I've had black screens inside a program flagged as commerical breaks on occasion. It also misplaces the end-of-commercial break on ESPN; sometimes ESPN puts its "stock" ticker up on an otherwise blank screen, and starts talking about the game, before restoring the rest of the screen. The end-of-commercial flag should be in the dead-black before the stock ticker appears, but instead it is marked while the stock ticker is up and the game talk has started.
Still, that isn't hard to adjust manually, and in all other respects VideoRedoPlus is some of the best money I've every spent on software. The quick-stream fix and GOP fix features have saved many shows extracted from my Dish 510 PVR that I couldn't otherwise clean up to burn on a DVD.
Actually, video editing is the only thing I still do on my desktop PC, after moving everything else to my newish laptop, that keeps me from moving to Linux. I like VideoRedo too much to give it up now, and there's no harm keeping a Win2k machine for video editing indefinitely.
It secretly contained chopped-up bits of the IE source code. Having ingested it, the entire Firefox team is now legally disqualified from working on open source competitors.
While it's just a science fiction story, David Brin explores brain maladies that prevent speech - but not song - in the second Uplift trilogy. The "stranger," mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Brightness Reef, suffers from this due to traumatic brain damage. It is a plot device throughout the trilogy.
Given David Brin's scientific background, I tend to consider the science behind his science fiction books to be more accurate than the science in some science books. There's a lot about the brain we don't know, but I think topics like this reveal amazing things about its ability to withstand trauma.
Yes, you are right, I did miss that row of buttons, under the other row of buttons that inexplicably take me to main pages for different music genres.
And yes, that discography does look good. Perhaps no better than Wikipedia's, but good.
allmusic.com looks definitely better than using Google, and is probably better than Wikipedia for cases where the Wiki article is a stub with just an album list (but no tracks), as is occasionally the case.
Of those, I think the cookbook program is the best app for the Apple's target market - people that want a home computer that has everything they need at home, to do things in their free time, but also to do things around the house.
The Windows cookbook program I use (Living Cookbook) is ok, but it has some problems that would make me jump ship if there was a good alternative: 1. It abstracts what I enter in a recipe to an item database (which is good for calculating nutrition from ingredients), but then puts the abstracted data on grocery lists (so the recipe says a specific type of tomato, I linked to a generic tomato for nutrition information, and then only get the generic one on the grocery list). 2. It uses IE for rendering recipes. If you click an embedded link for an external web page, it launches in IE, rather than launching in my designated web browser. Users have complained about this one, and they won't fix it. Using IE like this also means it won't work on Linux; I installed IE and Living Cookbook using CrossOver Office, and IE worked fine on its own, but wouldn't render recipes inside the other application.
Give me an easy-to-use, intuitive program for Mac that avoids these problems, and I'll have another reason to jump ship.
No, sorry, that seems woefully inadequate. I pulled up one article, on The Byrds.
Here's allmusic.com: (page is a.dll - just search for 'The Byrds') The main page looks nice, but the only discography is a small icon of six albums. Clicking on those takes me to a great page for each album, with very detailed information, but The Byrds had more than six albums! There also doesn't seem to be anything more than names listed for most songs. I'd like more detail, which is especially important when bands release multiple versions of the same song.
Here's Google's page (I've presorted it the way I like to, by release date with tracks shown): http://www.google.com/musicad?aid=O3_V4hGVTl&sort= d Having detailed, searchable track lists across multiple albums is nice, but I can't get all their studio albums on one page, so it is limited. Finding the start of the studio albums takes time, too; if I go back too many pages, I get to multi-artist compilations. (In this case, their oldest studio album is on page 7 of the search results; I can start there and work back to page 1.) With nothing given but year of release, however, I have to follow links to another site to get release day. There's also nothing to help with multiple versions of the same song.
Here's Wikipedia's article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Byrds I do wish the discography on this page had a track list for each album, in the way that Wikipedia's Beatles' Discography page does, or in the way that Google does (except all on one page). That would make it trivial to search for songs and find their original album. But, for the Byrds, 18 albums are listed, in release order. Each one takes me to a page with specific information about that album, including release date and a track list. Going in order, it was very trivial to identify the original albums from which my songs came, even though I got them from one of thost "60s Rock" compilation CDs.
