Vorbis clearly sounds far superior to real at pretty much any bitrate. I'm not going to point you to any page with pretty graphs trying to convince you of that, only actual sound samples. Yes, that means you have to actually *listen* and hear what I'm talking about.
who is subtly annoyed when they arbitrarily rename things to make them sound less complex to idiot^Waverage users?
For example, what they sell here is a "Network Adaptor", or "Ethernet Controller" or perhaps a "NIC" - all terms everyone has accepted and uses to describe the adaptor that allows a machine to connect to an ethernet network. But let's just make up a new name, and call it a "broadband adaptor", because most people will then asociate it with their (cable|dsl) connections, even though the item in question has absolutely nothing to do with broadband. It is, in fact, the exact opposite - baseband.
I know, I know, I'm making a big deal over a small thing, but I just had to get it out, and I feel better now that I have. If you agree, modding me up and you'll feel better too. If you disagree, modding me up will show how you can see both sides of the issue:)
I saw the screenshots and thought to myself "damn cool!". Sure it doesn't change gameplay, but *That's fine*, quake 1 had great gameplay in my opinion.
Yes, gameplay is more important than graphics and animations and eye candy. Now then, since we already have it, why can't we add some eye candy? Huh? Does it absolutely *have* to look less great than it could to be a great game?
quake1 under linux horribly outdated
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Tenebrae Quake
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I just downloaded the source, and this patch, a few hours before the slashdotting (woo), but it looks like id's quake source is trying to use Mesalib version *2* (we're up to 4.0.3 now), and is still full of stuff for those damn non-standard 3dfx cards.
Has anyone updated the quake 1 source for all of today's libraries? I'd really like DGA mouse (I can't stand playing FPS games under X w/o DGA mouse). Then perhaps this patch would work under linux too (the readme says it's written for win32 but differences *should* be minimal)
Re:I think there's an excellent use for this tech.
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If you typed an entire half-paragraph into the wrong term, you obviously wern't looking at the correct one. If you were, you'd realize that focus is somewhere else after at most a few words....don't tell me you're one of those people who looks at the keyboard while typing:P
If you're in Fort Collins, CO,
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There's a lan in my friend's basement tomorrow (Saturday) through the night into Sunday. Fire an email to me and I'll forward you on to him. Woo!
Following your logic, I own 50 cars. I never said unique cars, so I'm clearly correct in saying I have 50, even though I'm referring to the single car I own each of 50 times.
...so long as it's labeled as such in a way that makes it obvious to the viewer. If I rent "A Clockwork Orange", I damn well expect to see the movie un-mangled. If you rent-out, sell, broadcast, or in any way distribute a censored version, in my mind it is no longer worthy of the title "A Clockwork Orange". That's the title that the original director gave to his piece of art, and you're not distributing his art, you're distributing something else.
Thus, I think this would be fine if you labeled it something like "A Clockwork Orange- Cut Version", or "Censored Version", or something else to make it obvious that it's different. And this should be a part of the title, not some fine print text on the bottom of the box.
I don't like the idea of all these "uncut versions" of movies going around, because wasn't the "uncut" version the original movie to start with? The label should be put on the censored versions.
Theoretically, If you could store energy with enough efficiency, you could make money buying and selling from/to the grid at different times in the day. How big of a difference in price are we talking about here?
You're going to sell electricity back to the grid at the same price at which you buy it. Unless you pay $300 now, you're going to have to generate a hell of a lot more than double what you use to make that kind of money. Solar is great, but it would take a lot of panels to generate that kind of power, and panels can get pretty expensive.
Pretty much anyone can do this if their power meter doesn't have a device on it which prevents it from spinning backwards. If you use little enough electricity, when it gets to the sunny part of the day your meter will take off KWH from the bill.
However, the legality is shakey, unless the eletric company agrees to let you do this. Some actually do let people do this, but for obvious reasons the setup must comply to many safety standards- not just be some homebrew AC generator.
Transcoding == Bad
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Ok, since I see this asked 5x a day on #vorbis, I'm going to tell everyone now.
If you have an mp3 collection, and want to use ogg instead, please do not convert the mp3s to oggs. It's like faxing a document, then re-faxing the fax. It just gets all unreadable. The result is that people will hear the ogg file and think "Oh my god this sucks! Ogg really blows! I'm not using this format!".
If you have the original CD, rip it and encode. If you don't, keep the mp3s.
The decoder has been frozen for a long time now. The current decoder will be able to play any vorbis file created by any encoder released at any time in the future.
A very interesting concept, however I don't think it would work this way.
Considering the system as a whole (and disregarding inefficiencies of the A/C system), the average heat energy of the system including both the inside and outside the house is going to be the same. Thus, if you keep running the A/C, your house either has to keep getting colder (and the outside hotter), or there has to be some loss of heat difference somewhere. This loss, obviously, is the outside heat seeping back into the house, weather it be via air every time you open a door, or conduction through the walls. This cools off the outside. In the end, it's all equal.
