I'd love to see a pleasant-to-use player that also conforms to look and feel standards of its OS... however pretty much none of today's players do. Maybe it's not possible to make a pretty media player that will conform to UI standards (and many people do want their player to look cute). Personally, I think it's much more important for players to have freeform skinnability, which would allow anyone to make their own UI-compliant skin, and which both Winamp and Sonique (and WMP, but only MS can make skins afaik) are implementing for their next version.
Oh, and Winamp works just fine in XP, thank you. BTW, afaik they are planning to port the 3.0 code to unix platforms once it's complete.
btw: I appreciate that your response was more mature than mine. I apologize.
Oh, you mean the original reply (2248364) by this guy was mature? Give me a break. I'm torn between giving him a flamebait and posting, I think I'll just post. Reality Master needs some sedatives.
Having evidence does not mean reading a book cover to cover (in this case). I'm not trying to hit on Harry Potter books here. You don't need to try some things to know they are bad.
RM, I have news for you: the best things in the world, in literature in particular, are not very popular at all.
This they can then use to get companies to stream in their format, as opposed to Real Audio/Video.
Even though you are right, I have to say that even though WMP8 is an ugly piece of shit, RealPlayer is much, much uglier, more unstable, and it installs spyware and other crap to boot. I would prefer Quicktime to WMP and WMP to Real, however what I would really like to see is a single player for all formats that's small and fast, like Winamp... of course that will never happen since all those video formats are proprietary.
Now that I think about it, being bought out by Sony would probably be a much better option for Be... I mean, Palm only has enough cash to survive for how many months? Sony, on the other hand, isn't going away anytime soon, and they could provide Be with a huge embedded and other types of platforms market for their different products.
It would be a shame if Palm dragged Be to death, and that's very probable given their finances now...
I would like to ask what's wrong with measuring CPU performance in MIPS and MFLOPS. I know simple integer and fpu operations are not where the current CISC processors shine... so make a benchmark with some operations that are common across all platforms (x86 and powerpc in this case) and use advanced sets of cpu instructions. But real processor performance is measured in MIPS or MFLOPS or at least matrix operations and other stuff... not how fast Word or Photoshop or Excel works - those are byproducts.
Russia restarting Buran program for space tourism purposes.
Nah, Buran can't be restarted... there are many many reasons, basically most of the infrastructure for it has to be re-created anew, for a cost comparable to the cost of developing the next generation reusable system like Mria. The guy who gave the interview was pretty much incompetent.
I first thought that this was for EVAs. That would be pretty cool... I think they need real robots for EVAs because using humans for them turns out too expensive (all those spacesuits and airlocks are too complex).
Then I read they were for inside the spacecraft... but I don't understand what this thing can do that an ordinary sensor package hung on the wall cannot. Even "venturing into dangerous areas" - they say they can seal a module and let the droid inspect it... well, every module should have several sensor packs in it and a few cameras too. So I don't really get how it can be more helpful than what they already have.
Oh yeah. And I was reading Astronautica a few days ago about the Luna series and other probe series... for Luna I think they blew up something like 6 missions, launching one every month, before putting a spacecraft in an orbit around moon, another 5 before soft-landing, and so on. It's pretty funny actually, neither NASA nor RSA/Rosaviakosmos have the guts to do that sort of thing now (not that it would necessarily work out, either).
It's interesting how they regard the Viking probes as something gigantic and powerful(and, importantly, successful) as opposed to recent probes that are smaller and cheaper. But I don't think that smaller and cheaper is worse... it obviously reduces the impact in case of a failure. Moreover, I would reason that the instruments used in modern probes are lighter, cheaper, sturdier, smaller, more powerful versions of the ones used on the big old probes. And they made significant advances in a ton of other areas, they know more about where to look for failures, they have more powerful computers, transcievers (DSN I guess) and so on... so why is the faster/cheaper/smaller approach showing itself as a failure?
The rocket didn't fail, it deposited the payload exactly into the sub-orbital trajectory it was supposed to and all three stages functioned properly. It was the separation of the payload from the third stage that didn't occur, I don't know why, but that has nothing to do with the rocket.
