But really, imagine what would have happened if the terroists that took over the planes on 9/11 tried that boxcutter shit when every person on the plane was armed with a knife/bat/club/sword/katar/brass knuckles/billy club.. They would have been beaten senseless and we wouldn't be putting up with this airport security shit.
Think about it. The life of every person on the plane is at stake while its in the air. People will work for the common good and the status quo will be maintained with deadly force. Nobody on the plane would let anyone endanger said plane.
The GodFather is the end all of mp3 tagging/organization and naming. There is no fucking substitute.
If you're anal about your mp3/ogg/aac/et al collection organization/filenaming/tagging (of any conceivable kind, not just ID31-2.2) you need this program.
It can do mass renames of all files based on tags, mass tag generation based on filename, fill in track#s and those are just the basic features. You can freaking write scripts for it! Tired of lame things in the comment field in those mp3s you downloaded? You can empty every single one of them in your entire collection in about 5 mouse clicks.
The Godfather is to all other mp3 tagging/naming utilities what Photoshop is to fucking black and white only paint with no mouse support.
The only downside is the steep learning curve, it's got an interface about as complicated as 3D Studio MAX.
Just look at this feature list:
* Batch rename of files using Tag/Filename/Folder name/Audio file information.
* User defined Formats using Tag fields, File/Folder name or Tokens, Mpeg bitrate/mode as variables.
* Powerful case conversion including custom case and all the options you would ever want.
* Replacement matrix. ( remove unwanted characters or words or replace them. User defined matrix )
* Smart filters enable you to have only the files that are potentially wrong listed for renaming.
* Further refine your list to be processed by marking files to be skipped or ever edit the end result your self.
* Undo function.
* Batch Tag update.
* Supports both ID3v1 & ID3v2 up to date versions.
* Supports Ogg Vorbis comments.
* Supports APEv2 tags.
* Select specific fields to be updated
* Use File/Folder tokens, Tag variables to create tag information
* Filter files by the existence of tags or even by the existence of specific fields
* Update either Tag or all of them.
* Option to clear specific fields.
* Option to skip non empty fields.
* Use the case options.
* Use of the replacement matrix.
* Update tags by copying/moving or auto synchronizing one to the other.
* Delete all Tags or either one of them.
* Batch process of pictures/lyrics ( export, delete or both )
* Complete control trough the update process.
* Manual / single file editor.
* All of the above options are laid out to selectively choose, either one of them or all of them, for renaming or Tag update or both.
* Update or remove either of the tags
* Full ID3 v2 support including.. pictures,lyrics and more than 20 fields.
* Full Ogg Vorbis support including all proposed fields plus any number of user defined ones..
* Full APEv2 support including all proposed fields plus any number of user defined ones..
* File browser with detailed info of Tags & mpeg or Ogg vorbis/mpc/ape information , sorting and so on.
* Intuitive interface so potentially wrong fields/filenames are immediately found and presented.
* Organize.
* Easily create/merge play lists with preview support or simply find and listen to your favorite music.
* Encode/decode your files with LAME,Ogg Vorbis or mpcenc. (trans code with out losing tag information from one format to the other)
* Restructure the files on your hard disk ( copy,move or even create shortcuts ) in new user defined location based on Tag field information.
* Find duplicate files using smart and aggressive detection.
* Export files in delimited, fixed length format, Simple HTML or multiple pages using user defined templates.
* Import information from delimited files to rename and.or update your files, customized mapping to columns.
* Play your mp3's..
* Internal player with 16 band equalizer.
* Display tag info/ly
Unfortunately mice are one of the most overlooked computer peripherals, while in reality should be one of the first places where your hard earned cash should be invested in.
I would rank them like this: Monitor Mouse/Keyboard (It's hard to say which of these is more important.)
I spent $900 on a 21" Professional Series Viewsonic P815(Review.Pic.) about five years ago and haven't regretted it for a second since. I'm still using the same monitor. I've been very protective of it and managed to keep the screen from getting scratched for four years. I baby it to death (clean the screen with NOTHING but water and a paper towel), buckle it up when going to lan parties etc. The only thing that sucks about it is that it weighs 60lbs! Not fun to lug to LAN parties!
