It doesn't really matter if you understand why all us crazy geeks like ogg, but if you're a company making portable music devices and want our business, you damn well better know that we do in fact want it.
See, that's the problem. I don't use OGG because it's a worthless format (the same with MP3, etc). I perfer SHN/FLAC. Do I complain that very few players support SHN/FLAC playback? No. Is it my #1 priority when I am looking for a portable music device? No.
Covert between the two.
You can't have all the formats you want and inexpensive pricing. It just doesn't work like that.
1) FM radio? That will hardly drive sales...if there was anything to listen to on FM, XM and Sirius wouldn't have a business plan.
What, the device is supposed to have an XM receiver?
2) Removable battery? That is what is supposed to kill the iPod? Huhn?
Personally, due to the number of devices that I have had batteries go in (cameras and cell phones) I would never buy an iPod for fear of the battery issues. Replacing the battery is a big factor for me.
More importantly, does it work with OggVorbis? Apparently not.:-(
Why is everyone so excited about OGG? Just because it's free? I have never (and likely will never) use OGG but I don't see why every player that is mentioned on Slashdot has to have several comments modded up that mentions the inclusion or lack of OGG support.
Convert the OGG to MP3 or to some other format that the player uses and be done with it. I just can't believe that because the player is missing a basically unused format (for the non-geeks) that it is somehow "bad".
I will NEVER get over the fact that a majority of the public is easily hoodwinked into following the whims of each and every fucktard that holds a position of power.
It is deeply disturbing that my fellow Americans are dumb enough to believe whatever is fed to them without actually doing any of their own research first.
Just because someone is powerful, wealthy, and a public figurehead does not mean that they are right in everything they do.
Why does Ballmer do this? Why does he make such idiotic, easy-to-refute statements? For example, from the article:
I can't believe that guy is a top executive of a major corporation. He makes Darl look like a business genius in comparison. He impresses me as some kind of jackass, who just HAPPENED to be in the right place at the right time, and is where he is DESPITE rather than BECAUSE of his business acumen.
It seems that there are a couple other people in America that hold positions of immense power and authority that are equally as dumb.
Perhaps it's just that a little over half the population is really dumb enough to believe a bunch of non-sensical bullshit?
I finally convinced my wife to drop AOL last year when we were in a bit of a money crunch. They would not accept our cancellation instructions and made it very difficult to leave. Rather than change my credit card number to get rid of them, I decided I would make it advantageous for them to drop me.
Normally I don't like the "me too" posts but for this one I have to give my knowledge to the karma trolls...
Anyway, my supervisor isn't much of a computer person but she does have a small business on the side doing some sewing (mostly for renaissance festivals. Anyway, she has a 256k DSL connection which she already pays out the ass for and some sort of smalltime "commercial" webpage for her product. Her ISP is hosting the website and domain for her. Anyway, she CONTINUES to use AOL even though she doesn't use any of their features.
She calls them up to cancel for her third time that week because previous attempts were met with "save actions" where they would offer free service, reduced payments, etc, if she'd stay. This time she meant business (her words). They ended up telling her their cancellation system was down for TWO WEEKS and they would not be able to deactivate her for that time frame and that she should call back after 14 business days to do it.
She's still paying $25/mo for AOL when she doesn't use it.
The only people who would question the authenticity of the United States of America's election process via the "e-voting" method are those are support the ending of freedom and the resurgence of terror!
Why wouldn't you just trust the results you see in the media? Why must you map the tunnels that carry our infastructure only a terrorist would need that information!
Remember 10 out of 10 terrorists support John Kerry! If you are questioning the election results you must not support Bush and thus you must be a terrorist.
That's up for debate. Just because Bush won doesn't mean that 52% of the population is happy that HE is in office.
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Ok, more seriously... you do have filters so that only mail "from you" is accepted, right? RIGHT?!?
Yeah, there are IP filters to only allow hiptop devices to submit and there are some other protections enabled to stop random people from submitting their own pictures.
