The interesting thing is that unlike registering a domain name, most combinations of phone numbers "spell" different words. I can see it now- the biggest fish with the best lawyers can usurp your phone number because it spells something of value.
I'm with you- just had a sudden and catastophic failure of my "Deskstar" a week ago. It was the only IBM drive I've ever owned, so in my case, it WAS a 100% failure rate. The drive wasn't that old. I have antique drives that been running non-stop for 7 or 8 years without a hiccup.
Pardon my sarcasm, but their officially "approved" "directory listings" were never all that easy to break into if someone wanted their own site listed and I've always been very skeptical that sites paid for their placement as Yahoo supplanted their "free" services with more and more paid and subscription-based services. I'm not suggesting that they should not run as a "profitable" business, but what is advertising and what are legitimate search results? It is not unlike deciphering Fox News' editorial content from their 'journalism.' I'm sure this will all quickly devolve into a paid product placement scheme.
I fried a mobo on my Rambus system a few weeks ago and quickly found out how rare these mobos still are- and how little the price of memory has dropped over the last two years.
Memory is like disk space. The general population demands quantity over speed or quality. Rambus was a technology that never really trickled down to the average desktop.
I completely agree. Some of the worst viruses do not really even begin to exploit the OS weaknesses of windows. They are activated by the ignorance of users. Anyone could write an executable piece of code for macs that would function the same way these viruses and worms operate. Same for Linux. Really, these users are literally ASKING their computers to run a piece of code and send copies to everyone in their address book. This has less to do with the OS and more to do with the computer simply doing as it is told.
I have the 8260 and just grabbed the 3200 for $50 (after $170 in "instant rebates")- blows the 8260 out of the water. With the sim card I can use both. The 3200 is a bit larger, but it literally does everything and it can roam in Europe... The 8260 had the worst reception of any phone I've ever owned- it only had one band. The keys are a bit funky compared with a normal Nokia, and I can't use a standard headset (in the car). I just have always liked the Nokia navigation system (this phone is literally my fifth Nokia).
Regarding ringtone- I use ring once with vibrate on... more people should try it.
Hey, I don't make up the rules and I quoted it exactly as it is written... point to all that is how outdated the jargon actually is. If the county I'm affiliated with calls them "photostatic copies," I really don't know what the hell they would do with any md5 verification.
"All in all I suppose it's a neat idea -- hope it actually works before somebody is on trial for his life though..."
Well, the camera is only one step in the chain. Are they going to keep a bunch of these presumably more expensive memory cards lying around, or are "they" going to archive them on a CDR or hard drive? Once the image is out of the card, the verification is meaningless (if it wasn't already meaningless in the first place).
I provide "expert testimony" in court on a semi-regular basis in a completely different field. I always submit "photostatic replicas" of original documents and sign a notarized affidavit of their authenticity. Overall, it is simply the sworn testimony of the authenticity of any evidence that holds more weight than some "technological solution."
AutoTune type effects ended up creeping into "way too many" tracks after that Cher song.
Actually, at the R.A.P. NG there was an eternal debate whether or not it actually was AutoTune. I happen to "believe" it was... or at any rate, that it is possible to achieve the same effect using that particular plug. The point I was making, BTW, is that this new vocal plugin will likely be a huge success. It certainly sounds as good as the singing monks plug-in, and it has much more natural formants than anything else I've heard.
I have several vocoders, software and hardware, and it is obviously a very different creature if you took the time to listen to the demos. Also, a proper vocoder needs an carrier, and it does not generate the vocal qualities. It merely functions as a formant filter (where the constanants are provided by the vocalist, and the pitch by usually a synthesizer).
Frankly, this thing just really needs a good plug-in format, like TDM or VST and it will be a gold-mine- not unlike those god-awful pitch-correction plugins that were reputed to give Cher that plastic effect to her voice (like she doesn't have enough plastic as it is). As a standalone app, it is doomed.
I berated a 'sales consultant' that definitely sounded more like a telemarketer, although he claimed it was a 'courtesy call.' When I mentioned that I was on a do-not-call list (I don't know if there is a federal one that has any teeth yet, but we do have a state list) he claimed that they were exempt because "we" had a 'prior business arrangement.' His reponse sounded very scripted, meaning they had anticipated curmudgeons such as myself protesting. This prior business arrangement was dubiously linked to a warranty card I had filled out for some product made by a subsidiary company.
There will be all sorts of loop-holes... and all the caveats attached to the emails will take up even more bandwidth- just as arguing with a telemarketer about a calling list wastes even more time.
