You don't have to be a Kreskin to see that the Big East is dying. Another crippling bombshell hit the beleagured athletic conference when Miami and VT...
You really cannot be serious. Bill Gates is solely responsible for Draconian international patent laws? He is personally bankrupting African countries by overcharging them for an AIDS vaccine which doesn't yet exist? He is responsible for poor local governance in African townships? By your standards we are all murdering millions of Africans every hour. I'm finished arguing with you children, don't bother replying because I won't waste any more time reading it anyway.
First of all, Linus is hardly equivalent to a CEO, more like the president of the Slashdot Teenage Fanclub. Second, unless Linus raised a billion dollars getting dunked then he's still far far behind Bill Gates as far as charitable donations go.
Well, the AMD/nVidia bit was just a joke, but it turns out I was wrong anyway since it looks like ATI is part of the problem after all. They are the ones who came up with this "MOBILE RADEON 9200" nonsense, where "MOBILE" means "Not really a" I guess. Somebody posted a link to the new Acer models and they claim to use the M-R-9200 also.
Huh? Clearly they are HP/Compaq apologists. ATI and Intel have no need for apologies since they aren't responsible for any of this, I don't know why you would insinuate that they do unless you are a pathetic AMD/nVidia fanboy astroturfer.:-)
I second that, I have an RM-VL900 as well and I like it a lot. I almost bought one of those Radio Shack ones somebody mentioned below but when I went to the store to look at it it was this big hideous two-handed monstrosity. I can easily work the Sony with one hand (I have big hands though).
For even less money you can pick up the RM-VL700. I had one of those before I got the 900 and it was able to learn my TV, DVD, and stereo (a weirdo Yamaha with no preset) no problem. The only thing it couldn't do was learn keystrokes off my Airboard wireless keyboard, I had to upgrade to the 900 for that.
Have you tried one of the Winamp 5 betas that are floating around? I'm sure you could find one with a google search. I've been using beta 2 for awhile and I like it pretty well, although I can't really comment on playlist features since I usually just listen to complete albums.
I don't know him personally, but RMS doesn't exactly strike me as the sort of person who would just say what he thought people wanted to hear. Quite the opposite, actually, which is why I'm sort of glad that I don't know him personally.:-)
When I was in grad school for physics it was sort of a running joke that the incoming Chinese students would always destroy the American ones on the qualifying exam. Finally I asked one of the Chinese guys about it and he told me that he had to beat out hundreds of people in China on a battery of tests just to even apply to an American grad school. We only get a chance to meet the best of the best, the rest of them are still in China.
I tried it last night. I wanted to set up testing on one of my machines, so I figured I'd just download the net install CD image (it was called beta1, beta means it mostly works, right?). Burned it, popped it in, kernel panic - "can't find init". Reboot, give it "init=/linuxrc" at the LILO prompt, another kernel panic - "tried to kill init". Grrrr....
I remember that stuff too at my University, those people were fools. The SSC was a separately funded project and didn't come out of the usual funding agencies. If you don't believe me go ask those people how much their grants went up when the SSC was canceled and freed up all of that "physics" money.
The Linear Collider ended up in the "medium term", which for all practical purposes means it's not a priority at all at this point. I don't know why everyone thinks the US is pushing to host it, in fact it's really the other way around. Every country thinks it's a good idea and is willing to contribute some funding ($1B-$2B), but not the amount that would be required for the host site ($4B). It needs a home but I don't see who is going to offer it one.
Also, the US is actually contributing quite a lot to LHC, Fermilab is building magnets for it and there is are pretty big US contingents building stuff for both detectors.
I agree that what you describe is ideally the way things should work, but string theory is dealing in a sort of "forensic" science, in which it's not really possible to recreate the experiment under different conditions and test predictions. All we have is our one trial, and the test of the theory is really that it provides a plausible mechanism for things turning out the way they did (which would be a tremendous advance compared to the current state of affairs). At the risk of starting a giant offtopic flamewar I'd say it's in a similar situation to natural selection. Nobody really knows or will ever know if that's what happened, but that doesn't make it invalid science. You have to play the cards you're dealt, and we just don't have the right hand to answer some types of questions definitively.
iTunes is definitely able to see the iPod, because it can write the song information into the iPod database. When you go to play it, though, it sounds like the file is not where is should be. Maybe it's getting the wrong name or going into the wrong directory or something like that...
