I was just going by my experience with PC music players. Plus there are times when you want it to be treated as a separate disk and other times when you don't. Different Stages Live by Rush has 3 CDs, the first 2 are from a modern concert(s) and so should be kept together. the 3rd is a 70s concert and I would like it treated as a separate 'album' (to use the term loosely). Putting different albums into different folders is an easy solution.
I have a CD walkman that does not ever skip unless you rotate it quickly back and forth about an axis perpendicular to the CD rotation axis. This is not the sort of motion that is going to happen under any form of use considered normal. Essentially if it does skip you may well have just been hit by a bus and your music should be the least of your worries.
All other forms of motion, including shaking as hard as you can (for as long as you like) or rotation in the same axis as the disk spins never ever no-siree not even once makes it skip.
Mind you it was the best Sony model from 2000/1. It has no quoted buffer time either, I think it simply has a good optical reader subassembly. Lesser ones certainly do skip.
Now it might be considered too big and bulky to go jogging with (though it is one of the smallest CD players out there) and your comments about capacity are valid but I stand firm on the skipping topic.
I don't think anyone makes them yet but a CD walkman sized player that's as non-skipping as mine but can also read double layer dvds (8.? Gig and quickly swappable) may well find a market niche (if done properly).
Guaranteed gapless playback. I do own some live albums. Replaceable rechargable batteries. Batteries can die or I can simply be out for longer than the battery life. Random album playback. Some have this already but not all. Folder based organisation, not ID3 tag based. I want albums that come on multiple CDs to (sometimes) be considered to be a single album. ID3 tag based players on my PC tend to consider them to be different albums, and no, I'm not munging the ID3tags, I want the them to include disk1, disk2 info etc Upgradeable firmware for new codecs, features, better optimisations, fixed bugs etc.
Probably deserves being the the next-gen section. If I use it as a lossless archive of my CDs and plug it into my hi-fi, I want a decent remote control.
Diceland by Cheapass. This deserves to be on the recent board games thread as well. Throwing non-collectible paper d8s has never been such fun. The game is great, the website doesn't really do it justice.
Oh yeah. I know how to find the cheap CDs. The particular disk I refered to without naming I'd picked up a couple of years ago in a HMV semi-perma-sale for about a tenner. I get most of my new CDs online now as well, that's purchase online, often after listening to a downloaded copy.
I was just making the comment that it was the first time I'd seen a 'regular CD' creep to the 20 UKP point.
Prices have moved in both directions. Let me explain. For a long time regular CDs (ie not double albums etc) have been priced at about 12-16 UKP, ish.
In recent years a large fraction of CDs have begun to be sold in supermarkets in the UK for about 9.80 UKP (yes this is still a ripoff if you do the dollar conversion compared to US prices but is positively cheap for Britain). These are only chart CDs though, new releases and perenial favourites etc. Nothing even slightly obscure though.
I have also recently seen (during the Christmas sales no less) a CD released in 1999 for sale in Virgin priced at 20 UKP. This is a single disk, regular CD, not a Jap import or anything special or unusual that might be used to justify a price like that.
And new material for that matter. For example, right now their newest game HARP is available as a PDF for just $2. This is less than I spent on the plastic lyfjacket cover for my printed copy!
First set your system up without graphical login, which most distributions configure by default. To do this edit/etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 3, this means find the line id:3:initdefault: which will normally read 5 and change it to 3 (like mine is), Fedora inittab files are well commented and explain what to do, others are probably similar. To go into X (the windowing system) you type startx after logging in, this gives you your regular desktop, gnome, kde, xfce, whatever. When you are bored with email quit out of X and run your game with (I think) xinit/usr/local/games/doom3/doom3
The variant we sometimes play is to roll one red die with the two white dice[1]. The roller must take the red die but can choose which of the two white dice to take. Makes for some subtle variations on initial placements, you want to be everybody's neighbour so they choose the numbers you pick up on also.
[1] You'll know why I put those colours if you've played the Cities and Knights expansion.
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Maybe the/. users should be allowed to moderate stories as well as comments.
Eg, we could see -5 Story
-2 Intro explains nothing about the topic
-3 Duplicate
-1 KDE/Gnome flamewar contained within[1]
+1 It's about some interesting new software that you might like to know about.
and set our thresholds accordingly (by story category if necessary), complementing the user homepage story category preferences.
No, I'm not going to code it myself, not itchy enough for me to scratch.
