What is with Austrailia? They have always been 'with it' technologically (witness Samba and overall wiredness) and they've have had some intelligent laws (i.e. encryption) but then they have some mind bogglingly stupid laws (i.e. censorship). I just don't see how this can happen in the same political body. Perhaps someone in Austrailia can fill me in, it baffles me...
Although you have to agree, the summaries themselves as posted on/. do often have inaccurancies in them.
However, the community of intelligent commenters makes up for that. It seems like 8 times out of 10, someone from the 'inside' of the story, be it someone who works for the company, or the project, or whatever, comes forward and we get a better view of the situation than any news site out there.
Hope they have all the additional extra bits on it like on the laserdisc version. The LD includes a seperate audio track with running commentary throughout the film by the two Terry's which has lots of cool stuff on it, as well as some other things like production stills, weird foreign translations and trailers.
I have had no coding experience with either QT or GTK, but I have to say that being able to code a nice graphical UI in 200 lines sounds pretty good to me.
Another good format is AAC. Never really caught on but the quality is very good, similar to VQF in that you can encode at a lower bitrate than mp3 for higher quality. File size is also a bit smaller as well.
Unfortunately there aren't many tools for it. Look for the Quartex encoder if you want to play around with it. The only real mainstream AAC player I know of is KJofol (which is a very nice audio player for Windows, the sound quality is much better than WinAMP imo) which is at www.kjofol.org. Unfortunately, I haven't had any luck getting it to work under wine (although I can't say I've tried it lately).
Damn. This really bummed me out. Only a year ago, seemed like there were so many companies to choose from. Now since then, we've seen S3, Diamond, Canopus and Hercules all consolidated/pulled out of the market/closed etc. I am more than a little concerned about this.
Hopefully, some of the overseas brands like Guillemot and Miro will see an opportunity to step in. Or else we won't have many options when the next Killer Chipset comes out.
He was very much in two pieces both times I saw it (first time being 12:01). It seems very clear to me that this was intentionally done to make it clear he is NOT going to come back, he's very much dead.
Speaking about copying fonts, something that has always bugged me...
With so many knock-off "sound-alike fonts" (for example, 3 fonts named Tech, Technical and Architect that all look the same), how do you know which is the "original"?
I have always been looking for some sort of list so I can be sure to have the "true" fonts instead of all the cheap copies. Sometimes the shoddy copying is obvious but my eye is not so sharp to detect them all...
I would love to have some resource to filter the authetic fonts from the fakes.
Actually, Times New Roman is generally regarded as not a very good choice for a general purpose font. The serifs' aren't that desirable for a font that is very often rendered at a small size.
Extending Perl till its bloated beyond all belief, heh, thats what CPAN is for.
Um, right, a downloadable set of _modules_ that are available seperate from the main PERL package is bloat. I guess C must be the most bloated language of all considering how many libraries have been written with it...
AOL is pushing for choice because with all the mergers going on in the cable business, AOL stands a good chance of being SOL for broadband access in many major markets if they can't convince the government of their position.
If that's not enough, we will give you or the recipiant of your choice the equivalent of one month of your old machine's full bore processing power.
So, if you donate a K6 II 350 box, you'd get about 4 minutes of time. Of course, most people would plan on donating much weaker PC's... Granted, it would have a LOT of RAM if you needed it for some project, but you could just leave you box running for a for a month yourself at least a dozen times over before they could ever complete this thing...
This problem will eventually solve itself as more housing units are built and companies establish remote offices or encourage telecommuting (the advent of the Internet makes this even easier than before)
This works for the tech companies, but what of the others? There are many other professions that this won't be any help for - police, teachers, waiters, shopkeepers, etc. These people can't just make a remote branch and they can't telecommute.
Part of Harvard's internet connection comes via a microwave link from MIT. So whenever network performance is a little off, the hip thing to say is "Hmm, it's a little cloudy today..."
I read in a PC Computing about a month ago or so, they did a small informal 'real world' test of productivity between Palm Pilot and one of the color HP WinCE palmtops. They gave one group of average corporate worker people the Palm and the other group the WinCE.
At the end of the test, 90% of the Palm users said it increased their productivity, and the other 10% said it had no effect. Contrast that with the WinCE users - 45% of them said it in increased their productivity, 10% said it made no difference, and 45% said it DECREASED their productivity (having used one, I can definately see why).
I would give the exact issue, but I don't read it normally, so I can't say.
Hey, me-too posts can be important. I, for one, hope to see that more people agree with this post than with the posts it refutes. I too was irked by the subtle racism/stereotyping. I can see nothing but great benefits for Africa from this project, bravo to the Implementors!
Yes, but that plugin is made by another person not associated with X11amp (now xmms). It's not as if X11amp has been supporting ALSA this whole time. An important clarification, methinks.
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What is with Austrailia? They have always been 'with it' technologically (witness Samba and overall wiredness) and they've have had some intelligent laws (i.e. encryption) but then they have some mind bogglingly stupid laws (i.e. censorship). I just don't see how this can happen in the same political body. Perhaps someone in Austrailia can fill me in, it baffles me...
Exactly.
/. do often have inaccurancies in them.