I'd say mouse/keyboard are on about the same level because if either one is skimped on you could be hurting.
I originally bought a split keyboard because I'm a touch typest and I thought it would be 1337, but now I can hardly type on a non-split keyboard, it feels awkward. I do like the IBM style pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard. That is so handy when you just need to move the mouse a bit while typing. That's the only thing I wish my keyboard had that it doesn't.
I'm not stupid enough to put a flammable substance in a fragile glass tube and swing it around, but I did some exciting things in my time! I'm fairly lucky I'm not missing some parts or pieces. I'll share for the entertainment of the unwashed masses.
I've put M90's in various things, lit them and held them in my hand until they were about to explode then threw them just to get an airburst effect.
I've made polystyrene based napalm. And of course lit it. Interesting stuff! I could hold a lighter flame ON it and it would not ignite, but as soon as one of those sparks from the lighter's flint hit it WOOOOSH. It gives off a nasty black smoke as it burns and it leaves behind a thin black sheet of what looks like burnt plastic.
I constructed crude shrapnel bombs out of spent C02 cartridges, pure gunpowder, some calk to seal and some cannon fuse. I don't really know what kind of damage one of those things could cause to a person but I have NO desire to find out. I lit that sucker and ran 20 meters. The only one I let off I kinda buried in the ground. When I went to inspect the smoking rent earth where it was there wasn't a trace of the thing....aside from smoking rent earth. That means that the shrapnel was probably very small pieces embedded fairly deeply in the ground/trees nearby.
Also, if you put gasoline on something cold, hard and ceramic then light it, it will eventually crack/explode. Temperature disparities in solid substances can be fun!
I made a $3 flamethrower out of an adjustable spray bottle and 70% isopropyl. I melted the shower wall and the alcohol fucked up the plastic of the bottle.
Btw, model rockets launch MUCH more reliably with cannon fuse than those stupid ignitiers the estes engines come with. Cheaper too, I usually got mine for around $1/ft and one foot is enough to safely let off about 6-8 engines, but don't trust my vague guesstimational recollections.
Disclaimer: These stories are provided for entertainment purposes only, if you are injured or killed by attempting any of the above I will not be held responsible. I'm a bright guy and make sure to fully understand what can happen and I play it safe to the point of being a paranoid squirrel; meaning I tend to run far away from where the "interesting" stuff is about to occurer.
When they start refunding people's money when the movies blow ass I'll start caring when people pirate the movies.
The amount of money a movie makes at opening weekend in the theater is almost entirely based on how hyped it is, not how good it is. No matter how many reviews you read, you still won't know if you'll be satisfied with your purchase of tickets until you dish out the dough and go see the flick. So, they get your money whether or not their movie was any good. How is this any more fair than people who wouldn't pay for it anyway downloading it?
I used to be an avid opera user until I was hired by a company that does web development. I had to switch to firefox to evade ridicule.
I have found extensions to do most of the things I liked about opera. But there is still stuff missing, such as reorganizing tabs (supposedly taken care of next ff version). The quick prefs thing is a really big thing for me, but for some reason firefox users don't care. FF doesn't let you control cookies as easily as you are able to in opera. The disabling of images is something I used a lot more than I thought I would. Saving sessions was awesome. I'm sure there's an extension for that somewhere. Crash recovery was nifty, though crashes were rare. Opera also overrides the replacing of the status bar text [Tools->Options->Web Features->Advanced->Uncheck Hide status bar text], so you always know what you are clicking on before you click on it.
And the transfer window is a big pile of crap in mozilla. Seriously that would probably be my number one gripe. That and its habit of saving files as.part, and delete them if the file fails to transfer fully. Redownloading a several hundred meg file is irritating, so I find I use wget just to avoid going through firefox whenever possible.
