actually SIP is simply a handshaking protocol and has absolutely nothing to do with video streaming. However, it allows for the handshaking of voice and video communication among other things. The reason it is not supported by any other clients is because they are not likely using a open standard for the communication of the stream after the sip connection is made. SIP is not the issue, it is the communication means that they are using that is the problem.
This actually brings up something that I have been thinking about recently, what classifies something as commodity hardware. It's not as if an opteron box can be had for a tremendously low price, HP's quad processor opteron box starts at approx $20K. I don't really consider that "commodity". Compare that to a quad Xeon box for $26K. And finally compare that to a quad box from sun, for approx $34K. None of those are what I would consider commodity. So what is commodity pricing?
seriously, if you are buying an apple laptop with the prospect of playing doom3 or half-life2 you are an idiot. I am not entirely sure if half-life2 is even slated for a mac release. In any case, for a laptop that you are using to do day to day stuff with, then a 5200 is a pretty decent card. If you honestly think you might use it for gaming get a laptop with a 9700. In both cases you are looking a mobile version of these cards which means you are getting a somewhat underpowered card to begin with.
Please mod parent up, he is not trolling!!! It is true, modern linux distros are going to be just as fast as os 9 and have completely maintained software. You want to run firefox, thunderbird, etc? no problem! You really should look into running linux on these older boxes, not because it's better, but because it is the only maintained OS that box is capable of running.
As for the response: "people don't know how to upgrade their ram, how can they install linux?". Well, if they can't upgrade their ram do they really care if moz is released for OS 9?
Read the article again, it isn't an MP3 player, it is a minidisc player. That is a huge difference. My lowend mp3 player runs for ~10hrs on a single AA battery, compare that to a minidisc player that runs for ~50hrs on a single AA battery. There is a world of difference between these two devices.
Ugh, Interesting? Common moderators.Net IS NOT a language, it is a peice of marketing. You can wax philosophical about C# or the runtime, but don't make sweeping statements that don't mean anyting. Sorry for the rant, but this post just didn't even make sense, let alone say anything remotely interesting.
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For those of you laughing at iPod mini buyers -- they could probably sell the 4GB CF cards for a profit.
Really? I find that really hard to believe. It just doesn't seem possible that apple would be getting such a good deal on these drives that they could still provide the rest of the ipod, and yet the retail value is so high that a consumer could sell it for a profit. I'm sure that apple is getting a great price on it, but how are the major hardware retailer's not also getting a similar deal?
That quote goes for Linux as well as MS. How many people do you know that are still running 2.0.34
Probably not many who have security concerns, since 2.0.40 is now the current release. I'm not sure what you are insinuating, but there are still maintainers for these releases because people still want to use them and still want any bugs/security issues to be fixed.
This in my opinion is one of the greatest benefits of the open source community. You see with both Windows and OS X, if you want all the security patches you need to pay for the latest version of the software. The linux community (note I didn't say RedHat but community) will continue to support prior software so long as there are enough users out there. Just look to the linux kernel or apache for examples. Just my $0.02.
It's not so much that it is sluggish, it is responsive. However, in contrast, linux feels as fast as OS 9 without any stability issues, and a much more modern interface. Do you have the 600MHz model that has a Quartz Extreme capable graphics card(radeon)? My friend doesn't and I have a feeling that might be the cause for some of the speed issues.
In any case, I really do recommend trying out a live cd, it was a total wake up call to me regarding the 'real' capabilities of that 600Mhz G3.
One of the things that people have been saying with each iteration of OS X is that it is getting faster and faster. While this may be true, they still have a long way to go. I recently tried out a gentoo live cd on a friends 600MHz G3 iBook, and I was blown away. In OS X 10.3 the iBook feels responsive, but it is clear that a fast G4 or G5 would fair a great deal better. Under Gentoo running gnome 2.4 this computer was sickeningly fast. It felt almost as fast as my Athlon XP 2500. I was amazed at how much this little 600MHz G3 was capable of. If you are looking for a reason to use Linux over Mac OS X, look no further than getting to utilize the performance your system is capable of.
I know I know OS X is a more modern os blah blah blah. People used to say (maybe they still do and I just ignore them) the same thing about java, it is a more modern language and all of it's advanced capabilities are too much for todays computers. The end result? Very few modern GUI apps are written in java. I say the same thing for OS X, just because it uses a somewhat new concept for GUI (pdf-based) doesn't justify it's cripplingly slow speeds. I for one would rather have a fully functional GUI that doesn't make a decent processor suck wind every time I try to resize a browser window, than have the prettiest antialised interface. For the record I personally find gnome 2.4 with the ximian industrial theme quite pleasing to the eye. Just my $0.02.
