Yes, that's what i'm trying to say. If making cooler chips was the cost-effective way to make chips, that's what they would be doing.
The chip manufacturers are only trying to make the most profit possible, not to make cooler chips, unless the market demands it to the extent that it would be more profitable.
I seriously doubt a hardware decoder would help DivX at all, because DivX is not exactly MPEG compliant. It's kinda... rogue. That's about the best way to describe it (it's a hacked-up Microsoft MPEG-4 codec). My bet is that the software has no support for hardware decoding anyway.
On another note, 266 mhz is probably enough to decode DivX movies fine. I was doing it in Linux on a 400 mhz Celeron 6 months ago, with about 40% cpu usage...
You -definitely- need hardware video overlay, though.
I own about ten DVD's, and have never seen the extras. I have absolutely no interest in how the movie was made, or some stupid little "game" they can put on a DVD about it... I only want to watch the movie. And I want it to look and sound great, which it does.:)
I think that would make me a "starlock"... or something.
Re:Spelling/Grammer Nazis...
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Looking At Gobe
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Anybody who writes a web site in Word has serious issues...;)
The sad thing is, because of Microsoft's popularity, people are bound to do just that (and while their spelling and grammar will be fine, they will have much larger problems).
I won't go into why writing web pages in a word processor is a bad thing.:)
Yeah... that's how I always have thought of it. Except, when saying it out loud, it sounds wierd to make it into two words... so I just say "gobe" like "globe" but without the l sound.;)
In case you haven't figured that out, it rhymes with these words:
- globe
- robe
- Moby (but without the "ee" sound)
- etc.
Nobody is accusing those people of laziness. Stupidity is another matter entirely.;)
But seriously... he's only talking about innovation. Sure, it may take lots of hard work to clone the Windows Explorer file manager again... but that doesn't make it innovative.
I think you're kind of missing the point of a fixed frame desktop.
With movable windows, the only real reason you would want to move a window is to get it out of the way for something else.
With a fixed frame desktop, you don't need to do this, ever... nothing overlaps. There's nothing to move.
Resizing is another matter entirely... but I have a feeling that will be handled well by such applications (like the window manager ion).
I think that going from movable windows to a fixed-frame desktop will be like switching from a low-level language to a high-level one. Those who are used to C will complain that Java (or Perl, or other high-level languages) won't let you control memory... but new programmers will be thankful that you don't have to.:)
Re:What not to do tonight
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All Hallow's Eve
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My (very religious) friend told me today that it's Martin Luther day for Lutherans.
I suggested that he should go trick-or-treating; as a "trick", if people don't give him candy, he could nail the 95 theses to their door.
At least, I think there was one in Phoenix. My friend won some sort of GameCube tournament here and won a T-shirt. Sounds a lot like what this is talking about... could be the same thing.
Be Inc. had, for the most part, dropped BeOS entirely a year (at least) before Palm bought them.
They had been putting ALL of their efforts into the BeIA (I don't remember what the IA stands for) which was meant to be an "appliance OS", like PalmOS or Windows CE.
It was VERY cool, and used a lot of BeOS technology. BeIA is to BeOS what Windows CE is to Windows.
To BeOS users (of whom I used to be one), it's really more of an emotional attachment than a simple logical decision that "there are other OS's out there"... they (we) are emotionally attached to BeOS.
The way things work in it, as a whole, just seems right. All of the time.
Out of every OS I've ever tried, it was not the most beautiful (Enlightenment, anyone?), not the most stable (BSD), not the most configurable (no "themes", just for one example), and didn't have the most application support.
But it felt right.
I can't explain it any better than that. It's like when your girlfriend breaks up with you, and your friends tell you "there are *plenty* of other girls". Same kind of feeling.
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Try "mcedit"... it's part of the MC (midnight commander) package (which I guess is now GMC... or something).
Midnight Commander used to be a damn good file manager for linux, until it got mixed up with the Gnome crowd... I'm not saying gnome is bad (I use it) but... I like my filemanagers to stay in a terminal (or VC), ok?
Anyway... it had a kick-ass old-school dos-style text editor that came with it called "mcedit". It puts you in a blue screen, has pull-down menus (hidden by default though) that you can activate (keyboard controlled, of course)... and has F-key shortcuts for things like copy, move, save, quit, etc. (and keeps a bar at the bottom telling you what those F-key shortcuts are).
It's a great simple little text editor.
Just search freshmeat.net for "midnight commander" and see where it takes you.
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Yes, that's what i'm trying to say. If making cooler chips was the cost-effective way to make chips, that's what they would be doing.
The chip manufacturers are only trying to make the most profit possible, not to make cooler chips, unless the market demands it to the extent that it would be more profitable.
The same reason cars use gasoline instead of electric or battery power.
I believe you were using GetRight wrong.
The way it actually works is that you tell it to search for mirrors (using an ftp search site like ftpsearch.lycos.com) and it finds a bunch.
Over my connection, downloading a linux distro usually goes about 60k/sec from any single site.
Using the mirror searching and segmented downloading in GetRight, i've got 450k/sec from 8 sites at once.
This was with no effort on my part, except for clicking on the file, after I configured GetRight.
That was not a comment by a slashdot editor.
It was part of the submission by the user.
Just thought I'd clarify that for the people who can't take the five seconds to see whether it's included in quotes, and is in italics.
Why not simply get an LCD projector and project geiss onto a wall? Unless, of course, you're not serious...
