That folder holds DVD-Audio files. Such discs have been around for years. Although the article gives no technical details about those new "DVD albums", it seems like it's gonna be regular DVD-Video discs with an additional DVD-ROM part.
Has anyone actually listened to the demo? Their 192 kbps "surround" MP3's show the same kind of ugly distortion as 96 kbps stereo MP3's... I was much more convinced by the 5.1 aacPlus streams that used to be available on Tuner2.com.
Writing something that parses XHTML is a LOT simpler than writing something that parses HTML.
How do you know that? Did you actually write both an HTML and an XHTML parser? While I didn't, I would also instinctively think that parsing a stricter language would be easier; but David Hyatt, however, who worked on Mozilla and now works on Safari, seems to think otherwise:
Every modern browser, including Mozilla and Safari, is much worse at XHTML than at HTML. People tend to foolishly gloss over the transition from one to the other, thinking that code you write for one will "just work" when you switch to XHTML. That simply isn't true. If you look at XHTML in both Mozilla and Safari and compare it to HTML, you'll see that it's slower, non-incremental, and generally buggier than HTML.
I read Microsoft's requirements page on 1080p HDTV, and that's why I didn't buy the T2 DVD edition which features an HDTV version of the movie: my CPU is an Athlon XP 2500+. I tried playing the 1080p trailer, and indeed it was choppy as hell, although playing the 720p version was fine (barely). Then I bought myself a GeForce FX5900 (PDF file, 209 KiB), which provides hardware acceleration for HDTV content; I played the 1080p trailer again with MPlayer, the video was smooth, and CPU charge was about 70%. I don't know how this hadware acceleration works (I would expect it to be bound to a specific codec), but it certainly works damn well.
I've tried the new kernel, and I got more responsiveness issues than improvements. But besides that (I might very well have misconfigured something), I'd like to point out that the kernel itself isn't all that matters: the new drivers that accompany it are just as much important. I noticed a significant increase in X's launch time as well as a whopping 250 FPS with glxgears to be compared to the 150 FPS I got with my 2.4.22 setup. This is probably due to major improvements that were brought to the drivers for my i830M chipset.
802.11g claims 54Mbps - how much faster do you need?
As stated by BigBir3d, 802.11b actually provides aroung 4-5 Mbps, and 802.11g around 20 Mbps. The thing is, Wi-Fi is not a replacement for fast ethernet yet. If I appreciate hard drives providing ever more bandwidth, it's because I like to transfer large files over my LAN quickly. I can't do that over Wi-Fi. So, to answer your question, I need as much bandwidth from a wireless setup as my hard drives provide.
For $700, the price of a low-end laptop, I'd expect a lot more.
Maybe you would rather expect to pay a lot less for it...
I'm still waiting for a handheld with the features of a laptop (hard drive, wi-fi, stereo I/O...), without any embeded keyboard: my sub-notebook has a much better one than those found on such devices. In other words, I want a multimedia handheld with strong audio and video capabilities, that I can bring on vacation and use as a graphical remote control as well.
There are 3 linux boxes and an iMac on my LAN; I wanted some kind of cross-platform backup facility. Between AppleTalk, which required a kernel driver and a daemon, and FTP with PureFTPd, which I knew to be easy to install and configure, the choice was quickly made. FTP clients are also quite easy to use, even for lusers.
A bzipped tarball has just been uploaded. Of course, I downloaded it before posting this:-)
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The OO of PHP is excellent.
What does OO mean to you? I could be wrong, but I really think it means Object Oriented. I think there's a P missing in your sentences, standing for Programming.
The OOP features of PHP are excellent.
Destructors, private namespaces, multiple heritage: these are features PHP is currently lacking (I don't know if PHP 5 will offer such features). How is it better than other languages, OOP-wise (honest question)?
This was annoying me too, just as much as I find using javascript for configuration files quite stupid. Anyway, the idea is to keep informations about your e-mail accounts inside your user.js file. Now I still create a new profile everytime a new release is out, but at least I don't have to reconfigure everything. Here is a sample user.js with e-mail accounts settings.
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I'm surprised his weblog doesn't have an Atom feed. His engineers must still be working on it...
That folder holds DVD-Audio files. Such discs have been around for years. Although the article gives no technical details about those new "DVD albums", it seems like it's gonna be regular DVD-Video discs with an additional DVD-ROM part.
