Not to mention, that the TMPGEnc "DVD Source Creator" that's available bundled with DVD-Lab seems to lack some of the features of the full-blown TMPGEnc. I've been using TMPGEnc on the trial basis, when my 30 days expire I'm going to try CCE.
What sucks is I haven't found a legal, reasonably-priced AC3 encoder. I don't want to use MPEG audio because of spotty player support, and LPCM takes up too much space. I've had success with using ffmpeg, but it's not licensed by Dolby so who knows whether it's creating compliant streams?
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Fuck Starbucks, then, and go to a Panera Bread shop. The ones around here (in Alabama, no less) have free Wi-Fi, and supposedly their coffee is great, although I'm not a coffee person. The soup in a bread bowl is more my speed.
We are already overdue for an extinction level asteroid impact and the odds won't improve with time.
Did you sleep through probability and statistics class? The chance of an asteroid impact during our lifetime is, by all reasonable estimates, exactly the same as the chance of an asteroid impact during any other ~80 year span of human history. They don't fall like clockwork, there's no such thing as "overdue", any more so than tossing heads on a penny ten times makes it more likely to land on tails the seventh.
Most likely, we have thousands if not millions of years before the next extinction-level impact. Delaying a few decades until we have reliable and inexpensive means of getting somewhere and surviving there is not going to lead to our extinction.
The engineers found that for a disc to hold beethoven's 9th and have the quality of vinyl, it had to be sampled at 16 bit and was 12cm in diameter. This was too big to make portable cd players realistic....
What are you smoking? 12cm is the actual size of a CD, and it is 16 bit sampling. Perhaps you meant that they originally wanted to sample at > 44.1kHz and the disc would have been 12 inches?
They were like that. Did we really need a play by play? Did he think we wouldn't be able to "decipher" these "complex" graphs?
Blind people listen to music, and would probably be very interested in his results (many of them having more acute hearing than we sighted folk). However, they would be unable to decipher or even perceive the graphs. I'm not sure how well their screen readers would deal with "faac" or "compaact!" though.
Nah, that would suck. One of the best parts of Slashdot is the humour. I like finding posts with witty comments that have been overlooked and giving them a Funny mod. But sometimes, I also have something meaningful (or funny, or insightful) to add to the conversation as well. It already sucks that I have to post it as AC. To not be able to post it at all would double-suck.
You know what's scary? Since we have a two year old, I've found myself yelling at my wife when she flips to Fear Factor or some other reality dreck. I usually say something like, "Hey, let's watch something a little more intelectually stimulating, like Spongebob Squarepants!"
The frightening part is, I'm not being the least bit sarcastic. The stuff we watch with our daughter, aimed at the 2 - 5 crowd, is actually tolerable. The stuff that's aimed at so-called "adults" is mindless garbage.
Unless you don't plan on having children any more, I wouldn't walk around operating my mobile phone while it's in my pocket if I were you.
Well, I'm not sure if I want another kid, but I'd still rather have the phone in my pocket than against my head. I might not always need my balls, but I think my brain is pretty essential. That said, I'm still not convinced either one is really at risk.
imagine walking down a busy city street with Bluetooth headphones connected to an oversized antenna, listening in to all the "cool people's" phone conversations...
Somehow this isn't scaring me. First, I doubt the phone broadcasts the audio if I'm not using a BT headset myself - that would be a huge waste of power. Second, my phone would have to be discoverable for that to work - which it isn't. Third, I never have phone conversations that need that kind of privacy on a cell in the first place. Actually, I doubt I ever have phone conversations that sensitive at all.
Either you're way too paranoid, or I need my tin-foil hat adjusted.
Interesting factoid: the reason why ATM machines suck your card in (besides having the option to munch it) is that ATMs need to be able to write data to the ATM card.
It would be a much more interesting factoid if it were still true, but it seems like the majority of ATMs have an insert-and-remove-quickly reader these days. Which has the advantage of making it much more difficult to forget your card in the machine.
Advanced lesson? Don't use your credit cards at all.
Bzzztttt. Just don't carry a balance.
I have a card which puts 2% of every purchas I make in my daughter's college fund. Since I use this card for basically everything I buy from anyone who takes cards, that ends up being around $40/month that she gets. That's money I'd be leaving on the table if I paid cash or wrote checks. I pay the bill online, paying the entire balance off every other week when I get paid, so I've never paid a penny of interest on this account.
Having been in debt at one time, I can understand why many folks think credit cards are evil. However, if you keep them paid off, there are many perks to using them. Just treat them as you would any other tool - wear your safetly glasses and keep your fingers clear of the moving parts. Oh, sorry, wrong speech.
With a 6" form factor or so, I think your touchpads and the parent post's trackballs are both useless. This thing should be touchscreen. Very little finger movement would be required to go from the keyboard to the screen, so why not? Also, not needing an integrated pointing device would keep the size as small as possible.
I had never heard of "Wireless USB", but several times when I've tried to explain what Bluetooth is to moderately tech-savvy folks, I've said "it's like USB, but without wires!"
