The primary clicker is also a joke. The combo scroll wheel is tacky and too loose. Often I will go to click only to have my thumb spin the wheel down instead.
I haven't seen the Dell, but I have a similar wheel on my Creative Jukebox 3, and I never have problems (took about 2 days to learn to use it efficiently). Admittedly the menus are, based on your description, a lot more cleverly designed on the Jukebox than the Dell. Unless the unit is actually built badly, I don't think this is as big an issue as you make it out to be.
By the way, this might be good because the way you enter names in other sections is to wheel tediously through letters A-Z, then choose the options to shift to letters a-z, then wheel to the actual letter you want.
Not being an iPod owner, but having seen an iPod and played with one for a few minutes, I ask this question with pure innocence and no intended hidden meanings: how do you do it on an iPod? I don't remember it having a QWERTY keyboard anywhere on the device. (For reference, the Jukebox has the same system, but the wheel is pretty clever, eg. if you spin it fast it skips through a lot faster than if you move it slowly. It's not the best but then again I don't tend to write any essays on it... it does the job considering how often it's used.)
And finally...worst of all...the Dell DJ does not detect as a standard USB2 device!
One reason for proprietary software is also to prevent you from loading up some bizarre non-mp3 file (even in my collection I had some that were really MPEG layer 2, and didn't even know it since they were.mp3 and Winamp just plays everything) and crashing their (probably poorly written) firmware. Then there's the whole DRM aspect. If it shows up as a drive, how will you stop people copying songs off it? Or will it show up as a drive that is write only (no reading in windows == no listing, if you can even set permissions like that, and not being able to see what's already on there would be teh gay). As for releasing a player with no DRM... well... it's nice to dream but;p
So, it seems to me quite hypocritical to be illegaly downloading music at the same time you are saying "I will pay for the stuff if you open an online store." Why should they take seriously the people stealing from them when they have every right to sue those people? It is insane to think they should.
While it may be wrong from a moral standpoint, it's the only way to get what you want (assuming you want music that's licensed by the RIAA... and actually I'm sure their price fixing antics serve also to drive up (through market forces) the price of indie labels, even though they are cheaper than RIAA cds). Basically the exchange of messages ("conversation", if you will) goes like this:
RIAA: "We're raking it in by forcing you to buy cds (everyone knows exactly how so I won't bother elaborating)"
Consumers: "Screw you, we're not going to buy them at these outrageous prices"
RIAA: "Ha ha ha, you're a funny one. What are you going to do next, hold your breath?"
At this point the RIAA doesn't have to do anything, people have no choice but to buy their cds or make serious sacrifices in terms of the music they listen to. Also if the majority of customers turns to indie bands they could step up their bullying tactics against them.
Consumers: "No, we're going to take the music for free"
RIAA: "You can't! That's stealing!"
Consumers: "Like we care, you've already been screwing us for how long?"
This line is also important, I'll get back to it.
RIAA: "We'll sue you, one at a time, etc. etc."
Consumers: "You're not a thief until you're caught. (Old Russian proverb)"
Now what the RIAA could have done is led the conversation like this:
RIAA: "We're raking it in by forcing you to buy cds"
Consumers: "Screw you, we're not going to buy them at these outrageous prices"
RIAA: "Hmm... then how will you buy them? Will you buy them in a box, will you buy them with a fox? etc. (this is called market research)"
Consumers:"Like this..."
RIAA: "Say, that's a good idea, there's more money to be made this way. Looks like these 'internets' are the future, we should stay with the times"
Now, even if they had released something like iTunes shorly after Napster came to exist, they would have done better because they wouldn't have grossly insulted consumers with their "we're screwing you, we know we're screwing you, and we're going to keep doing it, and there's nothing you can do to stop us" attitude. That sort of treatment is what made consumers close their eyes on their own moral values and turn to 'stealing' the music.
To extend the weak food analogy, if you could only buy loaves of bread for $500 for a pack of 50, and you made the same salary as you do now, and when you made it clear that you don't like this model you got that kind of response, it's not unlikely that instead of paying $500 to get 50 loaves 45-48 of which will go stale before you eat them, you'd take the opportunity to steal loaves for free, one or two at a time (as you needed them), if you could do so with almost no chance of being caught. The analogy falls down when you say "but I would resell the loaves"... of course tracks on a CD can't be split up and re-sold.
