there is a always the windows update network install for service packs and patches that doesnt require you to download anything more than what you already have. YOu could just put that file on a central server on THIS side of the modem, and then everyone can get it and not have thier windoze box crash.. good day
They have the chance to do a better job than the US did on this. I mean, what's the deal with this stuff... microsoft looses antitrust case... microsoft dosen't do anything... i mean, the things they had to do when they lost were a JOKE. I think one of the concessions was that they had to donate so many millions of dollars worth of software to schools... i mean... WTF are these ppl thinking... they just did them a favor.. but go EU!!!
Err, this may be a silly question, but where are you going to get the CPU power from to encode 4 video streams?
the video capture cards silly!!
with the right video capture cards, the processing power is handled by the processor on the card, not by you cpu.
My 1Ghz Athlon is at 80% encoding HALF-frame video into MPEG4 and it drops seriously large numbers of frames if I try and encode at the native resolution (720x576 for UK PAL).
MPEG4 is really heavy heavy compression, the trick is is to encode in mpeg2 and convert anything you want to keep into mpeg4
Apple has a monopoly on Apple computers. Just like those bastards at Ford who have a monopoly on Ford brand cars.
Everyone knows how Ford cars work, people other than Ford make generic parts for the cars, its called transparent technology, i cant go out and buy [insert computer part] for a mac that isn't made by mac.
Weren't you around when monopoly was downgraded from 'Near complete control of a market' to 'Makes a product that isn't free'?
what Apple is doing, IS MONOPOLY, because cause they have control of thier market
For some reason, people love to support Apple, I think its the enemy of the enemy thing
quite a bit of time was spent figuring out what its algorithm was for room coverage
hrm, i read a bit about the roomba a while back, seems that there really is not algorithm, its just kind of random, going back and forth--eventually it just covers the whole room, thats why you have to choose small medium or large.
It saves a signifigant amount in the production of the device, and i am assuming that that is what the roomba developers were aiming at, when you dont have to include alot of processing power
i dont know, but isnt there hardware that will take any vga signal and convert it to... uhm, something else viewable on a regualr tv... correct me if im wrong
When i was a kid i couldnt get the internet in my area, so i had to rely on these cd roms that would come out every now and again, they pretty much had everything on them that one could want...
I remember sitting there for hours listening to mod music and watching these demos that were amazingly *small* and ran very *fast*... i have to say my fave demo was 2nd reality by future crew, i mean the first time i saw that... well i just had to watch it over again and again, there was another one i really liked but i dont remember the name of it, it had lots of rendered 'balls' making objects, very nice...
i feel that the quality in these demos makes todays graphics look like a small dissapointing step from where things were then
oh one other thing, i was in germany a couple years back, and i walked by this closed computer store, and in the window.. was playing 2nd reality, i really wished that store was open.. oh well
If the guy sent a letter wouldnt this then be a mail issue, dosent teh post office handle that kind of fraud--thus making it a national issue, maybe i have it wrong, but ti would be nice to know either way
actually, i think this system would support both sets of artists equally, this would be a system based on talent and such, so it would be quite possible for someone that is good to become popular in a relativly short amount of time.
I was proposing that the system not be a record label so much as it would just be an intermediary between the artist and the customer and just keep enough money to support itself...
think kazaa, only you pay 3cents for every song you download, it would be a reasonable amount that any pirate would happily pay, yet after millions and millions of downloads... well you get the picture.
only thing you would need is for one popular artist to take the first step, and then it would take off, well that is if the RIAA didnt shut it down first.
I believe that, if the artists were smart at all, that they would bypass the record company conglomerate altogether, if there was a p2p service that offered music and had contracts with the artists directly, that would be the ultimate record label, imagine how good music would become and how obselete going to the record store would become if you were supporting the artists you liked by downloading thier music. It wouldnt need to be a big fee, just 2 or 3 cents a song, and if a song is popular, that offers up a sizable check to the artist. I wish i had the know-how and the time to set up a p2p network liek that someday, but alas, even though its a good idea... you still have to deal with those record company a-holes, but its a good idea for the future-- new artists that want an alternative to someone else owning thier music.
i mean seriously, every case mod is more extreme than the previous one. I, for one, have not cared about case mods for a while now. I like cool looking computers, but... is it that big of a deal?
tell me again how you would get on these things??
