i'm finding it a common misperception that mpeg-4 is automatically assumed to be "better" than mpeg-2. mpeg-2 works really well in situations where broadcast quality (or better) video is needed, and space isn't necessarily a limiting factor. A bitrate of 4mb per second and judicious use of the AFF (advanced field frame) tech will get you amazing quality video and sound. Mpeg-4 comes into it's own and is useful in situations where space is an issue. 27G (per side?) is more than enough for a movie, or two... with a lot of extras thrown in.
as my daddy use to say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
didn't Katz write a column or two in Wired? of course he thinks he and the magazine he wrote for is visionary or guru-esque or something. Goes along with the tremendous ego on that guy.
Read the article, his assumption is that the entire internet is focused on whatever he's into or knows about at the moment. Completely and utterly self-centric.
I'm not a terrorist, and i don't have necessarily anything to hide (other than my checkbook, etc..) but this pretty much settles the question for me that 40-bit, even 64-bit just isn't enough. i'm glad that we were able to catch that guy and find out what he was up to, but placing export restrictions wouldn't have worked in this case. HE WAS/IS A CITIZEN OF THE USA.
don't go flaming the programmers, FIX IT! the source is all there ready to be tweaked. You got what you paid for, and that's nothing.. The good part is with a MINOR amount of tweaking, fiddling, etc. (compared to writing something like AmiWord yourself) you can have a FANTASTIC word processor for FREE! Behold the wonders of open-source.
Then you can post your fixed version and get flamed too..
any similar conference i've ever been to (including some W3C working sessions) have been extremely professional, even when working on standards. IMO the only time you get flamefests is on the internet on boards/newsgroups populated by wannabes who don't fully understand what they're flaming about, and the flames are pretty much just a front to cover their lack of knowledge/experience. on the other hand, stick a bunch of knowledgable people in the same room, and considerable respect for each other is shown.
well... what are you waiting for? you've obviously put some thought into something you'd like done... do it.. people do code like this because they're having FUN.
enjoying what you do is what makes getting up in the morning worthwhile. don't rant at someone spending personal time and effort, that's just silly.
imo, we need a better command path system thingy that allows easier categorization of executables and other stuff... Win32 has the System32 (or System) directory, *nix has/usr/bin,/usr/share/bin,/usr/local/bin etc...
I don't have a solution, but i'll devote a few idle cycles to it...
.. and I predict it will be buried in my closet in 30 days or less...
Why? It's just another novelty. A few apps will be developed for it, sure, but without community support that's where it will stop. I'm sure it runs linux and that's all well and nice, but you know how DIFFICULT it is to make a application that will run in that space and actually be usable?
If you'd like a PDA for daily use as a useful TOOL check out http://www.handhelds.org those folks have got it nailed down to an art, with nice apps being release seems like every day.
well, i'd site my own performance tests ran here at this company, but my NDA prevents me from publishing anything.. so, i used the NASA reference. I encourage anyone with the resources to do the same, and use what works best for you...
Databases are for storing data. End of Story.
Oracle is taking some BIGTIME performance hits for stacking all that OO crap in there, and MS SQL Server is seeing the same thing now that they've got the XML in theirs. Don't believe me?
Why is NASA switching to MySQL from Oracle and noticing speed increases?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of XML.. as a data interchange format.. but when i want tight storage and quick retrieval, give me a normalized RDBMS any day of the week. Because that's what it's for.
in the immortal words of someone who's name escapes me:
"Information wants to be free."
There's a lot of bored but bright minds out there, and putting mountains up in their way just BEGS them to be climbed. As the old adage goes, Why do people climb mountains? well, there's actually 2 reasons, 1) because they're there.. 2) they're in the way of where you're trying to go..
*yawn* nice try MS, better luck next time eh?
What I don't get is why not use some proven technologies to get this done right? secure key-based encryption, rotating key servers, etc?
Hell even just cutting under-water cableing using depth charges would bring the entire world banking industry to a halt in 3 seconds flat and could be done using reletively cheap parts.
working for a leading communications company and having first hand knowledge of these networks, i can say without a doubt that these systems have failovers.. Fiber fails over to alternate route backup fiber which fails over to satellite (1.5mb on bandedge, not too bad).
Jamming cell phones? c'mon, there's still copper run everywhere, pick up a land line.. Cell phones aren't reliable enough for me to use 100% anyway, I still have a phone on my desk and at home.
you "doomsday" people really crack me up sometimes..
it really is too much fun to play around with those.. all the 1-Wire devices hook up to it as well as the iButton stuff (crypto on your pinky ring?)
and you can program everything in java..
the up-to-speed time is minimal if you have basic electronics understanding and C or Java know-how...