Another thing that aggravates me is when I'll open a bunch of links in separate tabs to read in a few moments, then 2 minutes later a window pops up saying the server couldn't be reached [about:config in address bar, then change "browser.xul.error_pages.enabled" to true]. But when I go over to the tab, the url bar is blank, so I have no idea which links I clicked on that couldn't be reached. In Opera, even if the page doesn't load, the url bar still has the location you tried to visit, so you can see if the link was typoed or if you even care in the first place.
Opera never registers right clicks on web pages that pop up those copyright notices because it interferes with mouse gestures. There's no way to disable that in firefox that I'm aware of without finding the javascript options in prefs.
Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin.
But at the end of the day, here I am using firefox. What can I say. The price is right.
Links to extensions for desired features and []s are mine.
[Gates] says. His promise: Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'."
Last I heard the average salary starting out for coders in the US is $51k. I don't know where you got that $90k figure, but if you can remember let me know so I can tell my boss.
What about games that utilize commercial protection schemes (safedisc, securom, starforce)? These all use 32-bit drivers to do their low-down and dirty work.
Will they work on XP64?
They should. Doing things with 32 bits on a 64-bit system is no different than a 32-bit one. The only time you run into problems is when you try to do an operation that requires more than 32 bits 32-bit system. Ever try multiplying an unsigned long by 4294967296 (0x1 0000 0000) on a 32-bit system? It works just fine on a 64-bit system.
There's no reason N-bit drivers can't be made to work on a Z-bit system as long as N is less than Z.
Wow, that Wiki entry really made an impact with me.
If you've ever referenced Hitler or the Nazis before in a discussion (especially if you thought it was appropriate) you should go read that.
As much as I dislike Gilligan Bush and would love to draw parallels between him and Adolf I find myself having more restraint now. There's just too many negative connotations assosciated with Hitler and the Nazi party for me to feel justified in comparing other things to them. I mean come on, Bush hasn't yet caused the deaths of millions of people...oh wait.
I've often thought this was a good idea, but ultimately always rejected it.
What if we inadvertently cull someone we would have needed later?
Take Stephen Hawking for example. Ameliotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (the diseas he has) is caused by a genetic defect.
I'd rather have a large gene pool with lots of genetic variation and a lot of bad genes than a tiny one with no bad genes.
Say a new virus comes along, there's a good chance SOMEONE will be immune/resistant to it given a large very diverse gene pool. Not so with a small gene pool where everybody is essentially the same.
Funny how culling the heard is more likely to lead to extinction than a perfect species on a long enough timeline.
I say we allow each couple that wants children to have at most two A replacement scheme...
Overpopulation is a problem and it's currently only going to get worse. We need to start controlling population growth now before it gets so bad we have to start sterilizing or killing people.
The Gimp has it's own approach to UI. It is unique.
That is a BAD thing. Unique user interfaces are rarely intuitive, which means the user has to figure out the interface, which means the interface is getting in the way of using the program which is the complete opposite of its purpose.
You neglect to mention that *using* thin clients sucks monkey nuts.
They redraw painfully slowly, they render simple bitmaps painfully slowly, where I work Firefox currently does not work on the thinclients (though it used to?). Certain applications (UltraEdit most notably) are a nightmare to scroll around in on a thinlclient. In certain cases turning on track changes in Word causes the thing to grind to a halt. Characters appear 1-2 seconds after you hit the key, Gmail's Login page brings the thing to its knees.
They have mine so locked down I can't adjust my own god damn mouse sensitivity, the admin has to log into the thinclient himself and adjust it.
Not to mention if one person uses all the terminal server's CPU everyone else's thinclient freezes up.
I would kill for a real PC at work and I've got the newest model on site. I hate running on a machine that can't keep up with me.
Sounds to me like you did your thesis purely from the admin standpoint and forgot about the poor suckers who have to use the godforsaken things.
By accepting this Agreement and uploading Your Authorized Content to Google, you are directing and authorizing Google to, and granting Google a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to, host, cache, route, transmit, store, copy, distribute, perform, display, reformat, excerpt, analyze, and create algorithms based on the Authorized Content
The key words in that being, "non-exclusive".
That whole paragraph of jargon essentially says they're allowed to provide the damn service. If you don't give them those rights then they could be sued for providing the service.