The pathetic aspect of all this is someone somewhere is making money on it, or it would not exist-
Most "sufficiently high quality A/D" convertors cost several hundred dollars. You can just get by with a $300 audio card. The software is a toy. A decent amp modelling plug-in alone usually costs several hundred dollars. You really do get what you pay for. For some kid who wants to get his toes wet, I'm sure it is a fun little app- but don't kid yourself.
Workers have ten times the rights as US workers. They have all sorts of odd holidays (like Ascension Day) in addition to the regular ones. I was just there over Christmas for a few weeks, and it seemed many people have about 2 weeks off- not to mention sabbaticals, 6 weeks vacation, STD (short term disablity) for stubbed toes... and taxes... did I mention taxes?
I suppose it is OK to bring your camcorder into a locker room? Or is using a phone cam even better? I don't know if it is illegal yet, but my health club now posts signs forbidden such behavior.
In Norway it IS.02 BAC- and people simply do not drink and drive. Period. Norway is not the only country that has this level, but you can look these up yourself.
If what you say is true, why do people have 15 DWIs in the US? How seriously do we treat a suspended license? We really do treat it more like a right.
Because we do not even respect the speed limit in the US- or drinking and driving laws. It is a pervasive cultural issue that it is only a problem if you are caught.
Not to keep harping about europe, but in some parts it is considered in extremely bad form to speed or tailgate or do anything like what I experience (or participate in) in my daily commute in the US. How do you think roundabouts with no other traffic control would go over in the US? We NEED traffic control, and even then, we are all blowing yellow-red lights.
I will admit the present car culture will not embrace these types of laws in the US- my only point is that different driving cultures exist in the world.
You are seriously deluded if you think that EVERY city in Europe has excellent public transportation. Many communities have bus transportation that "rivals" that of bus transportation in the US (where it shuts down early, has poor service in outlying areas, etc.). It does lack the social stigma of "taking the bus". What is true is gas is very expensive, as are the vehicle taxs (that result in a new car costing nearly twice what they do in the US). Drivers licenses themselves are very expensive relative to those in the US. Many larger cities are served by trains that connect to other cities, but these are not exactly cheap either, and it is often as inexpensive to fly or drive. Plus, you may need a car to drive to the city that has a train station.
Taking YOUR line of reasoning, considering there are few alternatives in the good old USA, you might think people WOULD take their responsibilities of driving a little more seriously, no?
In fact, I would think you are reinforcing my argument here.
Germany is a huge and obvious exception to the rule (with speed limits at the very least), but still, I would argue that even Germans regard driving more as a skill and priviledge than most people in the US. I have no idea what their laws are regarding cell phones either... hey, I did not say "everywhere."
In many parts of Scandanavian countries, they publish grisly accident photos in the paper- of practically every driving fatality- including photos of the mangled vehicles, bodies covered with blankets, etc. It truly borders on the macabre. After New Years we get to see all the missing fingers photos and faces blown off following fireworks "mishaps."
I know I am off topic, but my point relates more to the culture as a whole, and how they regard collective safety.
Cell phone use while driving has been banned in many european countries for years. People actually respect the law and no one complains.
I have no issue at all with any distracted driver laws. And yes, a GPS system can be a hazard while driving.
I think it is a bizarre US issue that driving is somehow a god-given right... it is legal to drive a five times the legal intoxication limit of many european countries, while shaving, watching TV, reading a book, fiddling with the GPS, talking on the phone, etc... meanwhile we have a realitively high road mortality rate?
It seems many people regard any laws aimed at safety to somehow be inconvenient (even seatbelts). We do not even have mandatory vehicle safety inspections (closest thing are emissions tests).
Safety is a low priority in the US.
Resist change!
Keep the government out of our vehicles!
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I am sitting in Norway right now where in their version of a Sears catalog they also sell dildos, where last night on broadcast TV there was all sorts of T&A- including an unedited broadcase of Hugh Heffners 50th birthday party.
It seems they have their priorities in line here, where the sexual stuff is permitted, but the violence is not.
For some reason, the US does not make much of a distinction between sex and violence... it is all lumped together- and I do not think that is very healthy. It sends a mixed message that somehow it is all bad. For whatever reasons, parents seem more comfortable selling violence rather than sex, to minors. I have friends who took their 12 year old son to see the movie Kill Bill- because it did not have any nudity or sex in it. If you have not seen the movie it is the most violent film ever?
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Either a fecal smear, or from her own testing at the doctor. You decide.
It's not news. It's CNN.
The interesting thing is that unlike registering a domain name, most combinations of phone numbers "spell" different words. I can see it now- the biggest fish with the best lawyers can usurp your phone number because it spells something of value.
