They are like corporations, size-wise. Heck one of my last schools just recently made the switch from Windows 2000 to XP SP2. I begged them to get rid of Netscrap and use Firefox on the computers, but the IT department said no. I don't know why Universities want to hang on to Netscape so much. Nescrap and new Win XPSP2. That's the computing life in public US Universities. So it will be at least two years before Vista makes it to computers there.
Both Apple *and* MS would love for you to believe that their codecs can sound twice as good as mp3 at half the bit rate, but unfortunately for them it just isn't true and that double-blind listening test proved it some time ago.
(Apple's AAC fares a bit better, but not a whole lot.)
FYI, for lots of people confused by this: First, the AAC is NOT by apple. It stands for Advanced Audio Coding. Not 'apple's audio codec.'
The AAC format was developed by the same people who created the mp3. It was engineered to be the 'next' mp3, and IS technically superior in all aspects. The designed it to be that way. (Duh.) Better quality at a lower bitrate = smaller files. Read the Fraunhofer's page about it (above link). Here are some highlights:
"What is MPEG-2 AAC?
MPEG-2 AAC is the consequent continuation of the truly successful coding method ISO/MPEG Audio Layer-3 developed in Erlangen."
"Even though the basic structure of this coding method hardly differs from the ones of its predecessors, a closer look into the details (see Fig. 2) does reveal some new aspects worth paying attention to. The crucial differences between MPEG-2 AAC and its predecessor ISO/MPEG Audio Layer-3 are shown as follows:
* Filter bank: in contrast to the hybrid filter bank of ISO/MPEG Audio Layer-3 - chosen for reasons of compatibility but displaying certain structural weaknesses - MPEG-2 AAC uses a plain Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT). Together with the increased window length (1024 instead of 576 spectral lines per transform) the MDCT outperforms the filter banks of previous coding methods.
* Temporal Noise Shaping (TNS): A true novelty in the area of time/frequency coding schemes. It shapes the distribution of quantization noise in time by prediction in the frequency domain. In particular voice signals experience considerable improvement through TNS.
* Prediction: A technique commonly established in the area of speech coding systems. It benefits from the fact that certain types of audio signals are easy to predict.
* Quantization: by allowing finer control of quantization resolution, the given bit rate can be used more efficiently.
* Bit-stream format: the information to be transmitted undergoes entropy coding in order to keep redundancy as low as possible. The optimization of these coding methods together with a flexible bit-stream structure has made further improvement of the coding efficiency possible."
I agree. Sounds like this guy who did the sound is more of an engineer, and not a composer. You can tell by the 'results.' And 18 MONTHS? Give me a break. Sound designers working in tv/film have a matter of days/weeks to come up with complicated and creative sounds.
Business a.k.a. corporate version will be out before customer version. So this means that everyone will be downloading and using the corporate version long before the home issues comes out.
So wake up and smell the roses. Don't like it here? Change it - don't flee like a coward.
Kind of hard when we live in a fascist-republic and not a democracy. I wouldn't say that the people who fled Germany under Hitler were cowards.
This guy posted how he got it working in OS X with fink. Enjoy!
FC5 release was not a failure [feeding the troll]
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Nice troll.
FC5 was a giant step up, among Linux distros at that time. FC5 received many 'so-so' reviews, which tarnished the image. There was a long discussion about this on the fedora mailing list.
This is good for anyone who does audio work in Linux. Until now, you had to patch the kernel to get a low-latency kernel. This is the big news- for Linux audio users!
Gentoo PPC on the dual CPU powermacs is great. And it is getting better. I recently purchased a used Powermac G5- it's a fast machine. Compiled KDE-base and other KDE apps together in well under an hour. Wireless airport card works now with 2.6.17 kernel. I love it.
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Yes Konqueror is quite good! Site works fine for me, too (v3.5.4).
Thanks a lot, Microsoft.
-Steve Jobs
They are like corporations, size-wise. Heck one of my last schools just recently made the switch from Windows 2000 to XP SP2. I begged them to get rid of Netscrap and use Firefox on the computers, but the IT department said no. I don't know why Universities want to hang on to Netscape so much. Nescrap and new Win XPSP2. That's the computing life in public US Universities. So it will be at least two years before Vista makes it to computers there.
Both Apple *and* MS would love for you to believe that their codecs can sound twice as good as mp3 at half the bit rate, but unfortunately for them it just isn't true and that double-blind listening test proved it some time ago.
(Apple's AAC fares a bit better, but not a whole lot.)
