So I check out rockbox after reading your post. I find this in their FAQ
But I want a gap between my songs. Is there a way to turn off gapless?
No. As explained above, for all codecs which support gapless and for LAME-encoded MP3s, Rockbox plays back your songs the way they were intended by the mastering engineer to be heard. If the mastering engineer did not include a gap at the end of a file, Rockbox does not add one.
If the transition between tracks is too abrupt for your liking, you have two options. First, you can turn on the Crossfade feature so that songs fade smoothly into one another. Second, you can create a short file containing several seconds of silence and insert that file in your playlists or in the directories where you want a gap.
Wow... that takes me back to the comments on iTunes replacements and how open source projects treat the requests of end users. Fun.
Okay so obviously religion nor philosophy isn't going to answer any of the second set of questions EVER. Even if they guessed the right answer we'd have no way of knowing it outside of the other 10,000 guesses. Will science answer those in our lifetime? Probably not but possible. Science is obviously very important, but there's a false dichotomy there. The thing is many people misrepresent the idea of faith, with sound bites such as "Faith and knowledge are opposite" and folks who wear their blind faith as some sort of badge of honor. When in the bible faith is explained to be based on knowledge and evidence, scripturally faith is defined at Hebrews 11:1 as having an assurance of something that has not yet happened because of evidence showing that it will. If you examine the greek words behind that scripture it's the same phrase used to describe a title to property, as if faith is holding the deed after purchase knowing that the house is legally yours after a certain date. So there are people who's faith is based on knowledge, and as I mentioned before their own judgment of sufficient proof, because as you've said before nothing can be completely proven at all even that we exist or are even alive.
Many religions teach ridiculous things such as spirits within us, when you know like everyone else that our personalities and feelings are tied up in the brain. Other beliefs such as hellfire naturally cause an aversion to those who sensibly and honestly consider what they mean. Besides that, a gospel of hate against various social and religious groups they don't agree with causes even more to spurn religion in general.
As for the Bible itself there's better reasons for belief than "Science doesn't satisfy my questions" and "I don't want to die".;) Pascal's Wager is a cop-out. For me personally, the prophesies are the strongest evidence. Specifically the Dead Sea Scrolls and the information contained in there, basically a near complete copy of the Hebrew scriptures dated to be around 100 or 200 years before Jesus was born. Within Isaiah and Daniel there's several hundred specific prophesies directed at the Messiah such as the time and place where he'd be born, what he would do, how he would die and things that would happen to him after his death most of which were out of his control.
Also of interest to me personally is the list of Noah's grandsons and which nations they came to father. Many of them have historical connections that can be found in the ancient records of the names mentioned. For example Togarmah, Javan, Tubal, Meshach and Tiras all correspond to the actual names of the "Tribal father" in the histories of certain nations. Similar to the stories of Romulus and Remus in Rome.
There's the prophesy Jesus gave warning Christians to leave Jerusalem and all of Judea when the city becomes surrounded by armies building pointed fortifications. It would seem clear that by that time it's too late to escape right? But historically it's interesting what happened and how the Romans came and conquered Jerusalem and then just left without good reason and didn't finish the job. It was then that the Christians left the city while the Jews proudly proclaimed "God is on our side and protected us". Then a few years later the Romans came back and wiped them out. So it's interesting to me that the city was basically devoid of Christians when that time came and how the events worked out.
I appreciate scientific facts that were in the bible long before they were common knowledge. Commands to keep your feces far from the water supply, not to touch dead bodies, to wash if you do, quarantine, migration of animals, the water cycle, the earth being round and not on the back of an elephant or turtle or ANYTHING at all, just... floating there. There's even the concept of genetic inheritance and recessive traits in breeding animals but that was in a vision and the shepherd who got it didn't understand what it meant. Interesting as well is the idea of a "Book" inside an
Every time I see you post I'm reminded of Enders game and that whacko's call for a violent uprising to prevent gay marriage. You sir... are stigmatized!!
