r3mix.net is really the definitive site for this sort of thing. Not only does the site show waveform deviation, but the tester actually listens to lots of very diverse music to test for quality. The waveforms are used mainly to explain errors heard during listening (ie. what the hell is that fuzzy warp sound overriding the bassline?).
So anyways, read up at r3mix.net -- you'll realize people have already done this much better.
C'mon guys... CmdrTaco is allowed to use sarcasm too. Didn't anyone notice the "as a tribute;)". Methinks maybe he's poking a wee bit of fun at deadpixel's assertion that there's "No more Mozilla, sniff".
A secondary IPO allows the company to offer many of the shares not already on the public market to the public. This means many more shares will be available for trade after the secondary IPO.
In the age of Internet stocks, secondary IPOs have become a way for execs at companies with high-flying stock prices to cash in. While normally executives at publicly-held companies must wait 6 months or so and divulge all scheduled sales of stock, secondary IPOs offer those same executives a chance to cash out on a large percentage of their stock.
This reminds me of the new addition to NFL broadcasts. Anyone else notice the yellow line that signifies the first down marker? Well it doesn't exist except on your screen but it sure looks real to me. Personally, I love it, but I have a friend who went to a game and wondered out loud where the yellow line was.
This reminds me of the new addition to NFL broadcasts. Anyone else notice the yellow line that signifies the first down marker? Well it doesn't exist except on your screen but it sure looks real to me. Personally, I love it, but I have a friend who went to a game and wondered out loud where the yellow line was.
[1.12] What about DVD-Audio or Music DVD? When DVD was released in 1996 there was no DVD-Audio format, although the audio capabilities of DVD-Video far surpassed CD. The DVD Forum sought additional input from the music industry before defining the DVD-Audio format. A draft standard was released by the DVD Forum's Working Group 4 (WG4) in January 1998, and version 0.9 was released in July. The final DVD-Audio 1.0 specification was approved in February 1999 and released in March. DVD-Audio products will show up in late 1999 at the earliest (Panasonic has announced DVD-Audio/DVD-Video players for October 1999). The delay is being caused by the slow process of selecting copy protection features (encryption and watermarking). A watermarking technology was supposed to have been chosen from the top two contenders: Aris Technologies and Blue Spike. (Aris press releases in late June touted itself as the winner but there has been no official announcement.) Proposals from Cognicity, IBM, and Solana were eliminated during testing, although Solana later merged with Aris.) The evaluation process is being done by major music companies in conjunction with the 4C Entity, comprising IBM, Intel, Matsushita, and Toshiba. It's possible that the RIAA's Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) could push the introduction of DVD-Audio into 2000.
DVD-Audio is a separate format from DVD-Video. DVD-Audio discs can be designed to work in DVD-Video players, but its possible to make a DVD-Audio disc that won't play at all in a DVD-Video player, since the DVD-Audio specification includes new formats and features, with content stored in a separate "DVD-Audio zone" on the disc (the AUDIO_TS directory) that DVD-Video players never look at. New DVD-Audio players are needed, or new "universal players" that can play both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs.
Plea to producers: Universal players won't be available for some time, but you can make "universal discs" today. With a small amount of effort, all DVD-Audio discs can be made to work on all DVD players by including a Dolby Digital version of the audio in the DVD-Video zone. Plea to DVD-Audio authoring system developers: Make your software do this by default or strongly recommend this option during authoring.
DVD-Audio (and universal) players will work with existing receivers. They output PCM and Dolby Digital, and some will support the optional DTS and DSD formats. However, most current receivers can't decode the high-definition PCM audio (see 3.6.1 for details), and even if they could it can't be carried on standard digital audio connections. DVD-Audio players with high-end digital-to-analog converters (DACs) can be hooked up to receivers with two-channel or 6-channel analog inputs, but some quality will be lost if the receiver converts back to digital for processing. Future receivers with improved digital connections such as IEEE 1394 (FireWire) will be required to use the full digital resolution of DVD-Audio.
The music industry has requested an "embedding signalling" or "digital watermark" copy protection feature. This uses signal processing technology to apply a digital signature and optional encryption keys to the audio in the form of supposedly inaudible noise so that new equipment will recognize copied audio and refuse to play it. Audiophiles claim this degrades the audio.
In the meantime, the DVD-Video standard includes surround sound audio and better-than-CD audio (see 3.6.2).
Sony and Philips have developed a competing Super Audio CD format. (See 3.6.1 for details.) SACD provides "legacy" discs that have two layers, one that plays in existing CD players, plus a high-density layer for DVD-Audio players. Ironically, initial price for these dual-layer discs will be higher than for a standard CD plus a standard DVD. Sony released version 0.9 of the SACD spec in April 1998, the final version is expected in April 1999. SACD technology will be available to existing Sony/Philips CD licensees at no additional cost.
