WAV-encoded CD's are less efficent than MP3's, that's for sure, but I think the point the original author was trying to make is that you use the CD's as a temporary medium. In my case I just use a CD-RW, so there's no ongoing media cost. I tend to purchase an artist's entire CD at one time, rather than just a few tracks, that makes things much easier.
1.Buy & Download from Napster|iTunes|whatever.
2.Use their software to burn a CD of what you just bought, put the tracks in the same order that they are on the real CD. Napster likes to reverse the order, so you have to manually adjust that before you burn the CD. iTunes usually keeps them in the correct order.
3. Rip all of the music back off the CD using your favorite CD-ripper & encoder.
4.If you bought all of the tracks from a specific CD, and if you set up tracks in the right order, most of the time your ripping software will pick up all of the Artist & Track information automatically from CDDB or Gracenote, so you don't have to manually tag everything. Otherwise, you now have to re-tag/re-name files.
The article looks good until you get to the end where it mentions oil at $30/barrel. Uh, isn't it currently pushing $70+/barrel? Something's not right with that. Sure enough, this is old news from back in April, and has been going on for 10 years...
And they are neat. But only if the air is still. If there's enough air movement in a room that you can feel it, it will be enough to disrupt the mist and seriously distort/ruin whatever image you're trying to see. Maybe ok for a giant Coca-Cola sign, but not so good if you're trying to read numbers off of a spreadsheet.
Oh yeah, and they do leave a puddle of moisture on the floor beneath them as well. It is just a stream of mist falling to the ground.
{Let's see, what do we know from 4-6. Darth Vader is Luke's father, and Leia is his sister}
Yes, yes, I know that Luke and Leia are the siblings. Sounds like I said that Leia is Anakin's sister. Of course she isn't.
Why is everyone so worried about spoilers? What spoilers? Is there someone here who *hasn't* seen Episodes 4-6? Everyone knows what is supposed to happen in Episode 3.
Let's see, what do we know from 4-6. Darth Vader is Luke's father, and Leia is his sister. Obi Wan took Luke to Tatooine to live with Uncle Owen after Darth Vader took out the Jedi. The Emperor is bad, and he's the one who turns Anakin into Darth Vader via the Dark Side.
So that means in Episode 3, that there's going to be a pair of twins born, Obi Wan's going to take one of them to Tatooine, lots of Jedi will be killed, and Anakin's going to be put back together to become Darth Vader by the Emperor.
And that pretty much sums up exactly what the review says. Basically, it would appear to completely connect what has happened in 1 and 2 with 4-6. The review does point out a couple of plot elements to show just how dark Ep3 is going to be, and how much he liked it, but I don't think they'd ruin it for anyone.
I know they will be useful for non-Cable company DVR's such as Tivo, MythTV, or MCE, as they wouldn't have to use IR-transmitters and such to change channels.
My Nikon D70 has a nice feature where you can upload a custom color curve into the camera. Then you can choose to use this rather than the built in curves when photographing.
Reds not "popping" enough? Blues too saturated? Want to make the light metering a little less conservative? Want to completely funk up how the camera sees color so that everything comes out like some weird negative? You can do it, and it works extremely well. It's built into the camera and Nikon's software, Nikon Capture 4.0. No hacking required.
No, I can't (and don't want to) rewrite the OS, but I can change how my D70 captures photographs.
I have an iRiver iHP-120 as the others do. My wife has a 3G iPod. I've played with them both (the iPod and the iRiver that is, playing with my wife is none of your business).
1. The iHP has both optical and analog inputs and outputs. Headphones, Input and Output ports built in. I/O ports can be switched from either analog or optical. Very handy for playing mp3's over a home stereo with one simple and better-sounding TOSLINK connection than a miniplug-to-RCA adapter. No, I've never used the optical input for anything, but it's there.
2. The iHP can record. On it's own. Simple enough to hook up my iHP to my XM radio, record a couple hours of streaming audio for playback at the gym. You can't do that with an iPod.
3. Drag-and-drop on most any computer (XP, 2K, Apple, Linux) with no driver installation necessary. MP3's are just a drag-and-drop away from being placed on my iHP, and so are any other type of file I want. I know that iPod's work the same way for non-music files if you install the right software, but my iHP is invaluable for transporting large files and documents without having to install extra software on either PC. My iHP has been invaluable for transporting huge driver updates to a relative's PC who does not have a broadband connection.
4. Battery life. It's hotly debated, but in my experience our iPod may have a problem. My iHP is about 13 months old, and I get the same battery life that I did when it was brand new. My wife's iPod is about 8 months old, and we think that its battery(ies) are starting to fade, as she must recharge the thing every few days, instead of a week+ when it was new. Same listening conditions, volume levels, etc. Leave it turned off and unused for two weeks and the batteries are almost drained. My iRiver can, and has, sat for almost a month unused and the batteries were still fully charged when I powered it back on.
