The only problem I see is the inability to select alternate stylesheets from the "View" menu. Every other Mozilla-based browser (as well as Konq and Netscape) has this, but not Firefox.
I'm curious: is this a deliberate omission, or just an oversight?
I just moved back to Slackware (on which Suse was originally based) after I got sick of the problems that have plagued Suse since 7.3 or so. Yast was always a really nice configuration tool, but the other, semi-proprietary problems lie under the hood. The directory structure is slightly non-standard, which means about one out of every three source packages (and 90% of non-Suse RPMs) failed to install without alot of frustration. Suse was a godsend when it came to having a variety of apps, but you were pretty much stuck with the versions on the install cds because of this, and upgrading something like Gnome was a nightmare because none of the libraries were where they *should* have been. It's one heck of a great distro for beginners, but the training wheels never come off.
The Yepp is also supported under Linux. It's basically just a usb mass-storage device with onboard firmware to allow mp3 playback. I have the Yp-55v, and I use it in Linux. It mounts on/dev/sdb1 and read/writes just fine. ==
Yeah. There's a Nomad/Zen (news.creative.com) newsgroup with which several of the folks from Creative correspond, and we've been bugging them to support Ogg forever. Their response thus far has been, "It's not out of the question, but we haven't gotten to it yet." It seems that they're aware of the demand, but they're dragging their feet.
A few things that would make me switch to Ogg in a second would be if:
It supported gapless playback between one file and the next (something mp3 is spotty at),
It ran with lower power consumption, and of course,
if it had firmware support for the Nomad Jukebox and Samsung Yepp (more a vendor issue, true).
If it could do these things, I'd be willing to re-encode my collection. I can attest to the better sound quality/lower bitrate quotient from experience, and finding.ogg files on SoulSeek and the like isn't a problem for the P2P crowd.
Anyone know anything about the first two points? For me at least, those would make it a killer app of sorts for portable use.
I've testified in two sexual harrassment cases at various jobs, one bogus and the other sadly and horribly valid. The simple legal rule of thumb is this: if her behavior creates a hostile working environment, it is sexual harrassment. It doesn't matter if he's a full-time employee, a consultant, a vendor, or a customer. Unwelcome advances that make it hard to work legally constitute sexual harrassment.
That said, if you plan on suing (and it is possible for a man to do so), be prepared for a long and costly trial. Her company may do their best to make the suit very difficult and expensive. The valid case I encountered involved a long-term pattern of heinous behavior on behalf of the immediate superior, and even when it was verified by a score of witnessess and a ton of documentation, the trial cost the plantiff six months of work and over $200k in legal fees. Be prepared.
About his only work still in print is the Hellicona trilogy, which is a shame because his short stories are brilliant. Two compilations come to mind:
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand is an utter classic. It's a series of short stories that chronicle the next few million years of human galactic history, including one in which archaeologists finally locate the ruins of the original Earth, which has been lost for eons, but are discredited as crackpots.
No Time Like Tomorrow is another great one, but I only have it becuase I found it sitting on an airplane seat years ago...
My Jukebox 3 can do.wav recordings at up to 48khz either through a mic or an optical line-in. It also does onboard mp3 encoding at up to 320kbs. (Note that the Zen doesn't have these capabilities, kust the NJB3)
Even with the lowly 20GB model, I've got more than enough overhead to record several nights' shows with no compression. All this for under $300 USD.
"The popular tech website Slashdot has had a 14-year-old named Kevin Galinski arrested today. Apparently, Kevin has been participating in an activity know as 'trolling' in which he makes numerous 'first posts' in the website's forums, usually under the moniker of Anonymous Coward. Galinski claims that his ability to post responses so quickly is due to the fact that he comes from the distant future, and has foreknowledge of it. Sadly, this is the only way he is capable of exploiting such knowledge.
"As most of these 'first posts' have no relevance to the discussion at hand, Galinski's contributions have been largely ignored until recently. When asked why Galinski was suddenly arrested, Slashdot spokesperson Cmdr. Taco responded, 'Man, we were just so sick of those damn "in Soviet Russia" jokes.'
"Mr. Galinski's lawyer, Johnny Cochran, was unable to be reached for comment."
Maybe when a big-name star with serious legal representation (like Celine Dion) finds that she's not getting airplay because the record company crippled her product, we'll see some progress made against copy-crippled cds.
Oh. My. God. Could it be that Celine Dion could save us?
Funny thing is, I stopped listening to the radio for anything other than traffic reports around 1993 or so. It's not like I'd have even noticed...
