Yep, the writeup is completely wrong. Look at it again. The username who submitted it is "erroneus." That's awfully close to the word "erroneous" which of course means: "containing or characterized by error."
I think this story may be a troll, and if it is it's a pretty good one!:)
this is because the decoder is hardware-based, and it writes directly to the video card's buffer, bypassing quickdraw altogether. when you take a screen shot on a mac (presumably with command-shift-3) it copies the contents of the quickdraw graphics ports, which do not reflect what's actually in the video card's memory
Yeah this is exactly what I figured but I wasn't 100% sure. of course now I'm sorry I mentioned it as it has turned into a bit of a troll. What i really wanted to know is if anybody had heard anything more concrete about Apple being delayed in releasin the OS X DVD player because of copyright concerns.
And it is WAY to easy to get karma around by simply implying that the MPAA is evil.
Oddly they have been doing worse at getting the DVD video playback working then I expected.
Rumour has it that most of the problems Apple is having with DVD support in OS X is related to the fact that the MPAA is very concerned about the possibility of intercepting the decoded data stream through their player (since OS X is considerably more "open" for tricks like this with the UNIX layer). I don't know if there's any truth in this rumour but it does explain the serious lag time for DVD support. Playing DVDs isn't that difficult (especially when they already have a DVD player for OS 9) so perhaps this really is the reason why it's taking so long.
Another thing to note is that if you take a screenshot in OS 9 while playing a DVD you get a big magenta rectangle where the DVD screenshot is supposed to be. Is there a technical reason for this or are the MPAA really that paranoid?
Don't kid yourself; IBM is embracing open source only to the extent that it can give them an advantage over MS in the marketplace. Not that I think that's bad; but let's be clear about their motives.
Yes, IBM is what we call a "corporation." they do what they do for a thing called "profit."
But seriously, you've brought up a good point: IBM is embracing open-source because it is the best solution to their problems. But while it may be just another piece of the puzzle, they absolutely can't afford to lose control of the operating system (they've been burned by this in the past). Linux works perfectly in this regard. I think it's fantastic that we have industry heavyweights like IBM behind Linux, but the open-source community has to be ok with the fact that IBM supports us not because they intimately care about Linux, or that they're moved by the social ramifications, but rather that Linux help IBM provide a great solution for their customers. This means that we have to accept the fact that IBM will dump Linux in a second if something better comes along.
Of course as long as Linux is a viable and useful operating system that isn't controlled by any one vendor then we have nothing to worry about;). We might as well get as much use out of our newfound friend as possible, especially if they're helping to diffuse the FUD spread by Microsoft;).
For Illustrator, CorelDraw. It's easier to use and more powerful. Much more powerful.
oh come on. if you think that CorelDraw holds a candle to Illustrator you must only be drawing stick-figures. though admittedly Macromedia Freehand is a completely acceptable replacement to Illustrator.
For Photoshop: Corel PhotoPaint or PaintShop Pro. PhotoPaint does much more than Photoshop, though with a slightly odd interface; PaintShop does 90% of what Photoshop does. Oh - and there's also GIMP.
do you work for Corel? that is rediculous! i've been using graphic tools like Photoshop and PhotoPaint for almost seven years and i can tell you that Photoshop is still, by far, the best bitmap editor around. and while i'm optimistic of the GIMP (especially the OS X port), if i can't do proper colour matching, colour separation and CYMK export then it's of no use to me. as it stands now there is no adequate replacement to Photoshop, unless of course you're only doing web graphics.
wow, that's a lot of trouble to go through for identd. personally i just use either fake identd or null identd. both allow you to have ident send an arbitrary string that satifies IRC servers.
both of these utilities are a testiment to how useless ident is for any purpose. it's far too easy to fake an ident response.
Maybe I'm just crazy sleep deprived, but it sounds like good bussiness to me.
i completely disagree. i have one point against everything you've said: prove to me that any company has ever made a decent sustainable revenue off of selling operating systems (not hardware) without a monopoly. i can name lots that failed: OS/2, Be, Linux (commercially), BSD, PC-DOS.
in short, there is no historical reference of any company that can make a significant and sustainable revenue off of selling an operating system. the only way to do this is to a) sell hardware to fund the operating system (MacOS, Solaris) or to have a monopoly (Windows). if Apple moved to x86 they would have neither of these historically required conditions.
