How about always-on file serving that isn't dependent on any particular computer?
For instance, I have 4 PCs in my house that are used as "media centers" at times. The problem is, my main storage drive is by necessity attached to the PC in my bedroom. I can't leave that PC on all the time because it generates noise and heat and uses energy. But if I want to watch movies or listen to music on the downstairs machine or the one in my daughter's room, I have to turn on the PC in the bedroom. This makes it difficult to keep mapped network drives on the other PCs, and difficult to share a unified media catalog. I want to have the same media available to any location throughout the house. (Especially nice for taking the laptop out back by the pool to work and study.)
This product would be very useful to me. A centralized, location-independent, quiet media library/fileserver that can be left on 24 hours a day. Also it's cheap. I will definitely be buying one.
American coins are sort of like this too - made of layers of differing metals or alloys. Quarters, nickels and dimes are pure copper inside, clad with a mixture of copper and nickel. Pennies are zinc plated with copper.
I think that there is enough space between the particles in the metals at the newtonian scale that there should be no significant size difference between two different metals being shrunk by this method. At the atomic or subatomic scale, there might be a measurable difference difference, but i doubt it would be enough to affect the bond between the outer ring and the center. But who knows? It would be an interesting experiment.
OTOH, i had an epson c62 (super cheap) in denmark. i dropped it when moving. i told epson this, and they sent a guy out the next next day with a replacement under warranty.
disadvantaged people earning welfare and getting drivers' licenses ranks a little higher on the urgency scale than your personal need for a wallet that doesn't hurt your ass.
You didn't mention whether you were looking to run Linux or Windows or OS X, but I think the principles are the same.
This is a good Windows-only setup using mostly freeware tools:
DVD Decrypter to rip the DVDs to macrovision-free/region-free ISO images
Daemon Tools to mount the isos as virtual drives on demand
MyHTPC as a TV-friendly filesystem shell (in combination with some simple batch scripts to control Daemon Tools, several of which can be found in the MyHTPC forums)
Zoom Player to play the DVDs (it's fast, full-featured, and you can turn off the GUI entirely which is nice on a TV.
You will also want WinDVD: not to play the DVDs, because the interface is so bulky and slow, but because you will need good MPEG-2 codecs and I don't know of any free ones as good as the filters that come with WinDVD. Zoom Player has a feature that automatically finds the codecs and registers them for you.
(AC3Filter is a free AC3 audio codec that is comparable to InterVideo's.)
There are loads of ways to do it in OS X and Linux. Somebody who knows better than me is sure to post them.
The calculator and the unit conversions are cool. But what I use most are:
1. The Dot. Instead of "search string", search.string works.
2. Search By Location (currently in google labs, hopefully to be released soon). I made a mycroft plugin for it. Download and unzip to your mozilla/firefox searchplugins directory, edit googleloc.src to reflect your zip code, restart browser, and it'll appear in your search dropdown. Just choose it from the dropdown and enter a query, say "pizza hut" or whatever, and bang, you get your nearest pizza huts with map and distances. (It'll stop working when search by location is eventually moved out of labs.google.com, obviously)
I'm not sure if you read the post. I was referring to re-encoding the file. That was the whole point... explaining "lossless." When you encode/re-encode any file using any lossy format, data will be lost.
I'm not dumb enough to think a *file copy* would deteriorate.
By the way, my digital audio collection is all in mp3. I personally don't care what encoding scheme is used (licensing aside) as long as it doesn't sound shitty to my ears AND it plays on most of my devices. I was just explaining lossless vs. lossy in my post.
I don't think you understand what "lossless" means.
Using lossless compression, any digital audio file can be duplicated for infinite generations and still be a perfect copy of the original. If you make a FLAC copy of an APE copy of a CDA file (all lossless compression methods), the 3rd generation is identical to the first. No audio information is removed. If you make an MP3 of an OGG of a WMA (lossy methods), the file will change and the sound quality will deteriorate with each successive generation, as more information is irretrievably tossed out each time.
The problem with web-based CMSs is uploading. HTML form-based uploading is no fun when you want to post a few hundred photos from a session for somebody to review or whatever. And people (especially clients and computer-illiterate families) don't want to use FTP. What people want is a cross-platform, drag-and-drop upload system, seamlessly incorporated into the CMS, that'll allow them to manage files on the website as though they were part of the local file system, using OS-native dialogs and such. And I know it can be done with WebDAV, but I haven't yet seen a CMS yet that has this feature. Does anybody know of one?
Oh, so your salary should depend on how difficult the job is? Then I guess professional football players should earn about as much as coal miners, fishermen, sweatshop workers, and so on. Sounds good to me. I agree.
#1: Aww, poor athletes, getting cut and everything. Hopefully they won't be reduced to sleeping in their gold-plated Escalades before they find something to support them. Where can I donate to their relief fund?
#2: There is a shortage of teachers AND cops. The reason pro athletes can get cut is that they and their jobs are entirely superfluous to begin with. Firing a teacher, even one who appears incompetent, has a real effect (as ooposed to just causing 40-year-old babies watching TV to cry in their pretzels.)
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i guess i should have mentioned that The Squat was a parody of The Spot and probably more popular than the original at least at one point...
The Squat...
How about always-on file serving that isn't dependent on any particular computer?
For instance, I have 4 PCs in my house that are used as "media centers" at times. The problem is, my main storage drive is by necessity attached to the PC in my bedroom. I can't leave that PC on all the time because it generates noise and heat and uses energy. But if I want to watch movies or listen to music on the downstairs machine or the one in my daughter's room, I have to turn on the PC in the bedroom. This makes it difficult to keep mapped network drives on the other PCs, and difficult to share a unified media catalog. I want to have the same media available to any location throughout the house. (Especially nice for taking the laptop out back by the pool to work and study.)
