Thanks science, I go to the gym at your advice and now I'm -still- going to die?
I have long since stopped giving a shit about most health risks and have instead upped my life insurance to the max. It has long since passed the point where I can make a realistic change to my lifestyle that would still leave my life enjoyable.
I don't want flac files, so by the metric of my own preference Amazon MP3 still wins out.
From my perspective they have too large a filesize for too little gain. I don't have audiophile quality speakers or headphones, and whenever I have heard audiophile equipment running FLAC files I was underwhelmed by the quality difference (what did you say? don't stand next to the speakers kids). All this boils down to is that 'quality' is an entirely subjective term.
I could certainly see a future where Amazon or another 'legitimate' source makes unencumbered FLAC files available to those who would appreciate them!
I want high quality, unencrypted, unencumbered media.
You are attempting to compete against piracy, which can already provide me with the above, by offering me an inferior product at the cost of replacing my existing, fully functional hardware.
I did not purchase music online until Amazon MP3 came to town. Amazon MP3 actually fills my exact requirements, high quality, unencrypted, unencumbered media, and as such I have stopped pirating audio entirely and have instead been purchasing music again. It's worth the money to get a high quality instance of what I actually want, and includes an unexpected high value bonus; the album art in every file!
Amazon MP3 offers a superior product to that produced by piracy. Do the same for video and I will begin spending money on movies again, until that time I will continue to get what I want from the people willing to offer it; pirates.
In the cold war the united states did this several times to the USSR, one notable example was a gas pipeline explosion caused by a specifically sabotaged piece of software.
The USSR attempted in several instances to steal or otherwise acquire technology from the united states, and whenever this was detected our counter-intelligence services would provide flawed or otherwise sabotaged technology in place of the actual information sought. This had the desired cascading effect of the USSR unable to trust any technology that may have been introduced from non-USSR sources and was considered an extremely significant part of the eventual collapse of the USSR.
I haven't tried the Last.FM client, but I do get music spitting out of my phone almost constantly via two avenues; If I feel like random stuff I get shoutcast streams with StreamFurious and if I want cream-of-the-crop I listen to mix podcasts with BeyondPod. Both are extremely high quality, I couldn't wish for more!
Note, if you're gonna get podcasts, get a bigger SD Card! I have a 16 gig card and wish it was 32
Perhaps things have slowed down for us here in the developed, western world, but I have heard of an amazing shift in the third world; cell phones.
For example, in Kenya there are 37 million people. Of those, only 1.3 have electricity. No lights, no fans, no TV, no electricity at all. However, 17 million people use cell phones and the number is screaming upwards every day! Imagine what a fundamental change it is to be able to talk with anyone at a distance in a developing nation? So much of what we take for granted in the western world boils down to the ability to pick up a phone and ask for what you want, be it goods or information.
The article I lifted these figures from was discussing a solar powered cell phone, which will cut the final cord from the main grid. Now people who cannot walk to a grid connected location can still call for help, call to find a job, call to talk with a distant loved one.
In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel it was postulated that the rise of the main Eurasian regions in history was mainly due to the free travel of ideas across a broad band of land where climatological and geological conditions were mostly similar, thus allowing different ideas about agriculture, living, and warfare to flow back and forth easily. This mixing of ideas is what made the Eurasian continent most often dominant over the Americas and the African continents, which are spread out longitudinally and thus cover a wider spread of terrain conditions and weather conditions.
The advent of the mobile phone will become an equalizing factor, ideas will be able to spread faster and faster among the populations of the South American and African regions and the quality of life there will begin to experience the same kind of rapid upward swell which we in the western world assume is our birthright.
I think the root issue is the core issue. They're removing it because they don't want to encourage people to install custom firmware on their phone.
It's kind of like this; Ford makes a catalog where they include third party items. One of the items submitted to that catalog will only work if you pry the control chip out of your car and make some warranty voiding modifications to it. Ford says, you know, maybe this shouldn't be part of the official catalog, but good luck selling it on your own.
