I know the point was that with larger hard drives was that we can store larger amounts of data. In this case, we're talking about storing images and audio without compression so they're archived perfectly. Lossless compression does make a difference and conserves space.
You might already know about these but: FLAC for audio (works great), ffvhuff (from ffmpeg) for video in the YUV colorspace. Those are the two I can think of that currently work pretty well.
Especailly with ffvhuff (a modified Huffyuv) for a 704x480 stream at 24 minutes, I will get a file that's about 14GiB (results will vary, of course.) The uncompressed size of that would be (using a YV12 colorspace at 29.97 FPS, that's 1440 seconds or about 43158 frames) 506880 bytes/frame * 43158 frames = 21875927040 bytes = ~20.37GiB. So, no, you won't be putting that onto a single CD, but for lossless compression of video, that's pretty significant. Even more space is wasted as the total number of frames and resolution increases without some form of compression.
I've been seeing more of these recently: Trash cans floating over what appears to be a flat surface with a X through the trash can. Talk about a confusing icon. I just assumed that it meant "floating trash cans are not allowed" or that the hardware should be kept away from floating trash cans at all times.
By the time people have hard drives this huge, I bet there will be even better lossless compression algorithms available for video and audio data. I don't know why someone would want to store huge amounts of A/V data WITHOUT using some sort of compression. It just becomes silly after a certain point.
Eh? I don't see the point in preordering the Wii this early. Everyone is better off just waiting until they let you do it online. It's not like there's going to be a massive Wii shortage like there will be with the PS3.
The GIMP is very usable and easy to use. It's just that most people give up rather quickly because they make themselves too fusturated. "Photoshop is better, it's not Photoshop!" I'm tired of hearing that. Especially from people who complain about having to learn to use Photoshop and the GIMP together, as if using one made them forget how to use the other.
Perhaps Mozilla could give a little here, instead of Debian. Hmm?
No, Mozilla has the right idea. Debian might be trying to improve Firefox with their non-Mozilla approved patches, but do you really expect Mozilla to want to support users with a version of Firefox that deviates from the official version? What's keeping any of those patches from introducing problems that are NOT in Mozilla's build? They could see a lot of useless bug reports among other things. This is why they don't want the Firefox brand associated with Debian's custom version. Mozilla's request is reasonable. I repeat: Why should they support a version of Firefox that deviates from what they use as an official reference?
In XP, Sony was able to install a rootkit without the user being any the wiser.
I bet most of this would not have been an issue if most people weren't running their user account with admin privileges. Of course, users could still be tricked into installing bad unsigned drivers, but it's not like Microsoft tried to press the issue of correct privilege separation in XP.
The only unsigned driver I have ever seen was for an old Voodoo board.
I get unsigned driver warnings when I'm trying to install the LAME ACM or XviD binaries. Makes you wonder how useful these will be initially when people start using Vista.
Plus I have noticed there are a few well known hardware manufacturers (Belkin's rebranded USB Bluetooth adapter for one) that are intentionally shipping unsigned drivers with their stuff. Their installation manuals either tell you to ignore the unsigned driver warnings or the installer will automatically disable whatever protection Windows is using against unsigned drivers so you never see the warning in the first place.
Either way, it's not just going to affect people using custom or old hardware. It will affect businesses and open source projects the same.
Anti-aliasing! I hope at least ONE next gen system will make good use of it, because the jagged edges are quite noticable in some games. (It would be hilarious if the PS3's games bypass FSAA for speed.)
I completely agree. However, the "awareness" items that are sold in stores contribute to meaningful things like research. Pink websites don't have the same effect unless all of the ad revenue is being donated to some laboratory. If people just promote awareness without actually helping a cause, then you're right, they can stick their pink site up their ass, because it's not helping anyone. The OMG PONIES theme could be used out of spite.
You seem to be plenty aware of breasts. Any more awareness might cause an explosion. (You could stare at your chest for a while, but it might not be as exciting.)
for one, don't think GIF is going anywhere. Limited to 256 colours, sure.
The GIFormat is not limited to 256 colors! Read this for more information and a demonstration. I guess I should fix the Wikipedia entry sometime as well.
I though Blu-Ray would be a sort of neat name, but I don't think it's working out. There seems to be some confusion among people about the spelling of its name. The summary in the article is a good example:
Blue-ray 'Not a Burden' For Sony
Posted by Zonk on Wednesday September 27, @01:02PM
from the well-that's-a-relief dept.
Sony Media Games Via Opposable Thumbs, an article at GamePro in which Phil Harrison clarifies that Blue-ray on the PS3 is a 'game design' decision. From the article:
"Once we had that storage capacity on Blu-ray Disc, adding the movie playback functionality was extremely cost-effective, [the cost] is actually non-existent. So games like Resistance which, as a launch title, is up to 20-something gigabytes already. And that's day one -- think about four years, six years from now. We'll be pushing the 50 gigabyte limit with dual-layer Blu-ray very quickly. So we absolutely need it as game designers, and in that regard, the consumer is getting the movie functionality effectively for free."
I probably would have had a follow-up question there, but that's where the interview ends. So what do you think? Which came first for Sony: Blue-ray as new movie media, or Blu-ray as answer to design challenges?
They should have just called it Blue-Ray ("Blue Ray") instead of Blu-Ray ("Blew Ray") because it seems to be messing some people up. I saw a comment yesterday where someone was talking about Blu laser diodes....
48 volts is also the standard for Power over Ethernet (IEEE 802.3af) [wikipedia.org]. This may not be compatible, though, since telcos run -48, not +48
Sure they can! Just reverse the polarity and reroute all power to the main deflector dish!
Honestly from what I've seen of this, I think women in responsible positions are given a tougher time then men.
