Overall NextFest was cool. My only problem with it was that it got frustrating not knowing at what stage of development many exhibits were. For instance: my favorite exhibit, the hydrogen cars with replaceable bodies over a universal chassis, didn't mention if these cars were functional, and if so to what degree. I feel like if they're just showing off a plastic model and an idea they should have made it more clear.
In a related story, Ray Kurzweil has been hit by a bus. The coroner's report revealed that Kurzweil forgot to take his bus-repelling dietary supplement today.
I would love to have the ability to capture digital video to this thing from a firewire-equipped camcorder. A feature like this could even be used to record video directly to hard drive instead of to those lovable miniDV tapes.
How do GPL distribution rules work when the software is designed to only run on a very specific hardware? Sure, they could still release source code, but it wouldn't be of very much use to anyone. Unless outside hackers could make the distro run universally with some limitations.
I don't like that a company is using Linux in a way that (seemingly) intentionally keeps its software from being of use to anyone who doesn't buy their product. It seems to go around the purpose of GNU and OSS.
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Google seems to be very analagous to Apple's development in many ways:
1. Start offering one revolutionary (not neccecarily original) service or product (Apple: cheap computers, Google: search)
2. Become a household name
3. Slowly add more services/products that are somewhat related to the core product (Apple: iMovie, et al, Google: GIS, Gmail, et al)
4. Take over the world (forthcoming)
Microsoft has also arguably followed this track, but has actually made it to the last step. My hypothesis is that once you reach step 4, people start hating you.
You raise a good point, but I will have to repectfully disagree with you. In-camera image stabilization corrects small jitters, like the natural motion of your hand when you are trying to hold the camera steady. This device eliminates the small shakes, so you could concievably use this as a replacement for image stabilization. When you are running while holding a camera, the shakes are much larger than even the most advanced camera stabilization can account for. This type of steadycam can eliminate a good portion of this motion, but in my experience image stabilization does not have the capability to correct the rest.
I stumbled upon this site about a year ago and, being an ametur filmmaker, decided to give it a try. The parts were cheap and it really was quite easy to put together. But don't expect it to be perfect. It takes a little while to get the feel of it, and even then you won't be getting perfectly steady shots while running quickly. But for the price, it's tough to beat.
I understand the impracticalities of leaving Canada to launch, but it is my understanding that the reasons that NASA has headquarters in the south of the U.S. (Florida and Texas) is that the rotation of the earth, especially close to the equator, has significant velocity that the shuttles use as a "boost."
Well, that part of the movie took place in 2015, so those won't be commonplace for another 11 years or so. Until then, I'm thinkin' rocket-propelled rollerblades or pogo shoes.
With the introduction of broadband internet and wireless networks to which you can connect from anywhere, we, as a society, have come to expect on-demand content. Television, with the exception of TiVo, does not fit into this new view of how we like to be entertained.
I have noticed that I have almost stopped watching TV altogether not neseccarily because I don't like what's on, but because I don't feel like planning my day around what I want to watch. Sometimes, when I happen to be doing nothing, I will watch the Daily Show, but even a show as funny as that isn't really worth planning my evening around it.
I installed Fedora Core 1 when it first came out and I was very impressed. It included some stuff that wasn't in RH9, including a very pretty graphical boot. If Fedora continues on the path that it is on now, it could become a worthy competitor with SuSE and Mandrake on the home user front.
The community projects like Fedora and Debian tend to innovate more than distros that are managed by companies because they can get away with the "if it breaks, you keep both pieces" warantee. Distros used in enterprise scenarios (generally) offer a more stable product, at the cost of innovation.
This comes just a few months after Anaconda, the RedHat installer, started being used for another distro (is it Debian's new installer?). Novell obviously saw this move as a good thing.
I disagree that this will take away significant market share from SuSE. It's not like they are stopping using YAST. And now it will benefit from the contributions of hackers around the world. An installer does not a distro make, and remember that any forks of SuSE will be GPL'd, so any features that Novell feels would benefit the distro, they could theoretically merge into the official tree. One could argue that opening up the entire distro is essentially buying Novell a development community.
One of the problems I have with Mono is that it reimplements Microsoft's.NET framework instead of relying on its own. I understand that it is a lot of work to create such an integrated development platform from scratch, but I feel that the benefits of having a truly open/free/whatever solution will far outweigh the extra time that it would take. I am not a programmer, so I don't know much about the intricacies of.NET, but I can't possibly imagine that it is perfect in every way and that nobody can think of things that could be added/changed in it.
As bloated and useless as it is, you have to respect Real for being one of the first major companies to release their software for Linux. They saw how they were easily forced out of the Windows market, so they saw an easy (in their minds) opportunity to gain market share where MS would dare not tread. But with all the all-in-one media players for Linux (Mplayer, xine, etc), Real has no niche in the Linux community. In addition, they have virtually no hope in their player being bundled in Linux distros, unless they decide to GPL it (not gonna happen).
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Neutrinos have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic!
Overall NextFest was cool. My only problem with it was that it got frustrating not knowing at what stage of development many exhibits were.
For instance: my favorite exhibit, the hydrogen cars with replaceable bodies over a universal chassis, didn't mention if these cars were functional, and if so to what degree. I feel like if they're just showing off a plastic model and an idea they should have made it more clear.
I gurantee you that MPEG4 as XVID/DIVX (more XVID than DIVX) is an industry standard in the P2P World.
