I bet the BBC version is not based off RP10. When a company annouces they are doing something different, it doesnt mean you can go install older versions of the product and hope those features have been back rolled.
Several factors for me: 1) Money. I already have windows boxes. I would switch to a Mac running OS X if I had the money to spare. Yes, linux/bsd is free, but I'll elaborate on those in my next factor...
2) Ease of use. Windows is just plain easier to use when it comes to configuration, installation, and uninstall. You download an exe. You run it to install. The installation is easy and anyone can understand what the installer is doing. Configuration is all GUI based and usually (depending on the development) easy to do. Uninstall is even easier, just run either the Uninstaller or have windows uninstall it through their Add/Remove Programs widget.
Configuring services on a linux/bsd system is still something that anyone new to the system would have to do a considerable amount of homework on how to do. With windows, there is usually built in help and/or an actually company you can call/email and ask for help.
3) Games Games Games. Every new game comes out on windows first. Not many ports for Mac or Linux and when there are ports, they are usually at least a year behind the initial release. This sucks.
4) Installation of the OS. Now, this is more directed towards Linux, but Windows is still extremely easy to install the OS. After installation, it's very easy to go back and choose things to install (services, etc). Some distros have improved the actual installation tremendously. Some still are in the dark ages and n00bs will struggle getting them installed (BSD comes to mind, although to be truthful I haven't installed BSD in over a year.) Distro's like RedHat, Suse (suse8 rocks!), Mandrake, etc all have wonderful installers, but some parts I feel will still intimidate some folks (partitioning of drives, selection of packages, etc.) Then the post install can just be mind boggling sometimes. People unfamiliar w/ Linux will not know where to start. Given that each distro is different doesn't help.
I know I'll probably get flamed for some of the above, but please...take a step back, and think about linux from a standpoint of where you dont have years of experience. People simply won't convert to Linux because some geekhead says it's cool. People need to feel comfortable (important!) installing and using the OS. Linux just isn't there yet.
OS X is completely different. From that stand point it's all about price and available software. The price of a Mac is just way to high for me to justify.
another good idea is if you meet someone who is extremely good in math, ask them to help! Most math heads enjoy speaking of math and enjoy helping people.
another idea is to see if there are any types of math clubs or friends or people you can meet that enjoy doing math that you can periodically meet with and hash out problems.
When I was in college my buddy and I would always do our math homework together at the library. He was much further in math then I was. If I had a problem I would just voice the problem out to him. About half the time, just saying the problem out loud would make me realize what the prob was but having him there for advice really helped me out.
Laid back?? Well, that all depends on the teacher you had. When I took calculus in Community College, my professor was from a 4 year that wanted to teach smaller class sizes. She was definately NOT laid back.
I had at least 20 hours of homework a week plus continuous 2 week projects and a 4 week final project. That accumulated to about 30 hours of homework per week. Luckily the only other class I was taking at the time was Chinese, otherwise I would have been in a world of hurt.
As long as ms has the ability to make inferior products, then the browser war will never be over, and I can't see MS ever making the best of anything.
Even though IE is popular now, it can easily lose that perception quickly. With Mozilla 1.0 out now, it may be time to start thinking that new ripples are in the pond.
Obviously this guy had some issues, which probably just compounded by him taking EQ to seriously (You mean you are a man instead of a hot female elf!?)
Seriously, his mother really has no merit on trying to blame a game on someones own mental problems and suicide. If she cared that much, the she should have seen that he had problems already and tried to get him help.
This is like people sueing McDonalds because the coffee is hot...
I heard a theory recently that, if I remember correctly, vikings were the first to america. They travelled from greenland and landed in what is now Canada.
They have formations/houses/whatever you want to call them built out of rock that they have found. They have also found burial sites which consist of the explorers skeletons, eskimo skeletons, and a mix of breed skeleton.
I am going off of this article, and I really appreciate the knowledge you all are passing.
