if we start using the only tubes currently in households that can handle even 50% of the resolution
Whatchew talkin bout Willis? A 1280x1024 VGA monitor should handle 720p quite nicely (1280x720), and my 1920x1200 monitor at work can do 1080p (which isn't even in broadcast equipment yet IIRC)... Remember one of the really nice things about HDTV is actually the noninterlaced (or 'progressive' in non-computergeek-speak) capability, and we've been accustomed to good-quality non-interlaced VGA for 10+ years...
Hell, even your 1024x768 set can do 480p, which is better than flickery NTSC junk...
And if ATI really supports XFree (writing DRI drivers and GLX support) out of the box I can definitely see $tnt2_adapters_on_ebay++...
In fact, the new Airbus (A3xx) is supposed to have all of their flight instruments connected via an Ethernet interface.
I'd hate to see what happens when all those controls attempt to operate simultaneously.. Gives 'packet collision' a new image, eh? (and judging how cheap some of these airlines get you KNOW like Tower Air is gonna go for the daisy-chained Linksys hubs...)
(Token Ring and FDDI are far more suitable for realtime communications than CSMA/CD systems, particularly the interference-resistance of optical connections from FDDI... And hell, the French love AIX/IBM...)
Glass displays can handle the 4 G's experienced by the shuttle just fine, as well as the vibration.
Yes, but they're bulky, heavy, use lots of power and generate lots of heat. Basically the worst possible thing to use on a spacecraft besides uninsulated O-rings... Why didn't they go with flat-panel (plasma or LCD) displays?
Have you tried running it in vmware, then using your X screenshot prog of choice (mine is ksnapshot) to take the image, then pull it into gimp for further cropping?
Again, copy protection merely inconveniences everyone and performs no useful protective function since anyone who really wants to copy the data can do so pretty easily..
There is an old and wise saying in the military, "An army travels on its stomach". When you are buring sometimes upwards of 7000 calories a day (in winter climates, the daily ration is 7000 calories a day for deployments) you can being very cranky and tired if you don't feed those muscles.
This reminds me of an old cold war joke:
An American general and a Soviet general are bragging about their armies at a summit meeting.
The Russian says, 'Our great Red Army is the best fed in the world! Every one of our soldiers eats 1000 calories a day'.
The American replies, 'That's nothing! Our men eat 3000 calories a day!'.
Stunned, the Russian says "Impossible! There's no way a man can eat a whole sack of potatoes in a single day!"
(I said it was old, I didn't guarantee it'd be funny;)
I never understood the whole Project Monterey thing.. IBM never needed SCO: Linux development on Merced/IA64 was always further ahead (thanks to Intel's involvement) IIRC, I'm wondering what kind of extrication dances are going on in Austin... Sheeit, I coulda told IBM this when I worked for them, but listen to a lowly sysadmin?
IBM's still cool tho, imo.. Anyone got a used RS6k model 340 + 2-drive caddy + 64MB RAM + AIX >=4.2 + 6091 monitor they'd be willing to part with for about $300? I'm feeling nostalgic and I gots room on the desk;)
Hi, Is there any allowance for metainfo in your bitstream specs? The webpage didn't indicate it to me but I might not have been looking hard enough.. IIRC Icecast/Shoutcast file metainfo (artist, titles, genre, etc) on streams is kludgey and unreliable, where it exists. Is this involved in the bitstream or is it meta/wrapping around the bitstream?
Easier to fix this and get it right while the standards are still in flux (then again, this is OSS, aren't the standards always flexible?;)
Hi, This is the one product (check mediapede) I've been waiting for to begin thinking of BeOS.. Now that R5 is out and supporting DV/IEEE1394 (thru the elcheapo cards too no less!!:) it looks cool enough for me to wipe my NT system. However, if anyone has experience with BeOS for video editing can you offer tips? I'm interested in VideoCD/MPEG compression as well as manipulation/NLE. I've currently got a BP6 w/2x400 celerons stably clocked to 500MHz (as in, up for 3-4 weeks no glitches) and a fast 9GB UW-SCSI (soon to be 2xATA66 large HDDs striped)..
