No, they don't meet the processing requirements.
"Just as mp3(and similar) is good enough to listen" - Mp3 files are small enough that even when encoded at a high bitrate, you can download a file reasonably fast. Audio quality is also alot more subjective to the listener then video is.
Anyone can take a video and pause it and point out all the things that don't look quite right, something that can't be done with an MP3. Also since you know what a video is "supposed" to look like, you notice the errors more. Those stairs aren't blurry in real life, why are they in the movie? Same for faces, rain and other objects.
Video codec's will always be worked on and updated, as higher quality video is demanded, sizes get larger and larger and more unworkable. When you have a large HDTV, do you really want to watch a divx video with blocky motion artifacts?
I've ordered electronic items from both thinkgeek and amazon and I live in canada.
The only reason thinkgeek doesn't allow some of their item's to be shipped outside of the USA is because they aren't the ones shipping them. They pass the order along to the distribution facility for the product you are ordering and they ship it. This is commonly known as "drop shipping" and most places that do this will not ship outside of the USA.
The interesting thing is that both DS9 and B5 tried the "soap opera" class of sci fi, but DS9 pulled it off.
The first half of DS9 was single show format with occasional character changes, by the time they switched in seasons 4-5 they already had a dedicated set of viewers watching it.
B5 tried to do it from the beginning and it's very difficult to see every ep of a new show when it comes on (unless you have mythtv or whatever) so most people would miss an episode or two and just toss the show.
Same problem with 24, hard to get new people into it unless they really want to put the effort:)
I run an irc network for work and I've seen many fun things. Most of the time I'll just place a ban and let it slide. I've seen mail + web servers try to attack the network however and that'll justify an email to some poor sysadmin.
The most unusual was a machine with a google.com reverse dns. I emailed google and they said it was impossible to be them and told me to go away basically =/
It seems to me they were reviewing the tools more then gnome itself.
If trillian, winamp or windows media player have confusing controls, I don't blame that on Windows, I blame it on the respective products.
So why do so many linux review sites do the opposite?
Totem being unstable has nothing to do with gnome 2.6. Rythmbox not having easy to find radio stations has nothing to do with gnome 2.6. The crappy file browsing window DOES have to do with gnome 2.6 and they apparently didn't even review deeply enough into it to see it.
I dual boot gentoo and windows on my desktop, and run exclusively gentoo on my laptop.
I work from home as a developer for a gaming company, I do the vast majority of work on my laptop and typically my desktop just sits idle in windows.
Linux makes a great desktop OS, but its just too much of a pain in the ass for me to reboot constantly to play games. It's also alot less of a hassle to maintain my desktop in windows since I'm upgrading hardware constantly.
"CRS-1, which previously had been code-named HFR for Huge Fast Router, also is the first core router to offer 40 gigabit-per-second optical interfaces."
Am I the only one who can see the engineers picking a different word for the F in HFR? I assume it used to stand for Huge Fucking Router before the PR guys got their hands on it.
Like driving stick for the first time after driving automatic your whole life.
Thats a pretty apt analogy.
Photoshop = Automatic = Easy to use, not much thought required.
Gimp = Standard = Extra steps to do everything, clumbsy interface.
Of course, I drive a standard, but I'll use photoshop instead of gimp any day.
The next logical step I think would be for a university to provide free internet in dorm rooms, as long as you leave your system on and run a distributed computing client for them.
The student saves $$ without any noticable problems on their side, the university gets free computing time, seems like a win win situation.
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For my laptop, it doesn't matter what I specify, the video card handles it and X doesn't care.
No, they don't meet the processing requirements. "Just as mp3(and similar) is good enough to listen" - Mp3 files are small enough that even when encoded at a high bitrate, you can download a file reasonably fast. Audio quality is also alot more subjective to the listener then video is. Anyone can take a video and pause it and point out all the things that don't look quite right, something that can't be done with an MP3. Also since you know what a video is "supposed" to look like, you notice the errors more. Those stairs aren't blurry in real life, why are they in the movie? Same for faces, rain and other objects. Video codec's will always be worked on and updated, as higher quality video is demanded, sizes get larger and larger and more unworkable. When you have a large HDTV, do you really want to watch a divx video with blocky motion artifacts?