The *next* cool thing? Hiptop users have been photo/moblogging for years and there are several sites available just for hiptop users to blog to. I just recently bought a hiptop and even more recently received a camera for it. While I'm not necessarily into "blogging" I do enjoy posting random pictures of where I am for people to see. I sometimes post to one of the hiptop moblogging sites but I generally take pictures for my personal site.
My "mobile gallery" is powered by Gallery and a simple bash script to import my photos from email attachments. I normally don't put captions on the pictures but sometimes I do. They are just usually there for me to remember something specific about the day or place I was. It's nice not to have to be carrying around my full sized digital camera and waiting till I get home to upload photos for friends/family/slashdotters to see.
My mobile pics are here and the entire photo album changelog is here if you're interested. If your cell phone (or hiptop) has a camera and you'd like to use procmail and Gallery to host your own mobile pics the quick and dirty script to do so is here. There are some requirements (munpack and galleryadd which are both linked to in the document listed above and obviously procmail).
YMMV on what you need to install and whether you like how my photos are sorted;-)
Rather than restrict sharing to say, 3 network MAC addresses, they removed the feature altogether.
How quickly do you think that would last as a protection scheme? I've had 5 ethernet cards in the past two years. All of them had the same MAC address.
Here's the clue; I am a grownup. If I want to smoke cigarettes (or stick them up my ass for that matter) that's none of your fucking business.
You are assuming that I want to get into your personal business. What I wanted to bring light to is that Big Tobacco is fighting a financial war to keep their interests afloat when it is an addictive drug.
I realize you were trying to be funny but you would not believe how many people I know smoke, chew, and use several patches all at the same time. It's like they just can't get enough.
It's a sad state of affairs when Big Tobacco can legally sell such an addictive substance while only having to pay the measly price of some recent legal action and anti-smoking ads targeted towards those they used to target all their ads at...
Fernandes cited "legal and management concerns about the content of the website" as precipitating the review but declined to comment on specifics.
I have a feeling that they knew they would have very few supporters on that site. They would probably spend more time astroturfing and fighting off the "bad" posts than they would "spreading the truth".
They have enough lies coming out in press releases do they really want to have a site that lies constantly? Wouldn't that just be more fodder for those on the pro-Linux side?
I do have something against organized religion preaching in direct contradiction to accepted science, while providing no evidence to the contrary, other then "its in this book, so you cant teach the obvious, accepted science."
Then get involved in your local school and do your own preaching against it. I was in public school less than 10 years ago and I never learned about creationism. If I did it was a footnote. YMMV.
While I am not a creationist and I agree that they are typically difficult to deal with I have to say that your quote above is less than intelligent.
Creationism (and the general belief in the Bible word for word) has been around for centuries. Yeah, the Bible has caused war, death, etc, all against its supposed teachings, yet the human race somehow survived.
I have a feeling that America will survive this round of Church/State integration as well.
Scientist Kristin Tessmar-Raible provided the crucial evidence to support Arendt's hypothesis. With the help of EMBL researcher Heidi Snyman, she determined the molecular fingerprint of the cells in the worm's brain. She found an opsin, a light-sensitive molecule, in the worm that strikingly resembled the opsin in the vertebrate rods and cones. "When I saw this vertebrate-type molecule active in the cells of the Playtnereis brain - it was clear that these cells and the vertebrate rods and cones shared a molecular fingerprint. This was concrete evidence of common evolutionary origin. We had finally solved one of the big mysteries in human eye evolution."
Well, I understand that for this article they probably spoke in very simplistic terms but the phrase "strikingly resembled" doesn't exactly equate to "concrete evidence". This certainly won't quell the arguments from the creationists either as there just isn't enough evidence to prove that the "supreme being" didn't plan this all along...
Yeah, I emailed daddypants when the story posted to the subscribers but they apparently weren't paying attention.
Everyone knows that ATMs running Windows would be susceptible to the same evil viruses that any Windows PC would be. I guess we just need to get the word out to those that don't know about the possible viruses available for even their own machines?
Women have always been a rare and strange breed in Antarctica. Most often there aren't any. During my winter over, women were just some kind of remote and hazy memory. In 2000, a woman did winter over for the first time in Dumont d'Urville, although they have been doing so for a long time in American and Australian stations.
