I wouldn't know if this is necessarily correct: if radiation damages the animal's genetic information, wouldn't you see mutations more quickly due to their shorter reproductive cycles?
Also, another easy way -- next to Debian -- to use Ardour, Audacity, Jack, LADSPA or anything else, is to use Stanford's Planet.CCRMA project for Fedora.
It contains just about any decent audio app for GNU/Linux, including the ones mentioned in TFA, but also has custom kernels with the real-time patches and everything.
This discussion is not really to the point, is it? Bandwidth is NOT a big issue, it's just a logistics problem, even for HD. What's a few fibres here and there when you have bigger issues? Also, IPTV does not necessarily mean 'over the internet', certainly not in the short term because QoS is too important: you can't have a consumer television product which can stall frequently due to buffer underruns.
(My job is running an IPTV-over-dsl service, so I have quite some experience in this field)
We've been running our platform since eary last year, and has been running comercially since before this summer. Everything is stable, and we're NOT using anything MS.
If course, their offering has been evaluated, but our choice was based on these: - stability of everything (all of our systems are linux or solaris, or 'black boxes') - openness of video platform (no wmv9, just mpeg. we like to choose our own encoder vendor) - openness of it platform (oracle db's, java backends, etc...) - customizability (for integration with our provisioning and billing systems) - interoperability (all our set-top boxes are running linux internally, vendors don't need to pay expensive fees to get access to the software, which gives more freedom.) - standard protocols/encoding (mpeg, rtsp, etc...)
MS's offering wasn't selected because of problems with most of the above. Ask Alcatel how their collaboration with them is going.
Most of the platform useUnfortunately, we do have some vendor lock-in because you have to get an encryption system that hollywood and the tv channels trust. It's either that or you don't get any content at all.
More about the article: * Instant channel changes -> impossible without ugly hacks. you can actually cache the I-frames of unjoined streams, but that's like throwing bandwith away. * IPTV is not at 'experience'. It's just like watching plain regular tv. Really. You have some interactivity, but nothing more than video-on-demand, pay-per-view, or some user interaction with tv shows. (But hey, old-school phone voting was 'interactive' too). All other services, like phoning, email or surfing work better on other devices. * Services launching a few years in the future? We're live right now. I don't think people want to wait for the Longhorn of television.
Isn't this a bit like going back to the age of Windows 95? That release didn't have an OpenGL driver, but nobody cared. It only came standard in Windows with NT 4, if I'm not mistaken.
But still, if you look at the standard OpenGL implementation in Windows nowadays, you'll notice that it's still basically crap.
"But why does Doom3 run at all", you might ask?
Well: because it's the hardware vendors who provide the driver. A major graphics chip manufacturer can't afford not to have a decent OpenGL driver. So, nobody will care if MS doesn't want to implement a decent driver. Nvidia, ATI & the others will put out a driver, as has always been the case...
i think that most of the debate here is a bit off point...
yes, 17 billion isn't a gigantic sum, and yes, nasa brings good to all people, but has anyone thought about comparing that measly sum to the proposed 15% increase in the defense budget, that will bring it up to an amazing 380 billion?
i don't think that those brand-new small-scale nuclear weapons bring good to people...
and remember the 'project for a new american century'-stuff, you know, the paper from the end of 2000 that, besides talking about the need to invade iraq, also talks about starting a new 'space' branch for the military. what could the plan be? turning the moon into some kind of death star?
some quotes: - "Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio format " (ehm... yeah) - "Portable Media Center Devices Will Blow You Away" (wha? no it won't!) - "Predictable Open-Source Advocates Decry Microsoft Anti-Linux Ads" (this on't a bit like those old beatles records... play it backwards, and you get the *real* hidden message!)
and this one is the best of the lot: - "Jobs's Disappointing Macworld Keynote Address Makes Even Gates Look Good" (okay, so maybe Jobs is boring, he always is, but making Gates LOOK GOOD? Paul? ya smokin' crack?)
over here in Belgium, I don't think that we can complain:
dsl costs 40 euro's, and is 3Mbit down, 128k up cable is slightly cheaper, but is 10Mbit down, 128k up.
currently, we're at over 1.2 million broadband lines, of which there's about 800.000 dsl. and that's on a population of 10 million. there are more dsl lines because of less installation hassles: cable requires new equipment in the house (with scary drilling and such), for dsl, all you have to do is place some filters on the phone sockets.
yes. we're number 3 in the world;-) (for penetration and density of installed lines, compared to the population)
and it gets even better!
sometime later this year, we're getting lines which will probably be 15Mbit downstream/5Mbit upstream, but only slightly more expensive than standard dsl or cable, and with optional video-on-demand, dvb and other nice stuff.
