Oh, so because I'm in the minority means that I'm wrong? Tyranny of the majority?
And yeah, "all" the four letter words. Let's see.....I count 2 of them. I'm sorry if it offends you so deeply, but since you have no problem with ad hominem attacks on me, I don't see what your real problem is.
The point is that Apple and Sorenson are two free companies, and if, by choice, they entered into such an agreement, I guess that's just too bad for you. Apple does not have monopoly power over the multimedia scene now, and certainly didn't back when they first licensed the codec.
And do you really think that Sorenson would open up the codec for the good of Linux users when they make tons of money selling the encoder? Yeah, that would be a real smart business move.
BTW, I have no idea how you can call my statement a lie. Are you claiming that Apple owns Sorenson?
You are really full of it. Sorenson wants to make money, and so does Apple. They have both invested R&D dollars into the codec, and they don't have to make it available for Linux if they don't want to.
It's not a monopoly, there are plenty of other codecs out there, Sorenson is just one of(if not the) best. If you don't like that, write your own.
Apple has supported mklinux in the past, they are not anti-Linux. But if they don't think it makes business sense to spend a lot of money porting the Quicktime player to Linux, then the burden rests on Linux users.
You might also want to take into consideration the antagonism between Apple and Linux. Where does it come from? Linux users. A lot of Linux users are very anti-Apple for one reason or another, and criticize everything Apple does (including when they open-source their software!)
I also think you should expand a little on that part about it being a "critical failing of their long-term business plan to keep it closed source." That is a hell of a thing to say without backing it up.
They bundle IE because MS threatned to kill MacOffice if they didn't, a move that would've killed Apple. So Jobs is more pragmatism than principle, if he wasn't Apple would be gone by now.
I for one don't care, I use iCab and Communicator, and will probably move to Mozilla soon.
First of all, Apple doesn't even own Sorenson, so stop bashing them without reason. Apple designed Quicktime so it can play Sorenson, they don't owe you shit.
If you want to write your own codec, or license the Sorenson one and write your own multimedia player, then do it. Until you do, stop bitching at Apple.
The Sorenson codec kicks ass, the quality of the video is very high and the size of the files are very small. If you can make one that is as good as that, then I'm sure people will use it. If you can't, and if no one donating their time to open-source can, then who gives a fuck what you think?
What you are doing would be like picking on Adobe just because Photoshop is better than Gimp and they have the balls to charge for it. Grow up.
It would be interesting to say the least
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It seems to me you'd need some type of handles on the floor(or whatever, it doesn't matter in space), because how do you "push" with no gravity?
So either the crew would have to jury-rig something up, or NASA would have to set up a "love-room" or something. Another interesting question(s): birth control? pregnancies? abortion? birth in space?
If there's a 2.5 year trip to Mars, I don't think it would be all that unlikely for one of the women to get pregnant and potentially have to deliver in zero-g. Of course, the delivery and raising of the child pose all new dilemas(but on the bright side, there won't be any "SIDS" in space).
The hell with probes to Mars, Jupiter is a much better planet:
1) Bigger target to hit 2) Fewer Martians 3) More gravity, so our probes can crash faster and we don't have to go through that long, painful "it might be in safe-mode..." period.
All in all, I think it's the only reasonable choice.
So I say write your Congressman: Mars is old hat, we want our probes crashed into Jupiter!
This is the another step on the way to thought police. Remember in 1984, Winston says how you can't even make odd facial gestures because people could be arrested for that alone.
That's what this system is going to lead to. It is so horrible that even after reading 1984 I can't imagine it.
The right to privacy is unbelievably important, and I think someone needs to speak up and stop things like this now, before it's too late, before one of these things is in your home, and if you even think about rebelling they can pick you up before you do.
This is incredibly scary, and I hope everyone else is as scared of this stuff as I am, because if they're not 1984 will come true.
No space travel=no point in going on, in my book. Might as well head back for the trees.
There it is people, right there. The meaning of life : Humans, as a whole, over time, should be advancing, learning more, exploring (boldy going where no man has gone before anyone?).
People who can't see any point in exploring space piss me off. It's like: it's always going to be up there, and you have no problem looking at the planets and stars every night and never trying to get there?
Considering human history, those people should be evolutionary glitches. I hope they are. It seems right now they're he majority in the US.
