The first ten thousand years were the worst, and the second ten thousand years, they were the worst too. The third ten thousand years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
It's the people you meet in this job that really get you down. The best conversation I had was over forty thousand years ago, and that was with a coffee machine.
I disagree with the point of the argument "Linux users are a tiny minority, and Linux users that care about seeing this little preview are an even smaller one." because there are streaming formats available which are supported on windows and mac and linux and... Fair enough that linux might be a small market but there are technologies out that that don't exclude linux or others who choose differently.
BTW MPEG *IS* streamable, the format was designed to be streamed.
The real issue here is that "they" have chosen a format which has a limited supported OS (regardless of the fact that windows covers 95% of computer users) when other formats exist that do not have such limitations.
Why choose 95% when you can have 100% ???
"they" are in violation of the prime geek directive.:-)
Implimenting a technology such as this is not going to stop people from electronically distributing movies.
Why not address the real issue: "Why do people download movies?"
Convenience? It's easier for me to watch the movie in my own home at my own time, then it is for me to wait for the scheduled time and travel to the cinema. I don't even watch TV at the scheduled time anymore, I watch it when I choose to. Cinema is a technology that is no longer in line with the demands people make from todays technology. We are in an "on demand" society. I don't want to have to wait. I want it now. I don't want to change my routine to fit into your schedule. What would get you to go to the cinema?
Advanced screening? I don't live in the States, so some movie releases don't arrive until weeks or even months later and may be even available on DVD in the States before the movie is showing here in the cinemas. Again I don't want to have to wait, if the movie is available for others to see, why should I wait?
Cost? Legally I can rent a DVD and watch it with a group of friends for $5. I go to the cinema and it costs $15 per person.
The Big Screen Experience is no longer enough to get people out of their homes. As people's homes become more like the big screen.
From my understanding, it uses infrared to detect if a CCD type camera is present then shoots visible light at the camera to wash out the image.
So why not use the infrared filter to prevent the detection of the CCD camera. Don't reflect the infrared light back to the detection device. Thus no camera detected and no visible light sent to wash out said camera.
"Whilst it is simply a text editor, it does change the "accepted" format of text files by including an additional linefeed after every carriage return (UNIX and most other systems just use carriage return)."
I can't help but be picky here.
Unix end of line characters are "linefeed" 0xA Mac (not Darwin) end of line characters are "carraige return" 0xD Dos/Windows uses CRLF 0xD0xA
So when you edit a DOS file, in a unix app that isn't aware, you see control M (^M) characters on the end of each line. As the CR comes before the LF.
When you edit a mac text file, in a unix app, all the text appears on one line.
Technically CRLF is the correct way to end a line.
LF only moves down a line without returning the carraige (positioning the cursor/printhead at 0) Thus getting that staircase effect when you print text files on some printers.
CR repositions the print head at position 0 but without moving down a line, so you get over print.
It could be argued that back in the early days, that using 2 characters for an end of line was too resource hungry, so using one was standardised.
That's the next question. What defines something as creativity?
"Most people don't see taking part of someones song or picture on a part with particular notes or colours."
But at the fundamental level it is the same.
My mother is a professional painting artist and uses collage alot in her work. No one says that her work isn't original creativity despite it containing part of someone elses picture.
I produce video clips of events I've been involved with (drift and track days) by taking someone elses music, and syncing my footage with it, sometimes I pad out the gaps with video downloaded from the net. Would most people regard this as creative?
Fonts are copyright, so are considered creative, but anyone with a pen and a steady hand could draw them and people use many in everyday life without thinking about it.
What about some of the sounds in my synthesizer? Many are not natural sounds or recordings of other instruments. Someone had to create that sound and that is creative to me. Yet I could write a whole musical score using that sound (as well as other sounds).
What about those pearl paints that change colour depending on the angle of light? Someone had to come up with the idea to be able to do that, is that creative? It's just a paint.
The lines between the elements that make up creativity and creativity itself are blurred. One mans masterpiece is another mans ink dot.
I feel that people should not get upset (and impliment technology to prevent it) about their work being used to create something larger.
