Hook 'em young, I guess. Never mind that, like it or not, Windows is a corporate standard that people need to know to get "standard" jobs. This is great for the kids that want to be sysadmins or network admins, even programmers, but for the girl that really just wants a job on the side as a part-time secretary and spend the remaining time with her family (not uncommon, even these days) this is not going to give her the education she needs at all. Hell, even for people that need to do design docs in Word, this won't help. Please, don't feel the urge to mention StarOffice or OpenOffice as we all know they just flat suck.
Good money decision, but really bad in the long run.
1)Ogg rips are a little better than real time, currently, using N2MP3. About the same as you said for Intel systems. MP3s rip farkin' fast for me (G4/450/SoundJam MP).
2)Audion is a software player for the Mac. Not terribly impressive, but good enough if I wanted to move to Ogg.
Here they've been working on a version of Linux for this PS2 thing and I've been waiting for YEARS to blow away the OEM OS on my CD player with something with half the functionality (not that everything isn't supported, just that of everything that is supported, only half the device works). Can we perhaps get a web page with an expected port date for my TV, VCR, 'fridge, dishwasher, and doorbell? I really want that USB port on my doorbell working...
Yes, it could be worse than Linux on a PS2. You might use it for [gasp] gaming, or something equally entertaining that works out of the box. Now we get to figure out why XFree refuses to start on yet another system. Oh WOW! That Emotion Engine works wonders for console text.. Mmm hmm.
This is almost as bad as the guy who years ago put a Mr. Coffee on the web.
NO. This is NOT the case. Redbook audio is not a format that computer programs read as data, it's a format that they read octet-by-octet and checksums ARE used. A new method of reading would have to be in place for this to work, one that read it like a consumer deck reads it.
Come one, people, they wouldn't release a technology like this if it was so simple to overcome...
I was thinking about that last part, about it not stopping anyone. The moment the article said "computer cd players work fine" I thought "digital loopback." Play it, grab the CD player as an input, pipe it into the encoding algorythm.
Is there something I'm missing aside from slower rip speeds? I mean, surely, there must be a CD mode that doesn't use that damned flimsy cable to the sound card for audio out.
True. So, Problem, what good are you doing posting on Slashdot?
Works both ways. All of us sitting here is getting nothing done, but are we necessarily part of the problem? Not really.
I'm rather happy that at least someone in government knows when it's wise to stop spending tax money, though I wish he'd move to Texas where that kind of discretion might bring the education levels up out of the dirt.
Very true. I mean, my PS2 has Firewire (oops "i.Link"), USB, a DVD/CD drive, and an expansion bay. Soon, I will have a mouse, keyboard, hard drive, and monitor (TV) hooked up to it.
What I see, though, as the difference, is that it was designed for games. While other things run on it (Linux was ported, though I suspect if a lima bean had a CPU Linux would get ported to it), it's mainly a game console. What they are learning is that the PC has many advantages (keyboard, for one) for more complex games (C&C, Starcraft, Rougue Spear, etc.) and they are trying to take those few items away to keep the console market going in the face of sub-$1K PCs that blow the absolute arse off the consoles (GeForce 3, anyone?).
Fuel? The only gas that corn produces doesn't quite run any machinery I know of, but it does wonders to clear an area of all forms of mobile life.:):):)
There is, technically, emmitted light. The light passed in unobstructed and then is reflected through a filter to get the color, versus print where... eww... I see the problem here. Both are *forms* of subtraction.
However, that's not how you made the decision, it's much more simple: is the base color black or white? In this instance, it's black, and then bits of white are activated and then filtered, much like a CRT, which is RGB, and thus, additive. Paper defaults to white, where bits of color are added to bring it closer to black, hence subtractive. So this is additive technology and thus, appropriately RGB. Hence them using it.;)
Black and white versus color. With color you can get by with lower resolution because of the shades of colors that trick the eye into not noticing the resolution at all.
aka anti-aliasing, but not entirely, as photos do the same natrually and anti-aliasing is normally associated with artificial modifications, etc.
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Hook 'em young, I guess. Never mind that, like it or not, Windows is a corporate standard that people need to know to get "standard" jobs. This is great for the kids that want to be sysadmins or network admins, even programmers, but for the girl that really just wants a job on the side as a part-time secretary and spend the remaining time with her family (not uncommon, even these days) this is not going to give her the education she needs at all. Hell, even for people that need to do design docs in Word, this won't help. Please, don't feel the urge to mention StarOffice or OpenOffice as we all know they just flat suck.
Good money decision, but really bad in the long run.
1)Ogg rips are a little better than real time, currently, using N2MP3. About the same as you said for Intel systems. MP3s rip farkin' fast for me (G4/450/SoundJam MP).
2)Audion is a software player for the Mac. Not terribly impressive, but good enough if I wanted to move to Ogg.
Now why would I want to:
- Delete all that music (15GB)
- Re-encode with a codec that is slow as hell to encode and could take days.
- Just to get a file that plays in only one player I own and don't really like (Audion).