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You wouldn't have to waste time to get to an airport - the terminal would be a neat little station a few minutes away.
correct me if i am wrong but... wouldnt that be kind of a pain in the arse to stop every few minutes... I dont know if i quite grasp the concept, but that would add alot of travel time with acceleration and deceleration, and how do these things fit together? do they all connect? do they go to within a few minutes away to anywhere... hmmmm... sounds like a few bugs yet... I would think that there would need to be some sort of connecting transportation to the main system... I would think that these wouldn't be anygood for anything but, what i would call, interstate driving
I compeletey agree with your point, and thats exactly the problem with this business model, most of the people that are going to need this kind of computing power will most likely need to have it donated to thier cause (think seti@home). I think if IBM is going to throw 10,000,000,000 big ones at this problem, the product that they are selling isn't very likely to come cheap, therefore putting them out of the market that they are trying to get into. But thats just my scoop on the issue...
because it is really bad... no seriouly, i use opera, and it is AWSOME, it does everything that IE can do, and it does it better. The one reason that anyone should use these browsers is because... uh... pop up killers... if pop up ads dont bother you, then i just feel sorry for you...
opera has a download manager which is more than i can say for IE (ever tried to download something huge only to have it fail at 90% with IE?? you have to start all over) plus it comes with tons of other useful features that a browser like IE just dosent have... it has e-mail, news, and all the like, but its not a resource hog, imagine having a bunch of IE windows open running outlook or whatever you use, opera keeps it in one nice neat window... its worth it... and phoenix is too...
hmmm maybe they would like a call or two...
but i mean, under no circumstances should you call them... reallllyyy....
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er, who's to say the animated-epic that you produce is going to cost that? i mean, i am sure that your work is more deserving of the 50 mil not the 90:P
I wish for once that all the things that these Hollywood people say would acutally turn out to be true... I mean seriously, its all i hear from the media giants... how BAD thier industry is, and how they are going to be out of business in the next couple years. I think that this would be the best thing... at least we would have some movies worth going to see in the theatre, but no one stops to think that maybe the reason sales have dropped off is because what they are making is utter crap. As an aspiring film maker myself, i have had a horrible time getting to any resources, and its because of these monolithic overpowered conglomerates producing shit that everyone thinks is good. but thats just my opinion, although i could be right:)
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there is a always the windows update network install for service packs and patches that doesnt require you to download anything more than what you already have. YOu could just put that file on a central server on THIS side of the modem, and then everyone can get it and not have thier windoze box crash.. good day
They have the chance to do a better job than the US did on this. I mean, what's the deal with this stuff... microsoft looses antitrust case... microsoft dosen't do anything... i mean, the things they had to do when they lost were a JOKE. I think one of the concessions was that they had to donate so many millions of dollars worth of software to schools... i mean... WTF are these ppl thinking... they just did them a favor.. but go EU!!!
Err, this may be a silly question, but where are you going to get the CPU power from to encode 4 video streams?
the video capture cards silly!!
with the right video capture cards, the processing power is handled by the processor on the card, not by you cpu.
My 1Ghz Athlon is at 80% encoding HALF-frame video into MPEG4 and it drops seriously large numbers of frames if I try and encode at the native resolution (720x576 for UK PAL).
MPEG4 is really heavy heavy compression, the trick is is to encode in mpeg2 and convert anything you want to keep into mpeg4
you pay $150 a month to have someone portscan you???
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Apple has a monopoly on Apple computers. Just like those bastards at Ford who have a monopoly on Ford brand cars.
Everyone knows how Ford cars work, people other than Ford make generic parts for the cars, its called transparent technology, i cant go out and buy [insert computer part] for a mac that isn't made by mac.
Weren't you around when monopoly was downgraded from 'Near complete control of a market' to 'Makes a product that isn't free'?
what Apple is doing, IS MONOPOLY, because cause they have control of thier market
For some reason, people love to support Apple, I think its the enemy of the enemy thing
quite a bit of time was spent figuring out what its algorithm was for room coverage
hrm, i read a bit about the roomba a while back, seems that there really is not algorithm, its just kind of random, going back and forth--eventually it just covers the whole room, thats why you have to choose small medium or large.
It saves a signifigant amount in the production of the device, and i am assuming that that is what the roomba developers were aiming at, when you dont have to include alot of processing power
Are we supposed to be impressed with a computer that can serve 8 hits and 4 pages per second?
no, i wouldnt be impressed with that.
however, i doubt that all the hits were spread out like that.
More likely most of the hits came at once, and the rest was low use time.
what software did you use?
i dont know, but isnt there hardware that will take any vga signal and convert it to... uhm, something else viewable on a regualr tv... correct me if im wrong
When i was a kid i couldnt get the internet in my area, so i had to rely on these cd roms that would come out every now and again, they pretty much had everything on them that one could want...
