With roots both in Silicon Valley's digital culture and the 1960's counterculture, Mr. Jobs has long been an arbiter of what is cool in technology, much like a real-world version of a trend-spotting character from "Pattern Recognition," one of the cyberpunk novels by William Gibson.
Say what? Did anyone else think that came out of left field? And Pattern Recognition is contemporary fiction. Not even sci fi, let alone cyberpunk. Say Jobs was born with "a technological queer eye" and you'd be making ten times more sense.
Glad to know John Markoff still can't write his way out of a paper bag. Some of the research in this article is interesting, but... that's assuming that it's the truth.
I have an unrated list too, but the unplayed list is kindof key too. I've got huge, huge amounts of music on my iPod that I've never heard of, let alone listened to.
My friends and I use iPods to do off-the-grid P2P. The only downside is that this has increased our CD purchasing habits dramatically. Dunno if that's the fault of the increased power of our purchase, or having moved near Aquarius Records in San Francisco. They should just deduct directly from my paycheck.
You're out of your damn mind. I do this. It does work.
When I plug my iPod into my Mac, it updates the rating on the relevant song. The highly-rated playlist on the mac then grows to accommodate the song. The Mac then synchronizes that longer playlist to the iPod.
Similarly, if my random unplayed playlist is limited to 2GB, when I plug in my ipod, it marks those songs as played, which takes them out of the unplayed playlist, which means they are replaced with other songs so that the playlist remains 2GB. The modified playlist is then synched with my iPod, which includes the new unplayed songs.
One with all your highly rated songs. One with all your unplayed songs, in random order, limited to fit on your iPod. One with your least recently played songs, in random order, limited to fit on your ipod.
Then throw some albums you want to listen to on a fourth playlist.
Consider the "my rating" to be the "I want to hear this again" marker. If you're listening to a new song, and it's rad and you don't want it to leave your iPod, mark it, and it'll go to your highly rated songs playlist.
Do the "these playlists only" synch. Now, everytime you synch, you get fresh songs. Just keep those less-listened to songs in iTunes. If someone ever wants to hear them (happens whenever I have a party) it's still on your computer.
I've got a 40 GB iPod, and I still need to do this, just so I have some way of managing the 25 _days_ of music on my iPod.
I honestly disagree with this, having had a terrible time using PC laptop pointing devices, and simply a mediocre time using Apple laptop pointing devices.
Re:The pointing device on my ibook has 105 buttons
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Well, you can. You're right. If you're using your right index finger to point, your right palm is covering the right click button on any PC laptop I've seen. You can lift your right hand, and press the right click button with your left thumb or index finger.
That is a big annoyance for me. I feel that at that point, the control button is a whole lot easier to reach. When I use a PC trackpad for an extended period of time, I find that my right thumb hurts from reaching underneath my hand and poking sideways.
Simultaneous clicking is a pain in the ass, you're right. Modifier keys are the best solution I've heard of for a pointing device that occupies your button fingers.
She didn't look hot, and she didn't look smart. (Although not dumb either.) "Buxom and brunette" are qualities that are irrelevant to desireability, imho.
I'm guessing that after hearing her talk for a few minutes, I'd have taken the PS2. Kudos for him, though, for figuring the right buttons to push. Too bad this all implies a weird kind of misogyny.
Whatever. Maybe he wasn't single anyway. I'm not, but if I heard the way the contest worked ahead of time, I'd have lied.
The pointing device on my ibook has 105 buttons.
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Unless you're talking about IBM keyboard nipples, PC laptops with multiple buttons are impossible to use quickly and accurately. You have to tuck your thumb all weird under your hand. Right-click-drag, for example, is incredibly difficult.
You can't do it with two hands, even if you want to.
The MacOS solution is vastly preferable, for laptops only. Click-hold brings up a context menu. If you don't like the delay, ctrl-click. There is no way you can convince me that that is more inconvenient than a two-button trackpad. If you try, I'll suspect that you're lying.
The second I hit a desk, of course, I plug in my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. My thumb and pinky drive the cursor, while every suitable finger has a button conveniently placed. Totally different excercise than a trackpad.
Taking 50% of the space isn't the only virtue in terms of archive durability. Use both. Archive in FLAC and WAV. Maybe MP3 too, since it's playable by so many consumer devices. It won't matter if it's lossless if you can't play it.
If he really wants this thing to be available in 100 years, 50% of the space is the least of his concerns.
