Hey, I'd like to listen to Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" while I wait for the plane. Should I take a boom box along and do that? Surely nobody would object?
I want one of these, for a single reason: airports that insist on playing fucking CNN at me, whether I like it or not.
As people say, if a restaurant or bar wants to have a TV, I'm quite free to go somewhere else--and I do. However, if I'm flying via some random airport, I have no choice about the fact that I have to wait an hour for my plane at that airport.
Some airports have areas far enough away from the blaring CNN, and I go there. Others don't, and for those airports I'd find a TV-B-Gone very handy.
And yes, I've tried asking them to turn off the TVs. They won't. I've even written to the airports requesting that they get rid of CNN. No response. I'm guessing they're paid to subject us to it.
Damn right. I wanted a clamshell Zaurus. If they'd sold one with US support at regular US Zaurus prices, I'd have bought one.
I even told guys from Sharp that I saw at a show. They said they wanted the clamshell too, but someone high up in the corporation had decided America wasn't allowed them.
The trouble with Reply-To: is people record the e-mail address from the From: line and use that the next time they want to send you e-mail. Just about every piece of software out there encourages them to do so.
They also expect to see your name and address in the From: line, not a different random e-mail address depending on which machine you're sending e-mail from.
And of course, having different From: addresses will hose whitelisting systems, and hose mailing lists that restrict who can send to the list.
Do we really want people who don't feel like learning about the candidates and issues voting on these things?
We don't have much choice. 60% of Americans still think Saddam had something to do with 9/11. If you didn't allow the grossly uninformed and ignorant to vote, percentage turnout would be in the single digits.
No, I didn't mean imperative programming, though that's also sometimes the right tool for the job.
Sometimes an algorithm is best expressed using curried functions, functions-as-arguments, recursion, and other functional techniques, and Java iterators are pretty clumsy when you're used to Lisp.
I don't know whether C# supports functional programming or not. I do know that whenever I have to use a language that doesn't treat functions and objects as first class values, sooner or later I end up cursing it.
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Similarly, object orientation should be used as a tool, not enforced as a religion. If an object-oriented API to some functionality is the cleanest and most useful, implement that way; otherwise, don't. If the best way to build something is using functional programming, do that; don't try and force the code into an object-oriented paradigm.
I should clarify that I'm talking about every machine except the first two Beta decks; i.e. post 1978 or so, when the X-2 speed had been settled on. X-2 Beta was better than VHS, and had multi-hour tapes. Yet X-2 lost the war to VHS.
I was around for the VHS-Beta wars. Betamax was of noticably better quality (on a PAL TV) than VHS. Apart from anything else it had twice as many frames (VHS averages adjacent frames) and higher resolution.
The "one hour" thing is crap too. There were multi-hour Beta tapes, and they didn't require any kind of slow-speed recording. What's more, Sony had a multi-tape loading device that would feed up to 5 tapes through the machine while you were away on vacation.
On the other hand, it seems like these days the definition of "democracy" has been stretched so much that it covers pretty much anything, so long as the rulers are chosen via an election in which *some* people are allowed to vote.
If a country can be deemed a democracy when not everyone ruled over and taxed is allowed to vote, not all the votes count for anything, and some candidates and parties are barred from the debates, then yeah, the US might still count as a democracy. And so might China.
Well, Ford may not be exceptional, but they're certainly an industry leader in flaming death. As well as the roll-and-burn SUV, there's also the ongoing issue of rear gas tank ruptures in the Crown Vic, rear gas tank ruptures in the Mustang, and of course the infamous Pinto.
No, I'm not that big of a fan that I note dates. It's something I occasionally casually tune to if it's late at night and I'm bored and have nothing better to watch. Courtney Love was fresh out of rehab at the time, so she was pretty lucid.
When corporations launch subsidiaries, they typically keep a controlling interest. Hence it's pretty easy to re-absorb the company, as Apple did. Exactly how far they got in filing the paperwork to set up Newton, Inc, only someone inside Apple knows. It's not relevant anyway.
I've not only listened, I've watched the show on E!. If you can't spot that his entire online persona is fake, well, carry on listening. Did you catch the Courtney Love interview where she took him to task for the fake radio persona?
Personally, I think that's the thing that makes him totally uninteresting--the fact that his entire radio persona is just schtick.
It's pointless listening to him because he'll say anything that will get him attention; doesn't matter whether it's true, false, what he honestly believes, something he vehemently disagrees with, or whatever. He's just empty speech filling airtime.
The amazing thing is that there are apparently millions of people who haven't worked it out yet.
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I did my own listening tests, thanks.
Only if you're really impatient. LAME-encoded MP3s sound better on an iPod than AAC files, at the same average bitrate.
Hey, I'd like to listen to Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" while I wait for the plane. Should I take a boom box along and do that? Surely nobody would object?
I want one of these, for a single reason: airports that insist on playing fucking CNN at me, whether I like it or not.
As people say, if a restaurant or bar wants to have a TV, I'm quite free to go somewhere else--and I do. However, if I'm flying via some random airport, I have no choice about the fact that I have to wait an hour for my plane at that airport.
