They have been advertising the switchover for 2 years now (at least on PBS, have the major nets:ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX: been lax?)... I would think that most people would have bought a bloody converter by now and if they haven't, delaying it won't help anything. There is going to be a rush no matter what because people are lazy.
Marketing? Yea, I can see not using 1.0 but in that case it only becomes part of the name and is not reflective of the actual software version, like how no matter how you classify windows there is still a 5.x.xxxx version number in the About window.
Development? It only makes sense to start at 1.0.
Personally, I agree with the other commenters. Don't attach a version number to the name at all. If your QA dept has done its job properly, then there shouldn't be enough bugs to illicit a "man v1.0 was crap," response anyway. Sometimes making your potential clients a part of beta testing is a good idea...
i don't think driving slower than the limit will really save you fuel, however what i feel will save you fuel is accelerating slower. most gas is burned when joe jackass needs to be at the limit (and beyond) in 3 seconds or less at takeoff. this could account for the illusion that people are driving 'slower.'
i've modified my habits to take it a bit easier on the accelerator. also because after 3-4 speeding tickets, you tend to want to avoid them. sometimes an impatient person will try to zip around me because i'm not accelerating fast enough for them.
You can get a decent 720p set for $800-$1000 so I don't really believe that cost is an issue. Nearly everyone I know has an HD set, yet interestingly enough, none of them are watching HD sources. Even my parents are considering getting an HD set because of the US Analog switchoff. (They live across the river from Detroit, so they get plenty of OTA HD signals, I'm jealous.)
My reasoning for not buying into Blu-Ray is because it is so bloody expensive! I'm sure players will come down in price and a good Blu-Ray player will be affordable. I'm waiting until then.
When it comes down to it, DVD is still good enough. I love using my xbox w/xbmc to upscale a DVD to 720p. Looks decent. Does it rival HD? Hell no! I surely notice an improvement when I am watching an HD source, but is it worth $600? Not really. At some point you have to start caring about the content more than the visual wow factor. Otherwise, you have bad taste in movies.;)
You wrote: "Cons: --Requires "quality==3.5" before it even matches the quality of an decent MP3 codec at 128kbps. At q=3.5 it got about 117kbps average... "
Use what you want, it doesn't matter. But please don't tell me that saving space, even a small amount, is a Con.
Vorbis at 128kbps is comparable to MP3 at 160 or 192kbps. That is more significant savings than you realize. Consider that an average CD encoded at 128 is approx 68 megs. The same cd at 192 is nearly 100 megs or over!
Classical is hard for mp3 to handle at lower bitrates like 128. Go encode some classical music at 96kbps in vorbis, let me know if you like the vorbis@96kbps or the mp3@128kbps.
RC1... ahh, what a wonderful introduction. i fell in love with vorbis, but it failed to become my main codec, as i realised it had lots of potential, but it was not quite up to snuff yet.
RC2... nice. i encoded my entire skinny puppy collection at 160 (to be safe, although 128 sounded good too)
RC3... great! as a trial i encoded a few songs (star wars: a new hope (special edition disc one) - 09 - burning homestead; sloan (live 4 nights at the palais royale) - g turns to d; st germain - so flute) at 96kbps (oops, i used the -b option!) and i am happy to report it sounds great! i also found that -q2 is nearly equivalent to 96kbps, -q3 ~ 112 and -q4 ~ 128.
btw, q10 ~ 400kbps. for now i will probably start encoding all my stuff at -q4 (just to be safe) i'm glad that i can once again start encoding my materials at 128kbps!
no doubt when 1.0 is finally released, i will be able to safely choose 96 or even 64 kbps for my music.
RC3 will mostly likely become my favourite music codec. until 1.0 is released:P
congratulations, developers! vorbis sounds good (and gets significantly better with every release!) don't listen to those people who tell you you're too late. who cares? vorbis may or may not become a standard. i hope it does, but if not you will always have a small group of loyal vorbis fans:)
For my listening test I encoded Star Wars: A New Hope - Burning Homestead (cd1, track9) at 96kbps (I used the -b option instead of -q) and compared it with the source wave. Overall I was very pleased with the resulting quality of the 96 (average = 95kbps) file.
I listened with Altec Lansing ACS33 speakers and a SoundBlaster PCI64.
uhmmm... these people completely miss the point of christmas. this is really sad.
expensive gifts, too many gifts... we might as well have a pre-gift exchange service. then there is no reason why i shouldn't be happy on christmas, right?
i can see the gift exchange email now...
