The first page of results is filled with all proprietary software. I have found other free programs that can do the same thing, but most of them are multi-purpose tools, like Mediacoder and foobar2000. I designed FlacSquisher so you could rip a new CD to your FLAC directory, hit the "encode" button, and have your Oggs/MP3s soon, without having to change the Mediacoder settings to audio, since you encoded a movie last night.
Since I rip to Oggs myself, I haven't implemented MP3 tagging yet, but that's a planned feature. As soon as I get some free time at home...:/
Is it possible that you just tested one transition that does better on MP3 than Ogg? I've had cases myself where I had an MP3-encoded album, and some transitions were completely gapless, and I couldn't tell the difference, where other transitions were seemingly huge, just because of the differences in where the MP3 packet boundary happened to land.
Shameless plug #2 for this article: I wrote a program called FlacSquisher that converts FLACs to Oggs and MP3s. I listen to FLACs at home, and convert to Oggs for portable use.
If I tried to put FLACs on my 2GB (Rockbox'd) Sansa, I could get maybe 4 albums on there without the use of SD cards. By encoding Oggs with "-q 6", I can get a couple dozen albums on there, and to me the Oggs are transparent. Lossy formats still have their use.
I hope you're not advocating we store all video in lossless formats yet... that would be like advocating lossless audio in the days of 4GB hard drives!
I've been introducing my friends to Oggs whenever possible.
My biggest thing about them is that historically MP3s have had terrible support for seamless transitions between tracks ("gapless playback"), and I listen to tons of music that relies on not being able to hear those transitions: Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, movie soundtracks, classical music...
In order to have gapless support with MP3s, you need to use LAME to encode them, then use a LAME-aware decoder that supports LAME's gapless playback headers, like foobar2000 or Rockbox. But then if you play those in a non-LAME-aware decoder, like most non-Rockbox portable players, then you get a gap. The only way around this is LAME's (rather fragile) gapless switch, which extends the packets to end the song on a packet boundary.
Meanwhile, Oggs have no packet restrictions, so they inherently support gapless playback with no extra tricks.
Shameless plug (since not everyone has sigs enabled): I wrote FlacSquisher, a program to convert FLACs to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format. Then I can rip my CDs to FLAC for home-listening use, then encode them en masse to Oggs for portable use. Try it out!:)
This planet, any planet, has finite resources. No matter what we do, no matter how many alternatives we go through or how well we conserve, sooner or later we'll exhaust them.
Earth that was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths. The Central Planets formed the Alliance. Ruled by an interplanetary parliament, the Alliance was a beacon of civilization. The savage outer planets were not so enlightened and refused Alliance control. The war was devastating, but the Alliance's victory over the Independents ensured a safer universe. And now everyone can enjoy the comfort and enlightenment of our civilization.
It only has a patent on it if you say it like the British do: "pay-tent". If you say it like a true American -- "pah-tent", then there's no law broken.
One of my favorite sections from the book "Learning Perl":
Now, we're not saying that Perl has a lot of bugs. But it's a program, and every program has at least one bug. Programmers also know that every program has at least one line of unnecessary source code. By combining these two rules and using logical induction, it's a simple matter to prove that any program could be reduced to a single line of code with a bug.
If I need a part now, I can usually find it at one of two local shops I like.
That's good to hear, but my hometown had no specialized computer shops, so if I needed a part faster than I could get it from Newegg, then my options were Best Buy, Staples, or Office Max.
I think he's merely bragging that he's close enough to one of Newegg's distribution centers to have his products arrive the next day, even when he selects free shipping.
However, even in this case, sometimes there's a situation that requires a replacement part NOW, and you can't wait even a day. Those situations are rare, but do occur.
Even my AI professor in school pointed to Data as really the end-goal of AI research (as well as a character from Battlestar Galactica, though I don't watch that show). I think many people are aware that modern AI has roughly the intelligence of an animal. That's much improved on AI from when the character Data was made, where the intelligence was more like that of a single-cell organism.
