If I told you "look at this, it's a great pizza oven", and you see a toaster, would you get the toaster, bring it home, make a pizza, and try to bake it in the toaster?
(note how I manage to pretend staying on topic).
As for Cinelerra, which may be nice software, the web page has definitely enough information to show that whatever it is, it can't be a professional NLE.
I hope you don't take my remarks personally. They were just meant to be informative. Getting the "tone" right is difficult in a foreign language (especially when trying to be slightly ironic, with Americans who seem so sensitive:-) ).
The link you give clearly shows this is NOT professional editing software. Or if it is, the feature set definitely doesn't give that impression. Not a single word about time code, EDLs (edit decision lists), imports/exports from/to ProTools, DAT tapes,... I'll stop here since the list is endless.
But a lot of advertizing for completely irrelevant (to not say silly useless) stuff like importing MP3 or Ogg/Vorbis. (These audio compression formats are great, but what on earth does it have to do with professional editing?).
I certainly would like to see professional editing software on Linux, but still haven't seen the slightest hint to it.
The Amiga, with Toaster or whatever else has never been an NLE (non-linear video editor). Professional NLEs are Avid (Mac and Windows) and Apple's Final Cut Pro (Mac only, of course). There are a few others for hobbyists.
What the Amiga had, was hardware producing high quality analog video output (PAL or NTSC), and video software to go with it like Toaster, for effects, mixing, switching, etc. and all that at an incredibly low price.
Another thing that adds to the confusion is that the Amiga also had a great 3D package called Lightwave, which enabled it to do 3D rendering for film output. The rendering was slow, but the quality was great. For faster rendering, people could just add more cheap Amigas.
So Lightwave on Amigas certainly has been used for 3D stuff in some big movies. (I have no idea if it was really used in Jurrassic Park. Probably not, because they would have had the budget to afford many SGIs with SoftImage, but it could have been used).
But this 3D stuff has not much to do with Toaster or the Amiga's video output abilities (except for previews). 3D stuff is output in single files of a single frame each (usually TIFF files), and transfered to film negative in a specialized lab, frame by frame (even today, these later printers do not work in real time; I think they print a few frames per second).
And all these movies were definitely not edited on an Amiga. They were edited on film or on an Avid.
Hope that clears up a little bit the confusion between NLE, 3D, video hardware and video effects and mixing software.
As far as I remember, the Toaster was not an editing program. It was used for titles and effects.
So at most, the code might be useful for an add-on to an editing program. But I would guess that there is nothing there that the 2 current editing programs (Avid and FCP) don't have already.
Still, the Amiga was cool in it's time. I remember a purchase decision around 1995 for a computer that had to generate stuff and output it in a PAL video signal. The choice was a second hand Amiga for around $1000, or a second hand SGI for around $30'000. I can't remember the video card that was in the Amiga, but anyway the picture quality of the Amiga was much better! The choice turned out to be very easy...
But for pure professional editing, there is nothing on Amiga (or Linux) for now, and there never was. It's Mac or Windows (only Mac if you want FCP).
Your post gives the feeling that you blame the CIA only for the US politics since the end of WW2.
But of course all this overthrowing of (nascent) democracies and support of fascist dictators, that has been going on for so long, was a full part of the US policies in the context of the cold war.
This very deliberate policy was not decided by CIA executives. It was not only accepted, but also actively decided and supported by the various presidents of that time. (and while the context has changed, I don't get the impression that the rest has changed much, but that's getting even more off-topic).
database-aware Perl CGI scripts without having to use his web host's SQL servers
DBD::AnyData sounds like what you're after. A module which allows you use standard Perl DBD database access to non-database sources, like various text files or a even a "database" built in RAM from Perl hashes or arrays, which you can then query with SQL.
Would have been fun, but they didn't. They seem to actually have done nothing at all, except changing the serial on their zone. www.sco.com is still 216.250.128.12, as before:
$ host -t SOA sco.com ns.calderasystems.com Using domain server: Name: ns.calderasystems.com Address: 216.250.130.1 Aliases:
sco.com start of authority ns.calderasystems.com hostmaster.caldera.com(
2004020102;serial (version)
3600;refresh period
900;retry refresh this often
604800;expiration period
1800;minimum TTL )
These random words are easily caught. They have no punctuation and none of the short words like, up to here in this comment: "are", "no", "and", "of", "the", "up", "to", "in".
