Was I the only person who saw previews for this movie before September 11? It's easy to say retrospectively that this had its roots in September 11, but movies take a long time to write, film, and edit- unless you're suggesting that Hollywood was in on the plot.
Opera for windows is really great- I particularly like the mouse gestures, which is something that I haven't found in any other browser but without which I think I might wither away and die.
However, I tried Opera for various other OS's and I was thoroughly unimpressed. Opera for OSX is woefully slow and exceedingly crash prone, and doesn't even seem to have a very advanced feature set. Opera on Linux seemed a little better, but still lacked the mouse gestures (unless I missed something?), and anyway had trouble rendering pages frequently enough that I didn't want to bother with it anymore. I use Mozilla in Linux, and while it doesn't fully compare to my windows Opera, it's pretty good.
Ok. I agree that CD audio quality is quite good enough for me-- just that some have found reason to disagree. I mean, 96,000hz and 24bit equipment has a market for a reason. And if the media provided a higher level of content, the players would too, I imagine.
But anyway, there are other ways of enhancing the listening experience through more data. How about providing a spread of channels, to allow for a limited amount of remastering at home; or what about surround-sound mastering, with more than just the two stereo channels? Maybe those wouldn't be beneficial enough, but I could see them having some value.
The problem is that there isn't much discernable quality difference between an mp3 and a CD. While there's a difference, it's rarely enough of a difference to justify paying $15-20 vs. getting the music for free.
The obvious (to me) solution to this is to release better quality audio. I don't want band photos and lyrics and crap like that- CD audio isn't the absolute top bar for quality, although the music industry touts it to be. Why not put DVDs to use, and squeeze 4.7GB worth of music onto the disc? It's certainly doable, and it would certainly make the music sound better.
It would also address the other major problem facing the music industry, which is that making music just doesn't cost that much anymore. I can put together a very professional sounding home studio for under $10,000- professional enough sounding that nobody except elitist assholes or people who knew beforehand would be able to detect my subterfuge. The record companies can afford to take advantage of the quality increase that 4.7gb of disc space would allow- most likely the average person would not. While I'm not sure that I would want this to happen, I do find it disturbing that the music industry really expects us to believe that CD Audio is as good as it will get. It's not.
You must have truly been in a great hurry to point out my post's defects, as you could not be bothered to log in or to provide any supporting evidence.
Their primary motive is probably to put themselves in the position to leak information as they see fit. It's not so much to keep the press from reporting about this as it is to have greater control over the content of the reporting that does get done.
Er, I imagine a network that could automatically manage its resources well enough to be able to sleep (for powersaving reasons or otherwise) when not in use would be quite useful to most.
Those working with computers stand to gain a great deal from considering biology and anatomy when designing systems. Artificial Intelligence is a field where this has already been applied extensively and beneficially, with the use of genetic programming.
The human body (used here only because it's the most familiar to the average person) works. It has some problems, but the design is solid. We don't experience network downtime, and the majority of infections or intrusions we suffer are automatically dealt with. It makes sense to look to a model that's had 4 billion years to evolve- computer networks are pretty similar in function if you're not too pedantic about it.
I seriously don't think.ogg files will ever be able to reach the ascendancy of.mp3 files. The reason is aesthetic-.mp3 sounds slick and space-age, whereas.ogg sounds like egg and/or the noise of vomiting. I do not like eggs or vomit, and I would put neither into my computer.
This might seem like a minor quibble, but I would venture that it's the little things like this (design considerations) that distinguish popular products/formats from the scores of unpopular ones.
I agree with your premise, but in one instance you're quite wrong.
he planets will still be pretty much the same 5 to 25 years from now
The Pluto-Kuiper express mission relies on the position of Jupiter being the way it will be for only the next few years- its gravity is crucial for reaching Pluto in enough time to study Pluto's atmosphere. Because of Pluto's wide orbital ellipse, it will soon be too far away from the sun and its atmosphere will freeze. So it won't really be the same at all.
