Lossless compression? I doubt you get much compression on audio files for lossless compression. Why not just copy the raw FLAC data? 760 MB / Disk, still get hundreds of lossless CD backups on a single 300 GB disk.
Apple *currently* makes sure you never lose th abilit to play your music. If they stop letting you reup your number of computers, or if they stop letting you burn to cd, what then?
I personally would rip to mp3 straight off the audio in signal or make CD backups, but I don't use itunes.
Eventually, if Apple sees that they are losing too much money through one of these user-friendly DRM holes, they will plug it. 10 years from now, I bet your iTunes will go the way of 8track, while I should still be able to play my mp3s, assuming compiling code is not outlawed by then.
Unless you keep everything as a mp3 or some other format without DRM, you are doomed.
You want it easy(iTunes, DRM whatever) you get locked in. Eventually, things will go south and you will lose that investment.
I have hundreds of CDs that I should be able to rip again and again. Maybe someday I will upgrade to 256k rips, or maybe I lose my HDs and have to re-rip... Either way, I own the CD and it is mine to do with as I please.
Five copies and you can't move it again? WTF? Crazy that you even bought into that stuff.
I have hundreds of songs on my Treo using a 1 GB SD card. They now also have 2 GB SD cards, I just have not upgraded.
Palm PDA utilities, Phone capability, MP3 player without DRM, Palm apps, Word / Excel view and edit, keyboard, good size, (Crappy camera) but hours of crappy video with a 1GB card... Bluetooth is sorta suck too, but overall Treo is pretty sweet.
They need a 2MP camera, 4 GB memory standard, wifi, and wireless stereo headsets. Also some usability tweaks could help, but overall, I love it.
Yet you post on an American website that runs off and american developed internet forgeting WWII and your debt to america from real tyranny. You probably watch american TV and listen to american music too while eating a mcdonalds cheeseburger and a drinking a budwiser.
Whiners. Go have fun in your little EU. Don't like america? Don't live there, quit your bitching.
If someone could make this work, they would beat out the energy Cos and become "rulers of the world" until someone figured out the specifics and posted them online... Like you state, someone is going to run this at some point, unless it is really simple and really cheap.
We apparently have hundreds of years of coal and natural gas, so why worry?
And we can make synthetic polymers from bio feedstocks (Cargill / Dow) it just costs too much. Pretty much anything from clothing fiber to hard plastic, from what I understand.
My math anal (Anal Math) teacher in HS told us it was "Quinton Et Dinner" wher "et" is Alabamian for "ate". Not sure why that stuck with me for the last decade or more...
You have a limited expectation of privacy in public places. Don't have sex in a park unless you don't mind being videotaped or picked up on CCTV. Most people understand that. The fact that CCTV is being used is not a loss of privacy. Cops always could have been there watching from that street corner, they just never had the numbers. Now technology is making it possible to allow for 100x monitoring.
Same for the internet, people don't understand that it is basically a public medium. You send your stuff out and it may go through ten different public hops where any administrator could sniff the packets. Deal with it. Don't do bad things online, don't say stuff you don't want others to know about.
Wiretaps are not the problem, abuse of wiretaps are the problem. Fishing for legal violations instead of directed investigation leads to a police state.
The government may not be legally able to sift through all your mail without proper legal documentation, but Google / private companies certainly can. A few well-placed friendly DARPA contracts, and Google can do the dirty work of finding initial crimes, forward those to the FBI, who get the warrant to do legal checks.
Yeah, you could even render it onto an ipod, but why?
I am waiting until I can get a display that does 1080i / 1080p for real. Most only have native 720 lines of resolution. I can make my 21 inch CRT do it, but only a few LCDs and no plasmas can do it. The only projector I know of is about 25 grand.
60 FPS at 1080 lines or better, everything else will scale up, but I would rather not have to take a signal that is down graded.
IBM has that high density LCD that is like 3000x4000 and $5000, but it is still small scale. Now, it would be sweet to take 3 XGA LCDs and stitch them together to make one 2300x1024 display... Why can't they just scale up the DLP chip and sell me one for like $2000?
