My point had nothing to do with whether ogg was better (IMO, it's not, sound-wise, but to each their own), just that politics should only be used to decide when both formats are otherwise equal. IMO, I'd rather pay a little extra (75 cents on my $200 MP3 player, and Winamp is still free) for what I feel is a better format to my ears.
Decide for yourself and stick with it. Me, I ripped a CD track into a 192kbps MP3 and an ogg file with the same filesize (level 5?) and listened to them. I chose the one which fit my tastes better (MP3 had much more bass), but I don't need to go around telling everyone that ogg is worthless or inadequate.
Think about it. If you had unlimited cheap streaming access to any music anywhere in the world, what's the point in downloading? There is none. You save many gigabytes of hard disk space too. With increasing bandwidth to the home, this is only going to get more popular.
So should I bring my desktop and a generator into the car with me when I travel? Should I bring it out to the beach when I relax under the sun? Hey, you can stream audio anytime you want... but anywhere?
A person on a cell phone in a store, mall, or on the street draws attention to themself. Maybe as we gaze in their direction, we're just noticing the stupid things that people do everyday -- but when they're without a cell phone in hand, nobody's watching them.
Try a 64kbps OGG (roughly QL 2.00) vs. an MP3 of similar caliber.
I'm sure it sounds great, but the fact is I have no use for anything less than a 160kbps MP3 or its equivalent, so it really doesn't do much good as a non-streaming MP3 replacement (and let's face it, 99% of MP3 use is none streaming).
The presence of the OGG Vorbis format and it's superior quality
After reading so much about OGG, I decided to do a test of my own. I ripped a few songs in both 192kbps MP3 and Ogg (quality: 5, since it produced roughly the same filesize).
The difference in sound was immediately evident even on my laptop speakers. The Ogg files, after taking at least three times as long to encode on my P3 700MHz, were very lacking in bass and had an overall hollow or light feeling.
I felt that the MP3 was a much better representation of the CD, and certainly more pleasant to listen to. Hopefully another format will spring up to combat Ogg if MP3 does go away (which isn't likely anyway).
Whatever happened to newsgroup filters and the ignore/watch functions? I still have to hold onto Netscape 4.7 because of this (and yes, I've tried all the other Windows readers).
Banning cell phone use in cars is just stupid. Maybe it's because I'm from the bay area, but using a cell phone while driving is a god given right as far as I'm concerned, as long as you remember to pay full attention to the road.
Maybe if you weren't on the phone you'd realize all the times you cut somebody off. Cell phone drivers are the most annoying and dangerous people on the road. I have been cut off by them, nearly rear-ended them when they realized in the last ten feet that the light was indeed red, and am just waiting for someone to ram me because he's more focused on "Not much, you?" than the road.
I used a cell phone while driving once and suddenly realized that I had spent the last couple minutes completely enveloped in the conversation and not paying attention to the road at all. I was fortunate enough to get away with it. You cannot compare it to the radio (background music which requires no thought or response on your part). Not only is it distracting, but you only have one hand on the wheel -- what happens when you hit a crooked pothole, or -- more likely -- reach for your latte and suddenly your car jerks to the right? A normal, two-handed driver would correct this immediately, while a one-handed driver could let the wheel slip and have a harder time recovering.
The only thing I can compare cell phone driving to is driving while sleep deprived. You're just not focused.
Many people like to see the display more than once. To see it again, stay on the train after passing the display. It will go to 33rd Street and reverse direction. Get off at 9th Street, cross the platform and catch another northbound train.
Riiiight...
"Honey, I know you taped ER for me last night, but can you rewind that part? I want to see that Pepsi commercial again."
The article mentions that Konqueror was patched against the same bug in 90 minutes.
Note that this doesn't mean the bug was only there for 90 minutes, it was there for [months, years, I don't know]. Why didn't Konqueror take the initiative to fix this before instead of waiting until it was published? Sounds like they had the fix all along and were just waiting for the announcement so they could look good by fixing it so quickly.
or just turn up the music at random times, and occasionally send a secret message during one of those noisy intervals.
