Re:Would they consider ogg vorbis and or flac?
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ACC is plenty for DRM's lossy stuff, ogg vorbis for good sounding lossy, non-DRM'ed stuff...and flac for those that find a need for lossless formats. I prefer FLAC for my home system which is more highend,but, OV would be great for the portable.
Why would anyone encode in Ogg Vorbis when they can just encode into an MP3 instead? I can understand FLAC for people that was lossless compression, but MP3 is a billion times more common than Ogg Vorbis can ever hope to become. Other than messy patent issues MP3 is the superior format simply because it's already the standard for lossy compressed non-DRM audio these days.
I wonder what license the FSF will put on the copyrights when they get them?
Well, if they're smart they'll put it under a BSD license so that companies can use eCos without worrying about some FSF lawyers coming after their ass like is what is going on with KISS technologies. Knowing the FSF and the rampant free software fanboys that are associated with it like RMS, I'm sure it will be the GPL which is a horrible license for embedded device software.
In rural Alaska all your long-distance calls come over satellite to ground stations that might serve 1000 people who are paying 6.2 cents a minute for long-distance!!!
Is that supposed to be expensive? I pay more than that for long distance through AT&T (I think it's like 14 cents a minute during the day, but I don't make any long distance calls so I don't remember). 6.2 cents a minute seems to be really really reasonable compared to the rest of the country unless you have some plan where you pay $25/month for 2 cents a minute calls.
The "What" is if proof of even simple microorganisms is found (whether in fossil or extant organic form), that proves that life on Earth is not a singular event and lends credence to the notion that life might be widespread throughout the Universe.
Well, I'm not sure why the moderator moderated my post as flamebait since it wasn't, but I stand by my original question. So what? Even if we knew there was intelligent life on a planet 500 light years away it would still be practically impossible to communicate with them. You can't break the laws of physics. Like the WMD hunt in Iraq, it's a wild goose chase and we could be spending our money better elsewhere. We've got a 40 billion dollar space station in orbit with no reusable launch vehicles to resupply it currently other than a 25 year old grounded shuttle fleet and some even older Russian spacecraft. We seem to want to run to other planets before we've even learned to walk properly in our own low earth orbit!
I think many scientists beleive that water once flowed on Mars, although the evidence is already pointing in that direction the current mars mission aims to prove it once and for all and turn hypothesis into fact.
And if it did? So what? There are no oceans on Mars or alien civilizations. There's nothing but barren desolate red rocks and ancient traces of what might have once been water. Who cares? This money would've been better spent on researching a single stage to orbit shuttle replacement.
Which reminds me, I am just waiting for my 6 years old 29" Sony black triniton to break down so that I can buy myself a plasma screen. I just can't bring myself to swap the working tv with a flatscreen when comparing the quality of the picture.
Why would you want to go replace a perfectly good CRT with a plasma? Don't they have severe problems after 4 or 5 years? One of my CRT televisions is over 15 years old and still looks great so I'm not sure what the value is in upgrading to some insane $5000 TV is.
In Cologne Germany they have a lego shop where you can fill up cups of different sizes with lego blocks from a good selection and than pay by cup size. Similar to some sweet store.
I still have issues paying a huge premium on what is still essentially a penny's worth of plastic. You should be able to buy a whole 1200 piece bucket for about $15.
Maybe you ought to go back to kicking homeless people to alleviate your outrage at the "dredge" of society instead of posting your bigoted viewpoints on Slashdot. Not everything is as black and white as you made it appear.
I see. So because I don't believe in your idea of wealth-redistribution I'm a bigot? I'm so glad Slashdot is full of enlightened kind-hearted individuals as yourself who realize how "pathetically fucking self-centered the average asshole is on this planet".
As an American I see the tragedy of wealth-redistribution happening every single day and it continues to infuriate me. If you don't have the means to support yourself then perhaps you should get training or a better job. Don't expect me to support you because you have no skills. I worked my ass off to get where I am and I sure as hell will not be dragged down by a bunch of leeching bastards trying to hold onto my coat tails.
Microsoft was doing this to paying customers. Redhat is not.
Speak for yourself. We bought plenty of copies of Red Hat Linux 9 with support contracts. Little did we know support meant 12 months and then time to upgrade again. I wish I would've known that before I deployed a new RH Linux 9 box into production 2 months ago.
