My problem now? Spending absurd amounts of money modding the hell out of my MythTV box. I bought one of those dedicated Media PC cases, and am going crazy installing lighted pushbutton switches, rewiring my PSU to be like an XConnect, running neon lights all over the place, soundproofing the heck out of the machine. I've spent almost $2k on this box!...
Don't forget high gas prices will affect everybody. Even city buses will have to pay more. And even the cost of asphalt will go up (a byproduct of oil processing)
True. I'm certainly not looking forward to higher airfare.:(
On the topic of city bus-lines: fortunately, I think cities will have the clout and incentive to invest alternative technologies and the advantage of being able to apply them to their whole fleet (some buses in my area already run bio-diesel which will also start to become more attractive as gas gets more expensive.) Furthermore, as more people use public transport, cities can start offering better service with money from the extra fares collected.
I recently calculated the total I spent on gas in a month (July, 2005: $66.07) and compared it against the price of a one month metro-area bus pass ($64) and that is with me mostly commuting to and from work by bike! It seems to me that we can't be too far off from the point where Americans will seriously consider alternatives to using personal cars for their daily commute to work.
This is true, but not everything is roses yet-- Apple's calendar.app, for example, has some problems with the full iCalendar specification such as being able to both subscribe to AND edit a remote ics file (at least with 10.3, are things fixed now?)
As an aside why is it that Apache doesn't implement versioning-- you know, the V in DAV?
Thanks to visionaries such as Adam & Eve'sPhil Harvey, the right for a company to sell pornography, sex-toys, contraception, and other "obsecne" material over the internet and via mail-order has been upheld.
(I can make Win2K run just FINE on a P3-600 and probably smaller gear... but I'm not going to get Quake3 running well on it).
Pssh. Back in college I used to play Quake3 running on a Celeron 300a booted in Redhat 5.2 (Original 3dfx voodoo card, too.) And let me tell you, it ran great.
WXYC, the first radio station to stream over the internet, is offering a free CD for download to celebrate their own 10-years-of-streaming anniversary. (Be a good citizen and use the torrent.)
2. FLAC has native support for several hardware players (APE supports none, to my knowledge.)
For portable players, I'll stick with high-quality VBR MP3 files. There's just not enough storage for lossless audio on them yet. When there is, I can easily transcode from APE to whatever format they support.
That's a good point, but I was thinking more along the lines of hardware for in-house playing of music. I have my music ripped to a lossless format in a central location in my residence and I'd like to be able to play music in my living room stereo or any of the N computers in various room. Streaming + hardware devices for playback to stereo systems (think: airTunes) makes this fairly painless. One the fly transcoding is certainly the other option, but why do it if you don't have to?
APE's license provides for unrestricted non-commercial use, which is good enough for me. I don't blame the author if he wants his slice of the pie when a for-profit corporation distributes his software as part of a commercial Linux distro.
I don't either, and I wish him the best and biggest slice of the pie possible. But the reality is that for many people, myself included, restrictivly licensed software is simply less attractive, and when that and all the various technical merits of the various lossless formats are taken together, at least for me, FLAC comes out on top.
True, APE does compress a bit better than FLAC, however it's important to note the following:
FLAC is streamable (APE is not.)
FLAC has native support for several hardware players (APE supports none, to my knowledge.)
FLAC is asymmetric with a bias towards faster decoding (APE is symmetric with respect to encode and decode speeds.)
FLAC is licensed under the OSI approved Xiph modification to the BSD license with supporting reference code licensed under the GPL (APE code is generally available but the license is apparently non-standard enough that several Linux distributions are unwilling to package it.
Well, you know, there's an old saying: physicists grow up to be engineers, and mathematicians grow up to be accountants.
So very, very true.
It's a strage sensation to try to move from one world to another. It really stretches your understanding. I was quite weirded-out, as a physicist trained to e.g. take Fourier transforms in closed form, to learn how to do the FFT in discrete time or *gasp* graphically.
The engineer says, "It's about 3."
