If you truly belive in "try before you buy", delete all the mp3's you aren't going to buy in the store.
I've done this in the past, and I will do again. You may download music with no intention of buying the CDs, but don't assume everyone else is like you.
I preferred the Playstation version, although they had to change the name and a few minor features so both could claim to be 'exclusives':).
Re:Most embedded systems don't have an FPU
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The Future of Ogg Vorbis
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There's good news about the empeg - it looks like they're going to be granted a free licence to the Vorbis integer code, so you'll be seeing Vorbis support on the empeg quite soon.
Ogg *has* a decoder that doesn't use floating point - it's available for licencing from the Xiph people (this is one of the ways that they intend to actually *pay* for all of the development that they've been doing).
Sorry DivX Networks.. your time in the limelight is over. Time for a better codec to come around
You should check out XviD - developed from the open codebase that DivX4 also came from, but completely free (GPL, even). It doesn't have B-frame support yet, so it doesn't compress as well as DivX5, but it's easily a match for DivX4.
The best place to find information about XviD is to read the XviD forum at
Doom9 - many of the XviD developers are active participants there.
Yes, a pound sign. The hash symbol is directly above the right shift key.
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Does KDE by any chance now support edge flipping
Yes, it does. Although, you could have had this feature in KDE 2 just by using a window manager other than kwin.
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About screenshots:
KDE 3 is very tunable, but most of the user interface hasn't changed significantly from KDE 2.2.2 (most of the work has been in polishing the internals, to correspond to the move to Qt 3) - apart from a couple of things, like the new file selection dialogue. Your best bet to see what KDE 3 can do is to go to the KDE theme website, KDE-Look.org.
Tarkin is in the same state that Vorbis was 3 years ago. No-one sensible thinks that it should be competing with MPEG-4/Sorensen/VP* at the moment. No-one connected with the project (only a couple of people, working in their spare time) has been promoting this project as competitive -- only some losers who hype every piece of open source software, no matter how far along in development the software it.
Come back in 2/3 years, and Tarkin will be looking much better.
I agree - there are many worse ways that they could have handled their banner ads (interstitial for example, or moving around the page, as I've seen on certain other sites). However, I'm really not convinced about the efficacy of graphical ads at all.
For a start, graphical ads are easy to block (by not loading images). Secondly, they miss out part of the audience (those using non-graphical browsers). Thirdly, the animated ones are almost entirely annoying rather than informative - and irritation is not an emotion I'd want associated with my product, were I advertising. Fourthly, the companies that control graphical banner ads (doubleclick et al) have a very bad privacy reputation. Fifthly, banner ads have been around for so long that most people just filter them out automatically - it won't take long for that to also happen to the new, larger graphical ads.
The most effective ads that I've seen recently have been those on Google. Because they are actually related to the search you have entered, and because you don't feel that they are being forced upon you. I've found myself clicking on several in the last month - I can't remember the last time that I actually clicked on a graphical banner add, but it was certainly more than 18 months ago.
Kuro5hin has recently introduced subtle text advertisments on its main page. They are not targeted, so they are less useful than Google's ads, but I'm still more likely to look at them than I an to look at a banner ad.
The Windows port is being worked on, but won't be released until they've had the chance to finalise the protocol, using the UNIX-based users as testers. That way they can be sure that the protocol will scale properly before it's massively stressed.
The content on k5 is *completely* determined by the users. If there is stuff you'd rather see there, then subscribe, get a few of your friends to subscribe, and start posting the sort of articles that *you* want.
I'd love to see more technical/IT articles on k5, just like you.
You should probably switch from using DivX 3.11 to using XviD (the free continuation of the OpenDivX project). Recent viewing tests at Doom9 have shown that it has at least as good quality as DivX 3.11 and DivX 4, but you get the extra benefit of it being open, and rapidly developed.
Also, you probably want to switch to using something like the excellent Gordian Knot (see the download link at Doom9 for it). See the ripping/encoding guides at Doom9.
It contains one of my favourite passages in a crypto paper:
"Cryptanalysis of GDES... The special case of q=8 and n=16, which is suggested in [16,18] as a faster and more secure alternative to DES is breakable with just six ciphertexts in a fraction of a second on a personal computer." [and that was a personal computer from 1991:)].
.ogg is a media container, like.avi,.asf, (or.mov -- Quicktime -- which is a better comparison).
Vorbis is an audio codec. You can in principle use Vorbis outside of its Ogg wrapper (there is code to do this in recent versions of NanDub, but it never really left the experimental stage).
