this totally depends on what codec you use to encode the audio.. i personally don't know if aac or ogg supports surround sound so i'm tentatively doubting it's already 5.1 surround. if there was an encoder that supported mp3 surround then yes if they weren't already in surround sound then you would have to reencode the videos to get this support
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LOL... look at the FDA's wonderful load of crap lately.. how many drugs have been pulled that the FDA said was ok? give me a break... the FDA in my opinion has turned into a load of shit...
and to add to that look how the government was trying to stop people from getting their drugs from canada.. and yet when the flu vaccine had a shortage here who did they get more vaccine from? oh yes. canada.. who's drugs you can't trust...
I have a question about the backups you can make with Steam. Is it possible for me to burn the HL2 files to a dvd, and then have my friend able to install HL2 using that dvd (he has his own steam account and bought the game but is on dialup so downloading the game is well.. rough)... not sure how valve handles this..
odd because everyone that i show red vs blue to has enjoyed it. whether they totally understood what was going on or not, with a little bit of explaining they thought it was rather funny (mostly my parents and non-gaming type in this case)... you just need to have a story that will capture a wider audience
In fact I think video games get more and more violent... i don't see the criticism stopping anything.
I just think parents need to watch what their kids do. I play violent video games and you don't see me running around killing people or "immitating" a video game. All this violence crap has to do with bad parenting, or lack of parenting period. I wish people would understand this. (sorry, took a detour there)
the thing with steam is you can always redownload... you aren't stuck with only one download.... like itunes music store... so, for NOW. i'm not concerned, but long term i'd like a good copy backed up
you can also do it by running the steam client and right clicking on a game, selecting Back Up and doing it that way.
i didn't mind the price, but more of the profits goto valve with the steam release so that's why i bought through steam. i got a lot more for my money by buying the steam release. I am hoping more companies use steam to release their products, as long as there's a way to make sure that no matter what you can always play the game then i don't have a problem with it. that's where the authentication thing gets messy for me.. what happens later on in a few years.. will steam still be around? i could only hope.
Definitely. I bought HL2 Silver today and it grabbed the files in about 60-70 minutes, i did it while i was at school so it would be ready when i got home. I just wish that you had the ability to make an install cd of some kind, like they'd provide labels and everything and all you'd have to do is print them. so it still LOOKS like you have the retail type stuff even when you don't. but i hope other companies go through steam because it was a great experience so far and i like that valve released the entire back library on there too with the silver package, i got a ton for my money ($60). and the profits goto valve, not the publisher so valve can make the next game even better with a bigger budget or make multiple games... here's for hoping they do more than just one type of game though. i'd like to see them branch out a bit and maybe get away from the FPS.. they have great stories in HL and HL2 now let's see if they can ressurect the adventure game industry;) like sam & max style adventure games.
i always thought this one was an easy one. it provides a challenge. it's not quite like a game but it is. i mean if i were to write one, i'd try to pick something kinda hard and obscure and make it as streamlined and unique as i could. i think most worm/virus writers are in it to be seen now. "my worm just got mentioned on the world news!" it's almost like a contest but... the prize is seeing your virus/worm/etc as a neon sign on the news and virus information webpages
sounds to me like these people are being so over worked that looking for another job is not necessarily an option.
but yes, looking before quitting is good. unfortunately in my area there are tons of crappy jobs. i work a dead end job at a grocery store (wanna hear my stories, visit my website and click on the "Paper or Plastic" category on the right column). Dealing with the public in this way isn't necessarily the job for me. I prefer dealing with my peers and learning, thus my major is no longer computer science, but teaching (hopefully computer science and english). I can find another job in my area, sure, but nothing worth a damn. I'd be going from one crappy job (with $2.50 more than average starting pay in the area) to another job (that is just above minimum wage)... and they both suck. so the benefit doesn't necessarily work for me. so i try to make the working conditions in my current job better for me and others, that's what this lawsuit is about, to make the working conditions better for everyone, not just themselves. They're doing the right thing.
uhm... you realize that not everyone has the luxuary of quitting a job. see, most people have things called bills. some have a mortage, car payments, insurance, KIDS, etc etc. Just up and quitting a job isn't necessarily an option because these things have deadlines on them every month, kids have constant needs, food, clothes, blah blah blah. Computer and tech jobs are hard enough to find as it is, quitting is not an option unless you have enough in your bank account to sustain living for weeks or months before you find another job. think before you open your mouth. There's no reason a company in the U.S. should be operated like this, people have rights, it seems EA isn't obeying these rights. Common curtesy is a big thing for me too, with my current employer if they try to back me into a wall, i fire right back and put them against the wall, one of the good things about being in a union. These people are standing up for themselves. it's nice to know YOU can quit, but not everyone can, they need income.
