If we're talking about CPU issues with one service and not on the other, with the same resolution, we're not looking at a Boxee problem as much as we are a codec issue.
Rendering in HD is a very expensive process for a CPU, especially an H.264 codec. Standard file compression rules apply - the more an item is compressed, the more CPU cycles needed to decompress.
The NHL has taken special attention to 'head shots' this year and the injuries that go with. There's a handful of guys - Eric Lindros being the most prominent - who lost a great deal of playing time from getting their bell rung.
Rough story about Everett. I just read about some of the stuff he's done since, including completing his MBA. He actually never played with St. Louis, though - the Rams didn't move there until 1995.
As far as franchise players and their value, I imagine a guy like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, or starting MLB pitchers are probably worth close to $800M-1B now given the TV, merchandise, ticket, etc. revenue generated. It's reflected in the contracts they're getting; $25M isn't unprecedented for a season in the MLB, and over 15 years would get you up to $375M in their career. So, yeah - there's a huge benefit in further research.
NT4 SPs 2 and 6 broke more than they fixed. SP3 was rushed, as was "6a" (which shows up in winver as Service Pack 6) to fix the problems that the prior SP broke.
You could make the arguement for Windows 2000 having 6 as well, 4 proper SPs, a post-SP4 rollup, and the malware removal tool. Suffice to say, you can't simply download one or two items to be patched to date with Windows 2000, even in a bare configuration.
Moreover, I wouldn't worry too much about being critcized as making/. a poorer Microsoft resource when we can't even get/. editors to get the summaries straight. It's just articles and comments, for better or worse.
No, you're dead on. They decided to do some crazy things with the installation and package management starting with 10.1.
10.0 was nice as it was released. However, there's a lot of things that were needed in 10.1 to make it unusable. It made no sense for it to be a minor revision, as it was a major overhaul.
OES is technically both. When you buy OES, you get both Netware and SLES. I believe OES SP2 is actually comprised of Netware 6.5 SP4 and SLES 9 SP3.
When DirXML's scope increased, it became "Novell NSure Identity Manager", which, in version 3 is now "Novell Identity Manager". Novell's iChain's next revision is being released as "Novell Access Manager 3". To be fair, in each instance the products evolved greatly. However, the radical changes suggest a lack of vision.
That's a lot different - most people were first introduced to Firefox, not its previous incarnations. Moreover, most people didn't have to invest money or remarkable effort to find out what Firefox was all about - being a free download for Windows and all.
If a product is important enough, it can obviously survive a change in name. I have a hard time believing that the latest Novell line of Linux solutions are going to prove as important or interesting as Firefox has unless it becomes THE flagship OS for new servers and desktops.
With current naming we experienced confusion internally and externally between the project openSUSE and the distribution created there. And especially with the new naming of our Linux business products (SUSE Linux Enterprise 10) the differentiation between our business products and community/consumer product is not intuitive. Therefor the upcoming community/consumer version will be named openSUSE 10.2. We'll implement first name changes with Alpha 3 starting directly after Alpha 2 and will have a fully renamed distribution with Beta 1 in Nov.
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 are keeping their names.
This seems to illustrate yet again the issues Novell has had for the last decade with their product marketing - how can they develop brand loyalty when they keep changing the product names?
Had they left the Novell Linux Desktop name and replaced the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Novell Linux Server or Novell Linux Enterprise Server, wouldn't they have been able to distinguish the community versions against the enterprise versions much easier?
Novell's seemingly quarterly change in nomenclature and direction is baffling.
Agreed on the hockey comment. Being able to watch plays develop is remarkable. That, and when it looks like a puck is being cleared out of the offensive zone, you can never tell if a defenseman is going to catch it. It's very tough to watch compared to the real thing.
The first time I watched an HD hockey broadcast, everything I expected was there. It was great. Obviously, not like being at the game, but a tolerable substitute.
Nothing says "Product of the Future" like the beta version of a product named "Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003".
Sure, they're doing it to maintain the "2003" branding of the flagship server. But why, less than two months before the end of 2005, are they not even trying to sound modern?
I'm actually in the process of carrying out your experiment. I've seen I-III in order. I never saw Episode IV until Saturday, and have yet to see V and VI.