Now, you can start philosophical discussions about whether stealing the food in this instance is the right thing to do etc., but that's a choice every person makes for themselves.
the RIAA doesn't need to change its model when most of its losses are coming at the hand of illegal activity
On the one hand, most of its losses are coming from P2P downloads, which are illegal, so your statement is correct. But on the other hand they are making huge losses because they refu
However, if you want change, you need to talk with your money in not spending it. As soon as you infringe upon the RIAAs distribution rights, you give up any voice you could have had. To make change, you need to stay on this side of the law and refuse to buy new music until its available as you want it.
That would be akin to saying
I don't like the way food is priced and distributed, so I refuse to eat until the distribution model is changed to one I like.
While that analogy is weak in many respects, the point it makes is that if you had simply refused to buy music, they would just wait for you to crack. For example, I never bought music before Napster and ilk, simply because I was a poor schoolboy and couldn't afford it at the exhorbitant prices, but no distribution model ever changed for me.
In order to get what you want from people like the RIAA you have to have a very strong leverage point, much stronger than "I'll stop buying cds and go without music except on the radio and at live gigs". This isn't the same as lobbying the government, because the government is, at least in theory, there to represent your interests. If you refused to eat, the government would be worried at least to some degree because if their citizens are deliberately starving themselves, they are responsible. The RIAA is there to represent their own interests. If you refused to eat, they would not bat an eyelid as they watched you starve in the gutter. (If anything, they would sue you for unsolicited use of their gutter... joke, joke;p)
Even once Napster appeared the first reaction of the RIAA wasn't exactly "oh my god, let's change our distribution model to what the customers want". It's taken several years to get that far, and even that step was taken (forced, if you will, on the RIAA) by Apple which is undeniably a good deal more innovative than most. You can't argue for a moment that the record labels didn't have the resources to launch something like iTunes back in 2000, if they had wanted to.
I'm pretty sure PowerDVD doesn't let you skip FBI warnings by itself - but if you're running something like DVD Region Free then you can skip anything you like in any player (and, unless you were really unlucky in your choice of DVD-Rom drive, play any region DVDs without a region change).
I'm pretty sure PowerDVD didn't let me skip the FBI warnings until I installed Region Free... but I could be wrong, it was a long time ago..
It may interest you to know that the uni I go to (ANU - www.anu.edu.au, I wonder if it will drop offline now;p) USED to have both IE and Netscape 7 installed on all computers, and you could have the choice of using either, provided you were not too braindead to set up the mandatory proxy on NS7 every time you ran it (for some reason having it remember every user's settings, or even having the mandatory proxy in there by default, was too hard).
I didn't notice when the switch happened, but NS7 is no longer installed.
What's more, the admin people don't do much support at ANU, they have "student consultants" (who are also paid, and pretty highly, but based on anecdotal evidence from some of my friends who have these jobs spend most of their shifts playing flash games with the sheer amount of support they have to do), and the serious admins only need to fix things that are really broken (which happens a lot less often than you'd expect)... Anyone can log a helpdesk job, but they don't publicise how to do it, and the result is only clueful people (usually the student consultants) end up doing so.
So really I don't see why they couldn't just leave it on there... *sigh*
If it costs 4CAD for a carton of large eggs here and 24XXX for the same in some fictional country, but the exchange rate is 1XXX for every 2CAD, then they certainly don't have the same purchasing power, do they?
That would never happen, unless the fictional country had no trade with the outside world, in which case the currency could not be freely traded (and hence the concept of an 'exchange rate' is not applicable).
Why is it impossible, you ask? Well let's modify your example slightly and substitute a loaf of bread for a carton of eggs. So, a loaf costs 4CAD in Canada (probably not but hey), and 24XXX in Magical Pornlandia (well with a currency code like that...), and the exchange rate is 2CAD / XXX.
