There's a quasi-legal option out there... allofmp3.com. If you're a paid member, you can stream complete low-quality (24kbps?) mono versions of anything in the catalog. Quality is blah, but you can tell if you like the music. Plus side here is that even if at some point someone determines that it's illegal to download tunes from them, you haven't downloaded anything, so you're (probably - IANAL) within the law. And, your $10 traffic subscription lasts forever if you don't download.
Unfortunately, you're limited to what's in their catalog, but it's a fairly decent selection.
Doesn't a thermal printer heat the paper, causing it to oxidize and turn brownish-black? If so, it's adding oxygen to the paper, and the original poster's definition of "printing" still applies.
Everyone on Earth used to be named Smith. But, as people would screw up, commit crimes, do stupid things, and so forth, we would kick them out of the family and make them change their names. So now, only the good guys are named Smith. At least, that's what Dad told me.
By any chance are your music files on a network drive? I see a huge speed difference between manipulating local and network MP3 files here with iTunes for Windows. If I try to change tags on a group of MP3s on the network, I have similar issues to yours. Doing it with local files is lightning fast and responsive.
it has been proven time and time again that firewire has a faster sustained transfer rate and it won't mess with your CPU either.
Unless, of course, you have a shitty VIA firewire chip on your motherboard. When mine is in use, it bogs down the machine so bad that my hard drive write speed drops to like 2MB/sec - making my DV camcorder unusable. I solved the problem by using the firewire port on my Audigy.
I'm pretty sure generating a signal of 100,000dB would require converting more than the mass of the Universe into energy. You need 10^9990 times the amount of power required for a 100dB signal.
If you have good speakers, they won't use anywhere near the full 40 watts per channel most stereos nowadays have (if not more than 40...).
I'm not aware of a head unit that can put out a true 40W/ch (unless you believe the marketing materials). The stock stereo in the original poster's Toyota likely manages about 5W/ch, and is probably beginning to clip at that level. The Alpine units with V-Drive claim something like 55W/ch max, but are probably more like 30W RMS.
You're also confusing "good" with "efficient", which is a big no-no in speaker selection. In fact, some of the best sounding speakers are horribly INefficient, and may need much more than 40W. The stock speakers in most cars are pretty efficient, to make use of the miniscule power output of the stock stereo, but anything resembling critical listening will make you realize that they are crap.
First of all, the cigarette lighter is powered by the standard 12V battery, not the hybrid system battery, and couldn't possibly have any affect on acceleration.
Second, even if you didn't know that, surely you realize the Prius has headlights, which obviously drain a lot more power than charging a cellphone. Do you honestly think Toyota would sell a vehicle that couldn't go 35 with the headlights on?
Also, having extensively test-driven a first-gen Prius, I can promise you that it can go more than 35 even with the gas engine alone providing power AND recharging the hybrid battery. It's not quick accelerating by any means, but it's not much worse than any other econobox.
I think generally injectables or IV liquids are measured in cc, but orally administered liquids are dispensed in ml. Same amount, but called by a different unit in different circumstances. As far as I know, doctors are aware that these are metric units. Of course, many times the patient instructions go by teaspoons instead of ml. A teaspoon is close enough to 5 ml that it makes no difference.
Another thing to note, at least in my case, when our daughter was born her weight was listed in the charts as 3710 grams. If she had needed medication of any kind, I imagine it would be a lot easier to figure doses based on that than on 8 pounds, 3 ounces.
Google is also handy for figuring out how much energy you can get by converting a given quantity of matter to energy. Suppose you wish to threaten the free world with a half-ounce of antimatter. You need to know how big a boom this will make. The combined mass of the antimatter plus the matter it reacts with is oune ounce. Google makes it easy.
Of course, you need to remember that 4*10^9 megajoules is the equivalent of 1 megaton of TNT, if you prefer the megaton to describe your bomb.
Yeah, I ca'nt understand that either. Its like the Internet makes people loose their grasp of there own langauge. Sometimes its so bad I wan't to scream!
Or better yet, just design a machine that doesn't need fans at all. Honestly, the vast majority of home and office computer users could easily get by with a Via Eden chip, which can be passively cooled. Saves electricity too - the noisy fan is not the only problem with a CPU that draws 80 watts or whatever they're up to now.
For one thing, some of the songs at the itms come from 24 bit masters. So immediately when you turn them into 16 bit CD audio tracks, you throw away a lot of potential dynamic range.
Well, you've actually already lost that dynamic range in the.m4p file, because it's only 16 bit as well. The real problem is that the AAC compression has thrown away some of the sounds of the song, and created some artifacts. Then the MP3 compression applied later will likely drop different sounds and do who knows what with the compression artifacts already present - in addition to creating its own artifacts. Depending on the MP3 compressor you use and the bitrate, this might or might not be objectionable. However, if you have a player that can handle AAC natively, you can be guaranteed no loss of sound quality using Hymn.
