where do you get the factor of ten from?
Various articles, tutorials and papers. I think the point they were making was that a factor of ten was possible with an appreciable loss in quality, but not as much as with conventional encoding techniques. Remember the hoo-ha about JPEG2000? Anyway who cares anymore. Only the closed-source commercial people will be able to do it.
Yes, and I've tried Xine. I've got a 14" TV and a 19" trinitron monitor:-) I just don't see why they have to encrypt the damned content on the DVD. It's just a nuisance. Luckily I live in the UK so I'm not really a criminal for using DeCSS, but it was just a lot of hassle getting it, compiling and installing it and configuring it etc. I can just put my music CDs in the computer and play them. Luckily I haven't managed to buy a "copy protected" CD yet, but then I don't listen to Britney, N^Sync, Pink or any of that nonsense. The day Voivod start using Cactus or something will be a dark day indeed. DVDs suck. CSS sucks. I don't pirate films or music or software. Treat me like a responsible adult. Treat me fairly. I demand my Fair Use rights! I act responsibly. Give me the credit I deserve.
Dude, I'd paste up tons of references for you here, but what's the point? Google is your friend. I did quite a lot of investigation into this 5 years ago. I was planning on writing an Open Source wavelet coder but the patents got in the way.
Wrong!
Better image and video compression has been promised for years, in the shape of wavelent encoding. Such methods give a factor of 10 better compression that discrete cosine (i.e. fourier) coding as used in MPEG and JPEG with less of the blocking artifacts. I can't be bothered to read the article, because it's nothing new as usual from Microsoft. It's been done before, a decade ago by people with more brains. The trouble is they patented a load of the algorithms so there's been no Free, free or Open implementation.
Well, I still haven't bought one for entertainment. I have a data drive on my PC but trying to play DVDs under Linux is a real pain, so I've never bought any media.
It's sad, isn't it? It wasn't even a problem with the Concorde that caused the crash, but rather a large lump of scrap metal that fell off the plane that took of just before. Concorde is a magnificent engineering achievement and shows what can be achived outside of pure commercial pressures. That's why government-funded advanced R&D has a place. Commercial R&D will only ever solve short- to meduim-term problems.
How much more of this can the world take from the RIAA before so many people are so pissed off that there's a huge political backlash against the RIAA? They're going the right way about it. Give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves. Go RIAA!
-1 what? Offtopic? Flamebait? Troll? Why just plain -1 with no explanation? Please enlighten me. American Freedom is in trouble. I'm glad I don't live there.
I've been putting off upgrading for years now. One reason is fan noise. I've still got an AMD K6-2/500 which is acceptably fast and not too loud. I hear that athlon-64's will not need processor fans when they move on to the 90 nanometre process.:-)
The point is, these were brand name machines bought from a reputable company. It shows that intel has had to hack the processor cooling pretty severely to make the darned thing work at high clock frequencies. Every one else (AMD, plus non-x86 makers) can get similar performance at a lower clock frequency without this insane kludgery.
I'll define lousy for you.
We are hiring, and for our five new people I was asked to spec out and procure some x86 "workstation" and for the money, we'd thought we'd get some intel kit and try out this newfangled hyper-threading stuff. So I ordered 5 dual Pentium IV Xeon 2.8GHz machines with 1GB RAM and 120GB hard drives. We've only fired up one so far. The poor guy who uses it is going mad. When it's idling, the thing sounds like a hoover because of the processor fans. When any load goes on the CPUs, the fans spin up and it sounds like an F15 taking off. This is supposed to be a workstation for use in an office. I call that lousy.
Roger Penrose patented his tesselations a few years ago. Yes, it's not ethical. Mathematics should not be patentable, otherwise we'll decend into a new Dark Age.
Indeed. Man will rue the day when he disposes of the humble 9-pin serial port. When all else fails, you can just about get anything to speak RS232. It is a vastly underrated resource.
Every so often yet another article like this comes along. They all make some wrong fundamental assumptions. Namely (1) All Open Source/Free Software can be lumped together and treated like the output from a traditional company, (2) that no one should develop their own programs for the fun of it even if another already exists and that (3) all such software is governed by some sort of committee (or shoukd be) that decides what should be writtem and who should write it. Face it, it's up to the Linux and *BSD distributions to pick and choose which applications, utilities, GUI's etc. get provided and it's up to the users to pick and choose what they like and what suits them best. This article completely misses the point of freedom, Freedom and the Free Market.
You Windows people sure have a funny way of looking at things:-) This technology is to do with multi-threading, which is handled by a library, not the compiler, on UNIX systems. This is mentioned in the article. It's also worth noting that companies like Sun that produce hardware and software usually bring both out at the same time, so there's no waiting for compilers to catch up compared to the Windows world, where most developers use Microsoft's compilers and either intel's or AMD's chips.
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No large corporation ever pays for patents. They just threaten to counter-sue from their own patent portfolio when challenged.
where do you get the factor of ten from?
Various articles, tutorials and papers. I think the point they were making was that a factor of ten was possible with an appreciable loss in quality, but not as much as with conventional encoding techniques. Remember the hoo-ha about JPEG2000? Anyway who cares anymore. Only the closed-source commercial people will be able to do it.
