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Why do posts like this not get modded up? This seems to be real "provable" data on this thread of the discussion... If it's wrong, I'd like to see it debunked..
Why does this stink of politics?
-v
It seems like this is just showing that bundled software on any system (MS or not) that actually costs money to produce (not free beer) as Apple is now showing this software to be, is just bundle tax.
Can I please get an apple computer without [Apple OS, iDVD, iVideo, iQuicktime, eQuicktime, iGarbage, eTrash, iBloat, _AQUA_]??
hehe, considering this is news, I like to think I can trust the writer. If I have to guess what he's writing this adds a complexity to the whole news reporting concept that I'd prefer to leave up to the editors.
Considering there seems to be no editors I will attempt to edit the story for everyone else's benefit.
*clears throat*
StarEmperor writes "This Washington Post story of grandeur reinterates the seemingly constant, but approvable, disappearance of the modern day pay phones, well known now as"rip off phones", mainly due to a small number of walkie-talkie like devices called "SELL Phones" being dumped into the mass market by the truck loads.
Many of these public phone unit devices, which history records ever so accurately as this is imporatant information to society, used to suck massive amounts of revenue from unwitting users by the dimes, often times piling up hoards of dollars called "hundreds" every 30 day cycle of the Roman calendar, which the operating company ran their pick-up cycle from.
But sadly we now have compassion on the loss of these blessings to society as there are more rich people now, or poor people willing to go into dept to aquire a mobile talkie thing, with mobile talkie things and the value and use of the permanent talkie booths has dropped to the point where they actually cost money to operate, where as before they were free to operate cause they actually made money, but now they don't so they cost money to operate. Ultimately the question begs to be asked, what's the value for the environment for junking hundreds and even multiple hundreds of non-mobile talkie things?"
hehe, yes perhaps that is what was "meant" but that is not what was written. I am not one that likes to assume meanings.
I just think it is funny that just because people writing to or posting on an electronic medium that proper grammar and attention to correct communication is easily set aside for speed of delivery.
Hence you get confusing and almost meaningless statements, often in the story headlines, that the authors choosed to leave the readers to decode instead of spending an extra 30 seconds to 1 minute to edit themselves.
Just cause it's amateur journalism doesn't mean we can't keep up to the grade school levels of writing quality.
Now granted, I myself have falen into many times not clear, so that why I mentiond this hole think in a humourous light.:)
It seems that slashdot has pulled a hoax on themselves.
This site is well done and is not actually as much a joke but is really just reflecting what data and information has been collected already.
Perhaps this person has meant to make a joke, but to be honest with you I am probably the only anti-violence and anti-time-waster on slashdot and I would seriously consider linking to this site if it remains legit.
Considering the fact that people have wasted their lives with games like these I am glad to see information online that is actually going to educate people instead of just spreading more brainless banter.
Doug Carnine is working with the President to get quality teaching techniques to teachers. None of these techniques need computers to teach.
I have seen a film where the creator of Direct
Instruction took 5 year old kids from inner city Chicago, all black and labeled as needing special ed, and he had them doing algebra.
I didn't learn this kind of algebra till I was in 9th grade, and these little kids were answering questions on a black board in their heads. (like figuring out the hypotenus (sp) of a right triangle) and they were all excited and raising their hands saying "I know, I know!"
Of course the reason Direct Instruction hasn't made it into mainstream education, despite the incredible wealth of data and research showing it works better than every other system used today, is because it puts the resposibility for children learning in the teachers lap.
There is no excuses for teachers if the kids don't learn with DI, because kids _can_ learn and it's been shown to work with the slowest learners.
Our current systems allow teachers to say "well the kid didn't learn because the kid [enter excuse here]" (excuses range from "the kids has ADD" to "the kid didn't pay attention in class") which always ends up with the result "it's the kids fault the kid didn't learn".
Some interesting things to read about DI.
http://www.adihome.org/esp/v17n3/letters.pdf
http://www.adihome.org/esp/v17n3/index.html
I am not disagreeing with you that pre-scripted functions (rotate & resize)that you don't witness and control each step are ideal in mass image manipulation.
I do however disagree that it is faster using pure command line.
