Somehow, we, as humans, can send data at reasonably high rates to some of the farthest places in the Solar System, yet sending Internet wireless over 45 miles seems far beyond our technology.
What happened to all those technology benefits the Space Age was promised to bring us?
I'm still heating my coffee with electricity and I still type TEXT message on a keyboard for Christs' sake! We're better than this, let's move it!
Do people even use Palms anymore?
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Why are people still buying Palms? I don't get it.
Lets see, for approx the same money, I can get a black+white, slow, and low-featured Palm, or I can get a full featured (voice recording, sound, full color, video, full-motion games, Word, Internet Explorer, and about a billion other features) in a PocketPC. I have an older Windows CE 2.x HP Jornada and it has more features than your average Palm device. I don't see why people by Palms, is there any good reason? I know some of the lower-end Palms are pretty cheap, which is great, but for the big bucks ($3-400) I guess I don't see how there's even a choice between the Palm and the PocketPC, especially with PocketPC 2002.
WMA doesn't compress more, it just compresses smarter. I happen to think the quality is better. If I take a 64kbs WMA file and a 128Kbps MP3, I can't tell the difference. There have been several professional comparisions (independent of MS) that have analyzed the various waveforms generated, etc and have concluded that WMA generates a more accurate waveform on average than MP3.
It's not that MP3 sucks, it's just older technology. MS Audio v8 is less than one year old, whereas MP3 is several years old. I've heard talk of a new MP3 codec (MP4?), and there's also MP3Plus. The new MP3 will probably be better than MS Audio v8 because it'll take advantage of new technology available.
Don't like your blind hatred for MS prevent you from seeing the obvious truths
You're right. What I meant to say is that WMA can accomplish what MP3 does in half the bitrate. CDAudio (44khz, 16bit Stereo) in 64Kbs vs 128Kbs for MP3, thus half the file size.
Um, WMA is compressed (typically). The MSAudio v8 codec compresses at half the size of MP3 at the same bitrate.
So if you have 70min of uncompressed digital audio, and you compress it with MSAudiov8 (which achieves CD Audio quality at 64kbits) you'd have much more time.
RedBook is 1.4112Mb/s (without CIRC or ERM). It's a little less with the error checking, but it's 1.something Mb/s. Last I checked, 64Kb/s is a LOT less than 1.xMb/s. You do the math. You'd end up having several HOURS of audio.
Just like you can get more MP3 audio on a CD than uncompressed, you can get more WMA than MP3 than uncompressed.
Well, this is just another example of how the Internet is turning from a geek haven to a capitalistic corporate marketing tool. We all knew it. We all saw it coming. Did anyone think that pirating software, MP3's, cracking corporate networks, posting slanderous comments on message boards and all the other normally-socially-inacceptable behavior would last forever?
The Internet was a frontier, and now it's being settled. So you know what that means? Find a new frontier!
I mean, once they start making movies like "Hackers", you have to know that it's over =)
... could someone please provide a brief history of what the watcom compiler is or does differently than other compilers, and why it's suited to making DOOM-type games where other compilers aren't?
The OpenWATCOM site wasn't terribly informative. Apparently, this is a big deal since it made Slashdot, but I guess I don't see the significance. Thanks!
Yet again, I am disappointed by the lack of creativity and writing talent in Star Trek: *.* series.
TNG was the pinnacle and it tappered off from there. DS9 started off poorly but picked up near the end, even if all it was was just blatant violence gimmicks rather than successful writing and dynamic character interaction.
It's unfortunate that with such a large universe as the Star Trek one that these writers can't come up with anything decent. I was really hopeful of the prequel twist on plot, but it seems all they did was pick the most boring time in the ST universe: little technology, few other species to interact with, and no real war. It would've been far more interesting if they would've went back to the very beginning (shortly after the first flight). I would've like to have seen how Humanity went from being on the brink of destruction in a post-apocalyptic world to one of the most successful and far reaching races in the galaxy.
Scott Backula (sp?) is a good actor, but this role doesn't seem right for him somehow. He was good in Quantum Leap, but he just doesn't "fit in" in this series. Perhaps it's because the writing is beneath him, or perhaps he's surrounded by half-rate actors who were hired apparently because of their sexual attractiveness rather than their acting ability.
UPN, please spare us the gatuitous soft porn. The people watching this are mainly die-hard trekkies who watch for the Trek, not for the poorly written and even more poorly acted sexual innuendo. There are plenty of web sites for us to get our fix, we don't need cheap teases in our Trek. If you're attempting to attract a cross-over crowd with these thinly veiled attempts, you are doing a poor job, and you've apparently missed your market.
Here's a poll for you...
How long before:
- They have advertisements in text books
- They have advertisements in the classrooms
- They pay professors to wear clothing or
carry bags with advertisements on them
- They pay to have advertisements tattooed
on the back of your eyelids (grin)
I can see it going down now:
- Sun makes this passport-knock off
- It's a dismal failure because Passport is much better and has more functionality
- Sun gets burned
- Sun gets angry and takes their competitive problems to the court and sues MS for being a big bad meany monopoly.
