allofmp3 used to sell flac. times were good back then. now, to get flac, you mostly have to rip yourself (or have someone do it, but again, you don't have control over the quality and there's a lot that can go wrong when someone careless does the rip/encode/tag).
There's a lot of talented indie artists on bandcamp.com, which allows artists to sell songs and albums, and enables multiple digital format downloads for purchasers, including FLAC. [I have no affiliation with them, other than having some music on there. I just like the service.]
They do. They use iPhones (and iPads). iOS has an accessibility feature called VoiceOver which changes the input paradigm from a touch initiating a 'click' action to one where a touch reads out the description of the UI element with text-to-speech. Two taps on the item will send a tap to the UI, and a three-finger swipe will initiate scrolling. So you can basically drag your finger across the screen and find things with your ears instead of your eyes, then navigate and interact as a sighted person would once you get your bearings.
I don't really think Kutcher is clueless or stupid. I saw him speak on an internet panel event with the creator of tumblr and a couple other guys. He seems fairly intelligent, and has a decent nose for what will work and won't work on the internet. But being heavily involved in hardware product design? I think that's above his pay grade, unless this is the same sort of in-name-only product "design" as Lady Gaga being hired to be the creative director for Polaroid or any of the other celeb "designer" roles for technology companies. What makes this weirder is Lenovo's use of the term "engineer".
Who's to say someone who knows nothing about the industry doesn't have some useful input on Customer Experience?
Sorry, I don't even understand what you're inferring from your title and this statement. You're saying Steve Jobs knew nothing about the computer industry? The industry he helped *start* by building mass-market products out of what was formerly a hobbyist-only, DIY field? The guy who helped design circuitboards for Atari arcade games in the 70s? Yeah, you're right, Jobs was totally on the same clueless level as the guy who portrayed him in a shoddy movie.
What's strange to me is that Apple even allows configuration profiles to be distributed and installed by non-enterprise, third-party apps. This seems like a giant security hole. If I was Apple I'd be pulling this app from the store posthaste and closing that attack vector.
Isn't this just a parallel implementation to NASA's space-tuned TCP/IP stack, designed to communicate under similar conditions between objects over far longer distances?
I think people find different sorts of fun in programming. For you, the fun may be getting down to the metal and squeezing every drop of hardware performance. For others, the fun may lie in the expressiveness of the language itself, where code feel more like poetry. In both cases Java misses the mark. Java feels more like it was designed by the same people who designed Soviet apartment blocks – soulless and severe. Entirely focused on function without the human form in mind, or any aspirations to truly inspired work.
The new animations are gratuitious - they don't seem to serve any useful purpose. They are just plain silly-looking. Home-page icons now fly-in from all different angles.
Just because you don't understand the design philosophy behind iOS 7 doesn't mean the animations don't serve their purpose. The idea behind iOS 7 is to convey depth levels of content, to provide cognitive breadcrumbs about where you're going and where you just came from both in terms of inter-app navigation and within the system UI. Home icons don't "fly in from all different angles", you zoom into and out of the icon you launched or backed out of. Contrast this with previous versions of iOS where you it always zoomed straight into the middle of the screen. You can argue as to the efficacy of the animations in providing visual cues about where in the hierarchical stack of information you are, but they are in no way done without purpose.
Drag a page, and now you are no longer dragging a skewmorphic piece of paper, but a skewmorphic sheet of silly-putty - drag at the right side, and the page warps, your finger "stretches" the right-hand side of the page. This kind of stuff was all the rage on Linux desktops - about 5 years ago.
Sorry, what? What part of the system or Apple apps animate in this fashion?
Yet, it's not that Microsoft lacks the capacity to build interesting products. I think their Courier notebook concept had a lot of potential. But Ballmer (or someone within MS, but probably him) killed it. We talk of Microsoft this and Microsoft that, but it's really the complete ineptitude of Ballmer's "leadership" that has them unable to compete head-on with competitors. Heck, most of the time he seemed to be competing with anyone who showed actual leadership within the company.
Still, you're right in that Microsoft does some interesting pure-research projects, but can't seem to translate those things into shippable products.
Apple specifically claims their reader IS of the subdermal variety, so I was quite to see this tactic be successful. Hard to believe they would outright lie about that part, as it would be blatant false advertising.
It's very distressing to see Mozilla has added "social media" and chat code into Firefox. We're right back to Netscape Communicator again. Firefox was created to get away from all that bloat. There's no reason for a web browser to have a chat and social media clients grafted onto it. Speaking of bloat, I'm using Firefox 23 right now on OS X; I have one tab open and it's gobbled up half a gig of RAM. Half a gig.
I think it's past time we nuke the thing from orbit and start over.
Apple-Android fanboy war aside, Google dropped the requirement for NFC from Google Wallet today due to lack of device support. NFC has caught on about as well as QR Codes; in other words, it hasn't. It may be useful for some people, but it's ultimately just a feature bulletpoint and irrelevant to most users.
