...lately the service [at Wendy's] has been getting so bad.
I have noticed this as well... My only guess is that it has to do with the fact that Dave Thomas is no longer alive... If you haven't read "Dave's Way", I highly recommend it! You can see while reading the book that he was half of the reason why Wendy's has survived the fast-food chain wars.
My point is that somebody with an average GPA (regardless of school or schools) should not be running the country. Wasn't this apparent from my first post?
While this can be done rather economically with the SAT, retaking the GRE (the standardized test for entering grad school) gets cost prohibitive rather quickly. The GRE currently costs $105 each time you take it...
I mention this because I had a school tell me to take the GRE again because I was 10 points shy of their "recommended" minimums. I refused, and was accepted anyway.:^)
Believe it or not, my dad still uses an Apple//c for his business -- he uses it for writing business proposals and keeping inventory on carpentry items. He says that it just works... Even though there is a newer PC in the house, with MS Office on it, he still uses the//c instead. His ImageWriter II dot matrix printer still prints fine, his 180k and 360k floppies still work fine (mainly because the magnetic density is so low that they don't degrade as much with time), and AppleWorks boots up in the time it takes our PC to check its RAM. About the only problem he's had is with finding 5.25" DD floppies (though I've heard that some places sell them by the thousands for cheap nowadays). Anyway, he's been perfectly content using the Apple//c for the last 15 years! How's that for a switcher story?!
Funny stuff! Mod up. For those of you who missed reading the book or seeing the movie Dune, a picture of the gom jabbar scene is here... The scene depicts Paul Atreides being "tested" by holding his right hand in a pain box, which simulates extreme heat... The reverend mother is holding a gom jabbar to his neck, and theatens to stab him with it if he pulls his hand out of the box. Perhaps this was Frank Herbert's depiction of what job interviews felt like to him.:^)
You know, I was about to write up a feature-by-feature comparison of the Apple Powerbook and the vpr Matrix laptops, until I realized that peopledon'treallyliketheMatrixlaptop.
Point taken... I only included WAV with the rest because it was listed in the same table as the other codecs. Humorously enough, WAV at 128kbps would be one of the following real crappy sample rates:
4kHz, 16-bit, stereo
8kHz, 16-bit, mono
8kHz, 8-bit, stereo
16kHz, 8-bit, mono
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According to this blind listening test conducted by c't magazine, AAC at 128kbps was ranked the lowest of all codecs sampled at that bitrate (WAV, OGG, WMA, RA, MP3Pro and MP3)... One can always hope that the claims of Apple making their AACs directly from the record masters are true, as this would help the situation some.
You could try doing a "double-blind" test where you encode one of your songs in AAC via iTunes4, then listen to the sample on the Apple Music store... Just make sure that the sample is available first. You'd want to make sure that you only listened to the same part of the song, however, so you'd probably want to tweak the begin time and end time of your encoded file by doing a "Get Info" on it. You'd also want to get someone else to operate the computer when playing the sound files, obviously.:^)
I will be doing this sort of test soon... Anyone interested in the results can email me.
iPod Battery life has gone from 10 hours with the old version to over 8 with the new version. AAC apparently takes more CPU to decode.:^)
According to the Apple iPod webpage, the older Windows iPods appear to not support the AAC upgrade (look under the "High Fidelity" paragraph). Older Mac iPods apparently do support the AAC upgrade.
One question I have is on average, how does a 128kbps AAC file compare to something like 256kbps MP3? I've been using LAME at 256kbps for all of my music encoding, and it is going to be hard to accept anything less in quality.
Yeah, I thought about that, but didn't mention it because I wasn't absolutely sure. I quickly glanced at/etc/passwd to see if it reflected the NetInfo database, but alas it did not -- I wasn't about to load up NetInfo Manager just to check the UID though.:^)
In addition to the aforementioned "m" trick, you can also find a copy of the movie in "/tmp/501/Temporary Items" if you are running OS X. It only stores it there while the Quicktime plugin is still loaded though, so be sure to load the video in your browser, then you can copy the file from that directory. Also, you must use Terminal to get to that directory, as Finder hides "/tmp" from view.
The filename will be QTPluginTemp[random numbers], with no extension. Just "mv filename ~/t3.mov" or "cp filename ~/t3.mov" to get it into your home directory.
If you're starting a business you need to focus 100% on getting customers.
Those few words represent exactly what must be pursued to make a business succeed. That, and making sure that the market wants (or will want) your product. Everything else is merely details.
What about using a secure web proxy, like Anonymiser? It seems that a service like that would stop would-be snoopers from seeing any sort of transmitted data, be it routing info or web content itself.
If you think that's bad, you should see how much Adobe is charging for their Font Folio package -- they want $9,000 for it! It really demonstrates the relativity of value in today's society.
If you think that's bad, you should see how much Adobe is charging for their Font Folio package -- they want $9,000 for it! It really demonstrates the relativity of value in today's society.
If you think that's bad, you should see how much Adobe is charging for their Font Folio package -- they want $9,000 for it! It really demonstrates the relativity of value in today's society.
