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Hydrogenaudio Closes Doors For Now
verloren writes "The Admins at Hydrogenaudio, the community site discussing audio compression and related issues, have temporarily closed the site. They've posted a notice stating that they're rethinking the standards of the community, and how they're enforced. It seems to have been sparked most recently by a debate over what media players to use, but has been brewing for some time as the objective standards required at the site have been overlooked by many posters. The sister sites Foobar2000 and Rarewares are still available."
What do I win, oh big one?
Do I win too, oh big one?
The USA is Dying
.9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying
One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did
Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.
All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.
Fact: The USA is dying
Ogg Vorbis is a stupid name. It doesn't give the casual user any indication of what it does (especially as it itself is not a codec only a container).
We need a format called "Standard Media Format" or SMF for short. It can be versioned and since it is the "standard" everyone will need to implement it.
What lies underneath the name is superfluous.
I meant irrelevant.
Standards either evolve over time (mp3), are created by groups of large media companies (DVD, CD), and there are even a few technologies that accidently become a standard over time (Linux). Heck I think OGG and FLAC are just starting to show some of their promise in the form of device support. I'm busy rencoding my CD collection.
People tend to forget that MP3 has been around since the EARLY 90's, it takes a long time for any technology to become a REAL standard.
http://www.motionmountain.rg3.net/
has been considerably extended. It adds a new section on nuclear physics that includes the story of radioactivity, a MRI scan of humans making love and the dream of grand unification. The present 14th revision also adds more figures on special relativity, a short explanation of k calculus, the paradox of the relativistic submarine, a photograph and description of how some caterpillars shoot away their faecal matter, a photograph of a basilisk running over water, Stowe's periodic table of the elements, a beautiful picture of the analemma, references to monadology, the question why birds are not usually seen on high voltage lines, the question whether the moon is larger or smaller than the nail of your thumb at the end of your extended arm, the proof that Peary did not reach the north pole, and much more. Many photographs and drawings have been added, the graphical presentation reworked and several hundred challenge solutions have been added. (Tell me which ones you want next!) For all fields of physics the newest research results and the main unanswered questions are presented. The text remains a structured walk through classical physics, relativity, quantum theory and unification. In total, the text aims to give an overview of what motion is and what it can effect. The accent on surprises and thought-provoking puzzles has been kept. It will please both readers who open the text at random and those who read it systematically. Thank you to everybody who has sent criticisms, corrections and suggestions. Enjoy!
Bruno Bezerra Lima
P.S. In physics texts, figures take the biggest part of the budget - both in time and in money. Any help on (preferably colour postscript) images to be added to the text (with permission of course) is much appreciated. Such help will allow me to concentrate on the writing and make sure that the text can continue to be free for all readers throughout the world.
Although WinAmp2 is superb, it does have one big flaw... ie its as unstable as hell on my XP machines.
WinAmp3 is more stable, but its also bigger and bloatier... I don't want to wait an extra 3 seconds for it to load just so I can listen to a song or a short wav file.
Microsoft's Media player is ok if a little dull... it's pretty stable but looks a bit crappy (especially the visualisations) and also has DRM implications... I don't like being told what I can and can't do with music I've bought, thank you very much.
By far the best MP3 player I've used so far is the Quintessential Player which is very much like WinAmp2 but much more stable. Wiggys Rating: 5 out of 5; gold star and a tick.
Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
It didn't work -- all I got was a mostly blank page. Which is annoying, as I really wanted to see the MRI scans of people fucking.
One of the finest multi-format audio players, its simple looks belie its power, extensibility and ease of use. Give foobar2000 a whirl.
Developed at Hydrogenaudio by Peter Pawlowski [of former Winamp fame] et al.
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Yes, it's here. Please make sure you send enough stamps to cover postage.
Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?
MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."
REALITY:
- GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
- HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
- HP Bangalore Research
- IBM India Research Center
- IBM China Research Center
- Microsoft Research Beijing
MYTH #4: "If you're truly working on something high-tech, today's high-tech, you'll never have to worry about your job moving."REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."
MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."
REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."
This is a joke. How the FUCK does this get modded a troll?
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.