I think he was trying to point out that previously FFmpeg didn't have any release cycle at all. They wanted everyone to download and compile the latest CVS snapshot and use that. In fact, to get help from the mailing list they usually require that you download source and recompile first.
The fact that they have locked in and officially named a release is significant.
I think you have Wine/Cedega/Cider confused with emulators. Which is sad because Wine's name was designed to prevent this confusion
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Wine is a native implementation of w32 libraries. That is why you don't need a MS Windows license. The wrote their own API that behaves just as the w32 one does.
Wine still has problems but their is no guest OS as you have stated.
I only knew because I actually live here in Columbus, GA.
It was on the front page of the actual news paper as well. People are going crazy over this thing. I know 2 people here a work who are watching their ebay auctions. One guys auction is up to $2700!!!
Actually this happened in Columbus GEORGIA and not Columbus OHIO. In fact you can look at your own link and see.
Columbus is a little town of about 300,000 people 100 miles south of Atlanta. Its the home of Aflac insurance and Fort Benning -- the largest infantry base in the world.
Oh and I will be getting a Wii:)
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and is the first desktop virtualization product to support Intel VT/Vanderpool CPU "partitioning".
Uhhhh, I realize that that I am responding to an advertisemnet for Parallels but they were NOT the first to support Intel's VT. Xen was and for extra cool points its open source.
I used to work in IT at a public hospital and I got to see things from the inside. It really gets my goat when people start throwing around the "$8 for an asprin" speech. At that hospital we actually collected something like $0.15 for every dollar we billed. Yes they charge people $8 for a generic aspirin that cost them almost nothing but I assure you that (on average) they never even come close to getting it. Why is it this way you ask? Well, public hospitals don't just dump people in the parking lot to die if you don't have insurance. They treat them and then they send them a bill for $25,000.00. They work at McDonalds so you throw it away each month for the rest of your life. They ruin these peoples credit and they laugh. The other factor is when Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements are reduced by our government. The people that are on these programs are there because that don't have any money. When the reimbursements are reduced that just means less money for the hospital because these people ain't gonna pay for the difference themselves. Then we have you, MR. Mad At His Outrageous Medical Bill. You like your good credit and you pay your bill and the hospital gets its average up to $0.150000000001. Now lets review -->
Actually Nintendo released that the GC could do 6 to 12 million polygons per second when it was actually capable of 20+. They gave the real world specs for the GC. Sony and M$ are the liars.
Once again, he's the only member of the OSS movement worthy of respect. He's the only reason businesses have considered linux an option, and the reason for any success it sees.
Why has this troll been modded +4 insightful for a misinformed, poorly articulated piece of flamebait!!! WTF!!! I am willing to bet that any randomly selected homeless person could be instructed to type the letters "RMS" followed by insults and they would get a +5 Insightful around here these days. The/. community is slowly becoming more like the AOL community because people are attraced here to read stories about the PS2 or latest gadget and then they feel the need to post in other secitons. The above post is the perfect example. If this guy is even using GNU/Linux $5 says he is dual booting XP with Linspire because that all he could get to work. The XP is for AOL, WOW and/. and the Linspire is for when the other Jr. high kids come over so he can show them how l337 he is.
If I wanted to kill someone it would be easy, efficient, and powerful to simply shoot them in the head with the first gun that I could find. It would not IMHO be elegant.
The elegant solution would be to obtain a hand crafted 400 year old Japanese katana and train with it for 20 years.
Then stalk him until I could catch him in a bamboo forest during a gentle snowfall. Walk up to him, tap him politely on the shoulder and inform him that I was going to kill him and why. Then in a blinding flash of perfection slice his head off. I would have sheathed my sword and turned my back before his head (and any bamboo in the slash radius) hit the ground.
Your "dvdshrink" is a filthy urine soaked 38 special.
otherwise you could just plug the thing into itself and have the equivilent of a perpetual motion machine.
Not really because you would be consuming fuel. If you plugged it into itself it would run until the fuel was exhausted.
You must be an MCSE or something. That little piece of paper does not make you a scientist little boy. GED + MCSE = this statement "And the pseudo-science it comes wrapped in, invariably shows massive ignorance of the real science."
Here is some of you pseudo-science troll -->
University of Toronto
There is former programmer at the the gas station I frequent that used to say the exact same thing about himself. And I must say he has turned out to be a very arrogant cashier. He is always glaring at the ID and access cards that hang from my belt as he takes my money. He also begrudgingly hands me my free carwash ticket as though I didn't deserve it. The universe is indeed a cruel place because the gas station is owned by Indian immigrants.