Now it's also true, as thermodynamics second law tells us, that our AC system cannot be perfectly efficient, and the energy loss will be in the form of an overall heat increase. However, I don't believe this, even if used by everyone in a city, is going to be enough to noticably affect the climate.
I want you all to know that my mom DOES use linux. I setup the sytstem for her, and she doesn't have much of a choice;)
I don't think she has any issues with it particularly related to linux either. All she does is use Mozilla and OpenOffice, so the differences are minimal. Except for the crashing. None of that.
Just like the original MIB movie, it has a GREAT theme song. No, I'm not talking about that stupidass "rap" will smith does. I'm talking about the underlying theme song played by an orchestra. The second movie had most of it and came in at different points in the film, but I believe it was used in its entirety as the opening theme for the first movie - where we follow the bug flying around as the credits are shown.
I don't know if it's just me but I love classical music composed for movie themes (also see Gladiator soundtrack).
Speaking of which, as a preview to MIB 2 (no, not MIIB goddammit) was Terminator 3! Anyone else see this? I'm not sure when it's due out, but the preview really grabbed my attention, because 1) I love T2 and 2) I love the theme to it. Boom-boom-boom, ba-boom!;)
Apparently the story is set after T2's time, but following the timeline as if the machines -had- come to power.
Interesting how the entire story of Terminator is based on a time-travel paradox (terminiator is built on technology which was obtained by studying a chip that came back in time - the chip from such a machine that was made possible by studying the chip itself)
I'm left handed and have found no trouble at all adapting to using the mouse with my right hand. I think it has much more to do with which way you're used to using it than your "handedness".
I've found that most left handed people have become more ambidexterous than right handed people because they're forced to switch so often.
It needs work, but I believe with time, Theora will begin to kick mpeg-4's ass all around - in video quality as well as audio quality (with vorbis, it obviously already does win in audio quality).
As far as licensing - no, it's been BSD'ed and there's no turning back. Vorbis is also BSD'ed and so far there have been no problems with evil companies stealing it and trying to close everything up.
Ogg is obviously making headway in the technical area of being the best lossy audio codec
I think you mean vorbis:) *sigh* everyone seems to be so easily confused by these.
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Vorbis clearly sounds far superior to real at pretty much any bitrate. I'm not going to point you to any page with pretty graphs trying to convince you of that, only actual sound samples. Yes, that means you have to actually *listen* and hear what I'm talking about.
Xiph.org's comparison for the 1.0 release
Real's codec isn't listed on the 'heavy hitters' comparison because it's generally not even considered in the same league.
who is subtly annoyed when they arbitrarily rename things to make them sound less complex to idiot^Waverage users?
:)
For example, what they sell here is a "Network Adaptor", or "Ethernet Controller" or perhaps a "NIC" - all terms everyone has accepted and uses to describe the adaptor that allows a machine to connect to an ethernet network. But let's just make up a new name, and call it a "broadband adaptor", because most people will then asociate it with their (cable|dsl) connections, even though the item in question has absolutely nothing to do with broadband. It is, in fact, the exact opposite - baseband.
I know, I know, I'm making a big deal over a small thing, but I just had to get it out, and I feel better now that I have. If you agree, modding me up and you'll feel better too. If you disagree, modding me up will show how you can see both sides of the issue
I saw the screenshots and thought to myself "damn cool!". Sure it doesn't change gameplay, but *That's fine*, quake 1 had great gameplay in my opinion.
Yes, gameplay is more important than graphics and animations and eye candy. Now then, since we already have it, why can't we add some eye candy? Huh? Does it absolutely *have* to look less great than it could to be a great game?
I just downloaded the source, and this patch, a few hours before the slashdotting (woo), but it looks like id's quake source is trying to use Mesalib version *2* (we're up to 4.0.3 now), and is still full of stuff for those damn non-standard 3dfx cards.
Has anyone updated the quake 1 source for all of today's libraries? I'd really like DGA mouse (I can't stand playing FPS games under X w/o DGA mouse). Then perhaps this patch would work under linux too (the readme says it's written for win32 but differences *should* be minimal)
If you typed an entire half-paragraph into the wrong term, you obviously wern't looking at the correct one. If you were, you'd realize that focus is somewhere else after at most a few words. ...don't tell me you're one of those people who looks at the keyboard while typing :P
There's a lan in my friend's basement tomorrow (Saturday) through the night into Sunday. Fire an email to me and I'll forward you on to him. Woo!
Can't the editors do a simple SEARCH?
It's been posted here before. Took me 10 seconds to find it.
Following your logic, I own 50 cars.
I never said unique cars, so I'm clearly correct in saying I have 50, even though I'm referring to the single car I own each of 50 times.
