Question: Do you feel, not being able to use the internet and generally spending so much time incarcerated, set you back on your knowledge? Case in point, 5-6 years ago Linux was still in its infancy. Do you ever get amazed how much OSS community has accomplished in such a short period of time?
Fire is an editor. Flame is for effects. Jashaka was originally intended to be a Flame clone. Whether it stuck to that goal or whether they went the editor route is a question best left for somebody who gives a rats ass about Jahshaka.;-)
Well, you get the idea. Most of Discreet's titles have the exact same interface look and feel. Uniformity is the word I'm looking for. That's what Jashaka was trying to do.
Making a movie is not the hardest part. Making it look good is what matters. Do not expect anything remotely close to AE on linux. There are no substitutes. AE is pretty much prosumer, fairly extended special effects tool which won't appear in the GNU/GPL anytime soon. Then again, you don't really need AE, unless you're trying to create Farscape clones and cheesy made for TV effects.
Sure, you might be able to do basic stuff in Cinelerra, FilmGimp, etc, but for your movie to look absolutely flawless you need some high-end filters and effects. Jahshaka is in it's early beta and extremely buggy. They are emulating the feel of Discreet Fire (Post Production). I'm not too familiar with it's featureset. Don't count on it to be the Editing solution.
The secret is not the software itself, but the camerawork. If you put a lot of effort into shooting it, you'll make up for the editing shortcomings. It's definately possible. Hope you made a bet with the naysayers, because they'll lose. Funny thing is, it'll be a piece of cake to make a movie like Pi in linux with open source applications.
This guide appeared on a russian site on January 5th.
Yet today's article says:
"We have just posted a very difficult guide to turning your ATI Radeon 9500 into a 9700..."
Oh yeah! "We". I'm sure you thought of it first. Not even a single mention of the Russian hackers who first came up with this easy hack. Not really brain surgery. Few people I know hacked up the board in less than few hours.
This isn't just alienating developers. It's alienating the whole Linux community, including users, OSS contributors, commercial entities.
Not to play a Devil's Advocate for Lindows here, but what has HP done for Linux that's so fucking revolutionary and praiseworthy? From all I know they laid off bunch of linux people and beefed up the Microsoft strategy.
In short, fuck HPQ. Even Dell is more committed to linux than HP will ever be. Bunch of corporate whores, they are.
So do Swiffs (and host of other formats), because they're all vector based.
You consider that an advantage in SVG?
SVG and web authoring don't mix, and why would anyone want to print Gifs or PNGs? Clarify please.
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Lets start with disadvantages. Not many browsers support SVG in it's current form. Somehow the plugin is tied to Adobe, which the call the "recommended viewer". (Read: No rock-solid native browser support in IE, or in Mozilla/Phoenix)
No widespread use. (Yes, I don't give a fuck if W3C is their mothers collectively endorse SVG, it was even dead before it got invented). Macromedia Swiff (.sfw) format is NOT closed source, and you have a better chance reaching your audience with it. Some people confuse.swf with Flash, and that's not the case. Now that you can import SWF into major Presentation titles, there is no reason why SVG could be of any use.
As for advantages, it's based on XML spec, but then again, not everything that carries the name XML is something to go nuts over.
In conclusion, I've been hearing how SVG was going to EXPLODE onto the web and portables in the next few years, and it never happened. That's what people were saying back in late 90's.
"Users will be able to download from the Internet at speeds up to 3M bps (bits per second) and upload, initially, at speeds up to 128K bps, according to Lufthansa. The upload speeds will later increase to 750K bps, it said."
It doesn't say whether it's shared on not, but I am pretty sure they have per-seat speeds in mind when it says 3M/128K. Otherwise, there wouldn't be enough bandwith left for the ACK pockets to utilize the 3MBPS downstream speed.
Maybe they capped the upload speed to 12kb/s to prevent passengers from sharing stuff on Kazaa? Who knows?
I got my:CueCat back in 98 I think; came with the issue of Wired Mag. There were some driver issues and it didn't install, so I just threw it in the closet where it still is.
In fact, here's a picture to prove I was part of the moron revolution.
I can never understand this stuff. You want to give "poor developing countries" internet access?
Nice troll. I'll bite anyways.
Do you use linux? BSD? PHP? {insert technology name here}
Well guess what? There are features in each and every technology you use daily which were partly developed and enhanced in places where the unemployment is extremely high, the economy is in the shithole, and average person makes $20/month. That doesn't mean poor/developing/third world countries cannot produce geniuses who might contribute something revolutionary to our existing technology in one way or another. Right? Wrong.
