Isn't the fact that the BT data is now labelled as bulk a change to the protocol?
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I think Firefox should check out the "private mode" feature that has been announced for Safari 1.2 in the Tiger release. That would address your problem nicely.
OK, so everybody seems in agreement that the Mini would be a nice media system in the living-room: nice form factor + DVD player + iTunes juke-box + web browser + maybe a few games. Not to mention potential PVR capability via that EyeTV thing everybody is talking about.
But how do you drive that baby? With a wireless keyboard? Isn't that a bit clunky for the living-room?
The iPod Shuffle's form factor sure would be suitable for a remote... Extend it for the next generation with blue-tooth and the proper firmware, et voila! And when you're done watching TV, just plug the Shuffle back in the Mini for a battery and music recharge. Am I missing something here? What else would be needed?
Please be nice: being no hardware techie, I might be way off the mark here.
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I wonder if it's a feasible task. Wikipedia might be expanding faster than you can read it. Pages you have already read have probably changed since.
I'm a big Albini fan and all, but there's a reason why the recording industry matters: it gives people a common frame of reference. Your poetry analogy is a very good one: people still write poetry even though then don't make any money doing it. But have you heard Average Joe and Jane Doe discussing and relating to a particular poem? Rare, huh?
A big part of enjoying music and movies is in the sharing: laughing over a famous quote from a movie dialog, recalling a couple of lines from some song lyrics, singing at the karaoke bar... That's what culture is all about (now, I'm not saying that our current popular culture is anything to write home about, but that's another debate...). That's why we need powerful means of distribution. We just need to find a good balance between personal creativity and total homogeneity.
Well, there was a possible compromise between the audio tapes' versatility and mini-disc's sound quality, and that was the DCC format pushed by Philips at the time: low-res digital audio tapes (i.e. same quality as a mini-disc, but not as good as DAT) at the same size as regular tapes. The DCC walkman was backward-compatible with regular audio tapes. And you could skip songs easily (unlike with regular tapes) since you could use indexes.
Unfortunately, the DCC lost the format war to mini-discs which in turn flopped.
Nobody will read this as I'm posting this way too late, but anyway...
NBC and Viacom are part of the "Society of the Spectacle" that we have created for ourselves (read Guy Debord's manifesto for more), and as such can be viewed as very important tools for any government to keep us happily servile and uncritical. "Bread and games!" to rule the people, as the Romans would have said.
Don't forget that this country has gone through one revolution already (1979), so it's not like they can't pull it off. The hardest trick in any revolution is to get real democracy instead of chaos or another dictatorial regime.
I dunno if Bush would go for it. After all, I'm not sure if there's oil to conquest in Iran (like the only reason there was a "war" -read, slaughter- in Iraq)? We gotta find an excuse for the monkey to cash in on it, first.
A quick comment to address your concern: Iran is one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. And it has been exploited throughout the 20th century for that reason only by foreign countries (Russia, Great Britain,... just check out any history book). No reason why it should stop now...
I've had problems signing in to Yahoo too... For a while it would systematically prompt me to enter a captcha and my password again, although my password was correct to begin with... And of course tech support was useless. Somehow the problem has magically disappeared recently.
This just tells me that single sign-ons are just a bad idea. Maybe you should at least have two different identities associated to an account, so if one fails you can use the other?
That's what I thought too, but I've been burnt by that. Nowadays with smart email address auto-complete features, such as what you can find in Thunderbird or Mail.app, you sometimes end up using email addresses that were incorrectly entered by *other people*.
And how do you know that you never get a legit bounce since you filter those too?
You'll probably also need to filter bounce messages in other languages. I used to get them in Spanish and French also! I'd post my procmail file if I had it handy...
BTW is it just me, or does it seem in poor taste for News outlets like FOX and CNN to focus on possible American casualties when these kind of natural disasters happen?
I think the idea is that they're informing people who might have loved ones involved in the disaster.
I can't believe you got flamed and judged, just because you were sharing good memories and a delicious sounding mulled drink recipe...
Cheers and Merry Christmas!
100% in agreement with parent. If education is expensive, maybe it could be subsidized by trade schools? What I mean is that if you want *training* you pay for it, it is indeed an investment. But if you want *education*, you can access it for free, because it doesn't really teach you a job, it "merely" expands your horizons and teaches you how to think and learn.
...therein lies the stupidity: they provide free education to foreign students, then they don't want to keep them!!! Imagine all the skilled people they could have used.
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Isn't the fact that the BT data is now labelled as bulk a change to the protocol?
