That this thing is actually quite bad? The dialogue is rushed, the acting horrible. I wanted to like it. Oh well.
Here's what's got me wondering... They spent seven years tweaking every nuance of this. Why would someone do this? Why?
They're actually trying to tell us something. We could spend our time consuming products we don't need... watching mindless drivel on TV, or we could "do something" by making a cheap knock-off of a cheap TV show from 30+ years ago. Millions of years from now, our society and culture will only be known through the continuing "Star Trek" parodies. For Auld Lang Syne!
I've seen this question raised a number of times. Why do you want to do this? As stated in other posts, you can't increase the quality by doing this (It's the "you can't get blood from a rock" principle). Is it because you prefer a certain player that doesn't support MP3?
Personally I had the opposite problem. I enjoy using MPG321 as a jukebox, and had 90% mp3s in my collection, 10% ogg. Naturally I wanted a single interface to the whole collection, so I hacked mpg321 to play (and randomize) ogg as well as MP3. Finding (or hacking) a player that treats both formats equally gives you the advantages the conversion you propose without the quality loss.
I think "broadcast" is a pretty good way to describe what "push" is all about. It's all about having pre-determined programming with pre-determined advertising sent to you in a pre-determined sequence. Marketing forces have wanted to make the internet more TV-like (and using "push" as a buzzword for it) for years, with little success. Thank God.
I still think that the VCR (and especially TiVo) make the experience more pull-like because from a user's perspective, I can "order" my programming (by setting my timer, etc), and watch it on my schedule. It's not quite on demand, but it's a step in that direction.
I'm thinking of "push" and "pull" in terms of the user experience, not the acutal data flow. If you want to get technical, using a cable modem is "broadcast" because your neighbors get all your packets:)
I think we both agree that users don't really like push, and only put up with it when they have to.
The lame "push tech" of the internet past was, and still is, a complete failure because no one wants to view a constant stream of ads over their limited bandwidth. Pull is much more efficient for sipping content over a straw.
You're forgetting, however, that the distribution of video over cable (with immense analog bandwidth) to a TV would qualify as "push" as well. TV is so immensely popular that the average american watches it almost as much as he sleeps! If you throw a TiVo or other set-top box, you've got push-content through a computer. The odd thing about this is that TiVo is designed to make a strictly push technology more pull like:) I think that shows that the ultimate goal is PULL, even on a TV.
Push's place is where technology isn't good enough to allow for pulls. This is the reason push of video content via analog or digital means will outpace pull for some time. After that time, I'll start watching TV again.
How much noise does an XScale CPU setup generate vs and Athlon? I'd be willing to bet that the Xscale runs much cooler, requiring less noisy heat-dissipation mechanisms, and making the PC suitable for places like the bedroom, livingroom, or say, the office...
I don't know, but to me the noise factor is a really big advantage.
AS/400 has been fully 64 bit for 6 years. AS/400's database has had working cost-based optimization forever (something oracle still struggles with). AS/400 has had mainframe-like LPAR before the mainframe had it. AS/400 can scale to 24 CPUs and so much RAM and disk it would make your head swim. It's got dedicated I/O processors for handling disk and in many cases can out-benchmark a mainframe in sheer I/O capability. It's got a native java runtime that maintains native executables without destroying the bytecode.
You are uninformed. Your AS/400s sitting right beneath your nose are the most advanced servers in your company hands down. Legacy certainly has power, but AS/400 is not ancient any more than stonehenge is new.
It seems to me the current system of hi-vis ear tags is MUCH faster and more efficient than a tattoo, which you couldn't see anyway because cows have FUR. How are you going to get the cow to sit still through a tattoo session anyway? Drug her? Let's see how PETA likes THAT. I'm afraid the livestock application of this is just not feasible at all. Humans only.
You're definately right about one thing: Copying is NOT stealing... it's copying, and that also happens to be illegal in some cases. Piracy is also just copying. The difference is that when I steal something, I'm taking someone's physical property. This simultaneously benefits me, and hurts them, because said property is now in my posession, not theirs. Copying is different because though I benefit from it, the owner may or may not be hurt, depending on whether or not it hinders his/her ability to make money. Making/trading MP3s is not proven to hinder this revenue stream, and it could be an additional large source of income if the RIAA would let it.
