Last time I checked it was rather difficult to enhance something already recorded... This seems like a gimmick to get onto the open source band wagon, it's just something which won't work outside of software IMO.
It could certainly work for TV. If the network would provide for me, on request, the principal photography of the broadcast (before it was edited, color-corrected, and otherwise altered), that might be somewhat analogous to open source. Then they could let me edit the footage however I see fit and redistribute it as I please. So Dan Rather's head might explode during a newscast or something like that.
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IE6's PNG support sucks. Try viewing a PNG-24 with an 8-bit alpha mask.
First of all, it wasn't my comment. Second of all, whoever wrote that comment must, by definition, be capable of changing fonts since the default posting font is a proportional-width font.
And lastly, coding in a proportional-width font makes for ugly code that no one wants to read. Mono-spaced fonts make for much neater-looking, more aesthetically-pleasing code. Code blocks are far easier to define, and outputs are far easier to construct. I prefer Courier (not Courier New) myself.
Granted, I'm not one of those/.ers who cries about having Ogg support in everything under the sun, but Ogg does have a couple advantages. The first is that it's royalty-free. This isn't a big deal, since the end user doesn't know the difference between a licensed MP3 encoder and a non-licensed one.
The other, big one though, is the ability to take a 256 kbps track and convert it to a 128 kbps track without re-encoding. The 128 kbps track created from the 256 kbps one will sound exactly as though it were encoded from the original source. Ogg allows you to go from high-bitrate encodes to lower-bitrate ones painlessly. This is a big advantage for portable players. I usually encode my songs at 192 kbps AAC, and it sounds excellent. I encode at a higher bitrate because I have a set of Logitech z-680s hooked up to my machine. 192 kbps AAC gives me a file that sounds almost indistinguishable from the original at a low bitrate compared to AAC lossless or FLAC.
But on my iPod, I don't need a bitrate that high. On your average pair of headphones, you won't notice the difference. In fact, higher bitrates have a big disadvantage on portable players. They're larger, so they eat up a larger chunk of the buffer RAM. This means that it takes more battery power to play one, so you get less battery life out of your player. Playing songs at 192 kbps on my iPod destroys the "8 hours" of advertised battery life. I get more like 4 or 5 hours from a full charge, depending on usage. I'd love it if I could encode my music at 192 kbps Ogg and then, upon sync, automatically have iTunes convert them to 128 kbps or even 96 kbps Oggs before sending them to the iPod. More battery life, no noticeable difference in sound quality. Sure, it'd take a little longer to sync up, but I think it's worth it.
TruBass is not an indicator of how good your car's stereo system is, to be frank. Effects like TruBass do DSP magic on the audio, and it's been my experience that such effects (ProLogic, TruBass, Circle-SRS) fuck the audio up royally. You should only use something like ProLogic or C-SRS if the stream was meant for it, like the Dolby Surround tracks on some DVDs (mostly TV shows), which were specifically encoded for ProLogic channel reproduction.
But using things like TruBass is basically worthless. Your car's stereo system is probably fine. The DSP that TruBass does just happens to introduce a ton of artifacts into the sound that may or may not be perceptible, depending on what kind of music it is. For example, try listening to piano music with TruBass or Circle-SRS. It'll sound awful.
Just stick with 2-channel stereo and mirror the front two channels to the back two in your car. You'll have a much fuller sound field, and you won't be fucking with the original sound any.
And like the Walkman, it first appeared on person of a small elite who everbody else found somewhat despicable (if you weren't there to see the coopting of the Punk Scene by 'New Age' flakes with walkmans on their belts, you're probably too young to remember the 1979 club scene).
The walkman was not introduced to a market that was already dominated by another, similar device. Furthermore, the iPod actually came along well after there were portable MP3 players on the market. There was no clear leader in that market because those products sucked. They had crappy interfaces, couldn't hold a lot of music, and were difficult to figure out on the syncing end. The iPod came along and buried the competition because it did it better, and it still does. You can't even begin to compare the two.
And within a few years the Walkman definitely was NOT a Sony franchise anymore.
Apple's iPod has nowhere to go but down from this point on.
Every new device that's popped up on/. as the next "iPod killer" has been a mediocre success, at best, and has come nowhere close to dethroning the iPod. And you know why? Because they're not cool. While techies may not give a shit about "cool," everyone else does, and they buy the iPod because of it.