I'm with you- just had a sudden and catastophic failure of my "Deskstar" a week ago. It was the only IBM drive I've ever owned, so in my case, it WAS a 100% failure rate. The drive wasn't that old. I have antique drives that been running non-stop for 7 or 8 years without a hiccup.
Pardon my sarcasm, but their officially "approved" "directory listings" were never all that easy to break into if someone wanted their own site listed and I've always been very skeptical that sites paid for their placement as Yahoo supplanted their "free" services with more and more paid and subscription-based services. I'm not suggesting that they should not run as a "profitable" business, but what is advertising and what are legitimate search results? It is not unlike deciphering Fox News' editorial content from their 'journalism.' I'm sure this will all quickly devolve into a paid product placement scheme.
I fried a mobo on my Rambus system a few weeks ago and quickly found out how rare these mobos still are- and how little the price of memory has dropped over the last two years.
Memory is like disk space. The general population demands quantity over speed or quality. Rambus was a technology that never really trickled down to the average desktop.
I completely agree. Some of the worst viruses do not really even begin to exploit the OS weaknesses of windows. They are activated by the ignorance of users. Anyone could write an executable piece of code for macs that would function the same way these viruses and worms operate. Same for Linux. Really, these users are literally ASKING their computers to run a piece of code and send copies to everyone in their address book. This has less to do with the OS and more to do with the computer simply doing as it is told.
I have the 8260 and just grabbed the 3200 for $50 (after $170 in "instant rebates")- blows the 8260 out of the water. With the sim card I can use both. The 3200 is a bit larger, but it literally does everything and it can roam in Europe... The 8260 had the worst reception of any phone I've ever owned- it only had one band. The keys are a bit funky compared with a normal Nokia, and I can't use a standard headset (in the car). I just have always liked the Nokia navigation system (this phone is literally my fifth Nokia).
Regarding ringtone- I use ring once with vibrate on... more people should try it.
Hey, I don't make up the rules and I quoted it exactly as it is written... point to all that is how outdated the jargon actually is. If the county I'm affiliated with calls them "photostatic copies," I really don't know what the hell they would do with any md5 verification.
"All in all I suppose it's a neat idea -- hope it actually works before somebody is on trial for his life though..."
Well, the camera is only one step in the chain. Are they going to keep a bunch of these presumably more expensive memory cards lying around, or are "they" going to archive them on a CDR or hard drive? Once the image is out of the card, the verification is meaningless (if it wasn't already meaningless in the first place).
I provide "expert testimony" in court on a semi-regular basis in a completely different field. I always submit "photostatic replicas" of original documents and sign a notarized affidavit of their authenticity. Overall, it is simply the sworn testimony of the authenticity of any evidence that holds more weight than some "technological solution."
Photoshoppers be dammed! Long live fark.com
AutoTune type effects ended up creeping into "way too many" tracks after that Cher song.
Actually, at the R.A.P. NG there was an eternal debate whether or not it actually was AutoTune. I happen to "believe" it was... or at any rate, that it is possible to achieve the same effect using that particular plug. The point I was making, BTW, is that this new vocal plugin will likely be a huge success. It certainly sounds as good as the singing monks plug-in, and it has much more natural formants than anything else I've heard.
Huh... I'm not surprised, but I didn't find any mention of the plug-in formats at the Yamaha links, and the generic NAMM link is rather useless.
I have several vocoders, software and hardware, and it is obviously a very different creature if you took the time to listen to the demos. Also, a proper vocoder needs an carrier, and it does not generate the vocal qualities. It merely functions as a formant filter (where the constanants are provided by the vocalist, and the pitch by usually a synthesizer).
Frankly, this thing just really needs a good plug-in format, like TDM or VST and it will be a gold-mine- not unlike those god-awful pitch-correction plugins that were reputed to give Cher that plastic effect to her voice (like she doesn't have enough plastic as it is). As a standalone app, it is doomed.
I berated a 'sales consultant' that definitely sounded more like a telemarketer, although he claimed it was a 'courtesy call.' When I mentioned that I was on a do-not-call list (I don't know if there is a federal one that has any teeth yet, but we do have a state list) he claimed that they were exempt because "we" had a 'prior business arrangement.' His reponse sounded very scripted, meaning they had anticipated curmudgeons such as myself protesting. This prior business arrangement was dubiously linked to a warranty card I had filled out for some product made by a subsidiary company.
There will be all sorts of loop-holes... and all the caveats attached to the emails will take up even more bandwidth- just as arguing with a telemarketer about a calling list wastes even more time.