Mattel now owns all rights to the program, which means they are legally entitled to withdraw its GPL status.
waitasec.. if the software was originally GPL'd, even if Mattel decides to relicense it doesn't the original software still have GPL and can then go from there?
Or are you saying that the code was illegally licensed (the authors had no right to license it)?
I'm interested to see what people in free countries are going to do with the source, though then again I don't use any proxy but junkbuster...
I assume you mean Vancouver BC, which is a cool place.
Yeah, a friend's going to school there (and I passed thru while on a cross-country vacation about 16 years ago.. Vancouver, Seattle, Spokane, Portland, then east thru Idaho, Montana, etc.. Very cool to have teachers for parents, as they have 2 months to burn on a trip like that) and he loves it.. Very free up there, though the gas is real expensive;)
They are amusing themselves and others at the expense of people like you who are getting all worked up over this. You're reaction shows that they hit a sore spot.
It's a boring town full of wankers who are too busy gazing into their own navels to be interesting.
People have asked why I don't consider moving to CA to be with the other tech nerds ('in my element' is the frequent refrain), instead of staying in NYC. This is why. Then again, maybe between the Doge everyone loves to hate and the NYPD ('Hold on officer, it's a wallet!') the citizenry doesn't have enough attention-span to spend on loathing tech nerds. Either that or there's _waaaay_ much more building space on which to sell ads.. (or maybe people've just been hating me for decades and I don't really give a shit anymore)..
I'd definitely consider the Pacific NW (Vancouver, WA, OR, been to all and enjoyed them a lot) or NH or VT tho, as long as the gun laws are adequately free (hell, in VT IIRC you can carry a loaded pistol concealed in your car, and I don't know OTTOMH any other state that's legal)..
I gotta admit though, I get a chuckle when I see that Doubleclick ad by the Flatiron building.. I just keep thinking about how many pennies they're not getting thanks to me using Junkbuster.
United States Navy shot down an Iranian passenger plane carrying 300 Yes, count them, 290 to be exact, 290 civilian passengers, the Claims Tribunal awarded Iran less than 150 million dollars.
Don't forget a few mitigating factors:
the shootdown was as far as anyone knows an accident caused by the hostile atmosphere which Iran was the main perpetrator of. You put that much hardware and that many men (who, while very competent and well-trained, are still mostly under 30 and have probably never been involved in a true hostile engagement) into a tiny area, and mistakes are gonna happen. Like KAL 007, a tragic accident (KAL007, if you remember, wandered into Soviet airspace because of a faulty autopilot and was shot down for it).
the capture and captivity of Terry Anderson was most definitely not a mistake, it was an unlawful trampling of his civil rights with full intent on the part of the perpetrators, and by proxy their daimyos in Teheran.
I'm glad to see Iran being forced to acknowledge and atone for its extreme and illegal behavior, and if they wish (thru their newly-elected relatively moderate regime) to reengage with western civilization they need to fully pay their penance first.
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if we start using the only tubes currently in households that can handle even 50% of the resolution
...
Whatchew talkin bout Willis? A 1280x1024 VGA monitor should handle 720p quite nicely (1280x720), and my 1920x1200 monitor at work can do 1080p (which isn't even in broadcast equipment yet IIRC)... Remember one of the really nice things about HDTV is actually the noninterlaced (or 'progressive' in non-computergeek-speak) capability, and we've been accustomed to good-quality non-interlaced VGA for 10+ years...
Hell, even your 1024x768 set can do 480p, which is better than flickery NTSC junk...
And if ATI really supports XFree (writing DRI drivers and GLX support) out of the box I can definitely see $tnt2_adapters_on_ebay++
Your Working Boy,
I think Transmeta has a lot going for them. This is a groovy little niche, and I think they've got a great plan.
