How do you take that the system you helped develop for the FREE exchange of information has been targeted by corporate america to be used as nothing more than another invasive marketing tool.
Who knows but on the topic of rolling your own. I can think of nothing better. Cigarettes are best when hand rolled, Cigars are too, why not browser made by you!
I wonder if they are going to cover Project Managment which is the leading cause of poor security. When the project runs short on time security tends to be left till last and when your short on time, functionality out-ranks security (After all what good is the security of the app doesn't work? Right?)
After reading that I have been able to distill a few facts from the FAQ:
A> GNU People are bitter B> GNU People are Attention Deprived C> GNU is lining itself up to deliver an Intellectual Property Rights suit against the distro D> GNU People are getting greedy and are planning to sue for financial gain. E> GNU People Are Jelious of Linus' association with LINUX F> GNU People obviously are about as far left as a liberal can get. G> I now HATE GNU People with a passion H> GNU People have better things to do that bitch and moan about getting "Props" I> GNU People must be smoking on of the following:
1: Crack 2: Crystal-Meth 3: Hash 4: Pot 5: Smurfs 6: Shroom Spores 7: The original script to Tron 2.0 8: David Bowie
I can see that society has become so childish that even organizations are throwing temper-tantrums when they don't get the attention they want.
Lawsuits cost money. Even the RIAA doesn't have the money to sue 250 million people. Do you honestly think they will throw over 100,000 people in jail for music swapping? There isn't any room. Even if they did more and more people would work at making the RIAA's life a living hell. Once they are bankrupt, who cares? You have to DO something to WIN against the RIAA. If every slashdot reader gave $1 a month and hired some lobbyists think on how effect we could be. Politicians work for those who participate and do their civic duty. Pool your resources and hire a lobbyist. That in of it's self would show congress you a notch above a bunch of whiney no-nothings. You must participate. Get you district reps email on your contact list and write them at least 1 time a month. Form organizations and distribute literature door to door. EDUCATE PEOPLE if your so god damn smart:) You have to get the people involved. Go grocery shopping? Have 40 printouts detailing the RIAA's practices and toss a few under a windshield. Got Church? Tell your parish about it. There are millions of things you can do to win against the RIAA that they cannot stand against. DO SOMETHING->DO SOMETHING->DO SOMETHING.
The old fashion way, word of mouth. It's real effective. It's how I have bought almost all my music (I found Mike Oldfield in this manner and "Songs from a Distant Earth" has got to be one of my favorite. I was introduced to Tangerine Dream by word of mouth along with Mechanical Bride (The drummer was a student of mine.) Word of mouth is a phenominal method and with the Internet it should be rather easy. Why not go to EZBoards or some site and start a Independent music review site.
Funny I haven't bought a single Britney CD. In fact neither have my family members. The reason is simple, if you explain to a young person what the marketing people are doing. Word gets around. In the 6 blocks around my house All the kids 10-18 are flocking to Independent artists and have discarded the marketing machine. It takes YOU to reach those "Mindless" people. It takes YOU to educate them. Quit yer bitching and DO something. If you explain it to the youth they do listen from time to time.
I noticed a reply that pointed out that fame is fleeting. For Minnesotans they might remember "Slave Raider" from the 80's. Great band but they have since faded. I wish they would master their albums and remaster them into CDs. They had a sweet song called "The Black Hole" and "Rollercoaster." Ohhh I wish my tapes hadn't wore out...
The fundamental answer is simple, the laws of capitalism work no matter what. One of those laws is the simplest to follow:
THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Simply put if people campaign against the RIAA effectivly and boycott (of course how hard is it to boycott the crap they are putting out these days) the company will continue to lose money. Lobbiests and lawyers don't work for free and if the RIAA can't pay there goes the problem. More importantly if the recording labels start to lose money the shareholders will intervene.
SUN TZU says "One cannot win a war without the will of the people"
Ultimatly WE are responsible for allowing the RIAA to get this far. Perhaps we will all learn something from this Digital Dark Age that looms on the horizon..
THE COST OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE
and I will clarify with
THE COST OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL AND "PROACTIVE" VIGILANCE.
FACT: Digital Cable costs LESS to provide than Analog Cable.
FACT: CABLE COMPANIES SAVED MORE THAN 4 TIMES THE AMOUNT THEY SPENT BUILDING DIGITAL CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE FIRST 2 YEARS.
FACT: You're being fucked by those in power.
FACT: You chose to not listen to a 2000 year old proverb.
