I really hate reading this. "I love Myth, but it required me to actually do some work". Remind us all again how much that software cost you???
Myth, while not without it's share of issues, represents a monumental acheivement by the devs. It can do things no commercial product ever will, like run your very own shell script after a recording completes. I've invested hundreds of hours worth of 'nerding' in it since.19, and I will happily continue to do so in the name of shunning all forms of DRM.
Man up or open your wallet and purchase something ready-made. Either way, quitcherbitchin!
Thank you. After catching a few morning newscasts, I thought I was the only one to notice this.
I suppose the vast majority of fans were expecting to see Chase steal a scene from Scarface, and were so disappointed they overlooked the dialog and plot.
Subtlety, it seems, is a grossly under-appreciated art form in this day and age.
China only cares insomuch as it might endanger trade relations with it's largest trading partner.
I must apologize for my liberal use of the word 'partner' since it implies reciprocity. The US has a several hundred billion dollar per year trade deficit with communist China. These gross violations of intellectual property rights are but a drop in the bucket that is the US' trade policy with them. Unfortunately the US govt. and it's consumer public are too enamored with the 'bargain' of cheap Chinese goods to wake up and see the slaughterhouse at the end of the narrow ramp that they're treading.
This says nothing about China's blatant manipulation of it's currency, it's theft of military secrets, etc. While we're busy arguing for the civil rights of it's citizens or complaining about it's theft of IP, it's quite boisterously positioning itself to kick our collective asses.
b) M$ makes it available with a real hard drive (i.e. > 80 gb)
or
c) ideally, both a & b
Personally I've never been a big fan of the iPod or Apple for that matter, but judging from what I've seen of and read about the Zune I don't think iPod sales will feel even the most minute ripple from this turd of marketing 'genius'. Way to go Microsoft...
In my precinct we've used optically scanned ballots for years, and I really can't think of a single valid reason that justifies the use of touchscreen appliances. With the optical ballots there's no intimidation factor and you have a paper trail that the voter won't have to spend additional time verifying.
Sure there's still the possibility for the voter to munge the ballot up, but the hardware costs are so much lower and there's far less training needed to run one. I strongly believe that the voting appliances that caused such fluff this election season were a complete waste of our tax dollars, but what's new about that?
I would propose that there is no answer. His question is flawed in it's presumtion that mankind is or will be technically and socially advanced enough to effect any manner of control upon it's own fate. Frankly it seems preposterous to even pose such a question in a global climate where we are still arguing over things as petty as religous and social differences.
It's no coincidence that the one wreck I've been in in the past 10 years of the 1 hour commute was on a morning when I forgot to take my second cup of coffee with me for the ride. Presumably forgotten due to 'sleep inertia'. =D Try to explain that to my insurance company tho.
You technically don't measure a speaker's output in power although technically it is a transducer (converts energy from one form to another). Generally you look at things like it's efficiency measured in decibels per watt of input power at 1 meter. You would also look at it's power handling capacity, and frequency response range.
Technically I don't know you you could classify this as the most powerful subwoofer, because I've read about experimental folded horn designs the size of semi trailers that could saw through concrete.
What is unique about this is that it can produce frequencies with accuracy down to 1 hz with a relatively small driver mechanism. Conventional voicecoil drivers are incapable of doing this accurately because their suspensions would have to be able to keep the cone excursion under control (and linear) for an extremely long range. Generally producing tones accurately below 24 hz with a conventional driver requires extremely large enclosures and woofer cones in the 36" ballpark.
I agree with this consensus wholeheartedly. I got so sick of the heightened expectations ppl have when you ask for compensation. I also hated going to ppl's homes (especially ones I didn't know that well) and having to fend off their dog while he's trying to hump my leg, etc, all while figuring out what garbage their 17 yr old managed to soil their system with, knowing full well that as soon as he used it next there would be all knew garbage to clean off.
I used to charge a flat fee of $40 for simple things, and $80 / hr for more involved tasks, but in the end it just wasn't a fair trade for the nights and weekends it cut into. Unfortunately, my wife finds it amusing to line up the occaisional freebee job for me now that she knows how much I hate it.
Seriously, they're carrying on about compressing a lossy stream with lossy compression. What's next? When RDS equipped USB radios become available will the RIAA be all over those as well? Give me a fscking break!
Why won't someone rain some reality on the RIAA before we're all forced to have DRM controls implanted on our auditory nerves. Oooh, there's a market niche for M$ to investigate....
now even i want an iPod...
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My collection of industrial metal is poised to offend anyone foolish enough to 'jack in'.
Imagine the suprise on their faces when they are rudely introduced to Tool's 'Prison Sex'....
I doubt you could find the lyrics to it anywhere on the net, but it fits the industrial metal genre quite appropriately.
I've had much the same experience with them.
