Just about every "improvement" in media seems to involve making the quality shittier and shittier.
Claiming that 90% of the sound is gone is ridiculous, though. A 256k mp3 sounds quite good. However, a real improvement would be to start using a 24k/96k source for the compressed audio instead of limiting audio to the same 16k/44k range.
Video, however, is just in sad shape. YouTube is a sick joke - it is silly to see things like the CNN YouTube debates in the day and age of high definition television.
I have given up ridiculing people who run Windows on their workstations, basically along the lines of what this guy says. However, it is completely ridiculous to ever run Windows on a server.
It is worth $20/month to have a company that is dedicated to delivering schedules accurately. It will be good to demonstrate that money can be made by helping out the MythTV community.
Of course, a competing project to do screen scraping would be welcome too to keep them from overcharging.
Great workaround. However, I would prefer to see the standards support longer cables. There will always be a market for people who want to be 100 yards away, but the video & usb should at least be able to handle 25 foot cables.
The single biggest problem with current video technologies is that it is not possible to have very long cables (50' +).
Ideally, I would like to be able to put the computer in another room and just run a long video cable, and then use the USB hub in the monitor to hook up everything else. This would be great for office environments too.
USB has the same cable length problem , unfortunately.
It sucks, but that is not an unreasonable request - though I would try to get them to reduce the fee by the cashier's check charge since I believe they are legally required to accept cash.
At some point we need to see if vendors can make extra money by providing pre-installed Linux, and this is a good test. There was a lot more hype for this than for their previous Linux offerings, so I would expect to see decent sales.
I am getting one for my next laptop, I hope other Linux enthusiasts will put their money where there mouth is.
Microsoft's per-processor licensing survives, but in the form of per-model licensing. I'm sure that Michael Dell had to personally kiss Steve Ballmer's pinky ring in order to provide Ubuntu without having Microsoft double their Windows licensing fees. Part of the agreement being to keep it out of their business computers. Total speculation on my part, but there must have been some seriously tough negotiating at the highest levels of management in both MS and Dell to make this happen.
I am pretty impressed with Dell for doing this - it is worth it to live with a home PC even though the support sucks and it is harder to purchase.
Now that a significant number of people in the country have HDTV and high resolution monitors, why are we seeing an explosion of videos that are embarrassingly low quality?
No, because when you first entangle the pairs, they are at the same point in time.
Then, you move one of them really fast for awhile, and then relativity would separate them.
This means that the pairs would have had to be entangled many years ago in order to use them now. Time travel may be possible in the future, but it would not allow you to go back to an arbitrary point in time
then this is a great idea. It is not like you will be able to create a wormhole or anything, but maybe you could theoretically use it to send morse code to the future or past.
Google are the ones who make a Windows-only product - why are they complaining now? It is the same story every time: they strengthen the Windows franchise and then complain that Microsoft has an unfair advantage.
I have an NFS server (3ware 7810) that holds the disks for my hi def MythTV setup; it beats on the disks continuously over NFS and I have never seen a corrupt file.
I am using an Athlon MP server with Ubuntu Breezy, and the other boxes are dual core AMD with Ubuntu.
I'm not sure what you could change; maybe use tcp,nfsvers=3 in the NFS options. Also, make sure you can write large amounts of data to the server locally to 100% prove it is NFS that is causing your woes.
What I object to is the exclusive licensing that Microsoft forces on vendors. Buyers should be able to choose the OS. Microsoft has done a good job of making Windows easy to use, and there are plenty of books & tutorials for n00bs. However, forcing people to pay for Windows when they will never use it is just wrong -- and the basis for Microsoft's monopoly.
Civil asset forfeiture is certainly effective, but the last thing we need to do is expand the prison industry. Look at what this has done for the "war on drugs" since Reagan signed it into law in the mid 80's - prison population has quadrupled, but drugs are just as easy to get now as they were then.
Copyright and patent violations should not be criminal penalties, period.
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One factor in how much money the ONDCP / DEA receives to fight the war on drugs is what percentage of the population is using drugs.
People lie when taking anonymous polls, and most drug users aren't caught. This makes it tough to know the true number.
This will allow the ONDCP to get more money to do the same ineffective job they have always been doing.
Just about every "improvement" in media seems to involve making the quality shittier and shittier.
Claiming that 90% of the sound is gone is ridiculous, though. A 256k mp3 sounds quite good. However, a real improvement would be to start using a 24k/96k source for the compressed audio instead of limiting audio to the same 16k/44k range.
Video, however, is just in sad shape. YouTube is a sick joke - it is silly to see things like the CNN YouTube debates in the day and age of high definition television.
