Hey, some of us people with an IQ above room temperature (Celcius scale;) actually like watching shit blow up!
But you're right that Discovery has turned into a channel you can't learn much from. Mythbusters have occasionally ended up with science between the explosions, though.
You might want to check out the MP3 player market, particularly so-called "Chipods". Tons of fake products (literally tons), and just as many that merely copy Apple design without using the name. The worst fakes have copies of all the printed material included with originals. I also have a small collection of Sony-branded USB storage, not one of which has been inside a Sony factory. A trip to the high-tech areas of China would show you just how bad it is. Enter any electronics store, and marvel at all the mobile phones - Motorola-branded phones with an interface you're not likely to see anywhere on a western phone, and colours the original manufacturer never would be caught dead producing. To be fair, most support dual SIMMs, at least:)
Last.fm's definition of "hottest" is what people actually listen to. It's not a handful of artist names handed down from MusicMegaCorpCoLLC to be digested by the uninformed masses;)
I suggest looking at what Last.fm actually is. It has helped me find new music frequently. It also made me spend lots of money, which is the only real drawback. Anything you play is recorded, and musical compatibility with other members is compared to give suggestions. There might not be samples of everything on their site, but I usually find samples somewhere (Spotify is the weakest, iTunes and eMusic usually has it).
I don't think this has anything to do with us using commas for decimal space at all. It is perfectly clear to us, despite it not being clear to your untrained mind;)
My bank uses spaces to separate thousands and a comma for the decimal spot. If a sentence ends with a sum of money, we won't have two full stops in a row, which I'd find harder to read than "1 324 299,53" at the end of a sentence.
Netflix and US presidents: Not available in Europe, although Obama is visiting Norway these days. I doubt they're keeping him, though. He's just a loaner.
OS X? Dream on. They'll tell you the same as they do when you want a Linux version: Tell you to install Windows. The fuckers.
This system is as usual initiated by people who don't know anything about technology. You'd think they at least knew about iPods (generic MP3 players might be a stretch - the average person over 50 is a technological moron;). Hacks to stop the counter will be ready by official launch day.
http://www.emusic.com/ might or might not accept you. They seem to be doing a lot of strange things to non-American visitors, but their selection is wide enough to lie for;) Plain MP3 or XUL-based downloader. Cheaper than iTunes.
http://magnatune.com/ for independent artists. FLAC, Vorbis, MP3, AAC, WAV. No iTunes comparison, but you can either buy downloads or CDs cheap for listening, or you can licence it for other uses.
Other online music stores: Google a bit for ways to get a US-registered debit card and mailbox:) I fully support lying and cheating to get the music - we're sitting here with money in hand, but they won't take it.
I run into the same problems constantly. There are far too many small providers around the world who don't know better and subscribe to these awful blocklists. I have a reseller account through Hostnine which I portion out webspace from when non-technical friends need it. The IP address for the space they get is often in SORBS, so a lot of their mail doesn't go through. I find myself moving accounts from the selected location to another part of the world about half the time:(
What we REALLY need is a list of places which use SORBS so people can be steered away;)
O'Reilly & Associates have certainly noticed how easy it is, and there are a couple of HUNDRED books from them on iPhone now, all at $5 or less. I'm not against this idea, by the way. Books sold as individual apps can get some love & care to make a better product, and I don't have to go through two layers of stores to get at them (book app from Amazon/Barnes & Noble/others, then hunt for the book on each).
"see palm"?! Palm tried to use iTunes to sync with THEIR devices. Not make a program of their own to sync with iPods.
I'd welcome an alternative to iTunes, especially if it had the selection of iTunes, the prices of eMusic and the convenience of Amarok. They'd be better off just plugging into Amarok, really. Also strike a deal with eMusic, while they're at it. Albums are technically $6 apiece, which is better than iTunes.
Yep, the bio has been there every time I've tried. I'm refreshing the page, but it just won't go away! Was this just a glitch in whatever system IBM runs?
*refreshes page again*
Nope, still not gone. Tried it on.nyud.net:8080 to be sure:)
Apple always pay at the end of the year. Sure, you get one payment for each region, with separate transfer fees, but at least they don't keep your money forever. Switch to a bank where only SENDING money costs something if you lose too much:)
Slashdot's policy would still be found deficient, as posts containing the word "fucking" still get moderated to (Score:+5, Funny) or (Score:+5, Insightful).
I'm fucking relieved the system works like that - my excellent karma is mostly built on posting variations of the word "fuck".
