If you wanted to make video files that will have the best chance of being viewable in 10 or 20 years, what are the best file formats and codecs?
Puhhhhhleeeaasseee. Every geek knows the porn cycle goes like this: Download Porn, Masturbate, Mom coming for a visit, Delete Porn. Download porn, masturbate, mom coming for a visit, delete porn...
Grim Fandango -- an x-g/f of mine said it best... I forced her to play it with me and during the course of the game it went from me saying "you have to come over and play grim fandango" to her saying "Can I pleeaaassseee come over and play grim fandango?"...
When we finished the game, she was depressed and she said, "Im am sad that its over, I feel like I've lost someone."
Actually I think if GCC is a bad compiler for Itanium, then that *SHOULD* be a factor in itanium performance. GCC is *the* standard compiler for *everything*. Claiming poor performance with GCC is absurd. This situation would be similiar to car manufacturers claiming poor performance with "gas". You need our *special* gas that we have a monopoly on. Intel *SHOULD* be contributing to GCC to make it a good compiler but they'd *rather* sell an expensive compiler.
The attitude of the scientific community with respect to this is pathetic
There are lots of scientists who would love to do research on drugs. They A: Can't get funding, B: Will goto jail because it's illegal.
If you want to bash people atleast bash the real villans -- a government bent on destroying "drugs" when their definition of drugs is largely arbitrary and racist.
Dont take this OTTO guy too seriously. He is a troll. He got angry at me for some disagrement and since then he reads my user page and finds comments he can use to call me an idiot:) Thanks for the support.
I'll reply to you since you were the only one who was polite:) There are two measurements of efficency for air filtersm;the percent debries removed and "Air exchanges per hour". An Air Exchange/hr is exactly what it sounds like -- the entire volume of air in the room must pass through the unit in one hour. The percent debris removed by electrostatic filters is *VERY* high, however, it makes no difference if no air reaches the filter to be cleaned. The HEPA standard is 6 ae/h (i'll abreviate from now on), and some high end models achieve 15 ae/h. The problem is of course the ionic breeze *ISN'T MOVING AIR*, and thus is hopelessy inefficent.
Suppose for a moment you are correct and the ionic breeze does recieve some benfit from the normal movements of air in the house. There is no way that it could achieve the necessary 6 ae/h, and If thats not important to you -- you still must agree that a filter *with* a fan is almost infintley more efficent:) How many cubic meters of air do you think pass through an ionic breeze due to normal house currents? My 70$ honeywell moves 5000cubic feet of air per hour.
Sharper image is selling the same old snake oil, and the people who attacked me are pretty much defending their shiny 500$ pieces of crap, and that saddens me:)
Completley wrong my good sir. Consumer Reports tested the ionic breeze and *was unable* to measure its effectivness because its filtration was "below measurable levels" if it was doing anything at all.
That being said the ionic breeze uses the *best* technology for air cleaning, but the lack of a fan makes it completley useless. There are other models out there that use the same technology and have fans.
I would recommend spending the 5$ or so to get a copy of the air filters report from http://www.consumerreports.org (no I don't work for them, I'm just a fan:) (I seem to have lost my print copy of the article otherwise I'd tell you the recommendations). If you aren't familiar with consumer reports, basically they are a non-profit who buys everything from spackle compount to cars and tests it rigorously using the scientific method. Their reports include an overview of the different technologies involved, overview of pro's and cons, and a discussion of what devices are suited for what applications, and finally their *scientific* tests of the devices and their results. Devices are then ranked by overall score in each category measured (some categories can be objective like "ease of use"). In the case of air purifiers they put each purifer in a chamber with a known quantity of (measureable) debris, and after a ceartin period of time they saw how much/little was left.
Case in point, my buddy wanted me to FTP some files to his XBOX -- I write a simple shell script to translate them to xbox format (no special characters, not longer then 42 chars). Time to write script? 5 minutes, bash+sed= good.
