Fair enough, but aside from the quicktime trailers nobody seems to distribute in another format at high enough bitrates to get something that looks as nice. The ones in Real and Windows Media all seem to be at lower "streaming" bitrates.
I did try recompressing the 640 trailer using Apple's MPEG-4 compressor and with the bitrate maxed the file size was about 2/3 with comparable quality (probably a bit more artifacts, but hardly noticeable at 30 fps, and most were probably the result of artifacts already present in the sorenson).
While the other codecs may be tweakable to higher quality, it doesn't seem like many are taking advantage of this (for anything, not just trailers). Almost all the web distributed content I've seen has rather nasty artifacts in it. I'm only talking about windows media and real here not VP3/VP4.
Better compression ratio, probably. Better quality video unlikely. I think the reason trailers keep getting released in quicktime (sorenson) is due to the ability to get decent compression and essentially lossless visuals.
Actually I'd argue that your attitude is "utterly ridiculous." Seriously, they're providing a product _FOR FREE_ they have little or no reason to bend to your whims. You can make suggestions, and perhaps they'll follow them, especially if you ask nicely or thank them for such a well written app.
Think about it. If you'd put alot of time into some project and provided it for free would you be willing to both put up with answering question XYZ for the 10000th time, especially if it really is covered in the docs? Would you be willing to put up with people that demand you fix something?
Your comment IS a troll, but there's a fanatical user base because portage works _REALLY_ _DAMN_ _WELL_.
You get to customize exactly what you want out of a system without compiling everything manually. Define your USE variable in make.conf, ask it for the apps you want and off it goes and builds all the deps with pretty much exactly what options you want (to be certain the use value doesn't give you control over every option but it gives fairly fine-grained control).
Most desktop apps at least support going through arts, esd or some other software mixer so while its kindof a crappy solution its not that much of an issue.
I'm not sure about most of the cards available these days, but I do know that at least the SBLive (and the linux drivers, both alsa and the old oss ones) allows for hardware mixing of multiple channels (not sure how many but its way more than just 2).
The ALSA drivers ARE of a much higher quality though. Has anyone else noticed that if you put the PCM volume all the way up on pretty much any sound card with the old OSS drivers you start getting nasty distortion (well not really nasty, but for anyone thats picky about audio its pretty nasty). Main volume is fine all the way up, and its definately not a speaker issue. Going on about the same volume level, PCM down Main all the way up vs PCM all the way up and Main down there is most certainly a difference in the quality of sound.
I've seen this with SBPCI 128, SBLive, and on my 800MHz iBook as well, so its not even limited to one platform.
(oh man thats bad..).. typing this from an 800 MHz iBook. Sluggish at times, but whatever. I prefer it to the other options despite the increased speed I might get by "switching" to x86.
If OS X is crashing "a lot" on you, I'd suggest perhaps your hardware is at fault. Have you tried swapping ram? Some models are extremely picky about RAM being within spec. It may also be that your proc or mobo are defective. I've only encountered the OS X kernel panic screen (multilingual with gray background) once on my iBook and that was when I had a bad stick of RAM in the machine.
I'd say OS X has definite speed issues and responsiveness issues (not the same thing!). I'd peg the responsiveness thing as a larger problem. I've known processes to essentially monopolize my machine to the point where I can't really do anything and simply get a spinning beachball. What crack is the scheduler smoking? The window server and Finder should always be usable so one can at least fire up a terminal and kill the offending process.
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You paid them for the lumber etc, it is yours. Plus lumber isn't copyrighted, its freaking dead tree thats been chopped up.
The GNU utils are copyrighted and dristributed by GNU for free.
Still, plenty of people buy stuff and advertise the manufacturer/maker. Almost everything you buy has the manufacturers logo permanently emblazoned on it. I'm looking around and my computer, my calculator, my speakers, phone, watch, wallet, mugs, mp3 player, books cds, movies, etc,etc,etc all have manufacturer/creator logos/names on them.
I don't know anything about the veracity of the claims made there, but I'd still say Heston's actions speak for themselves.
He showed up in a bunch of towns which were locations of recent school shootings, and held gun rallies. And when asked whether or not he would appologize, he walked off.
We all do stupid and hypocritical things at times. I don't know more about the contect of Moore's actions so I cannot comment on them. The context of Hestons are clear, and he was most certainly wrong. To not at least appologize in front of a damn camera is just stupid. You don't have to compromise you're gun loving attitude just in saying, "I'm sorry if it caused those famlies any more suffering." He could even qualify it by stating that he still stands by his pro-gun beliefs.
