Zoom Player was the only useable player on windows. (I'm forced to use XP on our university machines.)
I just grabbed mplayer 1.0pre1 and build it on one of these boxes.
I have to say... zoom player will be deleted from all boxes withing the next few days (if I find the time). I doesn't even stand a chance against mplayer...
Why ? Resource usage. (Memory and CPU) # of supported codecs. Even plays broken files. (And I get a lot of those from my students.)
1. Because I came back from vacation today. And didn't even make it through half of my email before my RPC service restarted _itself_. 2. Because apt-get upgrade runs daily on my other systems and I'm just not used to _manually_ installing security updates. 3. Because the exploit existed for at least 7 years... and nothing ever happened. 4. Because I'm within a corporate intranet with f..scking expensive cisco switches that could easily stop the worm on the medium.
I could give you hundreds more, but it all boils down to: This shouldn't bother me - the user - not at all.
just a few examples: 1977: email invented. most common message: "let me know when you are there so i can call you. (Family archives show as #1: "did you get this [email]?" and "are you there ?")
1978: Spreadsheet, 10 years till anyone knows how to use them. (Show me one person who has a usefull use for spreadsheets... ) 1995: AOL, Compuserve, etc take off (I canceled my CIS account in late 1995, after using it for quite a while. Erm - shute, I wanted to, but I didn't....)
1995: Release of Windows'95 (Erm... by that time I stopped using Windos, but didn't 95 came out somewhere in the middle of 96 ?)
1997: Internet Porn introduced to businesses. Worker productivity down 97% ('97? I could swear Admiral K. sold his stuff for websites long before that [ESCdd])
2001: Blogging invented. (hey, my first lj-entry is Aug 29th, 2000 - and I joined the bandwaggon very late.)
I don't like replying to myself, but I just checked this baby at a local bestbuy store.
And I still think it's ugly.
Pro: - I really like the magnesium. - It's almost 16:9. - It has a GeForce4 and plays nicely with linux.
Con: (only the showstoppers, for me) - battery life 2h - headphone jack on the _front_ (these two can really kill you if you fly economy.) - display: viewing angle very small - resolution 1,280x854 is simply not enough (I'm used to 1600x1200 an 3200x1200) - price. $2400 was ok for this specs... around 6 month ago.
Have you ever tried holding your hand up for 12-14 hours a day ?
What's the point of this ? Presentations ? If you _need_ to point during a presentation (or lecture or whatever) you should really consider reworking your slides....
A normal 35mm slide film has around 100 lines per mm. The size is 24mmx35mm. That's ~34 million pixel. Now how can 11M be more than 34M.
The funny thing ? That's not even important. Contrastrange with slide film is above 1:1000. Very good digicam manage around 1:150. Natures range is around 1:1000000.
So guess what a digicam can do in high contrast situations.
Once a >30MPixel cam is cheaper than my RebelG SLR (~$300) and I can put on high quality lenses. I might consider it.
Since both (mp3 + ogg vorbis) use a psycho accoustic model that drops "unrecognizable" information and both models are quite close, you might not hear a difference.
Just do the test: 1. Take one of your (r3mix) mp3s and convert it to ogg. 2. Decode both (.mp3 +.ogg) to.wav (mpg321 + ogg123 will happily do that). 3. Do a diff of the waves, maybe you'll have to adjust a small timeshift. 4. Look at the diff and drop your jaw while looking at the tiny jiggle in the LSB.
But: Now rip that song again and encode directly to ogg. The quality is much better.
Brief: When converting mp3 to ogg you (usually) don't loose quality, but a direct rip to ogg will (usually) be better.
I've used blender in my workshops and classes very successfully. And even the students, who simply couldn't grasp the basic concepts of maya and softimage, worked with blender like they didn't do anything else for their whole life.
kpovmodeler is nice, but the interface is to overloaded to work efficiently.
Just do a handfull of the tutorials and you will memorize the keys very soon.
You also have to keep in mind that blender was designed and written for professionals who don't do anything else.
Wrong. At least for the german/european manufacturers I talked to. Ford was very helpfull. BMW and Mercedes had to "ask the boss". And Audi (VAG) even send me the codes via email.
ODBII isn't even worth mentioning. The hadware costs less the 5Euro plus around 15Euro per manufacturer if you want a nice plug. And the codes are well known and documented.
That consumer manuals don't mention to cycle the ABS after flushing the brake fluid is understandable - my TV manual doesn't say anything about changing R26 from 220K to 470K if I change the Sony driver IC for a Philips one - and if you don't know what you are doing you shouldn't do it yourself anyway, a car is a dangerous weapon.
