Whats the big problem with putting ogg everywhere?
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Ogg Support For iTunes
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The.ogg file format is open source, portable, stable, and has no legal bindings whatsover, unlike mp3s -- what prevents hardware companies from doing a few quick source code cut n' pastes and adding a feature? ROMs are cheap enough that adding ogg support would even be trivial on the hardware end.
I and many others have over 100GB of ogg files on my hd, and I'd really like to see more support for them by hardware manufacturers -- there is no reason they can't do it.
With all these casemod stories, Slashdot is just trying to get a foothold in the nu-geek community -- the kind who was raised by Windows, is addicted helplessly to online gaming, always wears Slipknot t-shirts, always believes all the hardware and game hype that every crap site out there says, and doesn't even know jack shit about coding or computer science as they only care about spurious issues like ATI vs. Nvidia -- but they try to pass themselves off as a Linux hackers and anti-Microsoft rebels, and somehow gravitate towards slashdot after they run Linux for a week and give up on it.
They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience, and old timers with low uid numbers are leaving the site in droves.
Case mods can be a good thing, and can look really cool if done right; however, many of these new "extreme" case mods are just a waste of parts that flaunts the money that these spoiled kids burn on trying to look cool to their friends, just like non-geeks do spending their money at Hot Topic or on Tommy Hilfiger.
You could never expect fragile computer parts to survive for more than a week inside a typewriter, a pumpkin, a cardboard box, etc -- it's only for show and has no practical purpose, and obviously the hundreds of dollars worth of computer parts is of no value to the spoiled kids who build these things. It's ironic that many of them are leftists -- one cheap $500 computer today that they throw into a pumpkin or a typewriter is more than what a third-worlder makes in an entire year.
"Casemodding" has gone too far, and all it shows is just putting easily-assembled PC parts in strange objects for fashion's sake.
All these casemods do not deserve front page news here.
SS2 was an example of a small-company game that really, really kicked ass. It was a blow-everything-up, but in a one man army way reminiscient of Doom -- and the anti-gravity and anti-reality effects were killer.
BF1942 is my current favorite, too, though -- it's an entire step up from the rest of the genre as far as gameplay goes.
We could have had a reliable form of mass transit in the United States in major cities within the 20th century, if:
1) The government never funded the interstate highway project, which was a military-industrial complex endeavor that would provide ways to move troops across the country in case of invasion like the Autobahn did in WWII, but was more to serve the needs of making the automobile the main form of transportation in the US.
2) The auto and oil companies didn't conspire to rip up all the rails so the automobile could take over.
Efficient mass transportation will never happen as long as cuthroat greedy multinational corporations control the world -- and we are going to pay for it dearly when we run out of fossil fuels in 40 years.
Since I am, much to Carmack's chagrin (ha ha), in possession of the Doom3 alpha leak, I can tell you this: the only thing that Doom III has going for it are the models -- with normal maps, they look fucking amazing -- and the real-time lighting on the worldmaps, a leap forward for rejecting built-in lightmaps.
Even on a Radeon 9700, 20-40fps is the best you will get save for a few scenes which are the rendering equivalent of looking at the ground.
The rest is just a blatant ripoff of Resident Evil with a bit of Half-Life thrown in.
People buy games mostly out of brand loyalty, advertising, and especially, especially, especially HYPE.
Serious Sam 2 still kills UT2k3 in gameplay, innovation, AND graphics, but no one will play a game made by some little guys called "Croteam."
Most wireless keyboards, like garage door openers, have their own unique codes and frequencies built in to them so one cannot interface with another in the same way.
The guy has just probably been netbus'ed, back orificed, etc, or someone's playing pranks on him...
Whatever. American flags are only good for toilet paper anyways.
I told my grandfather -- a veteran of both WWII and Korea -- about this site's desecration of the flag, and he said he would shoot whatever pinko communist bastard dared say "whatever" about desecrating the American flag.
CmdrTaco, hundreds of thousands of brave American soldiers have given their lives so you could live in freedom, and you just piss on their graves with your anti-American, terrorist rhetoric. Linux would not exist today if we were living in the Third Reich, and Hitler would have had you in a concentration camp for being both a Jew and a homosexual.