Now imagine a Canadian investor. He buys bread for 4CAD, snap freezes it and sells it in Pornlandia for 24XXX. He then converts the 24XXX to 48CAD!! Then, he buys 12 loafs for 48CAD and sells them for 12 x 24 = 288XXX, converting that to 576CAD, etc. Now, it doesn't matter what actual numbers you put in for the amounts he invests, because in your example the nominal price level in Pornlandia is higher, but their currency is more expensive. You will not find this with any real currency... well if you do, just use the above scheme to make infinite profit!;p
Firstly an "inyection motor" means it has electronic fuel injection, as opposed to a carburetor.
As for air con and any other gadgets... don't expect much, it's a Russian car after all... air con or no, it still won't be a comfy ride;p Its only strength is as a dirt cheap 4 wheel drive for going offroad... if you need to go offroad in a car that is cheap enough you don't really care if you scratch/dent/whatever it, the Niva is for you.
Back when it was released, it was the only non-sedan car in the world with independent 4 wheel suspension (similar cars then were made with the same suspension as trucks... I don't know what it's called tho), and AFAIK was the only car Lada ever exported (originally to Italy, but then some other countries caught on.. there even used to be a Lada dealer here in Canberra, AU). All of that is hardly relevant now tho.
The worm collects addresses where to send itself from Windows' Address Book and from files with extension:...
However, nearly all the copies of the virus I received in my inbox today (10 or so) have been addressed to bogus addresses that don't really exist. Because I own a domain, and there is a catchall set up, I still got them, but I am 100% positive noone has addresses like linda@[my domain] or adam@[my domain] in any files on their hard drive.
So this means either it generates its address list some other way, or someone who was infected had a list of these fake addresses on their computer... a spammer maybe? I guess if you're a mass-mailing virus, then infecting a spammer's computer must be heaven;p Still considering how easy it is to avoid infection, I expected more from the spammer community...
I don't know why, but I find the thought of having to click through a dialog box every time someone writes a username into a link icky... this is being touted here as an absolutely genius fix but I just thought I'd present the other side of the coin - more dialogs aren't necessarily good, and really it's only the ^A character that causes properly misleading URLs. Seems a bit blunt to fix it by doing a popup for every URL with an @. I for one wouldn't want this dialog box in my browser (but I don't use opera anyway).. just reescaping the ^A out the way Moz does seems like the best solution to me.
The PCs seemed to fare better in most of the tests (photoshop, word, quake, premiere, mp3-encoding, mpeg-2 encoding). Mac seemed to be better only with the DVD creation.
What is the difference between "mpeg-2 encoding" and "DVD creation"? I would have thought the only potentially CPU-intensive part of DVD creation worthy of benchmarking was encoding the MPEG2 stream for a movie DVD?
Wow, it's been days and someone is still reading this?;p
You know, you can buy an iPod battery for about $50 and replace it yourself.
You know, most of the other readers seem to disagree with that sentiment, as does the article. I've never tried it tho, so I can't really contest it.
You missed the point. The other "major advantage" is price. Another reply pointed out that it's the 40gb iPod that retails for $499, compared to $250 for a 20gb jukebox. Well a 40gb Jukebox exists and costs $299. That's still $200 cheaper. For that price, the iPod should have advantages over the Jukebox, not vice versa. And major ones at that for a 1.66x price increase.
The only advantages the iPod has are size and (disputably) looks. If you're willing to pay an extra $200 for something that is a little smaller and (in your opinion) looks cooler, then... well.. it's your money. And the size is traded off with battery life - if you buy the optional second battery for around $45 or something like that, you can have rated 20 hours (in fact about 16 hours) battery life which is double that of the iPod. And that deal is still $150 cheaper.
Any surveys that say that any of those areas are "very important", are immediately assumed to be from zealots, and there answers are given less credence if not ignored completely
Actually extreme reponses in surveys (ie. the top and bottom option on the scale) tends to be ignored as a matter of course. Just standard survey methodology. Also outliers are either discarded or given reduced weighting for aggregated statistics... if a survey is well designed (I haven't bothered to RTFS in this case) you shouldn't be able to deliberately skew their stats, just make them not count most of your response.
As for just not responding, it doesn't matter, clearly at least one person has responded so far, and noone is going to ask them later how many respondents they had or what the RSEs for their estimates are.