MIPS: I think I heard that SGI is migrating all their MIPS machines to Itanium, so this one's probably dead.
MIPS seems to be dying quite quickly in the server space but it is growing extremely quickly in the embedded space. NEC and PMC-Sierra are two of the big ones. in fact, PMC-Sierra just announced the RM9000x2 which has dual 1GHz 64-bit MIPS cores, an 8-bit 500Mhz Hypertransport connection and a 200Mhz DDR SDRAM controller. it's going to be targeted to telecom equipment, but still that's a pretty damned impressive processor.
FWIW, in MacOS X the "trash" icon in the dock changes into an "eject" icon when you drag a disk, which is slightly more intuitive. of course you could always just eject the disk from the menubar or by right-clicking (or command-clicking) on the disk and choosing "eject."
well i've heard both good and bad things about Rogers@Home, but personally i've had absolutely no problems with them. perhaps that's just because i live in downtown Toronto: i have yet to hear a complaint about Rogers' downtown service from anybody i know. of course my parents in London have had constant problems so who knows? i do know (from my parents' experience) that if you bitch enough about the outages they'll refund some of your money.
at any rate, Rogers@Home isn't completely useless across the board, but they definitely have their problem areas. they're also considerably better than Bell Sympatico from my experience (but they're also hit & miss).
clever! of course you do have to take into account the fact that Jon Katz isn't a very good writer, so there's a real reason to skim read it, apart from just a lack of attention. for a better analysis of the need for attention, be sure to read Aldus Huxley's Island.
if you're going to read about attention, it should at least be from somebody who knows how to write.
that doesn't mean anything. many companies are hiring at the same time they're doing layoff. sometimes they'll cut a whole department that's not part of their "core strategy" while simultaneously hiring into the departments that are doing well. many times they'll move people's jobs, but sometimes the skillsets just don't match and they have to look elsewhere.
afterall, it's not like "employees" are just carbon-copied workers. you can have some that won't work while still trying to find some that will.
well yes there's more information available but if it's of considerably lesser quality then you can't really blame 'us' for ignoring it. perhaps this (necessary) "filtering" has made us a little impatient, but i'd hardly say that i skim-read slashdot because i'm looking for immediate gradification. the real fact of the matter is that most of it isn't worth reading, impatient or not.
People don't "read" Slashdot. They skim it. Most people don't even really read the posts before they start writing replies, and don't even ask about clicking links to read off-site articles.
true, but in our defense, most of this shit isn't worth reading. i don't mean this to be flamebait, but it's bound to happen with any site who's content is primarily generated by users. there's a good chance, even with moderation, that a good number of the comments will be poorly written, perhaps with bad grammar, no thesis or common thought pattern, ignorant and/or completely wrong contect, or even written without capital letters! all of these things make reading comments painful and time-consuming.
of course that doesn't make the content useless, and there are always gems to be found, but it does excuse us for skim reading a lot of the content here on slashdot.
to stay on topic: as for Feed and Suck i didn't really like either site but i will miss Wednesday's Filler on Suck. any idea what "Polly Ester" will be doing in the future?
if you want a turntable with a great audio quality then the Technics 1200s aren't really the best choice. they're great for durability (i can attest to that), but you can get a better sounding turntable at about the same price.
of course if you're DJing then get the Techs or get a new hobby;)
it's true that if you get into a postion where your MBA would be useful you'll do less technical work, that's absolutely true. if you absolutely love geeking out then it really wouldn't be your thing. however you shouldn't fall into the assumption that the only thing you can do as an MBA is to go into management. there are lots of other career options for business people! you can do marketing for technical products, technical sales, strategic marketing or business development.
sure you may have some people under you in many cases, but if you're the director of business development of a medium-sized tech company it's very plausible that you'd work on your own to develop strategic partnerships for your company and report directly to the CEO. management is nowhere in this equation. there's much more to business than just management, but most slashdot geeks don't seem interested enough to leave their cubicles for 10 seconds to learn the alternatives. that's fine if you're not interested, but please don't spread complete nonsense to those that might want to learn what an MBA can really provide.
an aside: it's quite apparent that many slashdot users could really benefit from aquiring some business knowledge simply by the way marketing people are regarded by most people here.;)
but anyhow, if you have any aspirations of getting out of a generic cubicle job, your best bet is to learn a little about business. while experience is great, ultimately you need a starting point and that's what a good MBA can provide. it'll give you the fundamental knoweldge of how finance, marketing, sales and business development work, and hopefully a base that you can apply to your learning on the job.
