I was just thinking this morning how nice it would be if both my iPod and my Linux boxen supported a lossless format besides uncompressed PCM, and here's the solution.
Desire warping reality? Nah, if my desires warped reality I wouldn't be quite as single.;)
Regardless, my compliments on a superb piece of hacking. As near as I can tell the thing works perfectly, and only a few months after Apple released the format.
I assume that somebody will whip up an XMMS plugin based on the library and/or get it into Mplayer's CVS over the next week or so, but even being able to do "alac file | aplay" is a great improvement in functionality for me.
Of course it's right! Laws are supposed to be made based on shit that doesn't make sense, and religion is about the most nonsensical (and dangerous) institution you're gonna find.
Man, I'm gonna get modded "-10 Damned" if I post this. Should I a) switch to AC mode, or b) piss off a couple Christians and let my spectacular karma absorb the hit without taking a dent?
My do I love pissing of religious types. Sweet daughter of Jesus it's easy though. I need better challanges . . . . .
It's not intentional. Building something exactly to spec is impossible. The sensors are not identical for this reason. Not really a problem when you do a proper calibration.
Of course, it becomes a problem when you use the wrong calibration curve for the sensor.
So in the US you can force journalists to cough up the names of people who leaked Apple product specs, but you can't force them to cough up the name of the Bush admin shill who outed a CIA agent. Fucking fantastic.
The difference is role. The ISP's job is to give you a chunk of raw bandwith. You can send data to, and recieve data on any port you like so long as you're not doing something malicious, idiotic, or illegal. That's what the customers signed up for, so that's what they should get.
Because smart people will change the ports around, or shove it through an SSH tullel or some such. Any technical block short of physically puling the plug will be circumvented in days at most.
I wouldn't pay more for legal downloads than what they already cost. If it costs the same as a CD I'll buy the CD if I want to be legit. A CD is lossless and comes with the little booklet anyhow. Plus, no (non-laughable) DRM.
For those who are afraid of this technology's potential for abuse, I wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure that even before this thing gets released Thinkgeek will start selling a wallet which is also a Faraday Cage.
(Tinfoil would work too, yes, but that wouldn't be durable and would probably scratch the mag-stripes off your non-evil cards.)
Instead of worrying about stuffing in every kind of cable you can think of it might be better to work on conduits. If you have nice wide, easily strung conduit lines all over the place you don't need to worry about choosing things or the march of technology.
Also, the chicken wire in straw-bale construction screams "Faraday Cage." Forget wireless.
How long before somebody sets loose a worm/voluntary screensaver thing that throws around a whole lot of packets containing "crack" and "terrorism" and the like. The scanners would be overloaded with junk data.
Yes, our government is evil, but they're also stupid. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Don't worry. I'm sure that the cracked version that gets released a week before it ships will take care of the second and third points.
Actually, by the time Longhorn actually ships Linux 3.2 will be stable. That will take care of all three.
I was just thinking this morning how nice it would be if both my iPod and my Linux boxen supported a lossless format besides uncompressed PCM, and here's the solution.
;)
Desire warping reality? Nah, if my desires warped reality I wouldn't be quite as single.
Regardless, my compliments on a superb piece of hacking. As near as I can tell the thing works perfectly, and only a few months after Apple released the format.
I assume that somebody will whip up an XMMS plugin based on the library and/or get it into Mplayer's CVS over the next week or so, but even being able to do "alac file | aplay" is a great improvement in functionality for me.
Of course it's right! Laws are supposed to be made based on shit that doesn't make sense, and religion is about the most nonsensical (and dangerous) institution you're gonna find.
Man, I'm gonna get modded "-10 Damned" if I post this. Should I a) switch to AC mode, or b) piss off a couple Christians and let my spectacular karma absorb the hit without taking a dent?
My do I love pissing of religious types. Sweet daughter of Jesus it's easy though. I need better challanges . . . . .
It's not intentional. Building something exactly to spec is impossible. The sensors are not identical for this reason. Not really a problem when you do a proper calibration.
Of course, it becomes a problem when you use the wrong calibration curve for the sensor.
So in the US you can force journalists to cough up the names of people who leaked Apple product specs, but you can't force them to cough up the name of the Bush admin shill who outed a CIA agent. Fucking fantastic.
The difference is role. The ISP's job is to give you a chunk of raw bandwith. You can send data to, and recieve data on any port you like so long as you're not doing something malicious, idiotic, or illegal. That's what the customers signed up for, so that's what they should get.
I think that he's made quite enough . . . . .
I wouldn't worry then. That lightsabre will get 0wned by a bored 15 year old and inexplicably stab him in the eye.
Because smart people will change the ports around, or shove it through an SSH tullel or some such. Any technical block short of physically puling the plug will be circumvented in days at most.
I wouldn't pay more for legal downloads than what they already cost. If it costs the same as a CD I'll buy the CD if I want to be legit. A CD is lossless and comes with the little booklet anyhow. Plus, no (non-laughable) DRM.
I thought I'd seen every kind of tortured connection Slashdot had to offer. "Only terrorists use WMV" is a new one on me . . . .
If only terrorists use WMV then who uses Quicktime in this little universe anyway?
When you have as much money as Microsoft a patent license, or even a multi million dollar judgment is pocket change.
Fuck the wind chime lobby! They probably voted for Bush, shop at Wal-Mart, and run Windows!
But I thought you could get arrested for using Lynx! Slashdot told me so!
For those who are afraid of this technology's potential for abuse, I wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure that even before this thing gets released Thinkgeek will start selling a wallet which is also a Faraday Cage.
(Tinfoil would work too, yes, but that wouldn't be durable and would probably scratch the mag-stripes off your non-evil cards.)
Instead of worrying about stuffing in every kind of cable you can think of it might be better to work on conduits. If you have nice wide, easily strung conduit lines all over the place you don't need to worry about choosing things or the march of technology.
Also, the chicken wire in straw-bale construction screams "Faraday Cage." Forget wireless.
Do Slashdot editors even read Slashdot?
What about Jabber?
The SCO case has been "doomed" and "just about done" for like a year now. How long does it take to bury a frivolous case in the federal courts anyway?
How long before somebody sets loose a worm/voluntary screensaver thing that throws around a whole lot of packets containing "crack" and "terrorism" and the like. The scanners would be overloaded with junk data.
Yes, our government is evil, but they're also stupid. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Overrated? Probably fair, but Flamebait? Which of Slashdot's crackpot factions did I piss off now?
By the time I reboot into XP or start my Mac that site will be toast.
The second one I'm sure. We can't sarcastically throw around crackpot theories on Slashdot. It's demeaning to legitimate crackpot-theorism . . . . .
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
My cell phone has a text message which appears to offer a second date. Tonight.
Bittorrent has Slackware 10.1 ISOs. Right now.
These things cause conflict in my brain . . . . .