I assume you're asking because of the high pitched tinkle and dropouts that mp3s have. Either that or you're trying to figure out if I'm an "audiophile".
No, I'm not a weenie who thinks he can tell the difference between a two foot $2 copper cable and a two foot $180 copper cable or insists that vinyl is "more alive". Nor do I think my ears are somehow able to hear a gnat fart in Patagonia. I like music, not fetishizing fidelity. I lack perfect pitch or anything like that; I just happen to have good hearing in high registers.
To answer your question, 192k mostly, although 128k is okay... down to 8k for voice only. Sure I can tell the difference between a 192k mp3 and a CD, but then I can tell the difference between FM radio and a CD... that doesn't stop me from cranking up Kashmir when it plays on the radio. The "mp3 tinkle" is obvious, just like the mushiness of FM radio, and you only notice either if you pay close attention and have good speakers or headphones. Most of the music that I listen to with headphones and no distractions (Nick Cave, Ella Fitzgerald, James Taylor, etc) tends to be flac or 256k, depending on when I ripped it.
Damn right... except... well... I hate to tell you this, but they aren't mice. You might as well point out that cats meow. They are small and covered in fur as well.
Grasshopper mice aren't rats either... they are a completely different type of rodent that split off way before rats and mice were around. I've raised quite a few mus musculus (common mouse, both albino and all types of fancy; they are all one species), and have recently gotten into the vocal genus Peromyscus, which is the same tribe and subfamily as the grasshopper mouse.
Audible sound in mus musculus is usually a sign of health issues. Peromyscus sing all the damn time. But the good news is that if you can get used to a few wheels turning all night, you can get used to rodents chirping and singing all night as well.
That's what makes this nifty -- turns out mus musculus can sing as well... just not audibly to human ears.
(As an aside, I think I might have heard them... I've had groups of mice curl up and sleep on my shoulder right under my ear while I'm reading and I have heard high pitched noises as they wake and push each other around. I have very good high frequency hearing; I can hear some "silent" burglar alarms that use an active sound and also all manner of CRT noises. I attributed it to protest sounds, but now I'm curious.)
He blogged about it. Slashdot is, after all, his blog. He seldom blogs about personal stuff, but he has several times in the past -- about moves, his marriage, etc. It is in no way unprecedented. By your UID, you have been around long enough to know that.
I'd say that the first attack was slightly different from the second one. It was much more common that the shadow of the Earth fell on the World Trade Center, however. A daily event, although it was still rather pretty watching the shadows across the faces.
I know TeX... I just laid out a book in it two weeks ago. I'd say the formula editor produces better results than WordPerfect's, especially for very complex formulas. My fiance, for instance, is a quantum chemist. She needs it. She also needs all sorts of funky software that I'll never need. For anything that a highschool level (and a chunk of undergrad) use, WordPerfect is fine -- and is/was better than Word's editor. IIRC, there was at least one plugin that was a more advanced formula editor as well.
On a completely different subject, I just called her up and asked her to punch an equation into KFormula. It took her a bit of time to figure out how it worked (she wanted to enter it all by keyboard, and KFormula seems to want you to click buttons and select sections before applying formatting), but she said it seemed fine.
They are nifty to pick up and peer at the underside. They also sure hurt like hell when a friend or sibling throws them at you.
Ah, the benefits of growing up on an island. You have a very intimate, tactile appreciation of quite a bit of marine life. Especially the effects when hurled by a fellow child at your back. Man'o'War tentacles do a nifty spiral up the legs if you pop the sail first.
Did you miss the parenthetical phrase? It has both a specific meaning (a particular type of metal structure used as a restaurant) and a generic meaning (any restaurant that serves food in the style that is common in the previous definition of diner). Many of the New Jersey diners have grown around the original structure while others are not "true" diners as purist would call them. Since they were designed to be delivered by rail, they have a distinctive shape and exist all across the United States -- anywhere rail traffic could go.
I've been a diner aficionado for decades, I have a checklist of all existing original diners in the car, keep a diner diary and have boxes full of memorabilia from diners across the United States from California to Florida to New York (still need to head up north from there). Yes, I've been to several in New Jersey. I've eaten in three different diners in the last week, and have driven for six hours just to go to a diner with no other objective in mind.
Yeah -- I know about the purist definition of diner.;)
Basically it describes the type of atmosphere. It has fallen out of favor in the United States and thus tends to indicate a slightly anachronistic feel (much like pub, tavern and diner). Like the word diner (used as a type of restaurant, not the original meaning of a railroad deployed diner), the phrase "parlor" tends to have a 50s feel and new places with either parlor or diner in their name tend toward an American Graffiti idealized view of the 50s.
That is a wonderful story, and I like it. But what exactly does it have to do with the article and post's point that the brand new MySQL 5 may be ready for some enterprise applications?
I can tell you some nifty stories about FoxPro and dBase, and they are database yarns as well. But this post was about a new version of MySQL... which your comment really had nothing to do with... unless I'm missing something.