Yes, KDE 3.1 is painfully slow to start up. However, I tried out the 3.2 r1 not too long ago and rest assured it starts up MUCH faster than before. I was plesantly surprised. To me a first boot ok kde starts up just about as fast as Gnome when you do a cached re-login (you know cached libs and all). Just my $0.02.
According to this site that was linked to from Fujitsu's site magneto optical drives are nearly indestructable, they have a minimum life of 30 years (good enough for me) they don't lose their magentic properties until they reach 180C so you can spill as much coffee on them that you want. =P
The drives can be had for roughly $257 for internal IDE. I didn't shop around hard, but you can get a 5pack of 1.3GB disks for $95 that's about $0.014/MB, not too shabby. They also make high end solutions with 9.1GB disks but the drives are remarkably expensive. If I were more serious about doing backups, magneto optical would be the way to go.
There is one strange assumption in all of this concern. It is that the "higher-ups" will actually pay attention to or care about any of this. I am in no way trying to start a riot, but I can't imagine anyone being overly concerned about this.
Even on the surface, it stikes me as baseless. So, how, to a upper management or ceo/cto/coo who are more likely to have a better understanding of the law than I, is this going to do any damage?
It's like playing the Kevin Bacon game! Can you claim IBM broke your license agreement in less than 7 hops? Yes? Well then you've got a case. Sad. It's just sad.
Please mod parent up, this is a prime example of why encoding from master rather than cd is potentially better. If the studio engineers are using the latest technology (and they usually are), then all master recordings are at 192kHz. Down sampling this to 44kHz for a cd, and then ripping from that cd will have a different result than down sampling directly to mp3/ogg/aac from the original. For the same reason buying a cd and making a copy of it to tape rarely (never?) sounded as good as owning an original tape.
I would say it doesn't get much easier than that =). If this version is anything like the last it will automagically detect your distribution and use its default package management system.
There are a lot of moving parts in a working linux system (I'm talking CLI here), however, it seems to be less prone to crashing. As someone previously mentioned, software that is larger and more complex is more likely to have a bug. The point I'm getting at is that the design priciples of *nix dictate many small programs to create a large working system. When a program is small it can be designed and developed with care. This leads me to my final though, modern Operating Systems with GUIs are less stable because they are generally designed as large monolithic systems.
I'm going to claim that the prime reason systems with GUIs (and I'm including everyone) are unstable is because noone has come up with a rock solid base for such a system. X is not solid, windows explorer, mac os x's application manager, no one has it right.
The one thing I am leaving out, is that drivers also tend to be a major cause of instability. I cannot run the nvidia driver on my gentoo box, certain usb events can bring a system to a screetching halt. What needs to happen is better design around the unstable interfaces, such that in the worst case scenario, things can still be recovered.
I was responding the his comment that other radial disk interfaces have failed...in general. I was pointing out that that ipod, given it radial design, was one such successful interface. It is proven in that people who use it understand and seem to like it. I agree that the thumb is capable and intended for a very different motion, and I'm not convinced that this interface on a mouse will work. I was just trying to point out that the parent was missing at least one successful implementation of a radial dial used for scrolling.
The one thing people seem to leave out in this argument is that cell phones may or may not be very good for your health. I don't talk on the phone that much, but my girlfriend talks all the time, and that makes me at least a little nervous to hand her a cellphone to chat on for as many hours as she would.
Several people have claimed that you are likely to get fired if you file a wage claim. In my experience you aren't going to be fired for something stupid (your employer knows better). It is more likely that they will just make your job "uncomfortable" enough for you to want to quit, or for you to do something that is actually worth firing you over. A bit cynical I know, but really has anyone actually filed a wage claim and lived to talk about it?
am I mistaken or can't opera report itself as MSIE? In which case the only way it would get a bad CSS is if MS has evil extensions to CSS that will kill any browser except IE. Also, I'm no lawyer, but what are the legal implications of this? none is what I would guess. If you go to hotmail with Safari it will tell you that you can't use safari to check your hotmail account. Not to mention that I have had websites complain about mozilla, suggesting that I instead go get netscape 6...duh.
Actually, I just picked up a install kit from timewarner, and they asked me if I needed a hub? Apparently they are now starting to feel some pressure to support home lans, and so they are offering multiple IP's ($5 per extra ip) so you can just plug your modem into a hub and connect extra boxes. Or, you can just plug it into a router and take your chances that you won't get caught =)
Certain applications came preinstalled, others are available as a free download. How do you justify charging for the upgrade when the software was free (not preinstalled on only new macs)? It seems to me that the easiest way around this is to make the new iApps part of the next OS release (or dependant on it) rather than attempting to charge for something that was already described as free.