Although you have to agree, the summaries themselves as posted on
However, the community of intelligent commenters makes up for that. It seems like 8 times out of 10, someone from the 'inside' of the story, be it someone who works for the company, or the project, or whatever, comes forward and we get a better view of the situation than any news site out there.
[chris@moebius ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 451.026999
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
bogomips : 448.92
No offense, 621 bogomips is damn good, but it's not exactly 3-5 times...
Hope they have all the additional extra bits on it like on the laserdisc version. The LD includes a seperate audio track with running commentary throughout the film by the two Terry's which has lots of cool stuff on it, as well as some other things like production stills, weird foreign translations and trailers.
Well worth the purchase.
I have had no coding experience with either QT or GTK, but I have to say that being able to code a nice graphical UI in 200 lines sounds pretty good to me.
Just the other day I was reminded of the old truth, you get roughly 80% of usage out of 20% of stuff.
It goes for web sites just as well as it goes for clothes, programs, recipes, TV shows, etc...
This page
has a pretty good collection of aac tools. For my money, the Astrid/Quartex encoder is the best.
Also check this page
http://www.ixpnet.com/~lzhanson/comp.html
for a good comparison of MP3, VQF and AAC.
Another good format is AAC. Never really caught on but the quality is very good, similar to VQF in that you can encode at a lower bitrate than mp3 for higher quality. File size is also a bit smaller as well.
Unfortunately there aren't many tools for it. Look for the Quartex encoder if you want to play around with it. The only real mainstream AAC player I know of is KJofol (which is a very nice audio player for Windows, the sound quality is much better than WinAMP imo) which is at www.kjofol.org. Unfortunately, I haven't had any luck getting it to work under wine (although I can't say I've tried it lately).
Damn. This really bummed me out. Only a year ago, seemed like there were so many companies to choose from. Now since then, we've seen S3, Diamond, Canopus and Hercules all consolidated/pulled out of the market/closed etc. I am more than a little concerned about this.
Hopefully, some of the overseas brands like Guillemot and Miro will see an opportunity to step in. Or else we won't have many options when the next Killer Chipset comes out.
He was very much in two pieces both times I saw it (first time being 12:01). It seems very clear to me that this was intentionally done to make it clear he is NOT going to come back, he's very much dead.
That's what my old P133 is doing. Now what am I to do with the 486DX2-50 and 386DX-20? :P
Speaking about copying fonts, something that has always bugged me...
With so many knock-off "sound-alike fonts" (for example, 3 fonts named Tech, Technical and Architect that all look the same), how do you know which is the "original"?
I have always been looking for some sort of list so I can be sure to have the "true" fonts instead of all the cheap copies. Sometimes the shoddy copying is obvious but my eye is not so sharp to detect them all...
I would love to have some resource to filter the authetic fonts from the fakes.
Actually, Times New Roman is generally regarded as not a very good choice for a general purpose font. The serifs' aren't that desirable for a font that is very often rendered at a small size.
Good point. So if something fucks up, I can sue Al Gore, right? (Or wait, does that damned UCITA thing cover this too?)
In the real old stuff, when it was just him and John "Bermuda" Schwartz (his drummer), Schwartz 'drummed' on Al's accordian case.
Extending Perl till its bloated beyond all belief, heh, thats what CPAN is for.
Um, right, a downloadable set of _modules_ that are available seperate from the main PERL package is bloat. I guess C must be the most bloated language of all considering how many libraries have been written with it...
AOL is pushing for choice because with all the mergers going on in the cable business, AOL stands a good chance of being SOL for broadband access in many major markets if they can't convince the government of their position.
If that's not enough, we will give you or the recipiant of your choice the equivalent of one month of your old machine's full bore processing power.
So, if you donate a K6 II 350 box, you'd get about 4 minutes of time. Of course, most people would plan on donating much weaker PC's... Granted, it would have a LOT of RAM if you needed it for some project, but you could just leave you box running for a for a month yourself at least a dozen times over before they could ever complete this thing...
This works for the tech companies, but what of the others? There are many other professions that this won't be any help for - police, teachers, waiters, shopkeepers, etc. These people can't just make a remote branch and they can't telecommute.
Part of Harvard's internet connection comes via a microwave link from MIT. So whenever network performance is a little off, the hip thing to say is "Hmm, it's a little cloudy today..."
I read in a PC Computing about a month ago or so, they did a small informal 'real world' test of productivity between Palm Pilot and one of the color HP WinCE palmtops. They gave one group of average corporate worker people the Palm and the other group the WinCE.
At the end of the test, 90% of the Palm users said it increased their productivity, and the other 10% said it had no effect. Contrast that with the WinCE users - 45% of them said it in increased their productivity, 10% said it made no difference, and 45% said it DECREASED their productivity (having used one, I can definately see why).
I would give the exact issue, but I don't read it normally, so I can't say.
Hey, me-too posts can be important. I, for one, hope to see that more people agree with this post than with the posts it refutes. I too was irked by the subtle racism/stereotyping. I can see nothing but great benefits for Africa from this project, bravo to the Implementors!
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Yes, but that plugin is made by another person not associated with X11amp (now xmms). It's not as if X11amp has been supporting ALSA this whole time. An important clarification, methinks.
Netscape 4.06 on Windows 98, page makes it go boom after a few seconds. /me goes to run Lynx...