The most interesting part is the images. There you can actually see the Gnome logo.
(There is an extra karma bunus for the first who find the KDE logo;)
So Microsoft have already begun patenting Linux.
It is true that M$ cannot buy GPL code, but it can buy the coders.
Now, guess what will happen after the fiaSCO is over.
I think that the VOB files on the DVD are simply saved to hard disk, or maybe the player makes an image of the whole DVD. The PVR can then easily playback the DVD as per normal, except that it is now running off the hard disk.
If you know the answer why do you ask?;)
About the rest of the questions.
1. Encode time - The CPU is just horribly slow. It will take ages to recompress it. And there is no sense to do it. The quality will degradete.
2. DeCSS - Probably you have missed that MPlayer can play VOB's that are copied unencrypted. DeCCS on the fly:)
3. DivX codec - There is no need for license if the country (EU) doesn't have patents. Don't forget that license is permision to do/use something that is otherwise forbiden. You may not be allowed to use DivX trademark logos, but as long as it works who cares!
There is something else that looks fishy to me. Everybody that have tried such ITX mini boards with these C3 processors know that they are just plain slow.
I mean that 1000GHz Nehemiah (with SEE) decodes an normal DVD (MPEG-2) with about 90% CPU in MPlayer. Where 80% are for the software decoder and 10% for XVideo and audio decoding.
As it is written in all manuals, an Pentium 500MHz processor can decode DVD resolution with proper XVideo acceleration.
What's the problem? Everybody knows that encoding is slower than decoding! The encoder should try quite some possible combinations for every 16x16 block before finding the optimal one. (You cannot do Motion Estamination without comparing hell a lot of a blocks. The Motion Estamination is the process that removes temporal redundancy and the main reason for MPEG superiority).
Without hardware encoder this box just don't have the power for high quality encoding.
So it is going to make an ugly quality capture or to waste quite a lot of HDD space.
I see that BitTorrent wasn't listed along with Kazaa, eDonkey and Morpheus.
Probably because it is based on/inspired by BitTorrent. Look at the diagram on page1 (introduction).
The "System load balansers" ARE trackers. The clients can share content, but only under the control of the tracker. What is new is that all connections are encripted.
You can see that if you want to distribute something you should make contract with them (probably not more sophisticated than eBey) and upload the content on their server. Probaly they will water_mark it.
I must say that I admire them. They are willing to support all platforms and that is already good start. They are more probably not going at the BIG FAT movie and music distributors. Instead they will collect more copyrighted works from individuals or smaller entitels that are ready to take risk. If they keep the prices low and deliver content fast, they may succeed. Wish you luck boys.
And something more - 900TB are good start but are not enough. The local content server of my ISP is about that size and it is still growing. I'm sure you guess i'm not from US and i'm not going to tell you more. Taina maina.
There is only one simple solution that would be good for everybody.
Clean Install from new Windows XP edition
Clean install is the only 100% secure way to remove all viruses/trojans/spyware/malware.
Microsoft should release Windows XP SE (Second Edition, Secure Edition or Sp2 Edition).
This way Microsoft will finally have the upgrade version they have promised to the buyers 3 years ago. You know license expire for 3 years and new should be bought. (I'm not sure, but there may also have clause/option for free upgrades. I don't see why not, as long as you pay for it every 3 years).
I don't have WinXP, but from what I heard the SP2 is about 300MB archive. I think that WinXP is installed from single CDrom disk (am I wrong?). So SP2 is not far from a new Windows version.
If M$ don't do that, they are doomed. I think they wont do it:)
As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience
Why no benchmarks of this? IMO much more useful than a benchmark of a P4 3.6GHz system with 4GB of RAM and a 6800 Ultra..
The only possible reason I can make out of my mind, is that with all the shinny/shader/sexy/lighting features turned off, the game could actually run much faster.
You can't show how great the new GF6800 is, if GF440 could run at same (or better) framerate;)
This reminds me that there are no screen shots to show how The Game looks on different video cards.
My favorit program for creating slackware packages is 'checkinstall'. You can find it in extra/ directory of Slackware10 CD3. After you compile program from source, insted of writing `make install` you should write `checkinstall`. Few simple questions (yes,no) and you got a new package. If you don't like the new program you can remove it with the good old 'removepkg' command. No need to browse all directories and hunt down files one by one.
Something more, the package file is saved and you can install it on another system!
There is another program for automatic package creating in the extra/ directory. It is the very same program Pat is using to build slack.
I've just came from the cinema. I feel bad. I feel sick. This is one more movie that doesn't show anything more than that you can see in the trailers. Probably there have been too many criticks about Matrix Reloaded been too pholosophical. The Matrix Revolutions is pure action, all philosophy is shriked to repeating phrases from the previus movie. And most of the speeches are already in the trailers. If you are expecting to understand what happend in the Matrix 2, you wont find the answer in Matrix 3. The thing just happens, there is no reason, there is no thought... big-bang-boom. Oh, yes there is big happy end. Neo saves the world and democracy (probably) giving his own life and merging with the Core. I just don't understand why the mashines waited so long to sign a peace. And why they used to kill humans outside the matrix. And one big yakee. The clouds that cover the world are full with electisity. Wonder why machines doesn't take power from there? Keep wonder.
