1. A format that will ALWAYS fast forward when I hit the fast forward button. (same with rewind)
Use xine or mplayer. Neither bothers to implement this flag. (you could file a bug report as a missing feature if you want...)
2. A format that will withstand the destructive force of a toddler. (Though I do applaud the DVD's resistance to heat from a car.)
Are you telling me the prying fingers of a toddler couldn't open the flap on a VHS tape and rip out the magnetic tape? I'm sure at least one of mine ent that way.
Try buying a house the same way in France as you would in the UK. Although some laws may be harmonised in their intent within the EU, the beurocracy and implementation details vary significantly.
For another example of the perils of viewing Europe as a country, what language would your CV to 'Southern Europe' be in?
It's best not to think of Europe as a country. Remember 'southern Europe' is actually a collection of different countries with vastly different cultures, laws and, in most cases, languages. It would be better to say 'I want to work in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Southern France, Hungary, Romania, Greece, etc', all of which could be viewed by some people as 'southern Europe' and all of which have different cultures and laws.
The reality is that you will be hard-pressed to find employment anywhere in Europe unless you can demonstrate a real reason for them to have you over many other people from their own company (non multi-nationals are unlikely to have appropriate tax expertise for example). Your best bet would be to find some country which has limited local talent but is developping rapidly, some of the East-Europe countries for example, but in all cases look into the particular country in question.
The rampant anti-Americanism in Europe at the moment might be a problem too.
Sounds like the UN will have to send in independant Elections Inspectors. Its always a pity when developing countires can't hold their own elections properly:).
The SDMI (http://sdmi.org/) specifies that portable music devices should only be able to fast forward at a certain speed (the reason for this escapes me). My MP3 player before the iPod actually stated this as a feature in the manual!
Why don't you think the chap himself posted the bug? He/did/ day that he notified the vendors before posting the message. A post to bugzilla could be part of a notification.
The compositing manager is the only app that is reponsible for transparency etc, yeah. It already takes advantage of accelleration since the xcompmgr sample manager from freeDesktop.org uses the RENDER extension to do the compositing. This uses hardware-accelerated compositing for most drivers already. This is roughly what happens from the compositing manager's viepoint:
0) [Initial step], compositing manager requests that all top-level windows be drawn into off-screen buffers rather than directly into the frame buffer. (Composite extension)
Now repeatedly do things like:
1) Get message saying area R covering windows A,B and C has changed (from the Damage Extension). 2) Ask Render extension to form a picture of A, B and C from the off-screen pixmaps (all happens server-side, very little bandwidth/latency used). 3) Use Render to composite pictures A, B and C with a particular alpha. This is fast since it is done by the server (no image data need ever go across the wire) and Render is hardware-accelerated on most drivers.
Thats it really so the most-often used step is pretty small and low bandwidth. Also the manager is free to do whatever it wants. It might pull the images of the windows over the wire and send them to some networked client (eg. rootless VNC) or it might use OpenGL to composite all the windows in some 3d space.
Not quite. There is now a 'compositing manager', just like the window manager that handles the actual rendering of windows. The change is that instead of all being rendered into the frame buffer, the compositing manager can point to a branch of the rendering tree and say 'whoa there! break this off into an offscreen pixmap'. It can then get these pixmaps and composite the windows as it sees fit. None of the bitmapped data for the windows need go accross the wire since all the off-screen pixmaps are held server side. This is actually a cunning separation of policy and mechanism. The compositing manger dictates the logical grouping of the rendering tree and the precise details fo compositing whereby the X server concentrates on what it is good at which is knowing about the bitmapped window contents and (with Render) the compositing of server-side pixmaps.
Sounds identical to the NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime) that Mozilla et al use to abstract away the underlying Operating System. Surely in this case new features exist immediately on all NSPR platforms.
It's also slightly encouraging to see Microsoft adopting the use of technology like XML and moving a bit closer to standards with their software... their new vector language is very similar to SVG
But it isn't SVG. OTOH I don't think it'll be too long before some cunning hacker writes some XSLT which will convert XAML into SVG + XUL. If its integrated into 'zilla users would be none the wiser.
A good printer has mastered the use of the printing press, can tell the humidity in the room by the droop of a piece of carbon paper and knows more about colour-spaces than I ever will. This printer has a good grasp of printing technology.
This doesn't mean they don't fear that the (for them) easy to use printing press wont be replaced by a sealed box with a computer terminal on the front complete with a CompSci graduate who suddenly knows more about using the machine than they do.
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The Observer is what one might call 'The Guardian on Sunday'.
1. A format that will ALWAYS fast forward when I hit the fast forward button. (same with rewind)
Use xine or mplayer. Neither bothers to implement this flag. (you could file a bug report as a missing feature if you want...)
2. A format that will withstand the destructive force of a toddler. (Though I do applaud the DVD's resistance to heat from a car.)
Are you telling me the prying fingers of a toddler couldn't open the flap on a VHS tape and rip out the magnetic tape? I'm sure at least one of mine ent that way.
Try buying a house the same way in France as you would in the UK. Although some laws may be harmonised in their intent within the EU, the beurocracy and implementation details vary significantly.
For another example of the perils of viewing Europe as a country, what language would your CV to 'Southern Europe' be in?