Get a real carrier that doesn't charge on a per kb basis for data. Cingular and SprintPCS all have unlimited plans for photos/data, T-Mobile has unlimited for data, 20/photos for $3 or $4/month and like $.25 each after that.
I'm pretty sure that most any modern (read, 1990-Today) car has a rev limiter. The rev limiter is not for the saftey of the public at large, as most US regulatory options are (smog controls, bumpers, etc), but they are for the safety of the engine and thus the manufacturer of the vehicle. An engine without a rev limiter could blow itself apart the first time someone floored the car while in neutral, which is why a lot of new cars actually have a lowered rev-limiter between 3000-4000RPM (depending on the engine type, of couse) when in neutral.
And stating that just because it's a "European" car means less saftey isn't true. The Europeans actually have some tougher standards regarding safety than the US does (look into the car vs. pedestrian height rules mandated by the EU) - they're just different from the US rules.
Frankly, I don't believe this story. There isn't a modern car on the planet where the brakes are less efficient at halting the car than the engine is at propelling the car. Unless, of course, something was drastically wrong with his brakes.
So that snazzy new "Level 7" computer just became a "Level 6" the moment you opened the box. A week later it's a "Level 5". Seems like a waste of time and a hassle to consumers.
Anonymous Coward may be an anonymous coward, but he/she speaks the truth. I've had an iHP-120 for about a year, and the "firmware upgrades" have been pitiful or non-existent. The player's hardware is fantastic, the software is the problem. The iHP has several flaws (the shuffle isn't shuffle, files played in a different order than they were copied - but it's always the same order), and iRiver has made several promises over the past 6-9 months that they simply have not met. I will not be buying another iRiver product, I just can't handle a company lying to its customers.
and there is much rejoicing at such a comprehensive list of both defect fixes and user complaints/suggestions.
And they don't make this date either, with no explanation ("Late July/Early August" != September)
Sometime later, http://www.iriver.com/support/download_view.asp?id x=609&page=2&p_name=&word=&categor y=
finally appears. But compare it's feature set with what was promised. A couple of things were fixed, but gapless playback isn't gapless, it just shortens the time between songs. With all the other mp3 players, gapless playback means that one song fades into the next. Shuffle still isn't shuffle.
No, I will not be doing business with iRiver anymore.
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And, starting in 2005 (or is it 2006?) Infinity actually has a lane-sensor system option for the FX35/45, so says the latest edition of Car and Driver. Has a camera that monitors the lanes and emits a noise if the driver crosses a line.
No, a lot of the simulations are run in Boulder, Colorado at NCAR http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/, the National Center for Atmospheric Research. I've visited there many times, and watching those old Cray computers' cooling stacks and monitors over a decade ago is probably why I'm a programmer now.
They have an amazing grid of supercomputers (http://www.ucar.edu/research/tools/computing.shtm l, and (they used to anyway) have free tours everyday.
was a great game. I remember seeing Populous I, playing many, many hours of Populous II, and still occasionally dust off "Populous (III): The Beginning" even today.
B&W, on the other hand, is the worst game I have ever purchased. Awesome graphics (at the time) can not make up for bad gameplay, buggy code, and an AI that simply didn't work.
So for security sake, no one is allowed to take potentially dangerous objects near or into the Statue of Liberty. So the feds put up lockers so that people who accidentally happen to have a Swiss Army knife on their keychain won't have it taken away, they just lock it up while they're visiting. That, IMHO, would have been good enough.
But no, we have to attach fingerprint scanners to the locks. So now the threats and suspicions can run rampant. What's next, a drop of blood? The solution here is simple - provide lockers but don't provide the locks. Big shock, I know, making people responsible for their actions.
Make it clear that if people bring contraband to the statue, it's either going to be confiscated or they need to lock it in the lockers provided. Want it actually *locked* in a locker? Bring your own freaking lock. One that will stop a casual thief costs about $5 at Wal-Mart. Pay a couple of Park Services people to stand around and monitor the lockers to make sure no one is wandering around with bolt cutters. Now the market is open for street-cart lock vendors to come in and clean up selling $5 locks for $15 to tourists. That, my friends, is the American Way.
Have you actually, you know, shopped around at the cell phone providers? They all have free phones with one or two year contracts that are basic, no frills phones. Go to any major provider, Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, or SprintPCS. I know SprintPCS phones, check out the 3588i. Ok, so it *does* have a color screen, but that's about it. No camera, no games, no web, can't do text messaging, supposed to have excellent reception and decent battery life.
