Why not just download whatever you want to watch? Granted, I watch little television (usually just "Human Giant", "Lost" and "Prison Break"), but I can generally get a torrent for them from Mininova or The Pirate Bay. Maybe we should rejoice that with the Internet people are no longer slaves to the idiot box, and while we all want some mindless entertainment TV isn't worth going through too much effort for.
Why not just download whatever you want to watch? Well, one reason might be that it is technically illegal...
* No DRM * 30 second previews of every track at *any* point of the track in 128kbps - you can listen to the entire track but you'll have to hit "play" again every 30 seconds * Lame encoded MP3 w/ FLAC available for some releases * Normal web site interface
I believe each album is its own zip, but I've only downloaded single albums at a time. Don't think there is an API, although they have a html generator to embed preview players in your own pages. You cannot re-download previously purchase tracks.
The major downside is that it's limited mostly to electronic music; but within the genre, it's got quite a good selection, with dozens of labels participating, such as City Centre Offices, Domino, Fatcat, Ghostly, Morr Music, Ninjatune, One Little Indian, Planet Mu, Rough Trade, Skam, Sonig and of course Warp.
I think he should have called the $75 version the "Professional" version. For other artists looking for high-quality source material for their own remixes, masheups, original creations etc, $75 is a very reasonable price.
That's great! You got to preview the music, decide what you thought and saved your money. You weren't forced to buy anything and you don't feel cheated. Everything worked, be glad!
I use gandi.net. They're fairly cheap ($15/yr), been around a good while (since 2000), not located in the US (France), and (most importantly), their agreement specifically notes that ownership of the domain is yours, not theirs. Their website is good and handles all the normal stuff you might need to do with a domain. I can't speak to their support, as I have not had instance to make us of it.
If Japan had a Mexico on its southern borders they wouldn't be working on robots so much ether. While having a large land border is certainly conducive to immigration, there's plenty of low-cost labor in Japan's region of the world. You know, all those guys who make our sneakers and ipods and walmart stockables. But Japan has made a choice as a society to impose strict immigration restrictions to keep them out of their country. It's not an accident.
How about loading it back to front, not by seat assignment (which requires human beings to line-up according to rules) but by the order in which those human beings walk onto the craft -- you know, like a freakin' bus. "Timmy, please move all the way to the back of the bus." Um, yeah, that'll work well. I'm sure everyone will be eagerly queuing for the chance at those prime last-row no-recline right-next-to-the-lavatory last-one-off-the-plane seats.
A few flight attendants strategically positioned along the cabin should help people settle down faster. Unless these are magical massless flight attendants that occupy no space, I can't see how have putting more people in the aisles is going to help the situation.
It's not really integrated well with other Google applications, you have to have a separate domain and separate login (if you use an @gmail login) to use it. From what I can see, it is well integrated with Google Team Apps (which requires a separate domain name), just not normal Google Apps. Which, yes, does make it annoying for individual Google users to try it out.
Japanese speak Japanese. They don't visit or read English-langiage websites any more than Americans visit Japanese-language websites hosted in Japan. Get it? I'm not sure what you're getting at, this looks like Japanese to me...
And if you really trust your network, you can recompile SSH with the 'none' cipher enabled, which (as the name implied) uses no encryption on the datastream whatsoever.
With weather, we want to know if its going to rain tomorrow, we don't go to this app to examine the cloud forms and come to our own meteorological conclusions. You make a good point. I think part of the issue is that Tufte is used to working within technical fields in which documents need to express high levels of detail to highly skilled people to make complex decisions. But in this case, the extra information is not likely to be particularly useful or wanted for the average iPhone user. As always, it is important to know your audience.
Since the expression "to take on" often means "to fight", it's easy to read the title as meaning the exact opposite of what occurred. If there was an article titled "EFF takes on RIAA's legal tactics" you wouldn't think it meant that the EFF was now using RIAA's tactics but rather was fighting against them.
My first thought was the same as yours, but then again - if the person interviewing you is someone you will be working with directly in the job - architect, co-worker, even manager - then it would be quite worth your while to try to get a feel of their skill level and intelligence before committing yourself to the position.
I had a drive failure on my laptop. In order to salvage its files, I hooked its hard drive up to a USB enclosure and ddrescue'd it to an image on my desktop machine. I was rather surprised to see no errors on the entire disk, even though it wouldn't even boot any more.
Turns out there were errors; lots of them. But the controller in the USB enclosure never bothered to tell me about it. I could copy an error-prone sector of the drive and get back different data every time, with not a single error reported. You can't perform effective data recovery if you don't even know when the errors happen.
Perhaps it was just a poor quality enclosure? Maybe, but it's not something you can tell from looking at the box. I have very little faith in USB enclosures after this, and other problems I've had - no SMART error reporting, general flakiness. I just don't trust them. Next time I'm going eSATA.
Never heard of Destineer before, am I supposed to be excited?
