On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:11:24 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:00:39 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> Technical videos from conferences
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>>>> | Here are videos from presentations in technical conferences. They
>>>> should | be useful for people lacking time or money to attend these
>>>> conferences. `----
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>>>> http://free-electrons.com/community/videos/conferences/
>>>>
>>>> "The number of developers working on improving Linux vastly exceeds
>>>> the number of Microsoft developers working on Windows NT."
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>>>> --Paul Maritz, Microsoft
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>>> These videos are awesome - plays write out of firefox - though I
>>> prefer to download and archive for instant reference.
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>> Save them via the context menu on the hyperlink. The quality of Ogg is
>> impressive and streaming is excellent too. I'm watching lots of Oggs
>> these days (DTP archive). Lots of people will soon have Oggs support on
>> their PC (FF 3.1).
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> Yawwwnnn..
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> They may have OGG on their PC but they will still be using mp3. As for
> the "quality of ogg being awesome", it depends upon the bit rate, source
> material and other factors. Sound wise cases can be made for both mp3
> and OGG.
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> I use mp3 but only because it is supported by all of my devices and OGG
> is not.
> My source material is either in wav or flac.
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> Should OGG catch on, I would start using it though.
PNG wasn't used very much, either until the w3c put it into their
standards. Hopefully, with Firefox gaining in user base, and native
support for Ogg Vorbis and Theora, OGG will catch on.
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Rick
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