Strangely, the movies that download with your link are different than the ones that play when I just play the movies through the browser. I'm playing the Quicktime version, so it shouldn't be any different. To test this, I went into/tmp/501/Temporary Items/ under OS X and copied the resulting QTPluginTemp file to 1.mov, and compared to the movies provided by your link. The version I'm getting through my browser is MPEG-4 all the way, with 32kHz stereo audio, while the movies via your link are encoded with Sorenson 3 video, and QDesign audio at 22.05 kHz mono. The video resolution and quality are roughly the same, but the audio is noticeably different.
I guess the moral of the story is that if you want better quality, you have to manually copy each file from out of your/tmp directory.:^)
(I should note that if you want a lot better quality, you should just buy the DVD set instead...)
Ah. Then IHBT. IHL. HAND. Glad to hear your trip went well, though.
I'm sorry that you hear blue trees... I must admit though that I'm unsure what this has to do with internet header lengths... But, as you say, handy acronyms never die.:^)
Back to the pseudo-topic, we had an excellent time in Elephant Butte, NM. It was the most serene place out of the entire 6,000 miles we drove. I can email you pics if you'd like, but they won't truly capture the serenity we experienced. Didn't make it through Albuquerque, as we had planned -- we ended up taking US-60 and visiting the VLA near Magdalena instead. It was a real nice drive, as almost nobody was on the road. They were shipping in a new satellite dish on top of two huge trucks when we were leaving the VLA -- even though the dish shipment was split into two halves, each half took up both lanes of the road!
If one can't 17MB files to an iPod, how is one supposed to play the greatest psych-rock song ever?Seems like a pretty bad design flaw to me.
Ocelotbob, we meet again! I spoke to you many months ago about my cross-country road trip... It went really well! Anyway, as for the 17MB thing, it was only a joke. Lots of people have been posting the same anti-Mac troll lately, saying that they are having trouble copying a 17MB file on their Mac... See here for similar joke posting. I was just hinting that the poster may have been trolling in a similar fashion... The iPod has no filesize limitation that I am aware of. And yes, I even have "In-a-gadda-da-vida" stored on my iPod.:^)
Here's a tip for Apple, AltecLansing, and even Microsoft: work on something -- anything -- that can *REDUCE THE GODDAMN SIZE OF POWER ADAPTERS* and, if that's not possible -- work on something that'll reduce the *NEED* for adapters.
OK, I'll bite. First, the iPod can be powered via a tiny wall brick, or via the Firewire cable when connected to your computer. Also, Apple Powerbooks come with an extension cord for their wall bricks that can replace the brick's prongs. The end of the extension cord is a standard two-prong plug, so it can plug into any 110v AC outlet, without taking up any more space horizontally or vertically around the outlet. Also, if U.S. style plugs aren't your thing, you can buy a world travel adapter kit that can replace the prongs on any portable device release by Apple in the last two years.
Sometimes I run a Gentoo LiveCD on my Powerbook G4 for system diagnostics purposes... It supports a wider range of filesystems, so if I get an external drive and its partition type is something other than HFS+, I can generally use Gentoo to access and diagnose it. It could also be useful if something goes wrong with the system -- just boot and find where it hangs. I haven't had to rely on this "feature" yet though.:^)
Other than that, I can't find a good enough reason to run Linux on this thing... While it does run faster than OS X, it also lacks many of the features that OS X has built-in, out of the box (multiple users simultaneously logged into GUI, Expose, PDF previewing and printing support from every GUI app that supports printing, Rendezvous, speech synthesis in every app, encrypted home directories, font management, etc. etc...). Just keep a Gentoo LiveCD around for those times when something you're trying to do isn't working under OS X. It will allow you to have a few more tricks under your sleeve.
First we see motorized unicycles... now we are seeing single-speaker units that deliver surround sound. What is next in this circus show of singularity?!
