The MOVING PICTURE Experts Group has declared that the next codec to be "borrowed" from their digital video standard and used to make easily swappable encodings of CD audio is MPEG-4 AAC?
The future audio format of choice will be whatever people end up encoding their audio in, not what some standards body considers "the future audio format of choice"... I'd be willing to bet nothing replaces MP3 for quite a while.
Notice that as of this writing the Google "roundup" referenced in the story has the story itself as the second link... the consequences of this to "PageRank" are now mindboggling...
That said, I have been able to do anything except A/D sampling while burning a cd using cdrecord on an ide-scsi device, since the later 2.2 kernels. I still don't trust Nero or Adaptec or anything else I have on the same box with windows to do this.
Have to say, CD burning is one of the WORST discrepancies between Linux & Windows... with recent model CDR drives' "burn proof" feature I have been able to burn a CD image with Nero while still *downloading* it.
> The big profit stream eventually backfired as hundreds of companies have rushed into the printer cartridge refill and refurbish market.
Well, that one's not over yet... as has been mentioned on/. and elsewhere, there are several lawsuits related to companies putting useless "security" chips in their toner cartridges for the sole purposes of making it illegal to reverse engineer/bypess/duplicate said security... let's hope this is acknowledged for the obvious attempt at misusing patent or anti-hacking laws for price fixing and/or monopolizing an industry that it is...
> Any hardware that is capable of decoding video can easily decode Vorbis as well
This is definitely NOT true... TiVo does its MPEG2 encoding and decoding with SPECIFIC hardware that will only encode/decode MPEG. While they could be using it to decode MP3s as well (since MP3 is MPEG1 layer 3 audio) Vorbis is a totally different (and more CPU intensive) audio codec...
Still, this doesn't necessarily mean that the CPU on the TiVo would not be able to handle Vorbis decoding, just that it has nothing to do with the box's ability to decode MPEG2.
You guys need to think about a baby that age! (heh, this is the third person I've read describing a memory of walking around 12 months old - an 11 month old walking around outside, and then walking well enough to come inside and track footprints through the house? Having the presence of mind to wipe ash off a fender? These memories sound like they could be real, but given you are in Colorado, could it be beyond belief that you may be remembering a good snowstorm from when you were around 3?:)
13 months is barely at walking age (first walking 10-14 months, not even very stable until a few months after that). "Riding a tricycle around the basement" at 13 months of age it pretty much IMPOSSIBLE (find a 13 month old! I think most/. users haven't had much experience with babies:) If you can get one to ride a tricycle around then I stand corrected (and sign the kid up for the circus, you've found a real prodigy...)
Eh, 13 months old coloring in a coloring book is pretty telling, too - again, this is at "eating the crayon" stage... it sounds like you remember something, but if you were 2-3 it would be a lot more reasonable...
That's the problem with "memory" - it's subject to revision and addition along the way, just like "history"...
(Not that I'm saying it's this bad, but) this isn't too far off from people who are SURE they can remember being abducted by aliens... deja vu also seems VERY real to people. Also, things like early family photos, etc. that you have seen many times over the years can make you feel like you actually *remember* when it was taken.
I'm sure it seems real, but your claim that you knew someone's name from before you were born (let's not get into the development of a concept of self vs other, let alone sister vs. mother in the PREnatal brain...) pretty much discredits this completely. Unless you were in there a good year and a half there is no way your brain is going to be developed enough to understand and recognize a name (heh, even if you were an adult have you ever TRIED to hear someone speaking from inside the uterus? I can't even hear people when I'm underwater in a swimming pool...)
Basically, if you were to say "I remember my birth! It was dark and warm, then light and loud and cold" then I'd only be SKEPTICAL... anything else, and you're just kidding yourself. Not that there is anything wrong with that, really, it just doesn't add much to a scientific discussion.
> Something else to consider about games is the trade ins.
Something else to consider and then LAUGH at - do you know what the trade in value of an EA Sports game is at EB after the next in the series comes out? About $5. For a game that's a year old. Not that I don't buy the latest NHL game anyway when it comes out... but you have to admit it's practically a yearly subscription they have going...
You "liked the Simpsons better before it was popular and had a large following". What does that give you, about a YEAR?! Ay Caramba, couldn't be much more than that before the t-shirts started.
The funny thing about the monorail quotes is, IT'S TRUE! The only useful monorail I've been on went between the Luxor and the Mirage.
The first post called Linux software bloated (oh come on, glibc is VERY bloated - try using at uclibc or dietlibc - they don't have 100% of glibc's functionality, but for embedded systems it's amazing how much space they save) and it's a troll?? Then he makes a statement that starts with "probably" and turns out to be wrong - Debian and RedHat 'ls' definitely link with several libs. I won't say "probably", but who wants to bet on how many of the other major distros do as well?
