Our own calendars ended Dec 31st 1999... and no alien invasions happened then. Here's to hoping the aliens are now using UNIX systems with a 64bit time_t.
So next time you wipe down that counter with Clorox-guaranteed-to-kill-99.9%-of-all-germs
Ehh... bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics(penicilin).. not antiseptics. A chemical garunteed to kill life(such as sulfuric acid) will pretty much continue killing until bacteria make an extremely drastic adaptation(something that takes millions of years to do).
Some people just don't pay attention or think they see something when they don't. For example, one mistake was listed under LOTR about seeing a car drive by in the scene with Frodo, Sam, and the scarecrow. Maybe I'm blind, but I didn't see any movement at all in the background. Another mistake filed several times was for Harry Potter about a player falling on sand appearing out of nowhere in the Quddich match. Maybe if they had payed attention when the camera showed the entire field they would notice the goals are mounted on sand pits.
Movies do make mistakes, but it seems that the bug watchers also need watchers of their own.
This issue really boils down to what you consider an operating system.
Is it a kernel+toolset? Is it a kernel+ideology? Is it a kernel+honorary_credit_to_some_guy_somebody_happen s_to like?
Frankly, the whole "we owe so much" line is mistaken. Yes, the FSF has done stuff, wonderful stuff... but that is no reason to arbitrarily attach their nname to everything. The linux name is a label, not an advertisement.
The ideology line is also mistaken. Whether you love Open Source or are indifferent... the OS is still the same. It functions the same and performs the same. People are using linux because it's quality work and cost effective... and it's the same operating system. In other words, this is not the FSF's project. People do not write linux programs to support the FSF, they do it to support linux.
The toolkit line, as you may have already guessed, is also mistaken IMO. If you took out everything but command.com in DOS, you'd still have DOS. If you swapped bash with ksh, and other GNU stuff with nonGNU stuff.. you'd have the same operating system. If you are going to name an OS for the programs packaged with it... then why does GNU get exclusivity?
The FSF is certainly welcome to make their own distro and call it GNU/Linux, but running around pasting their names on stuff is almost like McDonalds. McLinux, anyone?
[quote]To continue the analogy, there are so many holes, it looks like a golf course.[/quote]If only Tiger Woods was a hacker. What? Not everybody can pick up a golf club and be an expert?
There is an extremely interesting article in a recent Discover magazine about a man who was blind from the age of 2-3 recieving sight back in one eye thanks to stem cell implants.
While after the operation he physically had 20/20 vision, he actually saw more along the lines of 20/500. The problem wasn't his eye, but his brain. He just hadn't learned how to fully percieve eyesight. One interesting note is that he does not perceive optical illusions. Since he's well past that critical stage of mental development when one is supposed to get it hardwired, he'll have a rough time getting his eyesight anywhere near normal. In fact, several other people who were blind as small children and had similar operations say they would rather be blind now.
At any rate, while this will certainly be a great help to those who lost their sight as adults... it may not be of too much help to those born blind.
Not necessarily. Normally a company would seek to be #1 and all that... but there isn't any artifical barrier to entry for that market. Competition doesn't normally involve KEEPING others from competing.
Indeed, Capitalism is an idealistic state because of the fact that customers are flawed and producers frequently work to destroy competition... the thing that drives capitalism.
Much of corporate america today is highly anti-capitalist. Microsoft, in paticular, dreams of establishing total control over its markets, removing the power of the free market. Capitalism may be an ideal, but it is entirely possible to stay as close as possible with a rulebook and referee to keep the game going(ie. government). It's all very ironic and paradoxical... to sustain capitalism you must move slightly away from it. Microsoft's establishment of its own command microeconomy should have been stopped by the judicial system... but remains tied up in legal proceedings.
There is a difference between saying something only to find it incorrect later than deliberately saying incorrect statements. The latter is known as lying, and is not protected by the first amendment... nor should it ever. Nike knows what is going on, and is trying to cover up the truth.
They aren't leaving out cars with the intention of having them stolen. They are leaving out cars to catch people who DO steal them. Nothing is making them do this except their own criminal intent. There is no entrapment.
Download the newest version enocder (RC3 as of this posting).
Vorbis works best when given _only_ a quality number(-q [0-10]). Giving it a nominal bitrate will put the encoder in bitrate managed mode which puts out lower quality with more space(in fact, that option is depreciated, in RC4 you'll use -q in conjunction with the Max Bitrate setting if you want that).
IMO, -q 4.99 is the option to use. 5 and up enable lossless stereo(below is point stereo) which gives it a good bitrate hike. Most songs done with 4.99 will have an average bitrate of 125-135kbps and will sound as good or better than 224kbps mp3.