I always joked that a motorized unicycle would be the next big thing, but then again, I was only joking! Seeing a mock-up of this, after joking about it for so long, is truly a shock to me. I didn't really want it to become reality...
or jump off of Apalachee Parkway where it goes over Franklin St., which isn't so much of a drop, but if you timed it right could result in your drowning.;)
Hehe, I actually live right down the street from this intersection. Believe it or not, Franklin hasn't flooded for a while now.:^)
I will definitely look into the book you've mentioned. It does seem that planners often put too much trust into the "theory" of planning rather than the practical aspects of it. One such example is the crosswalk near the parking garage on Woodward Ave. here at FSU -- they closed down most of Woodward in order to reduce traffic at that crosswalk, but because tens of thousands of cars still drive in and out of the Woodward Ave. parking garage each day, the problem is nearly as bad as before.
I guess I never really found people out there to be very sincere; I'd rather people were sincere jerks or didn't care rather than if they tended to be pretty nice, but didn't really seem to mean it.
Yeah, I can see where you are coming from. I didn't have a chance to interact with people for prolonged amounts of time while I was out there, mostly because I spent so little time at each location. I was still fairly impressed by the people I did meet, however.
I'm surprised that your mother runs the downtown farmer's market on Saturdays (I knew the world was small, but I didn't think it was that small.:^) )... It's yet another locale that is within walking distance of where I live. I've been to it a number of times, and enjoy what there is to see. The herbal tea guy is awesome. My only complaint is that the market isn't big enough -- you can often walk through it in 15 minutes, and you're done. I know the market is probably limited to the area between Adams, Park and Monroe though, so this may be a space constraint more than anything. Regardless of my quibble, I commend your mother for running the market, as it represents exactly what I would like to see more of in downtown areas.
Tallahassee gets 77% more rain each year than Seattle, on average (I used wunderground.com to look this up). I'm glad Tallahassee doesn't have bridges, otherwise people would be jumping off of them.:^)
So why do you think that west coast people suck? I guess I'm curious about this point because I took a road trip out to California and back last summer, and I didn't really encounter any "meanies" along the way... I'd say the worst I encountered out there was one lady who cut me off somewhere around Modesto, CA, but that could have happened anywhere. People were more to-the-point and didn't coat their conversations with sugar, but that seemed to be the most of it. Somewhere around Bakersfield, CA, I helped one guy start up his ailing '75 VW Bug, and he and his wife sincerely thanked me for the effort. San Francisco was the only major city we visited out of our 6,000 mile trip where we could cross streets and the cars would actually yield to us without honking or otherwise getting mad.
I'm also unsure about your statement about organic vs. planning in cities... If S.F. has improved its livability because its changes aren't so organic anymore, why do you say that the more planning that goes into cities, the more it dies? Perhaps I'm not interpreting right...
Besides the planned vs. organic sides of the argument, I personally believe that there is a certain level of enthusiasm that must be had by citizens of a city in order for the city to thrive. Cultural events are one such outlet for enthusiasm. People here in Tallahassee have football as their common pastime, but that is about it. Occasionally, a good symphony rolls through town, or the North Florida Fair (yippee). I recently looked up the tour schedule for Eric Idle's Greedy Bastard Tour, and the Reduced Shakespeare Company, two tours which I would very much like to see, but unfortunately neither of them comes anywhere near the entire southeast U.S.. If you look around at Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, etc., it seems like every performer worth their salt goes through these cities. If you don't have culture, all you have is a collection of roads, buildings, and people.
I don't know why people say Boston drivers are bad -- they're actually remarkably good. And expect other people to be just as good.;)
Reminds me of my uncle, who used to work in Waltham, MA. He had the ability to parallel park like nobody else I know. Anyway, I digress.
So, do you live in Boston now, or were you just referring to it as a city that seemed to fit my city criteria?:^) What drew you up north, rather than out west?
I agree about the silly placement of Tallahassee. However, while Apalachicola would have been a nice town to choose as the capital, I'm not sure it would have grown as easily into a city with a 100,000+ population. Maybe they should've chosen Two Egg instead...:^)
I've been in Boston before, only for a short while when I was a kid though. All I can remember was the road leading into Logan Int'l -- a billion lanes, a billion cars, all moving about one billionth of a mile per hour... I hope all of Boston isn't like that!:^) Thankfully, I've heard great things otherwise.
