This is my number 1 priority for an MP3 player actually. No one could ever work out why the hell I used carry around a god-aweful looking Rio Karma, while they used their trendy ipods.
But then again, few of them could understand why I lugged around full sized open headphones instead of cute white earphones
Any manufacturer who puts flac support in their MP3 player will automatically catch the attention of a niche market. I dont understand why few do. It just requires free software, doesn't it? Or is it something far more complex than I thought?
carry on then. I assume your car is completly open as is your mothers basement? and the streets you walk on? Otherwise how do you know there isn't a bomb in there someplace?
Huh? I dont know what kind of car you drive, but yes.. I am able to pop the hood and see exactly how my car works. And, if I see something that looks buggy (or could be done better), I can replace/change it myself. If I was going to buy a car and the engine bay was filled with epoxy to stop me poking around, then I wouldn't buy it.
Kids/people are careless because they expect to be able to hear cars. Once cars start becoming silent people wont expect to hear them anymore so they wont be so careless
I know when i'm wearing headphones I cant hear cars so i'm always sure to look both ways before coming near to a road
The new slahsdot also causes my opera 9 to crash when I open comments pages.
I'm not sure who's fault it is (slashdot or opera's), since Opera 9 is still in beta... but I've yet to have opera crash more than once on the same page which leads me to wonder if there may be something wrong with slashdot
I hate to see The Beatles lose, but let's face facts: If you could possibly confuse the two, you're likely too dumb to appreciate The Beatles' music and too stupid to figure out how to turn on a computer.
The case isn't a copyright infringement case- it's not about confusing the two. It's a contract infringement case. Apple Corps claims that Apple Computers broke a contract between them which states that Apple Computer cannot be in the music business, or some such. It's irrelivent to the contract whether someone can confuse the two.
When you want to scroll down faster to get to the bottom of your list, how do you do that? Can you hold the button down harder?
The beauty of the scroll wheel is I can go faster or slower or many subtle degrees in between depending on how fast I move my thumb around.
Um yes, with my old rio karma (which I lost), the scroll wheel acted in much the same way. I could just as easily move up or own 1, 2, 5, 10, or 2000 songs in one go.
Oh, and it also plays flac and ogg, not to mention having the best sound of any mp3 player and (I think) the best battery life of any hdd player
An application that does the opposite would probably be better: transparently offloading illegal.avi,.mpg and.mp3 from the iPod to a specific computer. An anonymous phone call to the local authorities to take a look at the computer would finish the job. Wouldn't be the first time that some high-ranking company official got caught with kiddie porn on their computer.
And you've got kiddie porn on your ipod, why exactly?
The intended use of watermarking, at least as I see it, is less for mass-released files than for prerelease or limited-release uses.
E.g., radio stations
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There are also systems that have a robust enough watermark that they will survive printing and scanning, although they tend to begin to mess up the image slightly.
This last bit made me wonder... if it is designed to stop copyright at the radio station level then will it really work? The file will be (probably poorly) ripped to MP3 before it hits the P2P networks and chances are that this will ruin the watermark.
It could maybe work if they could embed it individually into, for example, itunes music, where the file is already compressed so will likely be shared in it's preseted form.
This will do wonders for the ability to play games on cheap laptops.
Maybe I'm a cynic, but they way I see it is that onboard cards will only be sufficient to run the OS smoothly. Althought vista will require more powerful cards, games will also require much more powerful cards. I suspect that shortly after vista ships, all new games will require far more processing power than vista.
Of course you can always run older (read: current) games on your new vista-ready laptop... but then again you can do that now. any laptop capable of running XP with full graphics is probably also capable of playing older games.
Perhaps, they might be using Google to check their spelling of "misreable failure". Or quite possibly using Google to find out that it is generally poor grammar to follow a question mark with a period at the end of a sentence. Or the poor wording of using "exact right response" rather than the somewhat better "exactly right response" or simply "exact response" or "right response". Or perhaps studying up on the grammatical differences between its and it's. Or, possibly, checking the spelling of combonation.
When people search for the term "miserable failure" they expect to see george bush. For what other reason would anyone be searching up "misreable failure"?. Google is providing the exact right response for what it's customers are looking for when they search that combonation of terms.
As someone that fits comfortably between being a geek and being a normal social person, I'm affraid to inform you that you're delusional. "Average" people aren't worried in the least by geeks. To the average person a geek is just someone who's too boring to keep other people entertained with their presence (ie socialising) so instead they obsess over personal hobbies.
