I happened to live in the Seattle area for a few years. There's one high school station that plays really great stuff (if you like dance music) - that's C89.5 FM, operated by Nathan Hale High School.
Now, just because YOU don't like "heavily commercialized rap and R&B songs" does not mean that other people do not.
Just because you think it's crap, does that make it right to have their license stomped on?
Not only that, but you sound amazingly bitter that you aren't from Mercer Island. Did you grow up in Preston or something?
I am a computer geek (both personally and professionally) and I _hate_ spending long amounts of time trying to get my hardware working in Linux.
I welcome something like Kudzu matched with an automatic driver download / install service.
There are ways to help with the security aspects, like requiring digital signatures, giving the user plenty of information about who is providing the driver, etc etc.
And frankly, I don't care if the driver is open source or not. Yes, I do prefer open source drivers, but when it comes down to it, if I have to deal with binary only to make a great piece of hardware work well, I can cope. (NVIDIA drivers, anyone?)
I just ordered the iCELINK setup for my 2004 Toyota Solara - it has an adapter so my factory stereo thinks it's a CD changer, so I can control it through my steering wheel controls and stuff. It does what you're looking for.:)
Have you ever made a large scale J2EE Webapp? If you can back up your statements, I'd love to hear it, otherwise your flamebait rating was warranted.
You have a few approaches you can do in these webapps. You can stick to JSP and Servlets. JSP's biggest downside: mixing Java code and markup together is messy and difficult to maintain. For a small scale site, this works out just fine.
One other option: Struts + Velocity. I opted for this approach in a large scale app I just wrote. It's not any slower than JSP, and the code is amazingly maintainable. The learning curve for new developers is kind of steep, but once they get used to it, they love it. xdoclet makes the job of maintaining the struts-config.xml pretty painless. Even if you don't want to use xdoclet, it's a pretty simple xml file.
There are other options also, TurboM2, Cocoon, etc. Struts just happened to fit what I was doing best.
Does iTunes 4.5 support CD Text? I have yet to understand why iTunes hasn't had this support! Just about every burner on the planet supports it. Even factory car stereos support it now.
* My Dell Dimension 8250: Uses intel8x0. Volume control is actually headphone instead of master. This is just strange. Makes it so that I can't control the volume using normal mixer controls easily.
* MSI Hetis I865g: Uses intel8x0. Digital PCM output is unreliable. Same situation as the SB Live, it was difficult to even get this working right.
* Creative SB Live: It took me several hours to figure out the correct mixer settings to use the Hoontech digital I/O bracket. Several times I had to dump my asound.state file, reboot and start all over. I ended up with sound loops that caused my stereo system to send out a very, very loud, resounding SQUEAL.
* Hercules DigiFire 7.1: Card mostly works right. It uses a shared mic / line in jack. In Linux, I can't switch it to be line in instead of mic, so I can't use it with my TV Tuner or for audio input.
Windows 98, 2000, XP, etc all ship with ActiveX Scripting. You can make an HTA (HTML Application) with VBScript or JScript (you should look up the power of WScript, it's actually pretty impressive).
JScript and VBScript have full access to the system in an HTA. You can use the browser to make a UI, and the scripting to do anything else. I would argue that it is more powerful then using QBASIC ever was.
You can also download the.NET SDK (which does come with Windows 2003, if I recall), which is even more powerful.
The Google Toolbar does this also. I don't know about A9's, but Google's asks you when you install it if you want the advanced features, which require it to communicate back to Google.
I subscribed to Sirius to get away from BS like theirs. The local traffic is fantastic for LA. Before they added that, I got all my traffic off KNX 1070 AM, which is an Infinity Radio, NOT ClearChannel station (I know, not much better)
If you don't like PlayFair, DON'T BUY FROM THE iTMS! No one forced you to do it.
You do not legally own the song. You own a license to listen to the song. The song itself is still owned by either the record company or the artist, or both.
"However in the next few weeks we'll also see the launch of ATI' new architecture and then we'll also be able to compare these two architectures in terms of performance, image quality and features. It'll be an interesting 2nd quarter for sure, with these two manufacturers once again competing for the 3D graphics throne. For now the GeForce 6800 Ultra comes highly recommended, as it simply is the king of the hill of 3D graphics, bar none."
There is a very bad, glaringly false statement in your post.
Even on Linux, it is possible for a simple bugfix to take down an entire system.
XFree86 drivers can do this. Kernel updates can do this. Third party kernel driver updates can do this.