A lot of people seemed to be in a contest for the most original New Year's 2000: from flying the Concorde around the globe to changing the time zone of some Pacific islands... I have to say that ours was quite original: a bunch of scientists, technicians, mechanics all stuck together, getting drunk and dancing with the three available women.
Almost everybody is worthless the first two days: the high altitude combined with the cold and extreme dryness makes for some awful first nights. And hangovers are worse here too: 2 beers are enough to get you hungover in the morning.
So let me get this straight... You are in the coldest area on earth at high altitude with nearly no women and you get hung over from two beers and you return to this place multiple times in your lifetime? This poor guy is one sick fuck but at least his beer stays cold.
Personally, I'll let them see "the new sun" first and I'll stick to the sloppy seconds, at least it's warmed up by then.
What hasn't changed much in seven years is how hard people are willing to work at searching. The answer: not very. Spink and Jansen found that people averaged about two words per query and two queries per search session.
What has changed though is that two words per query gives a much more accurate result than it used to. I use google for everything including UPS Tracking, math conversions, and tracking down where/when my name/email address is used. This sort of information just wasn't available 7+ years ago.
People aren't searching so much for porn because there is so much more information that is already indexed. You used to search for X and most of the first page of results were for porn. Perhaps that's why it seemed so popular? Maybe it was because the earliest adopters of the Internet were "fringe" people more interested in finding other "fringe" activities?
Yeah and Suprnova has a ton too but that doesn't mean it's legal (at least here in the States).
Most of those TV episodes don't include commercials or originally aired on extended cable channels like HBO. Those original providers cannot be terribly thrilled about it.
It would be different if they were censoring something important and unbiased. "Censoring" their own content from those abroad isn't exactly something I could give too shits about.
Yay, no more political propaganda overseas via www.georgewbush.com.
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It doesn't really matter if you understand why all us crazy geeks like ogg, but if you're a company making portable music devices and want our business, you damn well better know that we do in fact want it.
See, that's the problem. I don't use OGG because it's a worthless format (the same with MP3, etc). I perfer SHN/FLAC. Do I complain that very few players support SHN/FLAC playback? No. Is it my #1 priority when I am looking for a portable music device? No.
Covert between the two.
You can't have all the formats you want and inexpensive pricing. It just doesn't work like that.
1) FM radio? That will hardly drive sales...if there was anything to listen to on FM, XM and Sirius wouldn't have a business plan.
What, the device is supposed to have an XM receiver?
2) Removable battery? That is what is supposed to kill the iPod? Huhn?
Personally, due to the number of devices that I have had batteries go in (cameras and cell phones) I would never buy an iPod for fear of the battery issues. Replacing the battery is a big factor for me.
More importantly, does it work with OggVorbis? Apparently not. :-(
Why is everyone so excited about OGG? Just because it's free? I have never (and likely will never) use OGG but I don't see why every player that is mentioned on Slashdot has to have several comments modded up that mentions the inclusion or lack of OGG support.
Convert the OGG to MP3 or to some other format that the player uses and be done with it. I just can't believe that because the player is missing a basically unused format (for the non-geeks) that it is somehow "bad".
I will NEVER get over the fact that a majority of the public is easily hoodwinked into following the whims of each and every fucktard that holds a position of power.
It is deeply disturbing that my fellow Americans are dumb enough to believe whatever is fed to them without actually doing any of their own research first.
Just because someone is powerful, wealthy, and a public figurehead does not mean that they are right in everything they do.
Why does Ballmer do this? Why does he make such idiotic, easy-to-refute statements? For example, from the article:
I can't believe that guy is a top executive of a major corporation. He makes Darl look like a business genius in comparison. He impresses me as some kind of jackass, who just HAPPENED to be in the right place at the right time, and is where he is DESPITE rather than BECAUSE of his business acumen.
It seems that there are a couple other people in America that hold positions of immense power and authority that are equally as dumb.
Perhaps it's just that a little over half the population is really dumb enough to believe a bunch of non-sensical bullshit?
instead of "and" I should have said "or". BFD. Get over it.
and they won't let you. Here's a fun story.
