Mr. Love's responses are so riddled with corporate jargon I can barely understand them... can someone translate please?:)
From what I can tell, he's so intent on selling a "secure, reliable, and hippie-free" product to other corporate-minded folks, he's fallen completely out of touch with the entire linux community.
This is the equivalent of Apple making computers without sound cards or high-end video, and Jobs saying that they think it's more "professional" that way (but ignoring the majority of Mac users who do audio/video work!)
Considering you spent half that comment praising BSD and telling us that it is capable of running the new Sorenson codec with its Linux compatibility layer... why do you plan on installing Gentoo (Linux) on that spare machine?
I have to guess that it's because IBM is (potentially) using weird hardware, if Linux does not support it.
I have a Sony VAIO SR33 mini-notebook, and Red Hat 7.3 installs perfectly on it and supports EVERY single piece of hardware, including the S3 Savage/IX video chip, Yamaha YMF-754 sound chip, USB wheel mouse, PCMCIA CD-ROM drive and network card (even wireless card, with some config file editing!).
Power management works perfectly as well, except for minor glitches in time estimates for remaining time (the percentage still works fine though).
It definitely supports more hardware than Win2k does, which needs downloaded drivers from Sony's website to work!
"lame attempt to establish the objectivity of the report"?
It is objective! That's because it's on AP. That has been established, duh!
What would you rather link to? Does the fact that it's on CNN mean it's no longer objective? They didn't change anything from the original AP article...
It's just as objective as if CNN had never touched it at all.
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I'm sorry, but you're completely mistaken. Not only is it freeware, but they make it quite easy to download and use for free.
Depends... I don't know whether Xbox has the capability to display any higher resolutions or not than standard television, but for owners of HDTVs (or those like my friend who have their Xbox on a wall-sized XGA LCD projector)... assuming that the Xbox could output it's video at higher resolutions (or even process it at higher resolutions), than higher resolution divx files would be useful.
However, you're right, it's quite likely that the higher resolution wouldn't be able to be viewed.
I don't think it's slanted news... there's no denying that the DivX format is controversial... that's simply a fact.
While the word controversial has negative connotations, I don't believe that's what they intended... I think they merely meant to intend that it causes controversy, be it good or bad.
Actually, that's exactly what I and many others like myself do.
Have you noticed that most DVD players will also play MP3's and VCD/SVCDs? Do you know why manufacturers offer such features? Because people want them of course.
How many VCD's do you think are pirated? How many MP3's?;)
I for one make a VCD out of every movie I rent or download, be it a DVD or DivX source.
If I could play DivX movies on an Xbox, that's one time-consuming step (DivX-->VCD conversion) that I can get rid of. So yes, there is a market for it.
Just because you may not pirate movies obsessively and find ways to play them on your TV doesn't mean that others don't.
What exactly is a DivX game? Do you know about the DivX video format? That's what we're talking about.
Usually, people (like myself) burn DivX movies (AVI files encoded with the DivX video codec and typically MP3 audio, made from DVD's and shared on the 'net) onto CD-R's for storage purposes.
This would be extremely useful if those CD-R's could be put in an Xbox and the movies could be played.:)
I don't know what you mean by "make copies of Xbox DivX games" because it doesn't make sense... DivX is not a game, and they're already copied widely. Hence the DivX format.
That's pretty sad, considering that my AMD K6-III 450 mhz can play a 720x480 DivX file in realtime with very low CPU usage... and the Xbox has a PIII 733 mhz or something like that.
One might argue that it would be slower if there isn't a hardware video overlay, but with that much CPU power (and an nVidia graphics card) it shouldn't be a problem.
My question is, what is preventing a more efficient DivX player?
Although you are allowed to change the source any way you want (and must distribute said changes), and can re-distribute the original or modified source, you can never:
a) distributed binaries without permission b) USE the software
if the algorithms/methods in the program are patented or copyrighted, and hence their use is limited.