[1] Insert chosen flame/complaint etc that we've all read a thousand times.
Instead of a reload try a resize up and down (either with ctrl mouse-wheel-up/down or ctrl +/-). This makes the page render properly without the extra bandwidth usage.
You forgot to metion that Huey, Duey and Louie on Valley Forge also made far better gardeners than any snooker/pool playing robot ever would. Well, one of them did by the end of the film, the others probably would have too, given the chance. I'd have really been put in my place by that had you thought to mention it.
Any British/.ers remember a Horizon[1] episode where they built a snooker playing robot. Must have been 10/15 years ago now. Played on a reduced size table with fewer balls (10 rather than 15 reds IIRC). The gantry for the robo-cue included steel pillars at the corners of the table, thus making it really hard for the human competitor.
Don't know if this is already suggested as I've not ploughed through all the other comments yet but here is my suggestion.
I go to several pages each morning (Slashdot, BBC news etc) and have them bookmarked as a group in the personal toolbar folder. Some days however I also go to other sites, for example on Thursdays I go to the Linux Weekly News site as well as the rest. So my suggestion is to automatically handle this within a single 'Regular sites' button. In other words, time dependent elements within a bookmark group.
Some examples to illustrate how fine grained this might be.
"Slashdot" always "BBC News" always "Dilbert" first time after 9am everyday "Linux Weekly News" first time on or after each thursday "Evening TV listings" if time between 5pm and 6pm (ie last check before I leave work) "Whatever page" if date is exactly 1st of month "Whatever page2" first time after 1st of month "Stupid goofing off site" only between 12pm and 1pm (ie Lunchtime reading)
I tried an ATI card once, about 18 months ago. RTCW played great but I couldn't watch DVDs. Only the left half of the movie would display. There was no way to drag or resize the frame to get it to show anything other than just the left half of the film. Yes I used every variety of driver out there (yes there were official ATI drivers for linux at that time), yes I RTFMed everything I could. But I only ever saw Frodo's half of the conversation with Gandalf on the cart at the start of FotR.
I thought Oxford awarded a BA in Physics, uniquely among British Universities (or at least nearly unique, the rest award you a BSc). At least this is what I was told by the guy in my PhD research group who had done his first degree there. As one of Britain's and indeed the worlds finest Universities I wouldn't question the worth of a degree from Oxford.
I recently read about a band that I'd never heard of touring with 2 others that I like a lot. I downloaded a couple of the albums and listened to them a few times (I'm _definitely_ an album listener) and decided I liked them.
Shortly afterwards I was in London and (on the strength of what I'd downloaded) bought the _entire_ shelf stock of CDs by this band from the Virgin Megastore and HMV on Oxford street. I know I can only claim this because there were no duplicates but I can genuinely say that I bought out the entire stock of what could be described as the two premier stores of the two premier music chains in the UK, situated on one of the premier shopping streets in the country.
Yep, I bought both CDs;-) but the thought counts. Try and claim lost sales now.
Don't know _why_ it crashes but I can confirm it crashes for me too, though not with Konqueror. I noticed this when groklaw linked to the Linus interview a few days ago and took some time to confirm it was the business week site (as opposed to any of the other tabbed window pages I normally have open). I even deleted my userContent.css file (which blocks flash and banner-ad sized images) to check that wasn't involved (still crashes).
I'm on RH9 with mozilla 1.2.1 Normally would have upgraded moz by now but java is _such_ a PITA to get working.
The cheating part is with the elliptical exhaust component which only just rolls far enough to hit the next thing. That is only cheating in the sense that they stiched two shots together, not in the computer graphics from scratch sense. Obviously it's approx half way through the ad. Also one of the sections only _ever_ worked properly on the one take where it all worked properly, can't remember which that was. The ironic part is that channel4 here in the UK had done a 3h show on the 100 best adverts in the history of British TV only about two weeks or so before Cog was first shown. I'm sure Cog would have knocked the Guinness 'Waiting' ad off the top spot.
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I was just going by my experience with PC music players. Plus there are times when you want it to be treated as a separate disk and other times when you don't. Different Stages Live by Rush has 3 CDs, the first 2 are from a modern concert(s) and so should be kept together. the 3rd is a 70s concert and I would like it treated as a separate 'album' (to use the term loosely). Putting different albums into different folders is an easy solution.
One small quibble.
