It seems to handle very large collections without any problem (I probably have in the upwards of 7-8K of losslessly encoded music. It's interface is slightly cluttered but still extremely usable and very powerful. Sorta like iTunes on steroids.
The community around it is very supportive and the developers respond quickly to problems/bugs and are open to feature requests. On their forums, you can see the updates as each new version gets created.
I was lucky enought to attend the opening for this exhibit. I was stunned. The drawings and models are amazing. I would highly recomend that everyone make an effort to go an see it.
Third, soy and corn oil are crummy crops to make biodiesel from. But that's where the lobbying money is right now. Other plants have much higher yields. http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html
The only thing that chart doesn't have is the time for growth. It should be [volume fuel]/(area * month).
If something grew faster, it could produce less fuel per area, but if you could grow three crops a year, it might well produce more fuel per area per year.
You can get the Linksys WRT54G/GS and then install other linux firmware (one example that i use is: http://www.sveasoft.com/ ) and it will give you a tremendous amout of power and control in a $40-70 box. You can route/have VLANs/have firewalls/etc. with it.
kiwi
(note, make sure not to get the v4 hardware of the wrt54g, as it does not run the firmware.)
I decided to go with Monkey's Audio for my lossless format, just because it integrates with it so well. It's a truely amazing program and one of the best rippers around.
Ripping once to lossless and never doing it again is definitely the way to go.
even better... what google should do is provide erronious results to MS. This would cause MS to have collected tons of crappy data and have to filter through all of that.
Yeah, some POP clients can look at the "read" state of messages they download and probably can change downloaded messages to unread or read... but it is not really proper synchronization. Particularly when you have the ability to put things in different folders and/or labels. Why try to hack a solution with POP when it already exists with IMAP?
I really disagree. For gmail to be useful for me both as a webmail client and as regular email, I need it to be in sync with my local email client. For this to happen properly, you have to use IMAP. If they are both kept in sync, I can easily use the webmail interface when away from my computer and switch to my local client when I'm at my computer or using a PocketPC.
I wonder whether TiVO is going to start limiting the functionality of their units with built-in DVD recorders?
I was really thinking about getting one, but now I think that I'll get a new TiVO (I have a series 1) and an external DVD recorder... or just get the external DVD recorder by itself.
Agreed. It has that SemiGlossy Book finish, instead of the really glossy photo finish, but I have found the output from the HP 4500 to be preferable to that of most inkjets I've used. But it's probably a case of "to each his own."
Ouch! Those cost a bundle. $775usd for the board with 1ghz proc and $1500 for:
* Nexus Vivid Blue case w/ 330W psu (Screwless design for easy future modifications)
* Pegasos II Mainboard and Motorola G4 Processor @ 1Ghz
* ATI Radeon 9200 SE 128MB Graphics card
* 40GB Hard Disk Drive
* 256MB (DDR256) PC2100 RAM
* Standard Keyboard and Mouse
* Standard CDRW drive Software:
* MorphOS 1.4 pre-installed
* Debian pre-installed
* Mac on Linux packages installed
* Super bundle installed
I am not thinking of anyone as a "non-Windows-non-Linux crowd." In fact, I am mainly thinking about people as computer users. The one major problem that seems to crop up with OS's is the Chicken and the Egg. Nobody wants to write Apps for an OS without a good user base, and nobody wants to use an OS w/o good apps.
I would agree on the issue of too many cooks spoiling the soup. But maybe the issue is that the projects need to be managed a bit better. I'm sure that there is more than enough work to have 24 people coding, but maybe some people would need to have their ego's checked a bit.
I have installed and run many different OS's, but I fall back on the problem of having to actually have a computer that lets me function. That leaves me with commercial Unix variants, Windows, Linux/BSD, and MacOS. BeOS was close... very close... I loved the OS, but then the momentum that was building dropped out from under them. Damn it was a quick OS.
I wish that more of these small os groups would get together and create 1 independant OS from MS and Unix. They all seem to follow the same general ideas the Syllable or BeOS have... give the user lots of power, a new non-X display core and make it quick. But this all seems like a country divided. Nothing is ever going to take off with all of these small groups.
If the leaders of a few of these groups would get together and work on one project, there's a slim chance that it might get somewhere. If I were going to try to organize something, I'd be looking seriously at OpenBeOS, as it has all the API documentation nicely created for it. But hey, it's never going to happen, and MS will continue to rule the desktop, with Linux being a lowly contenter waiting in the wings, never to really get a chance.
From my experience, scratches do seem to play a role. DVDs seem much more susceptible to scratching than do CDs. I have a few dvds that don't play any more and have seen many xbox games with problems.
I just think that putting a nice protective container around it would make lots of sense.
$150 a year for 1gb of off site backup. That doesn't sound like that bad an idea. Does Apple say that they will back things up and guarantee that your data will be there? If so, this isn't that bad a deal at all.
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For the past 4 years I've been using J River Media Center.
http://jrmediacenter.com/
It seems to handle very large collections without any problem (I probably have in the upwards of 7-8K of losslessly encoded music. It's interface is slightly cluttered but still extremely usable and very powerful. Sorta like iTunes on steroids.
The community around it is very supportive and the developers respond quickly to problems/bugs and are open to feature requests. On their forums, you can see the updates as each new version gets created.
-gk
I was lucky enought to attend the opening for this exhibit. I was stunned. The drawings and models are amazing. I would highly recomend that everyone make an effort to go an see it.
kiwi
(And I don't work for Pixar...)
Third, soy and corn oil are crummy crops to make biodiesel from. But that's where the lobbying money is right now. Other plants have much higher yields.