I think Firefox should check out the "private mode" feature that has been announced for Safari 1.2 in the Tiger release. That would address your problem nicely.
Thanks, I reloaded on it a few times, I feel better now...
What does Google have a monopoly on? There are other search engines I can easily use. Maybe you should look up the definition of monopoly?
But what if Googlepedia has already changed the definition of monopoly? brrr...
You mythpelled "honetht."
And you myththpelled "myththpelled"!
OK, so everybody seems in agreement that the Mini would be a nice media system in the living-room: nice form factor + DVD player + iTunes juke-box + web browser + maybe a few games. Not to mention potential PVR capability via that EyeTV thing everybody is talking about.
But how do you drive that baby? With a wireless keyboard? Isn't that a bit clunky for the living-room?
The iPod Shuffle's form factor sure would be suitable for a remote... Extend it for the next generation with blue-tooth and the proper firmware, et voila! And when you're done watching TV, just plug the Shuffle back in the Mini for a battery and music recharge. Am I missing something here? What else would be needed?
Please be nice: being no hardware techie, I might be way off the mark here.
I wonder if it's a feasible task. Wikipedia might be expanding faster than you can read it. Pages you have already read have probably changed since.
I'm a big Albini fan and all, but there's a reason why the recording industry matters: it gives people a common frame of reference. Your poetry analogy is a very good one: people still write poetry even though then don't make any money doing it. But have you heard Average Joe and Jane Doe discussing and relating to a particular poem? Rare, huh?
A big part of enjoying music and movies is in the sharing: laughing over a famous quote from a movie dialog, recalling a couple of lines from some song lyrics, singing at the karaoke bar... That's what culture is all about (now, I'm not saying that our current popular culture is anything to write home about, but that's another debate...). That's why we need powerful means of distribution. We just need to find a good balance between personal creativity and total homogeneity.
Well, there was a possible compromise between the audio tapes' versatility and mini-disc's sound quality, and that was the DCC format pushed by Philips at the time: low-res digital audio tapes (i.e. same quality as a mini-disc, but not as good as DAT) at the same size as regular tapes. The DCC walkman was backward-compatible with regular audio tapes. And you could skip songs easily (unlike with regular tapes) since you could use indexes.
Unfortunately, the DCC lost the format war to mini-discs which in turn flopped.
Nobody will read this as I'm posting this way too late, but anyway...
NBC and Viacom are part of the "Society of the Spectacle" that we have created for ourselves (read Guy Debord's manifesto for more), and as such can be viewed as very important tools for any government to keep us happily servile and uncritical. "Bread and games!" to rule the people, as the Romans would have said.
Desktop search tools create an index of your files' content which makes searching files almost instantaneous.
Whatever it is running, hopefully it can't be hacked!
Don't forget that this country has gone through one revolution already (1979), so it's not like they can't pull it off. The hardest trick in any revolution is to get real democracy instead of chaos or another dictatorial regime.
I've had problems signing in to Yahoo too... For a while it would systematically prompt me to enter a captcha and my password again, although my password was correct to begin with... And of course tech support was useless. Somehow the problem has magically disappeared recently.
This just tells me that single sign-ons are just a bad idea. Maybe you should at least have two different identities associated to an account, so if one fails you can use the other?
That's what I thought too, but I've been burnt by that. Nowadays with smart email address auto-complete features, such as what you can find in Thunderbird or Mail.app, you sometimes end up using email addresses that were incorrectly entered by *other people*.
And how do you know that you never get a legit bounce since you filter those too?
You'll probably also need to filter bounce messages in other languages. I used to get them in Spanish and French also! I'd post my procmail file if I had it handy...
I can't believe you got flamed and judged, just because you were sharing good memories and a delicious sounding mulled drink recipe... Cheers and Merry Christmas!
Cowboy Neal?
100% in agreement with parent. If education is expensive, maybe it could be subsidized by trade schools? What I mean is that if you want *training* you pay for it, it is indeed an investment. But if you want *education*, you can access it for free, because it doesn't really teach you a job, it "merely" expands your horizons and teaches you how to think and learn.
...therein lies the stupidity: they provide free education to foreign students, then they don't want to keep them!!! Imagine all the skilled people they could have used.
Hah! Maybe Slashdot is really trying to fight acronym bloat? ;-)
Wow... This looks so much simpler even than CVS, especially as soon as things get hairy with parallel development.
:)
Perfect sales pitch! I'll have to "check it out" now, guess I should say "whatsnew it" instead!