In the Engadget Podcast the other day they discussed the idea of having Picture Podcasts. Where at certain points during a podcast they could have a way to display a picture on "picture" supported audio players (ipod, iriver, etc). I thought it was an very very cool idea, I don't have a photo ipod or any of the others, but it would be a neat feature if i had one.
I used Firebird, Thunderbird, and a few other apps, ftp client, etc... kind of my mobile workstation on the go... i haven't used it much since i transfered to a university with wireless EVERYWHERE and a new powerbook. but i have used it once in a lab and it's still nice to have around.
I carry a usb thumb drive with firefox on it. if i MUST use a web browser i simply load it right off the thumbdrive.. the profile is on there too so i have a shortcut to firefox with the parameter to load the profile window, load the profile and start it up.. great stuff. might take about a minute for it to load but i also rather enjoy having my bookmarks all there.
the problem with the way that apple includes java by using cocoa bindings is.. not the best way to do it. it takes java.. a write once, run anywhere language.. and ruins it.. if you use any of the cocoa bindings then the app will not run on anything but os x.
i'm not too familiar with wxwindows.. so i can't comment there.
a development platform doesn't necessarily mean operating system. look.. the idea is simple, write your code in XUL + javascript using the backend of Mozilla and 99% of that will work on every platform that mozilla/firefox already support. write once, run in all those other places... it's not an OS, it's a development platform. why does everyone think it'll become an OS? Seriously.
Umm.. the reason firefox has everything at the kitchen sink is because it is cross platform. let's just say that if you coded one thing in windows.. any dialog boxes, used any windows UI controls, etc, these would not work hand in hand over in linux land. there'd be major changes in the code and that means more people are needed to work on it.. linux experts, windows experts, and so on. if you rewrite the wheel using something that will work on multiple platforms without changing that code then you have 1 repository of code as opposed to... 3 or 4 (linux, windows, mac). it doesn't support everything and the kitchen sink just to be a platform, it does it because it needs to do that to be cross platform and CONSISTANT across platforms. notice how firefox acts pretty close to the same on every platform? i've noticed it. it's also easier to code something when it's only one respository instead of 3 or more that are all seperate and unalike.
The reason so many holes are found are due to the Bounty that the mozilla foundation puts forth for each security hole found. this means that people are actively looking for security holes to turn them in and get i think $500.
Why are they doing this? Simple really. Find the holes now and lock firefox down pretty good. Better that the holes are found and fixed ASAP than found but not fixed at all... say.. like internet explorer. they're simply trying to make it more secure and this is a pretty good way of doing it.
Look at it this way, if you develop software you look at the same code all the time and once you see it so many times you don't potentially see the security holes that you might otherwise see because you've looked at it so much that you kind of become numb to the fact that something could be wrong there. by having new eyes looking at the code you are having new eyes put on that older code and they're finding the problems, $500 is just an incentive to get people to look at the code.
It is a browser. But the components that were used to BUILD the browser are very cross platform (hence you have firefox on 3 major different platforms, windows, linux, and mac). in doing so the backend of all of this is cross platform and can be used to create other applications besides just a web browser. you only really need to know javascript, xul, and a few other things and you can use the stuff that was used to build firefox and make your own application. it's a novel idea and hopefully it'll be put to good use.
I think it's a valid question since "undergrad" was mentioned in the topic, i know a lot of people on here started with pascal, i'm simply asking what the best language to start out with NOW is. I'm sure there's been an Ask Slashdot on this but oh well, such is life. I just didn't think it was that offtopic:-/
Well one of the key requirements is "happiness" in windows. Not sure how well ruby works in windows haven't tried it. But I almost feel like starting with procedural programming is best and then working up to OOP the second year. I am not _very_ familiar with ruby but does it allow you to write procedural programming or is it strictly OOP? I think the idea of Objects would throw students unfamiliar with programming off pretty quickly.
