I take it you've never had to actually deal with XCode? Give me Linux and Qt any day. The XCode and Apple's adherence to objective C, etc. cause all kinds of funky issues.
Not to mention actually trying to put together a package on their system... the dylib internal naming and pathing system is a ROYAL pita. As in the acronym, not my nick.
But those aren't really animations;) They're just comics. Different medium.
That said, I still enjoy many American animations, eg PowerPuff Girls (go ahead and laugh), Samurai Jack and the like. Iron Giant was a great movie, also American in origin. But they are fewer and further between than good anime.
Americans in general still treat animation as childish entertainment, so the only animation that you get with engrossing plots tends to be imported. Hell, a lot of imported anime has better plots than most recent live-action American movies, IMHO.
"Consumers should demand what they do of other utilities," says Kip McClanahan, CEO of security firm Tipping Point. "When I pay my water bill, I expect my water to be drinkable out of the tap. Today, when you pay your Internet bill, the data you get is not consumable."
I only partially agree with this. What should happen is they should sell me access, and I should be able to waive their protections under the promise that I provide my own. I want to run my low-traffic web and email servers from my connection. Most people don't need to. I will take the extra work of securing them in return for being allowed to use them.
A blanket stop of much of this is all but impossible, though.
No, but with video, you have a hell of a lot more information. If they are doing any kind of statistical relationships using more than one frame of the video, they have a LOT more information to work with. A few comparative algorithms, and as things move through lower resolution areas, you can actually get a high resolution picture because of the data that is contained in aggregate.
That's a hell of a processor they have if it can do that, though.
Or when you upgrade your computer and don't have a floppy drive on it, or when a floppy disk gets sat on or demagnetized somehow, losing the data, a floppy drive goes screwy and the head eats the diskette... you're talking edge-cases. For the vast majority of people, floppy disks have gone the way of the horse, as the article said.
Minor point: Linux is only hard to get used to if you're ingrained with the Windows paradigm. *n?x is a different way of thinking about the world. What's really interesting is that NT/XP has many *n?x underpinnings and ideas, it just hides them from the end user very well (to the point of making the system unstable and difficult to truly debug)
Because you know it's a bunch of BS? You should have the balls to stand up for your convictions.
Anyway, the squabbling and infighting was with the XFree tree. This is the XOrg tree. Different beast. Remember kids, reading for comprehension is fun and rewarding!
Wow... how much were you paid to post that? Copy/paste it directly from some marketing bulletin?
mplayer does all that and more for me, and it's NOT encumbered with DRM bullshit.
Go shill elsewhere.
Small point: ATI *DRIVERS* are highly optimized for DirectX. OpenGL and DirectX both accomplish the same things. They diverge a bit in the pixel shader arena, but that's to be expected.
But otherwise, yes, ATI's drivers in general suck. In other news, ATI is said to be rewriting their OpenGL support from the ground up, to make it more competitive with NVidia's offerings. Seems like a nail in DirectX's coffin to me.
Actually, I have the proprietary drivers running with xorg right now. They seem to be working.
The 4k stacks... well, they warn you in the kernel config that some drivers may not work.
I'm not an ATI fan or anything... I want some freaking 64bit driver support. But I don't want to lie about them, either.
GAH! I hate being pedantic, but please, use a goddamn dictionary people (no, I'm not picking on you specifically garcia, just Internet denizens in general). Plagiarism
Ok, got that off my chest... I know the new school of thought is "if it's spelled close enough for you to understand, it doesn't matter," but the problem is that it does. "lose" and "loose" are NOT the same thing, even if I can tell what you mean by context. It makes my job as the person trying to comprehend what you write harder. Have you ever considered what other people think about you when you misspell things? Not typos, those are more easily distinguished and acceptable, but gross misspellings. They make you look like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel who done listened to a big word and wanted to use it hisself.
I suppose that's the end of the rant, and I realize it's way off-topic, but c'mon people, have some self-respect. Give people a reason to take your comments seriously.
How do you know mercury expands/contracts at a similar rate over a temperature scale? Can you be sure the glass thermometer is correct?
You can posit these conspiracy theories all you want;) That doesn't make them any more true. There are other ways of measuring temperature than just mercury, including infrared and other detector based measurements.
That's why the industry wants control it end to end. They want to have digitally encrypted speakers, as well as TV's, so the "analog hole" is bunged up.
Fuck 'em. I'll use my media licenses as I see fit.
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I take it you've never had to actually deal with XCode? Give me Linux and Qt any day. The XCode and Apple's adherence to objective C, etc. cause all kinds of funky issues.
Not to mention actually trying to put together a package on their system... the dylib internal naming and pathing system is a ROYAL pita. As in the acronym, not my nick.
But... you're posting on slashdot... my brain is going to implode from the paradox...
Ehhh. Just because everyone in Germany knew Jews were inferior didn't make it right.
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But those aren't really animations ;) They're just comics. Different medium.