I finally convinced my wife to drop AOL last year when we were in a bit of a money crunch. They would not accept our cancellation instructions and made it very difficult to leave. Rather than change my credit card number to get rid of them, I decided I would make it advantageous for them to drop me.
Normally I don't like the "me too" posts but for this one I have to give my knowledge to the karma trolls...
Anyway, my supervisor isn't much of a computer person but she does have a small business on the side doing some sewing (mostly for renaissance festivals. Anyway, she has a 256k DSL connection which she already pays out the ass for and some sort of smalltime "commercial" webpage for her product. Her ISP is hosting the website and domain for her. Anyway, she CONTINUES to use AOL even though she doesn't use any of their features.
She calls them up to cancel for her third time that week because previous attempts were met with "save actions" where they would offer free service, reduced payments, etc, if she'd stay. This time she meant business (her words). They ended up telling her their cancellation system was down for TWO WEEKS and they would not be able to deactivate her for that time frame and that she should call back after 14 business days to do it.
She's still paying $25/mo for AOL when she doesn't use it.
When will we see this as an add-on for the roomba?
When the walls are metal and they have no "barriers" that are over 1 cm (ie texture changes).
The only people who would question the authenticity of the United States of America's election process via the "e-voting" method are those are support the ending of freedom and the resurgence of terror!
Why wouldn't you just trust the results you see in the media? Why must you map the tunnels that carry our infastructure only a terrorist would need that information!
Remember 10 out of 10 terrorists support John Kerry! If you are questioning the election results you must not support Bush and thus you must be a terrorist.
I'm only 52% kidding.
More like 48%. Lets count the numbers correctly.
That's up for debate. Just because Bush won doesn't mean that 52% of the population is happy that HE is in office.
Ok, more seriously... you do have filters so that only mail "from you" is accepted, right? RIGHT?!?
Yeah, there are IP filters to only allow hiptop devices to submit and there are some other protections enabled to stop random people from submitting their own pictures.
The *next* cool thing? Hiptop users have been photo/moblogging for years and there are several sites available just for hiptop users to blog to. I just recently bought a hiptop and even more recently received a camera for it. While I'm not necessarily into "blogging" I do enjoy posting random pictures of where I am for people to see. I sometimes post to one of the hiptop moblogging sites but I generally take pictures for my personal site.
;-)
My "mobile gallery" is powered by Gallery and a simple bash script to import my photos from email attachments. I normally don't put captions on the pictures but sometimes I do. They are just usually there for me to remember something specific about the day or place I was. It's nice not to have to be carrying around my full sized digital camera and waiting till I get home to upload photos for friends/family/slashdotters to see.
My mobile pics are here and the entire photo album changelog is here if you're interested. If your cell phone (or hiptop) has a camera and you'd like to use procmail and Gallery to host your own mobile pics the quick and dirty script to do so is here. There are some requirements (munpack and galleryadd which are both linked to in the document listed above and obviously procmail).
YMMV on what you need to install and whether you like how my photos are sorted
Rather than restrict sharing to say, 3 network MAC addresses, they removed the feature altogether.
How quickly do you think that would last as a protection scheme? I've had 5 ethernet cards in the past two years. All of them had the same MAC address.
Here's the clue; I am a grownup. If I want to smoke cigarettes (or stick them up my ass for that matter) that's none of your fucking business.
You are assuming that I want to get into your personal business. What I wanted to bring light to is that Big Tobacco is fighting a financial war to keep their interests afloat when it is an addictive drug.
I realize you were trying to be funny but you would not believe how many people I know smoke, chew, and use several patches all at the same time. It's like they just can't get enough.
It's a sad state of affairs when Big Tobacco can legally sell such an addictive substance while only having to pay the measly price of some recent legal action and anti-smoking ads targeted towards those they used to target all their ads at...
Fernandes cited "legal and management concerns about the content of the website" as precipitating the review but declined to comment on specifics.
I have a feeling that they knew they would have very few supporters on that site. They would probably spend more time astroturfing and fighting off the "bad" posts than they would "spreading the truth".
They have enough lies coming out in press releases do they really want to have a site that lies constantly? Wouldn't that just be more fodder for those on the pro-Linux side?
