My friend Chris has the absolute perfect Setup.. Here's a description:
AMD Duron 650 overclocked to 800
DVD-ROM Drive
WinDVD software DVD playback
Aureal sound card with OPTICAL output.
Sony DD 5.1 Reciever with OPTICAL input
Barco Data 1100 overhead data projector (one of the ones with the big tubes)
Infrared remote keyboard and mouse.
He can sit on his couch and control the computer with a screen 11 ft wide in 16:9 mode at 1024x768 60Hz.
He can play mp3's and they sound incredible because the output it completely digital between the computer and the reciever (no annoying cheap sound card amp buzz)
He can play DVD's at full speed with no jumpiness at 1024x768, and the software DVD resamples the movie up to that resolution (so it's like playing 720p on an HDTV).
I can truely say that this is the MOST kick ass setup I've ever seen.. at 1024x768 (720p) the DVD movies look an awful lot like FILM.
For TV he has an STB TV/PCI card for now, but in the future he wants to get the RCA HDTV reciever that can pick up DirecTV, HD DirecTV, and HDTV broadcast.
So far, I've just got the average Home Theater setup, and while nice, it's nothing like what the Barco and a PC can do.
Just so you know, "Information wants to be free" is describing an inherent property of information. Information's natural state is to propagate as much as possible.. You have to ACT to keep it from being free. That's all it means, I hate when people think it means "Information Should be free"..
If you look around (ebay for instance), you can find the Criterion Laserdisc of the original version of the movie. This movie made me go out and buy a Laserdisc player!. I like the voice over narration because it gives it that Film-Noir detective movie feel.
I'd like to see a cut of it with the voice-over, AND the cool ending personally.
I've heard this many times by many people, but how true is it really? I installed Office 2000 and opened up Word 2000, I typed a paragraph, then went to "File.. Save"... gave it a name... it put the default.doc extension on the file.
Then I tried opening up the.doc file with Notepad.. and.. guess what! Binary garbage.. no XML.
I've always seen absolute truth and relativism as working together, not opposite sides. Let me give you an example.
For any event that happens, there is an "absolute truth" to what happened. However, it is impossible for us to actually KNOW this truth. We can use relativism to see what we THINK the truth is, but we can never see the absolute truth itself...
Now, this means that some people are closer to the truth than others.. heck, some people might even occasionally get it right! But since no one can ever know, it's up to the individual to make up thier minds as to what they are going to believe.
I have no idea if this sort of philosophy has a name or not.. maybe someone here can enlighten me with the truth.. or at least thier version of it?;)
The point is, that the use of CSS in only "approved" players, effectively eliminates Fair Use. Which until the DMCA was passed was a healthy part of copyright law.
Now, the DVD CCA can throw the law around to protect it's cartel...
Why not just boot up a kernel with USB ethernet support, mount the ramdisk as the root partition, and then run a minimal X server which connects via XDMCP to your main linux server:)
Read my post carefully.. I'm saying that because of recent advances in mathematical theory, these theories help prove that there is no such thing as "random"
Which goes exactly against what alot of anti-religious people say, which is that the universe happened by chance. But there's no such thing as chance.
Do you see what I'm saying?
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The argument that is often used, and the one I cater to, is that the universe is like a clock that God built, wound up, and let run.
This totally explains your ice crystals. The very nature of the complex universe/proves/ the existence of God, at least in my mind.
God built a series of rules, laws of nature, physics, whatever you want to call them... then he starts the universe running... (big bang, whatever....)
Mathematically theories like Chaos Theory prove that in any complex system (like weather or... the freezing of ice crystals), there are inherent patterns... most of the time you can't actually find the pattern, because the math is simply too hard... (this is why weather cannot be predicted with any accuracy).
my question is this: If there are no truely "random" events... and everything boils down to a pattern... this points to the existence of "rules", since patterns imply some sort of mathematical rule or method.
I never said that there weren't PEOPLE who believe science is opposed to religion. It appears there are people on either side of this camp. What I said was that/I/ don't believe that science is opposed to religion.
I think you are confusing the "scientific community" and "religious community" with the concepts of science and religion themselves.
Do I see any god on that site? No, of course not.. it's an anti-religious site.
Well, to me, the existance of non-linear math and "Chaos Theory" are very interesting.. the notion that there's really no such thing as "random". Things which appear unpredictable and random are actually governed by hidden patterns and rules.
There are those in "organized religion", and even many normal "religious" people, who believe that science and religion are opposed to one another.
However, to think such a thing is ridiculous. To me at least, it's blatently obvious that they are not opposed to one another... In fact, I've seen some recent scientific discoveries and theories that to me, PROVE the existence of God.