Will we keep our right of private ownership of computers? Will we keep our right of free use of our Net?
ehm... i think it's grotesque that someone would even think of asking these questions.
i also think that the whole 'Next Generation Secure Computing Base' thing is about who will be pimping who.
some time before we'll get the final version of longhorn stuffed down our throats, msft will probably have decided that it's in everyone's (*) interest to expand the trusted compiting base to the full operating system, and we'll be able to forget about using any software that wasn't okay'ed by msft to run on the system. (= signed code?)
maybe we'll see modchips for regular computers in the future too?
better start stroking the penguin sooner than later!
h357 - paranoia est. 1977
(*) everyone = riaa/mpaa members, msft themselves, anyone who pays premium prices to develop software using msft tool
well, one of the geatest fears of the US is that a lot of oil-producing countries (in south america, africa, ex-soviet union) are/were considering pricing their oil in euros.
the US government wet their pants at that prospect.
I thought the article was about a storage server? this is a high-end gaming rig!
they slam in a Gig of ram, use gigabit ethernet (for a home server?), and last but not least, a high end video card??
I guess that a storage server really doesn't need that kind of stuff... maybe one of those mini-itx cards with half a gig of ram, a good power supply, and a decent pci raid card from 3ware or somehting?
they're probably running windows on that machine too...
i think that you've got to look at it from the other side too, for example:
imagine that you're someone who has been wrongfully accused of some crime or something, and that a *very* wrong story is posted on a big news site. the problem the is that your case will already be made by a lot of people who read the site, and that - normally - you can't do anything against it.
you can always go to court to set things straight, but that's reserved for people with money to burn.
if a regulation like this one would exist, you could have the right to get you side of the story on the same site too. if it wouldn't exist, all you can do is post in some forums, or scream about your cause in your blog, but that's about it. nobody will ever learn about it.
the biggest problem is that the regulation won't be able to get enforced, because the time and money this will consume will be enourmous.
and to reply to the parent post: the law over here in Belgium (the 'Axis Of Weasel' rules!) does indeed enforce this right in the dead tree media, but it really doesn't happen often that a 'right to reply' is used by anyone. i think that i've saw only one or two this year (that's already a lot of newspapers and magazines). and sometimes they're actually quite funny to read (companies or people making complete fools out of themselves...)
at the company where I work, we regularly hold lan/wan parties that extend for a full day, but with the exception that it's us against another company, at another location, with over 50 players at each side. (the last one we did was also an SDSL-showcase for management;-). mostly it's: they deliver the pc's (mostly full-blown gaming stations, all brand new for one day, then they get sold as second-hand...), we deliver the networking stuff (lan + wan). we're both good at our own stuff;-)
but to cut to the chase: the important thing is to set up a dhcp server that serves every client, get enough network hardware (switches) to support everyone (get sponsorship for this: maybe a local hardware shop? let them put up big ads, and they might lend you some decent lan-hardware) also get one person to be responsable for each server of game, and that they know what they're doing, so that of something breaks, it gets resolved quickly qnd without conflicts (there's always this geek who knows how to do it better, and screws up everything -- you know the type...)
or even: try to get some advice of the people that organize those massice demo-parties in europe (more than 3000 computers on 1 lan, etc...). they know what kind of logistical nightmare big improvised networks are... (check out http://www.scene.org for info)
has anyone seen the little line on the bottom of the page?
It actually says:
"What PC do I have to buy to run There?"
It doesn't even say: "which PC do I need to run There" or a the more geeky version: "What are the system requirements to run There?"
What's next?
A link on the Command and Conquer homepage that says "What third world country do I have to bomb to play C&C?" of on the Doom3 site: "Whose `evil minions do I have to kill to play Doom3?"
'There' is just the neolibertarian and neocapitalist version of "America's Army"! Instead of getting people to get to enjoy 'real' military action, now we're going to learn people to become happier by participating in blind (encouraged) consumerism.