This product would be very useful to me. A centralized, location-independent, quiet media library/fileserver that can be left on 24 hours a day. Also it's cheap. I will definitely be buying one.
I guess I don't understand how a material can be squeezed inward without affecting its density. same mass in smaller volume = greater density, right?
American coins are sort of like this too - made of layers of differing metals or alloys. Quarters, nickels and dimes are pure copper inside, clad with a mixture of copper and nickel. Pennies are zinc plated with copper.
I think that there is enough space between the particles in the metals at the newtonian scale that there should be no significant size difference between two different metals being shrunk by this method. At the atomic or subatomic scale, there might be a measurable difference difference, but i doubt it would be enough to affect the bond between the outer ring and the center. But who knows? It would be an interesting experiment.
Apparently you don't live in Florida...
Debunking Full Spectrum Lighting Claims
Full Spectrum Lighting - Is it any better?
etc.
You must have a very small boat.
OTOH, i had an epson c62 (super cheap) in denmark. i dropped it when moving. i told epson this, and they sent a guy out the next next day with a replacement under warranty.
You should have switched to Libux.
disadvantaged people earning welfare and getting drivers' licenses ranks a little higher on the urgency scale than your personal need for a wallet that doesn't hurt your ass.
You didn't mention whether you were looking to run Linux or Windows or OS X, but I think the principles are the same.
This is a good Windows-only setup using mostly freeware tools:
DVD Decrypter to rip the DVDs to macrovision-free/region-free ISO images
Daemon Tools to mount the isos as virtual drives on demand
MyHTPC as a TV-friendly filesystem shell (in combination with some simple batch scripts to control Daemon Tools, several of which can be found in the MyHTPC forums)
Zoom Player to play the DVDs (it's fast, full-featured, and you can turn off the GUI entirely which is nice on a TV.
You will also want WinDVD: not to play the DVDs, because the interface is so bulky and slow, but because you will need good MPEG-2 codecs and I don't know of any free ones as good as the filters that come with WinDVD. Zoom Player has a feature that automatically finds the codecs and registers them for you. (AC3Filter is a free AC3 audio codec that is comparable to InterVideo's.)
There are loads of ways to do it in OS X and Linux. Somebody who knows better than me is sure to post them.
ooh, that's cool...
The calculator and the unit conversions are cool. But what I use most are:
1. The Dot. Instead of "search string", search.string works.
2. Search By Location (currently in google labs, hopefully to be released soon). I made a mycroft plugin for it. Download and unzip to your mozilla/firefox searchplugins directory, edit googleloc.src to reflect your zip code, restart browser, and it'll appear in your search dropdown. Just choose it from the dropdown and enter a query, say "pizza hut" or whatever, and bang, you get your nearest pizza huts with map and distances. (It'll stop working when search by location is eventually moved out of labs.google.com, obviously)
could attracting students with videogames actually be a valid approach?
Sure, if they're teaching Dance Dance Revolution.
*pictures my 300-pound high school gym coach playing DDR, in slow motion
On second thought, I don't think it'll work.
I'm not sure if you read the post. I was referring to re-encoding the file. That was the whole point... explaining "lossless." When you encode/re-encode any file using any lossy format, data will be lost. I'm not dumb enough to think a *file copy* would deteriorate. By the way, my digital audio collection is all in mp3. I personally don't care what encoding scheme is used (licensing aside) as long as it doesn't sound shitty to my ears AND it plays on most of my devices. I was just explaining lossless vs. lossy in my post.
I don't think you understand what "lossless" means.
Using lossless compression, any digital audio file can be duplicated for infinite generations and still be a perfect copy of the original. If you make a FLAC copy of an APE copy of a CDA file (all lossless compression methods), the 3rd generation is identical to the first. No audio information is removed. If you make an MP3 of an OGG of a WMA (lossy methods), the file will change and the sound quality will deteriorate with each successive generation, as more information is irretrievably tossed out each time.
Except it's not. People buy SATA hard drives even though they cost a little more. The extra cost is absorbed by the consumer, not the manufacturer.
Well, I find it funny that you use the word "punctuations." It is "punctuation" :P
I find it funny that his mother in law speaks parentheses.
I know, and I think .Mac is great, but it's not cross-platform.
The problem with web-based CMSs is uploading. HTML form-based uploading is no fun when you want to post a few hundred photos from a session for somebody to review or whatever. And people (especially clients and computer-illiterate families) don't want to use FTP. What people want is a cross-platform, drag-and-drop upload system, seamlessly incorporated into the CMS, that'll allow them to manage files on the website as though they were part of the local file system, using OS-native dialogs and such. And I know it can be done with WebDAV, but I haven't yet seen a CMS yet that has this feature. Does anybody know of one?
Oh, so your salary should depend on how difficult the job is? Then I guess professional football players should earn about as much as coal miners, fishermen, sweatshop workers, and so on. Sounds good to me. I agree.
#1: Aww, poor athletes, getting cut and everything. Hopefully they won't be reduced to sleeping in their gold-plated Escalades before they find something to support them. Where can I donate to their relief fund?
#2: There is a shortage of teachers AND cops. The reason pro athletes can get cut is that they and their jobs are entirely superfluous to begin with. Firing a teacher, even one who appears incompetent, has a real effect (as ooposed to just causing 40-year-old babies watching TV to cry in their pretzels.)
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Oh, I don't know, charge $3 for tickets and $1 for cokes, and let the idiots on the field make as much as schoolteachers or cops? Sounds fair to me.