"Battle not against flesh, but of powers and principalities, and wickedness (or corruption based on transplation) in high places."
If you don't like getting screwed by big bad corps. go out and start buying their stock and vote the SOBs out of the company. Lets start a/. fund where everone sends a dollar in so/. and buy stock in these companies and start voting. We do live in America and for now we still can VOTE and CHANGE things. All I hear is whiney techno-hippies crying about "the man" (Boy things never change do they...) yet they offer no solutions.
If you want to make inroads with Linux you can do something real simple as a developer. I don't understand why people don't grasp what I am about to say.
---SOLUTION--- Sell your program for Windoze but have the installation/play CD a bootable Linux system. Have the CD mount the Windoze installation directory and thanks to the fact you piggy-backed the Windows installation you can look up all the needed hardware and install the Linux drivers. Using a small file in the installation directory as a swap partition now for the "power" gamer he can boot into a Linux version of gaem XYZ cutting out all the MS fat and really get a performance boost.
There is the true way to make in-roads. The to subsidize your development costs have commericals in a small corner of the HUD that play while your are dead in CS 2.0 =) Better yet full screen ads to help pay for your server, thus preventing that nasty habit of ghosting....
Yeah. Another Processor. Cool. Even more Mhz and stuff. Ye-haw. Now I can run poorly written, crappy software even faster. WHO CARES! I swear this non-sense about the "bigger and faster" mentality is pissing me and I am sure many Americans off. Bigger, Faster, WHAT ABOUT BETTER! Technology is racing alone fast but the quality of the content is tanking. Why is it that the amount of innovation in thought is a dying art. All I get is lemmings saying, "We can improve this, we can improve that." What about, "Fuck the old way, this NEW way is BETTER." Honestly what changed say from photoshop 4 to photoshop 7? What changed from Quake to Quake 3? The amount of advancement has just tanked to levels I dare not dwell on. Another case in point:
It's turning into the nightmare "Been There, Done That." Where is a new FPS with original goal that doesn't use the Ray Tracing BSP method. There IS a better way, someone just has to invent it.
I cry out to a game developer to do something NEW. God allmighty battlefield 1942 has a CTF! I don't remember a lot of CTF in WWII but hey they need it in there I guess, god bless marketing. They didn't event try to obfuscate is by saying, "Capture the Urianium canister and get it back to your base." Nope it's an outright CTF... sob..
All the new FPS seem to have the Counter-Strike equiv. of a DE_xxxxxx map scenario.
An now after all this mediocrity I am supposed to "Ohh and Ahh" YET-ANOTHER-SILICON-PROCESSOR-WITH-EVEN-MORE-TRANS ISITORS-AND-COOL-MICROCODE...
Please like we care anymore IBM, give me an optical processor or a quantum processor and I'll shit a brick but don't bore me with anymore talk of new and bigger Mhz crap, M$ will just put out an even more bloated OS that will drive me straight back to square 1.
ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
p.s. After playing Battle Field 1942 for 3 hours I can say that it will outdo counterstrike IFF (That isn't a typo btw) they get a good map making community behind them.
I have been penalized on papers for not having it in CAPS but I have never been penalized for OK. I wonder if there are grammicatal rules for contracting Okay. Or perhaps "Thru" is going to replace Through.
This is as bad as Ebonic in classrooms, I didn't work hard in elementry school learning to read, speak, and write so when I get to college I can have an instructor trying to teach me how to butcher English. I am no A student in English, but I at least try. Of course I would expect to get docked points for using Thru or ok. Oddly though I have never used OK outside of dialog. Remember in literature if it's dialog, anything goes. Perhaps this scenario is permissible:
"Jeff are you ok?" yelled Terri. As Terri sifted through the rubble she caught a glimpse of Jeff. It seems that Jeff was okay after all.
I wonder if I could get away with "Ph34r/\/\I L33t S|!77z" in school... come on it was fine on a BBS but kids have to grow up and learn that certain behaviors and language have certain rules on where they can be used. Slang is very valid in literature but only in certain circumstances (for instance a quote "Sup Foo!" said Jessie to the rabbi.)
I wonder if the Internet is some how stunting the growth of the new generation... Hmmm... I'd like to see a reseach paper on that on. HEY YOU! WRITE A PAPER ON IT. I think it would be a great discussion for/. readers (is/. a correct contraction of Slash Dot?)
Oh well I am a fossil I guess... but I wonder how much the Internet has "Dumbed-Down" peoples writing skills.