According to TV...
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Actually, the court case was filed by Nintendo. The courts had held up the legality of renting video games, so Nintendo tried to sue for copyright infringement regarding Blockbuster's practice of photo-copying the (copyrighted) instruction manuals. Since it's hard to rent a game without the manual, Blockbuster simply sidestepped the issue by paraphrasing the instructions on the back of the rental case.
Take a look at WindowMaker for the best, cleanest UI ever made. It leaves only the slightest memory footprint, locks up about once every nine months or so (requiring only the X server-not the OS-to be restarted), and plays nice with all apps, no matter what environment they were designed for.
Though I understand the need for something like a taskbar, the way Apple and MS have implemented it is completey wrong. It's too space-consuming, ugly, and especially in Windows, barely functional. WindowMaker's dock handles this in a much cleaner and intuitive fashion, and I can't overstate how much easier multiple desktops make life-an idea neither Apple or MS have caught on to yet.
I can just see it now: $15 US for a poorly (if at all) mastered, poorly mixed, off-the-boards burn made in a concert hall with heinous acoustics.
They'll make millions, of course.
My mouth waters at the idea of having an instantly-available, decent, recording of some shows I've seen; the Autechre/Tortoise gigs I saw here in Atlanta, or Yo La Tengo last time through, for example. But the ones that'll actually be available? Britney Spears: Live at the Schlitz Arena in Dayton or some such tripe.
No thanks. And yes, I'm sure it'll be DRM'ed (am I the first person to use that as a verb?) six ways to Sunday. Remember, kids-don't steal music. Or Top 40 radio.
I'm going through the Season Two Dvds, and this is really where the show was classic. Bart the Daredevil should've been nearer the top. It's the quintessential Simpsons episode: great multi-branched plot, great family dynamic, great non-sequiturs and side-gags, and one of the best visual gags ever. Oh, and Truckasaurus.
Of course, that was also when the Simpsons still had real heart. Nowadays, it's just Homer's (often mean-spirited) buffoonery with some strained celbrity cameos and/or travel to exotic places as a plot device. If one more episode starts with, "The Simpsons are going to..."
The last season had some truly great episodes, such as the Prisoner and Run Lola Run parodies, but this season, I have yet to watch a single episode twice. I hate to hear myself say it, but I think the show's just run out.
Still, they had an incredible run, and for over ten years, they were the only TV that I kept up with besides the news. That's saying alot.
I work for a company that does credit checks. This was a bit worrisome for me when I interviewed, since at the time, I was having some problems. I got the job though, and it didn't seem to affect anything. One night a few months later, I asked a lawyer I ran into about it.
His interpretation was that it's completey legal since, as with drug testing, I have every right to choose not to work for such a company. Fair enough. What he pointed out, however, is that in most cases, employers don't care if you've missed car payments or had a bankruptcy or whatever. What they're looking for is stuff that won't show on a normal criminal background check.
Criminal checks usually only show stuff that you've been arrested and/or convicted of-usually felonies. Credit checks can catch things that could be just as problematic, though. For example, a deadbeat dad who has outstanding warrants for back child support will still pass a criminal check (he hasn't been convicted yet), but DFACS will lock down the jerk's credit rating, and this'll show up on the credit check. Same goes for certain types of check fraud and tax evasion. This is the sort of thing that employers are usually concerned about.
Now if you're applying for something like Branch Manager of a bank or security clearance, I can see why they'd be more comprehensive, but if it's not that kind of job you're applying for, I'd ask them what criteria they're checking first.
Trust me, $7.50 wholesale is completely off. When I was running a large-chain record store in the mid '90s, we were paying upwards of $10.35 to $10.80 for new releases. And that's with price-breaks for volume buying. Now imagine having to price those copies at $12.99 and expecting to keep the lights on. Retailers aren't the bottleneck here, the labels are.
In late 1996, a label rep from WEA (Warner's distribution arm) told me that it cost the label an average of $3.20 per cd to get it to market. Thing is, that's for a major artist, and that cost includes promotion, big-name producer, etc. Your mileage will vary significantly.
My advice is to get a good hard-disc 16-track (about $800) and do everything up to the mastering process yourself. Take the product to a local engineer and have him master it (usually about $200, often far less). With the finished product in hand, all you have to do is cut a deal with a distributor. From there, you have the choice as to how it's marketed, promoted, and most importantly, priced. Even if you can sell it at $10.00, you'll be far cheaper than major-label stuff, and yes, price is a selling point.