You make a good point because none of our staff can attach the special diagnostic machine to one of these clinical devices and actually see the firmware . It may be Windows in there but if it is, its a damn good Windows. My point is there is no Hospital in this country where a persons life is at risk becuse of computer systems crashing. If there is, then that Hospital is not in copliance with JACHO standards and will eventually be shut down. We are required by the state to have backup procedures and they are quite extensive.
As for the "clinical devices" they are all like Microwaves ovens or DVD players you just turn it on and it works, they are never patched or updated and they don't get viruses. All they need is 110Vac. All of the critical life support devices are like this. We have PC controlled feature rich stuff but there is always a backup for them that has passed the test of time.
We actually have good old shoot an X-ray through you into a piece of film machines that have no computing capability what so ever. They are controlled by dials and switches.
You are absolutely corect. I work in health care IT we have no "clinical device" that I know of that has anything close to Windows on them. Most of the them have ATM like touchscreens with some imbedded OS that only the vendor can ever see.
The biggest problem we have is Windows "patches" screwing up our
"clinical applications" that run on Windows PCs and the worst that will ever come out of that is some Doctor getting pissed because he has to have the nurse call the Lab and get results Faxed to him when the "computer system" as they call it is down.
If every single PC, router, switch, mainframe and the whole PBX system (Phones) were to all melt into a pile of goo and the the city provided power were to fail --> not a single patient's care would be affected in any way. We could operate in this theretical emergency for weeks provided that supply lines for Diesel, Medications/Medical supplies and Freash water were not cut off.
"I know RMS has a point that many GNU utilities are in Linux."
Linux is just a kernel. Linux is in a GNU system and not the other way around. Stallman is the father of open source software and newbies should be taught this as well as just exactly what linux is. This will avoid stupid questions like "I downloaded Linux and its nothing but a 30 meg source archive for a kernel or something" If GNU/Linux is too hard for them to understand, they have no hope of ever using and maintaining a GNU/Linux system.
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I think he was trying to point out that previously FFmpeg didn't have any release cycle at all. They wanted everyone to download and compile the latest CVS snapshot and use that. In fact, to get help from the mailing list they usually require that you download source and recompile first. The fact that they have locked in and officially named a release is significant.
I think you have Wine/Cedega/Cider confused with emulators. Which is sad because Wine's name was designed to prevent this confusion
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Wine is a native implementation of w32 libraries. That is why you don't need a MS Windows license. The wrote their own API that behaves just as the w32 one does.
Wine still has problems but their is no guest OS as you have stated.
Linelander would say that the universe is 1+1-dimensional.
Flatlander would say that the universe is 2+1-dimensional.
You say that the universe is 3+1-dimensional.
Hmmm...............
Did you RTFA?
Probably not since all the information that you need is in it.
The latitude is given and that pretty much tells you the hemisphere.
The times are in UT so that pretty much tells the time of day.
They even give you the constellation to look for it in.
I have no idea why you got a +3 for your post.
I only knew because I actually live here in Columbus, GA.
It was on the front page of the actual news paper as well. People are going crazy over this thing. I know 2 people here a work who are watching their ebay auctions. One guys auction is up to $2700!!!
Crazy!
Actually this happened in Columbus GEORGIA and not Columbus OHIO. In fact you can look at your own link and see.
:)
Columbus is a little town of about 300,000 people 100 miles south of Atlanta. Its the home of Aflac insurance and Fort Benning -- the largest infantry base in the world.
Oh and I will be getting a Wii
Uhhhh, I realize that that I am responding to an advertisemnet for Parallels but they were NOT the first to support Intel's VT. Xen was and for extra cool points its open source.
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?New
http://www.xensource.com/
At NASA only old Koerans use Linux on Servers!
I used to work in IT at a public hospital and I got to see things from the inside. It really gets my goat when people start throwing around the "$8 for an asprin" speech.
:)
At that hospital we actually collected something like $0.15 for every dollar we billed. Yes they charge people $8 for a generic aspirin that cost them almost nothing but I assure you that (on average) they never even come close to getting it. Why is it this way you ask? Well, public hospitals don't just dump people in the parking lot to die if you don't have insurance. They treat them and then they send them a bill for $25,000.00. They work at McDonalds so you throw it away each month for the rest of your life. They ruin these peoples credit and they laugh. The other factor is when Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements are reduced by our government. The people that are on these programs are there because that don't have any money. When the reimbursements are reduced that just means less money for the hospital because these people ain't gonna pay for the difference themselves.
