In the early ninties, desktop computers became popular items. Nearly everyone has "Windows 98" on their "Pentium" these days.
In the mid ninties, the internet became popular. Nearly everyone "chats" at "yahoo", emoticons are the new cool slang. Although I've yet to have someone in a real conversation reply to me with "colon hyphen close-bracket!", tempted am I to use such a line myself.
In the late ninties, computers have become so embedded in our lifestyle, companies are turning to artistic methods of selling their boxes, web site gurus are using "cooler" technology. Our computers now fit into our decor, our web sites customise the news to suit our lifestyles (and advertising to match).
We're all buying over the net, e-commerce is the future of all financial dealings.
And Y2K is the future of our news media.
The pathetic attempt-at-scare that is Nine Slash Nine Slash Ninty Nine was undoubtedly cooked up by some wannabe net journalist, looking for a story to tie in with this visually different, otherwise harmless date. Yes, there may be one or two problems reported. But they'll be limited to bad date implemetations in shoddy COBOL scripts.
Perhaps Slashdot should make a new category specifically for "media-tech-scares", so I can filter it out?:)
There's a difference between attacking, and explaining what I think is wrong, so that we can make it better.
Isn't that what Open Source is all about? Everyone can have a say, everyone can help, making the final product better than any paid design team could possibly produce?
I would like you to produce evidence to show you can't stick Quicktime movies together.
Seeing as that's a major part of my job, I can confidently say that you're wrong, and don't have sufficient knowledge of the Quicktime spec.
QT4 has been out of beta for a while, and has an excellent implementation of MP3. QT3 supports MPEG Layer 2, a better format than MP3 when used at 160kbps or higher.
Your campaign to spread misinformation is very disappointing indeed. Quicktime is an industry standard, no matter what some "Kevin-who-doesn't-have-an-email-address" thinks.
I thought Universal would have loved everyone to link to their movie trailers. I mean, am I missing something here or are trailers NOT grand billboard-advertisments for their product?
Whoops, I don't post every day;( Stupid HTML formatting mode...lol
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>I don't like Quicktime to begin with anyhow. >The quality is rather shoddy
Use a different codec.
>and just like avi's and real media files, you >can't stick them together
100% Freshly Squeezed False. You are simply spouting FUD about a product you've never used beyond the player.
Furthermore, you can even link different files of different codecs -- I often do Quicktime files that switch between Sorenson during video sequences, 'Animation' compression during animation sequences (I believe you can use FLASH now) and JPEG compression for still images. The sound switches between MP3 during music, and QDesign for voice-only passages.
This way, I can get the best ratio of quality vs file size. And you can't do that with any other format that I know of.
>I don't like Quicktime to begin with anyhow. >The quality is rather shoddy Use a different codec. >and just like avi's and real media files, you >can't stick them together 100% Freshly Squeezed False. You are simply spouting FUD about a product you've never used beyond the player. Simon Wright.
And that's what makes the whole thing so laughable. Even if they REQUIRED isp's to block porn, a simple variation of ROT-13 (how about binary: 1=0 and 0=1) on your internet feed would be enough to completely dissolve any 'blocks' available.
But effective blocking is so laughably impossible, and so laughably ILLEGAL, no ISP would even bother spending the hundreds of thousands of dollars getting filtering routers.
Q. Do I have to post back my modifications to the original source code?
Yes, in most cases--unless you are using the original source code purely for internal research and development--you must make source code of your modifications publicly available under the terms of the APSL. Please read the APSL for details.
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In the early ninties, desktop computers became popular items. Nearly everyone has "Windows 98" on their "Pentium" these days.
In the mid ninties, the internet became popular. Nearly everyone "chats" at "yahoo", emoticons are the new cool slang. Although I've yet to have someone in a real conversation reply to me with "colon hyphen close-bracket!", tempted am I to use such a line myself.
In the late ninties, computers have become so embedded in our lifestyle, companies are turning to artistic methods of selling their boxes, web site gurus are using "cooler" technology. Our computers now fit into our decor, our web sites customise the news to suit our lifestyles (and advertising to match).
We're all buying over the net, e-commerce is the future of all financial dealings.
And Y2K is the future of our news media.
The pathetic attempt-at-scare that is Nine Slash Nine Slash Ninty Nine was undoubtedly cooked up by some wannabe net journalist, looking for a story to tie in with this visually different, otherwise harmless date. Yes, there may be one or two problems reported. But they'll be limited to bad date implemetations in shoddy COBOL scripts.
Perhaps Slashdot should make a new category specifically for "media-tech-scares", so I can filter it out? :)
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Isn't that what Open Source is all about? Everyone can have a say, everyone can help, making the final product better than any paid design team could possibly produce?
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Seeing as that's a major part of my job, I can confidently say that you're wrong, and don't have sufficient knowledge of the Quicktime spec.
QT4 has been out of beta for a while, and has an excellent implementation of MP3. QT3 supports MPEG Layer 2, a better format than MP3 when used at 160kbps or higher.
Your campaign to spread misinformation is very disappointing indeed. Quicktime is an industry standard, no matter what some "Kevin-who-doesn't-have-an-email-address" thinks.
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Stupid HTML formatting mode...lol
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>I don't like Quicktime to begin with anyhow.
>The quality is rather shoddy
Use a different codec.
>and just like avi's and real media files, you >can't stick them together
100% Freshly Squeezed False. You are simply spouting FUD about a product you've never used beyond the player.
Furthermore, you can even link different files of different codecs -- I often do Quicktime files that switch between Sorenson during video sequences, 'Animation' compression during animation sequences (I believe you can use FLASH now) and JPEG compression for still images. The sound switches between MP3 during music, and QDesign for voice-only passages.
This way, I can get the best ratio of quality vs file size. And you can't do that with any other format that I know of.
If you don't want Quicktime, what DO you want?
Simon Wright
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But effective blocking is so laughably impossible, and so laughably ILLEGAL, no ISP would even bother spending the hundreds of thousands of dollars getting filtering routers.
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We have one cable internet provider in Australia and it sucks.
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We have one cable internet provider in Australia and it sucks.
From the FAQ:
Q. Do I have to post back my modifications to the original source code?
Yes, in most cases--unless you are using the original source code purely for internal research and development--you must make source code of your modifications publicly available under the terms of the APSL. Please read the APSL for details.
Then you would have loved the 20th Aniversary Macintosh. The whole thing looks cool, and the tower hides underneath the desk.
The simple solution is for Freshmeat to detect the client used and format the page to suit.
Simon