I wrote a Perl script to import FLACed shows (like the ZIP files found on archive.org), which you may find useful. (It's not as cool as native FLAC support would be, but it gets the job done.) In particular, it parses the metadata stored in the archive's.txt file and applies it to the imported tunes.
They've forged their own path, but they also understand the need to live in a Windows world, interoperate with Samba shares, handle.doc format, etc. Linux needs to do the same thing -- innovate, but interoperate as well.
"Electricians from Lutsk may be innocent bystanders, but most anonymous sources are not. They have many different motivations, but I doubt we'll ever see the paper cite what must be the most common one: deniability. If your name isn't attached to something that turns out to be wrong or embarrassing, you never have to take the heat for it."
I remember sitting with Steve and some other people night after night from nine until one, working out the user interface for the first iPod. It evolved by trial and error into something a little simpler every day. We knew we had reached the end when we looked at each other and said, "Well, of course. Why would we want to do it any other way?"
-- Jeff Robbin, lead software designer for iTunes and the iPod
What a great quote. If I were an interface designer, that would go in a frame on my desk.
Pretty good, although I would shift Apple and MS to #2 and #3 respectively and put someone like Nomad at #1; they make stuff for early adopters, which Apple then perfects for a mass market.
My PowerBook is over three years old. I keep trying to convince myself it needs replacing, but it still does the job great. The differences between the Mac you get today and the one you get in three months are purely incremental. Plus three months of lost productivity/fun.
1. Find a slashdot-reading friend who hasn't read slashdot yet today. 2. Show him the text of the parent post 3. Ask him to guess in which front-page slashdot story this bizarre comment was actually relevant
I agree in terms of the development itself, but if it "makes no diff", and you want to know for sure how it looks on Windows, why not? I'm all for browser-agnostic development, but at the end of the day, browsers still display things differently, and IE has the most users.
Well, it's not zero -- one of the more hardcore Mac users I know switched to Win XP because she's a web developer (if most of your users are on Windows, it makes sense for you to be) and has remained there ever since.
Of course, one of the more hardcore Linux guys I know now has an iPod...
The book "The Wisdom of Crowds" discusses this. In a nutshell: groups make good decisions even if most of the people in the group have incomplete or even bad information, because the errors in the individual votes tend to cancel each other out. By this argument, even people with only half a clue should vote.
I had a morning flight last week. I bought a croissant and a coffee to eat while in the (long) security line. However, the line moved so fast that I could barely gobble my pastry and drink two sips of my coffee before I was at the front of the line. In my recent flights, the only "waiting" was at the gate and on the plane.
So if waiting in the security line is your concern, I wouldn't worry about it.
Sad to say, it was a work-for-hire so I don't have rights to the source. If you have any general questions about it, feel free to contact me: asthma_pie at earthlink dot net.
When the original "plan for spam" article came out, I got excited about it and incorporated it into a suggestion tracking system I was working on. The end result was nice. In the system, the user would look at email and associate it with existing suggestions or bug reports. The system learned what words were associated with which suggestions or bugs, and would show the user a list of suggestions which might be relevant for the email he was viewing. It worked surprisingly well.
He wasn't complaining about the one-buttonness. He was complaining about the "I'm a perfect circle so you can't tell which way is up"-ness.
However, your point about buying a replacement mouse is, of course, still valid.
We all must FIGHT Wal-mart and the other proponents of RHIC! This 1 PB milestone is yet another erosion of our privacy and will not.. what? Oh, never mind.
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From TFA:
The Samsung Yepp YH-999 20GB Portable Media Center is available on Amazon
Now that's a comprehensive buyer's guide!
"Schaumburg"? I don't know, sounds pretty German to me.
I agree that would be great.
.txt file and applies it to the imported tunes.
e s%20Scripts/index.html
I wrote a Perl script to import FLACed shows (like the ZIP files found on archive.org), which you may find useful. (It's not as cool as native FLAC support would be, but it gets the job done.) In particular, it parses the metadata stored in the archive's
http://homepage.mac.com/mark_abbott/Projects/iTun
Looks like LuxPro is about to discover the iSue.