The pathetic aspect of all this is someone somewhere is making money on it, or it would not exist-
The whole thing reminds me of the one-click checkout debacle of amazon.com or some other so-called "e-tailer."
Most "sufficiently high quality A/D" convertors cost several hundred dollars. You can just get by with a $300 audio card. The software is a toy. A decent amp modelling plug-in alone usually costs several hundred dollars. You really do get what you pay for. For some kid who wants to get his toes wet, I'm sure it is a fun little app- but don't kid yourself.
Workers have ten times the rights as US workers. They have all sorts of odd holidays (like Ascension Day) in addition to the regular ones. I was just there over Christmas for a few weeks, and it seemed many people have about 2 weeks off- not to mention sabbaticals, 6 weeks vacation, STD (short term disablity) for stubbed toes... and taxes... did I mention taxes?
I suppose it is OK to bring your camcorder into a locker room? Or is using a phone cam even better? I don't know if it is illegal yet, but my health club now posts signs forbidden such behavior.
In Norway it IS .02 BAC- and people simply do not drink and drive. Period. Norway is not the only country that has this level, but you can look these up yourself.
If what you say is true, why do people have 15 DWIs in the US? How seriously do we treat a suspended license? We really do treat it more like a right.
Because we do not even respect the speed limit in the US- or drinking and driving laws. It is a pervasive cultural issue that it is only a problem if you are caught.
Not to keep harping about europe, but in some parts it is considered in extremely bad form to speed or tailgate or do anything like what I experience (or participate in) in my daily commute in the US. How do you think roundabouts with no other traffic control would go over in the US? We NEED traffic control, and even then, we are all blowing yellow-red lights.
I will admit the present car culture will not embrace these types of laws in the US- my only point is that different driving cultures exist in the world.
You are seriously deluded if you think that EVERY city in Europe has excellent public transportation. Many communities have bus transportation that "rivals" that of bus transportation in the US (where it shuts down early, has poor service in outlying areas, etc.). It does lack the social stigma of "taking the bus". What is true is gas is very expensive, as are the vehicle taxs (that result in a new car costing nearly twice what they do in the US). Drivers licenses themselves are very expensive relative to those in the US. Many larger cities are served by trains that connect to other cities, but these are not exactly cheap either, and it is often as inexpensive to fly or drive. Plus, you may need a car to drive to the city that has a train station.
Taking YOUR line of reasoning, considering there are few alternatives in the good old USA, you might think people WOULD take their responsibilities of driving a little more seriously, no?
In fact, I would think you are reinforcing my argument here.
Germany is a huge and obvious exception to the rule (with speed limits at the very least), but still, I would argue that even Germans regard driving more as a skill and priviledge than most people in the US. I have no idea what their laws are regarding cell phones either... hey, I did not say "everywhere."
In many parts of Scandanavian countries, they publish grisly accident photos in the paper- of practically every driving fatality- including photos of the mangled vehicles, bodies covered with blankets, etc. It truly borders on the macabre. After New Years we get to see all the missing fingers photos and faces blown off following fireworks "mishaps."
I know I am off topic, but my point relates more to the culture as a whole, and how they regard collective safety.
Cell phone use while driving has been banned in many european countries for years. People actually respect the law and no one complains.
I have no issue at all with any distracted driver laws. And yes, a GPS system can be a hazard while driving.
I think it is a bizarre US issue that driving is somehow a god-given right... it is legal to drive a five times the legal intoxication limit of many european countries, while shaving, watching TV, reading a book, fiddling with the GPS, talking on the phone, etc... meanwhile we have a realitively high road mortality rate?
It seems many people regard any laws aimed at safety to somehow be inconvenient (even seatbelts). We do not even have mandatory vehicle safety inspections (closest thing are emissions tests).
Safety is a low priority in the US.
Resist change!
Keep the government out of our vehicles!
(sorry the sarcasm font did not properly display in your browser)
A system?
I am sitting in Norway right now where in their version of a Sears catalog they also sell dildos, where last night on broadcast TV there was all sorts of T&A- including an unedited broadcase of Hugh Heffners 50th birthday party.
It seems they have their priorities in line here, where the sexual stuff is permitted, but the violence is not.
For some reason, the US does not make much of a distinction between sex and violence... it is all lumped together- and I do not think that is very healthy. It sends a mixed message that somehow it is all bad. For whatever reasons, parents seem more comfortable selling violence rather than sex, to minors. I have friends who took their 12 year old son to see the movie Kill Bill- because it did not have any nudity or sex in it. If you have not seen the movie it is the most violent film ever?
add- array- everything is an array of services these days... an array this and an array that best practices- how did all this consulting jargon make its way into normal business-speak