And someone probably wonder why there won't be a Linux version of There...
as much as i applaud the possibility of using gnome2 on solaris (i've been using the beta3 for a long time, and i will upgrade my sunblade workstation to the gnome2 final release), it really wouldn't work well in all possible situations...
for example: at work we have a very large number of sunray workstations, which use a chunky 6800 as server (the largest sunray install base in europe!). we use them primarily for managing our data network (as our country's larges telco & isp).
since gnome2 uses A LOT more ram and cpu cycles than good old cde, we won't be using it anytime soon. it kind of isn't justifiable to order a 15k to use a new gui. and then some. a lot of the applications we use are very usable in cde (eg: alcatel/newbridge's atm node management software), so using gnome would actually make the thing less user friendly!
you got a registration card/number if you bought Daft Punk's album Discovery, with which you could sign in on their site, and download a lot of goodies, etc..
the kind that lets corporations drill for oil in a nature preserve the kind that starts wars because of economic interests? the kind that lets people starve in Africa, because there's money to be made with so-called blood diamonds? the kind that lets corporations behave as a monopoly, and lets them take away citizen's liberties? the kind that dubya & friends have been promoting for some time now?
I don't think that we need that kind of capitalism.
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I wouldn't know if this is necessarily correct: if radiation damages the animal's genetic information, wouldn't you see mutations more quickly due to their shorter reproductive cycles?
Also, another easy way -- next to Debian -- to use Ardour, Audacity, Jack, LADSPA or anything else, is to use Stanford's Planet.CCRMA project for Fedora.
It contains just about any decent audio app for GNU/Linux, including the ones mentioned in TFA, but also has custom kernels with the real-time patches and everything.
Definitely worth checking out!!
h357
This discussion is not really to the point, is it? Bandwidth is NOT a big issue, it's just a logistics problem, even for HD. What's a few fibres here and there when you have bigger issues?
Also, IPTV does not necessarily mean 'over the internet', certainly not in the short term because QoS is too important: you can't have a consumer television product which can stall frequently due to buffer underruns.
(My job is running an IPTV-over-dsl service, so I have quite some experience in this field)
We've been running our platform since eary last year, and has been running comercially since before this summer. Everything is stable, and we're NOT using anything MS.
If course, their offering has been evaluated, but our choice was based on these:
- stability of everything (all of our systems are linux or solaris, or 'black boxes')
- openness of video platform (no wmv9, just mpeg. we like to choose our own encoder vendor)
- openness of it platform (oracle db's, java backends, etc...)
- customizability (for integration with our provisioning and billing systems)
- interoperability (all our set-top boxes are running linux internally, vendors don't need to pay expensive fees to get access to the software, which gives more freedom.)
- standard protocols/encoding (mpeg, rtsp, etc...)
MS's offering wasn't selected because of problems with most of the above. Ask Alcatel how their collaboration with them is going.
Most of the platform useUnfortunately, we do have some vendor lock-in because you have to get an encryption system that hollywood and the tv channels trust. It's either that or you don't get any content at all.
More about the article:
* Instant channel changes -> impossible without ugly hacks. you can actually cache the I-frames of unjoined streams, but that's like throwing bandwith away.
* IPTV is not at 'experience'. It's just like watching plain regular tv. Really. You have some interactivity, but nothing more than video-on-demand, pay-per-view, or some user interaction with tv shows. (But hey, old-school phone voting was 'interactive' too). All other services, like phoning, email or surfing work better on other devices.
* Services launching a few years in the future? We're live right now. I don't think people want to wait for the Longhorn of television.
h357
Ehm...
Isn't this a bit like going back to the age of Windows 95? That release didn't have an OpenGL driver, but nobody cared. It only came standard in Windows with NT 4, if I'm not mistaken.
But still, if you look at the standard OpenGL implementation in Windows nowadays, you'll notice that it's still basically crap.
"But why does Doom3 run at all", you might ask?
Well: because it's the hardware vendors who provide the driver. A major graphics chip manufacturer can't afford not to have a decent OpenGL driver. So, nobody will care if MS doesn't want to implement a decent driver. Nvidia, ATI & the others will put out a driver, as has always been the case...
So, stop worrying, then!
h357
and if you really want to go for wireless:
the locust!
