The MP4 file format is designed to contain the media information of an MPEG-4 presentation in a flexible, extensible format which facilitates interchange, management, editing, and presentation of the media. This presentation may be 'local' to the system containing the presentation, or may be via a network or other stream delivery mechanism (a TransMux). The file format is designed to be independent of any particular delivery protocol while enabling efficient support for delivery in general. The design is based on the QuickTime(R) format from Apple Computer Inc.
Although, to be fair, I should have said "based in part".
Yeah - Quicktime is such a POS that MPEG-4 is based on it. Bunch of losers.
Really - before you start ranting you should at least bother to learn something about the subject. You can write plugins for QT. There is technical documentation at Apple's Quicktime developer's site, and you can download both Windows & Mac SDKs. Also, check sourceforge for other QT Components.
Okay, this is probably a dead topic by now, but isn't m4p the extension used for plain-jane MPEG4 audio, whereas AAC encoding is an m4a? I'm wondering if you really had an AAC file, or was the m4p a typo/extension change...
It's a blatant violation of company security. NO CAMERAS ON CAMPUS. Jeez, people, clue in. To paraphrase Brian [Life of], "I hate Microsoft as much as anyone", but this just isn't an evil empire issue. It's an issue of an employee showing a flagrant disregard for company policy and then whining like a baby because he actually had to pay a consequence for it. Perhaps he'll think twice before doing something as foolish in the future [assuming all the sympathy he's getting doesn't spur him on to future stupidity].
Unfortunately, I haven't paid much attention to the particular editors of science articles at Slashdot, so I'm unable to give an informed opionion on your specific points.
I will say that my perception is that/. is no less sensational than the Drudge Report, or NPR. Like NPR,/. puts a prettier face on it perhaps, but when it comes down to it, the Science section doesn't seem to contain much scientific discussion. I find peer reviewed journal web sites to be a better source of scientific information than an opinion site such as/.
Just my opinion to add to the millions of others. Woo hah.
SecuriTeam has posted a paper on some known vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.
Not true. There are no known vulnerabilities posted in this article. This article is nothing but hacking tools that can be used to search for vulnerabilities and to exploit certain types of vulnerabilities if/when they become known.
You'll also notice that Dell uses special tweaks and memory management libraries to get their results.
However, the nature of SPEC is that you perform your own tests and submit them. You certainly should not be performing any other manufacturers tests for them...
The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic.
So, by the Nintendo interpretation of copyright law, an entire game loaded from cartridge into the RAM of a game console should constitute an illegal copy.
Come off it. Motorola uses Wintel boxes, but me thinks a Moto/Intel parternership isn't exactly around the corner (not that Moto is exactly thriving at the moment).
This just in. If you intended to get to Stuff that Matters but you accidentally typed slashdot.org into your browser, you'll end up at a site with nothing better to post but inane stories about how to dial an area code.
I remember back in the day, all the Booch advocates denigrating Shlaer-Mellor, saying it would never work, but here we are, with Booch telling us he's doing executable UML
Oh, come on. Give Grady a break. You can't expect him to keep himself fed if he actually did produce something with any longevity. Gotta keep those book sales, Rational tools, and lecture/training circuits a rollin'...
until it starts following the Windows GUI guidelines and looks like my other apps, it'll be a second class citizen as far as I'm concerned. I want visually consistency on my computer not funky, non-standard widgets and brushed metal window graphics.
This doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft following their guidelines. It's about Apple following those guidelines. Do Microsoft media applications have to be the measuring stick? Outlook is fine in my opinion because it looks the same as all the other applications on my system.
So, just to clarify here.
Even though Outlook doesn't work the same as other apps (meaning it's inconsistent and violates user interface guidelines), it's okay so long as it looks the same.
All Microsoft apps that don't look the same as your other Microsoft apps are also second class citizens. (not sure how one defines which ones look right and which ones don't - I suppose it depends on whether one thinks XP is the yardstick or NT is the yardstick)
Deafness isn't the issue. The problem is that he's not blind, or he might actually get conned into believing that MS follows their own guidelines.
Check out the MS CD player on Win2k sometime. Or the MS media player.
Here are a couple of simple ones for you...
What does CTRL-F do? If you said 'Find' you're obviously not using Outlook....in Outlook it does 'Forward'.
So, how does one do a Find in Outlook? Well, that depends on what you think 'Find' means. Could be F3. Then again, it could be F4. Depends....
What a wonderful use of those consistent guidelines. But then again, MS does say "Most first-class applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system share a familiar and consistent user interface."
I'll start off by saying I predominately agree so that this doesn't look like an argument. I'm only quoting your one line because I'm feeling lazy...
And I also think we should switch to a hydrogen economy ASAP
The only concern I have with the push toward a hydrogen economy is concern about the source of all of this liberated hydrogen. Those who say H20 are going to have to deal with the idea that nuke's are our current best bet toward that economy, at least if it's going to happen in the near future.
