By using your stuff you've made me notice how bad other things are designed! I deal with a few hardware companies and when I point out flaws in their products they brush it aside. Like Seth Godin says: If I think it's broken, It's broken!
I'd love it as a "silent" feature, and have itunes be able to encode and play ogg as well.. they don't have to advertise or promote it, just have it there for people who want it.
I've been going the other way and trying to learn high speed morse... it's frustrating but worth it, as I enjoy having a skill that few other people have.
wtf are you going on about? He was talking about the mac mini as a pvr not a power mac; no one needs a terebyte worth of hdd for a pvr. I paid about $AUD 40-60 (?) for my external firewire enclosure... Apparently it didn't take your advice as it seems to work fine.
btw, even garbage collectors are, as you say, "REAL professional". It means didly if you don't mention your field of work. If you get paid for doing work it makes you a professional (as opposed to an amateur, who does it for enjoyment).
Evolution is not just about individuals being weaker or killed off, You don't have to be "killed off" to not breed. Highly stressed people tend to not have kids; if you're not coping with life now, why add stress of a baby to it? Also women are choosing to breed later in life, and thier fertility drops heaps after 35, many women are finding that they've left it too late to have kids.
I don't care about price fixing of music downloads. Look at price fixing of physical CDs instead. How can a music CD cost the same as a movie DVD? And while they're at it, make them use the true CDROM standard, without drm hacks.
Washed mine twice so far, still works fine. I'm surprised about the melted case in the dryer though, I wouldn't have guessed that it would survive the heat! As for what to do... hmm, buy a new one anyway? They are really cheap now-days. Or you could attack it with duct tape, for a real low tech solution:-)
I'm sick of Zonk articles too, and the come in waves, 6 at a time. I notice it as the times when I read/. are the time when he posts a heap of articles. Can't there be some more effort put into getting this right?
And then when the kids get out into the big bad world and realise that most companies are using this completely different OS called Windows, that'll set them in good stead for getting a job. You linux freaks are willing to gamble with kids' futures just to get more people using your wanky OS.
Linux helped me to get my current job, without it I could possibly still be stacking boxes in a warehouse... What do I do? HPUX admin. I think it's a pretty good job.
Oh, another thing, going through school I had the chance to use an Apple II, various Macs (system 6 I think), Commodore 64s, PCs running ancient DOS versions, Win 3, and some other strange things that I can't remember, maybe even a Novel? Are they "wanky" enough OSes for you?
Do you think that these kids will be still need to use win95/98 when they hit the bus. world? Vista should be nearing EOL by then. As long as they learn the concepts they will be perfectly fine, and if you're worried about MS windows exposure, I dare say they might have a chance to us a PC with it installed before they hit the job market...
If you think about the "simpler explanations" thing. Whats more simple "God created everything in 6 days and had a kip on the last one, trust me" or "beings evolved over millions of years, heres how..."
In my mind the first one is a much simpler explanation, but it doesn't fit the facts. The explanation has to be simple AND fit the facts. (eg the earth was made by God to look 4.5 billion years old but is really only 7000 years old vs. the earth really *is* 4.5 billion years old)
It's not only about being simple. And besides, these ID and "creative scientists" guys seem like their hypothosis is "what that scientist over there said + throw some "God" in there too (btw, none of this is in the bible, but don't mention that, we'll call it a metaphor)" to paraphrase the style of your post.
That's exactly what i was going to respond with. I'm in the middle of doing this right now, done about 200-250 cds so far. Slap a CD in, rips automatically, ejects. I have a stack of about 10 "to do" cds on the left and 10 done cds on the right. When the "to do" gets to zero, i put the done stack into a box and grab another 20 or so from the cd stands. I read web sites and emails while this is happening and i never rush to change a cd. like you i often wander off and when walking past i swap out the old one and put the new one in.
A few tips:
Stop your wife/gf/so from putting the "done" stack back into the main "to do" pile. This is very temping for them, as the see a cd they want to listen to, but dont tell you they took it and then you find it days later in the car or other odd places, think you missed it (or have 2 copies) and re-rip it. itunes has a duplicate song finder, but it's not very intellingent and calls the same song on different albumns duplicates when they are not (eg songs appearing on "best ofs")... i'd like a duplicate albumn function.
I was origionally going to use abcde to rip the cds under linux with a slot loading drive, auto ejecting done cds and non-music cds. this never worked out though as i would forget about it and only get a few cds done an hour. the advantage of using your main pc (mines a mac too) is that you sitting there anyway so the effort is less.
anyway, break it done into smaller lots, if you have 300 cds, and assuming you can do 20 a day you'll have it done in 2 weeks. And you could do 2 pcs at once if youre in a hurry, or you can listen to the music you've ripped to make it a bit more enjoyable.
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Put a lock on the cabin door!
By using your stuff you've made me notice how bad other things are designed! I deal with a few hardware companies and when I point out flaws in their products they brush it aside. Like Seth Godin says: If I think it's broken, It's broken!
haha, that joke never gets old!
I'd love it as a "silent" feature, and have itunes be able to encode and play ogg as well.. they don't have to advertise or promote it, just have it there for people who want it.
Why do so many /.ers assume that the only place wireless is used at home with one or two users?
