That's great that you can validate your page, but there is no motivation to do so. Heck, even/. doesn't validate, but does anyone really care? It shows up fine in IE, Mozilla, Konqueor, Opera, etc...why should they waste time making sure they are compliant? It's good in theory, but there is no real motivation to do so...hence the problem.
Agreed...that's the reason why these ancient cultures used base 60. It's so much easier to represent 1/3 1/6 etc...Base 10 is overrated. And actually, I think the Babylonians used a floating point representation too..(Knuth has a good couple of pages on number systems in one of the volumes of Art of Computer Programming)
C'mon are they serious, I'm glad xiph.org has gotten their hands on this codec, but writing a competitive video codec is much harder than writing a competitive audio codec. Video compression research is moving very quickly and I really don't think xiph.org is equipped to compete in this market, how many people do they have working for them, five? With Monty being the only one working on the core of vorbis. Sure On2 says they will help out, but as some posters have said earlier, it seems like On2 is just passing out the left-overs.
I think before they even compress on frame of video, vorbis 1.0 with spec. should be out the door. That's just my opinion, and as the replies will say, it's open source don't complain help out!
Judging by the comments about the results being released by many news outlets, I think its fair to say that/. go trolled with this one, even if it was inadvertent.
In most cases, DVD players and most likely the Playstation 2 can't read CD-R's because of the physical limitation of the laser optics, not a software thing. A standard DVD laser optic can read DVD's, CD-ROMs and usually CD-RW's but not CD-R's due to the wave length of the laser. Most newer DVD players can read CD-R's too, but many of Sony's older models could not and the Playstation 2 probably falls into this catagory for the same reasons.
As someone who has worked in the sound re-inforcement business, yes tube amps sound great, audio-philes love them, but well designed transitor amps can sound great too, and are much more practical, power efficent, smaller and cooler (temperature) I'd like to see some evidence to back up your vague statement.
If you read the post above this in the comic book store owner guy's voice from the Simpsons, it much more entertaining....try it:
Um, yes. Slashot [sic] always has been (and I imagine it always will be) a site for Rob (look he's on first name basis with CmdrTaco, I bet only 5 digit UIN's get that) and friends to post stories they find interesting, review books and movies they think are worth reviewing, and just say shit they think is worth saying.
How on earth did you miss this, having a low 5 digit UIN?... ...In fact since I am UIN number 79727 I have much greater knowledge of the ways of Slashdot than the rest of you and it is my duty to hence enlighten thee!
And along those same lines, when you optimize code you use the 80/20 or whatever rule, that bascially states most of your execution time will be spent in 20% of your code, well the kernel is a big part of that 20%. Even though the Linux kernel is only a small piece of source code compared to the other tools, much more time is spent in that code than, gcc, emacs, ls, grep, etc... So it is the most important piece and that's why we call it Linux. Everytime a packet arrives the network stack is exercised; Every interrupt for a hardware device, the handler is used; Every time you type, move a mouse or view something on the screen; Allocate memory, etc...you get the point, the kernel is the most important piece, and is also the hardest part to write, deal with it.
I guess I'm looking at this from the other end, instead of seeing Microsoft as undercutting to kill Nintendo and Sony, I see them as dropping price to stay afloat. Sony and Nintendo respond saying, alright, our loss will be less than yours anyways, we'll play along...
Microsoft and Sony will use their cash to push Nintendo out of the hardware market.
From CNET Article: "Nintendo, which launched GameCube last November, has shipped more than 4.5 million systems worldwide."
Oh yeah they're gonna get pushed right out with numbers like that! And don't forget, as others have said, Nintendo has Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, and Gameboy. They ain't goin' nowhere!
Have you payed attention for the past 15+ years. Game consoles drop in price after a certain amount of time, in fact, most electronics do, in fact, most products do, amazing huh? But now since Microsoft is involved it's a big conspiracy? The console makers were just waiting for someone to make the jump first and then they all follow, c'mon enough already....
Even with all the technological advances we have today, we still can't reproduce one of the common tasks the human brain performs, face recognition. It just shows you how complex our brains really are. Although, we're not perfect at face recognition either, but I'm sure the average person could do far better than 47%. Someday, a computer will be better, but I guess not today...
I had a discussion on/. with Emmett Plant from xiph.org about the fixed point decoder a couple of weeks ago, thought it might be relevant, you can find it here. He makes some interesting, but sometimes short-sighted points about the fixed point decoder.
This titanium wedding band thing has fad written all over it, get some balls, buy platinum, don't cheap out with the titanium, and don't bother replying saying that platinum dulls, already know that.
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It's probably due to the fact that you have a titanium plate in you wrist.
"We haven't received one e-mail in support of the Hollings bill,... ...well except for this one from this guy named Three-one-three-three-t-three h-four-x-zero-r saying that we have been r-zero-zero-three-d, not sure what he meant by that" said Judiciary Committee spokeswoman Mimi Devlin.
I remember not too long ago, one of the Linux magazines (Linux World or Linux Journal can't remember) started running MS adds, and all these people got up in arms about it, writing letters to the editor, saying they are canceling their subscriptions, etc. These people totatlly missed the boat, Microsoft was giving money to a Linux magazine to run their add, if it helps keep the magazine in business and keep the subscription price down that's good and personally I don't care. Same thing applies to/.
c|net has an article on removing this stuff, and kazaa will still work afterwords. Not much info besides goto add/remove programs and remove b3d, but at least they list what files should be removed.
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Well....that's just like your opinion man...
Please ignore this AC, he has no idea what he's saying...
That's great that you can validate your page, but there is no motivation to do so. Heck, even /. doesn't validate, but does anyone really care? It shows up fine in IE, Mozilla, Konqueor, Opera, etc...why should they waste time making sure they are compliant? It's good in theory, but there is no real motivation to do so...hence the problem.
