The problem can easily be heard in a modern 'Digitally Remastered' release which has been caught up in this loudness mess. You are much better off with an older non compressed version of a release at 320 than a lossless remastered version which has been compressed. The compression tosses out way more acoustical information than lossy 320 encoding. You would be hard pressed to hear the difference between the 320 kb version and the original, but lossless compression really sucks.
You really need to pop a few comparison tracks into something like Audacity to see how bad things have become. Saving things as lossless may seem like a big deal, but you need to compare new and old versions when you are replacing the old with the remasters.
a 50 year old 3 prong, grounded electrical cord which is interchangeable with all kinds of technology.
And, I traveled in asia with a descendent of the guy who invented the screw in light bulb.
Nobody has mentioned the absurd price of early ethernet implementations. There is good reason why it took forever to catch on. It took a cost plus military budget to afford it.
Buy the $129 Amazon 3TB drive and plug it into a USB port with a USB cable the same color as your carpet.
OK, it isn't really wireless, but most of the suggestions in the article aren't really a '3TB Wireless Time-Machine', either if you drop other '3TB Wireless Time-Machine' features.
I never touched a netbook that didn't feel like a flimsy piece of junk. Well, if you ignore the smallest Macbook Air, but the iPhone or iPad makes more sense for a sub notebook. Nice portable content usage devices. If I want to create content I need the spaciousness of my 15" laptop.
I might want a small stenographic device like the Air if I did lots of note taking, but i find a Moleskine comes in at well under $100 and fits nicely in a shirt pocket. The Moleskine killed the netbook.
Genius in iTunes has been uploading a complete list of your library. If Apple was working with the RIAA you would have heard about it by now. Metadata sent to iCloud will have more info, but Apple wants to identify the same base tracks, aliased to different rips. They want to discard minor differences between your rip and my rip of the same track.
Apple's deals with the big music companies are good for us all. They want to collect a bit more money for music you use, not collect penalties in lawsuits. They want the music industry to move in a positive direction in this new era of music redundancy.
The containments hold a very small number of the reactor fuel rods at the site. The bulk of the radioactive material at the Japanese site is outside the containment vessels in open pools of water. And, there is nearly ten times the amount there as at Chernobyl.
These pools of fuel rods are stored in upper floors of structures damaged by explosions. There has been very little information released about the structural integrity of these pools. It has been widely reported that some of these pools might have less water in them than would be considered appropriate.
There have been videos shown of attempts to drop water from helicopters or spray water into them from fire engines. It is also clear that there is highly radioactive water deep enough for workers to wade into according to other reports.
Aerial images of the state of the structures surrounding these containment pools show a mangled mess. No one seems to know very much about the status of damage to the pools due to collapsing material in and around the pools. There have been no good counts of how many stored fuel rods were damaged, or how badly they were damaged by the explosions and structural collapse of the buildings.
But, I'm sure we can trust the operator of these facilities and the Japanese government to provide complete, current information. No need to panic, but don't be stupid.
"Samba team has moved active development of the project to the more strict GPLv3 license."
WTF. They are making 'open' software to support sharing between systems, so they want to restrict the use of the software! They should be removing restrictions, not adding them.
It seems clear that as licenses become more strict, the Samba team will choose to use them. Who knows what restrictions will be imposed by GPLv5 or GPLv6. It's better to move to non proprietary, open foundations like BSD if you are developing for the long haul.
What commercial developer needs to get sucked down the GPLvX black hole.
The CD format is already a lossy format. We use it because it is good enough. The delta loss between high quality 320 AAC or mp3 and the lossy CD format is what needs to be discussed. I really can't hear any difference between lossy CD and lossy high quality compression. I can hear the difference between live performance and the lossy CD format.
Some people quote market share, others quote stock prices, others count page clicks by OS type, others show market profit share and others complain about the price. But it all boils down to economic wants and needs, popularity and desire.
People can get old tech with free software for practically nothing. Or, they can pay a premium for new tech and great design. It's a big spectrum. For clothes I could get something out of a free hand-me-down box or buy the latest designer fashion. With clothing sometimes you need to simply stay dry and warm, and sometimes it pays to dress for success.
Good design can be worth it. I can be more productive if I'm not spending all my time maintaining a clunker that sucks my time and gets in my way. Good design can let my tools become transparent to my consciousness and enable me to do things I never could do before. People want that, but sometimes it is priced accordingly.
And, then there is marketing. Desire can be orchestrated. It can be managed.
Apple products are designed to create demand and fit desire. They are the peak of affordable design, and priced accordingly. When it comes to market share, Apple recognizes that the markets are not measured in product units, downloads or clicks. The measurement is money. Apple finds broken markets to create unrealized product needs. They then design great products to fill those needs, integrate world class manufacturing and market them via the worlds best 'reality distortion field.' They then sell through a great combination of online sales and storefronts that are a joy to enter. And, finally back it all up with Genius support.