Just my worthless 2c... btw IAAAAA (I Am Also Almost An Actuary - the kind who know a lot about stats).
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Why don't you just take movies for what they are: entertainment. BE ENTERTAINED.
It goes: "Put on the muzzle, and be happy. BE HAPPY!" (translation mine, and they were talking to a person not a dog)... it's not on the IMDB memorable quotes list tho so you're going to either have to believe me or go out and watch it. Anyway, I'm not disagreeing that one shouldn't expect too much going in to Hollywood movies... just pointing out the resemblance.
Go and buy an iPod competitor, which will either be bigger, have no hard drive, take longer to upload to, have a non solid-state controls, have jaggy edges, have a crap user interface, or some combination thereof.
Yeah, maybe. But it might also have the ability to record audio, either from a mic or an optical input, maybe it'll have the ability to edit play lists on the fly, maybe it'll have built in Ethernet, maybe it'll play OOG and FLAC, etc etc etc. The features of the iPod are not the end-all be all of mp3 players.
So well said!! I recently bought a Nomad Jukebox III, and guess what, it DOES have easily removable batteries that you can buy from any number of places (a tad pricey tho, about USD65, but not $99!), it has the ability to record audio from both a mic and an optical input (no built in mic tho), you can edit playlists on the fly and even search by song title/artist/whatever (actually iPod might have this too I dunno, never used one)... doesn't have Ethernet (and crappy bundled software makes uploading slow even through firewire... take maybe a minute to warm up - no idea what it does - and then about 30 seconds per song, but that's not a big deal if you aren't moving 10gb of new music on every day), no OGG or FLAC. But the most important thing is that for the price of an iPod you can buy two (2) of them... 20gb retails for $250.
Sure it's a bit bigger but... not enough that I would pay 2x more to have the smaller iPod and throw it away when the battery dies. My friend has an iPod (which I've yet to see, tho if I never hear him talk about it again it will be too soon) , and he is convinced that it's a superior product to the Jukebox... well whatever, this story just confirms I made the right choice.
I'm sorry to all the people who got bit by this (I know I'd be shitting bricks if I spent USD500 on something and it died after 18 months), but you should have done your research before buying... non-replaceably battery? As if. (I did consider an iPod and that's the thing that turned me off it the most).
Considering the issues involved with offering a music download service in a country where a horrendously high proportion of the population is still stuck on dialup (or worse), it really wouldn't surprise me if you're right.
but, when i listen to uncompressed - there's just something a little bit more sparkly about the music.
That's because compression drops data from the very high and very low ends of the audio spectrum (typically taken to be 20Hz-20kHz for most home audio equipment). That's why 128kbit mp3s never have good bass and seem to have a static hiss (static is high frequency sound, >~16kHz) in the background. 256k or any bitrate has the same effect but to a lesser degree, which is why you can still hear a difference (albeit maybe too small and difficult to put into words) between a CD and a 256k mp3.
However with 256k mp3s we're already in the sort of area where you can correct a significant portion of the damage with good equaliser settings. Play with the equaliser in your winamp or xmms or whatever, and you'll see what I mean (provided you play with it 'correctly';p). Of course it won't be as good as an uncompressed recording, but a damn sight better than without the compensation. Certainly close enough that you won't hear the difference on any headphones/speakers costing less than $50;p
compression is already obsolete as long as you've got the drive space and the bandwidth.
I dunno, I have a PC with a 120gb drive, but I dunno if my (measely) 10gb of mp3s would fit on it uncompressed. Maybe just barely, and I do use a good portion of the drive for other stuff (no, not pr0n, that goes on CDs for archiving;p). They certainly wouldn't fit on my 20gb Nomad Jukebox - compression still has a very propsperous future life in portable devices.
BTW... cddb (and it's free counterpart) DON'T(!) need ID3vX to identify anything correctly.
I was under the impression that CDDB and FreeDB (its free counterpart, and BTW please learn the spelling of its coz I'm only going to sing this one more time) just used the number and duration of all the tracks on a CD, hoping that few enough CDs in the database would have that particular combination of number of tracks / duration of each track that you could pick your one from a reasonably short list. That's why you often get some bogus completely unrelated hits from CDDB.