There's always wxWidgets, which you can compile into your program if you feel like it. Quite liberal. It's not a mere library, but a full framework, like Qt. I find the wx runtime to be smaller than an equivalent Qt program most of the time, and the Mac version of Qt's dylib bundler sometimes makes some stupid decisions which bloat the app by 50MB. wxWidgets (statically linked) gives me a 1.7MB executable for a Hello World-ish program.
Prince of Persia was earlier with time-reversal, yes, but Braid did many different types of manipulation.
Backwards time, different flow of time depending on direction you walked, co-operation with your past self, time travel-immune objects and other things.
There's also a recent iPhone game named TimeLoop, which does pretty much what A Crack in Time does. Definitely not a new gameplay mechanic:)
My gaming computer has CPUs and GPUs up the wazoo, with matching fans. It's noisy. I switch it off when not playing anything, and keep a quiet Mac or two handy for actual work.
I don't even feel sorry for them. I'm quite looking forward to them trying to pull their music off the online stores. Isn't that where the majority of music sales make money now? These artists should be out on tour making the real money, anyway.
One of my favourite music stores (yes, I have been known to visit such old-fashioned establishments) lets customers listen to CDs before buying. More sales are made that way, and it helps that the owner is pretty good at picking music for us customers:)
iTunes is doing something like that. The new Genius features are supposed to help you find similar music you might like, and drum up more sales. I'd never buy an album without hearing it first. What those shitty, unknown artists are complaining about is bullshit. iTunes is a good place to get music because we can listen to a snippet of sound and make up our minds.
(I have bought 11 tracks from two albums in iTunes in my entire life, so I'm not exactly a superfan. But they ARE doing something right:)
Actually, wasn't the Classic replacing an 80GB and 160GB version with the 120GB, using a different sort of drive? So 160GB would then be right back to where it was. Hopefully we're at 256GB flash in two years, and the Classic can either become a flash player, or one of the other models can replace it.
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Nokia also made toilet paper. With that experience, they are ready for any coming shitstorm.
Hey, some of us people with an IQ above room temperature (Celcius scale ;) actually like watching shit blow up!
But you're right that Discovery has turned into a channel you can't learn much from. Mythbusters have occasionally ended up with science between the explosions, though.
You might want to check out the MP3 player market, particularly so-called "Chipods". Tons of fake products (literally tons), and just as many that merely copy Apple design without using the name. The worst fakes have copies of all the printed material included with originals. I also have a small collection of Sony-branded USB storage, not one of which has been inside a Sony factory. A trip to the high-tech areas of China would show you just how bad it is. Enter any electronics store, and marvel at all the mobile phones - Motorola-branded phones with an interface you're not likely to see anywhere on a western phone, and colours the original manufacturer never would be caught dead producing. To be fair, most support dual SIMMs, at least :)
Look for a scan on the Internet. You can find it in its entirety in a torrent somewhere :)
Last.fm's definition of "hottest" is what people actually listen to. It's not a handful of artist names handed down from MusicMegaCorpCoLLC to be digested by the uninformed masses ;)
I suggest looking at what Last.fm actually is. It has helped me find new music frequently. It also made me spend lots of money, which is the only real drawback. Anything you play is recorded, and musical compatibility with other members is compared to give suggestions. There might not be samples of everything on their site, but I usually find samples somewhere (Spotify is the weakest, iTunes and eMusic usually has it).
I don't think this has anything to do with us using commas for decimal space at all. It is perfectly clear to us, despite it not being clear to your untrained mind ;)
My bank uses spaces to separate thousands and a comma for the decimal spot. If a sentence ends with a sum of money, we won't have two full stops in a row, which I'd find harder to read than "1 324 299,53" at the end of a sentence.
Netflix and US presidents: Not available in Europe, although Obama is visiting Norway these days. I doubt they're keeping him, though. He's just a loaner.
Olympics? Come on. This is Slashdot.
OS X? Dream on. They'll tell you the same as they do when you want a Linux version: Tell you to install Windows. The fuckers.
This system is as usual initiated by people who don't know anything about technology. You'd think they at least knew about iPods (generic MP3 players might be a stretch - the average person over 50 is a technological moron ;). Hacks to stop the counter will be ready by official launch day.
http://www.klicktrack.com/klicktrack/home have Memento Materia and other strangeness.
MP3s at highest bitrate. About the rates of iTunes.
http://www.emusic.com/ might or might not accept you. They seem to be doing a lot of strange things to non-American visitors, but their selection is wide enough to lie for ;)
Plain MP3 or XUL-based downloader. Cheaper than iTunes.
http://magnatune.com/ for independent artists.