I'll believe this Commodore widget is the iPod killer when I see some sales numbers, not tech specs.
Yeah, curtailing citizens' civil liberties, using his taxpayer-provided office to hold prayer meetings, promoting his radical right-wing Christian agenda and making sure that there's not a single nipple shown on Capitol Hill are all very taxing duties. He gets no slack from me. Working hard doesn't mean shit if you're not doing something worthwhile.
Apple has added Darwin-level support for resource forks in Tiger, and have recompiled their Unix tools (including cp, mv, et cetera) to properly handle resource forks. So rsync will work properly with resource forks now.
Absolutely not. It takes a lot more than just Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution. Either it has to be approved by both a super majority in both halves of Congress and then ratified by two thirds of the states, or it can be passed through a Constitutional Convention (the latter approach has never been taken). Its very difficult to do, and in the over 200 years of the United States it has only been done 27 times. Whats more 10.5 of those were done when the constitution was first written (the Bill of Rights and the 27th Amendment got halfway there) and 3 were done right after the Civil War when half the nation was not represented in Washington.
Nitpick. What next? When I say that Congress passes laws, you tell me I'm wrong because the president must approve those laws first? Give me a fucking break. Amendments are introduced in Congress, that's what I meant, and you damn well know it.
Really? I did not know that. Which amendment was it that reversed the Plessy case? The only ones that fit that time period are 16-22, which one was it? Prohibition? Term limits? Woman's suffrage? I'm really curious.
If you're gonna blow thousands on a 30" display for your computer, I think that spending another $300 on a Radeon 9800 is within the realm of possibility.
Ahem, Halo was demoed on a Mac first, too, on a B&W G3 with a Rage 128. Now, four years later, it can't even run well on a dual 2.0 GHz G5 with a Radeon 9800. I understand that Windows users have similarly horrid performance.
No, it is interpreted to be in the Constitution (sort of, the SC still only ruled that you have limited rights to privacy in certain situations). There is a big difference. In one case, it would take a constitutional amendment to change it, in the other all it would take would be one or two judges changing their minds.
And therefore is, for all intents and purposes, in the Constitution. When they interpret something, they basically say, "This part of the Constitution implies this." So according to the Supreme Court, it is there. Congress can, however, bitch-smack them by passing an amendment.
They also ruled for segregation, was that in the Constitution?
When they ruled for it, it basically was, yes. But they reversed that ruling long ago through a Constitutional amendment and with the help of the courts.
Wrong. The right to privacy is in the Constitution because the Supreme Court said it was. They ruled that interpreting the 4th amendment as a right to privacy was valid and correct. The Constitution was meant to be interpreted; that's part of the Judicial Branch's power. The Supreme Court says that a right to privacy exists in the Constitution, even if it's not explicitly spelled out, so that ruling stands. They're the highest court in the land. It doesn't matter if the ruling is "controversial and disputed."
Yes, ignorance is a dangerous thing. In this case, it's dangerous because you didn't know that the Supreme Court interpreted the 4th amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure as implying a right to privacy, so the idea is perfectly valid.
Honestly, a lot of people from Steve's generation have grown more conservative and less fanatical in their once strongly-held, pacifistic ideals as they've gotten older, regardless of whether they've made millions or not.
"... In short, disclosing one's identity is an essential part of everyday life."
Yes, but revealing one's identity to a police officer is not a part of everyday life. Hell, for me, getting naked is part of everyday life because I have to shower in the morning. Does that mean that cops can strip-search me on a whim?
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Actually, Fiat can also be interpreted as "Failure in Italian Automotive Technology".
Will "idkfa" still work?
IE6's PNG support sucks. Try viewing a PNG-24 with an 8-bit alpha mask.
First of all, it wasn't my comment. Second of all, whoever wrote that comment must, by definition, be capable of changing fonts since the default posting font is a proportional-width font.
And lastly, coding in a proportional-width font makes for ugly code that no one wants to read. Mono-spaced fonts make for much neater-looking, more aesthetically-pleasing code. Code blocks are far easier to define, and outputs are far easier to construct. I prefer Courier (not Courier New) myself.
Granted, I'm not one of those /.ers who cries about having Ogg support in everything under the sun, but Ogg does have a couple advantages. The first is that it's royalty-free. This isn't a big deal, since the end user doesn't know the difference between a licensed MP3 encoder and a non-licensed one.
