If they believe AAC is the white knight nobody wants to sits beside in the schoolbus, and MP3 is the pirate everybody likes (though his breath is smelly), there might be a chance for Ogg Vorbis to become, in the public image, the Good Witch of the North, free of DRM, but also endorsed by rehabilitated record companies.
All well and good, but do you think that Universal Virgin EMI Warner Music (I suppose by the time this comment is published, the final merger has gotten wrapped up) are using the LAME encoder? Or rather something inferior?
MP3 has also a few shortcomings in audiophile terms. MP3 has a fixed frequency limit at 16khz that you can't overcome and usually packs data especially in the high frequencies, which you can hear even with a 256kbit compressed MP3 if you cared enough to buy nearfield reference speakers.
Plus the usual glitches when you expect your average encoder to handle pure saw waves. It's just not the same quality.
Apple has had the chance to add Ogg Vorbis support to the iPod, yet didn't.
As far as I understood, it was part of an iTunes deal with Universal, which ensured that MP3 would be supported as the only DRM-free format on their players - if Universal had gotten their will, MP3 wouldn't even be supported on the iPod.
What is this obsession with this inferior 10 year old file format MP3? Who is making sure, time after time, that there is no to mediocre support for Ogg Vorbis in players on the markets?
Ogg Vorbis sounds way better than MP3, especially at 128k/160k bitrates, and it's my favorite format of distributing music. It's royalty free. There is even a lib for fixed point decoding, for embedded devices - everything is there, from a technical standpoint.
What is going on? Yet again, only support for a legacy format? Clap clap, well done!
12 years wasted on proper science, you have yet about 80 years left to make some mistakes, try drugs, find your zero-point experience, earn your social quotient, and learn to give a shit about solar cells.
This is not Command & Conquer, where technology advancements are merely a question of power and money. Additionally, all the money is not allocated to one entity. NASA has different branches, so has the government. There is a fixed amount of money allocated to space exploration, and they already faced severe cuts. $485M is pretty cheap, considering that this is Mars! This used to cost a lot more in the past.
There are research departments working on similar stuff as you proposed above, and these things work with a much lower budget. These departments usually belong to entities with commercial interests.
There is little commercial value in finding out things about space, and that's why the government has to do it.
Slashdot Mirror
These people are not unemployed, they are working at home, preparing Web 3.0!
We're just cratering to our audience. :/
studying ... rocks!
ok, maybe only studying ... rocks ... rocks.
If you get an ... opportunity.
Allright I stop, I'm killing myself.
Quantum Soccer will be boring. All matches end 1:1.
The FIFA board was quick to denounce the new sport, calling it a "kick in the balls" for professional soccer.
"How to sell air to those already breathing"
The Wall Street is listening!
...where can I download it?
You are right.
This is not DRM.
This is SPARTAAAAAAA!
That was just an intuitive guess ... I didn't even know how stellar it is until I just googled it.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheElevatorFromIpanema
No biggie, I got an investment proposal from the Lehman Brothers ... oh crap.
The elevators traveling speed will be measured in GFIp/t ("Girl from Ipanema" plays per transport).
Great, so Ogg Vorbis doesn't have a stigma yet.
If they believe AAC is the white knight nobody wants to sits beside in the schoolbus, and MP3 is the pirate everybody likes (though his breath is smelly), there might be a chance for Ogg Vorbis to become, in the public image, the Good Witch of the North, free of DRM, but also endorsed by rehabilitated record companies.
Boy, talk about messed up analogies.
All well and good, but do you think that Universal Virgin EMI Warner Music (I suppose by the time this comment is published, the final merger has gotten wrapped up) are using the LAME encoder? Or rather something inferior?
MP3 has also a few shortcomings in audiophile terms. MP3 has a fixed frequency limit at 16khz that you can't overcome and usually packs data especially in the high frequencies, which you can hear even with a 256kbit compressed MP3 if you cared enough to buy nearfield reference speakers.
Plus the usual glitches when you expect your average encoder to handle pure saw waves. It's just not the same quality.
Apple has had the chance to add Ogg Vorbis support to the iPod, yet didn't.
As far as I understood, it was part of an iTunes deal with Universal, which ensured that MP3 would be supported as the only DRM-free format on their players - if Universal had gotten their will, MP3 wouldn't even be supported on the iPod.
What is this obsession with this inferior 10 year old file format MP3? Who is making sure, time after time, that there is no to mediocre support for Ogg Vorbis in players on the markets?
Ogg Vorbis sounds way better than MP3, especially at 128k/160k bitrates, and it's my favorite format of distributing music. It's royalty free. There is even a lib for fixed point decoding, for embedded devices - everything is there, from a technical standpoint.
What is going on? Yet again, only support for a legacy format? Clap clap, well done!
Are you kidding me? They have the slightly overweight balding guy in an old suit being a PC, and you don't think that's stereotyping?
now that i think of it, i feel really releaved that the overweight balding guy didn't have a beard.
it means there is still hope for us.
centralize! centralize! it worked in the thirties!
no, wait...
just read the story submitted, and to be honest ... i don't understand much of it.
does that answer your question?
12 years wasted on proper science, you have yet about 80 years left to make some mistakes, try drugs, find your zero-point experience, earn your social quotient, and learn to give a shit about solar cells.
why not remove all the safety labels and let the problem solve itself?
of course we have to slap a safety label on a website first before we can start to complain about it!
actually, i'm all in for this truth rating business. accessibility for the masses!
When this thing comes into effect, the past twenty years will be retroactively known as "The Doubt Age".
"Welcome at whitehouse.gov! See our truth rating here: *bling*. You see, this site is telling you the truth. Relax and consume."
oh, I thought these kind of posts were extinct!
Well, here we go again:
This is not Command & Conquer, where technology advancements are merely a question of power and money. Additionally, all the money is not allocated to one entity. NASA has different branches, so has the government. There is a fixed amount of money allocated to space exploration, and they already faced severe cuts. $485M is pretty cheap, considering that this is Mars! This used to cost a lot more in the past.
There are research departments working on similar stuff as you proposed above, and these things work with a much lower budget. These departments usually belong to entities with commercial interests.
There is little commercial value in finding out things about space, and that's why the government has to do it.
weird... for some reason, when I read "$485M", I thought "oi, that's cheap!"
..."Much Ad About Nothing"?
At a first quick glance, I thought the title referred to the subject of a spam mail advertising for a pornsite.
Reading the article, I am sad now that it doesn't.
i wasn't being serious though. adding "review" to your search query usually fixes the problem.