And what about the laguages that are created as a result of this evolution?
I live in the Mexico-U.S. border (I put it in that order because I am in Mexico;P) . I am very fluent in both Spanish and English yet I have a helluva time understanding Spanglish (the language spoken by many Mexican-Americans, "Latinos", "Chicanos", etc...). In Mexico there is a word for people who speak Spanglish: "Pochos". This could be a real problem because unfortunately knowing half of two languages does not mean you speak one whole language.
I think the difference is that Saddam has shown no willingness to cooperate...
I still can't understand why many Americans and most of the media call Saddam Hussein "Saddam"... that's his *first* name, it's not like we call GWB "George"...
Anyway, just a wondering
I have a sizable collection of MP3s ('bout 40Gb @ 256K MP3) from converting my entire CD collection to MP3's. I've heard wonders about Ogg, however given the hours I've spent ripping/tagging my music (and the fact that more than half my CD's have been stolen over the years), are there any MP3 to Ogg converters out there?
Would my tag's be preserved if I converted to Ogg?
Now for my friends that have Windoze, what could they use to play these on? Does Winamp have a plugin of some sorts?
M$ is just as much a part of the problem as well. With more and more cable, DSL and other "always on" connectivity available, more and more of these machines are vulnerable.
<Sarcasm> Nice... let's blame this one on MS while we're bitchin'... perhaps we should educate (or even sanction) the people who allow their machine to be drones, after all, aren't they accomplices? </Sarcasm>
Although MCE is by far the best first attempt at a PVR we've seen from any company, it isn't without its very noticeable flaws; the most serious of which happens to be this issue of performance. On a 2.53GHz Pentium 4, CPU utilization hovers around 30 - 40% while simply watching TV; note that this is with a hardware MPEG-2 encoder card and a very fast Pentium 4 CPU. We tried performing our own clean MCE install on the setup, updated all of the drivers and walked away with nothing better. There are clearly some issues with MCE as it shouldn't require such a high speed CPU to perform simple MPEG-2 decoding and writing to the disk. The CPU utilization drops to below 20% if MCE is closed and it's just recording in the background, which isn't too bad but still higher than you'd expect for a hardware MPEG-2 encoding engine that isn't relying on the host CPU.
The high CPU utilization only really becomes a problem when you're doing other things in the background that also eat up a ton of CPU time, such as quickly flipping through the program guide or starting the guide up for the first time. As we mentioned before, this is mainly an issue with allowing other threads to compete with the TV encoding/decoding threads for CPU time. We can understand that Microsoft wants to let people use MCE as both a media center OS and as a regular OS for work and play, but there's no excuse for stuttering caused within the Media Center interface itself.
Then there's the issue of crashes; in its default configuration, the HP Media Center PC wasn't the most stable computer we've encountered. But after a clean install without much of the junk HP loads and with fully updated drivers, the system was much more reliable. Even with our reinstall, there have been cases where the Media Center application crashed, requiring a full system restart before functioning properly. Other times it just required us to close the Media Center application and reopen it before we were able to continue watching our TV. In the end the stability issues weren't too prevalent, but with a PVR any sort of crashes are unacceptable. It will be interesting to see if other hardware configurations would lead to more reliable Media Center PCs.
Other than the performance issues and occasional crash, MCE works quite well as a PVR...
The article states: "Serebryany was charged under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 [...] It prohibits anyone from disclosing trade secrets for economic benefit"
But it does not say wether he sold the info to the websites. If he did, I'd say he's in deep doodoo.
Top 5 reasons why Goku (DragonBall) is better than Superman or any other super hero (IMHO):
(5) Number of times that Goku has been brought back to life after being killed for saving the world or universe: 2
(4) The ability to destroy solar systems with a single kamehameha (if he wanted to)
(3) Kriptonite shmriptonite
(2) Teletransportation
(1) The hair-do!
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2001-12-25 02:34:02 Porn trojan virus? (articles,security) (rejected) :-D
What was this called? the Merry Christmas Trojan?
And what about the laguages that are created as a result of this evolution? I live in the Mexico-U.S. border (I put it in that order because I am in Mexico ;P) . I am very fluent in both Spanish and English yet I have a helluva time understanding Spanglish (the language spoken by many Mexican-Americans, "Latinos", "Chicanos", etc...). In Mexico there is a word for people who speak Spanglish: "Pochos". This could be a real problem because unfortunately knowing half of two languages does not mean you speak one whole language.
I think the difference is that Saddam has shown no willingness to cooperate...
I still can't understand why many Americans and most of the media call Saddam Hussein "Saddam"... that's his *first* name, it's not like we call GWB "George"... Anyway, just a wondering
I have a sizable collection of MP3s ('bout 40Gb @ 256K MP3) from converting my entire CD collection to MP3's. I've heard wonders about Ogg, however given the hours I've spent ripping/tagging my music (and the fact that more than half my CD's have been stolen over the years), are there any MP3 to Ogg converters out there?
Would my tag's be preserved if I converted to Ogg?
Now for my friends that have Windoze, what could they use to play these on? Does Winamp have a plugin of some sorts?
<Sarcasm>
Nice... let's blame this one on MS while we're bitchin'... perhaps we should educate (or even sanction) the people who allow their machine to be drones, after all, aren't they accomplices?
</Sarcasm>
The article states:
"Serebryany was charged under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 [...] It prohibits anyone from disclosing trade secrets for economic benefit"
But it does not say wether he sold the info to the websites. If he did, I'd say he's in deep doodoo.
Top 5 reasons why Goku (DragonBall) is better than Superman or any other super hero (IMHO):
(5) Number of times that Goku has been brought back to life after being killed for saving the world or universe: 2
(4) The ability to destroy solar systems with a single kamehameha (if he wanted to)
(3) Kriptonite shmriptonite
(2) Teletransportation
(1) The hair-do!