there are always pro models of all gear that lack the sorts of 'anti-piracy' features of the commercial ones. once one person rips a source and it hits the Net, what's the difference?
it probably isn't... once apple works out some licensing stuff, it'll probably support AAC.
AAC doesn't have the open source buzzword compliance. and a lot of people pooh pooh it because the head to head tests always show ogg coming out on top. but this is largely because they're all done at like 64kbit, where ogg shines. AAC shines at 128kbit, where it reportedly is acoustically transparent when encoded with CD-quality source.
ideally, they'd provide functionality for both formats, but i doubt they will, because they're already wedded to AAC with Quicktime's MPEG-4 capabilities.
Wake up: the web is about communication. If you conform to open standards, you aid communication, because it means that anyone can reach you. HTML, PNG, etc., all conform to standards (such as those produced by the W3C and IETF). Gratuitous use of non-standard formats is worth complaining about, because when enough complaints get made, the websites either stop using the nonstandard format, or convince enough people to create a standard for it.
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hmm, my html got messed up. you can find the article about flash accessibility here: http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility/flash /
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Hmm, a gray box with no content.
It appears that a LOT of readers either don't have or have disabled Flash, and I'm one of them. It might be worth waiting until the website repairs their site into something standards-conforming. HTML + PNG preferred.
give me a break... you know what you are? a standards snob. is xhtml ok? will gif cut the mustard if it's lighter and looks the same? do you roll over all of the images of every site you visit and get their url to make sure they conform to your standards?
marshall mcluhan aside, the medium is not the entirety of the message. it's really pigheaded to reject content out of hand based on the delivery format.
flash is an open file format (look here and the latest version of flash has gone a long way towards meeting accessibility requirements. so suck it up, and stop spreading FUD.
thanks for the defense. i didn't think it such a troll when i wrote it, just that there's likely more than 20k people around who are opposed to whatever stuff these people are trying to force through.
Didn't the U.S. military did something similar in revealing officialy the F-117
shortly before attacking Irak the first time?
when we "invaded" panama during the regan years (i use scare quotes 'cause we were already there... hard to invade a country you're already basically occupying), that was the first time the public was made aware of the F-117.
well, wouldntcha know it, the government let slip that it's been keeping a new jet secret -- just in time for another unnecessary war against another dictator it imposed and now sees fit to blow up!
way to parade the forces to the proles to get us to rally around the flag, bushie!
"OSI has started a new service, detailed here which allows you to pay $29.95 to get a decent character premade for you, and bypass the hours of working skills at lower levels."
*what* did the Open Source Initiative start doing now???
the scary thing about the advent of technology in media is that while we expect that it would enable more "use" out of our media in various ways -- take for example the CD-ROM of this guy's photo album -- in fact, so many companies are endevoring to turn this tech revolution into a way to either provide less to the consumer or charge more for what they already have.
for instance, divx, god rest it's soul, was basically an effort to remove our ability to purchase and watch our favorite movies again and again, by luring us with better image quality and sound. there are plenty more examples of this, and plans for even more.
it's up to people like us, who realize when people are being ripped off by technology because they don't know better, to get them riled up over the issue. send more people to the EFF et. al.
this thread will likely result in hundreds of smug Ogg Vorbis posts, but the format doesn't have the market penetration or mindshare yet. some people will likely adopt Ogg, true, but even more will likely choose WMA or RealAudio because their players/encoders are more entrenched. this is not good...
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there are always pro models of all gear that lack the sorts of 'anti-piracy' features of the commercial ones. once one person rips a source and it hits the Net, what's the difference?
easy, killer. put the richard stallman voodoo doll down... there ya go. encode in any format you want.
i'm just saying the iPod probably won't support it, and that the various shootouts are unfair if they don't compare the codecs at different bitrates.
it probably isn't... once apple works out some licensing stuff, it'll probably support AAC.
AAC doesn't have the open source buzzword compliance. and a lot of people pooh pooh it because the head to head tests always show ogg coming out on top. but this is largely because they're all done at like 64kbit, where ogg shines. AAC shines at 128kbit, where it reportedly is acoustically transparent when encoded with CD-quality source.
ideally, they'd provide functionality for both formats, but i doubt they will, because they're already wedded to AAC with Quicktime's MPEG-4 capabilities.
first: take a deep breath. there ya go.
next: go here
hmm, my html got messed up. you can find the article about flash accessibility here: http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility/flash /
It appears that a LOT of readers either don't have or have disabled Flash, and I'm one of them. It might be worth waiting until the website repairs their site into something standards-conforming. HTML + PNG preferred.
give me a break... you know what you are? a standards snob. is xhtml ok? will gif cut the mustard if it's lighter and looks the same? do you roll over all of the images of every site you visit and get their url to make sure they conform to your standards?
marshall mcluhan aside, the medium is not the entirety of the message. it's really pigheaded to reject content out of hand based on the delivery format.
flash is an open file format (look here and the latest version of flash has gone a long way towards meeting accessibility requirements. so suck it up, and stop spreading FUD.
thanks for the defense. i didn't think it such a troll when i wrote it, just that there's likely more than 20k people around who are opposed to whatever stuff these people are trying to force through.
why don't we get 20k people together and oppose them on every issue?
c'mon, it'd be worth it just to see the looks on their faces!
panama, dummy. guy bury your head in some collegiate causes until you learn how to read.
really? even better! it runs in the family!
when we "invaded" panama during the regan years (i use scare quotes 'cause we were already there... hard to invade a country you're already basically occupying), that was the first time the public was made aware of the F-117.
well, wouldntcha know it, the government let slip that it's been keeping a new jet secret -- just in time for another unnecessary war against another dictator it imposed and now sees fit to blow up!
way to parade the forces to the proles to get us to rally around the flag, bushie!
fsck failed. "I'm all shook up."
Not a bad looking unit for the price.
THAT'S what SHE said. [rimshot]
"OSI has started a new service, detailed here which allows you to pay $29.95 to get a decent character premade for you, and bypass the hours of working skills at lower levels."
*what* did the Open Source Initiative start doing now???
the scary thing about the advent of technology in media is that while we expect that it would enable more "use" out of our media in various ways -- take for example the CD-ROM of this guy's photo album -- in fact, so many companies are endevoring to turn this tech revolution into a way to either provide less to the consumer or charge more for what they already have.
for instance, divx, god rest it's soul, was basically an effort to remove our ability to purchase and watch our favorite movies again and again, by luring us with better image quality and sound. there are plenty more examples of this, and plans for even more.
it's up to people like us, who realize when people are being ripped off by technology because they don't know better, to get them riled up over the issue. send more people to the EFF et. al.
whoever modded that down doesn't know dukey about SIGINT or Echelon or the security failures of line-of-sight microwave telco transmissions.
your cluelessness shouldn't result in my punishment.
AT LAST! a location for my echelon spoofing site. ;)
ahem.
THIS is a data haven.
THIS is a data haven.
It works for me. And it's free. Fuck 'em.
see, the scary thing is, i can't tell if you're talking about Ogg or WMA/Real.
this thread will likely result in hundreds of smug Ogg Vorbis posts, but the format doesn't have the market penetration or mindshare yet. some people will likely adopt Ogg, true, but even more will likely choose WMA or RealAudio because their players/encoders are more entrenched. this is not good...
jesus! someone mod the above -1, Spoiler!
yeah, if you don't mind that sometimes it only works in IE or crashes your browser. geez.