Re:Can you have read the same book?
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I also really liked this book. The first 150 pages are a bit hard to read due to the number of new words introduced but once you get used to it and understand the important ones (and historical references) it's really enjoyable, a lot more that Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle.
Cryptonomicon right? Unfortunately they didn't have to worry about interstellar trade in that book. It would raise another issue: would something valuable on Earth (ie Gold and Diamonds) be of any value on Trantor? And how would the extraterrestrial beings use abacii to compute an accurate value? As stated in TFA, they might even have no hands to use the abacii or eyes to read it!
Rockbox (or iPodlinux) unfortunately don't support the newer iPods (nano 2G and up, ipod classic and ipod touch) since Apple changed most of the hardware and added heavy encryption on the bootloader/firmware update mechanism.
You can't power a rocket to take you back home with solar panels. You might be able to do so with stuff like methane. I think that this is the basic idea. I doubt that they need methane to power equipement destined to stay on the planet.
Eventhough, I don't think this mainly is about VLC vs. MPlayer. Both applications uses many of the same libraries, but with different implementation. MPlayer also gets its "hands dirty" with DeCSS and WMV "support" in *nix.
VLC also uses DeCSS. It is also able to use dmo windows codecs on unix (which makes WMV3 readable).
Some parts of the patch (the interesting one and mime types) have already been commited to VLC trunk. Nightly builds (http://vthr.videolan.org/~videolan) compiled tonight will surely ba able to play google video content.
Or just modify VLC to know the MIME type "application/x-google-vlc-plugin" and you can play your heart away.
You don't even need to modify that... we added it to the trunk (and 0.8.3 branch) yesterday. So people using nightly builds should be able to watch google movies (unless they also check that you're using their plugin... but that can be fixed too)
using dmo windows codecs is unofficially supported (but available in source). Patches to compile it easily might be available soon. (basically that means wmv9 and quicktime)
afaik, loading real codecs (either the windows or linux ones) isn't implemented yet.
WMV9 support in VLC is only available on windows (sorry:) ). Hopefully VC1 will change that when it gets out (jlj already has his own VC1/WMV9 enabled VLC. not commited in svn though)
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Are you sure about that comment? Kiwi plants is one sort I know to be flowering and not hermphrodite. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinidia_deliciosa#Flowers )
I also really liked this book. The first 150 pages are a bit hard to read due to the number of new words introduced but once you get used to it and understand the important ones (and historical references) it's really enjoyable, a lot more that Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle.
Cryptonomicon right? Unfortunately they didn't have to worry about interstellar trade in that book. It would raise another issue: would something valuable on Earth (ie Gold and Diamonds) be of any value on Trantor? And how would the extraterrestrial beings use abacii to compute an accurate value? As stated in TFA, they might even have no hands to use the abacii or eyes to read it!
What if the alien life form you find isn't even remotely like life on earth? Would that really help cure cancer?
Rockbox (or iPodlinux) unfortunately don't support the newer iPods (nano 2G and up, ipod classic and ipod touch) since Apple changed most of the hardware and added heavy encryption on the bootloader/firmware update mechanism.
I did :) (Just finished reading the trilogy yesterday night ... so I was quite excited when I read the topic on Slashdot)
You can't power a rocket to take you back home with solar panels. You might be able to do so with stuff like methane. I think that this is the basic idea. I doubt that they need methane to power equipement destined to stay on the planet.
VLC also uses DeCSS. It is also able to use dmo windows codecs on unix (which makes WMV3 readable).
Some parts of the patch (the interesting one and mime types) have already been commited to VLC trunk. Nightly builds (http://vthr.videolan.org/~videolan) compiled tonight will surely ba able to play google video content.
You don't even need to modify that
using dmo windows codecs is unofficially supported (but available in source). Patches to compile it easily might be available soon. (basically that means wmv9 and quicktime)
afaik, loading real codecs (either the windows or linux ones) isn't implemented yet.
hum ... version 0.8.2
Who even uses the CDs to install debian anyway ?
(patented really means that its covered by many/hundreds of patents)
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MPEG-1 is free to use
MPEG-2 is patented and costs $2.5 a decoder (i don't know about encoders)
MPEG-4 is patented and costs much more than MPEG-2
MP3 / Dolby / DTS are patented
DRM algorithms are patented
I'd bet that RealVideo/RealAudio, WindowsMedia and QuickTime codecs are patented
the text on the explanation page actualy comes from ffmpeg...
WMV9 support in VLC is only available on windows (sorry :) ). Hopefully VC1 will change that when it gets out (jlj already has his own VC1/WMV9 enabled VLC. not commited in svn though)