Any explanation on *why* it's better? Better compression / algorhythms?
I've found that 64khz OGG (3MB) ~= 128khz WMP (3MB) ~= 128khz MP3 (4MB). Admittedly the WMP is *slightly* better, but I thought that's only because of the extra sampling rate...
Also for some reason when ripping from CD to ogg there's very little difference between 64khz and 128khz, but then 44khz is utterly unlistenable.
> If someone would like to come up with a different format that can actually compete, I'd be happen to lend you my expertise and objectively analyze it for you.
Why not just help improve ogg? Are there any major problems that would need a total rewrite to get past them?
> "He was so immersed in his task that he saw the world around him as an optical display. In the shower the next morning, three perfect bars of light reflected on the tiles. Hey, Carmack thought - that's a diffuse illumination by a specular reflection."
Heh, I get like that all the time. Just this morning I woke up after ~2 hours sleep and though "I wonder how I can get more sleep in the same amount of space... I know, I'll GZip it!"
> 1) Many people do not support or endorse the idea of April Fool's Day, and it's unfair to force it upon them.
Were you *forced* to read this article?
> 2) If you insist on playing a lame joke on people on the Internet, at least wait until midnight occurs on the west coast (3am eastern). I typically ignore any news anywhere marked April 1, but I shouldn't have to worry about the time zone difference.
If it were a joke, I'm sure they would
> 3) I thought Slashdot was better than this.
it is.
> The admins for this site have lost my respect.
go look down the back of the sofa, it's amazing what you can find down there!
Dude, it's real. also:
> 1) Many people do not support or endorse the idea of April Fool's Day, and it's unfair to force it upon them.
Were you *forced* to read this article?
> 2) If you insist on playing a lame joke on people on the Internet, at least wait until midnight occurs on the west coast (3am eastern). I typically ignore any news anywhere marked April 1, but I shouldn't have to worry about the time zone difference.
If it were a joke, I'm sure they would
> 3) I thought Slashdot was better than this.
it is.
> The admins for this site have lost my respect.
go look down the back of the sofa, it's amazing what you can find down there!
>> that absent minded creative person that knows how to do it but can't for some reason or another >Yeah, like lack of ability?
That's the *point*, he had some good ideas but couldn't do them himself
> people who waffle their way out of hard work (on the grounds that it's somehow impossible for them) are fooling nobody but themselves
So what he should have done is gone and spent several months learning C *just* so he could add motion blur to a game, therefore saving his technical friend a few minutes work?
I think it was Ken, the guy who needs no second name as everyone knows who he is, which is handy as I can't remember his second name. He was one of the guys who worked on the early unixes.
I add bits to get debugging info secretly and remotely, but I'd never be stupid enough to put a full backdoor in, lest someone discover it and use it for script-kiddieing.
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Any explanation on *why* it's better? Better compression / algorhythms?
I've found that 64khz OGG (3MB) ~= 128khz WMP (3MB) ~= 128khz MP3 (4MB). Admittedly the WMP is *slightly* better, but I thought that's only because of the extra sampling rate...
Also for some reason when ripping from CD to ogg there's very little difference between 64khz and 128khz, but then 44khz is utterly unlistenable.
> If someone would like to come up with a different format that can actually compete, I'd be happen to lend you my expertise and objectively analyze it for you.
Why not just help improve ogg? Are there any major problems that would need a total rewrite to get past them?
ANY not registered subdomain gets the front page - foobar.slashdot.org fearthecow.slashdot.org etc
Yeah well, I once got -1 offtopic, -1 redundant, -2 overrated. how is a total score of -1 overrated???
> "He was so immersed in his task that he saw the world around him as an optical display. In the shower the next morning, three perfect bars of light reflected on the tiles. Hey, Carmack thought - that's a diffuse illumination by a specular reflection."
Heh, I get like that all the time. Just this morning I woke up after ~2 hours sleep and though "I wonder how I can get more sleep in the same amount of space... I know, I'll GZip it!"
no -- the answer
Dude, it's real. also:
> 1) Many people do not support or endorse the idea of April Fool's Day, and it's unfair to force it upon them.
Were you *forced* to read this article?
> 2) If you insist on playing a lame joke on people on the Internet, at least wait until midnight occurs on the west coast (3am eastern). I typically ignore any news anywhere marked April 1, but I shouldn't have to worry about the time zone difference.
If it were a joke, I'm sure they would
> 3) I thought Slashdot was better than this.
it is.
> The admins for this site have lost my respect.
go look down the back of the sofa, it's amazing what you can find down there!
Dude, it's real. also: > 1) Many people do not support or endorse the idea of April Fool's Day, and it's unfair to force it upon them. Were you *forced* to read this article? > 2) If you insist on playing a lame joke on people on the Internet, at least wait until midnight occurs on the west coast (3am eastern). I typically ignore any news anywhere marked April 1, but I shouldn't have to worry about the time zone difference. If it were a joke, I'm sure they would > 3) I thought Slashdot was better than this. it is. > The admins for this site have lost my respect. go look down the back of the sofa, it's amazing what you can find down there!
>> that absent minded creative person that knows how to do it but can't for some reason or another
>Yeah, like lack of ability?
That's the *point*, he had some good ideas but couldn't do them himself
> people who waffle their way out of hard work (on the grounds that it's somehow impossible for them) are fooling nobody but themselves
So what he should have done is gone and spent several months learning C *just* so he could add motion blur to a game, therefore saving his technical friend a few minutes work?
now we can see what eachother look like! yay!(???)
is it just me or has the site gone all photoshopped & shiny just now? are the slashdot graphics monkeys eating redmond pie?
throw more mon(k)eys at it!
speex is geared to vocals, ie more detail in fewer places rather than the semi-constant bitrate needed by music
no more typing. LOL. No more typing 'LOL'. LOL. etc.
> and they have released all their search algorithms to the scientific community
but patented them >:-(
> although most people would be happier if they had never allowed advertising on the site at all
I've found that google is the only site ever that actually gives useful on-topic ads, and thus the only ads I ever follow are google ones
Sure it sucks, but it's a *standard* that everyone can use, and there are many libraries for it so you don't need to write your own parsing code
Sub7 yeah, BO is open source so it's less likely, but possible
no, but with 64 bit precision they can cheat twice as accurately
I think it was Ken, the guy who needs no second name as everyone knows who he is, which is handy as I can't remember his second name. He was one of the guys who worked on the early unixes.
I add bits to get debugging info secretly and remotely, but I'd never be stupid enough to put a full backdoor in, lest someone discover it and use it for script-kiddieing.
Back windows are ok, backdoors aren't
That's like an apple a day, every day, for a long time! The dentists'll go out of buisness soon enough...
Isn't open source, GPL, et al supposed to be a digital hippie movement? Peace dudes!
I weren't using AOL myself... (Flame retardent defence: Not of my own free will)
this toaster
burns the weather into your toast - done by java, maybe linux is in there somewhere though
/me goes MGS stylee to MAVAV
bang!!! tch-tch-tch!! tch-tch-tch!! tch-tch-tch!! whack! thump! AAARRRGGGHHH!! MUST KILL MAVAV!!!!!!!!! DIE MAVAV DIE!!!!!!!
No, vidiogames don't make violence.
Computer power goes up, windows's speed remains constant. If we lag behind with hardware windows'll be going *backwards*