I seriously doubt a hardware decoder would help DivX at all, because DivX is not exactly MPEG compliant. It's kinda... rogue. That's about the best way to describe it (it's a hacked-up Microsoft MPEG-4 codec). My bet is that the software has no support for hardware decoding anyway.
On another note, 266 mhz is probably enough to decode DivX movies fine. I was doing it in Linux on a 400 mhz Celeron 6 months ago, with about 40% cpu usage...
You -definitely- need hardware video overlay, though.
I wonder what the heart of Linux From Scratch is?
The "scratch", maybe?
Unless... could it be... Linux!?
According to their website, on this page:
Toilets and showers
Toilets and showers are available in the hall. A crew team is cleaning the toliets 24h a day. Showers is 10 SEK per use.
Also, check out the games they're playing!
I own about ten DVD's, and have never seen the extras. I have absolutely no interest in how the movie was made, or some stupid little "game" they can put on a DVD about it... I only want to watch the movie. And I want it to look and sound great, which it does. :)
Induction Proof
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Hypothesis: $29.99(n) = 0.
i) let n=1
$29.99(1) = 0(1) = 0
ii) set n=k
$29.99(k) = 0k = 0
iii) prove n=k+1
$29.99(k+1) = 0(k+1) = 0
0(k+1) = 0k + 0(1) = 0
0 = 0
QED
$29.99(n) where n = 33344.45...
$29.99(33344.45) = ~ $1,000,000 USD
Proof: assuming $29.99 is nothing, $1m is nothing.
I think that would make me a "starlock"... or something.
Anybody who writes a web site in Word has serious issues... ;)
:)
The sad thing is, because of Microsoft's popularity, people are bound to do just that (and while their spelling and grammar will be fine, they will have much larger problems).
I won't go into why writing web pages in a word processor is a bad thing.
Yeah... that's how I always have thought of it. Except, when saying it out loud, it sounds wierd to make it into two words... so I just say "gobe" like "globe" but without the l sound. ;)
In case you haven't figured that out, it rhymes with these words:
- globe
- robe
- Moby (but without the "ee" sound)
- etc.
Nobody is accusing those people of laziness. Stupidity is another matter entirely. ;)
But seriously... he's only talking about innovation. Sure, it may take lots of hard work to clone the Windows Explorer file manager again... but that doesn't make it innovative.
Amen to that!
I think you're kind of missing the point of a fixed frame desktop.
:)
With movable windows, the only real reason you would want to move a window is to get it out of the way for something else.
With a fixed frame desktop, you don't need to do this, ever... nothing overlaps. There's nothing to move.
Resizing is another matter entirely... but I have a feeling that will be handled well by such applications (like the window manager ion).
I think that going from movable windows to a fixed-frame desktop will be like switching from a low-level language to a high-level one. Those who are used to C will complain that Java (or Perl, or other high-level languages) won't let you control memory... but new programmers will be thankful that you don't have to.
My (very religious) friend told me today that it's Martin Luther day for Lutherans.
I suggested that he should go trick-or-treating; as a "trick", if people don't give him candy, he could nail the 95 theses to their door.
At least, I think there was one in Phoenix. My friend won some sort of GameCube tournament here and won a T-shirt. Sounds a lot like what this is talking about... could be the same thing.
How were you able to use VMWare on a Mac? I don't see anything for Mac on their web site. Are you sure it was vmware?
:)
Or were you using VMWare running inside of Virtual PC running Linux?
Be Inc. had, for the most part, dropped BeOS entirely a year (at least) before Palm bought them.
They had been putting ALL of their efforts into the BeIA (I don't remember what the IA stands for) which was meant to be an "appliance OS", like PalmOS or Windows CE.
It was VERY cool, and used a lot of BeOS technology. BeIA is to BeOS what Windows CE is to Windows.
To BeOS users (of whom I used to be one), it's really more of an emotional attachment than a simple logical decision that "there are other OS's out there"... they (we) are emotionally attached to BeOS.
The way things work in it, as a whole, just seems right. All of the time.
Out of every OS I've ever tried, it was not the most beautiful (Enlightenment, anyone?), not the most stable (BSD), not the most configurable (no "themes", just for one example), and didn't have the most application support.
But it felt right.
I can't explain it any better than that. It's like when your girlfriend breaks up with you, and your friends tell you "there are *plenty* of other girls". Same kind of feeling.
Try "mcedit"... it's part of the MC (midnight commander) package (which I guess is now GMC... or something).
Midnight Commander used to be a damn good file manager for linux, until it got mixed up with the Gnome crowd... I'm not saying gnome is bad (I use it) but... I like my filemanagers to stay in a terminal (or VC), ok?
Anyway... it had a kick-ass old-school dos-style text editor that came with it called "mcedit". It puts you in a blue screen, has pull-down menus (hidden by default though) that you can activate (keyboard controlled, of course)... and has F-key shortcuts for things like copy, move, save, quit, etc. (and keeps a bar at the bottom telling you what those F-key shortcuts are).
It's a great simple little text editor.
Just search freshmeat.net for "midnight commander" and see where it takes you.
Slashdot wouldn't be here in 2007 if this passes... unless they implement the security requirements.
And pay the huge certification fee that you just know there's going to be...
Good luck, free software. You're going to need it.
We play Counterstrike. Occasionally we pirate music and movies just to piss off the RIAA/MPAA. And of course, we hang out on Slashdot. :P
As an outside observer to this quickly-heating discussion, and a former web designer, i'll contribute my $0.02.
;)
Personally, I do care about my users.
That's why I code to standards, and encourage them to get a better browser if the page doesn't render properly.
Wouldn't want people that I care about to be using a bad browser, now would I?