256kbps. I don't know how accurate, I can't tell the difference between wmp10 rip and a lame rip, but it's probably best that you try it yourself and see if you can.
HEALTH INSURANCE AGENT: "Sorry Mr. Smith, but we see by your grocery store records that you buy lots of ice cream, cheese, and Twinkies. You are too great a risk. We are canceling your health insurance."
Health insurance outside of company-provided insurance requires a physical anyways. You can always claim the twinkies are for homeless people. your physical is going to be much more incrimating.
AUTO INSURANCE AGENT: "Sorry Mr. Smith, but we see by your grocery store records that you buy lots of beer and wine. You are too great a risk of being a drunk driver. We are canceling your auto insurance."
In many states, it is against the law for your auto insurance to drop you. Besides, if you have a good driving record, it doesn't make sense for your auto insurance to drop you.. because it just loses them money.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY: "So, Mr. Smith, according to your grocery store records, you purchased a case of beer six hours before the car accident. Isn't it true you were driving while intoxicated?"
Talk about weak circumstantial evidence. They'd get the same info from your receipt. If you were in an accident you should call the police anyway. They'd do a BAC test if they suspected drunk driving, which would be much more conclusive. They only reason they would try and prove you were drunk without a BAC test is if you fled the scene.
Sounds like you're really reaching to provide examples of how your food purchases can be used against you, and since they can't prove you consumed any of this food yourself, it's not very effective for any scenario.
Perhaps you should just grow your own food, since you're on video camera from the moment you enter the store anyway.
We didn't need an expensive study to show the unreliability of eye witnesses.
When I was in 7th grade, my teacher was talking about eye witnesses, then all of a sudden, a guy opened the door, yelled "I'm going to kill you!", shoots him with a water gun, and takes off.
The teacher then asked us to write down what we saw, what he was wearing, what he yelled, etc. We weren't even close.
The kicker was that the guy was our principal wearing a red rubber clown nose... and no one recognized him.
You know that Susan Kare, one of my favourite artists, did a lot of her most beautiful work using only MacPaint or Windows Paintbrush?
I used to be an ascii artist, I mainly used EDIT.COM and pico.
You can still find my stuff on the web when you search for "mrkite" and "ascii", but everything I did was intented to be viewed in white text on black.
I look at all the people, including me, who would like a side scroller with outstanding graphics - which could be done quite easily, and I don't see it happening.
Get a gamecube. Paper Mario is a side scroller, Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2 are side scrollers.
Yes, until 9/11 there had never been a terrorist flying a plane into a new york skyscraper, so it could never have happened.
Actually, back in the late 70's, a guy tried to assassinate Nixon by crashing a plane into the whitehouse. He was subdued as he tried to take the cockpit.
So the "using hijacked planes as weapons" wasn't something unheard of.. it had been tried 25 years earlier.
it's performing very well as long as I'm not trying to play a bleeding edge modern game like KotOR
I'm not sure you understand the term "bleeding edge". Kotor isn't bleeding edge. It wasn't bleeding edge when it came out a year ago. Min reqs are 1ghz P3, 128megs of ram. That's a 4-year old PC.
Sometime yesterday, all mail older than November 1st was deleted from my gmail account. Sent mail, archived mail, everything older than November 1st is gone.
Unless you can't go to college because you cannot afford it, or you were forced to drop out for financial reasons - then scholarship would be a lot of help.
No kidding. I dropped out 7 years ago because I couldn't afford it. Now that I'm married and kids are a very real prospect, I can't afford to finish my degree even though I'm making much more money now.
I'd like to finish my degree someday, but I can't justify the expense. (That and since I've already reached senior programmer at my work, the lack of degree isn't really holding me back.)
If the accused had dressed up as characters from the Clue(TM) boardgame, would boardgames be blamed, and why or why not?
An unidentified man in his mid to late 50's was charged Tuesday with the bludgeoning death of another man. The man possessed no identification, and gave his name as only "Professor Plum."
After several hours of investigation, the police determined that Plum brutally attacked Mr. Body with a candlestick. They haven't determined whether the attack took place in the Billiard room, or the Dining room.
Mrs. Scarlet was present during the attack, but as she was armed with a revolver, police have ruled her out as a suspect.
In other news, a thimble has just purchased an upscale stretch of real estate along Boardwalk Ave.
No, Windows and OSX do not have a long way to go, but KDE is obviously JUST catching up to the idea of determine what application to open up based on such data!