Or continually send bogus messages ("hey, what's up?") so people get used to you constantly sending messages, and they'll never know whether you're sending a game strategy or just fluff.
I tried out an Archos 20 and couldn't stand it. You have to go through a menu to adjust the volume(!), it's very clumsy and hard to use, and the sound quality is absolutely terrible. Even if you don't care about good quality, the Archos is just unlistenable, even using good headphones.
I purchased the Creative Nomad Jukebox 20GB, and my only regret is that it's not the Nomad 3:) The UI is very easy to use, the sound is great, and it has a lot of nice features. The only downside is the size (a little slimmer than a portable CD player). I'd check out the Nomad 3, it has Firewire and USB support, a longer-lasting Li-ion battery, and more.
1) Go to new york. Find a widowed mother raising an infant girl and say to the woman "Gee, I'm sorry your husband was crushed under 40 floors of steel and concrete trying to rescue people from the world trade center, I think it's just terrible... But I *really* want a diamond enough that I'm willing to give Osama $80."
2) Go to a nice south african country embroiled in a bitter and savage civil war....
Osama will get $80 from someone else's diamond if not yours. It takes a group effort to boycott -- unless more people do it, you're not going to make a difference. If you opt for an expensive honeymoon, a house, or something other than a diamond ring, Osama will somehow get his $80 from that.
But all this is unimportant, you say, because you have seen a few ads with women walking down the beach to classical music. Common sense and "consumer ethics" be damned, because we must buy these tiny, expensive-to-insure, pretentious monuments to conspicuous consumption?
If you're going to attack diamond engagement rings, attack Christmas trees too. They're messy, useless, inconvenient, and while they don't cost much it's still no good for the environment to dig up a tree, cover it with plastic and glass then throw it in the landfill.
This isn't to say that Christmas trees or diamond rings are okay, but where do you draw the line? There are hundreds of things people do regularly that do more harm than good. IMO, people can't take the ethically correct route every single time, so you might as well put it aside for a special occasion such as an engagement, and incorporate good ethics into your everyday life; you'll end up on the plus side, which is what counts.
A proposal means you're asking her to dedicate the rest of her life to you, and yours to her. Give her what she really, really wants (a diamond). An engagement is a once-in-a-lifetime event; save your consumer ethics for more trivial occasions (anniversaries, Christmas, etc).
A smaller-than-PDA version of this was used by that goofy roommate on the TV show Undeclared to speak to his Japanese girlfriend a number of months ago.
Are they going to include Pan & Scan movies as edited? When 40% of the movie is deliberately cut out, that's just as bad as bleeping a curse word or deleting a family-unfriendly scene.
It's good, clean, harmless fun. Everyone needs a break from their job or life. This is certainly better than spending one's free time forcing DoS attacks on a site.
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My point had nothing to do with whether ogg was better (IMO, it's not, sound-wise, but to each their own), just that politics should only be used to decide when both formats are otherwise equal. IMO, I'd rather pay a little extra (75 cents on my $200 MP3 player, and Winamp is still free) for what I feel is a better format to my ears.
Decide for yourself and stick with it. Me, I ripped a CD track into a 192kbps MP3 and an ogg file with the same filesize (level 5?) and listened to them. I chose the one which fit my tastes better (MP3 had much more bass), but I don't need to go around telling everyone that ogg is worthless or inadequate.
...when I need to get off my lazy game-playing ass and hit the gym?
A person on a cell phone in a store, mall, or on the street draws attention to themself. Maybe as we gaze in their direction, we're just noticing the stupid things that people do everyday -- but when they're without a cell phone in hand, nobody's watching them.
"Whoa, the room's spinning and I'm about to faint, but my tattoo is still red so I must be okay."
I'm sure it sounds great, but the fact is I have no use for anything less than a 160kbps MP3 or its equivalent, so it really doesn't do much good as a non-streaming MP3 replacement (and let's face it, 99% of MP3 use is none streaming).