I feel this is an excellent time to discuss SLASHDOT'S moral obligations in linking. Certainly some shops can handle the amount of traffic that is sent their way by getting posted here, but in other cases the server gets hosed, the bandwidth bill goes through the roof, or worse! (remember the guy with the barcode entry system to his house?)
C'mon editors! At least make it so the front page links link to cached text copies sans images or something.
MacPlay has only just recently come back into the fold after a couple years hiatus. And Aspyr is still alive, kicking, and bringing titles over so it can't be all that bad.
XP/2k still bluescreen plenty. The main reason for these is not so much the kernel/OS as poor drivers or bad hardware. These are legitimate issues as well!
Even WHQL drivers aren't always perfectly stable on all hardware, and some drivers necessary to use hardware aren't available in certified form (example: recent HPT37x drivers beyond the original ones that shipped with XP).
Its not just FUD because the platform as a whole isn't completely stable! (not that Apple hardware and drivers are perfect, but they're of pretty damn good quality).
I don't see ANY reason why the Al enclosures are worse on any level. Anodized Al is almost impossible to scratch (have you ever used a PalmV?). Its not _painted_ like the Ti books, so no chipping.
What is there not to like about it? Its improves upon the major faults of the Ti enclusure!
And waste time on fake/poisoned tracks plus waste time finding full albums, plus deal with varying qualities of encodings AND hugely varying download speeds. Don't forget weak selection unless you're into pop. And to top it all off you get plenty of viruses and spyware (unless you've got kazaa lite).
At least suggest soulseek which has better selection, sheesh. All in all though, emusic isn't a bad deal, AND they're increasing the bitrate they encode tracks at this year!
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Fair enough, but aside from the quicktime trailers nobody seems to distribute in another format at high enough bitrates to get something that looks as nice. The ones in Real and Windows Media all seem to be at lower "streaming" bitrates.
I did try recompressing the 640 trailer using Apple's MPEG-4 compressor and with the bitrate maxed the file size was about 2/3 with comparable quality (probably a bit more artifacts, but hardly noticeable at 30 fps, and most were probably the result of artifacts already present in the sorenson).
While the other codecs may be tweakable to higher quality, it doesn't seem like many are taking advantage of this (for anything, not just trailers). Almost all the web distributed content I've seen has rather nasty artifacts in it. I'm only talking about windows media and real here not VP3/VP4.
iBook 800 can't take the heat either :(
640 trailer plays fine in full screen...
Better compression ratio, probably. Better quality video unlikely. I think the reason trailers keep getting released in quicktime (sorenson) is due to the ability to get decent compression and essentially lossless visuals.
Actually I'd argue that your attitude is "utterly ridiculous." Seriously, they're providing a product _FOR FREE_ they have little or no reason to bend to your whims. You can make suggestions, and perhaps they'll follow them, especially if you ask nicely or thank them for such a well written app.
Think about it. If you'd put alot of time into some project and provided it for free would you be willing to both put up with answering question XYZ for the 10000th time, especially if it really is covered in the docs? Would you be willing to put up with people that demand you fix something?
Think about it.
Its not even April 1 here yet! ;) (CST)
Your comment IS a troll, but there's a fanatical user base because portage works _REALLY_ _DAMN_ _WELL_.
You get to customize exactly what you want out of a system without compiling everything manually. Define your USE variable in make.conf, ask it for the apps you want and off it goes and builds all the deps with pretty much exactly what options you want (to be certain the use value doesn't give you control over every option but it gives fairly fine-grained control).
Most desktop apps at least support going through arts, esd or some other software mixer so while its kindof a crappy solution its not that much of an issue.
I'm not sure about most of the cards available these days, but I do know that at least the SBLive (and the linux drivers, both alsa and the old oss ones) allows for hardware mixing of multiple channels (not sure how many but its way more than just 2).
The ALSA drivers ARE of a much higher quality though. Has anyone else noticed that if you put the PCM volume all the way up on pretty much any sound card with the old OSS drivers you start getting nasty distortion (well not really nasty, but for anyone thats picky about audio its pretty nasty). Main volume is fine all the way up, and its definately not a speaker issue. Going on about the same volume level, PCM down Main all the way up vs PCM all the way up and Main down there is most certainly a difference in the quality of sound.
I've seen this with SBPCI 128, SBLive, and on my 800MHz iBook as well, so its not even limited to one platform.
Hz?
