hmm.. that slimp3 looks nice indeed. To bad they have so few photos of it on their site. AFAICS, it looks like it's build-in equipment... That means damaging my walls, which I really don't like. In that aspect, the audiotron seems a nicer setup. But the audiotron has no AAC support (slimp3 neither according to the specs, but seems more nerd-driven so perhaps they move towards AAC sooner) and their windows-oriented setup is a drawback too
Semes I'll have some thinking to do, but untill true AAC support is guaranteed, I'll have to wait anyway. Thanks for the info guys !
to many features that I wont use. For my movies, I got a DVD player. For IM, I rather use my computer since reading text from TV is too painfull for my eyes. For mp3s, I want something that fits my home stereo equipment and connects to my iTunes library (AAC + playlists).
This brings me to the related question : why is there so little hardware available that plugs into my home stereo (a Marantz system in our living room, pretty decent and it used to cost me half a leg so I'd rather not replace/extend it with a computer that takes up to much space and would just sit there doing nothing in a hidden corner) and in my airport network ? All I really want is a stereo tower box that is stylish, fits my stereo and performs the features of my iPod (okay, forget parachute) without having to haul my iMac to the living room. the iTrip is one way to go, but I would prefer something that goes wirelessly straight to my music library.
Could it be that too many hardware vendors are tied to much to the recording industry, which still considers mp3 pretty much illegal ?
i don't intend to troll, but in this case, the truth IS a troll. In the FUD-ruled USA, only officials & big corps are alowed to fud. Any individual or small organisation that spreads fud si considered a threat. Probably to prove that the govt is not allowing fud.
The only way to disclose security holes is by letting big corps do it, or by doing it as anon as possible. Currently, europe is a tad better, but I expect this evil practice to fly our way in no time, as DRM is apparently doing. Sigh. It's so sad to see capitalism failing. I guess this must be a bit how the commies felt after they were proven wrong. Our only hope is that the future will come up with something better.
umpf... as a professional developer, even $2499 is recovered in a few days when you're tracking an extremely nasty bug. Sorry, but providing devtoosl for free does not stack up against the ease of use of MSDevTools. Really. I'm an apple developer and a win32 developer (not.net yet) and as far as devtools go, apple still is a distent second to MSVC. Not only the saveable state, but also spy++ and the customseable C++ object inspector (you can declare a function in your C++ object that will be called by the debugger whe you inspect an object. The String restult of this function in displayed in the debugger) are superior. Not to mentiojn the insane speed difference.
The only reason i'd buy a G5 is to get a decent debugger (speed wise) at last.
does anyone know how many pre-orders there were ? According to the usual zealot sources, the G5 is supposed to be the stemcell of apples resurection. Albeit a fabulous machine, I wonder if there will be enough sales momentum to influence marketshare.
it's probably me, but why in heavens name change name ? What's the benefit, except for companies for MS who have som uch cash they have to find obnoxious ways to hose some (hey, there's an idea for a new poll !)
Reminds me of the company Smiths, not named 'Lays'. Thay had a brand recognition at coca-cola level and yet some execs decided to wipe it all.
I really should have paid attention during marketing classes i guess.
In related news, the door of the loo at SaintJohns Library being cracky is not a case of terrorism (we know what you we're thinking)
Seriously folks... this is the FUD M.Moore is talking about. Even if one is 100% sure no terrorism is involved, the media can't resist mentioning it, thus keeping the public constant aware of the danger of terrorism.
call me a dork, but i just can't find it !
honest ! I just downloaded the latest & greatest WMP, but there's no "Premium Services tab" !
If they are going to hide it this well, iTMS has not much to fear for !
1. the press release is a.Doc file... wtf ! Since when is Word the de facto standard for distributing press releases ? If Word is as good as it claims, do a simple save-as-html goddamit !
2. No screenshots, no release date, no nuthin... After reading half of ad2.com, I still have no idea whatshowever how this service is going to look like. Sounds like vapourware to me.