Episode III was the first movie that actually made me interested in what would happen next in the Star Wars universe.
Watching IV was very entertaining, as technology must've been much harder to come by in the years that followed III.
It probably would have been cooler to leave out the fact that Luke and Leia were brother and sister with Vader as father in III. Not that I don't already know these things, but it would be a lot more interesting to me to discover how they find out.
Then again, I spent Episode IV asking the person I watched it with all kinds of dumb questions (WTF is C3PO's purpose? Is that Obi-Wan?) and yelling at Luke and Leia to start making out.
There still needs to be a major player in the spyware market. Microsoft's Antispyware is the closest we have, but it's hardly more than the Giant product they rebranded.
Names like "Lavasoft" and "Spybot" don't inspire corporate confidence, even if the products are very, very good at what they do.
Symantec makes sense, but I don't like their products. My experience is they create more problems than they solve.
Good point. Why is this part of the Internet Security suite and not bundled with the Antivirus.
Couldn't the Antivirus engine be used in place of building a new software package?
I understand the bottom line is, well, their bottom line, but doesn't spyware/malware/etc. share more in common with viruses than a glorified firewall?
A lot of antivirus products have become 'free after rebate', including their own. Why not bundle spyware definitions as part of a value-add instead, and rename the product "Norton Anti-malware", or something to that extent?
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I wish I had mod points for you! :D
If we're talking about CPU issues with one service and not on the other, with the same resolution, we're not looking at a Boxee problem as much as we are a codec issue.
Rendering in HD is a very expensive process for a CPU, especially an H.264 codec. Standard file compression rules apply - the more an item is compressed, the more CPU cycles needed to decompress.
The NHL has taken special attention to 'head shots' this year and the injuries that go with. There's a handful of guys - Eric Lindros being the most prominent - who lost a great deal of playing time from getting their bell rung.
Rough story about Everett. I just read about some of the stuff he's done since, including completing his MBA. He actually never played with St. Louis, though - the Rams didn't move there until 1995.
As far as franchise players and their value, I imagine a guy like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, or starting MLB pitchers are probably worth close to $800M-1B now given the TV, merchandise, ticket, etc. revenue generated. It's reflected in the contracts they're getting; $25M isn't unprecedented for a season in the MLB, and over 15 years would get you up to $375M in their career. So, yeah - there's a huge benefit in further research.
-m.
how they made that backwards 'D' in Abobe.
This is simply not correct. Microsoft's share was purchased by Vector Capital acquired Microsoft's share, before buying the company outright.
Not quite...., but it doesn't make it any less awesome.
Whatever. We use hushmail.
If you freeze your ass in Buffalo, NY, for one more winter - the terrorists win.
I spent at least 10 winters there. GET OUT!
It was NT4 with 6. Sort of.
/. a poorer Microsoft resource when we can't even get /. editors to get the summaries straight. It's just articles and comments, for better or worse.
NT4 SPs 2 and 6 broke more than they fixed. SP3 was rushed, as was "6a" (which shows up in winver as Service Pack 6) to fix the problems that the prior SP broke.
You could make the arguement for Windows 2000 having 6 as well, 4 proper SPs, a post-SP4 rollup, and the malware removal tool. Suffice to say, you can't simply download one or two items to be patched to date with Windows 2000, even in a bare configuration.
Moreover, I wouldn't worry too much about being critcized as making
It's the Blood Code for Mortal Kombat on....I'm pretty sure it was the Sega Genesis. "ABACAB" (sic) was a hit song by the band Genesis.
Yes. Xenu has souls trapped at a garage in Hoboken, New Jersey.
That's why the buff male aliens tried to banish the hot female aliens using the Continuum Transfunctioner in "Dude, Where's My Car?".
No, you're dead on. They decided to do some crazy things with the installation and package management starting with 10.1.
10.0 was nice as it was released. However, there's a lot of things that were needed in 10.1 to make it unusable. It made no sense for it to be a minor revision, as it was a major overhaul.
OES is technically both. When you buy OES, you get both Netware and SLES. I believe OES SP2 is actually comprised of Netware 6.5 SP4 and SLES 9 SP3.