Welp, I hate to say it but the only solution I know of is on Win9x. I'm sure there are others and i can't wait to hear about them. As for the Win9x solution: Nevod Inc used to make a product called Nat1000 which was amazing! You could do everything from the client machines -- run quake servers, dcc serve, run hotline clients -- everything. Unfortunately, these guys were bought out by those folks from Redmond, and supposedly their tech was to be incorporated into Win98 SE. I've long since lost the original need for ipMasq/NAT but would be interested nonotheless in knowing whether it *works* in Win98 SE or how to get it up and running on FreeBSD/Linux.
1) The most significant group will bash Microsoft because, well, they're Microsoft.
2) A vocal minority will try and bring some sanity to the discussion by arguing that AOL's tactics hint of an attempt to become a very Microsoft-ish company.
Exactly... I would LOVE to have been offered this deal. Anyone who did get it and doesn't want in or doesn't qualify -- I'd be happy to offer you a sizeable portion of any profit I'd make. I'd use my money of course so you wouldn't risk anything.
As I work only on a small open source project, my name was not broadcast to the world as an Open Source Community Member. But seeing as I do have spare cash, if anyone who did get the offer doesn't want to take advantage of it, I'd be happy to open the account and give a hefty percentage of any potential profit to whomever gave me the opportunity. You can email me at artoo@home.com if you're interested.
Did someone write up a script to submit every link UF features? It seems the last few days I checked the Daily Static in the morning and by the evening 2 or 3 stories are showing up on Slashdot...
Working for a company that recently filed an S1 themselves, I can tell you with complete seriousness that EVERY possible problem needs to be listed, no matter how ridiculous, if you don't want to end up with lawsuits two years later when you miss earnings estimates.
I'm soon going to set up my first linux box, and hope to use debian mostly because of the great things I'm hearing about apt. Does anyone know when this will be included in the stable tree and available as part of the install? I'm not entirely new to linux, but this will be my first time installing a new system. I guess my question is when is the next release of Debian due and will it include the improved install procedure?
While I can't wait for "Civ3" for Linux -- I had to reinstall Win9x on my system just so I could play what many consider to be the real sequel to Civ2... Alpha Centauri. It's not a big change from previous versions but the little things make a huge difference and I've never had so much fun staring at my little 15inch monitor for hours on end:)
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Excuse my ignorance, but what are the major advantages of OSCAR over the freely available protocol?
r3mix.net is really the definitive site for this sort of thing. Not only does the site show waveform deviation, but the tester actually listens to lots of very diverse music to test for quality. The waveforms are used mainly to explain errors heard during listening (ie. what the hell is that fuzzy warp sound overriding the bassline?). So anyways, read up at r3mix.net -- you'll realize people have already done this much better.
Actually, the rumor is flying around. Check www.3dshack.com for more info.
C'mon guys ... CmdrTaco is allowed to use sarcasm too. Didn't anyone notice the "as a tribute ;)". Methinks maybe he's poking a wee bit of fun at deadpixel's assertion that there's "No more Mozilla, sniff".
A secondary IPO allows the company to offer many of the shares not already on the public market to the public. This means many more shares will be available for trade after the secondary IPO.
In the age of Internet stocks, secondary IPOs have become a way for execs at companies with high-flying stock prices to cash in. While normally executives at publicly-held companies must wait 6 months or so and divulge all scheduled sales of stock, secondary IPOs offer those same executives a chance to cash out on a large percentage of their stock.
This reminds me of the new addition to NFL broadcasts. Anyone else notice the yellow line that signifies the first down marker? Well it doesn't exist except on your screen but it sure looks real to me. Personally, I love it, but I have a friend who went to a game and wondered out loud where the yellow line was.
Scary.
This reminds me of the new addition to NFL broadcasts. Anyone else notice the yellow line that signifies the first down marker? Well it doesn't exist except on your screen but it sure looks real to me. Personally, I love it, but I have a friend who went to a game and wondered out loud where the yellow line was.
Scary.
Too bad they can't sit online waiting for ANDN to pop up every day.
Congrats on open at 47 1/2.
From the DVD FAQ:
[1.12] What about DVD-Audio or Music DVD?
When DVD was released in 1996 there was no DVD-Audio format, although the audio capabilities of DVD-Video far surpassed CD. The DVD Forum sought additional input from the music industry before defining the DVD-Audio format. A draft standard was released by the DVD Forum's Working Group 4 (WG4) in January 1998, and version 0.9 was released in July. The final DVD-Audio 1.0 specification was approved in February 1999 and released in March. DVD-Audio products will show up in late 1999 at the earliest (Panasonic has announced DVD-Audio/DVD-Video players for October 1999). The delay is being caused by the slow process of selecting copy protection features (encryption and watermarking). A watermarking technology was supposed to have been chosen from the top two contenders: Aris Technologies and Blue Spike. (Aris press releases in late June touted itself as the winner but there has been no official announcement.) Proposals from Cognicity, IBM, and Solana were eliminated during testing, although Solana later merged with Aris.) The evaluation process is being done by major music companies in conjunction with the 4C Entity, comprising IBM, Intel, Matsushita, and Toshiba. It's possible that the RIAA's Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) could push the introduction of DVD-Audio into 2000.
