"Every once in a while, in order to remind myself of the quality of information typically reported, I trace down the source of a particularly ridiculous story. The "Klingon Language Interpreter" myth, which is spawning now, provides an amusing case study of the process of pack journalism." http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/11/7032/18347
If you cannot win at the low bitrates (xvid, realmedia even better) I guess it's reasonable to focus on the high bitrates. There were some threads on the supposed superiority of the wm9 codec at high bitrates on the doom9 forums a while ago.
Foucault, Michel, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995) pp. 195-228:
"Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary; that this architectural apparatus should be a machine for creating and sustaining a power relation independent of the person who exercises it; in short, that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers. To achieve this, it is at once too much and too little that the prisoner should be constantly observed by an inspector: too little, for what matters is that he knows himself to be observed; too much, because he has no need in fact of being so. In view of this, Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable. Visible: the inmate will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the central tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable: the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so. In order to make the presence or absence of the inspector unverifiable, so that the prisoners, in their cells, cannot even see a shadow, Bentham envisaged not only venetian blinds on the windows of the central observation hall, but, on the inside, partitions that intersected the hall at right angles and, in order to pass from one quarter to the other, not doors but zig-zag openings; for the slightest noise, a gleam of light, a brightness in a half-opened door would betray the presence of the guardian. The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen."
I play oggs on my jornada with the latest pocketdivx. You should try the movie clips at pocketmatrix also, ofcourse you can also capture your own tv-programs to watch them on the road.
Can somebody please opensource this thing and encode it with the gpl'd codecs XVID and OGG and unleash it with P2P software so the masses can watch it?
Well at the moment i can sort of enjoy stereo 22kbps stereo wma files... but lower and than i am over the treshold of enjoyable music. If i can lower this or up the music quality at the same bitrate with a different codec i would be delighted! Than I could pack even more songs in my 10 mbyte memory space. So in my situation it is needed - and 32 vbr kpbs mp3 is sounding worse then a 22 kbps wma file - i have tried that.
I am glad to hear that.
Well i will give it a better ear... anyway for my pocketpc with a limited amount of memory wma is at the moment the best option (22 or 32 kbps) can't wait for a resonable stereo sounding 16 kbps ogg:-)
although i am a gpl enthousiast i am also a coompression enthousiast. In that respect realaudio and wma DEFINATELY outperform ogg in ultra low bandwidth circumstances for me (0-64kbps) in their latest incarnations. You cannot honestly say OGG blows them out of the water at those bitrates. A choice between quality and principle for me. What would you choose?
don't forget 'the day of the triffids' where a meteorshower with a spectacular view left the world population blind the next morning - and the triffids - meateating plants took over.
sql*kitten, i am shocked by your reaction. I think there are no simple answers to this problem - not only the program that shocked you came to that conclusion, but most experts i heard on the issue arrive same conclusions. Are they all left-wing in your view? And if so is there something wrong with thinking left-wing? We live in a democracy you know! Do you really think 'brute force' is the best solution? I am also shocked at what happened, and my heart is with the victims... but the problem will not be solved by using and causing more violence.
As for the program itself - it was balanced, they had all sides invited. The problem is that with the side that says: 'smoke them out' - there is not a lot of dialogue possible. So from your point of view it sounds unbalanced.
> It's like they're subconciously looking for
> way out without having a concrete plan of what > they'd rather do, and this malaise gives them
> cause to quit.
I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. Because rsi has such an emotional impact you start to question the way you stand in life (including your work).
Francis
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Wow the demo bootdisk is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It autodetected my modem (cablemodem) and just asked 4 questions and i was on the internet; slashdot loaded fine and I'm typing this from within the voyager browser.
I used to hack boot floppies together: * dos with minimal utilities with an absolute minimum win3.11, patience and wordpad! on a 1.8 mb floppy (2mf 3.0). * linux bootfloppies, but without X.
I have high hopes of the microwindows project and i think linux+microwindows will conquer this market.
But this is a very cute OS! The bootfloppy was FUN, try it out.
