This by no means contradicts what you say but I think it's worth clarifying for readers who aren't quite grasping this. This material makes things (nearly) invisible, but that is not to say they can't be detected by the human eye. It may be a fairly effective camouflage at night but I don't think it would be particularly special. During the day (or in artificial light), it's a terrible camouflage and the infiltrator would stand out like the proverbial sore thumb because even at a goth or emo gathering, they'll be so much blacker than anything else, the guards' eyes will be drawn to them. Of course, technically, the guards won't see the infiltrator, just a human shaped patch of nothingness but still, technically getting shot to pieces isn't any better than the old fashioned getting shot to pieces.
BTW, I find your sig very offensive. Please remove the word "like", it is very misleading (although it is a lot better than my whoring abomination below, I really must change it!).
That's hardly great evidence that the hoax is on us. Wouldn't the sort of people who audition for this be the sort to also give acting a go? Is appearing in a Give Blood ad going to make the scottish guy give up the day job? That's what the article is suggesting. Also, the performers site for the girl does nothing to suggest she's anything but a wannabe, which is exactly the sort of "normal people" that go on reality shows.
I've used a set of HP Bluetooth headphones for several months now, with a Dell Axim PDA. The sound quality isn't great but it's very listenable and vastly better than the built in speaker. The excellent Core Pocket Media Player (formerly Betaplayer) supports all kinds of video and audio (including Ogg) and also supports the audio controls on the headphones. You need an updated Bluetooth stack with a high quality audio profile, it's freely available for Dell's PDAs and probably others. Of course, iPaqs work out of the box.
I'm very hazey on VoiceXML and your Integrics glossary doesn't really cover this - is the voice data for the menus actually stored in the XML in some binary form, or does it just link to audio files that are expected to be available?
More importantly, how useful are TtS and VR technologies these days? Does TtS still sound like Steven Hawking? Seriously, I can accept that it could be recognizably machine created, but IMHO it's fairly useless for the mass market unless it's clear. The TtS I've been trying out lately has been fairly inaudible when calling up services over VoIP. Dammit, I want to be able to listen to fortunes being read out to me!
I presume you're referring to the Dell 2001FP? I just got one of those, which I'm using now. It has a response time of 16ms too (I'm fairly sure the 710T is 16ms, not 12ms as mentioned in an earlier reply and on a few sites, including at least one of Samsung's regional sites) and like you, I have witnessed absolutely no ghosting.
This leads me to wonder why response times are still considered to be a big deal. I'm pretty sensitive to visual timing, I can tell when a CRT monitor is at 75hz instead of the 85hz I usually use, but I see no ghosting at 16ms. Shouldn't other things take precedence now? I'm not saying we shouldn't try to reduce response times. I'm sure I could see ghosting on my 16ms panel under the right circumstances. However, I do think it's become less important and I'd like to see other aspects get due research. Naturally price would be one, but short of some revolutionary concept, it will take a cheaper manufacturing technique a while just to pay for it's own research so I think the only way we'll get cheaper LCD screens is more and more buyers over time. IMHO the most important thing to work on now is reliability - N dead pixel warranties are a horrible concept and improving pixel development to gets rid of these would be my preference of things to work on with LCD panels. The second thing to work on is 18bit colour - I was careful to get a 24bit colour monitor as I dislike my laptop's shimmering display. If I get a 17" screen, at present I'd go for the 710T instead of the 172X (both Samsung) because of it's true 24bit colour despite the 4ms response time increase.
I spent ages doing the opposite - looking for Moe's around Bart's factory:-) It's in the Springfield Harbour and Waterfront section, in grey (as it's demolished), near the centre of that section. There is also a Bart's Loft in that section, although it's only labelled in the large, full map. Not sure what that is or what episode it's reference in.
Why is this news worthy? I understand that many/.ers are interested in computer audio, me included, but is a review of speakers newsworthy? These crop up several times a day...
I guess it's been a while since newsworthy mattered to/.;)
I heard there was a purely integer decoder developed for use with hardware which has no floating point unit. There's an article here [xiph.org], the same page you linked to. Does this require a chip with a floating point unit?
Also, does anyone know how chip intensive this is?
Yep, I second that question. No Ogg, no sale. The iPod would be idle for me and this looks impressive too (but I'll wait for reviews / first hand comments before deciding for sure if it's for me). But for a manufacturer to expect me to cut out (or re-encode) a third of my collection, and that ratio growing, isn't on.
Apple say the iPod firmware can be updated to add formats - if they add Ogg I'll buy one. I don't see any mention on Creative's site about upgradable firmware and ogg isn't in their list of supported formats.
At present I know of no portable audio players that support Ogg - if there are then I'm pretty sure this is no worthwhile ones (>= 10GB, good interface, support, updates etc). Happily I'm in no hurry and I know there are more than a few people like me who will wait for the first good Ogg playing portable audio player.