You are kidding yourself if you think even for one second that the versions of the PSP and PS3 Sony releases in the US have not met CE requirements for European distribution. If I had a US PSP, I would even find and point out the CE logo to you - it would cost them more money to tool up two different versions of the exterior plastic, one with the CE logo and one without, than it would cost them to just test and meet all the products the same way.
Sony's actions are just another attempt for big business to exploit the world's workers and consumers. Businesses can move goods from country to country whenever they wish - only a few countries are on ban lists, and tariffs are being dropped worldwide. Businesses can move jobs from country to country whenever they wish - no restrictions at all here. But workers cannot move from country to country to find jobs because of immigration laws. Consumers cannot import things from other countries (like allofmp3.com products into the US, or PSPs into Europe, or gambling into the US) because of barrier laws. Funny that.
It is certainly better in Kubutu now than it was in my last server OS (Xandros 2.0), but it's still barely passable. 90% of pages crashed until I disabled Java - I would crash 100% of the time when trying to click any link on CNN.com's homepage, for example. Surely there's something in Firefox's code that could be borrowed by the Konquerer team to fix that.
The tabbed browsing and integrated AdBlock are nice, yes, and I haven't bothered to install Firefox on that machine. But even when everything works, pages load way way too slowly; it needs an engine to start rendering pages sooner, before everything has loaded. (Or, if it has one, it needs to work better.)
Isn't that usually the Slashdot libertarian response to a company doing something some folks don't like? I don't see how that applies when "Sony Uses Government to Restrict Free Trade" is the subject.
Aye. I've been trying to go back and improve ID3 tags on music I ripped long ago - adding original release dates for songs so I can organize music by release - especially hard for music I bought on compilation CDs that released much later.
Google's music search system is fantastic - but it doesn't carry enough information. I have to follow a link to a vendor site to get release information, or to find a larger picture of the album cover to save.
Wikipedia, however, has discography for almost every band, with detailed release information and usually a good-quality album cover. I've started using it first, and only going to Google when Wikipedia's article is missing or incomplete (which is rare).
Perhaps, but words are defined by those who use them. If the wording "cloning" means surgical genetic manipulation by the scientists who speak it, and is understood as surgical genetic manipulation by 99% of the population that hears it in this context, then that's a valid definition of "cloning". Dictionaries that disagree are merely obsolete.
No kidding. He calls casual players "useless" then says that playing hardcore wrecks your life. What he completely neglects to mention are casual players enjoy playing the game on their own pace, and some of them are members of casual raiding guilds and do accomplish higher-end goals. Sure, they may just be in Nefarian's Lair now, but at the rate they play that's pretty darn good. Had he stayed on such a schedule, he wouldn't be burnt out from the content and from his life.
One of the best raiding experiences I ever had was in a group on EQ that raided once a week, Sundays at 1:00 PM until 6-7 PM, and just hit whatever was up that we could take. They were in Luclin when I started and were doing elemental planes (and OoW and GoD content) when I left, and they conquered PoTime a few months later. Sure, this was a year or two after the uber guilds, but we still impressed them - our first kill of Rallos Zek was with 35 people, when the uber guilds still didn't believe it could be done with less than 50.
(Besides, after one year played this guy just has/70 days played. What's that to brag about? =p)
No it isn't, not in the genetic sense being discussed in this article. Perhaps in a loose sense based on the original meaning of "clone", but this article is specifically discussing cloning being performed by surgical manipulation of the DNA in individual cells.
Trying to relate "taking a cutting and letting grow new roots" or "taking a cutting and sticking it on the roots of another plant" (a.k.a. grafting) to "taking a needle and sucking the DNA out of a nucleus, then inserting new DNA from other cell" is a very, very long stretch. I would see that as an attempt to confuse and cloud an issue, not offer open debate.
And no, I'm not claiming that surgically-cloned meat (for lack of a better specific term) is bad. It's probably better than genetically-altered meat, because in that case the meat has adjustments that nature has not had an opportunity to breed out. But claiming grafting or the like is the same as surgical cloning is like claiming genetic manipulation is like selective breeding - one case gives nature an opportunity to reject the manipulation by killing the result or making it sterile, while the other does not.
