Well.... depending on what you mean by 'edit' I suppose you could gunzip the file & use on the many xml packages to modify the textual content of the file. Personally, while I love my Zaurus 5500, I don't really find it a good platform for document layout. Text is good, though, and html in a pinch handles the layout challenges I can be bothered with 'on the go'.
Ever hear of a laptop? WTF? Get yourself an iBook.
Sure! I'd love one. I can't actually afford to buy one though. I do have a Z 5500, and I bought an irda kb, and the combination works very well for the small amount of 'portable work' I need to do.
The important difference, of course, is that MS did it all a decade ago and sold technical service. Sure that doesn't mean that they did it well, but they do have one hell of a head start.
There'd have to be some kind of regulation system. Maybe several heat-pipe radiators on the suit, with closable aerogel flaps over them, so you could adjust the heat loss/retention? I'm thinking non-electrical, just because you don't want poor Bob to die from heat stress out in the Antarctic blizzard because he stumbled on a rock and broke his suit's computer.
Oooorrr... one could well imagine that the ambient air is prob some 60-70degC colder then blood temperature and Bob might just need to breath now & then. Just a thought.
I have witnessed a guy in MINNEHAHA SPRINGS, WVA skip a stone over fifty times. It was on a man made lake with a bank that contained many large peices of slate which were ideal for skipping. When watching him skiped, I noticed that he threw the stones with a slight curve.
Hmmm, just out of curiosity how do you know 'over fifty time'? I mean, thinking about it, given a 'skip time' of, say, 3 seconds that a bounce every 0.06 seconds. Even a rather optomistic 15 seconds gives a skip every 3 tenths. How on earth did you count them?
well, it's ugly and I do mean ugly. Most of the 'work' done on these scripts was done at 3 or 4 in the morning and it's been very evolutionary & hackish. That's the trouble with sleep deprived proof of concept crap that just seems to work. Oh well, all disclaimers aside you can grab most of the scripts here
Best of luck.
Oh, and I'm currently using this stuff with the new icecast, but the old ices (1.x).
I'm streaming with icecast, but pushing with ice. ices supports perl/python scripts for selecting playlist items. So I've got a perl script that grabs songs from a MySQL table. The table is fed with requests from a php front end. When the playlist is empty it selects a tune (semi randomly) from the table of previous requests.
It's a pretty flexible solution - for example to prevent 'request abuse' I've tagged an account balance to unique ip's. Point for requests, playlist shuffling & slapping are withdrawn from this account which is slowly replenished. Replenishing is much faster if that ip is currently listening. Stuff like that.
I also have a 5gb iPod and am far too lazy to select tunes from my 100gb+ collection. I do, though, have an 'all request' icecast station and periodically run a script to dump a couple hundred of my most populare requests and another couple hundred of the globally most populare requests. There's a fair bit of overlap so usually the sum of both list comes to about 400 mp3s. Lots of room to stick on a couple of audio books. Pretty painless.
Besides, why bother with a _firewire_ device if your goal is to avoid ever having to make transfers?
y'know it's funny. I have an uncle you worked as a gp for years and councilled thousands to stop smoking. Few did, on their own, though many complained about the 'challenges'. OTOH he figures that nearly 60% of them quit, cold turkey, upon a terminal cancer diagnosis. It's amazing what a little perspective will do for you.
If the only thing that's changed in your diet is volume of water then it's a reasonable assumption that a change in urine color is an associated phenomena
The difference is that (originaly) the ipod was an expensive product with a fragile part and the "warranty" service came with a kind of deductable that was damned near the price of a new unit. That's what's so damned annoying.
Well the problem is that Walmart has, for all intents & purposes, hired the Chinese government (wheee socialism eh?) to provide a cheap workforce that can't say no. Walmart has done a great many evil things, and exploited many people. They're huge and have great leverage all over North America. They can not be treated the same way as the mom & pop shop, they have too much power and too much incentive to abuse it.
Sure they've been found guilty of all kinds of violations and fined several times but no fine, no sanction (to date) has been severe enough to make them notice, let alone think twice. The fact is that Walmart is well on it's way to becoming the poster child for the crusade against monocultures. Microsoft has nothing on Walmart.
I don't think it's that important to MS. They're catering to something the content industry wants, providing the rope for a fee if you will. I don't think they're going to go out of their way to make sure the content industry hangs itself. MS has enough issues trying to get people to keep upgrading.
Which is exactly why it makes so much sense - by dominating the DRM/distribution model they control the supply of _all_ media and the hardware used to access it. Given their history this is something I find both fascinating & frightening. Clearly the american government isn't interested in seeing MS taken to task for monopolistic practices and, in a growth dominated market, there's imense pressure for MS to keep getting larger. DRM seems to me a perfect opportunity to let the legal sector give them the key to a whole slew of other industries.
From the perspective of the Microsoft shareholder the abondonment of the American constitution looks to be a highly lucrative enterprise.
MS DRM will work the same way, if people feel it's fair they'll buy into it, if not it'll die.
y'know a couple years ago I would have agreed with you. Today, OTOH, what's to stop MS from simply _buying_ legislation forcing DRM whether we want it or not?