By your idiotic analogy, we should cut off the internet pipes in India. Afterall, majority of India's population lives below the poverty line and doesn't have basic necessities.
Internet is the artery which feeds innovation. It puts the world at your fingertips and expedites the process of gathering mass amount of targetted, specialized information in matter of seconds. (For the sake of arguement) I might be posting this from the Amazon Jungle. In a way, I am making a contribution to this discussion. I am making my voice heard. Internet is Freedom. Why do you think so many people are worried about the restrictions China is putting on the general populace in regards to the filtering of "objectionable content"?
Take a moment and think about that one kid out there in the thrird world country hell, who might have became the next linus torvalds, bill gates, et al. But instead, he has to work 18 hours a day in a field to feed himself and will eventually void his potential, just because a greasy fuck like yourself decided he was priveleged more because you had running water and air conditioning, thus making you somewhat more relevant.
Don't you think we should spend more time actually developing these places before we start laying in the luxuries? (Remember, the Internet is not some god given right, it's a Luxury.)
Internet is a luxury? Did I miss the memo on this?
Again going back to my comment about the Great Firewall of China. Why do you think internet makes their heads of state of nervous? I'll give you a clue. It rhymes with INFORMATION. More information you have, more educated you are; the more educated you are, more chances you have to take a stand against bullshit religious fanatics, tyranny, government lies and all that other madness.
Internet is a vast, unregulated library. Do you want to deny those people of it? Because that's what you're saying. It's not like we're setting them up with internet access so they could solely deploy Counter-Strike servers and amuse themselves.
Next time think before bringing up such a stupid arguments. Fucktard.
It's a World Expo, not an "OMG 1337 CHEX0r mY BoX3n!" enthusiast site. Whoever designed the site for the venue, runs a dedicated IIS off of Verio, and hosted it accordingly.
Phoenix renders pages twice as fast as IE. And Mozilla is NOT an end-user browser. It's a technology preview which shows off XUL and bunch of other shit, which makes fast applications possible (such as Phoenix).
Why is this project (in beta I might add) was approved to be posted on slashdot is beyond me. Sure, it's a fairly good tool for what it's worth, but essentially it's in a binary form, so no dice.
If you look around,/. is very Open Source centric. There are billions of applications out there which rank really high in my book, but usually don't slip through the filters because of their nature. In this case - closed source.
Imagine if every basement coder submitted their beta "vision" projects to slashdot, this would be nothing short of sourceforge without the benefit of source.
The intention is honorable, but the wording could be clearer.
Agreed. I'm not a professional fine print writer. Those "Terms of Use" papers are really tricky to write. Hopefully you got the general idea I was trying to convey;)
For instance, who decides whether the company is committed enough?
It would state in the License Agreement. We all know that EULA is a legally binding document. Same thing could have been said about LGPL. But it worked out ok.
Or whether it's meeting demand? When it's insupported? Who deems it ``abandonware''?
This is the point where it gets complicated.
One way of doing this would be to create an independent international entity much like W3C or ICANN, and the terms could be negotiated between the vendor and the board (i.e. a certain quota of the software title should be met fiscally to justify the source protection). You can't just sell 5 licenses per year and say the project is successful.
The "Open Source upon End of Cycle" selling point would be a huge feature for people to make the decision whether to invest into product A over B. Unfortunately, less than 1% of the end users really would pick that feature over others, such as a "cute" GUI. So in turn, ignorance of the vast majority hurts us all in the long run.
But then again, this is a shot in the dark, simply because software industry is a lawless wasteland.
Lemon laws do not apply to this sector for some reason. You can't hold XYZ company accountable for discontinuing XX application development. If the laws were in place, the vendor could not fuck the paying customers over with canning the project and moving on.
Small example. Suppose you are a web developer and maintain all your site information in Macromedia's own DreamweaverMX proprietary format. Sitemaps, reports, custom scripts, DWMX-exclusive server controls, et al. Suddenly, Macromedia decides to pull Dreamweaver off the shelves and close support/development. In a perfect world you could sue them for the cost of conversion of all your files, lost productivity time, etc. But unfortunatly software sector somehow defies the normal rules which are common in any democracy. The laws (if there are any) are inacted upon counter-intuitive logic, which end up hurting the innovation. I'm probably getting way offtopic here, but sure, I do agree on your points more or less.
