I was in the pub last night and I swear people were unconsciously whistling that bloody 'engaged' tone. Beep...beep...beep...beep...<redial>.... (repeat for 24 hours or until crazy)
I'm the kind of guy that wants to see as much stuff as possible w/ one glance, without needing to focus my eyes too much. What, the partially sighted kind of guy?
Have we become so lazy that flexing a lens sounds tiring?
People have been working on getting FOAF into Slashdot (or at least slash code). There's some information on the RDFWeb wiki. One day the posts will wither away and it will be YA social network site:-)
FOAF (which PeopleAggregator uses, as do many other sites) and it's relation to XFN are discussed here, and in depth by Leigh Dodds. It would be pretty hard to make something like PeopleAggregator using XFN since it's concerned with typing relations, not describing people. FOAF and XFN don't really compete. (btw, FOAF came first)
The article doesn't mention it, but distcc is what Apple's Xcode uses for distributed builds (together with zeroconf for discovering available build hosts). A very useful tool.
Altavisa used to be pretty clean, eg this 1998 version. I've often suspected that Google's initial popularity was due to Altavista's desire to be a 'portal' (remember them?) and the subsequent cruft that invaded their front page. They even tried to backtrack with Raging (and isn't that minimal now?) but I suspect people found Google was also a better search engine, rather than simply cleaner, and never went back.
SVG replaces PDF (Acrobat format). SVG plus SMIL replaces SWF..
That's a pretty fair summary, although SVG can be animated without SMIL, using the animation elements. If you add javascript and DOM into the mix you can get interactive applications, like FOAFNaut.
I think the summary is simply wrong. The article doesn't say it's a threat, for example:
While NFC will handle identification of users through RFID, it appears that wireless protocols such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi will still be used for the data transfer.
RhythmBox uses the GStreamer media framework, so I suspect your problems lie there. You can use OSS, ALSA, ESD and ArTs (IIRC) with GStreamer.
I wish this were clearer in RhythmBox - it isn't very obvious how to configure sound output in it (gstreamer-properties, btw). However once I realised what was going on I prefered the central configuration.
I don't see why Apple would care. They haven't taken any action about the numerous song extracting tools like PodWorks, which might have caused problems. Adding songs to and iPod seems pretty useful for Apple.
As for FairPlay, well this looks pretty good - although this stands a much higher chance of catching the lawyers' attention. VLC has an interesting module which implements FairPlay. (You might recognise one of the authors;-) If you have an iPod you should be able to play FairPlay protected files on Linux - assuming the iPod is able to play the files, that is. Briefly: the m4p file contains an encrypted audio stream. The key is stored on the iPod, encrypted with a key specific to the iPod (a function of the iPod device id, it seems). They've also worked out the system information for windows that functions as the system key, incidently.
Hell the visualisation in iTunes isn't just a clone of G-Force, it practically is G-Force.
More accurately it was G-Force. iTunes was based on SoundJam and G-Force (was G-Force part of SoundJam?), so G-Force was essentially forked when iTunes was created. Or something along those lines, at least...
Thankfully people are working on this, or at least part of the problem.
AIUI in response to this article by Havoc Pennington a project called HAL was started. This will hopefully form the userspace part of stack for convenient automounting behaviour. It's worth looking at the current (0.2) spec for the detail, but essentially you should be able to plug in an iPod and have RhythmBox detect that (via HAL, communicating using dbus).
Apologies, my reply was a little brief (preview, dammit). Quicktime tracks have a 'high-quality' flag, which I guess is supposed to hint the relevant decoder that, if possible, spend a little extra time making the track look good.
I've never seen it used in practice. The 3ivx codec, for example, adjusts it's post processing according to the available CPU which seems more sensible.
I make short films, and stream with windows media all the time. Everybody has it, and it's a lot less hassle then supporting all three formats.
Everbody has it? No. I don't, and I suspect many others don't. And I'm unclear what you mean by 'all three formats'. I assume you mean the big three players, but that's quite different from three formats.
Personally I tend to use MPEG4 which has plenty of support, on a wide variety of platforms. That support includes playback, creation, and streaming tools. I can point to mplayer, vlc, ffmpeg, 3ivx (which enables MPEG4 on Media Player), xvid, divx, darwin streaming server, etc etc.
