DivX is compliant with MPEG-4, I believe, meaning that the new iPod is compatible with it (although it does have to be resized, maybe). Either way, video transcoding (even on linux) is getting to the point where its easy enough to not be a bother.
I saw a TV show on PBS a few months ago about this very subject. It's kind of interesting that two such deadly diseases work in almost the same way. I hope this knowledge can be used to formulate some kind of vaccine or cure for HIV, but I think, even knowing this key piece of information, it might be out of our grasp for a while yet.
Because HR managers wouldn't be interested in hearing you've already done a game soundtrack... Sure, you'll still need to interview, and show off your portfolio and skills, but doing an OSS soundtrack would certainly be an impressive addition to a portfolio. If nothing else, he'll learn possible useful skills in his chosen career. You never know.
I don't think this is an applicable anecdote. I don't think that linux developers are obsessed with "being Windows", but the truth is that users (the ones who say "it's hard to install") usually are comparing Linux/OO/etc. with their windows equivalent.
You don't have to continue the subscription, but you will not be able to download new versions. There is also an experimental version released for free.
I have an IQ of about 155, and I'm currently in a gifted education program. I deal with many people with IQs higher than 100 (higher than 125 to be in the program, actually). A lot of them seem pretty damn dumb as well. I use a rule wherein I assume approximately 95% of the population to be stupid, where 90% is too stupid to even want to interact with. There are some stupid people I don't mind, but they are in the minority. At least this way, I'm never surprised by the stupidity of the general public.
Try Cedega ($5/month, minimum $15 dollar purchase) if there is just that one game you can't live without. Also, WINE has increasingly good support for DX9, so you might want to try that as well. I do admit, though, I do keep a seperate windows box just for gaming (but my main system is linux).
Hey, you dumb pro-abortion fuckface, have you ever considered that just because something looks gross doesn't mean it's bad. I hope if you encounter anything that requires surgery (cancer, heart disease, whatever) that you turn down the treatment, because it will look gory. Go suck a dick.
I suppose my anecdote does not prove anything, but it does at least illustrate that WINE does not resort to tweaks *in code* to get applications running. I have no doubt that, here and there, settings need to be tweaked, but this shows that API compatibility is acheived by reimplementation on a broad scale, as opposed to coding the features required by a single app. Also, notice that my example relies on contrast; whereas older versions of wine didn't work for me, this one did. I'm not saying it will work for everyone, but merely that it is an improvement over older versions. I hope that clears up any misunderstanding.
Not to mention that priests generally go for very young children, often of the same-sex. Teachers (at least the ones I hear about) indicted for sexual abuse usually are guilty of statutory rape, but I'm guessing the student (usually a teenager, I've noticed) was not an unwilling participant. Another thing that I hold against the church is their cover-up of the sex-offenders; at least when a teacher is found to be doing something like that, they are dismissed immediately and arrested. With the church, on the other hand, they are just moved to another parish to start it all over again. Although I have no doubt that there are many dedicated preists who would never do such a thing, you have to face the fact that there are many pedophiles in the Catholic church, owing possibly to the fact that it was a good way to hide your homosexuality or other sexual perversions (not to imply that homosexuality is a perversion, but pedophilia certainly is) by being "celibate". As much as I am sure there are many people just out to villify catholics, there are also some things that the church, and possibly you, if you are indeed a catholic, need to look at.
Never thought of that, now that you mention it... very well, I'll use that to offset the fuel I waste by accelerating quickly and so on. It's a bit hypocritical of me to use that particular argument, as I do so many things that are detrimental to fuel economy.
This version of WINE seems very nice compared to others I've used. Whereas older versions segfaulted and did nothing useful, even after hours of fiddling with things, this version installed painlessly (even from source!) and got a random program running (Imagetool, if anyone is interested). This proves that it is both more user-friendly, and able to handle mostly-unknown programs correctly (i.e. doesn't rely on tweaks to get individual programs running). This is truly a step forward for Linux on the desktop, and I have to offer my sincere congratulations to the dev team of WINE. I hope it only gets better from here (Guild Wars, please!).
I like a simple title menu, so I put one on all of the DVDs I make. A nice picture, combined with some good music, provides a nice introduction to a film, sets the mood, and allows the viewer to control playback better (just put it in the drive, and when ready, hit play, instead of having to pause it after you put it in). The DVD extras I could care less about.
I actually don't doubt that. Oddly enough, it might apply to current "beginner" programmers" too. I know a friend who, during high school programming class, programmed a short text-based RPG in pascal. I've been programming for a bit longer, so I saw improvements that could be made, but everyone has to start somewhere.
