Is there any good and practical use for this new codec?
Yes. Live audio applications such as digital radio mics. Before the only viable option was ADPCM which slew-rate limits horribly and sounds awful. Either that or find enough RF bandwidth to send uncompressed PCM. For live applications 3ms delay is needed or drummers start playing out of time etc. If it can be tweaked to less than 5ms then it's got a future in this application.
Strange to call any step forward "socialist" since prohibition makes the same assumption that communism does. The assumption that everyone will just fall into line in to make it work. Both ideologies, the Temperance Movement and communism, come from Victorian times, both got tried in the 20th century. Both failed in the long run.
I'd love to do remote desktop viewing for distributed, Linux-based, artistic productions. For HP machines their proprietary Remote Graphics Software is very nice, and fills the bill perfectly, but it does require you to use HP boxes (at least for the server, if not necessarily the viewer). Are there any other open-source or widely-available proprietary desktop sharing systems for Linux?
Yes. There's freenx server for the Linux box and the cross-platform no-machine client for the viewer. It works over SSH by default. IMHO it works much better than any of the VNCs.
You don't get it. If Firefox had h.264 support, it could not be redistributed. Period. Everyone would have to download the 'offical' version from Mozilla. No Linux distro could include it. No one could change the code and distribute it. It would cripple Firefox. Why the hell doesn't anyone understand this?
Because I would be violating the "cognition" patents if I tried.
Agreed! And I don't care how much faster Flash is on Windows. I don't use Windows and Flash is the _only_ video playing app that can't play full-screen video smoothly. VLC can do it, mplayer can do it. So I don't buy the GPU argument, even if using the GPU helps. Even if Firefox or Chrome can't do it yet at least it is in our hands to do something about it instead of waiting forever in vain for Adobe to take other platforms seriously.
Why not blast gansta rap at the poor, hapless souls during detention, with the lyrics changed to reflect what da Head "T" will do to them if they continue to question the value of his bling.
Then, out of protest, we will get Mozart blasted out of tinny little mobile phones on the bus-ride home.
Now, the video is all in ISO MPEG-4 containers, with ISO H.264 video and ISO AAC audio and is playable on Linux in FlashPlayer and WebKit browsers and other players, and the complaining continues. It is disheartening.
The complaining continues because Linux users still cannot play video using FOSS solutions, due to licensing fees associated with implementation of H.264. Given the overall Linux philosophy, it's a perfectly valid complaint.
On top of which, the Linux Flash implementation is very poor. It's impossible to play full-screen video without a lot of frame dropping. This is not a limitation of Linux since other video players on Linux have no such problem.
Mozilla CAN'T support h264, at least not in countries with broken patent law (US, Germany, UK, Japan).
US, Germany and Japan I've heard about. I didn't realise patents had been enabled in the UK more than other EU countries. AFAIK in EU software patents are unenforceable but still granted in the hope that they will one day be enforceable.
The greatest thing about these laptops is, if they're as good as the article claims, the fact that they're ARM processors means that there won't be a version of Windows out for them for ages/ever.
(Still, jail seems kind of disproportionate. Scientology has engaged in worse online censorship-fraud without even being fined.)
From my limited understanding of law, what the other side has done is probably outside the scope of the judgement. If the other side has broken the law then that's a separate case for a separate judge.
Being able to actually use a Windows desktop before it stops fussing and fidgeting with the hard drive light on continuously is something else. At least when I get my KDE4 desktop, which is quite soon these days, I can use it straight away.
It has been a long time since I needed to compile my own kernel and modules, but I can't imagine things have changed that much over the years. Seems to me that when compiling the kernel, you can select out a LOT of hardware support and other options that aren't necessary for that particular installation. It would surprise me to find that the kernel still fits on a floppy disk though.
Apparently, it is still possible to fit Linux 2.6.x on a floppy.