I too have noticed that the "teachers" of many religions themselves are unable to answer simple questions they claim to have answers to. My favorite one is "Why did God allow my child to die in this terrible way?", "He needed another angel". So I can definitely understand a general frustration and disappointment that is felt by many when they see so-called "Men of God" saying foolish things like New Orleans was punished by God for all the fornicating going on there. That said, I find that the problem is often preachers and entire systems of belief that simply make things up on the spot and don't actually consult what the Bible teaches on those matters. If you feel I'm wasting your time that's fine, but I am curious what those unanswered questions are.
Usually it's something along the lines of... Why do we exist? Why is there suffering in the world? Why do we die? If God is all-powerful and God is love, then why doesn't God fix things?
So for those questions there's clear scriptural answers, people may decide whether or not they are satisfied by those answers, but they ARE given. If you can't find a clear answer for those from a religious person then you're just talking to the wrong people. Because at the bare minimum you can at least say "Here's what the Bible says about question #1, I agree or disagree because....."
There's a few others such as... Why is there anything at all? How did anything at all come to exist from where there was nothing before? What happened "first"?
That are not specifically answered and may end up well beyond the capabilities of science or even our minds but perhaps someday we'll know. I don't see a clear separation of "How and Why" that could be cleanly split between religion and science, I agree with you that people who use those "smokescreen" answers are simply afraid of what they might find out. I say leave the scientists alone and keep religion and politics separate... and don't complain if I don't vote... believe me you don't want me to anyways.;-)
If you've read this far, then I'm genuinely interested in the "big questions" that I haven't mentioned above. Everyone should keep learning, especially the ones who think they know it all because they most definitely don't.
I've investigated the claims of skeptics but find they lack evidence.:-)
But seriously where does it get us when we accept the idea that nothing is ever known for certain? If I state that 1 != 0 and you reply with "Using sufficiently rounded values of 1 and 0 they may indeed be equal" or "What is the nature of inequality?"
Is it just the philosophical equivalent of Marvin the depressed android? "Oh we can't know anything for certain, what's the point??"
While it may be true that we can't have ABSOLUTE proof of certain things, there has to be a realm of things where we accept sufficient proof and move on. So as for the Munchausen Trilemma, is it really claiming for example that mathematics with it's foundation on basic proofs such as A+B = B+A cannot be proven and that it must justify the proofs it uses within itself and therefore is causing an infinite regression?
Oh what's the point? There's nothing in this post that hasn't been said 1,000,000 times before.:-)
It depends on the state. I know that in Oregon for example what you said is actually the law and they have to pay a certain % of your wages for an entire year while you are on the non-compete, OR they can choose not to enforce it.
No he's not that stupid and never was... it's called "Planned Obsolescence" and has always been one of their business strategies. Upgrade treadmill as well. Give everyone just enough headroom that the short-sighted buy into it, then are stuck upgrading their entire infrastructure every few years.
Firewire allows DMA access to all of memory, it was joked that since Apple's come with firewire they're more insecure than PCs. Nobody would seriously recommend removing Firewire for this reason... and yet these laptops have better physical security than the ones before them. Imagine an encrypted HD with a password request on resume... it gets stolen at the coffee shop, the bad guy takes it home being careful to not allow the battery to die. They open the lid, plug into it's firewire and snag the HD keys.
A laptop with sensitive information on it shouldn't have Firewire.
It's just one of the positives of this announcement.
You can remap them all in your system prefs btw. I prefer to just memorize the default shortcuts since they're universal (sort of like learning vi) but you could make them whatever you want.
It's not a real solution but holding control option command and 8 inverts the color making the screen a negative. Works well at night when you want to keep the light level down.
No kidding. As I've explained many times, EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT has at least a dozen cell phones awake throughout it's journey. Probably more than a hundred. Since people press the "Power button" which only turns the screen off and assume that's it. Yet through the duration of the flight every single one of these is pinging cell phone towers best it can. There's no way you can teach 200 people how to REALLY turn their phones off, so you have to live with the assumption that cell phones can't be avoided. Instead of banning phones and claiming interference they need to fix the problem, which is not phones, but their airplane shielding.