In SpamAssassin, a rule similar to this catches them:
body MY_RANDOM_WORDS/([a-z]{4,20}\s+){15}/ score MY_RANDOM_WORDS 0.5 describe MY_RANDOM_WORDS Many medium-length words, probably random
Just went to their site, and couldn't see any of their demos! I had to disable "Refuse pop-up windows" in Opera 6 to be able to see one of their demo ads. The full-size window also didn't open in the right place, and it's top-left corner was near the middle of my screen, and much of the window outside my screen. So unless you have some crappy browser which cannot block pop-ups (which is only MSIE by now?), you probably won't be bothered much.
Yes, it is exciting to hear that people would start working on a non-linear video editor.
I don't expect their student project to be anything useable, but if they get excited about it and continue work for a few years after their studies, who knows? Maybe a competition to Avid and Final Cut Pro could emerge?
Of course, this has only a chance if they complement their programmer team with a few professional editors and have a very serious look at the 2 current NLEs (and at Pro Tools, the sound editor).
While it would be interesting to see what the "you can spam" act changes or doesn't, MX Logic won't tell you anything.
They say they tested 1000 spams. How did they select them? How many were from the US? (Foreign spams are not supposed to comply with the US law anyway). In the US-originated spams, what wasn't compliant? False headers? No working "remove" link? What else?
They will not tell you what they tested, probably because they didn't do it seriously, and their only point is to say "spam is still a problem" (what a scoop!), and "therefore you need to buy our anti-spam software".
This bogus "study" should not have made any news in The Register or on/. It's just an advertizing press release.
Well, someone could post this address from their website on some IRC channel and a couple of newsgroups: webmaster@ttb.treas.gov. Or is a/. comment sufficient?
BTW, I guess this is the webmaster's picture, since "he" says on the front page: "The input you provide can help TTB better serve you and our other customers. Please feel free to email your ideas to us "?
Note that their TTB Job Postings do NOT include a Perl programmer.
my firewall only allows Outlook to connect to one address -- my domain's mail server -- and only to two ports at that address, ports 110 and 25.
On Windows, I don't understand how your firewall knows that the connection is from Outlook, and not from some other app.
I would expect your firewall to see origin and destination IPs and port numbers, and the request contents. How would this web request coming from Outlook (indirectly anyway, through an Explorer.dll), be any different from a standard request from your browser?
Please, share your magic.
Re:Better examples of heresy I can think of
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There is a relationship between race and intelligence
And how do you actually define "race"? I mean scientifically. It may be a usable concept with some species of animals, but not with all. With humans, no scientist seems to be able to define races.
For humans, we usually talk of "ethnic groups", which is a usable concept because it is vague enough to be adaptable to your particular discourse.
As for intelligence, while it may be defineable, it's definitely much harder to measure.
The only proven thing is that nutrition deficiencies do impact brain development. So statistically, a starving population could certainly be found less intelligent. Which has nothing to do with whatever you are caling "race".
Female circumcision, like male circumcision, is needed for
I understand many American doctors actually do believe that male circumcision is good for health, but I doubt they would consider it good for the health or happinness of the girls upon which it is practiced.:-) (In Europe, male circumcision of children, except within the Jewish community, is usually considered barbarian)
People are easily swayed by slick advertising. That doesn't mean other people, that means you.
How is this a heresy? Isn't it obvious to everybody?
Children have a developed sexuality, This has been known for over a century! (Sigmund!)
and children under the age of 18 are capable of informed consent.
And this seems obvious too.
So I'm afraid I find your "heresies" very disappointing, and can understand why you posted them anonymously. I see your statements as either silly or obvious.
if one were to express those beliefs in a public location they would be promptly shot.
I was going to reply "no, only ignored", but for some reason, I did take time to respond. I wonder why...
Maybe because I would actually like to remember what that book was (by an anthropologist, I believe, or maybe a biologist), which I read some 20 years ago and which demonstrated why the "race" concept had no meaning aplied to the human species.
How could this troll be modded "informative", instead of being told to go RTFA? The article clearly lists and discusses separately the invalid "no TLD", and the valid though unusual "trailing dot" addresses.
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If I told you "look at this, it's a great pizza oven", and you see a toaster, would you get the toaster, bring it home, make a pizza, and try to bake it in the toaster?
:-) ).
(note how I manage to pretend staying on topic).
As for Cinelerra, which may be nice software, the web page has definitely enough information to show that whatever it is, it can't be a professional NLE.
