I built an mp3 player myself out of a motherboard with built in audio and video, a hard drive, a small power supply, and a packard bell IR serial remote. Total investment: about $200, and a few hours of my time to code up a front end to xaudio using perl. It doesn't have a display currently, but I can select from 100 different playlists (arbitrary, could be 10,000 but I don't think i'll need more than 100 for now), and eventually support a CD-ROM changer attached to the machine.
Xing's encoder discards everything above 16 kHz, which is great for speed but TERRIBLE for sound quality! blade enc is great for > 128kbit encoding, and the Fraunhofer codec is cool for 128kbit... you can get the original source distribution for free in many places, and somebody wrote a patch for it to make it work without a time limit. I'd say there are plenty of quality mp3 encoders for linux out there.
I can't believe slashdot has posted about this AGAIN! American Computer Company is the biggest load of bullshit I have ever seen in my life, and for some reason it always makes its way through the bullshit filter. Please, rob- don't post anything more about these idiots! This link has been around for over a year, and hasn't changed at all... come on people, who is gonna believe you can fit 90gb in the space of a slot 1 carrier? When did memory technologies all of a sudden get so good?
Actually, the audible range of hearing goes all the way down to about 20 Hz. It is easy to hear frequencies this low, but it is very rare for a sound system to be able to produce these frequencies at the volumes that it can produce higher frequencies. It is quite an experience to hear frequencies this low when they are well represented... it's almost more like _feeling_ them.
This sort of thing was bound to happen if linux was going to get popular. Regardless of what distribution it was, one of them was going to come out on top, and "sell out", if you want to put it that way. There will always be an extremely popular, slightly deficient product that wins out because of "being in the right place at the right time", and ultimately, good marketing. I personally use redhat since thats what I started with and I have never bothered to switch... but I'm definitely considering Debian. If I ever rebuild this machine, I'm sure it will be debian instead of RH. At any rate, there will always be a "popular" choice everyone has heard of, and a couple of choices that might be technically superior.
Case in point: BetaMax vs VHS. BetaMax has better quality and a smaller tape size, but loses. Why? Marketing. There were enough big names behind VHS to make it the standard. This really sucks, but it seems like that's the way things have been happening lately. This has strong echoes of microsoft, who makes standards that the world ends up following, even if they suck (i.e., SMB.)
So what am I trying to say? There's always gonna be a guy trying to make a buck, and if RH was to step down today and say "sorry, just kidding, we're gonna cancel the IPO and pull our product from the shelves" then another distro would probably move right in to fill that void. All we can do is hope that RH doesn't stray *too* far from its community roots.
those things were great! I got one for christmas when I was in kindergarten. I spent hours typing in the BASIC programs out of a little book... even if it was only some cheezy wannabe AI thing when i got finished, the sense of accomplishment was still great. Of course, after laboring away in front of the TV screen for so long, I would always back up my programs to an audio tape. Hell, I even had a printer attached to the thing. I think Parsec was one of my favorite games ever... i think it would still give me the willies to hear that female voice saying "Entering asteroid belt..."
Ah, well... enough reminiscing. Maybe I'll try and buy one on ebay or something.;)
reminds me of that scene in Spaceballs. Anyways, I'm sitting here drinking my Anakin Skywalker (tm) Special Edition (tm) Pepsi-cola (tm) and my Anakin Skywalker (tm) Special Edition (tm) Lay's Potato Chips (tm) (tm) (tm). I can't say I was there for the original star wars, but I remember some of the stuff from Jedi, and it was pretty bad... but this is beyond the scale of anything I have ever seen in my life. It started at the beginning of may, and it can only get worse as the summer goes on. To a certain extent it can be expected, but I think lucas went a tad overboard.
you would be thinking of the voodoo banshee, not the voodoo3. the voodoo3 is a pretty nice board, with tv outputs and a hardware dvd decoder... and you can pick one up for about $150.
remove -w so you dont get those annoying messages? good one. how bout we ignore anything a debugger has to say about our code? If he hadn't used -w, it would have told him nothing was wrong, but still failed to work. I don't see how this would have helped debug the program.
eh, i thought you were pretty far away from san jose. I did end up buying a t-shirt at the booth, and I believe i purchased it from the fellow with the rather large cheeks.;)
Contrary to what other sites have been posting, there will be NO TRAILER B posted here, before STARWARS.COM posts it, according to Lucasfilm's wishes. Even if, hypothetically, we were to put up a version we got from, say, Entertainment Tonight, I have been told that it would still be against Lucasfilm's wishes, unless starwars.com has it posted already. This information can be confirmed on other star wars websites that Lucasfilm also contacted, and I respect their wishes.