Someone quick, find out who has a copy of the Win98 source code so we fix it ourselves or contract with with someone that does. Oh wait.. One vendor and no source. Damn, locked in again.
The only thing this shows is that Microsoft understands that it's customers expect vendor support while Red Hat is willing to shift the burden to volunteers to support their products after less than a year. That's pathetic support IMHO and I won't be buying anymore Red Hat products myself.
So they're essentially a welfare state? If I was a New Zealander I would be utterly appalled that my country was wasting money supporting a tiny population who refuses to leave such a remote island. Pack them all up and ship them to wherever it is people live in New Zealand (sheep farms?).
it comes in at 128k. select the album, burn an audio cd, then put the cd in and re-rip it. sound quality is good. you'd probably need some high grade equipment to tell the difference.
Sounds like a lot of work. What if I just download the mp3 in 192kbps format through Poison and pretend I bought it? Would God still hate me?
They may not be great innovators, but every game they've made has been of high quality. You may be bored of FPS games, but that doesn't mean they all suck.
I have problems with id software continually releasing the same kind of "evil" dark games. Why can't they make something a little lighter? All the Dooms and Quakes concentrated on evil satanic monsters and nothing but mindless killing. As a Christian I have to wonder what this is doing to the children who end up playing these games behind their parents' backs (for example at a friend's house who has liberal parents or a single mom who is working hard to support the family). id should be ashamed of themselves for releasing such garbage. Why can't they make a good quality game about American soldiers hunting down evil terrorists?
That actually makes it worse; HP is not only lying about the GPU, HP is passing of their laptop as a AGP 8X machine since sticking a 9200 in an AGP 4X machine is a dumb-ass configuration (it may work, but not up to spec).
Who the hell buys a laptop for it's 3D performance?? If you want to play games you need to get a desktop, period.
Is the real reason AOL makes money is because the masses don't know better?
Yes. Even though my father-in-law got DSL installed in the house and both his Mac and his wife's PC are connected through a router, my mother-in-law still insists on using AOL for her e-mail. At least I finally convinced her to just connect over the Internet via DSL instead of dialing up with a modem. I don't think she understands the difference so I just switched the setting for her one day and she said AOL runs really fast now. Duh. Some people really amaze me.:-)
He is a charasmatic hacker. He explains to companies their weaknesses. When he hacked WorldCom in 2001, WorldCom praised him for his efforts.
There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. When you do them the wrong way you need to expect to be punished by society. If he would've done it the right way and either started a consulting company or joined one of the numerous computer security companies he wouldn't be in this situation. I don't care how kind hearted you think you are when you're breaking into someone's system, it's still illegal and you're still a criminal. The only legitimate people that can break into systems are the administrators themselves or people who have been given permission (no doubt along with a lengthy rules of engagement that you must adhere to).
I don't go that far, but my last overnight trip saw me carrying about 25lbs (my girlfriend had 20), and I don't want to carry much more.
Why do you have to be able to carry that much shit on your back? Just drive closer to where you want to camp and unload the truck. I prefer nice camp sites with swimming pools and heated showers and bathrooms. Many of them already have nice grills setup for you to just add your own charcoal. That's about as rough as I ever want to get unless there's a nuclear war. I can't imagine why you people force yourself into such shitty conditions in the belief that it's somehow "fun". Fun to me is going down in my basement and spending a weekend playing computer games.
I don't have any idea how to go to Mars efficiently, so I'm not going to bother arguing with your $20B budget... except to point out that with George W. and NASA running the show, and with NASA based largely in Texas, I wouldn't expect a lean and mean operation.
NASA isn't "based largely in Texas". Johnson is there, but Marshall is in Alabama, Kennedy is in Florida, etc. Those all have huge parts to play in manned spaceflight.
Yes, but it's still a "development" kernel. I'm hoping that 2.6 will be the default kernel in Gentoo 2004 - the kernel itself is fine, but some of the supporting applications need to catch up, I guess.
I don't know if I'd switch to a new major kernel like that anytime soon. If I remember either the 2.2 or the 2.4 series went through a complete virtual memory management rewrite in the early releases of those, had major file system corruption issues, etc. Hell, 2.4.11 is still marked "don't use" for probably one of those reasons. Wait until about 2.6.15 to come out before switching.
Either way, this just isn't going to happen. I mean, where's the money supposed to come from?
