So when do we get some Realplayer video & audio codecs? I'd love to save a.rm audio stream (say the BBC "Listen again" streams) as an mp3 for listening on the move, and I'd love to watch some real videos in full screen without changing to 640*480 and carefully moving the window
The fact xine *has* a gui? A decent one. The fact you can go from windowed to full screen and software scaling without adding arguments at runtime? The fact that it just works?
Even on a modest P3-600 with an 8 year old sound card (yup, an ISA one), a voodoo 3 and 256mb ram I never have a problem with xine, except 1 SG1 episode, which was corrupted. Xine Just Works (tm). Just like OSX "Just Works", and vi "Just Works". MPlayer drops frames, has a less intuitive interface, and doesnt do anything xine doesnt do (aside from the odd corrupt file).
and a way to make his windshield the TV/monitor screen
Seriously though, how about a HUD?
You can get ticketed for doing 31 in a 30, so instead of looking for kids in teh road, you keep your eyes glued to the speedo. Imagine speed, rpm, rear view, gps, altimeter, roll/pitch/yaw, targeting sensors, web browser, irc and pr0n all while keeping a look out!
1) I'm a Brit. That means with my parents throwing in $400 a month, and working 40 hours a week in vacations, I'll only owe $18000 when I graduate. 2) I graduate in July 3) I'm looking for jobs right now 4) Job prospects in the computing field, for students and graduates, in the UK, are minimal to non-existant 5) Average UK graduate wage is $33k 6) Average UK wage is £36k 7) Above $30k gross earnings, we get taxed at 32%, with an additional 17.5% tax on everything (aside from food) we buy (effectively a 50% tak rate) 8) Above $50k gross earnings, we get taxed at 40%, with an additional 17.5% tax on everything we buy (effectivly a 60% tax rate) 9) The current government wants 50% of kids to go to university 10) Current government propaganda states that the average graduate earns $15,000 a year more then non-graduates ($8,000 paid straight back in taxes). Thats based on figures before the whole "cram everyone into increasingly underfunded universities" policy 11) Almost every computing job outside graduate training schemes requires 1, 2 or more years full time commercial experience. About half of them would like a degree, and a third of them say a degree is essential. 12) We can only take out $5000 a year loans (to cover rent + food), and some banks lend upto $4000 over the 3 year degree. 13) Many UK computer courses suck, teaching you 20 year old crap no companies have ever used (or certainly dont now).
Unless you have, or can afford to take, at least 1 years work experience (which is usually unpaid, as you have no experience *or* qualifications, and demand is very high), chances of finding a job better then flipping burgers is minimal. If you have contacts (real contacts, not people on IRC that claim to run a company in Vermont), you probably wont find one in the computing field. Not in the UK anyway.
Personally, I'm off to greece for the summer - my parents emmigrated from this shithole last year, and things are just getting worse. Thanks Tony!
My degree may help later in life, but it sure as hell doesnt help getting your foot in the door. If you got experience in the boom, then uni's probably worth it. Tighten the belt buckle, stop buying iPods and tivos, maybe sell your DVD collection, and it's probably a good thing. I had a friend that went straight to work at 18, for a year, then chose a local uni while still working there. As luck would have it, that uni is getting better and better (
Not neccersarilly. Some films are 2.35:1, so you get black bars on a widescreen TV (unless you distort the picture). Some old films and TV shows (futurama!) are 4:3, so you get black bars on L + R.
In the UK, old fashioned analog broadcasts are 14:9, a half way house. DTT is 16:9, and watching 24 in true widescreen is amazing.
I believe the question was "Descibe a cration theory".
I wrote
"In the begining, the earth was without form, and void but the sun shone upon the sleeping Earth and deep inside the brittle crust massive forces waited to be unleashed...."
I'd love to jump on the space elevator bandwaggon. In fact I do, I preach it to everyone that will listen and people that dont, every chance I get.
I usually use the $15bn over 10 years. Everyone agrees, do it. Compare it to U.S. Social secuirty payments of $3,500bn over 10 years, of defence of $4tn.
Hell, compare it to shuttle launches of $20bn over 10 years.
It is being funded, NASA gave Highlift $600m, and other investors are coming on board. It will take time, but I think that private enterprise will succeed. It may be 30 years, not 10, but it will happen.
It all rests on carbon nanotubes though. They still arent anywhere near strong enough, even at microscopic scale. We need to build suspension bridges out of them first.
Nasa needs a mission, but one to awe the world. A manned moon base by 2020 or something.
Thats a lot of money, but when you consider that an Ipod might store upto 4,000 dongs, you'll be owing the RIAA $600 million dollars if you fill it up. After that, the $200 doesnt seem too bad
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"We surveyed 100 employees on whether they want to keep their job"
Not until its available arround the world on every platform
hence why xine is supierior to mplayer
If we take money out of the picture
If we assume that I'll get an illegal copy....
I dont like widgets, but its nice when they are there. Of course, "f" would be more intuitive then "ctrl-f".