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Hand them out to everyone!
Well screen for firearms/explosives, then hand out melee weapons.
No firearms though, flying bullets + flimsy aircraft fuselage = bad.
But really, imagine what would have happened if the terroists that took over the planes on 9/11 tried that boxcutter shit when every person on the plane was armed with a knife/bat/club/sword/katar/brass knuckles/billy club.. They would have been beaten senseless and we wouldn't be putting up with this airport security shit.
Think about it. The life of every person on the plane is at stake while its in the air. People will work for the common good and the status quo will be maintained with deadly force. Nobody on the plane would let anyone endanger said plane.
eweblogebrityzine?
(that's e-web-blog-ebrity-zine)
Fuck that. Hell I even refused to call a web log a "blog" until it fucking exploded all over the internet and evolved into a new thing.
btw, the site looks like a hacked together piece of crap trying to look like a magazine.
The GodFather is the end all of mp3 tagging/organization and naming. There is no fucking substitute.
.
If you're anal about your mp3/ogg/aac/et al collection organization/filenaming/tagging (of any conceivable kind, not just ID31-2.2) you need this program.
It can do mass renames of all files based on tags, mass tag generation based on filename, fill in track#s and those are just the basic features. You can freaking write scripts for it! Tired of lame things in the comment field in those mp3s you downloaded? You can empty every single one of them in your entire collection in about 5 mouse clicks.
The Godfather is to all other mp3 tagging/naming utilities what Photoshop is to fucking black and white only paint with no mouse support.
The only downside is the steep learning curve, it's got an interface about as complicated as 3D Studio MAX.
Just look at this feature list:
* Batch rename of files using Tag/Filename/Folder name/Audio file information.
* User defined Formats using Tag fields, File/Folder name or Tokens, Mpeg bitrate/mode as variables
* Powerful case conversion including custom case and all the options you would ever want.
* Replacement matrix. ( remove unwanted characters or words or replace them. User defined matrix )
* Smart filters enable you to have only the files that are potentially wrong listed for renaming.
* Further refine your list to be processed by marking files to be skipped or ever edit the end result your self.
* Undo function.
* Batch Tag update.
* Supports both ID3v1 & ID3v2 up to date versions.
* Supports Ogg Vorbis comments.
* Supports APEv2 tags.
* Select specific fields to be updated
* Use File/Folder tokens, Tag variables to create tag information
* Filter files by the existence of tags or even by the existence of specific fields
* Update either Tag or all of them.
* Option to clear specific fields.
* Option to skip non empty fields.
* Use the case options.
* Use of the replacement matrix.
* Update tags by copying/moving or auto synchronizing one to the other.
* Delete all Tags or either one of them.
* Batch process of pictures/lyrics ( export, delete or both )
* Complete control trough the update process.
* Manual / single file editor.
* All of the above options are laid out to selectively choose, either one of them or all of them, for renaming or Tag update or both.
* Update or remove either of the tags
* Full ID3 v2 support including.. pictures,lyrics and more than 20 fields.
* Full Ogg Vorbis support including all proposed fields plus any number of user defined ones..
* Full APEv2 support including all proposed fields plus any number of user defined ones..
* File browser with detailed info of Tags & mpeg or Ogg vorbis/mpc/ape information , sorting and so on.
* Intuitive interface so potentially wrong fields/filenames are immediately found and presented.
* Organize.
* Easily create/merge play lists with preview support or simply find and listen to your favorite music.
* Encode/decode your files with LAME,Ogg Vorbis or mpcenc. (trans code with out losing tag information from one format to the other)
* Restructure the files on your hard disk ( copy,move or even create shortcuts ) in new user defined location based on Tag field information.
* Find duplicate files using smart and aggressive detection.
* Export files in delimited, fixed length format, Simple HTML or multiple pages using user defined templates.
* Import information from delimited files to rename and.or update your files, customized mapping to columns.
* Play your mp3's..
* Internal player with 16 band equalizer.
