Depends on your preference. I have CDs full of rip sessions that I like to listen to for hours on end, non-stop. A continuous mix is the only way to go for me, unless it's material that I play on mixing myself sometime.
I can't stand those few seconds of silence between songs when a CD isn't mixed, it throws off my groove!!
Both also tend toward the mainstream music, while I'm into off-the-beaten-path trance/dance music that is nearly impossible to find anywhere in the US.
And if I'm going to pay for music, I don't want a lousy lossy copy! Compact discs or FLACs for me, thank you very much.
You can use ASFRecorder, or, what I've been doing lately, use MPlayer with the -dumpstream option to save absolutely anything. I've recorded Windows Media video (with audio), RealMedia streams, MP3, and more. Works like a charm.
can continuously re-optimize code based on the state of the system at that exact point in time. This is the critical point.
For instance, let's say you have an interface I, and a class X that implements I. If X is the _only_ implementation of I loaded at the moment, then all calls to methods on I can be direct, non-virtual calls because there's only one choice! In fact, HotSpot will even inline the method calls if it decides it will be beneficial.
But then a class B is loaded. HotSpot will de-optimize the inlined and direct calls to methods on I.
There are many more examples, such as loop bounds-checking elimination, and other things HotSpot can do because it sees the state of the running system.
If you've used a slow Java program, it's no doubt the result of a poor design and coding job by the programmer. "I'll just pick up Java for Dummies in 24 Minutes. Now I'm a 1337 j4v4 h4x0r!!" You may also have been using an old, slow JVM. The performance increases between Java 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 are truly awesome. Also, Sun's Java 1.5 starts up on my machine in less than half the time that 1.4.2 did, and the graphics as OpenGL accelerated now,... the list goes on and on. For anyone who had used a Java IDE, especially NetBeans/Forte (which I like, except that it's so freakin' slow I fall asleep between operations), you must try IntelliJ IDEA. It is so responsive and just a joy to use. On the systems I've run it on, it is significantly more responsive than Eclipse.
Has anyone ever given thought to setting up a BitTorrent tracker for/.? Then whenever a story referencing large downloads is posted, (say, anything >10MB, perhaps) either Slashdot editors can actually seed the torrent, or just some/.er out there with something fatter than my POS 21.6Kbps modem connection.
This brings up an interesting question in my mind: what happens when science makes a few more advances and we have blind people receiving artificial eyes? There will surely be some computation happening between the sensors and the person's optical nerves or brain. Maybe that computer can be programmed to do some physics calculations, and display the results to that person directly.
It won't be too far off that we have this kind of augmentation of the human body, I think. Will it be illegal for people with "seeing aids" to gamble in a casino?
GoboLinux is a Linux distribution that breaks with the historical Unix directory hierarchy. Basically, this means that there are no directories such as/usr and/etc. The main idea of the alternative hierarchy is to store all files belonging to an application in its own separate subtree; therefore we have directories such as/Programs/GCC/2.95.3/lib.
To allow the system to find these files, they are logically grouped in directories such as/System/Links/Executables, which, you guessed it, contains symbolic links to all executable files inside the Programs hierarchy.
To maintain backwards compatibility with traditional Unix/Linux apps, there are symbolic links that mimic the Unix tree, such as "/usr/bin ->/System/Links/Executables", and "/sbin ->/System/Links/Executables" (this example shows that arbitrary differentiations between files of the same category were also removed).
A couple years ago, I was working in Santa Rosa for a company, developing cell-phone test equipment. There was a nice little Mexican restaurant where the my coworkers liked to eat lunch, across the street from a school.
The first day I there with them, one of the hardware engineers pulled this thing that looks like a cell phone out of his pocket. He looked at me at said, "Watch this," and pointed toward a guy crossing the street, talking on a cell phone.
My coworker then pressed a button on his "cell phone" and a second or two later, the man on the street took the phone away from his ear and looked at the display as if to see if the call had been dropped. He put it back to his ear, appeared to say something, and then repeated this sequence a couple of times before giving up.
The device was a jammer that my coworker had built into a cell phone case to make it inconspicuous.
It was pretty funny to see hordes of people rushing around, all looking at their phones trying to figure out what's going on.
I could only imagine what they were saying: "Hello? Can you hear me now?"
The iRiver SlimX iMP-550 is a fantastic player. I just got one a few months ago because my little 256MB flash-based player just didn't hold enough music for a long day of studying, working out a the gym, etc.
The SlimX has a great interface, it really is extremely slim (surprise), and has upgradable firmware which means that it will support Ogg Vorbis Real Soon Now(tm).
It also looks sexy in its slim, cold metal body. (No plastic here!!)
PhotoMesa is a program that uses algorithms to automagically lay your images out in categories and, using a zoomable user interface you can zoom in on the collection at various levels. Just rename your images to describe each image, and images with similar key words are laid out near each other.