I have a CD walkman that does not ever skip unless you rotate it quickly back and forth about an axis perpendicular to the CD rotation axis. This is not the sort of motion that is going to happen under any form of use considered normal. Essentially if it does skip you may well have just been hit by a bus and your music should be the least of your worries.
All other forms of motion, including shaking as hard as you can (for as long as you like) or rotation in the same axis as the disk spins never ever no-siree not even once makes it skip.
Mind you it was the best Sony model from 2000/1. It has no quoted buffer time either, I think it simply has a good optical reader subassembly. Lesser ones certainly do skip.
Now it might be considered too big and bulky to go jogging with (though it is one of the smallest CD players out there) and your comments about capacity are valid but I stand firm on the skipping topic.
I don't think anyone makes them yet but a CD walkman sized player that's as non-skipping as mine but can also read double layer dvds (8.? Gig and quickly swappable) may well find a market niche (if done properly).
Good tips, but may I be so bold as to add:
Guaranteed gapless playback. I do own some live albums.
Replaceable rechargable batteries. Batteries can die or I can simply be out for longer than the battery life.
Random album playback. Some have this already but not all.
Folder based organisation, not ID3 tag based. I want albums that come on multiple CDs to (sometimes) be considered to be a single album. ID3 tag based players on my PC tend to consider them to be different albums, and no, I'm not munging the ID3tags, I want the them to include disk1, disk2 info etc
Upgradeable firmware for new codecs, features, better optimisations, fixed bugs etc.
Probably deserves being the the next-gen section.
If I use it as a lossless archive of my CDs and plug it into my hi-fi, I want a decent remote control.
Diceland by Cheapass. This deserves to be on the recent board games thread as well.
Throwing non-collectible paper d8s has never been such fun. The game is great, the website doesn't really do it justice.
Oh yeah. I know how to find the cheap CDs. The particular disk I refered to without naming I'd picked up a couple of years ago in a HMV semi-perma-sale for about a tenner. I get most of my new CDs online now as well, that's purchase online, often after listening to a downloaded copy.
I was just making the comment that it was the first time I'd seen a 'regular CD' creep to the 20 UKP point.
Prices have moved in both directions. Let me explain. For a long time regular CDs (ie not double albums etc) have been priced at about 12-16 UKP, ish.
In recent years a large fraction of CDs have begun to be sold in supermarkets in the UK for about 9.80 UKP (yes this is still a ripoff if you do the dollar conversion compared to US prices but is positively cheap for Britain). These are only chart CDs though, new releases and perenial favourites etc. Nothing even slightly obscure though.
I have also recently seen (during the Christmas sales no less) a CD released in 1999 for sale in Virgin priced at 20 UKP. This is a single disk, regular CD, not a Jap import or anything special or unusual that might be used to justify a price like that.
And new material for that matter. For example, right now their newest game HARP is available as a PDF for just $2. This is less than I spent on the plastic lyfjacket cover for my printed copy!
ICE
First set your system up without graphical login, which most distributions configure by default. /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 3, this means find the line /usr/local/games/doom3/doom3
To do this edit
id:3:initdefault:
which will normally read 5 and change it to 3 (like mine is), Fedora inittab files are well commented and explain what to do, others are probably similar.
To go into X (the windowing system) you type startx after logging in, this gives you your regular desktop, gnome, kde, xfce, whatever.
When you are bored with email quit out of X and run your game with (I think)
xinit
I read that here
The variant we sometimes play is to roll one red die with the two white dice[1]. The roller must take the red die but can choose which of the two white dice to take. Makes for some subtle variations on initial placements, you want to be everybody's neighbour so they choose the numbers you pick up on also.
[1] You'll know why I put those colours if you've played the Cities and Knights expansion.
Maybe the /. users should be allowed to moderate stories as well as comments.
Eg, we could see
-5 Story
-2 Intro explains nothing about the topic
-3 Duplicate
-1 KDE/Gnome flamewar contained within[1]
+1 It's about some interesting new software that you might like to know about.
and set our thresholds accordingly (by story category if necessary), complementing the user homepage story category preferences.
No, I'm not going to code it myself, not itchy enough for me to scratch.
[1] Insert chosen flame/complaint etc that we've all read a thousand times.
Instead of a reload try a resize up and down (either with ctrl mouse-wheel-up/down or ctrl +/-).
This makes the page render properly without the extra bandwidth usage.
