Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:46:36 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVDs [and MPEG decoder hardware] Message-ID: <19990126174636.C21039@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <88102.917315784@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:56:24PM -0800 References: <199901252248.QAA55335@jake.lodgenet.com> <88102.917315784@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:56:24PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I'm looking at the same card. We're supposed to have one in this > > week. I've started a dialog with Sigma Designs to see if we can > > get the programming infos. > > Well, that's more promising news on the DVD front than I've seen for > awhile, great stuff! > > I hope something comes of this, and my letter to Brian concerning > creative labs should not be considered to be directed at Brian alone > if anyone else has interest in the CL product. :) They're cheap enough > and important enough to FreeBSD's multimedia picture that I'd be just > happy to buy a couple of them as one. before i drive yet another nail into my own coffin .. on second thoughs i;ve removed the people from teh cc: line, i have enough enemies after my head, i dont need more nemies. this is good news on the hardware compaitabity front, if i ever get a dvd kit i will thank you all for your persaverance. now, on to my rant .... you guys (freebsd users, not yiu guys in particular) are all so heated up about getting another stinking dvd, super expensive bit of new tommorrow hardware .. all teh pretty bits that bloody minded equipemt makers cannot get out of teh way of thier feet fast enough to get into your greedy hands all for waht .. free software driver development. i cna relate to that, i;d do the sme thing if the saps were so keen to get a few bits of garbage hardware .. i;d go laughing all the way to the bank. BUT .. what of teh people who have been excluded freom using freebsd by dint of teh fact that freebsd dosent have suitable video 'driver' of teh textmode console to provide a character set that is readble by people with diminished visual capacity .. i'm not going to thoush the neurolological defeciets, but, its all part of the same deal. its not pretty to work on a bit of software that will be used by some ugly deforemed of body or slured and drooling mouthed person whost speach is so hard to follow most so called normal people turn away in disgust and writeoff the stinking carcase as a 'moron' with an "iq" in the minus region. because they cannot deal with the reality that not all people are picture perfect america adverisement postcrd cut out people, it ain't pretty and its not finaccilly rewarding. i know about a dozen people who would be chuffed to bits to be able to sue a computer to bea ble to talk to other people .. sure this group would hide behind teh anonimity we all do in email .. the www and email is a place where minds can meet and people can get to know people .. where the physical, teh repulsive viseral reality can be set aside and people can, people do talk to people on a more or less equal footing. a dvd player kit is probely no more expensive than a 21 inch sony or hitachi, well the sony definately .. hitachi are sill high quality enough to hold thier price. .. yes a few hitachi 21 inch monitors and possibly matrox's or stb velocituies . or some other card cable of being drive to 1600x1400x256. and a real programmer of two to help the visually imperared group to 'develop' a text mode driver that will enable teh std console in text mode to display characters that are about 10 times higer and some 8 times wider than currently available . so that not just us uglies can use your sanitarily cleansed politically corrected self defence mechanism .. older people who have retired can beomce once more usefull contributors, young people with severly dsyfunctionla viusl corext deveoplemnt can have an avenue to communiice, dsylexics could have a chance to lear to read and to write. we are sorry that all you poeple are just vultures hang around teh dvd give outs .. wasting so much talent on worthless development when so many cry out for just a little concideration. i won;t appologies for the harshness of my address, i an sick and tired of seeing souch gratious developemnt .. the hig end is so wonderfully supported, bu tthe devil take the hindmost if you are not like the hurd .. your only alternative is teh microsoft environment and teh vilification of the jerk element that is making it self disgustingly self evident even here in the sanity that once prevailed freebsd- mailinglists. i once ask a freind of mine about support for the disabled .. her responce sickened me .. she was so concerned abouyt the small number, the so little return on investment the strain on teh poor volunter developers working for so little return. i trikes me a a triffle ludicrust .. how many people are going to embrace dvd's. propbly far less than their are people who could use freensd if they could read the bloody screen .. who knows what sort of taleent is beiong driven awya by our disgusting obvious repulsion of teh real needs of real people. ok rant mode ended .. for this time take care the only difference between me, the use of teh disabl;ed world is the i got here before you did .. you will greo old, you will loose you rteeth, you will get incontinet, you will loose your sppech and sight you will beomce senile .. your wonderfull meidacl system cannot stop you from getting old. normally i spen some time rewriting my posts to remove the typos caused by my broken brian pros and the miss-seeings caused by using a 14 nch montit and type suze a lawyer would be proud to call 'the fine print'. regards jonathan for the spelling elitists .. you loose 35 percent of you brain and see how well you spell .. if yo can still wlak and talk and yse your hands that is. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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