What do you mean, a commonly-used bitrate? I can bet a lot of money on that if you give me a CD with any music and let me play it to you together with the same CD encoded at 256 kbps ABR high-quality pass with LAME 3.88, on an SB Live! hooked up to a good amp and a good pair of monitor speakers (play the CD on your favorite CD player hooked up to the same amp), you would not be able to hear the difference between the CD and the mp3. If you state otherwise, you're full of shit. The audio quality difference at this bitrate, with this encoder, cannot be heard by any human ear.
hardy @ 2001/07/10 21.49 irc.emory.edu
irc.emory.edu has officially de-linked from EFNet as of today due to excessive Denial of Service Attacks for unknown (but most likely IRC-Related) reasons. It's a great loss for the EFNet community as Emory University's IRC server has for 5 years been a very stable, reliable, and open one. We would like to thank the irc.emory.edu staff for their time and dedication to EFNet, you will be missed.
Those fuckers DDOSd irc.emory.edu off EFNet? Now that's truly evil. I consider this a huge insult to the, um, "hacker" community, and this will be a great loss for me... Emory was actually the only server that let me on EFNet at one point... I think it provided great service. Indeed, irc.emory.edu, you will be missed.
it obligates US-based ISPs to be content police for every jursidiction on earth, which is clearly ridiculous
Not every jurisdiction on earth... just the jurisdictions of the countries that are members of the Hague Convention.
By the way, the list of members is here. Since I'm Russian by descent, I was interested to see that Russia is not on that list. From what my scarce knowledge is, though, Chinese laws regarding free speech and stuff are far less freedom-oriented than Russian ones...
As for the ISPs... I think I would be stating the obvious in saying that some ISPs have already tried to police their users' content on their own.
It's interesting (and sad, really) how you took this discussion and tried to turn it into a diatribe as to how the US is trying to force their 'perfect' laws on everyone in the EU.
It is interesting (and sad, really) how US-centric (I could even go as far as saying narrow-minded) you are. Can't you see that people in other countries can feel just as strongly about obeying, for example, your country's law - the DMCA - as you feel about losing your right to free speech?
I'm doing the exact same thing. I'm using 3.5c and I am happy with it. 4 is not only bloated and contains many useless extra applications; it didn't work with either of my writers (Plextor and Philips/HP). The funny thing is, ECDC 3 is not supposed to work under win2k according to what I've heard, but it works perfectly fine not just under win2k, but under the latest whistler build too. (Whistler warns me that it has an incompatibility with ECDC 4 when I install ECDC 3 on it, but it works.)
As for music piracy, as long as CDs are produced (and that will go on for another 5 years at the very least, I think), everyone will be able to copy and rip them. There isn't much music/software companies can do about it.
(shameless plug)
Check out creativegeometry.com. My dad made the program, and it can produce some interesting things - check out the gallery (check all pages for different stages of work, it all started on 640x480x16).
What's the purpose of this? It says that it might show the content to the user for a few hours and then stop, but it's always possible to make a screenshot (even if they try to stop me from doing that, I can always directly read the video memory or something and circumvent their protection). Also, I wonder what kind of encryption and image/text format it uses.
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I'd love to see a pleasant-to-use player that also conforms to look and feel standards of its OS... however pretty much none of today's players do. Maybe it's not possible to make a pretty media player that will conform to UI standards (and many people do want their player to look cute). Personally, I think it's much more important for players to have freeform skinnability, which would allow anyone to make their own UI-compliant skin, and which both Winamp and Sonique (and WMP, but only MS can make skins afaik) are implementing for their next version.
Oh, and Winamp works just fine in XP, thank you. BTW, afaik they are planning to port the 3.0 code to unix platforms once it's complete.
btw: I appreciate that your response was more mature than mine. I apologize.
Oh, you mean the original reply (2248364) by this guy was mature? Give me a break. I'm torn between giving him a flamebait and posting, I think I'll just post. Reality Master needs some sedatives.
Having evidence does not mean reading a book cover to cover (in this case). I'm not trying to hit on Harry Potter books here. You don't need to try some things to know they are bad.
RM, I have news for you: the best things in the world, in literature in particular, are not very popular at all.
This they can then use to get companies to stream in their format, as opposed to Real Audio/Video.
Even though you are right, I have to say that even though WMP8 is an ugly piece of shit, RealPlayer is much, much uglier, more unstable, and it installs spyware and other crap to boot. I would prefer Quicktime to WMP and WMP to Real, however what I would really like to see is a single player for all formats that's small and fast, like Winamp... of course that will never happen since all those video formats are proprietary.
Look! An expert in Russian->English transliteration!
You know, it would help you a lot if you actually got your head out of your ass and checked the information you post first, before accusing others.
And yes, it's Sklyarov. That's how it's pronounced.
Plus, the transistors are stacked in many layers. Minus, you need a lot of space for layout and connectors, and probably some for heat dissipation.
up-to-date as in what?
