DVD Audio and SACD are currently most used in classical music recordings. On the local public classical station, they always talk about this or that concert hall recording in full 5.1 sound on SACD or DVD-A.
This sure does look like full-on DRM. I really like the hardware accelerated encryption; it would be great for VPN, IPSec, ssh, etc. It would also be great for DRM. The secure storage for confidential information is a vague way of saying user-inaccessible storage for DRM cryptographic keys. While it does have other uses, DRM is most likely their primary intention. Transmeta probably worded the press release vaguely to hide the fact.
I'd like to have one of these processors, or any processor with encryption acceleration, and secure storage, to be honest, but only if I could access the secure storage myself. In fact, this would be an excellent CPU if the end user and developer could read and modify the secure area... But then, of course, it's not truly a secure area.
Unfortunately constantly replacing instead of repairing or recycling has turned us into a disposable society of sorts. It definitely shows in our landfills. If people just tossed out their computers instead of repairing them (and you know a majority of people will just toss them in the municipal waste bin), there would be a lot more lead making its way into landfills, which could contaminate drinking water, waste petroleum (used to make the plastic), and so on. No, what we really need, is more efficient repair and recycling methods, so that it costs less to recycle than it does to replace.
It's too bad we can't invent time machines 30 years from now, when the environment is all screwed over, and come back to the present and kick the butts of the people encouraging mass pollution.
How do you play a 16-bit PCM stream with a 1-bit DAC? It's not like SACD where you have a ~2.5MHz 1-bit stream. So what exactly does it mean to have a 1-bit DAC?
Additionally, there is absolutely NO reason to ever buy anything but the cheapest digital audio cable. Why? It's DIGITAL! If there's degradation of any kind, you'd hear it extremly well. There aren't multiple levels degredation. It's either total signal loss/corruption, or perfect signal. Just buy the cheapest cable you can find that works. Heck, for coax digital, even a cheap composite video cable would work. An audio cable might work, but it might not have enough bandwidth. A composite video signal needs about the same bandwidth as a digital audio signal. For optical cables, you'll want to find something that isn't going to snap if you drop it while you're installing it. There's a new method for making plastic optical conduits, that have a smaller minimum bend radius than the current cables.
The digital out on a CD-ROM drive is probably TTL level (0-5v). I believe SPDIF is 0-0.5v. You'd want to reduce the power of the signal before connecting it directly to a receiver.
Few people who are Slashdot readers will buy a LindowsOS PC. Few people who buy a LindowsOS PC to use LindowsOS, will read Slashdot. Asking this question on Slashdot is like walking into a Microsoft developer conference, using a bullhorn to ask how many of them prefer Linux, and declaring that an objective market survey. Everyone knows that most Slashdot readers are either Microsoft lovers, or users of Debian and Gentoo.
KDE's dcop command line client offers access to all exported objects in KDE applications from the command line. It's great to be able to tell applications to do stuff from a script. It's not like this is a new feature or anything.
No, but they give copies away to schools all the time. They even suggested that they give free copies to schools as part of the remedy of their antitrust case.
Also, if you talk to developers, they hand out CD's and stuff all the time at conferences, and the last programming contest I went to had like 40 prizes donated by Microsoft (there were 30 teams).
I've made a program that converts a filmstrip to either a single PNG or a sequence of PNG's. I'm going to release it on SourceForge once I've added some new features and polish. If anyone actually reads this post and wants the program before then (it already works), leave feedback for me using the form on my website, or reply to this post.
Isn't this what Microsoft has been repeatedly accused of? They the first hit free, get them addicted, and tie them into the costly upgrade path. While I like seeing more people using Linux and Open Source software in general (not the smallest reason being that, as a contributor of (small) projects to the community, I feel like a part of everyone's work is making it out there to the masses), I wonder if Sun intends to some day change its mind about OSS/FS when StarOffice has become ubiquitous.
I spray painted my entire computer case, monitor, and keyboard silver with blue cloudiness and a blue stripe on the case. Why? I don't know... It did look pretty cool. Coincidentally it was shortly after I first saw the movie hackers.
No, I didn't have any problems typing, because I can type with my eyes shut. If I make a mistake, I feel it, and hit backspace without even needing to see what's on the screen.
Heh, you'd think they would've put that in the man page. I use dd extensively, never knew what it stood for, but I haven't ever tried to dd a DVD. Based on reading the documentation and source code to the dvdcss stuff, as well as various web pages, it seemed that any RPC2 drive wouldn't even give the data from an encrypted disc without authenticating, so there has to be a DVD player software that authenticates to the drive, and then the copying software (or dd) is able to read the encrypted data.
I also just want a backup disc, since it really sucks when a disc shatters from dropping it (though they use more flexible plastics for DVD's and new CD's than they did for older CD's), and because I'd like to keep my collectors edition DVD's nice and shiny.