But, since I only have this article for information since I dont have first hand experience with Darwin Streaming Server.
Who cares about Real codecs? Are you serious? Real Media is the most deployed form of streaming content in the world. If you are serious about streaming content as a business, then not considering Real could be a mistake.
In fact, most places have a multi-server solution where they might deploy quicktime server AND either real or windows servers.
That has no relevance since you didn't provide any actual numbers of deployment. It maybe streamed, but how well did it perform? How many simulataneous streams were happening? What type of machines do you need to handle this type of load? Etc, Etc, etc.
But, back to my original post, nothing like this was mentioned in the article.
Considering that RealNetworks only has aprox. 800-1000 people that work for the whole company, I wouldn't doubt that work has not started on a player for OS X. You can only do so much with the resources you have. As with any business, you start with your main market and work you way to the others. RealOne player was just released a few weeks ago.. I'm sure they are probably now working on a OS X version.
that they actually missed MANY factors when writing this review.
I'm a little pro real server, so please bear with me.
First off, RealOne Player gold which just shipped has a new feature called Turbo Play, which basically eliminates buffering times if you are on a high bandwidth machine.
Second, Real Server probably has many more features, for one more codec support: * RealAudio/Video * QuickTime * Avi * Mpeg * MP3 These are some of the more popular ones, eh?
Also, what about scaling? RealServer has been proven to scale well. How well does the Darwin server scale? To me it sounds like they only tried this test on a single client network.
There are Mac realplayers as well.. RealOne Player is the only player that is not available on the Mac, yet.
There just seems to be a few things missing from this article that weren't tried or left out.
Darwin server would be great to try out and play with. And it will probably work great for people who want to stream some mp3s from home so they can listen to at work, but from this review I dont get a feeling its something that would be a viable solution in the realworld of streaming where you may have thousands of people connecting to a stream from multiple countries, OS's, and bandwidth.
Well...That's the point. Why pay $3000 for an 80 lbs. scooter when you could pay a couple hundred for a bike and just ride to work, and at the same time maybe get a work out. Plus, you wouldn't strain your back trying to life the thing.
trip to the chiropractor: $35
Monthly savings in parking garage: $200
Trying to be cool just cause you have a balanced scooter for half the price of a Geo Metro, when in fact everybody is probably thinking you spend your money like an idiot: Priceless
Hmm.. I dont know where you live, but here in Washington State its extremely hard to find anyone shops with xbox's. I finally found one last night and they would only reserve for an hour and I had to buy a bundle. They only had 2 left that they got from another store that hadn't met their sales quota. And when I was there buying mine, the guy who reserved the last one walked in.
They didnt even have any more MS Controllers, just 2 3rd party controllers left.
Same situation down in Portland, Oregon as well.
The XBox appeals to me because I like PC Games. I dont like cartoonish games like whats on the GameCube.
Plus, I got a component video hookup for my Xbox and it looks AMAZING on my tv.
I have never seen a PS2 game look as good as Halo through component video.
I just started reading the first book of Harry Potter (hey, 50% off at borders...) and I'm enjoying it..
but the hype of the books still doesn't grab me. I remember as a kid reading the Chronicles of Narnia and that was my favorite book series by far at the time.
Of course, later on I read Tolkiens books and fell in love with them as well..
Personally I think Tolkien's books and the Narnia Chronicles far superior books compared to Harry Potter...
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I bet the BBC version is not based off RP10. When a company annouces they are doing something different, it doesnt mean you can go install older versions of the product and hope those features have been back rolled.
It supports mp3 dvds
I saw the JackRabbit at Philips hotel suite, and can provide a little more info:
They eventually want to put in a DVD+RW drive in the unit.
The unit is meant to not only hook up to your computer, but to your TV as well via SVideo or Composite Video.
Here's a pic.
Several factors for me:
1) Money. I already have windows boxes. I would switch to a Mac running OS X if I had the money to spare. Yes, linux/bsd is free, but I'll elaborate on those in my next factor...