.. typing this from an 800 MHz iBook. Sluggish at times, but whatever. I prefer it to the other options despite the increased speed I might get by "switching" to x86.
(oh man thats bad..)
"Why do I suddenly want to reformat and install linux"
Do it! Gentoo Linux
If OS X is crashing "a lot" on you, I'd suggest perhaps your hardware is at fault. Have you tried swapping ram? Some models are extremely picky about RAM being within spec. It may also be that your proc or mobo are defective. I've only encountered the OS X kernel panic screen (multilingual with gray background) once on my iBook and that was when I had a bad stick of RAM in the machine.
I'd say OS X has definite speed issues and responsiveness issues (not the same thing!). I'd peg the responsiveness thing as a larger problem. I've known processes to essentially monopolize my machine to the point where I can't really do anything and simply get a spinning beachball. What crack is the scheduler smoking? The window server and Finder should always be usable so one can at least fire up a terminal and kill the offending process.
or 2 * (5^2) :P
Not exactly..
You paid them for the lumber etc, it is yours. Plus lumber isn't copyrighted, its freaking dead tree thats been chopped up.
The GNU utils are copyrighted and dristributed by GNU for free.
Still, plenty of people buy stuff and advertise the manufacturer/maker. Almost everything you buy has the manufacturers logo permanently emblazoned on it. I'm looking around and my computer, my calculator, my speakers, phone, watch, wallet, mugs, mp3 player, books cds, movies, etc,etc,etc all have manufacturer/creator logos/names on them.
or 01000000
binary is soooo much cooler than hexadecimal!
64-bit specific code is just a matter of recompiling existing code with a compiler that is aware of the newer architecture features
not exactly... i'd hazzard a guess that most code is not 64-bit clean and would required some cleanup/modification before compiling as a 64-bit app.
(2*192)+(2*448) = 1280
(2*192)+(2*448*2.2) = 2355.2
eBay?
You can find pretty much anything for sale on a given day.
I don't know anything about the veracity of the claims made there, but I'd still say Heston's actions speak for themselves.
He showed up in a bunch of towns which were locations of recent school shootings, and held gun rallies. And when asked whether or not he would appologize, he walked off.
We all do stupid and hypocritical things at times. I don't know more about the contect of Moore's actions so I cannot comment on them. The context of Hestons are clear, and he was most certainly wrong. To not at least appologize in front of a damn camera is just stupid. You don't have to compromise you're gun loving attitude just in saying, "I'm sorry if it caused those famlies any more suffering." He could even qualify it by stating that he still stands by his pro-gun beliefs.
You only bash bu.. err microsoft because its cool.
or the next most popular search item:
"poopsex vagina donkey acidic_diarrhea"
methinks the creator of this page has more problems than a probable lawsuit from google
ot, i know, whatever...
heston is not "da bomb." have you seen "bowling for columbine"?
One of the few slashdot stories without a link ;)
I feel this is an excellent time to discuss SLASHDOT'S moral obligations in linking. Certainly some shops can handle the amount of traffic that is sent their way by getting posted here, but in other cases the server gets hosed, the bandwidth bill goes through the roof, or worse! (remember the guy with the barcode entry system to his house?)
C'mon editors! At least make it so the front page links link to cached text copies sans images or something.
MacPlay has only just recently come back into the fold after a couple years hiatus. And Aspyr is still alive, kicking, and bringing titles over so it can't be all that bad.
XP/2k still bluescreen plenty. The main reason for these is not so much the kernel/OS as poor drivers or bad hardware. These are legitimate issues as well!
Even WHQL drivers aren't always perfectly stable on all hardware, and some drivers necessary to use hardware aren't available in certified form (example: recent HPT37x drivers beyond the original ones that shipped with XP).
Its not just FUD because the platform as a whole isn't completely stable! (not that Apple hardware and drivers are perfect, but they're of pretty damn good quality).
I don't see ANY reason why the Al enclosures are worse on any level. Anodized Al is almost impossible to scratch (have you ever used a PalmV?). Its not _painted_ like the Ti books, so no chipping.
What is there not to like about it? Its improves upon the major faults of the Ti enclusure!
And waste time on fake/poisoned tracks plus waste time finding full albums, plus deal with varying qualities of encodings AND hugely varying download speeds. Don't forget weak selection unless you're into pop. And to top it all off you get plenty of viruses and spyware (unless you've got kazaa lite).
At least suggest soulseek which has better selection, sheesh. All in all though, emusic isn't a bad deal, AND they're increasing the bitrate they encode tracks at this year!