I, like many, many others, can't stand the useless waste of space along the left side of the new igoogle.
So, as a firefox user, I installed a plugin called 'Remove It Permanently'. It was really easy to right click on the annoying blank space and nuke the entire bar into oblivion.
I did have to then open up RIP and set the change to affect anything google.com/*, but now my page looks more or less the way it used to albeit with more roundy corners.
Easy, just log onto Amazon and buy some music. It downloads wherever I want.
It's kind of slow, but certainly functional, and there is no DRM attached. I play it with TCMPC and as an added bonus the album art appears on the screen while the music is playing.
I could probably use Emusic too, though I haven't tried.
I prefer something I can actually get. Most of the aps on my Wing are open source, and nothing else is filling the OS gap for me on any device I can currently afford.
I'm not opposed to an open source mobile OS, if I could get a slim, functional Ubuntu on my Wing I would be all over it. It appears that someinroadsare being made, but nothing is 'ready for the palmtop' yet.
I own a tmobile Wing and I have had no problems using the Amazon mp3 service to download songs on the go, and then I have the music DRM free and can use it however I like.
Amazon could certainly stand to make a streamlined interface for use with the Windows Mobile Internet Explorer, since it's very handy to hear a song on the radio and then simply go and get it when I'm out and about. Then I can put it on my stereo when I get home or play immediately.
With Iphone you're paying for something that supposedly works flawlessly within Apple's strictly proscribed domain, while with a Windows Mobile platform you're paying for something you can do anything you want with.
Some people don't find Windows Mobile worth the trouble, but then again I'm the kind of person that prefers stick shift to automatic.
Can this possibly have any impact on stations originating from outside the united states? It appears that my musical taste is about to head offshore quickly, and with it goes my purchasing power.
They might also be useful for police jobs, allowing the user to enter buildings and withstand small arms fire.
That's exactly what I was thinking, house clearing can be very dangerous to the point man, so why not make the point man invulnerable to small arms fire?
The power supply is too heavy, so what? Run an extension cord out the exo's butt and power the suit with the engine of the humvee. Then you could have your point man rip doors down, tear through walls and shrug off bullets while the rest of the squad basically holds back to protect the cord. In event of cord failure, just make sure the suit has a five minute battery. Neon Genesis anyone?
There's a whole host of combat situations this could be useful in. Extreme armor for tank commanders for one, ride in the cupola without taking two in the hat. Hell, anyone connected to a tank could use the tank power supply. Say your tank blows a track in the middle of battle, two engineers could slip out the back and repair the tread without ever being exposed to small arms fire.
Hands free is really what I'd like the most.. what about building it into dentalware.
As a concept, something like a touch screen element shaped like a mouthguard, that alone could help quadriplegic patients. Eventually you would be able to make them into something like braces, or dentures.
This makes me think of two things in particular; wearable computing and the return of hats.
I would sincerely like to be able to have a computer display in my glasses that I could view while walking around or standing in line.. at the very least providing something akin to a wearable Garmin gps device. The problem in my daydream has always been; how do I control the silly thing? How am I going to type? Mini keyboards like that on my phone are fine for short messages, but unsuited to any sort of real industrial typing and completely useless if I have to be walking or driving at the same time.
I would be willing to put a great deal of effort into learning how to type with my mind fluently.
However, wearing something like this on my head would make me look kind of silly in the business world. If an interface like this really takes off it could help ignite a resurgence of hats. I read an article recently revolving around how fifty years ago men of any class were rarely out and about without some form of stylish hat. As time passed this trend ended and now all we're left with is casual baseball caps. I've always liked a good fedora, and if they became fashionable to use as a mind interface cover then I could safely wear one in public without looking demented.
If you were a parent trying to give your child some proper education in that aspect, the effect might be somehow negated if you kid continues playing Manhunt, afterwards.