If you don't like it here and you want to spit on our flag by displaying it wrong purposefully, then pack your bags and leave for Cuba, you worthless socialist cocksucker.
If Congress began to act for the brick-and-mortar industries to stifle the internet revolution by creating laws such as bandwidth, sales, and e-mail technologies, it would be a further disaster for our economy.
The internet/tech sector may have suffered a tulip fever and fell from it, but it is still the future of the economy -- any government regulation of industry is bad and damages free markets, both at the business and consumer level, and if the Democrats (with moderate Republican support) began putting all kinds of red tape and creating bureaucracies on.coms and tech companies, it could stomp our high-tech industry nearly into oblivion.
If China wants to have an actual film, music, and art scene in their country, they should enforce copyright laws for both films foreign and domestic.
If they only enforce the laws for domestic films, then what is going to stop the average Chinaman from going to pirate an American movie instead? However, if they enforce the laws for American movies while protecting their own, their fledgling media may have a chance of producing an industry that could provide some valuable creative works, given China's historical creativity and inspiration.
One of the biggest turn offs for new users to Linux is the general lack of sound support which either
1) Requires recompiling the kernel and crossing your fingers.
2) Requires you to use the beasts known as ALSA and crossing your fingers.
Operating systems are no longer stale command prompts with beeps and blurps -- they are full mutlimedia systems, and having working sound support in the first install should be a priority for Linux distributions.
When Linux newbies have a lack of HOWTOs and sound support is diffuclt to implement, at best they are going to fool around with Linux for a day or two and then go back to their MP3 collection under Windows.
Klipsch has ripped me off bad, as my new set of 4.1 speakers basically quit working with no fair reason -- and they have said they wouldn't refund me at all.
The moderators seem totally absent from their forums, so troll the fuck away:
I started subtle, but the temptation to post the entire goatse series was too strong! They have almost no limitations, registration doesn't require a valid email, and there are no moderators whatsoever.
I'm going asleep, but if you like trolling, fill the entire forum up with the sickest pictures you can find and make those bastards pay for making their shitty products in fucking Chinese sweatshops!
I would offer myself out to any troll who asks if every post on every forum was a goatse pic.
When the government grants a certain business a regional territory, franchise, subsidy, or, protection, competition is legally prevented by threat of force.
Violators of the government's will are arrested at gun point, if need be, or punished with fines. Government cooperation with special interests in business and interference with the free market is the real source of all coercive monopolies.
When the government allows companies to merge into huge monopolies, they are only laying the foundations for socialism -- and that's the last thing we ever want in America.
Without free markets and cutthroat competition, our economy will become stagnant and weak and eventually fall apart due to corruption and incompetence, like in the former Soviet Union and soon to be in socialist western Europe.
They may oppose Microsoft, but the government of Namibia is gearing up to be another Robert Mugabe administration -- plunging the entire country and African economy into chaos by committing ethnic cleansing against the white minority.
Don't be fooled by their opposition to Microsoft: the black government are nothing but racist, communist thieves who could care less about open source.
Considering that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was appointed by the very conservative Ronald Reagan, and the Justice Department is under control of the reactionary John Ashcroft, you can expect her to rule in Microsoft's favor and reject the deal to let the lawyers for the DoJ and Microsoft water it down even further.
Microsoft will quickly get back to their old dirty tricks of forcing their products upon consumers, without fear of government penalties. At best, they'll get a slap on the wrist, and we'll see Palladium-enforced computers at every electronics store we visit within 5 years.
The appeal will mostly likely fall through and end in a huge out-of-court settlement for Intel as they did before with Integraph (for $300 million), as $150 million is nothing compared to the cost of Intel delaying their Itaniums when the Hammer hits the shelves.
I've hardly ever heard of Integraph outside of a few lousy graphics cards, or their workstation Clipper chips -- and just how much of Integraph's corporate income comes from suing Intel?
They want public participation only as long as the public blindly follows what the board wants to do and not question their edicts.
That universal statement applies to US Presidential elections, capitalism, protests, this very website, and many other aspects of the modern world.
The only true way to freedom for any institution is continuous open revolt -- ICANN should be protested everywhere they go like the WTO and the World Bank are, as they are nothing but a dictatorial politburo posing as a public institution that must be overthrown.