It's unfortunate that Sun can't innovate and make their own products, or make Java better and compete with.NET rather than copying it. I realize Java was first, but it seems Sun has picked up on some of MS' good ideas and is turning Java into.JAVA. It's unfortunate. I work with Java every day and Sun had a good thing going, but there just isn't a lot of positive movement in the Java realm. Just from what I've read,.NET is the Java that Java never was. Is this Sun's fault? Probably. Can they fix it? Absolutely! But not by copy-cating MS and picking legal fights with them.
Fact: All OSes and web servers have remotely exploitable vulnerabilities
Fact: The scum that write these worms will target the most popular platform to get maximum impact.
Fact: IIS holds a lion's share of the web server market for corporate installations and business
Fact: There are a bunch of incompetent sysadmins out there who can't take the five minutes to follow MS' IIS Security Checklist (which would've foiled Code Red) or apply SP2 (which would've foiled Code Red II and Nimda)
So, if we all dump IIS and go with, for example, Solaris+IPlanet, or Linux+Apache, the same lousy SA's will still not apply their patches and the Scum will not be writing worms for Linux+Apache or Solaris or whatever.
The _REAL_ solution is to get people to be smart about installing Internet servers and make it dirt simple on all platforms to apply patches (MS has made great strides in this with the Network Hotfix Checker and the soon-to-be-released HF auto downloader).
Blaming MS for lazy sysadmins isn't going to help anyone.
... slashdotters are so eager to bash on MS, that they'll even make stuff up to do it. As you see in the update, this is only for using the FP logo, which only makes sense. Bash MS all you want, even use FP to do it, but don't put "Designed by FP" on your site when you're doing it. Duh!
I've tried running this, but I'm behind a NAT/Firewall and it doesn't seem to work. I've tried opening all UDP traffic and still no luck. I can't seem to find any other support/information about this on any of the web sites mentioned in the readme. Anyone else have any luck?
I stopped using Egghead when I found out that they practiced the unethical business practice of billing customers before items actually shipped (i.e. on backorder, etc).
Why is that when people post to Slashdot they must be so melodramatic and sensationalistic. If you look at the facts, you'll see that they have taken the time to alert their customers and give them a chance to OPT OUT of the information transfer. Please, folks, if you're going to post a story like this, please take the time to at least get MOST of the facts right, if not all.
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Somehow, we, as humans, can send data at reasonably high rates to some of the farthest places in the Solar System, yet sending Internet wireless over 45 miles seems far beyond our technology.
What happened to all those technology benefits the Space Age was promised to bring us?
I'm still heating my coffee with electricity and I still type TEXT message on a keyboard for Christs' sake! We're better than this, let's move it!
Why are people still buying Palms? I don't get it. Lets see, for approx the same money, I can get a black+white, slow, and low-featured Palm, or I can get a full featured (voice recording, sound, full color, video, full-motion games, Word, Internet Explorer, and about a billion other features) in a PocketPC. I have an older Windows CE 2.x HP Jornada and it has more features than your average Palm device. I don't see why people by Palms, is there any good reason? I know some of the lower-end Palms are pretty cheap, which is great, but for the big bucks ($3-400) I guess I don't see how there's even a choice between the Palm and the PocketPC, especially with PocketPC 2002.
WMA doesn't compress more, it just compresses smarter. I happen to think the quality is better. If I take a 64kbs WMA file and a 128Kbps MP3, I can't tell the difference. There have been several professional comparisions (independent of MS) that have analyzed the various waveforms generated, etc and have concluded that WMA generates a more accurate waveform on average than MP3.
It's not that MP3 sucks, it's just older technology. MS Audio v8 is less than one year old, whereas MP3 is several years old. I've heard talk of a new MP3 codec (MP4?), and there's also MP3Plus. The new MP3 will probably be better than MS Audio v8 because it'll take advantage of new technology available.
Don't like your blind hatred for MS prevent you from seeing the obvious truths
You're right. What I meant to say is that WMA can accomplish what MP3 does in half the bitrate. CDAudio (44khz, 16bit Stereo) in 64Kbs vs 128Kbs for MP3, thus half the file size.
Um, WMA is compressed (typically). The MSAudio v8 codec compresses at half the size of MP3 at the same bitrate.
So if you have 70min of uncompressed digital audio, and you compress it with MSAudiov8 (which achieves CD Audio quality at 64kbits) you'd have much more time. RedBook is 1.4112Mb/s (without CIRC or ERM). It's a little less with the error checking, but it's 1.something Mb/s. Last I checked, 64Kb/s is a LOT less than 1.xMb/s. You do the math. You'd end up having several HOURS of audio. Just like you can get more MP3 audio on a CD than uncompressed, you can get more WMA than MP3 than uncompressed.