Ok, to put something less whiny in my post - if you're worried about having a functional set of utils for emergency use, install busybox. For ~800k statically linked you get a ton of utils in a multicall binary, along with a shell. Available from the RedHat install CDs, in fact.
Actually, I think the writer meant exactly what he said - ie. I really don't think he had a clue.
If Tony Hawk doesn't get at LEAST $10M for putting his name (oh, I'm sure he does a lot of technical consulting on it as well...) on one of the top selling video games ever, he's getting royally screwed. And I don't think the author was trying to tell us that the "real Tony Hawk" doesn't "drink or date" either...
Aristotle "talked out of his ass" in a LOT of different fields. This is by far my FAVORITE single Aristotle quote... (From Poetics, Part VII)
Now a whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end. A beginning is that which is not itself necessarily after anything else, and which has naturally something else after it; an end is that which is naturally after something itself either as its necessary or usual consequent, and with nothing else after it; and a middle, that which is by nature after one thing and also has another after it.
"I started out just like you guys - on trash. Now, I'm washing lettuce. Pretty soon I'll be on fries. In a year or two, I'll make assistant manager....and that's when the big bucks start rolling in!"
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The problem is that BOOKS are not interactive. Email (and now even more IMs) ARE. Personally I wouldn't normally use a smiley just to indicate a clever/funny comment I wrote (if nothing else, it undermines a truly good line!) but smileys are sometimes ESSENTIAL to convey that "witty sarcasm" in an email/IM conversation that, if taken wrong, can cause some serious "misunderstandings" (and I'd be amazed at anyone using email more than a year who hasn't had that happen at some point...)
It's funny everyone seems to think that this is Intel releasing a product... remember, Intel makes chips! This is just a reference design - the companies selling boxes will probably be the Asian CE & mobo manufacturers. Intel isn't really competing with MS, but they are happy to sell chips to anyone who is...
This reminds me of my uncle the sculptor, who made a foundry hot enough to melt bronze out of a gas line and 2 electric leafblowers... I think it's time to upgrade that hair dryer!
One of the LinuxBIOS developers mentioned that the PackBot uses LinuxBIOS (and I assume Linux)... I believe it's with a custom embedded Pentium-based motherboard...
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USB 1.1 only is a pretty major negative, though. Anything with a 20GB HDD HAS to have a higher speed transfer method...
The MOVING PICTURE Experts Group has declared that the next codec to be "borrowed" from their digital video standard and used to make easily swappable encodings of CD audio is MPEG-4 AAC?
The future audio format of choice will be whatever people end up encoding their audio in, not what some standards body considers "the future audio format of choice"... I'd be willing to bet nothing replaces MP3 for quite a while.
I was trying to come up with a good fake title, but the real ones were all so good I couldn't resist ;)
My favorite new game - guess which one is NOT a Dummies title:
1. Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies
2. Beekeeping For Dummies
3. U.S. Citizenship For Dummies
4. AOL For Dummies
5. Business Plans For Dummies
You Can get a WinTV PVR 250 OEM for under $90 - an extra $40-$50 over the WinTV card for HW MPEG-2 encoding is definitely worth it...
Notice that as of this writing the Google "roundup" referenced in the story has the story itself as the second link... the consequences of this to "PageRank" are now mindboggling...
Have to say, CD burning is one of the WORST discrepancies between Linux & Windows... with recent model CDR drives' "burn proof" feature I have been able to burn a CD image with Nero while still *downloading* it.
> The big profit stream eventually backfired as hundreds of companies have rushed into the printer cartridge refill and refurbish market.
/. and elsewhere, there are several lawsuits related to companies putting useless "security" chips in their toner cartridges for the sole purposes of making it illegal to reverse engineer/bypess/duplicate said security... let's hope this is acknowledged for the obvious attempt at misusing patent or anti-hacking laws for price fixing and/or monopolizing an industry that it is...
Well, that one's not over yet... as has been mentioned on
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> Any hardware that is capable of decoding video can easily decode Vorbis as well
This is definitely NOT true... TiVo does its MPEG2 encoding and decoding with SPECIFIC hardware that will only encode/decode MPEG. While they could be using it to decode MP3s as well (since MP3 is MPEG1 layer 3 audio) Vorbis is a totally different (and more CPU intensive) audio codec...
Still, this doesn't necessarily mean that the CPU on the TiVo would not be able to handle Vorbis decoding, just that it has nothing to do with the box's ability to decode MPEG2.