I don't konw about you "outsiders" but I remember in the Constitution they were concerned with MY rights. Where did this Digital Rights nonsense come from? You would figure after 9-11 people in congress would get their priorities straighten out. Oh well just one more reason to pay close attention on who is running for senate and house.
There is a black eye for Linux. Was I the only person that was so grossly dissapointed with Unreal 2003 that I curled up in a ball and wept like a small child? Why bring up this association between UT 2003 and Linux, it will only harm Linux's reputation. Great I can see the headline now, "Yet Another Crappy Title Runs on Linux." If you want to impress people tell them there is a Linux version of Battlefield 1945 and then watch M$ weep.
I think this is a brilliant idea, we can see what the impact of YEARS of drinking soda (pop) has on a person when they get into space. It is not a hidden fact that Soda (pop) is not the most healthy drink in the world and I would like to see what happens when you take one of those kids that resemble the Simpsons' Comic Shop Owner and throw him into a low-G environment. Someone go out and get the FDA's report on soda and post it as a reply so we can see what potential health problems will get aggrivated by the trip. BOOYAH!
1: his ass 2: his mouth 3: his hands 4: His ability to negotiate a pack of ciggarettes into a 3 week stay and the MGM Grand and an early release. 5: His ability to overclock a P4 1.5 GHz into a 30.45GHz that fuses Hydrogen near the surface of the processor
You would figure after 9-11 people would have better things, and more important things, to be upset about, quit your bitching.
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Umm I have seen hundreds of old typewrite pages that people did:) on that date to the 40s at least. In fact the >'))>> fish is at the bottom of a corrispondence that my client got in 1933! I would wager that the:) is at least as old as the first typewriters. Did everyone forget that before computers we had those old things? I feel old... think I'll go watch paint dry now while I soak my dentures....
I have but one thing to say that even M$ hasn't really dealt with:
ALLOW THE FUNCTION OF CREATING CONFERENCE ROOMS AND LOCATIONS THAT CAN BE SCHEDULED AGAINST.
The only was I have seen Exchange pull this off is by having a user created for each account and keeping an outlooks session open for each conference room, then setting the conference room account to Auto-Accept invitations.
For the love of dear god please tell those german contractors to put this function in!! I am in a building right now with 67 conference rooms and I can't count how many times a room gets double, triple, and even Quad booked!
Note that when lightning discharges it releases light. There is no light in the pictures eminating from the discharge. Note especially the upper left part of the wall above the book case in shot #1.
They leave so much out of the test. I expect more for Germans than their test data revealed. Ok so we compare sound tests for various formats. Problem right off the bat is apple-orange bitrate comparisons exist that must be factored. For instance which sounds better a 128 bit OGG or a 320 bit Mp3. What about a 96 bit rate Mp3Pro. Where is the realation between the two? Then what about the compression ratios being matrixed in? If a 128 bit Mp3 sounds better than a 96 bit OGG but at only a cost of 5-8% where does that factor in? The space requirment is factored leaving this survey lackluster at best. The only decent way I can see in representing an Encoder format is some kind of QUALITY PER BIT ratio. But that doesn't work as certain types of music, when encoded at various bitrates, perform diffferently. Case in point compare live music at 95 bitrate versus studio tracks at 96. Compare Techno at 128 bit versus GT slide-guitar att 128bit.
I feel that until we get a complete test, not some quarter-point test, we will not get a real result that we cen depend on.
My tests come out like this:
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Live (From the Delicate Sounds of Thunder CD)
Under these circumstances OGG lost not due to quality but size. The difference between 7.6 and 7.1 is 7% size. ON an archive of say 1TB of audio data that is significant and should be considered.
Another issue is encoder performance. I can encode the same identical track with 4 different MP3 encoders and get 4 completly different results. It boggles the mind. the lack of data. Grr... they just didn't give us enough.
Here is my solution: Make an encoder format that actually contains all the formats. Do a signal analysis on the original wave file and use the best encoder format for that particular sound! There, all our problems are solved. We'll call it say "File Audio Group Interchange Encoder" and have it parent these formats in one Codec. There don't we feel better?
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How do you take that the system you helped develop for the FREE exchange of information has been targeted by corporate america to be used as nothing more than another invasive marketing tool.
Who knows but on the topic of rolling your own. I can think of nothing better. Cigarettes are best when hand rolled, Cigars are too, why not browser made by you!
(Crap I am a poet and didn't realized!)
I wonder if they are going to cover Project Managment which is the leading cause of poor security. When the project runs short on time security tends to be left till last and when your short on time, functionality out-ranks security (After all what good is the security of the app doesn't work? Right?)