* Display tag info/ly
I would rank them like this:
Monitor
Mouse/Keyboard (It's hard to say which of these is more important.)
I spent $900 on a 21" Professional Series Viewsonic P815(Review. Pic.) about five years ago and haven't regretted it for a second since. I'm still using the same monitor. I've been very protective of it and managed to keep the screen from getting scratched for four years. I baby it to death (clean the screen with NOTHING but water and a paper towel), buckle it up when going to lan parties etc. The only thing that sucks about it is that it weighs 60lbs! Not fun to lug to LAN parties!
I'd say mouse/keyboard are on about the same level because if either one is skimped on you could be hurting.
I originally bought a split keyboard because I'm a touch typest and I thought it would be 1337, but now I can hardly type on a non-split keyboard, it feels awkward. I do like the IBM style pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard. That is so handy when you just need to move the mouse a bit while typing. That's the only thing I wish my keyboard had that it doesn't.
I'm not stupid enough to put a flammable substance in a fragile glass tube and swing it around, but I did some exciting things in my time! I'm fairly lucky I'm not missing some parts or pieces. I'll share for the entertainment of the unwashed masses.
I've put M90's in various things, lit them and held them in my hand until they were about to explode then threw them just to get an airburst effect.
I've made polystyrene based napalm. And of course lit it. Interesting stuff! I could hold a lighter flame ON it and it would not ignite, but as soon as one of those sparks from the lighter's flint hit it WOOOOSH. It gives off a nasty black smoke as it burns and it leaves behind a thin black sheet of what looks like burnt plastic.
I constructed crude shrapnel bombs out of spent C02 cartridges, pure gunpowder, some calk to seal and some cannon fuse. I don't really know what kind of damage one of those things could cause to a person but I have NO desire to find out. I lit that sucker and ran 20 meters. The only one I let off I kinda buried in the ground. When I went to inspect the smoking rent earth where it was there wasn't a trace of the thing....aside from smoking rent earth. That means that the shrapnel was probably very small pieces embedded fairly deeply in the ground/trees nearby.
Also, if you put gasoline on something cold, hard and ceramic then light it, it will eventually crack/explode. Temperature disparities in solid substances can be fun!
I made a $3 flamethrower out of an adjustable spray bottle and 70% isopropyl. I melted the shower wall and the alcohol fucked up the plastic of the bottle.
Btw, model rockets launch MUCH more reliably with cannon fuse than those stupid ignitiers the estes engines come with. Cheaper too, I usually got mine for around $1/ft and one foot is enough to safely let off about 6-8 engines, but don't trust my vague guesstimational recollections.
Disclaimer: These stories are provided for entertainment purposes only, if you are injured or killed by attempting any of the above I will not be held responsible. I'm a bright guy and make sure to fully understand what can happen and I play it safe to the point of being a paranoid squirrel; meaning I tend to run far away from where the "interesting" stuff is about to occurer.
I don't want to know how you know that.
I don't think the best area to pick up a hooker would be where there are the most prostitution crimes reported.
When they start refunding people's money when the movies blow ass I'll start caring when people pirate the movies.
The amount of money a movie makes at opening weekend in the theater is almost entirely based on how hyped it is, not how good it is. No matter how many reviews you read, you still won't know if you'll be satisfied with your purchase of tickets until you dish out the dough and go see the flick. So, they get your money whether or not their movie was any good. How is this any more fair than people who wouldn't pay for it anyway downloading it?
Yeah right. Like he has a girlfriend. You are on Slashdot, remember?
You only karma-whore once a day? Shame on you!
Links to extensions for desired features and []s are mine.
Fix your sig! Redirecting to 127.0.0.1 will make pages load slower (unless you're running a webserver on localhost). Use 0.0.0.0.
That happened to me.
a bly"default").
Something in your profile is hosed.
Try deleting your prefs.js in your firefox profile dir
(..Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXX.somethingprob
You'll have to redo a lot of settings, but it's better than borked, eh?
If that fails try creating a new profile and copying stuff into it from the one you use now until it breaks, then undo your last copy.