It's best not to think of Europe as a country. Remember 'southern Europe' is actually a collection of different countries with vastly different cultures, laws and, in most cases, languages. It would be better to say 'I want to work in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Southern France, Hungary, Romania, Greece, etc', all of which could be viewed by some people as 'southern Europe' and all of which have different cultures and laws.
The reality is that you will be hard-pressed to find employment anywhere in Europe unless you can demonstrate a real reason for them to have you over many other people from their own company (non multi-nationals are unlikely to have appropriate tax expertise for example). Your best bet would be to find some country which has limited local talent but is developping rapidly, some of the East-Europe countries for example, but in all cases look into the particular country in question.
The rampant anti-Americanism in Europe at the moment might be a problem too.
If I were Death, and I had to choose between him and a child with leukemia, guess which one I'd pick?
The child? Less effort has been spent in sustaining the life so far. Seriously, why would one be 'picked' over another?
Sounds like the UN will have to send in independant Elections Inspectors. Its always a pity when developing countires can't hold their own elections properly :).
The SDMI (http://sdmi.org/) specifies that portable music devices should only be able to fast forward at a certain speed (the reason for this escapes me). My MP3 player before the iPod actually stated this as a feature in the manual!
I reckon its almost 3 times as much for non-students too...
Why don't you think the chap himself posted the bug? He /did/ day that he notified the vendors before posting the message. A post to bugzilla could be part of a notification.
The compositing manager is the only app that is reponsible for transparency etc, yeah. It already takes advantage of accelleration since the xcompmgr sample manager from freeDesktop.org uses the RENDER extension to do the compositing. This uses hardware-accelerated compositing for most drivers already. This is roughly what happens from the compositing manager's viepoint:
0) [Initial step], compositing manager requests that all top-level windows be drawn into off-screen buffers rather than directly into the frame buffer. (Composite extension)
Now repeatedly do things like:
1) Get message saying area R covering windows A,B and C has changed (from the Damage Extension).
2) Ask Render extension to form a picture of A, B and C from the off-screen pixmaps (all happens server-side, very little bandwidth/latency used).
3) Use Render to composite pictures A, B and C with a particular alpha. This is fast since it is done by the server (no image data need ever go across the wire) and Render is hardware-accelerated on most drivers.
Thats it really so the most-often used step is pretty small and low bandwidth. Also the manager is free to do whatever it wants. It might pull the images of the windows over the wire and send them to some networked client (eg. rootless VNC) or it might use OpenGL to composite all the windows in some 3d space.
Not quite. There is now a 'compositing manager', just like the window manager that handles the actual rendering of windows. The change is that instead of all being rendered into the frame buffer, the compositing manager can point to a branch of the rendering tree and say 'whoa there! break this off into an offscreen pixmap'. It can then get these pixmaps and composite the windows as it sees fit. None of the bitmapped data for the windows need go accross the wire since all the off-screen pixmaps are held server side. This is actually a cunning separation of policy and mechanism. The compositing manger dictates the logical grouping of the rendering tree and the precise details fo compositing whereby the X server concentrates on what it is good at which is knowing about the bitmapped window contents and (with Render) the compositing of server-side pixmaps.
Well I for one will be buying Simon a pint for pulling this off so quickly.
At least noone suggested he was having iSurgery.
(sorry, I'm fiddling with QoS and my brain is melting....)
I see goatse.kids.us is still available :).
Well known troll. Don't believe his offer of invites.
which DVD menu doesn't work with xine? And I watch DVDs on my 500MHz PIII so a 700MHz Celery should manage it.
You mean the UK Universities which made Beagle2 ?
:)
Not everything space-related is NASA you insensitive clod!
How long until SCO sues Bagle's author for copyright infringement....
Sounds identical to the NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime) that Mozilla et al use to abstract away the underlying Operating System. Surely in this case new features exist immediately on all NSPR platforms.
It's also slightly encouraging to see Microsoft adopting the use of technology like XML and moving a bit closer to standards with their software... their new vector language is very similar to SVG
But it isn't SVG. OTOH I don't think it'll be too long before some cunning hacker writes some XSLT which will convert XAML into SVG + XUL. If its integrated into 'zilla users would be none the wiser.
This is a reversion of the norm :) [from the page linked to in the story]:
Operating System
* RedHat Linux 7.2 or higher
* Windows XP (coming soon)
The Four Colour Theorem was proved by a computer and hasn't been proved by a human since
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
Gimp 2.0 however is much better than photoshop IMHO for many many jobs, although it is still just a bit lacking in the automation-of-tasks area.
Isn't the Gimp entirely scriptable via LISP (Scipt-Fu) or Python (Python-Fu)?
The poster? I wrote the essay but didn't post it to /. - wouldn't that have been a bit cheeky on the poster's part? :)
A good printer has mastered the use of the printing press, can tell the humidity in the room by the droop of a piece of carbon paper and knows more about colour-spaces than I ever will. This printer has a good grasp of printing technology.
This doesn't mean they don't fear that the (for them) easy to use printing press wont be replaced by a sealed box with a computer terminal on the front complete with a CompSci graduate who suddenly knows more about using the machine than they do.
Technology is a superset of computers.