Tangential to the question, but for the very latest news feeds I surf over to ABC News' Off The Wire [World] page. This consists of constantly updated raw wire feeds from AP and Reuters. Quite impressive.
If anyone knows of similar services, please let us know.
when I rip my CDs to a lossless format, I'm using LAME --alt-preset standard MP3s...
I believe you meant to say lossy. A lossless format would be one such as APE from Monkey's audio, or FLAC. After decoding them you get the exact original back, right to the last bit.
Opera shrinks or magnifies images along with text, just press 0 to step up, 9 to shrink and 6 to reset to 100%. Also, 8 adds an extra 100% while 7 takes it away. There's also a handy dropdown list to change it for each window.
Opera 7.03 was released the same day as Moz 1.3. Go get it!:-)
You may well be right on that, but is imposing the penalty on a white justice when the penalty isn't really justifiable?
Remember, equality means treating everyone equally, and as a non-white this is exactly what I want. Discrimination that favours non-whites will breed resentment among whites, and I wouldn't blame them one bit for that.
Perhaps the worst that could happen to him is what's happening now - that he is alive and facing the fact that he was responsible for destroying her life [mind you, she seems to me a very spirited woman. Makes me proud of humanity.]
Do you really think he'd commit the same mistake, assuming he's well-adjusted and has a functional conscience? I didn't think so either. Every moment of the rest of his life will be weighed down by chains of misery.
that sounds good in theory, but improving reliability is not as profitable. they'd rather you constantly spend money on the latest, fastest drives then keep the same one forever. this isnt particularly evil or anything. its just how business works.
This sort of strategy may be fine for disposable items such as lightbulbs - when they go boom, they [almost always] never take anything else with them. The consequences are limited.
A hard drive, on the other hand, contains data, information and other stuff that's valuable and hard to recreate in the event of loss or destruction. To make things worse, you never know for sure when exactly it's gonna fsck up. My friends' Seagates were a real eye-opener. Never thought brand new drives wouldn't last more than a few weeks.
Which is why I suspect many here would be willing to pay a premium for more solid HDDs with a warranty > 1 year.
Two of my friends purchased Seagate's 40GB 7200RPM Barracuda drives. In the space of eight weeks, both began sprouting bad sectors all over the place. This is totally unacceptable, especially when you consider that the standard HDD warranty is now 1 year [from 3.]
Focus on improving reliability, not increasing rotation speeds. Or just bring on those cool holographic drives - that should fix things up:-)
If you're using Ogg Vorbis for recording lectures, I suggest you switch to Speex. From the website:
The Speex project aims to build a patent-free, Open Source/Free Software voice codec. Unlike other codecs like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, Speex is designed to compress voice at bitrates in the 2-45kbps range. Possible applications include VoIP, internet audio streaming, archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail), and audio books. In some sense, it is meant to be complementary to the Ogg Vorbis codec.
What this means for me is that I can play my oggs in my friend's car without the aid of any doohickey cable or any other crap like that. All he needs is an FM receiver. A truly useful [and I do not use the word lightly here] innovation. Wonder why no one ever thought of it before...
I really wouldn't worry about the RIAA here - more likely is the FCC who dictates frequency spectrum allocation, but the transmitting range should be short enough to satisfy their requirements.
make sure the players support upgradeable firmware for future codec upgrades and I'm set - tho the specification does claim that all future Ogg Vorbis files will be decodable by the current decoder, it may miss out on improvements and enhancements.
The CD-based player is a good idea for those of us with massive disc collections but just cannot be bothered to transfer the songs - much easier with a change of disc.
Speaking of which - one of Ogg Vorbis' strongest selling points is bitrate peeling - you can "peel" a 192 kbps file to 128 kbps and the resulting file will sound just as good as if it were encoded directly off the original CD/wave file.
But there is no tool yet. When can we expect to see one?
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The two consecutive 4Cs should've given it away.
in the review is a BSOD.
What's more, a fatal exception has occured at F0AD:42494C4C.
Tangential to the question, but for the very latest news feeds I surf over to ABC News' Off The Wire [World] page. This consists of constantly updated raw wire feeds from AP and Reuters. Quite impressive.
If anyone knows of similar services, please let us know.
when I rip my CDs to a lossless format, I'm using LAME --alt-preset standard MP3s...
