It is an excellent summary of worldwide news, and being British, it does a good job of avoiding the limitations of left-right politics that most news sources here seem to have.
I saw a website that put up ads as background images... this "defeats" Mozilla's right click menu. Now it takes 30 seconds to view the source and bring up the ad in the foreground... painful.
This will eventually be a problem for non-quantum algorithms, but if you need to protect against quantum decryption, then you can just use quantum ENcryption with extremely massive key sizes.
There is only one feature that is lacking in the other office products: 100% perfect MS Office interoperability. The first product to nail this perfectly will lead Linux onto millions of business desktops.
Remember, Visicalc was DOS' killer app, and Excel was Windows' killer app... it is quite likely that an office product will be what finally pushes Linux over the edge.
The main cause of this problem is that the dollar is artificially strong. Over the next several years the dollar is likely to devalue significantly.
The companies who are outsourcing to India will feel stupid when the exchange rates cause their "cheap" Indian labor to cost $100/hr - after spending millions on their outsourcing projects to begin with!
This process is inevitable as long as we continue to have global trade; and bringing the rest of the world up to a better standard of living helps us almost as much as it helps them.
Haven't you guys heard of the concept of "hack value"? Some people just like to do it themselves to figure out how things work in more detail than the ordinary point-and-drool kind of customer.
Get DirecTV with the Directivo. The dual tuner option alone is worth it... and soon they will be releasing an HDTV version of Directivo (2Q 2004 is my guess on this).
Cable and Satellite both have ridiculous amounts of compression though, but it isn't too annoying most of the time.
I would never be able to remember the exact mp3, but Phish is the first band that I traded - primarily because it was/is legal to share most of their audience-recorded concerts.
> 720p solves this because it is a much easier > resolution to drive on consumer displays and > therefore there is less box induced artifacting > (scaling, motion interpolation, etc).
From what I understand, the reason why few consumer displays supported 720p at first is because it is less easy to support. It apparently uses more "video bandwidth". Here is a short article about it: http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/bandwid.htm With fixed resolution displays like DLP, LCD, etc, the opposite will be true, but the TV networks are all stuck. I wonder if they could broadcast in either mode depending on the content... I assume that's what they will do _eventually_.
Wake up. 24 frames a second is ARCHAIC. It is easy to tell the difference. It is still possible to have beautiful pictures on the screen, but interlaced pictures and progressive scan both can look significantly better. TV can't touch the incredibly high resolution of films though!
When you see a real 60 frame progressive scan picture (with limited compression artifacts) it is amazing. ABC/Disney has only started to explore what is possible, IMO. The old test loops they used to play look ten times better than any of the "high definition" content they show these days.
This is a religious argument for HDTV people. I personally think that the progressive scan 720p mode is better for just about everything, especially sports and computer animation (the Monsters Inc teaser they used to show on ABC almost brought tears to my eyes it was so beautiful... I hope they hurry up and make fully re-rendered 720p Pixar movies ASAFP).
However, 1080i still looks pretty damn good most of the time!
Compression artifacts are a BIG problem with both formats though... I can only imagine how badly the satellite companies will butcher it... they really crank up the compression levels.
Tivo works very well. I also think it's a good idea to support companies that use Linux.
Doing your own PVR will be fun, and eventually will sort of work, but if you just want to plug a unit in and have it "just work", you should buy one. DirecTV subsidizes the Tivo cost during promotions, the unit is $99 and the monthly fee is like half of what it is on a standalone - plus you can record two programs at once.
All I really want is some kind of MPEG hardware playback of ATSC streams to component video - on Linux. Do you know of any progress in this area? I already have the pchdtv.com card, which works well enough, but non-accelerated playback onto a 21" monitor isn't quite as useful as true component video.
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It is an excellent summary of worldwide news, and being British, it does a good job of avoiding the limitations of left-right politics that most news sources here seem to have.
Without the higher priced innovators; what will there be for Dell to copy?
As long as you don't slow down your rate of innovation by doing something stupid, like purchasing Compaq, you should be OK.
What will it take for people to use an alternative
like Mozilla, which cuts back on the spying; or to
give up on Windows altogether?
I saw a website that put up ads as background images... this "defeats" Mozilla's right click menu. Now it takes 30 seconds to view the source and bring up the ad in the foreground... painful.
SILC is exactly like IRC, but with added encryption. That means encrypted chat, and file sharing via DCC.