I'm looking to buy a new projector to replace my aging InFocus LP735, but from my dealings with them in attempting to purchase a replacement polarization filter (a piece of color coated glass worth $1000 to have replaced through them) I've decided I'll never purchase any of their products again. In fact it's even more appealing for me to pay more for an inferior product that I can get parts for than purchase something that will cause me to scour eBay for salvage units when (not if) it breaks down.
The prevalent word from the people I've spoken to in my parts quest was that Sharp is the hands down best to deal with for replacement parts.
I live about 1 hr from the metro area, otherwise my story is exactly the same. For local calls, unless you're just too far from cellular or your reception is bad enough to be practically unuseable in your residence, go with a wireless phone for voice. The SBC Metro package is a great deal if you make a ton of calls, but for the money you'd probably be better off with cellular if you only do a moderate amount of calling. Because of tariff restrictions the alternative local carriers probably won't be able to offer you a competitive package, and of those that I've dealt with none can hold a candle to SBC's customer service or that which you could expect from a wireless provider. To be honest the most of the CLECs that I know of or have used in the Missouri SBC LATAs are all bankrupt or heading that way fast.
As for internet you have four choices as I see it:
1) Roll your own WISP - if you can gather up enough willing subscribers you can make this successful with a relatively low initial investment. You can buy used BreezeCom equipment, or if you're creative you might be able do it with off-the-shelf FHSS 802.11b gear.
2) Find/persuade/wait for someone else who's willing to do #1.
3) Satellite broadband (very high latency, useless for online gaming and interactive stuff like ssh/telnet).
4) Suffer with dialup.
Luckily #2 happened for me, but their customer service has been so bad I've started considering #1 again. You will find lots of smaller communities in the area with WIFI ISPs now, as SBC will probably never roll out any type of DSL in their smaller exchanges, and cable is often not an option because the smaller cable companies won't / can't afford to belly up to the bar.
I was curious if this was the case - fire up your favorite gnutella client and get a copy of the song 'Bring Me to Life' by 'Evanescense', a song off the unreleased soundtrack to Daredevil. The copies I've found all have neat little frequency sweeps placed randomly at different locations throughout. Although I've downloaded many different copies of this with different filesizes and bitrates, every one has the 'nags'. I originally thought this the product of some copy protection scheme, but this makes more sense.
Conversely, I'm not sure if the riaa needs much help infiltrating the p2p networks with low quality and corrupt files. It's astonishingly difficult to find any audio on p2p that wasn't ripped of an FM tuner card or through some lemming's (analog) cd audio output. Thanks to garbage like Musicmatch and WMP it's far too easy for neophytes to rip (and subsequently distribute) inferior mp3 audio.
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I really hate reading this. "I love Myth, but it required me to actually do some work". Remind us all again how much that software cost you???
Myth, while not without it's share of issues, represents a monumental acheivement by the devs. It can do things no commercial product ever will, like run your very own shell script after a recording completes. I've invested hundreds of hours worth of 'nerding' in it since .19, and I will happily continue to do so in the name of shunning all forms of DRM.
Man up or open your wallet and purchase something ready-made. Either way, quitcherbitchin!
Thank you. After catching a few morning newscasts, I thought I was the only one to notice this.
I suppose the vast majority of fans were expecting to see Chase steal a scene from Scarface, and were so disappointed they overlooked the dialog and plot.
Subtlety, it seems, is a grossly under-appreciated art form in this day and age.
China only cares insomuch as it might endanger trade relations with it's largest trading partner.
I must apologize for my liberal use of the word 'partner' since it implies reciprocity. The US has a several hundred billion dollar per year trade deficit with communist China. These gross violations of intellectual property rights are but a drop in the bucket that is the US' trade policy with them. Unfortunately the US govt. and it's consumer public are too enamored with the 'bargain' of cheap Chinese goods to wake up and see the slaughterhouse at the end of the narrow ramp that they're treading.
This says nothing about China's blatant manipulation of it's currency, it's theft of military secrets, etc. While we're busy arguing for the civil rights of it's citizens or complaining about it's theft of IP, it's quite boisterously positioning itself to kick our collective asses.
a) some enterprising soul hacks it to run linux
or
b) M$ makes it available with a real hard drive (i.e. > 80 gb)
or
c) ideally, both a & b
Personally I've never been a big fan of the iPod or Apple for that matter, but judging from what I've seen of and read about the Zune I don't think iPod sales will feel even the most minute ripple from this turd of marketing 'genius'. Way to go Microsoft...
In my precinct we've used optically scanned ballots for years, and I really can't think of a single valid reason that justifies the use of touchscreen appliances. With the optical ballots there's no intimidation factor and you have a paper trail that the voter won't have to spend additional time verifying.
Sure there's still the possibility for the voter to munge the ballot up, but the hardware costs are so much lower and there's far less training needed to run one. I strongly believe that the voting appliances that caused such fluff this election season were a complete waste of our tax dollars, but what's new about that?