Equivalent to a 60W bulb is still too dim. I used to use 100W or 150W bulbs as standard before I switched to CFLs. Now I can't dim any of them. I have a dimmable CFL but can't find a suitable dimmer that is rated for dimming the 20W CFL. I hope this situation improves soon. And I hope LEDs bulbs don't make me wait another few years for dimmers rated down to 5W (assuming dimmable LED bulbs become available). I guess the best way to dim LEDs is inside the bulb itself and to use some kind of data signal from the dimmer switch to control it instead of trying to do it the old triac way.
I just did try it. There was a build from about June I found in the Mandriva repositories. Just searched for in the Software Manager, found it, installed it.
I can get Google to come up but I can't even get the VI keybindings to do anything. If I type anything it just appears pre-pended to the window decoration title. Weird. ZZ, i, b... none of this stuff works. I can paste things into the search box though via a right-click option.
This has to be unique in being the first Unix-philosophy app I tried where the mouse actually works better than the keyboard. I will keep reading through the docs to see if I missed something.
Factor in most browsing stats are from slackers on their work PCs, not home machines.
http://gs.statcounter.com/
Usage patterns vary a lot among countries, but the general trend is: IE usage drops on weekends, Fx usage climbs on weekends.
Wow! That's a fascinating site.
Try looking at each country. Opera has a large usage share in places like Russia and Zimbabwe and in China IE is actually climbing. Some countries are almost exclusively MS shops such as Greenland.
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Is there any good and practical use for this new codec?
Yes. Live audio applications such as digital radio mics. Before the only viable option was ADPCM which slew-rate limits horribly and sounds awful. Either that or find enough RF bandwidth to send uncompressed PCM. For live applications 3ms delay is needed or drummers start playing out of time etc. If it can be tweaked to less than 5ms then it's got a future in this application.
Unless you want me to drop the product and choose something else less irritating. Hello VMWare? Xen?
Strange to call any step forward "socialist" since prohibition makes the same assumption that communism does. The assumption that everyone will just fall into line in to make it work. Both ideologies, the Temperance Movement and communism, come from Victorian times, both got tried in the 20th century. Both failed in the long run.
Well I'm an audiophile. And if someone where to tell me that there is a more gullible group of people than myself, I just wouldn't believe them!
I'd love to do remote desktop viewing for distributed, Linux-based, artistic productions. For HP machines their proprietary Remote Graphics Software is very nice, and fills the bill perfectly, but it does require you to use HP boxes (at least for the server, if not necessarily the viewer). Are there any other open-source or widely-available proprietary desktop sharing systems for Linux?
Yes. There's freenx server for the Linux box and the cross-platform no-machine client for the viewer. It works over SSH by default. IMHO it works much better than any of the VNCs.
Virtualization also benefits from more recent CPUs instruction set extensions which old hardware is unlikely to have.
However the signal to noise ratio will be horrible because of all the unnecessary gain of the Mic amp stage.
You don't get it. If Firefox had h.264 support, it could not be redistributed. Period. Everyone would have to download the 'offical' version from Mozilla. No Linux distro could include it. No one could change the code and distribute it. It would cripple Firefox. Why the hell doesn't anyone understand this?
Because I would be violating the "cognition" patents if I tried.
Agreed! And I don't care how much faster Flash is on Windows. I don't use Windows and Flash is the _only_ video playing app that can't play full-screen video smoothly. VLC can do it, mplayer can do it. So I don't buy the GPU argument, even if using the GPU helps. Even if Firefox or Chrome can't do it yet at least it is in our hands to do something about it instead of waiting forever in vain for Adobe to take other platforms seriously.
Why not blast gansta rap at the poor, hapless souls during detention, with the lyrics changed to reflect what da Head "T" will do to them if they continue to question the value of his bling. Then, out of protest, we will get Mozart blasted out of tinny little mobile phones on the bus-ride home.
Now, the video is all in ISO MPEG-4 containers, with ISO H.264 video and ISO AAC audio and is playable on Linux in FlashPlayer and WebKit browsers and other players, and the complaining continues. It is disheartening.