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actually SIP is simply a handshaking protocol and has absolutely nothing to do with video streaming. However, it allows for the handshaking of voice and video communication among other things. The reason it is not supported by any other clients is because they are not likely using a open standard for the communication of the stream after the sip connection is made. SIP is not the issue, it is the communication means that they are using that is the problem.
This actually brings up something that I have been thinking about recently, what classifies something as commodity hardware. It's not as if an opteron box can be had for a tremendously low price, HP's quad processor opteron box starts at approx $20K. I don't really consider that "commodity". Compare that to a quad Xeon box for $26K. And finally compare that to a quad box from sun, for approx $34K. None of those are what I would consider commodity. So what is commodity pricing?
seriously, if you are buying an apple laptop with the prospect of playing doom3 or half-life2 you are an idiot. I am not entirely sure if half-life2 is even slated for a mac release. In any case, for a laptop that you are using to do day to day stuff with, then a 5200 is a pretty decent card. If you honestly think you might use it for gaming get a laptop with a 9700. In both cases you are looking a mobile version of these cards which means you are getting a somewhat underpowered card to begin with.
Please mod parent up, he is not trolling!!! It is true, modern linux distros are going to be just as fast as os 9 and have completely maintained software. You want to run firefox, thunderbird, etc? no problem! You really should look into running linux on these older boxes, not because it's better, but because it is the only maintained OS that box is capable of running.
As for the response: "people don't know how to upgrade their ram, how can they install linux?". Well, if they can't upgrade their ram do they really care if moz is released for OS 9?
Read the article again, it isn't an MP3 player, it is a minidisc player. That is a huge difference. My lowend mp3 player runs for ~10hrs on a single AA battery, compare that to a minidisc player that runs for ~50hrs on a single AA battery. There is a world of difference between these two devices.
Ugh, Interesting? Common moderators .Net IS NOT a language, it is a peice of marketing. You can wax philosophical about C# or the runtime, but don't make sweeping statements that don't mean anyting. Sorry for the rant, but this post just didn't even make sense, let alone say anything remotely interesting.
This in my opinion is one of the greatest benefits of the open source community. You see with both Windows and OS X, if you want all the security patches you need to pay for the latest version of the software. The linux community (note I didn't say RedHat but community) will continue to support prior software so long as there are enough users out there. Just look to the linux kernel or apache for examples. Just my $0.02.
It's not so much that it is sluggish, it is responsive. However, in contrast, linux feels as fast as OS 9 without any stability issues, and a much more modern interface. Do you have the 600MHz model that has a Quartz Extreme capable graphics card(radeon)? My friend doesn't and I have a feeling that might be the cause for some of the speed issues.
In any case, I really do recommend trying out a live cd, it was a total wake up call to me regarding the 'real' capabilities of that 600Mhz G3.
One of the things that people have been saying with each iteration of OS X is that it is getting faster and faster. While this may be true, they still have a long way to go. I recently tried out a gentoo live cd on a friends 600MHz G3 iBook, and I was blown away. In OS X 10.3 the iBook feels responsive, but it is clear that a fast G4 or G5 would fair a great deal better. Under Gentoo running gnome 2.4 this computer was sickeningly fast. It felt almost as fast as my Athlon XP 2500. I was amazed at how much this little 600MHz G3 was capable of. If you are looking for a reason to use Linux over Mac OS X, look no further than getting to utilize the performance your system is capable of.
I know I know OS X is a more modern os blah blah blah. People used to say (maybe they still do and I just ignore them) the same thing about java, it is a more modern language and all of it's advanced capabilities are too much for todays computers. The end result? Very few modern GUI apps are written in java. I say the same thing for OS X, just because it uses a somewhat new concept for GUI (pdf-based) doesn't justify it's cripplingly slow speeds. I for one would rather have a fully functional GUI that doesn't make a decent processor suck wind every time I try to resize a browser window, than have the prettiest antialised interface. For the record I personally find gnome 2.4 with the ximian industrial theme quite pleasing to the eye. Just my $0.02.
Yes, KDE 3.1 is painfully slow to start up. However, I tried out the 3.2 r1 not too long ago and rest assured it starts up MUCH faster than before. I was plesantly surprised. To me a first boot ok kde starts up just about as fast as Gnome when you do a cached re-login (you know cached libs and all). Just my $0.02.
