The winamp and napster people could very easily get ogg in there with very little effort. Here's how:
In napster, add some code to include.ogg files as part of the music collection (and I guess they'd have to do a little to read the files for bitrate, length etc).
In winamp, add an ogg codec as part of the standard release (I think one already exists as a plugin) and add the file association along with the winamp lightning bold icon. Windows doesn't even show file extensions by default - it'll take some people a while to even know it was there.
mp3 carries no brand loyalty - this could be very easy indeed.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
This guy is one-upping what the Fraunhoffer institute did practically single handedly? Guess it goes to show that there is always someone smarter than you...
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
That's, like, the understatement of the century? Christ, this sounds like something out of 1984! This is the kind of news I would expect to read in the Onion!
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Does Jabber include the Yahoo protocol in its collection of supported protocols? I know that's in the stated goal but I can't find whether it already does.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
I've heard one Dennis Miller standup thing a couple years ago.
>and Deejays
who the hell is that?
>and you might get an original thought buddy.
It is an original thought. Actually, it's almost an involuntary reaction of revulsion whenever I see his carefully crafted "presidential" look. He's got that silvery hair, and he kinda squints when he talks, as if it makes him look "sophisticated".
>In case you did get a degree, was is from an Ivy
>League school like Bush?
Ok now I know you're a troll. Bush got into Yale courtesy of his family connections, and the very fact that he got in pissed off a lot of Yale people.
>Mind you, Gore couldn't pass grad school at
>Vanderbilt.
well, you seem to have an esteem for ivy league schools, and he went to Harvard, so I guess that should impress you.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
>>If Dubya is elected, it will be an insult for me
>>to have to look at the guy every time he gets up
>>and talks. The guy is a moron, and it is obvious
>>he doesn't know shit.
>Then you'll know how the rest of us has felt
>watching Bill Clinton the last 8 years...
Please elaborate. Clinton is a very intelligent person, and you know what? I don't care about his "morality" in the least. In fact, I don't even thing his actions with Monica were wrong. We have had a good, peacful, prosperous eight years, and I'd like at least four more.
And I'd perfer not to see the supreme court stocked with religious kneejerks.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Gore had better win this election. Dubya is about two things: the christian right, and big oil. The christian right part of it is what really steams me.
If Dubya is elected, it will be an insult for me to have to look at the guy every time he gets up and talks. The guy is a moron, and it is obvious he doesn't know shit.
Gore may have had the "inventing the internet" fiasco, but he is still easily the better choice for anyone that cares about tech issues. His poorly worded comment was actually about his support in congress for facilitating faster development of a nationwide network (which was absolutely true. He was the guy who coined "info superhighway", and although lame, his intentions are good).
Personally I'm voting for a third party - either Nader or Browne - because that is really the best thing I can do with my vote. They won't win, but if more people vote for third parties, they will get more respect, and who knows? We just might have a system with several legitimate parties, which would be a Good Thing.
But since the race is between Gore and Dubya, Gore had better win. It is imperative that Dubya loses this election.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Slashdot is run on a load balancing system, with separate servers for database, images, static pages, etc, from what I remember reading. How else do you handle half the geeks in the country compulsively hitting "reload" every five minutes?
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Since I wrote it. I'll take your guess that it was from the Onion as a compliment, since I love their writing (and I haven't read Our Dumb Century, so I wasn't influenced by it)
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Still reeling from the absence of the Ten Commandments in public schools, I reached for my news-paper on Monday and saw that they are teaching evolooshun without having the entire fossil record from the first genetic material to the present.
I demand the right to a solid platform upon which I can support my dignity. How can I feel good about myself if I am reminded that I share common ancestry with ape-brutes? I've been to the zoo, and I decline to write of the horrid, disgusting things I have seen the creatures do.
With our sense of self-worth at stake, supporters of science will talk of 'empirical evidence', 'facts', and 'logic'. Take a moment and reflect on the innocence lost the day our world left it's prominent spot at the center of the universe. And now they would have us force feed this, their evil-ution, to our kids.
Does a man who is doing his utmost to get into heaven benefit from filling his head with theories? Do we want our teachers questioning all that is good and decent, twisting things around with their fancy words? We must shift our focus back to something which is never used in an evil fashion: religion.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
I took that class the school year before last. That was the first year AP CompSci had been updated for C++ (previously it was Pascal). I was bored to tears, it was so easy. I got the test back recently (usually you don't but I sorta ran into an administrator that had it) and I had gotten every single question right, which is very unusual with AP tests, their being very hard. I know I didn't do that well on any of my other AP tests.
So that year, the AP CompSci test was just ridiculously easy. My entire class got 5's on it (the highest possible score) and a lot of them hadn't used a computer before in their life and couldn't do a lot of the assignments.
For good assignment choices, I would look at some of those programming contests that are all over the web, and definately give the kids the option of coming up with their own project if they have a good idea for one. I asked my teacher if I could skip the regular assignments because I already knew C++ and work on a program that would play Connect 4 against a human instead, and I had a great time of it and came up with a cool program.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Email advertising should have the correct email address of the sender in either the To: or Reply-to: header, or both. And it should start the subject line with the word "Advertisement". This would make it easy for anyone who wishes to filter it out, and anyone else to respond. It should also have a WORKING mechanism for you to easily take yourself off the list.
