I'm surprised no one has mentioned that youtube audio is still mono. I enjoy listening to music from youtube too, and there are plenty of free online tools to rip mp3s from the videos, but it drives me nuts that almost all of the videos are mono - this is a way bigger issue to me than the compression.
Comcast for me has gone from bad to worse. Torrents were my first problem, and then iChat video became horrendous. Now websites time out too (the connection reset issues mentioned in the article) and I have a hard time uploading large files to services like youtube. Since most of the services they're hindering are legit, I'm seriously considering switching ISPs.
Luckily for you it doesn't work too well. The algorithm doesn't seem to have any understanding of functional harmony in chordal movement except in the 5-1 cadences in the end. It's an interesting concept but it sounds about as useful as auto-accompaniment on cheap keyboards.
I'm also wondering if this would work as a super cheap reseller plan. Even if they didn't allow DNS bindings to go to different subdirectories of your account, you could set up the redirects/includes via PHP or.htaccess.
Then again, if yahoo flagged you for abuse, you'd have a lot of angry clients.
I was already looking into an online backup service (such as mozy.com) that would keep an off site backup of my files. Mozy has 'unlimited' storage too but only allows one person at a time to access the data. This would be great for mirroring files (such as class documents for students to access).
Does anyone know a good way to use this service as an automatic backup? I'm thinking rsync if they support ssh or sftp. Is there OS X / unix backup software like Mozy's out there that will do this with any web host, or should I use a cron job?
The computer was working fine, it's the wiimote itself that is having trouble. In particular it was having trouble recognizing the pinch gesture. The wiimote can track up to 4 IR sources at once, but it's pretty low resolution and when you get two points close together (the pinch) it gets confused.
I tried Johnny Lee's hacks - they're pretty amazing, but don't work as well for me as they did in his demo - the wiimote's limited resolution combined with its 45 range makes apps stutter and stop responding intermittently similar to what you see in this video. The wiimote has a lot of potential but other than for DIY novelty, I don't see any of this going 'prime time' until the wiimote itself can be improved, or at least until better IR point threshold algorithms are worked out.
This scares me too. Apple's depending a lot on the wireless capabilities of this thing; lets hope Apple's finicky support for third party routers such as some Linksys ones has improved. 1 USB port sounds like a pain too; if your wireless doesn't work, choose between an external USB CD drive or an ethernet USB adapter.
Can you seed? Sandvine doesn't limit your downloading, it prevents seeding (though that in turn can slow your downloads down). If you notice all your peers dropping to zero after your download is finished on an otherwise popular torrent, you're being affected.
Exactly, before we tackle putting 8 core processors to full use, can we solve the spinning beach ball of death? I hardly ever use my dual core system at peak capacity, but no matter how fast my machine is, sometimes it still just locks up.
>You can boot straight into a standard BSD command line, or access one any time.
The weird thing to me about OS X is that you can delete the terminal application. It's weird that it's an application at all. Sure you can boot into single user mode, but it messes with my mind that you can permanently remove access to the core system via the GUI.
>you cant do ANYTHING with "My Location" except watch a pretty blue point on the map
>No My Location for route finding
If you click off 'use GPS location' you can both route directions from your approximate position and find local businesses. The 'use GPS location' is a misnomer but you're incorrect about the functionality.
I tried this on my T-mobile wing tonight and it works great. It was about 3 blocks off which is better than I expected.
People seem to forget (when reviewing this before trying it) that your STARTING point is generally less important than your destination. If you got directions before you hit that fork in the road, yes you would know to go left assuming you can read directions. The directions are going to be exact and it's just a matter of finding your way to the beginning of them.
Also, I'm not sure why the poster below said this functionality was nothing more than a 'pretty blue dot.' If I checked off 'use GPS location' (even though it's not technically GPS), it would give me directions to anywhere from my approximate assumed location as well as tell me local business listings such as pizza.
I have a bluetooth GPS device but am much more likely to use this because it works faster than it takes the GPS to discover satellites, it uses a stronger signal source, and it doesn't need to pair to any external equipment. Looking up your location is manual, so I will still use my GPS for determining speed and distance traveled (Tracky is a great program for that), but this will pretty much replace the GPS for finding businesses and getting directions.
Finally, a note that this worked for me in Chicago but did not work for my friend in Kansas City. Looks like google hasn't mapped all the cell towers yet.
It's true - I have a new 24 inch aluminum iMac 24 inch running leopard, just checked the bluetooth menu, and it's on, with discoverable on. Yow! Thanks for the tip!
I had a horrible time installing Leopard. I tried to Archive and Install preserving network and user settings, and at the end I got a "OS X 10.5 Install Unsuccessful. Could not migrate previous user directory. Press here to reboot and try again." I rebooted and tried an upgrade instead, only to find that archive and install had only copied part of my home folder but already moved it, and upgrade deleted my old home folder. It did not save my documents folder or desktop in the previous system folder. I blog about it here:
http://problemstosolve.com/os-x/leopard-archive-and-install-wipes-away-documents-unsolved/
Another problem I have about Apple's copying is how there are a number of errors that will make it fail in the middle of a large copy, and you have to start all over again. These include file names that are too long and permission/file in use errors. If I'm copying 48 GB and it fails halfway through, it just quits, and if I fix that file and start over, it may just fail again on another file. I've found rsync and ditto to work somewhat better, and the free GUI tool iBackup to be the best at doing complete copies and logging instead of quitting.