It would be a shame if Palm dragged Be to death, and that's very probable given their finances now...
I would like to ask what's wrong with measuring CPU performance in MIPS and MFLOPS. I know simple integer and fpu operations are not where the current CISC processors shine... so make a benchmark with some operations that are common across all platforms (x86 and powerpc in this case) and use advanced sets of cpu instructions. But real processor performance is measured in MIPS or MFLOPS or at least matrix operations and other stuff... not how fast Word or Photoshop or Excel works - those are byproducts.
Nah, Buran can't be restarted... there are many many reasons, basically most of the infrastructure for it has to be re-created anew, for a cost comparable to the cost of developing the next generation reusable system like Mria. The guy who gave the interview was pretty much incompetent.
so, um, who's been moderating on crack? How is this troll?
yep... his AC sure was low (high that is)
I wonder what his THAC0 was compared to theirs... and what his proficiency with that longbow really was
I first thought that this was for EVAs. That would be pretty cool... I think they need real robots for EVAs because using humans for them turns out too expensive (all those spacesuits and airlocks are too complex).
Then I read they were for inside the spacecraft... but I don't understand what this thing can do that an ordinary sensor package hung on the wall cannot. Even "venturing into dangerous areas" - they say they can seal a module and let the droid inspect it... well, every module should have several sensor packs in it and a few cameras too. So I don't really get how it can be more helpful than what they already have.
Oh yeah. And I was reading Astronautica a few days ago about the Luna series and other probe series... for Luna I think they blew up something like 6 missions, launching one every month, before putting a spacecraft in an orbit around moon, another 5 before soft-landing, and so on. It's pretty funny actually, neither NASA nor RSA/Rosaviakosmos have the guts to do that sort of thing now (not that it would necessarily work out, either).
It's interesting how they regard the Viking probes as something gigantic and powerful(and, importantly, successful) as opposed to recent probes that are smaller and cheaper. But I don't think that smaller and cheaper is worse... it obviously reduces the impact in case of a failure. Moreover, I would reason that the instruments used in modern probes are lighter, cheaper, sturdier, smaller, more powerful versions of the ones used on the big old probes. And they made significant advances in a ton of other areas, they know more about where to look for failures, they have more powerful computers, transcievers (DSN I guess) and so on... so why is the faster/cheaper/smaller approach showing itself as a failure?
The rocket didn't fail, it deposited the payload exactly into the sub-orbital trajectory it was supposed to and all three stages functioned properly. It was the separation of the payload from the third stage that didn't occur, I don't know why, but that has nothing to do with the rocket.
What do you mean, a commonly-used bitrate? I can bet a lot of money on that if you give me a CD with any music and let me play it to you together with the same CD encoded at 256 kbps ABR high-quality pass with LAME 3.88, on an SB Live! hooked up to a good amp and a good pair of monitor speakers (play the CD on your favorite CD player hooked up to the same amp), you would not be able to hear the difference between the CD and the mp3. If you state otherwise, you're full of shit. The audio quality difference at this bitrate, with this encoder, cannot be heard by any human ear.
Those fuckers DDOSd irc.emory.edu off EFNet? Now that's truly evil. I consider this a huge insult to the, um, "hacker" community, and this will be a great loss for me... Emory was actually the only server that let me on EFNet at one point... I think it provided great service. Indeed, irc.emory.edu, you will be missed.
yup. but I heard it was due to a broken router (ddos maybe?)... much of OSDN was down. Suck it.
Not every jurisdiction on earth... just the jurisdictions of the countries that are members of the Hague Convention.
By the way, the list of members is here. Since I'm Russian by descent, I was interested to see that Russia is not on that list. From what my scarce knowledge is, though, Chinese laws regarding free speech and stuff are far less freedom-oriented than Russian ones...
As for the ISPs... I think I would be stating the obvious in saying that some ISPs have already tried to police their users' content on their own.
It is interesting (and sad, really) how US-centric (I could even go as far as saying narrow-minded) you are. Can't you see that people in other countries can feel just as strongly about obeying, for example, your country's law - the DMCA - as you feel about losing your right to free speech?
As for music piracy, as long as CDs are produced (and that will go on for another 5 years at the very least, I think), everyone will be able to copy and rip them. There isn't much music/software companies can do about it.
goddamnit. Sorry, it's here.
(shameless plug) Check out creativegeometry.com. My dad made the program, and it can produce some interesting things - check out the gallery (check all pages for different stages of work, it all started on 640x480x16).
I doubt this has any security value at all.