So, if he's concerned about duration of storage, he should store in FLAC and WAV. FLAC will have better protection against corruption, but WAV might be more likely to still be a common format in twenty five years.
Every couple of years, he should make sure that he's got everything in a common format. Reencode his WAVs from his FLACs.
The NSA's primary job is to secure the communications of our government agencies. If that means securing them even against moles in the NSA, that's a good thing.
They are in a minor supplier/customer relationship. Akamai does DNS load balancing for Google. There's something Akamai does for cheaper than Google can do themselves...
Akamai doesn't deal with end users ever.
Google has lots of smart people thinking about end user applications for distributed systems. Akamai has lots of smart people thinking about business applications for distributed systems.
Akamai has a more widely distributed network. Google has a more centralized network. They're probably of a comparable size.
Merging the networks would be brick-stupid. Applying good ideas from each network to the other could be very advantageous.
Giving both groups of smart people a slightly different distributed system to work with might be very productive.
It'd be a good way for Google to grow it's headcount.
(Please, contradict me if I'm talking stupid. Happens all the time.)
And 25% of the time I want to watch a DVD on my roommate's XP machine, I have to reboot if I want to hear sound.
There are plenty of reasons that this could be happening. Since it's MS's USB speakers I'm using, it's not hardware support. But I'm the biggest geek I know, and I can't make it happen.
My fault, maybe, but I don't really care.
Just 'cause one tech journalist can't make one sound card work... Iduno. Whatever. No story. I'm not trying to say that IWeek should publish my story about my USB speakers not working. Win95 wasn't perfect, WinXP isn't perfect, and Linux isn't perfect. Blah blah blah.
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They don't seem to be losing money on their computers anymore either, though.
Glad to know John Markoff still can't write his way out of a paper bag. Some of the research in this article is interesting, but... that's assuming that it's the truth.
Are you running iTunes 4 and the latest iPod software?
I wonder how well the ipod mini would be doing if it was exactly the same as the ipod except for being covered in sharp, prickly spikes.
That's idiotic. If it were smaller, and covered in spikes, then maybe.
Battery life & size. Don't get me wrong, I think about that all the time. I'll never get a PDA until they figure it out.
I cannot tell you how important factors like "pink" and "small" and "easy to use" are to people outside of the 18-25 yr old males.
I'm a 23 year old male, and I want a pink iPod mini more than anything.
I swear to Jesus that I'm not gay. My girlfriend doesn't believe me either.
I have an unrated list too, but the unplayed list is kindof key too. I've got huge, huge amounts of music on my iPod that I've never heard of, let alone listened to.
My friends and I use iPods to do off-the-grid P2P. The only downside is that this has increased our CD purchasing habits dramatically. Dunno if that's the fault of the increased power of our purchase, or having moved near Aquarius Records in San Francisco. They should just deduct directly from my paycheck.
How about adding a limitation that the album name does not contain "soundtrack"?
(Then make sure that all your soundtracks have "soundtrack" in the album name.)
And, FWIW, I did it with my 5GB iPod too.
You're out of your damn mind. I do this. It does work.
When I plug my iPod into my Mac, it updates the rating on the relevant song. The highly-rated playlist on the mac then grows to accommodate the song. The Mac then synchronizes that longer playlist to the iPod.
Similarly, if my random unplayed playlist is limited to 2GB, when I plug in my ipod, it marks those songs as played, which takes them out of the unplayed playlist, which means they are replaced with other songs so that the playlist remains 2GB. The modified playlist is then synched with my iPod, which includes the new unplayed songs.
Set up a few automatic playlists:
One with all your highly rated songs.
One with all your unplayed songs, in random order, limited to fit on your iPod.
One with your least recently played songs, in random order, limited to fit on your ipod.
Then throw some albums you want to listen to on a fourth playlist.
Consider the "my rating" to be the "I want to hear this again" marker. If you're listening to a new song, and it's rad and you don't want it to leave your iPod, mark it, and it'll go to your highly rated songs playlist.
Do the "these playlists only" synch. Now, everytime you synch, you get fresh songs. Just keep those less-listened to songs in iTunes. If someone ever wants to hear them (happens whenever I have a party) it's still on your computer.
I've got a 40 GB iPod, and I still need to do this, just so I have some way of managing the 25 _days_ of music on my iPod.
Functionality has nothing to do with it.
I honestly disagree with this, having had a terrible time using PC laptop pointing devices, and simply a mediocre time using Apple laptop pointing devices.
