No. I'm actually the only person in the world not to have ever listened to Dark Side of the Moon, but that doesn't matter. I'm talking about being able to tell visually where one track ends and another begins, which I just did several minutes ago with a copy I own. This comes in handy when I play it to other people (who wear headphones, of course, so I can't hear it), and they want me to start at a particular location. From one of the umpteen copies of the album people have given to me, before I started refusing more. You idiot.
In as much as "metadata" is possible on a vinyl recording, there are obvious visual "gaps" between the tracks on the LP, and each of the songs are listed and numbered. Certainly conducive to selecting and playing one particular track.
Couldn't you say all that equally applies to the preceding track as well? I hear what you're saying, but what I'd rather have is a "don't play this song on its own" flag. We're all different, of course - since I prefer listening to Albums rather than using shuffle anyway.
As long as developers, developers, developers, developers are still putting out apps that are IE6/7 only, (and Microsoft keep releasing browsers that perpetuate the whole "works in THIS version of THIS browser" metality), the situation is going to be exactly the same when IE8 is "obsolete" (and I'm picking, full of exploits that will never be patched), yet none of its webapps work in IE9 or IE10.
Internet Explorer 8 means: You've had 8 chances to learn this lesson. Internet Explorer "webapps" aren't. They're Internet Explorer Version ($VERSION_YOU_WANT_TO_RUN_MINUS_ONE) Apps.
I don't think of IE as a web browser any more, but more as some sort of "virtual machine" for running ActiveX applications (or exploits).
You'd better read it again (like I just did). To me, the site is quite agnostic toward jail-breaking, and is no less useful to someone with a non-jailbroken device. I believe I feel the same way about jailbreaking as you do (currently not considering jailbreaking my device, fairly sure I'll never do it), but as another poster has said: There's not a chance in hell that Apple have properly audited all the application for security, and it's flat out impossible they'd be able to do so adequately anyway (they don't audit the source). The App Store is not about that at all.
As long as you've made it clear that it's a fake (so a "reasonable person" couldn't argue they thought they were getting the real thing) then you're not being fraudulent.
Wouldn't be surprised if Intel still sued you for trademark violation.
Reading the discussion to see if three others have already posted exactly the same comic (a sure bet with xkcd) and been modded down (becoming a similarly sure bet) is also obligatory
Actually that's the best suggestion yet. After he's spent a week banging bits into the 82072A, he'll either have gone insane, or will have realised he's well and truly barking up the wrong tree. Once again, OP: I'd love to know what you're up to, if it's not trolling Ask Slashdot.
Read the summary - there's a lot more going on with the data after 'dd' has done with it. Even if I write a continuous stream of zeroes to the disk, that's not what will wind up on the disk. For some reason we've yet to establish, he wants direct control over exactly what bits are recorded where. Unfortunately, doing this will mean it'll be damn near impossible to read the data back, as there will now be no reliable way to determine what track / sector we're located at. There'll be no means to detect errors, let alone correct them. He probably won't even be able to verify what he's just written.
I'm actually more interested in why the fuck he wants to do this, much less how it would be achieved.
The submitter appears to know enough about what he's asking to know that it's also impossible / completely impractical. Recording ones and zeros directly isn't done for a reason, submitter appears to understand this.
I apologise, and admit you were only being helpful. The spirit of my post remains directed at Slashdot in general: there's no reason to avoid proper links here, if you post a tinyURL you have to accept that most people here will skip it, "preview" functionality or not.
Not the point - those of us with HiDef component analog inputs (we have our reasons) will no longer be able to go out and buy gear to plug into them. Even when HDCP is cracked, we'd still need an HDMI to Component converter to use our HDMI-less televisions (which we went to quite some trouble to source).
Fortunately, however, Joe Sixpack got to decide what technology was better for us (thanks a fukken' lot mate!) Either the "HD" in "HDMI" sounded pretty goddamn awesome to him, or the salesman convinced him that HDMI tvs are bigger, or something. Either way, we're stuck with it now.