I was thinking the dictators of Pakistan and Uzbekistan when I wrote that post. And yes, sometimes a murderous dictator is the lesser of two evils, as my original post implied. In Iraq's case, perhaps Saddam would have been better than another Taliban-like state.
Wrong. Iraq wasnt a religious state, unlike the USA
Dude, that's what I said! Saddam used religion as a tool, but he wasn't a religious fanatic.
I don't know if Bush is a true religious fanatic or not, but I very strongly doubt that Dick Cheney or Karl Rove are that religious. They, too, use Christianity as a tool to control people; they push buttons when it is necessary to drum up support for their side, then use that support to advance a very non-Christian agenda.
Iraq was not a cakewalk. Saddam didn't put up any resistance whatsoever except for his PR person claiming Americans where spontaneously combusting. Your war didn't end with the "Mission Accomplished".
Please read my post next time you reply to me. I said Saddam's Iraq was the cakewalk. By the time of that stupid "Mission Accomplished" fiasco, his Iraq was gone, easily, and with minimal casualty on our side.
As I clearly state, everything after that has been a mess. And no, I'm not trying to justify the original invasion either. It was a stupid, stupid idea from a stupid, stupid president. But it was executed efficiently in military terms. The people who organized it can get a little gold sticker for that one. Then they should all be fired for doing such a poor job of planning for the resulting occupation.
No, they were in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, etc., sitting around waiting for an opportunity to do something against America.
Maybe that's the real success of our time in Iraq: we've given lots of disgruntled people conveniently-located targets, in the form of our troops. Maybe putting troops in harm's way is better than letting them come to civilians; but even as a civilian that sounds horrible to risk troops that way.
Well, if she has a Zune* (or an iPod), she could just take her headphones and plug them into your iPod. Now she listens to the music, you are still holding the iPod so you are close together, and there is no sharing of bodily fluids (earwax, in this case).
*That is, unless the Zune has non-detachable earphones (or ones with a non-standard connector).
Even without WMD Iraq is no cakewalk (as we see in present day).
The present-day insurgents weren't in Iraq until after we removed Saddam from power. He ran a run-of-the-mill dictatorship that used his religion (and that of most of his country) as a tool to control people, but he was no religious fanatic. He disliked the Taliban and the Bin Laden extremists almost as much as the U.S. does.
Saddam's Iraq was a cakewalk. We "accomplished" that mission quickly, efficiently, and with minimal casualties on our side. Then, we started screwing almost everything up, and haven't stopped yet. We needed to create a stabler, more secure country faster, before zealots and extremists had time to enter the country and set up shop. Probably having more troops from a wider variety of allies would have helped tremendously, but that would have required us to earn more allies through discourse and compromise, something this administration is not able to do.
Had we not entered Iraq, Saddam would have continued to do an adequate job of suppressing religious fanatics, and Iraq would not have become another Taliban country. (He would have continued suppressing his own people, too; he was still a dictator, murderer, and thug. I'm not denying that. But there are plenty of other murderous dictators in power around the world, some of which are our allies.) Overall, we've probably left the country in worse shape than if we'd just left it alone.
We should have sent many, many more troops to Afghanistan (where we had internation support and justification for our invasion) to avoid the problems that country is having - resurgent Taliban because we didn't kill them all back then when they were in the open, and the country falling back into its longtime role as the world's opium supplier (something the Taliban had tried to suppress, but now profits from).
Can the US pretty pretty pretty please use the WEEE logo to indicate that the product can be returned for recycling? Please?
I'm a hardware designer. Squeezing space on a product for yet another logo (alongside RoHS, WEEE, CE, C-Tick, Symbol 14, and sometimes MIC, FCC) will be really, really hard; for most of our products we have to put these on the PCB silkscreen around and between components.
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I've had black screens inside a program flagged as commerical breaks on occasion. It also misplaces the end-of-commercial break on ESPN; sometimes ESPN puts its "stock" ticker up on an otherwise blank screen, and starts talking about the game, before restoring the rest of the screen. The end-of-commercial flag should be in the dead-black before the stock ticker appears, but instead it is marked while the stock ticker is up and the game talk has started.