Well, the experiment has already been done, it's called "The Universe".:-) In seriousness, the length scale at which string theory operates is probably never going to be experimentally accessible. What they are hoping for with string theory is a framework within which all known phenomena, from the subatomic to the cosmological, can be understood and related. The big problem as I (a less-evolved experimenter) understand it is that nobody knows how gravity fits in with everything else, it's just sort of off doing it's own thing according to General Relativity while the rest of the forces are coexisting peacefully in the Standard Model. String theory is supposed to allow you to relate gravity to the others, don't ask me how though...
Some of Lederman's jokes are funny, but otherwise I thought "The God Particle" was pretty awful. If you are interested in the history of subatomic physics I highly recommend "Inward Bound" by Abraham Pais. A fantastic narrative by a guy who was there for just about all of it, giving you a flavor of how discoveries are made and interpreted rather than the usual "A leads to B leads to C etc" tone of science books. He also has a biography of Einstein called "Subtle is the Lord" that is well worth your time.
There's no difference between Mac and Windows iPods that I can see. I converted my original 5G iPod from Mac to Windows a long time ago just by flashing the firmware, and it's worked fine ever since. Haven't tried it with iTunes, though, maybe I'd better just leave it alone and stick with EphPod.
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You don't have to be a Kreskin to see that the Big East is dying. Another crippling bombshell hit the beleagured athletic conference when Miami and VT...
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
It's not an iPod though. The 1.5GB player he was referring to is the Dcube, it being the subject of the story and all. Try to keep up.
You really cannot be serious. Bill Gates is solely responsible for Draconian international patent laws? He is personally bankrupting African countries by overcharging them for an AIDS vaccine which doesn't yet exist? He is responsible for poor local governance in African townships? By your standards we are all murdering millions of Africans every hour. I'm finished arguing with you children, don't bother replying because I won't waste any more time reading it anyway.
Again, you are so blinded by hate that you can somehow equate 6 FUCKING BILLION DOLLARS to "zero". Unbelieveable...
No, it was 6 billion actual dollars. Why are you all such haters? Is it just jealousy or what?
First of all, Linus is hardly equivalent to a CEO, more like the president of the Slashdot Teenage Fanclub. Second, unless Linus raised a billion dollars getting dunked then he's still far far behind Bill Gates as far as charitable donations go.
Are you really accusing Slashdot of having a pro-Windows bias? Apple zealots are even more out of touch with reality than I thought.
I'm posting this by whistling into the phone!
Misquoting Ali G. What is that all about? Is it good or is it wack?
Well, the AMD/nVidia bit was just a joke, but it turns out I was wrong anyway since it looks like ATI is part of the problem after all. They are the ones who came up with this "MOBILE RADEON 9200" nonsense, where "MOBILE" means "Not really a" I guess. Somebody posted a link to the new Acer models and they claim to use the M-R-9200 also.
Huh? Clearly they are HP/Compaq apologists. ATI and Intel have no need for apologies since they aren't responsible for any of this, I don't know why you would insinuate that they do unless you are a pathetic AMD/nVidia fanboy astroturfer. :-)
I second that, I have an RM-VL900 as well and I like it a lot. I almost bought one of those Radio Shack ones somebody mentioned below but when I went to the store to look at it it was this big hideous two-handed monstrosity. I can easily work the Sony with one hand (I have big hands though).
For even less money you can pick up the RM-VL700. I had one of those before I got the 900 and it was able to learn my TV, DVD, and stereo (a weirdo Yamaha with no preset) no problem. The only thing it couldn't do was learn keystrokes off my Airboard wireless keyboard, I had to upgrade to the 900 for that.