What this person did is just totally inexcusable and they came out looking like a total dimwit on top of it. Who cares about their sex? What this person did was WRONG and they deserved to be given a hard time. If a man (and again, why does it matter) did the same thing I can guarantee that people aren't going to hesitate to criticize him. So maybe the question you should ask is given two people of different sexes (hypothetically) who commit the exact same crime under the same circumstances, why should we treat them differently?
It's only a matter of time until there's a deficit in garbage since energy will be so accessible. People will scramble to create more waste to power their high-powered goods
Like we actually need a legitimate excuse for planned obsolence.
They're ok as long as you're wearing your tin foil hat reflector. Sends the death rays installed by the government in each tube straight to your neighbor's house!
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You might already know about these but: FLAC for audio (works great), ffvhuff (from ffmpeg) for video in the YUV colorspace. Those are the two I can think of that currently work pretty well.
Especailly with ffvhuff (a modified Huffyuv) for a 704x480 stream at 24 minutes, I will get a file that's about 14GiB (results will vary, of course.) The uncompressed size of that would be (using a YV12 colorspace at 29.97 FPS, that's 1440 seconds or about 43158 frames) 506880 bytes/frame * 43158 frames = 21875927040 bytes = ~20.37GiB. So, no, you won't be putting that onto a single CD, but for lossless compression of video, that's pretty significant. Even more space is wasted as the total number of frames and resolution increases without some form of compression.
I've been seeing more of these recently: Trash cans floating over what appears to be a flat surface with a X through the trash can. Talk about a confusing icon. I just assumed that it meant "floating trash cans are not allowed" or that the hardware should be kept away from floating trash cans at all times.
By the time people have hard drives this huge, I bet there will be even better lossless compression algorithms available for video and audio data. I don't know why someone would want to store huge amounts of A/V data WITHOUT using some sort of compression. It just becomes silly after a certain point.
Eh? I don't see the point in preordering the Wii this early. Everyone is better off just waiting until they let you do it online. It's not like there's going to be a massive Wii shortage like there will be with the PS3.
Sony invented this first. I'm pretty sure they have a well documented and patented process.
Linux (the version you are probably not paying for) has tech support? Also, there are n00bs on Linux too.
The GIMP is very usable and easy to use. It's just that most people give up rather quickly because they make themselves too fusturated. "Photoshop is better, it's not Photoshop!" I'm tired of hearing that. Especially from people who complain about having to learn to use Photoshop and the GIMP together, as if using one made them forget how to use the other.
No, Mozilla has the right idea. Debian might be trying to improve Firefox with their non-Mozilla approved patches, but do you really expect Mozilla to want to support users with a version of Firefox that deviates from the official version? What's keeping any of those patches from introducing problems that are NOT in Mozilla's build? They could see a lot of useless bug reports among other things. This is why they don't want the Firefox brand associated with Debian's custom version. Mozilla's request is reasonable. I repeat: Why should they support a version of Firefox that deviates from what they use as an official reference?
I bet most of this would not have been an issue if most people weren't running their user account with admin privileges. Of course, users could still be tricked into installing bad unsigned drivers, but it's not like Microsoft tried to press the issue of correct privilege separation in XP.
I get unsigned driver warnings when I'm trying to install the LAME ACM or XviD binaries. Makes you wonder how useful these will be initially when people start using Vista.
Plus I have noticed there are a few well known hardware manufacturers (Belkin's rebranded USB Bluetooth adapter for one) that are intentionally shipping unsigned drivers with their stuff. Their installation manuals either tell you to ignore the unsigned driver warnings or the installer will automatically disable whatever protection Windows is using against unsigned drivers so you never see the warning in the first place.
Either way, it's not just going to affect people using custom or old hardware. It will affect businesses and open source projects the same.
This is my favorite from the article: The phrase "should be big enough" should never be seen alongside statically allocated arrays.
You can "buy it now" for $1 million and make no payments for 3 months! PS3s are getting cheaper these days.
Anti-aliasing! I hope at least ONE next gen system will make good use of it, because the jagged edges are quite noticable in some games. (It would be hilarious if the PS3's games bypass FSAA for speed.)
I choose 800x600. Most people don't have monitors large enough to justify using really high resolutions, but they use them anyway.
I completely agree. However, the "awareness" items that are sold in stores contribute to meaningful things like research. Pink websites don't have the same effect unless all of the ad revenue is being donated to some laboratory. If people just promote awareness without actually helping a cause, then you're right, they can stick their pink site up their ass, because it's not helping anyone. The OMG PONIES theme could be used out of spite.
You seem to be plenty aware of breasts. Any more awareness might cause an explosion. (You could stare at your chest for a while, but it might not be as exciting.)
The GIFormat is not limited to 256 colors! Read this for more information and a demonstration. I guess I should fix the Wikipedia entry sometime as well.
They should have just called it Blue-Ray ("Blue Ray") instead of Blu-Ray ("Blew Ray") because it seems to be messing some people up. I saw a comment yesterday where someone was talking about Blu laser diodes....
I knew it! It's Vulnerable Markup Language!
So, how big will the processor be? The size of a VCR or a VHS cassette? Also, will the heatsink's fan have a jet-like flame shooting out of the top?
Step 1: Build robot
Step 2: Climb in
What this person did is just totally inexcusable and they came out looking like a total dimwit on top of it. Who cares about their sex? What this person did was WRONG and they deserved to be given a hard time. If a man (and again, why does it matter) did the same thing I can guarantee that people aren't going to hesitate to criticize him. So maybe the question you should ask is given two people of different sexes (hypothetically) who commit the exact same crime under the same circumstances, why should we treat them differently?
Like we actually need a legitimate excuse for planned obsolence.
They're ok as long as you're wearing your tin foil hat reflector. Sends the death rays installed by the government in each tube straight to your neighbor's house!