I think there are a lot of things we need to sort out with mobile devices before we look at redoing the interface.
Abstaining from using Microsoft garbage would be a good first venture. When you sit and watch developers, engineers, and customers keep accepting that crap, it gets depressing.
I don't mean to get all pedantic on you, but you tripped one of my peeves. It's not methodology, it is just method[s]. Methodology is the study of methods.
That was a good CD, but nearly all the tracks had some kind of highpass filter. When I dig it out every now and then, my first instinct is that my car stereo finally broke (no bass at all).
If he still has the mixer tracks / whatever from that album, Trent should really consider re-releasing it with all the original audio still in. I can filter it myself to my own liking, at that point.
On that note, do you know how to get firefox to stop whining about missing plugins and popping up that little IE6-style bar at the top? Some kind of dummy plugin?
Currently 340+ seeders to 3 leaches. Yes. That's 340:3.
The other formats are essentially pointless - grab the flac and encode to your favorite format - that is more like ripping from a CD, then transcoding from an MP3.
Microsoft's encryption uses some weird public key stuff that is tied to the user hash (i call it a hash - mean that big numbery-string thing that shows when the user isn't in the local systems SAM database)
Basically, the whole point of it is that you can't take some random encrypted drive somewhere else and read it - kind of defeats the purpose of using it on a flash drive, unless you want it (or the specific paths that are encrypted) locked to the PC.
Yes, the NTFS encryption is crap, unless you set up windows JUST RIGHT and then encrypt it, or use the 'crypt' command line utility (built in) to update it all.
Not familiar with ALC... is it lossless? You may want to get FLAC, transcode to ALC (and keep the FLAC for further/later use). This means that, 5 years down the line, you don't have a recording that sounds like mush (think of making tape duplicates from the children as time goes on, rather than making a duplicate from the original CD)
Well, stick to what you want. In my case, I haven't used wavepack and haven't seen anything earth shattering enough to want to change. Incidentally, FLAC was the first lossless format I have used/tried.
I was wondering about openness, as in the case of my sansa (which only supports mp3 and wma) now plays over 25 formats, due to an open-source firmware package. FLAC is one of them.
Yet more additions. Damn I need to consolidate my posts...
The reason I advocate downloading FLAC, even if you don't USE it as flac, is you can encode to whatever format, whenever, at whatever settings you want. You may have a better encoder, you might have better ears and want a higher bitrate than the other downloads. Really, the only drawback to downloading the FLAC version - it's 2-4 times the size of the other downloads. Gigs are cheap nowadays, so I don't see an issue with that.
Oh, one addition. Not sure if this is sansa-specific (don't think it is) but I can hold down a certain key while powering on my player, and it boots the original firmware - which, incidentally, doesn't even see my rockbox installation and ignores any media formats it can't read.
Well, you can decode the flac (using any old flac decoder, but the official one works fine) to a.wav file, which you can then convert to whatever you want.
Also, if you are OK with putting third-party firmware on your I-Pod, check out http://www.rockbox.org/ - support for over 20 codecs, and is quite nice. I have it on my sansa E200. Flac is supported VERY well.
(rockbox is not for the feint of heart, but it is POWERFUL. You can play doom on your ipod. You can configure crossfeeding, preamp, etc. see http://tinyurl.com/lfsqx
ntfs on removable media doesn't work well. Even the "everyone" permission will show as a hash on a third-party PC, so essentially all permissions information will be unusable (but not lost - it still works on the host PC). As such, the encryption will not work on any other PC but host.
Had I actually been able to finish, and had my ISP not been an overselling piece of crap, I would post the 600mb flac archive with all the other goodies... provided it is actually legal.
On the sidekick, for an end-user to install an app, it has to be in the catalog. The catalog is locked down by the carrier and danger (the phone OS people).
If you get a dev key, YOU can do what you want with YOUR phone, but others still cannot use your apps unless they have dev keys as well, or the app is in the catalog.
Catalog apps usually cost money to download, but I noticed a few (2 in like 50) are free.
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Part of that might help by Intel rebranding their graphics chipsents. They are not "extreme" in any positive manner.
Abstaining from using Microsoft garbage would be a good first venture. When you sit and watch developers, engineers, and customers keep accepting that crap, it gets depressing.
THANK YOU! I don't know how I managed to miss that information before.