After reading so much about OGG, I decided to do a test of my own. I ripped a few songs in both 192kbps MP3 and Ogg (quality: 5, since it produced roughly the same filesize).
The difference in sound was immediately evident even on my laptop speakers. The Ogg files, after taking at least three times as long to encode on my P3 700MHz, were very lacking in bass and had an overall hollow or light feeling.
I felt that the MP3 was a much better representation of the CD, and certainly more pleasant to listen to. Hopefully another format will spring up to combat Ogg if MP3 does go away (which isn't likely anyway).
Whatever happened to newsgroup filters and the ignore/watch functions? I still have to hold onto Netscape 4.7 because of this (and yes, I've tried all the other Windows readers).
There's a big flaw in that analogy: you can very easily prevent a cell phone from being used, while a baby will cry no matter what you do.
Maybe if you weren't on the phone you'd realize all the times you cut somebody off. Cell phone drivers are the most annoying and dangerous people on the road. I have been cut off by them, nearly rear-ended them when they realized in the last ten feet that the light was indeed red, and am just waiting for someone to ram me because he's more focused on "Not much, you?" than the road.
I used a cell phone while driving once and suddenly realized that I had spent the last couple minutes completely enveloped in the conversation and not paying attention to the road at all. I was fortunate enough to get away with it. You cannot compare it to the radio (background music which requires no thought or response on your part). Not only is it distracting, but you only have one hand on the wheel -- what happens when you hit a crooked pothole, or -- more likely -- reach for your latte and suddenly your car jerks to the right? A normal, two-handed driver would correct this immediately, while a one-handed driver could let the wheel slip and have a harder time recovering.
The only thing I can compare cell phone driving to is driving while sleep deprived. You're just not focused.
"Honey, I know you taped ER for me last night, but can you rewind that part? I want to see that Pepsi commercial again."
Note that this doesn't mean the bug was only there for 90 minutes, it was there for [months, years, I don't know]. Why didn't Konqueror take the initiative to fix this before instead of waiting until it was published? Sounds like they had the fix all along and were just waiting for the announcement so they could look good by fixing it so quickly.
Better yet, don't walk away leaving it lying around with the screen on and open files showing.
Or continually send bogus messages ("hey, what's up?") so people get used to you constantly sending messages, and they'll never know whether you're sending a game strategy or just fluff.
I purchased the Creative Nomad Jukebox 20GB, and my only regret is that it's not the Nomad 3 :) The UI is very easy to use, the sound is great, and it has a lot of nice features. The only downside is the size (a little slimmer than a portable CD player). I'd check out the Nomad 3, it has Firewire and USB support, a longer-lasting Li-ion battery, and more.
Now, if only I could afford an iPod :)
This isn't to say that Christmas trees or diamond rings are okay, but where do you draw the line? There are hundreds of things people do regularly that do more harm than good. IMO, people can't take the ethically correct route every single time, so you might as well put it aside for a special occasion such as an engagement, and incorporate good ethics into your everyday life; you'll end up on the plus side, which is what counts.
A proposal means you're asking her to dedicate the rest of her life to you, and yours to her. Give her what she really, really wants (a diamond). An engagement is a once-in-a-lifetime event; save your consumer ethics for more trivial occasions (anniversaries, Christmas, etc).
A smaller-than-PDA version of this was used by that goofy roommate on the TV show Undeclared to speak to his Japanese girlfriend a number of months ago.
While a new type of gun would indeed be an implementation, a new weapon entirely would be a discovery.
In France, a typical can of Coke is 330mL, while it's American cousin is a whopping 355mL. No wonder Americans are so fat!
Are they going to include Pan & Scan movies as edited? When 40% of the movie is deliberately cut out, that's just as bad as bleeping a curse word or deleting a family-unfriendly scene.
It's good, clean, harmless fun. Everyone needs a break from their job or life. This is certainly better than spending one's free time forcing DoS attacks on a site.