In windows? Pay 100$ for your visual basic or visual c++ compiler and hopefully spend only a couple hours writing the program.
I had a quick stint in the technical-book field and I can tell you, you are dead on the money!
Much like the production process of films, TV, Music and Radio, book production is *COMPLETLEY* bankrupt. My own experience was, a well known publisher wanted to do a book on network programming and my friend and I were asked to submit a proposal. Long story short, they couldn't make up their mind -- they wanted a simple "network programming for dummies" type book, so we gave them that... Then that was too simple for them and they wanted something more indepth -- but still accessable. We responded with a proposal for "Practical Network Programming" which covered a little theory and about as much information as you would need to write any kind of normal application, but not much more. Then they changed their minds again and asked for something along the lines of a stevens book (if you dont know what a stevens book is thats ok. Stevens WROTE the TCP/IP RFC and his books are extremely detailed, weighing in at about 1200 pages, and are considered to be the definitive source of information on tcp/ip). After that we told them to f*** off.
I find the problem I have is technical books are "wordy." Lots of words which dont accomplish anything:) Not surprisngly this is because authors are PAID BY THE PAGE.
Actually this isn't that far from the truth... In college I read a book called "The fabric of reality", one of the topics in the book was the various multiverse theories. I quickly personalized the multiverse theroy when I saw a GORGEOUS chick walk by, "In some universe somewhere, I'm fucking her right now."
I agree man... best show ive ever heard, Steely Dan @ The Riverport Ampitheature in St. Louis on 09-01-1993. I was 14 and unable to attend:) I am glad someone did, because its my favorite SD album (and I own them all).
That being said, having a studio myself, I would like to point out that wether something is "Professional Audio" or not is determined by a high Dynamic Range (DNR) and a low Signal to Noise Rratio (SNR), not the useless and misleading "Audio Precision" graphs.
That being said, I hope it is a good product, I could sure use it:)
That means that when Warner makes $1 on a CD, their costs represent 98c
It thats true then thats *exactly* why they're going out of business.
finding a moral justification for your actions. Face it. You download mp3s because you can, not because it's right.
Wrong wrong...:) I *am* an artist, music is my family is in the music business, and I choose to give my music to greatfull fans for free rather then give it to the ungreatfull RIAA for free. I also own an ENORMOUS collection of albums (800 or so) of which about half are cds and half are *purchased* mp3s (and that doesn't include hundreds of albums Ive given away/deleted becuse they've sucked). I support artists I like by purchasing their cds and seeing their concerts. I'm pretty sure I alone am responsible for supporting the lifestyles of Steely Dan (walter becker and donald fagen) and Sting:) If I like the purchased mp3s enough I usually *buy their cds as well* because the quality of the mp3s even on pay sites is amateurish. That being said I do currently have about 10 albums I dont own on my computer. I listen to them, and if I like them I buy them, otherwise they get deleted. Rest assured I will buy them next time I make out an amazon order.
actually you radicaly misinterpereted my comment:) I said a *political message* was bad story telling:) and I stand by that. But I said nothing about dramatic situations:) The Iraq situtaion could have been just as compelling without having been "created as a direct protest...". that being said I dont think we actually disagree on any points:)
As for the article reflecting my own beliefs, I cant argue with that I suppose... to speak otherwise would make me a troll:)
a poor selling band would end up costing their company money
BULLSHIT. You can't justify stealing with that argument. What they're saying is, "Most of our investments fail." Would you be satisfied with that performance rate as a business? If you accept that premise, why should a successfull artist have to support 99 crappy artists?
The answer is of course they're lying. They own the studios that record the albums, they own the song writers who write the songs, they own the plants that press the cds. It's called vertical integration. They produce the album as cheap as possible, CLAIM it costs a fortune, and pocket the rest:)
Do you really think the owners of record labels sit around and say "You know the thing that sucks about this business, we're always loosing cash." If that were the case record companies would go out of business all the time when their income sources (artists) dried up.
was created as a direct protest of the continued sanctions against the nation of Iraq.
