From comparing the movies together, it appears they re filmed that whole sequence - they don't look like the same women (one is taller, slightly older)
What are you talking about, you silly little man. SoundJam was written be Cassidy and Greene, yes, but they certainly didn't write their own mp3 encoder. As clearly stated in the about box, it's the official licensed thomson/fraunhofer codec which is regarded as one of the only codecs that can still stand up to LAME in quality - they developed mp3, after all.
Note: yes, I would still prefer LAME too because it's highly configurable, but it's foolish to insinuate that iTunes' encoder is inferior in any way when this clearly isn't the case.
Yes - 192khz - because even a fucking dog can't hear sound waves which oscillate at 96,000 times a second - but any good red blooded audiophile will try to convince you they can.
Yes it's a standard; it's part of the MPEG-4 standard. Just like MP3 is a standard, and just like MPEG-1 video and MPEG-2 video (DVD) are also standards.
The MP3/AAC licensing costs are miniscule compared to the cost of the rest of the components. It's probably in the range of 50c - $1 per device, or less.The cost of the RAM/HD is 100x any licensing costs.
The file transfers would be disgustingly slow because of the overhead required to transcode every file to the machine. And it would need proprietary software to put music on it (to do the transcoding) which is one of the few complaints people have about the iPod.
It won't be a problem in the future because CBTTCPA (or whatever the fuck it is) will be in effect and any video camera/microphone will shut off when copyrighted material is detected, and thus closing the analog loophole.
And if you think that in 5-10 years (or less) that law won't be put into effect then you're going to be in for a rude, rude shock.
When I read the headline the first thing that popped into my head was that someone had branched Plex86 and started a real XBox emulator. Now THAT would be newsworthy, as opposed to this butt ugly casing...
I would just like to have a whinge at all these posts which claim WMA is better supported on portable players than AAC.
This may be true with plain vanilla WMA, but I have yet to see a portable player (except the Napster one) that plays WMA9 (completely different codec, proprietry, not backwards compatible) with DRM. Yes, many players can decode the old and unencrypted WMA, but that's not what you're downloading on these services.
Everywhere I'm reading says that at 128k/bit AAC sounds better than WMA/WMA9 (and I can't imagine iTMS employees sitting around an iMac feeding it CD's all day long, they would use a professional grade encoder/ripper) and unlike WMA it's also an open standard. (part of the MPEG-4 specification) I also recall seeing a link some time ago which explained that even their encryption method was the MPEG-4 approved one and not some in-house proprietary thing.
Not that any of this concerns me because I'm silly enough to live in Australia where it's not available and where our Government has the opinion that broadband is only useful for games and porn...sigh..
Let me guess, you get embarrassed when you buy condoms and the cashier has to scan them too?
I highly doubt they would care much about your monthly subscription to "Busty Babes", you'd just be a lone name in a pool of hundreds or thousands that they process daily...
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you heterosexuals? I've been sitting here on a sofa getting my cock sucked by a beautiful woman (a red headed, busty swedish girl) for about 20 minutes now while she attempting to make me cum. 20 minutes. At home with my moderately plain boyfriend, which by all standards should be a lot uglier than this chick, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition during this blowjob attempt I can't watch television. I can't even reach the chips on the coffee table, my life has ground to a halt. I'm straining to keep it up.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while dealing with females in general, but suffice it to say there have been many - not the least of which is, I've never seen a female ejaculate as much as it's male counterpart, despite the females obviously larger reservoir . My 50 year old plumber who is clinically sterile cums more than this girl at times, which isn't surprising as the girl is often menstruating, or complains of a headache. From a purely pleasure standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that heterosexuality a superior orientation.
Sex addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose twat over other bigger, more readily available glands.
If linux is trying to proposition itself to be successful desktop OS, why the hell should the end user have to know what GUI toolbox any particular app was written in? That's absurd.
What does being able to code have to do with interface design? Usually the people who are good at coding have no idea on how to design a decent interface and this is precisely the crux of the problem I outlined in my original post.
I'm not a clueless mac bigot, it's just that I have used a number of operating systems (BeOS, NeXTSTEP, Amiga, Windows, QNX, Mac OS 9) over the years and linux has by far the most nonstandard and confusing out of the lot; the way it looks bad reminds me of a java application using Swing.
