Yeah - the SLIMP3 device is indeed interesting. In fact I bought one for my brother as a wedding present so I could use him as a testing ground before buying one for myself.
The major issue I have with the device is that it will only play standard MP3 files. Files of any other format (FLAC, Ogg, WAV etc) have to be converted to RAW and then into MP3 on the fly before being streamed to the device. MP3Pro of course is the biggest looser since it contains a very low quality MP3 track which the device plays . This produces VERY low quality output.
Is there a device anywhere that allows native playing of other formats? i.e. a device that you can upload different codecs to depending on your music library?
A for the cabling, I'm currently installing Cat6 cables around my new house and will have a wireless network for laptops so I can browse in the garden (I'll have an RJ45 in the toilet for best access whilst I'm crapping - as someone earlier mentioned!)
Not entirely accurate, but it has a factual basis.
It should be remembered that the percentage of household waste water that is urine is actually very small. e.g. more water is used to flush away a piss than is actually piss. Then there are people showering, having baths, washing clothes, washing dished, cooking etc etc etc.
It's not all that bad when you look at it closely.
What actually bothered me when I lived in London was that the base amount of oestrogen (spelling?) was climbing due to the huge number of women on the pill. This was then linked to rising male infertility in the London area.
To be safe - I drank only bottled water. Now my nuts have produced offspring - I don't mind so much.
I have to agree with this. Ximian have VERY little incentive to support KDE.
Even if you were to put aside for one moment that one of their MAIN products is the DIRECT competitor to KDE.
I have been using Red Hat 7.3 and Ximian GNOME for a while now and Red Carpet allows me to keep bang up to date with the GNOME 2.0 developments and many other packages that I just HAVE to install the development versions of. Can't say the packages have always been stable, but Red Carpet is a fantastic product.
Just for the record - I applaud KDE and GNOME developers in equal measures. But I also have equal measures of disgust for the ignorant spunk jockeys who write crap about the other side. Each project is good and deserving of praise.
I was of course just talking from years of experience of American tourists in Edinburgh (yes I know they are the pinnacle of stereotypes).
It's either Edin-bOrO OR Edin-burG
Sheesh it makes your skin crawl;-)
P.S. to a previous poster - my teeth are perfect since I had them all replaced due to a fight on the rugby pitch with someone else's boot. If you want to slag my girlfried - then come round my house you pussy!
My cable provider (Telewest) in Edinburgh recently had us all upgrading to 1Mbit/sec download with 256kbit/sec upload.
The cost of this is £39/month I think (it's on my girlfriends bill!). They also went and dropped to 512kbit/sec bandwidth to £25/month.
The prices may be wrong, but the bandwidth isn't.
I know we're way behind Europe and the rest of the World in rolling out broadband, but hopefully moves like this will force BT to speed up the DSL roll-out.
P.S. That's the Edinburgh in Scotland that hardly even 1 in 100,000 Americans can pronounce properly!
I too am having anti-aliasing problems with the Ximian Gnome2 developer snapshots.
I've still had no definitive answer.
Some have said to set an environment variable, but I don't know which file to put this in. It really should be a standard thing and have a GUI configuration program.
Having same colour and same size notes actually costs the US billions in extra cash counting.
Notes have to be sorted first to ensure that a bundle is all 10's for example. In Europe, if a 100 is slipped in by mistake, the counting machine will stop because the note is a different size. In the US, the 100 will get counted as a 10 (or vice versa). Hence fewer mistakes and less sorting time for the coloured and different size notes.
If you want to go ahead pissing money down the drain - be my guest. But don't go all superior and claim we can't read numbers. I can - but poor sighted (not blind) people from anywhere in the world can have problems telling the difference between 10 & 20 dollar bills.
I'm no expert, but if we get our hydrogen from rocks beneath the earths crust and burn them in hydrogen fuelled cars . . . will we start using up the free oxygen in the atmosphere and push up the water content.
I know the atmosphere is a huge entity, but oil has taken it's toll over it's lifetime.
Would mined hydrogen take it's toll too in the future?
Some university in Britain did this a few years ago with an array of telescopes in a hexagon shape I seem to remember. They proved that this technology could take better piccies than Hubble. Beyond that . . . memory fading . . . can't . . . remember . . . any more.
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Well that's all very well for you, but London is always "down" for me since I live in Edinburgh.
It's a pity we couldn't speed this thing up a bit so I could see house prices changing within my lifetime.
Dunk
Yeah - the SLIMP3 device is indeed interesting. In fact I bought one for my brother as a wedding present so I could use him as a testing ground before buying one for myself.
