No, they cant use their Sourceforge accounts for donation pages. As long as they use SF for website space, having a donation page is in violation of the liscense/use agreement.
Shadow Conflict, an open source 3d rts game, has offically boycotted Blizzard Entertainment, and all said software products. I suggest other open source development groups do so as well.
Actually, this is why I usually leave comments off when I use slashdot. The political correctness abuse is horrible. I suggest you try kuro5shin for a (usually) non troll/non political enviroment, or Adequacy for a more troll/offtopic friendly enviroment.
Now, as many people have said, ogg is better than mp3. And, yes, this is true. Im a professional musician, and I do use digital sampling to do my work. But since, as most musicians, Im poor, hard drive space is at a premium. I find that oggs sound _much_ better than mp3s, and on average sound better than mp3pro mp3s at the same bitrate.
I usually use this formula to encode stuff in different formats to compare them.
ogg 160kbps ~= mp3 256kbps ~= mp3pro 192kbps ~= wma 192kbps (though, I have yet to find a 192kbps wma encoder.)
Though, you should wait until 1.0 final comes out before you do any major archiving of music, since the most recent release canidate of 1.0 might still have bugs, though I am seriously doubting it.
Also, if you do wish to encode mp3s and oggs, I suggest you use lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) since it is considered the best mp3 encoder, and the 3.8x and later version can infact use the ogg/vorbis libraries to encode oggs. Plus, its gpl.
Yes, I agree with Nugget (who I also think was wrongly moderated down to 0, Troll) because the real reason the Free Software movement and the OpenSource software movement works is because they are truely free... they provide Choices and Options that other software doesnt. The moment the Free Software movement kills off any of its competition, it automatically stops being free at all, no matter what they call it.
"Due to federal law, FERPA, I cannot discuss the facts regarding this issue." -- Auto Reply Email from Dr. Anthony
It seems that David Anthony already has an auto reply setup that greps for sheeley, and auto replies.
Yeah, I kinda agree with that. I think dev groups should have many clients on the same cd, and you just run the right install program. Also, depending on how you develop games, it isnt hard to make a Linux binary... like look at Loki and their interaction with the SDL and SMPEG projects (I mean besides the fact that Loki started them/still runs them)You could write a whole title that can be compiled on either system with little effort.
But dont take what Im saying as Linux is easy to dev for. Youll probably have to include multiple binaries, depending on what you feel like supporting... but most likely imo it will be binaries for xfree 4/glibc2.1 and thats it. Console based graphics interaction basically is dead (for those who dont run linux, its like playing a dos game.... run it from a text console prompt, it switches to a graphic mode)
even though alot of projects still try to support it. Same with Xfree 3.... Its kinda of a waste to support it, unless your doing only 2D stuff... But with 3D... X3 is behind alot... it really only has indirect/secondary rendering via Mesa, and not alot of 3d acceleration chipsets are supported by mesa either by mesa itself or xserver drivers.
Linking a web page to another is like making a shortcut in windows (or alias in macos or symbolic links in *nix) to a program or file on your primary storage medium. Long as you dont rip the actual content, your ok and it isnt a Derivative Work. (Unless, of cource, using a url is a derivative work.)
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No, they cant use their Sourceforge accounts for donation pages. As long as they use SF for website space, having a donation page is in violation of the liscense/use agreement.
Seriously, either Im seeing things, or thats a major mistake.
Shadow Conflict, an open source 3d rts game, has offically boycotted Blizzard Entertainment, and all
said software products. I suggest other open source development groups do so as well.
And whoever just modded me offtopic just proves that the person who originally started this thread is actually right. Say no to censorship!
Actually, this is why I usually leave comments off when I use slashdot. The political correctness abuse is horrible. I suggest you try kuro5shin for a (usually) non troll/non political enviroment, or Adequacy for a more troll/offtopic friendly enviroment.
Now, as many people have said, ogg is better than mp3. And, yes, this is true. Im a professional musician, and I do use digital sampling to do my work. But since, as most musicians, Im poor, hard drive space is at a premium. I find that oggs sound _much_ better than mp3s, and on average sound better than mp3pro mp3s at the same bitrate.
I usually use this formula to encode stuff in different formats to compare them.
ogg 160kbps ~= mp3 256kbps ~= mp3pro 192kbps ~= wma 192kbps (though, I have yet to find a 192kbps wma encoder.)
Though, you should wait until 1.0 final comes out before you do any major archiving of music, since the most recent release canidate of 1.0 might still have bugs, though I am seriously doubting it.
Also, if you do wish to encode mp3s and oggs, I suggest you use lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) since it is considered the best mp3 encoder, and the 3.8x and later version can infact use the ogg/vorbis libraries to encode oggs. Plus, its gpl.
Yes, I agree with Nugget (who I also think was wrongly moderated down to 0, Troll) because the real reason the Free Software movement and the OpenSource software movement works is because they are truely free... they provide Choices and Options that other software doesnt. The moment the Free Software movement kills off any of its competition, it automatically stops being free at all, no matter what they call it.
"Due to federal law, FERPA, I cannot discuss the facts regarding this issue." -- Auto Reply Email from Dr. Anthony It seems that David Anthony already has an auto reply setup that greps for sheeley, and auto replies.
Yeah, I kinda agree with that. I think dev groups should have many clients on the same cd, and you just run the right install program. Also, depending on how you develop games, it isnt hard to make a Linux binary... like look at Loki and their interaction with the SDL and SMPEG projects (I mean besides the fact that Loki started them/still runs them)You could write a whole title that can be compiled on either system with little effort. But dont take what Im saying as Linux is easy to dev for. Youll probably have to include multiple binaries, depending on what you feel like supporting... but most likely imo it will be binaries for xfree 4/glibc2.1 and thats it. Console based graphics interaction basically is dead (for those who dont run linux, its like playing a dos game.... run it from a text console prompt, it switches to a graphic mode) even though alot of projects still try to support it. Same with Xfree 3.... Its kinda of a waste to support it, unless your doing only 2D stuff... But with 3D... X3 is behind alot... it really only has indirect/secondary rendering via Mesa, and not alot of 3d acceleration chipsets are supported by mesa either by mesa itself or xserver drivers.
Linking a web page to another is like making a shortcut in windows (or alias in macos or symbolic links in *nix) to a program or file on your primary storage medium. Long as you dont rip the actual content, your ok and it isnt a Derivative Work. (Unless, of cource, using a url is a derivative work.)