Destineer is a computer game developer and publisher based in Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 2000 by former Bungie Studios vice-president, Peter Tamte. It releases titles under a number of brands, including MacSoft, Bold Games and Atomic Games.
Published titles have included such games as Age of Empires III, Halo for the Mac, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, and Starship Troopers. Destineer acquired Atomic Games on May 6, 2005. So they've done some big franchise sequels and ports... hardly the stuff of legend.
I second you comment. I've known far too many people who left the local area to work somewhere that paid 50% more just for the extra money, but the cost of living in that area was 2 or 3 times more there. These are college graduates that took a cut in their standard of living simply for more money. I mean, these are supposed to be smart people, but what the heck? Is this common outside of America too? Not saying that a big house and fresh air aren't worth having, but many people also consider convenient access to things like world class music, art, dining, sporting events, shopping, etc. that tends to be located in major cities is a pretty nice perk.
Really, those schulbs working the floor trading all those stocks were trading for other people. They weren't all millionaire stock holders. There's no irony behind a $8K/yr floor trader who lives in a fifth floor walk-up studio apartment grabbing at dollar bills in 1967. Five bucks in 1967 was a month of lunches at the hot dog cart outside. Do you have some sources for that? 8K/year? I get that as about $48K/year adjusted for inflation. Of course they're not the millionaire tycoons themselves, but surely the stockholders wouldn't want to trust deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and more to people who weren't highly skilled and thus paid commensurately.
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Bleep.com, run by Warp Records, scores pretty well by your criteria.
* No DRM
* 30 second previews of every track at *any* point of the track in 128kbps - you can listen to the entire track but you'll have to hit "play" again every 30 seconds
* Lame encoded MP3 w/ FLAC available for some releases
* Normal web site interface
I believe each album is its own zip, but I've only downloaded single albums at a time. Don't think there is an API, although they have a html generator to embed preview players in your own pages. You cannot re-download previously purchase tracks.
The major downside is that it's limited mostly to electronic music; but within the genre, it's got quite a good selection, with dozens of labels participating, such as City Centre Offices, Domino, Fatcat, Ghostly, Morr Music, Ninjatune, One Little Indian, Planet Mu, Rough Trade, Skam, Sonig and of course Warp.
I think he should have called the $75 version the "Professional" version. For other artists looking for high-quality source material for their own remixes, masheups, original creations etc, $75 is a very reasonable price.
That's great! You got to preview the music, decide what you thought and saved your money. You weren't forced to buy anything and you don't feel cheated. Everything worked, be glad!
I use gandi.net. They're fairly cheap ($15/yr), been around a good while (since 2000), not located in the US (France), and (most importantly), their agreement specifically notes that ownership of the domain is yours, not theirs. Their website is good and handles all the normal stuff you might need to do with a domain. I can't speak to their support, as I have not had instance to make us of it.
I certainly wish I had known about this before I spent a decent amount of time re-encoding motion jpegs to get them under 100MB.
Japanese speak Japanese. They don't visit or read English-langiage websites any more than Americans visit Japanese-language websites hosted in Japan. Get it? I'm not sure what you're getting at, this looks like Japanese to me...
And if you really trust your network, you can recompile SSH with the 'none' cipher enabled, which (as the name implied) uses no encryption on the datastream whatsoever.
Linux (and open source in general) is much less swayed by commercial popularity than proprietary vendors are.
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Not if you only drive downhill!
To be fair, it's a bit hard to demonstrate some of he dynamic qualities of the interface in static images.
Since the expression "to take on" often means "to fight", it's easy to read the title as meaning the exact opposite of what occurred. If there was an article titled "EFF takes on RIAA's legal tactics" you wouldn't think it meant that the EFF was now using RIAA's tactics but rather was fighting against them.
My first thought was the same as yours, but then again - if the person interviewing you is someone you will be working with directly in the job - architect, co-worker, even manager - then it would be quite worth your while to try to get a feel of their skill level and intelligence before committing yourself to the position.
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Not sure if you're full? Save it. If you still feel hungry in a few hours, you can eat it then.
I had a drive failure on my laptop. In order to salvage its files, I hooked its hard drive up to a USB enclosure and ddrescue'd it to an image on my desktop machine. I was rather surprised to see no errors on the entire disk, even though it wouldn't even boot any more.
Turns out there were errors; lots of them. But the controller in the USB enclosure never bothered to tell me about it. I could copy an error-prone sector of the drive and get back different data every time, with not a single error reported. You can't perform effective data recovery if you don't even know when the errors happen.
Perhaps it was just a poor quality enclosure? Maybe, but it's not something you can tell from looking at the box. I have very little faith in USB enclosures after this, and other problems I've had - no SMART error reporting, general flakiness. I just don't trust them. Next time I'm going eSATA.
Published titles have included such games as Age of Empires III, Halo for the Mac, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, and Starship Troopers. Destineer acquired Atomic Games on May 6, 2005. So they've done some big franchise sequels and ports... hardly the stuff of legend.