VCD's are pretty lame in comparison to DVD's, it is true. the quality compares with the quality of a recording made on VHS in extended play mode, where you put 6 hours on a 2 hour tape. In the US, DVD is 720x480, 29.97fps while a VCD is 352x240, but there is also SVCD, which is 480x480, and there is nothing to stop you from copying in DVD format onto a CD-R, i've done this with music videos for my kids. The real test is going to be when enlightened companies, such as Apex, start engineering the ability into the DVD players to accept different Codecs; with the use of DivX, or MS-Mpeg4, you can fit a full 2 hour recording at 720x480 onto a CD-R with no appreciable loss of quality.
I've worked 2 places where it was pretty common: At bellsouth, it was used as the monitoring and integration system for all the legacy big & medium iron machines, I suppose because it was good at bridging the gap between older (and downright ancient) techs and modern techs. At 5/3 bank, it was used here and there for various different things, usually running on a old, dusty 486 sitting in a corner, that you had to get approval from the president of the bank to even go near it. REXX is pretty awesome in its level of versatility.
Once upon a time, maybe '96-97, weren't they actually supporting 3d-glasses in some games? not shutter-glasses, but real honest-to-god independant display-for-each-eye 3d glasses? I seem to remember a set-up at a computer store, with a $500 head mount display, and descent, or something like that. I was wasted at the time, which might have added to it, but it was REAL. this is going to kill me, time to throw up REAL. I was just too broke at the time to pay much attention.
I know I've done some 3d tricks with VRML on some of my sites (which I shall not plug at this time) where I did 2 VRML displays on screen, from slightly different perspectives, then unfocus your eyes, and it works like a charm, aside from making you look like an idiot. It would be cool If there was a standard 3d goggle you could design stuff for...
But I still want a holotank.
E-mail, for all intents and purposes, might as well be messages exchanged via skywriting. I've been pretty happy that Freenet ( http://freenetproject.org ) exists ever since I found out about carnivore; the only problem is that it's so esoteric and undocumented, you pretty much just have to trust that it's secure..there is no way to really verify that it's not just a big government plot. Isn't THAT a nice paranoid thought. But there is one thing I do find comfort in: I've worked with spooky crypto NSA types. They have the best talent that money can buy. We, on the other hand (we being the downtrodden oppressed peons), have something else: the best talent money can not buy. That sounded really sappy, didn't it? oh well.
I was pretty much believing it...I figured Paramount would sue WW into oblivion if it wasn't true.
Of course, If you have friends in High places...
Star Trek TNG = Star Trek "lite"
Not true, at least in my experience. My first broadband was a dual-ISDN from Bellsouth. They even gave me a block of 30 IP's to play with. I then moved to Sigecom Cable, of evansville, IN. I had to sign a statement that I was solely responsible for all traffic over my IP; I checked (which is always a good idea) with the SysAdmin about running a webserver, e-mail, whatever and he said your IP, your bandwidth, your problem. Currently on ADSL; asked the SysAdmin same question, the only thing he freaked on was me running a DNS server, but everything else was cool. No one has done anything but encourage me to wire the rest of my house. I understand this may not be the case with the big "National" ISP's, but they have always fallen in with AOL in my thinking, not worth the trouble of using them. If you get hooked up with an ISP where you can't talk to a Sysadmin, even by appointment, you are just asking for trouble.
This is one of the MAIN reasons Freenet is important; after installing A freenet Node, and following the link: Freenet:SSK@WRhGF3h0ijFh1eVJnFu%7EH9OyIpAPA gM/anti scient/5// You can read all you want to read about Scientology. The only people they can go after are the people who run permanent nodes and the developers (http://www.freenetproject.org). Freenet is still pretty flawed, and the current freedom of speech inquisitors surely hate it...but it's subjects like this that really show it's merits.
"Everybody in the COmputer industry"? Huh. When WARP came out I had a small computer store in TN; At the time, I really thought it had a chance of blowing '95 out of the water. In my showroom, I set up 2 486DX-40 systems, my standard "game" models (512MB HD's, 2MB Video, 16MB ram...real screamers) on the WARP machine I had 2 windows, 1 running DOOM, and the other running a video of some sort. The other machine was running the final beta of '95. I invited EVERYONE to decide for themselves which op-sys was better. all the people who tried WARP and were honestly shopping bought it. I STILL think if IBM released OS/2 as open source, it would blow windows away. probably just wishful think though.
I recently worked on a pretty large military product. programmers are not supposed to use GPL stuff, or were not at this particular project at least. But they do anyway. Not for the actualy "core" stuff usually, but for the little supporting snippets, yeah. And since nobody knows about it, you don't have to worry about the GPL.
You are Evil to speak of the great EGG this way...
Too those of you too young to know, this has been an arguement going on for over 20 years; Gary did the Miniature rules, Dave did the Fantasy rules, for the first D&D. Dave has never, that I have seen at least, said anything bad about Gary; Gary has never, that I have seen at least, said anything bad about Dave.
Gary Is a highly creative Genius. Dave was also.
Gary is a SUPER busy dude. His game Lejendary Adventure is picking up steam, he's about to come out with a MMPORPG, he still writes (I think, i'll ask him), and of course he still controls the souls of the millions of zombies he created by those well placed Satanic Spells in the DMG.....