(OTOH, I also left FL as soon as I could for the Northeast -- I prefer city life to beaches)
It's funny that you say that... I'm always poking fun at how Tallahassee has no industry.:^) I think the next city I want to live in will have lots of industry, even more culture, beautiful scenic drives in the surrounding areas, good mass transit for when I'm in the city, and low crime. Is there a city in the U.S. that can fit this bill? The closest match I can think of is San Francisco.
While there is a third coast, the Gulf of Mexico, it is not acknowledged by the powers that be. It has some of the nicest beaches around (quite frankly because nobody knows about them!). Driving along the Gulf on US-98 in Florida is some of the best driving out there to be had.
The Rubik Shop appears to carry a large selection of Rubik's goods. They carry the "Magic" as well as lots of different cube variations, including the original 3x3.
Comeback? I never thought the fad went away... My Rubik's cube has been hanging around in my room since I was a kid. I also still have the Rubik's Magic puzzle, which seems to stump everyone who tries to solve it. It's a Rubik's life for me!
Why should I be tarred with the epithet "loony" merely because I have a pet halibut? --Monty Python
Ah, episode 23, a great one... Dancing feet and dancing teeth... "I would like a statement to that effect signed by the Lord Mayor!", followed by a grandiose visit by the Lord Mayor to the tiny post office. The Long John Silver Impersonators v. Gynecologist scene was funny as well.
Dan, that was the most comprehensive and informative Slashdot posting I've seen in a long time. Thank you for conducting such thorough research on examples of the post-fast-food condition!
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Yeah, and here I thought that box unwrapping pics were only done by Apple zealots... :^)
Nevermind my previous post, here is another curl command that grabs the MP4 Quicktime movies instead...
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Strangely, the movies that download with your link are different than the ones that play when I just play the movies through the browser. I'm playing the Quicktime version, so it shouldn't be any different. To test this, I went into /tmp/501/Temporary Items/ under OS X and copied the resulting QTPluginTemp file to 1.mov, and compared to the movies provided by your link. The version I'm getting through my browser is MPEG-4 all the way, with 32kHz stereo audio, while the movies via your link are encoded with Sorenson 3 video, and QDesign audio at 22.05 kHz mono. The video resolution and quality are roughly the same, but the audio is noticeably different.
/tmp directory. :^)
I guess the moral of the story is that if you want better quality, you have to manually copy each file from out of your
(I should note that if you want a lot better quality, you should just buy the DVD set instead...)
Back to the pseudo-topic, we had an excellent time in Elephant Butte, NM. It was the most serene place out of the entire 6,000 miles we drove. I can email you pics if you'd like, but they won't truly capture the serenity we experienced. Didn't make it through Albuquerque, as we had planned -- we ended up taking US-60 and visiting the VLA near Magdalena instead. It was a real nice drive, as almost nobody was on the road. They were shipping in a new satellite dish on top of two huge trucks when we were leaving the VLA -- even though the dish shipment was split into two halves, each half took up both lanes of the road!
Perhaps you should stop trying to copy 17 MB files to your iPod...
Now what was the problem again?
Sometimes I run a Gentoo LiveCD on my Powerbook G4 for system diagnostics purposes... It supports a wider range of filesystems, so if I get an external drive and its partition type is something other than HFS+, I can generally use Gentoo to access and diagnose it. It could also be useful if something goes wrong with the system -- just boot and find where it hangs. I haven't had to rely on this "feature" yet though. :^)
Other than that, I can't find a good enough reason to run Linux on this thing... While it does run faster than OS X, it also lacks many of the features that OS X has built-in, out of the box (multiple users simultaneously logged into GUI, Expose, PDF previewing and printing support from every GUI app that supports printing, Rendezvous, speech synthesis in every app, encrypted home directories, font management, etc. etc...). Just keep a Gentoo LiveCD around for those times when something you're trying to do isn't working under OS X. It will allow you to have a few more tricks under your sleeve.