But back on topic, it's useless for naming a single song, only if you have a full audio CD of them and one that's in the database at that (so compilation cds are excluded, unless you add yours to freedb, which you could the last time I checked -- which may have been a few years ago).
Actually, something like a TNT2 is not so good for UT which had drivers optimised for 3dfx cards (at least on Windows) - the OpenGL drivers are buggy and crap and I remember having to play on 800x600 on boxen with GeForce 2 Ultras... still, a '2 year old' NVidia card is probably going to be at least that or a GF3 so there shouldn't be any problems... heck with a 1.7Ghz CPU you could probably run it in software in high res;p
... Sexual Assault on a Child (because he DID exactly what the law defines - to intentionally touch a child's groin area)
So does that mean every GP or urologist who's ever examined someone under 18 years of age is a sex offender? What about the doctor this guy went to - did he examine the child and does that make him a sex offender too? Interesting laws you guys have.
That's interesting... A friend of mine was eating some potato chips the other day that said on the bag they contained phenylalanine... what a diverse chemical!!
I wonder - if I eat more of those chips will I gain amazing short-term memory, but have my long-term memory suffer due to the labels on the back of my shirts (inside the collar) and various tropical fungi? Since exams are coming up it wouldn't be a bad tradeoff.
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I haven't seen the Dell, but I have a similar wheel on my Creative Jukebox 3, and I never have problems (took about 2 days to learn to use it efficiently). Admittedly the menus are, based on your description, a lot more cleverly designed on the Jukebox than the Dell. Unless the unit is actually built badly, I don't think this is as big an issue as you make it out to be.
By the way, this might be good because the way you enter names in other sections is to wheel tediously through letters A-Z, then choose the options to shift to letters a-z, then wheel to the actual letter you want.Not being an iPod owner, but having seen an iPod and played with one for a few minutes, I ask this question with pure innocence and no intended hidden meanings: how do you do it on an iPod? I don't remember it having a QWERTY keyboard anywhere on the device. (For reference, the Jukebox has the same system, but the wheel is pretty clever, eg. if you spin it fast it skips through a lot faster than if you move it slowly. It's not the best but then again I don't tend to write any essays on it... it does the job considering how often it's used.)
And finally...worst of all...the Dell DJ does not detect as a standard USB2 device!One reason for proprietary software is also to prevent you from loading up some bizarre non-mp3 file (even in my collection I had some that were really MPEG layer 2, and didn't even know it since they were .mp3 and Winamp just plays everything) and crashing their (probably poorly written) firmware. Then there's the whole DRM aspect. If it shows up as a drive, how will you stop people copying songs off it? Or will it show up as a drive that is write only (no reading in windows == no listing, if you can even set permissions like that, and not being able to see what's already on there would be teh gay). As for releasing a player with no DRM ... well ... it's nice to dream but ;p
OK, I did handwave, my bad ;p
While it may be wrong from a moral standpoint, it's the only way to get what you want (assuming you want music that's licensed by the RIAA ... and actually I'm sure their price fixing antics serve also to drive up (through market forces) the price of indie labels, even though they are cheaper than RIAA cds). Basically the exchange of messages ("conversation", if you will) goes like this:
Now what the RIAA could have done is led the conversation like this:
Now, even if they had released something like iTunes shorly after Napster came to exist, they would have done better because they wouldn't have grossly insulted consumers with their "we're screwing you, we know we're screwing you, and we're going to keep doing it, and there's nothing you can do to stop us" attitude. That sort of treatment is what made consumers close their eyes on their own moral values and turn to 'stealing' the music.
To extend the weak food analogy, if you could only buy loaves of bread for $500 for a pack of 50, and you made the same salary as you do now, and when you made it clear that you don't like this model you got that kind of response, it's not unlikely that instead of paying $500 to get 50 loaves 45-48 of which will go stale before you eat them, you'd take the opportunity to steal loaves for free, one or two at a time (as you needed them), if you could do so with almost no chance of being caught. The analogy falls down when you say "but I would resell the loaves" ... of course tracks on a CD can't be split up and re-sold.