I was under the impression that KDE used something similar to Gnome's VFS. Meaning it doesn't launch a webdav client when you open a webdav:// url, it uses a VFS module to do it.
This is very different than what you are talking about. This allows applications to open and save files to webdav, afs://, smb://, ftp:// just like any other file.
For instance, I could write a daap:// handler that allows any application to open iTunes music shares just as if they were regular local directories.
Mozilla is definitely growing. Those are unique visitors, not hits, so the numbers aren't swayed by returning visitors.
However, we're a regular old newspaper, without any technology news, and only 80% of our users are using MSIE, which is pretty impressive. (86% if you add the AOL users, since that's IE too)
Slashdot Mirror
Unlike the iPod, however, Creative's players CAN'T play back AAC files sold by the most popular online music store in existence!
Hmm... leveraging one monopoly to create another... interesting.
I'm geniunely annoyed at the state of PC audio.
Why? There are plenty of highend breakout boxes available.
Echo Digital has been making awesome PC sound cards for over 20 years now. http://www.echoaudio.com/
You have everything from a top of the line Echo Layla3G ($499) to a superb sounding lowend card like the Echo MIAMIDI ($199).
What bit rate? How accurate?
256kbps. I don't know how accurate, I can't tell the difference between wmp10 rip and a lame rip, but it's probably best that you try it yourself and see if you can.
HEALTH INSURANCE AGENT: "Sorry Mr. Smith, but we see by your grocery store records that you buy lots of ice cream, cheese, and Twinkies. You are too great a risk. We are canceling your health insurance."
Health insurance outside of company-provided insurance requires a physical anyways. You can always claim the twinkies are for homeless people. your physical is going to be much more incrimating.
AUTO INSURANCE AGENT: "Sorry Mr. Smith, but we see by your grocery store records that you buy lots of beer and wine. You are too great a risk of being a drunk driver. We are canceling your auto insurance."
In many states, it is against the law for your auto insurance to drop you. Besides, if you have a good driving record, it doesn't make sense for your auto insurance to drop you.. because it just loses them money.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY: "So, Mr. Smith, according to your grocery store records, you purchased a case of beer six hours before the car accident. Isn't it true you were driving while intoxicated?"
Talk about weak circumstantial evidence. They'd get the same info from your receipt. If you were in an accident you should call the police anyway. They'd do a BAC test if they suspected drunk driving, which would be much more conclusive. They only reason they would try and prove you were drunk without a BAC test is if you fled the scene.
Sounds like you're really reaching to provide examples of how your food purchases can be used against you, and since they can't prove you consumed any of this food yourself, it's not very effective for any scenario.
Perhaps you should just grow your own food, since you're on video camera from the moment you enter the store anyway.
WMP is soooooooo much better than that piece of dogcrap.
I'm going to have to agree with you. WMP10 is a very nice piece of software.
Plus, I don't know what kind of voodoo magic MS is practicing these days, but WMP is able to rip an entire CD into mp3s in 2 minutes flat.
We didn't need an expensive study to show the unreliability of eye witnesses.
When I was in 7th grade, my teacher was talking about eye witnesses, then all of a sudden, a guy opened the door, yelled "I'm going to kill you!", shoots him with a water gun, and takes off.
The teacher then asked us to write down what we saw, what he was wearing, what he yelled, etc. We weren't even close.
The kicker was that the guy was our principal wearing a red rubber clown nose... and no one recognized him.
You know that Susan Kare, one of my favourite artists, did a lot of her most beautiful work using only MacPaint or Windows Paintbrush?
I used to be an ascii artist, I mainly used EDIT.COM and pico.
You can still find my stuff on the web when you search for "mrkite" and "ascii", but everything I did was intented to be viewed in white text on black.
I look at all the people, including me, who would like a side scroller with outstanding graphics - which could be done quite easily, and I don't see it happening.
Get a gamecube. Paper Mario is a side scroller, Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2 are side scrollers.
What's more powerful, a slashdotting, or a wanging?
Does anybody know how to REALLY turn off font antialiasing in FC3 ?
Go to Preferences -> Fonts
Pick "Monochrome" for Font Rendering.
Antialising just plain sucks if used on modern LC displays
Maybe you should pick "Subpixel smoothing" instead.
I can't remember the name of it, but there was a Space sim on the Apple II that would swear back at you... with puns.