Yes, and I've tried Xine. I've got a 14" TV and a 19" trinitron monitor :-) I just don't see why they have to encrypt the damned content on the DVD. It's just a nuisance. Luckily I live in the UK so I'm not really a criminal for using DeCSS, but it was just a lot of hassle getting it, compiling and installing it and configuring it etc. I can just put my music CDs in the computer and play them. Luckily I haven't managed to buy a "copy protected" CD yet, but then I don't listen to Britney, N^Sync, Pink or any of that nonsense. The day Voivod start using Cactus or something will be a dark day indeed. DVDs suck. CSS sucks. I don't pirate films or music or software. Treat me like a responsible adult. Treat me fairly. I demand my Fair Use rights! I act responsibly. Give me the credit I deserve.
Dude, I'd paste up tons of references for you here, but what's the point? Google is your friend. I did quite a lot of investigation into this 5 years ago. I was planning on writing an Open Source wavelet coder but the patents got in the way.
Wrong!
Better image and video compression has been promised for years, in the shape of wavelent encoding. Such methods give a factor of 10 better compression that discrete cosine (i.e. fourier) coding as used in MPEG and JPEG with less of the blocking artifacts. I can't be bothered to read the article, because it's nothing new as usual from Microsoft. It's been done before, a decade ago by people with more brains. The trouble is they patented a load of the algorithms so there's been no Free, free or Open implementation.
Well, I still haven't bought one for entertainment. I have a data drive on my PC but trying to play DVDs under Linux is a real pain, so I've never bought any media.
It's sad, isn't it? It wasn't even a problem with the Concorde that caused the crash, but rather a large lump of scrap metal that fell off the plane that took of just before. Concorde is a magnificent engineering achievement and shows what can be achived outside of pure commercial pressures. That's why government-funded advanced R&D has a place. Commercial R&D will only ever solve short- to meduim-term problems.
How do you suppose we build railway lines over the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans?
How much more of this can the world take from the RIAA before so many people are so pissed off that there's a huge political backlash against the RIAA? They're going the right way about it. Give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves. Go RIAA!
-1 what? Offtopic? Flamebait? Troll? Why just plain -1 with no explanation? Please enlighten me. American Freedom is in trouble. I'm glad I don't live there.
I've been putting off upgrading for years now. One reason is fan noise. I've still got an AMD K6-2/500 which is acceptably fast and not too loud. I hear that athlon-64's will not need processor fans when they move on to the 90 nanometre process. :-)
The point is, these were brand name machines bought from a reputable company. It shows that intel has had to hack the processor cooling pretty severely to make the darned thing work at high clock frequencies. Every one else (AMD, plus non-x86 makers) can get similar performance at a lower clock frequency without this insane kludgery.
I'll define lousy for you.
We are hiring, and for our five new people I was asked to spec out and procure some x86 "workstation" and for the money, we'd thought we'd get some intel kit and try out this newfangled hyper-threading stuff. So I ordered 5 dual Pentium IV Xeon 2.8GHz machines with 1GB RAM and 120GB hard drives. We've only fired up one so far. The poor guy who uses it is going mad. When it's idling, the thing sounds like a hoover because of the processor fans. When any load goes on the CPUs, the fans spin up and it sounds like an F15 taking off. This is supposed to be a workstation for use in an office. I call that lousy.
Just think of all those poor coders in Redmond who are going to be poor and starve as a result!
Roger Penrose patented his tesselations a few years ago. Yes, it's not ethical. Mathematics should not be patentable, otherwise we'll decend into a new Dark Age.
Indeed. Man will rue the day when he disposes of the humble 9-pin serial port. When all else fails, you can just about get anything to speak RS232. It is a vastly underrated resource.
I'm an alcohol-powered Scotsman!
And as everyone knows, you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Every so often yet another article like this comes along. They all make some wrong fundamental assumptions. Namely (1) All Open Source/Free Software can be lumped together and treated like the output from a traditional company, (2) that no one should develop their own programs for the fun of it even if another already exists and that (3) all such software is governed by some sort of committee (or shoukd be) that decides what should be writtem and who should write it. Face it, it's up to the Linux and *BSD distributions to pick and choose which applications, utilities, GUI's etc. get provided and it's up to the users to pick and choose what they like and what suits them best. This article completely misses the point of freedom, Freedom and the Free Market.
So, with this deal, would I be restricted to J-lo, Britney and N-Sync, or would I be able to get the Voivod back catalog?
No no no no no!
Q: Why did the mushroom go to the party?
A: Because he was a fun guy!
I darn you to WinHEC, a Fate Worse than Death!
You mean people are still trying to run Windows on servers in this day and age?
Why not just connect up your machines to a console server via thier serial ports? If you need graphics, use X over the network.
You Windows people sure have a funny way of looking at things :-) This technology is to do with multi-threading, which is handled by a library, not the compiler, on UNIX systems. This is mentioned in the article. It's also worth noting that companies like Sun that produce hardware and software usually bring both out at the same time, so there's no waiting for compilers to catch up compared to the Windows world, where most developers use Microsoft's compilers and either intel's or AMD's chips.