(http://www.locustworld.com/)
wireless mesh network stuff... put one of these in every home, and you're off!
not to forget...
Sun is planning to release it's SunRay software for Linux later this year. (version 3, with - promised - reduced bandwith usage)
That includes client management, smartcard authentication and server grouping/failover. Both of these which standard XFree or X.org can't do easily.
h357
ehm...
50 countries?
you call the Marshall Islands a country? or Tonga? or Macedonia? or Kuwait? or the Federated Stats of Micronesia?
It may be a coalition of 50 countries, out of about 193 existing ones, of which about 90% doesn't even know how to form their own opinion...
Man...
the mentioning of a 'babe' with the article sure wil give a good slashdotting load to the newsforge servers!
-- run, forrest, run!!
h357
i think that most of the debate here is a bit off point...
yes, 17 billion isn't a gigantic sum, and yes, nasa brings good to all people, but has anyone thought about comparing that measly sum to the proposed 15% increase in the defense budget, that will bring it up to an amazing 380 billion?
i don't think that those brand-new small-scale nuclear weapons bring good to people...
and remember the 'project for a new american century'-stuff, you know, the paper from the end of 2000 that, besides talking about the need to invade iraq, also talks about starting a new 'space' branch for the military. what could the plan be? turning the moon into some kind of death star?
h357
wow...
;-)
anybody actually read the first article?
talk about being superfanboy!
some quotes:
- "Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio format " (ehm... yeah)
- "Portable Media Center Devices Will Blow You Away" (wha? no it won't!)
- "Predictable Open-Source Advocates Decry Microsoft Anti-Linux Ads" (this on't a bit like those old beatles records... play it backwards, and you get the *real* hidden message!)
and this one is the best of the lot:
- "Jobs's Disappointing Macworld Keynote Address Makes Even Gates Look Good"
(okay, so maybe Jobs is boring, he always is, but making Gates LOOK GOOD? Paul? ya smokin' crack?)
well,
h357
Well,
;-)
over here in Belgium, I don't think that we can complain:
dsl costs 40 euro's, and is 3Mbit down, 128k up
cable is slightly cheaper, but is 10Mbit down, 128k up.
currently, we're at over 1.2 million broadband lines, of which there's about 800.000 dsl. and that's on a population of 10 million.
there are more dsl lines because of less installation hassles: cable requires new equipment in the house (with scary drilling and such), for dsl, all you have to do is place some filters on the phone sockets.
yes. we're number 3 in the world
(for penetration and density of installed lines, compared to the population)
and it gets even better!
sometime later this year, we're getting lines which will probably be 15Mbit downstream/5Mbit upstream, but only slightly more expensive than standard dsl or cable, and with optional video-on-demand, dvb and other nice stuff.
bye,
h357
Will we keep our right of private ownership of computers?
Will we keep our right of free use of our Net?
ehm... i think it's grotesque that someone would even think of asking these questions.
i also think that the whole 'Next Generation Secure Computing Base' thing is about who will be pimping who.
some time before we'll get the final version of longhorn stuffed down our throats, msft will probably have decided that it's in everyone's (*) interest to expand the trusted compiting base to the full operating system, and we'll be able to forget about using any software that wasn't okay'ed by msft to run on the system. (= signed code?)
maybe we'll see modchips for regular computers in the future too?
better start stroking the penguin sooner than later!
h357 - paranoia est. 1977
(*) everyone = riaa/mpaa members, msft themselves, anyone who pays premium prices to develop software using msft tool
well, one of the geatest fears of the US is that a lot of oil-producing countries (in south america, africa, ex-soviet union) are/were considering pricing their oil in euros.
the US government wet their pants at that prospect.
I call it my xbox.
I thought the article was about a storage server? this is a high-end gaming rig!
they slam in a Gig of ram, use gigabit ethernet (for a home server?), and last but not least, a high end video card??