Hell, a bug / exploit in kdm could make your machine remotely vulnerable, or a simple bug could cause your machine to stop allowing logins (and don't tell me that you can Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login. That doesn't apply to end users)
I saw a problem on a friend's machine where his PAM config got trashed after an update. Guess what, his machine stopped asking for passwords on IMAPS, POP3S and ssh. If a simple misconfiguration can cause that, so can a code bug. That's no different then Windows.
All software has bugs, and those bugs can either be harmless annoyances, or critical problems. Linux can have them just as easily as Windows. Linux/UNIX software releases patches faster because they don't have complicated software development cycles (QA checks, usability, legal, etc) that has to happen before the release.
There's an intersection in Santa Monica, CA (I10 east onramp at Cloverfield, for anyone interested) that the light basically goes from green to red in a span of 3 seconds. Think I'm kidding? I've spent enough time there that I timed it.
This _is_ a big deal. There have been several near-miss accidents there, and TONS of people run that light.
I had a teacher when I was in 7th grade (1990?) that used a Laserdisc player, Hypercard and a projector to teach us life science. All of his lectures revolved around that setup. That was my first major exposure to a Mac. He had the Mac controlling the Laserdisc player and everything. Hypercard will be missed.
The closest I ever really saw to Hypercard on the PC was IBM Linkway. I played with it briefly, and it just couldn't compete with Hypercard.
"About half the claims are for things that were implemented in prior players (e.g., Archos), and the other half are for things that are in many other common device interfaces (DVD players, PVRs) and the only novelty is that Apple put them on a portable music player."
As we were told where I work: If you come up with a new way to package / use existing technologies, you CAN patent that.
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You are not the target audience that Apple is running television ads to capture.
So be fucking sick of it all you want, but Apple isn't sweating that you haven't bought their product.
I think Xerox and Apple defintely qualify as prior art.
There are days when I think the USPO really needs to wake up.
*ahem*
I happened to live in the Seattle area for a few years. There's one high school station that plays really great stuff (if you like dance music) - that's C89.5 FM, operated by Nathan Hale High School.
Now, just because YOU don't like "heavily commercialized rap and R&B songs" does not mean that other people do not.
Just because you think it's crap, does that make it right to have their license stomped on?
Not only that, but you sound amazingly bitter that you aren't from Mercer Island. Did you grow up in Preston or something?
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Actually...
Rod Stewart did NOT write that song - it was written by Diane Warren.
She's also responsible for "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing", performed by Aerosmith for the Armageddon soundtrack.
"Faith of the Heart" may be a good song to some, but I agree that it is misplaced in a Star Trek show.
I am a computer geek (both personally and professionally) and I _hate_ spending long amounts of time trying to get my hardware working in Linux.
I welcome something like Kudzu matched with an automatic driver download / install service.
There are ways to help with the security aspects, like requiring digital signatures, giving the user plenty of information about who is providing the driver, etc etc.
And frankly, I don't care if the driver is open source or not. Yes, I do prefer open source drivers, but when it comes down to it, if I have to deal with binary only to make a great piece of hardware work well, I can cope. (NVIDIA drivers, anyone?)
Check out this company's stuff:
:)
http://www.densionusa.com
I just ordered the iCELINK setup for my 2004 Toyota Solara - it has an adapter so my factory stereo thinks it's a CD changer, so I can control it through my steering wheel controls and stuff. It does what you're looking for.
This reminds me of that movie a lot.
Apparently you don't actually use Eclipse/GTK on Linux.
The performance is abysmal.
Eclipse/Motif is much, much faster, but unfortunately it's Motif. On Windows, it absolutely rocks.
Until SWT's GTK performance is usable, it is not a viable alternative.
Well, I have a 2004 Toyota Solara and it supports CD-Text, so apparently someone cared about it ;)
Have you ever made a large scale J2EE Webapp? If you can back up your statements, I'd love to hear it, otherwise your flamebait rating was warranted.
You have a few approaches you can do in these webapps. You can stick to JSP and Servlets. JSP's biggest downside: mixing Java code and markup together is messy and difficult to maintain. For a small scale site, this works out just fine.
One other option: Struts + Velocity. I opted for this approach in a large scale app I just wrote. It's not any slower than JSP, and the code is amazingly maintainable. The learning curve for new developers is kind of steep, but once they get used to it, they love it. xdoclet makes the job of maintaining the struts-config.xml pretty painless. Even if you don't want to use xdoclet, it's a pretty simple xml file.
There are other options also, TurboM2, Cocoon, etc. Struts just happened to fit what I was doing best.
Does iTunes 4.5 support CD Text? I have yet to understand why iTunes hasn't had this support! Just about every burner on the planet supports it. Even factory car stereos support it now.
It is absolutely true.