Car development got a lot faster in the last years, at least the software side. (I broke up with my last girlfriend, because she spent more time debugging car "OS" code than....)
Almost the same setup here (well a few years younger).
AMD-K6-III-450, ASUS P5A, 192MB RAM 13GB IDE disk
EXSYS-6500
Sony TRV-110 camcorder
Vodoo3 (for TV-output)
I use blender to mix Video(dvgrab)+Pictures(gimp)+3d-scenes(blender). I usually use 640x480 (looks good on TV and on a PC). No problems so far. (Well there is a problem with the newest 1394 kernel patch, but it's still alpha - so what) I usually render the endresult with the Ulead video-studio, since it can do MP4-AVIs.
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Here it was even worse.
Just transfered a ~600MB (Linux CD) ISO from Europe to Australia.
rateless-copy did about 400K/s
scp managed 2.8M/s
At least both files were intact
Give me _one_ example.
Anything that compresses better as GIF than as PNG.
I couldn't connect the site (slashdotted),
but every geek out there knew the story for at least 20 years.
Just google it (hint: adding finagle or niven might help) and you get dozens of pages explaining it.
Nothing special. Just someone being smart in bringing his server down....
Because I don't want _any_ application kill/suspend any other without my explicit "order" to do so ?
I have videos running (in a small window in a corner) all day and when I leave my desk I don't stop mplayer, but won't my notebook to autolock!!
If you want it as default, just put it into your ~/.mplayer/config and forget about it.
Sure.
... zoom player will be deleted from all boxes withing the next few days (if I find the time).
Zoom Player was the only useable player on windows.
(I'm forced to use XP on our university machines.)
I just grabbed mplayer 1.0pre1 and build it on one of these boxes.
I have to say
I doesn't even stand a chance against mplayer...
Why ?
Resource usage. (Memory and CPU)
# of supported codecs.
Even plays broken files. (And I get a lot of those from my students.)
And of course it should read:
"This shouldn't bother me - the user - at all."
1. Because I came back from vacation today. And didn't even make it through half of my email before my RPC service restarted _itself_. ... and nothing ever happened.
2. Because apt-get upgrade runs daily on my other systems and I'm just not used to _manually_ installing security updates.
3. Because the exploit existed for at least 7 years
4. Because I'm within a corporate intranet with f..scking expensive cisco switches that could easily stop the worm on the medium.
I could give you hundreds more,
but it all boils down to:
This shouldn't bother me - the user - not at all.
So we all go and install a p2p client and download all the songs on the list ?
Just to make "their" live easier ?
A quick check revealed that I own 15 of the albums listed. And I'd never even get close to one of the others.
Download finished, now I can remove the songs again from my disk....
just a few examples:
... )
... by that time I stopped using Windos, but didn't 95 came out somewhere in the middle of 96 ?)
1977: email invented. most common message: "let me know when you are there so i can call you.
(Family archives show as #1: "did you get this [email]?" and "are you there ?")
1978: Spreadsheet, 10 years till anyone knows how to use them.
(Show me one person who has a usefull use for spreadsheets
1995: AOL, Compuserve, etc take off
(I canceled my CIS account in late 1995, after using it for quite a while.
Erm - shute, I wanted to, but I didn't....)
1995: Release of Windows'95
(Erm
1997: Internet Porn introduced to businesses. Worker productivity down 97%
('97? I could swear Admiral K. sold his stuff for websites long before that [ESCdd])
2001: Blogging invented.
(hey, my first lj-entry is Aug 29th, 2000 - and I joined the bandwaggon very late.)
ps:
semicolon-dash-closing bracket
yeah,
;)
nice pwd.
And I guess I'll have to change the root password on all our boxes again
1. Update your BIOS!!
2. Rip open your battery and replace the Sanyo parts with Panasonic.
I did this in 1999 and still get about 60% out of the batteries...
If you take a look at the improvements of bandwidth you can easily see that your point won't be a problem at all within 2 years.
Right now we are reaching the point were "swapping" to the network is actually faster than storing the data on the local hard disk.
Prediction:
By 2008 the connection from your computer to any other (connected) system in your country will be faster than 10Gb/s.
(And that's a very conservative assumption.)
ps:
I'll buy you(=afidel) a crate of beer if this prediction is proven wrong.
I don't like replying to myself,
... around 6 month ago.
but I just checked this baby at a local bestbuy store.
And I still think it's ugly.
Pro:
- I really like the magnesium.
- It's almost 16:9.
- It has a GeForce4 and plays nicely with linux.