Didn't Newton say something about standing on the shoulders of giants. Same goes for creativity.
I found a really cool sharing network called DVB-T.
All files are in high quality mpeg2 720x576 and come down at 7mbit!!! There are also some higher quality files at 1440x1008 or even 1920x1008 and they come down at 14mbit.
It uses a special broadcast network protocol so that the suits can't find out who's downloading the files. But you can only download 1 file at a time and you need a special modem to connect to the network.
Some of the files contain advertisements but they're easy to remove or skip.
The releases are a bit slow, however, as I'm was getting a complete season of Dr Who but the files only came out once a week.
I feel from the article that it appears many people do not see the computer as an artistic tool. The same way a painter sees a brush. A writer a manuscript. A musician an instrument.
They see it more as a TV, a stereo, a delivery system. They see the computer as the end point of creative media, not the beginning. "So DRM must be enforced in the end point."
But to many of us techno-utopians who have grown up around computers and could see the machine without limitations, DRM presents a threat to our creativity. It limits what we consider a limitless machine.
Would a painter feel threatened if some colour paints would not work with his/her paint brush? Would a musician feel threatened if certain rhythms and melodies could not be played?
I see my computer not as a burden for working life, but a portfolio and canvas of all my creativity.
The article seems to think they know 'us techno-utopians' but I feel that I have been misrepresented.
Yes you may be able to quite easily copy the Protected AAC files, downloaded from ITMS, off your friends iPod, which the iPod was playing but you won't be able to play them. (without dvd jon's AAC protection striping tool)
This is the DRM which is integrated into the iPod. The ability to play those protected songs downloaded from the music store, not prevent them from being copied. The iPod is an authorised device to play files downloaded from iTMS.
DRM is not about preventing copying of files, it's about the preventing those files being viewed in a usable format.
I don't see a valid reason for spending money on a product to view a binary file that someone has sent me.
I feel it should be the responsibility of the format designer to document their format or provide a free reader/converter for *every* platform.
Microsoft do neither of these two things. So I don't feel that their format should be given any respect. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to read it.
It is up to us, the end users, to give or take Microsoft's power. If we refuse their products and let others know why, then awareness is raised.
The usual concern with the TPM and "trusted computing" is that the hardware and OS can limit what software will run.
I feel that I've missed something here.
Wouldn't this simply extend to the case, that the TPM is not present, therefore as the OS I will limit the software, being say the display engine, to not run. Thus rendering OSX down to simply be darwin?
Or have you oversimplified too much?
As I feel that what you've described it to be, is exactly what Apple are trying to do; limit what software will run.
This happens if you are installing on a headless Xserve and a graphical dialog box pops up, where to I don't know, asking you to register for quicktime pro.
The command line installer hangs waiting for you to *click* the dialog box.
Please explain how one can click a dialog box on a machine with no graphic card and no mouse and keyboard connected? Especially if it is a thousand kilometres away...
I have the original source for the Linux photo montage project, which made the image of Tux out of all different Linux related project logos. (IE gimp, gnome, windowmaker...)
It is a GIMP plugin which creates a database out of a large number of pictures. You then run the filter over the source image.
It was really early code so I suspect that Metapixel may be better.
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Same in Oz. :-(
What's the reasoning behind this?
The first ten thousand years were the worst, and the second ten thousand years, they were the worst too. The third ten thousand years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
It's the people you meet in this job that really get you down. The best conversation I had was over forty thousand years ago, and that was with a coffee machine.
I disagree with the point of the argument "Linux users are a tiny minority, and Linux users that care about seeing this little preview are an even smaller one." because there are streaming formats available which are supported on windows and mac and linux and ... Fair enough that linux might be a small market but there are technologies out that that don't exclude linux or others who choose differently.
:-)
BTW MPEG *IS* streamable, the format was designed to be streamed.
The real issue here is that "they" have chosen a format which has a limited supported OS (regardless of the fact that windows covers 95% of computer users) when other formats exist that do not have such limitations.
Why choose 95% when you can have 100% ???
"they" are in violation of the prime geek directive.
Implimenting a technology such as this is not going to stop people from electronically distributing movies.
