Wow, it's nice to see a look behind the scenes at redhat. It sounds like a very nice environment to work in.. Especially with not having to deal with BSODs all day.:-)
When the lights temporarily went out, Torvalds wondered aloud, "What's going on in this place? The whole show floor is controlled by Microsoft."
That was great. Much more better than the "duh" reaction Microsoft gave off when they BSOD'ed last year. Not many speakers can improvise in a moment's notice in front of 600+ people.
I think they should just stop concentrating on making Star Wars movies and put all their time into making trailers. They can charge $2 extra for admission to every movie that has the trailer, there you go!
MS Audio 4.0 encoding results in smaller files than MP3 by half, with the same quality.
No it doesn't. I've encoded samples in both. M$ comes out almost 100K fatter than MP3 when encoded on the same bitrate settings. The smaller file size you're seeing in M$ propaganda is referring to their FM Audio codec, which, while not the quality of MP3, still gets some pretty impressive numbers. For them to try to transparently compare their FM Audio codec to "CD" Quality MP3 is sneaky, and very Microsoftian of them.
Here we have a sample 7 minute 27 second song. If you encode using 128kbps on both encoders, MP3 pans out at 7,164,784 while M$ pans out at 7,258,922.
M$'s "32kbps, 44 kHz, stereo" codec (tagged as "FM Audio") smashes the size down to 1.76 MB. The sound is still pretty impressive for that size (remember, this is a 7 minute 27 second song), though it does sound like a low-quality cassette tape recording.
Conclusion: M$ will make new breakthroughs on streaming over low-speed dialup type connections (watch out, RealAudio), but for high quality audio, MP3 is safe for the time being.
This sounds like it might pose a problem for IRC networks (especially commercially-backed ones like DALnet) with OPERs volunteering their services. It'll be interesting to see where this one goes.
I left high school and managed to get a great job at an ISP as a programmer and sysadmin based on my UNIX knowledge (which I'd not have had Linux and FreeBSD not existed at the time). I'm sure a diploma will probably mean something some day, but I'm currently too busy making money to even worry about it.
I don't think MP3 will "die" any time soon. It's not like it's a company that'll just cease to exist at some defined point. I'm positive it'll be replaced by better technologies down the road, but its successor won't be a proprietary format. The beauty of audio is that it's simple as hell to reproduce.
Honestly, I don't think Microsoft will ever open their source to any usable degree. Their past tactics have shown that they're only interested in everything being proprietary to themselves.
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"Microsoft Daily News"? And I thought those weirdos over at The 700 Club were biased..
Judging on SCO's latest crazy antics involving anything Linux, I'd have to say that they're the "Punk Kids" in this argument.
Wow, it's nice to see a look behind the scenes at redhat. It sounds like a very nice environment to work in.. Especially with not having to deal with BSODs all day. :-)
With Intel's recent support of more open alternatives to Microsoft OSes, it'll be interesting to see what they base their network on.
Odd, at work I often ask myself the opposite of that question.
Possibly, but you can probably get the same stuff (only more accurate) at your local library.
You know it's a good product when they sell it using blinking yellow text. :-)
That was great. Much more better than the "duh" reaction Microsoft gave off when they BSOD'ed last year. Not many speakers can improvise in a moment's notice in front of 600+ people.
I think they should just stop concentrating on making Star Wars movies and put all their time into making trailers. They can charge $2 extra for admission to every movie that has the trailer, there you go!
There have been interesting discussions on SlashNET IRC about this over the past few days (how to implement such a protocol, how to design it, etc.)
The version given in the encoder is: 4.0.0.3688.
No it doesn't. I've encoded samples in both. M$ comes out almost 100K fatter than MP3 when encoded on the same bitrate settings. The smaller file size you're seeing in M$ propaganda is referring to their FM Audio codec, which, while not the quality of MP3, still gets some pretty impressive numbers. For them to try to transparently compare their FM Audio codec to "CD" Quality MP3 is sneaky, and very Microsoftian of them.
Here we have a sample 7 minute 27 second song. If you encode using 128kbps on both encoders, MP3 pans out at 7,164,784 while M$ pans out at 7,258,922.
M$'s "32kbps, 44 kHz, stereo" codec (tagged as "FM Audio") smashes the size down to 1.76 MB. The sound is still pretty impressive for that size (remember, this is a 7 minute 27 second song), though it does sound like a low-quality cassette tape recording.
Conclusion: M$ will make new breakthroughs on streaming over low-speed dialup type connections (watch out, RealAudio), but for high quality audio, MP3 is safe for the time being.
It's nice to see FreeBSD get some good press. If I was asked to choose one free Unix to standardize on, I'd choose FreeBSD.
Now if only it didn't report oddly encrypted data back to the NeoPlanet collective every time you start and quit it...
I don't know about Caldera, but installation of Redhat is easier than Windows 95/98/NT all rolled together.
Oh, wait, that's not an alternate universe; it's the future..
1.) Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
2.) Linux NOW!
3.) Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit
(etc.)
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I see M$ is still up to their old tricks. Oh well. It'll be nice in a few years when they're not even around anymore.
Somehow, I think netsol would do a better job than Sprint and AOL.
I left high school and managed to get a great job at an ISP as a programmer and sysadmin based on my UNIX knowledge (which I'd not have had Linux and FreeBSD not existed at the time). I'm sure a diploma will probably mean something some day, but I'm currently too busy making money to even worry about it.
I don't think MP3 will "die" any time soon. It's not like it's a company that'll just cease to exist at some defined point. I'm positive it'll be replaced by better technologies down the road, but its successor won't be a proprietary format. The beauty of audio is that it's simple as hell to reproduce.
Honestly, I don't think Microsoft will ever open their source to any usable degree. Their past tactics have shown that they're only interested in everything being proprietary to themselves.
Now to find fifty self-addressed stamped envelopes.. }:>