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html
The only thing that chart doesn't have is the time for growth. It should be [volume fuel]/(area * month).
If something grew faster, it could produce less fuel per area, but if you could grow three crops a year, it might well produce more fuel per area per year.
You can get the Linksys WRT54G/GS and then install other linux firmware (one example that i use is: http://www.sveasoft.com/ ) and it will give you a tremendous amout of power and control in a $40-70 box. You can route/have VLANs/have firewalls/etc. with it.
kiwi
(note, make sure not to get the v4 hardware of the wrt54g, as it does not run the firmware.)
I've been a big fan of jRiver Media Center:
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/
I decided to go with Monkey's Audio for my lossless format, just because it integrates with it so well. It's a truely amazing program and one of the best rippers around.
Ripping once to lossless and never doing it again is definitely the way to go.
kiwi
And they map to POP?
Well... someone beat me too it. Wacom's been doing this for a while. Wireless mouse, no battery. Plus, you have the pen which is totally awesome!
My understanding was that it wasn't just "a man", but George Bernard Shaw.
even better... what google should do is provide erronious results to MS. This would cause MS to have collected tons of crappy data and have to filter through all of that.
Yeah, some POP clients can look at the "read" state of messages they download and probably can change downloaded messages to unread or read... but it is not really proper synchronization. Particularly when you have the ability to put things in different folders and/or labels. Why try to hack a solution with POP when it already exists with IMAP?
What??? Not really needed???
I really disagree. For gmail to be useful for me both as a webmail client and as regular email, I need it to be in sync with my local email client. For this to happen properly, you have to use IMAP. If they are both kept in sync, I can easily use the webmail interface when away from my computer and switch to my local client when I'm at my computer or using a PocketPC.
IMAP RULES!!!
I wonder whether TiVO is going to start limiting the functionality of their units with built-in DVD recorders?
I was really thinking about getting one, but now I think that I'll get a new TiVO (I have a series 1) and an external DVD recorder... or just get the external DVD recorder by itself.
Huh!
You'd never see the adds, it's not like the GmailFS has popup windows.
If Bush was wired, the receiver would be the size of a deck of cards or smaller, not some giant thing strapped to his back.
Everyone knows that this is where the charging unit plugs in, Bush is just a robot puppet, being controlled by others.
Agreed. It has that SemiGlossy Book finish, instead of the really glossy photo finish, but I have found the output from the HP 4500 to be preferable to that of most inkjets I've used. But it's probably a case of "to each his own."
Ouch! Those cost a bundle. $775usd for the board with 1ghz proc and $1500 for:
* Nexus Vivid Blue case w/ 330W psu (Screwless design for easy future modifications)
* Pegasos II Mainboard and Motorola G4 Processor @ 1Ghz
* ATI Radeon 9200 SE 128MB Graphics card
* 40GB Hard Disk Drive
* 256MB (DDR256) PC2100 RAM
* Standard Keyboard and Mouse
* Standard CDRW drive
Software:
* MorphOS 1.4 pre-installed
* Debian pre-installed
* Mac on Linux packages installed
* Super bundle installed
Ok, now Apple's offerings:
1.25GHz G4 eMac - $800
1.6GHz G5 iMac - $1300
Dual Proc 1.8GHz G5 PowerMac - $2000
Well, value for money, I know what I'd pick.
I am not thinking of anyone as a "non-Windows-non-Linux crowd." In fact, I am mainly thinking about people as computer users. The one major problem that seems to crop up with OS's is the Chicken and the Egg. Nobody wants to write Apps for an OS without a good user base, and nobody wants to use an OS w/o good apps.
I would agree on the issue of too many cooks spoiling the soup. But maybe the issue is that the projects need to be managed a bit better. I'm sure that there is more than enough work to have 24 people coding, but maybe some people would need to have their ego's checked a bit.
I have installed and run many different OS's, but I fall back on the problem of having to actually have a computer that lets me function. That leaves me with commercial Unix variants, Windows, Linux/BSD, and MacOS. BeOS was close... very close... I loved the OS, but then the momentum that was building dropped out from under them. Damn it was a quick OS.
Heck, Mr Gates himself faces the very same spyware problem.
Nahhh... He runs OS X and doesn't have to worry about it.
I wish that more of these small os groups would get together and create 1 independant OS from MS and Unix. They all seem to follow the same general ideas the Syllable or BeOS have... give the user lots of power, a new non-X display core and make it quick. But this all seems like a country divided. Nothing is ever going to take off with all of these small groups.
If the leaders of a few of these groups would get together and work on one project, there's a slim chance that it might get somewhere. If I were going to try to organize something, I'd be looking seriously at OpenBeOS, as it has all the API documentation nicely created for it. But hey, it's never going to happen, and MS will continue to rule the desktop, with Linux being a lowly contenter waiting in the wings, never to really get a chance.
kiwi
Someone must have watched "The Day After Tomorrow" last night!
Why didn't he just squirt water in the dollar bill slot? It has the added benefit of releasing all or most of the coins in the system.
What's to stop people from just going to web based chat interfaces? AIM Express etc.
Maybe your best bet is to block site access to chat servers.
Damn... just upload one message and then forward it to yourself 200 times... then you don't have to upload more information.
kiwi
From my experience, scratches do seem to play a role. DVDs seem much more susceptible to scratching than do CDs. I have a few dvds that don't play any more and have seen many xbox games with problems.
I just think that putting a nice protective container around it would make lots of sense.
Hmmm.
$150 a year for 1gb of off site backup. That doesn't sound like that bad an idea. Does Apple say that they will back things up and guarantee that your data will be there? If so, this isn't that bad a deal at all.
kiwi