I remember sitting there for hours listening to mod music and watching these demos that were amazingly *small* and ran very *fast*... i have to say my fave demo was 2nd reality by future crew, i mean the first time i saw that... well i just had to watch it over again and again, there was another one i really liked but i dont remember the name of it, it had lots of rendered 'balls' making objects, very nice...
i feel that the quality in these demos makes todays graphics look like a small dissapointing step from where things were then
oh one other thing, i was in germany a couple years back, and i walked by this closed computer store, and in the window.. was playing 2nd reality, i really wished that store was open.. oh well
If the guy sent a letter wouldnt this then be a mail issue, dosent teh post office handle that kind of fraud--thus making it a national issue, maybe i have it wrong, but ti would be nice to know either way
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actually, i think this system would support both sets of artists equally, this would be a system based on talent and such, so it would be quite possible for someone that is good to become popular in a relativly short amount of time.
I was proposing that the system not be a record label so much as it would just be an intermediary between the artist and the customer and just keep enough money to support itself...
think kazaa, only you pay 3cents for every song you download, it would be a reasonable amount that any pirate would happily pay, yet after millions and millions of downloads... well you get the picture.
only thing you would need is for one popular artist to take the first step, and then it would take off, well that is if the RIAA didnt shut it down first.
I believe that, if the artists were smart at all, that they would bypass the record company conglomerate altogether, if there was a p2p service that offered music and had contracts with the artists directly, that would be the ultimate record label, imagine how good music would become and how obselete going to the record store would become if you were supporting the artists you liked by downloading thier music. It wouldnt need to be a big fee, just 2 or 3 cents a song, and if a song is popular, that offers up a sizable check to the artist. I wish i had the know-how and the time to set up a p2p network liek that someday, but alas, even though its a good idea... you still have to deal with those record company a-holes, but its a good idea for the future-- new artists that want an alternative to someone else owning thier music.
i mean seriously, every case mod is more extreme than the previous one. I, for one, have not cared about case mods for a while now. I like cool looking computers, but... is it that big of a deal?
You wouldn't have to waste time to get to an airport - the terminal would be a neat little station a few minutes away.
correct me if i am wrong but... wouldnt that be kind of a pain in the arse to stop every few minutes... I dont know if i quite grasp the concept, but that would add alot of travel time with acceleration and deceleration, and how do these things fit together? do they all connect? do they go to within a few minutes away to anywhere... hmmmm... sounds like a few bugs yet... I would think that there would need to be some sort of connecting transportation to the main system... I would think that these wouldn't be anygood for anything but, what i would call, interstate driving
I compeletey agree with your point, and thats exactly the problem with this business model, most of the people that are going to need this kind of computing power will most likely need to have it donated to thier cause (think seti@home). I think if IBM is going to throw 10,000,000,000 big ones at this problem, the product that they are selling isn't very likely to come cheap, therefore putting them out of the market that they are trying to get into. But thats just my scoop on the issue...
isn't leaving a p2 400 chip on a street corner considered littering? in that case i would pick it up and throw it away.
Why should I switch from IE?
because it is really bad... no seriouly, i use opera, and it is AWSOME, it does everything that IE can do, and it does it better. The one reason that anyone should use these browsers is because... uh... pop up killers... if pop up ads dont bother you, then i just feel sorry for you... opera has a download manager which is more than i can say for IE (ever tried to download something huge only to have it fail at 90% with IE?? you have to start all over) plus it comes with tons of other useful features that a browser like IE just dosent have... it has e-mail, news, and all the like, but its not a resource hog, imagine having a bunch of IE windows open running outlook or whatever you use, opera keeps it in one nice neat window... its worth it... and phoenix is too...
hmmm, should i get the muscle relaxant ready?
hmmm maybe they would like a call or two... but i mean, under no circumstances should you call them... reallllyyy.... PR AD NETWORK 3517 S. Shields Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73129 Let's get started Call Toll free 888-956-7672 405-634-6562 Fax - 405-634-6568
er, who's to say the animated-epic that you produce is going to cost that? i mean, i am sure that your work is more deserving of the 50 mil not the 90 :P
didn't i see this exact post earlier on some other similar news topic? hmmmm....
I wish for once that all the things that these Hollywood people say would acutally turn out to be true... I mean seriously, its all i hear from the media giants... how BAD thier industry is, and how they are going to be out of business in the next couple years. I think that this would be the best thing... at least we would have some movies worth going to see in the theatre, but no one stops to think that maybe the reason sales have dropped off is because what they are making is utter crap. As an aspiring film maker myself, i have had a horrible time getting to any resources, and its because of these monolithic overpowered conglomerates producing shit that everyone thinks is good. but thats just my opinion, although i could be right :)