Surely you must be kidding.
Hey! I just pasted those images into my project, how come they don't show up on the printout!?! Oh, wait... Now they've disappeared from the screen as well. I guess it's WYDGIWYDS - What You DON'T GET Is What You DON'T SEE.
Hrm. Maybe if I paste them in again and print it out before I save it. Great! I got it on the printout. Woops. But they disappeared on the screen again. I have no idea what acronym to use now.
But I DO know that I'll be switching to PageMaker or Quark.
Yeah, the parental/ownership attitude about the sport from the Groundspeak folks has cooled my interest a bit. That and the indefinite moratorium on Locationless (Reverse Virtual) caches. I thought they were some of the more interesting things to seek.
Also, they recently launched www.waymarking.com, which I guess is where most of the non-standard caches will go. Right now, only Geocaching.com Premium members can get in for a look. That's fine, but the site doesn't even tell the public ANYTHING about what is going to be there. All pages, including "contact us" link back to the same "check back in a couple of weeks" message. No other explanations.
If you think that you want a shovel to geocache, you'd probably better re-read the listing guidelines:
"Caches may be quickly archived if we see the following... Caches that are buried. If a shovel, trowel or other 'pointy' object is used to dig, whether in order to hide or to find the cache, then it is not appropriate."
Oh, Amen! And I say that partly because that's what our church has. Though our best organist has moved to California, and we haven't yet found someone who can put it through the paces like he could.
I'll put a Mellotron and an Optigan (or Talentmaker) up there with the things that need to be found and listened to.
Only to have the tape break (or get sucked into the capstans) because they had to manufacture it a little too thin for tolerances in order to get 100 minutes into that little space. One or two additional songs per side was not worth the risk.
C-90 was the way to go. An album per side, plus amybe selected songs or an EP to fill the side out. Plenty of room for a mix. Just enough for a walk to/from school and class breaks without having to change cassettes too frequently.
Your web-PAC should make Library Elf obsolete. I shouldn't be tempted to give a 3rd party my lib card number just to get timely emails of when my holds are in, and how soon everything I have is due.
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The important difference there being that you are talking about a heat pump, and the earlier post is referring to a ground sourceheat pump (sometimes referred to as a geothermal heat pump). The principle is the same, where the heat is pumped to/from is completely different.
Both accepting every cookie (as the marketers would prefer) and blindly deleting them all, (the simplest response) are just too extreme. The sweet spot for me is in the middle.
My cookie file is read-only at the file system level. It has fewer than 10 cookies in it, all of them hand filtered. This effectively makes every other cookie a session-based cookie, without having to to be nagged about it every time.
Each time I come across a site that offers me the opportunity to remember my login, I consider whether to add it to the list. I explore the site, to see whether it is actually worth it. I inspect the cookie for what else it contains, and maybe it goes in.
Outside of that, I have the usual Preferences-based options selected for security. (Allow from originating site only, etc.)
I also hand-edit cookies like Google's to nullify unnecessary GUIDs. On a few of them, (Slashdot, NYT) I actually delay the expiration date so that I don't have to fiddle with them every year.
I'd say that I add maybe one new cookie a year, and update another one to accomodate some site's change in cookie format.
Needle recordings have come in a wide variety of sizes, formats, materials, and even encoding methods. World War II-era pre-recorded radio broadcasts often came on records that were close to 17" in diameter. WCPR had at least a pair of 2-foot diameter turntables. I'm sure they are LONG GONE by now.
In the past, records have been made out of wax, a thick tin foil, a shellac/cotton, hard rubber, and any number of other semi-hard materials. And while most recordings encoded the wave as effectively wiggling the needle from side-to-side, there were still many that used a bumping-up-and-down, depth method of encoding.
If you are interested enough, you could try contacting one of the many people who like to hand-craft modern equipment to handle older recording technologies.
It's obviously an Aroma Disc. The question is, can you still get a player for it? And if it's the "buttered popcorn" one, will it smell stale or rancid?
I expect that one of his local library systems has downloadable audio books. Many local library systems get money from their respective states, and so have to allow any resident of the state to apply for a card. Usually in person, though.
Most of the AP hardware I've seen is some combination of Silver, Black, or Blue. Or perhaps White. But honestly, does it really matter what color it is?
