This happened to me too, the cable that passed over my ears cracked. They were replaced twice under Shure's warranty. No quibble whatsoever. I kept the inserts each time so I didn't have to break in new ones.
When the 3rd set broke in the same way the 2 years were up so I bought the next model up and these haven't had a problem at all. Though they are out of the price range of this ask-slashdot question. The inserts I use now are the same flanged ones on my "musician's ear plugs" I wear to gigs, so my ears are used to the same shaped thing being in them and it is all very comfortable.
At least, according to a collegue of mine. He gets soooo chuffing annoyed by the number of ads he's willing to wait a day for something he could watch when it's broadcast, just to get the ads removed for him.
This is either 'yay, I don't want to talk to them anyway' or it will use the concept of 'accountless friends' (or virtual friends, or whatever you want to call them) where they effectively make an account on my behalf by entering me as a contact. I seem to recall someone (google or facebook maybe?) patenting something obvious like this recently. This also means that should I get a facebook account at some point afterwards then I will find my account readily populated with friends (it knows it's actually me because my phone number and name match rather than just my name - hopefully some measures will stop the theft of accounts like this that don't actually exist yet[1] - such as confirmation over text message to prove that I posses the phone number).
[1] A strange concept really, but cybersquatting case law should work here.
Instead the whole interface will be facebook. If you want to talk to someone, select them from your facebook friends. etc. Apply as appropriate to all other activities you do with smartphones. Other phone systems will still have the facebook 'app' but it will have worse features which will just encourage people to swap to a facebook phone. You status could be constantly updated with who you are talking with or having multi-text conversations with or even where you are travelling to because it knows your calendar, 'likes', route searches and GPS data. Let's face it, if I have already spread the information that I am excited about going to a concert then if on the day of the concert the phone detects that I'm getting closer and closer to the venue then what is the (extra) harm in sharing that location information?
Not sure if the targetted ads will be (partly) based on info gleaned from voice recognition keywords as well as everything you type and look at but if I was an evil ad broker then that's what I would do if I could get away with it.
But what do I know? I don't have a facebook account.
I've gotten a few of these calls. Some idiot with a foreign accent claiming to be "from Windows" (seriously, those were their words).
I'll have to remember that if I ever get one of these calls (lucky so far!). If they are 'from Windows' I'll ask "front or back?". "Are you the double-glazed ones?"
Of course, if they ask me to run something and read out my ip address it's going to be 127.63.24.12
I want a 'no dupes' alt-F2 history, just like Gnome2 had. Most other things I'm fine with either as they are or with the right extension or gsettings(or whateverthehell is it called) incantation.
I had my iRiver H340 for less than 30 minutes before it ran rockbox. At the time of purchase it was, to my knowledge, the only way to get gapless playback and high capacity (40GB isn't enough now but it was the best you could get back in the day). I've tried it with a replacement SSD but while it works it is quite flaky and needs regular resets.
It's a shame there are very few high capacity players on the market now, I would love to get a new device which supports: Lots of storage. Enough to encode all my CDs and a few 'try-before-you-buy' albums. Ahem. Gapless. Bookmarking capabilities that work with all files (apparently ipods require you to define things as an audiobook before they support bookmarking) ogg support so I don't have to re-rip my CDs (I'd compromise on this if everything else was offered - it's only a few weeks of feeding CDs to the PC) No need to 'make my own playlists' or any other such carp unless I want to. Music already comes with pre-defined playlists: also known as albums.
If this ever happens it will most likely run rockbox - I doubt the hardware manufacturers would do as good a job.
To Linus and the rest of the rockbox devs. Seriously. Thank-you.
Careful. Finding a compatible hard drive is hard and not cheap. My iRiver H340 now has a 128GB SSD but I might put the still-working HDD back as it is much less reliable now with the SSD. YMMV.
I admit I have to empty everything else from that pocket to fit it in but I can get into gigs with a G12. Most gigs I go to are the kind that let me in with my DSLR though
I agree about the 'feel' for numbers. When people tell me that in real life they will always be able to use a calculator they think the point they are making is about the availability of calculators when actually (at least to me) they are claiming they will always press exactly the right buttons or that they will always notice any errors they make in the button pressing. To me this 'feel' for the numbers tells me when I've failed my 'use calculator' roll.
Don't get me wrong, I'm terribly allergic to wifi, mobile phones, even a microwave oven being used next door but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter much. You see, I'm also allergic to neutrinos. Do you know how many of those things pass through my body every single second. Oh it causes me so much pain you just wouldn't believe.:-)
Ahh yes. Rob's Afterstep page. Chips'n'Dips. Early Slashdot. Me wondering whether to sign up or not on the first day finally getting round to it on the second day; thus the 4 digit ID. I remember when 100 comments was considered huge for a story.
I have had good success with a Turboencabulator. I needed to tighten the differential girdlespring but digital dust has been significantly below the measureable threshold.
