I discovered V.S. Ramachandran through the BBC Reith Lectures of 2003, available in a RealAudio stream. It's a fascinating lecture series, worth listening too just for Ramachandran's great rolled RRRs.
That's not true. I'm using an Intel iMac right now and there is a green LED to the right of the camera. It's behind the white plastic so you can only see it when it's on.
On the other hand, a light-grey footnote on the Features page mumbles something about requiring conversion to Sony's proprietary BBeB (broadband electric book) format... Hopefully this won't be as painful as their "MP3" player was.
Credit cards require less and less verification. I wonder whats their source of income when they lose money, that encourages them to be so lax.
In addition to the late fees and interest charged to the customer as the previous poster mentioned, the CC companies aren't held liable for any of the fraudulent purchases made with a card. It's an absolute racket. When a fraudulent transaction is disputed, the CC company just pulls the money back out of the merchant's account, and usually charges an additional $10-25 chargeback fee just to add insult to injury. So the CC companies have no incentive to limit fraud since it doesn't hurt them.
Of course, I'm speaking from the position of a merchant so I'm biased that way.
I kind of worry about needing to reload OS X and then having the music files I backed up not work with the new load of OS X because it thinks I am a different user or something.
This has happened to me. All you have to do is send an email to Apple support and they will reset all your computer authorizations. I've heard several other people say the same thing; apparently Apple is pretty forgiving about this, as they should be. I can't imagine many people would remember to de-authorize themselves in iTunes before reinstalling the OS.
Actually, a given playlist can be burned ten times. A given file purchased from the iTunes store can be copied to and played upon three "authorized" computers.
the "Artist" field is a combination of composer and/or performer...
I was worried about this too, but was pleased to find that in the "Power Search" you can search the Composer field as well. I entered "Britten" and got back tracks that included various conductors in the Artist field.
I've been listening to these lectures while I work and I must say they're absolutely fascinating. The guy has a great voice and sense of humour, and the question-and-answer sessions at the end are surprisingly intelligent and just as interesting as the talk itself.
The talks are basically about all the strange ways that your senses can behave when your brain is damaged in subtle ways. People whose visual centers have been damaged can point at objects they can't consiously "see" because the motor-control part of the brain is processing the input from the eyes. A woman can read the license plate of a car but not tell whether which direction the car is moving. Everybody likes Picasso on a fundamental level but overrides their basic appreciation with a conscious decision not to like it. A man recognizes his mother by voice but thinks she is an impostor by sight.
Crazy and interesting stuff. He's talking in La Jolla tomorrow night but I can't find any information about the show. I assume it's an invitation-only thing.
I think the reason for the slowdown is to put us in the heads of the characters. These guys are able to do things incredibly fast -- to them, the slo-mo is how the world actually behaves.
I've used a program called ID3Man which does just this. I don't know if it's the same on you used -- probably not, since these guys have only been around for a year or so. My experience with ID3Man was mixed -- it's great for "popular" albums which have made it into their database, but the less volume-selling stuff like some classical and jazz are less well-recognized by their system. Definitely worth a look though.
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I discovered V.S. Ramachandran through the BBC Reith Lectures of 2003, available in a RealAudio stream. It's a fascinating lecture series, worth listening too just for Ramachandran's great rolled RRRs.
Humin' Strips®. Robots don't know it's not bacon!
I would say, "muchos huevos grandes."
Seen the latest iMac? Camera. Microphone. No LED.
That's not true. I'm using an Intel iMac right now and there is a green LED to the right of the camera. It's behind the white plastic so you can only see it when it's on.
Sony's web site claims that the Reader will support PDF as well as JPEG and MP3 (huh?):
h tml
http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/reader_specs.
On the other hand, a light-grey footnote on the Features page mumbles something about requiring conversion to Sony's proprietary BBeB (broadband electric book) format... Hopefully this won't be as painful as their "MP3" player was.
In addition to the late fees and interest charged to the customer as the previous poster mentioned, the CC companies aren't held liable for any of the fraudulent purchases made with a card. It's an absolute racket. When a fraudulent transaction is disputed, the CC company just pulls the money back out of the merchant's account, and usually charges an additional $10-25 chargeback fee just to add insult to injury. So the CC companies have no incentive to limit fraud since it doesn't hurt them.
Of course, I'm speaking from the position of a merchant so I'm biased that way.
Zoe: "I understand. We have no choice. Take me, sir. Take me hard."
Now, shake up the bottle. That is what Microsoft software looks like.
But boy, it sure tastes better that way!
This has happened to me. All you have to do is send an email to Apple support and they will reset all your computer authorizations. I've heard several other people say the same thing; apparently Apple is pretty forgiving about this, as they should be. I can't imagine many people would remember to de-authorize themselves in iTunes before reinstalling the OS.
--Sierra Mist: Nothing. No one likes this..
Yeah, it's kind of like that.
Now I can finally run iTunes on VirtualPC!
... and you give me my phone call.
Doesn't that need ...umm.... girls?
No, just breasts.
Don't you want to know what your Windows box is going to look like in 2009?
Need you ask? Current Mac products *are* Windows rumors!
No, but I can prove conclusively that if they are aliens, they're not advanced aliens.
Yeah, I imagine advanced alience would remember to turn on the Segway before trying to ride it!
but a given playlist can be burned three times.
Actually, a given playlist can be burned ten times. A given file purchased from the iTunes store can be copied to and played upon three "authorized" computers.
the "Artist" field is a combination of composer and/or performer...
I was worried about this too, but was pleased to find that in the "Power Search" you can search the Composer field as well. I entered "Britten" and got back tracks that included various conductors in the Artist field.
I've been listening to these lectures while I work and I must say they're absolutely fascinating. The guy has a great voice and sense of humour, and the question-and-answer sessions at the end are surprisingly intelligent and just as interesting as the talk itself.
The talks are basically about all the strange ways that your senses can behave when your brain is damaged in subtle ways. People whose visual centers have been damaged can point at objects they can't consiously "see" because the motor-control part of the brain is processing the input from the eyes. A woman can read the license plate of a car but not tell whether which direction the car is moving. Everybody likes Picasso on a fundamental level but overrides their basic appreciation with a conscious decision not to like it. A man recognizes his mother by voice but thinks she is an impostor by sight.
Crazy and interesting stuff. He's talking in La Jolla tomorrow night but I can't find any information about the show. I assume it's an invitation-only thing.
I'm going to invent the anti-apostrophe, so that I don't have to see misplace apostrophes in other peoples' writing.
I think that's "people's." :)
I think the reason for the slowdown is to put us in the heads of the characters. These guys are able to do things incredibly fast -- to them, the slo-mo is how the world actually behaves.
I've never walked into a Fortune 500 company and seen Mozilla running on a PC. Never.
Maybe they were all using the IE Theme.
-Chris
I've used a program called ID3Man which does just this. I don't know if it's the same on you used -- probably not, since these guys have only been around for a year or so. My experience with ID3Man was mixed -- it's great for "popular" albums which have made it into their database, but the less volume-selling stuff like some classical and jazz are less well-recognized by their system. Definitely worth a look though.
hard to beat a 600dpi printer and 500 sheets of paper for $5.
Dude, hook me up with one of those $5 printers!
Haley Joel Osment
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This book was published in October 2000. It's the "Chemical Evolution" title referenced in the Slashdot article which is from 1991.