Not practical, since I can't tell the difference between Ogg and MP3 at 160-220Kb (VBR).The upside is I know where I stand in the tech world now, squarely in the middle. =)
Yes, it could be worse than Linux on a PS2. You might use it for [gasp] gaming, or something equally entertaining that works out of the box. Now we get to figure out why XFree refuses to start on yet another system. Oh WOW! That Emotion Engine works wonders for console text.. Mmm hmm.
This is almost as bad as the guy who years ago put a Mr. Coffee on the web.
Redundant?! WTF? Get a sense of irony, people!
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Why 2004 will be like 1984.
Come one, people, they wouldn't release a technology like this if it was so simple to overcome...
I was thinking about that last part, about it not stopping anyone. The moment the article said "computer cd players work fine" I thought "digital loopback." Play it, grab the CD player as an input, pipe it into the encoding algorythm.
Is there something I'm missing aside from slower rip speeds? I mean, surely, there must be a CD mode that doesn't use that damned flimsy cable to the sound card for audio out.
True. So, Problem, what good are you doing posting on Slashdot?
Works both ways. All of us sitting here is getting nothing done, but are we necessarily part of the problem? Not really.
I'm rather happy that at least someone in government knows when it's wise to stop spending tax money, though I wish he'd move to Texas where that kind of discretion might bring the education levels up out of the dirt.
Hence today's release and the attempt to take the advantages of the PC away from it for those kinds of games. =)
Ok, ok, the GeForce 3 was an example of the blowing the arse off bit, not the sub-1K bit. =)
Very true. I mean, my PS2 has Firewire (oops "i.Link"), USB, a DVD/CD drive, and an expansion bay. Soon, I will have a mouse, keyboard, hard drive, and monitor (TV) hooked up to it.
What I see, though, as the difference, is that it was designed for games. While other things run on it (Linux was ported, though I suspect if a lima bean had a CPU Linux would get ported to it), it's mainly a game console. What they are learning is that the PC has many advantages (keyboard, for one) for more complex games (C&C, Starcraft, Rougue Spear, etc.) and they are trying to take those few items away to keep the console market going in the face of sub-$1K PCs that blow the absolute arse off the consoles (GeForce 3, anyone?).
#!/bin/bash
SC=\\[\\033[1\;36m\\]
RESET=\\[\\033[0m\\]
RED=\\[\\033[0\;31m\\]
GREEN=\\[\\033[1\;32m\\]
YELLOW=\\[\\033[1\;33m\\]
DKYELLOW=\\[\\033[0\;33m\\]
CYAN=\\[\\033[1\;36m\\]
DKCYAN=\\[\\033[0\;36m\\]
WHITE=\\[\\033[0\;37m\\]
MYPROCS=$(ps -fu ahknight | wc | awk '{print $1-4}')
LOAD=$(uptime | cut -d"g" -f2|cut -c3-)
WHO=$(who|wc|awk '{print $1}')
export PS1="$GREEN[ $RED\d \@ $DKCYAN\w $DKYELLOW$LOAD $CYAN[$GREEN$MYPROCS$CYAN] [$GREEN$WHO$CYAN] $GREEN]$RESET\n\ $GREEN[$SC \u$YELLOW@$SC\h $GREEN]$RESET $ $WHITE"
Which looks like:
[ Fri Jul 6 12:03pm ~ 1.46, 1.37, 1.39 [1] [1] ]
[ ahknight@hostname ] $
All kinds of handy, but it does turn a cat on the enter key into a minor DOS attack. ;)
Nothing? So, say 'apt-get install ssh' couldn't be easier than 'pkg_add ssh-2.xx-commercial.tgz'? Hmm.
Massochism is fine in the bedroom, but please keep the door closed so I don't have to watch. Thanks.
Slashdot: Bringing armies together for useless holy wars since 199x.
FLAMEBAIT?!?! Moderators, please get a sense of humor, ok? Please?
The confused should read my parent.
Someone probably said "What are the odds of that happening" too close to an Improbability Field again. Last time that happened Bush got Florida.
Fuel? The only gas that corn produces doesn't quite run any machinery I know of, but it does wonders to clear an area of all forms of mobile life. :) :) :)
There are two places where a morality discussion is futile:
1) Titty bar
2) Slashdot.
It's not in the article, but a photo of it wrapped around a pencil is on the site.
There is, technically, emmitted light. The light passed in unobstructed and then is reflected through a filter to get the color, versus print where ... eww ... I see the problem here. Both are *forms* of subtraction.
;)
However, that's not how you made the decision, it's much more simple: is the base color black or white? In this instance, it's black, and then bits of white are activated and then filtered, much like a CRT, which is RGB, and thus, additive. Paper defaults to white, where bits of color are added to bring it closer to black, hence subtractive. So this is additive technology and thus, appropriately RGB. Hence them using it.
Yeah, well, one word: VHS.
Black and white versus color. With color you can get by with lower resolution because of the shades of colors that trick the eye into not noticing the resolution at all.
aka anti-aliasing, but not entirely, as photos do the same natrually and anti-aliasing is normally associated with artificial modifications, etc.
Ok, now how would the tobacco companies make money? (insert snare drums here)