As a graphics person (and handy with scripts and recording commands)it is a rather simple task to simply select "Convert to Thumbnail" from my GUI's command menu (which I setup and have complete control over), 2 clicks.
I can also link my command to a keyboard shortcut, which makes it even that much faster. (unless you can do this with command line, this feature in itself makes it faster and easier than any command line control)
On top of that I can make my own GUI control elements which in can throw in dozens of simple controls to give me ultimate control and immediate access to any setting, filter or other scripted commands.
Another handy feature I have access to is recording steps and playing them back as a script and command. This is standard in Photoshop and Fireworks.
So we are both doing the same thing, running a premade script to do work for us. Only I can stay in the GUI where I did the image manipulation and not have to jump to a seperate command line window for this.
The only real difference that I see is that of typing out a command or simply clicking on one.
cd current_project cd graphics cd gallery mkdir thumbnail for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 128x128 $i thumbnail/$i; done;
GUI ( using up to date software with a knowledgeable user )
Command/Batch to Thumbnails Select files Click Ok.
(extra note: GUI - switch to other apps and continue to work while batch happens in the background...)
Modern graphics software that is good allows complete command structures to be setup by recording, hand written scripts or even built in functions. A good app has command line capabilities.
To simply say command line without GUI is better compared to GUI with command line, scripting, command recording and playback, doesn't add up.
I am sure this story is completely and utterly unbiased... as we are all aware of the extremely high ethical and moral standards of the media industry. So I am totally certain that they have all their facts straight and their t's dotted and i's crossed...
(not that I read it, I can't afford the sign up fee) But I am sure it's a good article...and completly true...
-v
P.S. Also if someone could please find the amount of smog and pollution the US has ever produced, and compare it to the amount of pollution released by oil burned during the Gulf War by Suddam in Kuwait.
Please post this info to slashdot as I am unable to understand and read the news paper's higher level of writing, and I trust Slashdot's moderation will ensure broad readership of unbiased view points...
Also, be sure to include how much worse the US pollution was, cause I am sure that it was far worse.
Since only one side of the interface needs high thermal conductivity, this system can also be adapted to car tires, as well as shoe soles--using electrically-conductive rubber--to increase traction on ice by up to 90%.
hmm, lemme see, pacman, space invaders, defender, galaxia, breakout, etc...
yup, they fit the bill for dumb, time wasting, lowest common brain denominators... yet all good sellers... is this good evidence for the degeneration of the youth's mental capacities in this country? Or do we really believe poilitical polling and biased news articles that the video game industry has nothing to do with our youth turning into the worlds largest mass army of couch potatoes...?
All I think Everquest has achieved over other games is that it was better "socially" engineered. Cigarrettes are probably more addictive than EverCrack, but you can't do anything other than educate people about it.
It will be years before they can prove EverCrack causes cancer, I think I will start playing so I can join the class action lawsuit in 2035 against Sony... maybe I could afford a 100 inch plasma screen with the extra dough...
I found my cable modem has this long black thing plugged into it, and if I pull it out it completely and utterly cuts off all internet advertising... it's quite amazing.
Hmmm, did you read the whole first sentence of my post?
I thought MPEG-4 was a video compression codec standard not a digital video player...what am I missing here?
It was question. So thank you for your insightful answer...
What is the point of flaming if you do it anonymously...
Also, if you were doing any digital video within the last 4 years (about) you may have noticed that MS labeled one of their codecs they compressed ASF files was called MPEG-4. Not sure why, it never worked btw... I don't see the options anymore but there is this-
All you need is a free program called AVIedit, open an avi, then do a save as. You can choose "MPEG-4 file reader/writer". No I don't have quicktime on this machine, a complete vanilla install of Win2k.
Also, here's where you can find the formats that MS's media player supports. here
It seems that mpeg-4 is there.
Here is MS's white paper on MPEG-4, it seems they aren't trying to "muck it up" they just plan on making a "superior quality" format.
Here is a list of CODECS that MS media player supports.
Supported Codecs
Now I know MS ain't to bright and all that and they can't even pronounce their own product names properly, but here's a description of their support for MPEG-4 codecs, but I am sure they are wrong and MPEG is not a codec...
