This is my new proposal to incorporate all the factors of a microprocessor into its product name, thus giving a more accurate and precise measure of its speed.
Multiply all the frequencies together you can think of, i.e. 133mhz ram * 2x(ddr) * 6x clock multiplier * 266mhz FSB = Athlon 371868. If more marketing is desired, use pretend scientific notation. 37186800000000 * 10^(-8).
They'd only have to copyright twenty tones, not 1 million or whatever, since each tone has two tones making it up, and each digit is based on those combinations. Although there are also the pound, star, and a-d tones as well (although the a-d are really only used on PBX's) but those are irrelevant.
I like OpenOffice much better than StarOffice 5 (so far) because it can use my X fonts and it's pretty (anti-aliased). But I haven't used it enough to know if it's more stable than StarOffice 5 yet. Perhaps others can offer some knowledge. Also what's the deal with the inbuilt web browser? Did the developers write a new one (since the original one was stripped out with the release of the source to staroffice)?
It sucked. Took about two minutes to load (search for all the songs and store them in memory) a CD full of mpeg tracks. If you turned it off, you had to wait all over again.
The volume, when turned up all the way, was not load enough. It did not display filenames or anything; everything was a song number inside a directory number.
The whole interface seemed flaky. You couldn't skip forward/backward in mp3's; if you paused mp3's sometimes the time counter continued to advance. It put 2 second gaps between songs automatically.
The only things good about it were that it took cd-rewritable and had great skip protection.
These experiences make me quite skeptical about this new version...although you can get those half size cd's cheaply at cdrexpress.com, as well as black cd's (like the playstation game).
No kididing. Anything you can do with switch statement you can do with if...elses. Even better, if...elses have way more flexibility (you can do strings, floats, objects, not just int/char). So that feature is not so important.
Also, I like sizeof() since it's a feature of the language, not a class's function, so it shouldn't pretend to be a member function.
MP3 wasn't really marketed, nor does it have a maketer-designed name, yet it has caught on tremendously. I doubt the name "Ogg Vorbis" is an issue as far as having the format catch on.
In most cases, a 60kbps OGG file sounds as good as an 128k mp3. An 80k OGG is as good as 160k mp3 and half the size.
If you are serving audio streams, you can actually strip away parts of the files to make lower bitrate streams--without re-coding. (wow!) MP3 can't.
You can have more than 2 audio channels. MP3 can't.
The comment fields are well defined and you can have whatever attributes you want, with strings as long as necessary. ID3 for mp3s is a hack; string lengths are limited and you can't add easily add your own fields.
If you have a portable player, you would appreciate the smaller size with high quality.
In the future, you can select how you want stereo coupling done (not in this release). (Mp3 can.)
If you make computer games, you have a high quality free way of adding a lot of music to your games. (possibly patents for mp3)
You can do 44.1khz and 48 khz audio.
You can concatenate multiple streams together to make one file, and it will play correctly. You can also cut portions out and paste them together without re-encoding.
Ogg's are exactly the same length as the original WAVs--something MP3 lacks--so that when you make recordings of live shows, gaps don't appear in you r audio.
The encoder sounds good by default, so music traded on file sharing systems sounds good (unlike all those terrible 128k mp3s encoded by anything that isn't LAME).
For every troll who says "slashdot isn't freshmeat," there are a hundred people who silently are glad to promptly know that the software they use has been improved and fixed.
Like me.
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heheh funny story.
someone should make a "sig archive" on the web, with people's signatures and whose they are.
Also the encoder is about 1.7 times faster than LAME 3.88beta+mmx and 3 times faster than LAME 3.70 stable.
But most importantly, the encoder is variable bit rate by default, which means that people will actually put good sounding songs on their web pages and file sharing services, instead of the horrible 128kb fixed rate mp3s.
I asked a friend once why he didn't encode with variable bit rate since the files are (1) smaller, and (2) sound better. He said that he "didn't like seeing the numbers in WinAmp jumping around." And he was serious.
funny. although i don't think there is much value in controlling the underlying packet layer--it would be like Micro-Channel Architecture all over again. i think microsoft would be more concerned with content and.net.
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This is my new proposal to incorporate all the factors of a microprocessor into its product name, thus giving a more accurate and precise measure of its speed.
Multiply all the frequencies together you can think of, i.e. 133mhz ram * 2x(ddr) * 6x clock multiplier * 266mhz FSB = Athlon 371868. If more marketing is desired, use pretend scientific notation. 37186800000000 * 10^(-8).
They'd only have to copyright twenty tones, not 1 million or whatever, since each tone has two tones making it up, and each digit is based on those combinations. Although there are also the pound, star, and a-d tones as well (although the a-d are really only used on PBX's) but those are irrelevant.