having a technical degree is useful, but if you can pull off both a technical degree and have an MBA you'll be absolutely golden. if you're one of those people who can be techincally-minded and yet convey your thoughts easily to others then you may really enjoy taking an MBA as well as learning a lot from the experience. engineering is great, but ultimately it takes the business infrastructure to market and sell a product. of course, to do this properly those in sales and marketing have to have a good understanding of the technology they're pushing or you get the "clueless marketroid" symptom so often discussed here slashdot. this is where techies with MBAs come in, and there's a real need for this.
from a personal perspective, if you're the type of techinical person that also love to interact with other people then ultimately you'd be very happy taking an MBA. i personally work in marketing at a semiconductor company that produces microprocessor companion chips for the embedded market. i get to work on some interesting geek projects, such as working with embedded Linux, but i also get included in the strategic product roadmap, sales, and partnership aspects of the company. personally i much prefer this to the ASIC design or coding that i was doing in previous jobs, and of course none of this would be possible without some kind of knowledge of business.
many will say that you can get into these kinds of positions without any formal business training, but i'd argue that the MBA is still extremely important. in addition to giving you basic knowledge and the piece of paper to prove it, the most important thing that many people ignore is that a lot of business is about building relationships with other people. to that end, i can't stress enough how important it is to go to a proper business school! the people you meet during your MBA may very well be some of the best business contacts you ever meet in your life.
all in all i'd say that if you think you'd enjoy the work, go get an MBA. it's an extremely useful carreer move, especially for the technically minded.
while this may be your experience... it is unusual. Most trends *are* created by corporations, and most consumers seem pretty happy (ignorant?) with this state of affairs.
this AC is right. while i agree with the original poster that the good music is out there, most people don't want to look around that hard for their music! and why should they? not everybody needs to be obsessed with music: some people just want to listen to whatever's easiest and has a catchy tune, and there's nothing wrong with that.
i'm not really sure what's so bad about recording companies "generating" cool. if people don't want to take the time to find out what music they really want then i think the record companies should be able to make a nice fortune off of selling them "easy" music. there will always be "the underground" for the rest of us. some may consider this "unfair," but really, do you think all of these "unwashed masses" would actually bother to go out and find their own music if the record companies weren't there? of course not! they'd listen to whatever was playing that didn't completely piss them off.
the only people who really care about this are the ones who immediately assume that because they like to hunt for music that all people like to do the same. personally i love to find obscure music and i've made it my hobby to be a rave & club dj because of it. this is great for me, but i'm not about to assume that all people want to go to this much trouble. if they want to go out of their way to find and listen to my stuff, that's great! and if they want to continue listening to N*SYNC that's fine by me too (in fact, i happen to like N*SYNC, though the Backstreet Boys are more consistent;).
at any rate, record companies do a lot of "evil" thing, but manufacturing cool certainly isn't one of them. it's simply supply & demand. demand for "easy" music.
(PS: i appologize for the exessive use of italics and "quotation marks" in this post;)
well as i'm sure you've heard people say before (slashdot editors included), "I don't care about grammar." and it's true: there is no reason to care about grammar.
... except of course if you want people to understand what you're writing.
this comes up just every time a video link is presented on slashdot. i've seen complaints about videos in Windows Media format, Quicktime and Real Video. what i'd like to know is, what format would the slashbots like to see their video in? i know personally as an OS X user i'd like to see videos in Quicktime (and Windows Media is most convenient when i'm using Windows), but are there any decent video formats available to Linux? formats that get reasonable compression rates like the new Windows Media or the newest Sorenson CODECs? if not is there anything that can be done about this apart from continuing to petition Sorenson, Microsoft and the others?
Slashdot Mirror
...And this site has Aki porn! (bottom of the page)
Ah, the future is going to be great...
- j
Yep, the writeup is completely wrong. Look at it again. The username who submitted it is "erroneus." That's awfully close to the word "erroneous" which of course means: "containing or characterized by error."