MPEG-4 Codec Descriptions
In case you don't feel like clicking here's a sample from MS MPEG-4 Video Codec 1 :
The Microsoft MPEG-4 codec is a low to high bit-rate video codec. The advantage of this codec is that it meets the standards set by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). Use version 1 if you provide content to version 2.0 servers or players.
I am all for competition, it's what is need against MS, but I think there's quite a difference between Quicktime and MPEG.
Really? I though MPEG-4 was a video compression codec standard not a digital video player... Quicktime uses codecs like cinepak, Sorenson, etc... Quicktime itself is not a codec... what am I missing here?
Apple's decision to be MPEG-4-compliant gives it the strength...
This seems to be a contradiction... Cause it just said that MPEG-4 was based on Quicktime...
The modified QuickTime 6 that supports 3GPP, as yet unnamed, will output both the current.mov format as well as the new slightly different.3gp file format.
Maybe I am dumb, but how is this mpeg4 with Quicktim any better than mpeg4 with MS? The hosts are both proprietary...
It seems that no matter how you paint this, you still have to have Quicktime to play.mov files... which is exactly why I can't stand Quicktime, (10 mb download just to play movies...) And it is slow and a resource hog...
I want video files I can play with what ever player I want. (and don't tell me you can make your own.mov player, maybe you can, but who has done it?)
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I am a multimedia designer(ie, I suck at programming but draw pretty circles, but there are no jobs anymore drawing pretty circles without code to make them spin when clicked on, so now I program too.)
Also php.net is an incredible resource with/.esque posts on many of the pages of the online manual that are extremely helpful at relating code to reality for beginners.
Also a bonus, good PHP hosting on Linux is consistently more available and cheaper than on M$ based hosting systems.
Also, you don't _have_ to actually buy a book to get started with it.:)
I work with schools all the time, and I can tell you the problem with education in the United States is not teachers.
Balogna. The teachers are a very serious problem...
I have a friend who is a PhD that is in charge of teachers over a number of Chicago public schools. His job focus is making sure the teachers are teaching their kids how to read.
When he started he would go around to the classes and find that by 10am _most_ teacher WERE NOT EVEN TEACHING.
He'd find teachers talking on the phone, yacking in the halls with other teachers (what are their kids doing when they aren't there?) and even surfing the net.
After a year of him being their and cracking the whip at _lazy teachers_ test scores went up 12% across the board in 90% of the schools he was in charge of.
He is so sick of lazy and bad teachers he just wants to quit. The administration doesn't even support him on dealing with this issue. He says also that their aren't replacement teachers either, so the only thing to do is get these teachers to work.
He's not sure of a total solution, but for now there's; Manage the teachers better. Make them actually teach. Then make sure what they are teaching works.
Currently schools are teaching really lousy methods for reading. Of which the "whole language" method is used. This would be the equivilant of handing a first year CS student (with _no_ prior coding or computer skills) a sheet of printed code and then told to "absorb it".
I don't agree with many, many things GW Bush has done, but hopefully better expectations from teachers is one that will work/help our schools.
My friend is currently writing a grant for the Chicago school system to help them use the money they will get from the feds wisely (har har). At one point he lost it and chewed out 200 at an assembly cause they weren't listening to him. He says a group of "big" people are much worse to deal with than an unruly class room...
I live in the boonies in Minnesota. Small town schools seem to do fine for the most part and for my kids I am not concerned about the teachers, just other kids. It's the big city schools that seem to have most of the problems (and the west coast schools... ) which is one reason I left the big city and the west coast.
The first real step needs to be to enforce the most basic levels of work ethics and make sure that teachers actually stay in their class rooms during work hours and when in there actually teach their kids. And the administration needs to back up the teachers when they try to keep order in their class rooms.
This is changing every day. It is sad. Perhaps you've never had a relationship that really was important to you ripped apart because of porn... Does your simple lack of bad experience with porn make it good for kids?
(late night on public TV with mild nudity is just mild porn, same with the newspaper...)
Just a note, Sex is not "bad" it makes babies and keeps married people together and happy. But degrading it is bad...