If all else fails just create a new profile (Firefox.exe -profilemanager) copy over your bookmarks.html and redo all your extensions/settings.
I've had to do this twice because I can't quit monkeying with about:config.
You know, like that ship that couldn't sink.
One little detail people NEVER consider when talking about time traveling.
Let's say you can time travel.
Let's say you come back from 50 years from now to this event.
You missed the earth by several million miles and are now effectively spaced.
The earth moves people. So does the solar system. So does the galaxy!
Even if you could travel through time if you couldn't manipulate where you came out you'd be boned.
Last I heard the average salary starting out for coders in the US is $51k. I don't know where you got that $90k figure, but if you can remember let me know so I can tell my boss.
They should. Doing things with 32 bits on a 64-bit system is no different than a 32-bit one. The only time you run into problems is when you try to do an operation that requires more than 32 bits 32-bit system. Ever try multiplying an unsigned long by 4294967296 (0x1 0000 0000) on a 32-bit system? It works just fine on a 64-bit system.
There's no reason N-bit drivers can't be made to work on a Z-bit system as long as N is less than Z.
Wow, that Wiki entry really made an impact with me.
If you've ever referenced Hitler or the Nazis before in a discussion (especially if you thought it was appropriate) you should go read that.
As much as I dislike Gilligan Bush and would love to draw parallels between him and Adolf I find myself having more restraint now. There's just too many negative connotations assosciated with Hitler and the Nazi party for me to feel justified in comparing other things to them. I mean come on, Bush hasn't yet caused the deaths of millions of people...oh wait.
I've often thought this was a good idea, but ultimately always rejected it.
What if we inadvertently cull someone we would have needed later?
Take Stephen Hawking for example. Ameliotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (the diseas he has) is caused by a genetic defect.
I'd rather have a large gene pool with lots of genetic variation and a lot of bad genes than a tiny one with no bad genes.
Say a new virus comes along, there's a good chance SOMEONE will be immune/resistant to it given a large very diverse gene pool. Not so with a small gene pool where everybody is essentially the same.
Funny how culling the heard is more likely to lead to extinction than a perfect species on a long enough timeline.
I say we allow each couple that wants children to have at most two A replacement scheme...
Overpopulation is a problem and it's currently only going to get worse. We need to start controlling population growth now before it gets so bad we have to start sterilizing or killing people.
That is a BAD thing. Unique user interfaces are rarely intuitive, which means the user has to figure out the interface, which means the interface is getting in the way of using the program which is the complete opposite of its purpose.
You neglect to mention that *using* thin clients sucks monkey nuts.
They redraw painfully slowly, they render simple bitmaps painfully slowly, where I work Firefox currently does not work on the thinclients (though it used to?). Certain applications (UltraEdit most notably) are a nightmare to scroll around in on a thinlclient. In certain cases turning on track changes in Word causes the thing to grind to a halt. Characters appear 1-2 seconds after you hit the key, Gmail's Login page brings the thing to its knees.
They have mine so locked down I can't adjust my own god damn mouse sensitivity, the admin has to log into the thinclient himself and adjust it.
Not to mention if one person uses all the terminal server's CPU everyone else's thinclient freezes up.
I would kill for a real PC at work and I've got the newest model on site. I hate running on a machine that can't keep up with me.
Sounds to me like you did your thesis purely from the admin standpoint and forgot about the poor suckers who have to use the godforsaken things.
Tell me again how they're, ergonomic?
The key words in that being, "non-exclusive".
That whole paragraph of jargon essentially says they're allowed to provide the damn service. If you don't give them those rights then they could be sued for providing the service.
I mean fuck. 9 years in jail? for sending emails? Don't get me wrong I hate spam as much as the next guy, but JAIL?
I think he should be sentenced to 9 years of phone tech support at minimum wage with no raises and no opportunity for advancement.
OR
He should be forced to be a human spam filter at AOL for 9 years at minimum wage with no raises and no opportunity for advancement.
I'd rather go to jail than face that cruel and unusual punishment.
They got the account info from the users, presumably over the phone, then used it. It's more like plain old thievery than hacking.