i have two widescreen laptops, a 15.4" acer and a 14.1" acer.
having used both, the former is unusable as an everyday portable object, and thus the reason why i got the latter.
14.1" widescreen is as big as i would be willing to carry around, ideally i would like a 12.1" widescreen like my boss has, for this is the ideal combination of power and portability.
Dear Sirs, While I appreciate this is a beta sofware solution, and may not reflect the end product/service, I do have some grave reservations about the BBC's move into internet streamed content. 1) Why is the product limited to MS Windows components (IE & WMP)? There are many mainstream cross-platform components that would open up the service to millions of Linux/BSD/Mac users. 2) Why is all content infected with mandatory Digital Rights Management software, and why a proprietry DRM solution? While I appreciate that the BBC licenses some programs from external sources and is thus subject to restricted distribution resulting from IP rights, however much programming is internally created within the BBC and thus bounght-n-paid-for via the license fee, why then is this restricted with DRM? Here is a suggestion that I am sure the BBC is aware of, even if it may be doing its best to ignore the fact: a) The BBC is funding the creation of Dirac, an open source video codec free of license restrictions purpose designed for streaming content via the internet and high-definition video encoding to rival the new h.264 standard for HD-DVD........... use it! This should be your medium of distribution, no closed cource and restricted codecs subject to multitudinous license restrictions. It isn't ready yet, but any final BBC IMP service should be released with this codec, no other. b) Bought and paid for BBC programming should be released for public consumption, any public consumption anywhere, free of restriction. By all means restrict downloading/streaming to UK customers, but market forces will result in net-users distributing the programs for you worldwide. By all means only release it in standard widescreen format (848x480) so that your high-def DVD (1280x720 or 1920x1080) sales remain unaffected. By all means restrict release until three months after the DVD version has gone on sale. If you must use DRM for non BBC owned material then use an open source DRM solution, let there be an end to vendor lockout. But do it! By doing the above the BBC could change the world, it could detsroy the use of propriety restricted formats by the sheer volume of dirac encoded BBC programming that people all over the world would watch, and they would DEMAND that other producers release their programming in a similar format. More importantly the BBC would be acting as an advertisement for British culture and British values, cultural imperialism is a dirty word, but you see the benefits, and after all it represents a chance for Britain to claw back the world cultural mind-share that Hollywood wrested from us several decades ago. Think about it when did you last hear an RAF air-station referred to as such? How did the word 'airbase' creep into British lexicon? It happened because Hollywood captured the world cultural mind-share, dominating British cultural mind-share, even in Britain. This could change. Yours Dimble
TC is excellent, i use it at home.
about being windows only: the next version will be linux and 64bit compaitable too. hoorah!:)
it is easy enough to make a container file the right size for your USB drive, and leave the TC installer in the enuncrypted portion of the drive for use on PC's without TC installed and without internet access to remedy this deficiency.
take it easy
Dimble
actually, i was mixing up the GXP32 (?) with the as yet to be released XGP.
the design of the XGP is hideous, if only they could make the thing in a standard handheld format.
i find tards who scream "troll" at every given opportunity to be more annoying than people who are just downright stupid.
that aside, mea-culpa, yes the PSP does allow MP4 playback, my reference to "crippled" relates to the inability to playback at full resolution which is arguably the PSP's finest feature.
" You can playback mp4's from memory stick - just not at full resolution."
quite correct, i know this and should have mentioned it, i was remiss in not checking my post thoroughly before submitting.
but for whatever reason they may use to justify it, it is still artificially crippling hardware, and i don't like it.
not what i had heard.
i'm sure the interefence is still there, but it is allegedly less of a problem as a result of further proximity to other components.
......stop crippling it!
The day Sony releases a firmware update allowing MP4 video playback from Sony memorystick i WILL buy one, until that day.............. maybe.
I don't like buying deliberately crippled hardware, leaves a bad taste in ones mouth.
It would be worth Sony's while, because i would even buy one of their hideously expensive 1GB Memorystick Pro's.
Sort it out Sony.
My previous PC was based on the Abit NF7-s precisely because it was Soundstorm certified.
I loved it, and recommended it to several other people who also ended up getting systems with the same board.