Thus, I think this would be fine if you labeled it something like "A Clockwork Orange- Cut Version", or "Censored Version", or something else to make it obvious that it's different. And this should be a part of the title, not some fine print text on the bottom of the box.
I don't like the idea of all these "uncut versions" of movies going around, because wasn't the "uncut" version the original movie to start with? The label should be put on the censored versions.
Interesting.
Theoretically, If you could store energy with enough efficiency, you could make money buying and selling from/to the grid at different times in the day. How big of a difference in price are we talking about here?
You're going to sell electricity back to the grid at the same price at which you buy it. Unless you pay $300 now, you're going to have to generate a hell of a lot more than double what you use to make that kind of money. Solar is great, but it would take a lot of panels to generate that kind of power, and panels can get pretty expensive.
Pretty much anyone can do this if their power meter doesn't have a device on it which prevents it from spinning backwards. If you use little enough electricity, when it gets to the sunny part of the day your meter will take off KWH from the bill.
However, the legality is shakey, unless the eletric company agrees to let you do this. Some actually do let people do this, but for obvious reasons the setup must comply to many safety standards- not just be some homebrew AC generator.
http://incoming.debian.org/openssl_0.9.6c-2.woody. 0_i386.deb
Ahh, how I love debian
I've spent time generating graphs of vorbis 1.0 encoder's output bitrate vs the -q (quality) setting input. They're very cool looking. enjoy.
p h/1.0/
http://www.lammah.com/~xercist/vorbis/bitrate-gra
Ok, since I see this asked 5x a day on #vorbis, I'm going to tell everyone now.
If you have an mp3 collection, and want to use ogg instead, please do not convert the mp3s to oggs. It's like faxing a document, then re-faxing the fax. It just gets all unreadable. The result is that people will hear the ogg file and think "Oh my god this sucks! Ogg really blows! I'm not using this format!".
If you have the original CD, rip it and encode. If you don't, keep the mp3s.
The decoder has been frozen for a long time now. The current decoder will be able to play any vorbis file created by any encoder released at any time in the future.
A very interesting concept, however I don't think it would work this way.
Considering the system as a whole (and disregarding inefficiencies of the A/C system), the average heat energy of the system including both the inside and outside the house is going to be the same. Thus, if you keep running the A/C, your house either has to keep getting colder (and the outside hotter), or there has to be some loss of heat difference somewhere. This loss, obviously, is the outside heat seeping back into the house, weather it be via air every time you open a door, or conduction through the walls. This cools off the outside. In the end, it's all equal.
Now it's also true, as thermodynamics second law tells us, that our AC system cannot be perfectly efficient, and the energy loss will be in the form of an overall heat increase. However, I don't believe this, even if used by everyone in a city, is going to be enough to noticably affect the climate.
I want you all to know that my mom DOES use linux. I setup the sytstem for her, and she doesn't have much of a choice ;)
I don't think she has any issues with it particularly related to linux either. All she does is use Mozilla and OpenOffice, so the differences are minimal. Except for the crashing. None of that.
Just like the original MIB movie, it has a GREAT theme song. No, I'm not talking about that stupidass "rap" will smith does. I'm talking about the underlying theme song played by an orchestra. The second movie had most of it and came in at different points in the film, but I believe it was used in its entirety as the opening theme for the first movie - where we follow the bug flying around as the credits are shown.
I don't know if it's just me but I love classical music composed for movie themes (also see Gladiator soundtrack).
Speaking of which, as a preview to MIB 2 (no, not MIIB goddammit) was Terminator 3! Anyone else see this? I'm not sure when it's due out, but the preview really grabbed my attention, because 1) I love T2 and 2) I love the theme to it. Boom-boom-boom, ba-boom! ;)
Apparently the story is set after T2's time, but following the timeline as if the machines -had- come to power.
Interesting how the entire story of Terminator is based on a time-travel paradox (terminiator is built on technology which was obtained by studying a chip that came back in time - the chip from such a machine that was made possible by studying the chip itself)
"He's a Ballchinian!"
will they be scanning for files? I'll be sure to DENY their packets before they touch me.
Village Vidiot
They're right off College Ave somewhere...near the papa john's.
I'm left handed and have found no trouble at all adapting to using the mouse with my right hand. I think it has much more to do with which way you're used to using it than your "handedness".
I've found that most left handed people have become more ambidexterous than right handed people because they're forced to switch so often.
It needs work, but I believe with time, Theora will begin to kick mpeg-4's ass all around - in video quality as well as audio quality (with vorbis, it obviously already does win in audio quality).
:)
As far as licensing - no, it's been BSD'ed and there's no turning back. Vorbis is also BSD'ed and so far there have been no problems with evil companies stealing it and trying to close everything up.
Ogg is obviously making headway in the technical area of being the best lossy audio codec
I think you mean vorbis
*sigh* everyone seems to be so easily confused by these.