Exactly. I don't want Sky+ and can't put a Sky dish on my current place anyway. I would pay good money for a TiVo and it would _really_ get used. And then praised from the rooftops to everyone I met, pretty much.
Please, please, start selling them in the UK again. Dropping them was a silly idea.
They are entirely capable of using the analog hole to sort this one out.
If they're genuinely proper broadcast radio then they'll have decent sound cards and proper high quality recording systems, in all likelihood. They can create a rip that way - it's fiddly but it works.
Now, I happen to think that this whole situation with CDs at the moment is extremely silly and the record companies are annoying customers for no good reason. Speaking personally I probably buy 2-3 albums a month on average but do 90% of my listening at work with MP3s. No way I'm carting in 150 hours of music as CDDA every day:-) If they stop me converting them then I just won't buy them because I won't listen anywhere near as much and it's not like I'm short of things to listen to.
Where was I? Oh, yes. The music industry are twits and aren't likely to end up winning this one. In the mean time, they're hurting themselves. But let's not pretend that there's no way that this music could be imported into their clever DJ systems. It may not be easy, the hoops they have to jump through to get it in may be utterly ridiculous, but they can do it if they put their mind to it. This is a principled stand against the technology (or laziness), not an insurmountable technological barrier.
And it jumps. If it scrolled smoothly all the way through it'd be great, but it doesn't. All slow build up, sudden scroll, sudden stop. Juddering all the way down the page.
Give me the slight jumping of a fast refresh but a small scroll unit any day. Much nicer when scrolling through pages of text.
If people are interested, look up the AICC (http://www.aicc.org/) or SCORM (http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=scorma bt&cfid=210297&cftoken=69342552 and take out the spaces that Slash puts in)
Of course, the joy of standards is the multitude of available standards and interpretations of available standards but it's an improvement on LMSs having to hack courseware to talk to it at all...
When Mondex was trialled a while back in the UK, it didn't take long for the encryption to be hacked and people to get essentially free money added to their cards on demand.
If this sort of card system is to be long-term practical, it can't be the wallet. It has to be the key that opens the remote safe, or someone will eventually find out how to put money into the wallet without putting the corresponding bills into the account that backs it up. Yes, I know that slows it down but it's necessary.
Seriously. I know I wouldn't but I'd put very good money that someone would be willing to trade the honour of being the first human in recorded history to set foot on another planet for it being a suicide mission.
I tend to scare myself when I do the maths on the value of kit I'm carrying. Pretty much everywhere, I'm carrying my phone (Motorola T250, not available any more:-( but used to cost £150ish) and Psion 5mx (cost me £200 and tended to retail ata bout £300). Quite often there's the digital camera (Fuji 2800, £250), too.
When you start adding in clothes, glasses etc it gets worrying!
You don't always even have to write the letters to them.
I was having serious problems a few years back with a machine shipped:
* Untested * Configured in a way that _couldn't_ work * Dead components * Missing software from the bundle
and with support not returning my calls or mails.
So, bit of digging, I found the address of their local Trading Standards office and their chairman. I mailed him, copying support, giving that data, outlining the history of the problem and explaining that Trading Standards and all computer magazines whose awards and reviews they quoted in their ads would be contacted within 48 hours if I didn't get a satisfactory resolution.
I got support talking to me in 2-3 hours as I recall and a solution in about 3 days. The simple threat of bad PR was enough to get action.
We were doing a presentation bidding for work recently and were trying to come up with hypothetical names for this thing.
Unfortunately, we then spent the next few minutes trying to come up with acronyms that spelt out their competitors' names.... Pity, we got some good ones!
Wasn't the first rocket in space probably a V2? Anyway, Sputnik was definitely the first in orbit.
Anyway, they also got the first spacewalk (Alexi Leonov from Voskhod 3) and the first flight with more than one person on board (Voskhod 1), and I'm pretty sure the first in-orbit docking, too. Certainly _tried_ it before the US. US probably built a craft that returned people to earth safely before the USSR, though, because Vostok (Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova et al) didn't land with them on-board. They parachuted out in descent.
Oh, I was looking for decent pics of Sputnik recently and couldn't find _anything_. Can anyone help?
If you're a single buyer it's fine. 99c a song is a great deal because you can get the old songs you like (of which there's only a few on an album anyway) and save a packet.
Personally, I like albums. I have wider tastes, I don't just want the radio friendly stuff. I tend to like 50%+ of the songs on the albums I buy and it's not like I only buy from 2 or 3 carefully vetted artists...
I'd rather they did 99c a song or $8 an album (for example) which would still be a reasonable price model for both types of consumers and would respect the concept of bulk discounts.
Music industry, take note: I'm in Britain, that's about 60p a song or £6 an album. If you did this for a regular deal then I would _buy_ _more_ _music_ because I could get things I can't normally find to try out. I'm also a sucker for pretty CDs and insert books and whatnot, so I'd probably buy more than a few twice - once online and once physically to get the proper, CDDA, nicely printed copy. Include a £4 voucher against the full album with the sale and I wouldn't think twice about it, and you've _still_ made out like bandits. This is how to harness the net properly to get your product out there and make more money, it's less effort to you and doesn't annoy your customers.