In addition, while they've added Closed Captions capabilities to iPods, iTunes and Quicktime, the shows on the store don't have them. Would be really nice if they could fix that.
Sounds like a GREAT business plan! If you can just call them eFusion and eTeleport I can guarantee massive VC funding! (iFusion and iTeleport also work)
Mostly they just tweak the existing drivers so common chipsets get identified on different boards. Audio chipsets, video, networking, etc... mostly you just add a hex identifier to a Info.plist XML file and it detects it. There may be some that are made from scratch, but the Darwin code is open so they probably use that for a lot of it.
Oh, and not one single hackintosh user that I have come across in #MacOSX has ever said they are using a boxed copy of the software, the same names always come up - Maxxus, JaS etc etc.
Actually that's the old method of doing it, individual releases hand made by various guys. The new technique uses boot-132 which allows you to install from an unmodified retail DVD. Basically you make a boot disc that includes any extra drivers or kernels you need for your setup, boot off of it, then swap the CD for the Leopard install DVD and run a normal setup. What people can do now is make boot CDs for OEM machines and you'd only download the ISO which only uses say 50MB or so, then theoretically you buy a legal copy at the store and use that. There's also generic boot CDs that include a ton of common drivers and hardware and will work for most people.
Just sayin... the copyright infringement aspect of using a hackintosh is now eliminated. As for EULA's, well that's another story.
Now a programming license board... THAT would be awesome.
Mr. CODiNE, you have been found guilty of : 1. Using XOR encryption with a hard coded pass phrase and calling it "Industrial Strength" while advertising your product. 2. Requiring administrator level access to install your fart joke program. 3. Registered your software as a MIME type plugin for previously established file types that your software is unable to handle. 4. Causing widespread wormage and pwnage as you failed to check for buffer overflows. 5. Using Visual BASIC.
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So I check out rockbox after reading your post. I find this in their FAQ
Wow... that takes me back to the comments on iTunes replacements and how open source projects treat the requests of end users. Fun.
Okay so obviously religion nor philosophy isn't going to answer any of the second set of questions EVER. Even if they guessed the right answer we'd have no way of knowing it outside of the other 10,000 guesses. Will science answer those in our lifetime? Probably not but possible. Science is obviously very important, but there's a false dichotomy there. The thing is many people misrepresent the idea of faith, with sound bites such as "Faith and knowledge are opposite" and folks who wear their blind faith as some sort of badge of honor. When in the bible faith is explained to be based on knowledge and evidence, scripturally faith is defined at Hebrews 11:1 as having an assurance of something that has not yet happened because of evidence showing that it will. If you examine the greek words behind that scripture it's the same phrase used to describe a title to property, as if faith is holding the deed after purchase knowing that the house is legally yours after a certain date. So there are people who's faith is based on knowledge, and as I mentioned before their own judgment of sufficient proof, because as you've said before nothing can be completely proven at all even that we exist or are even alive.
Many religions teach ridiculous things such as spirits within us, when you know like everyone else that our personalities and feelings are tied up in the brain. Other beliefs such as hellfire naturally cause an aversion to those who sensibly and honestly consider what they mean. Besides that, a gospel of hate against various social and religious groups they don't agree with causes even more to spurn religion in general.
As for the Bible itself there's better reasons for belief than "Science doesn't satisfy my questions" and "I don't want to die". ;) Pascal's Wager is a cop-out.
For me personally, the prophesies are the strongest evidence. Specifically the Dead Sea Scrolls and the information contained in there, basically a near complete copy of the Hebrew scriptures dated to be around 100 or 200 years before Jesus was born. Within Isaiah and Daniel there's several hundred specific prophesies directed at the Messiah such as the time and place where he'd be born, what he would do, how he would die and things that would happen to him after his death most of which were out of his control.
