I'm still amazed that I can install and play with the new linux-mandrake release (and try out gnome, KDE, the new 2.2 kernel, and all those other goodies that for the first time) while the computer stays up and continues to happily process email and serve web pages. Trying out new distros has gotten so much easier! I wonder which linux vender will bundle vmware first?
Why people waste their time with anything else is beyond me. HTTP, SMTP, and HTML are forever; everything else will quickly end up in the dustbins of computer history. I have way to much fear, doubt and uncertainty about the future of any other protocol to even consider using it. Jeff
There is NO patent problem with JPEG 2000.
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The FSF would still insist on the elimination of copyright, something I find beyond the fringes of rational thought.
Let's see, then you prefer to live in a world where things are scarce artificially. Imagine if I told you that I had an infinite supply of nice warm gore-tex jackets, waterproof, with hoods and comfy liners and giving one to eveyone in Canada wouldn't cost me a thing. But... I charge a bunch of money anyway, put all sort of arbitrary restrictions on what people can do with the jackets (no way are you going to trim it to size if it doesn't fit or mend a hole or add some decorations!) Meaning a lot of people shiver and perhaps some freeze to death. For no good reason.
I mean, dammit, it makes sense to have high costs when something is actually scarce, but scarcity for the hell of it? That's kind of like a crime against humanity. At the very least, people are deprived needlessly. This happens sometimes with material goods (diamonds are a great example) but software is an extreme case - the cost of making a copy is nearly zero. A lot of people won't be able to run a program, or read a book, or whatever, only because of someone's greed, not any actual scarcity. The economics are so artificial it reminds me of communist economies.
The only reason reasonable people ever agree to have intellectual property (besides those who directly benefit from the artificial economics) is in hopes that the system would produce incentives for people to create. In the case of software, I suspect it may not be worth it. Those incentives are convincing someone to pay my salary right now. But that means I am working in an artificial economy (with unnatural scarcity) which has certain inefficiencies. For example, others are unlikely to be able to build on my work.
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I'm still amazed that I can install and play with the new linux-mandrake release (and try out gnome, KDE, the new 2.2 kernel, and all those other goodies that for the first time) while the computer stays up and continues to happily process email and serve web pages. Trying out new distros has gotten so much easier! I wonder which linux vender will bundle vmware first?
The article says that the lack of a journaling filesystem is one of linux's three major weaknesses. What are the other two?
Why people waste their time with anything else is beyond me. HTTP, SMTP, and HTML are forever; everything else will quickly end up in the dustbins of computer history. I have way to much fear, doubt and uncertainty about the future of any other protocol to even consider using it. Jeff
Could you cite references to back this up?
Let's see, then you prefer to live in a world where things are scarce artificially. Imagine if I told you that I had an infinite supply of nice warm gore-tex jackets, waterproof, with hoods and comfy liners and giving one to eveyone in Canada wouldn't cost me a thing. But... I charge a bunch of money anyway, put all sort of arbitrary restrictions on what people can do with the jackets (no way are you going to trim it to size if it doesn't fit or mend a hole or add some decorations!) Meaning a lot of people shiver and perhaps some freeze to death. For no good reason.
I mean, dammit, it makes sense to have high costs when something is actually scarce, but scarcity for the hell of it? That's kind of like a crime against humanity. At the very least, people are deprived needlessly. This happens sometimes with material goods (diamonds are a great example) but software is an extreme case - the cost of making a copy is nearly zero. A lot of people won't be able to run a program, or read a book, or whatever, only because of someone's greed, not any actual scarcity. The economics are so artificial it reminds me of communist economies.
The only reason reasonable people ever agree to have intellectual property (besides those who directly benefit from the artificial economics) is in hopes that the system would produce incentives for people to create. In the case of software, I suspect it may not be worth it. Those incentives are convincing someone to pay my salary right now. But that means I am working in an artificial economy (with unnatural scarcity) which has certain inefficiencies. For example, others are unlikely to be able to build on my work.
Jeff
Hi jh,
Do you think they'll use 4:4:4 color?
-jab
This is an interesting metric. Hmm, is there a reference site that you recommend for comparing
different lossy compression schemes using ROC?