Then you're at the wrong website:P
Or at least you shouldn't be reading the comments.
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Think about it for more than 0.5 seconds why don't you. ASCII code is only 7 bit and it can represent every word in the English (and many other) languages.Just because you have a 7 bit code does not mean you cant repeat values made up from that code.
Next time think before you say someone doesn't know what they are talking about and make yourself a fool.
PDAs and laptops are one thing. But what POSSIBLE benefit would a child have posessing a cellphone at school? All they are / would be is a distraction, with people making / recieving calls and text messages while in class, etc. It's not like they add anything to the educational experience. All they are is an annoyance to teachers.
I would never let my child use a cell phone in school. IF I provided them with one I would explictly tell them it was only to be used after hours / in emergencies, and if they were ever caught with it out of their backpack not in these circumstances I'd remove it from them.
The whole POINT of that article was to sign an NDA get access ot the source, and be able to post results of a comparison without violating the NDA. Since we have a link above where you can just go downlooad the source without any NDA (what point is an NDA when the code is freely downloadable from SCO anyways?), the article is pointless.
I use it to encode videos in DivX format. DivX.com is the partner with one of my clients, and they do not have a encoding app for my mac, and the linux version is not as flexible (CLI) as the windows codec. So I run Adobe Premiere, Virtual Dub, and DivX 5.0.2 from within Linux!
Are you on crack??? MEncoder, Transcode, and other Linux encoding tools based on libavcodec/FFMpeg give way better preformance than their Windows counterparts, and also support more of the MPEG4 spec. If the CLI tools are too hard for you to use there is a multitude of GUI wrappers.
Touting Win4lin is one thing, but this has to be the most stupid use of running emulated windows I have ever seen in my whole life. Windows can't even approach the speeds of mencoder and transcode, nor can it approach the monolith of options they offer.
Just "re-name" your preferred high speed interface to FireWire/IEEE1394. With FireWire on the motherboard getting more and more common, and it coming on common stuff like soundcards, shit like this USB fiasco just makes the USB board look like a bunch of amaturs. I know what I am going to want my future high speed devices supporting, and it doesnt start with "U".
How come Apple bundles a Web browser (Safari), Media Jukebox software (iTunes), Video Editing software (iMovie) etc in their OS, and everyone is in love with them, but when MS does it everyone screams bloody murder??? Both are putting little guys out of business through bundling. Stop being so hypocritical.
Sure if you are viewing it ON A TV de-interlacing is bad. That's why you can turn it off (not only in MyThTV, but any program. The fact that you seem to be unaware of this fact shows how little experience you have in PVR projects). But if you are viewing it on a monitor de-interlacing results in a picture orders of magnitude better, which is why it exists.
However, one has to wonder if the decision to go with less experienced programmers also affects software quality, in the long run. What are your thoughts on this subject?
As a younger coder, I can tell you indeed it does afdfect it. It makes it MUCH BETTER (assuming you hire decent younger coders). I have worked with both younger and older coders, and to my experience the younger people design better, make more well throught out designs than their older counterparts. I think this is a result of older coders growing up with all the functional languages likc C et. al, and have a hard time wrapping their mind around the OO concept. They then use OO languages to write horrible code, because they do it in a procedural fashion. younger people, who "grew up" on OO, have no such problem, nor do they have a problem with procedural type problems, because theyr emerely a subset of OO.
The main problem with older coders I find is they are too set in their ways, and never take advice. Especially not from a younger person.
I'd like to see a MythTV version of FreeVix. FreeVix is a 25 MB mini distro that runs FreeVo, which is a MythTV competitor. FreeVo has the same goals as MythTV but is nowhere near as full featured at present. The only difficult part of the idea is that Myth needs MySQL currently, but I wonder if that could be patched to use Berkley DB instead.
It runs on linux, so it works with any hardware linux supports (including some hardware encoders / decoders, liek the DXR3 ). But it's native format is not MPEG-2, it is a modified NupperlVideo or MPEG-4, whichever you prefer to choose. And I believe it has built in deinterlacing for playing interlaced video.
You want real time encoding, live guide features, ability to pause live tv, automated recordings, a unified enironment for MAME, DivX, DVD, MP3, Slideshows, and web browsing? What about the ability to control and schedule recodings via a web interface? Or the ability to edit recorded programs on the fly to remove commercials etc? What about automated DVD / DivX description info from IMDB as soon as you load it up to play? Oh, plus picture in pucture, and the ability to distribute the encoding load across as many machines as you want..
Look no further than MythTV. It's only been in development for a year and it has all this and more. IMO this is the most under-celebrated open source project there is. Its amazing, makes Windows Media Center look like a hunk of garbage.
