For me the comments are the only valuable part of slashdot. Without them I might as well just browse the web. There are many alternatives to slashdot that provide more relevent and less commercial information with intelligent commentary. The only reason I still read slashdot is to get the opinions of so many people. With a subscription system/. will probably lose about half their posts, I've already thought about not returning because of the time limits placed on posts. They seem to be less user friendly and more $$ hungry. And this, to me, feels like a huge push by VA Software, who don't understand Linux or Open Source, clearly, by the way they change their business model, to make more money. Is it all about money? Why don't you ask members to contribute and work with your community instead of against it? I could go on and continue my rant, but its just a waste of time. Oh well, hope it works out for you.
Resampling video real-time should be rather easy since we're not talking about reformatting the video or editting the frames, just changing the time they are displayed. But there are probably other reasons it wouldn't work that way, refresh rate, etc.
I don't know how we encode audio/video data today, but shouldn't we add some metadata that shows which audio frame syncs up to which video frame for every few seconds of video? Something as simple as 2 frame numbers every 2 seconds shouldn't take up that much space. And resampling audio to sync up with video using the popular algorithms that don't change the pitch would kick ass, IMO.
I'm sure that people here will write that "don't buy it since it support non standard audio/video format"
I think most of us know that there are no good audio/video codecs available yet. Divx;) is too proprietary and still doesn't work right, and everything else is WAY too proprietary and offers no support for Linux, filesizes are still too large, and quality is crappy. Once the xiph.org guys develope a video codec I'm sure most of the open source world will adopt theirs and discard the rest.
The question is, why waste our time, then, when such a plan is doomed to fail?
The answer is because they have money to burn. The least they could do, "for their investors", is try to monopolize the media markets ASAP. That way they'll always have money to burn. I say we just need to stop giving them our money. But what good does it do for me to say that, or you to say that, or anyone to say that? None. The whole country/world is brainwashed. Just give up. They've already won. And if they haven't, let 'em. They'll end up in line at the guiotine like everyone who tried it before them. Unfortunately, and this part is sad, a lot of us will get hurt in the process. But will we ever learn? I don't care anymore. We've have more than enough oportunity.
Intel has been working hard to provide a lot of copy protection technology, similar to macrovision, for hardware. Such as built-in harddrive copy protection, line-out audio/video encryption/copy protection, DMCA, etc. I don't remember all the details, its just one company we should keep an eye on.
...or if you're worried about security. I never trust commercial companies to deliver secure code. Specially if they keep it closed source. Unless you want to flash the rom on this thing every few weeks I'd just read up on a linux ppp over ssh solution and write some scripts to keep that software updated.
I hope you're right, but its hard not to believe the Hype machine.
- Luckily I wrote such a short comment, easy to remember. Since slashdot likes fucking with posters so much they find it necessary to add in annoying timelimits. Arrgh! I come here to vent, people, not get MORE frustrated! Gah!
When online music sharing began I was buying $200-$300 in CDs every two weeks until the RIAA went after napster. Now I buy nothing. And I'm one of the few this economy hasn't affected yet. Guess I'll just be putting my money in my pocket 'til I find some real artists that want to sell me "their" stuff face to face. I'm more likely to shovel over ca$h for good OPL music than that copyright/patent/TM crap, specially if the artist asks for money on their website. I want to help artists help themselves. If you want me to buy your music, or at least listen to it, then please be open and honest and work with me, your customer. But please don't put your stuff up on mp3.com or any other site that advertises to me, requires my email account info, etc. I don't like advertisements. I like music.
Just wait until he has all that copy protection built into your OS (XP), TVs, and DVD players (DVD/DVD2), www.intel.com, etc. And has streaming services using up all our bandwidth on the net. You just wait 'til he breaks all our backs (building this technology) just to use it to squeeze those extra few pennies out of our teenagers. Heh, you don't know Jack. www.2600.com
I wish old, filthy-rich, ugly people like him could be forced to retire.