I was wondering about this last night. I returned a GeForce 7300 graphics card. I had opened it but returned it in its original box with all the parts with my receipt.
I originally paid cash and got back cash. But what's to stop me from returning my old broken graphics card or a ceramic tile?
I assume they check the merchandise at some point (though I bet in this story it was an unchecked return that they resold), but even if they check it later, I'm already out of the store and they have no way of tracing it back to me.
I'm not advocating theft, but Best Buy should update their policies, and not pass the buck onto the unfortunate consumer.
On my system the GPS application stores its logs in a textfile which I can easily edit. It would be trivial for me to doctor the text file to contest any speeding ticket. I'm not sure that this is a good form of evidence.
after purchasing my T-mobile Wing. The iPhone may be sleeker and faster, but because developers don't have to waste time hacking their way into the OS, and because the OS is not limited to one device, there are several times more applications available for Windows Mobile out there. I'm sure many developers will be discouraged by Apple's bricking, too.
I think someone hacked together a NES emulator and skype for the iPhone, but I still haven't seen unique applications like the music making software Syntrax, GPS tracking software like Tracky, or games as complex as Riven and Myst for the iPhone like I have on my pocket pc.
Cnet has an amazing collection of pocket PC games and they all actually work for the phone; I used to use Getjar all the time for my last java phone but it was amazing even with a cross-platform language like Java how many of the applications just didn't work as expected (or at all) with my previous phone. It was always a gamble. I agree with the author's stance that you can expect the same results the most with Windows Mobile, as much as I'd like to root for Apple, Linux or Java.
that this will stimulate. Should be pretty cool.
On a side note, what do Halo and the source engine use now if not raytracing? It seems like if they're not raytracing already it's a pretty close approximation.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned that youtube audio is still mono. I enjoy listening to music from youtube too, and there are plenty of free online tools to rip mp3s from the videos, but it drives me nuts that almost all of the videos are mono - this is a way bigger issue to me than the compression.
...people I knew didn't block text messages from the internet. As reported by the NYT: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/how-to-block-cellphone-spam/ AOL IM clients will look like internet traffic and be blocked by this, no?
After seeing a photo of that guy, I hereby resign from the sport of chessboxing.
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Comcast for me has gone from bad to worse. Torrents were my first problem, and then iChat video became horrendous. Now websites time out too (the connection reset issues mentioned in the article) and I have a hard time uploading large files to services like youtube. Since most of the services they're hindering are legit, I'm seriously considering switching ISPs.
Luckily for you it doesn't work too well. The algorithm doesn't seem to have any understanding of functional harmony in chordal movement except in the 5-1 cadences in the end. It's an interesting concept but it sounds about as useful as auto-accompaniment on cheap keyboards.
I'm also wondering if this would work as a super cheap reseller plan. Even if they didn't allow DNS bindings to go to different subdirectories of your account, you could set up the redirects/includes via PHP or .htaccess.
Then again, if yahoo flagged you for abuse, you'd have a lot of angry clients.
I was already looking into an online backup service (such as mozy.com) that would keep an off site backup of my files. Mozy has 'unlimited' storage too but only allows one person at a time to access the data. This would be great for mirroring files (such as class documents for students to access). Does anyone know a good way to use this service as an automatic backup? I'm thinking rsync if they support ssh or sftp. Is there OS X / unix backup software like Mozy's out there that will do this with any web host, or should I use a cron job?
The computer was working fine, it's the wiimote itself that is having trouble. In particular it was having trouble recognizing the pinch gesture. The wiimote can track up to 4 IR sources at once, but it's pretty low resolution and when you get two points close together (the pinch) it gets confused. I tried Johnny Lee's hacks - they're pretty amazing, but don't work as well for me as they did in his demo - the wiimote's limited resolution combined with its 45 range makes apps stutter and stop responding intermittently similar to what you see in this video. The wiimote has a lot of potential but other than for DIY novelty, I don't see any of this going 'prime time' until the wiimote itself can be improved, or at least until better IR point threshold algorithms are worked out.
...instead of a video game?
This scares me too. Apple's depending a lot on the wireless capabilities of this thing; lets hope Apple's finicky support for third party routers such as some Linksys ones has improved. 1 USB port sounds like a pain too; if your wireless doesn't work, choose between an external USB CD drive or an ethernet USB adapter.
Can you seed? Sandvine doesn't limit your downloading, it prevents seeding (though that in turn can slow your downloads down). If you notice all your peers dropping to zero after your download is finished on an otherwise popular torrent, you're being affected.
of almost any of his comics, but all he sells is the scub / anti-scub ones and the unicorn ones, none of which make any sense out of context.