I am a physicist and while I think everyone knows just how much Hollywood gets wrong on the Armageddon level physics, they also usually get it wrong on the day to day science lab stuff. My GF likes horses and always complains about them in films. From 'They don't make noises like that all the time' to 'one of those four fulling that carriage has a different stride length to the rest, they would have matched their horses properly in Jane Austin's time."
I don't often F11 firefox to run it in fullscreen mode but I have to now with slashdot. Too much whitespace is one thing then there is the immovable-without-voodoo bar across the top which take me back to the "glory" days of frames. Even the/. poll doesn't fit onto the screen any more. Ah well.
> Surviving an infinite number of rolls is not the problem... The real problem is that if you've got, say, a D20, and you get it to roll a 1 a large number of times, the ones will have all been rolled out. After that it'll have a hard time producing more 1's.
You havn't met my dice then have you. I swear the thinkgeek t-shirt spies have been watching my Tuesday night games.
I was told that for every one hour of lecture time it should take three hours of your life. One hour in the lecture. One hour no later than a few days afterwards reviewing and annotating your notes, making sure you understand it all, adding extra information from text books and redrawing hastily sketched diagrams etc. Then one hour close to exam time revising it.
I found I did best in exams when I worked like this. Finding a quicker way to get your notes right first time only means you have more time to spend in that second hour making sure you understand what you typed.
Having a firewall won't do you any good, security wise. Having an encrypted network, OTOH, will.
But sidewinders can do encryption.
Also, Secure Computing's support lines are the best I've ever dealt with. The call is answered by a smart guy who helps you fix your problem. That's all there is to it.
Oh yes it did. Recent kernels patched a flaw where you couldn't explicitly seed/dev/urandom on a system with no entropy sources. Or at least, you could seed it however you liked and it made no difference to the output. One description is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/239835/ What this meant for little embedded linux systems (eg routers) which are used for any crypto (eg VPNs) I'll leave as a thought exercise for the reader.
But, with the linux case the problem was reported, discussed and patched in about a week.
Stop harassing downloaders, because currently, you happen to be pissing off you best buyers. Yes we know you **AA hate people who "illegaly steal" your stuff, but those people happen to be those who buy most of your CDs anyway, so be nice with them.
Yep. I'm off shortly to a concert by a band I've seen 3 times before. A band I only went to see the first time because I really liked their CDs. A band whose CDs I only bought because I really liked what I downloaded.
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This happened to me too, the cable that passed over my ears cracked. They were replaced twice under Shure's warranty. No quibble whatsoever. I kept the inserts each time so I didn't have to break in new ones.
When the 3rd set broke in the same way the 2 years were up so I bought the next model up and these haven't had a problem at all. Though they are out of the price range of this ask-slashdot question. The inserts I use now are the same flanged ones on my "musician's ear plugs" I wear to gigs, so my ears are used to the same shaped thing being in them and it is all very comfortable.
At least, according to a collegue of mine. He gets soooo chuffing annoyed by the number of ads he's willing to wait a day for something he could watch when it's broadcast, just to get the ads removed for him.
This is either 'yay, I don't want to talk to them anyway' or it will use the concept of 'accountless friends' (or virtual friends, or whatever you want to call them) where they effectively make an account on my behalf by entering me as a contact. I seem to recall someone (google or facebook maybe?) patenting something obvious like this recently. This also means that should I get a facebook account at some point afterwards then I will find my account readily populated with friends (it knows it's actually me because my phone number and name match rather than just my name - hopefully some measures will stop the theft of accounts like this that don't actually exist yet[1] - such as confirmation over text message to prove that I posses the phone number).
[1] A strange concept really, but cybersquatting case law should work here.
Instead the whole interface will be facebook. If you want to talk to someone, select them from your facebook friends. etc. Apply as appropriate to all other activities you do with smartphones. Other phone systems will still have the facebook 'app' but it will have worse features which will just encourage people to swap to a facebook phone.
You status could be constantly updated with who you are talking with or having multi-text conversations with or even where you are travelling to because it knows your calendar, 'likes', route searches and GPS data. Let's face it, if I have already spread the information that I am excited about going to a concert then if on the day of the concert the phone detects that I'm getting closer and closer to the venue then what is the (extra) harm in sharing that location information?
Not sure if the targetted ads will be (partly) based on info gleaned from voice recognition keywords as well as everything you type and look at but if I was an evil ad broker then that's what I would do if I could get away with it.
But what do I know? I don't have a facebook account.
I've gotten a few of these calls. Some idiot with a foreign accent claiming to be "from Windows" (seriously, those were their words).
I'll have to remember that if I ever get one of these calls (lucky so far!). If they are 'from Windows' I'll ask "front or back?". "Are you the double-glazed ones?"
Of course, if they ask me to run something and read out my ip address it's going to be 127.63.24.12
I want a 'no dupes' alt-F2 history, just like Gnome2 had.
Most other things I'm fine with either as they are or with the right extension or gsettings(or whateverthehell is it called) incantation.
I had my iRiver H340 for less than 30 minutes before it ran rockbox. At the time of purchase it was, to my knowledge, the only way to get gapless playback and high capacity (40GB isn't enough now but it was the best you could get back in the day). I've tried it with a replacement SSD but while it works it is quite flaky and needs regular resets.
