LSD would do it. Takes ~50 ug to work. That's ~20,000 doses per gram. Wouldn't kill anyone directly, but the resulting mass hysteria would do some damage, I'm sure.
or does the repeated use of the "St(PICTURE OF A STAR)rTiger" logo on the pictures page make the whole thing look considerably less like a professional research project?
You need ammonium hydroxide (amonia cleaner from the store) and iodine crystals (used for swimming pools, and cleaning horses, but also for making meth, so sometimes hard to get). Put the iodine in a coffee filter and pour ammonium all over it for a while. When it dries you get ammonium triiodide. Highly unstable, keep in separate small amounts, don't look at it funny.
Xiph *has* been working very hard to help companies get vorbis support on their hardware. They BSD-licensed their integer-decoder, Tremor, which was a huge step in getting this to happen (most of these devices have no floating point unit). They've been writing letters to different companies requesting support, and even offering help in implementing it.
And it hasn't been all for nothing either. If I may quote Emmett (Xiph.org CEO): "I know folks from at least three different hardware companies that have hardcore plans to release devices with Ogg Vorbis support. It probably won't be long."
There are many patents which cover the various codecs that make up mpeg4 (no, mpeg4 is not really a standard, there are just a bunch of formats that roughly look something like each other and we call them mpeg4). MPEG4 will never be free from patents. For this reason, I suggest we start doing what we can to help xiph.org finish up with theora, which has a 1.0 release currently scheduled in June, 2003.
By "help" I mean do whatever you can. If you can code, great, if not, perhaps you can spare a few pennies?
We don't need Vorbis audio and mpeg4 video. we need Ogg Theora for both! Theora 1.0 is due out June, 2003. Patent-free BSD-licensed audio/video for everyone!
This shit shouldn't happen. I know of some people in my class that should of never passed.
Shouldn't of passed? Shouldn't of passed?! Jesus christ man I don't know whether to print out this quote and put it on my wall to laugh at when I'm sad, or if it would just make me sadder.
The entire keyring is available for all to download. It would be pretty trivial to do this and grab the addresses afterword. If it's actually done, I couldn't tell you.
I'll second that - I'd never have heard of farscape if my friends didn't download some from some guy's bot on dalnet, and if I wasn't able to do the same (to download the first, second, and third seasons), I would certainly never have been hooked on it just by watching some episodes in the fourth. Farscape episodes are always heavily affected by the previous storyline, and it's really important to know what's going on.
Now I'll go over to a friend's house (who has a service which carries SciFi) to watch 4th season eps as they air. And guess what - I see the SciFi channel's commercials in the breaks.
But the major problem is when does the satelite go beyond the "event horizon" and you have to find another satelite to bounce your signal off of.
Our low-earth-orbit satellites are being sucked into black holes? I think we might have a bigger problem than just finding another one to use for internet access.
*shrug* I saw a 4 with a bunch of zeroes and said to myself "screw it I don't care enough about the exact number of dominos". I then saw 4e6, and instantly recognised that as 4 million.
Seriously, if you don't recognise scientific notation, perhaps you need to get used to it by seeing it used more often on places perhaps like slashdot.
What if I liked Cowboy Bebop *except* for Ed and watched most of the series wishing for Ed to be violently killed so I wouldn't have to be annoyed by the stupid kid?
Yes@! This is exactly my complaint. I love Cowboy Bebop, a great series, but they had to add that stupid annoyingass character 'Ed' who does nothing but detract from the feeling they're trying to create (or are they -trying- to piss me off?).
No, actually it takes a bit -less- processing power to decode vorbis, but a bit more memory. The real problem here is that most of these players use dedicated mp3-decoding chips. That's all they do, and can't be reprogrammed for other things. Some players use ARM based processors, and this is where a firmware upgrade enabling vorbis-decoding is possible. However, the truth is that right now most of these companies are losing money on portable players - they're just so cheap. To make them play oggs requires engineers, and engineers cost money. Most of these companies have already laid off all their engineers because they can't afford to keep paying them after initially creating the hardware/firmware.
Anyway, you didn't hear it from me, but iRiver is currently working on implementing vorbis support in their portables.
Allow me to be a little offtopic for a second, but where can you get this 12VDC power supply? I'm building a computer into my trunk to play my oggs, and inverting 12 to 120 just to go back to 12 seems inefficient. Alternatively, I've seen plans to build 12V ATX power supplies, but that means going all over to find parts and designing a pcb layout and etching etc etc etc etc. A nice 12VDC ATX power supply that doesn't cost more than the rest of the project combined would be really nice.
Other than the sometimes daunting install process, Debian is one of the best linux distributions.
