I didn't really mean having a cable box that goes past 99, but I'm sure that when I had one of those around 1990, other people had channels on theirs that I didn't get on mine. Basically, I meant the last 10-20 years.
"1000 channels, for at least $50 per month, and you should only expect to get a total of 4 hours of interesting content per day?"
There is always something on that is interesting to someone out there, and maybe you could get more than five hours with your 1000 channels (I only watch the network channels and a handful of basic cable channels, so I'm sure there's plenty else on that I don't know about).
"Given the lousy selection of shows on the air nowadays..."
I don't get this. Can you name a time when things were different?
I'll admit that the majority of TV isn't worth watching, but I'd bet that was always the case, or at least has been as long as we've had hundreds of cable channels.
With that said though, there is more than enough great stuff on TV. I've got about ten shows that I watch every week, and along with Cartoon Network and Comedy Central for when nothing else is on, there is more good TV than I have time to watch.
Sure, if you spend five hours a day channel surfing, you may not be able to keep yourself entertained, but that's your own fault. Watch the good stuff, and do something else with the rest of your free time.
"It's more like a magazine subscription than a music service subscription since you get to keep the video files you've downloaded even if you don't renew the subscription."
So, in other words, it's music subscriptions that should be renamed, and in that case, the title is not misleading at all.
On the other hand, I have a "music subscription" with emusic.com, and I get to keep everything I download.
Not only do I get a whole bunch of questions and a stop at the security guy every time, but it's all done with this condescending attitude that makes me feel very unwelcome here.
Aside from that, does it also happen to full citizens that they are made to feel that just leaving the US for whatever reason is somehow an insult to the country, as if there couldn't be any good reason to spend time somewhere else? Of course, I can't help but see that as ironic coming from people who work in the travel business. And that's not to even mention the way I see them treat people who don't speak much English as if they were retards.
So yeah, every other airport I've been to has been friendlier to me than those here as well.
As much as it'll be a shame, I can't wait until someone dies in a movie theater, and everyone there claims they couldn't get any reception to reach 911.
If a computer is required for a class, it should take place in a computer lab using the school's computers. Then they may even be able to keep people from chatting and playing games.
I'll admit that I spend way too much time at my computer, but when I leave the house, I leave it at home. There is no way that I would go to a school that made me carry a laptop to class when paper and a pencil is all I really need.
I think his point was that AAC tends to throw away certain types of information during the compression process, and once that information is removed the first time, further attempts at recompressing may not cause as much damage.
And while that's true to an extent, after removing information, certain artifacts will appear in the compressed version. Those artifacts are what will cause degradation in the next compression step.
For example, consider an lossy image format that compresses by clipping any colors below 10% brightness under the assumption that people don't really see them anyway. If that is all it does, then yes, any further attempts at recompressing would have no effect. But if that format also introduced JPEG-style artifacts during the process to fake information in the clipped areas, then every generation would be a little worse than the previous one (yet not as much as after the first compression).
I once had a homeless guy try to sell me a copy of The Onion for a dollar, and I replied "If you are going to charge me for a paper, at least pick one with a price tag" (The Onion is distributed for free around NYC). He smiled, and pointed to the $2.00 pricetag that I'd never even noticed before, and said he was giving me a discount.
Sure, he's probably not alowed to sell it like that, but I gave him the dollar anyway.
So, when the next story comes out about someone legally downloading GPL code, but using it in a way that is not allowed by the GPL(icense), which side will YOU be on?
There are. On the video page, you can see examples of bad and "very bad" outcomes.
In the bad one, I think the Iraqi misunderstands, and gives you directions to go somewhere, and then calls you a son of a bitch for not saying thank you when you leave, and in the very bad one, he accuses you of being CIA.
I love it when people talk about "real harm" to computers.
Sure, I spend a day or two to reinstall if something goes wrong, and it takes a while for me to get settings back to how I Like them, but I would be MUCH more concerned with the 300 GB of personal and work data that I have on my computer.
And yes, I do have backups of most of it, but restoring and reorganizing that stuff would take me way longer than reinstalling software.
I don't want to nitpick, but "lossy" only matters when you reencode something. Formats like MP3 maybe be slightly inferior to the original CD audio, but the CD audio is also inferior to the original sound.
When you get an MP3, you are accepting a certain quality reduction, but that's not so different than accepting a certain quality reduction with CDs.
The closest thing I've EVER seen to that is progrees indicators for web shopping carts, and that is mainly there to show you how far you've gotten in the process.