Why not address the real issue: "Why do people download movies?"
Convenience? It's easier for me to watch the movie in my own home at my own time, then it is for me to wait for the scheduled time and travel to the cinema. I don't even watch TV at the scheduled time anymore, I watch it when I choose to.
Cinema is a technology that is no longer in line with the demands people make from todays technology. We are in an "on demand" society. I don't want to have to wait. I want it now. I don't want to change my routine to fit into your schedule.
What would get you to go to the cinema?
Advanced screening? I don't live in the States, so some movie releases don't arrive until weeks or even months later and may be even available on DVD in the States before the movie is showing here in the cinemas. Again I don't want to have to wait, if the movie is available for others to see, why should I wait?
Cost? Legally I can rent a DVD and watch it with a group of friends for $5. I go to the cinema and it costs $15 per person.
The Big Screen Experience is no longer enough to get people out of their homes. As people's homes become more like the big screen.
Cinema must change or it will die.
What other reasons can you think of?
From my understanding, it uses infrared to detect if a CCD type camera is present then shoots visible light at the camera to wash out the image.
So why not use the infrared filter to prevent the detection of the CCD camera. Don't reflect the infrared light back to the detection device. Thus no camera detected and no visible light sent to wash out said camera.
From my experience it appears that modern printers follow this rule as well.
Sending a unix text file to my laser printer produces the "staircase" effect.
While sending a Mac text file, produces a page where all the text appears on one line.
By cat(1)ting a Mac text file on my terminal window, all the text appears on 1 line.
By their names it makes sense that both characters are needed. "Linefeed" and "Carriage Return"
Or is character 10 being referred to as "New Line" now a days, in which case only it is needed.
"Whilst it is simply a text editor, it does change the "accepted" format of text files by including an additional linefeed after every carriage return (UNIX and most other systems just use carriage return)."
I can't help but be picky here.
Unix end of line characters are "linefeed" 0xA
Mac (not Darwin) end of line characters are "carraige return" 0xD
Dos/Windows uses CRLF 0xD0xA
So when you edit a DOS file, in a unix app that isn't aware, you see control M (^M) characters on the end of each line. As the CR comes before the LF.
When you edit a mac text file, in a unix app, all the text appears on one line.
Technically CRLF is the correct way to end a line.
LF only moves down a line without returning the carraige (positioning the cursor/printhead at 0)
Thus getting that staircase effect when you print text files on some printers.
CR repositions the print head at position 0 but without moving down a line, so you get over print.
It could be argued that back in the early days, that using 2 characters for an end of line was too resource hungry, so using one was standardised.
And for those who are interested
Carraige Return: CR 13 0xD '\r'
Line Feed: LF 10 0xA '\n'
"The defendant was served on April 25th, and her time to expire does not --"
I wonder what the rest of the sentence would've been if the judge hadn't corrected him.
That's the next question. What defines something as creativity?
"Most people don't see taking part of someones song or picture on a part with particular notes or colours."
But at the fundamental level it is the same.
My mother is a professional painting artist and uses collage alot in her work. No one says that her work isn't original creativity despite it containing part of someone elses picture.
I produce video clips of events I've been involved with (drift and track days) by taking someone elses music, and syncing my footage with it, sometimes I pad out the gaps with video downloaded from the net. Would most people regard this as creative?
Fonts are copyright, so are considered creative, but anyone with a pen and a steady hand could draw them and people use many in everyday life without thinking about it.
What about some of the sounds in my synthesizer? Many are not natural sounds or recordings of other instruments. Someone had to create that sound and that is creative to me. Yet I could write a whole musical score using that sound (as well as other sounds).
What about those pearl paints that change colour depending on the angle of light? Someone had to come up with the idea to be able to do that, is that creative? It's just a paint.
The lines between the elements that make up creativity and creativity itself are blurred. One mans masterpiece is another mans ink dot.
I feel that people should not get upset (and impliment technology to prevent it) about their work being used to create something larger.
Didn't Newton say something about standing on the shoulders of giants. Same goes for creativity.
I found a really cool sharing network called DVB-T.