For instance, LAME can never be distributed in binary form (legally) because certain people hold patents on the mp3 decoding algorithms. The situation would not be any different if the copyright holders of LAME -were- those people... except maybe that they would charge money for binaries in that case. But since they don't own the patent on the algorithms, they can't distributed binaries at all. (NOTE: This was true back when they were still using mp3 decoding reference code... I don't know if it's still true now that they're using all their own code).
One two machines (out of the three) it was VGA card issues (The cards are not supported). I tried to use one, and it made my LCD screen do very wierd things, so I haven't tried it again.
On the other machine, I actually did get it up and running once (after specifying an IRQ for my network card) but haven't had much interest in trying it on only one computer, b/c I wanted to use that one as a CPU server for my laptop...
I think I'll wait and see if any more VGA cards are supported down the road.
Try watching the Dagobah scene in ESB, and tell me there's not a reference in there to Yoda teaching Anakin...?
It's possible they are both correct. I think that it is true that Yoda teaches -all- Jedi... until they are taken as Padawan learners by other Jedi Masters. Remember the scene in Episode II with Yoda's 30-some-odd students?:)
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That's interesting, considering that RedHat didn't have a graphical installer until about 2000 or so (not sure), and Debian and Slackware still don't.
:)
Just how graphical was Yggdrasil's? Are we talking X-based, or ncurses?
Mr. Love's responses are so riddled with corporate jargon I can barely understand them... can someone translate please? :)
From what I can tell, he's so intent on selling a "secure, reliable, and hippie-free" product to other corporate-minded folks, he's fallen completely out of touch with the entire linux community.
This is the equivalent of Apple making computers without sound cards or high-end video, and Jobs saying that they think it's more "professional" that way (but ignoring the majority of Mac users who do audio/video work!)
When they were introduced as a separate product line. Check the Apple page.
Considering you spent half that comment praising BSD and telling us that it is capable of running the new Sorenson codec with its Linux compatibility layer... why do you plan on installing Gentoo (Linux) on that spare machine?
I think you've got some 'splainin' to do!
I have to guess that it's because IBM is (potentially) using weird hardware, if Linux does not support it.
I have a Sony VAIO SR33 mini-notebook, and Red Hat 7.3 installs perfectly on it and supports EVERY single piece of hardware, including the S3 Savage/IX video chip, Yamaha YMF-754 sound chip, USB wheel mouse, PCMCIA CD-ROM drive and network card (even wireless card, with some config file editing!).
Power management works perfectly as well, except for minor glitches in time estimates for remaining time (the percentage still works fine though).
It definitely supports more hardware than Win2k does, which needs downloaded drivers from Sony's website to work!
-- Reverius
Then I guess the only difference between a musician and an audiophile is that a musician thinks Bose speakers sound good.
"lame attempt to establish the objectivity of the report"?
It is objective! That's because it's on AP. That has been established, duh!
What would you rather link to? Does the fact that it's on CNN mean it's no longer objective? They didn't change anything from the original AP article...
It's just as objective as if CNN had never touched it at all.
I'm sorry, but you're completely mistaken. Not only is it freeware, but they make it quite easy to download and use for free.
:)
Check out Gentoo's web site or the x86 Installation Instructions, which tell you where to download ISO images and how to install them.
Hmm, trojan, isn't that a condom?
Exactly what my brother said when Norton AntiVirus 2001 found two of them on his computer a few days ago.
I think he means "feushon". Not really sure though.
Depends... I don't know whether Xbox has the capability to display any higher resolutions or not than standard television, but for owners of HDTVs (or those like my friend who have their Xbox on a wall-sized XGA LCD projector)... assuming that the Xbox could output it's video at higher resolutions (or even process it at higher resolutions), than higher resolution divx files would be useful.
However, you're right, it's quite likely that the higher resolution wouldn't be able to be viewed.
Sorry, guess I misunderstood that.