Someone can't go to google, type "most efficient diesel engine" and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky".
You forgot to metion that Huey, Duey and Louie on Valley Forge also made far better gardeners than any snooker/pool playing robot ever would. Well, one of them did by the end of the film, the others probably would have too, given the chance.
I'd have really been put in my place by that had you thought to mention it.
Any British /.ers remember a Horizon[1] episode where they built a snooker playing robot. Must have been 10/15 years ago now. Played on a reduced size table with fewer balls (10 rather than 15 reds IIRC). The gantry for the robo-cue included steel pillars at the corners of the table, thus making it really hard for the human competitor.
[1] Horizon is a science program on BBC2.
Don't refresh.
Do a resize up/down (ctrl -+ or ctrl mousewheel up/down). Sorts it out without downloading again.
If U2 were heavy metal they wouldn't use Dubly anyway.
(Except on track 11, of course)
Don't know if this is already suggested as I've not ploughed through all the other comments yet but here is my suggestion.
I go to several pages each morning (Slashdot, BBC news etc) and have them bookmarked as a group in the personal toolbar folder. Some days however I also go to other sites, for example on Thursdays I go to the Linux Weekly News site as well as the rest. So my suggestion is to automatically handle this within a single 'Regular sites' button. In other words, time dependent elements within a bookmark group.
Some examples to illustrate how fine grained this might be.
"Slashdot" always
"BBC News" always
"Dilbert" first time after 9am everyday
"Linux Weekly News" first time on or after each thursday
"Evening TV listings" if time between 5pm and 6pm (ie last check before I leave work)
"Whatever page" if date is exactly 1st of month
"Whatever page2" first time after 1st of month
"Stupid goofing off site" only between 12pm and 1pm (ie Lunchtime reading)
You get the idea.
insert ATI sob story of my own
I tried an ATI card once, about 18 months ago. RTCW played great but I couldn't watch DVDs. Only the left half of the movie would display. There was no way to drag or resize the frame to get it to show anything other than just the left half of the film.
Yes I used every variety of driver out there (yes there were official ATI drivers for linux at that time), yes I RTFMed everything I could. But I only ever saw Frodo's half of the conversation with Gandalf on the cart at the start of FotR.
I get that in Mozilla. A text resize up/down (ctrl +/-) fixes it without a reload.
I thought Oxford awarded a BA in Physics, uniquely among British Universities (or at least nearly unique, the rest award you a BSc). At least this is what I was told by the guy in my PhD research group who had done his first degree there. As one of Britain's and indeed the worlds finest Universities I wouldn't question the worth of a degree from Oxford.
Check out the CF cards from Interpocket that can add this usb host functionality.
I recently read about a band that I'd never heard of touring with 2 others that I like a lot. I downloaded a couple of the albums and listened to them a few times (I'm _definitely_ an album listener) and decided I liked them.
;-) but the thought counts. Try and claim lost sales now.
Shortly afterwards I was in London and (on the strength of what I'd downloaded) bought the _entire_ shelf stock of CDs by this band from the Virgin Megastore and HMV on Oxford street. I know I can only claim this because there were no duplicates but I can genuinely say that I bought out the entire stock of what could be described as the two premier stores of the two premier music chains in the UK, situated on one of the premier shopping streets in the country.
Yep, I bought both CDs
Paranoia: Like Logan's Run crossed with a Microsoft Ad.
(At least I think I remembered the wording correctly)
Don't know _why_ it crashes but I can confirm it crashes for me too, though not with Konqueror. I noticed this when groklaw linked to the Linus interview a few days ago and took some time to confirm it was the business week site (as opposed to any of the other tabbed window pages I normally have open). I even deleted my userContent.css file (which blocks flash and banner-ad sized images) to check that wasn't involved (still crashes).
I'm on RH9 with mozilla 1.2.1
Normally would have upgraded moz by now but java is _such_ a PITA to get working.
The cheating part is with the elliptical exhaust component which only just rolls far enough to hit the next thing. That is only cheating in the sense that they stiched two shots together, not in the computer graphics from scratch sense. Obviously it's approx half way through the ad. Also one of the sections only _ever_ worked properly on the one take where it all worked properly, can't remember which that was.
The ironic part is that channel4 here in the UK had done a 3h show on the 100 best adverts in the history of British TV only about two weeks or so before Cog was first shown. I'm sure Cog would have knocked the Guinness 'Waiting' ad off the top spot.