Yeah - we're drifting a bit from the original topic. That's why I mentioned how easy a single freezer bag is to grab and toss in your kit when you leave, which brought it a bit back more on-topic. That's also why I mentioned that my plans are based on a regional disaster, not total societal collapse. I've been through enough hurricanes and floods to understand that a little effort can make a big difference. Heck, when you get into the habit of planning, it's just plain convenient: having a fresh set of clothes in the car when you get stranded, or even just a pair of dry socks after you walk through water.
I keep my records in my file cabinet because I can refer to them there when doing paperwork. A better solution would be to photocopy everything and just keep the copies there, but I'm not that organized (as I look at my Printer/Scanner/Copier and think "Hmmm"). I like the idea of a fireproof safe, but I'm still moving around the country and left a fireproof file cabinet behind two moves ago. Freaking heavy thing.
I haven't read the Foxfire stuff -- I have a subscription to Backwoods Magazine and liked Mother Earth News years ago, back before it got way too "hippie Martha Stuart". I'll check it out. Thanks for the note.
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No, I'm not a weenie who thinks he can tell the difference between a two foot $2 copper cable and a two foot $180 copper cable or insists that vinyl is "more alive". Nor do I think my ears are somehow able to hear a gnat fart in Patagonia. I like music, not fetishizing fidelity. I lack perfect pitch or anything like that; I just happen to have good hearing in high registers.
To answer your question, 192k mostly, although 128k is okay... down to 8k for voice only. Sure I can tell the difference between a 192k mp3 and a CD, but then I can tell the difference between FM radio and a CD... that doesn't stop me from cranking up Kashmir when it plays on the radio. The "mp3 tinkle" is obvious, just like the mushiness of FM radio, and you only notice either if you pay close attention and have good speakers or headphones. Most of the music that I listen to with headphones and no distractions (Nick Cave, Ella Fitzgerald, James Taylor, etc) tends to be flac or 256k, depending on when I ripped it.
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Grasshopper mice aren't rats either... they are a completely different type of rodent that split off way before rats and mice were around. I've raised quite a few mus musculus (common mouse, both albino and all types of fancy; they are all one species), and have recently gotten into the vocal genus Peromyscus, which is the same tribe and subfamily as the grasshopper mouse.
Audible sound in mus musculus is usually a sign of health issues. Peromyscus sing all the damn time. But the good news is that if you can get used to a few wheels turning all night, you can get used to rodents chirping and singing all night as well.
That's what makes this nifty -- turns out mus musculus can sing as well... just not audibly to human ears.
(As an aside, I think I might have heard them... I've had groups of mice curl up and sleep on my shoulder right under my ear while I'm reading and I have heard high pitched noises as they wake and push each other around. I have very good high frequency hearing; I can hear some "silent" burglar alarms that use an active sound and also all manner of CRT noises. I attributed it to protest sounds, but now I'm curious.)
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On a completely different subject, I just called her up and asked her to punch an equation into KFormula. It took her a bit of time to figure out how it worked (she wanted to enter it all by keyboard, and KFormula seems to want you to click buttons and select sections before applying formatting), but she said it seemed fine.
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Feature missing? ... well, you can pay someone to fix that too.
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Yeah... my SO and I often break into songs from that, Cannibal the Musical and Once More with Feeling.
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Bat Boy: the Musical (based on the Weekly World News critter)
Jerry Springer: the Opera
Evil Dead: the Musical
And the less "official" ones:
A Shuggoth on the Roof
Once More with Hobbits
I know I'm missing several. Any others?
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Ah, the benefits of growing up on an island. You have a very intimate, tactile appreciation of quite a bit of marine life. Especially the effects when hurled by a fellow child at your back. Man'o'War tentacles do a nifty spiral up the legs if you pop the sail first.
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I suppose that I should get up against the wall.
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I've been a diner aficionado for decades, I have a checklist of all existing original diners in the car, keep a diner diary and have boxes full of memorabilia from diners across the United States from California to Florida to New York (still need to head up north from there). Yes, I've been to several in New Jersey. I've eaten in three different diners in the last week, and have driven for six hours just to go to a diner with no other objective in mind.
Yeah -- I know about the purist definition of diner. ;)
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Basically it describes the type of atmosphere. It has fallen out of favor in the United States and thus tends to indicate a slightly anachronistic feel (much like pub, tavern and diner). Like the word diner (used as a type of restaurant, not the original meaning of a railroad deployed diner), the phrase "parlor" tends to have a 50s feel and new places with either parlor or diner in their name tend toward an American Graffiti idealized view of the 50s.
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I can tell you some nifty stories about FoxPro and dBase, and they are database yarns as well. But this post was about a new version of MySQL... which your comment really had nothing to do with... unless I'm missing something.
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I keep my records in my file cabinet because I can refer to them there when doing paperwork. A better solution would be to photocopy everything and just keep the copies there, but I'm not that organized (as I look at my Printer/Scanner/Copier and think "Hmmm"). I like the idea of a fireproof safe, but I'm still moving around the country and left a fireproof file cabinet behind two moves ago. Freaking heavy thing.
I haven't read the Foxfire stuff -- I have a subscription to Backwoods Magazine and liked Mother Earth News years ago, back before it got way too "hippie Martha Stuart". I'll check it out. Thanks for the note.
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