Gee, I can't think of anything I'd like to do more than watch a 320x240 ipod quality film. Sorry, I'd rather watch films on a sensible sized screen or not bother at all. And that's ignoring the fact that for the equivalent of $10 I can see at least one film at the cinema.
Anyway, does anyone actually watch videos on their ipod? Anyone else think it seems a bit of a marketing fad - rather like the pocket TV's of the 80's and 90's?
I downloaded all of Tucows once (around 1998) when I had ISDN. It took me several weeks of continual dialup though, and I was in the UK... Do I win a cookie?:o
What the hell? Most consumer items are at least DOUBLE the US dollar price here, some getting on for double as well as the exchange rate. Pretty much everything is more expensive here in the UK - and every time I visit the US (usually Washington DC) I'm heavily reminded of the fact.
Actually, one of the reasons I bought a macmini was to try out the user interface, specifically things like Exposé. I wanted to see whether it would be a driver for enhanced productivity for a largely non-technical work force.
Renewable sources aren't green. Burning logs from the trees in renewable forests isn't particularly helpful when you are trying to reduce CO2 emissions.
Or you could walk to the stores. Of course, the last time I was in the USA I got laughed at for asking how I walked the 2 miles from hotel to restaurant. And got told I'd probably be arrested for kerb crawling.
Getting a little off topic, but I was looking at buying either a Mackie SDR2496 or the Alesis mentioned, and went with the Mackie mainly because it uses standard IDE drives in Lian-Li compatible caddies with FAT32 file systems. I've built my own firewire caddy and now have the same kind of features as the Alesis. OK, the Mackie doesn't have a ethernet or an FTP server (it has USB instead), but 10mbit is largely pointless for transferring multitrack 24/96 data.
Actually, from time to time they do (and it seems to happen much more often now). Google place sponsored ads between thin two blue lines in the middle of your search results. They show up like normal results, except there is no "cached" link, and the link goes back to a google server for tracking purposes.
Shrug. If you don't like my licencing and beliefs, you don't have to use anything I choose to produce and are free to find alternatives. I designed and wrote it and I'll be the one that decides how it is distributed and licenced. Ultimately it is dual licenced; early releases are under GPL2, newer stuff is BSD or Apache. You are free to use the evil licence if you wish.
I believe D refers to GPL3, but I haven't checked it out in full. What I started to read scared me, and I've moved what little of my own code exists to BSD / Apache licences.
Actually, yes I would. My parents currently have an XP machine, but as soon as my mother retires next year from teaching I will be installing Ubuntu on it. Why? Because my mother and father found Gnome and Ubuntu generally easier to use. My father is a computer-phobe (even though he designed and built custom Z80/8080/8085 boards years ago) who needs constant hand holding even with using google, and my mother isn't that much better. Shocking isn't it. They browse (eBay, shopping, google etc), send emails to friends and family, and err, well yeah that would be it then. Grandma would be the same, although at 84 I really don't think it's fair to try and make her learn to use a PC of any kind...
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I play WoW at 1280x1024 on a MX440 and it works fine. Admittedly it isn't on a 1GHz cpu though:-)
I use Windows 2000 and Windows XP heavily, both at home and at work, in addition to Linux, Solaris, HPUX, and others. I can honestly say that I don't remember seeing a Windows system crash in the last 2 years. I've seen applications crash, and explorer to crash - but those can be restarted. I've seen nautilus and other nix apps crash far more often I'd say.
What really erks me about Hollywood is the fact they could quite easily support any number of speakers by using 4 channel encoding - more efficient, and vastly superior results. Of course this doesn't really make commercial sense for them though - they can't move the goalposts every 6 months!
The decoder would change depending on the number of speakers, but you could support any system this way, in any positions - ie 8 speakers could create a spherical sound stage, 3 or 4 to create conventional 360 degree surround.
Surely it will work anywhere, as it just needs to know which cell your phone is currently sat on. Triangulation is only needed for exact pinpointing, which these systems don't necessarily provide?
Don't get me wrong - I use Linux/Solaris on desktops and servers daily, for developing, running desktop software (IM, Email etc) and for servers, and think it is great. In fact, I resent using Windows for email.
I only meant to highlight that using Windows is not a choice for many people. It isn't just the audio world that has this problem - photography (no, GIMP isn't suitable), digital video, and anyone needing to work in multiple "written" scripts (no standard workable input method framework for example).
Also, for servers it depends who you ask about managing Windows / Linux. It is possible to manage large / huge Windows deployments too - with the right tools (one needs the right tools on Unix too of course, but that is always overlooked).
Or just host a torrent? None of these solutions really help the video problem though. Sure, I could mirror the file, but hell, no way am I going to do that on my connection. Some of us get tiny upload allowances which completely swamp our connections and make downloading a nightmare when used...
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Gee, I can't think of anything I'd like to do more than watch a 320x240 ipod quality film. Sorry, I'd rather watch films on a sensible sized screen or not bother at all. And that's ignoring the fact that for the equivalent of $10 I can see at least one film at the cinema.