IMHO, anyone intending to fraud the elections would be aiming his ammo not at the voring machines, but rather at the counting machines. I can imagine that those are far easier to secure, but it's easier to bribe/bypass/eliminate 5 or 10 security guards at the center of the system rather than a few hundred guards at the leaves of the system... Why doesn't anyone ever question the security of the center of the system ? Especially with the most corrupt people being exactly there...
I never said that there are no proper uses for cellhpones. I never said that, even with lack of proper purpose, tards shouldn't be allowed a cellphone. I don't even said that phoning in the most insane places (yesterday I went to the toilet at the 12th floor of our builing where usually noone comes since it's a mass of dumped old hardware) and to my amazement I could hear not one, but TWO people in the stalls having a phone conversation... Very nutty situation.
The only thing that I don't like about cellphones is the attitude people are calling with. The 'look at me, I need to be reacheable cause I'm important' attitude.
umpf... i seriously doubt that you're right on this. Social norms are last in the priority line. as soon as personal interest is involved (i.e. cash) people will do as they please.
And then there's the issue of 79.14% of all people being either babies or total morons with no manners. You can't imagine how popular farting on the bus still is. Just when I reach the age where I can control my own flatulence, I put a son on the world who seems to have the same bowels as me. He looks like an angel but farts like a rocket, full bus or empty bus. Social skillz ? Suuuuuure dude...
I'll probably get modded redundant, but I still don't have a cellphone. And so far, except for 2 occasions where I got stuck in traffic for several hours and got late to pick up our kids from school, I have never even thought "damd, I wish I wasn't so stubborn and bough that cellphone"
I honestly go whooptie-flip over those 15-year olds crammed together in the bus messanging or calling eachother, yelling in my ear, poking with their elbows and tripping over anything smaller than a shepperd-dog (I recently saw a teen running along the road while phoning. Neither he nor the road-sign pole had the immense fun I had when I saw him smack his forehead fullspeed into the metal, and then the back of his head into the asphalt as he bounced back. The silliest thing was that when I tried to help him get up, he could only utter 'mind your steps... my phone is on the ground somewhere overhere' The guy was nearly blind from the impact for christ sake !)... Not to speak of the near-constant phone ringing all around me whenever I step out the door. At a bus station for instance. Sometimes it's funny to just watch everyone grab for their phone (women in their purse, machos grab their crotch as those things seem to live in simbyosis with testicles)...
That's perhaps one reason to buy a cellphone : stand at the busstation with a friend, and secretly call him. He doesn't pick up. I hang up after 3 rings and repeat. Mr. Cleese would be proud of me.
here is another point of view. When you do a google on 'bicycle impotence', 99% of the results are based on that one urologist research paper... Looks like true FUD to me. I prefer the quote in the above article:
"That's an easy one. This whole [impotence-cycling] thing is really out of proportion. In China 90 percent of the male population cycles, and they don't seem to have a problem maintaining the population." :-)
yeah I read that too. But studies have shown that the impotence factor is minimal for men. Its only temporary. Empty your load, make new jiuce and you're set to go make babies... For women, it's a whole other story.
That whole armstrong comparision is a disgrace. There are hundreds of professional cycles in the Tour of France. How many have had testicle cancer ? I'd like to see a comparision of testicle cancer cases among say golfers for instance...
don't be surprised when someone like me accidentally swipes you off the road in my '84 Cutlass hoopty.
Ah, but this is where the difference between USA and the lowlands pops up : here in Belgium (and even more in Holland) we have miles and miles and miles of dedicated 'bike only' tracks of super quality. I can bike all day without doing 1 meter of asphalt that your SUV can drive on. (BTW, no one drives SUVs here. We appreciate the safety of others.) Only when I cross a road is there a danger from bullies like you. Which offcourse makes me double careful.
As a sidenote : it's exactly the attitude "dumb fucking bikers with they dumb fucking headphones are a danger to themselves, which gives me the right to wipe them of the road from darwinistic perspective" that makes me wanna throw up.
PS : mountainbikes are for sissies. Mountainbike is a derivative of 'cross country cycling'(CCC) : biking on rough terrain with RACING BIKES. Belgium & holland are specialists in this discipline. We don't need no fsking 7cm tires to ride mud. A few weeks ago I saw an interview with world champion CCC (a Belgian) who was laughing at the american mountainbikers : "yeah occasionaly one of those US hotshots comes over to wipe our asses with this superduper shiny mountainbike. After 45 minutes they usually give up since they simply can't keep up with our speed".