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This by no means contradicts what you say but I think it's worth clarifying for readers who aren't quite grasping this. This material makes things (nearly) invisible, but that is not to say they can't be detected by the human eye. It may be a fairly effective camouflage at night but I don't think it would be particularly special. During the day (or in artificial light), it's a terrible camouflage and the infiltrator would stand out like the proverbial sore thumb because even at a goth or emo gathering, they'll be so much blacker than anything else, the guards' eyes will be drawn to them. Of course, technically, the guards won't see the infiltrator, just a human shaped patch of nothingness but still, technically getting shot to pieces isn't any better than the old fashioned getting shot to pieces.
BTW, I find your sig very offensive. Please remove the word "like", it is very misleading (although it is a lot better than my whoring abomination below, I really must change it!).
That's hardly great evidence that the hoax is on us. Wouldn't the sort of people who audition for this be the sort to also give acting a go? Is appearing in a Give Blood ad going to make the scottish guy give up the day job? That's what the article is suggesting. Also, the performers site for the girl does nothing to suggest she's anything but a wannabe, which is exactly the sort of "normal people" that go on reality shows.
Yeah, but let's face it, I need sunglasses with a large nail through them like I need a hole in the head.
I've used a set of HP Bluetooth headphones for several months now, with a Dell Axim PDA. The sound quality isn't great but it's very listenable and vastly better than the built in speaker. The excellent Core Pocket Media Player (formerly Betaplayer) supports all kinds of video and audio (including Ogg) and also supports the audio controls on the headphones. You need an updated Bluetooth stack with a high quality audio profile, it's freely available for Dell's PDAs and probably others. Of course, iPaqs work out of the box.
I'm very hazey on VoiceXML and your Integrics glossary doesn't really cover this - is the voice data for the menus actually stored in the XML in some binary form, or does it just link to audio files that are expected to be available?
More importantly, how useful are TtS and VR technologies these days? Does TtS still sound like Steven Hawking? Seriously, I can accept that it could be recognizably machine created, but IMHO it's fairly useless for the mass market unless it's clear. The TtS I've been trying out lately has been fairly inaudible when calling up services over VoIP. Dammit, I want to be able to listen to fortunes being read out to me!
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I presume you're referring to the Dell 2001FP? I just got one of those, which I'm using now. It has a response time of 16ms too (I'm fairly sure the 710T is 16ms, not 12ms as mentioned in an earlier reply and on a few sites, including at least one of Samsung's regional sites) and like you, I have witnessed absolutely no ghosting.
This leads me to wonder why response times are still considered to be a big deal. I'm pretty sensitive to visual timing, I can tell when a CRT monitor is at 75hz instead of the 85hz I usually use, but I see no ghosting at 16ms. Shouldn't other things take precedence now? I'm not saying we shouldn't try to reduce response times. I'm sure I could see ghosting on my 16ms panel under the right circumstances. However, I do think it's become less important and I'd like to see other aspects get due research. Naturally price would be one, but short of some revolutionary concept, it will take a cheaper manufacturing technique a while just to pay for it's own research so I think the only way we'll get cheaper LCD screens is more and more buyers over time. IMHO the most important thing to work on now is reliability - N dead pixel warranties are a horrible concept and improving pixel development to gets rid of these would be my preference of things to work on with LCD panels. The second thing to work on is 18bit colour - I was careful to get a 24bit colour monitor as I dislike my laptop's shimmering display. If I get a 17" screen, at present I'd go for the 710T instead of the 172X (both Samsung) because of it's true 24bit colour despite the 4ms response time increase.
I spent ages doing the opposite - looking for Moe's around Bart's factory :-) It's in the Springfield Harbour and Waterfront section, in grey (as it's demolished), near the centre of that section. There is also a Bart's Loft in that section, although it's only labelled in the large, full map. Not sure what that is or what episode it's reference in.
Feeling like firing up Simcity now...
Why is this news worthy? I understand that many /.ers are interested in computer audio, me included, but is a review of speakers newsworthy? These crop up several times a day...
I guess it's been a while since newsworthy mattered to /. ;)
Never mind. I misintrepeted the indents as not being intents and ended up saying exactly the same thing as you. Anyone know how to delete posts?
I heard there was a purely integer decoder developed for use with hardware which has no floating point unit. There's an article here [xiph.org], the same page you linked to. Does this require a chip with a floating point unit?
Also, does anyone know how chip intensive this is?
Yep, I second that question. No Ogg, no sale. The iPod would be idle for me and this looks impressive too (but I'll wait for reviews / first hand comments before deciding for sure if it's for me). But for a manufacturer to expect me to cut out (or re-encode) a third of my collection, and that ratio growing, isn't on.
Apple say the iPod firmware can be updated to add formats - if they add Ogg I'll buy one. I don't see any mention on Creative's site about upgradable firmware and ogg isn't in their list of supported formats.
At present I know of no portable audio players that support Ogg - if there are then I'm pretty sure this is no worthwhile ones (>= 10GB, good interface, support, updates etc). Happily I'm in no hurry and I know there are more than a few people like me who will wait for the first good Ogg playing portable audio player.