The naked human form is pleasing to ones mate, this is good. Degrading it is bad...
Your comments are simply a carbon copy of porn industries media bandwagon.
Violence _is_ bad. Period. (I am from the US) And I can vouch for every person I know that they also feel that violence is bad... not sure where you are getting your info on North America... But I gurantee you that Hollywood does not speak for us... (and I am sure even some people in Hollywood that make violent movies wouldn't even say "violence is good" regardless of the drivel they produce...)
Where's the logic along these lines to protect children from porn then? (I will imagine for a moment that you are not so unimaginative as to find a reason why porn can be detrimental to children...)
-v
"...I believe that if Linux is to be all that it can be the Linux world needs to UNITE behind standards."
Standards are great, but I am just concerned about any "centralized" body with any sort of motives to gain control over how linux is to be made.Who the hell funds "The United Linux campaign" I don't know, it's smelling of politics...
I unfortunately can't use Linux yet cause I can't be guaranteed all my Macromedia software will run on it... will Linux standards fix this?
Is there really that severe of a division in Linux versions that if I get my box running Red Hat one week I can't make my next upgrade to SuSE?
If it's soooo bad between Linux distros then it's __got__ to be bad going from Windows to Linux... maybe that can be cleared up for me. Is it really that hard to upgrade to Linux from windows? And if __that's__ an easy switch, how hard can it be going between distros?
I really think eventually the OS distro won't mean squat when I can run all my apps in Mozilla.:)
Here's the crux, what would it be like if there were 10 different distros of Windows out there? And there was a standards body governing it?
This is stupid, we really need to get rid of all those "dangerous" swimming pools that kill all those kids, and sharp rakes that people fall all in their lawns... Suicide is now a bigger problem than murder....
Also, if you use some common sense here, even if 75% of all the murders were commited with a gun,(which I think is even a high percentage) unitentional injuries kill 5 times that many people and suicide over twice that number. Where is the outcry against depression and accidents?
13.9 deaths per 1,000 live births...
1998 - Abortions in US - 26.4 per 100 births ( insane percentage compared to any other form of death... )
26.4% of all US (un)born citizens don't even make it out of the hospital...plenty of outcry here...
Birth deaths 1950 - US - 32.5 deaths per 1,000 live births 2000 - US - 7.0 deaths per 1,000 live births
Mothers who smoked during pregnancy - Birth deaths. 2000 - US - 12.2 deaths per 1,000 live births
By these numbers it should be against the law to smoke while you are pregnant...
Cocaine-related emergency department episodes, 2000 - 174,881 24 times that of homicides... how many of these will ultimately end in death?
Here'S where the statistics get messed, you figure it out...maybe I am just bad at math...
DEATH RATES (hispanic) ages 25-44 Homicide - US - 2000 - 6.1 per 100,000 Deaths by Firearms - US - 2000 - 13.5 per 100,000
I have no opinion on gun control, as I don't believe in shooting anyone myself, but I also don't believe in getting shot myself... But do some research on old England, I do believe the "long bow" was what ultimately made Britain a democratic country, not anything like a perfect King...
Use oxygen bleach instead of chlorine, cheaper than some complex electrolosis. Just put it on the owie.
Get's rid of bacteria in your mouth (tastes bad though), cleans out cuts and abrasions, disolves warts (multiple applications needed consistently over time.) and also cures hoof and mouth disease for cattle.
http://www.all-organic-food.com/beef3.htm
Oxygen cleaning and treatment (from what I have heard) has been used in Europe for some time now...
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MODERATORS: Why do posts like this not get modded up? This seems to be real "provable" data on this thread of the discussion... If it's wrong, I'd like to see it debunked.. Why does this stink of politics? -v
It seems like this is just showing that bundled software on any system (MS or not) that actually costs money to produce (not free beer) as Apple is now showing this software to be, is just bundle tax.
Can I please get an apple computer without [Apple OS, iDVD, iVideo, iQuicktime, eQuicktime, iGarbage, eTrash, iBloat, _AQUA_]??
-v
hehe, considering this is news, I like to think I can trust the writer. If I have to guess what he's writing this adds a complexity to the whole news reporting concept that I'd prefer to leave up to the editors.