Then we have you, MR. Mad At His Outrageous Medical Bill. You like your good credit and you pay your bill and the hospital gets its average up to $0.150000000001. Now lets review -->
Why does aspirin cost $8
Actually Nintendo released that the GC could do 6 to 12 million polygons per second when it was actually capable of 20+. They gave the real world specs for the GC.
Sony and M$ are the liars.
http://www.segatech.com/gamecube/overview/
Why has this troll been modded +4 insightful for a misinformed, poorly articulated piece of flamebait!!! WTF!!!
I am willing to bet that any randomly selected homeless person could be instructed to type the letters "RMS" followed by insults and they would get a +5 Insightful around here these days. The
If I wanted to kill someone it would be easy, efficient, and powerful to simply shoot them in the head with the first gun that I could find. It would not IMHO be elegant.
The elegant solution would be to obtain a hand crafted 400 year old Japanese katana and train with it for 20 years. Then stalk him until I could catch him in a bamboo forest during a gentle snowfall. Walk up to him, tap him politely on the shoulder and inform him that I was going to kill him and why. Then in a blinding flash of perfection slice his head off. I would have sheathed my sword and turned my back before his head (and any bamboo in the slash radius) hit the ground.
Your "dvdshrink" is a filthy urine soaked 38 special.
"dvdshrink" is for the unwashed masses. I prefer a much more elegant solution
libdvdread, libdvdcss, vobcopy and transcode is all I need.
I also consider installing M$ Windows functionally the equivalent of DRMing my entire PC (hardware and software)!!
otherwise you could just plug the thing into itself and have the equivilent of a perpetual motion machine. Not really because you would be consuming fuel. If you plugged it into itself it would run until the fuel was exhausted.
You must be an MCSE or something. That little piece of paper does not make you a scientist little boy. GED + MCSE = this statement "And the pseudo-science it comes wrapped in, invariably shows massive ignorance of the real science." Here is some of you pseudo-science troll --> University of Toronto
There is former programmer at the the gas station I frequent that used to say the exact same thing about himself. And I must say he has turned out to be a very arrogant cashier. He is always glaring at the ID and access cards that hang from my belt as he takes my money. He also begrudgingly hands me my free carwash ticket as though I didn't deserve it. The universe is indeed a cruel place because the gas station is owned by Indian immigrants.
You make a good point because none of our staff can attach the special diagnostic machine to one of these clinical devices and actually see the firmware . It may be Windows in there but if it is, its a damn good Windows. My point is there is no Hospital in this country where a persons life is at risk becuse of computer systems crashing. If there is, then that Hospital is not in copliance with JACHO standards and will eventually be shut down. We are required by the state to have backup procedures and they are quite extensive. As for the "clinical devices" they are all like Microwaves ovens or DVD players you just turn it on and it works, they are never patched or updated and they don't get viruses. All they need is 110Vac. All of the critical life support devices are like this. We have PC controlled feature rich stuff but there is always a backup for them that has passed the test of time. We actually have good old shoot an X-ray through you into a piece of film machines that have no computing capability what so ever. They are controlled by dials and switches.
You are absolutely corect. I work in health care IT we have no "clinical device" that I know of that has anything close to Windows on them. Most of the them have ATM like touchscreens with some imbedded OS that only the vendor can ever see. The biggest problem we have is Windows "patches" screwing up our "clinical applications" that run on Windows PCs and the worst that will ever come out of that is some Doctor getting pissed because he has to have the nurse call the Lab and get results Faxed to him when the "computer system" as they call it is down. If every single PC, router, switch, mainframe and the whole PBX system (Phones) were to all melt into a pile of goo and the the city provided power were to fail --> not a single patient's care would be affected in any way. We could operate in this theretical emergency for weeks provided that supply lines for Diesel, Medications/Medical supplies and Freash water were not cut off.
"I know RMS has a point that many GNU utilities are in Linux."
Linux is just a kernel. Linux is in a GNU system and not the other way around. Stallman is the father of open source software and newbies should be taught this as well as just exactly what linux is. This will avoid stupid questions like "I downloaded Linux and its nothing but a 30 meg source archive for a kernel or something" If GNU/Linux is too hard for them to understand, they have no hope of ever using and maintaining a GNU/Linux system.