Type in "Fuck you" and the game would respond with "Up your asteroid!"
Yes, until 9/11 there had never been a terrorist flying a plane into a new york skyscraper, so it could never have happened.
Actually, back in the late 70's, a guy tried to assassinate Nixon by crashing a plane into the whitehouse. He was subdued as he tried to take the cockpit.
So the "using hijacked planes as weapons" wasn't something unheard of.. it had been tried 25 years earlier.
It means that I, for one, would not be using a Mac right now. The UNIX-ness is important to me.
BeOS is posix compatible, has all the GNU tools you expect and the default shell is based on Bash.
BeOS was heavily influenced by XINU.
So you're willing to pay "as much as" half a penny per song?
How generous of you.
it's performing very well as long as I'm not trying to play a bleeding edge modern game like KotOR
I'm not sure you understand the term "bleeding edge". Kotor isn't bleeding edge. It wasn't bleeding edge when it came out a year ago. Min reqs are 1ghz P3, 128megs of ram. That's a 4-year old PC.
Try MOH:PA. That's bleeding edge.
Did gmail have a harddrive crash or something?
Sometime yesterday, all mail older than November 1st was deleted from my gmail account. Sent mail, archived mail, everything older than November 1st is gone.
Did anyone else have this happen?
Unless you can't go to college because you cannot afford it, or you were forced to drop out for financial reasons - then scholarship would be a lot of help.
No kidding. I dropped out 7 years ago because I couldn't afford it. Now that I'm married and kids are a very real prospect, I can't afford to finish my degree even though I'm making much more money now.
I'd like to finish my degree someday, but I can't justify the expense. (That and since I've already reached senior programmer at my work, the lack of degree isn't really holding me back.)
I can't wait to throw out my girlfriend 1.0 once they finally come up with one that doesn't put up a inpenetrable firewall in bed.
That reminds me of that old joke:
"The only thing that a hacker can't get past is a pair of panties"
If the accused had dressed up as characters from the Clue(TM) boardgame, would boardgames be blamed, and why or why not?
An unidentified man in his mid to late 50's was charged Tuesday with the bludgeoning death of another man. The man possessed no identification, and gave his name as only "Professor Plum."
After several hours of investigation, the police determined that Plum brutally attacked Mr. Body with a candlestick. They haven't determined whether the attack took place in the Billiard room, or the Dining room.
Mrs. Scarlet was present during the attack, but as she was armed with a revolver, police have ruled her out as a suspect.
In other news, a thimble has just purchased an upscale stretch of real estate along Boardwalk Ave.
On a related note, cat /dev/null > myfile
is a great way to truncate a file, especially if the file you're truncating is an apache error log that has grown out of hand.
we'll be holding services for their social lives.
No, Windows and OSX do not have a long way to go, but KDE is obviously JUST catching up to the idea of determine what application to open up based on such data!
I was under the impression that KDE used something similar to Gnome's VFS. Meaning it doesn't launch a webdav client when you open a webdav:// url, it uses a VFS module to do it.
This is very different than what you are talking about. This allows applications to open and save files to webdav, afs://, smb://, ftp:// just like any other file.
For instance, I could write a daap:// handler that allows any application to open iTunes music shares just as if they were regular local directories.
Use the included AV cable to connect iPod Photo to a projector or TV
My digital camera has this ability too. I've used it once.. just to see if it worked.
This feature is fairly useless. Anyone with a digital camera can already do this.
Stats for our site, a local daily newspaper.
Browser / Unique Visitors / Percentage
Top 5 browser types for JANUARY:
MSIE / 642512 / 81.4%
Netscape / 55492 / 7.0%
AOL / 55432 / 7.0%
Mozilla / 14472 / 1.8%
Safari / 12513 / 1.6%
Top 5 browser types for OCTOBER:
MSIE / 627996 / 79.4%
AOL / 49956 / 6.3%
Mozilla / 47557 / 6.0%
Netscape / 37364 / 4.7%
Safari / 19753 / 2.5%
Mozilla is definitely growing. Those are unique visitors, not hits, so the numbers aren't swayed by returning visitors.
However, we're a regular old newspaper, without any technology news, and only 80% of our users are using MSIE, which is pretty impressive. (86% if you add the AOL users, since that's IE too)
Man, some of us can trace our online gaming lineage back to the original DOOM over a null modem cable.
And some of us go back to LoRD and PimpWars.