Socialising is a lot more than lying and bullshitting. Geeks couldn't just learn to be social if they felt like it, or they'd be doing it. I come in to contact with a lot of geeks who wish they could make friends or hang out with cooler people or go to a bar once in a while.
Why would MSN, Yahoo, and AOL be so eager to cooperate? I can't believe that these corporations care one way or the other about people viewing porn. So what is it? Are they hoping that by cooperating they get some special favors later, or do they fear recrimination by the Bush administration if they refuse?
I suspect they dont care about their users privacy at all either, so they may as well save the hassle of dealing with the government and just give into their requests immediately. If they refuse then they'll have to fight for their users' privacy.. and fighting takes time and money, when they just dont care.
Imagine if MS had bought an industry leading application (urchin), rolled it in to the next Windows Update, and given it away for free. What would the reaction have been?
Well I for one see a difference between forcing an application on a user (via windows upate) and allowing users to register to products at their free will.
My google plugin for firefox says it has a PR of 7 which is pretty impressive. I had a nice text link on a PR 8 site a few years ago and it was extremely worthwhile.
Yup I'm also seeing a pagerank of 7 (and for some reason i looked at the page on wikipedia which also says he has a PR of 7)
However, I remember reading somewhere that in order to get a high page rank you need to be:
Linked to by many sites (obvious)
Linked to on sites with high page rank (obvious)
Linked to on sites that dont like to many other pages (impotant)
Basically I read that you share the pagerank kudos when sites link to you. So even though his site has a PR of 7, that pagerank is split up between the sites that he links to on the site. Even though his pagerank is high, it'd be being shared between hundreds of websites.
So you'd probably be better getting linked to from a website with a PR of 4 who only links to 1 or 2 other sites (ie it's better to split a PR of 4 between 2 people than splitting a PR of 7 between 200 people)
Its a Nissan, it is expected to be pushed from behind:).
Looking at a reliability test.. "Number of failures per 100 policies", Nissan is 8th best, with 23.44 per 100. While this may sound high, it's better than mercedes with 24.30, volvo with 31.09, ford with 32.16 and bmw with 33.16 (well it also beats a LOT of other cars but those are just a select few that I chose for their prestige ie bmw and merc, their reputation ie volvo, and how damn common they are ie ford)
While you were probably joking,./ is a sciency site after all so we should have some reality and facts hidden deep somewhere
As far as I can see, earbuds aren't really a cause of the problem.. just people.
Why would any different style of speaker be any more or less likely to cause hearing damage vs another? Surely the only thing that really matters is the volume at which the sound hits your eardrum.
Earbuds may be closer to the eardrum, but the sound that comes out of them is far less loud than that of a speaker (for comparison, plug your earbuds in and listen to them from the same distance that you'd listen to speakers from. clearly they're FAR more quiet). Therefore they make up for the closer distance to your eardrum by being less noisy. As a result, you should be just as likely to get hearing damage from speakers as from earbuds, assuming you listen to both at the same perceived volume.
All that the article seems to indicate is "In a study published last year in the journal Ear and Hearing, researchers at Harvard Medical School looked at a variety of headphones and found that, on average, the smaller they were, the higher their output levels at any given volume-control setting.". So basically smaller earphones are more sensitive. Duh? Basically all they're saying is that you dont have to turn the volume knob up as high for small buds vs big headphones.
At any given volume, earbuds aren't any more likely to cause hearing damage than headphones or speakers.. it's just that it seems people are too dumb to realise that they have to turn the volume knob down when they change to different brands/styles of headphones.
The research doesn't show that earbuds cause hearing damage, it shows that excessive listening to music at excessive volumes causes hearing damage. It just so happens that portable music players gives the option for many people to listen to music for large amounts of time, and that most portable music players come with earbud style headphones. This is not causation.
In the end, the best way to prevent hearing damage is probably "in-ear phones" or "canalphones". See etymotic, shure, sony, sharp. They are just earphones that go deep inside the earcanal and use a material (usually silicone or foam) to make a seal with the earcanal to prevent any external noise from "leaking" in. Thus, you dont have to turn up the volume to allow you to hear your music over cars, computer fans, tvs, etc... Thus, your music is at a lower volume and your hearing is happier
For proof, btw, I personally got hearing damage when i moved away from canalphones and instead bought some full-sized headphones. They were both very bright in sound (lots of shharp trebble) and open (lots of sound leaking in, meaning i turned it up more). That combo did more damage than earphones ever have
They're not hackers, they are crackers. Or intruders. Or black hats. Or fucking idiots. But not hackers. Linus Torvalds is a hacker. Alan Cox is one, and RMS definitely. Maybe even ESR.