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No. I'm actually the only person in the world not to have ever listened to Dark Side of the Moon, but that doesn't matter. I'm talking about being able to tell visually where one track ends and another begins, which I just did several minutes ago with a copy I own. This comes in handy when I play it to other people (who wear headphones, of course, so I can't hear it), and they want me to start at a particular location. From one of the umpteen copies of the album people have given to me, before I started refusing more. You idiot.
In as much as "metadata" is possible on a vinyl recording, there are obvious visual "gaps" between the tracks on the LP, and each of the songs are listed and numbered. Certainly conducive to selecting and playing one particular track.
Couldn't you say all that equally applies to the preceding track as well? I hear what you're saying, but what I'd rather have is a "don't play this song on its own" flag. We're all different, of course - since I prefer listening to Albums rather than using shuffle anyway.
Unlimited 3G usage? Every iPhone? Try 250 megabytes on Vodafone New Zealands NZD$80/month plan!
Internet Explorer 8 means: You've had 8 chances to learn this lesson. Internet Explorer "webapps" aren't. They're Internet Explorer Version ($VERSION_YOU_WANT_TO_RUN_MINUS_ONE) Apps.
I don't think of IE as a web browser any more, but more as some sort of "virtual machine" for running ActiveX applications (or exploits).
You'd better read it again (like I just did). To me, the site is quite agnostic toward jail-breaking, and is no less useful to someone with a non-jailbroken device. I believe I feel the same way about jailbreaking as you do (currently not considering jailbreaking my device, fairly sure I'll never do it), but as another poster has said: There's not a chance in hell that Apple have properly audited all the application for security, and it's flat out impossible they'd be able to do so adequately anyway (they don't audit the source). The App Store is not about that at all.
Wouldn't be surprised if Intel still sued you for trademark violation.
Stunning example, mate! Seriously, how utterly flaming ridiculous.
Because Britons are people too.
You have to admit, ever since "squirt", things can only get better.
You have got a lot of catching up to do. Drives just don't work like that any more.
He's actually dead serious, as you'll see near the top of the page where he insults my arrogance for neglecting to mention such a thing.
Reading the discussion to see if three others have already posted exactly the same comic (a sure bet with xkcd) and been modded down (becoming a similarly sure bet) is also obligatory
Actually that's the best suggestion yet. After he's spent a week banging bits into the 82072A, he'll either have gone insane, or will have realised he's well and truly barking up the wrong tree. Once again, OP: I'd love to know what you're up to, if it's not trolling Ask Slashdot.
I'm actually more interested in why the fuck he wants to do this, much less how it would be achieved.
The submitter appears to know enough about what he's asking to know that it's also impossible / completely impractical. Recording ones and zeros directly isn't done for a reason, submitter appears to understand this.
Another better known fact: Some implementations of 802.11 suck
That was initially proposed, but the project leader got a googolplex over it.
Mod parent up, it's amazing how little-known these facts are about SSID hiding. I proudly broadcast my SSID: "iWatchYouSleep"
I apologise, and admit you were only being helpful. The spirit of my post remains directed at Slashdot in general: there's no reason to avoid proper links here, if you post a tinyURL you have to accept that most people here will skip it, "preview" functionality or not.
You must be fun at parties!
No, fuck off and don't use tinyurl here.
Fortunately, however, Joe Sixpack got to decide what technology was better for us (thanks a fukken' lot mate!) Either the "HD" in "HDMI" sounded pretty goddamn awesome to him, or the salesman convinced him that HDMI tvs are bigger, or something. Either way, we're stuck with it now.
No, compared to the multiple collision domains he'd get if he pulled Cat 5e/6 (which we were also talking about) through and used switches.
*red face*, just checked my facts, and it turns out I am in error. My apologies.
FWIW, my CCNA expired three days ago. Quite appropritely, it appears.