Uninformed artists unite! Political messages other than universal messages ("be nice to everyone", "love is good" etc.) are a classic sign of poor storytelling. Good storytelling (if it has messages at all) has "universal messages" that can be appreciated after the lifetime of the project. The fact it is dated before it's even out is just a testament to poor judgment.
Interesting fact, a musical number "The Jitterbug" was cut from the Wizard of Oz because the directors didn't want to date the film, they *hoped* it would be profitable for 10 years... Could you imagine how much less esteem the Wizard of Oz would be held in if they jitterbugged in it? (imagine someone doing a fad dance in the movie like "the bird" or "the cabbage patch")
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Puhhhhhleeeaasseee. Every geek knows the porn cycle goes like this: Download Porn, Masturbate, Mom coming for a visit, Delete Porn. Download porn, masturbate, mom coming for a visit, delete porn...
Do your own research!
When we finished the game, she was depressed and she said, "Im am sad that its over, I feel like I've lost someone."
That my friend is a good game :)
No disagreement with you at all. Im just saying they should suffer the consequences of that secrecy in their benchmarks.
I suspect the RIAA's definition of "legitimate music files" and my own differ wildly.
Actually I think if GCC is a bad compiler for Itanium, then that *SHOULD* be a factor in itanium performance. GCC is *the* standard compiler for *everything*. Claiming poor performance with GCC is absurd. This situation would be similiar to car manufacturers claiming poor performance with "gas". You need our *special* gas that we have a monopoly on. Intel *SHOULD* be contributing to GCC to make it a good compiler but they'd *rather* sell an expensive compiler.
no doubt about this really ...
There are lots of scientists who would love to do research on drugs. They A: Can't get funding, B: Will goto jail because it's illegal.
If you want to bash people atleast bash the real villans -- a government bent on destroying "drugs" when their definition of drugs is largely arbitrary and racist.
Everytime I see a girl walk by I feel a tingle in my crotch!
Dont take this OTTO guy too seriously. He is a troll. He got angry at me for some disagrement and since then he reads my user page and finds comments he can use to call me an idiot :) Thanks for the support.
Suppose for a moment you are correct and the ionic breeze does recieve some benfit from the normal movements of air in the house. There is no way that it could achieve the necessary 6 ae/h, and If thats not important to you -- you still must agree that a filter *with* a fan is almost infintley more efficent :) How many cubic meters of air do you think pass through an ionic breeze due to normal house currents? My 70$ honeywell moves 5000cubic feet of air per hour.
Sharper image is selling the same old snake oil, and the people who attacked me are pretty much defending their shiny 500$ pieces of crap, and that saddens me :)
I can make no arguemnt against such ignorance.
That being said the ionic breeze uses the *best* technology for air cleaning, but the lack of a fan makes it completley useless. There are other models out there that use the same technology and have fans.
I would recommend spending the 5$ or so to get a copy of the air filters report from http://www.consumerreports.org (no I don't work for them, I'm just a fan:) (I seem to have lost my print copy of the article otherwise I'd tell you the recommendations). If you aren't familiar with consumer reports, basically they are a non-profit who buys everything from spackle compount to cars and tests it rigorously using the scientific method. Their reports include an overview of the different technologies involved, overview of pro's and cons, and a discussion of what devices are suited for what applications, and finally their *scientific* tests of the devices and their results. Devices are then ranked by overall score in each category measured (some categories can be objective like "ease of use"). In the case of air purifiers they put each purifer in a chamber with a known quantity of (measureable) debris, and after a ceartin period of time they saw how much/little was left.
Case in point, my buddy wanted me to FTP some files to his XBOX -- I write a simple shell script to translate them to xbox format (no special characters, not longer then 42 chars). Time to write script? 5 minutes, bash+sed= good.
In windows? Pay 100$ for your visual basic or visual c++ compiler and hopefully spend only a couple hours writing the program.