However... I disagree that copyright is bad on the whole. Artists still need a way to make money. It's just too bad the industry feels the need to legally harass their consumer base instead of profiting by giving them what they want.
Will slashdot please hire an editor?
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"Now" and "No" are not the same word. They vaguely sound the same and have much the same spelling, but CANNOT be used interchangeably. In fact, such interchange could be disastrous given the worst-case context. Imagine the questions "Should I shoot?" or "Is the building clear for demolition?" or "Is Windows ready for mission critical applications?". Clearly "now" and "no" are not the same word, and I trust slashdot editors will check for this in the future.
The idea that the human brain is not logical isn't new. Psychologists and AI theorists have long known that there are several modes used in human reason, and ANalogic reasoning is used 99% of the time. We don't stop and deduce the correct answer, we leap to a similar situation in memory, and adjust the outcome of that situation to this one. Incidentally, this is why we remember events and associate pleasure/pain responses with them. This makes the choice of whether or not to bite your fingers off rather easy... for most of us.
Does anyone know how to convert a file like this (Sorensen v3 Quicktime) to MPEG1? I'd love to do it in Linux, but I know that transcode and mencoder don't support Sorensen v3. Are there any WIN32 tools that can do this?
First of all, your point is mostly correct... yes OGG is a bit more efficient bit-for-bit than MP3.. therefore it sounds better at a given CBR bitrate.
However, I think you're missing a big part of the equation... the LAME project, which has continued to make improvements to MP3 WITHOUT breaking the standard. In fact, they've even added an ABR mode which is distinctly superior to CBR while retaining the ability to control file size.
In fact, I wonder if the listening tests used one of the --alt-preset ABR modes if ogg would even win.
Have a look at this - http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/history.html
Look at all the quality improvements on that page.
In summary, I contest your point that MP3 is dead. In fact it's improving daily in bit-for-bit quality and encoding speed thanks to the LAME project.
now YOU can navigate through fry's small intestine, defeat the "truck stop sandwich" parasites, find the splanknic ganglion, and personally tickle it. Yay!
Let me get this straight... MySQL just added support for TRANSACTIONS, and its developers are wondering why corporations deploying million-dollar solutions don't use it? My God. Transactions! That's the most basic aspect of any database, and their support is still hot and gooey in the middle. I'd be scared too.
And on the PowerPC architecture you're going to have more instructions to do the same work (that's fundamental to RISC)... 10-20% better performance at the same clock rate, and more instructions to process...It seems like the RISC chip really is getting a lot more instructions through for the same number of clock cycles. Couldn't you generalize that to a multiplicative factor (perhaps more than 1 and less than 2)?
It's pretty easy for me to see why emulating cisc on risc would be easier than the other way around... I mean easier as in easier to make a usably fast emulator. The emulator needs to do its work at the opcode level. Think about it this way (overly simplified): let's say I need to do a chunk of work on each. The cisc architecture can do the chunk in N instructions. Each of those instructions takes X clock cycles, so the chunk is NX in work. On RISC, I take M instructions, and each instruction takes 1 clock cycle, so my work is M. Let's say that we have performance competitive machines so NX=M. My emulator is going to need a certain number of native instructions to emulate each foriegn one. Now I'm lazy (but still write in assembler), so I'm only going to emulate one opcode at a time. When I use RISC to emulate CISC, my minimum unit of work is NX, because I can use a certain number of RISC instructions for each CISC. When I go the other way around (because of my assumption that I'm too lazy to intelligently combine opcodes), however, I need at least one CISC instruction for every RISC. This puts my minimum unit of work at MX! MX >> NX because of my earlier assertion that NX=M.
Here's what I suggest. Go to eBay and get a rio 500. They're going for $50. Here are some of the reasons why...
1) Full VBR and all bitrate MP3 support 2) Great command line linux utilities to transfer mp3s. Fast and easy to use. 3) upgradable firmware (the latest versions add some great features) 4) SmartMedia support 5) Long battery life 6) it's $50 7) lasts forever 8) never skips or fades 9) fast USB transfer. It only takes 2-3 minutes to change music with the linux utilities.
I put a 64 meg card in mine (giving me 128 megs of space), and with a good encoder (such as LAME ABR) 3 cds worth of music will sound just fine.