I think linux is a great operating system - it's stable, fast, and free - the interface just stinks.
* I know the linux is just a kernel and the gui is other software all together, blah blah save it.
I'm looking at the screenshots; the backdrop is over-compressed and too low resolution, the KDE (or is it gnome) taskbar-wannabe still looks plain and bland, as if they've somehow tried to round the 3d appearance of the buttons (and it looks like ass), The fonts are badly hinted and waaay too thin, and just generally not visually appealing, the underlining of the letters in the menu looks like something from Windows 3.1...actually, it's mostly just the fonts (and whatever engine draws and renders the glyphs), and the ugly 3d elements.
The Media Player winamp thingy looks great, beautiful clean interface with nice fonts. The rest of the OS? not so good. It reminds me of the harsh appearance of intuition on the Amiga. The shades which make the GUI elements look 3d need to be waaay more subtle. And just stupid things like in the panel at the top of the screen, the icons are just rammed across the top of the screen, with not so much as a 2 pixel border to make them look nice (look at the XMMS icon). And those two buttons near the xchat icon stick out like zits on a teenager.
Compare to the elegance of this. Ignore the one pixel cut off on the left side of the toolbar buttons (beta software glitch...)
Perhaps it's just what you're used to, but most people seem to agree the UI in linux is it's worse attribute, and that it's one of OS X's best. Please, PLEASE steal some ideas, and/or concepts. Go read Apple's UI guide, or even Microsoft's if they have one.
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Whats the bloody point of making a 64 bit capable motherboard with a max ram of 2GB?
You have a point, but when dealing with bit-rates this low, often a more achievable goal is to make it sound as pleasant to the ear as possible, not be as close to the original as possible.
It's like when you get down to bit-rates like 8kbit/sec for speech encoding, you want it to sound as intelligible as possible, not as much like the original speaker.
I don't feel like sorting through 783 messages at the time of post, but is this bug x86 specific? Would sshd on 68k or PPC be vulnerable? *worried about his OS X installation*
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From comparing the movies together, it appears they re filmed that whole sequence - they don't look like the same women (one is taller, slightly older)
Bounder: Ah good morning. I'm Bounder of Adventure
Tourist: My name is Smoke-too-much
Bounder: Well you'd better cut down a little then
Tourist: What?
Bounder: You'd better cut down a little thenTourist: Oh I see! Cut down a little then.....
Bounder: Yes...I expect you get people making jokes about your name all the time?
Tourist: No, no actually it never struck me before. Smoke...to...much....(laughs)
Bounder: Anyway you're interested in one of our adventure holidays?
Guys, it looks like ass.
Note: yes, I would still prefer LAME too because it's highly configurable, but it's foolish to insinuate that iTunes' encoder is inferior in any way when this clearly isn't the case.
Yes - 192khz - because even a fucking dog can't hear sound waves which oscillate at 96,000 times a second - but any good red blooded audiophile will try to convince you they can.
By the way, most digital music players are iPods.
Only photoshop for windows uses MDI, gimp and photoshop for mac/mac os x both have floating palettes which are dual monitor friendly..
Just to nitpick, but there was no Black and White G4, there was a Blue and White G3 (B&W), and the earliest G4's were Graphite.
The MP3/AAC licensing costs are miniscule compared to the cost of the rest of the components. It's probably in the range of 50c - $1 per device, or less.The cost of the RAM/HD is 100x any licensing costs.
The file transfers would be disgustingly slow because of the overhead required to transcode every file to the machine. And it would need proprietary software to put music on it (to do the transcoding) which is one of the few complaints people have about the iPod.
Vorbis is nice, but it is inferior, sound quality wise to WMA Pro, AAC, and MusePack, and it's never going to be popular (in a marketshare sense). I know it hurts to hear it, but it's true.
And if you think that in 5-10 years (or less) that law won't be put into effect then you're going to be in for a rude, rude shock.
The future looks very bleak my friends...
Actually, that was Unix. It was A/UX 3.0x running on a Quadra 700. More info here.
When I read the headline the first thing that popped into my head was that someone had branched Plex86 and started a real XBox emulator. Now THAT would be newsworthy, as opposed to this butt ugly casing...