The other, big one though, is the ability to take a 256 kbps track and convert it to a 128 kbps track without re-encoding. The 128 kbps track created from the 256 kbps one will sound exactly as though it were encoded from the original source. Ogg allows you to go from high-bitrate encodes to lower-bitrate ones painlessly. This is a big advantage for portable players. I usually encode my songs at 192 kbps AAC, and it sounds excellent. I encode at a higher bitrate because I have a set of Logitech z-680s hooked up to my machine. 192 kbps AAC gives me a file that sounds almost indistinguishable from the original at a low bitrate compared to AAC lossless or FLAC.
But on my iPod, I don't need a bitrate that high. On your average pair of headphones, you won't notice the difference. In fact, higher bitrates have a big disadvantage on portable players. They're larger, so they eat up a larger chunk of the buffer RAM. This means that it takes more battery power to play one, so you get less battery life out of your player. Playing songs at 192 kbps on my iPod destroys the "8 hours" of advertised battery life. I get more like 4 or 5 hours from a full charge, depending on usage. I'd love it if I could encode my music at 192 kbps Ogg and then, upon sync, automatically have iTunes convert them to 128 kbps or even 96 kbps Oggs before sending them to the iPod. More battery life, no noticeable difference in sound quality. Sure, it'd take a little longer to sync up, but I think it's worth it.
TruBass is not an indicator of how good your car's stereo system is, to be frank. Effects like TruBass do DSP magic on the audio, and it's been my experience that such effects (ProLogic, TruBass, Circle-SRS) fuck the audio up royally. You should only use something like ProLogic or C-SRS if the stream was meant for it, like the Dolby Surround tracks on some DVDs (mostly TV shows), which were specifically encoded for ProLogic channel reproduction.
But using things like TruBass is basically worthless. Your car's stereo system is probably fine. The DSP that TruBass does just happens to introduce a ton of artifacts into the sound that may or may not be perceptible, depending on what kind of music it is. For example, try listening to piano music with TruBass or Circle-SRS. It'll sound awful.
Just stick with 2-channel stereo and mirror the front two channels to the back two in your car. You'll have a much fuller sound field, and you won't be fucking with the original sound any.
Because coding with proportionally-spaced fonts sucks. :)
I'll believe this Commodore widget is the iPod killer when I see some sales numbers, not tech specs.
Yes, Private England never served in the US military. Those responsible are not going to receive courts martial or anything like that.
Jesus man, use your brain.
Yeah, curtailing citizens' civil liberties, using his taxpayer-provided office to hold prayer meetings, promoting his radical right-wing Christian agenda and making sure that there's not a single nipple shown on Capitol Hill are all very taxing duties. He gets no slack from me. Working hard doesn't mean shit if you're not doing something worthwhile.
The one that asks the user if he wants to install it?
Check out Apple's Tiger Preview page, specifically the new Unix features section.
Apple has added Darwin-level support for resource forks in Tiger, and have recompiled their Unix tools (including cp, mv, et cetera) to properly handle resource forks. So rsync will work properly with resource forks now.
Funny how the Xbox isn't a Mac, nor is it a Windows PC.
If you're gonna blow thousands on a 30" display for your computer, I think that spending another $300 on a Radeon 9800 is within the realm of possibility.
Ahem, Halo was demoed on a Mac first, too, on a B&W G3 with a Rage 128. Now, four years later, it can't even run well on a dual 2.0 GHz G5 with a Radeon 9800. I understand that Windows users have similarly horrid performance.
Wrong. The right to privacy is in the Constitution because the Supreme Court said it was. They ruled that interpreting the 4th amendment as a right to privacy was valid and correct. The Constitution was meant to be interpreted; that's part of the Judicial Branch's power. The Supreme Court says that a right to privacy exists in the Constitution, even if it's not explicitly spelled out, so that ruling stands. They're the highest court in the land. It doesn't matter if the ruling is "controversial and disputed."
Yes, ignorance is a dangerous thing. In this case, it's dangerous because you didn't know that the Supreme Court interpreted the 4th amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure as implying a right to privacy, so the idea is perfectly valid.
Honestly, a lot of people from Steve's generation have grown more conservative and less fanatical in their once strongly-held, pacifistic ideals as they've gotten older, regardless of whether they've made millions or not.
Thank god someone has some sense. How am I trolling? By saying that Colin Quinn sucks and then citing the reasons why I think so?