I've used mine for running and working out for years and it's showing signs of wear, but still working great and it's still as solid as the day I bought it.
Here's what I suggest. Go to eBay and get a rio 500. They're going for $50. Here are some of the reasons why...
1) Full VBR and all bitrate MP3 support 2) Great command line linux utilities to transfer mp3s 3) upgradable firmware (the latest versions add some great features) 4) SmartMedia support 5) Long battery life 6) it's $50 7) lasts forever 8) never skips or fades 9) fast USB transfer. It only takes 2-3 minutes to change music with the linux utilities.
I put a 64 meg card in mine (giving me 128 megs of space), and with a good encoder (such as LAME ABR) 3 cds worth of music will sound just fine.
Don't bother with the included windows software though. It's really bothersome. There's a project called rio500 remixed that can interface much better.
I run for 24 minutes at a time, so I never even come close to running out of tunes. You don't need a hard drive unless you're running across the country.
There's a little pub right across from the Metreon on Mission st. that serves guiness (and I think boddingtons), that's the closest one I know close to Moscone. Alternatively, there's a pub with pool tables on Columbus about half way between North Beach and the wharf that serves $2 guiness draws on weekdays! FYI.
did you read the article I linked to? Obviously not.:) There was a fully 64 bit OS with full 64 bit addressability, and full compiler support, all on the PowerPC in 1996.
PowerPC has been 64 bit for 6 YEARS!
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PowerPC has been available in 64 bit since the introduction of the A10 in 1996.
VistaVision was a 35mm horizontal process that was used by such greats as Alfred Hitchcock and George Lucas (in certain Star Wars effect sequences). The conversion to IMAX for the opening sequence of star wars may turn out better than anyone could imagine since it was already larger than 35, and already horizontal!
here's a good guide on the larger than 35 mm formats (including VistaVision, IMAX, 65mm, and 70mm) that will hopefully clear any confusion.
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That this thing is actually quite bad? The dialogue is rushed, the acting horrible. I wanted to like it. Oh well.
Here's what's got me wondering... They spent seven years tweaking every nuance of this. Why would someone do this? Why?
They're actually trying to tell us something. We could spend our time consuming products we don't need... watching mindless drivel on TV, or we could "do something" by making a cheap knock-off of a cheap TV show from 30+ years ago. Millions of years from now, our society and culture will only be known through the continuing "Star Trek" parodies. For Auld Lang Syne!
I've seen this question raised a number of times. Why do you want to do this? As stated in other posts, you can't increase the quality by doing this (It's the "you can't get blood from a rock" principle). Is it because you prefer a certain player that doesn't support MP3?
Personally I had the opposite problem. I enjoy using MPG321 as a jukebox, and had 90% mp3s in my collection, 10% ogg. Naturally I wanted a single interface to the whole collection, so I hacked mpg321 to play (and randomize) ogg as well as MP3. Finding (or hacking) a player that treats both formats equally gives you the advantages the conversion you propose without the quality loss.
I think "broadcast" is a pretty good way to describe what "push" is all about. It's all about having pre-determined programming with pre-determined advertising sent to you in a pre-determined sequence. Marketing forces have wanted to make the internet more TV-like (and using "push" as a buzzword for it) for years, with little success. Thank God.
:)
I still think that the VCR (and especially TiVo) make the experience more pull-like because from a user's perspective, I can "order" my programming (by setting my timer, etc), and watch it on my schedule. It's not quite on demand, but it's a step in that direction.
I'm thinking of "push" and "pull" in terms of the user experience, not the acutal data flow. If you want to get technical, using a cable modem is "broadcast" because your neighbors get all your packets
I think we both agree that users don't really like push, and only put up with it when they have to.
The lame "push tech" of the internet past was, and still is, a complete failure because no one wants to view a constant stream of ads over their limited bandwidth. Pull is much more efficient for sipping content over a straw.
:) I think that shows that the ultimate goal is PULL, even on a TV.
You're forgetting, however, that the distribution of video over cable (with immense analog bandwidth) to a TV would qualify as "push" as well. TV is so immensely popular that the average american watches it almost as much as he sleeps! If you throw a TiVo or other set-top box, you've got push-content through a computer. The odd thing about this is that TiVo is designed to make a strictly push technology more pull like
Push's place is where technology isn't good enough to allow for pulls. This is the reason push of video content via analog or digital means will outpace pull for some time. After that time, I'll start watching TV again.