As the other guy said, does that cover non-savable streams? However I was wondering about native support
So when do we get some Realplayer video & audio codecs? I'd love to save a .rm audio stream (say the BBC "Listen again" streams) as an mp3 for listening on the move, and I'd love to watch some real videos in full screen without changing to 640*480 and carefully moving the window
The fact xine *has* a gui? A decent one. The fact you can go from windowed to full screen and software scaling without adding arguments at runtime? The fact that it just works?
Even on a modest P3-600 with an 8 year old sound card (yup, an ISA one), a voodoo 3 and 256mb ram I never have a problem with xine, except 1 SG1 episode, which was corrupted. Xine Just Works (tm). Just like OSX "Just Works", and vi "Just Works". MPlayer drops frames, has a less intuitive interface, and doesnt do anything xine doesnt do (aside from the odd corrupt file).
YMMV etc.
and a way to make his windshield the TV/monitor screen
Seriously though, how about a HUD?
You can get ticketed for doing 31 in a 30, so instead of looking for kids in teh road, you keep your eyes glued to the speedo. Imagine speed, rpm, rear view, gps, altimeter, roll/pitch/yaw, targeting sensors, web browser, irc and pr0n all while keeping a look out!
Thats a lot of log file
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1) I'm a Brit. That means with my parents throwing in $400 a month, and working 40 hours a week in vacations, I'll only owe $18000 when I graduate.
2) I graduate in July
3) I'm looking for jobs right now
4) Job prospects in the computing field, for students and graduates, in the UK, are minimal to non-existant
5) Average UK graduate wage is $33k
6) Average UK wage is £36k
7) Above $30k gross earnings, we get taxed at 32%, with an additional 17.5% tax on everything (aside from food) we buy (effectively a 50% tak rate)
8) Above $50k gross earnings, we get taxed at 40%, with an additional 17.5% tax on everything we buy (effectivly a 60% tax rate)
9) The current government wants 50% of kids to go to university
10) Current government propaganda states that the average graduate earns $15,000 a year more then non-graduates ($8,000 paid straight back in taxes). Thats based on figures before the whole "cram everyone into increasingly underfunded universities" policy
11) Almost every computing job outside graduate training schemes requires 1, 2 or more years full time commercial experience. About half of them would like a degree, and a third of them say a degree is essential.
12) We can only take out $5000 a year loans (to cover rent + food), and some banks lend upto $4000 over the 3 year degree.
13) Many UK computer courses suck, teaching you 20 year old crap no companies have ever used (or certainly dont now).
Unless you have, or can afford to take, at least 1 years work experience (which is usually unpaid, as you have no experience *or* qualifications, and demand is very high), chances of finding a job better then flipping burgers is minimal. If you have contacts (real contacts, not people on IRC that claim to run a company in Vermont), you probably wont find one in the computing field. Not in the UK anyway.
Personally, I'm off to greece for the summer - my parents emmigrated from this shithole last year, and things are just getting worse. Thanks Tony!
My degree may help later in life, but it sure as hell doesnt help getting your foot in the door. If you got experience in the boom, then uni's probably worth it. Tighten the belt buckle, stop buying iPods and tivos, maybe sell your DVD collection, and it's probably a good thing. I had a friend that went straight to work at 18, for a year, then chose a local uni while still working there. As luck would have it, that uni is getting better and better (
Slashdotters have no exampls of prior art
Not neccersarilly. Some films are 2.35:1, so you get black bars on a widescreen TV (unless you distort the picture). Some old films and TV shows (futurama!) are 4:3, so you get black bars on L + R.
In the UK, old fashioned analog broadcasts are 14:9, a half way house. DTT is 16:9, and watching 24 in true widescreen is amazing.
keeping them from phasing out of existance..
/dev/null
A whole new meaning to
Hilary Rosens writing them right now...
Civ, for letting me spectaculary fail an RE exam
I believe the question was "Descibe a cration theory".
I wrote
"In the begining, the earth was without form, and void
but the sun shone upon the sleeping Earth
and deep inside the brittle crust
massive forces waited to be unleashed...."
Wow, after reading that post I want to go out and make the world a better place!
But instead I'll write this lame reply
See, I had that 10 years ago with the original. The second was good too, but the third the effect, while still there and amazing, had worn off.
I'd love to jump on the space elevator bandwaggon. In fact I do, I preach it to everyone that will listen and people that dont, every chance I get.
I usually use the $15bn over 10 years. Everyone agrees, do it. Compare it to U.S. Social secuirty payments of $3,500bn over 10 years, of defence of $4tn.
Hell, compare it to shuttle launches of $20bn over 10 years.
It is being funded, NASA gave Highlift $600m, and other investors are coming on board. It will take time, but I think that private enterprise will succeed. It may be 30 years, not 10, but it will happen.
It all rests on carbon nanotubes though. They still arent anywhere near strong enough, even at microscopic scale. We need to build suspension bridges out of them first.
Nasa needs a mission, but one to awe the world. A manned moon base by 2020 or something.
Raise your hand if you'd go into space for $30k.
autopr0n?
Just buy her a DVD player, they are arround $50 now
*sigh*
Thats a lot of money, but when you consider that an Ipod might store upto 4,000 dongs, you'll be owing the RIAA $600 million dollars if you fill it up. After that, the $200 doesnt seem too bad
No, the other one - "*pinky* one hundered billion dollars!". I wonder who can afford that