The bottom line is that lighting in heavily populated areas does increase safety, by discouraging those who would use the cover of darkness for their crimes. The couple dollars a night it takes to light a mile of street is well worth the cost to those living on, or walking at night on, those streets.
If crime was that much of a worry, they would probably be installing blue light. In energy conscious Japan, in the area where I was living they were doing exactly that. I just can't see them doing that in the US of A.
Now some people have been recommending red lights. I can only wonder what effect that would have on crime (if any.) I would think that blue light would probably be better than while light for star watching, but not as good as red.
The PlayStation 3 supports encoding and decoding of AAC files.
The Xbox 360 supports streaming of AAC through the Zune software, and off supported iPods connected through the USB port
The Wii video game console supports AAC files through version 1.1 of the Photo Channel as of December 11, 2007. All AAC profiles and bitrates are supported as long as it is in the.m4a file extension. This update removed MP3 compatibility, but users who have installed this may freely downgrade to the old version if they wish.[10]
Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms support AAC either by the native Windows Media Player or by third-party products (TCPMP, CorePlayer)
Sony Ericsson phones support various AAC formats in MP4 container. AAC-LC is supported in all phones beginning with K700, phones beginning with W550 have support of HE-AAC. The latest devices such as the P990, K610, W890i and later support HE-AAC v2.
Nokia XpressMusic and other new generation Nokia multimedia phones: also support AAC format.
BlackBerry: RIM's latest series of Smartphones such as the 8100 ("Pearl") and 8800 support AAC.
Creative Zen Portable
Microsoft Zune
SanDisk Sansa
Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) with firmware 2.0 or greater
Sony Walkman
SonyEricsson Walkman Phones-W series, e.g. W890i
Nintendo DSi To be released in America mid-2009
Back in April 2007, wired magazine said that only 10% of mp3 players supported AAC. Nowadays if the freaking Nintendo DS and Sony PSP even support AAC, it's probably safe to say at least half of new MP3 players support AAC, if not more. It's starting to be come a industry standard along with mp3. Who woulda thunk it back in 2007.
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I peeked at it by chance in a bookstore and it actually looked pretty good. It's the kind of book that makes you notice something you didn't before and go, "that's pretty cool." As long as the books are genuinely well written, they will always be around as long as they are up to date.
A good example of an everlasting book is "The C Programming Language" by Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie. It's a book that was written 20-30 years ago. It was sitting right there on the shelf right next to "Ubuntu Kung Fu", and likely will long outlive "Ubuntu Kung Fu" once it is gone. It doesn't matter how many C tutorials are put up on the web, "The C Programming Language" is still a damn useful book worth paying for.
I'm sure that things are brutal with tech support. Though as a techie that sometimes is forced to call tech support for various reasons, I have definitely found the idiocy is definitely not a one sided thing. The problem is, the tech support people get bullied around so much, you some times have to baby them to make sure they don't close up and become unhelpful. They are definitely not all 100% qualified for their current jobs either.
Case in point number 1: I forgot my password. The company tech person gives me a password. It's wrong. It just isn't the style I would make a password in, and I know. I try to tell them it is wrong in a polite way. They get defensive until I try it. They later realize they can't distinguish a 1 and an l which may be a font problem on their computer. I never got mean, but I was a bit too thankful when she finally gave me the right password though. The kind of thankfulness that when you receive it, you feel like a jerk for having been acting like an ass.
Case in point number 2: I call TDS tech support about TDS webmail for my grandmother. It overall works well, but she needs to be able to make the text larger to read. Because the lines have the break positions hard set as so many characters, she ends up having to scroll ridiculous left/right distances at the font size she needs. The setting is editable in the TDS webmail preferences, but the numbers in the drop down aren't nearly flexible enough.
On the phone I recommend she try to perhaps drop a line with the developers. She says that webmail is an extra feature and is not meant to be used for general usage. I would more inclined believe her, but recently TDS has made it mandatory for the users to go to their main portal page to get to webmail.