Now, you can start philosophical discussions about whether stealing the food in this instance is the right thing to do etc., but that's a choice every person makes for themselves.
On the one hand, most of its losses are coming from P2P downloads, which are illegal, so your statement is correct. But on the other hand they are making huge losses because they refu
That would be akin to saying
While that analogy is weak in many respects, the point it makes is that if you had simply refused to buy music, they would just wait for you to crack. For example, I never bought music before Napster and ilk, simply because I was a poor schoolboy and couldn't afford it at the exhorbitant prices, but no distribution model ever changed for me.
In order to get what you want from people like the RIAA you have to have a very strong leverage point, much stronger than "I'll stop buying cds and go without music except on the radio and at live gigs". This isn't the same as lobbying the government, because the government is, at least in theory, there to represent your interests. If you refused to eat, the government would be worried at least to some degree because if their citizens are deliberately starving themselves, they are responsible. The RIAA is there to represent their own interests. If you refused to eat, they would not bat an eyelid as they watched you starve in the gutter. (If anything, they would sue you for unsolicited use of their gutter... joke, joke ;p)
Even once Napster appeared the first reaction of the RIAA wasn't exactly "oh my god, let's change our distribution model to what the customers want". It's taken several years to get that far, and even that step was taken (forced, if you will, on the RIAA) by Apple which is undeniably a good deal more innovative than most. You can't argue for a moment that the record labels didn't have the resources to launch something like iTunes back in 2000, if they had wanted to.
I'm pretty sure PowerDVD doesn't let you skip FBI warnings by itself - but if you're running something like DVD Region Free then you can skip anything you like in any player (and, unless you were really unlucky in your choice of DVD-Rom drive, play any region DVDs without a region change).
I'm pretty sure PowerDVD didn't let me skip the FBI warnings until I installed Region Free ... but I could be wrong, it was a long time ago..
It may interest you to know that the uni I go to (ANU - www.anu.edu.au, I wonder if it will drop offline now ;p) USED to have both IE and Netscape 7 installed on all computers, and you could have the choice of using either, provided you were not too braindead to set up the mandatory proxy on NS7 every time you ran it (for some reason having it remember every user's settings, or even having the mandatory proxy in there by default, was too hard).
I didn't notice when the switch happened, but NS7 is no longer installed.
What's more, the admin people don't do much support at ANU, they have "student consultants" (who are also paid, and pretty highly, but based on anecdotal evidence from some of my friends who have these jobs spend most of their shifts playing flash games with the sheer amount of support they have to do), and the serious admins only need to fix things that are really broken (which happens a lot less often than you'd expect) ... Anyone can log a helpdesk job, but they don't publicise how to do it, and the result is only clueful people (usually the student consultants) end up doing so.
So really I don't see why they couldn't just leave it on there ... *sigh*
Isn't it "Give a man fire and he is warm for a night; set fire to him and he is warm for the rest of his life"?
It may be the default for Mozilla Firebird on Linux, but I'm using Mozilla on Win XP, so I need the name ;p
Say, what's the name of the Mozilla skin you're using in that screenshot?
That would never happen, unless the fictional country had no trade with the outside world, in which case the currency could not be freely traded (and hence the concept of an 'exchange rate' is not applicable).
Why is it impossible, you ask? Well let's modify your example slightly and substitute a loaf of bread for a carton of eggs. So, a loaf costs 4CAD in Canada (probably not but hey), and 24XXX in Magical Pornlandia (well with a currency code like that...), and the exchange rate is 2CAD / XXX.
Now imagine a Canadian investor. He buys bread for 4CAD, snap freezes it and sells it in Pornlandia for 24XXX. He then converts the 24XXX to 48CAD!! Then, he buys 12 loafs for 48CAD and sells them for 12 x 24 = 288XXX, converting that to 576CAD, etc. Now, it doesn't matter what actual numbers you put in for the amounts he invests, because in your example the nominal price level in Pornlandia is higher, but their currency is more expensive. You will not find this with any real currency ... well if you do, just use the above scheme to make infinite profit! ;p
Firstly an "inyection motor" means it has electronic fuel injection, as opposed to a carburetor.