After reading that I have been able to distill a few facts from the FAQ:
A> GNU People are bitter
B> GNU People are Attention Deprived
C> GNU is lining itself up to deliver an Intellectual Property Rights suit against the distro
D> GNU People are getting greedy and are planning to sue for financial gain.
E> GNU People Are Jelious of Linus' association with LINUX
F> GNU People obviously are about as far left as a liberal can get.
G> I now HATE GNU People with a passion
H> GNU People have better things to do that bitch and moan about getting "Props"
I> GNU People must be smoking on of the following:
1: Crack
2: Crystal-Meth
3: Hash
4: Pot
5: Smurfs
6: Shroom Spores
7: The original script to Tron 2.0
8: David Bowie
I can see that society has become so childish that even organizations are throwing temper-tantrums when they don't get the attention they want.
OK I got eat now, NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Lawsuits cost money. Even the RIAA doesn't have the money to sue 250 million people. Do you honestly think they will throw over 100,000 people in jail for music swapping? There isn't any room. Even if they did more and more people would work at making the RIAA's life a living hell. Once they are bankrupt, who cares? You have to DO something to WIN against the RIAA. If every slashdot reader gave $1 a month and hired some lobbyists think on how effect we could be. Politicians work for those who participate and do their civic duty. Pool your resources and hire a lobbyist. That in of it's self would show congress you a notch above a bunch of whiney no-nothings. You must participate. Get you district reps email on your contact list and write them at least 1 time a month. Form organizations and distribute literature door to door. EDUCATE PEOPLE if your so god damn smart :) You have to get the people involved. Go grocery shopping? Have 40 printouts detailing the RIAA's practices and toss a few under a windshield. Got Church? Tell your parish about it. There are millions of things you can do to win against the RIAA that they cannot stand against. DO SOMETHING->DO SOMETHING->DO SOMETHING.
Shit even in the future nothing works!
The old fashion way, word of mouth. It's real effective. It's how I have bought almost all my music (I found Mike Oldfield in this manner and "Songs from a Distant Earth" has got to be one of my favorite. I was introduced to Tangerine Dream by word of mouth along with Mechanical Bride (The drummer was a student of mine.) Word of mouth is a phenominal method and with the Internet it should be rather easy. Why not go to EZBoards or some site and start a Independent music review site.
Funny I haven't bought a single Britney CD. In fact neither have my family members. The reason is simple, if you explain to a young person what the marketing people are doing. Word gets around. In the 6 blocks around my house All the kids 10-18 are flocking to Independent artists and have discarded the marketing machine. It takes YOU to reach those "Mindless" people. It takes YOU to educate them. Quit yer bitching and DO something. If you explain it to the youth they do listen from time to time.
I noticed a reply that pointed out that fame is fleeting. For Minnesotans they might remember "Slave Raider" from the 80's. Great band but they have since faded. I wish they would master their albums and remaster them into CDs. They had a sweet song called "The Black Hole" and "Rollercoaster." Ohhh I wish my tapes hadn't wore out...
The fundamental answer is simple, the laws of capitalism work no matter what. One of those laws is the simplest to follow:
THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Simply put if people campaign against the RIAA effectivly and boycott (of course how hard is it to boycott the crap they are putting out these days) the company will continue to lose money. Lobbiests and lawyers don't work for free and if the RIAA can't pay there goes the problem. More importantly if the recording labels start to lose money the shareholders will intervene.
SUN TZU says "One cannot win a war without the will of the people"
Ultimatly WE are responsible for allowing the RIAA to get this far. Perhaps we will all learn something from this Digital Dark Age that looms on the horizon..
THE COST OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE
and I will clarify with
THE COST OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL AND "PROACTIVE" VIGILANCE.
FACT: Digital Cable costs LESS to provide than Analog Cable.
/. fund where everone sends a dollar in so /. and buy stock in these companies and start voting. We do live in America and for now we still can VOTE and CHANGE things. All I hear is whiney techno-hippies crying about "the man" (Boy things never change do they...) yet they offer no solutions.
FACT: CABLE COMPANIES SAVED MORE THAN 4 TIMES THE AMOUNT THEY SPENT BUILDING DIGITAL CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE FIRST 2 YEARS.
FACT: You're being fucked by those in power.
FACT: You chose to not listen to a 2000 year old proverb.
"Battle not against flesh, but of powers and principalities, and wickedness (or corruption based on transplation) in high places."