I dont know where you went to elementry / junior high, but I just graduated from University (which means I was there in the late 80s / early 90s) and i *never* learned how to do a square root by hand.. in fact I have no clue how it would be done. I really don't think they teach that stuff anymore, and for good reason.. you cant waste time teaching incidental stuff without taking away time later on. The more time you spend on stuff like square root taking and long division in elementry, is more time taken away from more advanced math in HS.
Because without basic multiplication you would find things like algebra, calculus, etc. taking FOREVER to do, sinc eyou have to type 2x3 into your calc instead of "just knowing" it is 6. Not to mention all the money it will save you being able to calculate the tax at the store.
Basic math (add, subtract, multiply, divide), I cna see as always being essential. Stuff like handwirting, square roots, no way. I imagine in 50 years even basic calc won't be essential. The whole thing is, as the sum of knowledge progresses, the incidentalsa re no longer important. You think in 200 years when we're zooming around at warp 5 kids will be learning derrivatives in grade 12??? You'd be lucky if they werent being skipped over altogether, and if they weren,t they'd probably learn them in grade school.
This thing is for use in sci-tech research only, for creating air tight vacums. It can't be used to protect / encase eevryday objects. For example, I quote:
At 15,000 degrees Celsius (27,032 degrees Fahrenheit), the plasma valve is about 50 times hotter than room temperature when measured in degrees Kelvin. This intense heat makes the ionized atoms and molecules move around and collide with air molecules so rapidly that the ions block any air molecules that might pass through the plasma valve.
In short, don't expect this force field to be in use at your neighborhood brig / jail anytime soon:) A really cool advancement though.
There are grocery store shere that allow you to check out your own merchandise. Theres about 5 checkouts (with one person supervising them so you dont swipe crap), and what you do is you just go up, scan it, and pay with debt or visa or cash into a slot like at a vending machine.
1 a : of or relating to surgeons or surgery <surgical skills> b : used in or in connection with surgery c : characteristic of or resembling surgery or a surgeon especially in control or incisiveness <surgical precision>
Man, stop spouting crap, it just makes you look like a tool.
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I can make a rope with the encyclopedia britanica encoded on it given a long enough rope. So how does this not hold water again?
Then you're at the wrong website :P
Or at least you shouldn't be reading the comments.
Think about it for more than 0.5 seconds why don't you. ASCII code is only 7 bit and it can represent every word in the English (and many other) languages.Just because you have a 7 bit code does not mean you cant repeat values made up from that code.
Next time think before you say someone doesn't know what they are talking about and make yourself a fool.
PDAs and laptops are one thing. But what POSSIBLE benefit would a child have posessing a cellphone at school? All they are / would be is a distraction, with people making / recieving calls and text messages while in class, etc. It's not like they add anything to the educational experience. All they are is an annoyance to teachers.
I would never let my child use a cell phone in school. IF I provided them with one I would explictly tell them it was only to be used after hours / in emergencies, and if they were ever caught with it out of their backpack not in these circumstances I'd remove it from them.
The whole POINT of that article was to sign an NDA get access ot the source, and be able to post results of a comparison without violating the NDA. Since we have a link above where you can just go downlooad the source without any NDA (what point is an NDA when the code is freely downloadable from SCO anyways?), the article is pointless.
I use it to encode videos in DivX format. DivX.com is the partner with one of my clients, and they do not have a encoding app for my mac, and the linux version is not as flexible (CLI) as the windows codec. So I run Adobe Premiere, Virtual Dub, and DivX 5.0.2 from within Linux!
Are you on crack??? MEncoder, Transcode, and other Linux encoding tools based on libavcodec/FFMpeg give way better preformance than their Windows counterparts, and also support more of the MPEG4 spec. If the CLI tools are too hard for you to use there is a multitude of GUI wrappers.
Touting Win4lin is one thing, but this has to be the most stupid use of running emulated windows I have ever seen in my whole life. Windows can't even approach the speeds of mencoder and transcode, nor can it approach the monolith of options they offer.
Just "re-name" your preferred high speed interface to FireWire/IEEE1394. With FireWire on the motherboard getting more and more common, and it coming on common stuff like soundcards, shit like this USB fiasco just makes the USB board look like a bunch of amaturs. I know what I am going to want my future high speed devices supporting, and it doesnt start with "U".
A business could last just as long making 0 profit, aka break even. Millions of not-for-profit organizations do this.
Man the parent comment gets a +5 insightfull, and I make a perfectly valid comment, but it is seemingly Anti-apple so I am a troll?
/. has gone gownhill th epast 5 years.
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Since glass is just melted sand, couldnt glass just be ground up into fine sand?
Now, put this support straight into emacs and I'll be happy.
EmacsOS does not support this yet? Wow, thats weird. (Goes back to controlling his water heater temperature from Emacs)
How come Apple bundles a Web browser (Safari), Media Jukebox software (iTunes), Video Editing software (iMovie) etc in their OS, and everyone is in love with them, but when MS does it everyone screams bloody murder??? Both are putting little guys out of business through bundling. Stop being so hypocritical.