As for air con and any other gadgets ... don't expect much, it's a Russian car after all ... air con or no, it still won't be a comfy ride ;p Its only strength is as a dirt cheap 4 wheel drive for going offroad... if you need to go offroad in a car that is cheap enough you don't really care if you scratch/dent/whatever it, the Niva is for you.
Back when it was released, it was the only non-sedan car in the world with independent 4 wheel suspension (similar cars then were made with the same suspension as trucks ... I don't know what it's called tho), and AFAIK was the only car Lada ever exported (originally to Italy, but then some other countries caught on .. there even used to be a Lada dealer here in Canberra, AU). All of that is hardly relevant now tho.
According to F-Secure,
However, nearly all the copies of the virus I received in my inbox today (10 or so) have been addressed to bogus addresses that don't really exist. Because I own a domain, and there is a catchall set up, I still got them, but I am 100% positive noone has addresses like linda@[my domain] or adam@[my domain] in any files on their hard drive.
So this means either it generates its address list some other way, or someone who was infected had a list of these fake addresses on their computer ... a spammer maybe? I guess if you're a mass-mailing virus, then infecting a spammer's computer must be heaven ;p Still considering how easy it is to avoid infection, I expected more from the spammer community...
Is it possible to disable that popup?
I don't know why, but I find the thought of having to click through a dialog box every time someone writes a username into a link icky ... this is being touted here as an absolutely genius fix but I just thought I'd present the other side of the coin - more dialogs aren't necessarily good, and really it's only the ^A character that causes properly misleading URLs. Seems a bit blunt to fix it by doing a popup for every URL with an @. I for one wouldn't want this dialog box in my browser (but I don't use opera anyway) .. just reescaping the ^A out the way Moz does seems like the best solution to me.
What is the difference between "mpeg-2 encoding" and "DVD creation"? I would have thought the only potentially CPU-intensive part of DVD creation worthy of benchmarking was encoding the MPEG2 stream for a movie DVD?
Well, who's seen Ghost in the Shell? Now they are one step closer...
Wow, it's been days and someone is still reading this? ;p
You know, you can buy an iPod battery for about $50 and replace it yourself.You know, most of the other readers seem to disagree with that sentiment, as does the article. I've never tried it tho, so I can't really contest it.
You missed the point. The other "major advantage" is price. Another reply pointed out that it's the 40gb iPod that retails for $499, compared to $250 for a 20gb jukebox. Well a 40gb Jukebox exists and costs $299. That's still $200 cheaper. For that price, the iPod should have advantages over the Jukebox, not vice versa. And major ones at that for a 1.66x price increase.
The only advantages the iPod has are size and (disputably) looks. If you're willing to pay an extra $200 for something that is a little smaller and (in your opinion) looks cooler, then ... well.. it's your money. And the size is traded off with battery life - if you buy the optional second battery for around $45 or something like that, you can have rated 20 hours (in fact about 16 hours) battery life which is double that of the iPod. And that deal is still $150 cheaper.
Actually extreme reponses in surveys (ie. the top and bottom option on the scale) tends to be ignored as a matter of course. Just standard survey methodology. Also outliers are either discarded or given reduced weighting for aggregated statistics ... if a survey is well designed (I haven't bothered to RTFS in this case) you shouldn't be able to deliberately skew their stats, just make them not count most of your response.
As for just not responding, it doesn't matter, clearly at least one person has responded so far, and noone is going to ask them later how many respondents they had or what the RSEs for their estimates are.
Just my worthless 2c ... btw IAAAAA (I Am Also Almost An Actuary - the kind who know a lot about stats).
That line reminds me of a quote from an old russian movie.
It goes: "Put on the muzzle, and be happy. BE HAPPY!" (translation mine, and they were talking to a person not a dog) ... it's not on the IMDB memorable quotes list tho so you're going to either have to believe me or go out and watch it. Anyway, I'm not disagreeing that one shouldn't expect too much going in to Hollywood movies ... just pointing out the resemblance.