How does it know my IP address isn't dynamic? If it is then that information becomes worse than useless, because it might tell you that I like Metallica, Jools Holland and Eden Burning while telling you the next person to get allocated that IP liked Queen, Why? and Tchaikovsky. Now, as it happens, I like all those artists - but you can't deduce that at all. And without that, if you're limited to IPs then you're also limited to sessions and are going to have a job tracking them.
At the very least you need a unique key on your machine, such as a GUID, if this function is to be any use at all.
It's a concept car, you'll find plenty that look like that.
Concepts get split into two categories - preproduction cars where they're testing reaction (which this isn't) and cars where the designers are playing with styling and the engineers putting in all the fancy technology they want to play with like active suspension.
This has about as much bearing on what we'll be driving any time soon as a Jean-Paul Gaultier catwalk does on what we actually wear. Besides, it's designed for that sort of styling to appear in 5-10 years at the earliest. I'd say it's actually about average by that metric.
I suspect this mostly depends on the character of the people who receive the mails:-)
In all the years I've been doing this (5+) I've had _one_ flame back. I've had more appreciative comments and a distinct downturn in these things, so maybe it's actually working!
Why doesn't Outlook Express show the BCC field, though? Have to turn on 'Rich headers' to get it...
Anyway... I tend to regard this ignorance of BCC as very useful. Means whenever I receive such mail I can explain this to all their friends as well as just them. Not only do I get many times the opportunities for cluestick practice but all now understand that such a mail can lead to public shame. Very useful:-)
If you like _really_ mainstream stuff and are prepared to spend a lot of time searching...
You like anything slightly unusual and it can take forever to find even one track, let alone complete albums. Plus you've got to weed out the poorly encoded files, or the mislabelled, or...
Plus, speaking personally, I never use that as more than an audition service. I want to support music I like to increase the chance of more getting published. I like CDs and all their associated artwork. So, I still buy them even though I could download if I was sufficiently bored.
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Exactly. I don't want Sky+ and can't put a Sky dish on my current place anyway. I would pay good money for a TiVo and it would _really_ get used. And then praised from the rooftops to everyone I met, pretty much.
Please, please, start selling them in the UK again. Dropping them was a silly idea.
They are entirely capable of using the analog hole to sort this one out.
:-) If they stop me converting them then I just won't buy them because I won't listen anywhere near as much and it's not like I'm short of things to listen to.
If they're genuinely proper broadcast radio then they'll have decent sound cards and proper high quality recording systems, in all likelihood. They can create a rip that way - it's fiddly but it works.
Now, I happen to think that this whole situation with CDs at the moment is extremely silly and the record companies are annoying customers for no good reason. Speaking personally I probably buy 2-3 albums a month on average but do 90% of my listening at work with MP3s. No way I'm carting in 150 hours of music as CDDA every day
Where was I? Oh, yes. The music industry are twits and aren't likely to end up winning this one. In the mean time, they're hurting themselves. But let's not pretend that there's no way that this music could be imported into their clever DJ systems. It may not be easy, the hoops they have to jump through to get it in may be utterly ridiculous, but they can do it if they put their mind to it. This is a principled stand against the technology (or laziness), not an insurmountable technological barrier.
Brilliant, push it in :-)
I've never used Moz smooth scrolling though, was talking about IE. Sorry not to have made myself clearer.
And it jumps. If it scrolled smoothly all the way through it'd be great, but it doesn't. All slow build up, sudden scroll, sudden stop. Juddering all the way down the page.
Give me the slight jumping of a fast refresh but a small scroll unit any day. Much nicer when scrolling through pages of text.
I work in this field :-)
a bt&cfid=210297&cftoken=69342552 and take out the spaces that Slash puts in)
If people are interested, look up the AICC (http://www.aicc.org/) or SCORM (http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=scorm
Of course, the joy of standards is the multitude of available standards and interpretations of available standards but it's an improvement on LMSs having to hack courseware to talk to it at all...
When Mondex was trialled a while back in the UK, it didn't take long for the encryption to be hacked and people to get essentially free money added to their cards on demand.
If this sort of card system is to be long-term practical, it can't be the wallet. It has to be the key that opens the remote safe, or someone will eventually find out how to put money into the wallet without putting the corresponding bills into the account that backs it up. Yes, I know that slows it down but it's necessary.
How much would a one-way mission cost?
Seriously. I know I wouldn't but I'd put very good money that someone would be willing to trade the honour of being the first human in recorded history to set foot on another planet for it being a suicide mission.
We're not as bad as the Japanese but pushing it.
:-( but used to cost £150ish) and Psion 5mx (cost me £200 and tended to retail ata bout £300). Quite often there's the digital camera (Fuji 2800, £250), too.
I tend to scare myself when I do the maths on the value of kit I'm carrying. Pretty much everywhere, I'm carrying my phone (Motorola T250, not available any more
When you start adding in clothes, glasses etc it gets worrying!
You don't always even have to write the letters to them.