Still, that isn't hard to adjust manually, and in all other respects VideoRedoPlus is some of the best money I've every spent on software. The quick-stream fix and GOP fix features have saved many shows extracted from my Dish 510 PVR that I couldn't otherwise clean up to burn on a DVD.
Actually, video editing is the only thing I still do on my desktop PC, after moving everything else to my newish laptop, that keeps me from moving to Linux. I like VideoRedo too much to give it up now, and there's no harm keeping a Win2k machine for video editing indefinitely.
Don't forget signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). The longest one I ever signed was 16 pages for IBM.
Dude, did you not read page 15, paragraph 5, sub-bullet A(1):
You shall not disclose the length of this Non-Disclosure Agreement to any third party.
You are SO gonna get sued!
Thanks. This was what I was reading this article for.
It secretly contained chopped-up bits of the IE source code. Having ingested it, the entire Firefox team is now legally disqualified from working on open source competitors.
Or something like that. It's early still.
While it's just a science fiction story, David Brin explores brain maladies that prevent speech - but not song - in the second Uplift trilogy. The "stranger," mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Brightness Reef, suffers from this due to traumatic brain damage. It is a plot device throughout the trilogy.
Given David Brin's scientific background, I tend to consider the science behind his science fiction books to be more accurate than the science in some science books. There's a lot about the brain we don't know, but I think topics like this reveal amazing things about its ability to withstand trauma.
>> Some ads will even appear on video screens in the elevators of their office buildings.
;p
I wonder how much the IT guys at their companies pocketed to do that.
(My company owns its own building, so the screens are internal. Having third party ads show up on them would mean somebody was on the take.)
Yes, you are right, I did miss that row of buttons, under the other row of buttons that inexplicably take me to main pages for different music genres.
And yes, that discography does look good. Perhaps no better than Wikipedia's, but good.
allmusic.com looks definitely better than using Google, and is probably better than Wikipedia for cases where the Wiki article is a stub with just an album list (but no tracks), as is occasionally the case.
Of those, I think the cookbook program is the best app for the Apple's target market - people that want a home computer that has everything they need at home, to do things in their free time, but also to do things around the house.
The Windows cookbook program I use (Living Cookbook) is ok, but it has some problems that would make me jump ship if there was a good alternative:
1. It abstracts what I enter in a recipe to an item database (which is good for calculating nutrition from ingredients), but then puts the abstracted data on grocery lists (so the recipe says a specific type of tomato, I linked to a generic tomato for nutrition information, and then only get the generic one on the grocery list).
2. It uses IE for rendering recipes. If you click an embedded link for an external web page, it launches in IE, rather than launching in my designated web browser. Users have complained about this one, and they won't fix it. Using IE like this also means it won't work on Linux; I installed IE and Living Cookbook using CrossOver Office, and IE worked fine on its own, but wouldn't render recipes inside the other application.
Give me an easy-to-use, intuitive program for Mac that avoids these problems, and I'll have another reason to jump ship.
No, sorry, that seems woefully inadequate. I pulled up one article, on The Byrds.
.dll - just search for 'The Byrds')
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Here's allmusic.com:
(page is a
The main page looks nice, but the only discography is a small icon of six albums. Clicking on those takes me to a great page for each album, with very detailed information, but The Byrds had more than six albums! There also doesn't seem to be anything more than names listed for most songs. I'd like more detail, which is especially important when bands release multiple versions of the same song.
Here's Google's page (I've presorted it the way I like to, by release date with tracks shown):
http://www.google.com/musicad?aid=O3_V4hGVTl&sort
Having detailed, searchable track lists across multiple albums is nice, but I can't get all their studio albums on one page, so it is limited. Finding the start of the studio albums takes time, too; if I go back too many pages, I get to multi-artist compilations. (In this case, their oldest studio album is on page 7 of the search results; I can start there and work back to page 1.) With nothing given but year of release, however, I have to follow links to another site to get release day. There's also nothing to help with multiple versions of the same song.
Here's Wikipedia's article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Byrds
I do wish the discography on this page had a track list for each album, in the way that Wikipedia's Beatles' Discography page does, or in the way that Google does (except all on one page). That would make it trivial to search for songs and find their original album. But, for the Byrds, 18 albums are listed, in release order. Each one takes me to a page with specific information about that album, including release date and a track list. Going in order, it was very trivial to identify the original albums from which my songs came, even though I got them from one of thost "60s Rock" compilation CDs.