Considering there seems to be no editors I will attempt to edit the story for everyone else's benefit.
*clears throat*
StarEmperor writes "This Washington Post story of grandeur reinterates the seemingly constant, but approvable, disappearance of the modern day pay phones, well known now as"rip off phones", mainly due to a small number of walkie-talkie like devices called "SELL Phones" being dumped into the mass market by the truck loads.
Many of these public phone unit devices, which history records ever so accurately as this is imporatant information to society, used to suck massive amounts of revenue from unwitting users by the dimes, often times piling up hoards of dollars called "hundreds" every 30 day cycle of the Roman calendar, which the operating company ran their pick-up cycle from.
But sadly we now have compassion on the loss of these blessings to society as there are more rich people now, or poor people willing to go into dept to aquire a mobile talkie thing, with mobile talkie things and the value and use of the permanent talkie booths has dropped to the point where they actually cost money to operate, where as before they were free to operate cause they actually made money, but now they don't so they cost money to operate. Ultimately the question begs to be asked, what's the value for the environment for junking hundreds and even multiple hundreds of non-mobile talkie things?"
-v
hehe, yes perhaps that is what was "meant" but that is not what was written. I am not one that likes to assume meanings.
:)
I just think it is funny that just because people writing to or posting on an electronic medium that proper grammar and attention to correct communication is easily set aside for speed of delivery.
Hence you get confusing and almost meaningless statements, often in the story headlines, that the authors choosed to leave the readers to decode instead of spending an extra 30 seconds to 1 minute to edit themselves.
Just cause it's amateur journalism doesn't mean we can't keep up to the grade school levels of writing quality.
Now granted, I myself have falen into many times not clear, so that why I mentiond this hole think in a humourous light.
-v
Many pay phones, which used to generate hundreds of dollars per month in revenue, are now used so infrequently that they cost money to operate
As opposed to the phones in the past that were free to operate?
-v
It seems that slashdot has pulled a hoax on themselves.
This site is well done and is not actually as much a joke but is really just reflecting what data and information has been collected already.
Perhaps this person has meant to make a joke, but to be honest with you I am probably the only anti-violence and anti-time-waster on slashdot and I would seriously consider linking to this site if it remains legit.
Considering the fact that people have wasted their lives with games like these I am glad to see information online that is actually going to educate people instead of just spreading more brainless banter.
-v
Research on Teaching Math with Direct Instruction
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Direct Instruction with Readying
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/research/conferenc
Doug Carnine is working with the President to get quality teaching techniques to teachers. None of these techniques need computers to teach.
I have seen a film where the creator of Direct Instruction took 5 year old kids from inner city Chicago, all black and labeled as needing special ed, and he had them doing algebra.
I didn't learn this kind of algebra till I was in 9th grade, and these little kids were answering questions on a black board in their heads. (like figuring out the hypotenus (sp) of a right triangle) and they were all excited and raising their hands saying "I know, I know!"
Of course the reason Direct Instruction hasn't made it into mainstream education, despite the incredible wealth of data and research showing it works better than every other system used today, is because it puts the resposibility for children learning in the teachers lap.
There is no excuses for teachers if the kids don't learn with DI, because kids _can_ learn and it's been shown to work with the slowest learners.
Our current systems allow teachers to say "well the kid didn't learn because the kid [enter excuse here]" (excuses range from "the kids has ADD" to "the kid didn't pay attention in class") which always ends up with the result "it's the kids fault the kid didn't learn".
Some interesting things to read about DI.
http://www.adihome.org/esp/v17n3/letters.pdf
http://www.adihome.org/esp/v17n3/index.html
-v
I am not disagreeing with you that pre-scripted functions (rotate & resize)that you don't witness and control each step are ideal in mass image manipulation.
I do however disagree that it is faster using pure command line.
As a graphics person (and handy with scripts and recording commands)it is a rather simple task to simply select "Convert to Thumbnail" from my GUI's command menu (which I setup and have complete control over), 2 clicks.
