Someone else probably already said this, but, in the US, most reflectors stick up about a half inch, and provide both audible and tactile feedback should your tires drive over one.
Last time I checked the Jargon file, he was the guy behind the first internet worm. He claimed that it was never supposed to be released, but many (most?) people remain unconvinced.
Would I go to jail if I created such a script as a proof of concept?
IANAL, but as long as you run it in a non-internet-connected sandbox and keep it from escaping, no. If it gets out, you might want to read up on Robert T. Morris and if his claims held any weight.
And how many people will just do something bleedingly obvious like their full name (with spaces for spaces) however many times it takes to meet the 30 character minimum? People know they lose written down passwords, so they'll want something they can remember in a pinch.
And that's not even touching the parent's implication of official software existing in an open-source world (not everything has an emerge, apt-get, or rpm package).
The Zire 71 (been out for a while) and Zire 72 are 320x320. The Zire 31 (and 21, for that matter) isn't.
I recently got a Tungsten E because my m505 broke, and you'd be surprised how much difference the color 320x320 screen makes in readability. My only complaint so far is that the battery life comparatively sucks (6-10 hrs vs. 60+)
Unfortunately for us slashdotters, few people vote based on IP issues alone.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but there are some issues that are more important than Slashdot's favorite pet peeves. I'm much more likely to vote based on the candidates' attitudes towards a successor of the PATRIOT Act than I am on IP issues. And that's neglecting the fact that we'd have to pull out of a WIPO treaty to do much about the DMCA.
The FLAC sourceforge page has a comparison of various lossless codecs with various encoding options. As you can see, it is possible to get slightly better compression, but it quickly becomes an issue of diminishing returns.
FLAC averages around 1000kbps for me. It really depends on what you're encoding tho. My music is mostly techno, rock, and metal, the vast majority of which has an average bitrate between 900 and 1100kbps. The closest I've seen to your 700kbps estimate is Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman, which has an albumwide average of 790kbps and two tracks that actually fall below your estimate ("Tongue" at 648kbps and "River of Bass" at 668kbps).
That sounds typical for a lossless algorithm. FLAC claims to be able to get music down to as low as 50% the uncompressed size too (it seems to do this mainly on classical and ambient). But most of the time expect something in the 60-80% range (pop on the low end, speed metal on the high end).
It seems another site falls to the slashdot effect.
If you try to browse anything not on their top 10 list, you get interminable "server busy"-type messages. I don't think they'd planned to be slashdotted yet.
That's what made Farscape such a good show. Andromeda did it much more often than either Enterprise or Voyager, so I consider it a better show than either.
I think the fact that my TV gets about six different Discovery channels, two History channels and a Biography channel proves that there is a large portion of the population that is, in fact, interested in science.
And the fact that the main Discovery channel has been taken over by Monster Garage, Monster House, American Chopper, and the like, and TLC ('The Learning Channel' heh) has become HGTV-lite shows just how much they care about actually giving you things to exercise your brain on.
Creative's driver writers are rather incompetent when it comes to SMP compatibility. This is a known issue, if you check any SMP-related forums (such as 2cpu.com's).
After a couple months, my sound support would degrade quickly and then completely stop working. Only way to fix it was a reformat & reinstall.
On a side note, a friend of mine's dad, who is a member of MS's software developer network, recommends reinstalling every 6 months.
If you're on Windows XP, turn on ClearType. It antialiases everything. I think there's a similar option in KDE and possibly other window managers on *n?x.
I actually like my laptop's (Dell Latitude C840 with Ultrasharp screen) screen better than my desktop's (NEC FE950+). Both run at 1600x1200 with cleartype on, but my laptop's LCD looks brighter and sharper.
I happen to like reading things on screen (either one) more than on paper. I guess it's because I grew up doing it.
My backpack was so heavy in high school that if it fell on the floor from the height of a desk, the floor shook.
A bigger problem than the weight of the books is the difficulty in finding a backpack that will hold them all, especially since most of my teachers wanted a separate binder for their class. Fitting 6 1" binders and 6 textbooks in a backpack that the school would permit (i.e. not a framed hiking/backpacking/camping backpack) proved to be a challenge.
Until I switched sound cards in November, I had to reinstall WinXP every couple months because of incompatibilities between the old sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Gamer) and the motherboard (Tyan Thunder K7). With the new sound card, it's going on 8 months since the last reinstall.
Incidentally, the single most stable machine I've ever had is a P200mmx box that ran Win95osr2.1 until I put Linux on it a couple years back.
