I've never done any sound processing but I know that an MP3 will continue to be playable if you cut it in half (eg, bad download) because it's a frame-based format.
If you know your bitrate, use the file size to rough out the play length and then write a simple script in VB or Python or C# or whatever you want to simply copy out chunks of the file into another one. The only possibly complicated thing would be to insert silences (maybe?) between chunks, but that shouldn't be too much of a chore.
Maybe he thinks it's a good choice as the OS to power this thing. I mean, god forbid XP was actually useful for something.
Did your Googling skillz turn up evidence that he is receiving money from Microsoft now that he works at Carnegie? It would be nice, you know, as backup for your claims.
It depends on the situation (and even the phase the project is in). But yes, sometimes I am. This is where the term "one-truck project" comes from. I mostly try to stay away from trucks =)
It's also a matter of money and politics and the fact that I'm a consultant - however I don't work for a body shop. I am salaried with full benefits, paid vacation, etc. It's just complicated to synchronize my vacation requirements with the client's expectations and deadlines.
OTOH as long as I'm making the money and not collapsing because of exhaustion then all is peachy.
I think US citizens should focus on different things, like getting 3 or 4 weeks of vacation per year, not just two.
Perhaps you'd like to offer some insight as to how to go about achieving this. I routinely cash out vacation I had no time or inclination to take during the year. Not because I don't want to take it, but because I can't afford to be away from the job for more than 7 days at a time.
And no, I don't want the government to "help me out" with this. I'm fine. I have a life and time for my family and I'm building a future. Work is not that bad when you truly love what you do.
Right. I remember a few months ago there was a story about some people who wanted to stuff open source CDs down public libraries and everyone was jiggy with that.
Personally I think that obnoxious "Press C+x C+y M+3 here to learn more about the GNU whatever" message in emacs to be the same, especially if the software is being introduced into a place of learning I support with my tax dollars.
And BTW, if you think this is bad then I suggest you complain to the schools. I doubt the BSA is sneaking ninja-like into the classrooms and giving kids the lowdown on how to perpetuate the evil ideas behind commercial software without so much as a peep from the principal and the teachers.
Mmmkay. And you consider using one Office CD (and I assume 1 license) to install in all 6 computers to be perfectly fine? Is that your reason to claim the BSA is "evil"?
I'm not going to go into the "commercial software licensing is bad" spiel, but if you don't like it, don't use it. It's that simple.
I mean, from a legal standpoint this is the same as saying "well, we, like, bought only one car but we drove off the dealership with, like, um six, and the police called and we all, like, freaked out and stuff so we,like, paid for the other six and stuff".
That the BSA does it makes no difference. That you think software should be free makes no difference. That it's Microsoft software makes no difference. Legally, if you don't have a license you're breaking the law, period.
Fair use according to whom? The law or the Slashbot collective? People around here have a very peculiar concept of what constitutes "fair use". That's probably why the article submission was dismissive of this thing.
I guess that explains the vague "many cases of crap" claim.
I don't know how many times someone has to be mentioned by Amnesty International before the rest of us figure there's something up, eh?
I have absolutely zero proof that he is corrupt, but there are too many little bits and pieces of information to that effect, his "get tough" policies don't hold up once you look at crime statistics in the valley and I still think it's not right to keep minor offenders in tents out in the open. Pink underwear? OK. Put them to work? Sure. There's a limit though.
Not a chance, he's got a life time job cause people aree sick and tired of the crime.
But there is zero evidence that what he does reduces crime in any way. Zilch. In seven or so years, I've never seen one single statistic that says his policies actually lower crime levels in Phoenix (let alone the rest of the county).
I don't want prisoners coddled. I do wish however that the people who vote for him could see that his "tough stance" on crime is just a facade to make him look good while accomplishing nothing, and that a lot of the money he is supposedly saving us is not being used very wisely. There are a lot of people who accuse him of corruption. I know for example one of the companies that cater food and water to the tent cities is owned by his brother. But he's too popular and powerful for the media to really lay it on him.
It's a win-win situation for him, but it does nothing for the taxpayers (that includes me) and certainly not for the inmates, who by and large are petty first-time offenders guilty of shoplifting, bar fights and what have you.
I think they had one of the female prisoners almost die from shock. Apparently she had some medical problem that the temperature exacerbated. There have been reports of simple dehydration problems in the tents (ie, not caused by physical activity).
There have been many cases of crap happening to people in there.