I skipped the nForce3 generation because of the poor sound (AC97) and the lack of good cheap audio products, but eventually bit the bullet and got a Shuttle SN25P with nForce4 Ultra and onboard Via Envy 24PT soundchip, not ideal but it does the job.
If nVidia released the nForce5 series (presumably for socket M2 and DDR2) with Soundstorm2 I WOULD buy one, and inevitably end up recommending it to others.
I love nVidia for the unified drivers under winblows and Linux and can imagine few PC's more sweet than a Silverstone SG01 with a mATX nForce5 board with SS, and a nVidia graphics card with Shader Model 4 (unified shaders). oh, and a PCI-E AGIEA PPU as well for good measure.;)
i like the idea of the daughter-board as you get less electrical interference from motherboard components.
Dimble
from reading the kernel mailing lists it appears you will need it.
i'm sure this is unfair to the kernel-devs, but; rule by committee can be a stifling environment in which to create, but R4 appears to hold great promise so soldier on.
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probably only when the cretins espousing it lose at the evolution game.
if not, they should be! BWAHAHAHAHA
would be ideal for me.
i have two widescreen laptops, a 15.4" acer and a 14.1" acer. having used both, the former is unusable as an everyday portable object, and thus the reason why i got the latter. 14.1" widescreen is as big as i would be willing to carry around, ideally i would like a 12.1" widescreen like my boss has, for this is the ideal combination of power and portability.
wait.......... doesn't that merely mean that the problem with panasonic digicams hasn't been identified yet? :(
:D
oh well.
Gimpshop 2.4 would be ace, i'll definately install that when someone creates a package for me to install on SUSE 10.0.
as of this morning:
Rank Distribution H.P.D*
1 Ubuntu 2188 2 Mandriva 1632 3 SUSE 1319 4 Fedora 1317=
5 MEPIS 1185
12 months:
1 Ubuntu 2183 2 Mandriva 1627 3 Fedora 1317>
4 SUSE 1311 5 MEPIS 1184=
6 months:
1 Ubuntu 2724>
2 Mandriva 1739 3 SUSE 1415 4 Fedora 1268>
5 MEPIS 1115>
3 months:
1 Ubuntu 2633 2 Mandriva 1749 3 SUSE 1561 4 Fedora 998=
5 MEPIS 991=
1 month:
1 Ubuntu 2891 2 Mandriva 2106 3 SUSE 2018 4 Fedora 1038>
5 KNOPPIX 1008>
SUSE does appear to have a solid claim to third place, with Ubuntu and Mandriva consistantly taking 1st and 2nd respectively.
i would welcome your thoughts on this thread*: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showto pic=21103
* i am no techie, so this is as much for my benefit as a critique of where linux/SUSE should go.....
regards
Dimble
you have my sympathies.
Dear Sirs, While I appreciate this is a beta sofware solution, and may not reflect the end product/service, I do have some grave reservations about the BBC's move into internet streamed content. 1) Why is the product limited to MS Windows components (IE & WMP)? There are many mainstream cross-platform components that would open up the service to millions of Linux/BSD/Mac users. 2) Why is all content infected with mandatory Digital Rights Management software, and why a proprietry DRM solution? While I appreciate that the BBC licenses some programs from external sources and is thus subject to restricted distribution resulting from IP rights, however much programming is internally created within the BBC and thus bounght-n-paid-for via the license fee, why then is this restricted with DRM? Here is a suggestion that I am sure the BBC is aware of, even if it may be doing its best to ignore the fact: a) The BBC is funding the creation of Dirac, an open source video codec free of license restrictions purpose designed for streaming content via the internet and high-definition video encoding to rival the new h.264 standard for HD-DVD........... use it! This should be your medium of distribution, no closed cource and restricted codecs subject to multitudinous license restrictions. It isn't ready yet, but any final BBC IMP service should be released with this codec, no other. b) Bought and paid for BBC programming should be released for public consumption, any public consumption anywhere, free of restriction. By all means restrict downloading/streaming to UK customers, but market forces will result in net-users distributing the programs for you worldwide. By all means only release it in standard widescreen format (848x480) so that your high-def DVD (1280x720 or 1920x1080) sales remain unaffected. By all means restrict release until three months after the DVD version has gone on sale. If you must use DRM for non BBC owned material then use an open source DRM solution, let there be an end to vendor lockout. But do it! By doing the above the BBC could change the world, it could detsroy the use of propriety restricted formats by the sheer volume of dirac encoded BBC programming that people all over the world would watch, and they would DEMAND that other producers release their programming in a similar format. More importantly the BBC would be acting as an advertisement for British culture and British values, cultural imperialism is a dirty word, but you see the benefits, and after all it represents a chance for Britain to claw back the world cultural mind-share that Hollywood wrested from us several decades ago. Think about it when did you last hear an RAF air-station referred to as such? How did the word 'airbase' creep into British lexicon? It happened because Hollywood captured the world cultural mind-share, dominating British cultural mind-share, even in Britain. This could change. Yours Dimble
surely it will make a perfectly good video codec with the ability to rival h.264?