And yet the careful removal of a certain single component from a TI-83/83+ circuit board will quadruple the processor speed...and it only costs the time and effort to open it up and remove the right capacitor or resistor (I don't recall which it is). Similar tricks work on the TI-85/TI-86 and TI-89, as well.
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The real question is what formats do they support, and what kind(s) of DRM are used.
Boo for Free Germware! (Achoo!)
Someone else probably already said this, but, in the US, most reflectors stick up about a half inch, and provide both audible and tactile feedback should your tires drive over one.
Last time I checked the Jargon file, he was the guy behind the first internet worm. He claimed that it was never supposed to be released, but many (most?) people remain unconvinced.
And how many people will just do something bleedingly obvious like their full name (with spaces for spaces) however many times it takes to meet the 30 character minimum? People know they lose written down passwords, so they'll want something they can remember in a pinch.
And that's not even touching the parent's implication of official software existing in an open-source world (not everything has an emerge, apt-get, or rpm package).
...and if they've heard of G4, if they're referring to macs or the tv network.
The Zire 71 (been out for a while) and Zire 72 are 320x320. The Zire 31 (and 21, for that matter) isn't.
I recently got a Tungsten E because my m505 broke, and you'd be surprised how much difference the color 320x320 screen makes in readability. My only complaint so far is that the battery life comparatively sucks (6-10 hrs vs. 60+)
Unfortunately for us slashdotters, few people vote based on IP issues alone.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but there are some issues that are more important than Slashdot's favorite pet peeves. I'm much more likely to vote based on the candidates' attitudes towards a successor of the PATRIOT Act than I am on IP issues. And that's neglecting the fact that we'd have to pull out of a WIPO treaty to do much about the DMCA.
The FLAC sourceforge page has a comparison of various lossless codecs with various encoding options. As you can see, it is possible to get slightly better compression, but it quickly becomes an issue of diminishing returns.
FLAC averages around 1000kbps for me. It really depends on what you're encoding tho. My music is mostly techno, rock, and metal, the vast majority of which has an average bitrate between 900 and 1100kbps. The closest I've seen to your 700kbps estimate is Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman, which has an albumwide average of 790kbps and two tracks that actually fall below your estimate ("Tongue" at 648kbps and "River of Bass" at 668kbps).
That sounds typical for a lossless algorithm. FLAC claims to be able to get music down to as low as 50% the uncompressed size too (it seems to do this mainly on classical and ambient). But most of the time expect something in the 60-80% range (pop on the low end, speed metal on the high end).
It seems another site falls to the slashdot effect.
If you try to browse anything not on their top 10 list, you get interminable "server busy"-type messages. I don't think they'd planned to be slashdotted yet.
That's what made Farscape such a good show. Andromeda did it much more often than either Enterprise or Voyager, so I consider it a better show than either.
Creative's driver writers are rather incompetent when it comes to SMP compatibility. This is a known issue, if you check any SMP-related forums (such as 2cpu.com's).
After a couple months, my sound support would degrade quickly and then completely stop working. Only way to fix it was a reformat & reinstall.
On a side note, a friend of mine's dad, who is a member of MS's software developer network, recommends reinstalling every 6 months.
If you're on Windows XP, turn on ClearType. It antialiases everything. I think there's a similar option in KDE and possibly other window managers on *n?x.
I actually like my laptop's (Dell Latitude C840 with Ultrasharp screen) screen better than my desktop's (NEC FE950+). Both run at 1600x1200 with cleartype on, but my laptop's LCD looks brighter and sharper.
I happen to like reading things on screen (either one) more than on paper. I guess it's because I grew up doing it.
My backpack was so heavy in high school that if it fell on the floor from the height of a desk, the floor shook.
A bigger problem than the weight of the books is the difficulty in finding a backpack that will hold them all, especially since most of my teachers wanted a separate binder for their class. Fitting 6 1" binders and 6 textbooks in a backpack that the school would permit (i.e. not a framed hiking/backpacking/camping backpack) proved to be a challenge.
Until I switched sound cards in November, I had to reinstall WinXP every couple months because of incompatibilities between the old sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Gamer) and the motherboard (Tyan Thunder K7). With the new sound card, it's going on 8 months since the last reinstall.
Incidentally, the single most stable machine I've ever had is a P200mmx box that ran Win95osr2.1 until I put Linux on it a couple years back.
And yet the careful removal of a certain single component from a TI-83/83+ circuit board will quadruple the processor speed...and it only costs the time and effort to open it up and remove the right capacitor or resistor (I don't recall which it is). Similar tricks work on the TI-85/TI-86 and TI-89, as well.
We call them Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations laws.
Nah, that sounds more like Austin Powers