Well, if we made friends with Al Qaeda and came to some agreement on a peaceful withdrawal of all our forces from the middle east and other "holy" lands, perhaps we could redirect 10% of the defense budget to NASA and another 10% to science education and research. It would almost quadruple NASA's budget and fund interest in science education for decades to come. Ah who am I kidding. Bomb the fsckers and send the jobs to India.
NBC has found a nifty way to defeat Tivo - they change their shows to run from 8:00 to 8:31 (preventing you from recording an 8:30 show on another channel) or from 9:59 to 11:00 (preventing you from recording a 9:00 to 10:00 show on another channel).
That's why a useful PVR will need to have at least 2 tuners in it. I have tons of shows I watch that overlap schedules. For example if I want to tape Ed at 9pm EST on NBC and JAG on CBS at 9pm EST, I just let it. With your TiVo you're screwed and have to fall back to setting up the VCR or just missing shows. The other option is to buy another expensive TiVo unit and service just to catch things you're missing. If TiVo would just put dual tuners in their third generation boxes this wouldn't be an issue. The DirecTivos did it right.
Well, a very rare first take. I was wondering about Tivo's Subscription service vs. The others. I know I believe, And they are here. I suspect Google and Tivo to crush the competion like nothing ever seen before.
How quaint. TiVo is trying to finally do stuff to catch up to MythTV. Until they come out with a software update that removes the DRM entirely I won't be buying one though. What I record and how I archive my recordings is my business, not TiVo's. I support products that don't restrict your access to your recordings.
If it was a private ftp server (for your use only), you should have used a non-standard port for your ftp needs. Also, you should have used a port scan detector to automatically block scanning IPs.
Or he could've just used a username/password to login. No doubt he was using an anonymous FTP with world writeable permissions. That's just dying to get abused.
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Why would anyone encode in Ogg Vorbis when they can just encode into an MP3 instead? I can understand FLAC for people that was lossless compression, but MP3 is a billion times more common than Ogg Vorbis can ever hope to become. Other than messy patent issues MP3 is the superior format simply because it's already the standard for lossy compressed non-DRM audio these days.
Well, if they're smart they'll put it under a BSD license so that companies can use eCos without worrying about some FSF lawyers coming after their ass like is what is going on with KISS technologies. Knowing the FSF and the rampant free software fanboys that are associated with it like RMS, I'm sure it will be the GPL which is a horrible license for embedded device software.
Is that supposed to be expensive? I pay more than that for long distance through AT&T (I think it's like 14 cents a minute during the day, but I don't make any long distance calls so I don't remember). 6.2 cents a minute seems to be really really reasonable compared to the rest of the country unless you have some plan where you pay $25/month for 2 cents a minute calls.
Well, I'm not sure why the moderator moderated my post as flamebait since it wasn't, but I stand by my original question. So what? Even if we knew there was intelligent life on a planet 500 light years away it would still be practically impossible to communicate with them. You can't break the laws of physics. Like the WMD hunt in Iraq, it's a wild goose chase and we could be spending our money better elsewhere. We've got a 40 billion dollar space station in orbit with no reusable launch vehicles to resupply it currently other than a 25 year old grounded shuttle fleet and some even older Russian spacecraft. We seem to want to run to other planets before we've even learned to walk properly in our own low earth orbit!
And if it did? So what? There are no oceans on Mars or alien civilizations. There's nothing but barren desolate red rocks and ancient traces of what might have once been water. Who cares? This money would've been better spent on researching a single stage to orbit shuttle replacement.
Why would you want to go replace a perfectly good CRT with a plasma? Don't they have severe problems after 4 or 5 years? One of my CRT televisions is over 15 years old and still looks great so I'm not sure what the value is in upgrading to some insane $5000 TV is.
I still have issues paying a huge premium on what is still essentially a penny's worth of plastic. You should be able to buy a whole 1200 piece bucket for about $15.
I see. So because I don't believe in your idea of wealth-redistribution I'm a bigot? I'm so glad Slashdot is full of enlightened kind-hearted individuals as yourself who realize how "pathetically fucking self-centered the average asshole is on this planet".
As an American I see the tragedy of wealth-redistribution happening every single day and it continues to infuriate me. If you don't have the means to support yourself then perhaps you should get training or a better job. Don't expect me to support you because you have no skills. I worked my ass off to get where I am and I sure as hell will not be dragged down by a bunch of leeching bastards trying to hold onto my coat tails.