agreed, a jolly good idea for that reason alone.
TC is excellent, i use it at home. about being windows only: the next version will be linux and 64bit compaitable too. hoorah! :)
it is easy enough to make a container file the right size for your USB drive, and leave the TC installer in the enuncrypted portion of the drive for use on PC's without TC installed and without internet access to remedy this deficiency.
take it easy
Dimble
that link doesn't explain why 320x240 is better than 480x272........ on the other hand, higher res and widescreen is much better for watching videos.
actually, i was mixing up the GXP32 (?) with the as yet to be released XGP. the design of the XGP is hideous, if only they could make the thing in a standard handheld format.
http://www.gp32x.com/gpx2xgp.php
:(
they went from a 4" widescreen capable of 480x272 to a 3.5" 3:2 screen capable of 320x240................
why?
i won't buy a PSP because they cripple video playback, and now a completely open platform comes along....... but with a crap screen.
i'm rather hoping that the internal preference lies with SUSE............?
i find tards who scream "troll" at every given opportunity to be more annoying than people who are just downright stupid. that aside, mea-culpa, yes the PSP does allow MP4 playback, my reference to "crippled" relates to the inability to playback at full resolution which is arguably the PSP's finest feature.
" You can playback mp4's from memory stick - just not at full resolution." quite correct, i know this and should have mentioned it, i was remiss in not checking my post thoroughly before submitting. but for whatever reason they may use to justify it, it is still artificially crippling hardware, and i don't like it.
i don't give a damn, i don't like crippled hardware. n.b. by crippled i mean the inability to playback MP4 at FULL RESOLUTION from MS Pro Duos.
not what i had heard. i'm sure the interefence is still there, but it is allegedly less of a problem as a result of further proximity to other components.
......stop crippling it! The day Sony releases a firmware update allowing MP4 video playback from Sony memorystick i WILL buy one, until that day.............. maybe. I don't like buying deliberately crippled hardware, leaves a bad taste in ones mouth. It would be worth Sony's while, because i would even buy one of their hideously expensive 1GB Memorystick Pro's. Sort it out Sony.
My previous PC was based on the Abit NF7-s precisely because it was Soundstorm certified. I loved it, and recommended it to several other people who also ended up getting systems with the same board. I skipped the nForce3 generation because of the poor sound (AC97) and the lack of good cheap audio products, but eventually bit the bullet and got a Shuttle SN25P with nForce4 Ultra and onboard Via Envy 24PT soundchip, not ideal but it does the job. If nVidia released the nForce5 series (presumably for socket M2 and DDR2) with Soundstorm2 I WOULD buy one, and inevitably end up recommending it to others. I love nVidia for the unified drivers under winblows and Linux and can imagine few PC's more sweet than a Silverstone SG01 with a mATX nForce5 board with SS, and a nVidia graphics card with Shader Model 4 (unified shaders). oh, and a PCI-E AGIEA PPU as well for good measure. ;)
i like the idea of the daughter-board as you get less electrical interference from motherboard components.
Dimble
from reading the kernel mailing lists it appears you will need it.
i'm sure this is unfair to the kernel-devs, but; rule by committee can be a stifling environment in which to create, but R4 appears to hold great promise so soldier on.