The complaining continues because Linux users still cannot play video using FOSS solutions, due to licensing fees associated with implementation of H.264. Given the overall Linux philosophy, it's a perfectly valid complaint.
On top of which, the Linux Flash implementation is very poor. It's impossible to play full-screen video without a lot of frame dropping. This is not a limitation of Linux since other video players on Linux have no such problem.
Mozilla CAN'T support h264, at least not in countries with broken patent law (US, Germany, UK, Japan).
US, Germany and Japan I've heard about. I didn't realise patents had been enabled in the UK more than other EU countries. AFAIK in EU software patents are unenforceable but still granted in the hope that they will one day be enforceable.
The greatest thing about these laptops is, if they're as good as the article claims, the fact that they're ARM processors means that there won't be a version of Windows out for them for ages/ever.
Oops....
(Still, jail seems kind of disproportionate. Scientology has engaged in worse online censorship-fraud without even being fined.)
From my limited understanding of law, what the other side has done is probably outside the scope of the judgement. If the other side has broken the law then that's a separate case for a separate judge.
Chrome Zero, your first sugar free OS.
Good grief! I hope not :-O
Oops, I forgot to mention: they also have a version named "Free", that includes absolutely no proprietary apps or drivers.
Don't forget, adding non-free codecs and apps is as simple as adding the PLF repository from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org./
I didn't get the first post because pulseaudio crashed my system
It isn't PA that's crashing your system. It's the drivers, and PA just exposes defects that were already in the drivers.
It's no good he can't hear you. No Sound. His PA has just fallen out with his drivers. They felt "picked on".
Just curious. I had a quick look at the University website but couldn't find anything. This article gives a bit more info on it, http://engineering.missouri.edu/news/stories/2009/nuclear-battery-outstanding-at-conference/index.php.
Being able to actually use a Windows desktop before it stops fussing and fidgeting with the hard drive light on continuously is something else. At least when I get my KDE4 desktop, which is quite soon these days, I can use it straight away.
I'd use this new browser to watch Steve's fit when hears google is subverting IE.
I'd would then like to see the video of Steve watching this video on IE and realising that it uses the HTML5 video tag and is in OGG Theora.
It has been a long time since I needed to compile my own kernel and modules, but I can't imagine things have changed that much over the years. Seems to me that when compiling the kernel, you can select out a LOT of hardware support and other options that aren't necessary for that particular installation. It would surprise me to find that the kernel still fits on a floppy disk though.
Apparently, it is still possible to fit Linux 2.6.x on a floppy.
I will now proceed to rant...
Equivalent to a 60W bulb is still too dim. I used to use 100W or 150W bulbs as standard before I switched to CFLs. Now I can't dim any of them. I have a dimmable CFL but can't find a suitable dimmer that is rated for dimming the 20W CFL. I hope this situation improves soon. And I hope LEDs bulbs don't make me wait another few years for dimmers rated down to 5W (assuming dimmable LED bulbs become available). I guess the best way to dim LEDs is inside the bulb itself and to use some kind of data signal from the dimmer switch to control it instead of trying to do it the old triac way.
"...for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music."
Maybe they're doing it wrong then.
I just did try it. There was a build from about June I found in the Mandriva repositories. Just searched for in the Software Manager, found it, installed it.
I can get Google to come up but I can't even get the VI keybindings to do anything. If I type anything it just appears pre-pended to the window decoration title. Weird. ZZ, i, b... none of this stuff works. I can paste things into the search box though via a right-click option.
This has to be unique in being the first Unix-philosophy app I tried where the mouse actually works better than the keyboard. I will keep reading through the docs to see if I missed something.
Factor in most browsing stats are from slackers on their work PCs, not home machines.
http://gs.statcounter.com/
Usage patterns vary a lot among countries, but the general trend is: IE usage drops on weekends, Fx usage climbs on weekends.
Wow! That's a fascinating site.
Try looking at each country. Opera has a large usage share in places like Russia and Zimbabwe and in China IE is actually climbing. Some countries are almost exclusively MS shops such as Greenland.