Anyway, I'm watching this right now, still no communication.
If 11:30 PM EST, it still hasn't responded, it will probably mean it's gone.
Why?
Because NASA is basically going to send a command telling to to wake the hell up and start talking to us. If it doesn't respond, it will start looking pretty bad.
Tomorrow the probe should wake itself up and start transmitting no matter what. If that doesn't happen, you can pretty much count on it being gone.
This sucks. NASA really has to start having more success exploring. I also really hope that private industry steps up. There's a fortune to be made in space vacations. And once companies start battling for people's money, that's when the real technological leaps, and the real price cuts will occur. I hope it's soon.
Motorola announced great advances today. IBM says they can keep up with Moore's law for 10 more years. Intel has said they don't know how they will increase speed after 2000 or so
A friend of mine named P.J. O'Rourke said that too. In fact, he said it in "Eat the Rich".
As I've said, we could do this easily, the only reason we don't is that people in the US really don't care anymore.
Mayve if China gets a human into space all the Americans with overinflated egos will want to make sure the US of A stays ahead of the stinking commies in the space race.
Personally, I would kill for the opportunity to go into space. Just imagining being up there is humbling.
According to NASA (IIRC), it would be more like $50+ billion
But it's small change for the gov't. If enough people actually wanted to and made this an issue, NASA would get the money. The problem is that no one in the USA wants to. Idiots.
Has anyone noticed how it seems to have become fashionable these days to say "I'll probably get flamed/moderated down for this, but..." and the but is always "I just had to say it" or "I don't care".
There also always seems to be tbis imaginary "man" at the end. "But I don't care, man". "Power to the people, man!". "Down with Nazi moderators, man!".
I wouldn't have a big problem with this, but it seems these posts are always moderated up. My theory is that by predicting downward moderation, it scares the moderators into not wanting to play into the person's hand or something.
It appears to be a great form of reverse psychology.
Anyway, I'll probably get flamed or moder......oh never mind.
...except that this is from Bill Gates, who, if he could, would probably have everyone paying him by the hour for everything they do on the net. I believe there was an article in Time or Newsweek where he said exactly that.
People would start up Windows, open IE, go through MSN to a website that in run off of WindowsNT, and they would pay MS a few pennies for every little thing they do.
The only reason Bill is against this version of the plan is that he doesn't get the money.
I just hope kids like this movie better than Pokemon. Some probably don't, and that's just sad. This movie is a work of art, and in some spots hysterically funny. I also think some teenagers should really give this movie a shot. A lot of people think it's a cartoon, it's from Disney, which = totally uncool. But this is fun for all ages.
All the Star Wars references near the end were really funny, as was the Jurassic Park T-Rex chase scene. Pixar is not just making a kids movie. Hell, a lot of kids probably wouldn't pick up on the joke.
Also, the short at the beginning is excellent. It's primitive compared to this or Bug's Life, but it had me laughing out loud. It's really funny to see how they can give emotions and almost facial expressions to something like a lamp.
This is for all those Brits who mock the US for it's lack of freedoms. They look down their noses at our government and say they have just as luch liberty as us.
Well if it's even possible that any of this stuff could be legal, I would say they don't. That is, even if these don't become law, if they could without being struck down(ours would be in the Supreme Court, I'm assuming there's something at least vaguely similar in the UK), then you do not have more freedoms than we do.
Don't worry, I'm plenty pissed with the guys in Congress, too, but I know if that bill with the Ten Commandments in every classroom passed the Supreme Court would throw it out so fast it would make your head spin. Thank God we have the Bill of Rights, without it, our country would've gone down the tubes long ago.
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http://lecb68.linkexchange.com:8002/vendetta.mov
All credit goes to localman, I'm just not sure anyone will see his post down there, but please moderate it up.
Oh, so because I'm in the minority means that I'm wrong? Tyranny of the majority?
And yeah, "all" the four letter words. Let's see.....I count 2 of them. I'm sorry if it offends you so deeply, but since you have no problem with ad hominem attacks on me, I don't see what your real problem is.
The point is that Apple and Sorenson are two free companies, and if, by choice, they entered into such an agreement, I guess that's just too bad for you. Apple does not have monopoly power over the multimedia scene now, and certainly didn't back when they first licensed the codec.