FYI, for lots of people confused by this: First, the AAC is NOT by apple. It stands for Advanced Audio Coding. Not 'apple's audio codec.'
The AAC format was developed by the same people who created the mp3. It was engineered to be the 'next' mp3, and IS technically superior in all aspects. The designed it to be that way. (Duh.) Better quality at a lower bitrate = smaller files. Read the Fraunhofer's page about it (above link). Here are some highlights:
"What is MPEG-2 AAC?
MPEG-2 AAC is the consequent continuation of the truly successful coding method ISO/MPEG Audio Layer-3 developed in Erlangen."
"Even though the basic structure of this coding method hardly differs from the ones of its predecessors, a closer look into the details (see Fig. 2) does reveal some new aspects worth paying attention to. The crucial differences between MPEG-2 AAC and its predecessor ISO/MPEG Audio Layer-3 are shown as follows:
* Filter bank: in contrast to the hybrid filter bank of ISO/MPEG Audio Layer-3 - chosen for reasons of compatibility but displaying certain structural weaknesses - MPEG-2 AAC uses a plain Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT). Together with the increased window length (1024 instead of 576 spectral lines per transform) the MDCT outperforms the filter banks of previous coding methods.
* Temporal Noise Shaping (TNS): A true novelty in the area of time/frequency coding schemes. It shapes the distribution of quantization noise in time by prediction in the frequency domain. In particular voice signals experience considerable improvement through TNS.
* Prediction: A technique commonly established in the area of speech coding systems. It benefits from the fact that certain types of audio signals are easy to predict.
* Quantization: by allowing finer control of quantization resolution, the given bit rate can be used more efficiently.
* Bit-stream format: the information to be transmitted undergoes entropy coding in order to keep redundancy as low as possible. The optimization of these coding methods together with a flexible bit-stream structure has made further improvement of the coding efficiency possible."
I agree. Sounds like this guy who did the sound is more of an engineer, and not a composer. You can tell by the 'results.' And 18 MONTHS? Give me a break. Sound designers working in tv/film have a matter of days/weeks to come up with complicated and creative sounds.
http://www.microsoftlinux.com/
Sort of weird but interesting page here.
Lower temp = longer life.
Business a.k.a. corporate version will be out before customer version. So this means that everyone will be downloading and using the corporate version long before the home issues comes out.
Yeah that's pretty hot for a laptop. But I guess it packs a punch.
So wake up and smell the roses. Don't like it here? Change it - don't flee like a coward.
Kind of hard when we live in a fascist-republic and not a democracy. I wouldn't say that the people who fled Germany under Hitler were cowards.
What about Guinness beer? That should be at least number 1 or 2 on the list!
http://www.rvantwisk.nl/news/item/archive/2006/aug ust/article/ot-compiling-gaim-200-beta-3-on-os-x-1 047.html
This guy posted how he got it working in OS X with fink. Enjoy!
Nice troll.
FC5 was a giant step up, among Linux distros at that time. FC5 received many 'so-so' reviews, which tarnished the image. There was a long discussion about this on the fedora mailing list.
http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/ This page doesn't seem to like FF2. Anyone else find other pages with probs?
This is good for anyone who does audio work in Linux. Until now, you had to patch the kernel to get a low-latency kernel. This is the big news- for Linux audio users!
Believe it or not, the same folks who created the mp3 created the aac format:
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http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/aac/inde
It is technically superior to the mp3 in all aspects, as well, it was created to be that way!!
The Fraunhofer folks intended it to be the successor to the mp3 in every aspect.
With no dvd burner, on board video, no bluetooth. Watered down for a $900 computer.
I guess you missed the round of stories on how to hack wep in 10 minutes.
Listen to Steve's podcasts on wireless security. Basically, WEP is horrible. And WPA2 is best.
How about making the password some part of the unique serial number? Something. Anything but admin and 'password.'
Come on, 34 comments and no mention of A Wrinkle in Time?
Still no mention of flash for PPC Linux. Is this going to happen?
Come on, Adobe. How about PPC Linux flash?
I've sent mine back for another power supply. And disabling the CPU nap worked to kill the noise, also.
Check out this little program to confirm:
http://www.bresink.com/osx/SystemLoad.html
Gentoo PPC on the dual CPU powermacs is great. And it is getting better. I recently purchased a used Powermac G5- it's a fast machine. Compiled KDE-base and other KDE apps together in well under an hour. Wireless airport card works now with 2.6.17 kernel. I love it.
Besides, if you want to use Japanese characters, just go to slashdot.jp
I prefer:
http://solidot.org/
(Maybe this is Chinese? I can't tell.)