That, and you don't put any extra wear on your burner, or use up blank CD-Rs (or add a write cycle to a CD-RW).
Incidentally, the Foobar 2000 audio player can read.m4p files directly, and do anything with them it can with any other file (burn to CD unlimited times, convert to MP3, whatever floats your boat) as long as you're running it on a computer that's authorized to play the songs. It also supports a bunch of formats that iTunes doesn't, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio, AC3 (for rips from concert DVDs, of course) and more.
Maybe they're doing some filming in each country, and it was easier to just say "Czechoslovakia" than "the Czech Republic and Slovakia". Or maybe Ray's getting senile.
Toyota plans a hybrid version of the Highlander for next year. Thing is, it won't be all that great - still less than 30mpg on the highway. The thing is, they're designing it to have V8 power with a 3.3L V6 and big-ass electric motor. Will be interesting to see if that sells - but they ought to make another hybrid model with the 4-cylinder for those of us who want to save gas, not tow boats.
Um, you realize if we can't get enouch energy from the Sun to support our lifestyle, we're doomed. It's the ONLY source of new (not stored) energy for trillions of miles. Then again, if a 360 trillion terawatt fusion plant in the sky isn't enough for us, maybe we all deserve to die.
Still, I get 42MPG in my Toyota Echo, and it cost half as much to purchase as a hybrid. I'd need to be seeing 70-80mpg to save the difference in purchase price. Either that, or gas would have to hit $2/gallon. Oh, wait a minute....;)
Not only is the controller an issue, but it's impossible to get the visual effect of the color vector monitor on a PC. Well, not really impossible - there is a company called Zektor that sells a vector generator that plugs into a parallel port and can be wired into a vector arcade monitor. But, that gizmo plus a working vector monitor are about as expensive as a used working Tempest machine.
This is ponderous [deviantart.com] man. Really ponderous.
I was walking on the beach with this girl who could talk with her eyes, and she said, "Do you see what I'm saying?" And then the horns kicked in, and my shoes started to squeak.
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DRM is a pipe dream. There is a fundamental physical reason why it will never work, though a formal mathematical proof escapes me right now.
No, no, you're supposed to say that the margin is too small to contain your proof!
There's a quasi-legal option out there... allofmp3.com. If you're a paid member, you can stream complete low-quality (24kbps?) mono versions of anything in the catalog. Quality is blah, but you can tell if you like the music. Plus side here is that even if at some point someone determines that it's illegal to download tunes from them, you haven't downloaded anything, so you're (probably - IANAL) within the law. And, your $10 traffic subscription lasts forever if you don't download.
Unfortunately, you're limited to what's in their catalog, but it's a fairly decent selection.
Doesn't a thermal printer heat the paper, causing it to oxidize and turn brownish-black? If so, it's adding oxygen to the paper, and the original poster's definition of "printing" still applies.
I have a duel boot with Linux
A DUEL boot? Cool! Do OS X and Linux use swords, or pistols at 40 paces, to decide which will boot the machine?
Everyone on Earth used to be named Smith. But, as people would screw up, commit crimes, do stupid things, and so forth, we would kick them out of the family and make them change their names. So now, only the good guys are named Smith. At least, that's what Dad told me.
By any chance are your music files on a network drive? I see a huge speed difference between manipulating local and network MP3 files here with iTunes for Windows. If I try to change tags on a group of MP3s on the network, I have similar issues to yours. Doing it with local files is lightning fast and responsive.
it has been proven time and time again that firewire has a faster sustained transfer rate and it won't mess with your CPU either.
Unless, of course, you have a shitty VIA firewire chip on your motherboard. When mine is in use, it bogs down the machine so bad that my hard drive write speed drops to like 2MB/sec - making my DV camcorder unusable. I solved the problem by using the firewire port on my Audigy.
Okay, asshat, how much more does it cost to use PNG than it would to use GIF?
By the way, "alot" is not a word. For that matter, neither is "themselfs".
I'm pretty sure generating a signal of 100,000dB would require converting more than the mass of the Universe into energy. You need 10^9990 times the amount of power required for a 100dB signal.
If you have good speakers, they won't use anywhere near the full 40 watts per channel most stereos nowadays have (if not more than 40...).
I'm not aware of a head unit that can put out a true 40W/ch (unless you believe the marketing materials). The stock stereo in the original poster's Toyota likely manages about 5W/ch, and is probably beginning to clip at that level. The Alpine units with V-Drive claim something like 55W/ch max, but are probably more like 30W RMS.
You're also confusing "good" with "efficient", which is a big no-no in speaker selection. In fact, some of the best sounding speakers are horribly INefficient, and may need much more than 40W. The stock speakers in most cars are pretty efficient, to make use of the miniscule power output of the stock stereo, but anything resembling critical listening will make you realize that they are crap.
I call bullshit.
First of all, the cigarette lighter is powered by the standard 12V battery, not the hybrid system battery, and couldn't possibly have any affect on acceleration.