I can also link my command to a keyboard shortcut, which makes it even that much faster. (unless you can do this with command line, this feature in itself makes it faster and easier than any command line control)
On top of that I can make my own GUI control elements which in can throw in dozens of simple controls to give me ultimate control and immediate access to any setting, filter or other scripted commands.
Another handy feature I have access to is recording steps and playing them back as a script and command. This is standard in Photoshop and Fireworks.
So we are both doing the same thing, running a premade script to do work for us. Only I can stay in the GUI where I did the image manipulation and not have to jump to a seperate command line window for this.
The only real difference that I see is that of typing out a command or simply clicking on one.
-v
uhm, I imagine that the editing graphics with a command line is about as pointless as downhill sking barefoot...
Windows vs Linux when talking about graphics work is moot, they both need a GUI to do it right...
-v
uhm, you are forgetting this.
command line:
cd current_project
cd graphics
cd gallery
mkdir thumbnail
for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 128x128 $i thumbnail/$i; done;
GUI ( using up to date software with a knowledgeable user )
Command/Batch to Thumbnails
Select files
Click Ok.
(extra note: GUI - switch to other apps and continue to work while batch happens in the background...)
Modern graphics software that is good allows complete command structures to be setup by recording, hand written scripts or even built in functions. A good app has command line capabilities.
To simply say command line without GUI is better compared to GUI with command line, scripting, command recording and playback, doesn't add up.
-v
I am sure this story is completely and utterly unbiased... as we are all aware of the extremely high ethical and moral standards of the media industry. So I am totally certain that they have all their facts straight and their t's dotted and i's crossed...
(not that I read it, I can't afford the sign up fee) But I am sure it's a good article...and completly true...
-v
P.S. Also if someone could please find the amount of smog and pollution the US has ever produced, and compare it to the amount of pollution released by oil burned during the Gulf War by Suddam in Kuwait.
Please post this info to slashdot as I am unable to understand and read the news paper's higher level of writing, and I trust Slashdot's moderation will ensure broad readership of unbiased view points...
Also, be sure to include how much worse the US pollution was, cause I am sure that it was far worse.
Since only one side of the interface needs high thermal conductivity, this system can also be adapted to car tires, as well as shoe soles--using electrically-conductive rubber--to increase traction on ice by up to 90%.
Where do you find rubber like that?
-v
hmm, lemme see, pacman, space invaders, defender, galaxia, breakout, etc...
yup, they fit the bill for dumb, time wasting, lowest common brain denominators... yet all good sellers... is this good evidence for the degeneration of the youth's mental capacities in this country? Or do we really believe poilitical polling and biased news articles that the video game industry has nothing to do with our youth turning into the worlds largest mass army of couch potatoes...?
All I think Everquest has achieved over other games is that it was better "socially" engineered. Cigarrettes are probably more addictive than EverCrack, but you can't do anything other than educate people about it.
It will be years before they can prove EverCrack causes cancer, I think I will start playing so I can join the class action lawsuit in 2035 against Sony... maybe I could afford a 100 inch plasma screen with the extra dough...
-v
I found my cable modem has this long black thing plugged into it, and if I pull it out it completely and utterly cuts off all internet advertising... it's quite amazing.
Hmmm, did you read the whole first sentence of my post?
I thought MPEG-4 was a video compression codec standard not a digital video player...what am I missing here?
It was question. So thank you for your insightful answer...
What is the point of flaming if you do it anonymously...
Also, if you were doing any digital video within the last 4 years (about) you may have noticed that MS labeled one of their codecs they compressed ASF files was called MPEG-4. Not sure why, it never worked btw... I don't see the options anymore but there is this-
All you need is a free program called AVIedit, open an avi, then do a save as. You can choose "MPEG-4 file reader/writer". No I don't have quicktime on this machine, a complete vanilla install of Win2k.
Also, here's where you can find the formats that MS's media player supports. here
It seems that mpeg-4 is there. Here is MS's white paper on MPEG-4, it seems they aren't trying to "muck it up" they just plan on making a "superior quality" format.