Anyway, does anyone actually watch videos on their ipod? Anyone else think it seems a bit of a marketing fad - rather like the pocket TV's of the 80's and 90's?
I suppose "split" is out of the question?
I downloaded all of Tucows once (around 1998) when I had ISDN. It took me several weeks of continual dialup though, and I was in the UK... Do I win a cookie? :o
What the hell? Most consumer items are at least DOUBLE the US dollar price here, some getting on for double as well as the exchange rate. Pretty much everything is more expensive here in the UK - and every time I visit the US (usually Washington DC) I'm heavily reminded of the fact.
Actually, one of the reasons I bought a macmini was to try out the user interface, specifically things like Exposé. I wanted to see whether it would be a driver for enhanced productivity for a largely non-technical work force.
You mean slashdotters have evolved the ability to make JOKES?!
Renewable sources aren't green. Burning logs from the trees in renewable forests isn't particularly helpful when you are trying to reduce CO2 emissions.
Or you could walk to the stores. Of course, the last time I was in the USA I got laughed at for asking how I walked the 2 miles from hotel to restaurant. And got told I'd probably be arrested for kerb crawling.
You need to read up on Zawinki's law...
How about open-xchange or OpenGroupware?
Getting a little off topic, but I was looking at buying either a Mackie SDR2496 or the Alesis mentioned, and went with the Mackie mainly because it uses standard IDE drives in Lian-Li compatible caddies with FAT32 file systems. I've built my own firewire caddy and now have the same kind of features as the Alesis. OK, the Mackie doesn't have a ethernet or an FTP server (it has USB instead), but 10mbit is largely pointless for transferring multitrack 24/96 data.
Actually, from time to time they do (and it seems to happen much more often now). Google place sponsored ads between thin two blue lines in the middle of your search results. They show up like normal results, except there is no "cached" link, and the link goes back to a google server for tracking purposes.
Evil or not?
Hebrew does too - bound to be more
Shrug. If you don't like my licencing and beliefs, you don't have to use anything I choose to produce and are free to find alternatives. I designed and wrote it and I'll be the one that decides how it is distributed and licenced. Ultimately it is dual licenced; early releases are under GPL2, newer stuff is BSD or Apache. You are free to use the evil licence if you wish.
I've just started to look at it in a whole new light, for various reasons.
I believe D refers to GPL3, but I haven't checked it out in full. What I started to read scared me, and I've moved what little of my own code exists to BSD / Apache licences.
Actually, yes I would. My parents currently have an XP machine, but as soon as my mother retires next year from teaching I will be installing Ubuntu on it. Why? Because my mother and father found Gnome and Ubuntu generally easier to use. My father is a computer-phobe (even though he designed and built custom Z80/8080/8085 boards years ago) who needs constant hand holding even with using google, and my mother isn't that much better. Shocking isn't it. They browse (eBay, shopping, google etc), send emails to friends and family, and err, well yeah that would be it then. Grandma would be the same, although at 84 I really don't think it's fair to try and make her learn to use a PC of any kind...
I play WoW at 1280x1024 on a MX440 and it works fine. Admittedly it isn't on a 1GHz cpu though :-)
I use Windows 2000 and Windows XP heavily, both at home and at work, in addition to Linux, Solaris, HPUX, and others. I can honestly say that I don't remember seeing a Windows system crash in the last 2 years. I've seen applications crash, and explorer to crash - but those can be restarted. I've seen nautilus and other nix apps crash far more often I'd say.
And I'm a Microsoft hater!
What really erks me about Hollywood is the fact they could quite easily support any number of speakers by using 4 channel encoding - more efficient, and vastly superior results. Of course this doesn't really make commercial sense for them though - they can't move the goalposts every 6 months!
The decoder would change depending on the number of speakers, but you could support any system this way, in any positions - ie 8 speakers could create a spherical sound stage, 3 or 4 to create conventional 360 degree surround.
See http://www.ambisonic.net/ for details
And the messages were written by US citizens using US developed encryption? Damn, knew there was a flaw there somewhere.
Haha!
Not.
Surely it will work anywhere, as it just needs to know which cell your phone is currently sat on. Triangulation is only needed for exact pinpointing, which these systems don't necessarily provide?
I only meant to highlight that using Windows is not a choice for many people. It isn't just the audio world that has this problem - photography (no, GIMP isn't suitable), digital video, and anyone needing to work in multiple "written" scripts (no standard workable input method framework for example).
Also, for servers it depends who you ask about managing Windows / Linux. It is possible to manage large / huge Windows deployments too - with the right tools (one needs the right tools on Unix too of course, but that is always overlooked).
Or just host a torrent? None of these solutions really help the video problem though. Sure, I could mirror the file, but hell, no way am I going to do that on my connection. Some of us get tiny upload allowances which completely swamp our connections and make downloading a nightmare when used...