Wrong. Joint Stereo is NOT mono. It is a compression algorithm that takes advantage of the similarities between left and right channels by encoding the complete left channel and only encoding the difference between left and right to get the right channel. If the left and right tracks are very similar, as they are in most pop recordings, fewer bits are required for the difference track. So JS gives excellent compression at lower bitrates without sacrificing quality.
Anyone seen really big (2"x4") bricks?
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I used to have these when I was a kid (c. 1974). They were just like the standard 2x4 bricks except they were much bigger than even Duplo size. Each brick was about 2 inches wide by 4 inches long and if you had enough of them you could build a structure big enough for a small kid to sit in.
I know they were Lego--I remember the logo on the bricks. I haven't seen them since my childhood. I've looked on Lego.com and a few other sites but haven't found them.
And it works. Very well. There are no folder problems where you can't put mail into a folder that has other folders.
I thought that would be a start to get my clients moved over to a Linux server, using IMAP on the clients. But you have to switch to Internet Mail Only to make IMAP work at all in Outlook, and when you do that you can't use the group calendar any more. I hate Outlook but it's all there is on the Windows platform that integrates mail and calendaring well.
I have yet to find an open source solution that is "hidable". Samba requires all kinds of hoops to be jumped through to get passwords to synch, and still isn't bullet-proof. I'm prefectly comfortable SSHing into a linux box to check mail, but nobody else in my office is.
There is no way to program COM, ASP or.NET on a Linux server. All of our developers use those technologies and we won't reform until there's something better for rapid app development available as open source.
The best I can hope for is something that meets our needs and doesn't require too much training. Some open source tecnologies are close, but none are transparent.
I have a similar problem. I'm trying to move all of my clients to IMAP (which I love), LDAP (which I don't like so far), and a nice group calendaring solution (which I haven't yet found, iCal perhaps?).
I found a lot of projects on Sourceforge that were in various stages and trying to solve the Exchange-on-server problem.
Courier looks promising.
And here's a group calendaring option.
Eridu is a sourceforge project in beta that tries to solve the problem with web-based email and calendaring, but you can't drag a message from one folder to another on a web page:(
IMAP works beautifully for storing and retrieving messages on the server, but Outlook (which I also hate) doesn't handle it too gracefully. Email notifications always send you to the Personal Folders inbox, rather than the IMAP server inbox. No way to fix that. I will probably always have to deal with Windows clients since that's what everyone is used to and programs with, so Evolution, nice as it seems to be, is not an option. I came across InScribe in my searches for a good email client with calendaring and inbox filtering. It might be worth a look.
update: There's a tiny hand-held trackball that I use quite a lot here. Its small ball (slightly smaller than a marble) doesn't seem to hinder its usability. And mousing while standing is even more convenient than you'd think.
I sent him a link to it with the suggestion he integrate a small trackball into his keyboard. His reply: "I agree 100%."
Maybe we'll see a trackball in the next design, for all of us who occasionally need to type *and* point with one hand.
None of these have a pointing device. It seems to me that if you want to type with one hand, you might want to mouse with the same hand. I sent McKown an email to that effect, suggesting that he integrate a small trackball into his design.
It's still easier to use Streambox Ripper to grab the link and record the stream, rather than the audio. That way you get a copy that is exactly as good as the one that got streamed.
There's currently no way to prevent stream rippers from saving songs. Even with a lot of fancy Javascript hiding the stream's URL, you can get it through a packet sniff of the http request.
I used the trial version for a little while until it expired. I have to say it was faster than the handwriting recognition or tiny virtual keyboard, even though I didn't use it enough to get accustomed to the layout. The keys are layed out so you move your stylus as little as possible, with more often used keys in the middle:
ZVCHWK
FITALY
sp NE sp
GDORSB
QJUMPX
They sell the software and templates (required for PalmOS) here. I'd buy it if I used my palmtop more frequently for data entry.
Take a smaller raise instead of the 50% counter offer. It shows your employer that you have financial reasons for looking elsewhere, but are willing to negotiate and not trying to bankrupt the company. It also shows a reasonable amount of loyalty, flexibility, and altruism; and might negate almost all of the 10 reasons for not accepting the counter-offer.
I'd do it. I love my job but everybody can use a little extra money. I think a 50% raise is greedy.
...at least until it died on me in the middle of a Calculus final exam, losing all of my pre-programmed formulas.
TI calculators were required for the course and we were encouraged to program formulas into them. Unfortunately, when you fill up the TI-92 with formulas, it significantly decreases its battery life. And you can't hot-swap batteries without losing all of the porgramming.
