection of some of the better articles of the AIR. One of them is specifically about comparing apples and oranges - using a mass spectrometer. :)
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A winner is you! Very thanks!
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Hey wow, that really fouled up due to some less-thans I used. Let's try again...
What I personally do is, in making the distinction, is I use kilo/mega/gigabytes in referring to 1<<(10*i), and say 'thousand/million/billion bytes' in referring to pow(10,3*i). For example, "My system has 128 megs of memory and a 6.4 billion byte drive." Of course, then someone corrects me and says "6.4 gigs, you moron." sigh
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What I personally do is, in making the distinction, is I use kilo/mega/gigabytes in referring to 1sigh
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Ever been in a university computer lab?
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I use it all the time at work. My main project involves coding something on an SGI Octane using a library which we only have licensed for the Octane. My workstation is an O2. So, I remotely display the program from the Octane onto the O2, and it works great. Of course, it runs much fasbter when/if I runt it locally on the Octane, but since the Octane sits on my manager's desk and not mine, that's a bit difficult.
Ennyhoo. The reason the TNT driver currently only does GLX is because GLX is just so much simpler to implement and keep synchronized. That's what the DRI is all about. And anyway, q3test runs adequately on my TNT even through the GLX-only driver, as long as I turn off lightmaps (admittedly, GLX really sucks when it comes to texture thrashing, and it doesn't help that the GLX driver has no AGP support yet).
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If it runs as some user with no permissions to do anything (such as, say, 'nobody') then there's no problem. Well, assuming you're in a UNIX which isn't rootshellable from the 'nobody' user. (Hint: there's a reason most well-behaved daemons run as 'nobody'.)
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What the heck is a hamdinger, anyway? I've yet to figure this out, yet it at least used to play a major role in MST3k...
Man, I wish I didn't keep forgetting to watch it, specially now that some of their good later shows (like "Trucking With Death" and "Time Chasers") have been making it into reruns. This last season has kinda sucked, but seasons 8 and 9 were generally pretty good.
Does anyone know where I can get some of the other episodes on tape, though? I know that some of the important ones (such as Mitchell) are carried by Rhino, but I really want to see the last few Comedy Central episodes, particularly the very last one. Also the first Sci-Fi Channel episode, though I'm sure that'll show up in reruns soon enough (unless I missed that already, pfeh).
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Wow! Someone moderated down an anti-Microsoft post as being a troll! That's gotta be a Slashdot first! :)
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Disclaimer: I'm not the person who moderated it down. I currently have no moderation points, anyway.
To me, his post *does* look like a standard first post. Not redundant, but offtopic; for starters, it was on Yahoo news, not ZDNet, and didn't really say anything, but was just the usual "Oh, the media is crappy" and obviously didn't read the article. Well, not obviously, but most likely didn't. If I had moderated it, though, I'd have done 'off-topic.'
That's just me, though.
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WARNING: THIS IS A JOKE
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!
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A few months ago, when I was still in college (about a month from graduating), someone decided they needed my bike more than I did, and so they stole it. I was somewhat pissed (since I, of course, ended up having to walk home as a result), and so I emailed the campus police, only as a formality. I figured I'd just walk for the rest of the month, as it wouldn't have been cost-effective to buy a new bike so close to graduation. Ennyhoo, next day, I got an email back from the campus police stating that they'd already found my bike. Apparently it wasn't good enough for the thief, and so they left it on the lawn in front of the English building. The English building of all the places! I was incredibly insulted. But I got my bike back, and so all was well.
I think I had a point to all that, but it must have broken off somewhere...
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This has nothing to do with X. That is an issue with XFree, the X server most people use these days. I believe the topic of conversation is why X itself should be replaced, not problems with a particular X server. Also, XFree86 4.0 fixes this anyway.
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Feature freeze != code freeze. Even the best programmers occasionally have bugs in their code, and that's why a feature freeze is a Good Thing, as it lets the coders focus on fixing the bugs.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.