Actually, one song I did while first experimenting with vorbis sounded noticably better with -q 4.2 than the 224kbps mp3 I had.
So anyway, the difference _is_ there. Also, as far as higher bitrates go.. RC3 is pretty much 1.0. RC4 and 1.0 will mostly work on lower bitrate quality.
No. With mp3 you have already lost waveform data... and reencoding it in vorbis will only increase the data loss. Now you are left with a file with dataloss from vorbis AND mp3.
The only way to get the quality around the same is if you have a format that's nearly lossless(read: very high bitrate) involved in the transcoding.
You need to stop playing Blizzard games if you want evolution in RTS gaming.
Instead, try out Kohan: Ahriman's Gift. This RTS removes nearly ALL micromanagement and focuses gameplay on strategic buildup and battlefield.
Or even Warlords: Battlecry 2, which handily beats WC3 at its own game... and also removes a lot of micromanagement, and brings along better RPG elements.
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One thing that really irks me about this article is how they overlook Kohan. It practically rewrote the concept of an RTS, eliminating all micromanagement and placing the focus of the game on actual strategy. Everything is about taking account of your situation: there is no perfect build, or a perfect tactic. You need to adapt to the situation at hand. Rushing others involves reducing your economy to ruin, leaving yourself wide open to counterattack.
This is the evolution you wanted, but everybody is too busy ooing over the graphic-update-by-the-popular-company called Warcraft 3 to care.
The moon is currently around 260,000 km at its nearest point in orbit. 3.8cm per year is not a significant distance over a couple years, or even 10,000 years(by which the moon has drifted 380m).
Is it still possible to recover data from a HD that has been smashed many times with a sledgehammer, and has every platter irreparibly beaten out of shape and holes punctured in them?
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Our own calendars ended Dec 31st 1999... and no alien invasions happened then. Here's to hoping the aliens are now using UNIX systems with a 64bit time_t.
So next time you wipe down that counter with Clorox-guaranteed-to-kill-99.9%-of-all-germs
Ehh... bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics(penicilin).. not antiseptics. A chemical garunteed to kill life(such as sulfuric acid) will pretty much continue killing until bacteria make an extremely drastic adaptation(something that takes millions of years to do).
Some people just don't pay attention or think they see something when they don't. For example, one mistake was listed under LOTR about seeing a car drive by in the scene with Frodo, Sam, and the scarecrow. Maybe I'm blind, but I didn't see any movement at all in the background. Another mistake filed several times was for Harry Potter about a player falling on sand appearing out of nowhere in the Quddich match. Maybe if they had payed attention when the camera showed the entire field they would notice the goals are mounted on sand pits.
Movies do make mistakes, but it seems that the bug watchers also need watchers of their own.
RC2 is not a security upgrade. It contains fixes and enhancements for all aspects of the browser, and that security fix is only one of them.
This issue really boils down to what you consider an operating system.
n s_to like?
Is it a kernel+toolset? Is it a kernel+ideology? Is it a kernel+honorary_credit_to_some_guy_somebody_happe
Frankly, the whole "we owe so much" line is mistaken. Yes, the FSF has done stuff, wonderful stuff... but that is no reason to arbitrarily attach their nname to everything. The linux name is a label, not an advertisement.
The ideology line is also mistaken. Whether you love Open Source or are indifferent... the OS is still the same. It functions the same and performs the same. People are using linux because it's quality work and cost effective... and it's the same operating system. In other words, this is not the FSF's project. People do not write linux programs to support the FSF, they do it to support linux.
The toolkit line, as you may have already guessed, is also mistaken IMO. If you took out everything but command.com in DOS, you'd still have DOS. If you swapped bash with ksh, and other GNU stuff with nonGNU stuff.. you'd have the same operating system. If you are going to name an OS for the programs packaged with it... then why does GNU get exclusivity?
The FSF is certainly welcome to make their own distro and call it GNU/Linux, but running around pasting their names on stuff is almost like McDonalds. McLinux, anyone?
Haha, stupid habit.
[quote]To continue the analogy, there are so many holes, it looks like a golf course.[/quote]If only Tiger Woods was a hacker. What? Not everybody can pick up a golf club and be an expert?
There is an extremely interesting article in a recent Discover magazine about a man who was blind from the age of 2-3 recieving sight back in one eye thanks to stem cell implants.
While after the operation he physically had 20/20 vision, he actually saw more along the lines of 20/500. The problem wasn't his eye, but his brain. He just hadn't learned how to fully percieve eyesight. One interesting note is that he does not perceive optical illusions. Since he's well past that critical stage of mental development when one is supposed to get it hardwired, he'll have a rough time getting his eyesight anywhere near normal. In fact, several other people who were blind as small children and had similar operations say they would rather be blind now.