I bought one of those candy fan pens from blockbuster last night and converted it to an IR pen by replacing the motor with an IR led. Cost: $3 pen plus $1.50 LED. Works great! I put up instructions here: http://jordanbalagot.com/blog/2007/12/19/converted-diy-ir-pen-from-candy-toy/
Exactly, before we tackle putting 8 core processors to full use, can we solve the spinning beach ball of death? I hardly ever use my dual core system at peak capacity, but no matter how fast my machine is, sometimes it still just locks up.
The weird thing to me about OS X is that you can delete the terminal application. It's weird that it's an application at all. Sure you can boot into single user mode, but it messes with my mind that you can permanently remove access to the core system via the GUI.
>you cant do ANYTHING with "My Location" except watch a pretty blue point on the map >No My Location for route finding If you click off 'use GPS location' you can both route directions from your approximate position and find local businesses. The 'use GPS location' is a misnomer but you're incorrect about the functionality.
I tried this on my T-mobile wing tonight and it works great. It was about 3 blocks off which is better than I expected. People seem to forget (when reviewing this before trying it) that your STARTING point is generally less important than your destination. If you got directions before you hit that fork in the road, yes you would know to go left assuming you can read directions. The directions are going to be exact and it's just a matter of finding your way to the beginning of them. Also, I'm not sure why the poster below said this functionality was nothing more than a 'pretty blue dot.' If I checked off 'use GPS location' (even though it's not technically GPS), it would give me directions to anywhere from my approximate assumed location as well as tell me local business listings such as pizza. I have a bluetooth GPS device but am much more likely to use this because it works faster than it takes the GPS to discover satellites, it uses a stronger signal source, and it doesn't need to pair to any external equipment. Looking up your location is manual, so I will still use my GPS for determining speed and distance traveled (Tracky is a great program for that), but this will pretty much replace the GPS for finding businesses and getting directions. Finally, a note that this worked for me in Chicago but did not work for my friend in Kansas City. Looks like google hasn't mapped all the cell towers yet.
It's true - I have a new 24 inch aluminum iMac 24 inch running leopard, just checked the bluetooth menu, and it's on, with discoverable on. Yow! Thanks for the tip!
I had a horrible time installing Leopard. I tried to Archive and Install preserving network and user settings, and at the end I got a "OS X 10.5 Install Unsuccessful. Could not migrate previous user directory. Press here to reboot and try again." I rebooted and tried an upgrade instead, only to find that archive and install had only copied part of my home folder but already moved it, and upgrade deleted my old home folder. It did not save my documents folder or desktop in the previous system folder. I blog about it here: http://problemstosolve.com/os-x/leopard-archive-and-install-wipes-away-documents-unsolved/ Another problem I have about Apple's copying is how there are a number of errors that will make it fail in the middle of a large copy, and you have to start all over again. These include file names that are too long and permission/file in use errors. If I'm copying 48 GB and it fails halfway through, it just quits, and if I fix that file and start over, it may just fail again on another file. I've found rsync and ditto to work somewhat better, and the free GUI tool iBackup to be the best at doing complete copies and logging instead of quitting.
I was wondering about this last night. I returned a GeForce 7300 graphics card. I had opened it but returned it in its original box with all the parts with my receipt. I originally paid cash and got back cash. But what's to stop me from returning my old broken graphics card or a ceramic tile? I assume they check the merchandise at some point (though I bet in this story it was an unchecked return that they resold), but even if they check it later, I'm already out of the store and they have no way of tracing it back to me. I'm not advocating theft, but Best Buy should update their policies, and not pass the buck onto the unfortunate consumer.
On my system the GPS application stores its logs in a textfile which I can easily edit. It would be trivial for me to doctor the text file to contest any speeding ticket. I'm not sure that this is a good form of evidence.
after purchasing my T-mobile Wing. The iPhone may be sleeker and faster, but because developers don't have to waste time hacking their way into the OS, and because the OS is not limited to one device, there are several times more applications available for Windows Mobile out there. I'm sure many developers will be discouraged by Apple's bricking, too. I think someone hacked together a NES emulator and skype for the iPhone, but I still haven't seen unique applications like the music making software Syntrax, GPS tracking software like Tracky, or games as complex as Riven and Myst for the iPhone like I have on my pocket pc. Cnet has an amazing collection of pocket PC games and they all actually work for the phone; I used to use Getjar all the time for my last java phone but it was amazing even with a cross-platform language like Java how many of the applications just didn't work as expected (or at all) with my previous phone. It was always a gamble. I agree with the author's stance that you can expect the same results the most with Windows Mobile, as much as I'd like to root for Apple, Linux or Java.
that this will stimulate. Should be pretty cool. On a side note, what do Halo and the source engine use now if not raytracing? It seems like if they're not raytracing already it's a pretty close approximation.
Heh it says "Condition: used". I'm sure it's only slightly scratched.