I'd spent more time programming my calculator to do my problems than actually practicing the problems so I had a lot of trouble completing the final exam in the alloted time. The professor was less than sympathetic for tech-related problems and gave me a failing grade for the exam and the class.
Despite it's limitations, I still believe I learned more Calculus by programming the TI-92 to do what I needed it to do than the book taught me. It made the course more interesting by relating programming to math and even turned me on to other math packages. And the argument that using fancy calculators is cheating (or otherwise bad for your education) is a bunch of bull--no one does differential equations of any complexity exclusively in his head or on paper. Anyone who's using Calculus professionally is using some kind of high-tech tool to do it anyway.
Here's a copyright violation (?) from the BayTSP FAQ. Q: Can your technology penetrate a firewall? A: Yes. If you suspect your stolen content is located on a pay site, our technology can effectively get around some firewalls and scan for copyright infringements.
I wonder how they do that. Maybe the BaySpider can steal porn from pay sites!
And here's what appears to me to be conflicting information. Since when is the entire internet only usenet and the web? Q: Do you search the entire Internet for stolen content? A: Yes. Our BaySpiderSM applications continuously spider the publicly accessed portions of the web. In addition, we can target our spiders to specific web sites and news groups that we suspect may be posting your copyrighted content.
Q:Can you track stolen content from people who download my content to their home PC? A: No. We are able to identify the e-mail addresses, however, of the individuals who repost the content to news groups.
Radio Free Hawaii was the only good station, ever
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The playlists were generated exclusively by listener votes. Ballots were everywhere around town and on every island where the signal could reach. They were tallied every week.
You'd vote for ten songs to put or keep in rotation, ten songs to dump and three songs that would be a hit if radio played it (those songs received proportionately more vote weight).
It made for an eclectic mix, with votes from outside the main demographic also receiving more weight. I heard hundreds of songs on RFH that I'd never heard before, and never heard since--but I loved almost all of them.
Sadly, since the music was so diverse they couldn't claim a single demographic and placed last in the Arbitron ratings that are so necessary for advertising dollars. The station collapsed in 1997 for lack of revenue, despite most of the djs being paid near-volunteer wages.
I know for a fact that the station was the most listened-to station when it was on the air, but the screwed-up Arbitron rating system forced them out of business.
You can see how eclectic the playlist was at the top 300 archive. And also why it was doomed to fail. Back in 1994, this was not corporate music, even though much of it has been adopted by corporate radio since then.
I think America is totally backwards that we outlaw sex and promote violence in our entertainment.
I'd much rather have my kid watch a softcore porno (that doesn't objectify the opposite sex, at least) than an action movie that glorifies killing people. And for some reason, we can see violence every day on Saturday morning cartoons, but not a single image of nudity. If you ask me (I know, you didn't ask) that's f--ked up.
Was probably the best line in any theme song ever. And the stationary "animated" dance scenes where nobody is moving but the camera pans across... Brilliant!
There was another great Spiderman on the Electric Company (PBS late-seventies kids show) that was speechless except for "Waaa-WAAAoooh".
True, Nimda was nasty. But CodeRed is still around and still doing damage.
I get at least three CodeRed attacks a day on my webserver from machines that have been infected.
If only I had the time to hunt down and send email to all of those site admins... I'd probably read slashdot instead, but it would still be nice to have the time.
But it works consistently across all browsers. It makes a good replacement for ECMA javascript because you know exactly how it will behave regardless of client platform. That's where Flash is usefull--when you need to target multiple browsers. You don't have to learn which subset of javascript commands works for each browser because the Flash API is well-defined for all of them.
Some may hate to admit it, but client-side scripting is necessary for a good user experience in a complicated website. Most of Flash's features can be achieved with javascript and frames (I know I've done it), but Flash is more secure because the source code is hidden better and is slightly easier to implement.
If only we programmers didn't have to re-learn flash every time a new version came out...
It was supposed to be an electric car that ran for a week without refueling at speeds up to 90 MPH. Tesla reportedly built a generator to demonstrate it that ran off of permanent magnets and vacuum tubes purchased at a nearby electronics store. He said the energy to power the car came from "the ether".
The stories I've read have been a little mysterious, much like the man himself. This search found this link to an article about it.
They're talking about charging $99 for the OS, but I didn't see anywhere to download it for free (as with RedHat, Debian, etc.)
Isn't Lindows just Linux and WINE? I'm sort of a newbie to the GPL, but I thought it forbade charging for what you can get free.
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Wrong. Joint Stereo is NOT mono. It is a compression algorithm that takes advantage of the similarities between left and right channels by encoding the complete left channel and only encoding the difference between left and right to get the right channel.