There can be just as much beauty in the approximation as in the closed form solution. (-:
*walks away mumbling something about spherical cows*
You should read more history [1]. The French resistance supplied the allies with crucial intelligence reports, massive disruptions of the German supply and communication lines and numerous acts of infrastructure sabotage. "Between April and May [1944], the resistance destroyed 1,800 railway engines." [2] French intelligence and support was crucial in planning and executing D-Day. All this in the face of torture, execution, threats against family members, etc. I believe if you could plot "frenchmen involved in the resistance as a function of time" you would see that the members in the active resistance grew as the war went on and the German's/Vichy government started employing tough tactics, not the opposite.
While there may be exceptions, and I certainly invite you to cite them, the infringing party is the one which provides the infringing file, not the party which receives it.
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True, but fast wireless transfers of files between computers in the local subnet is nothing to scoff at!
On the topic of city bus-lines: fortunately, I think cities will have the clout and incentive to invest alternative technologies and the advantage of being able to apply them to their whole fleet (some buses in my area already run bio-diesel which will also start to become more attractive as gas gets more expensive.) Furthermore, as more people use public transport, cities can start offering better service with money from the extra fares collected.
I recently calculated the total I spent on gas in a month (July, 2005: $66.07) and compared it against the price of a one month metro-area bus pass ($64) and that is with me mostly commuting to and from work by bike! It seems to me that we can't be too far off from the point where Americans will seriously consider alternatives to using personal cars for their daily commute to work.
Why is the absolutely-no-DRM not completely fair to them as well? I'm not trolling, just genuinely curious.
now where are my dentures...
Now try and find a store that is actually carrying the title...
Seriously!
This is true, but not everything is roses yet-- Apple's calendar.app, for example, has some problems with the full iCalendar specification such as being able to both subscribe to AND edit a remote ics file (at least with 10.3, are things fixed now?)
As an aside why is it that Apache doesn't implement versioning-- you know, the V in DAV?
kickbacks.
No, but YOU did!
Thanks to visionaries such as Adam & Eve's Phil Harvey, the right for a company to sell pornography, sex-toys, contraception, and other "obsecne" material over the internet and via mail-order has been upheld.
In that case you might be interested in NWA - Straight Outa Compton - Explict Content ONLY version.
Pssh. Back in college I used to play Quake3 running on a Celeron 300a booted in Redhat 5.2 (Original 3dfx voodoo card, too.) And let me tell you, it ran great.
In the north atlantic, life jackets just make your corpse float.
WXYC, the first radio station to stream over the internet, is offering a free CD for download to celebrate their own 10-years-of-streaming anniversary. (Be a good citizen and use the torrent.)
That's a good point, but I was thinking more along the lines of hardware for in-house playing of music. I have my music ripped to a lossless format in a central location in my residence and I'd like to be able to play music in my living room stereo or any of the N computers in various room. Streaming + hardware devices for playback to stereo systems (think: airTunes) makes this fairly painless. One the fly transcoding is certainly the other option, but why do it if you don't have to?
I don't either, and I wish him the best and biggest slice of the pie possible. But the reality is that for many people, myself included, restrictivly licensed software is simply less attractive, and when that and all the various technical merits of the various lossless formats are taken together, at least for me, FLAC comes out on top.So very, very true.
It's a strage sensation to try to move from one world to another. It really stretches your understanding. I was quite weirded-out, as a physicist trained to e.g. take Fourier transforms in closed form, to learn how to do the FFT in discrete time or *gasp* graphically.
The engineer says, "It's about 3."
There can be just as much beauty in the approximation as in the closed form solution. (-:
*walks away mumbling something about spherical cows*
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_resistancet ance.htm
2. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/french_resis
While there may be exceptions, and I certainly invite you to cite them, the infringing party is the one which provides the infringing file, not the party which receives it.
To paraphrase Teen Girl Squad: Enemied!
If by 'did the job' you mean, 'lead to their eventual defeat' then, by golly, I guess you are right!
LINUX != x86!