Yup, exactly this. This report doesn't lead to any conclusion that we should "dial back the alarm" as the news title suggests. The approval of this submission by slashdot editors shows either bias towards climate change denial, or just a desire for more linkbait, button-pushing articles. Perhaps both.
True, I was grilled extensively by a UK customs official the last time I took the chunnel train from Paris to London. And the German customs official berated me because other countries' customs agents had stamped my passport in an unorderly fashion (of course).
The whole business plan of Tesla is, AFAICT, building on early adopters to step down to another segment, and another, building economy of scale. Build the halo car, fine-tune the production process and work out kinks, build out the charging station network, and then move on to a mid-range car. Be successful at that, further expand the charging network, then move into a "reasonable car" category that most people can afford, with enough charging stations that your average joe or jane won't complain about going out of their way to charge up.
So far, it's working brilliantly. But I think going down to the mid-range level will actually be a bigger crucible test.
Well, they CAN tell you. But they will suffer the severe consequences of doing so. Very few people are willing to make that sacrifice. Being outside of the Matrix is not a safe or cozy place to be. Most people would rather enjoy their fake freedom, which looks a bit like real freedom, and enjoy the pleasures of life unbound by a small prison cell. Can't really blame them for that, but when you take these decisions in aggregate, we can start to see how quickly a moderately-free society can devolve into a police state.
The wouldn't need to start a manhunt if you just set up an e-mail to be sent at a certain time to the appropriate government agencies, describing that you committed suicide and provide GPS coordinates to your body. You could even draw a nice map for them.
Its not Microsoft's fault when someone discovers an exploit in Windows 95
Fault? No, it's definitely Microsoft's fault. They wrote the exploitable code. The duty, legal obligation, sense of honor, or whatever that applies, well that's a different story.
In Google's case, it looks like this is part of the Java stack. No mention of whether this is an exploitable vector in other Java environments. IMO, part of their Android licensing terms should include the mandatory application of security hotfixes by third party vendors, as provided by Google.
My grandmother, who lives in Visalia, contracted it around 20 years ago when she was in her 60s. Hit her real hard, and she had to basically lay in bed most of the day...for an entire year. It's a terrible thing that not many Californians outside of the San Joaquin Valley even know about.
The article makes it seem like this fungus is getting more infectious, but really it's just that the area has seen a lot of population growth in the last decade.
Fine by me, but the public can't do that, only the Congress. And almost the entire Senate signed off on this stuff. And when given the chance to look at the NSA's open kimono, over half the Senators did not attend so they could catch early flights home for the weekend. We're on our own here.
Defend him? Not at all, I'm just saying that Bush started this program. Obama has been complicit in continuing and expanding it. They are both equally guilty.
On social issues they differ, but on national security, privacy, and constitutional issues they're basically the same guy.
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There's a lot of talented indie artists on bandcamp.com, which allows artists to sell songs and albums, and enables multiple digital format downloads for purchasers, including FLAC. [I have no affiliation with them, other than having some music on there. I just like the service.]
They do. They use iPhones (and iPads). iOS has an accessibility feature called VoiceOver which changes the input paradigm from a touch initiating a 'click' action to one where a touch reads out the description of the UI element with text-to-speech. Two taps on the item will send a tap to the UI, and a three-finger swipe will initiate scrolling. So you can basically drag your finger across the screen and find things with your ears instead of your eyes, then navigate and interact as a sighted person would once you get your bearings.
I don't really think Kutcher is clueless or stupid. I saw him speak on an internet panel event with the creator of tumblr and a couple other guys. He seems fairly intelligent, and has a decent nose for what will work and won't work on the internet. But being heavily involved in hardware product design? I think that's above his pay grade, unless this is the same sort of in-name-only product "design" as Lady Gaga being hired to be the creative director for Polaroid or any of the other celeb "designer" roles for technology companies. What makes this weirder is Lenovo's use of the term "engineer".
Sorry, I don't even understand what you're inferring from your title and this statement. You're saying Steve Jobs knew nothing about the computer industry? The industry he helped *start* by building mass-market products out of what was formerly a hobbyist-only, DIY field? The guy who helped design circuitboards for Atari arcade games in the 70s? Yeah, you're right, Jobs was totally on the same clueless level as the guy who portrayed him in a shoddy movie.
What's strange to me is that Apple even allows configuration profiles to be distributed and installed by non-enterprise, third-party apps. This seems like a giant security hole. If I was Apple I'd be pulling this app from the store posthaste and closing that attack vector.
Isn't this just a parallel implementation to NASA's space-tuned TCP/IP stack, designed to communicate under similar conditions between objects over far longer distances?
I think people find different sorts of fun in programming. For you, the fun may be getting down to the metal and squeezing every drop of hardware performance. For others, the fun may lie in the expressiveness of the language itself, where code feel more like poetry. In both cases Java misses the mark. Java feels more like it was designed by the same people who designed Soviet apartment blocks – soulless and severe. Entirely focused on function without the human form in mind, or any aspirations to truly inspired work.