I didn't think about the order until I read the other posts here.. but it is completely aparent to me that the DxR2 has shitty output on the VGA connector.
I can use a Software DVD player, and although it drops frames on my K6-2 450Mhz machine, it looks like FILM at 1024x768 60Hz.
The DxR2 VGA output suffers from lots of shimmery analog artifacts, like ghosts, and interlacing scan lines (like it's being poorly line doubled). The Software DVD player doesn't have interlacing, because the actual DVD Video is stored on the DVD in 480 lines Progressive.
I also think the software player does some sort of smoothing algorithm on the Video when blowing it up to 768 Progressive (1024x768;) ). This is what gives it that "film" look. On my friend's Barco Data 1100 Projector , it could have easily fooled someone into thinking it was film.
The DxR2 is a decent card, but it's biggest problem is that it shoves the video through an analog VGA cable to overlay onto your video card. The picture is better than Television, but not as good as the software based DVD playback I've seen.
Does anyone know if there's a way to send the video from the Dxr2/through/ the system bus (PCI) and write it directly into the frame buffer on the video card? If so, this would be the best of both worlds. If not currently, would this even be possible? I'd sure like to see the drivers setup to work this way for this card.
HDTV is a waste of money. The technology to improve television has been around for quite a while now, although it's been expensive. The technology I'm talking about is Line Doubling, Progressive Scan, and Anamorphic 16:9.
Normal Television is 60Hz interlaced. It's this interlacing that gives Television it's "flicker"...
Line Doubling uses special circuitry that examines each interlaced frame and compares it to the one before... good line doublers can tell the difference between stuff that was originally on film, and stuff that was originally on Video, then they reconstruct a 60Hz non-interlaced (or any refresh rate you want since this is all done digitally) progressive scan picture.
www.dvdo.com makes a $699 line doubler, plus they make the OEM chips that TV manufacturers/could/ be building into sets right now!
DVD and DSS are actually in reality, progressive scan devices, since they are digital. Most likely your DVD player or DSS has circuitry in it to convert this progressive scan picture into a crappy NTSC interlaced picture. By removing this step, we could hook DVD players or DSS units directly to monitors and television which support "RGB or component video". RGB is basically VGA, so you could use a nice 20" computer monitor as a very nice display.
Unfortunatlely, I don't know of a single DVD player or DSS unit that has progressive outputs.
The last thing is the move to "widescreen". 16x9 is the aspect ratio that has been adopted by HDTV. By "squeezing" a widescreen movie onto a 4:3 signal, and then "unsqueezing" it to 16:9 you get an excellent picture.
And movie studios continue to release DVD's without converting the movies to 16:9, instead "letterboxing" the picture onto a 4:3 frame.
I've seen the future... and HDTV is a small part of it. I have a buddy who has a Barco Data 1100 Projector, it's basically a huge projection computer monitor. It will do 1024x768 at 60Hz non-interlaced.
I took my PC with DVD-ROM drive over to his house and we hooked it up and soon had Windows (yuck I know but DVD isn't under LInux yet) at 1024x768x24bit on the screen...
I proceeded to put an anamorphic movie in and used a software DVD decoder program (WinDVD) to watch the movie. This was true progressive scan, being resampled up to 1024x768...
I kid you not, it looked like FILM. I have never seen anything like it. HDTV would have to be a major improvement over this, and frankly I can't imagine most people being able to tell the difference...
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My friend Chris has the absolute perfect Setup.. Here's a description:
AMD Duron 650 overclocked to 800
DVD-ROM Drive
WinDVD software DVD playback
Aureal sound card with OPTICAL output.
Sony DD 5.1 Reciever with OPTICAL input
Barco Data 1100 overhead data projector (one of the ones with the big tubes)
Infrared remote keyboard and mouse.
He can sit on his couch and control the computer with a screen 11 ft wide in 16:9 mode at 1024x768 60Hz.
He can play mp3's and they sound incredible because the output it completely digital between the computer and the reciever (no annoying cheap sound card amp buzz)
He can play DVD's at full speed with no jumpiness at 1024x768, and the software DVD resamples the movie up to that resolution (so it's like playing 720p on an HDTV).
I can truely say that this is the MOST kick ass setup I've ever seen.. at 1024x768 (720p) the DVD movies look an awful lot like FILM.
For TV he has an STB TV/PCI card for now, but in the future he wants to get the RCA HDTV reciever that can pick up DirecTV, HD DirecTV, and HDTV broadcast.
So far, I've just got the average Home Theater setup, and while nice, it's nothing like what the Barco and a PC can do.
Just so you know, "Information wants to be free" is describing an inherent property of information. Information's natural state is to propagate as much as possible.. You have to ACT to keep it from being free. That's all it means, I hate when people think it means "Information Should be free"..