Well, you can. You're right. If you're using your right index finger to point, your right palm is covering the right click button on any PC laptop I've seen. You can lift your right hand, and press the right click button with your left thumb or index finger.
That is a big annoyance for me. I feel that at that point, the control button is a whole lot easier to reach. When I use a PC trackpad for an extended period of time, I find that my right thumb hurts from reaching underneath my hand and poking sideways.
Simultaneous clicking is a pain in the ass, you're right. Modifier keys are the best solution I've heard of for a pointing device that occupies your button fingers.
Did anybody look at the pictures?
She didn't look hot, and she didn't look smart. (Although not dumb either.) "Buxom and brunette" are qualities that are irrelevant to desireability, imho.
I'm guessing that after hearing her talk for a few minutes, I'd have taken the PS2. Kudos for him, though, for figuring the right buttons to push. Too bad this all implies a weird kind of misogyny.
Whatever. Maybe he wasn't single anyway. I'm not, but if I heard the way the contest worked ahead of time, I'd have lied.
Unless you're talking about IBM keyboard nipples, PC laptops with multiple buttons are impossible to use quickly and accurately. You have to tuck your thumb all weird under your hand. Right-click-drag, for example, is incredibly difficult.
You can't do it with two hands, even if you want to.
The MacOS solution is vastly preferable, for laptops only. Click-hold brings up a context menu. If you don't like the delay, ctrl-click. There is no way you can convince me that that is more inconvenient than a two-button trackpad. If you try, I'll suspect that you're lying.
The second I hit a desk, of course, I plug in my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. My thumb and pinky drive the cursor, while every suitable finger has a button conveniently placed. Totally different excercise than a trackpad.
Taking 50% of the space isn't the only virtue in terms of archive durability. Use both. Archive in FLAC and WAV. Maybe MP3 too, since it's playable by so many consumer devices. It won't matter if it's lossless if you can't play it.
If he really wants this thing to be available in 100 years, 50% of the space is the least of his concerns.
So, if he's concerned about duration of storage, he should store in FLAC and WAV. FLAC will have better protection against corruption, but WAV might be more likely to still be a common format in twenty five years.
Every couple of years, he should make sure that he's got everything in a common format. Reencode his WAVs from his FLACs.
Burn to CD-R, keep in on your hard drive as a WAV, and keep the tapes too. That might still not be enough.
If you honestly want to keep your data for a long period of time, you may need to take extreme measures.
The NSA's primary job is to secure the communications of our government agencies. If that means securing them even against moles in the NSA, that's a good thing.
Yes. If you compare the info in your linked article with the article in the story, it is clear that they both describe the RB2000.
Your story says all the intrigue happened in 1995, and it remained unsolved. Too bad your story doesn't have a date on it. I'm curious-like.
I don't think you want to put people near that exhaust...
They are in a minor supplier/customer relationship. Akamai does DNS load balancing for Google. There's something Akamai does for cheaper than Google can do themselves...
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Akamai doesn't deal with end users ever.
Google has lots of smart people thinking about end user applications for distributed systems.
Akamai has lots of smart people thinking about business applications for distributed systems.
Akamai has a more widely distributed network
Google has a more centralized network.
They're probably of a comparable size.
Merging the networks would be brick-stupid.
Applying good ideas from each network to the other could be very advantageous.
Giving both groups of smart people a slightly different distributed system to work with might be very productive.
It'd be a good way for Google to grow it's headcount.
(Please, contradict me if I'm talking stupid. Happens all the time.)
Nah. They're liars. Anyone who would say that either side is "the true aggressor" gave up reality for rhetoric a long time ago.
Whether they're lying because they think it's justified for their cause, or just because they're trolling is a separate matter.
He got all the way up to +4, insightful and informative, until just now he got an overrated.
Just +3.
Anyone who acts like either the Israelis or the Palestinians are completely innocent or completely guilty are lying.
And 25% of the time I want to watch a DVD on my roommate's XP machine, I have to reboot if I want to hear sound.
There are plenty of reasons that this could be happening. Since it's MS's USB speakers I'm using, it's not hardware support. But I'm the biggest geek I know, and I can't make it happen.
My fault, maybe, but I don't really care.
Just 'cause one tech journalist can't make one sound card work... Iduno. Whatever. No story. I'm not trying to say that IWeek should publish my story about my USB speakers not working. Win95 wasn't perfect, WinXP isn't perfect, and Linux isn't perfect. Blah blah blah.