Did you ever wonder wy the best of the best cyclers come train in the lowlands ? Greg Lemond for instance, lived 25km from our home. Lance Armstrong used to train here a lot too before he moved to france to be closer to the Tour Of France trajectory.
I wasn't talking about going faster. I was talking about appetite for the sport. I found mountainbiking a drag which I had to force myself onto every time. The race bike OTOH is a joy. When I get home from work and the kids are in bed, I can't wait to go crunch a solid 70km in 2 hours, which is a pretty damd good average for someone my age and endurance !
sounds harsh, but it works. It's all in the mind. The natural reflex of a human is to eat when yuo're hungry. Fight that reflex in 2 ways:
1. Don't stuff yourself when you're hungry. Eat a little. And eat stuff that contains fewer calories, like fruit or yoghourt.
2. Learn to appreciate the feeling of a tiny hunger. Consider it a sign from your belly to your brain saying "hey dude : you're losing weight right now ! Keep up the spirit !".
That, plus exercise offcourse. For myself, I found podBiking a great calory burner : iPod + real bicycle for 2 hours at least. Get a real bike though, not that mountainbike shit. That's for sissies. A racing bike is a bit more expensive, but it's so much more fun to ride since you don't get exhausted from rubbing the asphalt all the time with those huge gripping tires. When i switched from mountainbikes to racebikes, my appetite for cycling doubled. I do twice as many hours now as I did before.
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Not just limited to bad science
Yeah.. sheesh... hollywood...
They also got that whole love, sex and reproduction thing completely fucked up just beause Joe Q. Average can't intellectually handle cloning...
Body fluids... yikes !
hmm.. that slimp3 looks nice indeed. To bad they have so few photos of it on their site. AFAICS, it looks like it's build-in equipment... That means damaging my walls, which I really don't like. In that aspect, the audiotron seems a nicer setup. But the audiotron has no AAC support (slimp3 neither according to the specs, but seems more nerd-driven so perhaps they move towards AAC sooner) and their windows-oriented setup is a drawback too
Semes I'll have some thinking to do, but untill true AAC support is guaranteed, I'll have to wait anyway. Thanks for the info guys !
to many features that I wont use. For my movies, I got a DVD player. For IM, I rather use my computer since reading text from TV is too painfull for my eyes. For mp3s, I want something that fits my home stereo equipment and connects to my iTunes library (AAC + playlists).
This brings me to the related question : why is there so little hardware available that plugs into my home stereo (a Marantz system in our living room, pretty decent and it used to cost me half a leg so I'd rather not replace/extend it with a computer that takes up to much space and would just sit there doing nothing in a hidden corner) and in my airport network ? All I really want is a stereo tower box that is stylish, fits my stereo and performs the features of my iPod (okay, forget parachute) without having to haul my iMac to the living room. the iTrip is one way to go, but I would prefer something that goes wirelessly straight to my music library.
Could it be that too many hardware vendors are tied to much to the recording industry, which still considers mp3 pretty much illegal ?
i don't intend to troll, but in this case, the truth IS a troll. In the FUD-ruled USA, only officials & big corps are alowed to fud. Any individual or small organisation that spreads fud si considered a threat. Probably to prove that the govt is not allowing fud.
The only way to disclose security holes is by letting big corps do it, or by doing it as anon as possible. Currently, europe is a tad better, but I expect this evil practice to fly our way in no time, as DRM is apparently doing. Sigh. It's so sad to see capitalism failing. I guess this must be a bit how the commies felt after they were proven wrong. Our only hope is that the future will come up with something better.
umpf... as a professional developer, even $2499 is recovered in a few days when you're tracking an extremely nasty bug. Sorry, but providing devtoosl for free does not stack up against the ease of use of MSDevTools. Really. I'm an apple developer and a win32 developer (not .net yet) and as far as devtools go, apple still is a distent second to MSVC. Not only the saveable state, but also spy++ and the customseable C++ object inspector (you can declare a function in your C++ object that will be called by the debugger whe you inspect an object. The String restult of this function in displayed in the debugger) are superior. Not to mentiojn the insane speed difference.