You are an idiot. First of all Emacs is not an operating system (all joking aside). Secondly, he was talking about editting ID3 tags, not playing MP3s. You could've clearly seen this if you were capable of reading. Third, MS does not have any way of playing back MP3s "builtin to the OS".
Sure they do! It is called Windows Media Player.
special purpose app + shell integration != OS component
And if nobody converts their files to ogg's, why would manufacturers waste development time and costs putting ogg support into their products?
So they can have a superior format without the risk of Apple or Microsoft quadrupling the license fees 9 months down the line.
Actually, because Microsoft is pushing their own audio format, manufacturers will have a low-cost chance to push Ogg. They're going to have to expand the devices to recognize non-mp3 files anyhow... why not throw in the free integerized Ogg code while they're at it?
Exactly. I'm certainly not going to rerip my 400+ disc collection but when buying new hardware codec support & expandability are very important to me. Just because I don't want to duplicate a massive prior effort doesn't mean that, one day, I won't have to.
mmmm - given the choice between broken & hard to use, I'll take hard to use. This only get more true if I can't fix 'broken' - I can always learn. It amazes me that even people who understand the importance of, say, normalized db structures can't seem to grasp the idea of 'normalizing' an interface model.
Add in a few nifty settings (force tabs to open in the background, and middle click opens in a new tab) a greatmod and a daily reading list and the amount one can quickly & effeciently surf is truly astounding.
The point was that the approach that MIT took would not have put food on the table of any CS grad in the US.
If MIT had to repair a wall on its campus, would it make more sense to hire an outside contractor or get the students from the civil engineering department to do the work?
If MIT wanted to do a little project that involved some research in building walls no one had ever really done before, might they not have done the research in house?
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Well.... depending on what you mean by 'edit' I suppose you could gunzip the file & use on the many xml packages to modify the textual content of the file. Personally, while I love my Zaurus 5500, I don't really find it a good platform for document layout. Text is good, though, and html in a pinch handles the layout challenges I can be bothered with 'on the go'.
Sure! I'd love one. I can't actually afford to buy one though. I do have a Z 5500, and I bought an irda kb, and the combination works very well for the small amount of 'portable work' I need to do.
The important difference, of course, is that MS did it all a decade ago and sold technical service. Sure that doesn't mean that they did it well, but they do have one hell of a head start.
of course!
Oooorrr... one could well imagine that the ambient air is prob some 60-70degC colder then blood temperature and Bob might just need to breath now & then. Just a thought.
Only at /. would you find one wanting (apparently) surgical muscle^H^H^Hsel removal
Hmmm, just out of curiosity how do you know 'over fifty time'? I mean, thinking about it, given a 'skip time' of, say, 3 seconds that a bounce every 0.06 seconds. Even a rather optomistic 15 seconds gives a skip every 3 tenths. How on earth did you count them?
crap - previewing is good, the snippet again:
<!-- One of builtin, perl, or python. -->
<Type>perl</Type>
If you're pushing with ices then there's a really great option - from the playlist section of my ices.conf: perl Yup it's scriptable.
Best of luck.
Oh, and I'm currently using this stuff with the new icecast, but the old ices (1.x).
It's a pretty flexible solution - for example to prevent 'request abuse' I've tagged an account balance to unique ip's. Point for requests, playlist shuffling & slapping are withdrawn from this account which is slowly replenished. Replenishing is much faster if that ip is currently listening. Stuff like that.
Looks a little like : http://fiftyfly.mine.nu/RFM
I also have a 5gb iPod and am far too lazy to select tunes from my 100gb+ collection. I do, though, have an 'all request' icecast station and periodically run a script to dump a couple hundred of my most populare requests and another couple hundred of the globally most populare requests. There's a fair bit of overlap so usually the sum of both list comes to about 400 mp3s. Lots of room to stick on a couple of audio books. Pretty painless. Besides, why bother with a _firewire_ device if your goal is to avoid ever having to make transfers?
y'know it's funny. I have an uncle you worked as a gp for years and councilled thousands to stop smoking. Few did, on their own, though many complained about the 'challenges'. OTOH he figures that nearly 60% of them quit, cold turkey, upon a terminal cancer diagnosis. It's amazing what a little perspective will do for you.
If the only thing that's changed in your diet is volume of water then it's a reasonable assumption that a change in urine color is an associated phenomena
that this port would have taken longer then, say, the port for my pda (zaurus 5500) or cygwin?
The difference is that (originaly) the ipod was an expensive product with a fragile part and the "warranty" service came with a kind of deductable that was damned near the price of a new unit. That's what's so damned annoying.
Sure they've been found guilty of all kinds of violations and fined several times but no fine, no sanction (to date) has been severe enough to make them notice, let alone think twice. The fact is that Walmart is well on it's way to becoming the poster child for the crusade against monocultures. Microsoft has nothing on Walmart.
From the perspective of the Microsoft shareholder the abondonment of the American constitution looks to be a highly lucrative enterprise.
mmmm - given the choice between broken & hard to use, I'll take hard to use. This only get more true if I can't fix 'broken' - I can always learn. It amazes me that even people who understand the importance of, say, normalized db structures can't seem to grasp the idea of 'normalizing' an interface model.
Add in a few nifty settings (force tabs to open in the background, and middle click opens in a new tab) a great mod and a daily reading list and the amount one can quickly & effeciently surf is truly astounding.