r3mix.net cited a blind listening test of 300 audiophiles using some $30,000 worth of equipment and they concluded that mp3 @ 256kbit/s encoded using lame or some Fraunhofer codecs is equivalent to cd quality. And now that lame's vbr encoding has matured, achieving archival quality, why is this guy complaining about the lack of quality compression schemes?
This is along the same lines as the folks who thought Sesame Street, by combining mildly educational material with highly visual and dynamic entertaining material, could increase a childs desire to learn. Studies have shown the opposite to be true. Sesame Street teaches children to love learning only if it is presented like Sesame Street. It's also along the same lines as the teacher who combined rap music in his classroom to help his students learn the gettysburg address, or the teacher who used rock music to teach his students about our founding fathers. Its rubbish, not to mention very expensive.
Thats a crock. I'm sure they ruled out the following people:
1) People who dont own a computer.
2)People who don't know what an mp3 is.
3)People who don't own a burner.
4)People who do not use the internet.
You are left with a *very* small percentage of people burning cd's compared to the countless droves of consumers who purchase cd's without knowing that it's all free;)
Actually it affects both hotmail and yahoo mail. If you read norton's write up, it reads temporary internet files and grabs email address from there as well.
Please mod his comment down it is false. From http://www.norton.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sirca m.worm@mm.html
10. The worm contains its own SMTP server which is used for the email routine. It obtains email addresses through two different methods:
It searches the folder that is referred to by the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Shell Folders\Startup\Cache
for sho*., get*., hot*., *.htm files, and copies email addresses from there into the file %Windows%\sc??.dll (where ? is a random letter and number).
It searches the entire drive for *.wab (all Windows Address Books) and copies addresses from there.
I will never again buy a game right after it comes out. I's only buys games that have been out for a minimum of three months. I learned my lesson after buying Tribes 2 and B&W for $50 a pop. $100+ poorer and I still had spare time on my hands? Unacceptable!
This article is poking fun at the geek community, in a trollish sort of way. I thought it was obvious but maybe not.
"I can plug in a 80 gigabyte disk and store 16 hours of video on it or up to 500 hours of audio. Now we attach it to a free satellite, slow, trickle charge. We can put anything on the disk you want to know about clean water, latrines and do it in whatever language," Gage said.
The clues are right there. Where in the world are they gonna find 100,000 playstations? What will be used to power them?
I used to lug my [parents] computer over to my friends house, and we would play descent over a null-modem cable. We used to stay up all night playing level 7, and trying to see how fast we could beat the last level together. We were so desperate to play, my friend played on a 483 sx-33 (meaning of course that the screen had to be *TINY* to be playable) with a mouse and NO SOUND when his computer was in the shop! I of course was the better player since I always ended up on top at the end. One time, I met a guy at school that said he was a good player. He bet me $1 for every kill I was above him at the end of the match. That was the fastest $20 I ever earned! Descent was and still is an awesome game. You can still find quite a following on Kali. I used to be a member but I lost all my reg info and descent doesnt work in win2k:(
Actually, the brain was designed for limitless capacity. Every few years, they come to the realization that we are using even less of our brains capacity than we previously thought within our limited life span. They used to think that a genius like Einstein used 10%, now they say somewhere along one hundredth of a percent.
My theory is that our brain's capacity follows the fractal geometry of nature. Infinte, but within certain limits.
All I know, is that if the big record labels come out with a service that in any way resembles our beloved Napster, there is gonna be hell to pay. It is obvious to any one with half a wit that they are so aggressive against Napster only because a pimply teenager beat them to it. Add on top of that Napster helps traditional record sales and I'm baffled! WTF IS GOING ON?
America was created an oligarchy. American was initially governed by those who had a stake in the system. The authors of the constitution were very wealthy, and intentionally formed it to sustain the ruling elite. They realized the stark contrast between the educated upper class, and the uneducated poor. By these comments I am not supporting any particular type of govt. but I personally believe that bipartisan politics is tearing this country apart.
Katz should be commended for delving into the sociological implications of the internet and technology. It is very difficult to explain issues that are so vast, universal, and real, but cannot be summed up in a mathematical formula, or a computer algorithm. Unlike our politicians, he refuses to reduce these issues to their simplest form. That at least is a start.
3-4 days to set up a windows 2000 desktop at $20/hr?!?!?! God, they need to get rid of you and hire me. At my old company, I could take my time and have a win2000 machine up in 4 hrs, even given only adequate hardware. That includes office 2000, service pack 2 and setting up their mail etc. I got laid off last month, and here I am stuck at the fscking university making beans for pay. Seriously, your company needs to HIRE ME!!!
Re:I Never Thought I'd Hear It. You didn't!
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The devices are better. Not the OS. Last time I checked MS didn't make the devices. Companies like HP, Casio, and Compaq make the devices. The fact that they run an MS OS is secondary. That reasoning contradicts the Slashdot mentality that if it runs Linux, then its automatically good and very newsworthy. But now when an editor gives obvious praise to a Microsoft product, he really was just talking about the hardware. This reasoning reeks of determinism, telling people that they couldn't possibly like a MS product because Microsoft products are inherently inferior, which isnt true in the first place.
Lets get some things straight
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The only reasons they chose linux is because its 1)Free 2)Open Source Not because its faster, more stable, easier to work with, or produces better visuals as some have implied thusfar. Also, can someone tell me if a company can use and modify open source software while profiting from its use?
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Imagine the slashdot effect when everyone has 100mb?;) Readlly though, such a service will only be profitable if you can sell services to the average consumer. Examples of such are obviously telephone, tv/movies, MUSIC, video conferencing. What good will my 100 megabit connection do me if trading movies and mp3s is illegal under the DCMA. It makes me wonder what will all that bandwidth be for, if we can't do anything k3wl with it!