More interestingly, you can wrap DivX video + Vorbis audio (+ subtitles, + anything else) inside an Ogg wrapper, and get a versatile, streamable replacement for.avi files. See doom9.org for more information on this (note that people have taken to giving ogg movies the extension.ogm, due to everything in the Windows world being file extension based, and their being no good all-in-one.ogg audio/video player).
We need some real support for some real printers:(
Just about every Epson is supported very well with the gimp-print CUPS drivers. This is because Epson printers are not stupid win-printers, like many of the new HP's, and because the Epson printer language is quite well documented and understood.
So, real printers are supported. Terrible printers aren't.
Yes - the original poster has his facts completely wrong.
That screenshot was posted to
kde-look.org by a Gnome troller, along with the comment "no, sorry this is not KDE and i doubt that KDE will ever gonna look like this. well i bet a couple of you people gonna move to GNOME now.".
I'm not sure what the guy thought was unimplementable in KDE. SVG icons will be in KDE 3.1 (the patch
already exists, but came too late to be included in KDE 3.0 -- it will be in 3.1, however). The rest seems to be just window/background themes.
Do you REALLY go and buy a CD after having the MP3's in your hand ? Yes.
Even if the MP3's have been ripped and encoded decently (which is rare), they are still not as good as the original CD.
Here are some albums I bought recently that I would not have bought had I not heard them on MP3/Ogg first:
Lamb - Fear Of Fours (I then bought their other two)
Autechre - Amber
Fridge - Happiness (and then Semaphore)
Aphex Twin - Classics (and then two more)
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork (and then Not For Threes)
Leftfield - Leftism
Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming.
4 Hero - Creating Patterns (and then Two Pages)
In every single one of these cases, I would never have bought their music if I hadn't listened to it first - and MP3 is my only way, as none of these people are particularly mainstream here in the UK.
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We're not yet as lawsuit-crazed as in the US.
I've done this in the past, and I will do again. You may download music with no intention of buying the CDs, but don't assume everyone else is like you.
It won't be in Woody, which will become Debian 3.0. It's not even in Sid yet.
The New Tetris
:).
I preferred the Playstation version, although they had to change the name and a few minor features so both could claim to be 'exclusives'
See http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200204/0300.ht ml for more information.
Ogg *has* a decoder that doesn't use floating point - it's available for licencing from the Xiph people (this is one of the ways that they intend to actually *pay* for all of the development that they've been doing).
No, you couldn't care less about DivX.
Sorry DivX Networks.. your time in the limelight is over. Time for a better codec to come around
You should check out XviD - developed from the open codebase that DivX4 also came from, but completely free (GPL, even). It doesn't have B-frame support yet, so it doesn't compress as well as DivX5, but it's easily a match for DivX4.
The best place to find information about XviD is to read the XviD forum at Doom9 - many of the XviD developers are active participants there.
Notice what's above your 3 key?
Yes, a pound sign. The hash symbol is directly above the right shift key.
Yes, it does. Although, you could have had this feature in KDE 2 just by using a window manager other than kwin.
About screenshots:
KDE 3 is very tunable, but most of the user interface hasn't changed significantly from KDE 2.2.2 (most of the work has been in polishing the internals, to correspond to the move to Qt 3) - apart from a couple of things, like the new file selection dialogue. Your best bet to see what KDE 3 can do is to go to the KDE theme website, KDE-Look.org.
About the feature list:
Here is the internal KDE 3 feature plan. There's also a link there to the features planned to be in KDE 3.1.
Tarkin is not dead.
Tarkin is in the same state that Vorbis was 3 years ago. No-one sensible thinks that it should be competing with MPEG-4/Sorensen/VP* at the moment. No-one connected with the project (only a couple of people, working in their spare time) has been promoting this project as competitive -- only some losers who hype every piece of open source software, no matter how far along in development the software it.
Come back in 2/3 years, and Tarkin will be looking much better.
What's the downside of using the --no-g++-exceptions switch?
It means that you can't compile KDE programs which use C++ exceptions. This is fine for KDE 2, as there are basically no programs using exceptions.
Just remember - there is *no* Swedish conspiracy. Wink.
I think you're imparting *way* too much cleverness to Alanis :)
It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
It's a death-row pardon 10 minutes too late.
It's like rain on your wedding day.
It's like a song about irony where every single example was not ironic.