That's just it, she's trying to cater to people who want to ignore their children by punishing all of us. I -want- to have 18+ games that I can purchase for my own usage! Why should japan get all the fun?
I have a child, and I'm no worried about him playing inappropriate content. Our entertainment systems are all in public areas and he isn't allowed to play them all by himself. My wife and I pay attention to him.
Now I have to vote independent. I won't vote for her.
There are faucets on the outside of my house. Personally I don't mind if some jogger comes by and fills his water bottle or someone gets some water for a thirsty pet, but I'm thinking these rules are to stop the equivalent of your neighbor hooking up a hose and watering his lawn just because I don't want to put a lock on every tap.
Of course, new brain cells don't mean more intelligence.
New brain cells will accelerate learning and cement patterns in place. If people under the influence learn dumb patterns they will find it harder to break out of those patterns later.
This is probably one of the major reasons women in abusive relationships can't seem to break away from their abusers. The patterns of behavior become ingrained through this process.
It was difficult, but I did finally get over the new Fark redesign.
I was in the process of trying to install greasemonkey and find a script that would make the page and the comment threads not look and run so horribly... when I realized that I didn't want to continue giving them my business. Now I check digg.com first thing in the morning.
Now and again I'll still type fark into my address bar. The sight of the hideous redesign always makes me a little sad for what the site had once been, but I get over it quickly.
The headline had me worried for a second, but after actually reading up on this it appears that these new changes can be waived by independent bands.
That's all I really cared about! I was terrified that these rules were being applied to ANY music being broadcast. If I want to put up a shoutcast station playing nothing but recordings of myself singing about my cat it would be outright robbery for me to have to pay a fee to the RIAA and it's ilk.
Luckily the music that I like the most are all stations like Groove Salad and Monkey Radio, playing mostly independent and small label bands playing music in a specific (and non-mainstream) genre. Those bands have everything to lose by opting out of internet radio, so hopefully the majority (enough to make a station worth listening to) will waive the royalties for the very real return of me purchasing CDs from bands that will never see the radio dial.
I have thought for a long time that singularities were impossible due to conservation of angular momentum. Velocity is all relative, so if you have a spinning basketball and squish it down to half it's original circumference, the relative velocity of two opposing points on it's equator will double. Divide the circumference again and the relative velocity will double again. There is a lot of dividing that can be done between any rational number and zero (the theoretical diameter of a singularity), and if you have any spin in the original matter that relative velocity is going to hit the speed of light long before you hit zero.
I did my best to visualize the way the universe works when I was a bit younger and I had gobs of time on my hands to devote to it, and once I decided that relative velocity of mass created gravity in the the same kind of 'wake' that the relative velocity of electrons creates electromagnetism things grew a bit simpler when visualizing black holes.
If you have a black hole then you have a large amount of mass in a small volume of space, and if there was any net rotation to that mass it would be magnified greatly by virtue of the very small volume, generating lots of gravity. Gravity would be greatest at the equator and less at the poles, due to the less relative velocity of matter along the axis of the poles, and that slight dip in gravity would allow for the nearly light speed jets of matter that often squirt out the ends of actively feeding black holes.
However, if all net rotation was canceled out of a black hole to leave it completely at rest in relation to itself, at absolute zero so to speak, gravity would snap from extreme to none in an instant. And in that instant the volume would expand as quickly as possible in every direction at once, each point inside growing further away from every other point simultaneously in a delightfully energetic expansion.
That would leave a rapidly expanding set of mass with a zero net velocity and zero net rotation, for every right spin there is an equal and opposite left spin, for every left there's a right, and while pockets collect in black holes here and there, not until all the matter is once again coalesced will there be another zero motion condition and therefore another big expansion.
IANAP, I am not a physicist.
What are you talking about exactly? Every single search I could come up with for kazaa came up right away on every portal linked in your post. Are you saying they're censoring kazaa? A 0.15 second google search proved that wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks science, I go to the gym at your advice and now I'm -still- going to die?