Speak for yourself. We bought plenty of copies of Red Hat Linux 9 with support contracts. Little did we know support meant 12 months and then time to upgrade again. I wish I would've known that before I deployed a new RH Linux 9 box into production 2 months ago.
The only thing this shows is that Microsoft understands that it's customers expect vendor support while Red Hat is willing to shift the burden to volunteers to support their products after less than a year. That's pathetic support IMHO and I won't be buying anymore Red Hat products myself.
Is that the guy's real name or just some pseudonym he adopted? He sounds like he should be a Batman villain.
So they're essentially a welfare state? If I was a New Zealander I would be utterly appalled that my country was wasting money supporting a tiny population who refuses to leave such a remote island. Pack them all up and ship them to wherever it is people live in New Zealand (sheep farms?).
Sounds like a lot of work. What if I just download the mp3 in 192kbps format through Poison and pretend I bought it? Would God still hate me?
I have problems with id software continually releasing the same kind of "evil" dark games. Why can't they make something a little lighter? All the Dooms and Quakes concentrated on evil satanic monsters and nothing but mindless killing. As a Christian I have to wonder what this is doing to the children who end up playing these games behind their parents' backs (for example at a friend's house who has liberal parents or a single mom who is working hard to support the family). id should be ashamed of themselves for releasing such garbage. Why can't they make a good quality game about American soldiers hunting down evil terrorists?
Who the hell buys a laptop for it's 3D performance?? If you want to play games you need to get a desktop, period.
Yes. Even though my father-in-law got DSL installed in the house and both his Mac and his wife's PC are connected through a router, my mother-in-law still insists on using AOL for her e-mail. At least I finally convinced her to just connect over the Internet via DSL instead of dialing up with a modem. I don't think she understands the difference so I just switched the setting for her one day and she said AOL runs really fast now. Duh. Some people really amaze me. :-)
There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. When you do them the wrong way you need to expect to be punished by society. If he would've done it the right way and either started a consulting company or joined one of the numerous computer security companies he wouldn't be in this situation. I don't care how kind hearted you think you are when you're breaking into someone's system, it's still illegal and you're still a criminal. The only legitimate people that can break into systems are the administrators themselves or people who have been given permission (no doubt along with a lengthy rules of engagement that you must adhere to).
Why do you have to be able to carry that much shit on your back? Just drive closer to where you want to camp and unload the truck. I prefer nice camp sites with swimming pools and heated showers and bathrooms. Many of them already have nice grills setup for you to just add your own charcoal. That's about as rough as I ever want to get unless there's a nuclear war. I can't imagine why you people force yourself into such shitty conditions in the belief that it's somehow "fun". Fun to me is going down in my basement and spending a weekend playing computer games.
NASA isn't "based largely in Texas". Johnson is there, but Marshall is in Alabama, Kennedy is in Florida, etc. Those all have huge parts to play in manned spaceflight.
I don't know if I'd switch to a new major kernel like that anytime soon. If I remember either the 2.2 or the 2.4 series went through a complete virtual memory management rewrite in the early releases of those, had major file system corruption issues, etc. Hell, 2.4.11 is still marked "don't use" for probably one of those reasons. Wait until about 2.6.15 to come out before switching.
Well, if we made friends with Al Qaeda and came to some agreement on a peaceful withdrawal of all our forces from the middle east and other "holy" lands, perhaps we could redirect 10% of the defense budget to NASA and another 10% to science education and research. It would almost quadruple NASA's budget and fund interest in science education for decades to come. Ah who am I kidding. Bomb the fsckers and send the jobs to India.
That's why a useful PVR will need to have at least 2 tuners in it. I have tons of shows I watch that overlap schedules. For example if I want to tape Ed at 9pm EST on NBC and JAG on CBS at 9pm EST, I just let it. With your TiVo you're screwed and have to fall back to setting up the VCR or just missing shows. The other option is to buy another expensive TiVo unit and service just to catch things you're missing. If TiVo would just put dual tuners in their third generation boxes this wouldn't be an issue. The DirecTivos did it right.
How quaint. TiVo is trying to finally do stuff to catch up to MythTV. Until they come out with a software update that removes the DRM entirely I won't be buying one though. What I record and how I archive my recordings is my business, not TiVo's. I support products that don't restrict your access to your recordings.
Or he could've just used a username/password to login. No doubt he was using an anonymous FTP with world writeable permissions. That's just dying to get abused.
Well, people that don't have proper load balancers do. Why do you ask?