Every phone I've ever seen comes with standard beep-beep or ring-ring ringers. You would have to download and install the Paris Hilton fuck music yourself.
Check out eBay for a 7135. They can be found brand new for around $300-$350 there. Just be sure you buy one that's branded for the provider you choose (Verizon or SprintPCS)
SprintPCS does not charge you for the amount of data used. It's a flat $15/month for Vision, which gets you unlimited internet at about 10-15K/sec download speeds. Storage isn't an issue on my Treo 600. The built in memory can handle 300+ photos, and I have unlimited storage on Sprint's picture servers. The couple of SprintPCS Picture phones I've had the pleasure of using could save 20-40 photos internally, but of course there's unlimited storage when you upload there too.
But yeah, the camera is crap compared to a real digicam. When I want to take photographs, I bring along my 5mp Minolta Dimage 7HI. When I just need to take a picture of something interresting and get it to anyone I want quickly, a cell-phone cam is very handy.
These PC's are pretty sweet. My wife has one that's about 6 months old - AMD 2800+, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro graphics, XP Pro, etc. We've never had any trouble with overheating, but the thing is rather noisy. The CPU/Case fan ramps up and down depending on CPU load.
They're great PC's, but not for quiet environments.
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1.Buy & Download from Napster|iTunes|whatever.
2.Use their software to burn a CD of what you just bought, put the tracks in the same order that they are on the real CD. Napster likes to reverse the order, so you have to manually adjust that before you burn the CD. iTunes usually keeps them in the correct order.
3. Rip all of the music back off the CD using your favorite CD-ripper & encoder.
4.If you bought all of the tracks from a specific CD, and if you set up tracks in the right order, most of the time your ripping software will pick up all of the Artist & Track information automatically from CDDB or Gracenote, so you don't have to manually tag everything. Otherwise, you now have to re-tag/re-name files.
5.Erase CDRW.
6.Enjoy your DRM-free audio files.
http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseActi on=Hearings.Testimony&Hearing_ID=1445&Witness_ID=4 139
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20050407/VA LLEYNEWS/104070011&SearchID=73218713158746
Oh yeah, and they do leave a puddle of moisture on the floor beneath them as well. It is just a stream of mist falling to the ground.
This is old news. My checks and deposit slips use this same sort of elevator all the time. Just be sure to ask the homeowner before sending coin.
Exactly!
So since when did Lucas enlist Rick Bermann to help write Episode 3?
{Let's see, what do we know from 4-6. Darth Vader is Luke's father, and Leia is his sister} Yes, yes, I know that Luke and Leia are the siblings. Sounds like I said that Leia is Anakin's sister. Of course she isn't.
Let's see, what do we know from 4-6. Darth Vader is Luke's father, and Leia is his sister. Obi Wan took Luke to Tatooine to live with Uncle Owen after Darth Vader took out the Jedi. The Emperor is bad, and he's the one who turns Anakin into Darth Vader via the Dark Side.
So that means in Episode 3, that there's going to be a pair of twins born, Obi Wan's going to take one of them to Tatooine, lots of Jedi will be killed, and Anakin's going to be put back together to become Darth Vader by the Emperor.
And that pretty much sums up exactly what the review says. Basically, it would appear to completely connect what has happened in 1 and 2 with 4-6. The review does point out a couple of plot elements to show just how dark Ep3 is going to be, and how much he liked it, but I don't think they'd ruin it for anyone.
I know they will be useful for non-Cable company DVR's such as Tivo, MythTV, or MCE, as they wouldn't have to use IR-transmitters and such to change channels.
Reds not "popping" enough? Blues too saturated? Want to make the light metering a little less conservative? Want to completely funk up how the camera sees color so that everything comes out like some weird negative? You can do it, and it works extremely well. It's built into the camera and Nikon's software, Nikon Capture 4.0. No hacking required.
No, I can't (and don't want to) rewrite the OS, but I can change how my D70 captures photographs.
http://www.planetneil.com/nikon/custom-curves.html
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http://fotogenetic.dearingfilm.com/custom_tone_cur ves.html
1. The iHP has both optical and analog inputs and outputs. Headphones, Input and Output ports built in. I/O ports can be switched from either analog or optical. Very handy for playing mp3's over a home stereo with one simple and better-sounding TOSLINK connection than a miniplug-to-RCA adapter. No, I've never used the optical input for anything, but it's there.
2. The iHP can record. On it's own. Simple enough to hook up my iHP to my XM radio, record a couple hours of streaming audio for playback at the gym. You can't do that with an iPod.
