yes i meant video. but even vector animation would have to be rasterized at some point. even a still at that resolution... one inch at that resolution, uncompressed is about a meg. multiply by 12*12*widthinfeet*heightinfeet and that equals a lot of data. and you would a hell of a lot of memory and bandwith to transfer that amount of data. I'm not saying it isn't possable, i'm just saying they would probably hardware scale a smaller image and use a lower resolution. There are also many ways they could overcome these obsticles. My point is just to render full billboard video at maximum resolution would for all intensive purposes be at least very very hard to do.
fair enough. do you know any storage medium would be large enough (or fast enough) to playback video at that resolution. i could understand them using maybe 1600*800 for the entire billboard and scaling it somehow.
Based on that DPI, at the size of a billboard, i don't know of any videocard in the world that could drive something like that. for example. create a document say: 5 * 15 feet (and that's being nice). Fill it up with random stuff. Print it off as an uncompressed postscript at 300 dpi. Examine file size... if you can.
then i say no to that (read what you write carefully before you hit that post button).
For the record, no i do not have kids. But if my father had been in my place, and i was young again, i would have preferred he do what he knew was right in the long run. It takes a long time to appreciate what your parents do (and why they do it). My father has always done the right thing and when i was young i thought it to be insane. Now i am glad that he did. Perhaps you do not know from the perpsective from which i write. Perhaps you do not know that perhaps i was a child when i was on the streets... Now i am glad... I did what i thought was right, i stuck to it, my father did what he thought was right, he stuck to it. He threw me out. Do I aggree with his decision? of course not... But i would respect him less if he had compromised...
You Wrote:
I find your arguments laughable. I Write:
I'm too bored with with your closedmindedness to pay any attention whatsoever to any further comments on your part (and yes i realise the irony of this statement).
You Wrote:
Do you really expect your children will learn morals and respect when their daddy can't find a job and works nights as a rent a cop? I doubt it. I Write:
Well fudge. Now i'll just go lookin for a job as a rent a cop. Let's nip this crap in the bud. You raise your kids however the hell you want and it's none of my friggin business. Blather on.
You Wrote:
All it will teach is their father is an idiot and the economy sucked. I Write:
Why am i even bothering to respond to this? My opinion stands. It may be unpopular but it is mine. Your opinion is yours.
You Wrote:
I want my children to respect me because they will understand that I valued their future far more than I valued my beliefs and morals. I Write:
Fair enough from your perspective. Personally, i beleive what i beleive and i'm quite sure i am fairly stubborn. BTW: do you have kids? i am betting that is a negative. If so, we are both speaking hypothetically (as i suspect). So let's kill this now.
Make no mistake, SCO is a threat to me. They have attacked me personally by attacking the Open Source community. Maybe the./ and tech community knows that they are full of "it" but the average Joe Moron thinks "gee those dag nabbit hackers be stealing those nice folks hard earned work". Why else is their stock at 18$ a share? Pay attention to other media than the tech community. It gives a good insight into what the rest of the world is getting hammered into their heads. Have you watched fox news recently. More reminscent of Jerry Springer than anything else.
Cheating people out of money? What do you call trying to steal our work and sell it back to us (for 699 a cpu).
I'm taking this hard because if i bend over and let sco fsck me up the a$$ instead of fighting nail and teeth I won't have much left to fight for. Nobody will.
There is always another way, there is always another choice. It may be harder, it may be more painful, but it is better for all in the end. Do you want your kids to be able to say "daddy never compromised" or to hide their heads with a bit of shame. Not even to mention that Childern learn from their parents and follow their example. Do you want them to respect you or not?
For your information, there was a time when i lived on the streets of southern california and did feel hunger so yes i know what i speak about. And yes it was a result of my refusal to Compromise. Now that i am doing well, i cherish the memory that i didn't. Would i take it back? never. There may be very few things in this world worth dying for, but i beleive self integrity is one of them.
If you can't look at yourself in the mirror and say "i did the right thing" you have to live with guilt. This hurts more than hunger. Never compromise. You slowly kill yourself and a part of you dies with every inch you give.
If i owned a company, i would do the same exact thing. If their programmers had any ethics at all they would at least contact the authorities about their illegal actions. This is their responsibility. Where are Enron's accountants right now. Could they just say "we signed an NDA". No, they're screwed (or being screwed) right now. Rotting in jail where they belong. Contract law states that nobody can sign a contract that forces them to do something illegal. Something illegal is not "guilty by association" but "_aiding and abbeding_". Since we know sco is doing something illegal, and it would be impossable for their programmers not to know what is going on, we can deduce that they are themselves breaking the law and unethical to boot. No i would never hire such people. Personally i hope they are all held responsibility. I want to visit them in jail and pay their cellmates to make sure they get extra "companionship". Screw em all.