6c a minute sounds pricey, until you realize it's $3.60 an hour, which doesn't sound so bad.
I've ordered electronic items from both thinkgeek and amazon and I live in canada.
The only reason thinkgeek doesn't allow some of their item's to be shipped outside of the USA is because they aren't the ones shipping them. They pass the order along to the distribution facility for the product you are ordering and they ship it. This is commonly known as "drop shipping" and most places that do this will not ship outside of the USA.
The interesting thing is that both DS9 and B5 tried the "soap opera" class of sci fi, but DS9 pulled it off.
:)
The first half of DS9 was single show format with occasional character changes, by the time they switched in seasons 4-5 they already had a dedicated set of viewers watching it.
B5 tried to do it from the beginning and it's very difficult to see every ep of a new show when it comes on (unless you have mythtv or whatever) so most people would miss an episode or two and just toss the show.
Same problem with 24, hard to get new people into it unless they really want to put the effort
I reproduced this successfully on Firefox 1.0 under Linux.
"According to the agreement, the total loss of the IA-7 satellite would give the purchasers the right not to consummate the acquisition of Intelsat"
:)
Maybe they decided they didn't want the company after all, and it was cheaper to take out a satellite somehow then to break the contract?
Read the article, there is one on the bottom :)
I run an irc network for work and I've seen many fun things. Most of the time I'll just place a ban and let it slide. I've seen mail + web servers try to attack the network however and that'll justify an email to some poor sysadmin.
The most unusual was a machine with a google.com reverse dns. I emailed google and they said it was impossible to be them and told me to go away basically =/
Considering it's only 10 minutes away from my house, me a friend will be going to see it. Hopefully we'll get some good pics to follow up with.
Just to correct you, a dump of current revisions is 633 megs acccording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADatabase_ download
It seems to me they were reviewing the tools more then gnome itself. If trillian, winamp or windows media player have confusing controls, I don't blame that on Windows, I blame it on the respective products. So why do so many linux review sites do the opposite? Totem being unstable has nothing to do with gnome 2.6. Rythmbox not having easy to find radio stations has nothing to do with gnome 2.6. The crappy file browsing window DOES have to do with gnome 2.6 and they apparently didn't even review deeply enough into it to see it.
Anyone know where I can find a copy of this "Micorsoft Windows"?
No stores near me seem to have it.
I dual boot gentoo and windows on my desktop, and run exclusively gentoo on my laptop. I work from home as a developer for a gaming company, I do the vast majority of work on my laptop and typically my desktop just sits idle in windows. Linux makes a great desktop OS, but its just too much of a pain in the ass for me to reboot constantly to play games. It's also alot less of a hassle to maintain my desktop in windows since I'm upgrading hardware constantly.
I'm not complaining, I made a $500 deposit to my account and it showed up twice. I guess I'll wait a week or two and see if they notice :)
"CRS-1, which previously had been code-named HFR for Huge Fast Router, also is the first core router to offer 40 gigabit-per-second optical interfaces."
Am I the only one who can see the engineers picking a different word for the F in HFR? I assume it used to stand for Huge Fucking Router before the PR guys got their hands on it.
Yeah, it's only using cookies, but I'll be checking the votes after to filter out cheaters, so don't bother :)
Like driving stick for the first time after driving automatic your whole life. Thats a pretty apt analogy. Photoshop = Automatic = Easy to use, not much thought required. Gimp = Standard = Extra steps to do everything, clumbsy interface. Of course, I drive a standard, but I'll use photoshop instead of gimp any day.
My 2.4c is running at 3.3 perfectly stable without extra hardware. Not double the speed, but respectable none the less :)
I think a more apt analogy would be them announcing "a new quantum computer on par with todays 486".
Its not the fact that they are matching old technology, its that the new technlogy is getting mature enough to start competing.
Pffft, i did that years ago, must have been 94 or so. Walked into store, parent distracted the salesmen while I copied virtualpc onto a 1.44.....
The next logical step I think would be for a university to provide free internet in dorm rooms, as long as you leave your system on and run a distributed computing client for them. The student saves $$ without any noticable problems on their side, the university gets free computing time, seems like a win win situation.
Reading the article comes in useful here as they are doing it via satellite.
Heh, I was about to post the same thing.
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