I think this story may be a troll, and if it is it's a pretty good one! :)
- j
this is because the decoder is hardware-based, and it writes directly to the video card's buffer, bypassing quickdraw altogether. when you take a screen shot on a mac (presumably with command-shift-3) it copies the contents of the quickdraw graphics ports, which do not reflect what's actually in the video card's memory
Yeah this is exactly what I figured but I wasn't 100% sure. of course now I'm sorry I mentioned it as it has turned into a bit of a troll. What i really wanted to know is if anybody had heard anything more concrete about Apple being delayed in releasin the OS X DVD player because of copyright concerns.
And it is WAY to easy to get karma around by simply implying that the MPAA is evil.
- j
Oddly they have been doing worse at getting the DVD video playback working then I expected.
Rumour has it that most of the problems Apple is having with DVD support in OS X is related to the fact that the MPAA is very concerned about the possibility of intercepting the decoded data stream through their player (since OS X is considerably more "open" for tricks like this with the UNIX layer). I don't know if there's any truth in this rumour but it does explain the serious lag time for DVD support. Playing DVDs isn't that difficult (especially when they already have a DVD player for OS 9) so perhaps this really is the reason why it's taking so long.
Another thing to note is that if you take a screenshot in OS 9 while playing a DVD you get a big magenta rectangle where the DVD screenshot is supposed to be. Is there a technical reason for this or are the MPAA really that paranoid?
- j
Well it's going to be pretty easy to make fun of it when it's named after a disease! Maybe the GPL really is like a virus.
But really, if it's an open-source .NET, shouldn't it be called .ORG?
- j
Don't kid yourself; IBM is embracing open source only to the extent that it can give them an advantage over MS in the marketplace. Not that I think that's bad; but let's be clear about their motives.
Yes, IBM is what we call a "corporation." they do what they do for a thing called "profit."
But seriously, you've brought up a good point: IBM is embracing open-source because it is the best solution to their problems. But while it may be just another piece of the puzzle, they absolutely can't afford to lose control of the operating system (they've been burned by this in the past). Linux works perfectly in this regard. I think it's fantastic that we have industry heavyweights like IBM behind Linux, but the open-source community has to be ok with the fact that IBM supports us not because they intimately care about Linux, or that they're moved by the social ramifications, but rather that Linux help IBM provide a great solution for their customers. This means that we have to accept the fact that IBM will dump Linux in a second if something better comes along.
Of course as long as Linux is a viable and useful operating system that isn't controlled by any one vendor then we have nothing to worry about ;). We might as well get as much use out of our newfound friend as possible, especially if they're helping to diffuse the FUD spread by Microsoft ;).
- j
For Illustrator, CorelDraw. It's easier to use and more powerful. Much more powerful.
oh come on. if you think that CorelDraw holds a candle to Illustrator you must only be drawing stick-figures. though admittedly Macromedia Freehand is a completely acceptable replacement to Illustrator.
For Photoshop: Corel PhotoPaint or PaintShop Pro. PhotoPaint does much more than Photoshop, though with a slightly odd interface; PaintShop does 90% of what Photoshop does. Oh - and there's also GIMP.
do you work for Corel? that is rediculous! i've been using graphic tools like Photoshop and PhotoPaint for almost seven years and i can tell you that Photoshop is still, by far, the best bitmap editor around. and while i'm optimistic of the GIMP (especially the OS X port), if i can't do proper colour matching, colour separation and CYMK export then it's of no use to me. as it stands now there is no adequate replacement to Photoshop, unless of course you're only doing web graphics.
- j
wow, that's a lot of trouble to go through for identd. personally i just use either fake identd or null identd. both allow you to have ident send an arbitrary string that satifies IRC servers.
both of these utilities are a testiment to how useless ident is for any purpose. it's far too easy to fake an ident response.
- j
Maybe I'm just crazy sleep deprived, but it sounds like good bussiness to me.
i completely disagree. i have one point against everything you've said: prove to me that any company has ever made a decent sustainable revenue off of selling operating systems (not hardware) without a monopoly. i can name lots that failed: OS/2, Be, Linux (commercially), BSD, PC-DOS.
in short, there is no historical reference of any company that can make a significant and sustainable revenue off of selling an operating system. the only way to do this is to a) sell hardware to fund the operating system (MacOS, Solaris) or to have a monopoly (Windows). if Apple moved to x86 they would have neither of these historically required conditions.
- j
MIPS: I think I heard that SGI is migrating all their MIPS machines to Itanium, so this one's probably dead.