Examples:
* My Dell Dimension 8250: Uses intel8x0. Volume control is actually headphone instead of master. This is just strange. Makes it so that I can't control the volume using normal mixer controls easily.
* MSI Hetis I865g: Uses intel8x0. Digital PCM output is unreliable. Same situation as the SB Live, it was difficult to even get this working right.
* Creative SB Live: It took me several hours to figure out the correct mixer settings to use the Hoontech digital I/O bracket. Several times I had to dump my asound.state file, reboot and start all over. I ended up with sound loops that caused my stereo system to send out a very, very loud, resounding SQUEAL.
* Hercules DigiFire 7.1: Card mostly works right. It uses a shared mic / line in jack. In Linux, I can't switch it to be line in instead of mic, so I can't use it with my TV Tuner or for audio input.
You are somewhat incorrect.
.NET SDK (which does come with Windows 2003, if I recall), which is even more powerful.
Windows 98, 2000, XP, etc all ship with ActiveX Scripting. You can make an HTA (HTML Application) with VBScript or JScript (you should look up the power of WScript, it's actually pretty impressive).
JScript and VBScript have full access to the system in an HTA. You can use the browser to make a UI, and the scripting to do anything else. I would argue that it is more powerful then using QBASIC ever was.
You can also download the
The Google Toolbar does this also. I don't know about A9's, but Google's asks you when you install it if you want the advanced features, which require it to communicate back to Google.
Those bastards can go away.
I subscribed to Sirius to get away from BS like theirs. The local traffic is fantastic for LA. Before they added that, I got all my traffic off KNX 1070 AM, which is an Infinity Radio, NOT ClearChannel station (I know, not much better)
It's been said but I'll repeat.
If you don't like PlayFair, DON'T BUY FROM THE iTMS! No one forced you to do it.
You do not legally own the song. You own a license to listen to the song. The song itself is still owned by either the record company or the artist, or both.
Your mom is an exception to the rule.
My grandparents only have a touch-tone telephone because they have to.
Did you read the article?
"However in the next few weeks we'll also see the launch of ATI' new architecture and then we'll also be able to compare these two architectures in terms of performance, image quality and features. It'll be an interesting 2nd quarter for sure, with these two manufacturers once again competing for the 3D graphics throne. For now the GeForce 6800 Ultra comes highly recommended, as it simply is the king of the hill of 3D graphics, bar none."
He did acknowledge the upcoming ATI release.
There is a very bad, glaringly false statement in your post.
Even on Linux, it is possible for a simple bugfix to take down an entire system.
XFree86 drivers can do this.
Kernel updates can do this.
Third party kernel driver updates can do this.
Hell, a bug / exploit in kdm could make your machine remotely vulnerable, or a simple bug could cause your machine to stop allowing logins (and don't tell me that you can Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login. That doesn't apply to end users)
I saw a problem on a friend's machine where his PAM config got trashed after an update. Guess what, his machine stopped asking for passwords on IMAPS, POP3S and ssh. If a simple misconfiguration can cause that, so can a code bug. That's no different then Windows.
All software has bugs, and those bugs can either be harmless annoyances, or critical problems. Linux can have them just as easily as Windows. Linux/UNIX software releases patches faster because they don't have complicated software development cycles (QA checks, usability, legal, etc) that has to happen before the release.
I think you may have missed my point - three seconds is the entire cycle, including the green.
Meaning, you have a green light for about 2 seconds, a yellow for 1 second then it's red.
I would have to disagree slightly.
There's an intersection in Santa Monica, CA (I10 east onramp at Cloverfield, for anyone interested) that the light basically goes from green to red in a span of 3 seconds. Think I'm kidding? I've spent enough time there that I timed it.
This _is_ a big deal. There have been several near-miss accidents there, and TONS of people run that light.
The satellite companies would be better off to partner with Netflix and offer deals along with your satellite service.
Satellite companies just do not have the bandwidth to do movies on demand like the cable companies do.
I had a teacher when I was in 7th grade (1990?) that used a Laserdisc player, Hypercard and a projector to teach us life science. All of his lectures revolved around that setup. That was my first major exposure to a Mac. He had the Mac controlling the Laserdisc player and everything. Hypercard will be missed.
The closest I ever really saw to Hypercard on the PC was IBM Linkway. I played with it briefly, and it just couldn't compete with Hypercard.
"About half the claims are for things that were implemented in prior players (e.g., Archos), and the other half are for things that are in many other common device interfaces (DVD players, PVRs) and the only novelty is that Apple put them on a portable music player."
As we were told where I work: If you come up with a new way to package / use existing technologies, you CAN patent that.