Yeah, well I uploaded it to my website using IE 5.0 under Win98 to connect to the internet using MSN (look in upper right corner) to point to the MSNBC front page that say Microsoft may be a monopoly.
I'm just trying to be just a _BIT_ sarcastic here, so lay off the gif business because Microsoft Image Composer won't convert to it, nor will paintbrush, and IE won't display it without using scroll bars!!!!!
50. The experience of the Linux operating system, a version of which runs on Intel- compatible PCs, similarly fails to refute the existence of an applications barrier to entry. Linux is an "open source" operating system that was created, and is continuously updated, by a global network of software developers who contribute their labor for free. Although Linux has between ten and fifteen million users, the majority of them use the operating system to run servers, not PCs. Several ISVs have announced their development of (or plans to develop) Linux versions of their applications. To date, though, legions of ISVs have not followed the lead of these first movers. Similarly, consumers have by and large shown little inclination to abandon Windows, with its reliable developer support, in favor of an operating system whose future in the PC realm is unclear. By itself, Linux's open-source development model shows no signs of liberating that operating system from the cycle of consumer preferences and developer incentives that, when fueled by Windows' enormous reservoir of applications, prevents non-Microsoft operating systems from competing.
There are alot of interested people downloading acrobat and wordperfect documents right now...
BTW - I just got another FTI (Freedom to innovated) FUDletter - seems they are speechless. (kinda like the mailing I got when the GK vs world chess match was found to be vote stuffing.)
I was just wondering... Could Wolfenstein be considered anti-anti-semitism? Is it a good idea to promote the idea of nazi germany in an era when not only is it long dead, but the berlin wall has been down for 10 years this month?
The mission areas for my F19 Stealth-figher game included eastern europe, the middle east, and siberia, but not south america, asia, or north america, where I can think of a few targets...
I look back at all my "WW-II" and "cold-war" games and wonder if perhaps they should be let to die in peace.
Sorry for the follow up, but according to the previous posts time stamp, Slashdot is now two hours ahead (which is correct) however my preferences are still set at EDT (which means I should think I am three hours ahead...)
I just noticed that on my Slashdot "homepage" that my time zone is set to "Eastern Daylight" time. Didn't the US just go to standard time? Does that mean that every slashdot user has to switch their preferences?
Personally, I live in Arizona - we don't do the daylight thing at all...The reason I have my clock set on the ET is because that is what timezone the Slashdot server is in.
You would think computers would be able to figure this stuff on it's own by now.
Then they will find out that have definately have gotten at least one more new SB Live customer,... and possibly developer!
I have a 6x/3dxr DVD decoder kit, and I've been dieing to couple it to the SB Live (so I get four speaker output.) The Linux angle was the only thing holding me back.
If I ran something like this, I would want it be on a local server. For some reason this reminds me of Domino, only OSS and web-based.
I have been doing alot of reading about DHTML and HTML 4.0 recently and I can't help but think that most of the technologies exist to implement something like this: XML data files, Javascript/DHTML window messaging, CSS desktop preferences, and your choice of web server backend. The weakest area seems to be in graphics, where one is limited to gif and java applets.
The problem is not the web, it's the browsers - the only way I could see something really coming together is if a really good, but extremely lightweight open source browser would come into being. Where the hell is mozilla and is it DHTML/JScript/CSS capable now?
...is a really lame excuse. Isn't one of the primary tentant that Windows is supposed to be easy to use? I have seen admins with credentials up their arm, screw something up and have to reinstall from scratch. Us "windows developers" pratically have to do it every day.
In theory, one could solve all your problems by knowing how every thing ticks, but most of time we work with a lack of information.
I'll tell you what - you release Windows in source code form and I will document it the way it should be - completely. No more obscure registry switches, no more half brain head services. I would love to know why SCM does the brain head things it does.
DHCP addrsssing on a multihomed server? Did this guy read the instructions or help files? Can he read. MS says not to do that with their clients.
Yeah, I ran into that. It's really too bad because the NT DNS was really nice in that it registered the DHCP client's names via WINS.
So, Instead I ended up moving all the services to a multihomed Linux box runing ISC DHCPd, BIND, and Samba with a perl script that would suck the entries from Samba/DHCP and put them in the dns.cache file.
The NT box boots alot faster now, and the Linux box does not seem to care...
Why encode at higher rates? (Score:) by Eeeeegon on 12:36 PM October 27th, 1999 EDT (#) (User Info) The Only reason you would encode at higher than 128/44 would be if you made the mp3s yourself from a wave editor or a mixing machine. Ripping from CDs should Always be 128/44 (anything higher is wasted bits). Music CDs themselves are recorded at about 120/44, btw.