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I know what you mean. After all, affiliate links bias the recommender. They just want you to click through and buy the book so that they can make some money. I'm gonna make sure ALL of the purchase price goes to someone who doesn't CARE if they make any money on it, like.... Barnes and Noble?
I suspect the International stuff is the hardest part to work out. So many different parties to deal with trying to stabilize a flat rate.
Speakeasy OneLink comes close enough for me. $88/month for 1.5/384 ADSL, static IP, servers are fine with TOS. NO local analog line needed, bye-bye SBC! That plus VOIP with unlimited US & Canada including voicemail, callerID, call waiting, forwarding, 3-way, etc. I don't call outside the US, so I'm not even sure what those rates are. It hit my sweet spot. It may come close enough for yours.
Now, we all know the only reason you have this hobby is so that you can have plausible deniability for when you ask a girl if she wants to come back to your place "see your etchings".
Boxes come and go on my home network, depending on whose systems I'm currently fixing. The fairly permanent denizens are:
SpeakEasy DSL terminating equipment, including VOIP terminal adapter ($85/mo for *everything*), and no need for a local analog loop. Good riddance, SBC!
Smoothwall box
Primary Windows desktop
Wireless router to pick up various boxes in hard-to-wire locations and the occasional guest laptop.
Linux server w/ big drives to hold music and test server configs (http/SMB/VNC/audio streams/etc)
Linux box dedicated to audio playback. It has a reasonably powerful FM broadcaster attached (~80 yard range) so we can listen to local MP3/OGGs or distant streams anywhere in the house/yard. Great for cookouts! Playlists are accessible through a variety of methods, so just about any box on the network can manipulate the queue.
A hacked Virgin Webplayer at the main stereo for streaming something different from what's going out on the FM broadcaster.
I might hook up another Webplayer to use pulling up recipes in the kitchen. I might upgrade the wireless router to an open firmware Linksys WRTG, because SpeakEasy's terms will let me re-sell bandwidth. There's a 4-unit apartment next door with some folks who might be willing to hop on board. SpeakEasy will even handle the billing!
What I'd really like to find is a better music storage system. Move it all out of the file system and into a database. I'm thinking of something that would store the track in whatever format (OGG/MP3/flac), plus whatever metadata you might care about (artist, track title, track #, track length, date, album title, album genre, song genre, writing credits, publishing company, lyrics, album cover & back art, liner notes, producer, band members, guest artists, who played what, record label, affiliated artists, sources of samples or borrowed riffs, drugs the band used while recording,...).
Work up APIs to plug file-systems into the database so that it can present the data as if it were actual files with appropriate filenames and ID tags. Let the streaming software and Samba look at it as if they were actual files in a filesystem. Create multiple virtual directory systems (similar to Evolution's vFolders) based on whetever metadata you care about (all non-classical/non-jazz instrumentals; everything with "love" in the title; Beatles recorded before 1970 with only Mac-Len co-writing credits; everything that samples James Brown; P-Funk and ALL related side projects; etc.). Have it name the file according to whatever scheme you prefer (Artist-SongTitle.foo)
Stop storing music as files in a disk directory. Craft up a database that keeps the music AND ALL the metadata (artist, title, album, track #, date, album genre, song genre, lyrics, album cover, liner notes, producer, guest artists, record label, drugs the band was on while recording, etc.). Work up file-system API's into the database to present the data as if it were actual files with appropriate filenames/ID tags. Plug in an API appropriate to your OS and configure whichever output filename format (Artist/Album/Artist-SongTitle.foo) you and your player software prefer.
I think the salivating is being done by the candy industry. Back in the 80's, the government had considered a similar re-jiggering of Daylight Saving Time. Then word got out that M&M/Mars had been part of the lobbying effort. See, by pushing it back by just one week, past Halloween, it could mean millions of dollars more in candy sales. It would get dark later, so the costumed critters could cover more turf before their parent's brought them in. Everybody would have to buy lots more candy to keep up with the demand.
I'm sure they have a horse in the race this time as well.
Isn't that how all VOIP services work? Is AOL's easier?
Sure it will be easier. All the phones will have big colorful buttons with pictures on them. Plus their new accelerator will mean that calls will go through UP TO 100x FASTER!
That, and it will cost roughly 5 times as much per month as Vonage or SpeakEasy.
