"Using patented 5-razor technology, the Mach 5 is able to shave your face with 3 easy strokes! And now with ultra-small razors, it actually fits in your mustache area, unlike its bulky predecessor, the mach 3!"
My friends and I have our baby p75 (soul.apk.net) on a co-located network. What I find is VERY important is a redundant internet connection to several different backbones. I personally think that most networks suck, but when you have a connection to 5 different ones, speeds to various sites are going to be much better. The rest of the suggestions have been very good.
I've said this before and I'll say it again -- for you investors, AMD is a surefire thing. I bought it right when the k7 roadmap was announced, and they've done nothing but good things since. AMD is taking over their market -- might as well join in for the ride.
This is a major problem. What I would do for myself is to have an mp3->ogg converter for the current collection, and then use ogg from then on. However, if the public doesn't accept it (maybe they won't like the name Ogg Vorbis!), then it could be an uphill battle.
But Bruce -- do you have any good ideas for getting this accepted if it does end up kicking ass? This is also a general question -- there are many things that can be improved but no one likes change. What's the best motivator or idea?
The only downside I can see is that this may bring even more fire from the RIAA. One of the arguements I have seen many times here is that MP3s are lossy, and thus aren't close to being the same quality as the original... Let's hope these things aren't high enough quality to blow that out of the water, or we'll be seeing a whole lot of heat being drawn on it...
Hey, how can we help it if the open source movement perfects the standard to the point of absolute quality?! All the power to us:)
1. Open source 2. No royalties ever owed to jerks 3. Already comparable to mp3 and once finalized will be better quality and compression 4. LGPL 5. It will support more than 2 channels (if it doesn't yet) 6. Already have audio player plugins for it, they're getting better. 7. With a name like Ogg Vorbis, its GOT to be good! 8. Their logo is awesome
and finally..
9. The extention is going to be.ogg !!! How cool is that?! I'm there!
This will hopefully be helpful to clients like GAIM (which rules!) so that they can operate better. About a week ago there was a big TOC outage, that could possibly have been prevented with an open infrastruction.
Also, a bit offtopic. For GAIM, I want to program a plugin. Let me know if you like this idea: It's a bit like call-screening. Basically, you go into away mode, but then there are some people that you select that CAN IM you without an away message (like your best friends). You all know why this would be useful... think of when you're busy but want to be online in case your best buds have somethin to say. But filter the rest out without hurting their feelings! It wouldn't be that hard to program, everything we have is there, I just suck with C. Let me know if anyone is interested. Thanks!
I actually read that article when I was extremely bored, and let me tell you why Adobe would sue over this -- because Photoshop 6 is going to be nothing special, and the screenshots basically sucked. Photoshop has reached the end of its innovative time, and that could be seen after Photoshop 4. Photoshop 5 had some great new stuff like the history, but Photoshop 6 does not contain any drastic improvements.
Adobe would LOVE it if they ran an article on Photoshop 6 if it was very good, but they obviously have as little enthusiasm and confidence in it as I do.
Although Adobe does have a right to sue - they now MAY lose product sales because of this (no one cares about Photoshop 6 because its nothing new), I think that they should get tossed out because the people have the right to know how a preview release operated.
Besides, what's the difference between a pre-release review that loses sales and a post-release review that loses sales? Not much. It would happen either time, and the only people that would buy the program on the day of its opening (before the poor reviews would come out) are the ones that would buy it anyway, even after the poor reviews come out.
On a sidenote - go gimp!
And another sidenote - this is the most pirated program in the world, EVER. Adobe should be doing other things in the legalroom. Thanks if you're still reading:)
Q: Is there a reason that no human being, other than liberals, has actually seen Mars with their own two eyes? (hint: faked photographs don't count.)
Yes - humans lack the physical and psychological power to view the awesome site of Mars.
Q: Is there a reason that the Martian landscape, a completely different planet, so strikingly resembles the Arizona desert? (you bet your butt there is)
Yes - the awesome planet of Mars is simply a Godly version of the ever-magificent state of Arizona.
Q: Why do liberals find it so decidedly convenient to distract schoolchildren with prophetic nonsense about "other planets" instead of focusing their attention on the here and now where it belongs? Lots of topics of education are being outright ignored in favor of liberal subjects such as astronomy, evolution, and heliocentrism.
Liberals, being sold out to "the man," (or in this case, the power-weilding government), are forced to distribute the truths of the awesome planet of mars. This is due to the Godly Martian Creators having mortal control over the Government, who in turn control the liberals.
Thanks Uruk -- this is great! I printed it... now i just have to find out how to print man CGI. Are there any suggestions or gnome programs to help me? i did man CGI > mancgi but it sucked with all the dates and page numbers on every page.
Its almost time to give up on Napster. I think that we should go down fighting, but won't be surprised when others have to find alternate means of finding songs.
Napster has given us the one thing we need though - an amazing idea. You must commend them on that. Napster, the idea, can NOT be stopped.
No matter how deep one digs, there will always be a level of underground another step deeper.
The time is going to come for us to move back down underground and use IRC (That's what I use for my death and power METAL - DalNet - #mp3_death and #mp3_metal (cant usually find this on Napster)), FreeNet, Gnutella, and others.
In Napsters defeat, realize that the RIAA and the music industry has NOT won at all. We will still willingly pirate music, and they cannot stop it. No matter what they do, it won't be stopped. Never. And that's a damn shame for them, I don't give two shits about their stock.