If the left and right tracks are very similar, as they are in most pop recordings, fewer bits are required for the difference track. So JS gives excellent compression at lower bitrates without sacrificing quality.
I used to have these when I was a kid (c. 1974). They were just like the standard 2x4 bricks except they were much bigger than even Duplo size. Each brick was about 2 inches wide by 4 inches long and if you had enough of them you could build a structure big enough for a small kid to sit in.
I know they were Lego--I remember the logo on the bricks. I haven't seen them since my childhood. I've looked on Lego.com and a few other sites but haven't found them.
Has anyone seen them recently?
They make Linux boxes out of donated parts and volunteered time. They also recycle monitors, motherboard parts and steel.
Please be gentle
what does yoda's penis look like?
And it works. Very well. There are no folder problems where you can't put mail into a folder that has other folders.
I thought that would be a start to get my clients moved over to a Linux server, using IMAP on the clients. But you have to switch to Internet Mail Only to make IMAP work at all in Outlook, and when you do that you can't use the group calendar any more. I hate Outlook but it's all there is on the Windows platform that integrates mail and calendaring well.
I have yet to find an open source solution that is "hidable".
.NET on a Linux server. All of our developers use those technologies and we won't reform until there's something better for rapid app development available as open source.
Samba requires all kinds of hoops to be jumped through to get passwords to synch, and still isn't bullet-proof. I'm prefectly comfortable SSHing into a linux box to check mail, but nobody else in my office is.
There is no way to program COM, ASP or
The best I can hope for is something that meets our needs and doesn't require too much training. Some open source tecnologies are close, but none are transparent.
I have a similar problem. I'm trying to move all of my clients to IMAP (which I love), LDAP (which I don't like so far), and a nice group calendaring solution (which I haven't yet found, iCal perhaps?).
:(
I found a lot of projects on Sourceforge that were in various stages and trying to solve the Exchange-on-server problem.
Courier looks promising. And here's a group calendaring option. Eridu is a sourceforge project in beta that tries to solve the problem with web-based email and calendaring, but you can't drag a message from one folder to another on a web page
IMAP works beautifully for storing and retrieving messages on the server, but Outlook (which I also hate) doesn't handle it too gracefully. Email notifications always send you to the Personal Folders inbox, rather than the IMAP server inbox. No way to fix that. I will probably always have to deal with Windows clients since that's what everyone is used to and programs with, so Evolution, nice as it seems to be, is not an option. I came across InScribe in my searches for a good email client with calendaring and inbox filtering. It might be worth a look.
update:
There's a tiny hand-held trackball that I use quite a lot here. Its small ball (slightly smaller than a marble) doesn't seem to hinder its usability. And mousing while standing is even more convenient than you'd think.
I sent him a link to it with the suggestion he integrate a small trackball into his keyboard. His reply: "I agree 100%."
Maybe we'll see a trackball in the next design, for all of us who occasionally need to type *and* point with one hand.
How do you get by with so few keys?
You can see the support problem he's talking about here.
The sexiest of the lot, but not handheld
This one's straight outta sci-fi
None of these have a pointing device. It seems to me that if you want to type with one hand, you might want to mouse with the same hand. I sent McKown an email to that effect, suggesting that he integrate a small trackball into his design.
It's still easier to use Streambox Ripper to grab the link and record the stream, rather than the audio. That way you get a copy that is exactly as good as the one that got streamed.
There's currently no way to prevent stream rippers from saving songs. Even with a lot of fancy Javascript hiding the stream's URL, you can get it through a packet sniff of the http request.
and she only has one
I used the trial version for a little while until it expired. I have to say it was faster than the handwriting recognition or tiny virtual keyboard, even though I didn't use it enough to get accustomed to the layout. The keys are layed out so you move your stylus as little as possible, with more often used keys in the middle:
ZVCHWK
FITALY
sp NE sp
GDORSB
QJUMPX
They sell the software and templates (required for PalmOS) here.
I'd buy it if I used my palmtop more frequently for data entry.
More worringly, I wonder what a Femalestrom would look like?
Same as male senator Thurmond, but with breasts sized 38-long.
Take a smaller raise instead of the 50% counter offer. It shows your employer that you have financial reasons for looking elsewhere, but are willing to negotiate and not trying to bankrupt the company. It also shows a reasonable amount of loyalty, flexibility, and altruism; and might negate almost all of the 10 reasons for not accepting the counter-offer.
I'd do it. I love my job but everybody can use a little extra money. I think a 50% raise is greedy.
...at least until it died on me in the middle of a Calculus final exam, losing all of my pre-programmed formulas.