Well, this is just another example of how the Internet is turning from a geek haven to a capitalistic corporate marketing tool. We all knew it. We all saw it coming. Did anyone think that pirating software, MP3's, cracking corporate networks, posting slanderous comments on message boards and all the other normally-socially-inacceptable behavior would last forever?
The Internet was a frontier, and now it's being settled. So you know what that means? Find a new frontier!
I mean, once they start making movies like "Hackers", you have to know that it's over =)
... could someone please provide a brief history of what the watcom compiler is or does differently than other compilers, and why it's suited to making DOOM-type games where other compilers aren't?
The OpenWATCOM site wasn't terribly informative. Apparently, this is a big deal since it made Slashdot, but I guess I don't see the significance. Thanks!
Yet again, I am disappointed by the lack of creativity and writing talent in Star Trek: *.* series.
TNG was the pinnacle and it tappered off from there. DS9 started off poorly but picked up near the end, even if all it was was just blatant violence gimmicks rather than successful writing and dynamic character interaction. It's unfortunate that with such a large universe as the Star Trek one that these writers can't come up with anything decent. I was really hopeful of the prequel twist on plot, but it seems all they did was pick the most boring time in the ST universe: little technology, few other species to interact with, and no real war. It would've been far more interesting if they would've went back to the very beginning (shortly after the first flight). I would've like to have seen how Humanity went from being on the brink of destruction in a post-apocalyptic world to one of the most successful and far reaching races in the galaxy.
Scott Backula (sp?) is a good actor, but this role doesn't seem right for him somehow. He was good in Quantum Leap, but he just doesn't "fit in" in this series. Perhaps it's because the writing is beneath him, or perhaps he's surrounded by half-rate actors who were hired apparently because of their sexual attractiveness rather than their acting ability.
UPN, please spare us the gatuitous soft porn. The people watching this are mainly die-hard trekkies who watch for the Trek, not for the poorly written and even more poorly acted sexual innuendo. There are plenty of web sites for us to get our fix, we don't need cheap teases in our Trek. If you're attempting to attract a cross-over crowd with these thinly veiled attempts, you are doing a poor job, and you've apparently missed your market.
I could go on, but what's the point? =)
Here's a poll for you... How long before: - They have advertisements in text books - They have advertisements in the classrooms - They pay professors to wear clothing or carry bags with advertisements on them - They pay to have advertisements tattooed on the back of your eyelids (grin)
I can see it going down now:
.NET rather than copying it. I realize Java was first, but it seems Sun has picked up on some of MS' good ideas and is turning Java into .JAVA. It's unfortunate. I work with Java every day and Sun had a good thing going, but there just isn't a lot of positive movement in the Java realm. Just from what I've read, .NET is the Java that Java never was. Is this Sun's fault? Probably. Can they fix it? Absolutely! But not by copy-cating MS and picking legal fights with them.
- Sun makes this passport-knock off
- It's a dismal failure because Passport is much better and has more functionality
- Sun gets burned
- Sun gets angry and takes their competitive problems to the court and sues MS for being a big bad meany monopoly.
It's unfortunate that Sun can't innovate and make their own products, or make Java better and compete with
Fact: All OSes and web servers have remotely exploitable vulnerabilities
Fact: The scum that write these worms will target the most popular platform to get maximum impact.
Fact: IIS holds a lion's share of the web server market for corporate installations and business
Fact: There are a bunch of incompetent sysadmins out there who can't take the five minutes to follow MS' IIS Security Checklist (which would've foiled Code Red) or apply SP2 (which would've foiled Code Red II and Nimda)
So, if we all dump IIS and go with, for example, Solaris+IPlanet, or Linux+Apache, the same lousy SA's will still not apply their patches and the Scum will not be writing worms for Linux+Apache or Solaris or whatever.
The _REAL_ solution is to get people to be smart about installing Internet servers and make it dirt simple on all platforms to apply patches (MS has made great strides in this with the Network Hotfix Checker and the soon-to-be-released HF auto downloader).
Blaming MS for lazy sysadmins isn't going to help anyone.
... slashdotters are so eager to bash on MS, that they'll even make stuff up to do it. As you see in the update, this is only for using the FP logo, which only makes sense. Bash MS all you want, even use FP to do it, but don't put "Designed by FP" on your site when you're doing it. Duh!
Calm down, read, and think...
I've tried running this, but I'm behind a NAT/Firewall and it doesn't seem to work. I've tried opening all UDP traffic and still no luck. I can't seem to find any other support/information about this on any of the web sites mentioned in the readme. Anyone else have any luck?
I stopped using Egghead when I found out that they practiced the unethical business practice of billing customers before items actually shipped (i.e. on backorder, etc).
Why is that when people post to Slashdot they must be so melodramatic and sensationalistic. If you look at the facts, you'll see that they have taken the time to alert their customers and give them a chance to OPT OUT of the information transfer. Please, folks, if you're going to post a story like this, please take the time to at least get MOST of the facts right, if not all.