Here is a list of CODECS that MS media player supports. Supported Codecs
Now I know MS ain't to bright and all that and they can't even pronounce their own product names properly, but here's a description of their support for MPEG-4 codecs, but I am sure they are wrong and MPEG is not a codec... MPEG-4 Codec Descriptions
In case you don't feel like clicking here's a sample from MS MPEG-4 Video Codec 1 :
The Microsoft MPEG-4 codec is a low to high bit-rate video codec. The advantage of this codec is that it meets the standards set by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). Use version 1 if you provide content to version 2.0 servers or players.
I am all for competition, it's what is need against MS, but I think there's quite a difference between Quicktime and MPEG.
-v
MPEG-4 is based on Apple's QuickTime.
.mov format as well as the new slightly different .3gp file format.
.mov files... which is exactly why I can't stand Quicktime, (10 mb download just to play movies...) And it is slow and a resource hog...
.mov player, maybe you can, but who has done it?)
Really? I though MPEG-4 was a video compression codec standard not a digital video player... Quicktime uses codecs like cinepak, Sorenson, etc... Quicktime itself is not a codec... what am I missing here?
Apple's decision to be MPEG-4-compliant gives it the strength...
This seems to be a contradiction... Cause it just said that MPEG-4 was based on Quicktime...
The modified QuickTime 6 that supports 3GPP, as yet unnamed, will output both the current
Maybe I am dumb, but how is this mpeg4 with Quicktim any better than mpeg4 with MS? The hosts are both proprietary...
It seems that no matter how you paint this, you still have to have Quicktime to play
I want video files I can play with what ever player I want. (and don't tell me you can make your own
-v
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/.esque posts on many of the pages of the online manual that are extremely helpful at relating code to reality for beginners.
:)
I am a multimedia designer(ie, I suck at programming but draw pretty circles, but there are no jobs anymore drawing pretty circles without code to make them spin when clicked on, so now I program too.)
Also php.net is an incredible resource with
Also a bonus, good PHP hosting on Linux is consistently more available and cheaper than on M$ based hosting systems.
Also, you don't _have_ to actually buy a book to get started with it.
-v
I wonder how much more spam these guys will get after this meeting....
-v
Balogna. The teachers are a very serious problem...
I have a friend who is a PhD that is in charge of teachers over a number of Chicago public schools. His job focus is making sure the teachers are teaching their kids how to read.
When he started he would go around to the classes and find that by 10am _most_ teacher WERE NOT EVEN TEACHING.
He'd find teachers talking on the phone, yacking in the halls with other teachers (what are their kids doing when they aren't there?) and even surfing the net.
After a year of him being their and cracking the whip at _lazy teachers_ test scores went up 12% across the board in 90% of the schools he was in charge of.
He is so sick of lazy and bad teachers he just wants to quit. The administration doesn't even support him on dealing with this issue. He says also that their aren't replacement teachers either, so the only thing to do is get these teachers to work.
He's not sure of a total solution, but for now there's; Manage the teachers better. Make them actually teach. Then make sure what they are teaching works.
Currently schools are teaching really lousy methods for reading. Of which the "whole language" method is used. This would be the equivilant of handing a first year CS student (with _no_ prior coding or computer skills) a sheet of printed code and then told to "absorb it".
I don't agree with many, many things GW Bush has done, but hopefully better expectations from teachers is one that will work/help our schools.
My friend is currently writing a grant for the Chicago school system to help them use the money they will get from the feds wisely (har har). At one point he lost it and chewed out 200 at an assembly cause they weren't listening to him. He says a group of "big" people are much worse to deal with than an unruly class room...
I live in the boonies in Minnesota. Small town schools seem to do fine for the most part and for my kids I am not concerned about the teachers, just other kids. It's the big city schools that seem to have most of the problems (and the west coast schools... ) which is one reason I left the big city and the west coast.
The first real step needs to be to enforce the most basic levels of work ethics and make sure that teachers actually stay in their class rooms during work hours and when in there actually teach their kids. And the administration needs to back up the teachers when they try to keep order in their class rooms.
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This is changing every day. It is sad. Perhaps you've never had a relationship that really was important to you ripped apart because of porn... Does your simple lack of bad experience with porn make it good for kids?
(late night on public TV with mild nudity is just mild porn, same with the newspaper...)