No, most definitely not. However, I don't know if you've ever experienced summer in Phoenix. Putting prisioners in a tent on a parking lot with a rinky electric fan is not exactly humane.
I don't have a problem with making them as uncomfortable as possible, but not to the point that you can get yourself into trouble because one of them dies from heat exhaustion or dehydration. Also, these are not violent offenders or anything like that. They're petty criminals with drug problems and so on.
In any case, the sum of the parts (the cams, the tents, the chain gangs, etc) is what makes Arpaio look like a grandstanding goof.
It's the chain gangs and the pink underwear and the striped black 'n white uniforms and the 120F tent cities he runs.
I don't think Joe Arpaio (the sheriff's name here for those of you who don't live in Maricopa county, Phoenix or points south) has really done much to lower crime with his "tough ways". Sometimes I think he's more of a joke than anything else.
But he's quite powerful in the political sense. And taking down the cams ain't gonna make much difference. The guy needs to go. Well, hopefully this coming election.
I completely agree that Windows was thrust on the masses as a toy OS that was barely useable (yet still superior to what was available at the time...), but that does not mean that it hasn't matured and gotten a hell of a lot better. It took Microsoft almost ten years, but they did it with Windows 2000. Honestly, this whole "BSOD" thing is just plain stupid unless you're talking about the 9x series.
It has taken Linux about that much time to go from a solid server OS to a half-usable desktop one.
Oh, I'm not saying that no one will ever see one, ever. They still happen. Crappy drivers, bad hardware, borked hardware, etc.
The problem I have is that people think that Windows somehow fails this way four times a day, that it's impossible to prevent them and that they exist because Microsoft can't write good code to save their lives.
It's just one of those FUD memes that the zealots love to repeat over and over again.
BTW, on that machine where you get the blue screen, do other USB devices work correctly? Maybe it's the chipset. Not all Dells use the same one.
It must be infuriating to know that your FUD about Windows being unusable because it has to be rebooted every 2 hours (and other selected myths) can be easily disproven.
It's called reality, and sometimes it hurts. Tough.
It doesn't matter how long it's been since you've seen a blue screen... because blue screens are a trademark of the Microsoft experience, much like viruses. Everyone knows what a blue screen means, and Microsoft will never shake their reputation as being a shoddy OS vendor.
Thanks for sharing. Shoddy? Wow. Let me ask you something though - are you generalizing your opinion of the "Microsoft experience" to me as well? Or who is this "everyone" you talk about?
Last time I checked Linux was "difficult to use". Everyone knows Linux is "difficult to use", after all. Do you think we should also generalize that and call it "the Linux experience"?
Either look at the dump created by the kernel or disable the automatic reboot so you can actually see the blue screen, and you'll find out what's causing it. Then maybe you'll be able to fix it.
Windows doesn't just reboot because it has nothing better to do, and XP is simply rock solid if you know what you're doing. So was W2K and so is 2003. Heck, the Longhorn betas are even stable as hell.
People who tend to evangelize Linux are also normally full of the most astounding horror stories about Windows, yet they've simply never had anything bad happen to their Linux boxen. It's uncanny.
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If you know your bitrate, use the file size to rough out the play length and then write a simple script in VB or Python or C# or whatever you want to simply copy out chunks of the file into another one. The only possibly complicated thing would be to insert silences (maybe?) between chunks, but that shouldn't be too much of a chore.
Did your Googling skillz turn up evidence that he is receiving money from Microsoft now that he works at Carnegie? It would be nice, you know, as backup for your claims.
It's also a matter of money and politics and the fact that I'm a consultant - however I don't work for a body shop. I am salaried with full benefits, paid vacation, etc. It's just complicated to synchronize my vacation requirements with the client's expectations and deadlines.
OTOH as long as I'm making the money and not collapsing because of exhaustion then all is peachy.
Perhaps you'd like to offer some insight as to how to go about achieving this. I routinely cash out vacation I had no time or inclination to take during the year. Not because I don't want to take it, but because I can't afford to be away from the job for more than 7 days at a time.
And no, I don't want the government to "help me out" with this. I'm fine. I have a life and time for my family and I'm building a future. Work is not that bad when you truly love what you do.
Let's face it, the OP is moaning about something that is fair and square under his license of choice. That's open source for you, I guess.
I doubt eBay will stretch their definition to include use that is fair and square under your license of choice. Not ethical, but perfectly legal.
I doubt that includes "you can get it for free somewhere else". You know, free markets, capitalism and all that nonsense.