Most of the replies to your post are at least half-correct. You need a $200 tax, an extensive FBI background check (that can take 6 months or more), local law enforcement permission, and a bunch of other hoops you're required to jump through. The other option is to become a Federal Firearms License holder, and get a Class 3 tax stamp. Then you can buy full autos and suppressors for yourself without having to go through the above process each time. However, this is a costly endeavor, so most people who do this have to pay for the license and tax stamp by actually selling firearms to other people.
I'd like to also point out that this is just U.S. law that has been discussed; in Finland, firearm suppressors are considered essential safety equipment, in order to protect the hearing of all involved, in addition to standard earplug/headphone-style hearing protection.
My girlfriend and I moved from New England to California recently; it's hilarious to see the locals shivering in their wool coats and hats when it gets down to 45 or 50F, while we're walking around comfortably in short sleeves. We were walking outside at 8AM a few weeks ago (in "the dead of winter"...). It was right about 32F, and I was like "ya know, I'm slightly uncomfortable right now.":)
Then again, we're gonna be dying this summer, when it gets to 100F or more...:/
You got modded funny, but I think you were probably being serious.
I think the reason is that the newer 3DMark suites advanced so much in the realm of GPU-intensiveness, that to overclock a CPU and get a higher score without being GPU-bound, you have to go back to 2005.
From what I've read, it seems like Google is basically saying to the Mozilla developers, "Hey guys, we have some ideas that we'd like to have implemented in Firefox. Here's a proof of concept."
Replace the underscores with spaces (stupid formatting...), and this is the "first" possible filename in the old "8.3" filename format. In modern Windows, add more spaces until you hit the max filename size.
And yes, I know you can have files with non-printable characters if you try hard enough. Good for you.
Double bass pedals are for wimps. If you can't do it with a single foot, GTFO.;)
While I know you were at least partially joking, and while there are tons of drummers out there who use double bass as a crutch, who would cry if they tried to play Seek and Destroy with one pedal, I'd like to see anyone who can correctly play Dyer's Eve or Fight Fire With Fire with one standard bass pedal.
I was at a Dream Theater show last summer, and I wore my Justice shirt. I overheard a couple of guys behind me talking about it, even though they tried not to let me hear:
Guy 1: Aww, Metallica? They suck!
Guy 2: No dude, that's Justice, they were good back then!
Guy 1: Really?
Guy 2: Yeah, they made albums before St. Anger, you know...
That said, I still like the newer albums. Not as much as the older ones, but new Metallica is still far superior to all the other crap being made nowadays. I just bought Death Magnetic a few weeks ago, and it's the only album made in the past 5 years that I own that's not made by Dream Theater.
As for the lawsuits, that was almost entirely Lars, and I won't begrudge the entire band for it. The rest of them basically didn't care one way or the other.
Besides, the band's always advocated for free distribution of bootlegs; it's just studio material that they went after. For the last several years you've been able to download recordings of their live shows for free from their site.
Also, in Northern Europe is normal for the loosing party to have to pay for the legal expenses of the prevailing party in case it can be seen an abuse of the system, which would lead to cases like this not to happen cause RIAA know they don't have a case to stand and just bully the adversary... if they really had to pay the expenses in case they lost, they would obviously not be able to carry out this intimidation tactics:
Actually, this is common in America too -- I remember at least one case the RIAA lost where the other party filed for legal expenses to be paid by the RIAA.
It might just be a language thing, and by "good" you just mean that they shouldn't need to build Google-level infrastructure just for sharing a couple videos, and I'd agree with that.
Yeah, that's basically what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.
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The first page of results is filled with all proprietary software. I have found other free programs that can do the same thing, but most of them are multi-purpose tools, like Mediacoder and foobar2000. I designed FlacSquisher so you could rip a new CD to your FLAC directory, hit the "encode" button, and have your Oggs/MP3s soon, without having to change the Mediacoder settings to audio, since you encoded a movie last night.