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r3mix.net cited a blind listening test of 300 audiophiles using some $30,000 worth of equipment and they concluded that mp3 @ 256kbit/s encoded using lame or some Fraunhofer codecs is equivalent to cd quality. And now that lame's vbr encoding has matured, achieving archival quality, why is this guy complaining about the lack of quality compression schemes?
Worlds largest crack/xxx/iso/divx/pr0n server!
I've seen it happen to production servers b4 ">
This is along the same lines as the folks who thought Sesame Street, by combining mildly educational material with highly visual and dynamic entertaining material, could increase a childs desire to learn. Studies have shown the opposite to be true. Sesame Street teaches children to love learning only if it is presented like Sesame Street. It's also along the same lines as the teacher who combined rap music in his classroom to help his students learn the gettysburg address, or the teacher who used rock music to teach his students about our founding fathers. Its rubbish, not to mention very expensive.
1) People who dont own a computer.
2)People who don't know what an mp3 is.
3)People who don't own a burner.
4)People who do not use the internet.
You are left with a *very* small percentage of people burning cd's compared to the countless droves of consumers who purchase cd's without knowing that it's all free
Please mod his comment down it is false.
From http://www.norton.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sirc
10. The worm contains its own SMTP server which is used for the email routine. It obtains email addresses through two different methods:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Shell Folders\Startup\Cache
for sho*., get*., hot*., *.htm files, and copies email addresses from there into the file %Windows%\sc??.dll (where ? is a random letter and number).
I will never again buy a game right after it comes out. I's only buys games that have been out for a minimum of three months. I learned my lesson after buying Tribes 2 and B&W for $50 a pop. $100+ poorer and I still had spare time on my hands? Unacceptable!
This article is poking fun at the geek community, in a trollish sort of way. I thought it was obvious but maybe not.
"I can plug in a 80 gigabyte disk and store 16 hours of video on it or up to 500 hours of audio. Now we attach it to a free satellite, slow, trickle charge. We can put anything on the disk you want to know about clean water, latrines and do it in whatever language," Gage said.
The clues are right there. Where in the world are they gonna find 100,000 playstations? What will be used to power them?
I used to lug my [parents] computer over to my friends house, and we would play descent over a null-modem cable. We used to stay up all night playing level 7, and trying to see how fast we could beat the last level together. We were so desperate to play, my friend played on a 483 sx-33 (meaning of course that the screen had to be *TINY* to be playable) with a mouse and NO SOUND when his computer was in the shop! I of course was the better player since I always ended up on top at the end.
One time, I met a guy at school that said he was a good player. He bet me $1 for every kill I was above him at the end of the match. That was the fastest $20 I ever earned!
Descent was and still is an awesome game. You can still find quite a following on Kali. I used to be a member but I lost all my reg info and descent doesnt work in win2k
Actually, the brain was designed for limitless capacity. Every few years, they come to the realization that we are using even less of our brains capacity than we previously thought within our limited life span. They used to think that a genius like Einstein used 10%, now they say somewhere along one hundredth of a percent.
My theory is that our brain's capacity follows the fractal geometry of nature. Infinte, but within certain limits.
All I know, is that if the big record labels come out with a service that in any way resembles our beloved Napster, there is gonna be hell to pay. It is obvious to any one with half a wit that they are so aggressive against Napster only because a pimply teenager beat them to it. Add on top of that Napster helps traditional record sales and I'm baffled! WTF IS GOING ON?
America was created an oligarchy. American was initially governed by those who had a stake in the system. The authors of the constitution were very wealthy, and intentionally formed it to sustain the ruling elite. They realized the stark contrast between the educated upper class, and the uneducated poor. By these comments I am not supporting any particular type of govt. but I personally believe that bipartisan politics is tearing this country apart.
Katz should be commended for delving into the sociological implications of the internet and technology. It is very difficult to explain issues that are so vast, universal, and real, but cannot be summed up in a mathematical formula, or a computer algorithm. Unlike our politicians, he refuses to reduce these issues to their simplest form. That at least is a start.
3-4 days to set up a windows 2000 desktop at $20/hr?!?!?! God, they need to get rid of you and hire me. At my old company, I could take my time and have a win2000 machine up in 4 hrs, even given only adequate hardware. That includes office 2000, service pack 2 and setting up their mail etc.
I got laid off last month, and here I am stuck at the fscking university making beans for pay. Seriously, your company needs to HIRE ME!!!
The devices are better. Not the OS. Last time I checked MS didn't make the devices. Companies like HP, Casio, and Compaq make the devices. The fact that they run an MS OS is secondary.
That reasoning contradicts the Slashdot mentality that if it runs Linux, then its automatically good and very newsworthy. But now when an editor gives obvious praise to a Microsoft product, he really was just talking about the hardware. This reasoning reeks of determinism, telling people that they couldn't possibly like a MS product because Microsoft products are inherently inferior, which isnt true in the first place.
The only reasons they chose linux is because its
1)Free
2)Open Source
Not because its faster, more stable, easier to work with, or produces better visuals as some have implied thusfar.
Also, can someone tell me if a company can use and modify open source software while profiting from its use?
Thanks!
Imagine the slashdot effect when everyone has 100mb? ;) Readlly though, such a service will only be profitable if you can sell services to the average consumer. Examples of such are obviously telephone, tv/movies, MUSIC, video conferencing. What good will my 100 megabit connection do me if trading movies and mp3s is illegal under the DCMA. It makes me wonder what will all that bandwidth be for, if we can't do anything k3wl with it!
Give me a f***ing break!