I'm from the west island. Everything east of the Ikea is "downtown". And Ubisoft's office is close enough to the old port to be labeled as "Old Montreal" by me, even though it really isn't:P
I'm referring to this line: "scenic Ubisoft campus".
I've been to Ubisoft's offices in Montreal to apply for a job. They don't have a campus. They only have one floor in a run-down multi-floor building in Old Montreal (Semi-downtown). There IS no campus...
What? Microsoft is sitting on enormous cache reserves, still has a monopoly on the desktop OS market, and has many extremely successful products such as Office.
Not to mention that the xbox is doing pretty good; while they might not make money on the hardware itself, games like Halo 2 make them a heck of a lot of money.
Microsoft might be going through a rough spot, but since when does that mean a company is going to collapse?
What? No. I was replying to the parent post that complained that.doc changed too frequently to use for longterm storage. I was saying that it hasn't changed much in 9 years, so it WAS suitable for longterm storage. Besides, most word processing apps will read.doc that predates the Word 97 standard.
Me, I'm happy with.doc. They open fine in OpenOffice.org.
I'm not certain, as I haven't looked into it, but I have a Motorola v551, and I believe you can make voice calls from a computer with the Phone Tools software (And the USB cable for the phone).
And if you can't, I'm still having a blast shoving WarCraft 2 and Final Fantasy 7 midi onto the thing and using them as ringtones. It might only have 24 polyphony, but I can barely notice dropped notes, and the MIDIs sound great.
Google Maps works fine for Canada. I live in Montreal and searched from my house to work, and while the directions were stupid, it found both locations and let me zoom in all the way.
It's buggy (Up/down arrow keys scroll both map and page, directions are horrible), but shows a great deal of promise.
And while map24 is impressive, I find Google Maps more impressive. It does the same thing using JavaScript instead of Java. map24 won't even load on my current machine in Firefox because I have no JVM installed.
Really? I thought it hadn't changed substantially (if at all) since Office 97, which was probably released in 1996, so 9 years ago. In computer terms that's a long lasting format.
Even with an application, you'd be artificially limiting the possible growth. It wouldn't take very many users before you'd have to remove any such feature from the application because you'd have hit your 1000 search cap.
And who said anything about taking people away from google freely? The problem is they don't allow you to purchase more searches.
When you get up around 160kbit, for 99.9% of the population all the codecs sound identical. With soaring bandwidth and storage, it's arguable that quality at higher bitrates is less and less relevant; more and more people are using FLAC these days, or just ripping at 320kbit (or even 192kbit).
Lower bitrates, 96, 64, 32, 24, that's what is important today.
Just think, if somebody was encoding a video and had 300kbit total to work with, and they had the choice between MP3, Vorbis, or AAC+, with user support being equal, there is no doubt they'd choose AAC+.
I am hopeful that a "free" (To users) DirectShow implementation of AAC+ becomes available. I would use it for low-bitrate encoded video over MP3, Vorbis, or AC3 in a heartbeat. I mean, if you're trying to fit 42min of video into 80MB, that's 260kbit total to work with, and the difference between 64kbit and 24kbit is quite significant.
Upon further reflection, no. Even a desktop app would not work, because every copy of that app would use the same developer account at Google, so each user doing his searches on his desktop would count towards your 1000 per day limit.
"it's also of great help to certain tools using the Google API"
Hardly. The Google API is limited to 1000 searches per day, making it useless for any sort of web application. About the only thing I can think of that it would be useful for is a desktop program in which the user would only perform a limited number of searches.
I downloaded the reference source for the AACplus encoder/decoder, and ran a quick test on it.
At 24kbit, Vorbis needs to encode at 16khz stereo to hit the target bitrate.
At 24kbit, AACplus can encode at 48khz stereo and still hit the target bitrate.
Doing a direct comparison, there is no competition at all. 48khz vs 16khz, aacplus wins.
While I'm very happy that such a huge leap has been made in low-bitrate audio encoding, I'm troubled as to how far Vorbis has fallen behind. They don't seem to have made any major improvements in audio quality in years.
But after listening to a 24kbit stream of AACplus, I have come to the conclusion that Vorbis just got it's ass handed to it at low bitrates. Seriously, 44khz stereo at 24kbit and it sounds great.
I'm trying to find an AACplus encoder somewhere to do some side-by-side comparisons.
The last generation Centrino processor, the Dothan-bsaed Pentium-M, was just as good as games as this new generation. Nothing has really changed. In fact, the Pentium M has always been very good at games, though it really came into it's own with the Dothan core upgrade.
The Pentium M is a very impressive chip. It's not all fun and games though (pardon the pun), it's very good at some things (games) and very bad at others (media encoding).
Suprnova got over a million pageviews per day. There are not many websites in general that are that large, let alone BitTorrent websites. At it's peak it was nearly the 500th biggest website on the net (According to Alexa). It's fair to say it was likely the most popular BitTorrent site by an enormous margin.