I'm not only one of the most hated businesses on the web, I'm also rich, and going to become a hell of a lot richer! Woo!
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: doubleclick.net
Address: 127.0.0.1
I do have something against organized religion preaching in direct contradiction to accepted science, while providing no evidence to the contrary, other then "its in this book, so you cant teach the obvious, accepted science."
Then get involved in your local school and do your own preaching against it. I was in public school less than 10 years ago and I never learned about creationism. If I did it was a footnote. YMMV.
This willful ignorance is destroying america.
While I am not a creationist and I agree that they are typically difficult to deal with I have to say that your quote above is less than intelligent.
Creationism (and the general belief in the Bible word for word) has been around for centuries. Yeah, the Bible has caused war, death, etc, all against its supposed teachings, yet the human race somehow survived.
I have a feeling that America will survive this round of Church/State integration as well.
Scientist Kristin Tessmar-Raible provided the crucial evidence to support Arendt's hypothesis. With the help of EMBL researcher Heidi Snyman, she determined the molecular fingerprint of the cells in the worm's brain. She found an opsin, a light-sensitive molecule, in the worm that strikingly resembled the opsin in the vertebrate rods and cones. "When I saw this vertebrate-type molecule active in the cells of the Playtnereis brain - it was clear that these cells and the vertebrate rods and cones shared a molecular fingerprint. This was concrete evidence of common evolutionary origin. We had finally solved one of the big mysteries in human eye evolution."
Well, I understand that for this article they probably spoke in very simplistic terms but the phrase "strikingly resembled" doesn't exactly equate to "concrete evidence". This certainly won't quell the arguments from the creationists either as there just isn't enough evidence to prove that the "supreme being" didn't plan this all along...
Yeah, I emailed daddypants when the story posted to the subscribers but they apparently weren't paying attention.
Everyone knows that ATMs running Windows would be susceptible to the same evil viruses that any Windows PC would be. I guess we just need to get the word out to those that don't know about the possible viruses available for even their own machines?
Women have always been a rare and strange breed in Antarctica. Most often there aren't any. During my winter over, women were just some kind of remote and hazy memory. In 2000, a woman did winter over for the first time in Dumont d'Urville, although they have been doing so for a long time in American and Australian stations.
A lot of people seemed to be in a contest for the most original New Year's 2000: from flying the Concorde around the globe to changing the time zone of some Pacific islands... I have to say that ours was quite original: a bunch of scientists, technicians, mechanics all stuck together, getting drunk and dancing with the three available women.
Almost everybody is worthless the first two days: the high altitude combined with the cold and extreme dryness makes for some awful first nights. And hangovers are worse here too: 2 beers are enough to get you hungover in the morning.
So let me get this straight... You are in the coldest area on earth at high altitude with nearly no women and you get hung over from two beers and you return to this place multiple times in your lifetime? This poor guy is one sick fuck but at least his beer stays cold.
Personally, I'll let them see "the new sun" first and I'll stick to the sloppy seconds, at least it's warmed up by then.
What hasn't changed much in seven years is how hard people are willing to work at searching. The answer: not very. Spink and Jansen found that people averaged about two words per query and two queries per search session.
What has changed though is that two words per query gives a much more accurate result than it used to. I use google for everything including UPS Tracking, math conversions, and tracking down where/when my name/email address is used. This sort of information just wasn't available 7+ years ago.
People aren't searching so much for porn because there is so much more information that is already indexed. You used to search for X and most of the first page of results were for porn. Perhaps that's why it seemed so popular? Maybe it was because the earliest adopters of the Internet were "fringe" people more interested in finding other "fringe" activities?
Yeah and Suprnova has a ton too but that doesn't mean it's legal (at least here in the States).
Most of those TV episodes don't include commercials or originally aired on extended cable channels like HBO. Those original providers cannot be terribly thrilled about it.
It would be different if they were censoring something important and unbiased. "Censoring" their own content from those abroad isn't exactly something I could give too shits about.
Yay, no more political propaganda overseas via www.georgewbush.com.
It's not a big deal.