Just like how they should feel guilty for inventing airplanes.
I don't browse webshites.
try it on a modem it seems way faster
My voodoo 4 has had full screen anti-aliasing since, like, six months ago.
OpenOffice is the Mozilla of StarOffice 6.
I like OpenOffice much better than StarOffice 5 (so far) because it can use my X fonts and it's pretty (anti-aliased). But I haven't used it enough to know if it's more stable than StarOffice 5 yet. Perhaps others can offer some knowledge. Also what's the deal with the inbuilt web browser? Did the developers write a new one (since the original one was stripped out with the release of the source to staroffice)?
That's funny and sad at the same time.
You'll have to watch out for the background image-tagged workstations. :)
Wether or not it cans, it is obvious that cmdrtaco is a pervert. Think Knoqueror: his preferred browser.
*Hint for the unobservant: wether is from this article.
I think you mean this.
It sucked. Took about two minutes to load (search for all the songs and store them in memory) a CD full of mpeg tracks. If you turned it off, you had to wait all over again.
The volume, when turned up all the way, was not load enough. It did not display filenames or anything; everything was a song number inside a directory number.
The whole interface seemed flaky. You couldn't skip forward/backward in mp3's; if you paused mp3's sometimes the time counter continued to advance. It put 2 second gaps between songs automatically.
The only things good about it were that it took cd-rewritable and had great skip protection.
These experiences make me quite skeptical about this new version...although you can get those half size cd's cheaply at cdrexpress.com, as well as black cd's (like the playstation game).
No kididing. Anything you can do with switch statement you can do with if...elses. Even better, if...elses have way more flexibility (you can do strings, floats, objects, not just int/char). So that feature is not so important.
Also, I like sizeof() since it's a feature of the language, not a class's function, so it shouldn't pretend to be a member function.
MP3 wasn't really marketed, nor does it have a maketer-designed name, yet it has caught on tremendously. I doubt the name "Ogg Vorbis" is an issue as far as having the format catch on.
In most cases, a 60kbps OGG file sounds as good as an 128k mp3. An 80k OGG is as good as 160k mp3 and half the size.
If you are serving audio streams, you can actually strip away parts of the files to make lower bitrate streams--without re-coding. (wow!) MP3 can't.
You can have more than 2 audio channels. MP3 can't.
The comment fields are well defined and you can have whatever attributes you want, with strings as long as necessary. ID3 for mp3s is a hack; string lengths are limited and you can't add easily add your own fields.
If you have a portable player, you would appreciate the smaller size with high quality.
In the future, you can select how you want stereo coupling done (not in this release). (Mp3 can.)
If you make computer games, you have a high quality free way of adding a lot of music to your games. (possibly patents for mp3)
You can do 44.1khz and 48 khz audio.
You can concatenate multiple streams together to make one file, and it will play correctly. You can also cut portions out and paste them together without re-encoding.
Ogg's are exactly the same length as the original WAVs--something MP3 lacks--so that when you make recordings of live shows, gaps don't appear in you r audio.
The encoder sounds good by default, so music traded on file sharing systems sounds good (unlike all those terrible 128k mp3s encoded by anything that isn't LAME).
I'm afraid she's not on the guestlist.
For every troll who says "slashdot isn't freshmeat," there are a hundred people who silently are glad to promptly know that the software they use has been improved and fixed.
Like me.
heheh funny story.
someone should make a "sig archive" on the web, with people's signatures and whose they are.
"New language CURL ditches all existing web work for a proprietary, windows-only format."
Even shockwave is more cross-platform.
I doubt that anyone will implement this in websites. It's taken five years to get a decent implementation of CSS1, and that's still not used widely.
Also the encoder is about 1.7 times faster than LAME 3.88beta+mmx and 3 times faster than LAME 3.70 stable.
But most importantly, the encoder is variable bit rate by default, which means that people will actually put good sounding songs on their web pages and file sharing services, instead of the horrible 128kb fixed rate mp3s.
I asked a friend once why he didn't encode with variable bit rate since the files are (1) smaller, and (2) sound better. He said that he "didn't like seeing the numbers in WinAmp jumping around." And he was serious.
Apparently these interviews are dynamically generated.
I want to know exactly how people know that "most of the instability I've had with windows was due to bad 3-rd party drivers."
--or--
"Most of the instability I've had with windows was due to windows."
funny. although i don't think there is much value in controlling the underlying packet layer--it would be like Micro-Channel Architecture all over again. i think microsoft would be more concerned with content and .net.
But would it use raw sockets?
Do we spend more money on Free Software or $Expensive$ Software?
Gee, let me get my calculator...