I don't see how changing tabs is going to improve the UI. There is already a natural way to group tabs: I group related tabs for different tasks in different windows. If I have too many windows open for unrelated tasks, I distribute them on different desktops. These three different aspects of separate GUIs work together quite simply and seamlessly. I get to manage the way my browsing session and work are organized, and I don't have to fight with the software to adapt its organization to the way I work. It seems to me that's exactly the way it should be.
I have a few friends with mp3 players, and most of them have an iRiver. They like their players a lot, and I'm impressed with the feature list. One thing prevents me from getting one, though. I subscribe to audible.com, and iRiver doesn't have an arrangement to support their DRM. Are there other audible subscribers out there who feel upset about the limitations in what devices they are able to use to play the books they buy? Does anyone know what it takes to get audible support in a new device? Audible and iRiver haven't been too forthcoming with information in response to my queries.
I haven't traded music since the heyday of Napster, but classical music pickings were pretty slim then. Even when I found stuff, performance information was either sketchy or inaccurate. (ID3 tags and filenames were not designed for classical music.)
But without getting into the merits/demerits of compressed files and the sharing of them for classical music, I want to point out that pop music has been subsidizing the sales of classical CDs for years. Lately, classical labels have been shedding performers and releasing fewer recordings, and performers are having a harder time than ever making ends meet.
I have seen some articles which blame profit mongering and mismanagement for the woes of classical music, but the fact remains that if Britney keeps losing CD sales to on-line buying and sharing, classical music is in for harder times than ever.
Measurements ("graphs") have almost no connection to sound quality. No audiophile would say otherwise. I have a pair of Sennheiser HD540s and Grado SR80s, and I prefer the Grados almost all the time, and at HALF the price!
Au contraire. The omission of Tom Bombadil is one of the fatal mistakes of the movie. In the book, the Tom Bombadil episode tells us that the world is fundamentally good, and that the good was around before the evil came. It shows us that the good cannot be corrupted by the evil, as Tom is unaffected by the Ring, and that gives us hope. However, we later learn (from Gandalf, I think) that if Sauron is not defeated before he becomes too powerful, that not even Tom Bombadil will stand, and that gives the quest to destroy the ring urgency. Without Tom Bombadil, the movie is an oppressive onslaught of Evil! Evil! Evil!, loud screeches, and booming bass, with little optimism or even interest. (I think it's this way because Peter Jackson missed the point of Tom Bombadil, too, a mistake that epitomizes what's wrong with his interpretation of the story.) I don't know what it takes for something to be essential to the plot, but Tom certainly is essential to the tone and meaning of the book, and the movie does suffer for his omission.
How, exactly, do the _LoTR_ movies "kill" the books? Does giving them more mainstream popularity diminish them in some way? I am the first to be disappointed by the way the _LoTR_ movies discard the charm of the books by making the tone sinister and the pace frenetic (not to mention the "modern" dialog, mama mia!), but they can't harm the books.
As for _2001_, that movie inspired me to start compiling a list of movies that at pretentious bullsh*t. It's one of the few movies I've ever seen that feels twice as long as it is. Ick.
For those of you who do not know, Kubrick also did the _Dr. Strangelove_, _A Clockwork Orange_, and _The Shining_, next to which _2001 - A Space Odessey_ [sic] is unwatchable.
I got a TP600e off eBay last January. I had read on the 'Net that if you leave the machine plugged in all the time, the battery goes bad very quickly, so for the first several months, I was conscientious about running off battery until it was almost discharged at least once a day. Battery life remained at about two hours per charge until, at some point, I stopped being careful and ran it off wall power all the time. Within three weeks, battery life had deteriorated to ten minutes.
My advice is simply to keep cycling the battery while it is new to prevent it from deteriorating.
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I don't see how changing tabs is going to improve the UI. There is already a natural way to group tabs: I group related tabs for different tasks in different windows. If I have too many windows open for unrelated tasks, I distribute them on different desktops. These three different aspects of separate GUIs work together quite simply and seamlessly. I get to manage the way my browsing session and work are organized, and I don't have to fight with the software to adapt its organization to the way I work. It seems to me that's exactly the way it should be.
I have a few friends with mp3 players, and most of them have an iRiver. They like their players a lot, and I'm impressed with the feature list. One thing prevents me from getting one, though. I subscribe to audible.com, and iRiver doesn't have an arrangement to support their DRM. Are there other audible subscribers out there who feel upset about the limitations in what devices they are able to use to play the books they buy? Does anyone know what it takes to get audible support in a new device? Audible and iRiver haven't been too forthcoming with information in response to my queries.
I haven't traded music since the heyday of Napster, but classical music pickings were pretty slim then. Even when I found stuff, performance information was either sketchy or inaccurate. (ID3 tags and filenames were not designed for classical music.) But without getting into the merits/demerits of compressed files and the sharing of them for classical music, I want to point out that pop music has been subsidizing the sales of classical CDs for years. Lately, classical labels have been shedding performers and releasing fewer recordings, and performers are having a harder time than ever making ends meet. I have seen some articles which blame profit mongering and mismanagement for the woes of classical music, but the fact remains that if Britney keeps losing CD sales to on-line buying and sharing, classical music is in for harder times than ever.
Measurements ("graphs") have almost no connection to sound quality. No audiophile would say otherwise. I have a pair of Sennheiser HD540s and Grado SR80s, and I prefer the Grados almost all the time, and at HALF the price!
Funny, I was just telling people about this one over dinner tonight. It definitely deserved a better reception than it got from the public.
Au contraire. The omission of Tom Bombadil is one of the fatal mistakes of the movie. In the book, the Tom Bombadil episode tells us that the world is fundamentally good, and that the good was around before the evil came. It shows us that the good cannot be corrupted by the evil, as Tom is unaffected by the Ring, and that gives us hope. However, we later learn (from Gandalf, I think) that if Sauron is not defeated before he becomes too powerful, that not even Tom Bombadil will stand, and that gives the quest to destroy the ring urgency. Without Tom Bombadil, the movie is an oppressive onslaught of Evil! Evil! Evil!, loud screeches, and booming bass, with little optimism or even interest. (I think it's this way because Peter Jackson missed the point of Tom Bombadil, too, a mistake that epitomizes what's wrong with his interpretation of the story.) I don't know what it takes for something to be essential to the plot, but Tom certainly is essential to the tone and meaning of the book, and the movie does suffer for his omission.
How, exactly, do the _LoTR_ movies "kill" the books? Does giving them more mainstream popularity diminish them in some way? I am the first to be disappointed by the way the _LoTR_ movies discard the charm of the books by making the tone sinister and the pace frenetic (not to mention the "modern" dialog, mama mia!), but they can't harm the books. As for _2001_, that movie inspired me to start compiling a list of movies that at pretentious bullsh*t. It's one of the few movies I've ever seen that feels twice as long as it is. Ick. For those of you who do not know, Kubrick also did the _Dr. Strangelove_, _A Clockwork Orange_, and _The Shining_, next to which _2001 - A Space Odessey_ [sic] is unwatchable.
I got a TP600e off eBay last January. I had read on the 'Net that if you leave the machine plugged in all the time, the battery goes bad very quickly, so for the first several months, I was conscientious about running off battery until it was almost discharged at least once a day. Battery life remained at about two hours per charge until, at some point, I stopped being careful and ran it off wall power all the time. Within three weeks, battery life had deteriorated to ten minutes. My advice is simply to keep cycling the battery while it is new to prevent it from deteriorating.