At any rate, while this will certainly be a great help to those who lost their sight as adults... it may not be of too much help to those born blind.
You only need to specify a codec in the command line when you want to use a specific codec. mplayer should autodetect a default codec just fine.
Not necessarily. Normally a company would seek to be #1 and all that... but there isn't any artifical barrier to entry for that market. Competition doesn't normally involve KEEPING others from competing.
Indeed, Capitalism is an idealistic state because of the fact that customers are flawed and producers frequently work to destroy competition... the thing that drives capitalism.
Much of corporate america today is highly anti-capitalist. Microsoft, in paticular, dreams of establishing total control over its markets, removing the power of the free market. Capitalism may be an ideal, but it is entirely possible to stay as close as possible with a rulebook and referee to keep the game going(ie. government). It's all very ironic and paradoxical... to sustain capitalism you must move slightly away from it. Microsoft's establishment of its own command microeconomy should have been stopped by the judicial system... but remains tied up in legal proceedings.
I'd like to stamp a big WHATEVER on your post.
First of all, E is not dead. The E devs are very busy preparing DR17 of Enlightenment.
Second, E DR16 still works wonderfully for me and it will take a LOT of improvement on Sawfish's part for me to switch over... and I'm no dev myself.
There is a difference between saying something only to find it incorrect later than deliberately saying incorrect statements. The latter is known as lying, and is not protected by the first amendment... nor should it ever. Nike knows what is going on, and is trying to cover up the truth.
The standards document for Vorbis is scheduled to come out with the 1.0 release. It's just not ready now.
Individual fingerprints may not be unique, but the permutation of the 10 on your hands certainly are.
They aren't leaving out cars with the intention of having them stolen. They are leaving out cars to catch people who DO steal them. Nothing is making them do this except their own criminal intent. There is no entrapment.
Download the newest version enocder (RC3 as of this posting).
Vorbis works best when given _only_ a quality number(-q [0-10]). Giving it a nominal bitrate will put the encoder in bitrate managed mode which puts out lower quality with more space(in fact, that option is depreciated, in RC4 you'll use -q in conjunction with the Max Bitrate setting if you want that).
IMO, -q 4.99 is the option to use. 5 and up enable lossless stereo(below is point stereo) which gives it a good bitrate hike. Most songs done with 4.99 will have an average bitrate of 125-135kbps and will sound as good or better than 224kbps mp3.
Actually, one song I did while first experimenting with vorbis sounded noticably better with -q 4.2 than the 224kbps mp3 I had.
So anyway, the difference _is_ there. Also, as far as higher bitrates go.. RC3 is pretty much 1.0. RC4 and 1.0 will mostly work on lower bitrate quality.
No. With mp3 you have already lost waveform data... and reencoding it in vorbis will only increase the data loss. Now you are left with a file with dataloss from vorbis AND mp3.
The only way to get the quality around the same is if you have a format that's nearly lossless(read: very high bitrate) involved in the transcoding.
Transcoding = A Bad Thing(TM).
If you want to use ogg, grab a CD of your own and rip/encode it. Give it -q 4.99 (not 5) and _no_ bitrate. Enjoy the quality.
Only half.
Stop reading MozillaQuest and actually USE the damn thing.
You need to stop playing Blizzard games if you want evolution in RTS gaming.
Instead, try out Kohan: Ahriman's Gift. This RTS removes nearly ALL micromanagement and focuses gameplay on strategic buildup and battlefield.
Or even Warlords: Battlecry 2, which handily beats WC3 at its own game... and also removes a lot of micromanagement, and brings along better RPG elements.
One thing that really irks me about this article is how they overlook Kohan. It practically rewrote the concept of an RTS, eliminating all micromanagement and placing the focus of the game on actual strategy. Everything is about taking account of your situation: there is no perfect build, or a perfect tactic. You need to adapt to the situation at hand. Rushing others involves reducing your economy to ruin, leaving yourself wide open to counterattack.
This is the evolution you wanted, but everybody is too busy ooing over the graphic-update-by-the-popular-company called Warcraft 3 to care.
Think about what you are saying.
The moon is currently around 260,000 km at its nearest point in orbit. 3.8cm per year is not a significant distance over a couple years, or even 10,000 years(by which the moon has drifted 380m).
Is it still possible to recover data from a HD that has been smashed many times with a sledgehammer, and has every platter irreparibly beaten out of shape and holes punctured in them?
Without any "normal" deletion, of course.