I hope you don't take my remarks personally. They were just meant to be informative. Getting the "tone" right is difficult in a foreign language (especially when trying to be slightly ironic, with Americans who seem so sensitive
if you want a true professional
... I'll stop here since the list is endless.
The link you give clearly shows this is NOT professional editing software. Or if it is, the feature set definitely doesn't give that impression. Not a single word about time code, EDLs (edit decision lists), imports/exports from/to ProTools, DAT tapes,
But a lot of advertizing for completely irrelevant (to not say silly useless) stuff like importing MP3 or Ogg/Vorbis. (These audio compression formats are great, but what on earth does it have to do with professional editing?).
I certainly would like to see professional editing software on Linux, but still haven't seen the slightest hint to it.
Most people here seem to have it all mixed up.
The Amiga, with Toaster or whatever else has never been an NLE (non-linear video editor). Professional NLEs are Avid (Mac and Windows) and Apple's Final Cut Pro (Mac only, of course). There are a few others for hobbyists.
What the Amiga had, was hardware producing high quality analog video output (PAL or NTSC), and video software to go with it like Toaster, for effects, mixing, switching, etc. and all that at an incredibly low price.
Another thing that adds to the confusion is that the Amiga also had a great 3D package called Lightwave, which enabled it to do 3D rendering for film output. The rendering was slow, but the quality was great. For faster rendering, people could just add more cheap Amigas.
So Lightwave on Amigas certainly has been used for 3D stuff in some big movies. (I have no idea if it was really used in Jurrassic Park. Probably not, because they would have had the budget to afford many SGIs with SoftImage, but it could have been used).
But this 3D stuff has not much to do with Toaster or the Amiga's video output abilities (except for previews). 3D stuff is output in single files of a single frame each (usually TIFF files), and transfered to film negative in a specialized lab, frame by frame (even today, these later printers do not work in real time; I think they print a few frames per second).
And all these movies were definitely not edited on an Amiga. They were edited on film or on an Avid.
Hope that clears up a little bit the confusion between NLE, 3D, video hardware and video effects and mixing software.
As far as I remember, the Toaster was not an editing program. It was used for titles and effects.
So at most, the code might be useful for an add-on to an editing program. But I would guess that there is nothing there that the 2 current editing programs (Avid and FCP) don't have already.
Still, the Amiga was cool in it's time. I remember a purchase decision around 1995 for a computer that had to generate stuff and output it in a PAL video signal. The choice was a second hand Amiga for around $1000, or a second hand SGI for around $30'000. I can't remember the video card that was in the Amiga, but anyway the picture quality of the Amiga was much better! The choice turned out to be very easy...
But for pure professional editing, there is nothing on Amiga (or Linux) for now, and there never was. It's Mac or Windows (only Mac if you want FCP).
Your post gives the feeling that you blame the CIA only for the US politics since the end of WW2.
But of course all this overthrowing of (nascent) democracies and support of fascist dictators, that has been going on for so long, was a full part of the US policies in the context of the cold war.
This very deliberate policy was not decided by CIA executives. It was not only accepted, but also actively decided and supported by the various presidents of that time. (and while the context has changed, I don't get the impression that the rest has changed much, but that's getting even more off-topic).
database-aware Perl CGI scripts without having to use his web host's SQL servers
DBD::AnyData sounds like what you're after. A module which allows you use standard Perl DBD database access to non-database sources, like various text files or a even a "database" built in RAM from Perl hashes or arrays, which you can then query with SQL.
www.sco.com is still 216.250.128.12, as before:
... I always thought, was to get us rid of the military by letting them kill each other. If it's robots, I'm afraid I don't see the point.
I guess the times are changing...
but fooling your users [...] is much harder on the mac side
:-)
Except you forgot to take into account that they would be Mac users!
Thank you for trying to draw attention to this. What a shame for the /. crowd that nobody seems to consider it highly relevant and mod it up.
I'm sure there is plenty of useful software that could be written. Why does the link in the news posting have to be to DARPA, a military agency??!!
And don't excuse it by saying DARPA created the Internet. I know, and it's a shame for the Internet.
If you really have nothing better to do than working for the military, then try doing nothing for a while; it won't harm.
wanted to add rules to SA, but fuck if I could figure out how.
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf if you want them applied system-wide.
These rules can go into
You can not use them with Procmail, which uses different regular expressions. Spamassassin uses Perl regexes.