:)
As long as the pricing is right.. I'd _love_ a linux palmtop that didn't make my hand too warm
Your Working Boy,
... Where's the GLX driver for XFree4?
And where's the one for GeForce?
This is the determining factor of my next upgrade: performance under XFree4.
Just thought I'd share.
Your Working Boy,
In fact, the new Airbus (A3xx) is supposed to have all of their flight instruments connected via an Ethernet interface.
I'd hate to see what happens when all those controls attempt to operate simultaneously.. Gives 'packet collision' a new image, eh? (and judging how cheap some of these airlines get you KNOW like Tower Air is gonna go for the daisy-chained Linksys hubs...)
(Token Ring and FDDI are far more suitable for realtime communications than CSMA/CD systems, particularly the interference-resistance of optical connections from FDDI... And hell, the French love AIX/IBM...)
Your Working Boy,
Glass displays can handle the 4 G's experienced by the shuttle just fine, as well as the vibration.
Yes, but they're bulky, heavy, use lots of power and generate lots of heat. Basically the worst possible thing to use on a spacecraft besides uninsulated O-rings... Why didn't they go with flat-panel (plasma or LCD) displays?
Your Working Boy,
"These are not the humvees you are looking for."
Your Working Boy,
and scope Scope SCOPE!!!
/. dev crew: please fix Preview HTML tag persistence!)
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
#
require 5;
use strict;
my ($global0, @global1, %global2, $debug);
# then do what you were gonna do...
(note to
Your Working Boy,
Middle Mouse Button Works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bout F???ing time!!!!!
;)
Your Working Boy,
Why not check out vgetty and roll yer own? ;)
Your Working Boy,
Have you tried running it in vmware, then using your X screenshot prog of choice (mine is ksnapshot) to take the image, then pull it into gimp for further cropping?
Again, copy protection merely inconveniences everyone and performs no useful protective function since anyone who really wants to copy the data can do so pretty easily..
Your Working Boy,
lower cost for fuel
;)
Not recently.. At one point Diesel was up to US$2 per gallon with regular 87-octane gasoline at about $1.60 per...
Still, I've a soft spot in my heart for Diesel.. Maybe when some of the newer-tech Benz S-class diesels get used and cheap enough in a few years..
Your Working Boy,
From the FAQ: LART stands for Linux Advanced Radio Terminal.
;)
Funny, I thought it was 'Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool'...
Your Working Boy,
There is an old and wise saying in the military, "An army travels on its stomach". When you are buring sometimes upwards of 7000 calories a day (in winter climates, the daily ration is 7000 calories a day for deployments) you can being very cranky and tired if you don't feed those muscles.
;)
This reminds me of an old cold war joke:
An American general and a Soviet general are bragging about their armies at a summit meeting.
The Russian says, 'Our great Red Army is the best fed in the world! Every one of our soldiers eats 1000 calories a day'.
The American replies, 'That's nothing! Our men eat 3000 calories a day!'.
Stunned, the Russian says "Impossible! There's no way a man can eat a whole sack of potatoes in a single day!"
(I said it was old, I didn't guarantee it'd be funny
Your Working Boy,
He, now Monterey has become a "Linux project".
;)
;)
Where's my moderator points when I need em?
I never understood the whole Project Monterey thing.. IBM never needed SCO: Linux development on Merced/IA64 was always further ahead (thanks to Intel's involvement) IIRC, I'm wondering what kind of extrication dances are going on in Austin... Sheeit, I coulda told IBM this when I worked for them, but listen to a lowly sysadmin?
IBM's still cool tho, imo.. Anyone got a used RS6k model 340 + 2-drive caddy + 64MB RAM + AIX >=4.2 + 6091 monitor they'd be willing to part with for about $300? I'm feeling nostalgic and I gots room on the desk
Your Working Boy,
Hi,
;)
Is there any allowance for metainfo in your bitstream specs? The webpage didn't indicate it to me but I might not have been looking hard enough.. IIRC Icecast/Shoutcast file metainfo (artist, titles, genre, etc) on streams is kludgey and unreliable, where it exists. Is this involved in the bitstream or is it meta/wrapping around the bitstream?