All files are in high quality mpeg2 720x576 and come down at 7mbit!!! There are also some higher quality files at 1440x1008 or even 1920x1008 and they come down at 14mbit.
It uses a special broadcast network protocol so that the suits can't find out who's downloading the files. But you can only download 1 file at a time and you need a special modem to connect to the network.
Some of the files contain advertisements but they're easy to remove or skip.
The releases are a bit slow, however, as I'm was getting a complete season of Dr Who but the files only came out once a week.
I'm running out of harddisk space.
How does one delete a burnt DVD or CD? Shredder?
This brings up a very good point.
What is the definition of a PC?
Sorry, only 2 of the lower trays can be double stacked.
:-)
I've tried doubling all 3 and the case hits the front most double stacked harddrive preventing the case from closing.
I forgot about that mounting space under the optical drive.
But I don't consider above the optical drive a mounting point. Sure there's lots of space in the G5 for putting harddrives but few mount points.
So that's 6 harddrives.
I feel from the article that it appears many people do not see the computer as an artistic tool. The same way a painter sees a brush. A writer a manuscript. A musician an instrument.
They see it more as a TV, a stereo, a delivery system. They see the computer as the end point of creative media, not the beginning. "So DRM must be enforced in the end point."
But to many of us techno-utopians who have grown up around computers and could see the machine without limitations, DRM presents a threat to our creativity. It limits what we consider a limitless machine.
Would a painter feel threatened if some colour paints would not work with his/her paint brush?
Would a musician feel threatened if certain rhythms and melodies could not be played?
I see my computer not as a burden for working life, but a portfolio and canvas of all my creativity.
The article seems to think they know 'us techno-utopians' but I feel that I have been misrepresented.
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"self confessed techno-utopian computer artist"
The article states that this compiler WILL NOT produce ppc binaries.
So does this mean that developers who use this compiler will be producing x86 only binaries and ignoring all the existing Mac PPC hardware?
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Not happy Jan.
Yes you may be able to quite easily copy the Protected AAC files, downloaded from ITMS, off your friends iPod, which the iPod was playing but you won't be able to play them. (without dvd jon's AAC protection striping tool)
This is the DRM which is integrated into the iPod. The ability to play those protected songs downloaded from the music store, not prevent them from being copied. The iPod is an authorised device to play files downloaded from iTMS.
DRM is not about preventing copying of files, it's about the preventing those files being viewed in a usable format.
Getting to an MS free world starts with YOU!
I don't see a valid reason for spending money on a product to view a binary file that someone has sent me.
I feel it should be the responsibility of the format designer to document their format or provide a free reader/converter for *every* platform.
Microsoft do neither of these two things. So I don't feel that their format should be given any respect. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to read it.
It is up to us, the end users, to give or take Microsoft's power. If we refuse their products and let others know why, then awareness is raised.
MS - Just Say No!
If I bought a computer solely on case design. I prefered my G4 graphite machine over my G5 machine.
Without modification, the G4 case did hold 5 harddisks inside.
The G5 case has mounts for 2 harddisks.
Sometimes an improvement in model is not an improvement in all areas.
sysadmins go crazy trying to secure windows.
Secure windows? I thought such a thing was impossible.
No wonder the sysadmins go crazy, trying to generate an infinite amount of improbability.
I feel that I've missed something here. Wouldn't this simply extend to the case, that the TPM is not present, therefore as the OS I will limit the software, being say the display engine, to not run. Thus rendering OSX down to simply be darwin?
Or have you oversimplified too much?
As I feel that what you've described it to be, is exactly what Apple are trying to do; limit what software will run.
Agreed...
This happens if you are installing on a headless Xserve and a graphical dialog box pops up, where to I don't know, asking you to register for quicktime pro.
The command line installer hangs waiting for you to *click* the dialog box.
Please explain how one can click a dialog box on a machine with no graphic card and no mouse and keyboard connected? Especially if it is a thousand kilometres away...
confused???
It is a GIMP plugin which creates a database out of a large number of pictures. You then run the filter over the source image.
It was really early code so I suspect that Metapixel may be better.
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