Pay the $40 for the professional packaging of crossover. You get so much and it is super easy to set up and install.
You get a nice gui that leads you through installation. A lot of software is available online (fonts, plugins, wordviewer, etc), so the script automagically downloads and installs it for you. For office, you have to install just like anything else on windows.
It even gets the right mime-types so mozilla opens word attachments in crossover office.
Well worth $40. I have not had to do any strange dll / intall hacks.
The worst part for me in C is dealing with memory allocation. It is a little too close to machine code. I don't want to have to ask for more memory. Either the variable should be declared of a given size up front or the system should handle it on its own without some crazy malloc / free statements.
python or matlab seem nice enough for initial forray using an interpreted language. Close enought to C and Fortran to move on later. Go into object oriented stuff much later. And Perl is a scary nightmare of syntax.
Figure out the basics:
data types
assignment statements
if statements
for loops
while loops
nested statements
recursion
Figure out how to sketch out a procedure using psuedo code
Figure out how to sketch out a procedure using flow charts
I think you can even compile python later to a real binary (not interpreted) executable.
I have one of those 10lb monsters. It is already 2.5 inches thick, why not put a real keyboard on it? Another half inch and a few ounces won't hurt, and it would make me happy...
I did a recent XP update and office 97 preview view started crapping out on me for large presentations, like office was completely hung. Well-hung you might say.
Wine continued to work just fine. So now I have to do my ppt development on linux and ship it to a XP laptop for presentations...
My bad. Maybe that number attempted to take drag into account, so that if you had something at 0 elevation going 13 miles per second it could cut through the atmosphere and get into orbit.
I am not sure how you can use the atmosphere to get the first stage going, unless you mean use an airplane to do the first 50,000 feet (~10 mi) and 500 mph.
First stage Saturn V got about 40 miles up at about 5,000 mph carying 130 tons using 2200 tons of propellant.
I have seen suggestions that ~46,000 mph or 13 miles/sec would get you into orbit. At 100Gs for 20 seconds you get up to 64,000 feet/sec and travel 400 miles down range. A 400 mile long vacum sealed mag-lev launcher maybe? Maybe I dropped a OOM (order of magnitude)...
I always thought having the energy stored on the ground was a good idea, and just giving the rocket an initial kick to avoid the first stage.
I remember reading about the amount of energy used to get a large rocket moving from 0 to x mph. If the first stage could be provided on the ground in the form of a gun or a mag-lev push, it would shave tons off the system and be reusable. Problem is, the cargo may have to take a lot of G forces, so it may only be good for dead weight cargo.
Just like spaceship one used a mothership to get things rolling, these systems could give the initial push without burdeneng the rocket with the requisite energy storage requirements.
Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress went into this a good bit, interesting idea.
I have crappy AC in my office, so I had to get a rigged AC system.
Haier has one that is about 30" tall, foot deep, two feet wide, maybe $350. Best part is, it evaporates the condensate in the exhaust so you don't have a drip pan to empty (like some other portable AC units or a wall unit). You do have to vent any cooling unit, so that will always be a problem. You can't just cool a room using electricity, the work is going to generate heat somewhere and that has to be vented.
Maybe I didn't play with xara enough to get up the learning curve, but tgif does most everything I ever would want, and the interface is more intuitive. Tgif is GPL and produces great eps files.
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Lossless compression? I doubt you get much compression on audio files for lossless compression. Why not just copy the raw FLAC data? 760 MB / Disk, still get hundreds of lossless CD backups on a single 300 GB disk.
Apple *currently* makes sure you never lose th abilit to play your music. If they stop letting you reup your number of computers, or if they stop letting you burn to cd, what then?
I personally would rip to mp3 straight off the audio in signal or make CD backups, but I don't use itunes.
Eventually, if Apple sees that they are losing too much money through one of these user-friendly DRM holes, they will plug it. 10 years from now, I bet your iTunes will go the way of 8track, while I should still be able to play my mp3s, assuming compiling code is not outlawed by then.
Unless you keep everything as a mp3 or some other format without DRM, you are doomed.