Excuse me? Debian's install process is the best I've used. I figured it out the *first* time I tried it out, and it installed beautifully, using the network to download only what packages it needed instead of making me download a whole 700 MB's worth of packages most of which I won't use.
Some of you I've heard complaining about how complicated debian is to install and/or use. Maybe you missed this, but debian is not for newbies. It's a great operating system and does just what I want it to, but if I knew nothing about linux, and didn't *want* to dive in and learn, I'd look at a more newbie-friendly distribution.
Actually, dB is a logarithmic scale, so 0dB is not actually *zero* like you assume, as 10^0 == 1. You could have something that was at -1dB which would be quieter than that. On this scale, "complete silence" really doesn't exist. It all depends on how sensitive your measuring device is.
CS sucks. Play anywhere on the internet and you'll find the players are the ones who make it suck like it does. Cheating is rampant, and if you're not cheating and manage to get a good score, everyone will accuse you of cheating anyway.
Personally, I much prefer the Urban Terror mod for quake3. Although still in beta, I believe it's already much better than CS.....and I don't have to run it in Wine;)
Well being as the Red Book standard defines CDDA to be stereo, 16 bit, 44.1 kHz audio, then I suppose I can only assume they've figured out a way to transmit the 1.3 mbit/sec rate used by CDDA data over the gaps between the FM stations. That's quite impressive! Well, given they losslessly encode it, you can expect perhaps a rate of only 50-75% of that.
Anything else and they better stop advertising "CD Quality" audio. I'm really sick of people using "CD Quality" to describe anything they want for their own marketing purposes. Microsoft is actually trying to claim that WMA at **64 kb/s** is "CD quality". Disgusting.
My '96 Ford's check engine light came on a while ago. I went down to the nearest car parts store, borrowed their *standard* OBDII (On-Board-Diagnostic II) scanner, plugged it in, read the code, looked it up in the manual, and knew exactly why the check engine light had turned on.
Given my car is 6 years old, perhaps they've come up with a new "standard" to piss people off since then?
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How exactly do you get from "found a correlation between frequent computer usage and poor academic performance" to "Too Many Computers Hurt Learning"?
LSD would do it. Takes ~50 ug to work. That's ~20,000 doses per gram. Wouldn't kill anyone directly, but the resulting mass hysteria would do some damage, I'm sure.
or does the repeated use of the "St(PICTURE OF A STAR)rTiger" logo on the pictures page make the whole thing look considerably less like a professional research project?
You need ammonium hydroxide (amonia cleaner from the store) and iodine crystals (used for swimming pools, and cleaning horses, but also for making meth, so sometimes hard to get). Put the iodine in a coffee filter and pour ammonium all over it for a while. When it dries you get ammonium triiodide. Highly unstable, keep in separate small amounts, don't look at it funny.
Ahh home chemistry is great
Xiph *has* been working very hard to help companies get vorbis support on their hardware. They BSD-licensed their integer-decoder, Tremor, which was a huge step in getting this to happen (most of these devices have no floating point unit). They've been writing letters to different companies requesting support, and even offering help in implementing it.
And it hasn't been all for nothing either. If I may quote Emmett (Xiph.org CEO):
"I know folks from at least three different hardware companies that have hardcore plans to release devices with Ogg Vorbis support. It probably won't be long."
There are many patents which cover the various codecs that make up mpeg4 (no, mpeg4 is not really a standard, there are just a bunch of formats that roughly look something like each other and we call them mpeg4). MPEG4 will never be free from patents. For this reason, I suggest we start doing what we can to help xiph.org finish up with theora, which has a 1.0 release currently scheduled in June, 2003.
By "help" I mean do whatever you can. If you can code, great, if not, perhaps you can spare a few pennies?
We don't need Vorbis audio and mpeg4 video. we need Ogg Theora for both! Theora 1.0 is due out June, 2003. Patent-free BSD-licensed audio/video for everyone!
This shit shouldn't happen. I know of some people in my class that should of never passed.
Shouldn't of passed? Shouldn't of passed?! Jesus christ man I don't know whether to print out this quote and put it on my wall to laugh at when I'm sad, or if it would just make me sadder.
The entire keyring is available for all to download. It would be pretty trivial to do this and grab the addresses afterword. If it's actually done, I couldn't tell you.
just reading through the changelog...
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Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk):
* replace end user confusing "on fire" joke with real info
We've just lost the best part of our kernel!
I'll second that - I'd never have heard of farscape if my friends didn't download some from some guy's bot on dalnet, and if I wasn't able to do the same (to download the first, second, and third seasons), I would certainly never have been hooked on it just by watching some episodes in the fourth. Farscape episodes are always heavily affected by the previous storyline, and it's really important to know what's going on.