In any case, she kept going back to how I should be using outlook express instead. This is a lovely program that doesn't quite work how my grandmother can adjust, and on top of that the interface can't be enlarged. Yet she kept repeating that is what I should do. I'm 90% that was written on a queue card or something.
I eventually switched my grandmother over to linux with Thunderbird as the mail client. In the end was the best option at the time because I could make the text for everything huge and get rid of any interface elements that would confuse her.
One of the more disappointing things about the conversation was how she didn't try recommending any other software. It was only Outlook Express. She didn't even say anything about screen reading software that may have helped get around the problems that Outlook Express would impose on the situation.
Case in point number 3: Tech support tells be about the wonders of emptying the IE cache and resetting the history. It can speed things up and fix bugs. I didn't want to say I was using linux, and so never did. She was too damn nice and I didn't want to end the conversation saying something that would destroy happy the mood, especially with how rare they are with tech support. I couldn't help bug get the feeling that she was really happy to have learned it herself and wanted to pass the information to the world.
Damn that was a long post. Nit pick it as you want, guys.
I can see the police officer stuttering for a minute as he tries to figure out how he can blame the incident on you because your car ran into him when he was tailgating you with his bright lights in the middle of the night. Make sure to tape it, 'kay? Should be interesting.
The GameCube was a lot more powerful than most people give it credit for, especially considering the price. I don't think it was an accident how the PS3 and XBox360 started also using chips from IBM this generation.
Not to mention how Microsoft is branching out to new platforms like the iPhone. Microsoft's Seadragon app came out first on the iPhone according to this news article. It makes me wonder if they will eventually be releasing their huge money making office type apps for the little bugger and this is just testing the waters...or maybe at least release some apps to give official exchange compatibility to the iPhone. I am sure that would sell like hotcakes.
I actually run my computer without notifications. It's one of the reasons I chose Gnome to begin with. It always bugged the heck out of me how programs liked to pop up distracting bubbles.
So with this I should have made it back to 2004. If I can figure out some of these other tricks, I should be able to return to my home time in 1984. The fashions back then were so much better.
It looks like the current members are EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group. That is not a long list. I wonder why news sources can't list them. It would seriously help put responsibility where it should be.
I guess that mean you're not going to try to answer my question either. *sigh* I suppose I can go googling. I really wish people would try to put who the RIAA represents more often. It's not like newspapers when talking about a trial only talk about the lawyers.
Does anyone else wish that when a moderator mods down, they have to give a reason? I'm lost on this one. Worse yet, I still have no what companies the RIAA represents. No one writes it anymore, so I forgot over the years.
Just curious. Did you ever get into (option|control|command) clicking things? That is actually one of the things I miss the most about Mac OS X since moving to linux. I really liked being able to option click outside of a window to hide a whole application. There there is option clicking the close button or minimize button to hide all of the application windows.
Of course, I love alt-middle-click for resizing windows and alt-left-click to move windows on linux now that I have learned them and would miss them if I started using my old Mac again. It took me about 4 years to get really comfortable with linux. It wasn't until the last year that I started finding the little things that I can't live without.
I quickly checked Macworld, MacBytes, and MacRumors and didn't see anything. That still makes me question the newsiness of the problem. *shrug* If the Mac-centric sites aren't covering it, something is strange.
Not to mention the people at Macworld, MacBytes, and MacRumors aren't even posting this news. It makes me question the newsieness of the blue screen story.
I used to do my { on the same line when I programmed in Java. Now that I have been programming in C using gtk for a while, I have been looking for any way possible to shorten lines. The function names are just too long in gtk when using C because it's essentially laying attributes of an object oriented language on top of a non-object oriented language. It's just not possible to keep function declarations like gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags_by_name in one line a lot of times.
*sigh* I liked my coding style. But I have to find something that is readable with this strange mix. Unfortunately, changing my style means I also have to update the other styles eventually. I have also had to acclimate myself to using much shorter and less descriptive variable names.