One last thing. If you do it yourself, it's yours. It can't be shelved three weeks before release, used without your consent in a Gap commercial or held for ransom because you threaten to break a restrictive and humiliating contract. Paul Simon still has to pay to play "Sounds of Silence" in his concerts.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I as always taught that mechanical safeties of any sort are never to be trusted. To that end, I learned the same rules of safe use that all responsible gun owners follow:
Treat any gun as if it were loaded (without exception).
Never point the gun at anything you're not prepared to destroy.
Never fire unless you feel justified in taking a human life.
It doesn't matter what kind of safety gizmo you put on it. You'll only have two outcomes:
Innocent people will die because they pointed a gun at an assailant and the safety mechanism hung. (Never point unless you mean it), or
Criminals will just opt for one of the millions of handguns without the safety mods anyway.
Bear in mind that gun laws don't stop criminals from owning or using guns capricously. Only stiffer penalties and better enforcement of existing laws can do that.
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I'm curious: is this a deliberate omission, or just an oversight?
"I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way."
--Silent Bob. The Simpsons
Yep.
"In Soviet Russia..."
Oh, never mind.
Thanks. I had to read that one twice. Now cleaning Mountain. Dew off the keyboard...
I just moved back to Slackware (on which Suse was originally based) after I got sick of the problems that have plagued Suse since 7.3 or so. Yast was always a really nice configuration tool, but the other, semi-proprietary problems lie under the hood. The directory structure is slightly non-standard, which means about one out of every three source packages (and 90% of non-Suse RPMs) failed to install without alot of frustration. Suse was a godsend when it came to having a variety of apps, but you were pretty much stuck with the versions on the install cds because of this, and upgrading something like Gnome was a nightmare because none of the libraries were where they *should* have been. It's one heck of a great distro for beginners, but the training wheels never come off.
The Yepp is also supported under Linux. It's basically just a usb mass-storage device with onboard firmware to allow mp3 playback. I have the Yp-55v, and I use it in Linux. It mounts on /dev/sdb1 and read/writes just fine.
==
Yeah. There's a Nomad/Zen (news.creative.com) newsgroup with which several of the folks from Creative correspond, and we've been bugging them to support Ogg forever. Their response thus far has been, "It's not out of the question, but we haven't gotten to it yet." It seems that they're aware of the demand, but they're dragging their feet.
If it could do these things, I'd be willing to re-encode my collection. I can attest to the better sound quality/lower bitrate quotient from experience, and finding
Anyone know anything about the first two points? For me at least, those would make it a killer app of sorts for portable use.
That said, if you plan on suing (and it is possible for a man to do so), be prepared for a long and costly trial. Her company may do their best to make the suit very difficult and expensive. The valid case I encountered involved a long-term pattern of heinous behavior on behalf of the immediate superior, and even when it was verified by a score of witnessess and a ton of documentation, the trial cost the plantiff six months of work and over $200k in legal fees. Be prepared.
About his only work still in print is the Hellicona trilogy, which is a shame because his short stories are brilliant. Two compilations come to mind:
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand is an utter classic. It's a series of short stories that chronicle the next few million years of human galactic history, including one in which archaeologists finally locate the ruins of the original Earth, which has been lost for eons, but are discredited as crackpots.
No Time Like Tomorrow is another great one, but I only have it becuase I found it sitting on an airplane seat years ago...
My Jukebox 3 can do .wav recordings at up to 48khz either through a mic or an optical line-in. It also does onboard mp3 encoding at up to 320kbs. (Note that the Zen doesn't have these capabilities, kust the NJB3)
Even with the lowly 20GB model, I've got more than enough overhead to record several nights' shows with no compression. All this for under $300 USD.
The truth comes out...
Any wonderful Arista artists like Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC or Kenny G.?
Maybe when a big-name star with serious legal representation (like Celine Dion) finds that she's not getting airplay because the record company crippled her product, we'll see some progress made against copy-crippled cds.
Oh. My. God. Could it be that Celine Dion could save us?
Funny thing is, I stopped listening to the radio for anything other than traffic reports around 1993 or so. It's not like I'd have even noticed...
"Destroy all humans. Hey, bite my shiny metal..."
Actually, the court case was filed by Nintendo. The courts had held up the legality of renting video games, so Nintendo tried to sue for copyright infringement regarding Blockbuster's practice of photo-copying the (copyrighted) instruction manuals. Since it's hard to rent a game without the manual, Blockbuster simply sidestepped the issue by paraphrasing the instructions on the back of the rental case.