Since I rip to Oggs myself, I haven't implemented MP3 tagging yet, but that's a planned feature. As soon as I get some free time at home... :/
FlacSquisher is actually just a frontend for LAME and OggEnc, using the binaries obtained from Rarewares.
Is it possible that you just tested one transition that does better on MP3 than Ogg? I've had cases myself where I had an MP3-encoded album, and some transitions were completely gapless, and I couldn't tell the difference, where other transitions were seemingly huge, just because of the differences in where the MP3 packet boundary happened to land.
Shameless plug #2 for this article:
I wrote a program called FlacSquisher that converts FLACs to Oggs and MP3s. I listen to FLACs at home, and convert to Oggs for portable use.
If I tried to put FLACs on my 2GB (Rockbox'd) Sansa, I could get maybe 4 albums on there without the use of SD cards. By encoding Oggs with "-q 6", I can get a couple dozen albums on there, and to me the Oggs are transparent. Lossy formats still have their use.
I hope you're not advocating we store all video in lossless formats yet... that would be like advocating lossless audio in the days of 4GB hard drives!
I've been introducing my friends to Oggs whenever possible.
My biggest thing about them is that historically MP3s have had terrible support for seamless transitions between tracks ("gapless playback"), and I listen to tons of music that relies on not being able to hear those transitions: Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, movie soundtracks, classical music...
In order to have gapless support with MP3s, you need to use LAME to encode them, then use a LAME-aware decoder that supports LAME's gapless playback headers, like foobar2000 or Rockbox. But then if you play those in a non-LAME-aware decoder, like most non-Rockbox portable players, then you get a gap. The only way around this is LAME's (rather fragile) gapless switch, which extends the packets to end the song on a packet boundary.
Meanwhile, Oggs have no packet restrictions, so they inherently support gapless playback with no extra tricks.
Shameless plug (since not everyone has sigs enabled): I wrote FlacSquisher, a program to convert FLACs to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format. Then I can rip my CDs to FLAC for home-listening use, then encode them en masse to Oggs for portable use. Try it out! :)
This planet, any planet, has finite resources. No matter what we do, no matter how many alternatives we go through or how well we conserve, sooner or later we'll exhaust them.
Earth that was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths. The Central Planets formed the Alliance. Ruled by an interplanetary parliament, the Alliance was a beacon of civilization. The savage outer planets were not so enlightened and refused Alliance control. The war was devastating, but the Alliance's victory over the Independents ensured a safer universe. And now everyone can enjoy the comfort and enlightenment of our civilization.
It only has a patent on it if you say it like the British do: "pay-tent". If you say it like a true American -- "pah-tent", then there's no law broken.
Read this:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3471
One of my favorite sections from the book "Learning Perl":
Now, we're not saying that Perl has a lot of bugs. But it's a program, and every program has at least one bug. Programmers also know that every program has at least one line of unnecessary source code. By combining these two rules and using logical induction, it's a simple matter to prove that any program could be reduced to a single line of code with a bug.
Do you mean "patent"?
If I need a part now, I can usually find it at one of two local shops I like.
That's good to hear, but my hometown had no specialized computer shops, so if I needed a part faster than I could get it from Newegg, then my options were Best Buy, Staples, or Office Max.
I think he's merely bragging that he's close enough to one of Newegg's distribution centers to have his products arrive the next day, even when he selects free shipping.
However, even in this case, sometimes there's a situation that requires a replacement part NOW, and you can't wait even a day. Those situations are rare, but do occur.
Like it or not though, Best Buy is still one of the best options if you need a computer part or accessory TODAY and can't wait for Newegg to deliver.
Sounds kinda like what Amazon did several years ago, so you can link to a specific product on Amazon, and get a cut.
Even my AI professor in school pointed to Data as really the end-goal of AI research (as well as a character from Battlestar Galactica, though I don't watch that show). I think many people are aware that modern AI has roughly the intelligence of an animal. That's much improved on AI from when the character Data was made, where the intelligence was more like that of a single-cell organism.