Advertising itself should not be outlawed, but violators of the above should be prosecuted. Ban it and they'll still do it. Make those rules and people that follow the law will probably have an easier time than those who don't, making it impractical to NOT follow those rules.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Believe me, they can if you shine it right into their pupil. That's a lot more light energy going into their eye than if they look directly at the sun.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Momentum will gather for the next lucky service, and once it's the place where "most people go" it'll turn into the place where everyone goes, because of the selection. My hunch is it'll be either OpenNap or Gnutella, but I don't know.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Here's what I never understood: CD's aren't that good! In some ways, LP phonographs have better sound (they are analog). I would like to see a new audio format (say, on DVD discs) with the following:
-96khz sampling rate -24 (or 32?) bit audio -5.1 channel surround sound -and would it hurt to include the Artist, Album and Track names in the table of contents, so they can be shown on computers/stereos playing the disc?
That, I think, would push any differences between the digitized sound and the original analog sound out of the range of human discrimination.
And, as a bonus - if we devote more data to sound quality, there is less total available recording time for an artist making an album. I would like to see a limit of say, 45 minutes. I think that would cut down on the number of crap fluff songs that artists put in their album nowadays because they feel like they need to fill the 74 minutes or just like to hear their voice.
Wow, you're dealing with this by just posting an "imposter" notice in reply to everything he writes? That's probably what keeps the lamer going. I guess that's why it sucks to be in the spotlight, even if it is a small pond.
Incidentally, what about my post (to which Mr. Confused replied in agreement) was "off"?
You have to bear in mind that this is a text based medium,sarcasm is hard to spot.
But that's precisely what's so beautiful about it - you have only the words themselves to interpret what the poster really means. It such an encounter was face-to-face, this form of humor would be impossible. Either you use a sarcastic tone of voice, making it obvious to all, or you use a sincere tone, which screws it all up unless it is done perfectly. I love extracting meaning from this kind of stuff based on what is left unsaid.
I guess my original plan was to post something likely to attract posts arguing with it, and then to those posts I would respond with something so outrageous that they would know I wasn't serious. When people still didn't grasp it, I upped it even more. After reading the resulting replies, I got frustrated as all heck;-)
Oh well, if some people laughed, it served its purpose. It sucks that all I get to see is the negative reactions.
The academy isn't trying to be stingy here. They're trying to make their rule clear right now, in hope that confusion won't arise later as net films will presumably gain an audience.
The academy has nothing against the internet - their rule includes ANYTHING other than theatres - national or cable tv, videocassette/laserdisc/dvd. Basically, they feel that there is something to be lost in the experience of watching a film if you don't see it in a big theatre. I can see where they're coming from - they care about their art form. Conceited? Perhaps, but it is their awards, and a film doesn't HAVE to try and win anything if it doesn't want to. I doubt a rule like that would have kept the south park movie off the net if they thought they had a good reason.
I didn't have it word for word, since it was from memory, but here's the full quote:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Slashdot Mirror
In napster, add some code to include
In winamp, add an ogg codec as part of the standard release (I think one already exists as a plugin) and add the file association along with the winamp lightning bold icon. Windows doesn't even show file extensions by default - it'll take some people a while to even know it was there.
mp3 carries no brand loyalty - this could be very easy indeed.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
That's, like, the understatement of the century? Christ, this sounds like something out of 1984! This is the kind of news I would expect to read in the Onion!
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Still working on a math/comp sci degree. I'm 20.
>Stop listening to Dennis Miller
I've heard one Dennis Miller standup thing a couple years ago.
>and Deejays
who the hell is that?
>and you might get an original thought buddy.
It is an original thought. Actually, it's almost an involuntary reaction of revulsion whenever I see his carefully crafted "presidential" look. He's got that silvery hair, and he kinda squints when he talks, as if it makes him look "sophisticated".
>In case you did get a degree, was is from an Ivy
>League school like Bush?
Ok now I know you're a troll. Bush got into Yale courtesy of his family connections, and the very fact that he got in pissed off a lot of Yale people.
>Mind you, Gore couldn't pass grad school at
>Vanderbilt.
well, you seem to have an esteem for ivy league schools, and he went to Harvard, so I guess that should impress you.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
>>to have to look at the guy every time he gets up
>>and talks. The guy is a moron, and it is obvious
>>he doesn't know shit.
>Then you'll know how the rest of us has felt
>watching Bill Clinton the last 8 years...
Please elaborate. Clinton is a very intelligent person, and you know what? I don't care about his "morality" in the least. In fact, I don't even thing his actions with Monica were wrong. We have had a good, peacful, prosperous eight years, and I'd like at least four more.
And I'd perfer not to see the supreme court stocked with religious kneejerks.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
If Dubya is elected, it will be an insult for me to have to look at the guy every time he gets up and talks. The guy is a moron, and it is obvious he doesn't know shit.