I have long since stopped giving a shit about most health risks and have instead upped my life insurance to the max. It has long since passed the point where I can make a realistic change to my lifestyle that would still leave my life enjoyable.
I don't want flac files, so by the metric of my own preference Amazon MP3 still wins out.
From my perspective they have too large a filesize for too little gain. I don't have audiophile quality speakers or headphones, and whenever I have heard audiophile equipment running FLAC files I was underwhelmed by the quality difference (what did you say? don't stand next to the speakers kids). All this boils down to is that 'quality' is an entirely subjective term.
I could certainly see a future where Amazon or another 'legitimate' source makes unencumbered FLAC files available to those who would appreciate them!
I want high quality, unencrypted, unencumbered media.
You are attempting to compete against piracy, which can already provide me with the above, by offering me an inferior product at the cost of replacing my existing, fully functional hardware.
I did not purchase music online until Amazon MP3 came to town. Amazon MP3 actually fills my exact requirements, high quality, unencrypted, unencumbered media, and as such I have stopped pirating audio entirely and have instead been purchasing music again. It's worth the money to get a high quality instance of what I actually want, and includes an unexpected high value bonus; the album art in every file!
Amazon MP3 offers a superior product to that produced by piracy. Do the same for video and I will begin spending money on movies again, until that time I will continue to get what I want from the people willing to offer it; pirates.
In the cold war the united states did this several times to the USSR, one notable example was a gas pipeline explosion caused by a specifically sabotaged piece of software.
Here is an article detailing the event;
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39147917,00.htm
The USSR attempted in several instances to steal or otherwise acquire technology from the united states, and whenever this was detected our counter-intelligence services would provide flawed or otherwise sabotaged technology in place of the actual information sought. This had the desired cascading effect of the USSR unable to trust any technology that may have been introduced from non-USSR sources and was considered an extremely significant part of the eventual collapse of the USSR.
I haven't tried the Last.FM client, but I do get music spitting out of my phone almost constantly via two avenues; If I feel like random stuff I get shoutcast streams with StreamFurious and if I want cream-of-the-crop I listen to mix podcasts with BeyondPod. Both are extremely high quality, I couldn't wish for more!
Note, if you're gonna get podcasts, get a bigger SD Card! I have a 16 gig card and wish it was 32
Perhaps things have slowed down for us here in the developed, western world, but I have heard of an amazing shift in the third world; cell phones.
For example, in Kenya there are 37 million people. Of those, only 1.3 have electricity. No lights, no fans, no TV, no electricity at all. However, 17 million people use cell phones and the number is screaming upwards every day! Imagine what a fundamental change it is to be able to talk with anyone at a distance in a developing nation? So much of what we take for granted in the western world boils down to the ability to pick up a phone and ask for what you want, be it goods or information.
The article I lifted these figures from was discussing a solar powered cell phone, which will cut the final cord from the main grid. Now people who cannot walk to a grid connected location can still call for help, call to find a job, call to talk with a distant loved one.
In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel it was postulated that the rise of the main Eurasian regions in history was mainly due to the free travel of ideas across a broad band of land where climatological and geological conditions were mostly similar, thus allowing different ideas about agriculture, living, and warfare to flow back and forth easily. This mixing of ideas is what made the Eurasian continent most often dominant over the Americas and the African continents, which are spread out longitudinally and thus cover a wider spread of terrain conditions and weather conditions.
The advent of the mobile phone will become an equalizing factor, ideas will be able to spread faster and faster among the populations of the South American and African regions and the quality of life there will begin to experience the same kind of rapid upward swell which we in the western world assume is our birthright.
(facts and figures lifted from this article; http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/21/solar.cellphone/index.html )
I think the root issue is the core issue. They're removing it because they don't want to encourage people to install custom firmware on their phone.
It's kind of like this; Ford makes a catalog where they include third party items. One of the items submitted to that catalog will only work if you pry the control chip out of your car and make some warranty voiding modifications to it. Ford says, you know, maybe this shouldn't be part of the official catalog, but good luck selling it on your own.