Just a week ago i came accross "omikron: the nomad soul"; a 3d adventure game. I'm not a adventure expert, but this game is cool! I walked into a gun shop and saw a flyer about a concert in the area. After looking around I found the cafe where it was held: I came in and the music began to play, I lost control over my keyboard and the experience took over, music began to play.. and there a familiar face appeared.
I knew that some of the music in the game was bowies but that it was integrated in this way, and that bowie was also playing a character I didn't knew. It reminded me of the Labyrinth film I watched in the eighties. There was definately a theme: another world, and a nomad soul. People can say what they want, but I think this integration of 'art' and computers is the heart of the matter. Why is the internet so popular? Because people are 'breathing' themselves and meaning into cold and lifeless matter. Creation.
Well it's starting now, the technology is arriving, "The Wheel of Time": a computer game based on the fantasy world of Robert Jordan, "The Real Neverending Story"...all 3D games with art and narrative. Although Bowie borrows/steals other material: it's is the way he combines it into something new that indicates the quality of his work (and not all his work i find of quality, and others may disagree). If this philosopher Rorty says that integrity doesn't fit in our culture, I disagree: integrity is not something that points to one point of view and sticking with it. It is more a sincerity in what you do, and doing it in a right way. Empty spaces, surfaces filled with sincerity, art and meaning.
Another interesting story I found the experiences of the Omikron developers with Bowie. The story of Bowie's involvement with the game can be found here.
proprietary extentions for scheduling and calendar based functions already appeared in ms outlook. I was looking for an outlook alternative for the linux platform. Although gnome calendar is nice, it cannot make e-mail based appointments with other calendars. An integrated open source contacts/e-mail/scheduling pim based on open internet standards (preferably with a database backend) would be nice.
Actually it was the greatJoseph Campbell who pointed at the mythological value of science fiction. Mythological archetypes adapting to our technological age.
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It appears that he's never heard of freenet.
Check out the facts here:
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"Every once in a while, in order to remind myself of the quality of information typically reported, I trace down the source of a particularly ridiculous story. The "Klingon Language Interpreter" myth, which is spawning now, provides an amusing case study of the process of pack journalism."
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/11/7032/1834
it's already here and called freenet.
If you cannot win at the low bitrates (xvid, realmedia even better) I guess it's reasonable to focus on the high bitrates.
There were some threads on the supposed superiority of the wm9 codec at high bitrates on the doom9 forums a while ago.
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
So that is what the video clip was inspired by?
Foucault, Michel, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995) pp. 195-228:
"Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary; that this architectural apparatus should be a machine for creating and sustaining a power relation independent of the person who exercises it; in short, that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers. To achieve this, it is at once too much and too little that the prisoner should be constantly observed by an inspector: too little, for what matters is that he knows himself to be observed; too much, because he has no need in fact of being so. In view of this, Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable. Visible: the inmate will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the central tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable: the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so. In order to make the presence or absence of the inspector unverifiable, so that the prisoners, in their cells, cannot even see a shadow, Bentham envisaged not only venetian blinds on the windows of the central observation hall, but, on the inside, partitions that intersected the hall at right angles and, in order to pass from one quarter to the other, not doors but zig-zag openings; for the slightest noise, a gleam of light, a brightness in a half-opened door would betray the presence of the guardian. The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen."
Read a more thorough account of the matter here:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanov1.htm
I play oggs on my jornada with the latest pocketdivx. You should try the movie clips at pocketmatrix also, ofcourse you can also capture your own tv-programs to watch them on the road.
forget tarkin - it doesn't exist yet.
think xvid+ogg, both opensource and xvid is mpeg4 compliant.
Can somebody please opensource this thing and encode it with the gpl'd codecs XVID and OGG and unleash it with P2P software so the masses can watch it?
Well at the moment i can sort of enjoy stereo 22kbps stereo wma files... but lower and than i am over the treshold of enjoyable music. If i can lower this or up the music quality at the same bitrate with a different codec i would be delighted! Than I could pack even more songs in my 10 mbyte memory space. So in my situation it is needed - and 32 vbr kpbs mp3 is sounding worse then a 22 kbps wma file - i have tried that.