You want it easy(iTunes, DRM whatever) you get locked in. Eventually, things will go south and you will lose that investment.
I have hundreds of CDs that I should be able to rip again and again. Maybe someday I will upgrade to 256k rips, or maybe I lose my HDs and have to re-rip... Either way, I own the CD and it is mine to do with as I please.
Five copies and you can't move it again? WTF? Crazy that you even bought into that stuff.
I have hundreds of songs on my Treo using a 1 GB SD card. They now also have 2 GB SD cards, I just have not upgraded.
Palm PDA utilities, Phone capability, MP3 player without DRM, Palm apps, Word / Excel view and edit, keyboard, good size, (Crappy camera) but hours of crappy video with a 1GB card... Bluetooth is sorta suck too, but overall Treo is pretty sweet.
They need a 2MP camera, 4 GB memory standard, wifi, and wireless stereo headsets. Also some usability tweaks could help, but overall, I love it.
Yet you post on an American website that runs off and american developed internet forgeting WWII and your debt to america from real tyranny. You probably watch american TV and listen to american music too while eating a mcdonalds cheeseburger and a drinking a budwiser.
Whiners. Go have fun in your little EU. Don't like america? Don't live there, quit your bitching.
If someone could make this work, they would beat out the energy Cos and become "rulers of the world" until someone figured out the specifics and posted them online... Like you state, someone is going to run this at some point, unless it is really simple and really cheap.
We apparently have hundreds of years of coal and natural gas, so why worry?
And we can make synthetic polymers from bio feedstocks (Cargill / Dow) it just costs too much. Pretty much anything from clothing fiber to hard plastic, from what I understand.
My math anal (Anal Math) teacher in HS told us it was "Quinton Et Dinner" wher "et" is Alabamian for "ate". Not sure why that stuck with me for the last decade or more...
You have a limited expectation of privacy in public places. Don't have sex in a park unless you don't mind being videotaped or picked up on CCTV. Most people understand that. The fact that CCTV is being used is not a loss of privacy. Cops always could have been there watching from that street corner, they just never had the numbers. Now technology is making it possible to allow for 100x monitoring.
Same for the internet, people don't understand that it is basically a public medium. You send your stuff out and it may go through ten different public hops where any administrator could sniff the packets. Deal with it. Don't do bad things online, don't say stuff you don't want others to know about.
Wiretaps are not the problem, abuse of wiretaps are the problem. Fishing for legal violations instead of directed investigation leads to a police state.
The government may not be legally able to sift through all your mail without proper legal documentation, but Google / private companies certainly can. A few well-placed friendly DARPA contracts, and Google can do the dirty work of finding initial crimes, forward those to the FBI, who get the warrant to do legal checks.
Yeah, you could even render it onto an ipod, but why?
I am waiting until I can get a display that does 1080i / 1080p for real. Most only have native 720 lines of resolution. I can make my 21 inch CRT do it, but only a few LCDs and no plasmas can do it. The only projector I know of is about 25 grand.
60 FPS at 1080 lines or better, everything else will scale up, but I would rather not have to take a signal that is down graded.
IBM has that high density LCD that is like 3000x4000 and $5000, but it is still small scale. Now, it would be sweet to take 3 XGA LCDs and stitch them together to make one 2300x1024 display... Why can't they just scale up the DLP chip and sell me one for like $2000?
I have no problem with foreign women. The problem is, too bad so many girls at MIT are not so attractive.
Actually, from my time working there the girls were actually ok (for a technical school, compared to GT). Maybe I was in the lab too much...
Good call. A slightly bigger Treo that could use a real kbd? Sounds cool.
Pay the $40 for the professional packaging of crossover. You get so much and it is super easy to set up and install.
You get a nice gui that leads you through installation. A lot of software is available online (fonts, plugins, wordviewer, etc), so the script automagically downloads and installs it for you. For office, you have to install just like anything else on windows.
It even gets the right mime-types so mozilla opens word attachments in crossover office.
Well worth $40. I have not had to do any strange dll / intall hacks.