Just a note, Sex is not "bad" it makes babies and keeps married people together and happy. But degrading it is bad...
The naked human form is pleasing to ones mate, this is good. Degrading it is bad...
Your comments are simply a carbon copy of porn industries media bandwagon.
Violence _is_ bad. Period. (I am from the US) And I can vouch for every person I know that they also feel that violence is bad... not sure where you are getting your info on North America... But I gurantee you that Hollywood does not speak for us... (and I am sure even some people in Hollywood that make violent movies wouldn't even say "violence is good" regardless of the drivel they produce...)
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Where's the logic along these lines to protect children from porn then? (I will imagine for a moment that you are not so unimaginative as to find a reason why porn can be detrimental to children...) -v
"...I believe that if Linux is to be all that it can be the Linux world needs to UNITE behind standards."
:)
Standards are great, but I am just concerned about any "centralized" body with any sort of motives to gain control over how linux is to be made.Who the hell funds "The United Linux campaign" I don't know, it's smelling of politics...
I unfortunately can't use Linux yet cause I can't be guaranteed all my Macromedia software will run on it... will Linux standards fix this?
Is there really that severe of a division in Linux versions that if I get my box running Red Hat one week I can't make my next upgrade to SuSE?
If it's soooo bad between Linux distros then it's __got__ to be bad going from Windows to Linux... maybe that can be cleared up for me. Is it really that hard to upgrade to Linux from windows? And if __that's__ an easy switch, how hard can it be going between distros?
I really think eventually the OS distro won't mean squat when I can run all my apps in Mozilla.
Here's the crux, what would it be like if there were 10 different distros of Windows out there? And there was a standards body governing it?
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Doesn't seem like anybody actually LOOKED UP any of their facts...
Some interesting FACTS from http://www.cdc.gov/
1980
ages 24-44 Rank and Number of deaths
Ranked 1 - Unintentional injuries 26,722
Ranked 9 - Homicide 10,983
Ranked 5 - Suicide 9,855
2000
Ranked 1 - Unintentional injuries 27,182
Ranked 4 - Suicide 11,354
Ranked 6 - Homicide 7,383
This is stupid, we really need to get rid of all those "dangerous" swimming pools that kill all those kids, and sharp rakes that people fall all in their lawns... Suicide is now a bigger problem than murder....
Also, if you use some common sense here, even if 75% of all the murders were commited with a gun,(which I think is even a high percentage) unitentional injuries kill 5 times that many people and suicide over twice that number. Where is the outcry against depression and accidents?
13.9 deaths per 1,000 live births...
1998 - Abortions in US - 26.4 per 100 births ( insane percentage compared to any other form of death... )
26.4% of all US (un)born citizens don't even make it out of the hospital...plenty of outcry here...
Birth deaths
1950 - US - 32.5 deaths per 1,000 live births
2000 - US - 7.0 deaths per 1,000 live births
Mothers who smoked during pregnancy - Birth deaths.
2000 - US - 12.2 deaths per 1,000 live births
By these numbers it should be against the law to smoke while you are pregnant...
Cocaine-related emergency department episodes, 2000 - 174,881
24 times that of homicides... how many of these will ultimately end in death?
Here'S where the statistics get messed, you figure it out...maybe I am just bad at math...
DEATH RATES (hispanic) ages 25-44
Homicide - US - 2000 - 6.1 per 100,000
Deaths by Firearms - US - 2000 - 13.5 per 100,000
I have no opinion on gun control, as I don't believe in shooting anyone myself, but I also don't believe in getting shot myself... But do some research on old England, I do believe the "long bow" was what ultimately made Britain a democratic country, not anything like a perfect King...
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Can somebody please end the xBox promotions on /.?
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Hydrogen Peroxide (H2 O2)
Use oxygen bleach instead of chlorine, cheaper than some complex electrolosis. Just put it on the owie.
Get's rid of bacteria in your mouth (tastes bad though), cleans out cuts and abrasions, disolves warts (multiple applications needed consistently over time.) and also cures hoof and mouth disease for cattle.
http://www.all-organic-food.com/beef3.htm
Oxygen cleaning and treatment (from what I have heard) has been used in Europe for some time now...
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