First we see motorized unicycles... now we are seeing single-speaker units that deliver surround sound. What is next in this circus show of singularity?!
I always joked that a motorized unicycle would be the next big thing, but then again, I was only joking! Seeing a mock-up of this, after joking about it for so long, is truly a shock to me. I didn't really want it to become reality...
I will definitely look into the book you've mentioned. It does seem that planners often put too much trust into the "theory" of planning rather than the practical aspects of it. One such example is the crosswalk near the parking garage on Woodward Ave. here at FSU -- they closed down most of Woodward in order to reduce traffic at that crosswalk, but because tens of thousands of cars still drive in and out of the Woodward Ave. parking garage each day, the problem is nearly as bad as before.
Yeah, I can see where you are coming from. I didn't have a chance to interact with people for prolonged amounts of time while I was out there, mostly because I spent so little time at each location. I was still fairly impressed by the people I did meet, however.
I'm surprised that your mother runs the downtown farmer's market on Saturdays (I knew the world was small, but I didn't think it was that small.
Tallahassee gets 77% more rain each year than Seattle, on average (I used wunderground.com to look this up). I'm glad Tallahassee doesn't have bridges, otherwise people would be jumping off of them. :^)
So why do you think that west coast people suck? I guess I'm curious about this point because I took a road trip out to California and back last summer, and I didn't really encounter any "meanies" along the way... I'd say the worst I encountered out there was one lady who cut me off somewhere around Modesto, CA, but that could have happened anywhere. People were more to-the-point and didn't coat their conversations with sugar, but that seemed to be the most of it. Somewhere around Bakersfield, CA, I helped one guy start up his ailing '75 VW Bug, and he and his wife sincerely thanked me for the effort. San Francisco was the only major city we visited out of our 6,000 mile trip where we could cross streets and the cars would actually yield to us without honking or otherwise getting mad.
I'm also unsure about your statement about organic vs. planning in cities... If S.F. has improved its livability because its changes aren't so organic anymore, why do you say that the more planning that goes into cities, the more it dies? Perhaps I'm not interpreting right...
Besides the planned vs. organic sides of the argument, I personally believe that there is a certain level of enthusiasm that must be had by citizens of a city in order for the city to thrive. Cultural events are one such outlet for enthusiasm. People here in Tallahassee have football as their common pastime, but that is about it. Occasionally, a good symphony rolls through town, or the North Florida Fair (yippee). I recently looked up the tour schedule for Eric Idle's Greedy Bastard Tour, and the Reduced Shakespeare Company, two tours which I would very much like to see, but unfortunately neither of them comes anywhere near the entire southeast U.S.. If you look around at Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, etc., it seems like every performer worth their salt goes through these cities. If you don't have culture, all you have is a collection of roads, buildings, and people.
So, do you live in Boston now, or were you just referring to it as a city that seemed to fit my city criteria?
I agree about the silly placement of Tallahassee. However, while Apalachicola would have been a nice town to choose as the capital, I'm not sure it would have grown as easily into a city with a 100,000+ population. Maybe they should've chosen Two Egg instead... :^)
:^) Thankfully, I've heard great things otherwise.
I've been in Boston before, only for a short while when I was a kid though. All I can remember was the road leading into Logan Int'l -- a billion lanes, a billion cars, all moving about one billionth of a mile per hour... I hope all of Boston isn't like that!
I heard it will be coming out alongside Microsoft Edlin...
While there is a third coast, the Gulf of Mexico, it is not acknowledged by the powers that be. It has some of the nicest beaches around (quite frankly because nobody knows about them!). Driving along the Gulf on US-98 in Florida is some of the best driving out there to be had.
Dan, that was the most comprehensive and informative Slashdot posting I've seen in a long time. Thank you for conducting such thorough research on examples of the post-fast-food condition!