"here, i put forth a small effort and picked out a gift for you. this is what it is. if you don't like it, exchange it on the gift exchange. oh hell, i may as well not bother. go pick out your own damn gift and let me know when you've got it, okay? you're really not worth my time and effort. love you, dave."
That's right. This article is nothing more than garbage. OK. There is a security flaw. Microsoft has made a fix for it and is urging people to install it. But where is the freakin' link?! Why write an article about a security flaw, tell people there's a fix and not bother to tell them where to get it? And where are the details? It says the bug is with Universal Plug and Play. Great. So what is the bug? Too vague, too vague, too vague.
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get real. like this game teaches you 'real hacking.' it is nothing more than a fun little game. its been out for a while, and is pretty popular. stop the acid, your paranoia level is too high.
I can tell that arguing with you is going to be pointless and stupid, but I can't help myself.
RAPE AND OFFICE PARTIES ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SITUATIONS!
Sure, I can understand the analogy, but lets be real. A bit of alcohol in your face is nowhere near the same as being raped.
The entire point of the (non-serious) comment was that he didn't have to grin and bear it. He could have done something about it.
You see, you shouldn't avoid everything just because you had a bad experience once. The first time I got drunk and threw up. That was a bad experience, but did I stop drinking? No. I just am more careful when I drink. I got into a car accident once. Did I stop driving? No. I'm a more cautious driver now. Bad experiences happen. Deal with them and move on, but don't let them hold you back.
If you don't like parties because you had a bad experience at one, that's just sad. Now, to not like parties because you just don't like parties, that's another story altogether, but don't use a crummy, singular experience as an excuse.
Maybe that person who was raped should never go outside again. That would certainly reduce her/his chances of being raped again, now wouldn't it?
no pressure
good music (monkeyradio!)
alcohol
good food
good lighting
the guests will figure out the rest.
the truly introverted will stay home.
the midly introverted will come.
the shy will come out of their shells.
the extroverts will have a good time.
will the introverts and extroverts mix?
maybe. maybe not. it's not your problem. leave some things to chance.
if it's a more cozy (aka, not office) environment, have a couple games off to the side so that they are available if a group of people decides they want to play one. but don't make them mandatory.. remember, no pressure.
everybody's happy, party's a success.
and to the guy who had to smile while the vice-pres threw a glass of beer in his face... you didn't have to take that. you could have thrown one back in his face. he's plastered. he won't remember:)
I've tried ripping some old skinny puppy cds, and some of them refuse to rip... can't do it at all. I don't think it's copy-protection at all. I think it's a case of low-quality mastering/printing. There are no scratches on them, they just never sync up properly.
Take enya for instance, if the cd was re-mastered and re-issued, chances are the re-issue is of higher quality pressing than the first.
Actually, when I was in college our program required us to buy preconfigured laptops from the college. I think their policy has changed now. Of course, these were windows-based systems. Linux was easily installable on them with the exception of the network adapter. But a suitable driver was found and to be honest, only the hardcore actually installed Linux on them.
The network at school was also NT-based, and the servers needed rebooting constantly as the network could not handle the load of having 400+ students with laptops accessing the internet simultaneously. They really should have used Linux as their servers, but welcome to the real world.:)
what i hope to see happen is a whole bunch of "end users" getting pissed off that they can't play these new copy-protected cds in their high-end cd players, car cd decks, etc and SUE (class action suit, anyone?) the riaa for what they are doing. if that happens, this becomes a REAL fair-use case and bam! no more cd copy protection.
but i live in a world full of ideals and "what-should-be" so i am most likely wrong.
but seriously i feel that this is really will bring about a 'pure' fair-use case that cannot be disputed.
What they should do is write a napster client that allows you to search for the 'unencoded' name, and encode it before it sends the request to the napster server. Then when the song is found, it should take the encoded file and convert it's name back to the unencoded form.
I'm sure a million people have thought and suggested this, so what's one more post?:)
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They have been advertising the switchover for 2 years now (at least on PBS, have the major nets :ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX: been lax?) ... I would think that most people would have bought a bloody converter by now and if they haven't, delaying it won't help anything. There is going to be a rush no matter what because people are lazy.
And to boot, in Canada the sharing of such information would be completely illegal.
If I had not supplied BestBuy with my address, they would never be able to obtain it from Visa or my bank.
To me the question is who is driving?