It's a shame there are very few high capacity players on the market now, I would love to get a new device which supports:
Lots of storage. Enough to encode all my CDs and a few 'try-before-you-buy' albums. Ahem.
Gapless.
Bookmarking capabilities that work with all files (apparently ipods require you to define things as an audiobook before they support bookmarking)
ogg support so I don't have to re-rip my CDs (I'd compromise on this if everything else was offered - it's only a few weeks of feeding CDs to the PC)
No need to 'make my own playlists' or any other such carp unless I want to. Music already comes with pre-defined playlists: also known as albums.
If this ever happens it will most likely run rockbox - I doubt the hardware manufacturers would do as good a job.
To Linus and the rest of the rockbox devs. Seriously. Thank-you.
Careful. Finding a compatible hard drive is hard and not cheap. My iRiver H340 now has a 128GB SSD but I might put the still-working HDD back as it is much less reliable now with the SSD. YMMV.
I admit I have to empty everything else from that pocket to fit it in but I can get into gigs with a G12. Most gigs I go to are the kind that let me in with my DSLR though
Especially muscle-memory habits.:wq
The number of times I've typed that into notepad....
I agree about the 'feel' for numbers. When people tell me that in real life they will always be able to use a calculator they think the point they are making is about the availability of calculators when actually (at least to me) they are claiming they will always press exactly the right buttons or that they will always notice any errors they make in the button pressing. To me this 'feel' for the numbers tells me when I've failed my 'use calculator' roll.
Don't get me wrong, I'm terribly allergic to wifi, mobile phones, even a microwave oven being used next door but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter much. You see, I'm also allergic to neutrinos. Do you know how many of those things pass through my body every single second. Oh it causes me so much pain you just wouldn't believe. :-)
And only a few would be considered wasted.
Ahh yes. Rob's Afterstep page. Chips'n'Dips. Early Slashdot. Me wondering whether to sign up or not on the first day finally getting round to it on the second day; thus the 4 digit ID. I remember when 100 comments was considered huge for a story.
Rob may go but he won't be forgotten.
If they are oggs then they are from my CDs. If they are mp3s then I'm still partway through the evaluation phase of 'try before I buy'.
But did the intermediate wavs match? This would tell you whether the ripping or the encoding introduced the difference.
I have had good success with a Turboencabulator. I needed to tighten the differential girdlespring but digital dust has been significantly below the measureable threshold.
In the small print, one of the instructions for compiling it up to 3 is "make lickmylovepump"
Not only that, but there are dangerous levels of DiHydrogen Monoxide in their bodies from all the environmental pollution.
I am a physicist and while I think everyone knows just how much Hollywood gets wrong on the Armageddon level physics, they also usually get it wrong on the day to day science lab stuff. My GF likes horses and always complains about them in films. From 'They don't make noises like that all the time' to 'one of those four fulling that carriage has a different stride length to the rest, they would have matched their horses properly in Jane Austin's time."
I don't often F11 firefox to run it in fullscreen mode but I have to now with slashdot. Too much whitespace is one thing then there is the immovable-without-voodoo bar across the top which take me back to the "glory" days of frames. Even the /. poll doesn't fit onto the screen any more.
Ah well.
> Surviving an infinite number of rolls is not the problem... The real problem is that if you've got, say, a D20, and you get it to roll a 1 a large number of times, the ones will have all been rolled out. After that it'll have a hard time producing more 1's.
You havn't met my dice then have you. I swear the thinkgeek t-shirt spies have been watching my Tuesday night games.
Exactly.
I was told that for every one hour of lecture time it should take three hours of your life.
One hour in the lecture.
One hour no later than a few days afterwards reviewing and annotating your notes, making sure you understand it all, adding extra information from text books and redrawing hastily sketched diagrams etc.
Then one hour close to exam time revising it.
I found I did best in exams when I worked like this. Finding a quicker way to get your notes right first time only means you have more time to spend in that second hour making sure you understand what you typed.
Having a firewall won't do you any good, security wise. Having an encrypted network, OTOH, will.
But sidewinders can do encryption.
Also, Secure Computing's support lines are the best I've ever dealt with. The call is answered by a smart guy who helps you fix your problem. That's all there is to it.
Oh yes it did. /dev/urandom on a system with no entropy sources. Or at least, you could seed it however you liked and it made no difference to the output.
Recent kernels patched a flaw where you couldn't explicitly seed
One description is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/239835/
What this meant for little embedded linux systems (eg routers) which are used for any crypto (eg VPNs) I'll leave as a thought exercise for the reader.
But, with the linux case the problem was reported, discussed and patched in about a week.
Stop harassing downloaders, because currently, you happen to be pissing off you best buyers.
Yes we know you **AA hate people who "illegaly steal" your stuff, but those people happen to be those who buy most of your CDs anyway, so be nice with them.
Yep. I'm off shortly to a concert by a band I've seen 3 times before. A band I only went to see the first time because I really liked their CDs. A band whose CDs I only bought because I really liked what I downloaded.