The big file that I am going to be putting out instead later tonight is NOT Trailer B and in no way is it aimed against Lucasfilm's wishes to keep the release of STAR WARS material under their control. It is NOT moving STAR WARS FOOTAGE per se. However, I can confirm that new pictures and the trailer WILL be released the minute that the official site releases the trailer.
I got this from the guy who posted earlier here, and I didn't verify that this was the second trailer before I put it up for download... (I'm using linux and xanim doesn't know what to do with sorensen compression...) oh well. the mirror will be back up once I actually get the trailer. sorry again!
great... its the wrong one. I'm using linux and I can't view quicktime movies, and I just checked this on my roommate's computer. sorry for the false alarm there... as soon as someone can give me the REAL trailer I'll put it back up.
That whole scene was hilarious- the guy with 34 pieces of "flare" is the spittin' image of one of the waiters at the local TGI Fridays. Hilarious! I almost had a hernia I laughed so hard!
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I built an mp3 player myself out of a motherboard with built in audio and video, a hard drive, a small power supply, and a packard bell IR serial remote. Total investment: about $200, and a few hours of my time to code up a front end to xaudio using perl. It doesn't have a display currently, but I can select from 100 different playlists (arbitrary, could be 10,000 but I don't think i'll need more than 100 for now), and eventually support a CD-ROM changer attached to the machine.
Check it out:
http://www.veedub.nu/mp3player/
Xing's encoder discards everything above 16 kHz, which is great for speed but TERRIBLE for sound quality! blade enc is great for > 128kbit encoding, and the Fraunhofer codec is cool for 128kbit... you can get the original source distribution for free in many places, and somebody wrote a patch for it to make it work without a time limit. I'd say there are plenty of quality mp3 encoders for linux out there.
I can't believe slashdot has posted about this AGAIN! American Computer Company is the biggest load of bullshit I have ever seen in my life, and for some reason it always makes its way through the bullshit filter. Please, rob- don't post anything more about these idiots! This link has been around for over a year, and hasn't changed at all... come on people, who is gonna believe you can fit 90gb in the space of a slot 1 carrier? When did memory technologies all of a sudden get so good?
Here's a previous posting about the same thing:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00000381_F.shtml
Actually, the audible range of hearing goes all the way down to about 20 Hz. It is easy to hear frequencies this low, but it is very rare for a sound system to be able to produce these frequencies at the volumes that it can produce higher frequencies. It is quite an experience to hear frequencies this low when they are well represented... it's almost more like _feeling_ them.
This sort of thing was bound to happen if linux was going to get popular. Regardless of what distribution it was, one of them was going to come out on top, and "sell out", if you want to put it that way. There will always be an extremely popular, slightly deficient product that wins out because of "being in the right place at the right time", and ultimately, good marketing. I personally use redhat since thats what I started with and I have never bothered to switch... but I'm definitely considering Debian. If I ever rebuild this machine, I'm sure it will be debian instead of RH. At any rate, there will always be a "popular" choice everyone has heard of, and a couple of choices that might be technically superior.
Case in point: BetaMax vs VHS. BetaMax has better quality and a smaller tape size, but loses. Why? Marketing. There were enough big names behind VHS to make it the standard. This really sucks, but it seems like that's the way things have been happening lately. This has strong echoes of microsoft, who makes standards that the world ends up following, even if they suck (i.e., SMB.)
So what am I trying to say? There's always gonna be a guy trying to make a buck, and if RH was to step down today and say "sorry, just kidding, we're gonna cancel the IPO and pull our product from the shelves" then another distro would probably move right in to fill that void. All we can do is hope that RH doesn't stray *too* far from its community roots.
What did you say your name was? Ted Kazinski?
um, if you would pay upwards of $250 for it, why not buy a separate dvd player? they're down in that range now....
those things were great! I got one for christmas when I was in kindergarten. I spent hours typing in the BASIC programs out of a little book... even if it was only some cheezy wannabe AI thing when i got finished, the sense of accomplishment was still great. Of course, after laboring away in front of the TV screen for so long, I would always back up my programs to an audio tape. Hell, I even had a printer attached to the thing. I think Parsec was one of my favorite games ever... i think it would still give me the willies to hear that female voice saying "Entering asteroid belt..."