The "average user" is never going to learn what dd does or stands for (what does dd stand for, anyway?). Additionally, it is required by law (not directly, but by patent and trademark laws - violating the standard will invalidate your license to use the DVD moniker and associated patented technologies) that all DVD drives manufactured contain CSS authentication restriction. The DVD software has to authenticate to the drive with a valid secret handshake before the DVD drive will give any CSS encrypted data to the computer, and then the computer has to decrypt the encrypted data.
That's the fair use restriction for educational use probably. For backup purposes you can have a complete copy, but I think that you are limited to only one copy.
Don't forget about Abuse SDL, which can be run from a bootable Linux CD (Gentoo's live CD can be modified to play most any OS game with a little tweaking) without disturbing whatever OS is on the hard drive, or if you're already running Linux, you can grab debs.
Yeah, it was pretty funny, going into the root room (were the processes separated by user? I can't remember...) as root, with the BFG on an older system with lots of stuff running. It took long enough for psDoom to administer the damage to all the processes that I had ten or fifteen seconds of watching the monsters slowly fall over and the system thrashing the swap until finally init died.
NTSC has 525 scanlines (vertical), 25 of which are during the vertical blanking interleave, and the horizontal resolution isn't really defined. PAL has 625 scanlines. Both standards interlace scanlines. Since NTSC is an analog standard, the horizontal resolution doesn't need to be defined, and televisions and broadcasters can vary the signal as fast as they want to to add more horizontal resolution, as long as the equipment supports it. VCR's have an effective horizontal resolution somewhere below 320 pixels, though it doesn't look pixelated because it kind of smears the values (it's analog, and stored as a wave, not discrete pixels).
DVD's are 352x240, 352x480, 704x480, or 720x480 in NTSC, x576 in PAL. I've never encountered an NTSC DVD that wasn't 720x480, and I'm not sure if players even support the other resolutions (someone please correct me if I got those resolutions wrong). 4:3 aspect ratio movies are typically displayed unscaled, with 720 pixels horizontal resolution in the analog signal (if it's a good decoder and NTSC signal generator), while 16:9 movies fields are typically shrunk vertically and reinterlaced. On an HDTV or projector with a DVD player that has built-in scaling or using a line quadroupler/deinterlacer, the resolution is scaled from 720x480 to whatever the HDTV or projector uses. Some projectors can sync at resolutions up to 3500x3500, though they cost tens of thousands of dollars.
My guess would be RMS=Root Mean Square, in reference to the method used for computing the average power of a signal. Power handling/output is a specification of speakers and amplifiers, and Panasonic and Sony deal with audio equipment.
Having dabbled a little bit in amateur clay and live action films myself (never released anything yet though), I have a few suggestions on your camera and software of choice:
MiniDV is a great format if you can't afford anything better. Adobe Premiere, combined with The Gimp or Film Gimp, and POV-Ray can handle most of your editing and special FX needs. Use 1394(Firewire) to transfer video! No Analog/Digital/Analog conversion crap allowed! Expect to spend at least $800 on your camera for a barely-good-enough-for-basic-film-making model. Make sure your camera has a progressive scan mode; it brings the feel of the video slightly closer to film, and improves computer display quality. If you can afford it, buy a 3-CCD camera. If you've the money, a 3-CCD camera is a must-have.
Ideally, for amateur no-budget films, you'll want to spend around $3000 on your equipment and software, but that stuff should last you a long time and serve you faithfully.
Oh, don't forget a good boom mic and tripod! Way back in high school (3 years ago;p) we made a Star Wars parody complete with light sabers and explosions. We had a guy who tracks techno music with Impulse Tracker mix the sound FX (he did a freaking awesome job!), used Premiere 5 for editing, Photoshop 5 for drawing light sabers and effects frame-by-frame, and a good boom mic for the sound. I don't know how much they spent on the mic, but expect to spend a lot; I'm guessing at least $150. Our camera was only $1200, but it had progressive scan, so it really lent a film-like look to the video when it was presented on the 30 foot tall screen at an assembly in the auditorium.
Folding up the tripod and using it to carry your camera around during moving camera scenes can go a long way to making the image a lot more stable, especially if you have jittery hands from drinking too much Mt. Dew.
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DVD Audio and SACD are currently most used in classical music recordings. On the local public classical station, they always talk about this or that concert hall recording in full 5.1 sound on SACD or DVD-A.
This sure does look like full-on DRM. I really like the hardware accelerated encryption; it would be great for VPN, IPSec, ssh, etc. It would also be great for DRM. The secure storage for confidential information is a vague way of saying user-inaccessible storage for DRM cryptographic keys. While it does have other uses, DRM is most likely their primary intention. Transmeta probably worded the press release vaguely to hide the fact.