Obviously you don't understand the statement "Information want to be free."
It is NOT "Information should be free"
It means that an inherent property of information is for it to spread and be free.
I think a handy interface might be that of the MU* style games of the past...
"look"
You are standing in your office, a filing cabinent is to your right, and your desk is in front of you.
"sit at desk"
You are now sitting at your desk. On your desk is your check book register, a typewriter and a notepad.
"use typewriter"
(at this point, a typewriter program would open (i.e. word processor).
It would also accept text input at the bottom in a sort of "chat window"
"Insert new document"
"Throw document away"
"Get document"
Say you "get document"
You take the document. You should write a name on it.
"name document My Post to Slashdot"
Done.
"stand"
You stand up from the desk.
"look at filecabinet"
It's an ordinary 5 drawer filing cabinet. The drawers are labeled "Bills", "Letters", "Charts" , "Graphics", "MP3s"
open letters
I don't know what you mean.
Open drawer named Letters
You open up the drawer name "Letters"
File "My Document to Slashdot"
You store the file under the folder marked "M"
File "My Document to Slashdot" under "S"
You move the file to the folder named "S"
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Anyway, you get the point. Is anyone working on something like this?
If you look around (ebay for instance), you can find the Criterion Laserdisc of the original version of the movie. This movie made me go out and buy a Laserdisc player!. I like the voice over narration because it gives it that Film-Noir detective movie feel.
I'd like to see a cut of it with the voice-over, AND the cool ending personally.
Did you notice they have instructions on how to install the program under Linux that are available in Microsoft Word format?
Check this out.
It's a SELF EXTRACTING WINDOWS BINARY ARCHIVE.
Fortunately, it's a self extracting windows binary ZIP archive, so I used "unzip" to uncompress it.
But then I tried to open it...
Makes AbiWord crash.
mswordview says "this is an unsupported word 7 doc, sorry
this converter is solely for word8 at the moment
"
which I found weirdly funny.
I finally got it opened with StarOffice 5.2, but gee.. what a pain.
How about plain text, or HTML guys!
Also, I couldn't get to thier license agreement link.
I'd like to point out to you, that parody, satire and the like is protected under current copyright law. It's called "Fair use"
I've heard this many times by many people, but how true is it really? I installed Office 2000 and opened up Word 2000, I typed a paragraph, then went to "File.. Save"... gave it a name... it put the default .doc extension on the file.
.doc file with Notepad.. and.. guess what! Binary garbage.. no XML.
Then I tried opening up the
Am I missing something here?
I've always seen absolute truth and relativism as working together, not opposite sides. Let me give you an example.
;)
For any event that happens, there is an "absolute truth" to what happened. However, it is impossible for us to actually KNOW this truth. We can use relativism to see what we THINK the truth is, but we can never see the absolute truth itself...
Now, this means that some people are closer to the truth than others.. heck, some people might even occasionally get it right! But since no one can ever know, it's up to the individual to make up thier minds as to what they are going to believe.
I have no idea if this sort of philosophy has a name or not.. maybe someone here can enlighten me with the truth.. or at least thier version of it?
The point is, that the use of CSS in only "approved" players, effectively eliminates Fair Use. Which until the DMCA was passed was a healthy part of copyright law.
Now, the DVD CCA can throw the law around to protect it's cartel...
Why not just boot up a kernel with USB ethernet support, mount the ramdisk as the root partition, and then run a minimal X server which connects via XDMCP to your main linux server :)
The linux solution works, the DOS solution won't, as DOS still doesn't support long filenames, but Linux does.
Now, I don't like Microsoft much, but I will admit, that some of thier hardware is pretty good (I've got a M$ Natural Keyboard 1.0 I love).
Has anyone used this new Microsoft Optical Mouse? Does it really work well on any surface? Does it work under Linux?
Is it USB and PS/2? or USB only?
Read my post carefully.. I'm saying that because of recent advances in mathematical theory, these theories help prove that there is no such thing as "random"
Which goes exactly against what alot of anti-religious people say, which is that the universe happened by chance. But there's no such thing as chance.
Do you see what I'm saying?
The argument that is often used, and the one I cater to, is that the universe is like a clock that God built, wound up, and let run.
/proves/ the existence of God, at least in my mind.
This totally explains your ice crystals. The very nature of the complex universe
God built a series of rules, laws of nature, physics, whatever you want to call them... then he starts the universe running... (big bang, whatever....)
Mathematically theories like Chaos Theory prove that in any complex system (like weather or... the freezing of ice crystals), there are inherent patterns... most of the time you can't actually find the pattern, because the math is simply too hard... (this is why weather cannot be predicted with any accuracy).
my question is this: If there are no truely "random" events... and everything boils down to a pattern... this points to the existence of "rules", since patterns imply some sort of mathematical rule or method.