Mac OS X seems to accomplish this without any issues, even on low end (16Mb radeon) cards.
This may be true with plain vanilla WMA, but I have yet to see a portable player (except the Napster one) that plays WMA9 (completely different codec, proprietry, not backwards compatible) with DRM. Yes, many players can decode the old and unencrypted WMA, but that's not what you're downloading on these services.
Everywhere I'm reading says that at 128k/bit AAC sounds better than WMA/WMA9 (and I can't imagine iTMS employees sitting around an iMac feeding it CD's all day long, they would use a professional grade encoder/ripper) and unlike WMA it's also an open standard. (part of the MPEG-4 specification) I also recall seeing a link some time ago which explained that even their encryption method was the MPEG-4 approved one and not some in-house proprietary thing.
Not that any of this concerns me because I'm silly enough to live in Australia where it's not available and where our Government has the opinion that broadband is only useful for games and porn...sigh..
Actually the original version of Plaintalk did work on a 25mhz 68040...admittedly there were onboard AT&T DSP's to help it along a little...
I highly doubt they would care much about your monthly subscription to "Busty Babes", you'd just be a lone name in a pool of hundreds or thousands that they process daily...
Just remember, if you only ever compare America to the worst possible, then you won't see how bad it's gotten until too late.
In addition during this blowjob attempt I can't watch television. I can't even reach the chips on the coffee table, my life has ground to a halt. I'm straining to keep it up.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while dealing with females in general, but suffice it to say there have been many - not the least of which is, I've never seen a female ejaculate as much as it's male counterpart, despite the females obviously larger reservoir . My 50 year old plumber who is clinically sterile cums more than this girl at times, which isn't surprising as the girl is often menstruating, or complains of a headache. From a purely pleasure standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that heterosexuality a superior orientation.
Sex addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose twat over other bigger, more readily available glands.
If linux is trying to proposition itself to be successful desktop OS, why the hell should the end user have to know what GUI toolbox any particular app was written in? That's absurd.
I'm not a clueless mac bigot, it's just that I have used a number of operating systems (BeOS, NeXTSTEP, Amiga, Windows, QNX, Mac OS 9) over the years and linux has by far the most nonstandard and confusing out of the lot; the way it looks bad reminds me of a java application using Swing.
I think linux is a great operating system - it's stable, fast, and free - the interface just stinks.
* I know the linux is just a kernel and the gui is other software all together, blah blah save it.
Themes = putting lipstick on a chicken.
I'm looking at the screenshots; the backdrop is over-compressed and too low resolution, the KDE (or is it gnome) taskbar-wannabe still looks plain and bland, as if they've somehow tried to round the 3d appearance of the buttons (and it looks like ass), The fonts are badly hinted and waaay too thin, and just generally not visually appealing, the underlining of the letters in the menu looks like something from Windows 3.1...actually, it's mostly just the fonts (and whatever engine draws and renders the glyphs), and the ugly 3d elements.
The Media Player winamp thingy looks great, beautiful clean interface with nice fonts. The rest of the OS? not so good. It reminds me of the harsh appearance of intuition on the Amiga. The shades which make the GUI elements look 3d need to be waaay more subtle. And just stupid things like in the panel at the top of the screen, the icons are just rammed across the top of the screen, with not so much as a 2 pixel border to make them look nice (look at the XMMS icon). And those two buttons near the xchat icon stick out like zits on a teenager.
Compare to the elegance of this. Ignore the one pixel cut off on the left side of the toolbar buttons (beta software glitch...)
Perhaps it's just what you're used to, but most people seem to agree the UI in linux is it's worse attribute, and that it's one of OS X's best. Please, PLEASE steal some ideas, and/or concepts. Go read Apple's UI guide, or even Microsoft's if they have one.
--THIS IS NOT A TROLL, THIS IS CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM--
Whats the bloody point of making a 64 bit capable motherboard with a max ram of 2GB?
I'll never understand PC's.... ::shakes head::
It's like when you get down to bit-rates like 8kbit/sec for speech encoding, you want it to sound as intelligible as possible, not as much like the original speaker.
I don't feel like sorting through 783 messages at the time of post, but is this bug x86 specific? Would sshd on 68k or PPC be vulnerable? *worried about his OS X installation*