Also of interest to me personally is the list of Noah's grandsons and which nations they came to father. Many of them have historical connections that can be found in the ancient records of the names mentioned. For example Togarmah, Javan, Tubal, Meshach and Tiras all correspond to the actual names of the "Tribal father" in the histories of certain nations. Similar to the stories of Romulus and Remus in Rome.
There's the prophesy Jesus gave warning Christians to leave Jerusalem and all of Judea when the city becomes surrounded by armies building pointed fortifications. It would seem clear that by that time it's too late to escape right? But historically it's interesting what happened and how the Romans came and conquered Jerusalem and then just left without good reason and didn't finish the job. It was then that the Christians left the city while the Jews proudly proclaimed "God is on our side and protected us". Then a few years later the Romans came back and wiped them out. So it's interesting to me that the city was basically devoid of Christians when that time came and how the events worked out.
I appreciate scientific facts that were in the bible long before they were common knowledge. Commands to keep your feces far from the water supply, not to touch dead bodies, to wash if you do, quarantine, migration of animals, the water cycle, the earth being round and not on the back of an elephant or turtle or ANYTHING at all, just... floating there. There's even the concept of genetic inheritance and recessive traits in breeding animals but that was in a vision and the shepherd who got it didn't understand what it meant. Interesting as well is the idea of a "Book" inside an
Every time I see you post I'm reminded of Enders game and that whacko's call for a violent uprising to prevent gay marriage. You sir... are stigmatized!!
I too have noticed that the "teachers" of many religions themselves are unable to answer simple questions they claim to have answers to. My favorite one is "Why did God allow my child to die in this terrible way?", "He needed another angel". So I can definitely understand a general frustration and disappointment that is felt by many when they see so-called "Men of God" saying foolish things like New Orleans was punished by God for all the fornicating going on there. That said, I find that the problem is often preachers and entire systems of belief that simply make things up on the spot and don't actually consult what the Bible teaches on those matters. If you feel I'm wasting your time that's fine, but I am curious what those unanswered questions are.
Usually it's something along the lines of...
Why do we exist?
Why is there suffering in the world?
Why do we die?
If God is all-powerful and God is love, then why doesn't God fix things?
So for those questions there's clear scriptural answers, people may decide whether or not they are satisfied by those answers, but they ARE given. If you can't find a clear answer for those from a religious person then you're just talking to the wrong people. Because at the bare minimum you can at least say "Here's what the Bible says about question #1, I agree or disagree because....."
There's a few others such as...
Why is there anything at all?
How did anything at all come to exist from where there was nothing before?
What happened "first"?
That are not specifically answered and may end up well beyond the capabilities of science or even our minds but perhaps someday we'll know. I don't see a clear separation of "How and Why" that could be cleanly split between religion and science, I agree with you that people who use those "smokescreen" answers are simply afraid of what they might find out. I say leave the scientists alone and keep religion and politics separate... and don't complain if I don't vote... believe me you don't want me to anyways. ;-)
If you've read this far, then I'm genuinely interested in the "big questions" that I haven't mentioned above. Everyone should keep learning, especially the ones who think they know it all because they most definitely don't.
The Munchausen Trilemma still holds.
I've investigated the claims of skeptics but find they lack evidence. :-)
But seriously where does it get us when we accept the idea that nothing is ever known for certain? If I state that 1 != 0 and you reply with "Using sufficiently rounded values of 1 and 0 they may indeed be equal" or "What is the nature of inequality?"
Is it just the philosophical equivalent of Marvin the depressed android? "Oh we can't know anything for certain, what's the point??"
While it may be true that we can't have ABSOLUTE proof of certain things, there has to be a realm of things where we accept sufficient proof and move on. So as for the Munchausen Trilemma, is it really claiming for example that mathematics with it's foundation on basic proofs such as A+B = B+A cannot be proven and that it must justify the proofs it uses within itself and therefore is causing an infinite regression?
Oh what's the point? There's nothing in this post that hasn't been said 1,000,000 times before. :-)
Clearly madness really does run in the Spears family.
Any new findings on instinct?
It depends on the state. I know that in Oregon for example what you said is actually the law and they have to pay a certain % of your wages for an entire year while you are on the non-compete, OR they can choose not to enforce it.