This, AFAICT, is the real issue. Which formats, rather than players, will be dominant. I don't particularly like the MPEG4 licencing conditions, but at least it is supported by more than one company. The standard is available and widely implemented. WMV, and whatever video and audio codecs it contains, don't appear to be so open.
But sadly, my Mark of the Unicorn Fastlane [motu.com] (less than two years old) was not listed in the recognized list of MIDI interfaces.
Silly question, but have you installed the USB MIDI OS X drivers from MOTU? My USB MIDI interface isn't listed by Apple, but it works with drivers supplied by Yamaha (in my case).
I just tried a little shell script over the fink unstable tree. I get 1474 packages currently (updated a couple of days ago).
That's excluding dupes, of course, but including variants like X and X-ssl (very uncommon). Libraries are only counted once (i.e. no -dev -shlibs double counting) since they correspond to one.info.
MOTU, Yamaha and M-Audio all have MIDI-USB intefaces. The question is how cheap is cheap?
I found the cheapest online was the M-Audio Midisport Uno, at $40. I was impatient, however, so I went to my local music shop where they had a Yahama UX96. More expensive, but more features (though I may never use them). Worked fine.
Also try ebay, of course. There were plenty available.
You can try out most of the new features (since they are largely compiler changes) using this preview compiler. It requires a minor amount of fiddling with the scripts, and the new coolness is your reward.
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It's too soon to joke about that farce :-(
I was in the pub last night and I swear people were unconsciously whistling that bloody 'engaged' tone. Beep...beep...beep...beep...<redial>.... (repeat for 24 hours or until crazy)
I'm the kind of guy that wants to see as much stuff as possible w/ one glance, without needing to focus my eyes too much.
What, the partially sighted kind of guy?
Have we become so lazy that flexing a lens sounds tiring?
People have been working on getting FOAF into Slashdot (or at least slash code). There's some information on the RDFWeb wiki. One day the posts will wither away and it will be YA social network site :-)
FOAF (which PeopleAggregator uses, as do many other sites) and it's relation to XFN are discussed here, and in depth by Leigh Dodds. It would be pretty hard to make something like PeopleAggregator using XFN since it's concerned with typing relations, not describing people. FOAF and XFN don't really compete. (btw, FOAF came first)
It works with export MBC_DEBUG=16 for me. No code change required.
Look at Altavista now by yourself, you'll see how clean it is NOW.
:-). But I did forget to link to an example of Altavista: the chubby years,
I know - look at what I was replying to
The article doesn't mention it, but distcc is what Apple's Xcode uses for distributed builds (together with zeroconf for discovering available build hosts). A very useful tool.
Altavisa used to be pretty clean, eg this 1998 version. I've often suspected that Google's initial popularity was due to Altavista's desire to be a 'portal' (remember them?) and the subsequent cruft that invaded their front page. They even tried to backtrack with Raging (and isn't that minimal now?) but I suspect people found Google was also a better search engine, rather than simply cleaner, and never went back.
...and the frequency would be the length of the wave, i.e., wavelength
Nice article, but things like that pain me...
SVG replaces PDF (Acrobat format). SVG plus SMIL replaces SWF..
That's a pretty fair summary, although SVG can be animated without SMIL, using the animation elements. If you add javascript and DOM into the mix you can get interactive applications, like FOAFNaut.
I think the summary is simply wrong. The article doesn't say it's a threat, for example:
While NFC will handle identification of users through RFID, it appears that wireless protocols such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi will still be used for the data transfer.
""NFC won't replace Bluetooth or infrared"
RhythmBox uses the GStreamer media framework, so I suspect your problems lie there. You can use OSS, ALSA, ESD and ArTs (IIRC) with GStreamer.
I wish this were clearer in RhythmBox - it isn't very obvious how to configure sound output in it (gstreamer-properties, btw). However once I realised what was going on I prefered the central configuration.
I don't see why Apple would care. They haven't taken any action about the numerous song extracting tools like PodWorks, which might have caused problems. Adding songs to and iPod seems pretty useful for Apple.