I don't think it's slanted news... there's no denying that the DivX format is controversial... that's simply a fact.
While the word controversial has negative connotations, I don't believe that's what they intended... I think they merely meant to intend that it causes controversy, be it good or bad.
Actually, that's exactly what I and many others like myself do.
;)
Have you noticed that most DVD players will also play MP3's and VCD/SVCDs? Do you know why manufacturers offer such features? Because people want them of course.
How many VCD's do you think are pirated? How many MP3's?
I for one make a VCD out of every movie I rent or download, be it a DVD or DivX source.
If I could play DivX movies on an Xbox, that's one time-consuming step (DivX-->VCD conversion) that I can get rid of. So yes, there is a market for it.
Just because you may not pirate movies obsessively and find ways to play them on your TV doesn't mean that others don't.
What exactly is a DivX game? Do you know about the DivX video format? That's what we're talking about.
:)
Usually, people (like myself) burn DivX movies (AVI files encoded with the DivX video codec and typically MP3 audio, made from DVD's and shared on the 'net) onto CD-R's for storage purposes.
This would be extremely useful if those CD-R's could be put in an Xbox and the movies could be played.
I don't know what you mean by "make copies of Xbox DivX games" because it doesn't make sense... DivX is not a game, and they're already copied widely. Hence the DivX format.
That's pretty sad, considering that my AMD K6-III 450 mhz can play a 720x480 DivX file in realtime with very low CPU usage... and the Xbox has a PIII 733 mhz or something like that.
One might argue that it would be slower if there isn't a hardware video overlay, but with that much CPU power (and an nVidia graphics card) it shouldn't be a problem.
My question is, what is preventing a more efficient DivX player?
Backing up PDA's? I thought it was a PDA...
I'd say it just as it's written... "nethics". That is to say, i'd pronounce -only- the "th" sound and not a hard t or h.
"ne - thicks".
Not necessarily...
Although you are allowed to change the source any way you want (and must distribute said changes), and can re-distribute the original or modified source, you can never:
a) distributed binaries without permission
b) USE the software
if the algorithms/methods in the program are patented or copyrighted, and hence their use is limited.
For instance, LAME can never be distributed in binary form (legally) because certain people hold patents on the mp3 decoding algorithms. The situation would not be any different if the copyright holders of LAME -were- those people... except maybe that they would charge money for binaries in that case. But since they don't own the patent on the algorithms, they can't distributed binaries at all. (NOTE: This was true back when they were still using mp3 decoding reference code... I don't know if it's still true now that they're using all their own code).
One two machines (out of the three) it was VGA card issues (The cards are not supported). I tried to use one, and it made my LCD screen do very wierd things, so I haven't tried it again.
On the other machine, I actually did get it up and running once (after specifying an IRQ for my network card) but haven't had much interest in trying it on only one computer, b/c I wanted to use that one as a CPU server for my laptop...
I think I'll wait and see if any more VGA cards are supported down the road.
The shift key doesn't work in Plan9 OS. j/k
Actually, I'd have tried it by now if Plan9 would boot (without problems) on any of the three computers I've tried it on...
Why is it called "laptop music"?
Offhand, I can think of another one... Fugazi.
I seem to remember more artists w/ their own independent labels, but can't remember who they are right now...
Yup, I was remembering it wrong... d'oh.
Apparently Yoda did teach Obi-Wan as a child, before Qui-Gon picked him up as his padawan. Interesting tidbit.
But then again, there's evidence that Yoda teaches -every- Jedi as a child. But I think that's just speculation.
-- Reverius
Try watching the Dagobah scene in ESB, and tell me there's not a reference in there to Yoda teaching Anakin...?
:)
It's possible they are both correct. I think that it is true that Yoda teaches -all- Jedi... until they are taken as Padawan learners by other Jedi Masters. Remember the scene in Episode II with Yoda's 30-some-odd students?
-- Reverius