If you've ever been the victim of a kickback it's a good indication that you weren't using the tool in a safe manner.
I would propose that there is no answer. His question is flawed in it's presumtion that mankind is or will be technically and socially advanced enough to effect any manner of control upon it's own fate. Frankly it seems preposterous to even pose such a question in a global climate where we are still arguing over things as petty as religous and social differences.
It's no coincidence that the one wreck I've been in in the past 10 years of the 1 hour commute was on a morning when I forgot to take my second cup of coffee with me for the ride. Presumably forgotten due to 'sleep inertia'. =D Try to explain that to my insurance company tho.
Technically I don't know you you could classify this as the most powerful subwoofer, because I've read about experimental folded horn designs the size of semi trailers that could saw through concrete.
What is unique about this is that it can produce frequencies with accuracy down to 1 hz with a relatively small driver mechanism. Conventional voicecoil drivers are incapable of doing this accurately because their suspensions would have to be able to keep the cone excursion under control (and linear) for an extremely long range. Generally producing tones accurately below 24 hz with a conventional driver requires extremely large enclosures and woofer cones in the 36" ballpark.
I agree with this consensus wholeheartedly. I got so sick of the heightened expectations ppl have when you ask for compensation. I also hated going to ppl's homes (especially ones I didn't know that well) and having to fend off their dog while he's trying to hump my leg, etc, all while figuring out what garbage their 17 yr old managed to soil their system with, knowing full well that as soon as he used it next there would be all knew garbage to clean off.
I used to charge a flat fee of $40 for simple things, and $80 / hr for more involved tasks, but in the end it just wasn't a fair trade for the nights and weekends it cut into. Unfortunately, my wife finds it amusing to line up the occaisional freebee job for me now that she knows how much I hate it.
Why won't someone rain some reality on the RIAA before we're all forced to have DRM controls implanted on our auditory nerves. Oooh, there's a market niche for M$ to investigate....
My collection of industrial metal is poised to offend anyone foolish enough to 'jack in'. Imagine the suprise on their faces when they are rudely introduced to Tool's 'Prison Sex'.... I doubt you could find the lyrics to it anywhere on the net, but it fits the industrial metal genre quite appropriately.
I've had much the same experience with them. I'm looking to buy a new projector to replace my aging InFocus LP735, but from my dealings with them in attempting to purchase a replacement polarization filter (a piece of color coated glass worth $1000 to have replaced through them) I've decided I'll never purchase any of their products again. In fact it's even more appealing for me to pay more for an inferior product that I can get parts for than purchase something that will cause me to scour eBay for salvage units when (not if) it breaks down. The prevalent word from the people I've spoken to in my parts quest was that Sharp is the hands down best to deal with for replacement parts.
I live about 1 hr from the metro area, otherwise my story is exactly the same. For local calls, unless you're just too far from cellular or your reception is bad enough to be practically unuseable in your residence, go with a wireless phone for voice. The SBC Metro package is a great deal if you make a ton of calls, but for the money you'd probably be better off with cellular if you only do a moderate amount of calling. Because of tariff restrictions the alternative local carriers probably won't be able to offer you a competitive package, and of those that I've dealt with none can hold a candle to SBC's customer service or that which you could expect from a wireless provider. To be honest the most of the CLECs that I know of or have used in the Missouri SBC LATAs are all bankrupt or heading that way fast. As for internet you have four choices as I see it: 1) Roll your own WISP - if you can gather up enough willing subscribers you can make this successful with a relatively low initial investment. You can buy used BreezeCom equipment, or if you're creative you might be able do it with off-the-shelf FHSS 802.11b gear. 2) Find/persuade/wait for someone else who's willing to do #1. 3) Satellite broadband (very high latency, useless for online gaming and interactive stuff like ssh/telnet). 4) Suffer with dialup. Luckily #2 happened for me, but their customer service has been so bad I've started considering #1 again. You will find lots of smaller communities in the area with WIFI ISPs now, as SBC will probably never roll out any type of DSL in their smaller exchanges, and cable is often not an option because the smaller cable companies won't / can't afford to belly up to the bar.
I was curious if this was the case - fire up your favorite gnutella client and get a copy of the song 'Bring Me to Life' by 'Evanescense', a song off the unreleased soundtrack to Daredevil. The copies I've found all have neat little frequency sweeps placed randomly at different locations throughout. Although I've downloaded many different copies of this with different filesizes and bitrates, every one has the 'nags'. I originally thought this the product of some copy protection scheme, but this makes more sense. Conversely, I'm not sure if the riaa needs much help infiltrating the p2p networks with low quality and corrupt files. It's astonishingly difficult to find any audio on p2p that wasn't ripped of an FM tuner card or through some lemming's (analog) cd audio output. Thanks to garbage like Musicmatch and WMP it's far too easy for neophytes to rip (and subsequently distribute) inferior mp3 audio.