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What are your thoughts about TCPA Initiative / Palladium? Do you see it as a destructive force in the computing industry?
Question: Do you feel, not being able to use the internet and generally spending so much time incarcerated, set you back on your knowledge? Case in point, 5-6 years ago Linux was still in its infancy. Do you ever get amazed how much OSS community has accomplished in such a short period of time?
Well, you get the idea. Most of Discreet's titles have the exact same interface look and feel. Uniformity is the word I'm looking for. That's what Jashaka was trying to do.
Making a movie is not the hardest part. Making it look good is what matters. Do not expect anything remotely close to AE on linux. There are no substitutes. AE is pretty much prosumer, fairly extended special effects tool which won't appear in the GNU/GPL anytime soon. Then again, you don't really need AE, unless you're trying to create Farscape clones and cheesy made for TV effects.
Sure, you might be able to do basic stuff in Cinelerra, FilmGimp, etc, but for your movie to look absolutely flawless you need some high-end filters and effects. Jahshaka is in it's early beta and extremely buggy. They are emulating the feel of Discreet Fire (Post Production). I'm not too familiar with it's featureset. Don't count on it to be the Editing solution.
The secret is not the software itself, but the camerawork. If you put a lot of effort into shooting it, you'll make up for the editing shortcomings. It's definately possible. Hope you made a bet with the naysayers, because they'll lose. Funny thing is, it'll be a piece of cake to make a movie like Pi in linux with open source applications.
Good luck on your project.
Yet today's article says:
Oh yeah! "We". I'm sure you thought of it first. Not even a single mention of the Russian hackers who first came up with this easy hack. Not really brain surgery. Few people I know hacked up the board in less than few hours.
Who cares.
Get a life.
Not to play a Devil's Advocate for Lindows here, but what has HP done for Linux that's so fucking revolutionary and praiseworthy? From all I know they laid off bunch of linux people and beefed up the Microsoft strategy.
In short, fuck HPQ. Even Dell is more committed to linux than HP will ever be. Bunch of corporate whores, they are.
hahahahahaha.
That's the single funniest thing today.
Negative on that.
I'm sure KDE could benefit from it greatly. As for web, forgetaboutit.
So do Swiffs (and host of other formats), because they're all vector based.
You consider that an advantage in SVG?
SVG and web authoring don't mix, and why would anyone want to print Gifs or PNGs? Clarify please.
Lets start with disadvantages. Not many browsers support SVG in it's current form. Somehow the plugin is tied to Adobe, which the call the "recommended viewer". (Read: No rock-solid native browser support in IE, or in Mozilla/Phoenix)
.swf with Flash, and that's not the case. Now that you can import SWF into major Presentation titles, there is no reason why SVG could be of any use.
No widespread use. (Yes, I don't give a fuck if W3C is their mothers collectively endorse SVG, it was even dead before it got invented). Macromedia Swiff (.sfw) format is NOT closed source, and you have a better chance reaching your audience with it. Some people confuse
As for advantages, it's based on XML spec, but then again, not everything that carries the name XML is something to go nuts over.
In conclusion, I've been hearing how SVG was going to EXPLODE onto the web and portables in the next few years, and it never happened. That's what people were saying back in late 90's.
Karma Whore Spotted!
It's sort of ironic, considering the fact that in the last discussion I ripped iCommune for not being Open Source.
Here's the link to the comment. Maybe Apple wouldn't be so quick to strike down the iTunes plugin, have it been GPL'ed.
It doesn't say whether it's shared on not, but I am pretty sure they have per-seat speeds in mind when it says 3M/128K. Otherwise, there wouldn't be enough bandwith left for the ACK pockets to utilize the 3MBPS downstream speed.
Maybe they capped the upload speed to 12kb/s to prevent passengers from sharing stuff on Kazaa? Who knows?
I got my :CueCat back in 98 I think; came with the issue of Wired Mag. There were some driver issues and it didn't install, so I just threw it in the closet where it still is.
In fact, here's a picture to prove I was part of the moron revolution.
you would, if you're running an ircD server.
The old and proven "Your Parent's Basement" jokes are a sure way to present witty counterpoints in any situation. I wish I'd thought of it first.
The systems in question were mainframe computers running IBM's Operating System 390.
Not that i'm a linux fanatic, just wanted you to get your facts straight.