3. Drag-and-drop on most any computer (XP, 2K, Apple, Linux) with no driver installation necessary. MP3's are just a drag-and-drop away from being placed on my iHP, and so are any other type of file I want. I know that iPod's work the same way for non-music files if you install the right software, but my iHP is invaluable for transporting large files and documents without having to install extra software on either PC. My iHP has been invaluable for transporting huge driver updates to a relative's PC who does not have a broadband connection.
4. Battery life. It's hotly debated, but in my experience our iPod may have a problem. My iHP is about 13 months old, and I get the same battery life that I did when it was brand new. My wife's iPod is about 8 months old, and we think that its battery(ies) are starting to fade, as she must recharge the thing every few days, instead of a week+ when it was new. Same listening conditions, volume levels, etc. Leave it turned off and unused for two weeks and the batteries are almost drained. My iRiver can, and has, sat for almost a month unused and the batteries were still fully charged when I powered it back on.
My $.02 anyway...
Get a real carrier that doesn't charge on a per kb basis for data. Cingular and SprintPCS all have unlimited plans for photos/data, T-Mobile has unlimited for data, 20/photos for $3 or $4 /month and like $.25 each after that.
And stating that just because it's a "European" car means less saftey isn't true. The Europeans actually have some tougher standards regarding safety than the US does (look into the car vs. pedestrian height rules mandated by the EU) - they're just different from the US rules.
Frankly, I don't believe this story. There isn't a modern car on the planet where the brakes are less efficient at halting the car than the engine is at propelling the car. Unless, of course, something was drastically wrong with his brakes.
So that snazzy new "Level 7" computer just became a "Level 6" the moment you opened the box. A week later it's a "Level 5". Seems like a waste of time and a hassle to consumers.
Don't believe me? http://www.iriver.com/community/notice_view.asp?pa ge=&idx=31&mode=&strque=&field=1
They admit the problems and plan a fix. Never happens. Appology note posted says that they're still working on it, with no date in sight.
Sometime later they post this... http://www.iriver.com/company/news_view.asp?idx=37 3
and there is much rejoicing at such a comprehensive list of both defect fixes and user complaints/suggestions.
And they don't make this date either, with no explanation ("Late July/Early August" != September)
Sometime later, http://www.iriver.com/support/download_view.asp?id x=609&page=2&p_name=&word=&categor y=
finally appears. But compare it's feature set with what was promised. A couple of things were fixed, but gapless playback isn't gapless, it just shortens the time between songs. With all the other mp3 players, gapless playback means that one song fades into the next. Shuffle still isn't shuffle.
No, I will not be doing business with iRiver anymore.
And, starting in 2005 (or is it 2006?) Infinity actually has a lane-sensor system option for the FX35/45, so says the latest edition of Car and Driver. Has a camera that monitors the lanes and emits a noise if the driver crosses a line.
The place even looks cool http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/eo/what/arch1.html
Very cool place indeed, if you're in the area.
B&W, on the other hand, is the worst game I have ever purchased. Awesome graphics (at the time) can not make up for bad gameplay, buggy code, and an AI that simply didn't work.
But no, we have to attach fingerprint scanners to the locks. So now the threats and suspicions can run rampant. What's next, a drop of blood? The solution here is simple - provide lockers but don't provide the locks. Big shock, I know, making people responsible for their actions.
Make it clear that if people bring contraband to the statue, it's either going to be confiscated or they need to lock it in the lockers provided. Want it actually *locked* in a locker? Bring your own freaking lock. One that will stop a casual thief costs about $5 at Wal-Mart. Pay a couple of Park Services people to stand around and monitor the lockers to make sure no one is wandering around with bolt cutters. Now the market is open for street-cart lock vendors to come in and clean up selling $5 locks for $15 to tourists. That, my friends, is the American Way.
I'll agree with that scenario as well...
Terrible nightmares of naked homosexual Cylons hell-bent on manipulating the universe...
Every phone I've ever seen comes with standard beep-beep or ring-ring ringers. You would have to download and install the Paris Hilton fuck music yourself.
Check out eBay for a 7135. They can be found brand new for around $300-$350 there. Just be sure you buy one that's branded for the provider you choose (Verizon or SprintPCS)
SprintPCS does not charge you for the amount of data used. It's a flat $15/month for Vision, which gets you unlimited internet at about 10-15K/sec download speeds. Storage isn't an issue on my Treo 600. The built in memory can handle 300+ photos, and I have unlimited storage on Sprint's picture servers. The couple of SprintPCS Picture phones I've had the pleasure of using could save 20-40 photos internally, but of course there's unlimited storage when you upload there too. But yeah, the camera is crap compared to a real digicam. When I want to take photographs, I bring along my 5mp Minolta Dimage 7HI. When I just need to take a picture of something interresting and get it to anyone I want quickly, a cell-phone cam is very handy.
They're great PC's, but not for quiet environments.