That doesn't sound very hard, but it is. You have a great idea today. You have ideals and standards. Soon, the pressure to make money will test your morals. Maybe you could IPO bigger and sooner if you hired some banker fuckbag to be your CEO, and if you let him hire his gang of hangers-on to be your executive management team. Maybe you could make extra money by selling your customers' private information. Maybe engineering is too expensive and you should just outsource the whole thing to Andersen Consulting or whoever.
The love of money will make you abandon all of your now-lofty ideals. Stick to your moral guns and you will be much happier and, eventually, more successful. History might even remember you. You may have to wait a few years or even decades before success hits. That's the price of happiness.
Let me butt in with my own take on every question in this general class of questions. I simply don't care. I don't expect Linux to take over the desktops of the world. Quite frankly, I couldn't care less what anyone else runs on their computer. It runs on my computer, and completely fulfills my requirements.
If you have a requirement that Linux supports streaming media, why don't you organize a streaming media project instead of writing a letter to slashdot?
Bruce Perens and Chris DiBona were both at the restraining order hearing in San Jose. Many community leaders have devoted web resources to publicizing the case. I don't see any reason to criticize them.
What i mean is using a RAID 0 for the root partition. This works fine with raidtool 0.40, kernel 2.2.14, and the stock lilo. However, it doesn't work with kernel 2.3.39. From what I gather on Linux kernel mailing list, this is due to md.c needing update to the new block driver interface. -jwb
2.3.39 won't boot a software RAID. It just says "Got md request. Not good." and stops there. Does anyone know if.40 fixes this? I see some changes to drivers/block/md.c but they don't look relevant.
Actually the PIII is WAY overclockable. The PIII-550E can be clocked up to 825 MHz according to some reports. Consider that a PIII-550E costs $350 and an Athlon 800 costs $904. An 825 MHz x86 processor cannot even be purchased on the open market yet. Anand's has a pretty good report on overclocking the PIII.
Your statement about MP3 reporting is not true. Wired was reporting on MP3 from the very beginning. When I was running the Tek web site in 1996, articels about Tek appeared in Wired News, Village Voice, EETimes, and elsewhere. The reporters were all over it.
If anything, I see less coverage of the MP3 situation these days.
NBC, CBS, and anyone else who produces an advertisement had better get used to this treatment. The fact of the matter is that my brain has this exact capability. Whenever an advertisement comes into view, my mind covers it up with chromakey blue. I just don't see that stuff any more.
Jakob Neilsen claims that web users have been observed to develop defensive techniques against banner ads. These techniques include scrolling the banner out of view, or staring at the cursor while the rest of the page loads. Advertising effectiveness is falling on the WWW, hopefully it will start falling everywhere. It would be the first step to ending the disgusting consumer culture in the USA.
The choice of video card for frequent Linux users has been pretty clear for years, in my opinion. Matrox always seems to be the most well supported card in many ways. The Millenium line is one of the most highly accellerated cards under XFree. The accellerated MatroxFB gives you a much faster and bigger console than VESAFB does. Most recently, the G400 has the fastest OpenGL implementation available under Linux.
The decision is even more of a cinch given the excellent quality of their hardware. This is not a situation where you have to choose between the best hardware and the best open source drivers. Matrox has them both. The G400 MAX has the highest output bandwidth of any card of which I am aware, and it produces a nice crisp image on even the biggest monitors. Besides that, it makes a passable 3D accellerator for games.
For me the decision was easy. I traded in my Millenium II for a Millenium G400 MAX last week and I have been very happy since.
The situation is not outrageous. It also is not outrageous nor outrageous. It is a simple example of one party making a mistake. Happily, a kind person was able to help mistaken party. It is an example of common courtesy, like telling someone they left thei car lights on, or mailing back a lost wallet. Unfortunately, the kind person in question doesn't seem to be content with their own personal satisfaction and is soliciting a monetary reward. Sigh.
Anyway, my point was that superlative modifiers are frequently over-used on this forum. Go ahead and moderate me down.
I'm curious to see the raw data that you used to arrive at your conclusion. Please send it to jwbaker@acm.org.
If I don't recieve a mail after some time, I will have to assume that you are just painting everything with a brush dipped in a bucket of your own personal bias. A similar process can be used to achieve racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice.
I dislike being characterized by an extrapolation of your narrow world view.
Usually I would not respond to a post that contains so few facts, but I feel strangely compelled. To answer your baseless accusation, I don't even own a television, much less a laserdisc player or an expensive laserdisc collection.
As for your assertion about "analog" video on the disc, I suggest you smoke fewer joints. Laserdiscs are the same technology as CDs. The information is not analog in any way.