Its not old news. This is hot-off-the-press and should be posted on the front page of slashdot for the next year. If the RIAA and record labels keep getting bad press maybe one day we'll watch their profits get cut in half to under $7 billion. That's still $7 billion above and beyond the cost of producing those CDs and paying off their artists. Seems to me like the artists should be getting that cash anyway.
I haven't bought a CD in almost a year. I used to not buy them at all, but while napster was going I figured I'd buy a few since all my friends where sharing their music with me and giving me mp3s. Now I'm boycotting again because most of my friends moved out of the area and even tho I have broadband I'm not interrested in downloading non-free music. There's too much negative land type stuff out there for free now, and every day more and more free music gets released. Hell, even all my stuff will be free... it'll just take me some time before any of it sounds very good. But the important thing for all of us to remember is music is fun.
Is that where J2EE comes in? I don't know that much about java. But I heard somewhere that.NET and the like will have some major problems with the EPIC architecture in the Itanium. EPIC is supposed to be some explicitly parallel instruction semantics that are going to revolutionize computing, blah, blah, blah. Anyway I heard.NET's JIT compilers aren't parallel enough to take advantage of these systems and will have some problems changing inherent to the API or something. I don't know, I'm just a sys admin. But if that's true then maybe both IA64 and.NET will be too slow to beat AMD and Linux.
No, mp3s are evil and we should prosecute any corporation or anyone that distributes anything related to them.
Technology is evil. We should burn it. Burn our cars and stereos and TVs and buildings and bridges and airplanes and most of all computers. Think about it, without technology we'd be so much better off. No planes to fall out of the sky or skyscrapers for them to crash into. No machines to take jobs away from hard working people. No luxuries to makes us lazy. No TVs. No terrorists.
I don't know about you but I think we're headed in the right direction. Survival of the fitest, and I just might be a canabal.;)
I'm amazed I didn't see a million posts about www.freenet.org. Freenet is a distributed, encrypted data sharing network that makes use of a web browser and proxy to allow you to browse all of freenet from your local node. Plus you can post data anonymously onto the network without requiring DNS. Something ICANN is sure to love.;)
Oh, and your web browsing experience could very easily be protected under the DMCA from corporate/government spying, since its encrypted.
I disagree. Those people designing the technology are like you and me. They're the workers/employees in large corporations that work on technology probably because they enjoy it and genuinely want to make a good product. Microsoft employs monkeys. But the problems we face are not our lack of determination to fight censorship irl, but the information gap growing between us and the voting public. Joe American doesn't know anything about how he's being censored, and when he's told its for his own good he believes it.
I think we all just want to live in a world where people are responsible for themselves. That's not the same world Americans want to live in. They don't like that kinda of freedom. They'd much prefer to kind where they're told what to do and taken care of by their government. How they can trust a government run by the Bush family I'll never know, but that's another arguement. I say give up. Give the stupid public what they want and what they deserve. Start promoting these idiotic ideas like censorship and heavy taxation and regulation of the internet. Watch the technology sectors crumble in America while the rest of the world learns and makes use of the technology we're developing early this century. If we don't fight this fight America won't be a technology power for long.
Imagine what would happen to broadband if the net was censorred and regulated before that technology could be purchased by the people. I'd cancel my cable subscription if they blocked the content I was paying them to access. Without the funding to roll out the technology that will make up the backbone of our economy our economy will never get the chance to thrive like I wants to. Maybe with enough anti-progress propoganda we could push the net into the stoned age and the economy into a depression. Anyone with me?
Hardware doesn't advance because geeks want to encode mp3s or write java apps. Hardware advances because of money, and hype is used to generate that. So, yes, my grandma NEEDS a 3Ghz system so one day I'll be able to afford a 10Ghz system. If we don't buy them, forcing our chipmakers out of business, then we won't have new hardware to play with next month.