Have you tried one of the Winamp 5 betas that are floating around? I'm sure you could find one with a google search. I've been using beta 2 for awhile and I like it pretty well, although I can't really comment on playlist features since I usually just listen to complete albums.
I don't know him personally, but RMS doesn't exactly strike me as the sort of person who would just say what he thought people wanted to hear. Quite the opposite, actually, which is why I'm sort of glad that I don't know him personally. :-)
When I was in grad school for physics it was sort of a running joke that the incoming Chinese students would always destroy the American ones on the qualifying exam. Finally I asked one of the Chinese guys about it and he told me that he had to beat out hundreds of people in China on a battery of tests just to even apply to an American grad school. We only get a chance to meet the best of the best, the rest of them are still in China.
I tried it last night. I wanted to set up testing on one of my machines, so I figured I'd just download the net install CD image (it was called beta1, beta means it mostly works, right?). Burned it, popped it in, kernel panic - "can't find init". Reboot, give it "init=/linuxrc" at the LILO prompt, another kernel panic - "tried to kill init". Grrrr....
Exactly. Once I put on the Windows firmware, it makes no sense to say that using an original iPod on Windows is "unsupported".
I remember that stuff too at my University, those people were fools. The SSC was a separately funded project and didn't come out of the usual funding agencies. If you don't believe me go ask those people how much their grants went up when the SSC was canceled and freed up all of that "physics" money.
The Linear Collider ended up in the "medium term", which for all practical purposes means it's not a priority at all at this point. I don't know why everyone thinks the US is pushing to host it, in fact it's really the other way around. Every country thinks it's a good idea and is willing to contribute some funding ($1B-$2B), but not the amount that would be required for the host site ($4B). It needs a home but I don't see who is going to offer it one.
Also, the US is actually contributing quite a lot to LHC, Fermilab is building magnets for it and there is are pretty big US contingents building stuff for both detectors.
I agree that what you describe is ideally the way things should work, but string theory is dealing in a sort of "forensic" science, in which it's not really possible to recreate the experiment under different conditions and test predictions. All we have is our one trial, and the test of the theory is really that it provides a plausible mechanism for things turning out the way they did (which would be a tremendous advance compared to the current state of affairs). At the risk of starting a giant offtopic flamewar I'd say it's in a similar situation to natural selection. Nobody really knows or will ever know if that's what happened, but that doesn't make it invalid science. You have to play the cards you're dealt, and we just don't have the right hand to answer some types of questions definitively.
iTunes is definitely able to see the iPod, because it can write the song information into the iPod database. When you go to play it, though, it sounds like the file is not where is should be. Maybe it's getting the wrong name or going into the wrong directory or something like that...
Well, the experiment has already been done, it's called "The Universe". :-) In seriousness, the length scale at which string theory operates is probably never going to be experimentally accessible. What they are hoping for with string theory is a framework within which all known phenomena, from the subatomic to the cosmological, can be understood and related. The big problem as I (a less-evolved experimenter) understand it is that nobody knows how gravity fits in with everything else, it's just sort of off doing it's own thing according to General Relativity while the rest of the forces are coexisting peacefully in the Standard Model. String theory is supposed to allow you to relate gravity to the others, don't ask me how though...
Some of Lederman's jokes are funny, but otherwise I thought "The God Particle" was pretty awful. If you are interested in the history of subatomic physics I highly recommend "Inward Bound" by Abraham Pais. A fantastic narrative by a guy who was there for just about all of it, giving you a flavor of how discoveries are made and interpreted rather than the usual "A leads to B leads to C etc" tone of science books. He also has a biography of Einstein called "Subtle is the Lord" that is well worth your time.
There's no difference between Mac and Windows iPods that I can see. I converted my original 5G iPod from Mac to Windows a long time ago just by flashing the firmware, and it's worked fine ever since. Haven't tried it with iTunes, though, maybe I'd better just leave it alone and stick with EphPod.
I just opened it with IE, what am I supposed to be seeing that's so funny? I hate it when I'm the only one who doesn't get the joke.