I imagine you looked like quite the dork having to hold your Palm and phone at just the right angle to keep the infrared link going. With Bluetooth, I can do that with my phone in my pocket, or even in the next room.
There's an album called 'Vinyl' by Dramarama that has 99 tracks also. There are 12 or 13 real songs, then there's a joke song called "Steve is Here" that takes up tracks 13 (or 14?) through 99, about 1 second of music to each track.
And don't forget Tool's 'Undertow', with all the short silent tracks leading up to track 69, 'Disgustipated'.
Well, my Charter service is pretty reliable, but when it does go out, it's hell finding someone with more than three functional brain cells in customer service. I think all cable and sat providers are that way, though.
I sure miss my first ISP - it was basically run by one guy, and he was great! 'Twas only dial-up, but that was back when web pages were HTML and two or three small images. Oh, and the biggest Linux distributions took five or six floppy disks.
"What George did in 1997," Ward explains, "was [to] make the movie he originally wanted to make."
He originally wanted to make a movie with a comically bad CGI slug, and where a bounty hunter misses a target two feet away by over a foot? Pull the other one, George.
I've never heard of the VW Fox, but I immediately thought of the Firefox from the movie, which is needless to say much, much faster than anything Pontiac has to offer.
A friend of mine from high school had a Gremlin that would eat Firebirds for lunch, btw.
Doofus, I can max out my 2mbps cable all day long and my provider (Charter) won't complain. Neither will I, since I'm paying 1/10 the cost of the T1 for more bandwidth. If I weren't satisfied with that, and wanted to uncap my modem, how exactly would getting a T1 instead of cable help me?
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Not to mention, that the TMPGEnc "DVD Source Creator" that's available bundled with DVD-Lab seems to lack some of the features of the full-blown TMPGEnc. I've been using TMPGEnc on the trial basis, when my 30 days expire I'm going to try CCE.
What sucks is I haven't found a legal, reasonably-priced AC3 encoder. I don't want to use MPEG audio because of spotty player support, and LPCM takes up too much space. I've had success with using ffmpeg, but it's not licensed by Dolby so who knows whether it's creating compliant streams?
Fuck Starbucks, then, and go to a Panera Bread shop. The ones around here (in Alabama, no less) have free Wi-Fi, and supposedly their coffee is great, although I'm not a coffee person. The soup in a bread bowl is more my speed.
We are already overdue for an extinction level asteroid impact and the odds won't improve with time.
Did you sleep through probability and statistics class? The chance of an asteroid impact during our lifetime is, by all reasonable estimates, exactly the same as the chance of an asteroid impact during any other ~80 year span of human history. They don't fall like clockwork, there's no such thing as "overdue", any more so than tossing heads on a penny ten times makes it more likely to land on tails the seventh.
Most likely, we have thousands if not millions of years before the next extinction-level impact. Delaying a few decades until we have reliable and inexpensive means of getting somewhere and surviving there is not going to lead to our extinction.
Nor do I for lazy artists that bitch about their music being 'stolen' after selling their sole to the devil....
I wouldn't worry about the ones that sell the bottoms of their shoes. Now the ones that sell their soul to the devil - well, that's a different story.
The engineers found that for a disc to hold beethoven's 9th and have the quality of vinyl, it had to be sampled at 16 bit and was 12cm in diameter. This was too big to make portable cd players realistic....
What are you smoking? 12cm is the actual size of a CD, and it is 16 bit sampling. Perhaps you meant that they originally wanted to sample at > 44.1kHz and the disc would have been 12 inches?
Shouldn't it be:
::Buffering...::Buffering...::
Would you like to buy the upgraded RealPlayerPlusUltraSuper? (user clicks NO)
Are you sure? (user clicks YES)
Are you REALLY sure? (user clicks YES)
Then how about the RealPlayerPlusUltraSuperMega Titanium Pack? (user clicks NO)
Are you sure? (user clicks YES)
Would you like to see other offers from our partners? (user clicks NO)
Would you like a year's subscription to TIME magazine? (user begins getting frustrated)
See, they're not one of our partners, so we thought you might like to see their offer! (user bangs head on desk, then clicks NO)
Okay, I guess I'll play the stream, cheapskate!
PLAINTIFF, Real Networks, Inc. hereby does...
They were like that. Did we really need a play by play? Did he think we wouldn't be able to "decipher" these "complex" graphs?
Blind people listen to music, and would probably be very interested in his results (many of them having more acute hearing than we sighted folk). However, they would be unable to decipher or even perceive the graphs. I'm not sure how well their screen readers would deal with "faac" or "compaact!" though.
Nah, that would suck. One of the best parts of Slashdot is the humour. I like finding posts with witty comments that have been overlooked and giving them a Funny mod. But sometimes, I also have something meaningful (or funny, or insightful) to add to the conversation as well. It already sucks that I have to post it as AC. To not be able to post it at all would double-suck.