I guess that a storage server really doesn't need that kind of stuff... maybe one of those mini-itx cards with half a gig of ram, a good power supply, and a decent pci raid card from 3ware or somehting?
they're probably running windows on that machine too...
talk about being cost-effective...
well...
i think that you've got to look at it from the other side too, for example:
imagine that you're someone who has been wrongfully accused of some crime or something, and that a *very* wrong story is posted on a big news site. the problem the is that your case will already be made by a lot of people who read the site, and that - normally - you can't do anything against it.
you can always go to court to set things straight, but that's reserved for people with money to burn.
if a regulation like this one would exist, you could have the right to get you side of the story on the same site too.
if it wouldn't exist, all you can do is post in some forums, or scream about your cause in your blog, but that's about it. nobody will ever learn about it.
the biggest problem is that the regulation won't be able to get enforced, because the time and money this will consume will be enourmous.
and to reply to the parent post: the law over here in Belgium (the 'Axis Of Weasel' rules!) does indeed enforce this right in the dead tree media, but it really doesn't happen often that a 'right to reply' is used by anyone. i think that i've saw only one or two this year (that's already a lot of newspapers and magazines). and sometimes they're actually quite funny to read (companies or people making complete fools out of themselves...)
hi there,
;-). mostly it's: they deliver the pc's (mostly full-blown gaming stations, all brand new for one day, then they get sold as second-hand...), we deliver the networking stuff (lan + wan). we're both good at our own stuff ;-)
at the company where I work, we regularly hold lan/wan parties that extend for a full day, but with the exception that it's us against another company, at another location, with over 50 players at each side. (the last one we did was also an SDSL-showcase for management
but to cut to the chase:
the important thing is to set up a dhcp server that serves every client, get enough network hardware (switches) to support everyone (get sponsorship for this: maybe a local hardware shop? let them put up big ads, and they might lend you some decent lan-hardware)
also get one person to be responsable for each server of game, and that they know what they're doing, so that of something breaks, it gets resolved quickly qnd without conflicts (there's always this geek who knows how to do it better, and screws up everything -- you know the type...)
or even: try to get some advice of the people that organize those massice demo-parties in europe (more than 3000 computers on 1 lan, etc...). they know what kind of logistical nightmare big improvised networks are... (check out http://www.scene.org for info)
MS really don't have a clue when it gets to security...sigh... ;-)
has anyone seen the little line on the bottom of the page?
It actually says:
"What PC do I have to buy to run There?"
It doesn't even say: "which PC do I need to run There" or a the more geeky version: "What are the system requirements to run There?"
What's next?
A link on the Command and Conquer homepage that says "What third world country do I have to bomb to play C&C?" of on the Doom3 site: "Whose `evil minions do I have to kill to play Doom3?"
'There' is just the neolibertarian and neocapitalist version of "America's Army"! Instead of getting people to get to enjoy 'real' military action, now we're going to learn people to become happier by participating in blind (encouraged) consumerism.
And someone probably wonder why there won't be a Linux version of There...
as much as i applaud the possibility of using gnome2 on solaris (i've been using the beta3 for a long time, and i will upgrade my sunblade workstation to the gnome2 final release), it really wouldn't work well in all possible situations...
for example:
at work we have a very large number of sunray workstations, which use a chunky 6800 as server (the largest sunray install base in europe!). we use them primarily for managing our data network (as our country's larges telco & isp).
since gnome2 uses A LOT more ram and cpu cycles than good old cde, we won't be using it anytime soon. it kind of isn't justifiable to order a 15k to use a new gui.
and then some.
a lot of the applications we use are very usable in cde (eg: alcatel/newbridge's atm node management software), so using gnome would actually make the thing less user friendly!
h357
Still,
I wonder what nvidia's going to do with the 3dfx and gigapixel technologies...
h357
Anyone notice on the site that the university is giving a doctorat (honoris causa) to Bill Gates?
Nice one, Stockholm!
this stuff has been done by the French before!
you got a registration card/number if you bought Daft Punk's album Discovery, with which you could sign in on their site, and download a lot of goodies, etc..
bad news, jon-boy, they were first... in 1997!
five years too late to be a first...
capitalism?
the kind that lets corporations drill for oil in a nature preserve
the kind that starts wars because of economic interests?
the kind that lets people starve in Africa, because there's money to be made with so-called blood diamonds?
the kind that lets corporations behave as a monopoly, and lets them take away citizen's liberties?
the kind that dubya & friends have been promoting for some time now?
I don't think that we need that kind of capitalism.
Give us *real* democracy!
you're right,
but without pointing fingers, don't you think that this sh*t should come to an end soon?
before things get really out of hand?