Easier to fix this and get it right while the standards are still in flux (then again, this is OSS, aren't the standards always flexible?
Your Working Boy,
dude, sounds cool, but you just might wanna give BeOS a chance, considering how much $$$ the G4 systems run (plus the software)..
The right tool for the job, but definitely keep an open mind as there are other good tools...
Good luck,
Your Working Boy,
Hi, :) it looks cool enough for me to wipe my NT system. However, if anyone has experience with BeOS for video editing can you offer tips? I'm interested in VideoCD/MPEG compression as well as manipulation/NLE. I've currently got a BP6 w/2x400 celerons stably clocked to 500MHz (as in, up for 3-4 weeks no glitches) and a fast 9GB UW-SCSI (soon to be 2xATA66 large HDDs striped)..
This is the one product (check mediapede) I've been waiting for to begin thinking of BeOS.. Now that R5 is out and supporting DV/IEEE1394 (thru the elcheapo cards too no less!!
Any pointers/hints appreciated!
Your Working Boy,
Striped ATA66 should be all right, particularly the 7200rpms..
Just be sure to have enough archival space (DVDRAM?)
Good luck,
Your Working Boy,
I'm running an event at UBCon this weekend...
Have fun storming the castle!
Your Working Boy,
Mattel now owns all rights to the program, which means they are legally entitled to withdraw its GPL status.
waitasec.. if the software was originally GPL'd, even if Mattel decides to relicense it doesn't the original software still have GPL and can then go from there?
Or are you saying that the code was illegally licensed (the authors had no right to license it)?
I'm interested to see what people in free countries are going to do with the source, though then again I don't use any proxy but junkbuster...
Your Working Boy,
Look for someplace new, especially if it sounds uncool (Portland, Lincoln, etc.)
;)
New Rochelle (where my loft is located) is about as uncool as you can get, though you _can_ get ?DSL, and isn't that all that matters?
Your Working Boy,
I assume you mean Vancouver BC, which is a cool place.
;)
Yeah, a friend's going to school there (and I passed thru while on a cross-country vacation about 16 years ago.. Vancouver, Seattle, Spokane, Portland, then east thru Idaho, Montana, etc.. Very cool to have teachers for parents, as they have 2 months to burn on a trip like that) and he loves it.. Very free up there, though the gas is real expensive
Cheers,
Your Working Boy,
They are amusing themselves and others at the expense of people like you who are getting all worked up over this. You're reaction shows that they hit a sore spot.
Sounds like they've already solved this problem in South Africa..
Your Working Boy,
It's a boring town full of wankers who are too busy gazing into their own navels to be interesting.
People have asked why I don't consider moving to CA to be with the other tech nerds ('in my element' is the frequent refrain), instead of staying in NYC. This is why. Then again, maybe between the Doge everyone loves to hate and the NYPD ('Hold on officer, it's a wallet!') the citizenry doesn't have enough attention-span to spend on loathing tech nerds. Either that or there's _waaaay_ much more building space on which to sell ads.. (or maybe people've just been hating me for decades and I don't really give a shit anymore)..
I'd definitely consider the Pacific NW (Vancouver, WA, OR, been to all and enjoyed them a lot) or NH or VT tho, as long as the gun laws are adequately free (hell, in VT IIRC you can carry a loaded pistol concealed in your car, and I don't know OTTOMH any other state that's legal)..
I gotta admit though, I get a chuckle when I see that Doubleclick ad by the Flatiron building.. I just keep thinking about how many pennies they're not getting thanks to me using Junkbuster.
Your Working Boy,
Don't forget a few mitigating factors:
I'm glad to see Iran being forced to acknowledge and atone for its extreme and illegal behavior, and if they wish (thru their newly-elected relatively moderate regime) to reengage with western civilization they need to fully pay their penance first.
Your Working Boy,