Not only that, but when submitting a complaint they suggest that:
If you are able to provide documentation to support your complaint, please attach the file in either Word (.doc) or WordPerfect (.wpd) format below.
That just seems sad.
According to this site that was linked to from Fujitsu's site magneto optical drives are nearly indestructable, they have a minimum life of 30 years (good enough for me) they don't lose their magentic properties until they reach 180C so you can spill as much coffee on them that you want. =P
The drives can be had for roughly $257 for internal IDE. I didn't shop around hard, but you can get a 5pack of 1.3GB disks for $95 that's about $0.014/MB, not too shabby. They also make high end solutions with 9.1GB disks but the drives are remarkably expensive. If I were more serious about doing backups, magneto optical would be the way to go.
There is one strange assumption in all of this concern. It is that the "higher-ups" will actually pay attention to or care about any of this. I am in no way trying to start a riot, but I can't imagine anyone being overly concerned about this.
Even on the surface, it stikes me as baseless. So, how, to a upper management or ceo/cto/coo who are more likely to have a better understanding of the law than I, is this going to do any damage?
It's like playing the Kevin Bacon game! Can you claim IBM broke your license agreement in less than 7 hops? Yes? Well then you've got a case. Sad. It's just sad.
Please mod parent up, this is a prime example of why encoding from master rather than cd is potentially better. If the studio engineers are using the latest technology (and they usually are), then all master recordings are at 192kHz. Down sampling this to 44kHz for a cd, and then ripping from that cd will have a different result than down sampling directly to mp3/ogg/aac from the original. For the same reason buying a cd and making a copy of it to tape rarely (never?) sounded as good as owning an original tape.
wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh
I would say it doesn't get much easier than that =). If this version is anything like the last it will automagically detect your distribution and use its default package management system.
There are a lot of moving parts in a working linux system (I'm talking CLI here), however, it seems to be less prone to crashing. As someone previously mentioned, software that is larger and more complex is more likely to have a bug. The point I'm getting at is that the design priciples of *nix dictate many small programs to create a large working system. When a program is small it can be designed and developed with care. This leads me to my final though, modern Operating Systems with GUIs are less stable because they are generally designed as large monolithic systems.
I'm going to claim that the prime reason systems with GUIs (and I'm including everyone) are unstable is because noone has come up with a rock solid base for such a system. X is not solid, windows explorer, mac os x's application manager, no one has it right.
The one thing I am leaving out, is that drivers also tend to be a major cause of instability. I cannot run the nvidia driver on my gentoo box, certain usb events can bring a system to a screetching halt. What needs to happen is better design around the unstable interfaces, such that in the worst case scenario, things can still be recovered.
I was responding the his comment that other radial disk interfaces have failed...in general. I was pointing out that that ipod, given it radial design, was one such successful interface. It is proven in that people who use it understand and seem to like it. I agree that the thumb is capable and intended for a very different motion, and I'm not convinced that this interface on a mouse will work. I was just trying to point out that the parent was missing at least one successful implementation of a radial dial used for scrolling.
Uh, I believe we already have a proven interface based on a larger scaler version of this....the ipod...
The one thing people seem to leave out in this argument is that cell phones may or may not be very good for your health. I don't talk on the phone that much, but my girlfriend talks all the time, and that makes me at least a little nervous to hand her a cellphone to chat on for as many hours as she would.
Several people have claimed that you are likely to get fired if you file a wage claim. In my experience you aren't going to be fired for something stupid (your employer knows better). It is more likely that they will just make your job "uncomfortable" enough for you to want to quit, or for you to do something that is actually worth firing you over. A bit cynical I know, but really has anyone actually filed a wage claim and lived to talk about it?
am I mistaken or can't opera report itself as MSIE? In which case the only way it would get a bad CSS is if MS has evil extensions to CSS that will kill any browser except IE. Also, I'm no lawyer, but what are the legal implications of this? none is what I would guess. If you go to hotmail with Safari it will tell you that you can't use safari to check your hotmail account. Not to mention that I have had websites complain about mozilla, suggesting that I instead go get netscape 6...duh.
Actually, I just picked up a install kit from timewarner, and they asked me if I needed a hub? Apparently they are now starting to feel some pressure to support home lans, and so they are offering multiple IP's ($5 per extra ip) so you can just plug your modem into a hub and connect extra boxes. Or, you can just plug it into a router and take your chances that you won't get caught =)
Certain applications came preinstalled, others are available as a free download. How do you justify charging for the upgrade when the software was free (not preinstalled on only new macs)? It seems to me that the easiest way around this is to make the new iApps part of the next OS release (or dependant on it) rather than attempting to charge for something that was already described as free.