You my friend are a pragmatist after my own heart. I wish I had mod points.
Much like the production process of films, TV, Music and Radio, book production is *COMPLETLEY* bankrupt. My own experience was, a well known publisher wanted to do a book on network programming and my friend and I were asked to submit a proposal. Long story short, they couldn't make up their mind -- they wanted a simple "network programming for dummies" type book, so we gave them that... Then that was too simple for them and they wanted something more indepth -- but still accessable. We responded with a proposal for "Practical Network Programming" which covered a little theory and about as much information as you would need to write any kind of normal application, but not much more. Then they changed their minds again and asked for something along the lines of a stevens book (if you dont know what a stevens book is thats ok. Stevens WROTE the TCP/IP RFC and his books are extremely detailed, weighing in at about 1200 pages, and are considered to be the definitive source of information on tcp/ip). After that we told them to f*** off.
I find the problem I have is technical books are "wordy." Lots of words which dont accomplish anything :) Not surprisngly this is because authors are PAID BY THE PAGE.
Actually this isn't that far from the truth ... In college I read a book called "The fabric of reality", one of the topics in the book was the various multiverse theories. I quickly personalized the multiverse theroy when I saw a GORGEOUS chick walk by, "In some universe somewhere, I'm fucking her right now."
That being said, having a studio myself, I would like to point out that wether something is "Professional Audio" or not is determined by a high Dynamic Range (DNR) and a low Signal to Noise Rratio (SNR), not the useless and misleading "Audio Precision" graphs.
That being said, I hope it is a good product, I could sure use it :)
Wrong wrong ... :) I *am* an artist, music is my family is in the music business, and I choose to give my music to greatfull fans for free rather then give it to the ungreatfull RIAA for free. I also own an ENORMOUS collection of albums (800 or so) of which about half are cds and half are *purchased* mp3s (and that doesn't include hundreds of albums Ive given away/deleted becuse they've sucked). I support artists I like by purchasing their cds and seeing their concerts. I'm pretty sure I alone am responsible for supporting the lifestyles of Steely Dan (walter becker and donald fagen) and Sting :) If I like the purchased mp3s enough I usually *buy their cds as well* because the quality of the mp3s even on pay sites is amateurish. That being said I do currently have about 10 albums I dont own on my computer. I listen to them, and if I like them I buy them, otherwise they get deleted. Rest assured I will buy them next time I make out an amazon order.
Actually, that really sounds ike management.
As for the article reflecting my own beliefs, I cant argue with that I suppose... to speak otherwise would make me a troll :)
BULLSHIT. You can't justify stealing with that argument. What they're saying is, "Most of our investments fail." Would you be satisfied with that performance rate as a business? If you accept that premise, why should a successfull artist have to support 99 crappy artists?
The answer is of course they're lying. They own the studios that record the albums, they own the song writers who write the songs, they own the plants that press the cds. It's called vertical integration. They produce the album as cheap as possible, CLAIM it costs a fortune, and pocket the rest :)
Do you really think the owners of record labels sit around and say "You know the thing that sucks about this business, we're always loosing cash." If that were the case record companies would go out of business all the time when their income sources (artists) dried up.
Thats like taking undigested corn out of a piece of shit ... All you have when you're done is a more pure piece of shit :D
Uninformed artists unite! Political messages other than universal messages ("be nice to everyone", "love is good" etc.) are a classic sign of poor storytelling. Good storytelling (if it has messages at all) has "universal messages" that can be appreciated after the lifetime of the project. The fact it is dated before it's even out is just a testament to poor judgment.
Interesting fact, a musical number "The Jitterbug" was cut from the Wizard of Oz because the directors didn't want to date the film, they *hoped* it would be profitable for 10 years... Could you imagine how much less esteem the Wizard of Oz would be held in if they jitterbugged in it? (imagine someone doing a fad dance in the movie like "the bird" or "the cabbage patch")
Thats *EXACTLY* what my years of employment as a Systems Admin were like.