:-D
I believe you meant to say lossy. A lossless format would be one such as APE from Monkey's audio, or FLAC. After decoding them you get the exact original back, right to the last bit.
But I'm sure you already knew that
Does this mean that if you get stuck in a revolving door, you go broke quick?
Opera shrinks or magnifies images along with text, just press 0 to step up, 9 to shrink and 6 to reset to 100%. Also, 8 adds an extra 100% while 7 takes it away. There's also a handy dropdown list to change it for each window.
Opera 7.03 was released the same day as Moz 1.3. Go get it!
More like wisdom. Obviously the moderators haven't heard of Aesop.
Must have been a knee-jerk reaction to seeing the capitalised word "cock"
Cheers,
CD
If you're in Japan.
excellent repartee. I am in awe
You may well be right on that, but is imposing the penalty on a white justice when the penalty isn't really justifiable?
Remember, equality means treating everyone equally, and as a non-white this is exactly what I want. Discrimination that favours non-whites will breed resentment among whites, and I wouldn't blame them one bit for that.
Oh by the way, fuck political correctness
Cheers,
CD
Especially when I sub-read the line under it [ Security Hole Found in...]
Perhaps the worst that could happen to him is what's happening now - that he is alive and facing the fact that he was responsible for destroying her life [mind you, she seems to me a very spirited woman. Makes me proud of humanity.]
Do you really think he'd commit the same mistake, assuming he's well-adjusted and has a functional conscience? I didn't think so either. Every moment of the rest of his life will be weighed down by chains of misery.
Also check out her official website.
I'm serious. Is John Holmes' still available?
about Jacqueline.
You must mean "my face, your ass."
Oh, wait...!
True, death is not the worst that could happen to you. But I feel she needs more than just a face transplant.
At least it's a start.
*sigh*
Here you go.
This sort of strategy may be fine for disposable items such as lightbulbs - when they go boom, they [almost always] never take anything else with them. The consequences are limited.
A hard drive, on the other hand, contains data, information and other stuff that's valuable and hard to recreate in the event of loss or destruction. To make things worse, you never know for sure when exactly it's gonna fsck up. My friends' Seagates were a real eye-opener. Never thought brand new drives wouldn't last more than a few weeks.
Which is why I suspect many here would be willing to pay a premium for more solid HDDs with a warranty > 1 year.
Two of my friends purchased Seagate's 40GB 7200RPM Barracuda drives. In the space of eight weeks, both began sprouting bad sectors all over the place. This is totally unacceptable, especially when you consider that the standard HDD warranty is now 1 year [from 3.]
Focus on improving reliability, not increasing rotation speeds. Or just bring on those cool holographic drives - that should fix things up
Cheers,
CD
Slashdot: bringing you the news, before it happens.
If you're using Ogg Vorbis for recording lectures, I suggest you switch to Speex. From the website:
The Speex project aims to build a patent-free, Open Source/Free Software voice codec. Unlike other codecs like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, Speex is designed to compress voice at bitrates in the 2-45kbps range. Possible applications include VoIP, internet audio streaming, archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail), and audio books. In some sense, it is meant to be complementary to the Ogg Vorbis codec.
What this means for me is that I can play my oggs in my friend's car without the aid of any doohickey cable or any other crap like that. All he needs is an FM receiver. A truly useful [and I do not use the word lightly here] innovation. Wonder why no one ever thought of it before...
I really wouldn't worry about the RIAA here - more likely is the FCC who dictates frequency spectrum allocation, but the transmitting range should be short enough to satisfy their requirements.
make sure the players support upgradeable firmware for future codec upgrades and I'm set - tho the specification does claim that all future Ogg Vorbis files will be decodable by the current decoder, it may miss out on improvements and enhancements.
The CD-based player is a good idea for those of us with massive disc collections but just cannot be bothered to transfer the songs - much easier with a change of disc.
Speaking of which - one of Ogg Vorbis' strongest selling points is bitrate peeling - you can "peel" a 192 kbps file to 128 kbps and the resulting file will sound just as good as if it were encoded directly off the original CD/wave file.
But there is no tool yet. When can we expect to see one?
Thanks for all the great work.
Phoenix has [almost always] shrunk over its releases. Here we go:
The latest Win32 nightly is 6,320 KB and the Linux version is 8,964 KB.
all those letters go poop, PooP, and so on. So your second comment is spot-on, especially the latter part