Marketing? Yea, I can see not using 1.0 but in that case it only becomes part of the name and is not reflective of the actual software version, like how no matter how you classify windows there is still a 5.x.xxxx version number in the About window.
Development? It only makes sense to start at 1.0.
Personally, I agree with the other commenters. Don't attach a version number to the name at all. If your QA dept has done its job properly, then there shouldn't be enough bugs to illicit a "man v1.0 was crap," response anyway. Sometimes making your potential clients a part of beta testing is a good idea...
i don't think driving slower than the limit will really save you fuel, however what i feel will save you fuel is accelerating slower. most gas is burned when joe jackass needs to be at the limit (and beyond) in 3 seconds or less at takeoff. this could account for the illusion that people are driving 'slower.'
i've modified my habits to take it a bit easier on the accelerator. also because after 3-4 speeding tickets, you tend to want to avoid them. sometimes an impatient person will try to zip around me because i'm not accelerating fast enough for them.
From my own personal experience, I love HD.
You can get a decent 720p set for $800-$1000 so I don't really believe that cost is an issue. Nearly everyone I know has an HD set, yet interestingly enough, none of them are watching HD sources. Even my parents are considering getting an HD set because of the US Analog switchoff. (They live across the river from Detroit, so they get plenty of OTA HD signals, I'm jealous.)
My reasoning for not buying into Blu-Ray is because it is so bloody expensive! I'm sure players will come down in price and a good Blu-Ray player will be affordable. I'm waiting until then.
When it comes down to it, DVD is still good enough. I love using my xbox w/xbmc to upscale a DVD to 720p. Looks decent. Does it rival HD? Hell no! I surely notice an improvement when I am watching an HD source, but is it worth $600? Not really. At some point you have to start caring about the content more than the visual wow factor. Otherwise, you have bad taste in movies. ;)
You wrote: "Cons: --Requires "quality==3.5" before it even matches the quality of an decent MP3 codec at 128kbps. At q=3.5 it got about 117kbps average... "
Use what you want, it doesn't matter. But please don't tell me that saving space, even a small amount, is a Con.
Vorbis at 128kbps is comparable to MP3 at 160 or 192kbps. That is more significant savings than you realize. Consider that an average CD encoded at 128 is approx 68 megs. The same cd at 192 is nearly 100 megs or over!
Classical is hard for mp3 to handle at lower bitrates like 128. Go encode some classical music at 96kbps in vorbis, let me know if you like the vorbis@96kbps or the mp3@128kbps.
RC1... ahh, what a wonderful introduction. i fell in love with vorbis, but it failed to become my main codec, as i realised it had lots of potential, but it was not quite up to snuff yet.
:P
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RC2... nice. i encoded my entire skinny puppy collection at 160 (to be safe, although 128 sounded good too)
RC3... great! as a trial i encoded a few songs (star wars: a new hope (special edition disc one) - 09 - burning homestead; sloan (live 4 nights at the palais royale) - g turns to d; st germain - so flute) at 96kbps (oops, i used the -b option!) and i am happy to report it sounds great! i also found that -q2 is nearly equivalent to 96kbps, -q3 ~ 112 and -q4 ~ 128.
btw, q10 ~ 400kbps. for now i will probably start encoding all my stuff at -q4 (just to be safe) i'm glad that i can once again start encoding my materials at 128kbps!
no doubt when 1.0 is finally released, i will be able to safely choose 96 or even 64 kbps for my music.
RC3 will mostly likely become my favourite music codec. until 1.0 is released
congratulations, developers! vorbis sounds good (and gets significantly better with every release!) don't listen to those people who tell you you're too late. who cares? vorbis may or may not become a standard. i hope it does, but if not you will always have a small group of loyal vorbis fans
Will any of you ever admit that occasionally you will find an mp3 encoded at 128kbps that DOES sound like the original?
I, like you, can usually tell the bitrate of a song from listening to it, but occasionally one does creep up that surprises me.
I hate how everyone tries to make things sound so cut and dry.
For my listening test I encoded Star Wars: A New Hope - Burning Homestead (cd1, track9) at 96kbps (I used the -b option instead of -q) and compared it with the source wave. Overall I was very pleased with the resulting quality of the 96 (average = 95kbps) file.
I listened with Altec Lansing ACS33 speakers and a SoundBlaster PCI64.
uhmmm... these people completely miss the point of christmas. this is really sad.
expensive gifts, too many gifts... we might as well have a pre-gift exchange service. then there is no reason why i shouldn't be happy on christmas, right?
i can see the gift exchange email now...