I was named Andrew in 1989... two years before the hurricane that devestated South Florida. I take pride in that, and I'm rather displeased that Katrina has replaced me as the most destructive storm ever. You have to look at the bright side of life, too. Now, if they named a hurricane the same as your kid, and it destroyed your house, that's just bad luck.
Yes, they do, sadly. It's because their television tells them to think that, which is an interesting point considering the subject at hand. I have met plenty of Americans who believe, without a doubt, that Castro and Chavez are both evil and out to get them; it's bizarre.
Do you drive much on the highway? If so, I don't see how you could disparage the use of cruise control; there's nothing I hate more than someone floating between two different speeds, 20 km/h apart, and it's not like cruise control makes you a worse driver or something. Although for the average commuter, it's useless, it is crucial for the many 5-hour-plus drives I make.
No. If your OS supports mplayer (I think it has a windows version), you're in luck: 3 (or 2, if you don't mind having your DVD drive running for longer than necessary) commands are all that's needed to rip a DVD to a full compressed format (support for DivX and XviD, which are MPEG4 compliant).
It's really not, after you perfect the technique or use a suitable script. I wrote a short (3 line) script that rips an entire DVD to a XviD file, where you specify the desired bitrate/filesize, and the audio track. It takes literally ten seconds to rip a dvd (not counting the actual encoding time, but you can do something else during that), and you end up getting a nicely compressed product.
Thank you, semantics nazi. Anyway, sure you don't have to watch four at a time, but it sucks that networks tend to put their best programs up against one another. There's 5 days out of the week where I have no need to watch anything, and then all the good programming bunches up in two days all during the same two hours.
I have to convert all my OGGs to MP3 before I load them on. Also, I recently found out that mencoder/mplayer does not support h.264, which throws a wrench into my plans.
Depends what kind of lunch break you've got, and if you mind breaking movie-watching up. I used to do this with my PocketPC (which, incedentally, supported a non-crappy codec and a better resolution), and it was no problem watching half a movie at lunch time.
But will the iPod support the codec itself? Since I'm mostly into ripping stuff from DVD (because I'm not cheap like some people around here; I only BT non-DVD-released movies and shows I can't get) I can always just switch codecs, but XviD support would be preferred.
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DivX is compliant with MPEG-4, I believe, meaning that the new iPod is compatible with it (although it does have to be resized, maybe). Either way, video transcoding (even on linux) is getting to the point where its easy enough to not be a bother.
Yeah, I know what you meant... but it had to be said.
I saw a TV show on PBS a few months ago about this very subject. It's kind of interesting that two such deadly diseases work in almost the same way. I hope this knowledge can be used to formulate some kind of vaccine or cure for HIV, but I think, even knowing this key piece of information, it might be out of our grasp for a while yet.
Because HR managers wouldn't be interested in hearing you've already done a game soundtrack... Sure, you'll still need to interview, and show off your portfolio and skills, but doing an OSS soundtrack would certainly be an impressive addition to a portfolio. If nothing else, he'll learn possible useful skills in his chosen career. You never know.
I don't think this is an applicable anecdote. I don't think that linux developers are obsessed with "being Windows", but the truth is that users (the ones who say "it's hard to install") usually are comparing Linux/OO/etc. with their windows equivalent.
You don't have to continue the subscription, but you will not be able to download new versions. There is also an experimental version released for free.
I have an IQ of about 155, and I'm currently in a gifted education program. I deal with many people with IQs higher than 100 (higher than 125 to be in the program, actually). A lot of them seem pretty damn dumb as well. I use a rule wherein I assume approximately 95% of the population to be stupid, where 90% is too stupid to even want to interact with. There are some stupid people I don't mind, but they are in the minority. At least this way, I'm never surprised by the stupidity of the general public.
I'd go with MPEG-4, because it is fairly common, and is well-supported by open source compared to H.264 or other alternatives.
Try Cedega ($5/month, minimum $15 dollar purchase) if there is just that one game you can't live without. Also, WINE has increasingly good support for DX9, so you might want to try that as well. I do admit, though, I do keep a seperate windows box just for gaming (but my main system is linux).
Hey, you dumb pro-abortion fuckface, have you ever considered that just because something looks gross doesn't mean it's bad. I hope if you encounter anything that requires surgery (cancer, heart disease, whatever) that you turn down the treatment, because it will look gory. Go suck a dick.