And do you really think that Sorenson would open up the codec for the good of Linux users when they make tons of money selling the encoder? Yeah, that would be a real smart business move.
BTW, I have no idea how you can call my statement a lie. Are you claiming that Apple owns Sorenson?
Yeah, that's like what Marx talked about, right?
You are really full of it. Sorenson wants to make money, and so does Apple. They have both invested R&D dollars into the codec, and they don't have to make it available for Linux if they don't want to.
It's not a monopoly, there are plenty of other codecs out there, Sorenson is just one of(if not the) best. If you don't like that, write your own.
Apple has supported mklinux in the past, they are not anti-Linux. But if they don't think it makes business sense to spend a lot of money porting the Quicktime player to Linux, then the burden rests on Linux users.
You might also want to take into consideration the antagonism between Apple and Linux. Where does it come from? Linux users. A lot of Linux users are very anti-Apple for one reason or another, and criticize everything Apple does (including when they open-source their software!)
I also think you should expand a little on that part about it being a "critical failing of their long-term business plan to keep it closed source." That is a hell of a thing to say without backing it up.
BTW, check out www.s-vision.com
MRJ ain't a Microsoft product. Sorry, try again.
They bundle IE because MS threatned to kill MacOffice if they didn't, a move that would've killed Apple. So Jobs is more pragmatism than principle, if he wasn't Apple would be gone by now.
I for one don't care, I use iCab and Communicator, and will probably move to Mozilla soon.
First of all, Apple doesn't even own Sorenson, so stop bashing them without reason. Apple designed Quicktime so it can play Sorenson, they don't owe you shit.
If you want to write your own codec, or license the Sorenson one and write your own multimedia player, then do it. Until you do, stop bitching at Apple.
The Sorenson codec kicks ass, the quality of the video is very high and the size of the files are very small. If you can make one that is as good as that, then I'm sure people will use it. If you can't, and if no one donating their time to open-source can, then who gives a fuck what you think?
What you are doing would be like picking on Adobe just because Photoshop is better than Gimp and they have the balls to charge for it. Grow up.
It seems to me you'd need some type of handles on the floor(or whatever, it doesn't matter in space), because how do you "push" with no gravity?
So either the crew would have to jury-rig something up, or NASA would have to set up a "love-room" or something. Another interesting question(s): birth control? pregnancies? abortion? birth in space?
If there's a 2.5 year trip to Mars, I don't think it would be all that unlikely for one of the women to get pregnant and potentially have to deliver in zero-g. Of course, the delivery and raising of the child pose all new dilemas(but on the bright side, there won't be any "SIDS" in space).
how is that possible? He posted almost 3 hrs before the article was posted.
The hell with probes to Mars, Jupiter is a much better planet:
1) Bigger target to hit
2) Fewer Martians
3) More gravity, so our probes can crash faster and we don't have to go through that long, painful "it might be in safe-mode..." period.
All in all, I think it's the only reasonable choice.
So I say write your Congressman: Mars is old hat, we want our probes crashed into Jupiter!
This is the another step on the way to thought police. Remember in 1984, Winston says how you can't even make odd facial gestures because people could be arrested for that alone.
That's what this system is going to lead to. It is so horrible that even after reading 1984 I can't imagine it.
The right to privacy is unbelievably important, and I think someone needs to speak up and stop things like this now, before it's too late, before one of these things is in your home, and if you even think about rebelling they can pick you up before you do.
This is incredibly scary, and I hope everyone else is as scared of this stuff as I am, because if they're not 1984 will come true.
There it is people, right there. The meaning of life : Humans, as a whole, over time, should be advancing, learning more, exploring (boldy going where no man has gone before anyone?).
People who can't see any point in exploring space piss me off. It's like: it's always going to be up there, and you have no problem looking at the planets and stars every night and never trying to get there?
Considering human history, those people should be evolutionary glitches. I hope they are. It seems right now they're he majority in the US.
Anyway, I'm watching this right now, still no communication.
If 11:30 PM EST, it still hasn't responded, it will probably mean it's gone.
Why?
Because NASA is basically going to send a command telling to to wake the hell up and start talking to us. If it doesn't respond, it will start looking pretty bad.
Tomorrow the probe should wake itself up and start transmitting no matter what. If that doesn't happen, you can pretty much count on it being gone.
