care to sound accurate, or would you rather sound great? accuracy though important in certain scientific situations is probably not the foremost aspect of effective voip communicating. like those warmly illuminating vanity lights that make people look wonderful, there's more to interpersonal relations than a flat freq. response.
i haven't heard these little mics but if they are as flat as advertised you're going to end up sounding more than a little dry, perhaps even cold and irritatingly harsh. on the other hand if you'd prefer to sound attractively warm try something that enhances the bottom, is clean and a little airy yet forgiving of wild sibilants.
when it comes to any consumer transducer the most important meter is your ear. listen before you buy.
Opera users who view the YouTube stream will find the 29 MB.TMP file already sitting in their cache where it's easily converted to a 49MB.MPG with Batch FLV Converter (for those who can't play.FLVs directly).
So let me first to say that he is NOT a charlatan, a huckster, a cheap parlour act, a one trick pony, a snakeoil salesman, a vulture preying on the weak minded, a media whore, an insult to intelligence, a talentless liar or a boil on the face of humanity.
No indeed. He is a great man whom aliens have seen fit to bestow the ultimate of powers - spoon bending. All hail our galactic overlords and their glorious Earth bound representative!
pffft. he's not half the man david hasselhoff is. at 55 the hoff can drink like shamu, eat like street sense and still maintain a trim figure.
I know it's old hat to complain about the poor quality of editing at Slashdot, but seriously now, "tho"? This is how my 13 year old little sister types in chat sessions, not how the editors of a semi-respectable news site read by millions should write news stories.
oh the pain - and to think the poor english still haven't gotten over us calling a plough a plow.
- js.
well, it looks like opera-mozilla finally got the drop on bill and steve. that patent app is airtight, believe me. fair and square.
crazy, but redmond is just going to have to bite the bullet and start calling them something else, at least here in the states. maybe they could try "knobs." no wait, i know: "babs!" yep. that could work.
in other oddness i heard that hex thing on saturn is really a giant nut holding the planet together - and it's loosening!
why is april so damn weird?
- js.
company flacs crank out panting press release salted with superlatives. company trolls flog site to maintain momentum.
all "backed up by" a shiny video proving what exactly?
here's an idea to future disruptors: skip all the breathless prose and just let the amazing randi have at it. when he says it's legit the world will beat down your door.
- js.
perhaps it's true the newer versions are somehow lacking, but i don't see why the "L" model is "no replacement" for an original i purchased in '03. if linksys models were "great v4.0 and earlier," so are these. they have the same memory and are also capable of being flashed w/opensource.
still, i wouldn't get too wrapped up in any fetish for old wrt54gs. the fact of the matter is my original linksys unit suffered from bittorrent clogging and needed rebooting as conditions dictated and it dropped my wireless connections on a whim. it did however manage to run for ten straight days with my dsl maxed out during oink's recent holiday leechfest, netting me 110 gigs of fresh swag. it was a good piece of hardware, but it was no paragon of technical proficiency. it was serviceable - and i haven't found the L unit to be any less.
this isn't purely academic - i just bought and configured one this week.
"Is this even enforcible if it gets passed?
What if MySpace simply decides to not do business in Connecticut (as in, have no office nor servers there). "
it isn't so simple or so localised. blumenthal is working with ags in 44 other states and while it's unreasonable to assume they will all have these bills, it's unreasonable to assume this will remain a connecticut-only issue that myspace can route around. expect to see many, many states jumping on this in the next several months - so many in fact it will seriously affect all so-called networking sites. these bills are as popular as the laws that prohibit sex-offenders from using parks and living near schools and for the same reasons - "protecting children." legislators find them impossible to resist in this climate.
- js.
the weakest point in any action against a file-sharer that's based upon an ip address capture is the fact that an ip number - leaving aside for the moment whether or not the isp got it right initially - in no way shape or form indicates if the defendant was operating the computer at such time as the ip capture was made. it's somewhat analogous to the robo-cop radar detector slash cameras communities increasingly use to prosecute alleged traffic violators, in that they provide a picture of a car and a license plate number but precious little else of importance - i.e. who's actually behind the wheel. using the hacker analogy for instance one could mock up a phony plate, put it on a rental vehicle similar say to a car the govenor's wife drives and blast through a red-light at three am just to cause mischief - and if she happened to have actually been near that area at that moment the mischief might be considerable - especially if the outline of an "interesting passenger" was resolved by the traffic cam.
automatic traffic cops leave a lot to be desired in other words, and so do programs that purport to show by proxy who's doing what and when with a computer.
i wouldn't predict the leanings of judges (who seem to either accept too much at face value or too little) or the sentiments of juries, but it would seem to me that the vein you mined with dr. jacobsen as seen in pages 22 forward, "have you formed an opinion as to whether marie lindor personally uploaded any copyrighted files to anyone," and to which the dr. clearly and continuously waffled, is an area of massive vulnerability for the riaa and a point upon which you should continue applying pressure. this to me is the issue that may resonate the most among people with common sense.
- js.
Slashdot Mirror
well, i can help shed a little light on this...without lying if you don't mind:
counting continuously to a million - one second at a time - will take you about 11 days.
counting to a billion will take you about 32 years.
pretty clear difference that.