Somewhat unrelated: My resume online states that i will not work for SCO, with any SCO products, or for any company that has paid SCO for a "linux license". The reason being that i do not want to encourage companies to support SCO. I suggest anybody looking for employment do the same thing, in a polite an diplomatic disclaimer. Offer explanation on inquiry.
I just bought an HP laptop and apart from 3d acceleration under X, linux works great. I'm wondering if they will make all of their PCs "Linux compatable" retroactively so that i will have full hardware support. Regardless, usually drivers get written eventually by somebody although it might take longer than direct intervention on the part of HP.
First step: the *.wav is ripped. Using libcdparanoia, which i personally perfer, i find slight variation in size depending on the machine and cdrom drive i rip them on.
Second step: encoding on different machines, with different encoders, using different algorythms, using different levels of floating point precision, on different architectures etc... produces vastly different files.
Third step: sharing. Oftentimes an mp3 is downloaded 99.8% before the connection is broken. You keep the mp3 becuase mp3 is a sequential file format and you only lose a second or two of music. The rest of the file is intact.
Their md5 searching scheme could be circumvented quite easily by changing a comment in the id3 but they could get around that by cutting out the id3 part of the file when they make their md5sum.
The downside to this is that if you are searching for music on something like gnutella by the ***sum, the content would differ and you would not get as many results. Gnutella would not download from multiple sources becuase the file would not have the same signature.
Whatever the case, it is clear that some form of file obfuscation is now needed for safety online. Or we can wait for freenet to mature.
At first i thought the same thing, but AOL broadband is actually provided by AOL. You can use an other isp and use AOL through that (even another dialup isp). However, 900+ subpoenas and not a single aol user...
yeah... like Duke Nukem "forever"
AKA Duke Nukem "whenever"
The 2.4 kernel was nearly a year late but i have a feeling this will be sooner. I don't think the SCO thing will affect kernel development at all (although i'm sure M$ wishes it would). I don't think Linus is worried and generally i get the feeling that it's "un-business" as usual.
As far as i know, i read in an earlier RIAA story that no AOL users have been handed subopenas. Are they trying to scare people to switching to an "isp" in which they have an interest.
This selectivity demonstrates exactly why nobody should be given the power that they currently have.
Eg: Linux is good, M$ is bad. thus attacking M$ will bring people to linux... which is good. It sounds like fauty logic but it does work. No i don't support it but it has made people desire a more secure OS.
...how else do we define good but by contrast. If, by some wonderful chance, linux does become more widely used than windows on the desktop, and M$ is eliminated, who will we rant against. With the exception of SCO recently, we haven't really had a "villan" other than Microsoft.
Now say for the sake of argument, that Redhat becomes the big distibuter of linux, and M$ is reduced to rubble. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I hold no organisation or group infallable and although i trust Redhat right now, but there is no way to make sure they would not abuse their power. Argue that teh GPL protects us... that is true, but it is also true that there are always loopholes and "some rules can be bent... others can be broken." The desire to accumulate capital is what drives capitalism... Make no mistake, Redhat is not a charity (arguable), they want to make money gain market share. Even though it serves their purposes to support the oss community right now, just wait until they don't need us anymore. People will stick to the name "Redhat" and use "their" OS becuase they no nothing else. Redhat has always been one to include "bonus cds" with commercial/binary only software. What happens when they start integrating that software into the system more and more. They would create an addiction to it's product, as M$ has with word, offive, etc... It is important to remember always that Linux is the kernel, and the kernel _only_.
I can see a demand right now to add support for hardware in linux that only have decent drivers in binary form (eg. nvidia). For now redhat has refused to include them for that reason. Eventually they might bend (as some other distributers have done) and include nvidia.o with their kernel module package. If you give an inch to corporate America, they will take a mile... and then some.
I realise that this may seem off-topic but it really is quite relavant to the discussion at hand. Binary only software means less reliability. Linux works well right now because if a bug is found, it can be fixed by anybody. If there is a bug in a binary only package, the best you can do is e-mail the company and complain.
Right now, linux is "hard" for users to learn because it is different. If one can learn to open his/her mind to new ways of doing things, linux is fantastic. It's the only OS i use right now and for everything i use it for, it's perfect for me. Linux blows windows away in terms of speed, linux is more secure. The last time i rebooted my desktop was when i last recompiled the kernel in june. As far as apps go, I've rarely seen an application marked "stable" that crashed.
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yes i meant video. but even vector animation would have to be rasterized at some point. even a still at that resolution... one inch at that resolution, uncompressed is about a meg. multiply by 12*12*widthinfeet*heightinfeet and that equals a lot of data. and you would a hell of a lot of memory and bandwith to transfer that amount of data. I'm not saying it isn't possable, i'm just saying they would probably hardware scale a smaller image and use a lower resolution. There are also many ways they could overcome these obsticles. My point is just to render full billboard video at maximum resolution would for all intensive purposes be at least very very hard to do.
fair enough. do you know any storage medium would be large enough (or fast enough) to playback video at that resolution. i could understand them using maybe 1600*800 for the entire billboard and scaling it somehow.