As we speak, it is indeed a beta, but a public one with hundreds of thousands of users. eXeem seems to follow the Kazaa concept in which you can't see every user out there (Correct me if I'm wrong), but my machine has seen upwards of 40 to 60 thousand near me in the eXeem network.
Suprnova was just as closed source. They didn't release any of their (PHP) source. Nobody complained. Technically, Exeem, being based on LibTorrent, is based on open sourced code just the same.
Is eXeem trying to ride off the popularity of Suprnova? Perhaps. I'm of the opinion that Suprnova went looking for such a company before they were approached. While I was running Novasearch I heard months before the public beta started that Suprnova was looking into an application-based replacement for Suprnova.
Opensource isn't the end-all be-all of software, no matter what RMS would have you believe. Closed software has it's place, and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. People deserve to get paid for their hard work, and if they want to donate code in their free time, great.
Spyware? Hardly. It installs adware, which is an entirely different thing. Cydoor, the ad provider, is solely designed to download ads and display them in the program. And above all, it ONLY RUNS when the host app (eXeem) is running.
And this is information I got from Symantec, totally backing up what Sloncek has said about Cydoor and eXeem.
Cydoor was used to provide ads to the Suprnova website for months. Now they're using the company to provide ads for their program.
Besides, something being closed source isn't a valid reason to trash something. The opensource philosophy, while a great thing, doesn't work everywhere. People should be able to get paid for their hard work if they so choose.
I'm not sure what you mean by "stinks the RIAA all over the place". Do you mean that they will attract the RIAA's attention? I'm sure they will. But their location in the caribbean is likely to protect them from that.
Not just promoted, his involvement goes deeper than that. There are reasons for the great many similarities between eXeem and Suprnova that I don't think would have been there otherwise.
Besides, it's not like this was a spur of the moment thing. When I was running Novasearch, I was told (And this was a few months before even the closed beta for eXeem started) that an application-based replacement for Supnova was in the works.
I think it more likely that Suprnova actively sought out such a partnership. What does it matter if Suprnova themselves developped the application, so long as they use it as their official transition path? They decided this is the route they wanted to go, and found somebody to take them there.
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The QEMU accelerator can also only run x86 binaries on x86 processors. It only works on x86.
This is because it's not emulating, it's virtualizing, and tries to get as much code as possible to run native on the host CPU.
Yes. Where in the city of Montreal they intend to get enough space to build a "scenic campus".
I'm from the west island. Everything east of the Ikea is "downtown". And Ubisoft's office is close enough to the old port to be labeled as "Old Montreal" by me, even though it really isn't :P
Bah, that's close enough to the old port to be considered old montreal to me :p
I'm referring to this line: "scenic Ubisoft campus".
I've been to Ubisoft's offices in Montreal to apply for a job. They don't have a campus. They only have one floor in a run-down multi-floor building in Old Montreal (Semi-downtown). There IS no campus...
On the hardware, yes. But with big games like Halo 2 bringing in the cash...
Gah, you got me, another classic case of not paying attention to what you're typing :)
What? Microsoft is sitting on enormous cache reserves, still has a monopoly on the desktop OS market, and has many extremely successful products such as Office.
Not to mention that the xbox is doing pretty good; while they might not make money on the hardware itself, games like Halo 2 make them a heck of a lot of money.
Microsoft might be going through a rough spot, but since when does that mean a company is going to collapse?
What? No. I was replying to the parent post that complained that .doc changed too frequently to use for longterm storage. I was saying that it hasn't changed much in 9 years, so it WAS suitable for longterm storage. Besides, most word processing apps will read .doc that predates the Word 97 standard.
.doc. They open fine in OpenOffice.org.
Me, I'm happy with
I'm not certain, as I haven't looked into it, but I have a Motorola v551, and I believe you can make voice calls from a computer with the Phone Tools software (And the USB cable for the phone).
And if you can't, I'm still having a blast shoving WarCraft 2 and Final Fantasy 7 midi onto the thing and using them as ringtones. It might only have 24 polyphony, but I can barely notice dropped notes, and the MIDIs sound great.
Google Maps works fine for Canada. I live in Montreal and searched from my house to work, and while the directions were stupid, it found both locations and let me zoom in all the way.
It's buggy (Up/down arrow keys scroll both map and page, directions are horrible), but shows a great deal of promise.
And while map24 is impressive, I find Google Maps more impressive. It does the same thing using JavaScript instead of Java. map24 won't even load on my current machine in Firefox because I have no JVM installed.
Really? I thought it hadn't changed substantially (if at all) since Office 97, which was probably released in 1996, so 9 years ago. In computer terms that's a long lasting format.
Even with an application, you'd be artificially limiting the possible growth. It wouldn't take very many users before you'd have to remove any such feature from the application because you'd have hit your 1000 search cap.
And who said anything about taking people away from google freely? The problem is they don't allow you to purchase more searches.
When you get up around 160kbit, for 99.9% of the population all the codecs sound identical. With soaring bandwidth and storage, it's arguable that quality at higher bitrates is less and less relevant; more and more people are using FLAC these days, or just ripping at 320kbit (or even 192kbit).
