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Ogg Vorbis Portables On The Way
Emmettfish writes "According to this release on Xiph.org, it looks like the Neuros player will support Linux users, and also give them the ability to play back Vorbis files on the move, starting in late May. Go Ogg! Remember, donating a few bucks to Xiph may not make the world a better place, but it'll definitely help it
sound a lot better." For those of us craving a portable that plays from cheap CD-Rs rather than flash media or a hard drive, Emmett says by email that an agreement for development of firmware for a CD-based Ogg player is in the works, too.
Wendell and Cass would be more comfortable in a Greenwich Village one bedroom apartment than their current home at the New York Aquarium.
The male penguins, each about 14 years old, can't get enough of each other. The couple has been together for the past eight years, and the two have sex with each other whenever they can, which is often.
Presumably penguins can tell the guys from the gals, but aquarium officials apparently can't. For years they thought the pair was one of each. The truth didn't come out until aquarium staff carried out a blood test.
Angie Pelekedis, a spokeswoman for the aquarium on Coney Island, said: "They're one of the most dedicated couples in the penguin enclosure."
Penguin keeper Stephanie Mitchell added: "I was only seeing one mate with the other, but then one of the other keepers saw it happen the other way round so we did a blood test that proved they were both male.
"Cass tends to be a rather aggressive bird. Wendell is very nervous; always has been. He's on edge all the time. They're currently in a dispute with another couple over their nest. It seems to be one of the most desirable places in the penguin enclosure."
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Good to "hear" that ogg is moving on to the portables. Now if I could be first! Just once dammit!
Synchronization manager? Why the fuck would we want something like that? This gives me flashbacks to the pre-NexII days of the Rio sync manager! Why the hell not to just mount it as a removable drive and be done with it?
Woopty Doo Basil, what does it all mean?!
You must be using a pretty piece of shit desktop then. Let me guess, you're one of those AMD fanboys? Don't turn your back on your CPU fan, would hate for you to come home from school one day and find your house burned down to the ground.
Fucking AMD engineers wouldn't know a thermal diode if it up and bit them in the ass.
Well this is obviously good for ogg...
Shouldn't that read: Well this is obviously good for AOL...
AOL is the creator of Ogg and is the backer of Ogg portables. I'm not surprised if other companies close to AOL and the music companies back this as well considering the format is AOL owned.
hey you bastard, speex.org doesn't render in my browser. it may render fine in the pieces of shit that are based on gechko and mozilla eta alla that you use or richard stallmans forbids internet explorer but it doesn't render in opera. fix this now or suffer my wrath you bastard
It wouldn't matter. Only Apple can get the 1.8" drives at the moment, so everything else will be bigger. The iPod just slides under the "too big to pocket" limit. Even something just slightly larger (the Nomad Zen, for example) is too big.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
I'd rather not use the The Blubber Layered User Interface.
Above link is incorrect: The Blubber Layered User Interface