I'm a freelance digital effects artist. Almost daily I upload video so the director can approve/disaprove of the footage.
Right now my upload rate is capped at ~30 KB/sec... that's quite slow enough. Takes nearly half of an hour of my day. If it's capped farther, I may have to look into other broadband services. I'm not too happy about Comcast's saying I can't use a NAT too.
My guess is that many (if not most) code moneys at SCO are probably trying to get new jobs. For ethical reasons and/or what Miss Cleo's psychic hot line is saying of SCO's not-so-bright-looking future. If I were working for a company that's decided to commit suicide, I sure as hell would try and jump ship.
But, yeah... it's better to be on a slowly sinking ship, than drowning next to it. Why quit straight away when you can get checks while you submit your CV to other companies? Hell, you could even just start slacking off all day... That'd do more damage than quitting.
Or even turn rogue and use SCO's copiers and other resources to spread Linux propaganda.:P
"If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in everyday and do it really half-assed. That is the American way." - Homer Simpson
It depends on the artist... I know a lot of local artists that are self-published, and there are recording companies that aren't affilited with the RIAA.
A couple CDs I've purchased from artists were CD-Rs they burned themselves.
I use a program called Maya. If this program there's a 3D camera that you control by holding down alt and clicking the mouse buttons (left orbits, right zooms and middle pans.)
It's much faster and easier to control the camera this way. Why can't this extremely easy, accurate and fast method be brought to scrolling in all programs? It's also easier on the middle finger. Better yet, why not put those thumb buttons commonly found on today's mice to practical use by making them a "scroll mode" button. Then one could use the other buttons to control the axis one scrolls on (kinda like in XSI.)
I'm extremely disapointed in the lack of progress in mice. It's hardly changed at all since the 80's. All we have now is a light that makes it slightly more accurate (and in some cases less accurate and in a few cases unusable) another 3 buttons that are rarely put to practical use and a scroll wheel that kills one's middle finger and usually either scrolls much or too little.
Actually, you can probably get the whole Harry Potter series in MP3 format. Each book (even book 5) is available as an audio book on both cassette and CDs. So it is vulnerable to mass P2P sharing, but people are buying it.
I really enjoy the audio books. Jim Dale is a wonderful reader and IMHO his reading really adds to the story. Sometimes when I read, I read too quickly to take in or think about what's going on. This is especially true with suspenseful books. I get in a kind of "Gotta find out what happens next!" mode and zip through it. Jim takes his time and the events and such sink in a bit deeper making the story more enjoyable. I also like to play the CDs while I'm working every now and again. I usually listen to music, but sometimes a good story is nice too. Though switching CDs every hour can be a pain. I wish they'd offer a MP3 CD. Great audio quality and stereo sound isn't essential... one could probably fit the series on two CDs per book.
Actually I just purchased Harry 5 on CD after reading the book. It's my favorite of the series so far... though I really liked the 3rd too. The fourth isn't as exciting until the very end when everything goes to hell. And, well books 1 and 2 were great when I was reading them, but the third really made the first two seem mediocre.
Oh, and this whole "I don't like it because it's for kids" crap... get your head out of your ass and don't worry about it. No, it's not the greatest literary work ever. In fact, I don't think it's the greatest literary work of the past five years... however, it is a very enjoyable story, it is a lot of fun, and most importantly (for me at least) it isn't very predictable.
So, for only 15.2 billion dollars, you can own half of congress... I certainly hope that senators are more expensive, or for only $3,500,000 extra you can own a third of the government.
Well, Some fella a long time ago (don't remember his name) did a large number of experiments and found that 24FPS is the lowest number where the eye could be convinced it was in motion. The desire for the lowest number is because film is expensive (especially back then.)
When television was being made it was found that the eye could see a bit faster than the 24 ( around 30 fps)
So now TV goes at 29.97 FPS.
What's funny about people making their games go at 200 FPS is their monitor is probably set to 80 Hz or less... heheheh
The shutter isn't instantaneous.. it's left open for a period of time as things are moving/rotating the film is recieves a perfectly (as perfectly as film can be) smooth blur.
I meant "perfect" motion blur in that it's not a hack. It doesn't look like two or three images mixed (a common PS2 trick) and it's not smudged (common in 3d renderers... basicly saving movement data and "smudging" colors around as a post process. A lot faster than the more accurate method of rendering the object 10+ times/per frame and mixing them.)
Video cards show one instance of time per frame. Occasionally faked motion blur is added, but this typicly doesn't look very convincing.