Huh? 44khz is the sampling rate of the recording, 44 thousand kiloherz per second, which is the same for most audio reproduction devices today, although you can go high if you are generating the music yourself, ie. Mod files.
I think a mp3 encoding tutorial is in order: From what I understand, the "128" is the number of thosands of bits uses to hold the "waveform that occurs durning that moment in time. If you have just a single tone - that generated a simple sine wave, you only need a few of those bits, you could accurately reproduce the sound by just encoding "sin x" into the datastream. This is an oversimplifaction of how mp3 compression works, but fairly accurate.
When you add overtones and more complex waveforms to music, at some point you run out of "bits" and the reproduction looses it's accuracy. String sections in orchratras are one of the worse offenders because they tend to generate very complex waveforms.
So, the more bits you use, the more accurate your "reproduction" is... just like a taylor polynomial. Forgive me if I miss understand the inner working of mpeg "lossy" compression, but that is how I was taught it worked.
BBC article on the recent robot show: ...But the star of the show was probably the robot cat - called the Mental Commit Robot. There has already been a very popular robot dog. The cat responds with a purr when it is stroked and will not scratch or bite.
Just what I need... An electronic dog, cat, and mouse racing around my house.
Also remember that Gates intends to donate his fortune in entirety, and that Microsoft is a tremendous benefactor of educational institutions across the country. Think about what Clark's specification means in that context.
I think I see where this is going. You are tring to get us coming and going. The differenct here that that Gates was trying to INFLUENCE the curriculm/research, not AUGMENT it. At my school, we literally had a company build us a new engineering building all on it's own. It's a nice building, but we do what we want in it. Research like TB is always going to go on because it's important - It's just easier to do when there is a roof over your head.
My mother is a medical technologist (aka. the person that does your blood work) and nowadays her lab is starting to get more computerized than my local ISP. Automation seems to be becoming a big deal in her field, as many of the tests they do are very manual intensive.
Someday soon all you will have to do to find out what's wrong with you is to stick your finger in a machine. We already have home glucose meters anyway.
It's going to be a lot harder to play hookie from school or work in the future when Dr. Computer is keeping a close eye on you.
You can always encode your files at a higher bitrate so you can get better fidelity. I normal encode at 256kbs or 384kbs instead of the standard 128kbs, and it makes a big difference. I hate string sections that sound like they are underwater.
When you encode at a higher rate, you file becomes twice or three times at big, making those large disk drives nice.
I'm really getting annoyed at the WMA/SDMI format. You any of you know of away to change them digitally into an unsecure format besides filtering them through TotalRecorder?
51% percent of survival? I'd buy that. I would like to know what he thinks about that UN population implosion report.
I did not realize that nanotubular carbon was so strong. In high school (it was a long time ago) about I did a paper on Bucky Ball (aka C-60) and it's ability to encapulate RNA for gene repair.
Why can't nanotubes be produced in bulk? What kind of contrants are involved in it's production process?
These routines were obviously ripped from a windows based DVD player. CSSAuth.cpp is the interesting file, for it contains the actual CSS key tables.
IIRC, there is still floating out there one key that is player specific - in other words, the key is different for each type of DVD model player. I think it's just simple lock/unlock routine however, and it should be easily hacked.
CSS was the major road block before, but not anymore. I guess all they need now is someone to leak the Dolby surround specs.
Of course, this is probably all very highly illegal, and just by downloading the code I could be in trouble. I think I will delete my copy now...
...when it was clear that we had lost. This was only a formality. There were many that wanted to play Gary to checkmate, but in a true professional match, one resigns immediately when ones defeat is assured (or at least very strongly suspected.)
I think that with all that we have learned, and with a few minor rule/organizational changes, we could possibly beat him, or at least draw.
In fact, this game should have been a draw - it was only due to technical problems that we lost.
This was much more instructional than his match against deep blue, because the slow speed of play helped to give us time to study chess theory in depth.
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Yeah, well I uploaded it to my website using IE 5.0 under Win98 to connect to the internet using MSN (look in upper right corner) to point to the MSNBC front page that say Microsoft may be a monopoly.
Oh yeah, I started up microsoft agent and had merlin and polly snore through Bill G. netshow stream statement.
I'm just trying to be just a _BIT_ sarcastic here, so lay off the gif business because Microsoft Image Composer won't convert to it, nor will paintbrush, and IE won't display it without using scroll bars!!!!!