Ahh, yeah, can't help you there. I only have five widgets and they fit quite nicely on one page.
This is calling out for a plugin specific to the problem
I, like many, many others, can't stand the useless waste of space along the left side of the new igoogle.
So, as a firefox user, I installed a plugin called 'Remove It Permanently'. It was really easy to right click on the annoying blank space and nuke the entire bar into oblivion.
I did have to then open up RIP and set the change to affect anything google.com/*, but now my page looks more or less the way it used to albeit with more roundy corners.
Steady now, your genetic code is being rewritten. Just hold on and everything will be fine.
Bloody Sploicers.
Easy, just log onto Amazon and buy some music. It downloads wherever I want.
It's kind of slow, but certainly functional, and there is no DRM attached. I play it with TCMPC and as an added bonus the album art appears on the screen while the music is playing.
I could probably use Emusic too, though I haven't tried.
I prefer something I can actually get. Most of the aps on my Wing are open source, and nothing else is filling the OS gap for me on any device I can currently afford.
I'm not opposed to an open source mobile OS, if I could get a slim, functional Ubuntu on my Wing I would be all over it. It appears that some inroads are being made, but nothing is 'ready for the palmtop' yet.
I own a tmobile Wing and I have had no problems using the Amazon mp3 service to download songs on the go, and then I have the music DRM free and can use it however I like.
Amazon could certainly stand to make a streamlined interface for use with the Windows Mobile Internet Explorer, since it's very handy to hear a song on the radio and then simply go and get it when I'm out and about. Then I can put it on my stereo when I get home or play immediately.
With Iphone you're paying for something that supposedly works flawlessly within Apple's strictly proscribed domain, while with a Windows Mobile platform you're paying for something you can do anything you want with.
Some people don't find Windows Mobile worth the trouble, but then again I'm the kind of person that prefers stick shift to automatic.
I listen to a lot of internet radio.
Can this possibly have any impact on stations originating from outside the united states? It appears that my musical taste is about to head offshore quickly, and with it goes my purchasing power.
That's exactly what I was thinking, house clearing can be very dangerous to the point man, so why not make the point man invulnerable to small arms fire?
The power supply is too heavy, so what? Run an extension cord out the exo's butt and power the suit with the engine of the humvee. Then you could have your point man rip doors down, tear through walls and shrug off bullets while the rest of the squad basically holds back to protect the cord. In event of cord failure, just make sure the suit has a five minute battery. Neon Genesis anyone?
There's a whole host of combat situations this could be useful in. Extreme armor for tank commanders for one, ride in the cupola without taking two in the hat. Hell, anyone connected to a tank could use the tank power supply. Say your tank blows a track in the middle of battle, two engineers could slip out the back and repair the tread without ever being exposed to small arms fire.
Hands free is really what I'd like the most.. what about building it into dentalware.
As a concept, something like a touch screen element shaped like a mouthguard, that alone could help quadriplegic patients. Eventually you would be able to make them into something like braces, or dentures.
This makes me think of two things in particular; wearable computing and the return of hats.
I would sincerely like to be able to have a computer display in my glasses that I could view while walking around or standing in line.. at the very least providing something akin to a wearable Garmin gps device. The problem in my daydream has always been; how do I control the silly thing? How am I going to type? Mini keyboards like that on my phone are fine for short messages, but unsuited to any sort of real industrial typing and completely useless if I have to be walking or driving at the same time.
I would be willing to put a great deal of effort into learning how to type with my mind fluently.
However, wearing something like this on my head would make me look kind of silly in the business world. If an interface like this really takes off it could help ignite a resurgence of hats. I read an article recently revolving around how fifty years ago men of any class were rarely out and about without some form of stylish hat. As time passed this trend ended and now all we're left with is casual baseball caps. I've always liked a good fedora, and if they became fashionable to use as a mind interface cover then I could safely wear one in public without looking demented.