The worst part for me in C is dealing with memory allocation. It is a little too close to machine code. I don't want to have to ask for more memory. Either the variable should be declared of a given size up front or the system should handle it on its own without some crazy malloc / free statements.
python or matlab seem nice enough for initial forray using an interpreted language. Close enought to C and Fortran to move on later. Go into object oriented stuff much later. And Perl is a scary nightmare of syntax.
Figure out the basics:
data types
assignment statements
if statements
for loops
while loops
nested statements
recursion
Figure out how to sketch out a procedure using psuedo code
Figure out how to sketch out a procedure using flow charts
I think you can even compile python later to a real binary (not interpreted) executable.
I have one of those 10lb monsters. It is already 2.5 inches thick, why not put a real keyboard on it? Another half inch and a few ounces won't hurt, and it would make me happy...
And we still technically have a multinational coalition in Iraq today...
I did a recent XP update and office 97 preview view started crapping out on me for large presentations, like office was completely hung. Well-hung you might say.
Wine continued to work just fine. So now I have to do my ppt development on linux and ship it to a XP laptop for presentations...
My bad. Maybe that number attempted to take drag into account, so that if you had something at 0 elevation going 13 miles per second it could cut through the atmosphere and get into orbit.
Maybe just use a nucular rocket engine...
/sec and travel 400 miles down range. A 400 mile long vacum sealed mag-lev launcher maybe? Maybe I dropped a OOM (order of magnitude)...
http://www.lascruces.com/~mrpbar/rocket.html
I am not sure how you can use the atmosphere to get the first stage going, unless you mean use an airplane to do the first 50,000 feet (~10 mi) and 500 mph.
First stage Saturn V got about 40 miles up at about 5,000 mph carying 130 tons using 2200 tons of propellant.
I have seen suggestions that ~46,000 mph or 13 miles/sec would get you into orbit. At 100Gs for 20 seconds you get up to 64,000 feet
A 50 mile launch may be much more reasonable...
I always thought having the energy stored on the ground was a good idea, and just giving the rocket an initial kick to avoid the first stage.
I remember reading about the amount of energy used to get a large rocket moving from 0 to x mph. If the first stage could be provided on the ground in the form of a gun or a mag-lev push, it would shave tons off the system and be reusable. Problem is, the cargo may have to take a lot of G forces, so it may only be good for dead weight cargo.
Just like spaceship one used a mothership to get things rolling, these systems could give the initial push without burdeneng the rocket with the requisite energy storage requirements.
Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress went into this a good bit, interesting idea.
I have crappy AC in my office, so I had to get a rigged AC system.
Haier has one that is about 30" tall, foot deep, two feet wide, maybe $350. Best part is, it evaporates the condensate in the exhaust so you don't have a drip pan to empty (like some other portable AC units or a wall unit). You do have to vent any cooling unit, so that will always be a problem. You can't just cool a room using electricity, the work is going to generate heat somewhere and that has to be vented.
What if rmp is repleaced as well to spit bogus results for a --verify?
Knoppix is probably the only way to really find this stuff. And what do you look for? A new version of ls that is a different size than it should be?
I like tgif better judging by the linux demo.
Maybe I didn't play with xara enough to get up the learning curve, but tgif does most everything I ever would want, and the interface is more intuitive. Tgif is GPL and produces great eps files.
How is an exclusive Dell / AMD deal a monopoly? You can still get a cheaper AMD machines from other vendors.
I have to define a font size (10,12) and tell lyx to use "times", or else lyx does not make nice pdfs. Layout->Document
Also, try the diferent pdf conversion utils. I have three, ps2pdf, dvipdfm, pdflatex. I usually use ps2pdf, it seems to work.
When not using LyX, this makes nice pdfs for me:
latex file
latex file
bibtex file
bibtex file
latex file
latex file
dvips -t letter -Ppdf -o file.ps file.dvi
ps2pdf file.ps
LyX is not a WYSIWYG editor, and is overkill for letters. For math papers, books, complex anything it is great.
LyX - Works great, makes nice LaTeX, pdf, html etc.