When DirXML's scope increased, it became "Novell NSure Identity Manager", which, in version 3 is now "Novell Identity Manager". Novell's iChain's next revision is being released as "Novell Access Manager 3". To be fair, in each instance the products evolved greatly. However, the radical changes suggest a lack of vision.
That's a lot different - most people were first introduced to Firefox, not its previous incarnations. Moreover, most people didn't have to invest money or remarkable effort to find out what Firefox was all about - being a free download for Windows and all.
If a product is important enough, it can obviously survive a change in name. I have a hard time believing that the latest Novell line of Linux solutions are going to prove as important or interesting as Firefox has unless it becomes THE flagship OS for new servers and desktops.
Summary is a bit misleading....
With current naming we experienced confusion internally and externally
between the project openSUSE and the distribution created there. And
especially with the new naming of our Linux business products (SUSE
Linux Enterprise 10) the differentiation between our business products
and community/consumer product is not intuitive. Therefor the upcoming
community/consumer version will be named openSUSE 10.2. We'll
implement first name changes with Alpha 3 starting directly after
Alpha 2 and will have a fully renamed distribution with Beta 1 in Nov.
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 are keeping their names.
This seems to illustrate yet again the issues Novell has had for the last decade with their product marketing - how can they develop brand loyalty when they keep changing the product names?
Had they left the Novell Linux Desktop name and replaced the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Novell Linux Server or Novell Linux Enterprise Server, wouldn't they have been able to distinguish the community versions against the enterprise versions much easier?
Novell's seemingly quarterly change in nomenclature and direction is baffling.
Agreed on the hockey comment. Being able to watch plays develop is remarkable. That, and when it looks like a puck is being cleared out of the offensive zone, you can never tell if a defenseman is going to catch it. It's very tough to watch compared to the real thing.
The first time I watched an HD hockey broadcast, everything I expected was there. It was great. Obviously, not like being at the game, but a tolerable substitute.
Perhaps Apple people just love their Acid far too much?
:)
It would certainly explain a lot of their UI elements.
Nothing says "Product of the Future" like the beta version of a product named "Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003".
Sure, they're doing it to maintain the "2003" branding of the flagship server. But why, less than two months before the end of 2005, are they not even trying to sound modern?
Sure, Linux is one way.
However, I'm very impressed by Novell NSure.
Do not overlook this product if you're looking for a solid LDAP based Identity Management solution.
dn:uid=anonymous, ou=linux, o=slashdot.org
changetype: modify
add: objectclass
objectclass: troll
take that!
I'm actually in the process of carrying out your experiment. I've seen I-III in order. I never saw Episode IV until Saturday, and have yet to see V and VI.
Episode III was the first movie that actually made me interested in what would happen next in the Star Wars universe.
Watching IV was very entertaining, as technology must've been much harder to come by in the years that followed III.
It probably would have been cooler to leave out the fact that Luke and Leia were brother and sister with Vader as father in III. Not that I don't already know these things, but it would be a lot more interesting to me to discover how they find out.
Then again, I spent Episode IV asking the person I watched it with all kinds of dumb questions (WTF is C3PO's purpose? Is that Obi-Wan?) and yelling at Luke and Leia to start making out.
Don't forget:
"Bite my shiny daffodil ass!"
There still needs to be a major player in the spyware market. Microsoft's Antispyware is the closest we have, but it's hardly more than the Giant product they rebranded.
Names like "Lavasoft" and "Spybot" don't inspire corporate confidence, even if the products are very, very good at what they do.
Symantec makes sense, but I don't like their products. My experience is they create more problems than they solve.
Good point. Why is this part of the Internet Security suite and not bundled with the Antivirus.
Couldn't the Antivirus engine be used in place of building a new software package?
I understand the bottom line is, well, their bottom line, but doesn't spyware/malware/etc. share more in common with viruses than a glorified firewall?
A lot of antivirus products have become 'free after rebate', including their own. Why not bundle spyware definitions as part of a value-add instead, and rename the product "Norton Anti-malware", or something to that extent?
It's running IIS 5?
WTF?
Yes, the listing is nearly a month old - but why even put up a site called www.hackiis6.com if you're going to install 5?