When I submit bugs to large open source projects, the maintainers usually reply and try to paint it all as my fault, as if I caused the program to do it, or give something with the connotations of "STFU n00b, we've heard that one 1000 times today!"
I'm not alone -- just browse the bug forums of http://www.sourceforge.net and see how many of those maintainer liasons -- especially on a few certain major Open Source projects that I will not name -- simply aren't dedicated to keeping the project bug free, as it seems their philisophy is something along the lines that "bad code is better than no code," as if they were double agents for Redmond or something.
However, the authors usually will look into the bugs if you mail them directly as "URGENT," though it may take a few tries.
As long as IBM doesn't change the rates for processing in conjunction with Moore's law, making the processing cheaper on their end, there could be quite a boost in profits from their current business model simply selling the hardware.
But then again, one of the reasons that Enron went down is that they quit selling real, hard, physical commodities and instead went directly to a more ethereal model of paper sales and transactions.
Insterstellar travel is still centuries away
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Thanks to movies and television series such as Star Trek and especially Star Wars, most people have no idea just exactly how far another star system is.
The closest star is Tau Ceti, which is 4.7 Light years away, would still take a decade to reach and a decade to return even with a very, very, very advanced anti-matter engine -- a space shuttle with chemical engines, in comparsion, would take 100,000 years to reach there.
Anti-matter still costs approximately 40 quadrillion dollars per gram to make, and storing it and dealing with the gamma rays is quite another thing.
Sorry, sci-fi fans: we will never visit another star system in our lifetimes, and probably not even Mars with the amount of funding that goes to space.
I recently acquired 30 PCs in the Pentium-II range from a local community college, for free, as they were actually headed for the landfill.
Just as a weekend project, I was going to use the Beowulf software, but this CLIC software looks quite interesting, considering it's a total package and probably comes with the ease of use of Mandrake, so I'm going to give it a try.
All I have to do is get the PCs out of the shed, make a lot of CAT5 cables, format quite a few hd's with CLIC, and build my own Beo^H^H^HCLIC cluster out of crappy Pentium II's and do something stupid like calculate PI to a googol digits, even though my power bill will probably be insane.
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The .ogg file format is open source, portable, stable, and has no legal bindings whatsover, unlike mp3s -- what prevents hardware companies from doing a few quick source code cut n' pastes and adding a feature? ROMs are cheap enough that adding ogg support would even be trivial on the hardware end.
I and many others have over 100GB of ogg files on my hd, and I'd really like to see more support for them by hardware manufacturers -- there is no reason they can't do it.
With all these casemod stories, Slashdot is just trying to get a foothold in the nu-geek community -- the kind who was raised by Windows, is addicted helplessly to online gaming, always wears Slipknot t-shirts, always believes all the hardware and game hype that every crap site out there says, and doesn't even know jack shit about coding or computer science as they only care about spurious issues like ATI vs. Nvidia -- but they try to pass themselves off as a Linux hackers and anti-Microsoft rebels, and somehow gravitate towards slashdot after they run Linux for a week and give up on it.
They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience, and old timers with low uid numbers are leaving the site in droves.
Case mods can be a good thing, and can look really cool if done right; however, many of these new "extreme" case mods are just a waste of parts that flaunts the money that these spoiled kids burn on trying to look cool to their friends, just like non-geeks do spending their money at Hot Topic or on Tommy Hilfiger.
You could never expect fragile computer parts to survive for more than a week inside a typewriter, a pumpkin, a cardboard box, etc -- it's only for show and has no practical purpose, and obviously the hundreds of dollars worth of computer parts is of no value to the spoiled kids who build these things. It's ironic that many of them are leftists -- one cheap $500 computer today that they throw into a pumpkin or a typewriter is more than what a third-worlder makes in an entire year.
"Casemodding" has gone too far, and all it shows is just putting easily-assembled PC parts in strange objects for fashion's sake.
All these casemods do not deserve front page news here.
SS2 was an example of a small-company game that really, really kicked ass. It was a blow-everything-up, but in a one man army way reminiscient of Doom -- and the anti-gravity and anti-reality effects were killer.
BF1942 is my current favorite, too, though -- it's an entire step up from the rest of the genre as far as gameplay goes.