I used PhotoMesa before they wanted money for it, but you can still download a free trial. It's written in Java "but" it is well-written and feels very fast.
Does anyone have their prism2 card working under the 2.6 kernel? I haven't yet been able to get linux-wlan-ng to compile with the 2.6 kernel.
Is it too much to wish that in 2.6 more WLAN drivers can just be in the kernel, instead of having to screw around with a whole separate build? (Maybe there's a technical reason, though. Regardless, it's still a pain.)
these are geeks we're talking about, not perverts:
With a little detective work, MWD will eventually discover that the signal is a directional transmission from the camera to a local TV station that features the feed on its website and in its nightly newscast. His satisfaction at the discovery hints at the real nature of warspying: at least for WMD, the appeal isn't voyeuristic at all -- it's pure geek.
Two reasons this sounds like rubbish: The catchups are generated on a per session basis for the person trying to sign up for the email address . Surely if they then try and get a third party to do the decoding the session will be expired.
Not neccesarily. From the writeup:
by displaying the 'captchas' on free porn sites in
real time.
If you have thousands of visitors every hour, then you only have to wait a few seconds on average to have your image shown to a user and a few more seconds for the user to respond.
Besides the fact that x86-64 (Opteron and friends) provides twice as many general purpose registers, and twice as many 128-bit XMM registers, 64-bit mode also enables RIP-relative Data Addressing.
From the AMD x86-64 Programmer's Manual Vol 1 page 8:
64-bit mode supports data addressing relative to the 64-bit instruction pointer (RIP). The legacy x86 architecture supports IP-relative addressing only in control-transfer instructions. RIP-relative addressing improves the efficiency of position-independent code and code that addresses global data.
Another small advantage in 64-bit mode is the ability to use the low byte of any of the sixteen GPRs for byte operations. This results in a uniform set of byte, word, doubleword, and quadword registers that is better suited to compiler register-allocation.
I'm sure M$ has someone who reviews all new domain registrations.
My boss registered JavaArchitects.com a few years ago, and shortly afterwards he received a letter from Sun Microsystems warning him that while he is permitted to use "Java" in his domain name, he had better not be thinking of naming his company "Java Architects".
Kind of insane, in a way. People resort to stupid names like JBuilder or BlueJ or IntelliJ for their software because they aren't allowed to use the actual name of the language in their product name.
No, they won't simply replace your battery. From Apple's support page:
iPod equipment that is sent in for battery service or service requiring other repairs will be replaced with functionally equivalent new, used, or refurbished iPod equipment. You will not receive the same iPod that was sent in for service.
Good luck finding a new, used, or refurbished Beagle II.
(I certainly would not want an iPod banged up by another user. It's very unlikely that a non-new iPod would be in the same condition as my baby would. If I had an iPod.)
Put down the mouse and back away from the Post Anonymously box!
And, I would guess, many OS X users were seduced by the oh-so-beautiful user OS X user interface. I don't use OS X, but I wish I did, at least, if it was open source. (I need to be able to hack my OS.)
OS X uses translucency, antialiasing, smooth shadows around windows, window warping, and 'fancy' things like the launcher bar thing (sorry, Mac users, I don't know the name of it!) at the bottom of the screen. Have you ever actually used OS X? Try it. Go to CompUSA or something and play around with a G5.
Apple's interface makes you forget you're looking at simply a matrix of pixels, which is displaying rectangular regions called 'windows'. The smoothness of everything *far* surpasses anything I have seen in X. I've used KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, IceWM, and others. I've tried hundreds of themes. I've made my own themes. But I still have no good visual cue where the bounds of the focused window are. The drop shadow is, IMO, a great feature. Your peripheral vision picks up the area of the focused window automatically.
I could go on and on, but the point is, some people *do* care about having a beautiful desktop. It is also a usability feature and can make a person more productive.
I spend 70% of my life looking at it, and I want it to be beautiful, dammit.
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I can't stand those few seconds of silence between songs when a CD isn't mixed, it throws off my groove!!
And if I'm going to pay for music, I don't want a lousy lossy copy! Compact discs or FLACs for me, thank you very much.
You can use ASFRecorder, or, what I've been doing lately, use MPlayer with the -dumpstream option to save absolutely anything. I've recorded Windows Media video (with audio), RealMedia streams, MP3, and more. Works like a charm.
So soon? It hasn't even arrived yet!
For instance, let's say you have an interface I, and a class X that implements I. If X is the _only_ implementation of I loaded at the moment, then all calls to methods on I can be direct, non-virtual calls because there's only one choice! In fact, HotSpot will even inline the method calls if it decides it will be beneficial.
But then a class B is loaded. HotSpot will de-optimize the inlined and direct calls to methods on I.