This sucks. NASA really has to start having more success exploring. I also really hope that private industry steps up. There's a fortune to be made in space vacations. And once companies start battling for people's money, that's when the real technological leaps, and the real price cuts will occur. I hope it's soon.
This is the classic prisoner's dilema. Except in China, if they both kept silent they'd probably both have gotten the death penalty.
Still, think of how it would feel to be getting the death penalty when your own brother ratted on you and gets to walk.
Motorola announced great advances today.
IBM says they can keep up with Moore's law for 10 more years.
Intel has said they don't know how they will increase speed after 2000 or so
IBM and Motorola make PowerPC
Intel makes x86
This could be fun for us Mac users.
Douglas Adams should be worshipped as a prophet.
A friend of mine named P.J. O'Rourke said that too. In fact, he said it in "Eat the Rich".
As I've said, we could do this easily, the only reason we don't is that people in the US really don't care anymore.
Mayve if China gets a human into space all the Americans with overinflated egos will want to make sure the US of A stays ahead of the stinking commies in the space race.
Personally, I would kill for the opportunity to go into space. Just imagining being up there is humbling.
According to NASA (IIRC), it would be more like $50+ billion
But it's small change for the gov't. If enough people actually wanted to and made this an issue, NASA would get the money. The problem is that no one in the USA wants to. Idiots.
Has anyone noticed how it seems to have become fashionable these days to say "I'll probably get flamed/moderated down for this, but..." and the but is always "I just had to say it" or "I don't care".
There also always seems to be tbis imaginary "man" at the end. "But I don't care, man". "Power to the people, man!". "Down with Nazi moderators, man!".
I wouldn't have a big problem with this, but it seems these posts are always moderated up. My theory is that by predicting downward moderation, it scares the moderators into not wanting to play into the person's hand or something.
It appears to be a great form of reverse psychology.
Anyway, I'll probably get flamed or moder......oh never mind.
Here are some pics of the worst of it:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/crayz/wto/
Here's a good web cam(looks like someone came through with an ugly stick):
http://209.20.207.37/index.html
This one is dark right now, but it may have good images in the morning:
http://www.spaceneedle.com/view/livecam.asp
Anyway, lets get some other pics/web cams posted here.
...except that this is from Bill Gates, who, if he could, would probably have everyone paying him by the hour for everything they do on the net. I believe there was an article in Time or Newsweek where he said exactly that.
People would start up Windows, open IE, go through MSN to a website that in run off of WindowsNT, and they would pay MS a few pennies for every little thing they do.
The only reason Bill is against this version of the plan is that he doesn't get the money.
I just hope kids like this movie better than Pokemon. Some probably don't, and that's just sad. This movie is a work of art, and in some spots hysterically funny. I also think some teenagers should really give this movie a shot. A lot of people think it's a cartoon, it's from Disney, which = totally uncool. But this is fun for all ages.
All the Star Wars references near the end were really funny, as was the Jurassic Park T-Rex chase scene. Pixar is not just making a kids movie. Hell, a lot of kids probably wouldn't pick up on the joke.
Also, the short at the beginning is excellent. It's primitive compared to this or Bug's Life, but it had me laughing out loud. It's really funny to see how they can give emotions and almost facial expressions to something like a lamp.
This is for all those Brits who mock the US for it's lack of freedoms. They look down their noses at our government and say they have just as luch liberty as us.
Well if it's even possible that any of this stuff could be legal, I would say they don't. That is, even if these don't become law, if they could without being struck down(ours would be in the Supreme Court, I'm assuming there's something at least vaguely similar in the UK), then you do not have more freedoms than we do.
Don't worry, I'm plenty pissed with the guys in Congress, too, but I know if that bill with the Ten Commandments in every classroom passed the Supreme Court would throw it out so fast it would make your head spin. Thank God we have the Bill of Rights, without it, our country would've gone down the tubes long ago.
It says my Pentium III 600MHz is actually just a G4 running VPC. Sheeit.
The article was written by the BBC, stop with this anti-US crap that has become so popular these days.
Is there a Mac version for any of these things?
Especially the AudioGalaxy thing pisses me off. The fucking thing is Java and it only works on Windows? Does anyone else see a problem?
I just can't understand why so many geeks say loose when they mean lose. I find it so funny. You should get moderated up.