Lastly, the output of DVD does not "have more lines" as you suggest. The MPEG encoded video can be formatted to have as many lines as you want via interpolation and filtering. This does not translate directly to superior image quality, as the same treeatment can be applied to laserdiscs. Also, DVD does not have a monopoly on progressive scanning. It is perfectly possible to have a progressive scan output from a laserdisc player. Remember that the output of the player is not tied in any way to the encoding format of the disc.
Yeah like I said in other posts if you don't have the rest of the equipment, they there isn't much point in getting the greatest digital format. But I want the music to sound like there are musicians in the room. I prefer to listen to the music intead of the recording.
As for theaters, the SDDS format is 16 bits at 44.1 or 48 kHz. I don't know about DTS. Many theaters still use analog sound tracks. Most theaters would be very bad for music reproduction.
Studies have shown that the presence of frequencies above the usually audible range (20Hz-22kHz) help the listener to locate the source of the sound. This is depite the fact that most people can't even hear above 18kHz.
When a CD is recorded today, the recording process has to ensure that no frequency above 22.05kHz is recorded, else there will be nasty alising problems. This is acheived using a "brick wall" filter, which is a very high order low-pass filter whose -3dB point is at 22.05 kHz. Therefore all information above 22.05kHz is lost, and this is the information that helps the listener locate the sound. With a 96kHz sampling rate, this filter could be moved all the way up to 45.5kHz, well out of any useful range. Better still, it could be moved to 30kHz with a lower order, thereby introducing les noise into the audible range.
I do tend to agree with your point about getting good speakers. But once you get all the good equipment, you start to really hate the CD audio format.
That's not really true. Analog Devices, Burr-Brown, and Crystal Semiconductor all make DACs with very nice programmable capability up to 24 bits. The problem with most DACs is that the resolution is swamped in noise from RF, cheap power supplies, cheap output stages, etc.
I have two problems with your post. First, the video quality of Laserdisc is in fact higher than that on DVD. DVD video is MPEG compressed, and on every disc I have watched, there have been visible artifacts. Laserdisc is uncompressed and does not have visible artifacts unless the surface of the platter has been damaged.
Secondly, DVD audio does have advantages over CD audio. A single DVD could hold hours of music at a higher quality than CD. The sonic difference between 44.1kHz/16bit (CD) and 96kHz/24 bit (DVD) is very audible on good equipment. Think of the difference between 16-bit color and 24-bit color on your monitor. Yeah, you can get away with 16-bit but it really doesn't compare to 24-bit. The ear is similarly sensitive.
Hrmm this seems like quite an exercise in futility. The people who are going to purchase DVD-A players in the early adoption statge are going to be serious audio enthusiasts. These people are going to want to hook their DVD-A players up to an outboard digital-to-analog converter, like the Mark Levinson 36 or 360. Accordingly, the DVD-A player is going to need an unencrypted digital output stream. Thus, it will be trivial to intercept the raw, perfect digital music that is encoded on the DVD.
Nevertheless, the music industry will undoubtedly come up with some brain-dead scheme to attempt to prevent copying. In historical context, there is a high probability that this move will kill the format. Witness HDCD, whose encoding is a trace secret of the only company that makes the stream decoder. Almost nobody uses HDCD, and nobody really cares about that format anymore. DAT and MD were saddled with stupid copy-protection schemes that made their initial adoption slow. Luckily the enthusiast community was able to overcome these schemes and DAT and MD have found a niche in the hobbiest world.
In the perfect world, the digital encoding format of DVD-A would be an open, published specification like CD audio is. I expect that the outcome will be the opposite.
DVD-A will be 96kHz at 24 bits per sample. This means that the signal amplitude will have 256 times the resolution of CD audio, and the sampling errors will be pushed further out into the ultrasonic range.
You must be on crack. You say that the WTO is needed because it can prevent national governments from impeding trade. WHY oh why is this a good thing? Nations are sovereign. If they want to block trade, they can damn well block trade.
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That doesn't sound very hard, but it is. You have a great idea today. You have ideals and standards. Soon, the pressure to make money will test your morals. Maybe you could IPO bigger and sooner if you hired some banker fuckbag to be your CEO, and if you let him hire his gang of hangers-on to be your executive management team. Maybe you could make extra money by selling your customers' private information. Maybe engineering is too expensive and you should just outsource the whole thing to Andersen Consulting or whoever.
The love of money will make you abandon all of your now-lofty ideals. Stick to your moral guns and you will be much happier and, eventually, more successful. History might even remember you. You may have to wait a few years or even decades before success hits. That's the price of happiness.