DVD-Audio is a separate format from DVD-Video. DVD-Audio discs can be designed to work in DVD-Video players, but its possible to make a DVD-Audio disc that won't play at all in a DVD-Video player, since the DVD-Audio specification includes new formats and features, with content stored in a separate "DVD-Audio zone" on the disc (the AUDIO_TS directory) that DVD-Video players never look at. New DVD-Audio players are needed, or new "universal players" that can play both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs.
Plea to producers: Universal players won't be available for some time, but you can make "universal discs" today. With a small amount of effort, all DVD-Audio discs can be made to work on all DVD players by including a Dolby Digital version of the audio in the DVD-Video zone.
Plea to DVD-Audio authoring system developers: Make your software do this by default or strongly recommend this option during authoring.
DVD-Audio (and universal) players will work with existing receivers. They output PCM and Dolby Digital, and some will support the optional DTS and DSD formats. However, most current receivers can't decode the high-definition PCM audio (see 3.6.1 for details), and even if they could it can't be carried on standard digital audio connections. DVD-Audio players with high-end digital-to-analog converters (DACs) can be hooked up to receivers with two-channel or 6-channel analog inputs, but some quality will be lost if the receiver converts back to digital for processing. Future receivers with improved digital connections such as IEEE 1394 (FireWire) will be required to use the full digital resolution of DVD-Audio.
The music industry has requested an "embedding signalling" or "digital watermark" copy protection feature. This uses signal processing technology to apply a digital signature and optional encryption keys to the audio in the form of supposedly inaudible noise so that new equipment will recognize copied audio and refuse to play it. Audiophiles claim this degrades the audio.
In the meantime, the DVD-Video standard includes surround sound audio and better-than-CD audio (see 3.6.2).
Sony and Philips have developed a competing Super Audio CD format. (See 3.6.1 for details.) SACD provides "legacy" discs that have two layers, one that plays in existing CD players, plus a high-density layer for DVD-Audio players. Ironically, initial price for these dual-layer discs will be higher than for a standard CD plus a standard DVD. Sony released version 0.9 of the SACD spec in April 1998, the final version is expected in April 1999. SACD technology will be available to existing Sony/Philips CD licensees at no additional cost.
Welp, I hate to say it but the only solution I know of is on Win9x. I'm sure there are others and i can't wait to hear about them. As for the Win9x solution: Nevod Inc used to make a product called Nat1000 which was amazing! You could do everything from the client machines -- run quake servers, dcc serve, run hotline clients -- everything. Unfortunately, these guys were bought out by those folks from Redmond, and supposedly their tech was to be incorporated into Win98 SE. I've long since lost the original need for ipMasq/NAT but would be interested nonotheless in knowing whether it *works* in Win98 SE or how to get it up and running on FreeBSD/Linux.
1) The most significant group will bash Microsoft because, well, they're Microsoft.
2) A vocal minority will try and bring some sanity to the discussion by arguing that AOL's tactics hint of an attempt to become a very Microsoft-ish company.
Who wins is anyone's guess.
Exactly... I would LOVE to have been offered this deal. Anyone who did get it and doesn't want in or doesn't qualify -- I'd be happy to offer you a sizeable portion of any profit I'd make. I'd use my money of course so you wouldn't risk anything.
Email me at artoo@home.com if interested.
As I work only on a small open source project, my name was not broadcast to the world as an Open Source Community Member. But seeing as I do have spare cash, if anyone who did get the offer doesn't want to take advantage of it, I'd be happy to open the account and give a hefty percentage of any potential profit to whomever gave me the opportunity. You can email me at artoo@home.com if you're interested.
Did someone write up a script to submit every link UF features? It seems the last few days I checked the Daily Static in the morning and by the evening 2 or 3 stories are showing up on Slashdot...
Working for a company that recently filed an S1 themselves, I can tell you with complete seriousness that EVERY possible problem needs to be listed, no matter how ridiculous, if you don't want to end up with lawsuits two years later when you miss earnings estimates.
... or BSDites perhaps?
I'm soon going to set up my first linux box, and hope to use debian mostly because of the great things I'm hearing about apt. Does anyone know when this will be included in the stable tree and available as part of the install? I'm not entirely new to linux, but this will be my first time installing a new system. I guess my question is when is the next release of Debian due and will it include the improved install procedure?
While I can't wait for "Civ3" for Linux -- I had to reinstall Win9x on my system just so I could play what many consider to be the real sequel to Civ2... Alpha Centauri. It's not a big change from previous versions but the little things make a huge difference and I've never had so much fun staring at my little 15inch monitor for hours on end :)