Honestly, I'm more fascinated by this. What effects does this have on the Earth's magnetic field?
Just because you don't understand the design philosophy behind iOS 7 doesn't mean the animations don't serve their purpose. The idea behind iOS 7 is to convey depth levels of content, to provide cognitive breadcrumbs about where you're going and where you just came from both in terms of inter-app navigation and within the system UI. Home icons don't "fly in from all different angles", you zoom into and out of the icon you launched or backed out of. Contrast this with previous versions of iOS where you it always zoomed straight into the middle of the screen. You can argue as to the efficacy of the animations in providing visual cues about where in the hierarchical stack of information you are, but they are in no way done without purpose.
Sorry, what? What part of the system or Apple apps animate in this fashion?
Yet, it's not that Microsoft lacks the capacity to build interesting products. I think their Courier notebook concept had a lot of potential. But Ballmer (or someone within MS, but probably him) killed it. We talk of Microsoft this and Microsoft that, but it's really the complete ineptitude of Ballmer's "leadership" that has them unable to compete head-on with competitors. Heck, most of the time he seemed to be competing with anyone who showed actual leadership within the company.
Still, you're right in that Microsoft does some interesting pure-research projects, but can't seem to translate those things into shippable products.
Apple specifically claims their reader IS of the subdermal variety, so I was quite to see this tactic be successful. Hard to believe they would outright lie about that part, as it would be blatant false advertising.
It's very distressing to see Mozilla has added "social media" and chat code into Firefox. We're right back to Netscape Communicator again. Firefox was created to get away from all that bloat. There's no reason for a web browser to have a chat and social media clients grafted onto it. Speaking of bloat, I'm using Firefox 23 right now on OS X; I have one tab open and it's gobbled up half a gig of RAM. Half a gig.
I think it's past time we nuke the thing from orbit and start over.
Apple-Android fanboy war aside, Google dropped the requirement for NFC from Google Wallet today due to lack of device support. NFC has caught on about as well as QR Codes; in other words, it hasn't. It may be useful for some people, but it's ultimately just a feature bulletpoint and irrelevant to most users.
Yup, exactly this. This report doesn't lead to any conclusion that we should "dial back the alarm" as the news title suggests. The approval of this submission by slashdot editors shows either bias towards climate change denial, or just a desire for more linkbait, button-pushing articles. Perhaps both.
True, I was grilled extensively by a UK customs official the last time I took the chunnel train from Paris to London. And the German customs official berated me because other countries' customs agents had stamped my passport in an unorderly fashion (of course).
The whole business plan of Tesla is, AFAICT, building on early adopters to step down to another segment, and another, building economy of scale. Build the halo car, fine-tune the production process and work out kinks, build out the charging station network, and then move on to a mid-range car. Be successful at that, further expand the charging network, then move into a "reasonable car" category that most people can afford, with enough charging stations that your average joe or jane won't complain about going out of their way to charge up.
So far, it's working brilliantly. But I think going down to the mid-range level will actually be a bigger crucible test.
Well, they CAN tell you. But they will suffer the severe consequences of doing so. Very few people are willing to make that sacrifice. Being outside of the Matrix is not a safe or cozy place to be. Most people would rather enjoy their fake freedom, which looks a bit like real freedom, and enjoy the pleasures of life unbound by a small prison cell. Can't really blame them for that, but when you take these decisions in aggregate, we can start to see how quickly a moderately-free society can devolve into a police state.
The wouldn't need to start a manhunt if you just set up an e-mail to be sent at a certain time to the appropriate government agencies, describing that you committed suicide and provide GPS coordinates to your body. You could even draw a nice map for them.
Fault? No, it's definitely Microsoft's fault. They wrote the exploitable code. The duty, legal obligation, sense of honor, or whatever that applies, well that's a different story.
In Google's case, it looks like this is part of the Java stack. No mention of whether this is an exploitable vector in other Java environments. IMO, part of their Android licensing terms should include the mandatory application of security hotfixes by third party vendors, as provided by Google.
My grandmother, who lives in Visalia, contracted it around 20 years ago when she was in her 60s. Hit her real hard, and she had to basically lay in bed most of the day...for an entire year. It's a terrible thing that not many Californians outside of the San Joaquin Valley even know about.
The article makes it seem like this fungus is getting more infectious, but really it's just that the area has seen a lot of population growth in the last decade.
NBC is currently reporting two confirmed deaths, 10 people airlifted in critical condition, dozens of others injured.
Fine by me, but the public can't do that, only the Congress. And almost the entire Senate signed off on this stuff. And when given the chance to look at the NSA's open kimono, over half the Senators did not attend so they could catch early flights home for the weekend. We're on our own here.
Defend him? Not at all, I'm just saying that Bush started this program. Obama has been complicit in continuing and expanding it. They are both equally guilty.
On social issues they differ, but on national security, privacy, and constitutional issues they're basically the same guy.
This has been going on since the Bush years, or before. Don't try to pin this on Obama, he shares equal blame with his predecessors.
I never have mod points when I truly want them.