Oh, that'll look good in the pitch to SMPTE:
"Millions of pirates can't be wrong"
From the Xandros website: Xandros: Making Linux work for you So apparently Xandros uses the Soviet Russia PR Firm.
In a related story, Ray Kurzweil has been hit by a bus. The coroner's report revealed that Kurzweil forgot to take his bus-repelling dietary supplement today.
I smell a Tony...
Primus also sells live recordings in MP3 and FLAC formats at Primuslive.com. MP3's cost $9.99 for a show (2-3 CD's) and FLACs cost $14.99.
Why is everyone discussing whether I'm dead? I'm right here!
I would love to have the ability to capture digital video to this thing from a firewire-equipped camcorder. A feature like this could even be used to record video directly to hard drive instead of to those lovable miniDV tapes.
What does DVD-Jon have against Dr. Richard M. Stallman? Is this the utility that reverses changes made by RMS-Lint?
How do GPL distribution rules work when the software is designed to only run on a very specific hardware? Sure, they could still release source code, but it wouldn't be of very much use to anyone. Unless outside hackers could make the distro run universally with some limitations.
I don't like that a company is using Linux in a way that (seemingly) intentionally keeps its software from being of use to anyone who doesn't buy their product. It seems to go around the purpose of GNU and OSS.
Google seems to be very analagous to Apple's development in many ways: 1. Start offering one revolutionary (not neccecarily original) service or product (Apple: cheap computers, Google: search) 2. Become a household name 3. Slowly add more services/products that are somewhat related to the core product (Apple: iMovie, et al, Google: GIS, Gmail, et al) 4. Take over the world (forthcoming) Microsoft has also arguably followed this track, but has actually made it to the last step. My hypothesis is that once you reach step 4, people start hating you.
You raise a good point, but I will have to repectfully disagree with you. In-camera image stabilization corrects small jitters, like the natural motion of your hand when you are trying to hold the camera steady. This device eliminates the small shakes, so you could concievably use this as a replacement for image stabilization. When you are running while holding a camera, the shakes are much larger than even the most advanced camera stabilization can account for. This type of steadycam can eliminate a good portion of this motion, but in my experience image stabilization does not have the capability to correct the rest.
I stumbled upon this site about a year ago and, being an ametur filmmaker, decided to give it a try. The parts were cheap and it really was quite easy to put together. But don't expect it to be perfect. It takes a little while to get the feel of it, and even then you won't be getting perfectly steady shots while running quickly. But for the price, it's tough to beat.
I understand the impracticalities of leaving Canada to launch, but it is my understanding that the reasons that NASA has headquarters in the south of the U.S. (Florida and Texas) is that the rotation of the earth, especially close to the equator, has significant velocity that the shuttles use as a "boost."
PlayStation 5!
Well, that part of the movie took place in 2015, so those won't be commonplace for another 11 years or so. Until then, I'm thinkin' rocket-propelled rollerblades or pogo shoes.
With the introduction of broadband internet and wireless networks to which you can connect from anywhere, we, as a society, have come to expect on-demand content. Television, with the exception of TiVo, does not fit into this new view of how we like to be entertained.
I have noticed that I have almost stopped watching TV altogether not neseccarily because I don't like what's on, but because I don't feel like planning my day around what I want to watch. Sometimes, when I happen to be doing nothing, I will watch the Daily Show, but even a show as funny as that isn't really worth planning my evening around it.
I installed Fedora Core 1 when it first came out and I was very impressed. It included some stuff that wasn't in RH9, including a very pretty graphical boot. If Fedora continues on the path that it is on now, it could become a worthy competitor with SuSE and Mandrake on the home user front.
The community projects like Fedora and Debian tend to innovate more than distros that are managed by companies because they can get away with the "if it breaks, you keep both pieces" warantee. Distros used in enterprise scenarios (generally) offer a more stable product, at the cost of innovation.
Millions of Linux geeks across the globe orgasm in unison.
This comes just a few months after Anaconda, the RedHat installer, started being used for another distro (is it Debian's new installer?). Novell obviously saw this move as a good thing.
I disagree that this will take away significant market share from SuSE. It's not like they are stopping using YAST. And now it will benefit from the contributions of hackers around the world. An installer does not a distro make, and remember that any forks of SuSE will be GPL'd, so any features that Novell feels would benefit the distro, they could theoretically merge into the official tree. One could argue that opening up the entire distro is essentially buying Novell a development community.
It's stories like these that make me regret taking apart my IIgs to use for wall decorations. Well, at least I still have my Equity II.
One of the problems I have with Mono is that it reimplements Microsoft's .NET framework instead of relying on its own. I understand that it is a lot of work to create such an integrated development platform from scratch, but I feel that the benefits of having a truly open/free/whatever solution will far outweigh the extra time that it would take. I am not a programmer, so I don't know much about the intricacies of .NET, but I can't possibly imagine that it is perfect in every way and that nobody can think of things that could be added/changed in it.
Yes, it's called "settling out of court."
As bloated and useless as it is, you have to respect Real for being one of the first major companies to release their software for Linux. They saw how they were easily forced out of the Windows market, so they saw an easy (in their minds) opportunity to gain market share where MS would dare not tread. But with all the all-in-one media players for Linux (Mplayer, xine, etc), Real has no niche in the Linux community. In addition, they have virtually no hope in their player being bundled in Linux distros, unless they decide to GPL it (not gonna happen).