Based on that DPI, at the size of a billboard, i don't know of any videocard in the world that could drive something like that. for example. create a document say: 5 * 15 feet (and that's being nice). Fill it up with random stuff. Print it off as an uncompressed postscript at 300 dpi. Examine file size... if you can.
it will dissappear very quickly, and wind up hung on my bedroom wall.. hee hee.. anybody have a flatbed truck in the virginia area?
then i say no to that (read what you write carefully before you hit that post button). For the record, no i do not have kids. But if my father had been in my place, and i was young again, i would have preferred he do what he knew was right in the long run. It takes a long time to appreciate what your parents do (and why they do it). My father has always done the right thing and when i was young i thought it to be insane. Now i am glad that he did. Perhaps you do not know from the perpsective from which i write. Perhaps you do not know that perhaps i was a child when i was on the streets... Now i am glad... I did what i thought was right, i stuck to it, my father did what he thought was right, he stuck to it. He threw me out. Do I aggree with his decision? of course not... But i would respect him less if he had compromised...
You Wrote:
I find your arguments laughable.
I Write:
I'm too bored with with your closedmindedness to pay any attention whatsoever to any further comments on your part (and yes i realise the irony of this statement).
You Wrote:
Do you really expect your children will learn morals and respect when their daddy can't find a job and works nights as a rent a cop? I doubt it.
I Write:
Well fudge. Now i'll just go lookin for a job as a rent a cop. Let's nip this crap in the bud. You raise your kids however the hell you want and it's none of my friggin business. Blather on.
You Wrote:
All it will teach is their father is an idiot and the economy sucked.
I Write:
Why am i even bothering to respond to this? My opinion stands. It may be unpopular but it is mine. Your opinion is yours.
You Wrote:
I want my children to respect me because they will understand that I valued their future far more than I valued my beliefs and morals.
I Write:
Fair enough from your perspective. Personally, i beleive what i beleive and i'm quite sure i am fairly stubborn. BTW: do you have kids? i am betting that is a negative. If so, we are both speaking hypothetically (as i suspect). So let's kill this now.
Make no mistake, SCO is a threat to me. They have attacked me personally by attacking the Open Source community. Maybe the ./ and tech community knows that they are full of "it" but the average Joe Moron thinks "gee those dag nabbit hackers be stealing those nice folks hard earned work". Why else is their stock at 18$ a share? Pay attention to other media than the tech community. It gives a good insight into what the rest of the world is getting hammered into their heads. Have you watched fox news recently. More reminscent of Jerry Springer than anything else.
Cheating people out of money? What do you call trying to steal our work and sell it back to us (for 699 a cpu).
I'm taking this hard because if i bend over and let sco fsck me up the a$$ instead of fighting nail and teeth I won't have much left to fight for. Nobody will.
well said
There is always another way, there is always another choice. It may be harder, it may be more painful, but it is better for all in the end. Do you want your kids to be able to say "daddy never compromised" or to hide their heads with a bit of shame. Not even to mention that Childern learn from their parents and follow their example. Do you want them to respect you or not?
For your information, there was a time when i lived on the streets of southern california and did feel hunger so yes i know what i speak about. And yes it was a result of my refusal to Compromise. Now that i am doing well, i cherish the memory that i didn't. Would i take it back? never. There may be very few things in this world worth dying for, but i beleive self integrity is one of them.
If you can't look at yourself in the mirror and say "i did the right thing" you have to live with guilt. This hurts more than hunger. Never compromise. You slowly kill yourself and a part of you dies with every inch you give.
If i owned a company, i would do the same exact thing. If their programmers had any ethics at all they would at least contact the authorities about their illegal actions. This is their responsibility. Where are Enron's accountants right now. Could they just say "we signed an NDA". No, they're screwed (or being screwed) right now. Rotting in jail where they belong. Contract law states that nobody can sign a contract that forces them to do something illegal. Something illegal is not "guilty by association" but "_aiding and abbeding_". Since we know sco is doing something illegal, and it would be impossable for their programmers not to know what is going on, we can deduce that they are themselves breaking the law and unethical to boot. No i would never hire such people. Personally i hope they are all held responsibility. I want to visit them in jail and pay their cellmates to make sure they get extra "companionship". Screw em all. Somewhat unrelated: My resume online states that i will not work for SCO, with any SCO products, or for any company that has paid SCO for a "linux license". The reason being that i do not want to encourage companies to support SCO. I suggest anybody looking for employment do the same thing, in a polite an diplomatic disclaimer. Offer explanation on inquiry.