That said, I still enjoy many American animations, eg PowerPuff Girls (go ahead and laugh), Samurai Jack and the like. Iron Giant was a great movie, also American in origin. But they are fewer and further between than good anime.
Americans in general still treat animation as childish entertainment, so the only animation that you get with engrossing plots tends to be imported. Hell, a lot of imported anime has better plots than most recent live-action American movies, IMHO.
"Consumers should demand what they do of other utilities," says Kip McClanahan, CEO of security firm Tipping Point. "When I pay my water bill, I expect my water to be drinkable out of the tap. Today, when you pay your Internet bill, the data you get is not consumable."
I only partially agree with this. What should happen is they should sell me access, and I should be able to waive their protections under the promise that I provide my own. I want to run my low-traffic web and email servers from my connection. Most people don't need to. I will take the extra work of securing them in return for being allowed to use them.
A blanket stop of much of this is all but impossible, though.
No, but with video, you have a hell of a lot more information. If they are doing any kind of statistical relationships using more than one frame of the video, they have a LOT more information to work with. A few comparative algorithms, and as things move through lower resolution areas, you can actually get a high resolution picture because of the data that is contained in aggregate.
That's a hell of a processor they have if it can do that, though.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Dan Beckers... oh :)
Or when you upgrade your computer and don't have a floppy drive on it, or when a floppy disk gets sat on or demagnetized somehow, losing the data, a floppy drive goes screwy and the head eats the diskette... you're talking edge-cases. For the vast majority of people, floppy disks have gone the way of the horse, as the article said.
Minor point: Linux is only hard to get used to if you're ingrained with the Windows paradigm. *n?x is a different way of thinking about the world. What's really interesting is that NT/XP has many *n?x underpinnings and ideas, it just hides them from the end user very well (to the point of making the system unstable and difficult to truly debug)
Because you know it's a bunch of BS? You should have the balls to stand up for your convictions.
Anyway, the squabbling and infighting was with the XFree tree. This is the XOrg tree. Different beast. Remember kids, reading for comprehension is fun and rewarding!
No. I get in FF 0.9.3 under Linux as well. I just scroll the size up and then down again, and it all lays out fine.
A GPU is typically very good at matrix processing. CPU's are more general purpose. Lunchtime, or I'd say more ;)
Wow... how much were you paid to post that? Copy/paste it directly from some marketing bulletin?
mplayer does all that and more for me, and it's NOT encumbered with DRM bullshit.
Go shill elsewhere.
Small point: ATI *DRIVERS* are highly optimized for DirectX. OpenGL and DirectX both accomplish the same things. They diverge a bit in the pixel shader arena, but that's to be expected.
But otherwise, yes, ATI's drivers in general suck. In other news, ATI is said to be rewriting their OpenGL support from the ground up, to make it more competitive with NVidia's offerings. Seems like a nail in DirectX's coffin to me.
I'm running Xorg 6.7, the one in the Slackware-current tree. Not sure if I'm doing something accidentally right or what, but it just works(tm) for me.
Actually, I have the proprietary drivers running with xorg right now. They seem to be working.
The 4k stacks... well, they warn you in the kernel config that some drivers may not work.
I'm not an ATI fan or anything... I want some freaking 64bit driver support. But I don't want to lie about them, either.
Then you haven't tried standards-based OpenGL programming. They are notorious for their horrible OpenGL driver support.
GAH! I hate being pedantic, but please, use a goddamn dictionary people (no, I'm not picking on you specifically garcia, just Internet denizens in general).
Plagiarism
Ok, got that off my chest... I know the new school of thought is "if it's spelled close enough for you to understand, it doesn't matter," but the problem is that it does. "lose" and "loose" are NOT the same thing, even if I can tell what you mean by context. It makes my job as the person trying to comprehend what you write harder. Have you ever considered what other people think about you when you misspell things? Not typos, those are more easily distinguished and acceptable, but gross misspellings. They make you look like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel who done listened to a big word and wanted to use it hisself.
I suppose that's the end of the rant, and I realize it's way off-topic, but c'mon people, have some self-respect. Give people a reason to take your comments seriously.
Just like IE 3 was slick? Hell, they're up to IE 6 and it still ain't right. No thanks, I don't trust the Redmond behemoth that much ;)
Patents != copyrights. The license covers copyright, not patents.
dihidrogen monoxide!! Oh no, we're all gonna die!
How do you know mercury expands/contracts at a similar rate over a temperature scale? Can you be sure the glass thermometer is correct? ;) That doesn't make them any more true. There are other ways of measuring temperature than just mercury, including infrared and other detector based measurements.
You can posit these conspiracy theories all you want
That's why the industry wants control it end to end. They want to have digitally encrypted speakers, as well as TV's, so the "analog hole" is bunged up.
Fuck 'em. I'll use my media licenses as I see fit.
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And almost all real world analogies on the computer desktop break down because the computer is a different medium with different strengths and weaknesses than a physical interface.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic...