Pretty much all the music I have ever downloaded has been in FLAC format. After all, most everything I listen to is from etree or the live music archive, and it would be sacrilegious to make that music lossy.
As someone who has lived in the Southwest for the past 20 odd years, I wholeheartedly agree with respect to the attention to environmental detail that Rockstar has given this game. They have created an entertaining escape through a beautiful setting and an interesting plot, which in my book is more than enough to be a success as a game. There are certainly plenty of nits to pick as far as gameplay issues, although (for me) these aren't so detrimental as to warrant anything but a thumbs up for the title.
What kind of company selling 11,000 dollar computers wouldn't be able to use a proper SSL certificate? The hardcorereactor.com checkout uses hardcorecomputer.com SSL certificate.
So spaketh TheVelvetFlamebait
If you like recording as I and so many others do (Remember them? They're those things that confirmed the band was any good in the first place?) You've got to be kidding. Since when did The Grateful Dead ever confirm their musical proficiency through their records? I would think being one of the largest touring bands for 30 years confirmed that.
I witnessed the wanton debarking and destruction of the pacific yew during the early 90s working as wildlife biologist in Southern Oregon. This was driven by Bristol Myers Squibb's insatiable appetite for naturally found taxol, which is cheaper and easier to extract than total synthesis, coupled with a district ranger's personal crusade to avenge his mother's death. While everyone here supports the eradication of breast cancer, we need to temper our worldly destruction of a species with continuing research on cheaper (monetarily and environmentally) ways to acquire taxol. This new dirt theory is an exciting step to saving lives and saving trees.
I think I will have to stick with Spotlight due to my overwhelming reliance on importers such as these. Being able to search through flac tags can be really helpful if you archive hundreds and hundreds of GBs of live music, which generally have strange naming conventions (or at least less imformative ones).
So spaketh jimstapleton:
FLAC (poor battery life, excellent quality) Battery life is hardly an issue (as compared to most other portable music players) with the X5L. Cowon claims 35 hours, and real world testing shows it is relatively close to that.
I also can recommend the iAudio line, specifically the X5L. Not only does it play flac and ogg, but it has a multitude of other cool functions. The player requires no additional applications (other than Finder) to load or delete music. Battery life comes in right around a decent 30-35 hours (plenty for my girlfriend's 8-10 day trips down the Grand Canyon).
Yes, I think it should read something like "... a small company that sells small organs". I sure hope the author doesn't think Oregon and organ are pronounced the same.
Our little telephone company, Qwest, has offered this for nearly 2 years, although it used to be difficult to convince the sales people that the service actually existed. In fact we used to get "No ISP, No dial tone", 1mbit down/1mbit up, service for under 20 USD per month until it became popular.
I agree with you about the limited choices --- 500,000 songs....pfft. Most of it is pop music crap anyway. Just hop over to etree where you can peruse some 119,000 unique shows from quality artists of many genres. Enough to keep your highspeed connection busy for a while.
This already goes on at etree. Does the slashdot crowd turn a blind eye to this because they are looking for "pop(ular)" music? I would hope that the folks here are willing to step out of the mainstream and support bands that allow taping.
So, you have people trading crappy live recordings made through sub-standard microphones, placed 100 yards away from the performers, that picked up the sound from so-so PA speakers and fed a consumer-grade portable recorder insisting that they need lossless compression for the audio treasures that they that they exchange.
In this case, Phish is selling downloadable shows from their vault, not an audience recording that some random guy made on his Tandy voice recorder. I assume (and only have experience downloading their livephish.com rollout shows) that these are matrix recordings, mixing soundboard and audience, to give the recording warmth and feel.
I also highly doubt that the majority of people that record(ed) live shows use sub-standard microphones. My perspective is and was not Phish tapers, rather the folks who taped Grateful Dead shows, toting portable equipment worth more than my first four cars combined. If you would like a good discussion of some of the equipment Phish tapers use, you may want to check out this site, among many others.
As far as Phish's live sound goes, there is a list of equipment used (before 1998) here. Far from a so-so sound system.