I'd like to have one of these processors, or any processor with encryption acceleration, and secure storage, to be honest, but only if I could access the secure storage myself. In fact, this would be an excellent CPU if the end user and developer could read and modify the secure area... But then, of course, it's not truly a secure area.
Unfortunately constantly replacing instead of repairing or recycling has turned us into a disposable society of sorts. It definitely shows in our landfills. If people just tossed out their computers instead of repairing them (and you know a majority of people will just toss them in the municipal waste bin), there would be a lot more lead making its way into landfills, which could contaminate drinking water, waste petroleum (used to make the plastic), and so on. No, what we really need, is more efficient repair and recycling methods, so that it costs less to recycle than it does to replace.
It's too bad we can't invent time machines 30 years from now, when the environment is all screwed over, and come back to the present and kick the butts of the people encouraging mass pollution.
How do you play a 16-bit PCM stream with a 1-bit DAC? It's not like SACD where you have a ~2.5MHz 1-bit stream. So what exactly does it mean to have a 1-bit DAC?
Additionally, there is absolutely NO reason to ever buy anything but the cheapest digital audio cable. Why? It's DIGITAL! If there's degradation of any kind, you'd hear it extremly well. There aren't multiple levels degredation. It's either total signal loss/corruption, or perfect signal. Just buy the cheapest cable you can find that works. Heck, for coax digital, even a cheap composite video cable would work. An audio cable might work, but it might not have enough bandwidth. A composite video signal needs about the same bandwidth as a digital audio signal. For optical cables, you'll want to find something that isn't going to snap if you drop it while you're installing it. There's a new method for making plastic optical conduits, that have a smaller minimum bend radius than the current cables.
The digital out on a CD-ROM drive is probably TTL level (0-5v). I believe SPDIF is 0-0.5v. You'd want to reduce the power of the signal before connecting it directly to a receiver.
Adobe does have an Acrobat reader for Linux. I know Lindows has it in their Click-N-Run warehouse, and you can probably download it from Adobe's site.
What's wrong with xpdf, gv, ghostview, kghostview, etc. though?
http://www.lindows.com/opposition
See the numerous PDF files on that page? Those are the court documents you refer to.
It's not free software. It's StarOffice, TuxRacer, Hancom Sheet, Photogenics, the convenience of one-click installation, and more to come.
If you want free software, there's always apt-get and synaptic. You can do this on any LindowsOS machine:
apt-get update; apt-get install synaptic
if you don't want to use Click-N-Run.
Few people who are Slashdot readers will buy a LindowsOS PC. Few people who buy a LindowsOS PC to use LindowsOS, will read Slashdot. Asking this question on Slashdot is like walking into a Microsoft developer conference, using a bullhorn to ask how many of them prefer Linux, and declaring that an objective market survey. Everyone knows that most Slashdot readers are either Microsoft lovers, or users of Debian and Gentoo.
KDE's dcop command line client offers access to all exported objects in KDE applications from the command line. It's great to be able to tell applications to do stuff from a script. It's not like this is a new feature or anything.
No, but they give copies away to schools all the time. They even suggested that they give free copies to schools as part of the remedy of their antitrust case.
Also, if you talk to developers, they hand out CD's and stuff all the time at conferences, and the last programming contest I went to had like 40 prizes donated by Microsoft (there were 30 teams).
I've made a program that converts a filmstrip to either a single PNG or a sequence of PNG's. I'm going to release it on SourceForge once I've added some new features and polish. If anyone actually reads this post and wants the program before then (it already works), leave feedback for me using the form on my website, or reply to this post.
Isn't this what Microsoft has been repeatedly accused of? They the first hit free, get them addicted, and tie them into the costly upgrade path. While I like seeing more people using Linux and Open Source software in general (not the smallest reason being that, as a contributor of (small) projects to the community, I feel like a part of everyone's work is making it out there to the masses), I wonder if Sun intends to some day change its mind about OSS/FS when StarOffice has become ubiquitous.
I spray painted my entire computer case, monitor, and keyboard silver with blue cloudiness and a blue stripe on the case. Why? I don't know... It did look pretty cool. Coincidentally it was shortly after I first saw the movie hackers.
No, I didn't have any problems typing, because I can type with my eyes shut. If I make a mistake, I feel it, and hit backspace without even needing to see what's on the screen.
Heh, you'd think they would've put that in the man page. I use dd extensively, never knew what it stood for, but I haven't ever tried to dd a DVD. Based on reading the documentation and source code to the dvdcss stuff, as well as various web pages, it seemed that any RPC2 drive wouldn't even give the data from an encrypted disc without authenticating, so there has to be a DVD player software that authenticates to the drive, and then the copying software (or dd) is able to read the encrypted data.