Nice troll. I'll bite anyways.
Do you use linux? BSD? PHP? {insert technology name here}
Well guess what? There are features in each and every technology you use daily which were partly developed and enhanced in places where the unemployment is extremely high, the economy is in the shithole, and average person makes $20/month. That doesn't mean poor/developing/third world countries cannot produce geniuses who might contribute something revolutionary to our existing technology in one way or another. Right? Wrong.
By your idiotic analogy, we should cut off the internet pipes in India. Afterall, majority of India's population lives below the poverty line and doesn't have basic necessities.
Internet is the artery which feeds innovation. It puts the world at your fingertips and expedites the process of gathering mass amount of targetted, specialized information in matter of seconds. (For the sake of arguement) I might be posting this from the Amazon Jungle. In a way, I am making a contribution to this discussion. I am making my voice heard. Internet is Freedom. Why do you think so many people are worried about the restrictions China is putting on the general populace in regards to the filtering of "objectionable content"?
Take a moment and think about that one kid out there in the thrird world country hell, who might have became the next linus torvalds, bill gates, et al. But instead, he has to work 18 hours a day in a field to feed himself and will eventually void his potential, just because a greasy fuck like yourself decided he was priveleged more because you had running water and air conditioning, thus making you somewhat more relevant.
Internet is a luxury? Did I miss the memo on this?
Again going back to my comment about the Great Firewall of China. Why do you think internet makes their heads of state of nervous? I'll give you a clue. It rhymes with INFORMATION. More information you have, more educated you are; the more educated you are, more chances you have to take a stand against bullshit religious fanatics, tyranny, government lies and all that other madness.
Internet is a vast, unregulated library. Do you want to deny those people of it? Because that's what you're saying. It's not like we're setting them up with internet access so they could solely deploy Counter-Strike servers and amuse themselves.
Next time think before bringing up such a stupid arguments. Fucktard.
Didn't your momma ever teach you - when committing theft, always reach for the 17" Powerbook first?
Who gives a shit?
It's a World Expo, not an "OMG 1337 CHEX0r mY BoX3n!" enthusiast site. Whoever designed the site for the venue, runs a dedicated IIS off of Verio, and hosted it accordingly.
It renders just fine in Phoenix/RH8
You might want to read this article
Phoenix renders pages twice as fast as IE. And Mozilla is NOT an end-user browser. It's a technology preview which shows off XUL and bunch of other shit, which makes fast applications possible (such as Phoenix).
So there.
If you look around,
Imagine if every basement coder submitted their beta "vision" projects to slashdot, this would be nothing short of sourceforge without the benefit of source.
To blockquoth the Readme in the
I don't see anything about GNU/GPL. So there you have it. But good job... I guess.
Agreed. I'm not a professional fine print writer. Those "Terms of Use" papers are really tricky to write. Hopefully you got the general idea I was trying to convey
It would state in the License Agreement. We all know that EULA is a legally binding document. Same thing could have been said about LGPL. But it worked out ok.
This is the point where it gets complicated.
One way of doing this would be to create an independent international entity much like W3C or ICANN, and the terms could be negotiated between the vendor and the board (i.e. a certain quota of the software title should be met fiscally to justify the source protection). You can't just sell 5 licenses per year and say the project is successful.
The "Open Source upon End of Cycle" selling point would be a huge feature for people to make the decision whether to invest into product A over B. Unfortunately, less than 1% of the end users really would pick that feature over others, such as a "cute" GUI. So in turn, ignorance of the vast majority hurts us all in the long run.
But then again, this is a shot in the dark, simply because software industry is a lawless wasteland.
Lemon laws do not apply to this sector for some reason. You can't hold XYZ company accountable for discontinuing XX application development. If the laws were in place, the vendor could not fuck the paying customers over with canning the project and moving on.
Small example. Suppose you are a web developer and maintain all your site information in Macromedia's own DreamweaverMX proprietary format. Sitemaps, reports, custom scripts, DWMX-exclusive server controls, et al. Suddenly, Macromedia decides to pull Dreamweaver off the shelves and close support/development. In a perfect world you could sue them for the cost of conversion of all your files, lost productivity time, etc. But unfortunatly software sector somehow defies the normal rules which are common in any democracy. The laws (if there are any) are inacted upon counter-intuitive logic, which end up hurting the innovation. I'm probably getting way offtopic here, but sure, I do agree on your points more or less.