The problem with this is it can piss a lot of companies off. Why? Well most big web sites are funded by advertising. Having hundreds of/. readers viewing their site is a lot of income. Were/. to make a mirror of their site, all that income would dissappear. I think this is actually considered theft by many sites... not sure what the courts feel.
Contacting the web master asking permission before posting would take far too long.
Me, I think if the site doesn't have any ads/. should mirror it for a couple days and email the web master letting them know and offering to take the mirror down if the web master so desires. In the event there are ads they should email the webmaster of whatever site asking permission and while waiting for a response post the story as is... but this would be a whole lot of work for/.
Keep in mind I'm an idiot, so my thoughts should be taken with a 25 lb. grain of salt or three.
Microsoft is not going away. Their power will increase until they control every facet of your digital world.
I doubt they'd stop once they control every digital device in the world... after that they'll just move on to controlling our food, clothes, and living quarters, then our lives.
"Gah! My spleen! It crashed! Damn you, Microsoft!"
Beyond just the whole setting a precedent, keep in mind most people don't research the companies they buy from and get all of their technical advise from salespeople.* I highly doubt the box advertises the product has self destruct date. I also doubt most salespeople would say "Well don't buy this expensive printer that'll give me a nice, big commission because it's cartridges are horrible devices designed to rip you off."
*Before labeling these people as idiots remember that the majority of consumers simply don't have time to research every single purchase they make.
It IS a requirement for the presidency, and has been for some time.
In order to be selected by the primaries you have to lie, cheat and steal your way to the top of the party... And when was the last time an independent ever won an election?
The main reason for this (as far as I can tell) is the people who get raped by dirty politicians are usually too busy working to pay the rent to learn about the people they vote for. Either that, or they have given up on being involved in politics (impossible to do.)
Then there are the news agencies who only cover people from either of the two parties and maybe an independent if they have a lot of money or connections.
Well I don't see why anyone shouldn't be allowed to do this. I also don't see why anyone would want to use this under the GPL. One would think if someone didn't want people to tinker with something they made they would release it under a different liscense.
If used in any OSS projects I'm quite sure it would kill the popularity/success of said project very effectively.
I use the following free programs and they are much more stable than many commercial applications:
Winamp, Workrave, CDex, Pheonix (I've not had any issues with it, despite it's being half way done)AbiWord (I admit I've only used this a few times, but I didnt have any issues with it) DivX codec, Ogg Vorbis codec, a little firewall app, and I'm sure there's some other ones that I use...
Jebus.... where the hell did I get the idea you were running Mandrake....
"Here I am running Red Hat blah blah blah."
I think I'm going togo cry myself to sleep now.
I think it's more an issue of Microsoft taking over every market (wouldn't be suprized if in 5 years they will be taking on McDonalds) and trying to eliminate all other companies. In a capitalist society competition is essential for innovation, so this is not good.
The other thing is their software is almost always bloated and very inefficient... One should not have to get a 1GHz system and use 400 Megs of disk space to run Office.
Microsoft is very mean and dirty in it's business deals as well... It seems each company that works with it either ends up broke or swallowed by Microsoft.
Then Microsoft is dirty in it's completely ignoring compliance standards and making it's own standards.
Yes, saying that their software sucks may not be the best argument, but honestly, everything of theirs seems to be thrown together rather messily and efficiency is very low on their priorities.
They also treat their cusomers like cows, milking them for all they've got. Windows should not cost $300. Microsoft Office should not cost $600.
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I'm a freelance digital effects artist. Almost daily I upload video so the director can approve/disaprove of the footage.
Right now my upload rate is capped at ~30 KB/sec... that's quite slow enough. Takes nearly half of an hour of my day. If it's capped farther, I may have to look into other broadband services. I'm not too happy about Comcast's saying I can't use a NAT too.
My guess is that many (if not most) code moneys at SCO are probably trying to get new jobs. For ethical reasons and/or what Miss Cleo's psychic hot line is saying of SCO's not-so-bright-looking future. If I were working for a company that's decided to commit suicide, I sure as hell would try and jump ship.
:P
But, yeah... it's better to be on a slowly sinking ship, than drowning next to it. Why quit straight away when you can get checks while you submit your CV to other companies? Hell, you could even just start slacking off all day... That'd do more damage than quitting.
Or even turn rogue and use SCO's copiers and other resources to spread Linux propaganda.