;-) If you have an iPod you should be able to play FairPlay protected files on Linux - assuming the iPod is able to play the files, that is. Briefly: the m4p file contains an encrypted audio stream. The key is stored on the iPod, encrypted with a key specific to the iPod (a function of the iPod device id, it seems). They've also worked out the system information for windows that functions as the system key, incidently.
As for FairPlay, well this looks pretty good - although this stands a much higher chance of catching the lawyers' attention. VLC has an interesting module which implements FairPlay. (You might recognise one of the authors
Silly me - if you open 'About iTunes' you'll find that:
'G-Force visualisation engine licenced from WhiteCap Technologies, inc'
Hell the visualisation in iTunes isn't just a clone of G-Force, it practically is G-Force.
More accurately it was G-Force. iTunes was based on SoundJam and G-Force (was G-Force part of SoundJam?), so G-Force was essentially forked when iTunes was created. Or something along those lines, at least...
Thankfully people are working on this, or at least part of the problem.
AIUI in response to this article by Havoc Pennington a project called HAL was started. This will hopefully form the userspace part of stack for convenient automounting behaviour. It's worth looking at the current (0.2) spec for the detail, but essentially you should be able to plug in an iPod and have RhythmBox detect that (via HAL, communicating using dbus).
Hmm. Getting anything larger than stamp-sized video encoded in pixlet at 1Mbit and 500Kbit would be a challenge :-)
Pixlet is for a very different purpose.
Apologies, my reply was a little brief (preview, dammit). Quicktime tracks have a 'high-quality' flag, which I guess is supposed to hint the relevant decoder that, if possible, spend a little extra time making the track look good.
I've never seen it used in practice. The 3ivx codec, for example, adjusts it's post processing according to the available CPU which seems more sensible.
I suspect that high quality wasn't enabled, which (IIRC) means that post-processing was disabled in the Apple MPEG4 decoder.
3ivx, Xvid and divx all postprocess, not unreasonably. The Apple codec makes itself look bad for no good reason.
I make short films, and stream with windows media all the time. Everybody has it, and it's a lot less hassle then supporting all three formats.
Everbody has it? No. I don't, and I suspect many others don't. And I'm unclear what you mean by 'all three formats'. I assume you mean the big three players, but that's quite different from three formats.
Personally I tend to use MPEG4 which has plenty of support, on a wide variety of platforms. That support includes playback, creation, and streaming tools. I can point to mplayer, vlc, ffmpeg, 3ivx (which enables MPEG4 on Media Player), xvid, divx, darwin streaming server, etc etc.
This, AFAICT, is the real issue. Which formats, rather than players, will be dominant. I don't particularly like the MPEG4 licencing conditions, but at least it is supported by more than one company. The standard is available and widely implemented. WMV, and whatever video and audio codecs it contains, don't appear to be so open.
There are many cases where you can communicate more -- and I don't mean a marketing message -- with pictures plus words than you can with just word
Ok, but that doesn't require html; MIME can do this fine. In fact it's better since the image is part of the message,
But sadly, my Mark of the Unicorn Fastlane [motu.com] (less than two years old) was not listed in the recognized list of MIDI interfaces.
Silly question, but have you installed the USB MIDI OS X drivers from MOTU? My USB MIDI interface isn't listed by Apple, but it works with drivers supplied by Yamaha (in my case).
I just tried a little shell script over the fink unstable tree. I get 1474 packages currently (updated a couple of days ago).
.info.
That's excluding dupes, of course, but including variants like X and X-ssl (very uncommon). Libraries are only counted once (i.e. no -dev -shlibs double counting) since they correspond to one
MOTU, Yamaha and M-Audio all have MIDI-USB intefaces. The question is how cheap is cheap?
I found the cheapest online was the M-Audio Midisport Uno, at $40. I was impatient, however, so I went to my local music shop where they had a Yahama UX96. More expensive, but more features (though I may never use them). Worked fine.
Also try ebay, of course. There were plenty available.
HTH
:-)
You can try out most of the new features (since they are largely compiler changes) using this preview compiler. It requires a minor amount of fiddling with the scripts, and the new coolness is your reward.