Here's two I want today that would benefit from faster wireless: Multiple VoIP clients and streaming interactive media to multiple mobile units.
Well, when you get down to it, you're not an "object" or single item, only a collective of loosely bound cells or even molecules.
I've been going the other way and trying to learn high speed morse... it's frustrating but worth it, as I enjoy having a skill that few other people have.
On a long enough timeline everyone's survival rate is zero.
You're confusing the United Kingdom with the Commenwealth. The Queen is Australias head of state. Many countries have ERII as their head of state.
That's a completely different country.
I'm with you... Is it a US thing to always say it wrong?
never happen, think of all the dvd sales they'd "lose". they want you to do both (Pay in the theater and pay for the DVD).
wtf are you going on about? He was talking about the mac mini as a pvr not a power mac; no one needs a terebyte worth of hdd for a pvr. I paid about $AUD 40-60 (?) for my external firewire enclosure... Apparently it didn't take your advice as it seems to work fine.
btw, even garbage collectors are, as you say, "REAL professional". It means didly if you don't mention your field of work. If you get paid for doing work it makes you a professional (as opposed to an amateur, who does it for enjoyment).
Evolution is not just about individuals being weaker or killed off, You don't have to be "killed off" to not breed. Highly stressed people tend to not have kids; if you're not coping with life now, why add stress of a baby to it? Also women are choosing to breed later in life, and thier fertility drops heaps after 35, many women are finding that they've left it too late to have kids.
I don't care about price fixing of music downloads. Look at price fixing of physical CDs instead. How can a music CD cost the same as a movie DVD? And while they're at it, make them use the true CDROM standard, without drm hacks.
Washed mine twice so far, still works fine. I'm surprised about the melted case in the dryer though, I wouldn't have guessed that it would survive the heat! As for what to do... hmm, buy a new one anyway? They are really cheap now-days. Or you could attack it with duct tape, for a real low tech solution :-)
I'm sick of Zonk articles too, and the come in waves, 6 at a time. I notice it as the times when I read /. are the time when he posts a heap of articles. Can't there be some more effort put into getting this right?
It increases ad views
Linux helped me to get my current job, without it I could possibly still be stacking boxes in a warehouse... What do I do? HPUX admin. I think it's a pretty good job.
Oh, another thing, going through school I had the chance to use an Apple II, various Macs (system 6 I think), Commodore 64s, PCs running ancient DOS versions, Win 3, and some other strange things that I can't remember, maybe even a Novel? Are they "wanky" enough OSes for you?
Do you think that these kids will be still need to use win95/98 when they hit the bus. world? Vista should be nearing EOL by then. As long as they learn the concepts they will be perfectly fine, and if you're worried about MS windows exposure, I dare say they might have a chance to us a PC with it installed before they hit the job market...
Replying to my own post.. anyway.
If you think about the "simpler explanations" thing. Whats more simple "God created everything in 6 days and had a kip on the last one, trust me" or "beings evolved over millions of years, heres how..."
In my mind the first one is a much simpler explanation, but it doesn't fit the facts. The explanation has to be simple AND fit the facts. (eg the earth was made by God to look 4.5 billion years old but is really only 7000 years old vs. the earth really *is* 4.5 billion years old)
It's not only about being simple. And besides, these ID and "creative scientists" guys seem like their hypothosis is "what that scientist over there said + throw some "God" in there too (btw, none of this is in the bible, but don't mention that, we'll call it a metaphor)" to paraphrase the style of your post.
I didn't say anything about "simpler explanations" either.
"Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity."
formula 1: evolution + specification + mutation + most suitable + [God|FSM] = humans
formula 2: evolution + specification + mutation + most suitable + nothing else = humans.
asume same values for all variables.
which one do you think fits the premise of Occams Razor (without necessity) and achieves the same results?
That's exactly what i was going to respond with. I'm in the middle of doing this right now, done about 200-250 cds so far. Slap a CD in, rips automatically, ejects. I have a stack of about 10 "to do" cds on the left and 10 done cds on the right. When the "to do" gets to zero, i put the done stack into a box and grab another 20 or so from the cd stands. I read web sites and emails while this is happening and i never rush to change a cd. like you i often wander off and when walking past i swap out the old one and put the new one in.
... i'd like a duplicate albumn function.
A few tips:
Stop your wife/gf/so from putting the "done" stack back into the main "to do" pile. This is very temping for them, as the see a cd they want to listen to, but dont tell you they took it and then you find it days later in the car or other odd places, think you missed it (or have 2 copies) and re-rip it. itunes has a duplicate song finder, but it's not very intellingent and calls the same song on different albumns duplicates when they are not (eg songs appearing on "best ofs")
I was origionally going to use abcde to rip the cds under linux with a slot loading drive, auto ejecting done cds and non-music cds. this never worked out though as i would forget about it and only get a few cds done an hour. the advantage of using your main pc (mines a mac too) is that you sitting there anyway so the effort is less.
anyway, break it done into smaller lots, if you have 300 cds, and assuming you can do 20 a day you'll have it done in 2 weeks. And you could do 2 pcs at once if youre in a hurry, or you can listen to the music you've ripped to make it a bit more enjoyable.
Send him an "encoraging" email on the right hand side of this page. He might be also interested in certian blue "performance" enhancing pills.
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