I agree - there are many worse ways that they could have handled their banner ads (interstitial for example, or moving around the page, as I've seen on certain other sites). However, I'm really not convinced about the efficacy of graphical ads at all.
For a start, graphical ads are easy to block (by not loading images). Secondly, they miss out part of the audience (those using non-graphical browsers). Thirdly, the animated ones are almost entirely annoying rather than informative - and irritation is not an emotion I'd want associated with my product, were I advertising. Fourthly, the companies that control graphical banner ads (doubleclick et al) have a very bad privacy reputation. Fifthly, banner ads have been around for so long that most people just filter them out automatically - it won't take long for that to also happen to the new, larger graphical ads.
The most effective ads that I've seen recently have been those on Google. Because they are actually related to the search you have entered, and because you don't feel that they are being forced upon you. I've found myself clicking on several in the last month - I can't remember the last time that I actually clicked on a graphical banner add, but it was certainly more than 18 months ago.
Kuro5hin has recently introduced subtle text advertisments on its main page. They are not targeted, so they are less useful than Google's ads, but I'm still more likely to look at them than I an to look at a banner ad.
There's a lot of violence inside you...
The Windows port is being worked on, but won't be released until they've had the chance to finalise the protocol, using the UNIX-based users as testers. That way they can be sure that the protocol will scale properly before it's massively stressed.
The content on k5 is *completely* determined by the users. If there is stuff you'd rather see there, then subscribe, get a few of your friends to subscribe, and start posting the sort of articles that *you* want.
I'd love to see more technical/IT articles on k5, just like you.
If there are X-10 ad, or pop-unders of any sort, I won't be subscribing. I'll be leaving.
You should probably switch from using DivX 3.11 to using XviD (the free continuation of the OpenDivX project). Recent viewing tests at
Doom9 have shown that it has at least as good quality as DivX 3.11 and DivX 4, but you get the extra benefit of it being open, and rapidly developed.
Also, you probably want to switch to using something like the excellent Gordian Knot (see the download link at Doom9 for it). See the ripping/encoding guides at Doom9.
Biham, Shamir - Differential Analysis of DES-Like Cryptosystems.
It contains one of my favourite passages in a crypto paper: "Cryptanalysis of GDES... The special case of q=8 and n=16, which is suggested in [16,18] as a faster and more secure alternative to DES is breakable with just six ciphertexts in a fraction of a second on a personal computer." [and that was a personal computer from 1991 :)].
.ogg is a media container, like .avi, .asf, (or .mov -- Quicktime -- which is a better comparison).
.avi files. See doom9.org for more information on this (note that people have taken to giving ogg movies the extension .ogm, due to everything in the Windows world being file extension based, and their being no good all-in-one .ogg audio/video player).
Vorbis is an audio codec. You can in principle use Vorbis outside of its Ogg wrapper (there is code to do this in recent versions of NanDub, but it never really left the experimental stage).
More interestingly, you can wrap DivX video + Vorbis audio (+ subtitles, + anything else) inside an Ogg wrapper, and get a versatile, streamable replacement for
We need some real support for some real printers :(
Just about every Epson is supported very well with the gimp-print CUPS drivers. This is because Epson printers are not stupid win-printers, like many of the new HP's, and because the Epson printer language is quite well documented and understood.
So, real printers are supported. Terrible printers aren't.
That screenshot was posted to kde-look.org by a Gnome troller, along with the comment "no, sorry this is not KDE and i doubt that KDE will ever gonna look like this. well i bet a couple of you people gonna move to GNOME now.".
I'm not sure what the guy thought was unimplementable in KDE. SVG icons will be in KDE 3.1 (the patch already exists, but came too late to be included in KDE 3.0 -- it will be in 3.1, however). The rest seems to be just window/background themes.
Do you REALLY go and buy a CD after having the MP3's in your hand ?
Yes.
Even if the MP3's have been ripped and encoded decently (which is rare), they are still not as good as the original CD.
Here are some albums I bought recently that I would not have bought had I not heard them on MP3/Ogg first:
Lamb - Fear Of Fours (I then bought their other two)
Autechre - Amber
Fridge - Happiness (and then Semaphore)
Aphex Twin - Classics (and then two more)
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork (and then Not For Threes)
Leftfield - Leftism
Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming.
4 Hero - Creating Patterns (and then Two Pages)
In every single one of these cases, I would never have bought their music if I hadn't listened to it first - and MP3 is my only way, as none of these people are particularly mainstream here in the UK.