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+ - OpenShot Video Editor Achieves $35k on Kickstarter, Final Goal in Reach!-> 5

Submitted by JonOomph
JonOomph writes "The popular open source video editor, OpenShot, has less than 39 hours remaining on popular crowd-funding site, Kickstarter.com. The lead developer, Jonathan Thomas, has proposed a revolutionary new feature, which would allow users to offload CPU, memory, and disk cache to a local server (or multiple local servers), dramatically increasing the speed of previewing and rendering. The more servers added to the pool, the faster the video editing engine becomes (with the primary limitation being network bandwidth). If the final goal of $40k is reached in the remaining hours, this feature will be added to the next version of OpenShot."
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Comment: Re:Chinese (Score 1) 514

by dylan_- (#42381017) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?

Ahh, I see. You were referring to the youngsters born in the 1940s :-) It seems the liturgy was translated by a committee in the early 1960s. I would have thought the creed would have been translated before that, though. Isn't is used in some Presbyterian churches?

Oddly enough, I remembered the creed as "Tha mi creidsinn" but when I Googled it it said "Tha sinn" so I assumed my memory was at fault.

Comment: Re:Chinese (Score 1) 514

by dylan_- (#42368003) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?

but in Scottish Gaelic only conservative speakers use "creididh mi" (or more idiomatically "cha chreid mi" -- I don't believe) and increasing numbers of youngsters (and learners) are saying "tha mi a' creidsinn" -- "I am believing".

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding (I will get around to around to studying languages some time!), but that doesn't seem to be a particularly new formation to me. The Nicene Creed begins, "Tha sinn a' creidsinn ann an aon Dia" and that translation has been around a while. At least since I was a child and had to learn it at school ;-)

Comment: Re:Chinese (Score 1) 514

by dylan_- (#42340369) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?

although Scottish Gaelic has recently developed a tendency to use the continuous aspect where it probably shouldn't be.

What does this mean? I assume that "shouldn't" is linguistic shorthand for "historically didn't but now do"; but I mean can you give me an example of where this happens and has changed. Thanks!

Comment: Re:The first rule of semiconductor manufacture is. (Score 1) 64

by dylan_- (#42127955) Attached to: Research Discovery Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Manufacturing

When was the last time the number of transistors per cm2 doubles in 18 months? 2203? 2004?

Actually, it's every 2 years. The 18 month period was from David House and referred to computing power (due to the combination of transister count increasing and speed increasing).

And the answer to your question would appear to be 2011 :)

Comment: Re:Bitcoins built-in failure (Score 1) 600

by dylan_- (#42092615) Attached to: Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve

Oh, and Inflation does not depend on exponential growth, just on any kind of growth. Nothing depends on exponential growth. But apparently you don't have the slightest idea of what is exponential growth either. Just to give you some numbers a growth of 4-5% a year tends to generate a very healthy inflation.

Any kind of percentage growth is exponential growth. Taking your 4% as an example, means doubling in size every 17.67 years. In other words, you can consider it as 100% growth over that term.

You can calculate the time it takes to reach 100% growth, at rate r%, with the following (I'm using "ln" to represent the natural logarithm since that's what spreadsheets use):

=ln(2) / ln(1 + r)

So, for 5% growth per annum, for example, it's

=ln(2) / ln(1.05)

which is 14.21 years.

That's why percentage growth of any kind is unsustainable over the longer term.

Comment: Re:Oh, crap, it's a wiki (Score 2) 299

by dylan_- (#41510015) Attached to: WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual

I once tried Inkscape and realized in disgust that the "manual" was a wiki.

No, it's not. What gave you that idea?

What you really need to try, though, are the Tutorials. They're under the Help menu and actually consist of SVG documents opened in a normal Inkscape window. It's simple yet brilliant -- when talking about a feature it simply suggests you try it there and then on that document. You should give it a try. Inkscape is an example of documentation done *right*!

Comment: Re:HB Inflation (Score 1) 2

by dylan_- (#40990379) Attached to: Humble Bundle: Linux Users Pay Most For Music Too

Linux donations to the Humble Bundle have been inflated by some improbably large contributions --- obviously not from individual gamers.

No they haven't. Remove the "large" donations and you'd change the average by about a cent or two.

the return from Linux is $625,000. Split among developers, charities, and the Humble Bundle itself.

Oh no! It could be split, say, 10 ways between all those options. And then, if you're an indie game developer, there might be as many as three of you in the company! That only gives you $20,000 each for the two weeks! Barely worth getting out of bed for, huh?

Don't you microsofties have to spend some of your time on research? Or are you allowed to make up whatever crap you like as long as it's negative to humanity?

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+ - Humble Bundle: Linux Users Pay Most For Music Too-> 2

Submitted by dylan_-
dylan_- writes "It's well known that in the various game Humble Bundles — pay whatever you want for a variety of games — Linux users have consistently been the ones who voluntarily pay the most. Some have attributed this to the lack of games on Linux but the latest Bundle is for music rather than games and the trend continues. Linux users paying an average of $11.95, Mac $9.92 and Windows $7.50. Perhaps the old complaint of it being more expensive to hire Linux sys-admins is correct, meaning they tend to earn more and leaving Linux users with more disposable income?"
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