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My point is that somebody with an average GPA (regardless of school or schools) should not be running the country. Wasn't this apparent from my first post?
My prediction is that the U.S. will have full nudity on mainstream TV by 2020.
While this can be done rather economically with the SAT, retaking the GRE (the standardized test for entering grad school) gets cost prohibitive rather quickly. The GRE currently costs $105 each time you take it...
:^)
I mention this because I had a school tell me to take the GRE again because I was 10 points shy of their "recommended" minimums. I refused, and was accepted anyway.
That doesn't change the fact that his college GPA was in the mid-C to low-B range...
Believe it or not, my dad still uses an Apple //c for his business -- he uses it for writing business proposals and keeping inventory on carpentry items. He says that it just works... Even though there is a newer PC in the house, with MS Office on it, he still uses the //c instead. His ImageWriter II dot matrix printer still prints fine, his 180k and 360k floppies still work fine (mainly because the magnetic density is so low that they don't degrade as much with time), and AppleWorks boots up in the time it takes our PC to check its RAM. About the only problem he's had is with finding 5.25" DD floppies (though I've heard that some places sell them by the thousands for cheap nowadays). Anyway, he's been perfectly content using the Apple //c for the last 15 years! How's that for a switcher story?!
Funny stuff! Mod up. For those of you who missed reading the book or seeing the movie Dune, a picture of the gom jabbar scene is here... The scene depicts Paul Atreides being "tested" by holding his right hand in a pain box, which simulates extreme heat... The reverend mother is holding a gom jabbar to his neck, and theatens to stab him with it if he pulls his hand out of the box. Perhaps this was Frank Herbert's depiction of what job interviews felt like to him. :^)
You know, I was about to write up a feature-by-feature comparison of the Apple Powerbook and the vpr Matrix laptops, until I realized that people don't really like the Matrix laptop.
(ducks and covers)
4kHz, 16-bit, stereo
8kHz, 16-bit, mono
8kHz, 8-bit, stereo
16kHz, 8-bit, mono
According to this blind listening test conducted by c't magazine, AAC at 128kbps was ranked the lowest of all codecs sampled at that bitrate (WAV, OGG, WMA, RA, MP3Pro and MP3)... One can always hope that the claims of Apple making their AACs directly from the record masters are true, as this would help the situation some.
You could try doing a "double-blind" test where you encode one of your songs in AAC via iTunes4, then listen to the sample on the Apple Music store... Just make sure that the sample is available first. You'd want to make sure that you only listened to the same part of the song, however, so you'd probably want to tweak the begin time and end time of your encoded file by doing a "Get Info" on it. You'd also want to get someone else to operate the computer when playing the sound files, obviously. :^)
I will be doing this sort of test soon... Anyone interested in the results can email me.
That is amazing -- I take back my pseudo-complaint. :^)
The $1 price could also mean that there will be a lot more one hit wonder bands with this service... It's the 80s all over again!
- iPod Battery life has gone from 10 hours with the old version to over 8 with the new version. AAC apparently takes more CPU to decode.
:^) - According to the Apple iPod webpage, the older Windows iPods appear to not support the AAC upgrade (look under the "High Fidelity" paragraph). Older Mac iPods apparently do support the AAC upgrade.
One question I have is on average, how does a 128kbps AAC file compare to something like 256kbps MP3? I've been using LAME at 256kbps for all of my music encoding, and it is going to be hard to accept anything less in quality.Yeah, I thought about that, but didn't mention it because I wasn't absolutely sure. I quickly glanced at /etc/passwd to see if it reflected the NetInfo database, but alas it did not -- I wasn't about to load up NetInfo Manager just to check the UID though. :^)
In addition to the aforementioned "m" trick, you can also find a copy of the movie in "/tmp/501/Temporary Items" if you are running OS X. It only stores it there while the Quicktime plugin is still loaded though, so be sure to load the video in your browser, then you can copy the file from that directory. Also, you must use Terminal to get to that directory, as Finder hides "/tmp" from view.
The filename will be QTPluginTemp[random numbers], with no extension. Just "mv filename ~/t3.mov" or "cp filename ~/t3.mov" to get it into your home directory.
Here are some other books for you...
What about creating a secure web proxy that uses a decentralized network like gnutella?
What about using a secure web proxy, like Anonymiser? It seems that a service like that would stop would-be snoopers from seeing any sort of transmitted data, be it routing info or web content itself.
Indeed -- What Would Elvis Do? That strange sound you just heard was my karma flying away... :^)
If you think that's bad, you should see how much Adobe is charging for their Font Folio package -- they want $9,000 for it! It really demonstrates the relativity of value in today's society.
If you think that's bad, you should see how much Adobe is charging for their Font Folio package -- they want $9,000 for it! It really demonstrates the relativity of value in today's society.
If you think that's bad, you should see how much Adobe is charging for their Font Folio package -- they want $9,000 for it! It really demonstrates the relativity of value in today's society.