You must understand that the success and longevity of Bands That Allow Taping and Bands That Play Good Live(tm), generally, depends on the dissemination of quality live recordings. That starts at the musical ability of the artists, and continues all the way through to the quality of the final traded media. Compression tools like Shorten and FLAC have furthered quality legal tape (I say tape and mean any audio media here) trading. More power to Phish for moving to this, to ensure that their music gets the listener over the internet in the best way it can. Afterall, this is not Ms. Spears doing Cleveland 2001 "Oh No!, Here I Come Again Tour".
Well, the problem with water is it's relatively high freezing point. I use Dowfrost(tm) (Propylene Glycol) in a 1:1 ratio with water running at 22 F (it could go much lower) through a 5 hp refrigerator/pumping station to keep stuff cold. You can pick up a 55 gallon drum of it for under $600 US. But then again, what I am keeping cool is a hell of a lot more important than my home office CPU - thousands of gallons of beer.
Through the voluminous amounts of information provided in the article, and more importantly the ETH (is that the manufacturer?) website I was able to glean... absoultely nothing that would convince me to switch to this system. I completly agree with Florian Michahelles, that "augmenting" our current beacons, which incidentally not a very high percentage of mountaineers are wearing anyway, with sensors is an excellent idea. But come on, that compaq whatever it is, looks as durable as uncooked bacon in the jaws of a hundred pound malamute. I will continue to wear my F1, thank you very much.
This is becoming ridiculous. I preordered the game back in March of this year from tuxgames. Their (BioWare's) marketing ploy certainly worked on me: "Cross-Platform release", with mention of simultaneously releasing the game on linux and mac to name two of the OS's. My question to them would be, if you (BioWare) were planning to release the damn game on linux, why would you have chosen to use software that was only supported on other operating systems?
And furthermore, this game, as the poster misinforms us of, was originally supposed to be relased on the linux OS well before Fall of 2002.
I think at this point I will be cancelling my order from tuxgames. Anyway nethack > *, except for maybe Hunt the Wumpus.
Yes, I find it somewhat ironic that the first (and certainly only) Gateway I have ever bought for the business, has been running SETI@home since Tue Jul 13 22:46:53 1999 UTC.
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Why wouldn't you just cram an instance of searx on your server and completely be done with the Search Engine Battle?
Pretty much all the music I have ever downloaded has been in FLAC format. After all, most everything I listen to is from etree or the live music archive, and it would be sacrilegious to make that music lossy.
As someone who has lived in the Southwest for the past 20 odd years, I wholeheartedly agree with respect to the attention to environmental detail that Rockstar has given this game. They have created an entertaining escape through a beautiful setting and an interesting plot, which in my book is more than enough to be a success as a game. There are certainly plenty of nits to pick as far as gameplay issues, although (for me) these aren't so detrimental as to warrant anything but a thumbs up for the title.
What kind of company selling 11,000 dollar computers wouldn't be able to use a proper SSL certificate? The hardcorereactor.com checkout uses hardcorecomputer.com SSL certificate.
I'm pretty sure that the rings are made up of lost airline luggage.
I've only had gmail since June of 2004 and I seem to have the IMAP option available. Your mileage certainly has varied.
I witnessed the wanton debarking and destruction of the pacific yew during the early 90s working as wildlife biologist in Southern Oregon. This was driven by Bristol Myers Squibb's insatiable appetite for naturally found taxol, which is cheaper and easier to extract than total synthesis, coupled with a district ranger's personal crusade to avenge his mother's death. While everyone here supports the eradication of breast cancer, we need to temper our worldly destruction of a species with continuing research on cheaper (monetarily and environmentally) ways to acquire taxol. This new dirt theory is an exciting step to saving lives and saving trees.
I think I will have to stick with Spotlight due to my overwhelming reliance on importers such as these. Being able to search through flac tags can be really helpful if you archive hundreds and hundreds of GBs of live music, which generally have strange naming conventions (or at least less imformative ones).
I also can recommend the iAudio line, specifically the X5L. Not only does it play flac and ogg, but it has a multitude of other cool functions. The player requires no additional applications (other than Finder) to load or delete music. Battery life comes in right around a decent 30-35 hours (plenty for my girlfriend's 8-10 day trips down the Grand Canyon).