How much noise does an XScale CPU setup generate vs and Athlon? I'd be willing to bet that the Xscale runs much cooler, requiring less noisy heat-dissipation mechanisms, and making the PC suitable for places like the bedroom, livingroom, or say, the office...
I don't know, but to me the noise factor is a really big advantage.
Cooling with sound waves? I'm pretty sure my Athlon Palomino system already does this... Otherwise it wouldn't be so friggin LOUD.
Umm... ancient? Ancient? ANCIENT?!?
AS/400 has been fully 64 bit for 6 years. AS/400's database has had working cost-based optimization forever (something oracle still struggles with). AS/400 has had mainframe-like LPAR before the mainframe had it. AS/400 can scale to 24 CPUs and so much RAM and disk it would make your head swim. It's got dedicated I/O processors for handling disk and in many cases can out-benchmark a mainframe in sheer I/O capability. It's got a native java runtime that maintains native executables without destroying the bytecode.
You are uninformed. Your AS/400s sitting right beneath your nose are the most advanced servers in your company hands down. Legacy certainly has power, but AS/400 is not ancient any more than stonehenge is new.
Where, praytell, would you put a tattoo on a cow?
It seems to me the current system of hi-vis ear tags is MUCH faster and more efficient than a tattoo, which you couldn't see anyway because cows have FUR. How are you going to get the cow to sit still through a tattoo session anyway? Drug her? Let's see how PETA likes THAT. I'm afraid the livestock application of this is just not feasible at all. Humans only.
You're definately right about one thing: Copying is NOT stealing... it's copying, and that also happens to be illegal in some cases. Piracy is also just copying. The difference is that when I steal something, I'm taking someone's physical property. This simultaneously benefits me, and hurts them, because said property is now in my posession, not theirs. Copying is different because though I benefit from it, the owner may or may not be hurt, depending on whether or not it hinders his/her ability to make money. Making/trading MP3s is not proven to hinder this revenue stream, and it could be an additional large source of income if the RIAA would let it.
However... I disagree that copyright is bad on the whole. Artists still need a way to make money. It's just too bad the industry feels the need to legally harass their consumer base instead of profiting by giving them what they want.
"Now" and "No" are not the same word. They vaguely sound the same and have much the same spelling, but CANNOT be used interchangeably. In fact, such interchange could be disastrous given the worst-case context. Imagine the questions "Should I shoot?" or "Is the building clear for demolition?" or "Is Windows ready for mission critical applications?". Clearly "now" and "no" are not the same word, and I trust slashdot editors will check for this in the future.
The idea that the human brain is not logical isn't new. Psychologists and AI theorists have long known that there are several modes used in human reason, and ANalogic reasoning is used 99% of the time. We don't stop and deduce the correct answer, we leap to a similar situation in memory, and adjust the outcome of that situation to this one. Incidentally, this is why we remember events and associate pleasure/pain responses with them. This makes the choice of whether or not to bite your fingers off rather easy... for most of us.
Of course I'll buy it... but I want it NOW. :)
Does anyone know how to convert a file like this (Sorensen v3 Quicktime) to MPEG1? I'd love to do it in Linux, but I know that transcode and mencoder don't support Sorensen v3. Are there any WIN32 tools that can do this?
Ultimately I'd like a VCD of all of these shorts.
I love people who flame without even reading the post they're flaming. Re-read my first sentence. Who's the jackass again?
First of all, your point is mostly correct... yes OGG is a bit more efficient bit-for-bit than MP3.. therefore it sounds better at a given CBR bitrate.
However, I think you're missing a big part of the equation... the LAME project, which has continued to make improvements to MP3 WITHOUT breaking the standard. In fact, they've even added an ABR mode which is distinctly superior to CBR while retaining the ability to control file size.
In fact, I wonder if the listening tests used one of the --alt-preset ABR modes if ogg would even win.
Have a look at this -
http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/history.html
Look at all the quality improvements on that page.