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Cut her some slack. Maybe she's working on a dictionaraoke project.
Surely you must be kidding.
Hey! I just pasted those images into my project, how come they don't show up on the printout!?! Oh, wait... Now they've disappeared from the screen as well. I guess it's WYDGIWYDS - What You DON'T GET Is What You DON'T SEE.
Hrm. Maybe if I paste them in again and print it out before I save it. Great! I got it on the printout. Woops. But they disappeared on the screen again. I have no idea what acronym to use now.
But I DO know that I'll be switching to PageMaker or Quark.
Yeah, the parental/ownership attitude about the sport from the Groundspeak folks has cooled my interest a bit. That and the indefinite moratorium on Locationless (Reverse Virtual) caches. I thought they were some of the more interesting things to seek.
Also, they recently launched www.waymarking.com, which I guess is where most of the non-standard caches will go. Right now, only Geocaching.com Premium members can get in for a look. That's fine, but the site doesn't even tell the public ANYTHING about what is going to be there. All pages, including "contact us" link back to the same "check back in a couple of weeks" message. No other explanations.
If you think that you want a shovel to geocache, you'd probably better re-read the listing guidelines:
"Caches may be quickly archived if we see the following
Oh, Amen! And I say that partly because that's what our church has. Though our best organist has moved to California, and we haven't yet found someone who can put it through the paces like he could.
I'll put a Mellotron and an Optigan (or Talentmaker) up there with the things that need to be found and listened to.
Only to have the tape break (or get sucked into the capstans) because they had to manufacture it a little too thin for tolerances in order to get 100 minutes into that little space. One or two additional songs per side was not worth the risk.
C-90 was the way to go. An album per side, plus amybe selected songs or an EP to fill the side out. Plenty of room for a mix. Just enough for a walk to/from school and class breaks without having to change cassettes too frequently.
Your web-PAC should make Library Elf obsolete. I shouldn't be tempted to give a 3rd party my lib card number just to get timely emails of when my holds are in, and how soon everything I have is due.
The important difference there being that you are talking about a heat pump, and the earlier post is referring to a ground source heat pump (sometimes referred to as a geothermal heat pump). The principle is the same, where the heat is pumped to/from is completely different.
Google is your friend
Both accepting every cookie (as the marketers would prefer) and blindly deleting them all, (the simplest response) are just too extreme. The sweet spot for me is in the middle.
My cookie file is read-only at the file system level. It has fewer than 10 cookies in it, all of them hand filtered. This effectively makes every other cookie a session-based cookie, without having to to be nagged about it every time.
Each time I come across a site that offers me the opportunity to remember my login, I consider whether to add it to the list. I explore the site, to see whether it is actually worth it. I inspect the cookie for what else it contains, and maybe it goes in.
Outside of that, I have the usual Preferences-based options selected for security. (Allow from originating site only, etc.) I also hand-edit cookies like Google's to nullify unnecessary GUIDs. On a few of them, (Slashdot, NYT) I actually delay the expiration date so that I don't have to fiddle with them every year.
I'd say that I add maybe one new cookie a year, and update another one to accomodate some site's change in cookie format.
Stay away!
Don't do it!
It's a trap!!
Needle recordings have come in a wide variety of sizes, formats, materials, and even encoding methods. World War II-era pre-recorded radio broadcasts often came on records that were close to 17" in diameter. WCPR had at least a pair of 2-foot diameter turntables. I'm sure they are LONG GONE by now.
In the past, records have been made out of wax, a thick tin foil, a shellac/cotton, hard rubber, and any number of other semi-hard materials. And while most recordings encoded the wave as effectively wiggling the needle from side-to-side, there were still many that used a bumping-up-and-down, depth method of encoding.
If you are interested enough, you could try contacting one of the many people who like to hand-craft modern equipment to handle older recording technologies.
Nah, I got it sussed!
It's obviously an Aroma Disc. The question is, can you still get a player for it? And if it's the "buttered popcorn" one, will it smell stale or rancid?
I expect that one of his local library systems has downloadable audio books. Many local library systems get money from their respective states, and so have to allow any resident of the state to apply for a card. Usually in person, though.
"Rouge" Access Points?
Most of the AP hardware I've seen is some combination of Silver, Black, or Blue. Or perhaps White. But honestly, does it really matter what color it is?