I think it's more luck. You can bitch about luck if you want, but there is not much you can do about it. I know I haven't heard anything about the blue screen problem yet. Did you try submitting it?
The other thing is that MacFuse is an interesting open source project that makes Linux heads' eyes turn round like plates and mouths start dueling. Given that many times when a linux related article is shown, slashdot usually ends up ending the alticle with a disclaimer stating that they are owned by linux.com (or was it linux.org ?), I don't think that an article like this making it through first is all that strange. The article would more likely catch the eyes of the editors.
Well that's my guess anywho.:-)
Actually, they can be held liable if the problem becomes wide-spread enough. More so if they continue to do absolutely nothing about it. Nothing like seeing the rage of a gamer because they lost their disk because a friend nudged the console an inch while looking through the movie collection. Multiply that by a million and it will become a matter of time before something happens.
I don't own a 360. I don't read all that much about the 360. But still, even I knew from seeing random news headlines and forum posts over the last few years about the scratching problem. Despite early adopters having had nearly a one in two system failure rate, Microsoft denied the red ring of death problems at first, too. So is anyone else here really surprised?
It's a natural progression. I'm pretty sure that within the next few revisions USB will essentially turn into Firewire, much like (P)ATA somehow turned into SCSI (read SATA).
An awful lot of people are looking down their noses at USB 3 because it's not Firewire. Has everyone forgotten that Firewire grants devices DMA access to physical memory? Any physically connected device can be used to bypass the system's security. I'm grateful that USB isn't more like Firewire.
The people on slashdot maybe. Lay people still think USB2 is faster than the original Firewire. Even if you are not going to have to deal with the direct DMA access through Firewire, eSATA will be appearing soon on cheap computers near you to replace Firewire 1...
I don't know if I 100% agree. I a lot of people complain immediately when they don't get the standard fare. A number of these same people are responsible for the Playstation DualShock controller not changing in any really noticeable way for 10 years. The result: Resident Evil 5 is turning into a Halo style first person shooter.
I love it. He only doesn't like nuclear power because of them there terr'ists. And that it's completely reasonably possible to get weapons-grade uranium from any nuclear reactor.
The answer is a symptom of the problem and not the actual problem itself. When someone says they don't like Nuclear energy because of terrorists, they are usually frantically grabbing for the closest thing they can think of to an actual reason. If the terrorists are not around, they will think of another reason to fill the void. A lot of people have an irrational fear of nuclear energy like some people might have of water. They'll come up with reason they can to stay away from it.
Moon energy. I know there must be some way that we can harvest this great natural resource. Maybe attach a rope to it that pulls a gear or burn it or something.
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The bottom line is that lighting in heavily populated areas does increase safety, by discouraging those who would use the cover of darkness for their crimes. The couple dollars a night it takes to light a mile of street is well worth the cost to those living on, or walking at night on, those streets.
If crime was that much of a worry, they would probably be installing blue light. In energy conscious Japan, in the area where I was living they were doing exactly that. I just can't see them doing that in the US of A.
Now some people have been recommending red lights. I can only wonder what effect that would have on crime (if any.) I would think that blue light would probably be better than while light for star watching, but not as good as red.
From the wikipedia aac article some interesting entries:
Back in April 2007, wired magazine said that only 10% of mp3 players supported AAC. Nowadays if the freaking Nintendo DS and Sony PSP even support AAC, it's probably safe to say at least half of new MP3 players support AAC, if not more. It's starting to be come a industry standard along with mp3. Who woulda thunk it back in 2007.
I peeked at it by chance in a bookstore and it actually looked pretty good. It's the kind of book that makes you notice something you didn't before and go, "that's pretty cool." As long as the books are genuinely well written, they will always be around as long as they are up to date.
A good example of an everlasting book is "The C Programming Language" by Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie. It's a book that was written 20-30 years ago. It was sitting right there on the shelf right next to "Ubuntu Kung Fu", and likely will long outlive "Ubuntu Kung Fu" once it is gone. It doesn't matter how many C tutorials are put up on the web, "The C Programming Language" is still a damn useful book worth paying for.