Now, I'm not nuke bashing here. The problem I have is that, the current best source for H without using H20 is oil. It takes significantly less energy to get hydrogen from oil than from water. And the only byproduct is carbon (which I would imagine we'll find plenty of uses for if we have an abundance of it). Which means that it's much more likely that our hydrogen economy is going to be oil based.
I'm also not oil bashing here. The real crux of this is that O2 + HC => CO2 + H20. The cool thing is that plants take CO2 + H2O => O2 + HCs. So we've got at least a cycle here.
But what happens when we take HC => H + C, then toss the C, and recombine H + O2 => H2O? We start depleting oxygen from the atmosphere and don't provide a natural path back (although we do get a lot of extra water out of it).
Just something to think about.
For all the pedants out there: 1) Yes - I know my equations are totally unbalanced and 2) Yes - I know my HC oxidation reaction is ideal - in reality there are also NOx, COx, yadda, yadda, yadda, but the focus of this is on the CO2 issue.
Okay - I'm a little slow on the reply here, but the eMac does support an external monitor. And you could always throw the RAM from one of those homebrew PCs in it...
Just a thought. I personally have no interest in the eMac, but with your price constraints I assumed you weren't looking for a high-end system. You'd probably be better off building your own Mac.
I installed Win2k on an AMD K6-2/300. Fairly straightforward outside of a bazillion reboots. Then I installed RedHat 7.2 on it. Fairly straightforward without all of the reboots. I didn't have to muck with the kernel, etc., although the Win2k box didn't want to work with my Voodoo card - I had to hunt down updated drivers and then go through this screwy driver update system that slapped me back & forth between 640x400 VGA/16 color & the 3dFX driver.
Anyway, I recently upgraded the motherboard to an Intel board with a P4 2+GHz. Win2k completely barfed. I thought I had a config problem somewhere so I booted to Linux. No problems.
I did a bunch of digging around on google groups (using my Mac - which is by far easier than Linux or Windows) and found that I needed to:
1) Boot from the Win2k install CD. 2) When it asks me if I wanted to install or repair, choose REPAIR (what kind've brain damage is that?) 3) When it trys to install, it will detect an existing system and then ask me if I want to repair. NOW choose repair. 4) Four reboots & 45 minutes later (after spending 3 hours dicking with it), I'm up & running again.
Now I don't call that a superior system. That just plain sucked.
I would suggeset giving a recent RedHat install (or ask around for something better) a try. You might be surprised...
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From: http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-4/ mpeg-4.htm
10.9MPEG-4 File Format
The MP4 file format is designed to contain the media information of an MPEG-4 presentation in a flexible, extensible format which facilitates interchange, management, editing, and presentation of the media. This presentation may be 'local' to the system containing the presentation, or may be via a network or other stream delivery mechanism (a TransMux). The file format is designed to be independent of any particular delivery protocol while enabling efficient support for delivery in general. The design is based on the QuickTime(R) format from Apple Computer Inc.
Although, to be fair, I should have said "based in part".
Really - before you start ranting you should at least bother to learn something about the subject. You can write plugins for QT. There is technical documentation at Apple's Quicktime developer's site, and you can download both Windows & Mac SDKs. Also, check sourceforge for other QT Components.
Okay, this is probably a dead topic by now, but isn't m4p the extension used for plain-jane MPEG4 audio, whereas AAC encoding is an m4a? I'm wondering if you really had an AAC file, or was the m4p a typo/extension change...
It's a blatant violation of company security. NO CAMERAS ON CAMPUS. Jeez, people, clue in. To paraphrase Brian [Life of], "I hate Microsoft as much as anyone", but this just isn't an evil empire issue. It's an issue of an employee showing a flagrant disregard for company policy and then whining like a baby because he actually had to pay a consequence for it. Perhaps he'll think twice before doing something as foolish in the future [assuming all the sympathy he's getting doesn't spur him on to future stupidity].
It's okay if you're not using IMAP [I'm one of the unfortunate]. Apparently MS didn't conform to the RFC. Imagine that...
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BAqUaiHp3yAJ: www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART18464.html+s tonehenge+laser+scan&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
I will say that my perception is that /. is no less sensational than the Drudge Report, or NPR. Like NPR, /. puts a prettier face on it perhaps, but when it comes down to it, the Science section doesn't seem to contain much scientific discussion. I find peer reviewed journal web sites to be a better source of scientific information than an opinion site such as /.
Just my opinion to add to the millions of others. Woo hah.
Ummmm...methinks he/she's speaking of line voltage variations from the local power company/grid. Not country differences.
Not true. There are no known vulnerabilities posted in this article. This article is nothing but hacking tools that can be used to search for vulnerabilities and to exploit certain types of vulnerabilities if/when they become known.