If you don't like getting screwed by big bad corps. go out and start buying their stock and vote the SOBs out of the company. Lets start a
You are only powerless if you choose to be.
If you want to make inroads with Linux you can do something real simple as a developer. I don't understand why people don't grasp what I am about to say.
---SOLUTION---
Sell your program for Windoze but have the installation/play CD a bootable Linux system. Have the CD mount the Windoze installation directory and thanks to the fact you piggy-backed the Windows installation you can look up all the needed hardware and install the Linux drivers. Using a small file in the installation directory as a swap partition now for the "power" gamer he can boot into a Linux version of gaem XYZ cutting out all the MS fat and really get a performance boost.
There is the true way to make in-roads. The to subsidize your development costs have commericals in a small corner of the HUD that play while your are dead in CS 2.0 =) Better yet full screen ads to help pay for your server, thus preventing that nasty habit of ghosting....
Mmm.... Ahhhh... that hit the spot.
-- GOT DOOM? --
Yeah. Another Processor. Cool. Even more Mhz and stuff. Ye-haw. Now I can run poorly written, crappy software even faster. WHO CARES! I swear this non-sense about the "bigger and faster" mentality is pissing me and I am sure many Americans off. Bigger, Faster, WHAT ABOUT BETTER! Technology is racing alone fast but the quality of the content is tanking. Why is it that the amount of innovation in thought is a dying art. All I get is lemmings saying, "We can improve this, we can improve that." What about, "Fuck the old way, this NEW way is BETTER." Honestly what changed say from photoshop 4 to photoshop 7? What changed from Quake to Quake 3? The amount of advancement has just tanked to levels I dare not dwell on. Another case in point:
S ISITORS-AND-COOL-MICROCODE...
Wolfenstein -> Woldfenstien 3D (Factor 10)
Wolfenstein -> Doom (Factor 8)
Doom -> Quake (Factor 6)
Quake -> Quake 2 (Factor 3)
Quake 2 -> Quake 3 (Factor 2)
Quake 3 -> Doom 3 (???)
It's turning into the nightmare "Been There, Done That." Where is a new FPS with original goal that doesn't use the Ray Tracing BSP method. There IS a better way, someone just has to invent it.
I cry out to a game developer to do something NEW. God allmighty battlefield 1942 has a CTF! I don't remember a lot of CTF in WWII but hey they need it in there I guess, god bless marketing. They didn't event try to obfuscate is by saying, "Capture the Urianium canister and get it back to your base." Nope it's an outright CTF... sob..
All the new FPS seem to have the Counter-Strike equiv. of a DE_xxxxxx map scenario.
An now after all this mediocrity I am supposed to "Ohh and Ahh" YET-ANOTHER-SILICON-PROCESSOR-WITH-EVEN-MORE-TRAN
Please like we care anymore IBM, give me an optical processor or a quantum processor and I'll shit a brick but don't bore me with anymore talk of new and bigger Mhz crap, M$ will just put out an even more bloated OS that will drive me straight back to square 1.
ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
p.s.
After playing Battle Field 1942 for 3 hours I can say that it will outdo counterstrike IFF (That isn't a typo btw) they get a good map making community behind them.
IFF = If and only If
Well... so much for trying to set standards... Grrr...
I have been penalized on papers for not having it in CAPS but I have never been penalized for OK. I wonder if there are grammicatal rules for contracting Okay. Or perhaps "Thru" is going to replace Through.
/\/\I L33t S|!77z" in school... come on it was fine on a BBS but kids have to grow up and learn that certain behaviors and language have certain rules on where they can be used. Slang is very valid in literature but only in certain circumstances (for instance a quote "Sup Foo!" said Jessie to the rabbi.)
/. readers (is /. a correct contraction of Slash Dot?)
This is as bad as Ebonic in classrooms, I didn't work hard in elementry school learning to read, speak, and write so when I get to college I can have an instructor trying to teach me how to butcher English. I am no A student in English, but I at least try. Of course I would expect to get docked points for using Thru or ok. Oddly though I have never used OK outside of dialog. Remember in literature if it's dialog, anything goes. Perhaps this scenario is permissible:
"Jeff are you ok?" yelled Terri. As Terri sifted through the rubble she caught a glimpse of Jeff. It seems that Jeff was okay after all.
I wonder if I could get away with "Ph34r
I wonder if the Internet is some how stunting the growth of the new generation... Hmmm... I'd like to see a reseach paper on that on. HEY YOU! WRITE A PAPER ON IT. I think it would be a great discussion for
Oh well I am a fossil I guess... but I wonder how much the Internet has "Dumbed-Down" peoples writing skills.