I have yet to see software allowing to rip SACD's with a retail DVD-ROM drive... and no, ripping the CD-DA layer of a hybrid disc doesn't count.
Has anyone actually listened to the demo? Their 192 kbps "surround" MP3's show the same kind of ugly distortion as 96 kbps stereo MP3's... I was much more convinced by the 5.1 aacPlus streams that used to be available on Tuner2.com.
The story links to version 1.1.1 of libOgg, and tarballs for libOgg 1.1.2 and libVorbis 1.1.0 are nowhere to be found, not even on vorbis.com.
Will he make it to Apple Expo, in Paris, at the end of the month? I registered for his keynote...
How do you know that? Did you actually write both an HTML and an XHTML parser? While I didn't, I would also instinctively think that parsing a stricter language would be easier; but David Hyatt, however, who worked on Mozilla and now works on Safari, seems to think otherwise:
I implemented custom keywords some time ago, which I use constantly.
Here's a tool for converting sizes using decimal as well as binary prefixes.
We know who you are, Eugenia...
I read Microsoft's requirements page on 1080p HDTV, and that's why I didn't buy the T2 DVD edition which features an HDTV version of the movie: my CPU is an Athlon XP 2500+. I tried playing the 1080p trailer, and indeed it was choppy as hell, although playing the 720p version was fine (barely).
Then I bought myself a GeForce FX5900 (PDF file, 209 KiB), which provides hardware acceleration for HDTV content; I played the 1080p trailer again with MPlayer, the video was smooth, and CPU charge was about 70%.
I don't know how this hadware acceleration works (I would expect it to be bound to a specific codec), but it certainly works damn well.
Looks like there are less than 41 words left by now, since frib.com and odso.com have been registered since...
Flac streaming has yet to be implemented.
They do use a lossless codec, Flac.
You can't even compare several hundreds of thousands of songs to hundreds of songs... But the philosophy behind Magnatune sure is cool!
Doesn't it bother anyone that copying the article is probably illegal?
Can't anyone spell it right? It's definitely, for crying out loud!
I've tried the new kernel, and I got more responsiveness issues than improvements. But besides that (I might very well have misconfigured something), I'd like to point out that the kernel itself isn't all that matters: the new drivers that accompany it are just as much important. I noticed a significant increase in X's launch time as well as a whopping 250 FPS with glxgears to be compared to the 150 FPS I got with my 2.4.22 setup. This is probably due to major improvements that were brought to the drivers for my i830M chipset.
802.11g claims 54Mbps - how much faster do you need?
As stated by BigBir3d, 802.11b actually provides aroung 4-5 Mbps, and 802.11g around 20 Mbps. The thing is, Wi-Fi is not a replacement for fast ethernet yet. If I appreciate hard drives providing ever more bandwidth, it's because I like to transfer large files over my LAN quickly. I can't do that over Wi-Fi. So, to answer your question, I need as much bandwidth from a wireless setup as my hard drives provide.
You show a pretty girl, and they become more happy.
... and I wag my tail.
Maybe you would rather expect to pay a lot less for it...
I'm still waiting for a handheld with the features of a laptop (hard drive, wi-fi, stereo I/O...), without any embeded keyboard: my sub-notebook has a much better one than those found on such devices. In other words, I want a multimedia handheld with strong audio and video capabilities, that I can bring on vacation and use as a graphical remote control as well.
There are 3 linux boxes and an iMac on my LAN; I wanted some kind of cross-platform backup facility. Between AppleTalk, which required a kernel driver and a daemon, and FTP with PureFTPd, which I knew to be easy to install and configure, the choice was quickly made. FTP clients are also quite easy to use, even for lusers.
A bzipped tarball has just been uploaded. Of course, I downloaded it before posting this :-)
The OO of PHP is excellent.
What does OO mean to you? I could be wrong, but I really think it means Object Oriented. I think there's a P missing in your sentences, standing for Programming.
The OOP features of PHP are excellent.
Destructors, private namespaces, multiple heritage: these are features PHP is currently lacking (I don't know if PHP 5 will offer such features). How is it better than other languages, OOP-wise (honest question)?
Seems like /. is in the list, with less than a thousand units returned. Way to go!
This was annoying me too, just as much as I find using javascript for configuration files quite stupid. Anyway, the idea is to keep informations about your e-mail accounts inside your user.js file. Now I still create a new profile everytime a new release is out, but at least I don't have to reconfigure everything. Here is a sample user.js with e-mail accounts settings.