2) Ease of use. Windows is just plain easier to use when it comes to configuration, installation, and uninstall. You download an exe. You run it to install. The installation is easy and anyone can understand what the installer is doing. Configuration is all GUI based and usually (depending on the development) easy to do. Uninstall is even easier, just run either the Uninstaller or have windows uninstall it through their Add/Remove Programs widget.
Configuring services on a linux/bsd system is still something that anyone new to the system would have to do a considerable amount of homework on how to do. With windows, there is usually built in help and/or an actually company you can call/email and ask for help.
3) Games Games Games. Every new game comes out on windows first. Not many ports for Mac or Linux and when there are ports, they are usually at least a year behind the initial release. This sucks.
4) Installation of the OS. Now, this is more directed towards Linux, but Windows is still extremely easy to install the OS. After installation, it's very easy to go back and choose things to install (services, etc). Some distros have improved the actual installation tremendously. Some still are in the dark ages and n00bs will struggle getting them installed (BSD comes to mind, although to be truthful I haven't installed BSD in over a year.) Distro's like RedHat, Suse (suse8 rocks!), Mandrake, etc all have wonderful installers, but some parts I feel will still intimidate some folks (partitioning of drives, selection of packages, etc.) Then the post install can just be mind boggling sometimes. People unfamiliar w/ Linux will not know where to start. Given that each distro is different doesn't help.
I know I'll probably get flamed for some of the above, but please...take a step back, and think about linux from a standpoint of where you dont have years of experience. People simply won't convert to Linux because some geekhead says it's cool. People need to feel comfortable (important!) installing and using the OS. Linux just isn't there yet.
OS X is completely different. From that stand point it's all about price and available software. The price of a Mac is just way to high for me to justify.
another good idea is if you meet someone who is extremely good in math, ask them to help! Most math heads enjoy speaking of math and enjoy helping people.
another idea is to see if there are any types of math clubs or friends or people you can meet that enjoy doing math that you can periodically meet with and hash out problems.
When I was in college my buddy and I would always do our math homework together at the library. He was much further in math then I was. If I had a problem I would just voice the problem out to him. About half the time, just saying the problem out loud would make me realize what the prob was but having him there for advice really helped me out.
Laid back?? Well, that all depends on the teacher you had. When I took calculus in Community College, my professor was from a 4 year that wanted to teach smaller class sizes. She was definately NOT laid back.
I had at least 20 hours of homework a week plus continuous 2 week projects and a 4 week final project. That accumulated to about 30 hours of homework per week. Luckily the only other class I was taking at the time was Chinese, otherwise I would have been in a world of hurt.
As long as ms has the ability to make inferior products, then the browser war will never be over, and I can't see MS ever making the best of anything.
Even though IE is popular now, it can easily lose that perception quickly. With Mozilla 1.0 out now, it may be time to start thinking that new ripples are in the pond.
I really like Dotster.
Hearing people make fools out of themselves because they can't sing is part of the fun. At least for the first 10 min or so.
Obviously this guy had some issues, which probably just compounded by him taking EQ to seriously (You mean you are a man instead of a hot female elf!?)
Seriously, his mother really has no merit on trying to blame a game on someones own mental problems and suicide. If she cared that much, the she should have seen that he had problems already and tried to get him help.
This is like people sueing McDonalds because the coffee is hot...
I heard a theory recently that, if I remember correctly, vikings were the first to america. They travelled from greenland and landed in what is now Canada.
They have formations/houses/whatever you want to call them built out of rock that they have found. They have also found burial sites which consist of the explorers skeletons, eskimo skeletons, and a mix of breed skeleton.
pretty interesting stuff.
Actually, I was asking a question about scaling.
I am going off of this article, and I really appreciate the knowledge you all are passing.
But, since I only have this article for information since I dont have first hand experience with Darwin Streaming Server.