WOW, i know this is a blatant troll, but there are so many things wrong with this guys statment, it's not even funny... just to highlight a few things
having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. *yawn* VB is an interpreted language... meaning it NEEDS an interpreter to run it. so by definition it CAN'T BE KERNEL CODE
took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 I thought you didn't believe in C, and if you don't believe in or use C, how can you have an understanding necessary to properly configure a kernel?
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs That appears to be the extent of your programming/technical prowess
It's unfortunate that you're in a position to make recommendations about technology to large companies.. You've shown in a couple paragraphs that you do not possess the experience or expertise necessary to make any type of technology judgements.
I posed the question to my company "What the difference between a 3rd party Linux support contract, and Microsoft support (who contracts out their first 2 lines of support 3rd parties)?!?!
you have to beg and plead for 2 days if you want to talk to somebody that actually works for microsoft when you call in. and those two days are going through various people that have probably never written a line of code in their lives (Ummm... ok, did you click or double click on File? CAREFUL, Double click CAN BE TRICKY!)
so what if we have to purchase a support contract for FreeBSD or Linux, with MS, you have to pay for the product AND THEN pay for a support contract. And the frontline support at Redhat has been shown to be a bit more knowledgable about the product than the frontline support at MS for windows..
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*sigh* xml is NOT JUST A WEB TECHNOLOGY...
think of XML as the ultimate replacement for the comma delimited file.. it's delimited data, that's all.. has a lot of extensions hung on it, lots of neat features, handles hierarchial data pretty well, but it's JUST A MARKUP LANGUAGE..
Slashdot Mirror
Women drool over a man on a Segway?
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Women drool over a man on a Segway????
is that because they're laughing so hard they can't help themselves?
i'm finding it a common misperception that mpeg-4 is automatically assumed to be "better" than mpeg-2. mpeg-2 works really well in situations where broadcast quality (or better) video is needed, and space isn't necessarily a limiting factor. A bitrate of 4mb per second and judicious use of the AFF (advanced field frame) tech will get you amazing quality video and sound. Mpeg-4 comes into it's own and is useful in situations where space is an issue. 27G (per side?) is more than enough for a movie, or two... with a lot of extras thrown in.
as my daddy use to say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
didn't Katz write a column or two in Wired? of course he thinks he and the magazine he wrote for is visionary or guru-esque or something. Goes along with the tremendous ego on that guy.
Read the article, his assumption is that the entire internet is focused on whatever he's into or knows about at the moment. Completely and utterly self-centric.
*shrug* I just find no big suprise there.
I'm not a terrorist, and i don't have necessarily anything to hide (other than my checkbook, etc..) but this pretty much settles the question for me that 40-bit, even 64-bit just isn't enough. i'm glad that we were able to catch that guy and find out what he was up to, but placing export restrictions wouldn't have worked in this case. HE WAS/IS A CITIZEN OF THE USA.
don't go flaming the programmers, FIX IT! the source is all there ready to be tweaked. You got what you paid for, and that's nothing.. The good part is with a MINOR amount of tweaking, fiddling, etc. (compared to writing something like AmiWord yourself) you can have a FANTASTIC word processor for FREE! Behold the wonders of open-source.
Then you can post your fixed version and get flamed too..
joy
why am i suprised every time a court makes a ruling that makes sense?
seriously, good work there in CA...
any similar conference i've ever been to (including some W3C working sessions) have been extremely professional, even when working on standards. IMO the only time you get flamefests is on the internet on boards/newsgroups populated by wannabes who don't fully understand what they're flaming about, and the flames are pretty much just a front to cover their lack of knowledge/experience. on the other hand, stick a bunch of knowledgable people in the same room, and considerable respect for each other is shown.
well... what are you waiting for? you've obviously put some thought into something you'd like done... do it.. people do code like this because they're having FUN.
enjoying what you do is what makes getting up in the morning worthwhile. don't rant at someone spending personal time and effort, that's just silly.
imo, we need a better command path system thingy that allows easier categorization of executables and other stuff... Win32 has the System32 (or System) directory, *nix has /usr/bin, /usr/share/bin, /usr/local/bin etc...
I don't have a solution, but i'll devote a few idle cycles to it...
I would be greatly amused to find out that someone has been playing an extremely long and drawn out practical joke on Katz...
you mean like TINI
pair that with an 802.11 and you're g2g.
fun project eh?
.. and I predict it will be buried in my closet in 30 days or less...