I just bought an HP laptop and apart from 3d acceleration under X, linux works great. I'm wondering if they will make all of their PCs "Linux compatable" retroactively so that i will have full hardware support. Regardless, usually drivers get written eventually by somebody although it might take longer than direct intervention on the part of HP.
Pretty much no rip is identical.
First step: the *.wav is ripped. Using libcdparanoia, which i personally perfer, i find slight variation in size depending on the machine and cdrom drive i rip them on.
Second step: encoding on different machines, with different encoders, using different algorythms, using different levels of floating point precision, on different architectures etc... produces vastly different files.
Third step: sharing. Oftentimes an mp3 is downloaded 99.8% before the connection is broken. You keep the mp3 becuase mp3 is a sequential file format and you only lose a second or two of music. The rest of the file is intact.
Their md5 searching scheme could be circumvented quite easily by changing a comment in the id3 but they could get around that by cutting out the id3 part of the file when they make their md5sum.
The downside to this is that if you are searching for music on something like gnutella by the ***sum, the content would differ and you would not get as many results. Gnutella would not download from multiple sources becuase the file would not have the same signature.
Whatever the case, it is clear that some form of file obfuscation is now needed for safety online. Or we can wait for freenet to mature.
whoo hoo... this means i'm healthier after smoking a pack a day since the age of 11. yaaaaaayyyy...*coughs up a lung*...
You have a good point there. Not to mention that many irc filesharing channels will ban you if your ip resolves to anything having to do with aol.
the arithmatic logic could be processed using greater than binary logic while it would do everything else in binary.
maybe this is not feasable but i imagine such a setup would increase arithmatic performance quite a bit.
At first i thought the same thing, but AOL broadband is actually provided by AOL. You can use an other isp and use AOL through that (even another dialup isp). However, 900+ subpoenas and not a single aol user...
yeah... like Duke Nukem "forever"
AKA Duke Nukem "whenever"
The 2.4 kernel was nearly a year late but i have a feeling this will be sooner. I don't think the SCO thing will affect kernel development at all (although i'm sure M$ wishes it would). I don't think Linus is worried and generally i get the feeling that it's "un-business" as usual.
now can somebody start a new thread with this... i'm itchin for an SCO story.
As far as i know, i read in an earlier RIAA story that no AOL users have been handed subopenas. Are they trying to scare people to switching to an "isp" in which they have an interest.
This selectivity demonstrates exactly why nobody should be given the power that they currently have.
high res graphics (both vector and raster) of calvin peeing on the sco logo: find them here:
http://www.geocities.com/psyborgue/
Ps: SCO logo from sco.com
ssh... a duplicate of an sco story is a good thing. It gives us something to bitch about.
Eg: Linux is good, M$ is bad. thus attacking M$ will bring people to linux... which is good. It sounds like fauty logic but it does work. No i don't support it but it has made people desire a more secure OS.
...how else do we define good but by contrast. If, by some wonderful chance, linux does become more widely used than windows on the desktop, and M$ is eliminated, who will we rant against. With the exception of SCO recently, we haven't really had a "villan" other than Microsoft.
Now say for the sake of argument, that Redhat becomes the big distibuter of linux, and M$ is reduced to rubble. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I hold no organisation or group infallable and although i trust Redhat right now, but there is no way to make sure they would not abuse their power. Argue that teh GPL protects us... that is true, but it is also true that there are always loopholes and "some rules can be bent... others can be broken." The desire to accumulate capital is what drives capitalism... Make no mistake, Redhat is not a charity (arguable), they want to make money gain market share. Even though it serves their purposes to support the oss community right now, just wait until they don't need us anymore. People will stick to the name "Redhat" and use "their" OS becuase they no nothing else. Redhat has always been one to include "bonus cds" with commercial/binary only software. What happens when they start integrating that software into the system more and more. They would create an addiction to it's product, as M$ has with word, offive, etc... It is important to remember always that Linux is the kernel, and the kernel _only_.
I can see a demand right now to add support for hardware in linux that only have decent drivers in binary form (eg. nvidia). For now redhat has refused to include them for that reason. Eventually they might bend (as some other distributers have done) and include nvidia.o with their kernel module package. If you give an inch to corporate America, they will take a mile... and then some.
I realise that this may seem off-topic but it really is quite relavant to the discussion at hand. Binary only software means less reliability. Linux works well right now because if a bug is found, it can be fixed by anybody. If there is a bug in a binary only package, the best you can do is e-mail the company and complain.
Right now, linux is "hard" for users to learn because it is different. If one can learn to open his/her mind to new ways of doing things, linux is fantastic. It's the only OS i use right now and for everything i use it for, it's perfect for me. Linux blows windows away in terms of speed, linux is more secure. The last time i rebooted my desktop was when i last recompiled the kernel in june. As far as apps go, I've rarely seen an application marked "stable" that crashed.
Well, that's my two cents.