Otherwise, I quite agree with you. Nanotechnology is really important- and it is possible that science will bring us other ways to get to Pluto quickly enough.
While Mars is interesting and all, it seems like a mission to Europa would be the most scientifically useful in the long run. Europa is by far the most likely body in the solar system to have life on it- and finding extraterrestrial life would have.. potent ramifications. Seeing as we're heading into an age of artificial intelligence and bio- and nano-technology, I can hardly see what would be more useful than understanding the origins of life.
We need to understand how life and ultimately intelligence happen in order to make them happen ourselves.
You're so dreadfully naive.
The whole fucking basis of the antitrust suit against Microsoft is that they DID stop people. Moreover, they did so by using their leverage as a monopoly.
Examine the case of Be. Somebody already mentioned it, but you must not have been paying attention. Gassé went and did your three steps, and lo, Microsoft forced vendors into agreements that made it nearly impossible for the vendors to sell systems that had BeOS. See, this is how it works. Since Microsoft has a monopoly, they can threaten not to sell to a given vendor, and the vendor's choice is either to accede to Microsoft's fancy or to die a quick corporate death. BeOS was superior technology, and it was still in its infancy; yet vendors could not choose to install it on their systems even though at one point Be offered BeOS to vendors for FREE.
I really hope you actually try your own simplefuck advice, and end up the defeated shell of a person you deserve to be. Your opinions are already hollow.
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Was I the only person who saw previews for this movie before September 11? It's easy to say retrospectively that this had its roots in September 11, but movies take a long time to write, film, and edit- unless you're suggesting that Hollywood was in on the plot.
The only time I've ever seen something stupider than this was when my dog ate his shit right after dinner.
sweet is the taste of victory. SO sweet.
Since when does Slashdot cover this open-source stuff? I, for one, am appalled by this editorial mischief.
Brilliant troll! Brav0!
Opera for windows is really great- I particularly like the mouse gestures, which is something that I haven't found in any other browser but without which I think I might wither away and die.
However, I tried Opera for various other OS's and I was thoroughly unimpressed. Opera for OSX is woefully slow and exceedingly crash prone, and doesn't even seem to have a very advanced feature set. Opera on Linux seemed a little better, but still lacked the mouse gestures (unless I missed something?), and anyway had trouble rendering pages frequently enough that I didn't want to bother with it anymore. I use Mozilla in Linux, and while it doesn't fully compare to my windows Opera, it's pretty good.
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Ok. I agree that CD audio quality is quite good enough for me-- just that some have found reason to disagree. I mean, 96,000hz and 24bit equipment has a market for a reason. And if the media provided a higher level of content, the players would too, I imagine.
But anyway, there are other ways of enhancing the listening experience through more data. How about providing a spread of channels, to allow for a limited amount of remastering at home; or what about surround-sound mastering, with more than just the two stereo channels? Maybe those wouldn't be beneficial enough, but I could see them having some value.
I have a thought.
The problem is that there isn't much discernable quality difference between an mp3 and a CD. While there's a difference, it's rarely enough of a difference to justify paying $15-20 vs. getting the music for free.
The obvious (to me) solution to this is to release better quality audio. I don't want band photos and lyrics and crap like that- CD audio isn't the absolute top bar for quality, although the music industry touts it to be. Why not put DVDs to use, and squeeze 4.7GB worth of music onto the disc? It's certainly doable, and it would certainly make the music sound better.
It would also address the other major problem facing the music industry, which is that making music just doesn't cost that much anymore. I can put together a very professional sounding home studio for under $10,000- professional enough sounding that nobody except elitist assholes or people who knew beforehand would be able to detect my subterfuge. The record companies can afford to take advantage of the quality increase that 4.7gb of disc space would allow- most likely the average person would not. While I'm not sure that I would want this to happen, I do find it disturbing that the music industry really expects us to believe that CD Audio is as good as it will get. It's not.
yes. once again, I have triumphed over all others.