"If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in everyday and do it really half-assed. That is the American way." - Homer Simpson
It depends on the artist... I know a lot of local artists that are self-published, and there are recording companies that aren't affilited with the RIAA.
A couple CDs I've purchased from artists were CD-Rs they burned themselves.
I use a program called Maya. If this program there's a 3D camera that you control by holding down alt and clicking the mouse buttons (left orbits, right zooms and middle pans.)
It's much faster and easier to control the camera this way. Why can't this extremely easy, accurate and fast method be brought to scrolling in all programs? It's also easier on the middle finger. Better yet, why not put those thumb buttons commonly found on today's mice to practical use by making them a "scroll mode" button. Then one could use the other buttons to control the axis one scrolls on (kinda like in XSI.)
I'm extremely disapointed in the lack of progress in mice. It's hardly changed at all since the 80's. All we have now is a light that makes it slightly more accurate (and in some cases less accurate and in a few cases unusable) another 3 buttons that are rarely put to practical use and a scroll wheel that kills one's middle finger and usually either scrolls much or too little.
Excellent point.
Actually, you can probably get the whole Harry Potter series in MP3 format. Each book (even book 5) is available as an audio book on both cassette and CDs. So it is vulnerable to mass P2P sharing, but people are buying it.
I really enjoy the audio books. Jim Dale is a wonderful reader and IMHO his reading really adds to the story. Sometimes when I read, I read too quickly to take in or think about what's going on. This is especially true with suspenseful books. I get in a kind of "Gotta find out what happens next!" mode and zip through it. Jim takes his time and the events and such sink in a bit deeper making the story more enjoyable. I also like to play the CDs while I'm working every now and again. I usually listen to music, but sometimes a good story is nice too. Though switching CDs every hour can be a pain. I wish they'd offer a MP3 CD. Great audio quality and stereo sound isn't essential... one could probably fit the series on two CDs per book.
Actually I just purchased Harry 5 on CD after reading the book. It's my favorite of the series so far... though I really liked the 3rd too. The fourth isn't as exciting until the very end when everything goes to hell. And, well books 1 and 2 were great when I was reading them, but the third really made the first two seem mediocre.
Oh, and this whole "I don't like it because it's for kids" crap... get your head out of your ass and don't worry about it. No, it's not the greatest literary work ever. In fact, I don't think it's the greatest literary work of the past five years... however, it is a very enjoyable story, it is a lot of fun, and most importantly (for me at least) it isn't very predictable.
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Not just computer geeks.
What advantages does this have over the Archos player? It's cheaper, has the same amount of drive space, and plays video.
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/mp3/5b44/det
I'm not so much surprised to see my politicians trying to take power... but I am surprised that such a large group is pulling in one direction.
I don't want to see my country toppled.
Jesus that's cheap!
$35,000 * 435 members of the house = $15,225,000
So, for only 15.2 billion dollars, you can own half of congress... I certainly hope that senators are more expensive, or for only $3,500,000 extra you can own a third of the government.
How much cash does Gates have, again?
Well, Some fella a long time ago (don't remember his name) did a large number of experiments and found that 24FPS is the lowest number where the eye could be convinced it was in motion. The desire for the lowest number is because film is expensive (especially back then.)
When television was being made it was found that the eye could see a bit faster than the 24 ( around 30 fps)
So now TV goes at 29.97 FPS.
What's funny about people making their games go at 200 FPS is their monitor is probably set to 80 Hz or less... heheheh
The shutter isn't instantaneous.. it's left open for a period of time as things are moving/rotating the film is recieves a perfectly (as perfectly as film can be) smooth blur.
I meant "perfect" motion blur in that it's not a hack. It doesn't look like two or three images mixed (a common PS2 trick) and it's not smudged (common in 3d renderers... basicly saving movement data and "smudging" colors around as a post process. A lot faster than the more accurate method of rendering the object 10+ times/per frame and mixing them.)
Video cards show one instance of time per frame. Occasionally faked motion blur is added, but this typicly doesn't look very convincing.
It's all about the motion blur.
Films go at 24 FPS, but film also has perfect motion blur and the eye can harldy tell.
Strobing is a big problem with games as good motion blur is next to impossible to make without just rendering out all of those in between frames.
The problem with this is it can piss a lot of companies off. Why? Well most big web sites are funded by advertising. Having hundreds of /. readers viewing their site is a lot of income. Were /. to make a mirror of their site, all that income would dissappear. I think this is actually considered theft by many sites... not sure what the courts feel.