;)
Ah, well... enough reminiscing. Maybe I'll try and buy one on ebay or something.
reminds me of that scene in Spaceballs. Anyways, I'm sitting here drinking my Anakin Skywalker (tm) Special Edition (tm) Pepsi-cola (tm) and my Anakin Skywalker (tm) Special Edition (tm) Lay's Potato Chips (tm) (tm) (tm). I can't say I was there for the original star wars, but I remember some of the stuff from Jedi, and it was pretty bad... but this is beyond the scale of anything I have ever seen in my life. It started at the beginning of may, and it can only get worse as the summer goes on. To a certain extent it can be expected, but I think lucas went a tad overboard.
you would be thinking of the voodoo banshee, not the voodoo3. the voodoo3 is a pretty nice board, with tv outputs and a hardware dvd decoder... and you can pick one up for about $150.
remove -w so you dont get those annoying messages? good one. how bout we ignore anything a debugger has to say about our code? If he hadn't used -w, it would have told him nothing was wrong, but still failed to work. I don't see how this would have helped debug the program.
Please don't give bad advice.
eh, i thought you were pretty far away from san jose. I did end up buying a t-shirt at the booth, and I believe i purchased it from the fellow with the rather large cheeks. ;)
I find that hard to believe... were you born with all the knowledge you have now?
Here's the lastest news I found on the site:
ANNOUNCEMENT
MONDAY MAR 8 7:43PM ET
Contrary to what other sites have been posting, there will be NO
TRAILER B posted here, before STARWARS.COM posts it, according to
Lucasfilm's wishes. Even if, hypothetically, we were to put up a
version we got from, say, Entertainment Tonight, I have been told
that it would still be against Lucasfilm's wishes, unless starwars.com
has it posted already. This information can be confirmed on other
star wars websites that Lucasfilm also contacted, and I respect their
wishes.
The big file that I am going to be putting out instead later tonight is
NOT Trailer B and in no way is it aimed against Lucasfilm's wishes to
keep the release of STAR WARS material under their control. It is
NOT moving STAR WARS FOOTAGE per se. However, I can confirm
that new pictures and the trailer WILL be released the minute that
the official site releases the trailer.
I got this from the guy who posted earlier here, and I didn't verify that this was the second trailer before I put it up for download... (I'm using linux and xanim doesn't know what to do with sorensen compression...) oh well. the mirror will be back up once I actually get the trailer. sorry again!
great... its the wrong one. I'm using linux and I can't view quicktime movies, and I just checked this on my roommate's computer. sorry for the false alarm there... as soon as someone can give me the REAL trailer I'll put it back up.
oops....
http://gti.veedub.nu/menace00.mov
max connections is limited to 10.
no, it didnt... remove the "him and" from the sentence and see if it still makes sense, that is the acid test.
"Dad ran out of the house to get [him and] me."
do you often say
"Dad ran out of the house to get I"? I hope not.
That whole scene was hilarious- the guy with 34 pieces of "flare" is the spittin' image of one of the waiters at the local TGI Fridays. Hilarious! I almost had a hernia I laughed so hard!
[~]:--telnet wearables.stanford.edu
Trying 171.64.78.242...
Connected to wearables.stanford.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i486
login: root
Password:
[root@wearables]$ ls
bin etc home mnt tmp var
boot files lib proc u vmlinuz
dev hdb2 lost+found sbin usr
[root@wearables]$ w
6:01pm up 14:40, 11 users, load average: 0.98, 1.85, 7.59
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
pratt ttyp0 Coraki.Stanford. 3:21am 7:52m 0.00s ? -
pratt ttyp1 Coraki.Stanford. 11:16am 6:39m 0.00s ? -
root ttyp2 ms01-31.vcr.ista 5:57pm 0.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttyp5 ip173.jackson3.m 5:58pm 5.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttyp3 x5-11.reshalls.u 6:00pm 9.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttyp6 209.67.232.125 6:00pm 1.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttyp4 ppp11-5.ftwotx.o 6:00pm 11.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttyp7 209.67.232.125 6:00pm 5.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttyp9 isdn1.arcon-inc. 6:00pm 1.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttypa xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.x 6:00pm 1.00s 0.00s ? -
root ttyp8 chernobyl.bitstr 6:00pm 6.00s 0.00s ? -