Yes, I think it should read something like "... a small company that sells small organs". I sure hope the author doesn't think Oregon and organ are pronounced the same.
Our little telephone company, Qwest, has offered this for nearly 2 years, although it used to be difficult to convince the sales people that the service actually existed. In fact we used to get "No ISP, No dial tone", 1mbit down/1mbit up, service for under 20 USD per month until it became popular.
Here is some more reading on this extortion attack: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/alerts/alert.p hp?AlertID=194
They have a graph with an unlabeled y-axis here. It is small and hard to read.
Not only does it lack ogg support, but it does not support popular lossless compressed formats like shorten or flac.
I got my invite fine at my hotmail address.
I agree with you about the limited choices --- 500,000 songs....pfft. Most of it is pop music crap anyway. Just hop over to etree where you can peruse some 119,000 unique shows from quality artists of many genres. Enough to keep your highspeed connection busy for a while.
Regards,
Jeff
This already goes on at etree. Does the slashdot crowd turn a blind eye to this because they are looking for "pop(ular)" music? I would hope that the folks here are willing to step out of the mainstream and support bands that allow taping.
Regards
In this case, Phish is selling downloadable shows from their vault, not an audience recording that some random guy made on his Tandy voice recorder. I assume (and only have experience downloading their livephish.com rollout shows) that these are matrix recordings, mixing soundboard and audience, to give the recording warmth and feel.
I also highly doubt that the majority of people that record(ed) live shows use sub-standard microphones. My perspective is and was not Phish tapers, rather the folks who taped Grateful Dead shows, toting portable equipment worth more than my first four cars combined. If you would like a good discussion of some of the equipment Phish tapers use, you may want to check out this site, among many others.
As far as Phish's live sound goes, there is a list of equipment used (before 1998) here. Far from a so-so sound system.
You must understand that the success and longevity of Bands That Allow Taping and Bands That Play Good Live(tm), generally, depends on the dissemination of quality live recordings. That starts at the musical ability of the artists, and continues all the way through to the quality of the final traded media. Compression tools like Shorten and FLAC have furthered quality legal tape (I say tape and mean any audio media here) trading. More power to Phish for moving to this, to ensure that their music gets the listener over the internet in the best way it can. Afterall, this is not Ms. Spears doing Cleveland 2001 "Oh No!, Here I Come Again Tour".
Well, the problem with water is it's relatively high freezing point. I use Dowfrost(tm) (Propylene Glycol) in a 1:1 ratio with water running at 22 F (it could go much lower) through a 5 hp refrigerator/pumping station to keep stuff cold. You can pick up a 55 gallon drum of it for under $600 US. But then again, what I am keeping cool is a hell of a lot more important than my home office CPU - thousands of gallons of beer.
Through the voluminous amounts of information provided in the article, and more importantly the ETH (is that the manufacturer?) website I was able to glean... absoultely nothing that would convince me to switch to this system. I completly agree with Florian Michahelles, that "augmenting" our current beacons, which incidentally not a very high percentage of mountaineers are wearing anyway, with sensors is an excellent idea. But come on, that compaq whatever it is, looks as durable as uncooked bacon in the jaws of a hundred pound malamute. I will continue to wear my F1, thank you very much.
This is becoming ridiculous. I preordered the game back in March of this year from tuxgames. Their (BioWare's) marketing ploy certainly worked on me: "Cross-Platform release", with mention of simultaneously releasing the game on linux and mac to name two of the OS's. My question to them would be, if you (BioWare) were planning to release the damn game on linux, why would you have chosen to use software that was only supported on other operating systems?
And furthermore, this game, as the poster misinforms us of, was originally supposed to be relased on the linux OS well before Fall of 2002.
I think at this point I will be cancelling my order from tuxgames. Anyway nethack > *, except for maybe Hunt the Wumpus.
Yes, I find it somewhat ironic that the first (and certainly only) Gateway I have ever bought for the business, has been running SETI@home since Tue Jul 13 22:46:53 1999 UTC.
On the topic of O'Reilly, might I add that Running Linux, whatever edition they are on now, is a valuable tool in understanding how things work.