There are many more examples, such as loop bounds-checking elimination, and other things HotSpot can do because it sees the state of the running system.
If you've used a slow Java program, it's no doubt the result of a poor design and coding job by the programmer. "I'll just pick up Java for Dummies in 24 Minutes. Now I'm a 1337 j4v4 h4x0r!!" You may also have been using an old, slow JVM. The performance increases between Java 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 are truly awesome. Also, Sun's Java 1.5 starts up on my machine in less than half the time that 1.4.2 did, and the graphics as OpenGL accelerated now, ... the list goes on and on. For anyone who had used a Java IDE, especially NetBeans/Forte (which I like, except that it's so freakin' slow I fall asleep between operations), you must try IntelliJ IDEA. It is so responsive and just a joy to use. On the systems I've run it on, it is significantly more responsive than Eclipse.
So maybe the Slashdot editors could seed a torrent BEFORE they post the story... ?
Has anyone ever given thought to setting up a BitTorrent tracker for /.? Then whenever a story referencing large downloads is posted, (say, anything >10MB, perhaps) either Slashdot editors can actually seed the torrent, or just some /.er out there with something fatter than my POS 21.6Kbps modem connection.
It won't be too far off that we have this kind of augmentation of the human body, I think. Will it be illegal for people with "seeing aids" to gamble in a casino?
Damn! Good thing friendly fire is off.
You can measure aureal density in nipples per cubic furlong.
From the GoboLinux FAQ:
The first day I there with them, one of the hardware engineers pulled this thing that looks like a cell phone out of his pocket. He looked at me at said, "Watch this," and pointed toward a guy crossing the street, talking on a cell phone.
My coworker then pressed a button on his "cell phone" and a second or two later, the man on the street took the phone away from his ear and looked at the display as if to see if the call had been dropped. He put it back to his ear, appeared to say something, and then repeated this sequence a couple of times before giving up.
The device was a jammer that my coworker had built into a cell phone case to make it inconspicuous.
It was pretty funny to see hordes of people rushing around, all looking at their phones trying to figure out what's going on.
I could only imagine what they were saying: "Hello? Can you hear me now?"
And other than the smoke pouring from my modem, no adverse effects.
The iRiver SlimX iMP-550 is a fantastic player. I just got one a few months ago because my little 256MB flash-based player just didn't hold enough music for a long day of studying, working out a the gym, etc. The SlimX has a great interface, it really is extremely slim (surprise), and has upgradable firmware which means that it will support Ogg Vorbis Real Soon Now(tm). It also looks sexy in its slim, cold metal body. (No plastic here!!)
I used PhotoMesa before they wanted money for it, but you can still download a free trial. It's written in Java "but" it is well-written and feels very fast.
There's an article on Sun's Java website about PhotoMesa.
Is it too much to wish that in 2.6 more WLAN drivers can just be in the kernel, instead of having to screw around with a whole separate build? (Maybe there's a technical reason, though. Regardless, it's still a pain.)
Could a kind guru out there explain for newbies like me what all the "In Soviet Russia, the X Y's you!" comments refer to?
My boss registered JavaArchitects.com a few years ago, and shortly afterwards he received a letter from Sun Microsystems warning him that while he is permitted to use "Java" in his domain name, he had better not be thinking of naming his company "Java Architects".
Kind of insane, in a way. People resort to stupid names like JBuilder or BlueJ or IntelliJ for their software because they aren't allowed to use the actual name of the language in their product name.
Good luck finding a new, used, or refurbished Beagle II.
(I certainly would not want an iPod banged up by another user. It's very unlikely that a non-new iPod would be in the same condition as my baby would. If I had an iPod.)
Put down the mouse and back away from the Post Anonymously box!
And, I would guess, many OS X users were seduced by the oh - so - beautiful user OS X user interface. I don't use OS X, but I wish I did, at least, if it was open source. (I need to be able to hack my OS.)
OS X uses translucency, antialiasing, smooth shadows around windows, window warping, and 'fancy' things like the launcher bar thing (sorry, Mac users, I don't know the name of it!) at the bottom of the screen. Have you ever actually used OS X? Try it. Go to CompUSA or something and play around with a G5.
Apple's interface makes you forget you're looking at simply a matrix of pixels, which is displaying rectangular regions called 'windows'. The smoothness of everything *far* surpasses anything I have seen in X. I've used KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, IceWM, and others. I've tried hundreds of themes. I've made my own themes. But I still have no good visual cue where the bounds of the focused window are. The drop shadow is, IMO, a great feature. Your peripheral vision picks up the area of the focused window automatically.
I could go on and on, but the point is, some people *do* care about having a beautiful desktop. It is also a usability feature and can make a person more productive.
I spend 70% of my life looking at it, and I want it to be beautiful, dammit.