Agreed...that's the reason why these ancient cultures used base 60. It's so much easier to represent 1/3 1/6 etc...Base 10 is overrated. And actually, I think the Babylonians used a floating point representation too..(Knuth has a good couple of pages on number systems in one of the volumes of Art of Computer Programming)
Here's the advisory with instructions...
The ftp sites in France are usually updated the quickest.
C'mon are they serious, I'm glad xiph.org has gotten their hands on this codec, but writing a competitive video codec is much harder than writing a competitive audio codec. Video compression research is moving very quickly and I really don't think xiph.org is equipped to compete in this market, how many people do they have working for them, five? With Monty being the only one working on the core of vorbis. Sure On2 says they will help out, but as some posters have said earlier, it seems like On2 is just passing out the left-overs.
I think before they even compress on frame of video, vorbis 1.0 with spec. should be out the door. That's just my opinion, and as the replies will say, it's open source don't complain help out!
And don't forget Spiderman and the Green Goblin battling off in the distance too!
Judging by the comments about the results being released by many news outlets, I think its fair to say that /. go trolled with this one, even if it was inadvertent.
In most cases, DVD players and most likely the Playstation 2 can't read CD-R's because of the physical limitation of the laser optics, not a software thing. A standard DVD laser optic can read DVD's, CD-ROMs and usually CD-RW's but not CD-R's due to the wave length of the laser. Most newer DVD players can read CD-R's too, but many of Sony's older models could not and the Playstation 2 probably falls into this catagory for the same reasons.
Most classical concert halls use tube amplifiers.
As someone who has worked in the sound re-inforcement business, yes tube amps sound great, audio-philes love them, but well designed transitor amps can sound great too, and are much more practical, power efficent, smaller and cooler (temperature) I'd like to see some evidence to back up your vague statement.
If you read the post above this in the comic book store owner guy's voice from the Simpsons, it much more entertaining....try it:
Um, yes. Slashot [sic] always has been (and I imagine it always will be) a site for Rob (look he's on first name basis with CmdrTaco, I bet only 5 digit UIN's get that) and friends to post stories they find interesting, review books and movies they think are worth reviewing, and just say shit they think is worth saying.
How on earth did you miss this, having a low 5 digit UIN?...
...In fact since I am UIN number 79727 I have much greater knowledge of the ways of Slashdot than the rest of you and it is my duty to hence enlighten thee!
Well there's always two things that hold true around here, most people with moderation points are idiots and /. is anti-Microsoft.
Wait, strike that, one thing...
And along those same lines, when you optimize code you use the 80/20 or whatever rule, that bascially states most of your execution time will be spent in 20% of your code, well the kernel is a big part of that 20%. Even though the Linux kernel is only a small piece of source code compared to the other tools, much more time is spent in that code than, gcc, emacs, ls, grep, etc... So it is the most important piece and that's why we call it Linux. Everytime a packet arrives the network stack is exercised; Every interrupt for a hardware device, the handler is used; Every time you type, move a mouse or view something on the screen; Allocate memory, etc...you get the point, the kernel is the most important piece, and is also the hardest part to write, deal with it.
I guess I'm looking at this from the other end, instead of seeing Microsoft as undercutting to kill Nintendo and Sony, I see them as dropping price to stay afloat. Sony and Nintendo respond saying, alright, our loss will be less than yours anyways, we'll play along...
Microsoft and Sony will use their cash to push Nintendo out of the hardware market.
From CNET Article: "Nintendo, which launched GameCube last November, has shipped more than 4.5 million systems worldwide."
Oh yeah they're gonna get pushed right out with numbers like that! And don't forget, as others have said, Nintendo has Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, and Gameboy. They ain't goin' nowhere!
Are you people all on crack?
Have you payed attention for the past 15+ years. Game consoles drop in price after a certain amount of time, in fact, most electronics do, in fact, most products do, amazing huh? But now since Microsoft is involved it's a big conspiracy? The console makers were just waiting for someone to make the jump first and then they all follow, c'mon enough already....
Kinda funny they picked the shortest month of the year...
Even with all the technological advances we have today, we still can't reproduce one of the common tasks the human brain performs, face recognition. It just shows you how complex our brains really are. Although, we're not perfect at face recognition either, but I'm sure the average person could do far better than 47%. Someday, a computer will be better, but I guess not today...
I had a discussion on /. with Emmett Plant from xiph.org about the fixed point decoder a couple of weeks ago, thought it might be relevant, you can find it here. He makes some interesting, but sometimes short-sighted points about the fixed point decoder.
Yeah, you know, another GREAT movie with the Rock in it...
This titanium wedding band thing has fad written all over it, get some balls, buy platinum, don't cheap out with the titanium, and don't bother replying saying that platinum dulls, already know that.
It's probably due to the fact that you have a titanium plate in you wrist.
HA! That's funny...
"We haven't received one e-mail in support of the Hollings bill,...
...well except for this one from this guy named Three-one-three-three-t-three h-four-x-zero-r saying that we have been r-zero-zero-three-d, not sure what he meant by that" said Judiciary Committee spokeswoman Mimi Devlin.
I remember not too long ago, one of the Linux magazines (Linux World or Linux Journal can't remember) started running MS adds, and all these people got up in arms about it, writing letters to the editor, saying they are canceling their subscriptions, etc. These people totatlly missed the boat, Microsoft was giving money to a Linux magazine to run their add, if it helps keep the magazine in business and keep the subscription price down that's good and personally I don't care. Same thing applies to /.
c|net has an article on removing this stuff, and kazaa will still work afterwords. Not much info besides goto add/remove programs and remove b3d, but at least they list what files should be removed.