We could have had a reliable form of mass transit in the United States in major cities within the 20th century, if:
1) The government never funded the interstate highway project, which was a military-industrial complex endeavor that would provide ways to move troops across the country in case of invasion like the Autobahn did in WWII, but was more to serve the needs of making the automobile the main form of transportation in the US.
2) The auto and oil companies didn't conspire to rip up all the rails so the automobile could take over.
Efficient mass transportation will never happen as long as cuthroat greedy multinational corporations control the world -- and we are going to pay for it dearly when we run out of fossil fuels in 40 years.
Since I am, much to Carmack's chagrin (ha ha), in possession of the Doom3 alpha leak, I can tell you this: the only thing that Doom III has going for it are the models -- with normal maps, they look fucking amazing -- and the real-time lighting on the worldmaps, a leap forward for rejecting built-in lightmaps.
Even on a Radeon 9700, 20-40fps is the best you will get save for a few scenes which are the rendering equivalent of looking at the ground.
The rest is just a blatant ripoff of Resident Evil with a bit of Half-Life thrown in.
People buy games mostly out of brand loyalty, advertising, and especially, especially, especially HYPE.
Serious Sam 2 still kills UT2k3 in gameplay, innovation, AND graphics, but no one will play a game made by some little guys called "Croteam."
Most wireless keyboards, like garage door openers, have their own unique codes and frequencies built in to them so one cannot interface with another in the same way.
The guy has just probably been netbus'ed, back orificed, etc, or someone's playing pranks on him...
I told my grandfather -- a veteran of both WWII and Korea -- about this site's desecration of the flag, and he said he would shoot whatever pinko communist bastard dared say "whatever" about desecrating the American flag.
CmdrTaco, hundreds of thousands of brave American soldiers have given their lives so you could live in freedom, and you just piss on their graves with your anti-American, terrorist rhetoric. Linux would not exist today if we were living in the Third Reich, and Hitler would have had you in a concentration camp for being both a Jew and a homosexual.
If you don't like it here and you want to spit on our flag by displaying it wrong purposefully, then pack your bags and leave for Cuba, you worthless socialist cocksucker.
If Congress began to act for the brick-and-mortar industries to stifle the internet revolution by creating laws such as bandwidth, sales, and e-mail technologies, it would be a further disaster for our economy.
.coms and tech companies, it could stomp our high-tech industry nearly into oblivion.
The internet/tech sector may have suffered a tulip fever and fell from it, but it is still the future of the economy -- any government regulation of industry is bad and damages free markets, both at the business and consumer level, and if the Democrats (with moderate Republican support) began putting all kinds of red tape and creating bureaucracies on
These stories are truly works of art.
Mod em' up! Way up!
If China wants to have an actual film, music, and art scene in their country, they should enforce copyright laws for both films foreign and domestic.
If they only enforce the laws for domestic films, then what is going to stop the average Chinaman from going to pirate an American movie instead? However, if they enforce the laws for American movies while protecting their own, their fledgling media may have a chance of producing an industry that could provide some valuable creative works, given China's historical creativity and inspiration.
One of the biggest turn offs for new users to Linux is the general lack of sound support which either
1) Requires recompiling the kernel and crossing your fingers.
2) Requires you to use the beasts known as ALSA and crossing your fingers.
Operating systems are no longer stale command prompts with beeps and blurps -- they are full mutlimedia systems, and having working sound support in the first install should be a priority for Linux distributions.
When Linux newbies have a lack of HOWTOs and sound support is diffuclt to implement, at best they are going to fool around with Linux for a day or two and then go back to their MP3 collection under Windows.
Klipsch has ripped me off bad, as my new set of 4.1 speakers basically quit working with no fair reason -- and they have said they wouldn't refund me at all.
The moderators seem totally absent from their forums, so troll the fuck away:
http://forums.klipsch.com/
I started subtle, but the temptation to post the entire goatse series was too strong! They have almost no limitations, registration doesn't require a valid email, and there are no moderators whatsoever.
I'm going asleep, but if you like trolling, fill the entire forum up with the sickest pictures you can find and make those bastards pay for making their shitty products in fucking Chinese sweatshops!
I would offer myself out to any troll who asks if every post on every forum was a goatse pic.
We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.
I have your leaked copy of doom_iii.rar off of quakenet on IRC!
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If you're reading this right now, I am raping your precious baby... ooh yeah!