I suppose my anecdote does not prove anything, but it does at least illustrate that WINE does not resort to tweaks *in code* to get applications running. I have no doubt that, here and there, settings need to be tweaked, but this shows that API compatibility is acheived by reimplementation on a broad scale, as opposed to coding the features required by a single app. Also, notice that my example relies on contrast; whereas older versions of wine didn't work for me, this one did. I'm not saying it will work for everyone, but merely that it is an improvement over older versions. I hope that clears up any misunderstanding.
Not to mention that priests generally go for very young children, often of the same-sex. Teachers (at least the ones I hear about) indicted for sexual abuse usually are guilty of statutory rape, but I'm guessing the student (usually a teenager, I've noticed) was not an unwilling participant. Another thing that I hold against the church is their cover-up of the sex-offenders; at least when a teacher is found to be doing something like that, they are dismissed immediately and arrested. With the church, on the other hand, they are just moved to another parish to start it all over again. Although I have no doubt that there are many dedicated preists who would never do such a thing, you have to face the fact that there are many pedophiles in the Catholic church, owing possibly to the fact that it was a good way to hide your homosexuality or other sexual perversions (not to imply that homosexuality is a perversion, but pedophilia certainly is) by being "celibate". As much as I am sure there are many people just out to villify catholics, there are also some things that the church, and possibly you, if you are indeed a catholic, need to look at.
Never thought of that, now that you mention it... very well, I'll use that to offset the fuel I waste by accelerating quickly and so on. It's a bit hypocritical of me to use that particular argument, as I do so many things that are detrimental to fuel economy.
This version of WINE seems very nice compared to others I've used. Whereas older versions segfaulted and did nothing useful, even after hours of fiddling with things, this version installed painlessly (even from source!) and got a random program running (Imagetool, if anyone is interested). This proves that it is both more user-friendly, and able to handle mostly-unknown programs correctly (i.e. doesn't rely on tweaks to get individual programs running). This is truly a step forward for Linux on the desktop, and I have to offer my sincere congratulations to the dev team of WINE. I hope it only gets better from here (Guild Wars, please!).
I like a simple title menu, so I put one on all of the DVDs I make. A nice picture, combined with some good music, provides a nice introduction to a film, sets the mood, and allows the viewer to control playback better (just put it in the drive, and when ready, hit play, instead of having to pause it after you put it in). The DVD extras I could care less about.
I actually don't doubt that. Oddly enough, it might apply to current "beginner" programmers" too. I know a friend who, during high school programming class, programmed a short text-based RPG in pascal. I've been programming for a bit longer, so I saw improvements that could be made, but everyone has to start somewhere.
I was named Andrew in 1989... two years before the hurricane that devestated South Florida. I take pride in that, and I'm rather displeased that Katrina has replaced me as the most destructive storm ever. You have to look at the bright side of life, too. Now, if they named a hurricane the same as your kid, and it destroyed your house, that's just bad luck.
Yes, they do, sadly. It's because their television tells them to think that, which is an interesting point considering the subject at hand. I have met plenty of Americans who believe, without a doubt, that Castro and Chavez are both evil and out to get them; it's bizarre.
Do you drive much on the highway? If so, I don't see how you could disparage the use of cruise control; there's nothing I hate more than someone floating between two different speeds, 20 km/h apart, and it's not like cruise control makes you a worse driver or something. Although for the average commuter, it's useless, it is crucial for the many 5-hour-plus drives I make.
No. If your OS supports mplayer (I think it has a windows version), you're in luck: 3 (or 2, if you don't mind having your DVD drive running for longer than necessary) commands are all that's needed to rip a DVD to a full compressed format (support for DivX and XviD, which are MPEG4 compliant).
It's really not, after you perfect the technique or use a suitable script. I wrote a short (3 line) script that rips an entire DVD to a XviD file, where you specify the desired bitrate/filesize, and the audio track. It takes literally ten seconds to rip a dvd (not counting the actual encoding time, but you can do something else during that), and you end up getting a nicely compressed product.
Thank you, semantics nazi. Anyway, sure you don't have to watch four at a time, but it sucks that networks tend to put their best programs up against one another. There's 5 days out of the week where I have no need to watch anything, and then all the good programming bunches up in two days all during the same two hours.
I have to convert all my OGGs to MP3 before I load them on. Also, I recently found out that mencoder/mplayer does not support h.264, which throws a wrench into my plans.
Depends what kind of lunch break you've got, and if you mind breaking movie-watching up. I used to do this with my PocketPC (which, incedentally, supported a non-crappy codec and a better resolution), and it was no problem watching half a movie at lunch time.
But will the iPod support the codec itself? Since I'm mostly into ripping stuff from DVD (because I'm not cheap like some people around here; I only BT non-DVD-released movies and shows I can't get) I can always just switch codecs, but XviD support would be preferred.