So well said!! I recently bought a Nomad Jukebox III, and guess what, it DOES have easily removable batteries that you can buy from any number of places (a tad pricey tho, about USD65, but not $99!), it has the ability to record audio from both a mic and an optical input (no built in mic tho), you can edit playlists on the fly and even search by song title/artist/whatever (actually iPod might have this too I dunno, never used one)... doesn't have Ethernet (and crappy bundled software makes uploading slow even through firewire ... take maybe a minute to warm up - no idea what it does - and then about 30 seconds per song, but that's not a big deal if you aren't moving 10gb of new music on every day), no OGG or FLAC. But the most important thing is that for the price of an iPod you can buy two (2) of them ... 20gb retails for $250.
Sure it's a bit bigger but ... not enough that I would pay 2x more to have the smaller iPod and throw it away when the battery dies. My friend has an iPod (which I've yet to see, tho if I never hear him talk about it again it will be too soon) , and he is convinced that it's a superior product to the Jukebox... well whatever, this story just confirms I made the right choice.
I'm sorry to all the people who got bit by this (I know I'd be shitting bricks if I spent USD500 on something and it died after 18 months), but you should have done your research before buying ... non-replaceably battery? As if. (I did consider an iPod and that's the thing that turned me off it the most).
No. Remember this is Australia. All they would get is a 3 gig cap.
Considering the issues involved with offering a music download service in a country where a horrendously high proportion of the population is still stuck on dialup (or worse), it really wouldn't surprise me if you're right.
That's because compression drops data from the very high and very low ends of the audio spectrum (typically taken to be 20Hz-20kHz for most home audio equipment). That's why 128kbit mp3s never have good bass and seem to have a static hiss (static is high frequency sound, >~16kHz) in the background. 256k or any bitrate has the same effect but to a lesser degree, which is why you can still hear a difference (albeit maybe too small and difficult to put into words) between a CD and a 256k mp3.
However with 256k mp3s we're already in the sort of area where you can correct a significant portion of the damage with good equaliser settings. Play with the equaliser in your winamp or xmms or whatever, and you'll see what I mean (provided you play with it 'correctly' ;p). Of course it won't be as good as an uncompressed recording, but a damn sight better than without the compensation. Certainly close enough that you won't hear the difference on any headphones/speakers costing less than $50 ;p
compression is already obsolete as long as you've got the drive space and the bandwidth.I dunno, I have a PC with a 120gb drive, but I dunno if my (measely) 10gb of mp3s would fit on it uncompressed. Maybe just barely, and I do use a good portion of the drive for other stuff (no, not pr0n, that goes on CDs for archiving ;p). They certainly wouldn't fit on my 20gb Nomad Jukebox - compression still has a very propsperous future life in portable devices.
I was under the impression that CDDB and FreeDB (its free counterpart, and BTW please learn the spelling of its coz I'm only going to sing this one more time) just used the number and duration of all the tracks on a CD, hoping that few enough CDs in the database would have that particular combination of number of tracks / duration of each track that you could pick your one from a reasonably short list. That's why you often get some bogus completely unrelated hits from CDDB.
But back on topic, it's useless for naming a single song, only if you have a full audio CD of them and one that's in the database at that (so compilation cds are excluded, unless you add yours to freedb, which you could the last time I checked -- which may have been a few years ago).
Actually, something like a TNT2 is not so good for UT which had drivers optimised for 3dfx cards (at least on Windows) - the OpenGL drivers are buggy and crap and I remember having to play on 800x600 on boxen with GeForce 2 Ultras ... still, a '2 year old' NVidia card is probably going to be at least that or a GF3 so there shouldn't be any problems ... heck with a 1.7Ghz CPU you could probably run it in software in high res ;p
... Sexual Assault on a Child (because he DID exactly what the law defines - to intentionally touch a child's groin area)
So does that mean every GP or urologist who's ever examined someone under 18 years of age is a sex offender? What about the doctor this guy went to - did he examine the child and does that make him a sex offender too? Interesting laws you guys have.That's interesting ... A friend of mine was eating some potato chips the other day that said on the bag they contained phenylalanine ... what a diverse chemical!!
I wonder - if I eat more of those chips will I gain amazing short-term memory, but have my long-term memory suffer due to the labels on the back of my shirts (inside the collar) and various tropical fungi? Since exams are coming up it wouldn't be a bad tradeoff.