Who wrote the rules?
I never said that there weren't PEOPLE who believe science is opposed to religion. It appears there are people on either side of this camp. What I said was that /I/ don't believe that science is opposed to religion.
I think you are confusing the "scientific community" and "religious community" with the concepts of science and religion themselves.
Do I see any god on that site? No, of course not.. it's an anti-religious site.
Well, to me, the existance of non-linear math and "Chaos Theory" are very interesting.. the notion that there's really no such thing as "random". Things which appear unpredictable and random are actually governed by hidden patterns and rules.
Who made the rules?
There are those in "organized religion", and even many normal "religious" people, who believe that science and religion are opposed to one another.
However, to think such a thing is ridiculous. To me at least, it's blatently obvious that they are not opposed to one another... In fact, I've seen some recent scientific discoveries and theories that to me, PROVE the existence of God.
I didn't think about the order until I read the other posts here.. but it is completely aparent to me that the DxR2 has shitty output on the VGA connector.
;) ). This is what gives it that "film" look. On my friend's Barco Data 1100 Projector , it could have easily fooled someone into thinking it was film.
I can use a Software DVD player, and although it drops frames on my K6-2 450Mhz machine, it looks like FILM at 1024x768 60Hz.
The DxR2 VGA output suffers from lots of shimmery analog artifacts, like ghosts, and interlacing scan lines (like it's being poorly line doubled). The Software DVD player doesn't have interlacing, because the actual DVD Video is stored on the DVD in 480 lines Progressive.
I also think the software player does some sort of smoothing algorithm on the Video when blowing it up to 768 Progressive (1024x768
This would also blatantly violate the GPL.
The DxR2 is a decent card, but it's biggest problem is that it shoves the video through an analog VGA cable to overlay onto your video card. The picture is better than Television, but not as good as the software based DVD playback I've seen.
/through/ the system bus (PCI) and write it directly into the frame buffer on the video card? If so, this would be the best of both worlds. If not currently, would this even be possible? I'd sure like to see the drivers setup to work this way for this card.
Does anyone know if there's a way to send the video from the Dxr2
HDTV is a waste of money. The technology to improve television has been around for quite a while now, although it's been expensive. The technology I'm talking about is Line Doubling, Progressive Scan, and Anamorphic 16:9.
/could/ be building into sets right now!
Normal Television is 60Hz interlaced. It's this interlacing that gives Television it's "flicker"...
Line Doubling uses special circuitry that examines each interlaced frame and compares it to the one before... good line doublers can tell the difference between stuff that was originally on film, and stuff that was originally on Video, then they reconstruct a 60Hz non-interlaced (or any refresh rate you want since this is all done digitally) progressive scan picture.
www.dvdo.com makes a $699 line doubler, plus they make the OEM chips that TV manufacturers
DVD and DSS are actually in reality, progressive scan devices, since they are digital. Most likely your DVD player or DSS has circuitry in it to convert this progressive scan picture into a crappy NTSC interlaced picture. By removing this step, we could hook DVD players or DSS units directly to monitors and television which support "RGB or component video". RGB is basically VGA, so you could use a nice 20" computer monitor as a very nice display.
Unfortunatlely, I don't know of a single DVD player or DSS unit that has progressive outputs.
The last thing is the move to "widescreen". 16x9 is the aspect ratio that has been adopted by HDTV. By "squeezing" a widescreen movie onto a 4:3 signal, and then "unsqueezing" it to 16:9 you get an excellent picture.
And movie studios continue to release DVD's without converting the movies to 16:9, instead "letterboxing" the picture onto a 4:3 frame.
I've seen the future... and HDTV is a small part of it. I have a buddy who has a Barco Data 1100 Projector, it's basically a huge projection computer monitor. It will do 1024x768 at 60Hz non-interlaced.
I took my PC with DVD-ROM drive over to his house and we hooked it up and soon had Windows (yuck I know but DVD isn't under LInux yet) at 1024x768x24bit on the screen...
I proceeded to put an anamorphic movie in and used a software DVD decoder program (WinDVD) to watch the movie. This was true progressive scan, being resampled up to 1024x768...
I kid you not, it looked like FILM. I have never seen anything like it. HDTV would have to be a major improvement over this, and frankly I can't imagine most people being able to tell the difference...
We don't need HDTV, we need better televisions.
Solaris doesn't include gzip.
Redhat Linux 6.0 still uses only one floppy to do a network install.
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hackpcweek .com
Shows.
www.hackpcweek.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT3 or Windows 95
NT3 or Windows 95????