Now I'll go over to a friend's house (who has a service which carries SciFi) to watch 4th season eps as they air. And guess what - I see the SciFi channel's commercials in the breaks.
But the major problem is when does the satelite go beyond the "event horizon" and you have to find another satelite to bounce your signal off of.
Our low-earth-orbit satellites are being sucked into black holes? I think we might have a bigger problem than just finding another one to use for internet access.
*shrug* I saw a 4 with a bunch of zeroes and said to myself "screw it I don't care enough about the exact number of dominos". I then saw 4e6, and instantly recognised that as 4 million.
Seriously, if you don't recognise scientific notation, perhaps you need to get used to it by seeing it used more often on places perhaps like slashdot.
What if I liked Cowboy Bebop *except* for Ed and watched most of the series wishing for Ed to be violently killed so I wouldn't have to be annoyed by the stupid kid?
Yes@! This is exactly my complaint. I love Cowboy Bebop, a great series, but they had to add that stupid annoyingass character 'Ed' who does nothing but detract from the feeling they're trying to create (or are they -trying- to piss me off?).
No, actually it takes a bit -less- processing power to decode vorbis, but a bit more memory. The real problem here is that most of these players use dedicated mp3-decoding chips. That's all they do, and can't be reprogrammed for other things. Some players use ARM based processors, and this is where a firmware upgrade enabling vorbis-decoding is possible. However, the truth is that right now most of these companies are losing money on portable players - they're just so cheap. To make them play oggs requires engineers, and engineers cost money. Most of these companies have already laid off all their engineers because they can't afford to keep paying them after initially creating the hardware/firmware.
Anyway, you didn't hear it from me, but iRiver is currently working on implementing vorbis support in their portables.
[21:36:33] [xercist@xernet] [doom3]% winex doom.exe
[21:36:37] [xercist@xernet] [doom3]%
Apparently not. Not even an error message or something. Perhaps we can ask ATI to leak a linux binary while they're at it.
Allow me to be a little offtopic for a second, but where can you get this 12VDC power supply? I'm building a computer into my trunk to play my oggs, and inverting 12 to 120 just to go back to 12 seems inefficient. Alternatively, I've seen plans to build 12V ATX power supplies, but that means going all over to find parts and designing a pcb layout and etching etc etc etc etc. A nice 12VDC ATX power supply that doesn't cost more than the rest of the project combined would be really nice.
Hoold on there, so you're saying that to overclock this machine, all you'd have to do is heat it up?
Oh, the irony
Other than the sometimes daunting install process, Debian is one of the best linux distributions.
Excuse me? Debian's install process is the best I've used. I figured it out the *first* time I tried it out, and it installed beautifully, using the network to download only what packages it needed instead of making me download a whole 700 MB's worth of packages most of which I won't use.
Some of you I've heard complaining about how complicated debian is to install and/or use. Maybe you missed this, but debian is not for newbies. It's a great operating system and does just what I want it to, but if I knew nothing about linux, and didn't *want* to dive in and learn, I'd look at a more newbie-friendly distribution.
Actually, dB is a logarithmic scale, so 0dB is not actually *zero* like you assume, as 10^0 == 1. You could have something that was at -1dB which would be quieter than that. On this scale, "complete silence" really doesn't exist. It all depends on how sensitive your measuring device is.
Expensive? Hard to find?
I think you're on crack. Grocery stores sell dry ice for about a dollar per pound.
CS sucks. Play anywhere on the internet and you'll find the players are the ones who make it suck like it does. Cheating is rampant, and if you're not cheating and manage to get a good score, everyone will accuse you of cheating anyway.
....and I don't have to run it in Wine ;)
Personally, I much prefer the Urban Terror mod for quake3. Although still in beta, I believe it's already much better than CS.
Well being as the Red Book standard defines CDDA to be stereo, 16 bit, 44.1 kHz audio, then I suppose I can only assume they've figured out a way to transmit the 1.3 mbit/sec rate used by CDDA data over the gaps between the FM stations. That's quite impressive! Well, given they losslessly encode it, you can expect perhaps a rate of only 50-75% of that.
Anything else and they better stop advertising "CD Quality" audio. I'm really sick of people using "CD Quality" to describe anything they want for their own marketing purposes. Microsoft is actually trying to claim that WMA at **64 kb/s** is "CD quality". Disgusting.
My '96 Ford's check engine light came on a while ago. I went down to the nearest car parts store, borrowed their *standard* OBDII (On-Board-Diagnostic II) scanner, plugged it in, read the code, looked it up in the manual, and knew exactly why the check engine light had turned on.
Given my car is 6 years old, perhaps they've come up with a new "standard" to piss people off since then?