-jwb
Cheers
-jwb
If you have a requirement that Linux supports streaming media, why don't you organize a streaming media project instead of writing a letter to slashdot?
-jwb
-jwb
What i mean is using a RAID 0 for the root partition. This works fine with raidtool 0.40, kernel 2.2.14, and the stock lilo. However, it doesn't work with kernel 2.3.39. From what I gather on Linux kernel mailing list, this is due to md.c needing update to the new block driver interface. -jwb
-jwb
- Download LyX
- Use the "letter" template to write your letter
- Export to postscript
- use ps2pdf to create a PDF file
- Send it to the LOC.
Alternately, you could print it out from the PS and wow everybody with the awesome typesetting quality of TeX.Glad to be of service,
jwb
-jwb
If anything, I see less coverage of the MP3 situation these days.
-jwb
Jakob Neilsen claims that web users have been observed to develop defensive techniques against banner ads. These techniques include scrolling the banner out of view, or staring at the cursor while the rest of the page loads. Advertising effectiveness is falling on the WWW, hopefully it will start falling everywhere. It would be the first step to ending the disgusting consumer culture in the USA.
-jwb
The decision is even more of a cinch given the excellent quality of their hardware. This is not a situation where you have to choose between the best hardware and the best open source drivers. Matrox has them both. The G400 MAX has the highest output bandwidth of any card of which I am aware, and it produces a nice crisp image on even the biggest monitors. Besides that, it makes a passable 3D accellerator for games.
For me the decision was easy. I traded in my Millenium II for a Millenium G400 MAX last week and I have been very happy since.
-jwb
The government of my country works for the corporations therein. How about yours?
-jwb
Anyway, my point was that superlative modifiers are frequently over-used on this forum. Go ahead and moderate me down.
-jwb
Too bad 9 is bankrupt. The i128 series was and is a great card.
-jwb
If I don't recieve a mail after some time, I will have to assume that you are just painting everything with a brush dipped in a bucket of your own personal bias. A similar process can be used to achieve racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice.
I dislike being characterized by an extrapolation of your narrow world view.
-jwb
Funniest slashdot post ever.
-jwb
As for your assertion about "analog" video on the disc, I suggest you smoke fewer joints. Laserdiscs are the same technology as CDs. The information is not analog in any way.
Lastly, the output of DVD does not "have more lines" as you suggest. The MPEG encoded video can be formatted to have as many lines as you want via interpolation and filtering. This does not translate directly to superior image quality, as the same treeatment can be applied to laserdiscs. Also, DVD does not have a monopoly on progressive scanning. It is perfectly possible to have a progressive scan output from a laserdisc player. Remember that the output of the player is not tied in any way to the encoding format of the disc.
-jwb
As for theaters, the SDDS format is 16 bits at 44.1 or 48 kHz. I don't know about DTS. Many theaters still use analog sound tracks. Most theaters would be very bad for music reproduction.
-jwb
When a CD is recorded today, the recording process has to ensure that no frequency above 22.05kHz is recorded, else there will be nasty alising problems. This is acheived using a "brick wall" filter, which is a very high order low-pass filter whose -3dB point is at 22.05 kHz. Therefore all information above 22.05kHz is lost, and this is the information that helps the listener locate the sound. With a 96kHz sampling rate, this filter could be moved all the way up to 45.5kHz, well out of any useful range. Better still, it could be moved to 30kHz with a lower order, thereby introducing les noise into the audible range.
I do tend to agree with your point about getting good speakers. But once you get all the good equipment, you start to really hate the CD audio format.
-jwb
-jwb
Secondly, DVD audio does have advantages over CD audio. A single DVD could hold hours of music at a higher quality than CD. The sonic difference between 44.1kHz/16bit (CD) and 96kHz/24 bit (DVD) is very audible on good equipment. Think of the difference between 16-bit color and 24-bit color on your monitor. Yeah, you can get away with 16-bit but it really doesn't compare to 24-bit. The ear is similarly sensitive.
-jwb
Nevertheless, the music industry will undoubtedly come up with some brain-dead scheme to attempt to prevent copying. In historical context, there is a high probability that this move will kill the format. Witness HDCD, whose encoding is a trace secret of the only company that makes the stream decoder. Almost nobody uses HDCD, and nobody really cares about that format anymore. DAT and MD were saddled with stupid copy-protection schemes that made their initial adoption slow. Luckily the enthusiast community was able to overcome these schemes and DAT and MD have found a niche in the hobbiest world.
In the perfect world, the digital encoding format of DVD-A would be an open, published specification like CD audio is. I expect that the outcome will be the opposite.
-jwb
-jwb
-jwb