"here, i put forth a small effort and picked out a gift for you. this is what it is. if you don't like it, exchange it on the gift exchange. oh hell, i may as well not bother. go pick out your own damn gift and let me know when you've got it, okay? you're really not worth my time and effort. love you, dave."
That's right. This article is nothing more than garbage. OK. There is a security flaw. Microsoft has made a fix for it and is urging people to install it. But where is the freakin' link?! Why write an article about a security flaw, tell people there's a fix and not bother to tell them where to get it? And where are the details? It says the bug is with Universal Plug and Play. Great. So what is the bug? Too vague, too vague, too vague.
bring on the QuakeOS! :)
get real. like this game teaches you 'real hacking.' it is nothing more than a fun little game. its been out for a while, and is pretty popular. stop the acid, your paranoia level is too high.
I can tell that arguing with you is going to be pointless and stupid, but I can't help myself.
RAPE AND OFFICE PARTIES ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SITUATIONS!
Sure, I can understand the analogy, but lets be real. A bit of alcohol in your face is nowhere near the same as being raped.
The entire point of the (non-serious) comment was that he didn't have to grin and bear it. He could have done something about it.
You see, you shouldn't avoid everything just because you had a bad experience once. The first time I got drunk and threw up. That was a bad experience, but did I stop drinking? No. I just am more careful when I drink. I got into a car accident once. Did I stop driving? No. I'm a more cautious driver now. Bad experiences happen. Deal with them and move on, but don't let them hold you back.
If you don't like parties because you had a bad experience at one, that's just sad. Now, to not like parties because you just don't like parties, that's another story altogether, but don't use a crummy, singular experience as an excuse.
Maybe that person who was raped should never go outside again. That would certainly reduce her/his chances of being raped again, now wouldn't it?
very very simple: (in order of importance)
:)
no pressure
good music (monkeyradio!)
alcohol
good food
good lighting
the guests will figure out the rest.
the truly introverted will stay home.
the midly introverted will come.
the shy will come out of their shells.
the extroverts will have a good time.
will the introverts and extroverts mix?
maybe. maybe not. it's not your problem. leave some things to chance.
if it's a more cozy (aka, not office) environment, have a couple games off to the side so that they are available if a group of people decides they want to play one. but don't make them mandatory.. remember, no pressure.
everybody's happy, party's a success.
and to the guy who had to smile while the vice-pres threw a glass of beer in his face... you didn't have to take that. you could have thrown one back in his face. he's plastered. he won't remember
so, when did being a gamer and wanting the next sony console become not legit?
that's probably because you don't pay attention when you install your apps :P
I've tried ripping some old skinny puppy cds, and some of them refuse to rip... can't do it at all. I don't think it's copy-protection at all. I think it's a case of low-quality mastering/printing. There are no scratches on them, they just never sync up properly.
Take enya for instance, if the cd was re-mastered and re-issued, chances are the re-issue is of higher quality pressing than the first.
Can't say I've heard that expression, ever. :)
Dave
Actually, when I was in college our program required us to buy preconfigured laptops from the college. I think their policy has changed now. Of course, these were windows-based systems. Linux was easily installable on them with the exception of the network adapter. But a suitable driver was found and to be honest, only the hardcore actually installed Linux on them.
:)
The network at school was also NT-based, and the servers needed rebooting constantly as the network could not handle the load of having 400+ students with laptops accessing the internet simultaneously. They really should have used Linux as their servers, but welcome to the real world.
what i hope to see happen is a whole bunch of "end users" getting pissed off that they can't play these new copy-protected cds in their high-end cd players, car cd decks, etc and SUE (class action suit, anyone?) the riaa for what they are doing. if that happens, this becomes a REAL fair-use case and bam! no more cd copy protection. but i live in a world full of ideals and "what-should-be" so i am most likely wrong. but seriously i feel that this is really will bring about a 'pure' fair-use case that cannot be disputed.
the baldwins are in canada? get them out!!!
nope. windows has clonecd and blindread
It's not yet available for PCs, but when it does come out you can try the Half Keyboard
What they should do is write a napster client that allows you to search for the 'unencoded' name, and encode it before it sends the request to the napster server. Then when the song is found, it should take the encoded file and convert it's name back to the unencoded form.
:)
I'm sure a million people have thought and suggested this, so what's one more post?