Of course, considerations must always be made for disaster...
I'm always amazed how broad a field AI really is; algorithms started in AI theory for moving robots around a room can be applied nearly everywhere.
Most of the replies to your post are at least half-correct. You need a $200 tax, an extensive FBI background check (that can take 6 months or more), local law enforcement permission, and a bunch of other hoops you're required to jump through. The other option is to become a Federal Firearms License holder, and get a Class 3 tax stamp. Then you can buy full autos and suppressors for yourself without having to go through the above process each time. However, this is a costly endeavor, so most people who do this have to pay for the license and tax stamp by actually selling firearms to other people.
I'd like to also point out that this is just U.S. law that has been discussed; in Finland, firearm suppressors are considered essential safety equipment, in order to protect the hearing of all involved, in addition to standard earplug/headphone-style hearing protection.
My girlfriend and I moved from New England to California recently; it's hilarious to see the locals shivering in their wool coats and hats when it gets down to 45 or 50F, while we're walking around comfortably in short sleeves. We were walking outside at 8AM a few weeks ago (in "the dead of winter"...). It was right about 32F, and I was like "ya know, I'm slightly uncomfortable right now." :)
Then again, we're gonna be dying this summer, when it gets to 100F or more... :/
You got modded funny, but I think you were probably being serious.
I think the reason is that the newer 3DMark suites advanced so much in the realm of GPU-intensiveness, that to overclock a CPU and get a higher score without being GPU-bound, you have to go back to 2005.
From what I've read, it seems like Google is basically saying to the Mozilla developers, "Hey guys, we have some ideas that we'd like to have implemented in Firefox. Here's a proof of concept."
You can do better than that:
!_______.exe
Replace the underscores with spaces (stupid formatting...), and this is the "first" possible filename in the old "8.3" filename format. In modern Windows, add more spaces until you hit the max filename size.
And yes, I know you can have files with non-printable characters if you try hard enough. Good for you.
Double bass pedals are for wimps. If you can't do it with a single foot, GTFO. ;)
While I know you were at least partially joking, and while there are tons of drummers out there who use double bass as a crutch, who would cry if they tried to play Seek and Destroy with one pedal, I'd like to see anyone who can correctly play Dyer's Eve or Fight Fire With Fire with one standard bass pedal.
I was at a Dream Theater show last summer, and I wore my Justice shirt. I overheard a couple of guys behind me talking about it, even though they tried not to let me hear:
Guy 1: Aww, Metallica? They suck!
Guy 2: No dude, that's Justice, they were good back then!
Guy 1: Really?
Guy 2: Yeah, they made albums before St. Anger, you know...
That said, I still like the newer albums. Not as much as the older ones, but new Metallica is still far superior to all the other crap being made nowadays. I just bought Death Magnetic a few weeks ago, and it's the only album made in the past 5 years that I own that's not made by Dream Theater.
As for the lawsuits, that was almost entirely Lars, and I won't begrudge the entire band for it. The rest of them basically didn't care one way or the other.
Besides, the band's always advocated for free distribution of bootlegs; it's just studio material that they went after. For the last several years you've been able to download recordings of their live shows for free from their site.
Also, in Northern Europe is normal for the loosing party to have to pay for the legal expenses of the prevailing party in case it can be seen an abuse of the system, which would lead to cases like this not to happen cause RIAA know they don't have a case to stand and just bully the adversary ... if they really had to pay the expenses in case they lost, they would obviously not be able to carry out this intimidation tactics:
Actually, this is common in America too -- I remember at least one case the RIAA lost where the other party filed for legal expenses to be paid by the RIAA.
... did... did you just call Courtney Love a good musician?
It might just be a language thing, and by "good" you just mean that they shouldn't need to build Google-level infrastructure just for sharing a couple videos, and I'd agree with that.
Yeah, that's basically what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.