Gore may have had the "inventing the internet" fiasco, but he is still easily the better choice for anyone that cares about tech issues. His poorly worded comment was actually about his support in congress for facilitating faster development of a nationwide network (which was absolutely true. He was the guy who coined "info superhighway", and although lame, his intentions are good).
Personally I'm voting for a third party - either Nader or Browne - because that is really the best thing I can do with my vote. They won't win, but if more people vote for third parties, they will get more respect, and who knows? We just might have a system with several legitimate parties, which would be a Good Thing.
But since the race is between Gore and Dubya, Gore had better win. It is imperative that Dubya loses this election.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
I demand the right to a solid platform upon which I can support my dignity. How can I feel good about myself if I am reminded that I share common ancestry with ape-brutes? I've been to the zoo, and I decline to write of the horrid, disgusting things I have seen the creatures do.
With our sense of self-worth at stake, supporters of science will talk of 'empirical evidence', 'facts', and 'logic'. Take a moment and reflect on the innocence lost the day our world left it's prominent spot at the center of the universe. And now they would have us force feed this, their evil-ution, to our kids.
Does a man who is doing his utmost to get into heaven benefit from filling his head with theories? Do we want our teachers questioning all that is good and decent, twisting things around with their fancy words? We must shift our focus back to something which is never used in an evil fashion: religion.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
So that year, the AP CompSci test was just ridiculously easy. My entire class got 5's on it (the highest possible score) and a lot of them hadn't used a computer before in their life and couldn't do a lot of the assignments.
For good assignment choices, I would look at some of those programming contests that are all over the web, and definately give the kids the option of coming up with their own project if they have a good idea for one. I asked my teacher if I could skip the regular assignments because I already knew C++ and work on a program that would play Connect 4 against a human instead, and I had a great time of it and came up with a cool program.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Advertising itself should not be outlawed, but violators of the above should be prosecuted. Ban it and they'll still do it. Make those rules and people that follow the law will probably have an easier time than those who don't, making it impractical to NOT follow those rules.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
I'm with you!
(I recently started that kind of thing anyway)
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grappler
Very Asinine Generally Incompetent New Ass-Language ;-)
See? A little profanity and it's ten times funnier... right?
Saturday Night MotherFucking Live!!!
hmm, ok it's gonna take a bit more work than that...
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grappler
Here's what I never understood: CD's aren't that good! In some ways, LP phonographs have better sound (they are analog). I would like to see a new audio format (say, on DVD discs) with the following:
-96khz sampling rate
-24 (or 32?) bit audio
-5.1 channel surround sound
-and would it hurt to include the Artist, Album and Track names in the table of contents, so they can be shown on computers/stereos playing the disc?
That, I think, would push any differences between the digitized sound and the original analog sound out of the range of human discrimination.
And, as a bonus - if we devote more data to sound quality, there is less total available recording time for an artist making an album. I would like to see a limit of say, 45 minutes. I think that would cut down on the number of crap fluff songs that artists put in their album nowadays because they feel like they need to fill the 74 minutes or just like to hear their voice.
--
grappler
Wow, you're dealing with this by just posting an "imposter" notice in reply to everything he writes? That's probably what keeps the lamer going. I guess that's why it sucks to be in the spotlight, even if it is a small pond.
Incidentally, what about my post (to which Mr. Confused replied in agreement) was "off"?
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grappler
You have to bear in mind that this is a text based medium,sarcasm is hard to spot.
;-)
But that's precisely what's so beautiful about it - you have only the words themselves to interpret what the poster really means. It such an encounter was face-to-face, this form of humor would be impossible. Either you use a sarcastic tone of voice, making it obvious to all, or you use a sincere tone, which screws it all up unless it is done perfectly. I love extracting meaning from this kind of stuff based on what is left unsaid.
I guess my original plan was to post something likely to attract posts arguing with it, and then to those posts I would respond with something so outrageous that they would know I wasn't serious. When people still didn't grasp it, I upped it even more. After reading the resulting replies, I got frustrated as all heck
Oh well, if some people laughed, it served its purpose. It sucks that all I get to see is the negative reactions.
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grappler
supruzr, you are evil ;-)
no, seriously... Be rules. I really hope it catches on. I use it most of the time - does everything I need my computer to do, and does it damn well.
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grappler
I read this a while ago.
The academy isn't trying to be stingy here. They're trying to make their rule clear right now, in hope that confusion won't arise later as net films will presumably gain an audience.
The academy has nothing against the internet - their rule includes ANYTHING other than theatres - national or cable tv, videocassette/laserdisc/dvd. Basically, they feel that there is something to be lost in the experience of watching a film if you don't see it in a big theatre. I can see where they're coming from - they care about their art form. Conceited? Perhaps, but it is their awards, and a film doesn't HAVE to try and win anything if it doesn't want to. I doubt a rule like that would have kept the south park movie off the net if they thought they had a good reason.
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grappler
I didn't have it word for word, since it was from memory, but here's the full quote:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
http://www.realchange.org/quayle.htm
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grappler