You must have truly been in a great hurry to point out my post's defects, as you could not be bothered to log in or to provide any supporting evidence.
.. AOL is not one of the plaintiffs. This is the original anti-trust suit against Microsoft, not AOL's suit.
Their primary motive is probably to put themselves in the position to leak information as they see fit. It's not so much to keep the press from reporting about this as it is to have greater control over the content of the reporting that does get done.
Heh. Yeah.
Er, I imagine a network that could automatically manage its resources well enough to be able to sleep (for powersaving reasons or otherwise) when not in use would be quite useful to most.
Those working with computers stand to gain a great deal from considering biology and anatomy when designing systems. Artificial Intelligence is a field where this has already been applied extensively and beneficially, with the use of genetic programming.
The human body (used here only because it's the most familiar to the average person) works. It has some problems, but the design is solid. We don't experience network downtime, and the majority of infections or intrusions we suffer are automatically dealt with. It makes sense to look to a model that's had 4 billion years to evolve- computer networks are pretty similar in function if you're not too pedantic about it.
I seriously don't think .ogg files will ever be able to reach the ascendancy of .mp3 files. The reason is aesthetic- .mp3 sounds slick and space-age, whereas .ogg sounds like egg and/or the noise of vomiting. I do not like eggs or vomit, and I would put neither into my computer.
This might seem like a minor quibble, but I would venture that it's the little things like this (design considerations) that distinguish popular products/formats from the scores of unpopular ones.
I agree with your premise, but in one instance you're quite wrong.
he planets will still be pretty much the same 5 to 25 years from now
The Pluto-Kuiper express mission relies on the position of Jupiter being the way it will be for only the next few years- its gravity is crucial for reaching Pluto in enough time to study Pluto's atmosphere. Because of Pluto's wide orbital ellipse, it will soon be too far away from the sun and its atmosphere will freeze. So it won't really be the same at all.
Otherwise, I quite agree with you. Nanotechnology is really important- and it is possible that science will bring us other ways to get to Pluto quickly enough.
While Mars is interesting and all, it seems like a mission to Europa would be the most scientifically useful in the long run. Europa is by far the most likely body in the solar system to have life on it- and finding extraterrestrial life would have .. potent ramifications. Seeing as we're heading into an age of artificial intelligence and bio- and nano-technology, I can hardly see what would be more useful than understanding the origins of life.
We need to understand how life and ultimately intelligence happen in order to make them happen ourselves.
No matter how diligently you try, you cannot lick your own elbow. Really!
You're so dreadfully naive. The whole fucking basis of the antitrust suit against Microsoft is that they DID stop people. Moreover, they did so by using their leverage as a monopoly. Examine the case of Be. Somebody already mentioned it, but you must not have been paying attention. Gassé went and did your three steps, and lo, Microsoft forced vendors into agreements that made it nearly impossible for the vendors to sell systems that had BeOS. See, this is how it works. Since Microsoft has a monopoly, they can threaten not to sell to a given vendor, and the vendor's choice is either to accede to Microsoft's fancy or to die a quick corporate death. BeOS was superior technology, and it was still in its infancy; yet vendors could not choose to install it on their systems even though at one point Be offered BeOS to vendors for FREE. I really hope you actually try your own simplefuck advice, and end up the defeated shell of a person you deserve to be. Your opinions are already hollow.
Not to be mean or anything, but holy diarrhea-spigot you're such a buffoon. Please, please chop of your penis and mail it to me. I'm really hungry.
don't make excuses. everyone knows that first post only goes to the most pendulously-balled.
can it possibly be? allah, don't fail me now.
perfect spelling would mean that you were able to spell the word "grammar" correctly, which you obviously cannot.
..While we get the content for free, Slashdot is not a free service. It just so happens that our contribution is not directly pecuniary.