I am glad to hear that. :-)
Well i will give it a better ear... anyway for my pocketpc with a limited amount of memory wma is at the moment the best option (22 or 32 kbps) can't wait for a resonable stereo sounding 16 kbps ogg
although i am a gpl enthousiast i am also a coompression enthousiast. In that respect realaudio and wma DEFINATELY outperform ogg in ultra low bandwidth circumstances for me (0-64kbps) in their latest incarnations. You cannot honestly say OGG blows them out of the water at those bitrates. A choice between quality and principle for me. What would you choose?
don't forget 'the day of the triffids' where a meteorshower with a spectacular view left the world population blind the next morning - and the triffids - meateating plants took over.
Yes, I am also surprised. AI was a great movie (although you can critize it) - but Osment's performance was very good!
sql*kitten, i am shocked by your reaction. I think there are no simple answers to this problem - not only the program that shocked you came to that conclusion, but most experts i heard on the issue arrive same conclusions. Are they all left-wing in your view? And if so is there something wrong with thinking left-wing? We live in a democracy you know! Do you really think 'brute force' is the best solution? I am also shocked at what happened, and my heart is with the victims... but the problem will not be solved by using and causing more violence.
As for the program itself - it was balanced, they had all sides invited. The problem is that with the side that says: 'smoke them out' - there is not a lot of dialogue possible. So from your point of view it sounds unbalanced.
> It's like they're subconciously looking for
> way out without having a concrete plan of what > they'd rather do, and this malaise gives them
> cause to quit.
I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. Because rsi has such an emotional impact you start to question the way you stand in life (including your work).
Francis
Wow the demo bootdisk is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
It autodetected my modem (cablemodem) and just asked 4 questions and i was on the internet; slashdot loaded fine and I'm typing this from within the voyager browser.
I used to hack boot floppies together:
* dos with minimal utilities with an absolute minimum win3.11, patience and wordpad!
on a 1.8 mb floppy (2mf 3.0).
* linux bootfloppies, but without X.
I have high hopes of the microwindows project and i think linux+microwindows will conquer this market.
But this is a very cute OS! The bootfloppy was FUN, try it out.
Hello,
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Althoug now ima very druk vrom a pary with daeath meatl with my coleygey from infostarada
thamyuk ery much!
I knew that some of the music in the game was bowies but that it was integrated in this way, and that bowie was also playing a character I didn't knew. It reminded me of the Labyrinth film I watched in the eighties. There was definately a theme: another world, and a nomad soul.
People can say what they want, but I think this integration of 'art' and computers is the heart of the matter. Why is the internet so popular? Because people are 'breathing' themselves and meaning into cold and lifeless matter. Creation.
Well it's starting now, the technology is arriving, "The Wheel of Time": a computer game based on the fantasy world of Robert Jordan, "The Real Neverending Story"
Although Bowie borrows/steals other material: it's is the way he combines it into something new that indicates the quality of his work (and not all his work i find of quality, and others may disagree). If this philosopher Rorty says that integrity doesn't fit in our culture, I disagree: integrity is not something that points to one point of view and sticking with it. It is more a sincerity in what you do, and doing it in a right way. Empty spaces, surfaces filled with sincerity, art and meaning.
Another interesting story I found the experiences of the Omikron developers with Bowie. The story of Bowie's involvement with the game can be found here.
proprietary extentions for scheduling and calendar based functions already appeared in ms outlook. I was looking for an outlook alternative for the linux platform. Although gnome calendar is nice, it cannot make e-mail based appointments with other calendars.
An integrated open source contacts/e-mail/scheduling pim based on open internet standards (preferably with a database backend) would be nice.
I had G2 running once under WINE a while ago. Full Screen mode crashed X but the video played nice most of the time.
Most of the time I don't need more then 28k8.
It's the quality that counts - not the quantity.
Francis Siefken
Actually it was the greatJoseph Campbell who pointed at the mythological value of science fiction. Mythological archetypes adapting to our technological age.