Lower bitrates, 96, 64, 32, 24, that's what is important today.
Just think, if somebody was encoding a video and had 300kbit total to work with, and they had the choice between MP3, Vorbis, or AAC+, with user support being equal, there is no doubt they'd choose AAC+.
I am hopeful that a "free" (To users) DirectShow implementation of AAC+ becomes available. I would use it for low-bitrate encoded video over MP3, Vorbis, or AC3 in a heartbeat. I mean, if you're trying to fit 42min of video into 80MB, that's 260kbit total to work with, and the difference between 64kbit and 24kbit is quite significant.
That doesn't make any sense. Are you saying that a non-profit web app couldn't attract more than 300 to 500 users per day? That's nothing.
It's said that they may open a commercial program for it for years now, it's not going to change anytime soon.
Upon further reflection, no. Even a desktop app would not work, because every copy of that app would use the same developer account at Google, so each user doing his searches on his desktop would count towards your 1000 per day limit.
It's a developer account. So each search each user did would contribute towards your total.
"it's also of great help to certain tools using the Google API"
Hardly. The Google API is limited to 1000 searches per day, making it useless for any sort of web application. About the only thing I can think of that it would be useful for is a desktop program in which the user would only perform a limited number of searches.
So long as the blowers don't fail the service will stay up ;)
I downloaded the reference source for the AACplus encoder/decoder, and ran a quick test on it.
At 24kbit, Vorbis needs to encode at 16khz stereo to hit the target bitrate.
At 24kbit, AACplus can encode at 48khz stereo and still hit the target bitrate.
Doing a direct comparison, there is no competition at all. 48khz vs 16khz, aacplus wins.
While I'm very happy that such a huge leap has been made in low-bitrate audio encoding, I'm troubled as to how far Vorbis has fallen behind. They don't seem to have made any major improvements in audio quality in years.
Vorbis is great at low bitrates.
But after listening to a 24kbit stream of AACplus, I have come to the conclusion that Vorbis just got it's ass handed to it at low bitrates. Seriously, 44khz stereo at 24kbit and it sounds great.
I'm trying to find an AACplus encoder somewhere to do some side-by-side comparisons.
The last generation Centrino processor, the Dothan-bsaed Pentium-M, was just as good as games as this new generation. Nothing has really changed. In fact, the Pentium M has always been very good at games, though it really came into it's own with the Dothan core upgrade.
The Pentium M is a very impressive chip. It's not all fun and games though (pardon the pun), it's very good at some things (games) and very bad at others (media encoding).
Suprnova got over a million pageviews per day. There are not many websites in general that are that large, let alone BitTorrent websites. At it's peak it was nearly the 500th biggest website on the net (According to Alexa). It's fair to say it was likely the most popular BitTorrent site by an enormous margin.
As we speak, it is indeed a beta, but a public one with hundreds of thousands of users. eXeem seems to follow the Kazaa concept in which you can't see every user out there (Correct me if I'm wrong), but my machine has seen upwards of 40 to 60 thousand near me in the eXeem network.
Suprnova was just as closed source. They didn't release any of their (PHP) source. Nobody complained. Technically, Exeem, being based on LibTorrent, is based on open sourced code just the same.
Is eXeem trying to ride off the popularity of Suprnova? Perhaps. I'm of the opinion that Suprnova went looking for such a company before they were approached. While I was running Novasearch I heard months before the public beta started that Suprnova was looking into an application-based replacement for Suprnova.
Opensource isn't the end-all be-all of software, no matter what RMS would have you believe. Closed software has it's place, and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. People deserve to get paid for their hard work, and if they want to donate code in their free time, great.
Spyware? Hardly. It installs adware, which is an entirely different thing. Cydoor, the ad provider, is solely designed to download ads and display them in the program. And above all, it ONLY RUNS when the host app (eXeem) is running.
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And this is information I got from Symantec, totally backing up what Sloncek has said about Cydoor and eXeem.
http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.cydoo
Cydoor was used to provide ads to the Suprnova website for months. Now they're using the company to provide ads for their program.
Besides, something being closed source isn't a valid reason to trash something. The opensource philosophy, while a great thing, doesn't work everywhere. People should be able to get paid for their hard work if they so choose.
I'm not sure what you mean by "stinks the RIAA all over the place". Do you mean that they will attract the RIAA's attention? I'm sure they will. But their location in the caribbean is likely to protect them from that.
Not just promoted, his involvement goes deeper than that. There are reasons for the great many similarities between eXeem and Suprnova that I don't think would have been there otherwise.
Besides, it's not like this was a spur of the moment thing. When I was running Novasearch, I was told (And this was a few months before even the closed beta for eXeem started) that an application-based replacement for Supnova was in the works.
I think it more likely that Suprnova actively sought out such a partnership. What does it matter if Suprnova themselves developped the application, so long as they use it as their official transition path? They decided this is the route they wanted to go, and found somebody to take them there.