You are kidding yourself if you think even for one second that the versions of the PSP and PS3 Sony releases in the US have not met CE requirements for European distribution. If I had a US PSP, I would even find and point out the CE logo to you - it would cost them more money to tool up two different versions of the exterior plastic, one with the CE logo and one without, than it would cost them to just test and meet all the products the same way.
Sony's actions are just another attempt for big business to exploit the world's workers and consumers. Businesses can move goods from country to country whenever they wish - only a few countries are on ban lists, and tariffs are being dropped worldwide. Businesses can move jobs from country to country whenever they wish - no restrictions at all here. But workers cannot move from country to country to find jobs because of immigration laws. Consumers cannot import things from other countries (like allofmp3.com products into the US, or PSPs into Europe, or gambling into the US) because of barrier laws. Funny that.
It is certainly better in Kubutu now than it was in my last server OS (Xandros 2.0), but it's still barely passable. 90% of pages crashed until I disabled Java - I would crash 100% of the time when trying to click any link on CNN.com's homepage, for example. Surely there's something in Firefox's code that could be borrowed by the Konquerer team to fix that.
The tabbed browsing and integrated AdBlock are nice, yes, and I haven't bothered to install Firefox on that machine. But even when everything works, pages load way way too slowly; it needs an engine to start rendering pages sooner, before everything has loaded. (Or, if it has one, it needs to work better.)
Isn't that usually the Slashdot libertarian response to a company doing something some folks don't like? I don't see how that applies when "Sony Uses Government to Restrict Free Trade" is the subject.
Aye. I've been trying to go back and improve ID3 tags on music I ripped long ago - adding original release dates for songs so I can organize music by release - especially hard for music I bought on compilation CDs that released much later.
Google's music search system is fantastic - but it doesn't carry enough information. I have to follow a link to a vendor site to get release information, or to find a larger picture of the album cover to save.
Wikipedia, however, has discography for almost every band, with detailed release information and usually a good-quality album cover. I've started using it first, and only going to Google when Wikipedia's article is missing or incomplete (which is rare).
Perhaps, but words are defined by those who use them. If the wording "cloning" means surgical genetic manipulation by the scientists who speak it, and is understood as surgical genetic manipulation by 99% of the population that hears it in this context, then that's a valid definition of "cloning". Dictionaries that disagree are merely obsolete.
No kidding. He calls casual players "useless" then says that playing hardcore wrecks your life. What he completely neglects to mention are casual players enjoy playing the game on their own pace, and some of them are members of casual raiding guilds and do accomplish higher-end goals. Sure, they may just be in Nefarian's Lair now, but at the rate they play that's pretty darn good. Had he stayed on such a schedule, he wouldn't be burnt out from the content and from his life.
/70 days played. What's that to brag about? =p)
One of the best raiding experiences I ever had was in a group on EQ that raided once a week, Sundays at 1:00 PM until 6-7 PM, and just hit whatever was up that we could take. They were in Luclin when I started and were doing elemental planes (and OoW and GoD content) when I left, and they conquered PoTime a few months later. Sure, this was a year or two after the uber guilds, but we still impressed them - our first kill of Rallos Zek was with 35 people, when the uber guilds still didn't believe it could be done with less than 50.
(Besides, after one year played this guy just has
No it isn't, not in the genetic sense being discussed in this article. Perhaps in a loose sense based on the original meaning of "clone", but this article is specifically discussing cloning being performed by surgical manipulation of the DNA in individual cells.
Trying to relate "taking a cutting and letting grow new roots" or "taking a cutting and sticking it on the roots of another plant" (a.k.a. grafting) to "taking a needle and sucking the DNA out of a nucleus, then inserting new DNA from other cell" is a very, very long stretch. I would see that as an attempt to confuse and cloud an issue, not offer open debate.