50. The experience of the Linux operating system, a version of which runs on Intel- compatible PCs, similarly fails to refute the existence of an applications barrier to entry. Linux is an "open source" operating system that was created, and is continuously updated, by a global network of software developers who contribute their labor for free. Although Linux has between ten and fifteen million users, the majority of them use the operating system to run servers, not PCs. Several ISVs have announced their development of (or plans to develop) Linux versions of their applications. To date, though, legions of ISVs have not followed the lead of these first movers. Similarly, consumers have by and large shown little inclination to abandon Windows, with its reliable developer support, in favor of an operating system whose future in the PC realm is unclear. By itself, Linux's open-source development model shows no signs of liberating that operating system from the cycle of consumer preferences and developer incentives that, when fueled by Windows' enormous reservoir of applications, prevents non-Microsoft operating systems from competing.
:P
BTW, you can download the ruling from MS's web site...in Word format.
DOJ finds MS is an monopoly, Mononoko Hime opens in theatres...Man - this is turning out to a good weekend!
There are alot of interested people downloading acrobat and wordperfect documents right now...
BTW - I just got another FTI (Freedom to innovated) FUDletter - seems they are speechless.
(kinda like the mailing I got when the GK vs world chess match was found to be vote stuffing.)
*** Drinks are on me! ***
Read this to get the word from the horse's mouth.
I would put money on that it will be this Friday, though.
Actually, a geek-recipies section of Slashdot would be pretty cool. Malda, what do you think?
How about a sushi bar directory and rating page?
"I am thinkink it's about that time again..."-UF
I was just wondering... Could Wolfenstein be considered anti-anti-semitism? Is it a good idea to promote the idea of nazi germany in an era when not only is it long dead, but the berlin wall has been down for 10 years this month?
The mission areas for my F19 Stealth-figher game included eastern europe, the middle east, and siberia, but not south america, asia, or north america, where I can think of a few targets...
I look back at all my "WW-II" and "cold-war" games and wonder if perhaps they should be let to die in peace.
Sorry for the follow up, but according to the previous posts time stamp, Slashdot is now two hours ahead (which is correct) however my preferences are still set at EDT (which means I should think I am three hours ahead...)
ARGH!!!!!
I just noticed that on my Slashdot "homepage" that my time zone is set to "Eastern Daylight" time. Didn't the US just go to standard time? Does that mean that every slashdot user has to switch their preferences?
Personally, I live in Arizona - we don't do the daylight thing at all...The reason I have my clock set on the ET is because that is what timezone the Slashdot server is in.
You would think computers would be able to figure this stuff on it's own by now.
creator British of the figures comic Wallace and Gromit...
Confused am I, hmmmmmm?
I want my dash! I have just about gotten all the letters memories on all the different unixies I use and you hit me over the head with a BSDism.
What the hell is with this "depreciation"? are you going to depreciate spaces next?
If I wanted a operating system that nags me, I'd use windows!
Then they will find out that have definately have gotten at least one more new SB Live customer, ... and possibly developer!
I have a 6x/3dxr DVD decoder kit, and I've been dieing to couple it to the SB Live (so I get four speaker output.) The Linux angle was the only thing holding me back.
The only question now is... Regular or Platinum?
...that Linux has now successfully captured the "high-end" computing marketplace? ;)
30 Teraflops sounds nice and crunchy.
Linux: It's what's for dinner.
If I ran something like this, I would want it be on a local server. For some reason this reminds me of Domino, only OSS and web-based.
I have been doing alot of reading about DHTML and HTML 4.0 recently and I can't help but think that most of the technologies exist to implement something like this: XML data files, Javascript/DHTML window messaging, CSS desktop preferences, and your choice of web server backend. The weakest area seems to be in graphics, where one is limited to gif and java applets.
The problem is not the web, it's the browsers - the only way I could see something really coming together is if a really good, but extremely lightweight open source browser would come into being. Where the hell is mozilla and is it DHTML/JScript/CSS capable now?
...is a really lame excuse. Isn't one of the primary tentant that Windows is supposed to be easy to use? I have seen admins with credentials up their arm, screw something up and have to reinstall from scratch. Us "windows developers" pratically have to do it every day.
In theory, one could solve all your problems by knowing how every thing ticks, but most of time we work with a lack of information.
I'll tell you what - you release Windows in source code form and I will document it the way it should be - completely. No more obscure registry switches, no more half brain head services. I would love to know why SCM does the brain head things it does.
DHCP addrsssing on a multihomed server? Did this guy read the instructions or help files? Can he read. MS says not to do that with their clients.
Yeah, I ran into that. It's really too bad because the NT DNS was really nice in that it registered the DHCP client's names via WINS.
So, Instead I ended up moving all the services to a multihomed Linux box runing ISC DHCPd, BIND, and Samba with a perl script that would suck the entries from Samba/DHCP and put them in the dns.cache file.