I have given up ridiculing people who run Windows on their workstations, basically along the lines of what this guy says. However, it is completely ridiculous to ever run Windows on a server.
As a long time MythTV user, I disagree.
It is worth $20/month to have a company that is dedicated to delivering schedules accurately. It will be good to demonstrate that money can be made by helping out the MythTV community.
Of course, a competing project to do screen scraping would be welcome too to keep them from overcharging.
I am still bitter about Red Hat for abandoning the desktop market a few years ago - why would anyone trust them this time around?
Ubuntu simply rocks (especially Linux Mint) - Red Hat doesn't stand a chance.
Great workaround. However, I would prefer to see the standards support longer cables. There will always be a market for people who want to be 100 yards away, but the video & usb should at least be able to handle 25 foot cables.
This is a good start, but $1200 is a little steep.
The single biggest problem with current video technologies is that it is not possible to have very long cables (50' +).
Ideally, I would like to be able to put the computer in another room and just run a long video cable, and then use the USB hub in the monitor to hook up everything else. This would be great for office environments too.
USB has the same cable length problem , unfortunately.
I wouldn't be too worried about their logos, as long as they don't do browser checks and prevent Linux and Mac from using their site at all.
I have a Comcast cable modem and it works great - the day it stops working great I will stop using Comcast.
If you are running the same OS on each VM on a server, OpenVZ is the best.
Performance is great, good control over resources (with the glaring exception of disk IO operations, which they are working on).
I would rather shove a splintered 2x4 up my ass than keep seeing these silly stories.
It sucks, but that is not an unreasonable request - though I would try to get them to reduce the fee by the cashier's check charge since I believe they are legally required to accept cash.
This is called a "trial balloon".
If they sell a million laptops with Ubuntu, it will not be short lived. If they only sell 1000, it will be.
I agree with point #1 but disagree with point #2.
At some point we need to see if vendors can make extra money by providing pre-installed Linux, and this is a good test. There was a lot more hype for this than for their previous Linux offerings, so I would expect to see decent sales.
I am getting one for my next laptop, I hope other Linux enthusiasts will put their money where there mouth is.
Microsoft's per-processor licensing survives, but in the form of per-model licensing. I'm sure that Michael Dell had to personally kiss Steve Ballmer's pinky ring in order to provide Ubuntu without having Microsoft double their Windows licensing fees. Part of the agreement being to keep it out of their business computers. Total speculation on my part, but there must have been some seriously tough negotiating at the highest levels of management in both MS and Dell to make this happen.
I am pretty impressed with Dell for doing this - it is worth it to live with a home PC even though the support sucks and it is harder to purchase.
Now that a significant number of people in the country have HDTV and high resolution monitors, why are we seeing an explosion of videos that are embarrassingly low quality?
No, because when you first entangle the pairs, they are at the same point in time.
Then, you move one of them really fast for awhile, and then relativity would separate them.
This means that the pairs would have had to be entangled many years ago in order to use them now. Time travel may be possible in the future, but it would not allow you to go back to an arbitrary point in time
then this is a great idea. It is not like you will be able to create a wormhole or anything, but maybe you could theoretically use it to send morse code to the future or past.
Google are the ones who make a Windows-only product - why are they complaining now? It is the same story every time: they strengthen the Windows franchise and then complain that Microsoft has an unfair advantage.
I have an NFS server (3ware 7810) that holds the disks for my hi def MythTV setup; it beats on the disks continuously over NFS and I have never seen a corrupt file.
I am using an Athlon MP server with Ubuntu Breezy, and the other boxes are dual core AMD with Ubuntu.
I'm not sure what you could change; maybe use tcp,nfsvers=3 in the NFS options. Also, make sure you can write large amounts of data to the server locally to 100% prove it is NFS that is causing your woes.
He may lack the charisma to win, but his position on a lot of these issues is fairly good, if a bit to idealogical.
Any idiot can figure out how to find these things in, for example, Ubuntu's desktop.
This is a ridiculous argument.
If people prefer Windows, that is fine.
What I object to is the exclusive licensing that Microsoft forces on vendors. Buyers should be able to choose the OS. Microsoft has done a good job of making Windows easy to use, and there are plenty of books & tutorials for n00bs. However, forcing people to pay for Windows when they will never use it is just wrong -- and the basis for Microsoft's monopoly.
Civil asset forfeiture is certainly effective, but the last thing we need to do is expand the prison industry. Look at what this has done for the "war on drugs" since Reagan signed it into law in the mid 80's - prison population has quadrupled, but drugs are just as easy to get now as they were then.
Copyright and patent violations should not be criminal penalties, period.
FWIW.
I am a big fan of Virtuozzo and OpenVZ. I just wish vzstat would be included with the free stuff.