They maximize desire and price accordingly. At the big poker table, you don't need to win the most hands to take most of the money. And, the same goes for that other poker game, the financial markets.
Apple is the huge winner in taking cash out of the product market place and creating valuation in the financial markets. The are the most popular in every category they decide to play, with the only popularity measure that matters: money, the universal medium of exchange.
The markets prove that Apple creates the most popular computers, music players, tablets and cell phones.
EVENING RECORDER AMSTERDAM, NY MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1954
HARRY DEMSKY, KIRK DOUGLAS' FATHER, DIES
Harry Demsky, father of Movie Actor Kirk ' Douglas, died last night at the Jewish Home for the Aged in Troy.
Demsky, 70, who came to the United States in 1906, ran a waste metals business in Amsterdam for many years. Following his retirement, he made his home at the Fourth Ward Hotel. He had been living at the home of a daughter in Troy before entering the Jewish Home last Friday.
Kirk Douglas flew east Saturday to visit his father and returned to California early yesterday when it appeared that the sick man was out of immediate danger.
Demsky's widow, Mrs. Bertha Sandler Demsky, is a resident of the Troy Jewish Home
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The problem can easily be heard in a modern 'Digitally Remastered' release which has been caught up in this loudness mess. You are much better off with an older non compressed version of a release at 320 than a lossless remastered version which has been compressed. The compression tosses out way more acoustical information than lossy 320 encoding. You would be hard pressed to hear the difference between the 320 kb version and the original, but lossless compression really sucks.
You really need to pop a few comparison tracks into something like Audacity to see how bad things have become. Saving things as lossless may seem like a big deal, but you need to compare new and old versions when you are replacing the old with the remasters.
a 50 year old 3 prong, grounded electrical cord which is interchangeable with all kinds of technology.
And, I traveled in asia with a descendent of the guy who invented the screw in light bulb.
Nobody has mentioned the absurd price of early ethernet implementations. There is good reason why it took forever to catch on. It took a cost plus military budget to afford it.
Buy the $129 Amazon 3TB drive and plug it into a USB port with a USB cable the same color as your carpet.
OK, it isn't really wireless, but most of the suggestions in the article aren't really a '3TB Wireless Time-Machine', either if you drop other '3TB Wireless Time-Machine' features.
Their marketing people renamed their 3G service as 4G months ago.
http://www.newser.com/story/109146/att-renames-its-3g-network-a-4g-network.html
to discover I was an Amazon Associate.
The video says it all:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20074064-248/conan-obrien-rips-apples-final-cut-pro-x-on-show/
I never touched a netbook that didn't feel like a flimsy piece of junk. Well, if you ignore the smallest Macbook Air, but the iPhone or iPad makes more sense for a sub notebook. Nice portable content usage devices. If I want to create content I need the spaciousness of my 15" laptop.
I might want a small stenographic device like the Air if I did lots of note taking, but i find a Moleskine comes in at well under $100 and fits nicely in a shirt pocket. The Moleskine killed the netbook.
We all know there are no black swans in Britain.
Genius in iTunes has been uploading a complete list of your library. If Apple was working with the RIAA you would have heard about it by now. Metadata sent to iCloud will have more info, but Apple wants to identify the same base tracks, aliased to different rips. They want to discard minor differences between your rip and my rip of the same track.
Apple's deals with the big music companies are good for us all. They want to collect a bit more money for music you use, not collect penalties in lawsuits. They want the music industry to move in a positive direction in this new era of music redundancy.
and go to Greenland or Antarctica where the rapid melting exposes them.
Global Climate Change has many benefits, more noticeable storms and meteorites.
The containments hold a very small number of the reactor fuel rods at the site. The bulk of the radioactive material at the Japanese site is outside the containment vessels in open pools of water. And, there is nearly ten times the amount there as at Chernobyl.
These pools of fuel rods are stored in upper floors of structures damaged by explosions. There has been very little information released about the structural integrity of these pools. It has been widely reported that some of these pools might have less water in them than would be considered appropriate.
There have been videos shown of attempts to drop water from helicopters or spray water into them from fire engines. It is also clear that there is highly radioactive water deep enough for workers to wade into according to other reports.
Aerial images of the state of the structures surrounding these containment pools show a mangled mess. No one seems to know very much about the status of damage to the pools due to collapsing material in and around the pools. There have been no good counts of how many stored fuel rods were damaged, or how badly they were damaged by the explosions and structural collapse of the buildings.
But, I'm sure we can trust the operator of these facilities and the Japanese government to provide complete, current information. No need to panic, but don't be stupid.
It's got 22 instructions and is made entirely of plastic legos.
Now I need to figure how to make legos smaller and smaller.
"Samba team has moved active development of the project to the more strict GPLv3 license."
WTF. They are making 'open' software to support sharing between systems, so they want to restrict the use of the software! They should be removing restrictions, not adding them.