Though I understand the need for something like a taskbar, the way Apple and MS have implemented it is completey wrong. It's too space-consuming, ugly, and especially in Windows, barely functional. WindowMaker's dock handles this in a much cleaner and intuitive fashion, and I can't overstate how much easier multiple desktops make life-an idea neither Apple or MS have caught on to yet.
I can just see it now: $15 US for a poorly (if at all) mastered, poorly mixed, off-the-boards burn made in a concert hall with heinous acoustics.
They'll make millions, of course.
My mouth waters at the idea of having an instantly-available, decent, recording of some shows I've seen; the Autechre/Tortoise gigs I saw here in Atlanta, or Yo La Tengo last time through, for example. But the ones that'll actually be available? Britney Spears: Live at the Schlitz Arena in Dayton or some such tripe.
No thanks. And yes, I'm sure it'll be DRM'ed (am I the first person to use that as a verb?) six ways to Sunday. Remember, kids-don't steal music. Or Top 40 radio.
{Is this first post? I feel dirty somehow...}
I'm going through the Season Two Dvds, and this is really where the show was classic. Bart the Daredevil should've been nearer the top. It's the quintessential Simpsons episode: great multi-branched plot, great family dynamic, great non-sequiturs and side-gags, and one of the best visual gags ever. Oh, and Truckasaurus.
Of course, that was also when the Simpsons still had real heart. Nowadays, it's just Homer's (often mean-spirited) buffoonery with some strained celbrity cameos and/or travel to exotic places as a plot device. If one more episode starts with, "The Simpsons are going to..."
The last season had some truly great episodes, such as the Prisoner and Run Lola Run parodies, but this season, I have yet to watch a single episode twice. I hate to hear myself say it, but I think the show's just run out.
Still, they had an incredible run, and for over ten years, they were the only TV that I kept up with besides the news. That's saying alot.
Lovejoy: "Wait a minute...this sounds like Rock and/or Roll!"
Marge: "Homer, it's 9:30. What are you still doing at home?"
Homer: "Burns said if I show up late one more time, I'm fired. I can't take that risk!"
I work for a company that does credit checks. This was a bit worrisome for me when I interviewed, since at the time, I was having some problems. I got the job though, and it didn't seem to affect anything. One night a few months later, I asked a lawyer I ran into about it.
His interpretation was that it's completey legal since, as with drug testing, I have every right to choose not to work for such a company. Fair enough. What he pointed out, however, is that in most cases, employers don't care if you've missed car payments or had a bankruptcy or whatever. What they're looking for is stuff that won't show on a normal criminal background check.
Criminal checks usually only show stuff that you've been arrested and/or convicted of-usually felonies. Credit checks can catch things that could be just as problematic, though. For example, a deadbeat dad who has outstanding warrants for back child support will still pass a criminal check (he hasn't been convicted yet), but DFACS will lock down the jerk's credit rating, and this'll show up on the credit check. Same goes for certain types of check fraud and tax evasion. This is the sort of thing that employers are usually concerned about.
Now if you're applying for something like Branch Manager of a bank or security clearance, I can see why they'd be more comprehensive, but if it's not that kind of job you're applying for, I'd ask them what criteria they're checking first.
From Dave Barry in Cyberspace :
"Who really runs the internet?"
"A 13-year-old boy named Kevin."
In late 1996, a label rep from WEA (Warner's distribution arm) told me that it cost the label an average of $3.20 per cd to get it to market. Thing is, that's for a major artist, and that cost includes promotion, big-name producer, etc. Your mileage will vary significantly.
My advice is to get a good hard-disc 16-track (about $800) and do everything up to the mastering process yourself. Take the product to a local engineer and have him master it (usually about $200, often far less). With the finished product in hand, all you have to do is cut a deal with a distributor. From there, you have the choice as to how it's marketed, promoted, and most importantly, priced. Even if you can sell it at $10.00, you'll be far cheaper than major-label stuff, and yes, price is a selling point.
One last thing. If you do it yourself, it's yours. It can't be shelved three weeks before release, used without your consent in a Gap commercial or held for ransom because you threaten to break a restrictive and humiliating contract. Paul Simon still has to pay to play "Sounds of Silence" in his concerts.
...hey, at least she dances better than Steve Ballmer.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I as always taught that mechanical safeties of any sort are never to be trusted. To that end, I learned the same rules of safe use that all responsible gun owners follow:
It doesn't matter what kind of safety gizmo you put on it. You'll only have two outcomes:
Bear in mind that gun laws don't stop criminals from owning or using guns capricously. Only stiffer penalties and better enforcement of existing laws can do that.