Case in point number 1: I forgot my password. The company tech person gives me a password. It's wrong. It just isn't the style I would make a password in, and I know. I try to tell them it is wrong in a polite way. They get defensive until I try it. They later realize they can't distinguish a 1 and an l which may be a font problem on their computer. I never got mean, but I was a bit too thankful when she finally gave me the right password though. The kind of thankfulness that when you receive it, you feel like a jerk for having been acting like an ass.
Case in point number 2: I call TDS tech support about TDS webmail for my grandmother. It overall works well, but she needs to be able to make the text larger to read. Because the lines have the break positions hard set as so many characters, she ends up having to scroll ridiculous left/right distances at the font size she needs. The setting is editable in the TDS webmail preferences, but the numbers in the drop down aren't nearly flexible enough.
On the phone I recommend she try to perhaps drop a line with the developers. She says that webmail is an extra feature and is not meant to be used for general usage. I would more inclined believe her, but recently TDS has made it mandatory for the users to go to their main portal page to get to webmail.
In any case, she kept going back to how I should be using outlook express instead. This is a lovely program that doesn't quite work how my grandmother can adjust, and on top of that the interface can't be enlarged. Yet she kept repeating that is what I should do. I'm 90% that was written on a queue card or something.
I eventually switched my grandmother over to linux with Thunderbird as the mail client. In the end was the best option at the time because I could make the text for everything huge and get rid of any interface elements that would confuse her.
One of the more disappointing things about the conversation was how she didn't try recommending any other software. It was only Outlook Express. She didn't even say anything about screen reading software that may have helped get around the problems that Outlook Express would impose on the situation.
Case in point number 3: Tech support tells be about the wonders of emptying the IE cache and resetting the history. It can speed things up and fix bugs. I didn't want to say I was using linux, and so never did. She was too damn nice and I didn't want to end the conversation saying something that would destroy happy the mood, especially with how rare they are with tech support. I couldn't help bug get the feeling that she was really happy to have learned it herself and wanted to pass the information to the world.
Damn that was a long post. Nit pick it as you want, guys.
I can see the police officer stuttering for a minute as he tries to figure out how he can blame the incident on you because your car ran into him when he was tailgating you with his bright lights in the middle of the night. Make sure to tape it, 'kay? Should be interesting.
The GameCube was a lot more powerful than most people give it credit for, especially considering the price. I don't think it was an accident how the PS3 and XBox360 started also using chips from IBM this generation.
Not to mention how Microsoft is branching out to new platforms like the iPhone. Microsoft's Seadragon app came out first on the iPhone according to this news article. It makes me wonder if they will eventually be releasing their huge money making office type apps for the little bugger and this is just testing the waters...or maybe at least release some apps to give official exchange compatibility to the iPhone. I am sure that would sell like hotcakes.
I actually run my computer without notifications. It's one of the reasons I chose Gnome to begin with. It always bugged the heck out of me how programs liked to pop up distracting bubbles.
So with this I should have made it back to 2004. If I can figure out some of these other tricks, I should be able to return to my home time in 1984. The fashions back then were so much better.
It looks like the current members are EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group. That is not a long list. I wonder why news sources can't list them. It would seriously help put responsibility where it should be.
My references was wikipedia.
I guess that mean you're not going to try to answer my question either. *sigh* I suppose I can go googling. I really wish people would try to put who the RIAA represents more often. It's not like newspapers when talking about a trial only talk about the lawyers.
Does anyone else wish that when a moderator mods down, they have to give a reason? I'm lost on this one. Worse yet, I still have no what companies the RIAA represents. No one writes it anymore, so I forgot over the years.
I'll give you ten cents if you can tell me what companies the RIAA represents.