The major issue I have with the device is that it will only play standard MP3 files. Files of any other format (FLAC, Ogg, WAV etc) have to be converted to RAW and then into MP3 on the fly before being streamed to the device. MP3Pro of course is the biggest looser since it contains a very low quality MP3 track which the device plays . This produces VERY low quality output.
Is there a device anywhere that allows native playing of other formats? i.e. a device that you can upload different codecs to depending on your music library?
A for the cabling, I'm currently installing Cat6 cables around my new house and will have a wireless network for laptops so I can browse in the garden (I'll have an RJ45 in the toilet for best access whilst I'm crapping - as someone earlier mentioned!)
Dunk
Not entirely accurate, but it has a factual basis.
It should be remembered that the percentage of household waste water that is urine is actually very small. e.g. more water is used to flush away a piss than is actually piss. Then there are people showering, having baths, washing clothes, washing dished, cooking etc etc etc.
It's not all that bad when you look at it closely.
What actually bothered me when I lived in London was that the base amount of oestrogen (spelling?) was climbing due to the huge number of women on the pill. This was then linked to rising male infertility in the London area.
To be safe - I drank only bottled water. Now my nuts have produced offspring - I don't mind so much.
I don't remember that game, but does ANYONE remember Agri Cup???? ... ...
no?
Thought not - Boooo
I have to agree with this. Ximian have VERY little incentive to support KDE.
Even if you were to put aside for one moment that one of their MAIN products is the DIRECT competitor to KDE.
I have been using Red Hat 7.3 and Ximian GNOME for a while now and Red Carpet allows me to keep bang up to date with the GNOME 2.0 developments and many other packages that I just HAVE to install the development versions of. Can't say the packages have always been stable, but Red Carpet is a fantastic product.
Just for the record - I applaud KDE and GNOME developers in equal measures. But I also have equal measures of disgust for the ignorant spunk jockeys who write crap about the other side. Each project is good and deserving of praise.
GNOME gets the nod on my desktop.
That's pretty much perfect.
;-)
I was of course just talking from years of experience of American tourists in Edinburgh (yes I know they are the pinnacle of stereotypes).
It's either Edin-bOrO OR Edin-burG
Sheesh it makes your skin crawl
P.S. to a previous poster - my teeth are perfect since I had them all replaced due to a fight on the rugby pitch with someone else's boot. If you want to slag my girlfried - then come round my house you pussy!
My cable provider (Telewest) in Edinburgh recently had us all upgrading to 1Mbit/sec download with 256kbit/sec upload.
The cost of this is £39/month I think (it's on my girlfriends bill!). They also went and dropped to 512kbit/sec bandwidth to £25/month.
The prices may be wrong, but the bandwidth isn't.
I know we're way behind Europe and the rest of the World in rolling out broadband, but hopefully moves like this will force BT to speed up the DSL roll-out.
P.S. That's the Edinburgh in Scotland that hardly even 1 in 100,000 Americans can pronounce properly!
But which file do I add this line to???
I've managed to get AA on one of my user logins, but not the other 3. In other words - I've no idea how I did it.
Can someone tell me which file to edit to put this line in???
Just delete this sick shit if possible
I too am having anti-aliasing problems with the Ximian Gnome2 developer snapshots.
I've still had no definitive answer.
Some have said to set an environment variable, but I don't know which file to put this in. It really should be a standard thing and have a GUI configuration program.
Having same colour and same size notes actually costs the US billions in extra cash counting.
Notes have to be sorted first to ensure that a bundle is all 10's for example. In Europe, if a 100 is slipped in by mistake, the counting machine will stop because the note is a different size. In the US, the 100 will get counted as a 10 (or vice versa). Hence fewer mistakes and less sorting time for the coloured and different size notes.
If you want to go ahead pissing money down the drain - be my guest. But don't go all superior and claim we can't read numbers. I can - but poor sighted (not blind) people from anywhere in the world can have problems telling the difference between 10 & 20 dollar bills.
I'm no expert, but if we get our hydrogen from rocks beneath the earths crust and burn them in hydrogen fuelled cars . . . will we start using up the free oxygen in the atmosphere and push up the water content.
I know the atmosphere is a huge entity, but oil has taken it's toll over it's lifetime.
Would mined hydrogen take it's toll too in the future?
Some university in Britain did this a few years ago with an array of telescopes in a hexagon shape I seem to remember. They proved that this technology could take better piccies than Hubble. Beyond that . . . memory fading . . . can't . . . remember . . . any more.