In SpamAssassin, a rule similar to this catches them:
Just went to their site, and couldn't see any of their demos! I had to disable "Refuse pop-up windows" in Opera 6 to be able to see one of their demo ads. The full-size window also didn't open in the right place, and it's top-left corner was near the middle of my screen, and much of the window outside my screen. So unless you have some crappy browser which cannot block pop-ups (which is only MSIE by now?), you probably won't be bothered much.
Yes, it is exciting to hear that people would start working on a non-linear video editor.
I don't expect their student project to be anything useable, but if they get excited about it and continue work for a few years after their studies, who knows? Maybe a competition to Avid and Final Cut Pro could emerge?
Of course, this has only a chance if they complement their programmer team with a few professional editors and have a very serious look at the 2 current NLEs (and at Pro Tools, the sound editor).
While it would be interesting to see what the "you can spam" act changes or doesn't, MX Logic won't tell you anything.
/. It's just an advertizing press release.
They say they tested 1000 spams. How did they select them? How many were from the US? (Foreign spams are not supposed to comply with the US law anyway). In the US-originated spams, what wasn't compliant? False headers? No working "remove" link? What else?
They will not tell you what they tested, probably because they didn't do it seriously, and their only point is to say "spam is still a problem" (what a scoop!), and "therefore you need to buy our anti-spam software".
This bogus "study" should not have made any news in The Register or on
they had Wi-Fi and marshmallows
I suppose that's a typo. You meant mushrooms, no?
Well, someone could post this address from their website on some IRC channel and a couple of newsgroups: webmaster@ttb.treas.gov. Or is a /. comment sufficient?
BTW, I guess this is the webmaster's picture, since "he" says on the front page: "The input you provide can help TTB better serve you and our other customers. Please feel free to email your ideas to us "?
Note that their TTB Job Postings do NOT include a Perl programmer.
my firewall only allows Outlook to connect to one address -- my domain's mail server -- and only to two ports at that address, ports 110 and 25.
.dll), be any different from a standard request from your browser?
On Windows, I don't understand how your firewall knows that the connection is from Outlook, and not from some other app.
I would expect your firewall to see origin and destination IPs and port numbers, and the request contents. How would this web request coming from Outlook (indirectly anyway, through an Explorer
Please, share your magic.
There is a relationship between race and intelligence
:-)
And how do you actually define "race"? I mean scientifically. It may be a usable concept with some species of animals, but not with all. With humans, no scientist seems to be able to define races.
For humans, we usually talk of "ethnic groups", which is a usable concept because it is vague enough to be adaptable to your particular discourse.
As for intelligence, while it may be defineable, it's definitely much harder to measure.
The only proven thing is that nutrition deficiencies do impact brain development. So statistically, a starving population could certainly be found less intelligent. Which has nothing to do with whatever you are caling "race".
Female circumcision, like male circumcision, is needed for
I understand many American doctors actually do believe that male circumcision is good for health, but I doubt they would consider it good for the health or happinness of the girls upon which it is practiced.
(In Europe, male circumcision of children, except within the Jewish community, is usually considered barbarian)
People are easily swayed by slick advertising. That doesn't mean other people, that means you.
How is this a heresy? Isn't it obvious to everybody?
Children have a developed sexuality,
This has been known for over a century! (Sigmund!)
and children under the age of 18 are capable of informed consent.
And this seems obvious too.
So I'm afraid I find your "heresies" very disappointing, and can understand why you posted them anonymously. I see your statements as either silly or obvious.
if one were to express those beliefs in a public location they would be promptly shot.
I was going to reply "no, only ignored", but for some reason, I did take time to respond. I wonder why...
Maybe because I would actually like to remember what that book was (by an anthropologist, I believe, or maybe a biologist), which I read some 20 years ago and which demonstrated why the "race" concept had no meaning aplied to the human species.
How could this troll be modded "informative", instead of being told to go RTFA?
The article clearly lists and discusses separately the invalid "no TLD", and the valid though unusual "trailing dot" addresses.
Someone mod the parent down and let's move on!
and it may make the local person feel a little inadequate (I got a PDA, you don't).
As a potential "local", I can reassure you: I certainly wouldn't "feel inadequate", while ROFL.
Like the books they are not intrinsically intelligent.
Are you allowed to say such things about the military in the US?
OK. If only we knew where it is freshly comming out of now... (not Unix or cars or steers of course)
There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Berkeley? LSD came out of Basel, Switzerland (that's in Europe), in the forties.
(Hopefully commenting on a signature will help me burn out some excess karma before year's end.)