You guys need to think about a baby that age! (heh, this is the third person I've read describing a memory of walking around 12 months old - an 11 month old walking around outside, and then walking well enough to come inside and track footprints through the house? Having the presence of mind to wipe ash off a fender? These memories sound like they could be real, but given you are in Colorado, could it be beyond belief that you may be remembering a good snowstorm from when you were around 3? :)
13 months is barely at walking age (first walking 10-14 months, not even very stable until a few months after that). "Riding a tricycle around the basement" at 13 months of age it pretty much IMPOSSIBLE (find a 13 month old! I think most /. users haven't had much experience with babies :) If you can get one to ride a tricycle around then I stand corrected (and sign the kid up for the circus, you've found a real prodigy...)
Eh, 13 months old coloring in a coloring book is pretty telling, too - again, this is at "eating the crayon" stage... it sounds like you remember something, but if you were 2-3 it would be a lot more reasonable...
That's the problem with "memory" - it's subject to revision and addition along the way, just like "history"...
(Not that I'm saying it's this bad, but) this isn't too far off from people who are SURE they can remember being abducted by aliens... deja vu also seems VERY real to people. Also, things like early family photos, etc. that you have seen many times over the years can make you feel like you actually *remember* when it was taken.
I'm sure it seems real, but your claim that you knew someone's name from before you were born (let's not get into the development of a concept of self vs other, let alone sister vs. mother in the PREnatal brain...) pretty much discredits this completely. Unless you were in there a good year and a half there is no way your brain is going to be developed enough to understand and recognize a name (heh, even if you were an adult have you ever TRIED to hear someone speaking from inside the uterus? I can't even hear people when I'm underwater in a swimming pool...)
Basically, if you were to say "I remember my birth! It was dark and warm, then light and loud and cold" then I'd only be SKEPTICAL... anything else, and you're just kidding yourself. Not that there is anything wrong with that, really, it just doesn't add much to a scientific discussion.
Something else to consider and then LAUGH at - do you know what the trade in value of an EA Sports game is at EB after the next in the series comes out? About $5. For a game that's a year old. Not that I don't buy the latest NHL game anyway when it comes out... but you have to admit it's practically a yearly subscription they have going...
You "liked the Simpsons better before it was popular and had a large following". What does that give you, about a YEAR?! Ay Caramba, couldn't be much more than that before the t-shirts started.
The funny thing about the monorail quotes is, IT'S TRUE! The only useful monorail I've been on went between the Luxor and the Mirage.
The first post called Linux software bloated (oh come on, glibc is VERY bloated - try using at uclibc or dietlibc - they don't have 100% of glibc's functionality, but for embedded systems it's amazing how much space they save) and it's a troll?? Then he makes a statement that starts with "probably" and turns out to be wrong - Debian and RedHat 'ls' definitely link with several libs. I won't say "probably", but who wants to bet on how many of the other major distros do as well?
Ok, to put something less whiny in my post - if you're worried about having a functional set of utils for emergency use, install busybox. For ~800k statically linked you get a ton of utils in a multicall binary, along with a shell. Available from the RedHat install CDs, in fact.
Actually, I think the writer meant exactly what he said - ie. I really don't think he had a clue.
If Tony Hawk doesn't get at LEAST $10M for putting his name (oh, I'm sure he does a lot of technical consulting on it as well...) on one of the top selling video games ever, he's getting royally screwed. And I don't think the author was trying to tell us that the "real Tony Hawk" doesn't "drink or date" either...
I see a new curriculum forming...
"I started out just like you guys - on trash. Now, I'm washing lettuce. Pretty soon I'll be on fries. In a year or two, I'll make assistant manager....and that's when the big bucks start rolling in!"
The problem is that BOOKS are not interactive. Email (and now even more IMs) ARE. Personally I wouldn't normally use a smiley just to indicate a clever/funny comment I wrote (if nothing else, it undermines a truly good line!) but smileys are sometimes ESSENTIAL to convey that "witty sarcasm" in an email/IM conversation that, if taken wrong, can cause some serious "misunderstandings" (and I'd be amazed at anyone using email more than a year who hasn't had that happen at some point...)
It's funny everyone seems to think that this is Intel releasing a product... remember, Intel makes chips! This is just a reference design - the companies selling boxes will probably be the Asian CE & mobo manufacturers. Intel isn't really competing with MS, but they are happy to sell chips to anyone who is...
At least according to www.m-w.com and www.dictionary.com... now if you had just said "dammit!" then I'd be ok with it ;)
This reminds me of my uncle the sculptor, who made a foundry hot enough to melt bronze out of a gas line and 2 electric leafblowers... I think it's time to upgrade that hair dryer!
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