"I didn't do a scientific study but on several songs with quiet passages the MP3 version sucks compared to AAC, and the MP3 was encoded at the max bit rate"
Apparently the parent encoded his MP3's at a higher quality bit-rate to make up for a perceived lack of sound quality.
This is just silly. Getting more people on the inernet isn't just going to suddenly wipe out conservatives. Just as for everly liberal blog there's a conservative one, there'll be a conervative homebrew movie about how bad a president Clinton was for every Liberal movie about how bad a president Bush Jr is(or was).
You made all my points for me about the barriers for entry being made cheaper.
The internet is an Equalizer for the flow of information, which is not the same thing as "Liberal Paradise".
"White Knights" are a horrible idea. They're a horrible idea for the very same reasons letting MS automatically push upadates onto your computer without your knowledge or permission are a bad idea.
It's not for someone who "knows better" to decide for me how to "Secure" my computer. What happens if one of these virus-like apps(either from MS or a third part) "patches" my server with my multi-million dollar application system and somehow breaks it, as unintentional as it may be?
If these hackers want to do good and create 3rd party patches that people can download and install on their own, that's one thing and I applaud them for their efforts. But, please, don't insult my intelligence and do something that's "best" for me without my knowledge or consent.
For better or for worse, this is basically the same arguement that Baseball players used in the 1994 strike. It's not that they don't they're getting paid enough to live, it's that they see Fox making millions and millions of dollars. When a business is successful, you usually reward employee's with raises.
It's the same thing any/. would do if their amazing new fangled program started making a company a boatload of profit.
However, the money values are so extreme in this case that I agree it's it seems almost pointless to us.
Good luck to the guy, I'm from the US so I doubt I have a chance at finding his stuff.
But here are the more interesting questions: How often do people submit stories like that now? And since this one was posted, how often will stories like this be posted in the future?
"Could just be my impression, however I can't think of the last time I saw BSD mentioned in any trad mag. for any industry as an alternative to windows."
Well, that is partially the problem. Most people, myself included, tend to equate all the open source *nix's as one big thing. And then we just say linux because it's easier to explain.
Visiting colleague: "What server are you running?" Me: "FreeBSD" Visiting colleague: "Um...what's that?" Me: "...linux" Visiting colleague: "Oh, neat!"
Irregardless, I wasn't attempting to espouse the virtues of FreeBSD. Just countering some of the points the parent had made.
Because there's nothing on Linux that most Windows users think they need or want, yet how many people are standing on street corners praising Linux and all it's glory over Windows? More software is written for Windows, and there's alot more support available.
And, BTW, I run FreeBSD. And I don't have to know anything about linux to get any of the apps I want running. It's called the ports collection.
Want proof? Here's a sample apache 1.3.29 install.
Ha, I bet no one else noticed that this article was a dupe! I'll ebt he first to make a witty comment on dupes accounting for half of all the data!...oh, wait...
I admit I haven't played around with OS X Server at all. Does it have a package of functions compareable to a windows domain? Like centralized user resources/authentification, GPO's, etc.? Or am I thinking outside of the scope of what it was intented to do? If I am, what is it inteneded to do then, just be a simple file/printer share server, web hosting?
Just curious.
As if I needed another reason...
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I found out about OpenMosix recently, and I'd been looking for an excuse to test it out. This just makes it even easier.
I'm wondering how difficult it is to setup. Is it as easy as the poster made it sound?
Just out of a vague and morbid sense of curiosity, I thought Camino was supposed to be the firebird of OSX? Not that I mind the choice, but it just seems odd that they'd release two browsers that seem to occupy the same niche.
Slashdot Mirror
However, bookmark synchronizer does work with firefox 1.0 and above, and is updated regularly, and is generally pretty neat. Bookark Synchronizer
"I didn't do a scientific study but on several songs with quiet passages the MP3 version sucks compared to AAC, and the MP3 was encoded at the max bit rate"
Apparently the parent encoded his MP3's at a higher quality bit-rate to make up for a perceived lack of sound quality.
This is just silly. Getting more people on the inernet isn't just going to suddenly wipe out conservatives. Just as for everly liberal
blog there's a conservative one, there'll be a conervative homebrew movie about how bad a president Clinton was for every Liberal movie about how bad a president Bush Jr is(or was).