Try renderring a few frames of any animation or movie and you'll find your current system lacking the performance you'd like to get, real-time. Until that is reached for all applications, even the CPU intensive, we'll always be waiting for the next-gen chip.
And that says nothing of enlightenment, 0.17.0 looks intriguing, or windowmaker/afterstep/etc. The linux desktop has always had MANY choices, not just 1 or 2. You can boot all of them from gdm, kdm, xdm, dtlogin or the login manager of your choice. And someday soon you might be able to run them on directFB or other alternatives to X. Linux/UNIX is all about keeping everything modular, and I bet if all this effort behind gnome drives its developement to producing a finished product soon we'll be finding a lot more linux/solaris boxen around the office in the following months.
I don't understand what anybody is complaining about. Blizzard games don't run on Linux, they're made for some Microsoft OS that most geeks on here haven't seen in years. I don't see how their proprietary capitalistic practices, that mimik those of Microsoft SO well, could ever effect an open source project. Sure they can protect their IP, but its only IP. Go make your own. I bet in a few years we'll start seeing open source games that will one day rival anything ever produced by Blizzard. *sigh* Okay, okay, ya got me. I'm a Diablo II adict.:(
This is an interresting point. What if a commercial company with unlimitted resources attempted to attack opensource projects from within? But the beauty of open source is you can always branch off any version of any product anytime you choose. Until Miguel goes and changes the license out from under you. So even if GNOME progresses into MONO/GNOME/XP we can still rip GNOME out of the middle of that and trim it to our liking. I don't think its possible for a commercial company to hurt or in any way control a GNU project (trademark/copyright issues aside).
Exactly. I often say RedHat sucks. I often bitch about a lot of things. But the truth of the matter is I value RedHat and their contributions the GNU community far more than any commercial company in existence. I LOVE RedHat, even tho they suck. Same thing with java. Its not my favorite api, but its a valuable addition to a set of developement tools. Mono is just taking java to the next level. Nothing bad here, but it still sucks.;)
As we all know 'beta' is the codename for released commercial products like Netscape 6.0. So Gnome 2.0 has been released?;) IMHO it is a hell of a lot more complete than XP, what a horrible experience. Ick! *bad taste in mouth*
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For me the comments are the only valuable part of slashdot. Without them I might as well just browse the web. There are many alternatives to slashdot that provide more relevent and less commercial information with intelligent commentary. The only reason I still read slashdot is to get the opinions of so many people. With a subscription system
It was simply easy and fast.
Isn't that why corporations do anything these days? Oh, and don't forget to mention how profitable it was... hind site is always 20/20.
B But MS is already illegal. Wasn't it declared a monopoly a few months ago?
Resampling video real-time should be rather easy since we're not talking about reformatting the video or editting the frames, just changing the time they are displayed. But there are probably other reasons it wouldn't work that way, refresh rate, etc.
I don't know how we encode audio/video data today, but shouldn't we add some metadata that shows which audio frame syncs up to which video frame for every few seconds of video? Something as simple as 2 frame numbers every 2 seconds shouldn't take up that much space. And resampling audio to sync up with video using the popular algorithms that don't change the pitch would kick ass, IMO.
I'm sure that people here will write that "don't buy it since it support non standard audio/video format"
;) is too proprietary and still doesn't work right, and everything else is WAY too proprietary and offers no support for Linux, filesizes are still too large, and quality is crappy. Once the xiph.org guys develope a video codec I'm sure most of the open source world will adopt theirs and discard the rest.
I think most of us know that there are no good audio/video codecs available yet. Divx
The question is, why waste our time, then, when such a plan is doomed to fail?
The answer is because they have money to burn. The least they could do, "for their investors", is try to monopolize the media markets ASAP. That way they'll always have money to burn. I say we just need to stop giving them our money. But what good does it do for me to say that, or you to say that, or anyone to say that? None. The whole country/world is brainwashed. Just give up. They've already won. And if they haven't, let 'em. They'll end up in line at the guiotine like everyone who tried it before them. Unfortunately, and this part is sad, a lot of us will get hurt in the process. But will we ever learn? I don't care anymore. We've have more than enough oportunity.