Con: (only the showstoppers, for me)
- battery life 2h
- headphone jack on the _front_
(these two can really kill you if you fly economy.)
- display: viewing angle very small
- resolution 1,280x854 is simply not enough (I'm used to 1600x1200 an 3200x1200)
- price. $2400 was ok for this specs
So OSX can't play DVDs ?
Cause BSD plays them nicely on my widescreen TV.
Or what was that "[an]other OS" ?
Is it me or is this thing really ugly ?
I didn't even read the specs.
The picture just scared me off.
OK,
I just read the specs now.
15" display ?
1280x854 resolution ?
Slot-in CD/DVD ?
No 3D acceleration ?
Common, for that money I can buy a ThinkPad A30p and that actually looks sleek....
Have you ever tried holding your hand up for 12-14 hours a day ?
....
What's the point of this ?
Presentations ?
If you _need_ to point during a presentation (or lecture or whatever) you should really consider reworking your slides
A normal 35mm slide film has around 100 lines per mm.
The size is 24mmx35mm.
That's ~34 million pixel.
Now how can 11M be more than 34M.
The funny thing ?
That's not even important.
Contrastrange with slide film is above 1:1000.
Very good digicam manage around 1:150.
Natures range is around 1:1000000.
So guess what a digicam can do in high contrast situations.
Once a >30MPixel cam is cheaper than my RebelG SLR (~$300) and I can put on high quality lenses.
I might consider it.
Digital?
For ebay pics: Yes.
Anywhere else: No.
Yes:
.mp3|awk '{print "( mpg321 -w - \"" $0 "\" | oggenc -q 7 - -o \"" $0 ".ogg\" )&& rm \"" $0 "\"";}'|sh
while( i );
{ i=0 }
How about this ?
locate
And a (binary) buffer could speed this up a lot.
This is not 100% true.
.ogg) to .wav (mpg321 + ogg123 will happily do that).
Since both (mp3 + ogg vorbis) use a psycho accoustic model that drops "unrecognizable" information and both models are quite close, you might not hear a difference.
Just do the test:
1. Take one of your (r3mix) mp3s and convert it to ogg.
2. Decode both (.mp3 +
3. Do a diff of the waves, maybe you'll have to adjust a small timeshift.
4. Look at the diff and drop your jaw while looking at the tiny jiggle in the LSB.
But:
Now rip that song again and encode directly to ogg.
The quality is much better.
Brief:
When converting mp3 to ogg you (usually) don't loose quality,
but a direct rip to ogg will (usually) be better.
Don't change the behaviour!!
It's better than everything I've used so far.
But I agree that the "visualization" should match how it works.
Maybe adding a little slider is all that is needed.
Do yourself a favour and buy the blender book.
I've used blender in my workshops and classes very successfully.
And even the students, who simply couldn't grasp the basic concepts of maya and softimage, worked with blender like they didn't do anything else for their whole life.
kpovmodeler is nice, but the interface is to overloaded to work efficiently.
Just do a handfull of the tutorials and you will memorize the keys very soon.
You also have to keep in mind that blender was designed and written for professionals who don't do anything else.
Wrong. At least for the german/european manufacturers I talked to.
....)
Ford was very helpfull.
BMW and Mercedes had to "ask the boss".
And Audi (VAG) even send me the codes via email.
ODBII isn't even worth mentioning.
The hadware costs less the 5Euro plus around 15Euro per manufacturer if you want a nice plug.
And the codes are well known and documented.
That consumer manuals don't mention to cycle the ABS after flushing the brake fluid is understandable - my TV manual doesn't say anything about changing R26 from 220K to 470K if I change the Sony driver IC for a Philips one - and if you don't know what you are doing you shouldn't do it yourself anyway, a car is a dangerous weapon.
Car development got a lot faster in the last years,
at least the software side.
(I broke up with my last girlfriend, because she spent more time debugging car "OS" code than
I saw this thing live at MekkaSymposium 2002.
And that was easter... over 2 month ago.
Nice idea, but sounded awfull....
Yes, you all spotted the small ommissions,
but what about THE godfather of gaming ?
Jeff Minter ?
And don't say you didn't play with camels.
I use blender to mix Video(dvgrab)+Pictures(gimp)+3d-scenes(blender).
I usually use 640x480 (looks good on TV and on a PC).
No problems so far.
(Well there is a problem with the newest 1394 kernel patch, but it's still alpha - so what)
I usually render the endresult with the Ulead video-studio, since it can do MP4-AVIs.
Just my 2 cents ...
ciao
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