Second, even if you didn't know that, surely you realize the Prius has headlights, which obviously drain a lot more power than charging a cellphone. Do you honestly think Toyota would sell a vehicle that couldn't go 35 with the headlights on?
Also, having extensively test-driven a first-gen Prius, I can promise you that it can go more than 35 even with the gas engine alone providing power AND recharging the hybrid battery. It's not quick accelerating by any means, but it's not much worse than any other econobox.
2006-12-31 Sun - HP3000, End Of Life.
May it rest in peace. Best f'in minicomputer ever.
I think generally injectables or IV liquids are measured in cc, but orally administered liquids are dispensed in ml. Same amount, but called by a different unit in different circumstances. As far as I know, doctors are aware that these are metric units. Of course, many times the patient instructions go by teaspoons instead of ml. A teaspoon is close enough to 5 ml that it makes no difference.
Another thing to note, at least in my case, when our daughter was born her weight was listed in the charts as 3710 grams. If she had needed medication of any kind, I imagine it would be a lot easier to figure doses based on that than on 8 pounds, 3 ounces.
Google is also handy for figuring out how much energy you can get by converting a given quantity of matter to energy. Suppose you wish to threaten the free world with a half-ounce of antimatter. You need to know how big a boom this will make. The combined mass of the antimatter plus the matter it reacts with is oune ounce. Google makes it easy.
Of course, you need to remember that 4*10^9 megajoules is the equivalent of 1 megaton of TNT, if you prefer the megaton to describe your bomb.
C'mon, you've seen enough horror movies to know that the zombies will get up 13 times. Clearly, we need more nukes.
Yeah, I ca'nt understand that either. Its like the Internet makes people loose their grasp of there own langauge. Sometimes its so bad I wan't to scream!
This post is bad. Can you count it's errors?
Or better yet, just design a machine that doesn't need fans at all. Honestly, the vast majority of home and office computer users could easily get by with a Via Eden chip, which can be passively cooled. Saves electricity too - the noisy fan is not the only problem with a CPU that draws 80 watts or whatever they're up to now.
For one thing, some of the songs at the itms come from 24 bit masters. So immediately when you turn them into 16 bit CD audio tracks, you throw away a lot of potential dynamic range.
.m4p file, because it's only 16 bit as well. The real problem is that the AAC compression has thrown away some of the sounds of the song, and created some artifacts. Then the MP3 compression applied later will likely drop different sounds and do who knows what with the compression artifacts already present - in addition to creating its own artifacts. Depending on the MP3 compressor you use and the bitrate, this might or might not be objectionable. However, if you have a player that can handle AAC natively, you can be guaranteed no loss of sound quality using Hymn.
.m4p files directly, and do anything with them it can with any other file (burn to CD unlimited times, convert to MP3, whatever floats your boat) as long as you're running it on a computer that's authorized to play the songs. It also supports a bunch of formats that iTunes doesn't, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio, AC3 (for rips from concert DVDs, of course) and more.
Well, you've actually already lost that dynamic range in the
That, and you don't put any extra wear on your burner, or use up blank CD-Rs (or add a write cycle to a CD-RW).
Incidentally, the Foobar 2000 audio player can read
Maybe they're doing some filming in each country, and it was easier to just say "Czechoslovakia" than "the Czech Republic and Slovakia". Or maybe Ray's getting senile.
Toyota plans a hybrid version of the Highlander for next year. Thing is, it won't be all that great - still less than 30mpg on the highway. The thing is, they're designing it to have V8 power with a 3.3L V6 and big-ass electric motor. Will be interesting to see if that sells - but they ought to make another hybrid model with the 4-cylinder for those of us who want to save gas, not tow boats.
Um, you realize if we can't get enouch energy from the Sun to support our lifestyle, we're doomed. It's the ONLY source of new (not stored) energy for trillions of miles. Then again, if a 360 trillion terawatt fusion plant in the sky isn't enough for us, maybe we all deserve to die.
Still, I get 42MPG in my Toyota Echo, and it cost half as much to purchase as a hybrid. I'd need to be seeing 70-80mpg to save the difference in purchase price. Either that, or gas would have to hit $2/gallon. Oh, wait a minute.... ;)
Not only is the controller an issue, but it's impossible to get the visual effect of the color vector monitor on a PC. Well, not really impossible - there is a company called Zektor that sells a vector generator that plugs into a parallel port and can be wired into a vector arcade monitor. But, that gizmo plus a working vector monitor are about as expensive as a used working Tempest machine.
arcade machines (and, presumably, the X-arcade) use microswitches designed to be hammered upon by excited and frustrated kids.
I'm sure the X-arcade uses microswitches like the modern arcade machines, but REAL arcade machines use leaf switches.
This is ponderous [deviantart.com] man. Really ponderous.
I was walking on the beach with this girl who could talk with her eyes, and she said, "Do you see what I'm saying?" And then the horns kicked in, and my shoes started to squeak.