No, wait... I think I found it!!
I know what you mean. After all, affiliate links bias the recommender. They just want you to click through and buy the book so that they can make some money. I'm gonna make sure ALL of the purchase price goes to someone who doesn't CARE if they make any money on it, like .... Barnes and Noble?
I'm sorry, but I can't take anyone who still uses the <BLINK> tag seriously.
Speakeasy OneLink comes close enough for me. $88/month for 1.5/384 ADSL, static IP, servers are fine with TOS. NO local analog line needed, bye-bye SBC! That plus VOIP with unlimited US & Canada including voicemail, callerID, call waiting, forwarding, 3-way, etc. I don't call outside the US, so I'm not even sure what those rates are. It hit my sweet spot. It may come close enough for yours.
Now, we all know the only reason you have this hobby is so that you can have plausible deniability for when you ask a girl if she wants to come back to your place "see your etchings".
Sure there is.
Nah, he's a drug-bot, he was waiting for his man.
Right here stands a man
With the power to make a diamond with his bare hands.
Boxes come and go on my home network, depending on whose systems I'm currently fixing. The fairly permanent denizens are:
- SpeakEasy DSL terminating equipment, including VOIP terminal adapter ($85/mo for *everything*), and no need for a local analog loop. Good riddance, SBC!
- Smoothwall box
- Primary Windows desktop
- Wireless router to pick up various boxes in hard-to-wire locations and the occasional guest laptop.
- Linux server w/ big drives to hold music and test server configs (http/SMB/VNC/audio streams/etc)
- Linux box dedicated to audio playback. It has a reasonably powerful FM broadcaster attached (~80 yard range) so we can listen to local MP3/OGGs or distant streams anywhere in the house/yard. Great for cookouts! Playlists are accessible through a variety of methods, so just about any box on the network can manipulate the queue.
- A hacked Virgin Webplayer at the main stereo for streaming something different from what's going out on the FM broadcaster.
I might hook up another Webplayer to use pulling up recipes in the kitchen. I might upgrade the wireless router to an open firmware Linksys WRTG, because SpeakEasy's terms will let me re-sell bandwidth. There's a 4-unit apartment next door with some folks who might be willing to hop on board. SpeakEasy will even handle the billing!What I'd really like to find is a better music storage system. Move it all out of the file system and into a database. I'm thinking of something that would store the track in whatever format (OGG/MP3/flac), plus whatever metadata you might care about (artist, track title, track #, track length, date, album title, album genre, song genre, writing credits, publishing company, lyrics, album cover & back art, liner notes, producer, band members, guest artists, who played what, record label, affiliated artists, sources of samples or borrowed riffs, drugs the band used while recording, ...).
Work up APIs to plug file-systems into the database so that it can present the data as if it were actual files with appropriate filenames and ID tags. Let the streaming software and Samba look at it as if they were actual files in a filesystem. Create multiple virtual directory systems (similar to Evolution's vFolders) based on whetever metadata you care about (all non-classical/non-jazz instrumentals; everything with "love" in the title; Beatles recorded before 1970 with only Mac-Len co-writing credits; everything that samples James Brown; P-Funk and ALL related side projects; etc.). Have it name the file according to whatever scheme you prefer (Artist-SongTitle.foo)
Boy, there's the itch that I want scratched!
Stop storing music as files in a disk directory. Craft up a database that keeps the music AND ALL the metadata (artist, title, album, track #, date, album genre, song genre, lyrics, album cover, liner notes, producer, guest artists, record label, drugs the band was on while recording, etc.). Work up file-system API's into the database to present the data as if it were actual files with appropriate filenames/ID tags. Plug in an API appropriate to your OS and configure whichever output filename format (Artist/Album/Artist-SongTitle.foo) you and your player software prefer.
I think the salivating is being done by the candy industry. Back in the 80's, the government had considered a similar re-jiggering of Daylight Saving Time. Then word got out that M&M/Mars had been part of the lobbying effort. See, by pushing it back by just one week, past Halloween, it could mean millions of dollars more in candy sales. It would get dark later, so the costumed critters could cover more turf before their parent's brought them in. Everybody would have to buy lots more candy to keep up with the demand.
I'm sure they have a horse in the race this time as well.
That, and it will cost roughly 5 times as much per month as Vonage or SpeakEasy.