/. should mirror it for a couple days and email the web master letting them know and offering to take the mirror down if the web master so desires. In the event there are ads they should email the webmaster of whatever site asking permission and while waiting for a response post the story as is... but this would be a whole lot of work for /.
Contacting the web master asking permission before posting would take far too long.
Me, I think if the site doesn't have any ads
Keep in mind I'm an idiot, so my thoughts should be taken with a 25 lb. grain of salt or three.
I second what the bninja_penguin said.
I have a Win2k/Mandrake 9 system.
I have no power management issues with Mandrake 9.
Funny thing is, asking my computer to go into suspend mode under Windows 2k freezes it.
I'm not knocking Win2k, I'm quite happy with it... Mandrake too.
Windows is quite stable and Mandrake Linux is easy to use... I never thought I'd see a day where I'd say sommat like that.
Though I think Win2k will probably be the last MS OS I purchase. This so-called "trusted" computing doesn't sound like a good deal.
Microsoft is not going away. Their power will increase until they control every facet of your digital world.
I doubt they'd stop once they control every digital device in the world... after that they'll just move on to controlling our food, clothes, and living quarters, then our lives.
"Gah! My spleen! It crashed! Damn you, Microsoft!"
I thought many cartridges have expiration dates. I haven't purchased one for about 8 months, so I could be mistaken.
I wouldn't be suprized if after time ink would start to congeal or separating or erm... changing color if exposed to light maybe? I dunno.
Beyond just the whole setting a precedent, keep in mind most people don't research the companies they buy from and get all of their technical advise from salespeople.* I highly doubt the box advertises the product has self destruct date. I also doubt most salespeople would say "Well don't buy this expensive printer that'll give me a nice, big commission because it's cartridges are horrible devices designed to rip you off."
*Before labeling these people as idiots remember that the majority of consumers simply don't have time to research every single purchase they make.
It IS a requirement for the presidency, and has been for some time.
In order to be selected by the primaries you have to lie, cheat and steal your way to the top of the party... And when was the last time an independent ever won an election?
The main reason for this (as far as I can tell) is the people who get raped by dirty politicians are usually too busy working to pay the rent to learn about the people they vote for. Either that, or they have given up on being involved in politics (impossible to do.)
Then there are the news agencies who only cover people from either of the two parties and maybe an independent if they have a lot of money or connections.
Well I don't see why anyone shouldn't be allowed to do this. I also don't see why anyone would want to use this under the GPL. One would think if someone didn't want people to tinker with something they made they would release it under a different liscense.
If used in any OSS projects I'm quite sure it would kill the popularity/success of said project very effectively.
Are you kidding!?
I use the following free programs and they are much more stable than many commercial applications:
Winamp, Workrave, CDex, Pheonix (I've not had any issues with it, despite it's being half way done)AbiWord (I admit I've only used this a few times, but I didnt have any issues with it) DivX codec, Ogg Vorbis codec, a little firewall app, and I'm sure there's some other ones that I use...
AND I'M NOT EVEN A BIG GEEK!
This product is not illegal in the slightest from what I can tell.
Jebus.... where the hell did I get the idea you were running Mandrake.... "Here I am running Red Hat blah blah blah." I think I'm going togo cry myself to sleep now.
I have an A7N8X Deluxe and I have Mandrake 9 running just fine on it.
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It took a few minutes of searching the web, but the sound fix is on Mandrake's site.
Oh! after a little googling, I found NVidia has mandrake specific drivers that apparently work like a rested engineer.
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.
Anyway, here's the patch that worked on my system incase the new NVidia drivers work like a monkey on acid:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3#nfor
Hope this helps.
I think it's more an issue of Microsoft taking over every market (wouldn't be suprized if in 5 years they will be taking on McDonalds) and trying to eliminate all other companies. In a capitalist society competition is essential for innovation, so this is not good.
The other thing is their software is almost always bloated and very inefficient... One should not have to get a 1GHz system and use 400 Megs of disk space to run Office.
Microsoft is very mean and dirty in it's business deals as well... It seems each company that works with it either ends up broke or swallowed by Microsoft.
Then Microsoft is dirty in it's completely ignoring compliance standards and making it's own standards.
Yes, saying that their software sucks may not be the best argument, but honestly, everything of theirs seems to be thrown together rather messily and efficiency is very low on their priorities.
They also treat their cusomers like cows, milking them for all they've got. Windows should not cost $300. Microsoft Office should not cost $600.