The goal must be to have vendors ship machines that don't have Windows on them at all. This is actually a step backward.
This will eventually be a problem for non-quantum algorithms, but if you need to protect against quantum decryption, then you can just use quantum ENcryption with extremely massive key sizes.
There is only one feature that is lacking in the other office products: 100% perfect MS Office interoperability. The first product to nail this perfectly will lead Linux onto millions of business desktops.
Remember, Visicalc was DOS' killer app, and Excel was Windows' killer app... it is quite likely that an office product will be what finally pushes Linux over the edge.
Encryption. It should generate a unique key pair for each socket it opens.
> How does this benefit Microsoft?
They will receive a nice fat license fee, I'm sure; and they will probably take steps to make it even more difficult to play DVD's on Linux.
I hope this isn't another one of those Windows-only stories.
The problem with the Soviet Union wasn't "communism" per se, it was that their unelected communist dictators wanted to take over the world by force.
There are folks in Utah who are trying to do this, but Qwest is fighting them tooth and nail in the legislature, trying to kill the project.
The main cause of this problem is that the dollar
is artificially strong. Over the next several
years the dollar is likely to devalue
significantly.
The companies who are outsourcing to India will
feel stupid when the exchange rates cause their
"cheap" Indian labor to cost $100/hr - after
spending millions on their outsourcing projects
to begin with!
This process is inevitable as long as we continue
to have global trade; and bringing the rest of
the world up to a better standard of living helps
us almost as much as it helps them.
Haven't you guys heard of the concept of "hack
value"? Some people just like to do it themselves
to figure out how things work in more detail than
the ordinary point-and-drool kind of customer.
Get DirecTV with the Directivo. The dual tuner
option alone is worth it... and soon they will be
releasing an HDTV version of Directivo (2Q 2004 is
my guess on this).
Cable and Satellite both have ridiculous amounts
of compression though, but it isn't too annoying
most of the time.
This story is appalling, but also ancient. Let's
bring it back out closer to election time, though,
when it is again relevant.
I would never be able to remember the exact mp3, but
Phish is the first band that I traded - primarily
because it was/is legal to share most of their
audience-recorded concerts.
> 720p solves this because it is a much easier
> resolution to drive on consumer displays and
> therefore there is less box induced artifacting
> (scaling, motion interpolation, etc).
From what I understand, the reason why few
consumer displays supported 720p at first is
because it is less easy to support. It apparently
uses more "video bandwidth". Here is a short
article about it:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/bandwid.htm
With fixed resolution displays like DLP, LCD, etc,
the opposite will be true, but the TV networks
are all stuck. I wonder if they could broadcast
in either mode depending on the content... I
assume that's what they will do _eventually_.
Wake up. 24 frames a second is ARCHAIC. It is
easy to tell the difference. It is still possible
to have beautiful pictures on the screen, but
interlaced pictures and progressive scan both
can look significantly better. TV can't touch
the incredibly high resolution of films though!
When you see a real 60 frame progressive scan
picture (with limited compression artifacts) it is
amazing. ABC/Disney has only started to explore
what is possible, IMO. The old test loops they
used to play look ten times better than any of
the "high definition" content they show these
days.
Mark
This is a religious argument for HDTV people. I
personally think that the progressive scan 720p
mode is better for just about everything,
especially sports and computer animation (the
Monsters Inc teaser they used to show on ABC
almost brought tears to my eyes it was so
beautiful... I hope they hurry up and make fully
re-rendered 720p Pixar movies ASAFP).
However, 1080i still looks pretty damn good most
of the time!
Compression artifacts are a BIG problem with
both formats though... I can only imagine how
badly the satellite companies will butcher it...
they really crank up the compression levels.
Quake 3 runs wonderfully on a 800 mhz machine with
a $50 nvidia geforce MX card.
Tivo works very well. I also think it's a good
idea to support companies that use Linux.
Doing your own PVR will be fun, and eventually
will sort of work, but if you just want to plug a
unit in and have it "just work", you should buy
one. DirecTV subsidizes the Tivo cost during
promotions, the unit is $99 and the monthly fee is
like half of what it is on a standalone - plus you
can record two programs at once.
It's just sad to see how far down Slashdot has
sunk these days.
All I really want is some kind of MPEG hardware
playback of ATSC streams to component video - on
Linux. Do you know of any progress in this area?
I already have the pchdtv.com card, which works
well enough, but non-accelerated playback onto a
21" monitor isn't quite as useful as true component
video.