However, the nature of SPEC is that you perform your own tests and submit them. You certainly should not be performing any other manufacturers tests for them...
And spends three times the amount on fuel, insurance, and maintenance than he would have had he just bought the Ferrari...
So, by the Nintendo interpretation of copyright law, an entire game loaded from cartridge into the RAM of a game console should constitute an illegal copy.
Oh criminy - I can't even get a simple Subject line right. That'll teach me to hit submit without preview...[insert 'weighs' between 'she' and 'the']
Come off it. Motorola uses Wintel boxes, but me thinks a Moto/Intel parternership isn't exactly around the corner (not that Moto is exactly thriving at the moment).
Amazingly enough, people have been willing to die for the right to talk and all kinds of other silly things. Go figure.
This just in. If you intended to get to Stuff that Matters but you accidentally typed slashdot.org into your browser, you'll end up at a site with nothing better to post but inane stories about how to dial an area code.
Oh, come on. Give Grady a break. You can't expect him to keep himself fed if he actually did produce something with any longevity. Gotta keep those book sales, Rational tools, and lecture/training circuits a rollin'...
This doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft following their guidelines. It's about Apple following those guidelines. Do Microsoft media applications have to be the measuring stick? Outlook is fine in my opinion because it looks the same as all the other applications on my system.
So, just to clarify here.
Deafness isn't the issue. The problem is that he's not blind, or he might actually get conned into believing that MS follows their own guidelines.
Check out the MS CD player on Win2k sometime. Or the MS media player.
Here are a couple of simple ones for you...
What does CTRL-F do? If you said 'Find' you're obviously not using Outlook....in Outlook it does 'Forward'.
So, how does one do a Find in Outlook? Well, that depends on what you think 'Find' means. Could be F3. Then again, it could be F4. Depends....
What a wonderful use of those consistent guidelines. But then again, MS does say "Most first-class applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system share a familiar and consistent user interface."
And I also think we should switch to a hydrogen economy ASAP
The only concern I have with the push toward a hydrogen economy is concern about the source of all of this liberated hydrogen. Those who say H20 are going to have to deal with the idea that nuke's are our current best bet toward that economy, at least if it's going to happen in the near future.
Now, I'm not nuke bashing here. The problem I have is that, the current best source for H without using H20 is oil. It takes significantly less energy to get hydrogen from oil than from water. And the only byproduct is carbon (which I would imagine we'll find plenty of uses for if we have an abundance of it). Which means that it's much more likely that our hydrogen economy is going to be oil based.
I'm also not oil bashing here. The real crux of this is that O2 + HC => CO2 + H20. The cool thing is that plants take CO2 + H2O => O2 + HCs. So we've got at least a cycle here.
But what happens when we take HC => H + C, then toss the C, and recombine H + O2 => H2O? We start depleting oxygen from the atmosphere and don't provide a natural path back (although we do get a lot of extra water out of it).
Just something to think about.
For all the pedants out there: 1) Yes - I know my equations are totally unbalanced and 2) Yes - I know my HC oxidation reaction is ideal - in reality there are also NOx, COx, yadda, yadda, yadda, but the focus of this is on the CO2 issue.
One at TechTV and another link for some low cost MoBo/Box/Power setups
I found both of these from slashdot...
Based on increasing interviews with Iraqis, you might want to bump that up to 3...
Just a thought. I personally have no interest in the eMac, but with your price constraints I assumed you weren't looking for a high-end system. You'd probably be better off building your own Mac.
An eMac is £640. You can also by a used G4 off eBay (e.g.)
I installed Win2k on an AMD K6-2/300. Fairly straightforward outside of a bazillion reboots. Then I installed RedHat 7.2 on it. Fairly straightforward without all of the reboots. I didn't have to muck with the kernel, etc., although the Win2k box didn't want to work with my Voodoo card - I had to hunt down updated drivers and then go through this screwy driver update system that slapped me back & forth between 640x400 VGA/16 color & the 3dFX driver.
Anyway, I recently upgraded the motherboard to an Intel board with a P4 2+GHz. Win2k completely barfed. I thought I had a config problem somewhere so I booted to Linux. No problems.
I did a bunch of digging around on google groups (using my Mac - which is by far easier than Linux or Windows) and found that I needed to:
1) Boot from the Win2k install CD.
2) When it asks me if I wanted to install or repair, choose REPAIR (what kind've brain damage is that?)
3) When it trys to install, it will detect an existing system and then ask me if I want to repair. NOW choose repair.
4) Four reboots & 45 minutes later (after spending 3 hours dicking with it), I'm up & running again.
Now I don't call that a superior system. That just plain sucked.
I would suggeset giving a recent RedHat install (or ask around for something better) a try. You might be surprised...