FLAC, Vorbis, MP3, AAC, WAV. No iTunes comparison, but you can either buy downloads or CDs cheap for listening, or you can licence it for other uses.
Other online music stores: Google a bit for ways to get a US-registered debit card and mailbox :)
I fully support lying and cheating to get the music - we're sitting here with money in hand, but they won't take it.
I run into the same problems constantly. There are far too many small providers around the world who don't know better and subscribe to these awful blocklists. I have a reseller account through Hostnine which I portion out webspace from when non-technical friends need it. The IP address for the space they get is often in SORBS, so a lot of their mail doesn't go through. I find myself moving accounts from the selected location to another part of the world about half the time :(
What we REALLY need is a list of places which use SORBS so people can be steered away ;)
O'Reilly & Associates have certainly noticed how easy it is, and there are a couple of HUNDRED books from them on iPhone now, all at $5 or less. I'm not against this idea, by the way. Books sold as individual apps can get some love & care to make a better product, and I don't have to go through two layers of stores to get at them (book app from Amazon/Barnes & Noble/others, then hunt for the book on each).
"see palm"?! Palm tried to use iTunes to sync with THEIR devices. Not make a program of their own to sync with iPods.
I'd welcome an alternative to iTunes, especially if it had the selection of iTunes, the prices of eMusic and the convenience of Amarok. They'd be better off just plugging into Amarok, really. Also strike a deal with eMusic, while they're at it. Albums are technically $6 apiece, which is better than iTunes.
You could say Ultimate (and the two lower ones) are for speed, since they support more RAM and 2 physical CPUs.
Here in Europe, we have bus lanes.
Yep, the bio has been there every time I've tried. I'm refreshing the page, but it just won't go away! Was this just a glitch in whatever system IBM runs?
*refreshes page again*
Nope, still not gone. Tried it on .nyud.net:8080 to be sure :)
These guys can't do math at all: http://www.pragprog.com/write-for-us
50%? Oh noes! They'll go bankrupt by the end of the year!
Apple always pay at the end of the year. Sure, you get one payment for each region, with separate transfer fees, but at least they don't keep your money forever. Switch to a bank where only SENDING money costs something if you lose too much :)
Slashdot's policy would still be found deficient, as posts containing the word "fucking" still get moderated to (Score:+5, Funny) or (Score:+5, Insightful).
I'm fucking relieved the system works like that - my excellent karma is mostly built on posting variations of the word "fuck".
I'm pretty sure Google checks to see what's reachable through links on the site. Just look at the dead link checker in the Webmaster Tools ;)
There's always wxWidgets, which you can compile into your program if you feel like it. Quite liberal.
It's not a mere library, but a full framework, like Qt. I find the wx runtime to be smaller than an equivalent Qt program most of the time, and the Mac version of Qt's dylib bundler sometimes makes some stupid decisions which bloat the app by 50MB. wxWidgets (statically linked) gives me a 1.7MB executable for a Hello World-ish program.
OK, then. Norway has 0% tax on downloadable software and books. The Kindle is still going to have trouble gaining popularity :)
Prince of Persia was earlier with time-reversal, yes, but Braid did many different types of manipulation.
Backwards time, different flow of time depending on direction you walked, co-operation with your past self, time travel-immune objects and other things.
There's also a recent iPhone game named TimeLoop, which does pretty much what A Crack in Time does. Definitely not a new gameplay mechanic :)
My gaming computer has CPUs and GPUs up the wazoo, with matching fans. It's noisy. I switch it off when not playing anything, and keep a quiet Mac or two handy for actual work.
I don't even feel sorry for them. I'm quite looking forward to them trying to pull their music off the online stores. Isn't that where the majority of music sales make money now? These artists should be out on tour making the real money, anyway.
One of my favourite music stores (yes, I have been known to visit such old-fashioned establishments) lets customers listen to CDs before buying. More sales are made that way, and it helps that the owner is pretty good at picking music for us customers :)
iTunes is doing something like that. The new Genius features are supposed to help you find similar music you might like, and drum up more sales. I'd never buy an album without hearing it first. What those shitty, unknown artists are complaining about is bullshit. iTunes is a good place to get music because we can listen to a snippet of sound and make up our minds.
(I have bought 11 tracks from two albums in iTunes in my entire life, so I'm not exactly a superfan. But they ARE doing something right :)
Actually, wasn't the Classic replacing an 80GB and 160GB version with the 120GB, using a different sort of drive? So 160GB would then be right back to where it was. Hopefully we're at 256GB flash in two years, and the Classic can either become a flash player, or one of the other models can replace it.