Ceremonial swords I don't understand, but toy guns I agree with completly. They are horrible things and I for one would be glad to see a lot less of them.
The savings MP3 makes with joining front and rear channels won't be enough to overcome the improvments Vorbis or indeed the other new codecs like AAC have made on MP3.
Sorta... the Earth does move in the lunar sky due to libration, but not much. From a position on the moon where the Earth is near the horizon the Earth will appear to rise and fall over a 29 day period. I'm not sure if it moves enough for the entire disk of the Earth to be completly above or below the horizon.
Hope this makes sense!
I had two IBM death-stars and a Maxtor fail on me last year. The IBM's made that horrible clicky sound they are famous for, and the Maxtor just stopped spinning. I discovered by accident with the first IBM that if I turned it upside down and powered up the machine, I was able to access my data! It worked for the replacement IBM drive a few months later after it failed (bleh), and a Maxtor that had stopped spinning completly.
Doesn't work all the time, but worth a try. Anyone have any idea why it works at all?
Oh come on, listing programs with the gnome- prefix in there is just silly. What did you expect them to call those programs? They are part of Gnome! And didn't Gimp pre-date Gnome?
I agree with Gnumeric, but that's about it. It is a silly name.
Anyway, if you don't like it -- fork it and call it something decent. sed is your weapon of choice:)
The only truly open video codec worth mentioning is Theora. XviD's source may be open, but the codec itself is a patent minefield. Theora is patent free, as is Dirac. Even if the BBC did take out some patents, the license Dirac uses means these patents would be harmless.
So yes, we do need this codec and others like it. Theora is nice but it dosen't hold up against any of the new generation of commercial codecs that are coming out now.
I tried it on my Gentoo box and it's working really nicely. Guess my codec pack is out of date on my Fedora box. What an impressive video! I can't wait to take a flight in one of these things.
Is it just me, or does every video from the Scaled Composites website crash mplayer and xine?
Or is my mplayer broken? (from freshrpms)
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that bloody red dot.
Amen!
I've even gone as far as manually adding the main channels to the 'other channels' section of the receiver. When you watch them via this, none of the interactive stuff comes through.
A bit ackward, but those red dots are sooo sooo annoying. I'm watching a TV show, I don't want to press the bloody red button to see 50% adverts and 50% utter meaningless crap.
The Linux kernel won't boot as fast as MS-DOS, but it's not far from it. A properly configured kernel for that type of system could probably start in about 3 or 4 seconds -- not counting the BIOS startup which would affect MS-DOS equally.
I kind of had the impression that his codec generated some sort of code. That code is then transmitted to the client and executed, and is ouput is the set of pixels seen on the screen
I seem to remember the creator of Vorbis (Monty) writing once that he wanted to make an audio codec exactly like that but that there wasn't enough time. The priority was to get a working codec out there, which later became Vorbis.
I can't seem to find anything about it on Google so it's possible I imagined it:)
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the banning ceremonial swords and toy guns
Ceremonial swords I don't understand, but toy guns I agree with completly. They are horrible things and I for one would be glad to see a lot less of them.
The savings MP3 makes with joining front and rear channels won't be enough to overcome the improvments Vorbis or indeed the other new codecs like AAC have made on MP3.
Ogg Vorbis support 256 channels. If that isn't enough for surround then I don't know what it...
All things being equal, they'll probably use WMA instead if they want surround music since the license is cheaper
Cheaper than what? Ogg is free, in more ways than one.
It is possible your ISP has filtered all the usual ports to stop the nastys getting in.
Sorta ... the Earth does move in the lunar sky due to libration, but not much. From a position on the moon where the Earth is near the horizon the Earth will appear to rise and fall over a 29 day period. I'm not sure if it moves enough for the entire disk of the Earth to be completly above or below the horizon.
Hope this makes sense!
Bah, you people and your silly degrees. It's 275K outside here. Toasty!
I installed this over the weekend on my slow 333MHz laptop, and I have to say it's really quite nippy. Definitly faster than FC2.
I had two IBM death-stars and a Maxtor fail on me last year. The IBM's made that horrible clicky sound they are famous for, and the Maxtor just stopped spinning. I discovered by accident with the first IBM that if I turned it upside down and powered up the machine, I was able to access my data! It worked for the replacement IBM drive a few months later after it failed (bleh), and a Maxtor that had stopped spinning completly.
Doesn't work all the time, but worth a try. Anyone have any idea why it works at all?
From the official website: "If you don't want Flash you can go directly to the blog."
And where does this link take you to? A page with a single full-screen Flash.
Ah well...
they do, in fact, provide information [www.cbc.ca] on their site for unix users to access these streams
Do they provide protection for the listen when Microsoft decide they don't like mplayer or xine? Or have MS suddenly made WMA patent free?
I knew Lucas had edited these movies a lot, but putting Frodo Baggins in there is just simply to much! :)
(Personal mirror.. original site is gone)
Oh come on, listing programs with the gnome- prefix in there is just silly. What did you expect them to call those programs? They are part of Gnome! And didn't Gimp pre-date Gnome?
I agree with Gnumeric, but that's about it. It is a silly name.
Anyway, if you don't like it -- fork it and call it something decent. sed is your weapon of choice:)
The only truly open video codec worth mentioning is Theora. XviD's source may be open, but the codec itself is a patent minefield. Theora is patent free, as is Dirac. Even if the BBC did take out some patents, the license Dirac uses means these patents would be harmless.
So yes, we do need this codec and others like it. Theora is nice but it dosen't hold up against any of the new generation of commercial codecs that are coming out now.
It was one of Microsofts targets for WinME. The ME actually stands for MEltdown.
The plan was to make a zombie army of Doom. We where saved because it was so unstable nobody could install it at all.
I tried it on my Gentoo box and it's working really nicely. Guess my codec pack is out of date on my Fedora box. What an impressive video! I can't wait to take a flight in one of these things.
Your lucky you got any media coverage. In the UK all it got was a blurb on a high teletext page, and a mention on the BBC website.
It's weird because the media was all over Richard Branson's space-tourism companyjust a week earlier.
Is it just me, or does every video from the Scaled Composites website crash mplayer and xine?
Or is my mplayer broken? (from freshrpms)
that bloody red dot.
Amen!
I've even gone as far as manually adding the main channels to the 'other channels' section of the receiver. When you watch them via this, none of the interactive stuff comes through.
A bit ackward, but those red dots are sooo sooo annoying. I'm watching a TV show, I don't want to press the bloody red button to see 50% adverts and 50% utter meaningless crap.
Grrrrrr.......
From Yahoo's website:
Mozilla 1.7 Upgrade Required - MSIE / Netscape
What ever happened the concept of downloading a video, and watching it.
The Linux kernel won't boot as fast as MS-DOS, but it's not far from it. A properly configured kernel for that type of system could probably start in about 3 or 4 seconds -- not counting the BIOS startup which would affect MS-DOS equally.
imaginary time
... usually during lunch time and weekends.
I believe such a thing exists
I kind of had the impression that his codec generated some sort of code. That code is then transmitted to the client and executed, and is ouput is the set of pixels seen on the screen
:)
I seem to remember the creator of Vorbis (Monty) writing once that he wanted to make an audio codec exactly like that but that there wasn't enough time. The priority was to get a working codec out there, which later became Vorbis.
I can't seem to find anything about it on Google so it's possible I imagined it
They had 5.1 headphones
Excellent, finally a product for us people with 5.1 ears!
closed source vendors
These people have as much reason to reject Sender-ID's license as anyone else.