They've forged their own path, but they also understand the need to live in a Windows world, interoperate with Samba shares, handle .doc format, etc. Linux needs to do the same thing -- innovate, but interoperate as well.
The nytimes's Public Editor had an interesting piece about anonymous sources a while back:
. html?res=9907EFD61230F930A25755C0A9629C8B63
http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-printpage
"Electricians from Lutsk may be innocent bystanders, but most anonymous sources are not. They have many different motivations, but I doubt we'll ever see the paper cite what must be the most common one: deniability. If your name isn't attached to something that turns out to be wrong or embarrassing, you never have to take the heat for it."
I remember sitting with Steve and some other people night after night from nine until one, working out the user interface for the first iPod. It evolved by trial and error into something a little simpler every day. We knew we had reached the end when we looked at each other and said, "Well, of course. Why would we want to do it any other way?"
-- Jeff Robbin, lead software designer for iTunes and the iPod
What a great quote. If I were an interface designer, that would go in a frame on my desk.
Pretty good, although I would shift Apple and MS to #2 and #3 respectively and put someone like Nomad at #1; they make stuff for early adopters, which Apple then perfects for a mass market.
My PowerBook is over three years old. I keep trying to convince myself it needs replacing, but it still does the job great. The differences between the Mac you get today and the one you get in three months are purely incremental. Plus three months of lost productivity/fun.
1. Find a slashdot-reading friend who hasn't read slashdot yet today.
2. Show him the text of the parent post
3. Ask him to guess in which front-page slashdot story this bizarre comment was actually relevant
Hilarity ensues.
I agree in terms of the development itself, but if it "makes no diff", and you want to know for sure how it looks on Windows, why not? I'm all for browser-agnostic development, but at the end of the day, browsers still display things differently, and IE has the most users.
Well, it's not zero -- one of the more hardcore Mac users I know switched to Win XP because she's a web developer (if most of your users are on Windows, it makes sense for you to be) and has remained there ever since.
Of course, one of the more hardcore Linux guys I know now has an iPod...
I applied the upgrades via Software Update, yes.
I have a Gen 1 (5 Gig) iPod, and it does indeed play AAC.
The book "The Wisdom of Crowds" discusses this. In a nutshell: groups make good decisions even if most of the people in the group have incomplete or even bad information, because the errors in the individual votes tend to cancel each other out. By this argument, even people with only half a clue should vote.
I had a morning flight last week. I bought a croissant and a coffee to eat while in the (long) security line. However, the line moved so fast that I could barely gobble my pastry and drink two sips of my coffee before I was at the front of the line. In my recent flights, the only "waiting" was at the gate and on the plane.
So if waiting in the security line is your concern, I wouldn't worry about it.
Although marketers regard pop-ups as one of the most effective ways of advertising online, many surfers find them hugely annoying.
potato, potahto.
Sad to say, it was a work-for-hire so I don't have rights to the source. If you have any general questions about it, feel free to contact me: asthma_pie at earthlink dot net.
When the original "plan for spam" article came out, I got excited about it and incorporated it into a suggestion tracking system I was working on. The end result was nice. In the system, the user would look at email and associate it with existing suggestions or bug reports. The system learned what words were associated with which suggestions or bugs, and would show the user a list of suggestions which might be relevant for the email he was viewing. It worked surprisingly well.
I believe that sequel was called "fear.cx".
He wasn't complaining about the one-buttonness. He was complaining about the "I'm a perfect circle so you can't tell which way is up"-ness. However, your point about buying a replacement mouse is, of course, still valid.
We all must FIGHT Wal-mart and the other proponents of RHIC! This 1 PB milestone is yet another erosion of our privacy and will not.. what? Oh, never mind.
It was "The Living Daylights." :-)
I'm an idiot. Never mind.