It seems clear that as licenses become more strict, the Samba team will choose to use them. Who knows what restrictions will be imposed by GPLv5 or GPLv6. It's better to move to non proprietary, open foundations like BSD if you are developing for the long haul.
What commercial developer needs to get sucked down the GPLvX black hole.
It would be nice if we could rid the world of tricky, restrictive licenses.
Pockets of lock-in restrict truly free development.
Ok, I get it. If I record something live at 128k that's lossless, but down sampling a CD to AAC at 320k is lossy.
So, the real solution is to release lossless, uncompressed music at 128k for those who want to save space and have lossless audio.
I'll stick with my lousy, lossy AACs
The CD format is already a lossy format. We use it because it is good enough. The delta loss between high quality 320 AAC or mp3 and the lossy CD format is what needs to be discussed. I really can't hear any difference between lossy CD and lossy high quality compression. I can hear the difference between live performance and the lossy CD format.
They sell the USB and flash card reader separately. Check the Apple Store, they come bundled for about $39.
And once they have Flash, there will be a great market for Flash killers like ClickToFlash.
And I still use 8-Track tapes because they play in my car
I think i'll build my own search engine, Bingle, to merge the results from them both and be the best search engine of all.
How do I get in on the bet. I need to stake a climatologist. Seems better than my 401k.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=blue%2Cred%2Cgreen%2Cyellow&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Britannica%2CWikipedia&year_start=1800&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1881%2C1891%2C1901%2C1911%2C1921%2C1931%2C1941%2C1951%2C1961%2C1971%2C1981%2C1991&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=poker%2Cchess&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Galileo%2CDarwin%2CEinstein%2CFreud&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Warren+Harding%2CCalvin+Coolidge%2CHerbert+Hoover%2CFranklin+Roosevelt%2CHarry+Truman%2CDwight+EisenhowerJohn+Kennedy%2CLyndon+Johnson%2CRichard+Nixon%2CGerald+Ford%2CJimmy+Carter&year_start=1910&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fax%2CXerox&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=steak%2Csausage%2Cice+cream%2Chamburger%2Cpizza%2Cpasta%2Csushi&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Google%2CMicrosoft%2CMacintosh%2CiPad%2CiPhone%2CWindows&year_start=1984&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Google%2CiPhone%2CMacintosh&year_start=2000&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=3.14%2C3.1416%2C3.14159&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Some people quote market share, others quote stock prices, others count page clicks by OS type, others show market profit share and others complain about the price. But it all boils down to economic wants and needs, popularity and desire.
People can get old tech with free software for practically nothing. Or, they can pay a premium for new tech and great design. It's a big spectrum. For clothes I could get something out of a free hand-me-down box or buy the latest designer fashion. With clothing sometimes you need to simply stay dry and warm, and sometimes it pays to dress for success.
Good design can be worth it. I can be more productive if I'm not spending all my time maintaining a clunker that sucks my time and gets in my way. Good design can let my tools become transparent to my consciousness and enable me to do things I never could do before. People want that, but sometimes it is priced accordingly.
And, then there is marketing. Desire can be orchestrated. It can be managed.
Apple products are designed to create demand and fit desire. They are the peak of affordable design, and priced accordingly. When it comes to market share, Apple recognizes that the markets are not measured in product units, downloads or clicks. The measurement is money. Apple finds broken markets to create unrealized product needs. They then design great products to fill those needs, integrate world class manufacturing and market them via the worlds best 'reality distortion field.' They then sell through a great combination of online sales and storefronts that are a joy to enter. And, finally back it all up with Genius support.
They maximize desire and price accordingly. At the big poker table, you don't need to win the most hands to take most of the money. And, the same goes for that other poker game, the financial markets.
Apple is the huge winner in taking cash out of the product market place and creating valuation in the financial markets. The are the most popular in every category they decide to play, with the only popularity measure that matters: money, the universal medium of exchange.
The markets prove that Apple creates the most popular computers, music players, tablets and cell phones.
"I expected it not to work with OS X 10.5" on a "new Christmas MacBook Pro" ?
Can I get a ride in your wayback machine?
But, I've been a juror. And, I don't care what the lawyers and judge will say. You are guilty on 21 of 23 counts. No need to list which ones.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/windy_valley/4870155079/
EVENING RECORDER
AMSTERDAM, NY
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1954
HARRY DEMSKY, KIRK DOUGLAS' FATHER, DIES
Harry Demsky, father of Movie Actor Kirk ' Douglas, died last night at the Jewish Home for the Aged in Troy.
Demsky, 70, who came to the United States in 1906, ran a waste metals business in Amsterdam for many years. Following his retirement, he made his home at the Fourth Ward Hotel. He had been living at the home of a daughter in Troy before entering the Jewish Home last Friday.
Kirk Douglas flew east Saturday to visit his father and returned to California early yesterday when it appeared that the sick man was out of immediate danger.
Demsky's widow, Mrs. Bertha Sandler Demsky, is a resident of the Troy Jewish Home