ask her what she thinks, and try to nudge her responses in the right direction with specific questions. it's best for kids to try to form opinions for themselves before they become mindless sheep and accept everything that they're told
umm a really nice one is dbpoweramp, just get it before you have to pay $.75, it'll convert to any thing that you could possibly want, including ogg, flac, mp3, wave, aac, and a couple others that i don't use. all you have to do to convert is highlight the songs you want and right click->convert... nice stuff:P
Well, he could have mistyped, and meant flac, which is a loss-less compression, and is about 1/3 of the size of a.wav file. Assuming that each cd has 60 min of audio, umm wait, that would still be about 952.6 cd's to take up 160 gb... maybe they weren't converted into flac yet, so then it was only 317.5 cd's, which is still a pretty good number
Yeah, and most Creative Labs sound cards come with firewire built in, some video cards come with and external firewire pci card, such as Gainward's gf4 powerpack. Firewire is definitly here for PC's already, we just have to wait for motherboard manufacturing companies to add a port too...
This had better not become a completely biased argument. You are distorting the facts too much. The software is easy as hell to get, just go to divx.com and download it. Why do you think we compress the movie? So that it doesn't take up as much space? yeah, think of it this way: how many of us have wav's for all of their music instead of mp3, ogg, or aac? The encoding takes longer because sound is a one dimensional data stream, while video is 3, the sound, and the 2 dimensions of the video.
The raw amount of data to compress is cubed, therefore making it take way longer, in addition to this, the codecs have to be really good, because we can see the artifacts in the video a lot better than the we can hear it in the audio, to counter this, the codec has 2 options; 1-more data per second, which increases the file size, but improves performance 2-compress the video better, which decreases the size and the performance
If you really wanted to get a helmet and not have to deal with the fogging crap, then I garentee you that someone will make a mod chip for it, and it'll think everything you watch has a purchased lisence...
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Yes, the moderation system must be extensivly reworked, people when given power will always abuse it. I bet I'll be modded down too, but this is something that must be known. Modders- do something, you have the power
There is somehting that everyone is leaving out of this, most of the tubes that are in use are used primarily for good distortion - note: DISTORTION
I don't know why they are putting it in for audio, most people I know prefer to listen to stuff the way it was intended, not mushed up garbage disposal sounds. The sound is not richer at all, more like the same with multible reproductions of the same sound within itself. In addition to this, tubes put off a tremendous amount of heat, and must be replaced rather often. Think again if you want to say that tubes are an innovative idea in a PC.
"ok" ::I go off to read all of the sites, come back in about 3 months:: "Hey, I read all of the sites that/. is linked to... But wait, sonce that took me so long I have to read it again..." ::I go back to reading::
/. is a good idea, concentrated sources of info, like your chem book back in the days of high school.
But you must understand, when you go out and buy a game, you expect it to look good, they had a lot of people working on the development, and they all get paid some good money. But when you make a game, you don't expect the same quality out of it, you just get the thrill of making it yourself, that comensates for the apparent lack of other necessities in the game.
just pray that microsoft doesn't buy it and put some additional x-box hosting crap on it, I'd much rather see something good be done with it - and no games of 3 billion people playing Doom 1, that would be insane mayhem of projectiles and people, unless someone made one huge map, like the library in halo
Yeah, but how many of us actually buy those software bundles? Maybe about 1/10, maybe 1/25th of everyone who buys linux... But then how many people buy linux compared to download it? 1/1000? You get the idea...
my favorite quote - "This technology is inexpensive enough so that it could certainly end up in (company) labs, and it could get to the point in the future where it could end up in houses,"
Now really, it could get to that point in the future... maybe 5 years... I don't intend on waiting because where the fuck are we going to put our round domes? Make a new room? I don't think so.
no, they haven't switched the public version yet, but they have something called aol 7.0 refresh II that is integrated with netscape gecko. what's really odd though is that i've always thought aol owned mozilla, but i'm probably wrong...
you're missing the point, who cares who he kissed, or if he's a loser, some games are fun, and some aren't. if you're sensible enough to realize this, not all games are good, and those that are fun to play, but have crappy graphics or some other denoucing odd shit, them so what, go play 'em. it's like konquest, the gameplay is slow, it's a 2d game where rectangles occasionally change color, but it's as fun as hell to play, because you could sit there for 4 hours with one of your buds laughing your ass off because of the stupidity of this awesome game. if you don't know of or play any games like that, then you're missing out on some seriously fun shit here
that way you save a lot of processing power, because it seems that all of this video recognition crap is really slow, i mean 5 fps, you've gotta be kidding me
"what is it lassie"::wirrrr::
-smoke pours out of machine
"oh no, you're overheating, let's turn off your visual detection systems so that i don't have to overclock you 20%"
-bam! (pitcure a nuke cloud)
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ask her what she thinks, and try to nudge her responses in the right direction with specific questions. it's best for kids to try to form opinions for themselves before they become mindless sheep and accept everything that they're told
Nothing is ever, ever overkill. Ever.
umm a really nice one is dbpoweramp, just get it before you have to pay $.75, it'll convert to any thing that you could possibly want, including ogg, flac, mp3, wave, aac, and a couple others that i don't use. all you have to do to convert is highlight the songs you want and right click->convert... nice stuff :P
interesting day;
this is, if you have hot grits;
and it's in your pants!.
now since haiku is;
an old japanese art form;
i would make it so.
but no, a problem;
lameness filter encountered;
no japanese text.