You know what's scary? Since we have a two year old, I've found myself yelling at my wife when she flips to Fear Factor or some other reality dreck. I usually say something like, "Hey, let's watch something a little more intelectually stimulating, like Spongebob Squarepants!"
The frightening part is, I'm not being the least bit sarcastic. The stuff we watch with our daughter, aimed at the 2 - 5 crowd, is actually tolerable. The stuff that's aimed at so-called "adults" is mindless garbage.
Unless you don't plan on having children any more, I wouldn't walk around operating my mobile phone while it's in my pocket if I were you.
Well, I'm not sure if I want another kid, but I'd still rather have the phone in my pocket than against my head. I might not always need my balls, but I think my brain is pretty essential. That said, I'm still not convinced either one is really at risk.
imagine walking down a busy city street with Bluetooth headphones connected to an oversized antenna, listening in to all the "cool people's" phone conversations...
Somehow this isn't scaring me. First, I doubt the phone broadcasts the audio if I'm not using a BT headset myself - that would be a huge waste of power. Second, my phone would have to be discoverable for that to work - which it isn't. Third, I never have phone conversations that need that kind of privacy on a cell in the first place. Actually, I doubt I ever have phone conversations that sensitive at all.
Either you're way too paranoid, or I need my tin-foil hat adjusted.
You could use a stylus... oh, nevermind, you're making a joke. Right on!
Interesting factoid: the reason why ATM machines suck your card in (besides having the option to munch it) is that ATMs need to be able to write data to the ATM card.
It would be a much more interesting factoid if it were still true, but it seems like the majority of ATMs have an insert-and-remove-quickly reader these days. Which has the advantage of making it much more difficult to forget your card in the machine.
Advanced lesson? Don't use your credit cards at all.
Bzzztttt. Just don't carry a balance.
I have a card which puts 2% of every purchas I make in my daughter's college fund. Since I use this card for basically everything I buy from anyone who takes cards, that ends up being around $40/month that she gets. That's money I'd be leaving on the table if I paid cash or wrote checks. I pay the bill online, paying the entire balance off every other week when I get paid, so I've never paid a penny of interest on this account.
Having been in debt at one time, I can understand why many folks think credit cards are evil. However, if you keep them paid off, there are many perks to using them. Just treat them as you would any other tool - wear your safetly glasses and keep your fingers clear of the moving parts. Oh, sorry, wrong speech.
With a 6" form factor or so, I think your touchpads and the parent post's trackballs are both useless. This thing should be touchscreen. Very little finger movement would be required to go from the keyboard to the screen, so why not? Also, not needing an integrated pointing device would keep the size as small as possible.
I had never heard of "Wireless USB", but several times when I've tried to explain what Bluetooth is to moderately tech-savvy folks, I've said "it's like USB, but without wires!"
I imagine you looked like quite the dork having to hold your Palm and phone at just the right angle to keep the infrared link going. With Bluetooth, I can do that with my phone in my pocket, or even in the next room.
There's an album called 'Vinyl' by Dramarama that has 99 tracks also. There are 12 or 13 real songs, then there's a joke song called "Steve is Here" that takes up tracks 13 (or 14?) through 99, about 1 second of music to each track.
And don't forget Tool's 'Undertow', with all the short silent tracks leading up to track 69, 'Disgustipated'.
the argument that space is a dangerous place for shuttle nauts does not stand up
Actually, space is perfectly safe for Shuttle astronauts. It's the atmosphere that's a dangerous place!
Well, my Charter service is pretty reliable, but when it does go out, it's hell finding someone with more than three functional brain cells in customer service. I think all cable and sat providers are that way, though.
I sure miss my first ISP - it was basically run by one guy, and he was great! 'Twas only dial-up, but that was back when web pages were HTML and two or three small images. Oh, and the biggest Linux distributions took five or six floppy disks.
"What George did in 1997," Ward explains, "was [to] make the movie he originally wanted to make."
He originally wanted to make a movie with a comically bad CGI slug, and where a bounty hunter misses a target two feet away by over a foot? Pull the other one, George.
Obviously none of you have even driven a VW Fox.
Especially obvious since I said I'd never HEARD of it. Makes it pretty safe to assume I've never driven one, doesn't it?
I've never heard of the VW Fox, but I immediately thought of the Firefox from the movie, which is needless to say much, much faster than anything Pontiac has to offer.
A friend of mine from high school had a Gremlin that would eat Firebirds for lunch, btw.
Doofus, I can max out my 2mbps cable all day long and my provider (Charter) won't complain. Neither will I, since I'm paying 1/10 the cost of the T1 for more bandwidth. If I weren't satisfied with that, and wanted to uncap my modem, how exactly would getting a T1 instead of cable help me?
I bet Java could even handle My Yahoo and Yahoo Mail, if you guys would cut the number of advertisements down to just a couple dozen per page!
I used to love Yahoo's stuff, but the first time I went to check the weather and a Ford Explorer drove across my screen, it was over.
Are you perhaps mistakenly recalling an episode of the X-Files as a documentary?