TI calculators were required for the course and we were encouraged to program formulas into them. Unfortunately, when you fill up the TI-92 with formulas, it significantly decreases its battery life. And you can't hot-swap batteries without losing all of the porgramming.
I'd spent more time programming my calculator to do my problems than actually practicing the problems so I had a lot of trouble completing the final exam in the alloted time. The professor was less than sympathetic for tech-related problems and gave me a failing grade for the exam and the class.
Despite it's limitations, I still believe I learned more Calculus by programming the TI-92 to do what I needed it to do than the book taught me. It made the course more interesting by relating programming to math and even turned me on to other math packages. And the argument that using fancy calculators is cheating (or otherwise bad for your education) is a bunch of bull--no one does differential equations of any complexity exclusively in his head or on paper. Anyone who's using Calculus professionally is using some kind of high-tech tool to do it anyway.
Here's a copyright violation (?) from the BayTSP FAQ.
Q: Can your technology penetrate a firewall?
A: Yes. If you suspect your stolen content is located on a pay site, our technology can effectively get around some firewalls and scan for copyright infringements.
I wonder how they do that. Maybe the BaySpider can steal porn from pay sites!
And here's what appears to me to be conflicting information. Since when is the entire internet only usenet and the web?
Q: Do you search the entire Internet for stolen content?
A: Yes. Our BaySpiderSM applications continuously spider the publicly accessed portions of the web. In addition, we can target our spiders to specific web sites and news groups that we suspect may be posting your copyrighted content.
Q:Can you track stolen content from people who download my content to their home PC?
A: No. We are able to identify the e-mail addresses, however, of the individuals who repost the content to news groups.
The playlists were generated exclusively by listener votes. Ballots were everywhere around town and on every island where the signal could reach. They were tallied every week.
You'd vote for ten songs to put or keep in rotation, ten songs to dump and three songs that would be a hit if radio played it (those songs received proportionately more vote weight).
It made for an eclectic mix, with votes from outside the main demographic also receiving more weight. I heard hundreds of songs on RFH that I'd never heard before, and never heard since--but I loved almost all of them.
Sadly, since the music was so diverse they couldn't claim a single demographic and placed last in the Arbitron ratings that are so necessary for advertising dollars. The station collapsed in 1997 for lack of revenue, despite most of the djs being paid near-volunteer wages.
I know for a fact that the station was the most listened-to station when it was on the air, but the screwed-up Arbitron rating system forced them out of business.
You can see how eclectic the playlist was at the top 300 archive. And also why it was doomed to fail. Back in 1994, this was not corporate music, even though much of it has been adopted by corporate radio since then.
Microshafted seems more appropriate.
I think America is totally backwards that we outlaw sex and promote violence in our entertainment.
I'd much rather have my kid watch a softcore porno (that doesn't objectify the opposite sex, at least) than an action movie that glorifies killing people. And for some reason, we can see violence every day on Saturday morning cartoons, but not a single image of nudity. If you ask me (I know, you didn't ask) that's f--ked up.
Was probably the best line in any theme song ever. And the stationary "animated" dance scenes where nobody is moving but the camera pans across... Brilliant!
There was another great Spiderman on the Electric Company (PBS late-seventies kids show) that was speechless except for "Waaa-WAAAoooh".
True, Nimda was nasty. But CodeRed is still around and still doing damage.
I get at least three CodeRed attacks a day on my webserver from machines that have been infected.
If only I had the time to hunt down and send email to all of those site admins... I'd probably read slashdot instead, but it would still be nice to have the time.
Try searching for porn and see what kind of ads you get after that. They know. [blushing]
But it works consistently across all browsers. It makes a good replacement for ECMA javascript because you know exactly how it will behave regardless of client platform. That's where Flash is usefull--when you need to target multiple browsers. You don't have to learn which subset of javascript commands works for each browser because the Flash API is well-defined for all of them.
Some may hate to admit it, but client-side scripting is necessary for a good user experience in a complicated website. Most of Flash's features can be achieved with javascript and frames (I know I've done it), but Flash is more secure because the source code is hidden better and is slightly easier to implement.
If only we programmers didn't have to re-learn flash every time a new version came out...
It was supposed to be an electric car that ran for a week without refueling at speeds up to 90 MPH. Tesla reportedly built a generator to demonstrate it that ran off of permanent magnets and vacuum tubes purchased at a nearby electronics store. He said the energy to power the car came from "the ether". The stories I've read have been a little mysterious, much like the man himself. This search found this link to an article about it.
They're talking about charging $99 for the OS, but I didn't see anywhere to download it for free (as with RedHat, Debian, etc.)
Isn't Lindows just Linux and WINE? I'm sort of a newbie to the GPL, but I thought it forbade charging for what you can get free.