I also just want a backup disc, since it really sucks when a disc shatters from dropping it (though they use more flexible plastics for DVD's and new CD's than they did for older CD's), and because I'd like to keep my collectors edition DVD's nice and shiny.
The "average user" is never going to learn what dd does or stands for (what does dd stand for, anyway?). Additionally, it is required by law (not directly, but by patent and trademark laws - violating the standard will invalidate your license to use the DVD moniker and associated patented technologies) that all DVD drives manufactured contain CSS authentication restriction. The DVD software has to authenticate to the drive with a valid secret handshake before the DVD drive will give any CSS encrypted data to the computer, and then the computer has to decrypt the encrypted data.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
That's the fair use restriction for educational use probably. For backup purposes you can have a complete copy, but I think that you are limited to only one copy.
Don't forget about Abuse SDL, which can be run from a bootable Linux CD (Gentoo's live CD can be modified to play most any OS game with a little tweaking) without disturbing whatever OS is on the hard drive, or if you're already running Linux, you can grab debs.
I believe that Doom 0.9 had a feature where you could set up three machines in widescreen connected by IPX (Novell's protocol):
doom -net left
doom -net center
doom -net right
or something like that.
Of course, I've never seen it myself.
Yeah, it was pretty funny, going into the root room (were the processes separated by user? I can't remember...) as root, with the BFG on an older system with lots of stuff running. It took long enough for psDoom to administer the damage to all the processes that I had ten or fifteen seconds of watching the monsters slowly fall over and the system thrashing the swap until finally init died.
How did your post get moderated off-topic?
NTSC has 525 scanlines (vertical), 25 of which are during the vertical blanking interleave, and the horizontal resolution isn't really defined. PAL has 625 scanlines. Both standards interlace scanlines. Since NTSC is an analog standard, the horizontal resolution doesn't need to be defined, and televisions and broadcasters can vary the signal as fast as they want to to add more horizontal resolution, as long as the equipment supports it. VCR's have an effective horizontal resolution somewhere below 320 pixels, though it doesn't look pixelated because it kind of smears the values (it's analog, and stored as a wave, not discrete pixels).
DVD's are 352x240, 352x480, 704x480, or 720x480 in NTSC, x576 in PAL. I've never encountered an NTSC DVD that wasn't 720x480, and I'm not sure if players even support the other resolutions (someone please correct me if I got those resolutions wrong). 4:3 aspect ratio movies are typically displayed unscaled, with 720 pixels horizontal resolution in the analog signal (if it's a good decoder and NTSC signal generator), while 16:9 movies fields are typically shrunk vertically and reinterlaced. On an HDTV or projector with a DVD player that has built-in scaling or using a line quadroupler/deinterlacer, the resolution is scaled from 720x480 to whatever the HDTV or projector uses. Some projectors can sync at resolutions up to 3500x3500, though they cost tens of thousands of dollars.
My guess would be RMS=Root Mean Square, in reference to the method used for computing the average power of a signal. Power handling/output is a specification of speakers and amplifiers, and Panasonic and Sony deal with audio equipment.
Having dabbled a little bit in amateur clay and live action films myself (never released anything yet though), I have a few suggestions on your camera and software of choice:
;p) we made a Star Wars parody complete with light sabers and explosions. We had a guy who tracks techno music with Impulse Tracker mix the sound FX (he did a freaking awesome job!), used Premiere 5 for editing, Photoshop 5 for drawing light sabers and effects frame-by-frame, and a good boom mic for the sound. I don't know how much they spent on the mic, but expect to spend a lot; I'm guessing at least $150. Our camera was only $1200, but it had progressive scan, so it really lent a film-like look to the video when it was presented on the 30 foot tall screen at an assembly in the auditorium.
MiniDV is a great format if you can't afford anything better.
Adobe Premiere, combined with The Gimp or Film Gimp, and POV-Ray can handle most of your editing and special FX needs.
Use 1394(Firewire) to transfer video! No Analog/Digital/Analog conversion crap allowed!
Expect to spend at least $800 on your camera for a barely-good-enough-for-basic-film-making model.
Make sure your camera has a progressive scan mode; it brings the feel of the video slightly closer to film, and improves computer display quality.
If you can afford it, buy a 3-CCD camera. If you've the money, a 3-CCD camera is a must-have.
Ideally, for amateur no-budget films, you'll want to spend around $3000 on your equipment and software, but that stuff should last you a long time and serve you faithfully.
Oh, don't forget a good boom mic and tripod! Way back in high school (3 years ago
Folding up the tripod and using it to carry your camera around during moving camera scenes can go a long way to making the image a lot more stable, especially if you have jittery hands from drinking too much Mt. Dew.
Thus ends this disjointed rambling.
From what I understand, these are developer boards. Not consumer boards. Most embedded system developer boards cost two to ten times this much.
/usr/bin/who /usr/bin/write
not to mention ytalk and bbses