3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity
Given that SGI powered the first version of C6, and that C6 is receiving a massive upgrade, it would be an "expected result" that SGI would benefit. However, the "actual result" is that they declared bankruptcy on the same day. It could be said that this is an "incongruity." So it is not unreasonable to say that this is indeed ironic.
MusicMatch Jukebox allows you to add your own genres. A good thing, too, given how completely lame the original genre set is. So now I have, for example, several hundred songs in the Bossa Nova genre (one they left out of the original genre set.) So if I'm in the mood for it, I can just pick (or auto-pick) Bossa Nova songs and I'm grooving.
So, yes, for me the genre definitely is useful. But no single tag is going to be enough, all by itself, to satisfy most people's categorizing needs.
In addition, MusicMatch allows you to also specify the Mood and Situation of the song, so you can have Instrumental Party, Late Night, Driving or whatever you'd like, and you can throw in whatever songs of whatever genres you want into them.
So to generate a playlist sometimes I use Genre if, say, I'm in the mood for heavy metal or 60's Punk. Sometimes I use Mood if I want to hear something melanchony, which could be Nick Drake (Folk) or Instumental Jazz, etc. It's so useful and flexible that... I actually use it!
A good way to raise a politically effective storm of protest over this would be to suggest that the data could also be used to find people who are violating gun laws, say by flagging anyone who's looked at the web site of a gun shop, or done a web search for gun information. This would get the NRA all riled up, and the spineless politicians would back down.
I also looked for something like that several years ago. In addition, I'd like to see "cookie jar" access, where users would not normally be able to see certain passwords, but in an emergency situation (say if the sys admin was unavailable) could have access to the passwords, in which case the passwords would be flagged as "no longer secret" or something like that, and the admin could change them.
Took a look at the Mezzo desktop site, which Symphony uses, and was very unimpressed. What's supposed to be "revolutionary" (their word) about making piddly changes to how things are presented on the desktop?
Also, I have to laugh at their statement that it "presents all needed information directly to the user." Thank you, but I'd rather decide for myself what information is needed.
Clearly it must be a joke, since a Lycos rep is quoted as saying: "There's a risk we will receive some denial of service attacks in the next few days but we are ready."
The iRiver iFP-700 series flash-based MP3 players include an FM recorder function that can scheduled. The caveat is that it can presently handle just ONE station/time, so you can set it to record every Saturday at 6pm for an hour or whatever.
But you don't need your computer on (which I think you do with RadioSHARK but I RTFA and it didn't say), so no transferring to another device is necessary. It can record to your choice of MP3 bitrate and sampling rate.
Since you're just going into college, I'd talk with a counselor about being able to satisfy general education requirements by taking more interesting and challenging classes than the "101" level classes that most are herded into.
For example almost everyone took Psych 101, which was (from accounts I heard) a tired rehash of the well-known psych theories delivered by a bored lecturer in a cavernous lecture hall. Instead I satisfied my psych requirement (and more) by taking a 300 level and a 400 level class. The 400 level class - Social Psychology - was a small class taught be an enthusiastic professor which changed forever the way I understand human behavior.
I also took upper level history and English classes to satisfy the general ed requirements. The funny thing is that even though the material was more advanced and interesting, the work wasn't really any harder. It did, however, usually require more creative thinking, but I gather that's what you're after anyway.
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PDF isn't propreitary, the format is entirely open and documented.
That's as maybe, so how was Adobe able to stop Microsoft from having a "Save to PDF" feature in MS Office 2007?
MusicMatch Jukebox allows you to add your own genres. A good thing, too, given how completely lame the original genre set is. So now I have, for example, several hundred songs in the Bossa Nova genre (one they left out of the original genre set.) So if I'm in the mood for it, I can just pick (or auto-pick) Bossa Nova songs and I'm grooving.
So, yes, for me the genre definitely is useful. But no single tag is going to be enough, all by itself, to satisfy most people's categorizing needs.
In addition, MusicMatch allows you to also specify the Mood and Situation of the song, so you can have Instrumental Party, Late Night, Driving or whatever you'd like, and you can throw in whatever songs of whatever genres you want into them.
So to generate a playlist sometimes I use Genre if, say, I'm in the mood for heavy metal or 60's Punk. Sometimes I use Mood if I want to hear something melanchony, which could be Nick Drake (Folk) or Instumental Jazz, etc. It's so useful and flexible that ... I actually use it!
A good way to raise a politically effective storm of protest over this would be to suggest that the data could also be used to find people who are violating gun laws, say by flagging anyone who's looked at the web site of a gun shop, or done a web search for gun information. This would get the NRA all riled up, and the spineless politicians would back down.
A similar program, free for personal/non-profit use, but with a less klunky interface, is AnyPassword.
I also looked for something like that several years ago. In addition, I'd like to see "cookie jar" access, where users would not normally be able to see certain passwords, but in an emergency situation (say if the sys admin was unavailable) could have access to the passwords, in which case the passwords would be flagged as "no longer secret" or something like that, and the admin could change them.
Took a look at the Mezzo desktop site, which Symphony uses, and was very unimpressed. What's supposed to be "revolutionary" (their word) about making piddly changes to how things are presented on the desktop?
Also, I have to laugh at their statement that it "presents all needed information directly to the user." Thank you, but I'd rather decide for myself what information is needed.
So he's a nut if he doesn't like the iMac design? Oh, wait, it must be a good design - it's won a bunch of "design awards." Snore ...
> I wonder if there is any decent code repository for .NET
http://www.codeproject.com/ has a lot of good .NET projects. Many of them are well documented by the authors in accompanying articles.
Clearly it must be a joke, since a Lycos rep is quoted as saying: "There's a risk we will receive some denial of service attacks in the next few days but we are ready."
The iRiver iFP-700 series flash-based MP3 players include an FM recorder function that can scheduled. The caveat is that it can presently handle just ONE station/time, so you can set it to record every Saturday at 6pm for an hour or whatever.
But you don't need your computer on (which I think you do with RadioSHARK but I RTFA and it didn't say), so no transferring to another device is necessary. It can record to your choice of MP3 bitrate and sampling rate.
My company pays for DSL and my cell phone. I'd expect them to, given the crazy hours I'm sometimes expected to fix something.
Since you're just going into college, I'd talk with a counselor about being able to satisfy general education requirements by taking more interesting and challenging classes than the "101" level classes that most are herded into.
For example almost everyone took Psych 101, which was (from accounts I heard) a tired rehash of the well-known psych theories delivered by a bored lecturer in a cavernous lecture hall. Instead I satisfied my psych requirement (and more) by taking a 300 level and a 400 level class. The 400 level class - Social Psychology - was a small class taught be an enthusiastic professor which changed forever the way I understand human behavior.
I also took upper level history and English classes to satisfy the general ed requirements. The funny thing is that even though the material was more advanced and interesting, the work wasn't really any harder. It did, however, usually require more creative thinking, but I gather that's what you're after anyway.
Good luck!