I think that we better keep an eye on these guys to make sure that they're not violating the GPL. I think that they'll be up to something in order to make it run better, and won't want to show us the fun.
Slashdot Mirror
A bit offtopic, but could someone explain what goes on with Yahoo hosting other peoples' news reports?
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
I wonder if the genome team uses gnome because they're spelled so similarly...!
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
search slasdhot for it, just search for frankenstein imac
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
"I'm gonna hax0r your microsoft .net account and make it so that the http://goatse.cx picture comes up as your background!" bwahaha
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
I wonder if the people working on the Genome project use GNOME (1.2) because it's so nice..
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
"Using patented 5-razor technology, the Mach 5 is able to shave your face with 3 easy strokes! And now with ultra-small razors, it actually fits in your mustache area, unlike its bulky predecessor, the mach 3!"
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Normally this would be flamebait, but lets just face it -- the people that run awards shows are simply losers. There's no way around that.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
I love it when people rip up the iMac's and put bigger monitors and stuff on em :)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Check it out for word processing and it'll be all you need.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
My friends and I have our baby p75 (soul.apk.net) on a co-located network. What I find is VERY important is a redundant internet connection to several different backbones. I personally think that most networks suck, but when you have a connection to 5 different ones, speeds to various sites are going to be much better. The rest of the suggestions have been very good.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
I've said this before and I'll say it again -- for you investors, AMD is a surefire thing. I bought it right when the k7 roadmap was announced, and they've done nothing but good things since. AMD is taking over their market -- might as well join in for the ride.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
This is a major problem. What I would do for myself is to have an mp3->ogg converter for the current collection, and then use ogg from then on. However, if the public doesn't accept it (maybe they won't like the name Ogg Vorbis!), then it could be an uphill battle.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Thanks..
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
No, it runs quite well at 160kbps right now, and is taking great strides for the lower and higher bitrates. Check out the web page and try em out.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Hey, how can we help it if the open source movement perfects the standard to the point of absolute quality?! All the power to us :)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
2. No royalties ever owed to jerks
3. Already comparable to mp3 and once finalized will be better quality and compression
4. LGPL
5. It will support more than 2 channels (if it doesn't yet)
6. Already have audio player plugins for it, they're getting better.
7. With a name like Ogg Vorbis, its GOT to be good!
8. Their logo is awesome9. The extention is going to be
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Almost -- I would enjoy wathcing a Kevin Smith movie WAY more than cracking it! Kevin Smith is the man and if i wasn't lazy i'd make you a link.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
oh my god! that CAN'T be real!
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Also, a bit offtopic. For GAIM, I want to program a plugin. Let me know if you like this idea: It's a bit like call-screening. Basically, you go into away mode, but then there are some people that you select that CAN IM you without an away message (like your best friends). You all know why this would be useful... think of when you're busy but want to be online in case your best buds have somethin to say. But filter the rest out without hurting their feelings! It wouldn't be that hard to program, everything we have is there, I just suck with C. Let me know if anyone is interested. Thanks!
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
SCREW THAT! IT'S TIME TO KILL MOZILLA.ORG!
ftp.mozilla.org: 390kb/s.
mozilla never ceases to amaze me. They even release m16 when m15 started crashing a lot and i was ready to get a nightly build!
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Adobe would LOVE it if they ran an article on Photoshop 6 if it was very good, but they obviously have as little enthusiasm and confidence in it as I do.
Although Adobe does have a right to sue - they now MAY lose product sales because of this (no one cares about Photoshop 6 because its nothing new), I think that they should get tossed out because the people have the right to know how a preview release operated.
Besides, what's the difference between a pre-release review that loses sales and a post-release review that loses sales? Not much. It would happen either time, and the only people that would buy the program on the day of its opening (before the poor reviews would come out) are the ones that would buy it anyway, even after the poor reviews come out.
On a sidenote - go gimp!
And another sidenote - this is the most pirated program in the world, EVER. Adobe should be doing other things in the legalroom. :)
Thanks if you're still reading
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Q: Is there a reason that the Martian landscape, a completely different planet, so strikingly resembles the Arizona desert? (you bet your butt there is)
Q: Why do liberals find it so decidedly convenient to distract schoolchildren with prophetic nonsense about "other planets" instead of focusing their attention on the here and now where it belongs? Lots of topics of education are being outright ignored in favor of liberal subjects such as astronomy, evolution, and heliocentrism.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Thanks Uruk -- this is great! I printed it... now i just have to find out how to print man CGI. Are there any suggestions or gnome programs to help me? i did man CGI > mancgi but it sucked with all the dates and page numbers on every page.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
Napster has given us the one thing we need though - an amazing idea. You must commend them on that. Napster, the idea, can NOT be stopped.
No matter how deep one digs, there will always be a level of underground another step deeper.
The time is going to come for us to move back down underground and use IRC (That's what I use for my death and power METAL - DalNet - #mp3_death and #mp3_metal (cant usually find this on Napster)), FreeNet, Gnutella, and others.
In Napsters defeat, realize that the RIAA and the music industry has NOT won at all. We will still willingly pirate music, and they cannot stop it. No matter what they do, it won't be stopped. Never. And that's a damn shame for them, I don't give two shits about their stock.
Just remember -- WE WIN.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto
I think that we better keep an eye on these guys to make sure that they're not violating the GPL. I think that they'll be up to something in order to make it run better, and won't want to show us the fun.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) -GAIM: MicroBerto