- js.
care to sound accurate, or would you rather sound great? accuracy though important in certain scientific situations is probably not the foremost aspect of effective voip communicating. like those warmly illuminating vanity lights that make people look wonderful, there's more to interpersonal relations than a flat freq. response.
i haven't heard these little mics but if they are as flat as advertised you're going to end up sounding more than a little dry, perhaps even cold and irritatingly harsh. on the other hand if you'd prefer to sound attractively warm try something that enhances the bottom, is clean and a little airy yet forgiving of wild sibilants.
when it comes to any consumer transducer the most important meter is your ear. listen before you buy.
- js.
that's no android, that's my wife!
and btw, it's replicant. sheez.
- deckard
they shouldn't be paying a penny more than the terrestrial stations, which has always been a simple composition mechanical.
soundexchange's first round of performance royalties in june '02 killed some 40,000 bedroom broadcasters overnight.
2010's next round will simply finish off the rest.
- js.
Opera users who view the YouTube stream will find the 29 MB .TMP file already sitting in their cache where it's easily converted to a 49MB .MPG with Batch FLV Converter (for those who can't play .FLVs directly).
Anyone else can download the 71 MB .MP4 directly from here: http://www.filmspot.com/users/jrgreenmd/show_blog_ entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25002790
No need to visit the PirateBay - unless you're ready to pounce on POTC III.
- js.
now that's real magic!
- js.
good luck on that one pal.
The whole album has leaked. Its being traded in its entirety now. - js.
well, it looks like opera-mozilla finally got the drop on bill and steve. that patent app is airtight, believe me. fair and square. crazy, but redmond is just going to have to bite the bullet and start calling them something else, at least here in the states. maybe they could try "knobs." no wait, i know: "babs!" yep. that could work. in other oddness i heard that hex thing on saturn is really a giant nut holding the planet together - and it's loosening! why is april so damn weird? - js.
company flacs crank out panting press release salted with superlatives. company trolls flog site to maintain momentum. all "backed up by" a shiny video proving what exactly? here's an idea to future disruptors: skip all the breathless prose and just let the amazing randi have at it. when he says it's legit the world will beat down your door. - js.
one writer's anecdote does not a trend describe. i'm dubious in the extreme. - js.
perhaps it's true the newer versions are somehow lacking, but i don't see why the "L" model is "no replacement" for an original i purchased in '03. if linksys models were "great v4.0 and earlier," so are these. they have the same memory and are also capable of being flashed w/opensource.
still, i wouldn't get too wrapped up in any fetish for old wrt54gs. the fact of the matter is my original linksys unit suffered from bittorrent clogging and needed rebooting as conditions dictated and it dropped my wireless connections on a whim. it did however manage to run for ten straight days with my dsl maxed out during oink's recent holiday leechfest, netting me 110 gigs of fresh swag. it was a good piece of hardware, but it was no paragon of technical proficiency. it was serviceable - and i haven't found the L unit to be any less.
this isn't purely academic - i just bought and configured one this week.
- js.
"Is this even enforcible if it gets passed? What if MySpace simply decides to not do business in Connecticut (as in, have no office nor servers there). " it isn't so simple or so localised. blumenthal is working with ags in 44 other states and while it's unreasonable to assume they will all have these bills, it's unreasonable to assume this will remain a connecticut-only issue that myspace can route around. expect to see many, many states jumping on this in the next several months - so many in fact it will seriously affect all so-called networking sites. these bills are as popular as the laws that prohibit sex-offenders from using parks and living near schools and for the same reasons - "protecting children." legislators find them impossible to resist in this climate. - js.
the weakest point in any action against a file-sharer that's based upon an ip address capture is the fact that an ip number - leaving aside for the moment whether or not the isp got it right initially - in no way shape or form indicates if the defendant was operating the computer at such time as the ip capture was made. it's somewhat analogous to the robo-cop radar detector slash cameras communities increasingly use to prosecute alleged traffic violators, in that they provide a picture of a car and a license plate number but precious little else of importance - i.e. who's actually behind the wheel. using the hacker analogy for instance one could mock up a phony plate, put it on a rental vehicle similar say to a car the govenor's wife drives and blast through a red-light at three am just to cause mischief - and if she happened to have actually been near that area at that moment the mischief might be considerable - especially if the outline of an "interesting passenger" was resolved by the traffic cam. automatic traffic cops leave a lot to be desired in other words, and so do programs that purport to show by proxy who's doing what and when with a computer. i wouldn't predict the leanings of judges (who seem to either accept too much at face value or too little) or the sentiments of juries, but it would seem to me that the vein you mined with dr. jacobsen as seen in pages 22 forward, "have you formed an opinion as to whether marie lindor personally uploaded any copyrighted files to anyone," and to which the dr. clearly and continuously waffled, is an area of massive vulnerability for the riaa and a point upon which you should continue applying pressure. this to me is the issue that may resonate the most among people with common sense. - js.
i hear there may be a few more planets floating around out there. be nice too if they were warming up too.
- js.
doesn't support ie 7 either. now that's funny! - js.