I'm glad I was able to grab my DDR SDRAM when I did. I got 2GB for around $130. Can't wait until it drops down that low again.
www.intel.com
Intel has been working hard to provide a lot of copy protection technology, similar to macrovision, for hardware. Such as built-in harddrive copy protection, line-out audio/video encryption/copy protection, DMCA, etc. I don't remember all the details, its just one company we should keep an eye on.
...or if you're worried about security. I never trust commercial companies to deliver secure code. Specially if they keep it closed source. Unless you want to flash the rom on this thing every few weeks I'd just read up on a linux ppp over ssh solution and write some scripts to keep that software updated.
I hope you're right, but its hard not to believe the Hype machine.
- Luckily I wrote such a short comment, easy to remember. Since slashdot likes fucking with posters so much they find it necessary to add in annoying timelimits. Arrgh! I come here to vent, people, not get MORE frustrated! Gah!
When online music sharing began I was buying $200-$300 in CDs every two weeks until the RIAA went after napster. Now I buy nothing. And I'm one of the few this economy hasn't affected yet. Guess I'll just be putting my money in my pocket 'til I find some real artists that want to sell me "their" stuff face to face. I'm more likely to shovel over ca$h for good OPL music than that copyright/patent/TM crap, specially if the artist asks for money on their website. I want to help artists help themselves. If you want me to buy your music, or at least listen to it, then please be open and honest and work with me, your customer. But please don't put your stuff up on mp3.com or any other site that advertises to me, requires my email account info, etc. I don't like advertisements. I like music.
Just wait until he has all that copy protection built into your OS (XP), TVs, and DVD players (DVD/DVD2), www.intel.com, etc. And has streaming services using up all our bandwidth on the net. You just wait 'til he breaks all our backs (building this technology) just to use it to squeeze those extra few pennies out of our teenagers. Heh, you don't know Jack. www.2600.com
I wish old, filthy-rich, ugly people like him could be forced to retire.
Its not old news. This is hot-off-the-press and should be posted on the front page of slashdot for the next year. If the RIAA and record labels keep getting bad press maybe one day we'll watch their profits get cut in half to under $7 billion. That's still $7 billion above and beyond the cost of producing those CDs and paying off their artists. Seems to me like the artists should be getting that cash anyway.
I haven't bought a CD in almost a year. I used to not buy them at all, but while napster was going I figured I'd buy a few since all my friends where sharing their music with me and giving me mp3s. Now I'm boycotting again because most of my friends moved out of the area and even tho I have broadband I'm not interrested in downloading non-free music. There's too much negative land type stuff out there for free now, and every day more and more free music gets released. Hell, even all my stuff will be free... it'll just take me some time before any of it sounds very good. But the important thing for all of us to remember is music is fun.
Is that where J2EE comes in? I don't know that much about java. But I heard somewhere that
No, mp3s are evil and we should prosecute any corporation or anyone that distributes anything related to them.
Technology is evil. We should burn it. Burn our cars and stereos and TVs and buildings and bridges and airplanes and most of all computers. Think about it, without technology we'd be so much better off. No planes to fall out of the sky or skyscrapers for them to crash into. No machines to take jobs away from hard working people. No luxuries to makes us lazy. No TVs. No terrorists.
I don't know about you but I think we're headed in the right direction. Survival of the fitest, and I just might be a canabal.
I'm amazed I didn't see a million posts about www.freenet.org. Freenet is a distributed, encrypted data sharing network that makes use of a web browser and proxy to allow you to browse all of freenet from your local node. Plus you can post data anonymously onto the network without requiring DNS. Something ICANN is sure to love.
Oh, and your web browsing experience could very easily be protected under the DMCA from corporate/government spying, since its encrypted.