Why? It's just another novelty. A few apps will be developed for it, sure, but without community support that's where it will stop. I'm sure it runs linux and that's all well and nice, but you know how DIFFICULT it is to make a application that will run in that space and actually be usable?
If you'd like a PDA for daily use as a useful TOOL check out http://www.handhelds.org those folks have got it nailed down to an art, with nice apps being release seems like every day.
well, i'd site my own performance tests ran here at this company, but my NDA prevents me from publishing anything.. so, i used the NASA reference. I encourage anyone with the resources to do the same, and use what works best for you...
Databases are for storing data. End of Story.
Oracle is taking some BIGTIME performance hits for stacking all that OO crap in there, and MS SQL Server is seeing the same thing now that they've got the XML in theirs. Don't believe me?
Why is NASA switching to MySQL from Oracle and noticing speed increases?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of XML.. as a data interchange format.. but when i want tight storage and quick retrieval, give me a normalized RDBMS any day of the week. Because that's what it's for.
the spirit's still correct, eh mate?
in the immortal words of someone who's name escapes me:
"Information wants to be free."
There's a lot of bored but bright minds out there, and putting mountains up in their way just BEGS them to be climbed. As the old adage goes, Why do people climb mountains? well, there's actually 2 reasons, 1) because they're there.. 2) they're in the way of where you're trying to go..
*yawn* nice try MS, better luck next time eh?
What I don't get is why not use some proven technologies to get this done right? secure key-based encryption, rotating key servers, etc?
"Who in their right mind would pay for another OS when one came with the system i bought FOR FREE?!"
It's not really a market i see happening. If you MUST have a Mandrake CD at 2am, most likely you can d/l and burn one yourself..
Hell even just cutting under-water cableing using depth charges would bring the entire world banking industry to a halt in 3 seconds flat and could be done using reletively cheap parts.
working for a leading communications company and having first hand knowledge of these networks, i can say without a doubt that these systems have failovers.. Fiber fails over to alternate route backup fiber which fails over to satellite (1.5mb on bandedge, not too bad).
Jamming cell phones? c'mon, there's still copper run everywhere, pick up a land line.. Cell phones aren't reliable enough for me to use 100% anyway, I still have a phone on my desk and at home.
you "doomsday" people really crack me up sometimes..
TINI Applications Website
TINI Homepage
it really is too much fun to play around with those.. all the 1-Wire devices hook up to it as well as the iButton stuff (crypto on your pinky ring?)
and you can program everything in java..
the up-to-speed time is minimal if you have basic electronics understanding and C or Java know-how...
I've been playing around creating embedded ethernet devices... temperature sensors, stuff to control my homebrew beer rig..
check out the TINI stuff at
Dallas Semiconductor
$50-60 will get you a board you can play around with and put on you home ethernet lan..
having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming.
*yawn* VB is an interpreted language... meaning it NEEDS an interpreter to run it. so by definition it CAN'T BE KERNEL CODE
took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1
I thought you didn't believe in C, and if you don't believe in or use C, how can you have an understanding necessary to properly configure a kernel?
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs
That appears to be the extent of your programming/technical prowess
It's unfortunate that you're in a position to make recommendations about technology to large companies.. You've shown in a couple paragraphs that you do not possess the experience or expertise necessary to make any type of technology judgements.
Damn... $220 for a motherboard? what happened to sub $100 motherboards? geeze, i've been buying DLL too long i guess.
I was hoping to build an AMD system for $400 or less... but spending $220 on a motherboard ain't gonna get me there..
I posed the question to my company "What the difference between a 3rd party Linux support contract, and Microsoft support (who contracts out their first 2 lines of support 3rd parties)?!?!
you have to beg and plead for 2 days if you want to talk to somebody that actually works for microsoft when you call in. and those two days are going through various people that have probably never written a line of code in their lives (Ummm... ok, did you click or double click on File? CAREFUL, Double click CAN BE TRICKY!)
so what if we have to purchase a support contract for FreeBSD or Linux, with MS, you have to pay for the product AND THEN pay for a support contract. And the frontline support at Redhat has been shown to be a bit more knowledgable about the product than the frontline support at MS for windows..
*sigh* xml is NOT JUST A WEB TECHNOLOGY...
think of XML as the ultimate replacement for the comma delimited file.. it's delimited data, that's all.. has a lot of extensions hung on it, lots of neat features, handles hierarchial data pretty well, but it's JUST A MARKUP LANGUAGE..
damn.. ok, i'm done now
Wow, speaking gigs... Linus certaintly has come a long way in the past decade..
do you think he'll have a powerpoint presentation? hehehehehe