Who cares about Real codecs? Are you serious? Real Media is the most deployed form of streaming content in the world. If you are serious about streaming content as a business, then not considering Real could be a mistake.
In fact, most places have a multi-server solution where they might deploy quicktime server AND either real or windows servers.
That has no relevance since you didn't provide any actual numbers of deployment. It maybe streamed, but how well did it perform? How many simulataneous streams were happening? What type of machines do you need to handle this type of load? Etc, Etc, etc.
But, back to my original post, nothing like this was mentioned in the article.
Considering that RealNetworks only has aprox. 800-1000 people that work for the whole company, I wouldn't doubt that work has not started on a player for OS X. You can only do so much with the resources you have. As with any business, you start with your main market and work you way to the others. RealOne player was just released a few weeks ago.. I'm sure they are probably now working on a OS X version.
that they actually missed MANY factors when writing this review.
I'm a little pro real server, so please bear with me.
First off, RealOne Player gold which just shipped has a new feature called Turbo Play, which basically eliminates buffering times if you are on a high bandwidth machine.
Second, Real Server probably has many more features, for one more codec support:
* RealAudio/Video
* QuickTime
* Avi
* Mpeg
* MP3
These are some of the more popular ones, eh?
Also, what about scaling? RealServer has been proven to scale well. How well does the Darwin server scale? To me it sounds like they only tried this test on a single client network.
There are Mac realplayers as well.. RealOne Player is the only player that is not available on the Mac, yet.
There just seems to be a few things missing from this article that weren't tried or left out.
Darwin server would be great to try out and play with. And it will probably work great for people who want to stream some mp3s from home so they can listen to at work, but from this review I dont get a feeling its something that would be a viable solution in the realworld of streaming where you may have thousands of people connecting to a stream from multiple countries, OS's, and bandwidth.
Are those blue blockers?
Hmm...if you want to argue, at least make a point.
Umm.. you can beat it with Dark Age of Camelot and hopefully EQ will die... even Anarchy Online is better.
Well...That's the point. Why pay $3000 for an 80 lbs. scooter when you could pay a couple hundred for a bike and just ride to work, and at the same time maybe get a work out. Plus, you wouldn't strain your back trying to life the thing.
trip to the chiropractor: $35
Monthly savings in parking garage: $200
Trying to be cool just cause you have a balanced scooter for half the price of a Geo Metro, when in fact everybody is probably thinking you spend your money like an idiot: Priceless
Ya, those may be great games, but there are definately some cool looking games coming out this month before christmas.
Obi Wan being one of them.
Also, NHL Hitz is an awesome game. I had a lot of fun playing that game with friends
Hmm.. I dont know where you live, but here in Washington State its extremely hard to find anyone shops with xbox's. I finally found one last night and they would only reserve for an hour and I had to buy a bundle. They only had 2 left that they got from another store that hadn't met their sales quota. And when I was there buying mine, the guy who reserved the last one walked in.
They didnt even have any more MS Controllers, just 2 3rd party controllers left.
Same situation down in Portland, Oregon as well.
The XBox appeals to me because I like PC Games. I dont like cartoonish games like whats on the GameCube.
Plus, I got a component video hookup for my Xbox and it looks AMAZING on my tv.
I have never seen a PS2 game look as good as Halo through component video.
I just started reading the first book of Harry Potter (hey, 50% off at borders...) and I'm enjoying it..
but the hype of the books still doesn't grab me. I remember as a kid reading the Chronicles of Narnia and that was my favorite book series by far at the time.
Of course, later on I read Tolkiens books and fell in love with them as well..
Personally I think Tolkien's books and the Narnia Chronicles far superior books compared to Harry Potter...
LOL.. apparently I did, otherwise you would not have commented. hehe
Ok, this blows monkeys. For your own brothers to not give you props for a job well done and lots of work... I'm speechless..
CmdrTaco,
That was the funny as hell.
Thank you,
Daanger0us