In fact, I'd go as far as to say that what you've described isn't breadcrumbs at all, which were really another way of displaying a "file path" style view of where you are on heirarchical sites, such as web forums or stores with categories like the GP suggested. That they are clickable is a bonus feature taken from file managers that added that.
There is currently no cross platform image browser/viewer/editor. Windows users have Picasa, and Mac users have iPhoto (and many want Picasa).
If Google spent a bit of money to get Picasa ported to both Linux and OS X, they would have quite an edge in the huge digital photography market, which has little to do with Windows' overall marketshare in business and government use.
And since when does GOogle only spend money on projects with *obvious* money-making potential?
"as another poster has pointed out, zero means no rating"
I'm fairly certain that is wrong.
I use Winamp, which allows me to make smart playlists that refer to ratings of zero OR unrated songs. Of course, you'll point out that that is not iTunes, but what's interesting is that when I put an unrated song on my iPod, it comes back into Winamp as unrated, but when I accidentally click through to the ratings screen on the iPod, and then click to dismiss it when there are no stars, the rating comes back into Winamp as 0 (not unrated). This also effects smart playlists on my iPod that are made in Winamp.
So far, it has a basic iTunes-like media library, it plays MP3s, and displays web pages.
How long until it becomes a mature media player with support for devices like iPods, offers playback features like crossfading and other effects (maybe through plug-ins like Winamp), visualization options, etc?
So far, it looks impressive for an 0.1 release, and they mention that people will be able to offer extensions for accessibility of music, but what are their plans for built-in support for common media player features?
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I didn't really mean having a cable box that goes past 99, but I'm sure that when I had one of those around 1990, other people had channels on theirs that I didn't get on mine. Basically, I meant the last 10-20 years.
"1000 channels, for at least $50 per month, and you should only expect to get a total of 4 hours of interesting content per day?"
There is always something on that is interesting to someone out there, and maybe you could get more than five hours with your 1000 channels (I only watch the network channels and a handful of basic cable channels, so I'm sure there's plenty else on that I don't know about).
"Given the lousy selection of shows on the air nowadays..."
I don't get this. Can you name a time when things were different?
I'll admit that the majority of TV isn't worth watching, but I'd bet that was always the case, or at least has been as long as we've had hundreds of cable channels.
With that said though, there is more than enough great stuff on TV. I've got about ten shows that I watch every week, and along with Cartoon Network and Comedy Central for when nothing else is on, there is more good TV than I have time to watch.
Sure, if you spend five hours a day channel surfing, you may not be able to keep yourself entertained, but that's your own fault. Watch the good stuff, and do something else with the rest of your free time.
"It's more like a magazine subscription than a music service subscription since you get to keep the video files you've downloaded even if you don't renew the subscription."
So, in other words, it's music subscriptions that should be renamed, and in that case, the title is not misleading at all.
On the other hand, I have a "music subscription" with emusic.com, and I get to keep everything I download.
Heck, try just being a permanent resident.
Not only do I get a whole bunch of questions and a stop at the security guy every time, but it's all done with this condescending attitude that makes me feel very unwelcome here.
Aside from that, does it also happen to full citizens that they are made to feel that just leaving the US for whatever reason is somehow an insult to the country, as if there couldn't be any good reason to spend time somewhere else? Of course, I can't help but see that as ironic coming from people who work in the travel business. And that's not to even mention the way I see them treat people who don't speak much English as if they were retards.
So yeah, every other airport I've been to has been friendlier to me than those here as well.
As much as it'll be a shame, I can't wait until someone dies in a movie theater, and everyone there claims they couldn't get any reception to reach 911.
Why should you have to bring a computer to class?
If a computer is required for a class, it should take place in a computer lab using the school's computers. Then they may even be able to keep people from chatting and playing games.
I'll admit that I spend way too much time at my computer, but when I leave the house, I leave it at home. There is no way that I would go to a school that made me carry a laptop to class when paper and a pencil is all I really need.
">Good luck. How many labels are going to allow their music to be sold in a DRM-unencumbered format?
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Probably none"
Actually, it's closer to 18560 labels acording to what's available on emusic.com.
http://www.emusic.com/browse/0/l/-dlm/l/0-0/0/0.h
I think his point was that AAC tends to throw away certain types of information during the compression process, and once that information is removed the first time, further attempts at recompressing may not cause as much damage.
And while that's true to an extent, after removing information, certain artifacts will appear in the compressed version. Those artifacts are what will cause degradation in the next compression step.
