I don't think Evan was going out of his way to try to discredit what MH was saying. The fact is, whether or not MH had good points, he obscured them by being simplistic and not thinking through all the possibilities. Whether or not I agree with "the essence" of some of what Michi was saying, I think Evan's rebuttal gave a fuller understanding of the real issues without having to
resort to that kind of knee-jerk reaction.
And the fact is, Evan is right when he calls
Michi dangerous - he is especially dangerous precisely because he is a "so respected person, with so much experience and a large track record."
That means when he says stupid shit, more people will listen and take his stupid shit seriously. Like yourself, apparently...
"Oh what, open source is crap? Everyone needs to go back to the command line? News today: German Parliament decides upon MS-DOS as the chosen Operating System over Linux w/Gnome..." Okay, ridiculous exaggeration, but you get my point...
I am a perl hacker, I spend at least 10 hours a day on the computer if not more, and I love playing Quake III. I also exercise 5 days a week religiously, because part of being a smart geek I think is knowing how to take care of yourself and know your body.
However, while I am athletic, I've never found a sport that involves men in tights pounding the shit out of each other and slapping each other's asses, (can you say homoerotic? not that I'm homophobic, but geez...jocks seem to be, and that seems ironic to me) with fans that apparently identify so strongly with teams that they will get in fights over it, appealing in the least.
"Apart from the closed source program Crossover, this is the first program available for Linux that will play these files."
Of course this isn't quite true, see the other posts about xanim...but I get the point. I myself use mplayer and crossover and they play pretty much anything I'd want them to (except for the damn atom films web site...blast them...).
Not knowing much about it, I have a question: how hard would it be to reverse engineer this Sorenson codec? And would that be illegal somehow?
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I don't think Evan was going out of his way to try to discredit what MH was saying. The fact is, whether or not MH had good points, he obscured them by being simplistic and not thinking through all the possibilities. Whether or not I agree with "the essence" of some of what Michi was saying, I think Evan's rebuttal gave a fuller understanding of the real issues without having to resort to that kind of knee-jerk reaction.
And the fact is, Evan is right when he calls Michi dangerous - he is especially dangerous precisely because he is a "so respected person, with so much experience and a large track record." That means when he says stupid shit, more people will listen and take his stupid shit seriously. Like yourself, apparently...
"Oh what, open source is crap? Everyone needs to go back to the command line? News today: German Parliament decides upon MS-DOS as the chosen Operating System over Linux w/Gnome..." Okay, ridiculous exaggeration, but you get my point...
I am a perl hacker, I spend at least 10 hours a day on the computer if not more, and I love playing Quake III. I also exercise 5 days a week religiously, because part of being a smart geek I think is knowing how to take care of yourself and know your body.
However, while I am athletic, I've never found a sport that involves men in tights pounding the shit out of each other and slapping each other's asses, (can you say homoerotic? not that I'm homophobic, but geez...jocks seem to be, and that seems ironic to me) with fans that apparently identify so strongly with teams that they will get in fights over it, appealing in the least.
I don't know, call me crazy.
that means I'll never have to stop to charge my Segway Human Transporter!!
I mean, it's at least a decent point, and deserves more than a 0 score and troll marking. Geez.
Yeah...seems like what he meant was:
"Apart from the closed source program Crossover, this is the first program available for Linux that will play these files."
Of course this isn't quite true, see the other posts about xanim...but I get the point. I myself use mplayer and crossover and they play pretty much anything I'd want them to (except for the damn atom films web site...blast them...).
Not knowing much about it, I have a question: how hard would it be to reverse engineer this Sorenson codec? And would that be illegal somehow?