Well, he could have mistyped, and meant flac, which is a loss-less compression, and is about 1/3 of the size of a .wav file. Assuming that each cd has 60 min of audio, umm wait, that would still be about 952.6 cd's to take up 160 gb... maybe they weren't converted into flac yet, so then it was only 317.5 cd's, which is still a pretty good number
Yeah, and most Creative Labs sound cards come with firewire built in, some video cards come with and external firewire pci card, such as Gainward's gf4 powerpack. Firewire is definitly here for PC's already, we just have to wait for motherboard manufacturing companies to add a port too...
This had better not become a completely biased argument. You are distorting the facts too much.
The software is easy as hell to get, just go to divx.com and download it.
Why do you think we compress the movie? So that it doesn't take up as much space? yeah, think of it this way: how many of us have wav's for all of their music instead of mp3, ogg, or aac?
The encoding takes longer because sound is a one dimensional data stream, while video is 3, the sound, and the 2 dimensions of the video.
The raw amount of data to compress is cubed, therefore making it take way longer, in addition to this, the codecs have to be really good, because we can see the artifacts in the video a lot better than the we can hear it in the audio, to counter this, the codec has 2 options;
1-more data per second, which increases the file size, but improves performance
2-compress the video better, which decreases the size and the performance
If you really wanted to get a helmet and not have to deal with the fogging crap, then I garentee you that someone will make a mod chip for it, and it'll think everything you watch has a purchased lisence...
don't be late
well if you're worried about that, you crack windows, assuming you can get it easily... KaZaA works well :P happy hunting
Yes, the moderation system must be extensivly reworked, people when given power will always abuse it. I bet I'll be modded down too, but this is something that must be known.
Modders- do something, you have the power
Does anyone else see a pattern forming here?
Yeah, but they mysteriously came back in the final episode, but I think that Mulder was just seeing things, because they dissapeared pretty quick
yeah, everyone makes fun of canada
from south park - "Blame Canada, Blame Canada, Blame Canada, Blame Canada, Blame Canada, Blame Canada!"
There is somehting that everyone is leaving out of this, most of the tubes that are in use are used primarily for good distortion - note: DISTORTION
I don't know why they are putting it in for audio, most people I know prefer to listen to stuff the way it was intended, not mushed up garbage disposal sounds. The sound is not richer at all, more like the same with multible reproductions of the same sound within itself.
In addition to this, tubes put off a tremendous amount of heat, and must be replaced rather often. Think again if you want to say that tubes are an innovative idea in a PC.
the disco biscuits rule :) rock on guys
"ok" /. is linked to... But wait, sonce that took me so long I have to read it again..."
::I go off to read all of the sites, come back in about 3 months::
"Hey, I read all of the sites that
::I go back to reading::
/. is a good idea, concentrated sources of info, like your chem book back in the days of high school.
But you must understand, when you go out and buy a game, you expect it to look good, they had a lot of people working on the development, and they all get paid some good money. But when you make a game, you don't expect the same quality out of it, you just get the thrill of making it yourself, that comensates for the apparent lack of other necessities in the game.
just pray that microsoft doesn't buy it and put some additional x-box hosting crap on it, I'd much rather see something good be done with it - and no games of 3 billion people playing Doom 1, that would be insane mayhem of projectiles and people, unless someone made one huge map, like the library in halo
Yeah, but how many of us actually buy those software bundles? Maybe about 1/10, maybe 1/25th of everyone who buys linux... But then how many people buy linux compared to download it? 1/1000? You get the idea...
Yeah, that's nice that they released a new version of the kernel, but I'm sure some of you will find this quite amusing
I't pretty much an adaptation of the linux kernel so that it'll work with the x-box hardware, assuming that you put in the mod chip
my favorite quote - "This technology is inexpensive enough so that it could certainly end up in (company) labs, and it could get to the point in the future where it could end up in houses,"
Now really, it could get to that point in the future... maybe 5 years... I don't intend on waiting because where the fuck are we going to put our round domes? Make a new room? I don't think so.
no, they haven't switched the public version yet, but they have something called aol 7.0 refresh II that is integrated with netscape gecko.
what's really odd though is that i've always thought aol owned mozilla, but i'm probably wrong...
you're missing the point, who cares who he kissed, or if he's a loser, some games are fun, and some aren't. if you're sensible enough to realize this, not all games are good, and those that are fun to play, but have crappy graphics or some other denoucing odd shit, them so what, go play 'em. it's like konquest, the gameplay is slow, it's a 2d game where rectangles occasionally change color, but it's as fun as hell to play, because you could sit there for 4 hours with one of your buds laughing your ass off because of the stupidity of this awesome game. if you don't know of or play any games like that, then you're missing out on some seriously fun shit here
that way you save a lot of processing power, because it seems that all of this video recognition crap is really slow, i mean 5 fps, you've gotta be kidding me "what is it lassie" ::wirrrr::
-smoke pours out of machine
"oh no, you're overheating, let's turn off your visual detection systems so that i don't have to overclock you 20%"
-bam! (pitcure a nuke cloud)