In short. If you like action movies without much speaking, you probably will like the movie. If you are SciFi fan, you probably will recognice the all cliches used so far.
Slashdot Mirror
Next week Microsoft will patent an program that generates bogus patents.
It's an old news, but I wonder have slashdot crowd found out this patent:
P TO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch- bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=200301895 97&OS=20030189597&RS=20030189597
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=
The most interesting part is the images. There you can actually see the Gnome logo. (There is an extra karma bunus for the first who find the KDE logo;)
So Microsoft have already begun patenting Linux.
It is true that M$ cannot buy GPL code, but it can buy the coders.
Now, guess what will happen after the fiaSCO is over.
I doubt.
I looked closer at the latest models.
The TV encoders actually are TV-out. They encode analog signal.
VIA have anounced DSP encoder chips, but I don't think they made their way into the normal ITX boards.
There is something else that looks fishy to me. Everybody that have tried such ITX mini boards with these C3 processors know that they are just plain slow.
I mean that 1000GHz Nehemiah (with SEE) decodes an normal DVD (MPEG-2) with about 90% CPU in MPlayer. Where 80% are for the software decoder and 10% for XVideo and audio decoding.
As it is written in all manuals, an Pentium 500MHz processor can decode DVD resolution with proper XVideo acceleration.
What's the problem? Everybody knows that encoding is slower than decoding! The encoder should try quite some possible combinations for every 16x16 block before finding the optimal one. (You cannot do Motion Estamination without comparing hell a lot of a blocks. The Motion Estamination is the process that removes temporal redundancy and the main reason for MPEG superiority).
Without hardware encoder this box just don't have the power for high quality encoding.
So it is going to make an ugly quality capture or to waste quite a lot of HDD space.
Probably because it is based on/inspired by BitTorrent. Look at the diagram on page1 (introduction).
The "System load balansers" ARE trackers. The clients can share content, but only under the control of the tracker. What is new is that all connections are encripted.
You can see that if you want to distribute something you should make contract with them (probably not more sophisticated than eBey) and upload the content on their server. Probaly they will water_mark it.
I must say that I admire them. They are willing to support all platforms and that is already good start. They are more probably not going at the BIG FAT movie and music distributors. Instead they will collect more copyrighted works from individuals or smaller entitels that are ready to take risk. If they keep the prices low and deliver content fast, they may succeed. Wish you luck boys.
And something more - 900TB are good start but are not enough. The local content server of my ISP is about that size and it is still growing. I'm sure you guess i'm not from US and i'm not going to tell you more. Taina maina.
There is only one simple solution that would be good for everybody.
Clean Install from new Windows XP edition
Clean install is the only 100% secure way to remove all viruses/trojans/spyware/malware.
Microsoft should release Windows XP SE (Second Edition, Secure Edition or Sp2 Edition).
This way Microsoft will finally have the upgrade version they have promised to the buyers 3 years ago. You know license expire for 3 years and new should be bought. (I'm not sure, but there may also have clause/option for free upgrades. I don't see why not, as long as you pay for it every 3 years).
I don't have WinXP, but from what I heard the SP2 is about 300MB archive. I think that WinXP is installed from single CDrom disk (am I wrong?). So SP2 is not far from a new Windows version.
If M$ don't do that, they are doomed. I think they wont do it:)
If the Trojan Horse was really Open Source,
it would have been made of glass.
You know, it's hard is to hide something when everything is transparent.
The only possible reason I can make out of my mind, is that with all the shinny/shader/sexy/lighting features turned off, the game could actually run much faster.
You can't show how great the new GF6800 is, if GF440 could run at same (or better) framerate
This reminds me that there are no screen shots to show how The Game looks on different video cards.
My favorit program for creating slackware packages is 'checkinstall'. You can find it in extra/ directory of Slackware10 CD3.
After you compile program from source, insted of writing `make install` you should write `checkinstall`. Few simple questions (yes,no) and you got a new package.
If you don't like the new program you can remove it with the good old 'removepkg' command. No need to browse all directories and hunt down files one by one.
Something more, the package file is saved and you can install it on another system!
There is another program for automatic package creating in the extra/ directory. It is the very same program Pat is using to build slack.
Happy Hacking
I've just came from the cinema. ... big-bang-boom.
I feel bad. I feel sick.
This is one more movie that doesn't show anything more than that you can see in the trailers.
Probably there have been too many criticks about Matrix Reloaded been too pholosophical.
The Matrix Revolutions is pure action, all philosophy is shriked to repeating phrases from the previus movie. And most of the speeches are already in the trailers.
If you are expecting to understand what happend in the Matrix 2, you wont find the answer in Matrix 3. The thing just happens, there is no reason, there is no thought
Oh, yes there is big happy end. Neo saves the world and democracy (probably) giving his own life and merging with the Core.
I just don't understand why the mashines waited so long to sign a peace. And why they used to kill humans outside the matrix.
And one big yakee. The clouds that cover the world are full with electisity. Wonder why machines doesn't take power from there? Keep wonder.
In short. If you like action movies without much speaking, you probably will like the movie. If you are SciFi fan, you probably will recognice the all cliches used so far.