I was having serious problems a few years back with a machine shipped:
* Untested
* Configured in a way that _couldn't_ work
* Dead components
* Missing software from the bundle
and with support not returning my calls or mails.
So, bit of digging, I found the address of their local Trading Standards office and their chairman. I mailed him, copying support, giving that data, outlining the history of the problem and explaining that Trading Standards and all computer magazines whose awards and reviews they quoted in their ads would be contacted within 48 hours if I didn't get a satisfactory resolution.
I got support talking to me in 2-3 hours as I recall and a solution in about 3 days. The simple threat of bad PR was enough to get action.
We were doing a presentation bidding for work recently and were trying to come up with hypothetical names for this thing.
Unfortunately, we then spent the next few minutes trying to come up with acronyms that spelt out their competitors' names.... Pity, we got some good ones!
It's a very, very old law but in this case it was used to stop giant TV screens.
Thanks, but too dark to print which was what I wanted.
For some reason, you just can't get printable pictures of Sputnik. Why no-one's built a replica for that sort of thing I don't know.
Wasn't the first rocket in space probably a V2? Anyway, Sputnik was definitely the first in orbit.
Anyway, they also got the first spacewalk (Alexi Leonov from Voskhod 3) and the first flight with more than one person on board (Voskhod 1), and I'm pretty sure the first in-orbit docking, too. Certainly _tried_ it before the US. US probably built a craft that returned people to earth safely before the USSR, though, because Vostok (Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova et al) didn't land with them on-board. They parachuted out in descent.
Oh, I was looking for decent pics of Sputnik recently and couldn't find _anything_. Can anyone help?
Hamburg law bans flickering lights in public. Used it to stop some Beatles commemorative event a few years back.
If you're a single buyer it's fine. 99c a song is a great deal because you can get the old songs you like (of which there's only a few on an album anyway) and save a packet.
Personally, I like albums. I have wider tastes, I don't just want the radio friendly stuff. I tend to like 50%+ of the songs on the albums I buy and it's not like I only buy from 2 or 3 carefully vetted artists...
I'd rather they did 99c a song or $8 an album (for example) which would still be a reasonable price model for both types of consumers and would respect the concept of bulk discounts.
Music industry, take note: I'm in Britain, that's about 60p a song or £6 an album. If you did this for a regular deal then I would _buy_ _more_ _music_ because I could get things I can't normally find to try out. I'm also a sucker for pretty CDs and insert books and whatnot, so I'd probably buy more than a few twice - once online and once physically to get the proper, CDDA, nicely printed copy. Include a £4 voucher against the full album with the sale and I wouldn't think twice about it, and you've _still_ made out like bandits. This is how to harness the net properly to get your product out there and make more money, it's less effort to you and doesn't annoy your customers.
They were called Hollerith before then, as I recall.
Roll on 1.3 final then :-)
;-)
Wimp, I know, but I've got far too much archived mail to trust anything with an a or b in its version number
Only a couple of weeks now, according to that roadmap.
What version? I'm running Win32 1.2.1 at home and would love that function but don't have it.
How does it know my IP address isn't dynamic? If it is then that information becomes worse than useless, because it might tell you that I like Metallica, Jools Holland and Eden Burning while telling you the next person to get allocated that IP liked Queen, Why? and Tchaikovsky. Now, as it happens, I like all those artists - but you can't deduce that at all. And without that, if you're limited to IPs then you're also limited to sessions and are going to have a job tracking them.
At the very least you need a unique key on your machine, such as a GUID, if this function is to be any use at all.
Yes, but why shouldn't the library be able to subscribe to this service for the benefit of their patrons?
Whether it's a prudent use of a library's resources is another matter altogether, but to _block_ a subscription request from a library is just nasty.
It's a concept car, you'll find plenty that look like that.
Concepts get split into two categories - preproduction cars where they're testing reaction (which this isn't) and cars where the designers are playing with styling and the engineers putting in all the fancy technology they want to play with like active suspension.
This has about as much bearing on what we'll be driving any time soon as a Jean-Paul Gaultier catwalk does on what we actually wear. Besides, it's designed for that sort of styling to appear in 5-10 years at the earliest. I'd say it's actually about average by that metric.
I suspect this mostly depends on the character of the people who receive the mails :-)
In all the years I've been doing this (5+) I've had _one_ flame back. I've had more appreciative comments and a distinct downturn in these things, so maybe it's actually working!
Why doesn't Outlook Express show the BCC field, though? Have to turn on 'Rich headers' to get it...
:-)
Anyway... I tend to regard this ignorance of BCC as very useful. Means whenever I receive such mail I can explain this to all their friends as well as just them. Not only do I get many times the opportunities for cluestick practice but all now understand that such a mail can lead to public shame. Very useful
If you like _really_ mainstream stuff and are prepared to spend a lot of time searching...
You like anything slightly unusual and it can take forever to find even one track, let alone complete albums. Plus you've got to weed out the poorly encoded files, or the mislabelled, or...
Plus, speaking personally, I never use that as more than an audition service. I want to support music I like to increase the chance of more getting published. I like CDs and all their associated artwork. So, I still buy them even though I could download if I was sufficiently bored.
That's a googol.