just remember, every codec depends on the quality of what it is encoding. I haven't heard any AAC encoded music myself (i use uncompressed wav or 256khz mp3 myself), but Apple allegedly uses the master recordings to encode their files.
Most mp3s or oggs you find out there are from someone's CD-Rom drive, who knows how the disc looked, or how much jitter there was. I have heard stories of people downloading songs to find a skip or two in the middle, or been an amalgam of two different files accidently spliced together.
I'd hazard a guess that most people that encode with ogg-vorbis do a better ripping and encoding job, though.
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Have you tried looking into tex/latex? You can convert dvi files into pdf files (either with dvips + ghostscript, or dvipdfm), and latex long-format tables allow you to set up headers and footers for tables that extend over multiple pages.
I think latex tables are ugly to produce in a text editor (html tables seem more intuitive to me), but you can use lyx or gnumeric to do the hardwork. Maybe I should search for an html to latex table convertor some day...
PS - \usepackage{ae} or the fonts will look like ass. And I don't mean Natalie Portman ass.
That may be a bad sign, if all they do is remake classic games. I like nostalgia, everybody does (look at the VW beetle... people buy them).
But when a company rns out of fresh ideas and starts redoing their games, you know it's the end of the line. Look at Sierra. I loed Kings Quest, Space Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry. But when their product lines consisted of half a dozen games that only ran under windows 3, remakes of their old games, and boxed sets of their old games running under DOS, the handwriting was on the wall.
If you take a body of 100 Senators and the House with several hundred, most with no experience in law, writing laws every day, it makes for buggy code. Even when they mean well.
I think most of them have far too much experience in law. Virtually all the senators were layweres or went to law school. Sure, there are a couple millionaire investment bankers, or millionare heart surgeaons, but they're a minority.
The house of reps has a lo more diversity, but just as much (or more) of them are career politicians,a nd live in such contrived districts that losing a re-election means being caught with a dead girl or a live boy.
I think one problem is, all they have is a hammer, so everything looks like a nail. Listen to what some candidates are proposing. Their utopia generally means gov't dependence. (gov't healthcare! gov't retirement funds! gov't childcare! gov't ass-wiping!)
I know most of the "editor" are white trash, but how the fuck is this news for nerds? It's saturday night. Aren't there any stories about disco balls case mods or turning your mac plus into a bong?
objective C is a decent choice for games. Quake was originally written for NextStep, IIRC. John Carmack released the source for the level editor, which was for NextStep (3.3, not OpenStep).
Soft drinks in the USA use corn syrup because it is cheaper than sugar. If you go to canada or mexico to buy sugar, it's 2-3 times chea[er than in the US.
Why is that? Because US sugar producers got congress to institute quotas on sugar imports, so cheap foreign sugar (from the carribean, etc) don't make it into the US.
For a while, some candy companies imported iced-tea mix (and other sugar-laden goodies) from foreign countries to separate the sugar out of it, because it was less expensive than to buy US sugar. Of course, that's now illegal. The Life Savers plant in Michigan closed down earlier this year, and moved to canada so they could get better sugar prices.
Who benefits? The sugar companies, and the corn syrup companies.... Most people agree that sugar-based soda tastes better than corn syrup-based soda... corn syrup would not be used if it wasn't artificially cheaper than sugar.
Unfortunately, most people don't realize the true cost of sugar quotas, and it isnt' worth writing to your congressman over an extra expense you don't realize even exists.
On the surface, those comments seem fairly damning, but let's think outside the box for a moment, something Bruce Perens is used to doing. "IBM is smart enough not to open source other people's intellectual property,"
Is IBM also smart enough not to use "creative" accounting?
The burden of proof is on SCO, but this is slashdot, where people make ridiculous (and unfounded) claims that MS is stealing linux code (maybe MS isn't smart enough to not do that?)
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so, a stock that drops from $125 to $.60 means horribly incompetent management?
Ok, the how imcompetent is the management of a company that goes from $300 to $.60 a share?
That is what happened to VA Linux/Research/Systems... the company that owns slashdot, the company that had ESR on the board of directors.
Score: -1, can't handle the truth.
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or worse than slashdot... where you get to stare at an MS ad 20 seconds while the restof the page loads and renders.
where do jobs come from? Is there a job fairy? Or maybe congress passes a law that there will be new jobs?
No, jobs come when people create them. Increased unemployment creates future business growth, since some people who can't find jobs create their own businesses.
Just remember, slashdot sold out long ago. And the moderation system here encourages strict party-line thinking that make keds-wearing, koolaid-drinking religious cults look mainstream.
Prove me wrong. How long until this post is -1 offtopic, or -1 troll?
Honestly, I don't know why Red Hat and others include sendmail. This isn't the 1980s anymore, and there are better (as in, fewer bugs, root exploits, easier to configure) options. Like exim and qmail (which I prefer, though I use exim at work).
We used to use sendmail at work. The justification being that's what we always used, and that's what the support contracts listed.
Then the mail admin was on vacation for a week, and nobody noticed the security alert for the remote relay exploit. A spammer found us, and we had to shut down all mail for 6 hours until we could figure out what happened. And are still trying to get our IP off some spam lists.
Since then, we've gone to exim, and it justs works.
If anybody needs half a dozen sendmail books, let me know:)
Making a file system driver for BitTorrent - not possible too
different? I don't buy that.
Well, what does he know? He only created the protocol and client.
Consider this, though: using an ftp utility gives you better control
than treating ftp as a file system. Then consider that BitTorrent is
usually used for large files, and you don't know which host you're
receiving from (and they might not even have the full file), and "standard"
file system operations (read, write, seek, stat, dir list) aren't all present.