I just asked a similar question, but when I was a CS major I jumped right into C, procedural C++ basically (they used cout/cin and not printf or anything from C per say). I know a lot of people were lost in that class and you really find out who knows their stuff and who doesn't.. weed out the ones not up to snuff pretty quickly. If that didn't get ya then Assembly was pretty rough once you got halfway through UG:)
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well... if you can encode that audio a bit then that leaves more space for better video (higher bitrate)... i guess you can pick your poison
this totally depends on what codec you use to encode the audio.. i personally don't know if aac or ogg supports surround sound so i'm tentatively doubting it's already 5.1 surround. if there was an encoder that supported mp3 surround then yes if they weren't already in surround sound then you would have to reencode the videos to get this support
LOL... look at the FDA's wonderful load of crap lately.. how many drugs have been pulled that the FDA said was ok? give me a break... the FDA in my opinion has turned into a load of shit...
and to add to that look how the government was trying to stop people from getting their drugs from canada.. and yet when the flu vaccine had a shortage here who did they get more vaccine from? oh yes. canada.. who's drugs you can't trust...
I have a question about the backups you can make with Steam. Is it possible for me to burn the HL2 files to a dvd, and then have my friend able to install HL2 using that dvd (he has his own steam account and bought the game but is on dialup so downloading the game is well.. rough)... not sure how valve handles this..
odd because everyone that i show red vs blue to has enjoyed it. whether they totally understood what was going on or not, with a little bit of explaining they thought it was rather funny (mostly my parents and non-gaming type in this case)... you just need to have a story that will capture a wider audience
In fact I think video games get more and more violent... i don't see the criticism stopping anything.
I just think parents need to watch what their kids do. I play violent video games and you don't see me running around killing people or "immitating" a video game. All this violence crap has to do with bad parenting, or lack of parenting period. I wish people would understand this. (sorry, took a detour there)
the thing with steam is you can always redownload... you aren't stuck with only one download .... like itunes music store... so, for NOW. i'm not concerned, but long term i'd like a good copy backed up
you can also do it by running the steam client and right clicking on a game, selecting Back Up and doing it that way.
i didn't mind the price, but more of the profits goto valve with the steam release so that's why i bought through steam. i got a lot more for my money by buying the steam release. I am hoping more companies use steam to release their products, as long as there's a way to make sure that no matter what you can always play the game then i don't have a problem with it. that's where the authentication thing gets messy for me.. what happens later on in a few years.. will steam still be around? i could only hope.
Definitely. I bought HL2 Silver today and it grabbed the files in about 60-70 minutes, i did it while i was at school so it would be ready when i got home. I just wish that you had the ability to make an install cd of some kind, like they'd provide labels and everything and all you'd have to do is print them. so it still LOOKS like you have the retail type stuff even when you don't. but i hope other companies go through steam because it was a great experience so far and i like that valve released the entire back library on there too with the silver package, i got a ton for my money ($60). and the profits goto valve, not the publisher so valve can make the next game even better with a bigger budget or make multiple games... here's for hoping they do more than just one type of game though. i'd like to see them branch out a bit and maybe get away from the FPS.. they have great stories in HL and HL2 now let's see if they can ressurect the adventure game industry ;) like sam & max style adventure games.
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i always thought this one was an easy one. it provides a challenge. it's not quite like a game but it is. i mean if i were to write one, i'd try to pick something kinda hard and obscure and make it as streamlined and unique as i could. i think most worm/virus writers are in it to be seen now. "my worm just got mentioned on the world news!" it's almost like a contest but ... the prize is seeing your virus/worm/etc as a neon sign on the news and virus information webpages
sounds to me like these people are being so over worked that looking for another job is not necessarily an option.
but yes, looking before quitting is good. unfortunately in my area there are tons of crappy jobs. i work a dead end job at a grocery store (wanna hear my stories, visit my website and click on the "Paper or Plastic" category on the right column). Dealing with the public in this way isn't necessarily the job for me. I prefer dealing with my peers and learning, thus my major is no longer computer science, but teaching (hopefully computer science and english). I can find another job in my area, sure, but nothing worth a damn. I'd be going from one crappy job (with $2.50 more than average starting pay in the area) to another job (that is just above minimum wage)... and they both suck. so the benefit doesn't necessarily work for me. so i try to make the working conditions in my current job better for me and others, that's what this lawsuit is about, to make the working conditions better for everyone, not just themselves. They're doing the right thing.
uhm... you realize that not everyone has the luxuary of quitting a job. see, most people have things called bills. some have a mortage, car payments, insurance, KIDS, etc etc. Just up and quitting a job isn't necessarily an option because these things have deadlines on them every month, kids have constant needs, food, clothes, blah blah blah. Computer and tech jobs are hard enough to find as it is, quitting is not an option unless you have enough in your bank account to sustain living for weeks or months before you find another job. think before you open your mouth. There's no reason a company in the U.S. should be operated like this, people have rights, it seems EA isn't obeying these rights. Common curtesy is a big thing for me too, with my current employer if they try to back me into a wall, i fire right back and put them against the wall, one of the good things about being in a union. These people are standing up for themselves. it's nice to know YOU can quit, but not everyone can, they need income.