For example, consider an lossy image format that compresses by clipping any colors below 10% brightness under the assumption that people don't really see them anyway. If that is all it does, then yes, any further attempts at recompressing would have no effect. But if that format also introduced JPEG-style artifacts during the process to fake information in the clipped areas, then every generation would be a little worse than the previous one (yet not as much as after the first compression).
THis is the unedited audio recording of the moon landing.
I once had a homeless guy try to sell me a copy of The Onion for a dollar, and I replied "If you are going to charge me for a paper, at least pick one with a price tag" (The Onion is distributed for free around NYC). He smiled, and pointed to the $2.00 pricetag that I'd never even noticed before, and said he was giving me a discount.
Sure, he's probably not alowed to sell it like that, but I gave him the dollar anyway.
I love seeing stuff like this on Slashdot.
So, when the next story comes out about someone legally downloading GPL code, but using it in a way that is not allowed by the GPL(icense), which side will YOU be on?
There are. On the video page, you can see examples of bad and "very bad" outcomes.
In the bad one, I think the Iraqi misunderstands, and gives you directions to go somewhere, and then calls you a son of a bitch for not saying thank you when you leave, and in the very bad one, he accuses you of being CIA.
It's pretty funny actually.
"I've noticed one major constant about most technology, as it changes it gets smaller."
Hey baby..
I'm just more technologically advanced.
Now when spies want to copy documents, they can just tear off a piece of their armor and press it against the pages.
I love it when people talk about "real harm" to computers.
Sure, I spend a day or two to reinstall if something goes wrong, and it takes a while for me to get settings back to how I Like them, but I would be MUCH more concerned with the 300 GB of personal and work data that I have on my computer.
And yes, I do have backups of most of it, but restoring and reorganizing that stuff would take me way longer than reinstalling software.
I don't want to nitpick, but "lossy" only matters when you reencode something. Formats like MP3 maybe be slightly inferior to the original CD audio, but the CD audio is also inferior to the original sound.
When you get an MP3, you are accepting a certain quality reduction, but that's not so different than accepting a certain quality reduction with CDs.
Why?
Do you prefer your RAM to sit there not being used while you wait for pages to reload?
All I'd ask for is a "flush cache" command, in case it was ever necessarry.
The closest thing I've EVER seen to that is progrees indicators for web shopping carts, and that is mainly there to show you how far you've gotten in the process.
In fact, I'd go as far as to say that what you've described isn't breadcrumbs at all, which were really another way of displaying a "file path" style view of where you are on heirarchical sites, such as web forums or stores with categories like the GP suggested. That they are clickable is a bonus feature taken from file managers that added that.
There is currently no cross platform image browser/viewer/editor. Windows users have Picasa, and Mac users have iPhoto (and many want Picasa).
If Google spent a bit of money to get Picasa ported to both Linux and OS X, they would have quite an edge in the huge digital photography market, which has little to do with Windows' overall marketshare in business and government use.
And since when does GOogle only spend money on projects with *obvious* money-making potential?
"as another poster has pointed out, zero means no rating"
I'm fairly certain that is wrong.
I use Winamp, which allows me to make smart playlists that refer to ratings of zero OR unrated songs. Of course, you'll point out that that is not iTunes, but what's interesting is that when I put an unrated song on my iPod, it comes back into Winamp as unrated, but when I accidentally click through to the ratings screen on the iPod, and then click to dismiss it when there are no stars, the rating comes back into Winamp as 0 (not unrated). This also effects smart playlists on my iPod that are made in Winamp.
"CL provides editorial control - it sorts and categorizes the advertisements."
It doesn't even do that.
You are free to post your ad in any section you want.
It's then up to other CL readers to report it as being in the wrong place, and only after a whole lot of them complain will anything be done.
I think his point was that if *anyone* could "work" for Apple and get compensated, what would be the point of applying for a job there at all?
Employers choose who gets to work for them. They don't just leave their doors open so anybody can walk in, do some work, and walk out with money.
That part I know about. :)
I actually use XULRunner for running the ChatZilla extention without a browser.
So far, it has a basic iTunes-like media library, it plays MP3s, and displays web pages.
How long until it becomes a mature media player with support for devices like iPods, offers playback features like crossfading and other effects (maybe through plug-ins like Winamp), visualization options, etc?
So far, it looks impressive for an 0.1 release, and they mention that people will be able to offer extensions for accessibility of music, but what are their plans for built-in support for common media player features?
Of course, if I'd read the welcome page in its browser view, it would have been even more obvious.