The NT box boots alot faster now, and the Linux box does not seem to care...
Why encode at higher rates? (Score:)
... just like a taylor polynomial. Forgive me if I miss understand the inner working of mpeg "lossy" compression, but that is how I was taught it worked.
by Eeeeegon on 12:36 PM October 27th, 1999 EDT (#)
(User Info)
The Only reason you would encode at higher than 128/44 would be if you made the mp3s yourself from a wave editor or a mixing machine. Ripping from CDs should Always be 128/44 (anything higher is wasted bits). Music CDs themselves are recorded at about 120/44, btw.
Huh? 44khz is the sampling rate of the recording, 44 thousand kiloherz per second, which is the same for most audio reproduction devices today, although you can go high if you are generating the music yourself, ie. Mod files.
I think a mp3 encoding tutorial is in order:
From what I understand, the "128" is the number of thosands of bits uses to hold the "waveform that occurs durning that moment in time. If you have just a single tone - that generated a simple sine wave, you only need a few of those bits, you could accurately reproduce the sound by just encoding "sin x" into the datastream. This is an oversimplifaction of how mp3 compression works, but fairly accurate.
When you add overtones and more complex waveforms to music, at some point you run out of "bits" and the reproduction looses it's accuracy. String sections in orchratras are one of the worse offenders because they tend to generate very complex waveforms.
So, the more bits you use, the more accurate your "reproduction" is
BBC article on the recent robot show:
...But the star of the show was probably the robot cat - called the Mental Commit Robot.
There has already been a very popular robot dog.
The cat responds with a purr when it is stroked and will not scratch or bite.
Just what I need... An electronic dog, cat, and mouse racing around my house.
Also remember that Gates intends to donate his fortune in entirety, and that Microsoft is a tremendous benefactor of educational institutions across the country. Think about what Clark's specification means in that context.
I think I see where this is going. You are tring to get us coming and going. The differenct here that that Gates was trying to INFLUENCE the curriculm/research, not AUGMENT it. At my school, we literally had a company build us a new engineering building all on it's own. It's a nice building, but we do what we want in it. Research like TB is always going to go on because it's important - It's just easier to do when there is a roof over your head.
My mother is a medical technologist (aka. the person that does your blood work) and nowadays her lab is starting to get more computerized than my local ISP. Automation seems to be becoming a big deal in her field, as many of the tests they do are very manual intensive.
Someday soon all you will have to do to find out what's wrong with you is to stick your finger in a machine. We already have home glucose meters anyway.
It's going to be a lot harder to play hookie from school or work in the future when Dr. Computer is keeping a close eye on you.
That would solve the uploading problem. Better yet make it firewire.
But that would be overkill. However, since this thing has a 4.6Gb drive, I won't discount anything being possible...
You can always encode your files at a higher bitrate so you can get better fidelity. I normal encode at 256kbs or 384kbs instead of the standard 128kbs, and it makes a big difference. I hate string sections that sound like they are underwater.
When you encode at a higher rate, you file becomes twice or three times at big, making those large disk drives nice.
I'm really getting annoyed at the WMA/SDMI format. You any of you know of away to change them digitally into an unsecure format besides filtering them through TotalRecorder?
51% percent of survival? I'd buy that. I would like to know what he thinks about that UN population implosion report.
I did not realize that nanotubular carbon was so strong. In high school (it was a long time ago) about I did a paper on Bucky Ball (aka C-60) and it's ability to encapulate RNA for gene repair.
Why can't nanotubes be produced in bulk? What kind of contrants are involved in it's production process?
These routines were obviously ripped from a windows based DVD player. CSSAuth.cpp is the interesting file, for it contains the actual CSS key tables.
IIRC, there is still floating out there one key that is player specific - in other words, the key is different for each type of DVD model player. I think it's just simple lock/unlock routine however, and it should be easily hacked.
CSS was the major road block before, but not anymore. I guess all they need now is someone to leak the Dolby surround specs.
Of course, this is probably all very highly illegal, and just by downloading the code I could be in trouble. I think I will delete my copy now...
...when it was clear that we had lost. This was only a formality. There were many that wanted to play Gary to checkmate, but in a true professional match, one resigns immediately when ones defeat is assured (or at least very strongly suspected.)
I think that with all that we have learned, and with a few minor rule/organizational changes, we could possibly beat him, or at least draw.
In fact, this game should have been a draw - it was only due to technical problems that we lost.
This was much more instructional than his match against deep blue, because the slow speed of play helped to give us time to study chess theory in depth.
I for one learned a thing or two...
Why are we encoding in EUC?
Isn't SJIS the preferred format these days?
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