In the Engadget Podcast the other day they discussed the idea of having Picture Podcasts. Where at certain points during a podcast they could have a way to display a picture on "picture" supported audio players (ipod, iriver, etc). I thought it was an very very cool idea, I don't have a photo ipod or any of the others, but it would be a neat feature if i had one.
I used Firebird, Thunderbird, and a few other apps, ftp client, etc... kind of my mobile workstation on the go... i haven't used it much since i transfered to a university with wireless EVERYWHERE and a new powerbook. but i have used it once in a lab and it's still nice to have around.
I carry a usb thumb drive with firefox on it. if i MUST use a web browser i simply load it right off the thumbdrive.. the profile is on there too so i have a shortcut to firefox with the parameter to load the profile window, load the profile and start it up.. great stuff. might take about a minute for it to load but i also rather enjoy having my bookmarks all there.
the problem with the way that apple includes java by using cocoa bindings is.. not the best way to do it. it takes java.. a write once, run anywhere language.. and ruins it.. if you use any of the cocoa bindings then the app will not run on anything but os x.
i'm not too familiar with wxwindows.. so i can't comment there.
GTK+ is a crash prone POS on windows. sorry. to use it in os x you have to have X11 running, and it's actually rather a pain to use.
:-P try again buddy.
actually.. MS isn't back peddling, what do you call ASP.NET and XAML?
a development platform doesn't necessarily mean operating system. look.. the idea is simple, write your code in XUL + javascript using the backend of Mozilla and 99% of that will work on every platform that mozilla/firefox already support. write once, run in all those other places... it's not an OS, it's a development platform. why does everyone think it'll become an OS? Seriously.
Umm.. the reason firefox has everything at the kitchen sink is because it is cross platform. let's just say that if you coded one thing in windows.. any dialog boxes, used any windows UI controls, etc, these would not work hand in hand over in linux land. there'd be major changes in the code and that means more people are needed to work on it.. linux experts, windows experts, and so on. if you rewrite the wheel using something that will work on multiple platforms without changing that code then you have 1 repository of code as opposed to ... 3 or 4 (linux, windows, mac). it doesn't support everything and the kitchen sink just to be a platform, it does it because it needs to do that to be cross platform and CONSISTANT across platforms. notice how firefox acts pretty close to the same on every platform? i've noticed it. it's also easier to code something when it's only one respository instead of 3 or more that are all seperate and unalike.
The reason so many holes are found are due to the Bounty that the mozilla foundation puts forth for each security hole found. this means that people are actively looking for security holes to turn them in and get i think $500.
Why are they doing this? Simple really. Find the holes now and lock firefox down pretty good. Better that the holes are found and fixed ASAP than found but not fixed at all... say.. like internet explorer. they're simply trying to make it more secure and this is a pretty good way of doing it.
Look at it this way, if you develop software you look at the same code all the time and once you see it so many times you don't potentially see the security holes that you might otherwise see because you've looked at it so much that you kind of become numb to the fact that something could be wrong there. by having new eyes looking at the code you are having new eyes put on that older code and they're finding the problems, $500 is just an incentive to get people to look at the code.
It is a browser. But the components that were used to BUILD the browser are very cross platform (hence you have firefox on 3 major different platforms, windows, linux, and mac). in doing so the backend of all of this is cross platform and can be used to create other applications besides just a web browser. you only really need to know javascript, xul, and a few other things and you can use the stuff that was used to build firefox and make your own application. it's a novel idea and hopefully it'll be put to good use.
I think it's a valid question since "undergrad" was mentioned in the topic, i know a lot of people on here started with pascal, i'm simply asking what the best language to start out with NOW is. I'm sure there's been an Ask Slashdot on this but oh well, such is life. I just didn't think it was that offtopic :-/
Well one of the key requirements is "happiness" in windows. Not sure how well ruby works in windows haven't tried it. But I almost feel like starting with procedural programming is best and then working up to OOP the second year. I am not _very_ familiar with ruby but does it allow you to write procedural programming or is it strictly OOP? I think the idea of Objects would throw students unfamiliar with programming off pretty quickly.
I just asked a similar question, but when I was a CS major I jumped right into C, procedural C++ basically (they used cout/cin and not printf or anything from C per say). I know a lot of people were lost in that class and you really find out who knows their stuff and who doesn't.. weed out the ones not up to snuff pretty quickly. If that didn't get ya then Assembly was pretty rough once you got halfway through UG :)