I disagree. Those people designing the technology are like you and me. They're the workers/employees in large corporations that work on technology probably because they enjoy it and genuinely want to make a good product. Microsoft employs monkeys. But the problems we face are not our lack of determination to fight censorship irl, but the information gap growing between us and the voting public. Joe American doesn't know anything about how he's being censored, and when he's told its for his own good he believes it.
I think we all just want to live in a world where people are responsible for themselves. That's not the same world Americans want to live in. They don't like that kinda of freedom. They'd much prefer to kind where they're told what to do and taken care of by their government. How they can trust a government run by the Bush family I'll never know, but that's another arguement. I say give up. Give the stupid public what they want and what they deserve. Start promoting these idiotic ideas like censorship and heavy taxation and regulation of the internet. Watch the technology sectors crumble in America while the rest of the world learns and makes use of the technology we're developing early this century. If we don't fight this fight America won't be a technology power for long.
Imagine what would happen to broadband if the net was censorred and regulated before that technology could be purchased by the people. I'd cancel my cable subscription if they blocked the content I was paying them to access. Without the funding to roll out the technology that will make up the backbone of our economy our economy will never get the chance to thrive like I wants to. Maybe with enough anti-progress propoganda we could push the net into the stoned age and the economy into a depression. Anyone with me?
I'm just fed up. Its your problem now.
Hardware doesn't advance because geeks want to encode mp3s or write java apps. Hardware advances because of money, and hype is used to generate that. So, yes, my grandma NEEDS a 3Ghz system so one day I'll be able to afford a 10Ghz system. If we don't buy them, forcing our chipmakers out of business, then we won't have new hardware to play with next month.
Try renderring a few frames of any animation or movie and you'll find your current system lacking the performance you'd like to get, real-time. Until that is reached for all applications, even the CPU intensive, we'll always be waiting for the next-gen chip.
And that says nothing of enlightenment, 0.17.0 looks intriguing, or windowmaker/afterstep/etc. The linux desktop has always had MANY choices, not just 1 or 2. You can boot all of them from gdm, kdm, xdm, dtlogin or the login manager of your choice. And someday soon you might be able to run them on directFB or other alternatives to X. Linux/UNIX is all about keeping everything modular, and I bet if all this effort behind gnome drives its developement to producing a finished product soon we'll be finding a lot more linux/solaris boxen around the office in the following months.
This is a good thing, IMO. The more people that sell their souls to the devil the less crowded heaven will be. Assuming GNU == heaven.
I don't understand what anybody is complaining about. Blizzard games don't run on Linux, they're made for some Microsoft OS that most geeks on here haven't seen in years. I don't see how their proprietary capitalistic practices, that mimik those of Microsoft SO well, could ever effect an open source project. Sure they can protect their IP, but its only IP. Go make your own. I bet in a few years we'll start seeing open source games that will one day rival anything ever produced by Blizzard. *sigh* Okay, okay, ya got me. I'm a Diablo II adict. :(
This is an interresting point. What if a commercial company with unlimitted resources attempted to attack opensource projects from within? But the beauty of open source is you can always branch off any version of any product anytime you choose. Until Miguel goes and changes the license out from under you. So even if GNOME progresses into MONO/GNOME/XP we can still rip GNOME out of the middle of that and trim it to our liking. I don't think its possible for a commercial company to hurt or in any way control a GNU project (trademark/copyright issues aside).
Some of us even like Java.
;)
Exactly. I often say RedHat sucks. I often bitch about a lot of things. But the truth of the matter is I value RedHat and their contributions the GNU community far more than any commercial company in existence. I LOVE RedHat, even tho they suck. Same thing with java. Its not my favorite api, but its a valuable addition to a set of developement tools. Mono is just taking java to the next level. Nothing bad here, but it still sucks.
As we all know 'beta' is the codename for released commercial products like Netscape 6.0. So Gnome 2.0 has been released? ;) IMHO it is a hell of a lot more complete than XP, what a horrible experience. Ick! *bad taste in mouth*