Fine, how about the fact that the guy who wrote it has also told me (in person!) that "the encoder sucks, but we haven't been working on it" (not his exact words)?
The original iTunes MP3 encoder was written about five years ago by a one-man team. (It was part of the SoundJam MP3 player.) For its time, it was pretty good, but, especially compared with LAME on --vbr-new, its quality for a given bit rate was significantly lower. Apple hasn't seen fit to make any changes to the encoder since, so I'd suggest that you use AAC (the Quicktime encoder for AAC is very good) or MP3 with LAME.
Ah, you want to know my authority for saying it sounds worse? Listening tests I conducted myself. I'm no stereo freak, but the files iTunes encoded were more artifacty and less clear-sounding (less like the original) than those that LAME came up with.
iTunes's MP3 encoder is quite old and does a bad job of encoding MP3s. LAME is much better; you could use it with some shell scripts to read AIFFs from the mounted CDs (they show up in/Volumes) and encode them with LAME.
Hrm. When I asked an Apple guy about it, he said Apple had a few iPods in-house they had burned out by running an OS off of them. The problem is really just that there's very little cooling available for the drive, and it'll overheat if it isn't allowed to spin down often enough.
The article -- if I remember it correctly -- was a set of listings of PPC assembly to do things like exec/bin/sh. Nothing interesting, nothing that couldn't be generated by gcc. Nothing that remotely resembled a security hole.
Oops... only just realized I was using the other morph of the glider. There are two forms of the glider -- the "proper" logo version:
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and my version:
# .. . # # # #.
I guess both could work. Now there are not just eight, but sixteen different forms of the logo (eight versions of each - four rotations, and a mirrored version for each). Hurray for polymorphism!
iTunes is not a Cocoa application. It's still Carbon. Carbon got mostly ported to Windows for QuickTime support. Thus, there's still no Cocoa for Windows.
Although I'm not sure about the Game Cube in particular, consensus is that most tales of games being uncopyable because of some oddity of the CD/DVD (recorded outside to inside, spins counterclockwise,...) are false.
It *is* stronger than the Earth's magnetic field at its source. The issue is that magnetic fields drop off by the inverse cube of the distance, IIRC, making this superconducting magnet's range of effect to be quite limited. It *will* mess up compasses, but only *very* nearby ones.
Nope. Not unless apache/ftpd/sshd runs as root. (Though, admittedly, sshd does... then again, it's been a while since the last exploitable hole there.) And anyway, anybody could put these bits of "shellcode" together with gcc and 5 minutes -- myself included.
No actual security issues here, just "shellcode" -- compiled assembly -- to do things like print messages, run/bin/sh, or reboot the machine. Unimpressive.
you can change the keyboard layout to -- say -- the UK layout without having a UK keyboard, since, IIRC, UK users have 104 keyboards just like us, except with different key caps.
On the other hand, I was down in Central America recently and saw that many keyboards there have at least 108 keys, some even more. (Extra keys for and such.) YMMV.
Though this may sound to many like a Good Thing -- having an easy development environment for beginning Linux programmers -- to me, at least, Re--B---c is the name of evil. One need only look to PerversionTracker -- a parody of the popular VersionTracker web site -- to see some of the obscenities that R---B---c has spawned on OS X. I can only imagine what horrible interfaces we'll start seeing on some new Linux apps.
If candy rots the teeth, BASIC rots the brain. And R---B---c has BASIC as its roots...
Remember that D[y|ji]kstra was born outside the United States. If I'm correct, his name was probably in a non-Roman script, making a transliteration difficult.
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And yes, blade sucks. But we knew that already.
Ah, you want to know my authority for saying it sounds worse? Listening tests I conducted myself. I'm no stereo freak, but the files iTunes encoded were more artifacty and less clear-sounding (less like the original) than those that LAME came up with.
iTunes's MP3 encoder is quite old and does a bad job of encoding MP3s. LAME is much better; you could use it with some shell scripts to read AIFFs from the mounted CDs (they show up in /Volumes) and encode them with LAME.
Wrong; the AAC format is open, and there are some Free encoders/decoders (though Apple's encoder currently beats the free one hands-down).
However, this is his home page, rather than a game based around him. (!)
Hrm. When I asked an Apple guy about it, he said Apple had a few iPods in-house they had burned out by running an OS off of them. The problem is really just that there's very little cooling available for the drive, and it'll overheat if it isn't allowed to spin down often enough.
Right -- trying to boot off the iPod will burn out the hard drive after some time, voiding the warranty.
...then the this other guy sitting in the corner stands up and says: "Well, I'm dy."
BTW, a vomitorium wasn't a place for vomiting. It was a large hallway.
The article -- if I remember it correctly -- was a set of listings of PPC assembly to do things like exec /bin/sh. Nothing interesting, nothing that couldn't be generated by gcc. Nothing that remotely resembled a security hole.
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and my version: . .
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I guess both could work. Now there are not just eight, but sixteen different forms of the logo (eight versions of each - four rotations, and a mirrored version for each). Hurray for polymorphism!
I put this icon together in some 20 minutes or so. How's it look to you?
Most-recently-used (whether cmd-tabbed to or switched to some other way). And hidden programs get sent to the back of the list.
iTunes is not a Cocoa application. It's still Carbon. Carbon got mostly ported to Windows for QuickTime support. Thus, there's still no Cocoa for Windows.
Although I'm not sure about the Game Cube in particular, consensus is that most tales of games being uncopyable because of some oddity of the CD/DVD (recorded outside to inside, spins counterclockwise, ...) are false.
Yes. Cryptonomicon didn't involve a cyberspatial matrix...
It *is* stronger than the Earth's magnetic field at its source. The issue is that magnetic fields drop off by the inverse cube of the distance, IIRC, making this superconducting magnet's range of effect to be quite limited. It *will* mess up compasses, but only *very* nearby ones.
Nope. Not unless apache/ftpd/sshd runs as root. (Though, admittedly, sshd does... then again, it's been a while since the last exploitable hole there.) And anyway, anybody could put these bits of "shellcode" together with gcc and 5 minutes -- myself included.
No actual security issues here, just "shellcode" -- compiled assembly -- to do things like print messages, run /bin/sh, or reboot the machine. Unimpressive.
Ulch, Slashdot ate my diacriticals. I meant to say "Extra keys for [n~] and such."
On the other hand, I was down in Central America recently and saw that many keyboards there have at least 108 keys, some even more. (Extra keys for and such.) YMMV.
If candy rots the teeth, BASIC rots the brain. And R---B---c has BASIC as its roots...
> Kazaa is open-source
I'm pretty sure that Kazaa is not open-source.
Ignore the parent comment.
Remember that D[y|ji]kstra was born outside the United States. If I'm correct, his name was probably in a non-Roman script, making a transliteration difficult.