Crackers are hackers*. You cant crack someone's system without being very skilled in toying with technology (ie a hacker).
However, hackers aren't nessearily (or usually) crackers.
*This excludes script kiddies et al, since they dont crack someone's system really. they just run someone elses' crack
Two australian uni students on a forum I visit decided that they'd try and contract scurvy by limiting their food intake to a only a few items (inspired by this snopes article about some student who got "Aberdeen's first recorded case of scurvy in 120 years" accidentally)
They had a blog but they stopped updating it after a while so I can only assume they died.
(Actually I think they ended up going to a doctor, heard some bad news and gave up on their scurvy quest)
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This is my number 1 priority for an MP3 player actually. No one could ever work out why the hell I used carry around a god-aweful looking Rio Karma, while they used their trendy ipods.
But then again, few of them could understand why I lugged around full sized open headphones instead of cute white earphones
Any manufacturer who puts flac support in their MP3 player will automatically catch the attention of a niche market. I dont understand why few do. It just requires free software, doesn't it? Or is it something far more complex than I thought?
If caps-lock keys are outlawed, only outlaws will have caps-locks keys!
It's quite easy to find links to download mp3s of songs on Google. It's just that most of the higher ranked pages are lyric and information sites
carry on then. I assume your car is completly open as is your mothers basement? and the streets you walk on? Otherwise how do you know there isn't a bomb in there someplace?
Huh? I dont know what kind of car you drive, but yes.. I am able to pop the hood and see exactly how my car works. And, if I see something that looks buggy (or could be done better), I can replace/change it myself. If I was going to buy a car and the engine bay was filled with epoxy to stop me poking around, then I wouldn't buy it.Google's code has never been valid, but it has always been accessable
Kids/people are careless because they expect to be able to hear cars. Once cars start becoming silent people wont expect to hear them anymore so they wont be so careless
I know when i'm wearing headphones I cant hear cars so i'm always sure to look both ways before coming near to a road
The new slahsdot also causes my opera 9 to crash when I open comments pages.
I'm not sure who's fault it is (slashdot or opera's), since Opera 9 is still in beta... but I've yet to have opera crash more than once on the same page which leads me to wonder if there may be something wrong with slashdot
Right, but not every single administration does. Thus, his statement was appropriate
The case isn't a copyright infringement case- it's not about confusing the two. It's a contract infringement case. Apple Corps claims that Apple Computers broke a contract between them which states that Apple Computer cannot be in the music business, or some such. It's irrelivent to the contract whether someone can confuse the two.
The beauty of the scroll wheel is I can go faster or slower or many subtle degrees in between depending on how fast I move my thumb around.
Um yes, with my old rio karma (which I lost), the scroll wheel acted in much the same way. I could just as easily move up or own 1, 2, 5, 10, or 2000 songs in one go.
Oh, and it also plays flac and ogg, not to mention having the best sound of any mp3 player and (I think) the best battery life of any hdd player
And it was cheap
And you've got kiddie porn on your ipod, why exactly?
E.g., radio stations
--
There are also systems that have a robust enough watermark that they will survive printing and scanning, although they tend to begin to mess up the image slightly.
This last bit made me wonder... if it is designed to stop copyright at the radio station level then will it really work? The file will be (probably poorly) ripped to MP3 before it hits the P2P networks and chances are that this will ruin the watermark.
It could maybe work if they could embed it individually into, for example, itunes music, where the file is already compressed so will likely be shared in it's preseted form.
Maybe I'm a cynic, but they way I see it is that onboard cards will only be sufficient to run the OS smoothly. Althought vista will require more powerful cards, games will also require much more powerful cards. I suspect that shortly after vista ships, all new games will require far more processing power than vista.
Of course you can always run older (read: current) games on your new vista-ready laptop... but then again you can do that now. any laptop capable of running XP with full graphics is probably also capable of playing older games.
Or perhaps get a life instead of checking my spelling and grammer on slashdot.
When people search for the term "miserable failure" they expect to see george bush. For what other reason would anyone be searching up "misreable failure"?. Google is providing the exact right response for what it's customers are looking for when they search that combonation of terms.