In summary, I contest your point that MP3 is dead. In fact it's improving daily in bit-for-bit quality and encoding speed thanks to the LAME project.
now YOU can navigate through fry's small intestine, defeat the "truck stop sandwich" parasites, find the splanknic ganglion, and personally tickle it. Yay!
Let me get this straight... MySQL just added support for TRANSACTIONS, and its developers are wondering why corporations deploying million-dollar solutions don't use it? My God. Transactions! That's the most basic aspect of any database, and their support is still hot and gooey in the middle. I'd be scared too.
And on the PowerPC architecture you're going to have more instructions to do the same work (that's fundamental to RISC)... 10-20% better performance at the same clock rate, and more instructions to process...It seems like the RISC chip really is getting a lot more instructions through for the same number of clock cycles. Couldn't you generalize that to a multiplicative factor (perhaps more than 1 and less than 2)?
It's pretty easy for me to see why emulating cisc on risc would be easier than the other way around... I mean easier as in easier to make a usably fast emulator. The emulator needs to do its work at the opcode level. Think about it this way (overly simplified): let's say I need to do a chunk of work on each. The cisc architecture can do the chunk in N instructions. Each of those instructions takes X clock cycles, so the chunk is NX in work. On RISC, I take M instructions, and each instruction takes 1 clock cycle, so my work is M. Let's say that we have performance competitive machines so NX=M. My emulator is going to need a certain number of native instructions to emulate each foriegn one. Now I'm lazy (but still write in assembler), so I'm only going to emulate one opcode at a time. When I use RISC to emulate CISC, my minimum unit of work is NX, because I can use a certain number of RISC instructions for each CISC. When I go the other way around (because of my assumption that I'm too lazy to intelligently combine opcodes), however, I need at least one CISC instruction for every RISC. This puts my minimum unit of work at MX!
MX >> NX because of my earlier assertion that NX=M.
Here's what I suggest. Go to eBay and get a rio 500. They're going for $50. Here are some of the reasons why...
1) Full VBR and all bitrate MP3 support
2) Great command line linux utilities to transfer mp3s. Fast and easy to use.
3) upgradable firmware (the latest versions add some great features)
4) SmartMedia support
5) Long battery life
6) it's $50
7) lasts forever
8) never skips or fades
9) fast USB transfer. It only takes 2-3 minutes to change music with the linux utilities.
I put a 64 meg card in mine (giving me 128 megs of space), and with a good encoder (such as LAME ABR) 3 cds worth of music will sound just fine.
I've used mine for running and working out for years and it's showing signs of wear, but still working great and it's still as solid as the day I bought it.
Here's what I suggest. Go to eBay and get a rio 500. They're going for $50. Here are some of the reasons why...
1) Full VBR and all bitrate MP3 support
2) Great command line linux utilities to transfer mp3s
3) upgradable firmware (the latest versions add some great features)
4) SmartMedia support
5) Long battery life
6) it's $50
7) lasts forever
8) never skips or fades
9) fast USB transfer. It only takes 2-3 minutes to change music with the linux utilities.
I put a 64 meg card in mine (giving me 128 megs of space), and with a good encoder (such as LAME ABR) 3 cds worth of music will sound just fine.
Don't bother with the included windows software though. It's really bothersome. There's a project called rio500 remixed that can interface much better.
I run for 24 minutes at a time, so I never even come close to running out of tunes. You don't need a hard drive unless you're running across the country.
There's a little pub right across from the Metreon on Mission st. that serves guiness (and I think boddingtons), that's the closest one I know close to Moscone. Alternatively, there's a pub with pool tables on Columbus about half way between North Beach and the wharf that serves $2 guiness draws on weekdays! FYI.
did you read the article I linked to? Obviously not. :) There was a fully 64 bit OS with full 64 bit addressability, and full compiler support, all on the PowerPC in 1996.
PowerPC has been available in 64 bit since the introduction of the A10 in 1996.
Here's some proof.
The new multi-code die is very interesting though...
FYI...
VistaVision was a 35mm horizontal process that was used by such greats as Alfred Hitchcock and George Lucas (in certain Star Wars effect sequences). The conversion to IMAX for the opening sequence of star wars may turn out better than anyone could imagine since it was already larger than 35, and already horizontal!
here's a good guide on the larger than 35 mm formats (including VistaVision, IMAX, 65mm, and 70mm) that will hopefully clear any confusion.