Just curious. Did you ever get into (option|control|command) clicking things? That is actually one of the things I miss the most about Mac OS X since moving to linux. I really liked being able to option click outside of a window to hide a whole application. There there is option clicking the close button or minimize button to hide all of the application windows.
Of course, I love alt-middle-click for resizing windows and alt-left-click to move windows on linux now that I have learned them and would miss them if I started using my old Mac again. It took me about 4 years to get really comfortable with linux. It wasn't until the last year that I started finding the little things that I can't live without.
I quickly checked Macworld, MacBytes, and MacRumors and didn't see anything. That still makes me question the newsiness of the problem. *shrug* If the Mac-centric sites aren't covering it, something is strange.
Not to mention the people at Macworld, MacBytes, and MacRumors aren't even posting this news. It makes me question the newsieness of the blue screen story.
I used to do my { on the same line when I programmed in Java. Now that I have been programming in C using gtk for a while, I have been looking for any way possible to shorten lines. The function names are just too long in gtk when using C because it's essentially laying attributes of an object oriented language on top of a non-object oriented language. It's just not possible to keep function declarations like gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags_by_name in one line a lot of times.
*sigh* I liked my coding style. But I have to find something that is readable with this strange mix. Unfortunately, changing my style means I also have to update the other styles eventually. I have also had to acclimate myself to using much shorter and less descriptive variable names.
I think it's more luck. You can bitch about luck if you want, but there is not much you can do about it. I know I haven't heard anything about the blue screen problem yet. Did you try submitting it? The other thing is that MacFuse is an interesting open source project that makes Linux heads' eyes turn round like plates and mouths start dueling. Given that many times when a linux related article is shown, slashdot usually ends up ending the alticle with a disclaimer stating that they are owned by linux.com (or was it linux.org ?), I don't think that an article like this making it through first is all that strange. The article would more likely catch the eyes of the editors. Well that's my guess anywho. :-)
Actually, they can be held liable if the problem becomes wide-spread enough. More so if they continue to do absolutely nothing about it. Nothing like seeing the rage of a gamer because they lost their disk because a friend nudged the console an inch while looking through the movie collection. Multiply that by a million and it will become a matter of time before something happens.
I don't own a 360. I don't read all that much about the 360. But still, even I knew from seeing random news headlines and forum posts over the last few years about the scratching problem. Despite early adopters having had nearly a one in two system failure rate, Microsoft denied the red ring of death problems at first, too. So is anyone else here really surprised?
Um. Er. Ha ha ha ha. I think I just super-glued the foam to my forehead.
It's a natural progression. I'm pretty sure that within the next few revisions USB will essentially turn into Firewire, much like (P)ATA somehow turned into SCSI (read SATA).
An awful lot of people are looking down their noses at USB 3 because it's not Firewire. Has everyone forgotten that Firewire grants devices DMA access to physical memory? Any physically connected device can be used to bypass the system's security. I'm grateful that USB isn't more like Firewire.
The people on slashdot maybe. Lay people still think USB2 is faster than the original Firewire. Even if you are not going to have to deal with the direct DMA access through Firewire, eSATA will be appearing soon on cheap computers near you to replace Firewire 1...
I don't know if I 100% agree. I a lot of people complain immediately when they don't get the standard fare. A number of these same people are responsible for the Playstation DualShock controller not changing in any really noticeable way for 10 years. The result: Resident Evil 5 is turning into a Halo style first person shooter.
I love it. He only doesn't like nuclear power because of them there terr'ists. And that it's completely reasonably possible to get weapons-grade uranium from any nuclear reactor.
The answer is a symptom of the problem and not the actual problem itself. When someone says they don't like Nuclear energy because of terrorists, they are usually frantically grabbing for the closest thing they can think of to an actual reason. If the terrorists are not around, they will think of another reason to fill the void. A lot of people have an irrational fear of nuclear energy like some people might have of water. They'll come up with reason they can to stay away from it.
Moon energy. I know there must be some way that we can harvest this great natural resource. Maybe attach a rope to it that pulls a gear or burn it or something.