But then again, Cowboy Neal could have lose weight and have a sex change.
However, it's not likely (that he'll lose weight, at least), and the results
would be rather ugly.
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Most mp3s or oggs you find out there are from someone's CD-Rom drive, who knows how the disc looked, or how much jitter there was. I have heard stories of people downloading songs to find a skip or two in the middle, or been an amalgam of two different files accidently spliced together.
I'd hazard a guess that most people that encode with ogg-vorbis do a better ripping and encoding job, though.
No.... this guy is bummed!
into pdf files (either with dvips + ghostscript, or dvipdfm), and latex long-format tables allow you to set up headers and footers for tables that extend over multiple pages.
I think latex tables are ugly to produce in a text editor (html tables seem more intuitive to me), but you can use lyx or gnumeric to do the hardwork. Maybe I should search for an html to latex table convertor some day...
PS - \usepackage{ae} or the fonts will look like ass. And I don't mean Natalie Portman ass.
But when a company rns out of fresh ideas and starts redoing their games, you know it's the end of the line. Look at Sierra. I loed Kings Quest, Space Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry. But when their product lines consisted of half a dozen games that only ran under windows 3, remakes of their old games, and boxed sets of their old games running under DOS, the handwriting was on the wall.
I think most of them have far too much experience in law. Virtually all the senators were layweres or went to law school. Sure, there are a couple millionaire investment bankers, or millionare heart surgeaons, but they're a minority.
The house of reps has a lo more diversity, but just as much (or more) of them are career politicians,a nd live in such contrived districts that losing a re-election means being caught with a dead girl or a live boy.
I think one problem is, all they have is a hammer, so everything looks like a nail. Listen to what some candidates are proposing. Their utopia generally means gov't dependence. (gov't healthcare! gov't retirement funds! gov't childcare! gov't ass-wiping!)
For some people, a macrochip would be more appropriate.
maybe he was talking about those gradeschool things to draw circles with.
Executing all muslims "might have prevented the dispute in court" as well. Do you advocate that?
I know most of the "editor" are white trash, but how the fuck is this news for nerds? It's saturday night. Aren't there any stories about disco balls case mods or turning your mac plus into a bong?
objective C is a decent choice for games. Quake was originally written for NextStep, IIRC. John Carmack released the source for the level editor, which was for NextStep (3.3, not OpenStep).
Soft drinks in the USA use corn syrup because it is cheaper than sugar. If you go to canada or mexico to buy sugar, it's 2-3 times chea[er than in the US.
Why is that? Because US sugar producers got congress to institute quotas on sugar imports, so cheap foreign sugar (from the carribean, etc) don't make it into the US.
For a while, some candy companies imported iced-tea mix (and other sugar-laden goodies) from foreign countries to separate the sugar out of it, because it was less expensive than to buy US sugar. Of course, that's now illegal. The Life Savers plant in Michigan closed down earlier this year, and moved to canada so they could get better sugar prices.
Who benefits? The sugar companies, and the corn syrup companies.... Most people agree that sugar-based soda tastes better than corn syrup-based soda... corn syrup would not be used if it wasn't artificially cheaper than sugar.
Unfortunately, most people don't realize the true cost of sugar quotas, and it isnt' worth writing to your congressman over an extra expense you don't realize even exists.
might as well just use TFTP over UDP.
A non-compete agreement covers the employees.
Is IBM also smart enough not to use "creative" accounting?
The burden of proof is on SCO, but this is slashdot, where people make ridiculous (and unfounded) claims that MS is stealing linux code (maybe MS isn't smart enough to not do that?)
Ok, the how imcompetent is the management of a company that goes from $300 to $.60 a share?
That is what happened to VA Linux/Research/Systems... the company that owns slashdot, the company that had ESR on the board of directors.
Score: -1, can't handle the truth.
or worse than slashdot... where you get to stare at an MS ad 20 seconds while the restof the page loads and renders.
I don't know about you, but I can't hold my breath 5 months
Slashdot subscribers get to check stories for typos and dupes.
I think the Open Source business model needs more work...
No, jobs come when people create them. Increased unemployment creates future business growth, since some people who can't find jobs create their own businesses.
150 years ago, 80+% of the work force was on farms, growing food.
Today, it's less than 3%.
According to your thinking, 77% of the work force is unemployed. Oops, no they got higher paying jobs elsewhere.
Prove me wrong. How long until this post is -1 offtopic, or -1 troll?
We used to use sendmail at work. The justification being that's what we always used, and that's what the support contracts listed.
Then the mail admin was on vacation for a week, and nobody noticed the security alert for the remote relay exploit. A spammer found us, and we had to shut down all mail for 6 hours until we could figure out what happened. And are still trying to get our IP off some spam lists.
Since then, we've gone to exim, and it justs works.
If anybody needs half a dozen sendmail books, let me know :)
Yeah Right. Free as in Herpes.
Well, what does he know? He only created the protocol and client.
Consider this, though: using an ftp utility gives you better control than treating ftp as a file system. Then consider that BitTorrent is usually used for large files, and you don't know which host you're receiving from (and they might not even have the full file), and "standard" file system operations (read, write, seek, stat, dir list) aren't all present.
But then again, Cowboy Neal could have lose weight and have a sex change.
However, it's not likely (that he'll lose weight, at least), and the results would be rather ugly.
Anybody have a bittorrent link for a text-file of the article? In case it gets slashdotted.