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VCD's are pretty lame in comparison to DVD's, it is true. the quality compares with the quality of a recording made on VHS in extended play mode, where you put 6 hours on a 2 hour tape. In the US, DVD is 720x480, 29.97fps while a VCD is 352x240, but there is also SVCD, which is 480x480, and there is nothing to stop you from copying in DVD format onto a CD-R, i've done this with music videos for my kids. The real test is going to be when enlightened companies, such as Apex, start engineering the ability into the DVD players to accept different Codecs; with the use of DivX, or MS-Mpeg4, you can fit a full 2 hour recording at 720x480 onto a CD-R with no appreciable loss of quality.
I've worked 2 places where it was pretty common: At bellsouth, it was used as the monitoring and integration system for all the legacy big & medium iron machines, I suppose because it was good at bridging the gap between older (and downright ancient) techs and modern techs. At 5/3 bank, it was used here and there for various different things, usually running on a old, dusty 486 sitting in a corner, that you had to get approval from the president of the bank to even go near it. REXX is pretty awesome in its level of versatility.
Once upon a time, maybe '96-97, weren't they actually supporting 3d-glasses in some games? not shutter-glasses, but real honest-to-god independant display-for-each-eye 3d glasses? I seem to remember a set-up at a computer store, with a $500 head mount display, and descent, or something like that. I was wasted at the time, which might have added to it, but it was REAL. this is going to kill me, time to throw up REAL. I was just too broke at the time to pay much attention. I know I've done some 3d tricks with VRML on some of my sites (which I shall not plug at this time) where I did 2 VRML displays on screen, from slightly different perspectives, then unfocus your eyes, and it works like a charm, aside from making you look like an idiot. It would be cool If there was a standard 3d goggle you could design stuff for... But I still want a holotank.
E-mail, for all intents and purposes, might as well be messages exchanged via skywriting.
I've been pretty happy that Freenet ( http://freenetproject.org ) exists ever since I found out about carnivore; the only problem is that it's so esoteric and undocumented, you pretty much just have to trust that it's secure..there is no way to really verify that it's not just a big government plot.
Isn't THAT a nice paranoid thought.
But there is one thing I do find comfort in: I've worked with spooky crypto NSA types. They have the best talent that money can buy.
We, on the other hand (we being the downtrodden oppressed peons), have something else: the best talent money can not buy.
That sounded really sappy, didn't it? oh well.
I was pretty much believing it...I figured Paramount would sue WW into oblivion if it wasn't true. Of course, If you have friends in High places... Star Trek TNG = Star Trek "lite"
Not true, at least in my experience.
My first broadband was a dual-ISDN from Bellsouth. They even gave me a block of 30 IP's to play with.
I then moved to Sigecom Cable, of evansville, IN. I had to sign a statement that I was solely responsible for all traffic over my IP; I checked (which is always a good idea) with the SysAdmin about running a webserver, e-mail, whatever and he said your IP, your bandwidth, your problem.
Currently on ADSL; asked the SysAdmin same question, the only thing he freaked on was me running a DNS server, but everything else was cool. No one has done anything but encourage me to wire the rest of my house.
I understand this may not be the case with the big "National" ISP's, but they have always fallen in with AOL in my thinking, not worth the trouble of using them. If you get hooked up with an ISP where you can't talk to a Sysadmin, even by appointment, you are just asking for trouble.
Whoops. I didn't see this and posted just about the same thing. the Freenet link is: freenet:SSK@WRhGF3h0ijFh1eVJnFu%7EH9OyIpAPAgM/anti scient/5//
This is one of the MAIN reasons Freenet is important; after installing A freenet Node, and following the link:A gM/anti scient/5//
Freenet:SSK@WRhGF3h0ijFh1eVJnFu%7EH9OyIpAP
You can read all you want to read about Scientology. The only people they can go after are the people who run permanent nodes and the developers (http://www.freenetproject.org).
Freenet is still pretty flawed, and the current freedom of speech inquisitors surely hate it...but it's subjects like this that really show it's merits.
"Everybody in the COmputer industry"?
Huh.
When WARP came out I had a small computer store in TN; At the time, I really thought it had a chance of blowing '95 out of the water.
In my showroom, I set up 2 486DX-40 systems, my standard "game" models (512MB HD's, 2MB Video, 16MB ram...real screamers) on the WARP machine I had 2 windows, 1 running DOOM, and the other running a video of some sort. The other machine was running the final beta of '95. I invited EVERYONE to decide for themselves which op-sys was better. all the people who tried WARP and were honestly shopping bought it.
I STILL think if IBM released OS/2 as open source, it would blow windows away. probably just wishful think though.
I recently worked on a pretty large military product. programmers are not supposed to use GPL stuff, or were not at this particular project at least.
But they do anyway.
Not for the actualy "core" stuff usually, but for the little supporting snippets, yeah.
And since nobody knows about it, you don't have to worry about the GPL.
I'm betting he would do it in a second.
You are Evil to speak of the great EGG this way... Too those of you too young to know, this has been an arguement going on for over 20 years; Gary did the Miniature rules, Dave did the Fantasy rules, for the first D&D. Dave has never, that I have seen at least, said anything bad about Gary; Gary has never, that I have seen at least, said anything bad about Dave. Gary Is a highly creative Genius. Dave was also.
Defintely a Old-time player....Heh.
Gary is a SUPER busy dude. His game Lejendary Adventure is picking up steam, he's about to come out with a MMPORPG, he still writes (I think, i'll ask him), and of course he still controls the souls of the millions of zombies he created by those well placed Satanic Spells in the DMG.....