Some airports have areas far enough away from the blaring CNN, and I go there. Others don't, and for those airports I'd find a TV-B-Gone very handy.
And yes, I've tried asking them to turn off the TVs. They won't. I've even written to the airports requesting that they get rid of CNN. No response. I'm guessing they're paid to subject us to it.
Damn right. I wanted a clamshell Zaurus. If they'd sold one with US support at regular US Zaurus prices, I'd have bought one.
I even told guys from Sharp that I saw at a show. They said they wanted the clamshell too, but someone high up in the corporation had decided America wasn't allowed them.
Yes there is. It's called Jabber. That's why Google would be smart to push Jabber if they did start an IM service.
I tried using Gaim for a while, but it keeps dropping connections, and seems unable to remember my password and log in again.
So I tried Kopete, and suddenly no more connection drops.
I prefer Gaim's UI and functionality, but that's no good if it can't keep a reliable connection.
(Debian unstable.)
That sounds like a really bad idea.
Mailing lists, e-mail clients and whitelists don't look at the Reply-To: header, they look at From:.
If I have to use a different non-replyable From: address for every machine I send mail from, there's going to be a lot of breakage.
The trouble with Reply-To: is people record the e-mail address from the From: line and use that the next time they want to send you e-mail. Just about every piece of software out there encourages them to do so.
They also expect to see your name and address in the From: line, not a different random e-mail address depending on which machine you're sending e-mail from.
And of course, having different From: addresses will hose whitelisting systems, and hose mailing lists that restrict who can send to the list.
My sending e-mail that says (for example):
From: myaddress@gmail.com
Sender: account@somewhereelse.com
is totally legitimate as per the RFCs. If DomainKeys doesn't allow it, then it's broken.
We don't have much choice. 60% of Americans still think Saddam had something to do with 9/11. If you didn't allow the grossly uninformed and ignorant to vote, percentage turnout would be in the single digits.
I'm waiting for Ruby to get Unicode compliant so I can stop using Perl...
No, I didn't mean imperative programming, though that's also sometimes the right tool for the job.
Sometimes an algorithm is best expressed using curried functions, functions-as-arguments, recursion, and other functional techniques, and Java iterators are pretty clumsy when you're used to Lisp.
I don't know whether C# supports functional programming or not. I do know that whenever I have to use a language that doesn't treat functions and objects as first class values, sooner or later I end up cursing it.
Similarly, object orientation should be used as a tool, not enforced as a religion. If an object-oriented API to some functionality is the cleanest and most useful, implement that way; otherwise, don't. If the best way to build something is using functional programming, do that; don't try and force the code into an object-oriented paradigm.
I should clarify that I'm talking about every machine except the first two Beta decks; i.e. post 1978 or so, when the X-2 speed had been settled on. X-2 Beta was better than VHS, and had multi-hour tapes. Yet X-2 lost the war to VHS.
Informative?
I was around for the VHS-Beta wars. Betamax was of noticably better quality (on a PAL TV) than VHS. Apart from anything else it had twice as many frames (VHS averages adjacent frames) and higher resolution.
The "one hour" thing is crap too. There were multi-hour Beta tapes, and they didn't require any kind of slow-speed recording. What's more, Sony had a multi-tape loading device that would feed up to 5 tapes through the machine while you were away on vacation.
Maybe they'll give it some fake woodgrain and beveled edges to make it appeal to Americans.
On the other hand, it seems like these days the definition of "democracy" has been stretched so much that it covers pretty much anything, so long as the rulers are chosen via an election in which *some* people are allowed to vote.
If a country can be deemed a democracy when not everyone ruled over and taxed is allowed to vote, not all the votes count for anything, and some candidates and parties are barred from the debates, then yeah, the US might still count as a democracy. And so might China.
Well, Ford may not be exceptional, but they're certainly an industry leader in flaming death. As well as the roll-and-burn SUV, there's also the ongoing issue of rear gas tank ruptures in the Crown Vic, rear gas tank ruptures in the Mustang, and of course the infamous Pinto.
No, I'm not that big of a fan that I note dates. It's something I occasionally casually tune to if it's late at night and I'm bored and have nothing better to watch. Courtney Love was fresh out of rehab at the time, so she was pretty lucid.
http://www.msu.edu/~luckie/newtinc.htm
When corporations launch subsidiaries, they typically keep a controlling interest. Hence it's pretty easy to re-absorb the company, as Apple did. Exactly how far they got in filing the paperwork to set up Newton, Inc, only someone inside Apple knows. It's not relevant anyway.
I've not only listened, I've watched the show on E!. If you can't spot that his entire online persona is fake, well, carry on listening. Did you catch the Courtney Love interview where she took him to task for the fake radio persona?
Personally, I think that's the thing that makes him totally uninteresting--the fact that his entire radio persona is just schtick.
It's pointless listening to him because he'll say anything that will get him attention; doesn't matter whether it's true, false, what he honestly believes, something he vehemently disagrees with, or whatever. He's just empty speech filling airtime.
The amazing thing is that there are apparently millions of people who haven't worked it out yet.
The guy claims he reached 120 mph in a Renault? Yeah, right, maybe if he was traveling vertically.
Well, I for one welcome our madly accelerating vehicular overlords.