That's just it, she's trying to cater to people who want to ignore their children by punishing all of us. I -want- to have 18+ games that I can purchase for my own usage! Why should japan get all the fun?
I have a child, and I'm no worried about him playing inappropriate content. Our entertainment systems are all in public areas and he isn't allowed to play them all by himself. My wife and I pay attention to him.
Now I have to vote independent. I won't vote for her.
There are faucets on the outside of my house. Personally I don't mind if some jogger comes by and fills his water bottle or someone gets some water for a thirsty pet, but I'm thinking these rules are to stop the equivalent of your neighbor hooking up a hose and watering his lawn just because I don't want to put a lock on every tap.
Of course, new brain cells don't mean more intelligence.
New brain cells will accelerate learning and cement patterns in place. If people under the influence learn dumb patterns they will find it harder to break out of those patterns later.
This is probably one of the major reasons women in abusive relationships can't seem to break away from their abusers. The patterns of behavior become ingrained through this process.
I was in the process of trying to install greasemonkey and find a script that would make the page and the comment threads not look and run so horribly... when I realized that I didn't want to continue giving them my business. Now I check digg.com first thing in the morning.
Now and again I'll still type fark into my address bar. The sight of the hideous redesign always makes me a little sad for what the site had once been, but I get over it quickly.
The headline had me worried for a second, but after actually reading up on this it appears that these new changes can be waived by independent bands.
That's all I really cared about! I was terrified that these rules were being applied to ANY music being broadcast. If I want to put up a shoutcast station playing nothing but recordings of myself singing about my cat it would be outright robbery for me to have to pay a fee to the RIAA and it's ilk.
Luckily the music that I like the most are all stations like Groove Salad and Monkey Radio, playing mostly independent and small label bands playing music in a specific (and non-mainstream) genre. Those bands have everything to lose by opting out of internet radio, so hopefully the majority (enough to make a station worth listening to) will waive the royalties for the very real return of me purchasing CDs from bands that will never see the radio dial.
I have thought for a long time that singularities were impossible due to conservation of angular momentum. Velocity is all relative, so if you have a spinning basketball and squish it down to half it's original circumference, the relative velocity of two opposing points on it's equator will double. Divide the circumference again and the relative velocity will double again. There is a lot of dividing that can be done between any rational number and zero (the theoretical diameter of a singularity), and if you have any spin in the original matter that relative velocity is going to hit the speed of light long before you hit zero.
I did my best to visualize the way the universe works when I was a bit younger and I had gobs of time on my hands to devote to it, and once I decided that relative velocity of mass created gravity in the the same kind of 'wake' that the relative velocity of electrons creates electromagnetism things grew a bit simpler when visualizing black holes. If you have a black hole then you have a large amount of mass in a small volume of space, and if there was any net rotation to that mass it would be magnified greatly by virtue of the very small volume, generating lots of gravity. Gravity would be greatest at the equator and less at the poles, due to the less relative velocity of matter along the axis of the poles, and that slight dip in gravity would allow for the nearly light speed jets of matter that often squirt out the ends of actively feeding black holes. However, if all net rotation was canceled out of a black hole to leave it completely at rest in relation to itself, at absolute zero so to speak, gravity would snap from extreme to none in an instant. And in that instant the volume would expand as quickly as possible in every direction at once, each point inside growing further away from every other point simultaneously in a delightfully energetic expansion. That would leave a rapidly expanding set of mass with a zero net velocity and zero net rotation, for every right spin there is an equal and opposite left spin, for every left there's a right, and while pockets collect in black holes here and there, not until all the matter is once again coalesced will there be another zero motion condition and therefore another big expansion. IANAP, I am not a physicist.
What are you talking about exactly? Every single search I could come up with for kazaa came up right away on every portal linked in your post. Are you saying they're censoring kazaa? A 0.15 second google search proved that wrong.