The XBox has no PCI for a TV tuner card, and nowhere near the hardware needed for realtime DivX encoding. Not an ideal PVR platform.
Sure if you are viewing it ON A TV de-interlacing is bad. That's why you can turn it off (not only in MyThTV, but any program. The fact that you seem to be unaware of this fact shows how little experience you have in PVR projects). But if you are viewing it on a monitor de-interlacing results in a picture orders of magnitude better, which is why it exists.
However, one has to wonder if the decision to go with less experienced programmers also affects software quality, in the long run. What are your thoughts on this subject?
As a younger coder, I can tell you indeed it does afdfect it. It makes it MUCH BETTER (assuming you hire decent younger coders). I have worked with both younger and older coders, and to my experience the younger people design better, make more well throught out designs than their older counterparts. I think this is a result of older coders growing up with all the functional languages likc C et. al, and have a hard time wrapping their mind around the OO concept. They then use OO languages to write horrible code, because they do it in a procedural fashion. younger people, who "grew up" on OO, have no such problem, nor do they have a problem with procedural type problems, because theyr emerely a subset of OO.
The main problem with older coders I find is they are too set in their ways, and never take advice. Especially not from a younger person.
I'd like to see a MythTV version of FreeVix. FreeVix is a 25 MB mini distro that runs FreeVo, which is a MythTV competitor. FreeVo has the same goals as MythTV but is nowhere near as full featured at present. The only difficult part of the idea is that Myth needs MySQL currently, but I wonder if that could be patched to use Berkley DB instead.
It runs on linux, so it works with any hardware linux supports (including some hardware encoders / decoders, liek the DXR3 ). But it's native format is not MPEG-2, it is a modified NupperlVideo or MPEG-4, whichever you prefer to choose. And I believe it has built in deinterlacing for playing interlaced video.
You want real time encoding, live guide features, ability to pause live tv, automated recordings, a unified enironment for MAME, DivX, DVD, MP3, Slideshows, and web browsing? What about the ability to control and schedule recodings via a web interface? Or the ability to edit recorded programs on the fly to remove commercials etc? What about automated DVD / DivX description info from IMDB as soon as you load it up to play? Oh, plus picture in pucture, and the ability to distribute the encoding load across as many machines as you want..
Look no further than MythTV. It's only been in development for a year and it has all this and more. IMO this is the most under-celebrated open source project there is. Its amazing, makes Windows Media Center look like a hunk of garbage.
I dont know where you went to elementry / junior high, but I just graduated from University (which means I was there in the late 80s / early 90s) and i *never* learned how to do a square root by hand.. in fact I have no clue how it would be done. I really don't think they teach that stuff anymore, and for good reason.. you cant waste time teaching incidental stuff without taking away time later on. The more time you spend on stuff like square root taking and long division in elementry, is more time taken away from more advanced math in HS.
Because without basic multiplication you would find things like algebra, calculus, etc. taking FOREVER to do, sinc eyou have to type 2x3 into your calc instead of "just knowing" it is 6. Not to mention all the money it will save you being able to calculate the tax at the store.
Basic math (add, subtract, multiply, divide), I cna see as always being essential. Stuff like handwirting, square roots, no way. I imagine in 50 years even basic calc won't be essential. The whole thing is, as the sum of knowledge progresses, the incidentalsa re no longer important. You think in 200 years when we're zooming around at warp 5 kids will be learning derrivatives in grade 12??? You'd be lucky if they werent being skipped over altogether, and if they weren,t they'd probably learn them in grade school.
This thing is for use in sci-tech research only, for creating air tight vacums. It can't be used to protect / encase eevryday objects. For example, I quote:
At 15,000 degrees Celsius (27,032 degrees Fahrenheit), the plasma valve is about 50 times hotter than room temperature when measured in degrees Kelvin. This intense heat makes the ionized atoms and molecules move around and collide with air molecules so rapidly that the ions block any air molecules that might pass through the plasma valve.
In short, don't expect this force field to be in use at your neighborhood brig / jail anytime soon :) A really cool advancement though.
There are grocery store shere that allow you to check out your own merchandise. Theres about 5 checkouts (with one person supervising them so you dont swipe crap), and what you do is you just go up, scan it, and pay with debt or visa or cash into a slot like at a vending machine.
Spin doctored? Do you know how to use a dictionary? Stop being a jackass.
Did you read my post? You cant do relatime MPEG-4 on a 600, you need at least 800, or 1 GHZ if you expect to be doing anything else while its going.
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Etymology: surgeon + -ical
Date: 1770
1 a : of or relating to surgeons or surgery <surgical skills> b : used in or in connection with surgery c : characteristic of or resembling surgery or a surgeon especially in control or incisiveness <surgical precision>
Man, stop spouting crap, it just makes you look like a tool.