The only reason i'd buy a G5 is to get a decent debugger (speed wise) at last.
does anyone know how many pre-orders there were ? According to the usual zealot sources, the G5 is supposed to be the stemcell of apples resurection. Albeit a fabulous machine, I wonder if there will be enough sales momentum to influence marketshare.
it's probably me, but why in heavens name change name ? What's the benefit, except for companies for MS who have som uch cash they have to find obnoxious ways to hose some (hey, there's an idea for a new poll !)
Reminds me of the company Smiths, not named 'Lays'. Thay had a brand recognition at coca-cola level and yet some execs decided to wipe it all.
I really should have paid attention during marketing classes i guess.
most likely not related to terrorism
In related news, the door of the loo at SaintJohns Library being cracky is not a case of terrorism (we know what you we're thinking)
Seriously folks... this is the FUD M.Moore is talking about. Even if one is 100% sure no terrorism is involved, the media can't resist mentioning it, thus keeping the public constant aware of the danger of terrorism.
call me a dork, but i just can't find it !
honest ! I just downloaded the latest & greatest WMP, but there's no "Premium Services tab"
!
If they are going to hide it this well, iTMS has not much to fear for !
1. the press release is a .Doc file... wtf ! Since when is Word the de facto standard for distributing press releases ? If Word is as good as it claims, do a simple save-as-html goddamit !
2. No screenshots, no release date, no nuthin... After reading half of ad2.com, I still have no idea whatshowever how this service is going to look like. Sounds like vapourware to me.
remember Sammy Jenkins !
this will result in most geeks attributing their body odor to superior intellegence.
Next, they'll attribute not washing an even greater intelligence.
Then a smelly crotch will be sign of superior sex potential.
Finally, a whole bunch of stinking geeks will be a beawolf cluster of superbrains...
they can also predict the slashdot effect then ?
IMHO, anyone intending to fraud the elections would be aiming his ammo not at the voring machines, but rather at the counting machines. I can imagine that those are far easier to secure, but it's easier to bribe/bypass/eliminate 5 or 10 security guards at the center of the system rather than a few hundred guards at the leaves of the system... Why doesn't anyone ever question the security of the center of the system ? Especially with the most corrupt people being exactly there...
at 18:18 it went autonomous...
I never said that there are no proper uses for cellhpones. I never said that, even with lack of proper purpose, tards shouldn't be allowed a cellphone. I don't even said that phoning in the most insane places (yesterday I went to the toilet at the 12th floor of our builing where usually noone comes since it's a mass of dumped old hardware) and to my amazement I could hear not one, but TWO people in the stalls having a phone conversation... Very nutty situation.
The only thing that I don't like about cellphones is the attitude people are calling with. The 'look at me, I need to be reacheable cause I'm important' attitude.
umpf... i seriously doubt that you're right on this. Social norms are last in the priority line. as soon as personal interest is involved (i.e. cash) people will do as they please.
And then there's the issue of 79.14% of all people being either babies or total morons with no manners. You can't imagine how popular farting on the bus still is. Just when I reach the age where I can control my own flatulence, I put a son on the world who seems to have the same bowels as me. He looks like an angel but farts like a rocket, full bus or empty bus. Social skillz ? Suuuuuure dude...
I'll probably get modded redundant, but I still don't have a cellphone. And so far, except for 2 occasions where I got stuck in traffic for several hours and got late to pick up our kids from school, I have never even thought "damd, I wish I wasn't so stubborn and bough that cellphone"
I honestly go whooptie-flip over those 15-year olds crammed together in the bus messanging or calling eachother, yelling in my ear, poking with their elbows and tripping over anything smaller than a shepperd-dog (I recently saw a teen running along the road while phoning. Neither he nor the road-sign pole had the immense fun I had when I saw him smack his forehead fullspeed into the metal, and then the back of his head into the asphalt as he bounced back. The silliest thing was that when I tried to help him get up, he could only utter 'mind your steps... my phone is on the ground somewhere overhere' The guy was nearly blind from the impact for christ sake !)... Not to speak of the near-constant phone ringing all around me whenever I step out the door. At a bus station for instance. Sometimes it's funny to just watch everyone grab for their phone (women in their purse, machos grab their crotch as those things seem to live in simbyosis with testicles)...