The law you quote applies only to private individuals, not companies.
I don't konw about you "outsiders" but I remember in the Constitution they were concerned with MY rights. Where did this Digital Rights nonsense come from? You would figure after 9-11 people in congress would get their priorities straighten out. Oh well just one more reason to pay close attention on who is running for senate and house.
There is a black eye for Linux. Was I the only person that was so grossly dissapointed with Unreal 2003 that I curled up in a ball and wept like a small child? Why bring up this association between UT 2003 and Linux, it will only harm Linux's reputation. Great I can see the headline now, "Yet Another Crappy Title Runs on Linux." If you want to impress people tell them there is a Linux version of Battlefield 1945 and then watch M$ weep.
I think this is a brilliant idea, we can see what the impact of YEARS of drinking soda (pop) has on a person when they get into space. It is not a hidden fact that Soda (pop) is not the most healthy drink in the world and I would like to see what happens when you take one of those kids that resemble the Simpsons' Comic Shop Owner and throw him into a low-G environment. Someone go out and get the FDA's report on soda and post it as a reply so we can see what potential health problems will get aggrivated by the trip. BOOYAH!
EXTRADITION TREATY
Pick and 2--
1: his ass
2: his mouth
3: his hands
4: His ability to negotiate a pack of ciggarettes into a 3 week stay and the MGM Grand and an early release.
5: His ability to overclock a P4 1.5 GHz into a 30.45GHz that fuses Hydrogen near the surface of the processor
You would figure after 9-11 people would have better things, and more important things, to be upset about, quit your bitching.
Umm I have seen hundreds of old typewrite pages that people did :) on that date to the 40s at least. In fact the >'))>> fish is at the bottom of a corrispondence that my client got in 1933! I would wager that the :) is at least as old as the first typewriters. Did everyone forget that before computers we had those old things? I feel old... think I'll go watch paint dry now while I soak my dentures....
I have but one thing to say that even M$ hasn't really dealt with:
ALLOW THE FUNCTION OF CREATING CONFERENCE ROOMS AND LOCATIONS THAT CAN BE SCHEDULED AGAINST.
The only was I have seen Exchange pull this off is by having a user created for each account and keeping an outlooks session open for each conference room, then setting the conference room account to Auto-Accept invitations.
For the love of dear god please tell those german contractors to put this function in!! I am in a building right now with 67 conference rooms and I can't count how many times a room gets double, triple, and even Quad booked!
Note that when lightning discharges it releases light. There is no light in the pictures eminating from the discharge. Note especially the upper left part of the wall above the book case in shot #1.
They leave so much out of the test. I expect more for Germans than their test data revealed. Ok so we compare sound tests for various formats. Problem right off the bat is apple-orange bitrate comparisons exist that must be factored. For instance which sounds better a 128 bit OGG or a 320 bit Mp3. What about a 96 bit rate Mp3Pro. Where is the realation between the two? Then what about the compression ratios being matrixed in? If a 128 bit Mp3 sounds better than a 96 bit OGG but at only a cost of 5-8% where does that factor in? The space requirment is factored leaving this survey lackluster at best. The only decent way I can see in representing an Encoder format is some kind of QUALITY PER BIT ratio. But that doesn't work as certain types of music, when encoded at various bitrates, perform diffferently. Case in point compare live music at 95 bitrate versus studio tracks at 96. Compare Techno at 128 bit versus GT slide-guitar att 128bit.
I feel that until we get a complete test, not some quarter-point test, we will not get a real result that we cen depend on.
My tests come out like this:
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Live
(From the Delicate Sounds of Thunder CD)
MP3 320bit 15mb Quality 100% (Base line)
MP3-Pro 96bit 4mb Quality 94%
OGG 128bit 7.6mb Quality 96%
MP3 128bit 7.1mb Quality 99%
Under these circumstances OGG lost not due to quality but size. The difference between 7.6 and 7.1 is 7% size. ON an archive of say 1TB of audio data that is significant and should be considered.
Another issue is encoder performance. I can encode the same identical track with 4 different MP3 encoders and get 4 completly different results. It boggles the mind. the lack of data. Grr... they just didn't give us enough.
Here is my solution: Make an encoder format that actually contains all the formats. Do a signal analysis on the original wave file and use the best encoder format for that particular sound! There, all our problems are solved. We'll call it say "File Audio Group Interchange Encoder" and have it parent these formats in one Codec. There don't we feel better?