You made all my points for me about the barriers for entry being made cheaper.
The internet is an Equalizer for the flow of information, which is not the same thing as "Liberal Paradise".
"White Knights" are a horrible idea. They're a horrible idea for the very same reasons letting MS automatically push upadates onto your computer without your knowledge or permission are a bad idea.
It's not for someone who "knows better" to decide for me how to "Secure" my computer. What happens if one of these virus-like apps(either from MS or a third part) "patches" my server with my multi-million dollar application system and somehow breaks it, as unintentional as it may be?
If these hackers want to do good and create 3rd party patches that people can download and install on their own, that's one thing and I applaud them for their efforts. But, please, don't insult my intelligence and do something that's "best" for me without my knowledge or consent.
Nobody reads anymore, huh? So all these giant Barnes and Nobles they're building are just for decoration?
I knew it all along! Now, excuse me, a Simpson's rerun is on and I need it to think for me.
They're trying to replace an arcane directory structure, not mask it.
If it weren't Microsoft, but a "respected" ISP that did this, would we blame them for it?
I suppose we all realize that spam isn't going to go away, and that it's costing ISP's quite a bit of money in bandwidth.
I'm not condoning Microsoft's move, but it does seem like good business sense to me.
For better or for worse, this is basically the same arguement that Baseball players used in the 1994 strike. It's not that they don't they're getting paid enough to live, it's that they see Fox making millions and millions of dollars. When a business is successful, you usually reward employee's with raises.
/. would do if their amazing new fangled program started making a company a boatload of profit.
It's the same thing any
However, the money values are so extreme in this case that I agree it's it seems almost pointless to us.
Good luck to the guy, I'm from the US so I doubt I have a chance at finding his stuff.
But here are the more interesting questions: How often do people submit stories like that now? And since this one was posted, how often will stories like this be posted in the future?
I didn't see much of the first season. What's the consensus from the /. gang? Good or bad inrepretation of the Star Wars Universe?
I'll probably end up picking the set up on DVD when they release it.
Oh, wait...
I can't imagine this is a worthwhile investment for the myriad of reasons the submitter. Stick with the 10 year renewl option.
"Could just be my impression, however I can't think of the last time I saw BSD mentioned in any trad mag. for any industry as an alternative to windows."
Well, that is partially the problem. Most people, myself included, tend to equate all the open source *nix's as one big thing. And then we just say linux because it's easier to explain.
Visiting colleague: "What server are you running?"
Me: "FreeBSD"
Visiting colleague: "Um...what's that?"
Me: "...linux"
Visiting colleague: "Oh, neat!"
Irregardless, I wasn't attempting to espouse the virtues of FreeBSD. Just countering some of the points the parent had made.
Well, that's kinda funny.
/usr/ports/www/apache13/
Because there's nothing on Linux that most Windows users think they need or want, yet how many people are standing on street corners praising Linux and all it's glory over Windows? More software is written for Windows, and there's alot more support available.
And, BTW, I run FreeBSD. And I don't have to know anything about linux to get any of the apps I want running. It's called the ports collection.
Want proof? Here's a sample apache 1.3.29 install.
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make install
Um...if 5.2 RC2 was just released today...please explain where this "three years" timeframe comes from.
Um...maybe you and I read a different article, but the article linked here talks about a DDoS from external sources.
Ha, I bet no one else noticed that this article was a dupe! I'll ebt he first to make a witty comment on dupes accounting for half of all the data! ...oh, wait...
I admit I haven't played around with OS X Server at all. Does it have a package of functions compareable to a windows domain? Like centralized user resources/authentification, GPO's, etc.? Or am I thinking outside of the scope of what it was intented to do? If I am, what is it inteneded to do then, just be a simple file/printer share server, web hosting?
Just curious.
I found out about OpenMosix recently, and I'd been looking for an excuse to test it out. This just makes it even easier.
I'm wondering how difficult it is to setup. Is it as easy as the poster made it sound?
Just out of a vague and morbid sense of curiosity, I thought Camino was supposed to be the firebird of OSX? Not that I mind the choice, but it just seems odd that they'd release two browsers that seem to occupy the same niche.