They're not violating your own copyright or trademarks (if you have them), by your own admission. Also by your own admission they are obeying the GPL.
So what's your problem? That they're making a buck on your creation? You should have thought about that before you made it open source, mmm?
Personally I think that obnoxious "Press C+x C+y M+3 here to learn more about the GNU whatever" message in emacs to be the same, especially if the software is being introduced into a place of learning I support with my tax dollars.
And BTW, if you think this is bad then I suggest you complain to the schools. I doubt the BSA is sneaking ninja-like into the classrooms and giving kids the lowdown on how to perpetuate the evil ideas behind commercial software without so much as a peep from the principal and the teachers.
I'm not going to go into the "commercial software licensing is bad" spiel, but if you don't like it, don't use it. It's that simple.
I mean, from a legal standpoint this is the same as saying "well, we, like, bought only one car but we drove off the dealership with, like, um six, and the police called and we all, like, freaked out and stuff so we,like, paid for the other six and stuff".
That the BSA does it makes no difference. That you think software should be free makes no difference. That it's Microsoft software makes no difference. Legally, if you don't have a license you're breaking the law, period.
Fair use according to whom? The law or the Slashbot collective? People around here have a very peculiar concept of what constitutes "fair use". That's probably why the article submission was dismissive of this thing.
This is bad because... ?
I don't know how many times someone has to be mentioned by Amnesty International before the rest of us figure there's something up, eh?
I have absolutely zero proof that he is corrupt, but there are too many little bits and pieces of information to that effect, his "get tough" policies don't hold up once you look at crime statistics in the valley and I still think it's not right to keep minor offenders in tents out in the open. Pink underwear? OK. Put them to work? Sure. There's a limit though.
But there is zero evidence that what he does reduces crime in any way. Zilch. In seven or so years, I've never seen one single statistic that says his policies actually lower crime levels in Phoenix (let alone the rest of the county).
I don't want prisoners coddled. I do wish however that the people who vote for him could see that his "tough stance" on crime is just a facade to make him look good while accomplishing nothing, and that a lot of the money he is supposedly saving us is not being used very wisely. There are a lot of people who accuse him of corruption. I know for example one of the companies that cater food and water to the tent cities is owned by his brother. But he's too popular and powerful for the media to really lay it on him.
It's a win-win situation for him, but it does nothing for the taxpayers (that includes me) and certainly not for the inmates, who by and large are petty first-time offenders guilty of shoplifting, bar fights and what have you.
There have been many cases of crap happening to people in there.
I don't have a problem with making them as uncomfortable as possible, but not to the point that you can get yourself into trouble because one of them dies from heat exhaustion or dehydration. Also, these are not violent offenders or anything like that. They're petty criminals with drug problems and so on.
In any case, the sum of the parts (the cams, the tents, the chain gangs, etc) is what makes Arpaio look like a grandstanding goof.
I don't think Joe Arpaio (the sheriff's name here for those of you who don't live in Maricopa county, Phoenix or points south) has really done much to lower crime with his "tough ways". Sometimes I think he's more of a joke than anything else.
But he's quite powerful in the political sense. And taking down the cams ain't gonna make much difference. The guy needs to go. Well, hopefully this coming election.
I'm shocked - shocked I say. I've never seen your ilk around here.
Ouch.
It has taken Linux about that much time to go from a solid server OS to a half-usable desktop one.
The problem I have is that people think that Windows somehow fails this way four times a day, that it's impossible to prevent them and that they exist because Microsoft can't write good code to save their lives.
It's just one of those FUD memes that the zealots love to repeat over and over again.
BTW, on that machine where you get the blue screen, do other USB devices work correctly? Maybe it's the chipset. Not all Dells use the same one.
It's called reality, and sometimes it hurts. Tough.
Thanks for sharing. Shoddy? Wow. Let me ask you something though - are you generalizing your opinion of the "Microsoft experience" to me as well? Or who is this "everyone" you talk about?
Last time I checked Linux was "difficult to use". Everyone knows Linux is "difficult to use", after all. Do you think we should also generalize that and call it "the Linux experience"?
Windows doesn't just reboot because it has nothing better to do, and XP is simply rock solid if you know what you're doing. So was W2K and so is 2003. Heck, the Longhorn betas are even stable as hell.
People who tend to evangelize Linux are also normally full of the most astounding horror stories about Windows, yet they've simply never had anything bad happen to their Linux boxen. It's uncanny.