MIPS seems to be dying quite quickly in the server space but it is growing extremely quickly in the embedded space. NEC and PMC-Sierra are two of the big ones. in fact, PMC-Sierra just announced the RM9000x2 which has dual 1GHz 64-bit MIPS cores, an 8-bit 500Mhz Hypertransport connection and a 200Mhz DDR SDRAM controller. it's going to be targeted to telecom equipment, but still that's a pretty damned impressive processor.
at any rate, the MIPS processor is far from dead.
- j
FWIW, in MacOS X the "trash" icon in the dock changes into an "eject" icon when you drag a disk, which is slightly more intuitive. of course you could always just eject the disk from the menubar or by right-clicking (or command-clicking) on the disk and choosing "eject."
- j
well i've heard both good and bad things about Rogers@Home, but personally i've had absolutely no problems with them. perhaps that's just because i live in downtown Toronto: i have yet to hear a complaint about Rogers' downtown service from anybody i know. of course my parents in London have had constant problems so who knows? i do know (from my parents' experience) that if you bitch enough about the outages they'll refund some of your money.
at any rate, Rogers@Home isn't completely useless across the board, but they definitely have their problem areas. they're also considerably better than Bell Sympatico from my experience (but they're also hit & miss).
- j
clever! of course you do have to take into account the fact that Jon Katz isn't a very good writer, so there's a real reason to skim read it, apart from just a lack of attention. for a better analysis of the need for attention, be sure to read Aldus Huxley's Island.
if you're going to read about attention, it should at least be from somebody who knows how to write.
ATTENTION. ATTENTION. HERE AND NOW BOYS.
- j
that doesn't mean anything. many companies are hiring at the same time they're doing layoff. sometimes they'll cut a whole department that's not part of their "core strategy" while simultaneously hiring into the departments that are doing well. many times they'll move people's jobs, but sometimes the skillsets just don't match and they have to look elsewhere.
afterall, it's not like "employees" are just carbon-copied workers. you can have some that won't work while still trying to find some that will.
- j
well yes there's more information available but if it's of considerably lesser quality then you can't really blame 'us' for ignoring it. perhaps this (necessary) "filtering" has made us a little impatient, but i'd hardly say that i skim-read slashdot because i'm looking for immediate gradification. the real fact of the matter is that most of it isn't worth reading, impatient or not.
- j
People don't "read" Slashdot. They skim it. Most people don't even really read the posts before they start writing replies, and don't even ask about clicking links to read off-site articles.
true, but in our defense, most of this shit isn't worth reading. i don't mean this to be flamebait, but it's bound to happen with any site who's content is primarily generated by users. there's a good chance, even with moderation, that a good number of the comments will be poorly written, perhaps with bad grammar, no thesis or common thought pattern, ignorant and/or completely wrong contect, or even written without capital letters! all of these things make reading comments painful and time-consuming.
of course that doesn't make the content useless, and there are always gems to be found, but it does excuse us for skim reading a lot of the content here on slashdot.
to stay on topic: as for Feed and Suck i didn't really like either site but i will miss Wednesday's Filler on Suck. any idea what "Polly Ester" will be doing in the future?
- j
Technics 1200MKII about 450.00
if you want a turntable with a great audio quality then the Technics 1200s aren't really the best choice. they're great for durability (i can attest to that), but you can get a better sounding turntable at about the same price.
of course if you're DJing then get the Techs or get a new hobby ;)
- j
There's always the haunting fear in any audiophile's heart that there's something better out there. That's exactly why a good dealer is imperative.
on the topic of this story if you substituted "audiophile" with "drug user" the quote above would be just as applicable.
- j
haha. whoever has moderator points, mod up the post below this one (currently at score 0); it's hilarious ;).
- j
it's true that if you get into a postion where your MBA would be useful you'll do less technical work, that's absolutely true. if you absolutely love geeking out then it really wouldn't be your thing. however you shouldn't fall into the assumption that the only thing you can do as an MBA is to go into management. there are lots of other career options for business people! you can do marketing for technical products, technical sales, strategic marketing or business development.
sure you may have some people under you in many cases, but if you're the director of business development of a medium-sized tech company it's very plausible that you'd work on your own to develop strategic partnerships for your company and report directly to the CEO. management is nowhere in this equation. there's much more to business than just management, but most slashdot geeks don't seem interested enough to leave their cubicles for 10 seconds to learn the alternatives. that's fine if you're not interested, but please don't spread complete nonsense to those that might want to learn what an MBA can really provide.