And no, I'm not claiming that surgically-cloned meat (for lack of a better specific term) is bad. It's probably better than genetically-altered meat, because in that case the meat has adjustments that nature has not had an opportunity to breed out. But claiming grafting or the like is the same as surgical cloning is like claiming genetic manipulation is like selective breeding - one case gives nature an opportunity to reject the manipulation by killing the result or making it sterile, while the other does not.
I was thinking the dictators of Pakistan and Uzbekistan when I wrote that post. And yes, sometimes a murderous dictator is the lesser of two evils, as my original post implied. In Iraq's case, perhaps Saddam would have been better than another Taliban-like state.
Wrong. Iraq wasnt a religious state, unlike the USA
Dude, that's what I said! Saddam used religion as a tool, but he wasn't a religious fanatic.
I don't know if Bush is a true religious fanatic or not, but I very strongly doubt that Dick Cheney or Karl Rove are that religious. They, too, use Christianity as a tool to control people; they push buttons when it is necessary to drum up support for their side, then use that support to advance a very non-Christian agenda.
Iraq was not a cakewalk. Saddam didn't put up any resistance whatsoever except for his PR person claiming Americans where spontaneously combusting. Your war didn't end with the "Mission Accomplished".
Please read my post next time you reply to me. I said Saddam's Iraq was the cakewalk. By the time of that stupid "Mission Accomplished" fiasco, his Iraq was gone, easily, and with minimal casualty on our side.
As I clearly state, everything after that has been a mess. And no, I'm not trying to justify the original invasion either. It was a stupid, stupid idea from a stupid, stupid president. But it was executed efficiently in military terms. The people who organized it can get a little gold sticker for that one. Then they should all be fired for doing such a poor job of planning for the resulting occupation.
I don't understand; it sounds like you are agreeing with my completely.
No, they were in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, etc., sitting around waiting for an opportunity to do something against America.
Maybe that's the real success of our time in Iraq: we've given lots of disgruntled people conveniently-located targets, in the form of our troops. Maybe putting troops in harm's way is better than letting them come to civilians; but even as a civilian that sounds horrible to risk troops that way.
Grafting isn't cloning.
Well, if she has a Zune* (or an iPod), she could just take her headphones and plug them into your iPod. Now she listens to the music, you are still holding the iPod so you are close together, and there is no sharing of bodily fluids (earwax, in this case).
*That is, unless the Zune has non-detachable earphones (or ones with a non-standard connector).
Even without WMD Iraq is no cakewalk (as we see in present day).
The present-day insurgents weren't in Iraq until after we removed Saddam from power. He ran a run-of-the-mill dictatorship that used his religion (and that of most of his country) as a tool to control people, but he was no religious fanatic. He disliked the Taliban and the Bin Laden extremists almost as much as the U.S. does.
Saddam's Iraq was a cakewalk. We "accomplished" that mission quickly, efficiently, and with minimal casualties on our side. Then, we started screwing almost everything up, and haven't stopped yet. We needed to create a stabler, more secure country faster, before zealots and extremists had time to enter the country and set up shop. Probably having more troops from a wider variety of allies would have helped tremendously, but that would have required us to earn more allies through discourse and compromise, something this administration is not able to do.
Had we not entered Iraq, Saddam would have continued to do an adequate job of suppressing religious fanatics, and Iraq would not have become another Taliban country. (He would have continued suppressing his own people, too; he was still a dictator, murderer, and thug. I'm not denying that. But there are plenty of other murderous dictators in power around the world, some of which are our allies.) Overall, we've probably left the country in worse shape than if we'd just left it alone.
We should have sent many, many more troops to Afghanistan (where we had internation support and justification for our invasion) to avoid the problems that country is having - resurgent Taliban because we didn't kill them all back then when they were in the open, and the country falling back into its longtime role as the world's opium supplier (something the Taliban had tried to suppress, but now profits from).
Can the US pretty pretty pretty please use the WEEE logo to indicate that the product can be returned for recycling? Please?
W EEE-symbol.gif
I'm a hardware designer. Squeezing space on a product for yet another logo (alongside RoHS, WEEE, CE, C-Tick, Symbol 14, and sometimes MIC, FCC) will be really, really hard; for most of our products we have to put these on the PCB silkscreen around and between components.
The WEEE symbol is a trashcan with an 'X' over it. Surely that'll work in the US, too?
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