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When the government grants a certain business a regional territory, franchise, subsidy, or, protection, competition is legally prevented by threat of force.
Violators of the government's will are arrested at gun point, if need be, or punished with fines. Government cooperation with special interests in business and interference with the free market is the real source of all coercive monopolies.
When the government allows companies to merge into huge monopolies, they are only laying the foundations for socialism -- and that's the last thing we ever want in America.
Without free markets and cutthroat competition, our economy will become stagnant and weak and eventually fall apart due to corruption and incompetence, like in the former Soviet Union and soon to be in socialist western Europe.
They may oppose Microsoft, but the government of Namibia is gearing up to be another Robert Mugabe administration -- plunging the entire country and African economy into chaos by committing ethnic cleansing against the white minority.
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Don't be fooled by their opposition to Microsoft: the black government are nothing but racist, communist thieves who could care less about open source.
More on their white hitlist can be read here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C3-462
Considering that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was appointed by the very conservative Ronald Reagan, and the Justice Department is under control of the reactionary John Ashcroft, you can expect her to rule in Microsoft's favor and reject the deal to let the lawyers for the DoJ and Microsoft water it down even further.
Microsoft will quickly get back to their old dirty tricks of forcing their products upon consumers, without fear of government penalties. At best, they'll get a slap on the wrist, and we'll see Palladium-enforced computers at every electronics store we visit within 5 years.
The appeal will mostly likely fall through and end in a huge out-of-court settlement for Intel as they did before with Integraph (for $300 million), as $150 million is nothing compared to the cost of Intel delaying their Itaniums when the Hammer hits the shelves.
I've hardly ever heard of Integraph outside of a few lousy graphics cards, or their workstation Clipper chips -- and just how much of Integraph's corporate income comes from suing Intel?
That universal statement applies to US Presidential elections, capitalism, protests, this very website, and many other aspects of the modern world.
The only true way to freedom for any institution is continuous open revolt -- ICANN should be protested everywhere they go like the WTO and the World Bank are, as they are nothing but a dictatorial politburo posing as a public institution that must be overthrown.
When I submit bugs to large open source projects, the maintainers usually reply and try to paint it all as my fault, as if I caused the program to do it, or give something with the connotations of "STFU n00b, we've heard that one 1000 times today!"
I'm not alone -- just browse the bug forums of http://www.sourceforge.net and see how many of those maintainer liasons -- especially on a few certain major Open Source projects that I will not name -- simply aren't dedicated to keeping the project bug free, as it seems their philisophy is something along the lines that "bad code is better than no code," as if they were double agents for Redmond or something.
However, the authors usually will look into the bugs if you mail them directly as "URGENT," though it may take a few tries.
As long as IBM doesn't change the rates for processing in conjunction with Moore's law, making the processing cheaper on their end, there could be quite a boost in profits from their current business model simply selling the hardware.
But then again, one of the reasons that Enron went down is that they quit selling real, hard, physical commodities and instead went directly to a more ethereal model of paper sales and transactions.
I have no life. *breaks down crying*
Thanks to movies and television series such as Star Trek and especially Star Wars, most people have no idea just exactly how far another star system is.
The closest star is Tau Ceti, which is 4.7 Light years away, would still take a decade to reach and a decade to return even with a very, very, very advanced anti-matter engine -- a space shuttle with chemical engines, in comparsion, would take 100,000 years to reach there.
Anti-matter still costs approximately 40 quadrillion dollars per gram to make, and storing it and dealing with the gamma rays is quite another thing.
Sorry, sci-fi fans: we will never visit another star system in our lifetimes, and probably not even Mars with the amount of funding that goes to space.
I recently acquired 30 PCs in the Pentium-II range from a local community college, for free, as they were actually headed for the landfill.
Just as a weekend project, I was going to use the Beowulf software, but this CLIC software looks quite interesting, considering it's a total package and probably comes with the ease of use of Mandrake, so I'm going to give it a try.
All I have to do is get the PCs out of the shed, make a lot of CAT5 cables, format quite a few hd's with CLIC, and build my own Beo^H^H^HCLIC cluster out of crappy Pentium II's and do something stupid like calculate PI to a googol digits, even though my power bill will probably be insane.
Wish me luck, I'll keep you posted!