That's perhaps one reason to buy a cellphone : stand at the busstation with a friend, and secretly call him. He doesn't pick up. I hang up after 3 rings and repeat. Mr. Cleese would be proud of me.
there's always the astronomy pic of the day
And for those of us with OSX, there's a macosxhints article that helps you rotate your desktop pic with the APotD
xforms is fully buzzword compliant and serves as an excellent tool for dumb managers to wank with.
here is another point of view. When you do a google on 'bicycle impotence', 99% of the results are based on that one urologist research paper... Looks like true FUD to me. I prefer the quote in the above article :
:-)
"That's an easy one. This whole [impotence-cycling] thing is really out of proportion. In China 90 percent of the male population cycles, and they don't seem to have a problem maintaining the population."
yeah I read that too. But studies have shown that the impotence factor is minimal for men. Its only temporary. Empty your load, make new jiuce and you're set to go make babies... For women, it's a whole other story.
That whole armstrong comparision is a disgrace. There are hundreds of professional cycles in the Tour of France. How many have had testicle cancer ? I'd like to see a comparision of testicle cancer cases among say golfers for instance...
don't be surprised when someone like me accidentally swipes you off the road in my '84 Cutlass hoopty.
Ah, but this is where the difference between USA and the lowlands pops up : here in Belgium (and even more in Holland) we have miles and miles and miles of dedicated 'bike only' tracks of super quality. I can bike all day without doing 1 meter of asphalt that your SUV can drive on. (BTW, no one drives SUVs here. We appreciate the safety of others.) Only when I cross a road is there a danger from bullies like you. Which offcourse makes me double careful.
As a sidenote : it's exactly the attitude "dumb fucking bikers with they dumb fucking headphones are a danger to themselves, which gives me the right to wipe them of the road from darwinistic perspective" that makes me wanna throw up.
PS : mountainbikes are for sissies. Mountainbike is a derivative of 'cross country cycling'(CCC) : biking on rough terrain with RACING BIKES. Belgium & holland are specialists in this discipline. We don't need no fsking 7cm tires to ride mud. A few weeks ago I saw an interview with world champion CCC (a Belgian) who was laughing at the american mountainbikers : "yeah occasionaly one of those US hotshots comes over to wipe our asses with this superduper shiny mountainbike. After 45 minutes they usually give up since they simply can't keep up with our speed".
Did you ever wonder wy the best of the best cyclers come train in the lowlands ? Greg Lemond for instance, lived 25km from our home. Lance Armstrong used to train here a lot too before he moved to france to be closer to the Tour Of France trajectory.
I wasn't talking about going faster. I was talking about appetite for the sport. I found mountainbiking a drag which I had to force myself onto every time. The race bike OTOH is a joy. When I get home from work and the kids are in bed, I can't wait to go crunch a solid 70km in 2 hours, which is a pretty damd good average for someone my age and endurance !
sounds harsh, but it works. It's all in the mind. The natural reflex of a human is to eat when yuo're hungry. Fight that reflex in 2 ways :
1. Don't stuff yourself when you're hungry. Eat a little. And eat stuff that contains fewer calories, like fruit or yoghourt.
2. Learn to appreciate the feeling of a tiny hunger. Consider it a sign from your belly to your brain saying "hey dude : you're losing weight right now ! Keep up the spirit !".
That, plus exercise offcourse. For myself, I found podBiking a great calory burner : iPod + real bicycle for 2 hours at least. Get a real bike though, not that mountainbike shit. That's for sissies. A racing bike is a bit more expensive, but it's so much more fun to ride since you don't get exhausted from rubbing the asphalt all the time with those huge gripping tires. When i switched from mountainbikes to racebikes, my appetite for cycling doubled. I do twice as many hours now as I did before.