- j
an aside: it's quite apparent that many slashdot users could really benefit from aquiring some business knowledge simply by the way marketing people are regarded by most people here. ;)
but anyhow, if you have any aspirations of getting out of a generic cubicle job, your best bet is to learn a little about business. while experience is great, ultimately you need a starting point and that's what a good MBA can provide. it'll give you the fundamental knoweldge of how finance, marketing, sales and business development work, and hopefully a base that you can apply to your learning on the job.
having a technical degree is useful, but if you can pull off both a technical degree and have an MBA you'll be absolutely golden. if you're one of those people who can be techincally-minded and yet convey your thoughts easily to others then you may really enjoy taking an MBA as well as learning a lot from the experience. engineering is great, but ultimately it takes the business infrastructure to market and sell a product. of course, to do this properly those in sales and marketing have to have a good understanding of the technology they're pushing or you get the "clueless marketroid" symptom so often discussed here slashdot. this is where techies with MBAs come in, and there's a real need for this.
from a personal perspective, if you're the type of techinical person that also love to interact with other people then ultimately you'd be very happy taking an MBA. i personally work in marketing at a semiconductor company that produces microprocessor companion chips for the embedded market. i get to work on some interesting geek projects, such as working with embedded Linux, but i also get included in the strategic product roadmap, sales, and partnership aspects of the company. personally i much prefer this to the ASIC design or coding that i was doing in previous jobs, and of course none of this would be possible without some kind of knowledge of business.
many will say that you can get into these kinds of positions without any formal business training, but i'd argue that the MBA is still extremely important. in addition to giving you basic knowledge and the piece of paper to prove it, the most important thing that many people ignore is that a lot of business is about building relationships with other people. to that end, i can't stress enough how important it is to go to a proper business school! the people you meet during your MBA may very well be some of the best business contacts you ever meet in your life.
all in all i'd say that if you think you'd enjoy the work, go get an MBA. it's an extremely useful carreer move, especially for the technically minded.
- j
while this may be your experience ... it is unusual. Most trends *are* created by corporations, and most consumers seem pretty happy (ignorant?) with this state of affairs.
this AC is right. while i agree with the original poster that the good music is out there, most people don't want to look around that hard for their music! and why should they? not everybody needs to be obsessed with music: some people just want to listen to whatever's easiest and has a catchy tune, and there's nothing wrong with that.
i'm not really sure what's so bad about recording companies "generating" cool. if people don't want to take the time to find out what music they really want then i think the record companies should be able to make a nice fortune off of selling them "easy" music. there will always be "the underground" for the rest of us. some may consider this "unfair," but really, do you think all of these "unwashed masses" would actually bother to go out and find their own music if the record companies weren't there? of course not! they'd listen to whatever was playing that didn't completely piss them off.
the only people who really care about this are the ones who immediately assume that because they like to hunt for music that all people like to do the same. personally i love to find obscure music and i've made it my hobby to be a rave & club dj because of it. this is great for me, but i'm not about to assume that all people want to go to this much trouble. if they want to go out of their way to find and listen to my stuff, that's great! and if they want to continue listening to N*SYNC that's fine by me too (in fact, i happen to like N*SYNC, though the Backstreet Boys are more consistent ;).
at any rate, record companies do a lot of "evil" thing, but manufacturing cool certainly isn't one of them. it's simply supply & demand. demand for "easy" music.
(PS: i appologize for the exessive use of italics and "quotation marks" in this post ;)
- j
WHAT YOU SAY!!!
- j
well as i'm sure you've heard people say before (slashdot editors included), "I don't care about grammar." and it's true: there is no reason to care about grammar.
... except of course if you want people to understand what you're writing.
- j
this comes up just every time a video link is presented on slashdot. i've seen complaints about videos in Windows Media format, Quicktime and Real Video. what i'd like to know is, what format would the slashbots like to see their video in? i know personally as an OS X user i'd like to see videos in Quicktime (and Windows Media is most convenient when i'm using Windows), but are there any decent video formats available to Linux? formats that get reasonable compression rates like the new Windows Media or the newest Sorenson CODECs? if not is there anything that can be done about this apart from continuing to petition Sorenson, Microsoft and the others?
- j