Socialising is a lot more than lying and bullshitting. Geeks couldn't just learn to be social if they felt like it, or they'd be doing it. I come in to contact with a lot of geeks who wish they could make friends or hang out with cooler people or go to a bar once in a while.
I'd rather be as rich as a bank (with a risk of someone trying to rob me), than poor and homeless just so that I know I'll never be robbed. . .
I suspect they dont care about their users privacy at all either, so they may as well save the hassle of dealing with the government and just give into their requests immediately. If they refuse then they'll have to fight for their users' privacy.. and fighting takes time and money, when they just dont care.
Well I for one see a difference between forcing an application on a user (via windows upate) and allowing users to register to products at their free will.
Yup I'm also seeing a pagerank of 7 (and for some reason i looked at the page on wikipedia which also says he has a PR of 7)
However, I remember reading somewhere that in order to get a high page rank you need to be:
Basically I read that you share the pagerank kudos when sites link to you. So even though his site has a PR of 7, that pagerank is split up between the sites that he links to on the site. Even though his pagerank is high, it'd be being shared between hundreds of websites.
So you'd probably be better getting linked to from a website with a PR of 4 who only links to 1 or 2 other sites (ie it's better to split a PR of 4 between 2 people than splitting a PR of 7 between 200 people)
Consider how many parts are on a car. In 23 out of every 100 nissans, one of those parts will fail.
That said, the best results on the survey in question were mazda (17.88), toyota (18.62), honda (19.41)
Looking at a reliability test.. "Number of failures per 100 policies", Nissan is 8th best, with 23.44 per 100. While this may sound high, it's better than mercedes with 24.30, volvo with 31.09, ford with 32.16 and bmw with 33.16 (well it also beats a LOT of other cars but those are just a select few that I chose for their prestige ie bmw and merc, their reputation ie volvo, and how damn common they are ie ford)
While you were probably joking, ./ is a sciency site after all so we should have some reality and facts hidden deep somewhere
Why would any different style of speaker be any more or less likely to cause hearing damage vs another? Surely the only thing that really matters is the volume at which the sound hits your eardrum.
Earbuds may be closer to the eardrum, but the sound that comes out of them is far less loud than that of a speaker (for comparison, plug your earbuds in and listen to them from the same distance that you'd listen to speakers from. clearly they're FAR more quiet). Therefore they make up for the closer distance to your eardrum by being less noisy. As a result, you should be just as likely to get hearing damage from speakers as from earbuds, assuming you listen to both at the same perceived volume.
All that the article seems to indicate is "In a study published last year in the journal Ear and Hearing, researchers at Harvard Medical School looked at a variety of headphones and found that, on average, the smaller they were, the higher their output levels at any given volume-control setting.". So basically smaller earphones are more sensitive. Duh? Basically all they're saying is that you dont have to turn the volume knob up as high for small buds vs big headphones.
At any given volume, earbuds aren't any more likely to cause hearing damage than headphones or speakers.. it's just that it seems people are too dumb to realise that they have to turn the volume knob down when they change to different brands/styles of headphones.
The research doesn't show that earbuds cause hearing damage, it shows that excessive listening to music at excessive volumes causes hearing damage. It just so happens that portable music players gives the option for many people to listen to music for large amounts of time, and that most portable music players come with earbud style headphones. This is not causation.
In the end, the best way to prevent hearing damage is probably "in-ear phones" or "canalphones". See etymotic, shure, sony, sharp. They are just earphones that go deep inside the earcanal and use a material (usually silicone or foam) to make a seal with the earcanal to prevent any external noise from "leaking" in. Thus, you dont have to turn up the volume to allow you to hear your music over cars, computer fans, tvs, etc... Thus, your music is at a lower volume and your hearing is happier
For proof, btw, I personally got hearing damage when i moved away from canalphones and instead bought some full-sized headphones. They were both very bright in sound (lots of shharp trebble) and open (lots of sound leaking in, meaning i turned it up more). That combo did more damage than earphones ever have
Crackers are hackers*. You cant crack someone's system without being very skilled in toying with technology (ie a hacker).
However, hackers aren't nessearily (or usually) crackers.
*This excludes script kiddies et al, since they dont crack someone's system really. they just run someone elses' crack
They had a blog but they stopped updating it after a while so I can only assume they died.
(Actually I think they ended up going to a doctor, heard some bad news and gave up on their scurvy quest)