Nor confused with Pogrammer ... awesome programmers like myself who just can't get a job.
Wait a minute? Are you saying companies aren't allowed to just lie in public whenever they like? This doesn't seem to be enforced very often.
No he's not that stupid and never was... it's called "Planned Obsolescence" and has always been one of their business strategies. Upgrade treadmill as well. Give everyone just enough headroom that the short-sighted buy into it, then are stuck upgrading their entire infrastructure every few years.
Firewire allows DMA access to all of memory, it was joked that since Apple's come with firewire they're more insecure than PCs. Nobody would seriously recommend removing Firewire for this reason... and yet these laptops have better physical security than the ones before them. Imagine an encrypted HD with a password request on resume... it gets stolen at the coffee shop, the bad guy takes it home being careful to not allow the battery to die. They open the lid, plug into it's firewire and snag the HD keys.
A laptop with sensitive information on it shouldn't have Firewire.
It's just one of the positives of this announcement.
You can remap them all in your system prefs btw. I prefer to just memorize the default shortcuts since they're universal (sort of like learning vi) but you could make them whatever you want.
It's not a real solution but holding control option command and 8 inverts the color making the screen a negative. Works well at night when you want to keep the light level down.
No kidding. As I've explained many times, EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT has at least a dozen cell phones awake throughout it's journey. Probably more than a hundred. Since people press the "Power button" which only turns the screen off and assume that's it. Yet through the duration of the flight every single one of these is pinging cell phone towers best it can. There's no way you can teach 200 people how to REALLY turn their phones off, so you have to live with the assumption that cell phones can't be avoided. Instead of banning phones and claiming interference they need to fix the problem, which is not phones, but their airplane shielding.
Yeah, Safe Mode.
In addition, while they've added Closed Captions capabilities to iPods, iTunes and Quicktime, the shows on the store don't have them. Would be really nice if they could fix that.
I think this is mostly flash.
No I'm pretty sure it will be Silverlight.
Sounds like a GREAT business plan! If you can just call them eFusion and eTeleport I can guarantee massive VC funding!
(iFusion and iTeleport also work)
Not in California.
"Guys" isn't collective anymore? "Hey you guuuuuyyyys?" If it's good enough for Sloth it's good enough for ME. :)
Mostly they just tweak the existing drivers so common chipsets get identified on different boards. Audio chipsets, video, networking, etc... mostly you just add a hex identifier to a Info.plist XML file and it detects it. There may be some that are made from scratch, but the Darwin code is open so they probably use that for a lot of it.
Oh, and not one single hackintosh user that I have come across in #MacOSX has ever said they are using a boxed copy of the software, the same names always come up - Maxxus, JaS etc etc.
Actually that's the old method of doing it, individual releases hand made by various guys. The new technique uses boot-132 which allows you to install from an unmodified retail DVD. Basically you make a boot disc that includes any extra drivers or kernels you need for your setup, boot off of it, then swap the CD for the Leopard install DVD and run a normal setup. What people can do now is make boot CDs for OEM machines and you'd only download the ISO which only uses say 50MB or so, then theoretically you buy a legal copy at the store and use that. There's also generic boot CDs that include a ton of common drivers and hardware and will work for most people.
Just sayin... the copyright infringement aspect of using a hackintosh is now eliminated. As for EULA's, well that's another story.
Now a programming license board... THAT would be awesome.
Mr. CODiNE, you have been found guilty of :
1. Using XOR encryption with a hard coded pass phrase and calling it "Industrial Strength" while advertising your product.
2. Requiring administrator level access to install your fart joke program.
3. Registered your software as a MIME type plugin for previously established file types that your software is unable to handle.
4. Causing widespread wormage and pwnage as you failed to check for buffer overflows.
5. Using Visual BASIC.
You are now DISBARRED!!!
No kidding, I'm in Portland it gets cold here in October. I'd rather die with a smile.
Cue all "I'm in _______ you insensitive clod!" replies