I don't mean to get all pedantic on you, but you tripped one of my peeves. It's not methodology, it is just method[s]. Methodology is the study of methods.
The solution then, is either NO party (bad), or many parties (better).
Hell, even three even-powered parties would be a much better scene. Two is just asking for trouble, for the very reason you state above.
That depends on your plane of reference...
Say you have a sine curve on X/Y... from the Z axis it looks like a nice flat plane...
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That was a good CD, but nearly all the tracks had some kind of highpass filter. When I dig it out every now and then, my first instinct is that my car stereo finally broke (no bass at all).
If he still has the mixer tracks / whatever from that album, Trent should really consider re-releasing it with all the original audio still in. I can filter it myself to my own liking, at that point.
On that note, do you know how to get firefox to stop whining about missing plugins and popping up that little IE6-style bar at the top? Some kind of dummy plugin?
The works are under creative commons, so here goes:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4061815/Nine_Inch_Nails_-_Ghosts_I-IV_%5B2008_FLAC_Lossless%5D
Currently 340+ seeders to 3 leaches. Yes. That's 340:3.
The other formats are essentially pointless - grab the flac and encode to your favorite format - that is more like ripping from a CD, then transcoding from an MP3.
Microsoft's encryption uses some weird public key stuff that is tied to the user hash (i call it a hash - mean that big numbery-string thing that shows when the user isn't in the local systems SAM database)
Basically, the whole point of it is that you can't take some random encrypted drive somewhere else and read it - kind of defeats the purpose of using it on a flash drive, unless you want it (or the specific paths that are encrypted) locked to the PC.
Yes, the NTFS encryption is crap, unless you set up windows JUST RIGHT and then encrypt it, or use the 'crypt' command line utility (built in) to update it all.
Not familiar with ALC... is it lossless? You may want to get FLAC, transcode to ALC (and keep the FLAC for further/later use). This means that, 5 years down the line, you don't have a recording that sounds like mush (think of making tape duplicates from the children as time goes on, rather than making a duplicate from the original CD)
Well, stick to what you want. In my case, I haven't used wavepack and haven't seen anything earth shattering enough to want to change. Incidentally, FLAC was the first lossless format I have used/tried.
I was wondering about openness, as in the case of my sansa (which only supports mp3 and wma) now plays over 25 formats, due to an open-source firmware package. FLAC is one of them.
Yet more additions. Damn I need to consolidate my posts...
The reason I advocate downloading FLAC, even if you don't USE it as flac, is you can encode to whatever format, whenever, at whatever settings you want. You may have a better encoder, you might have better ears and want a higher bitrate than the other downloads. Really, the only drawback to downloading the FLAC version - it's 2-4 times the size of the other downloads. Gigs are cheap nowadays, so I don't see an issue with that.
Oh, one addition. Not sure if this is sansa-specific (don't think it is) but I can hold down a certain key while powering on my player, and it boots the original firmware - which, incidentally, doesn't even see my rockbox installation and ignores any media formats it can't read.
Well, you can decode the flac (using any old flac decoder, but the official one works fine) to a .wav file, which you can then convert to whatever you want.
See here: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
Also, if you are OK with putting third-party firmware on your I-Pod, check out http://www.rockbox.org/ - support for over 20 codecs, and is quite nice. I have it on my sansa E200. Flac is supported VERY well.
(rockbox is not for the feint of heart, but it is POWERFUL. You can play doom on your ipod. You can configure crossfeeding, preamp, etc. see http://tinyurl.com/lfsqx
ntfs on removable media doesn't work well. Even the "everyone" permission will show as a hash on a third-party PC, so essentially all permissions information will be unusable (but not lost - it still works on the host PC). As such, the encryption will not work on any other PC but host.
You missed my Make your own bit of my comment. FLAC is a lossless format, was my point. If you don't care about filesize, it kicks mp3 in the pants.
With the availability of flac, you DON'T need physical media. Make your own - ignore the mp3 download...
Flac's claim to fame is that it takes almost no resources to decode. Encoding is known (and was done as the expense of easy decode) to be slow.
Get me some stats on decoding to wav, then maybe you'll sell me. (Also, is wavepack open?)
Amazon isn't letting you download the music in PDF, or download in flac.
Anyone got a torrent up for the .flac archive?
Had I actually been able to finish, and had my ISP not been an overselling piece of crap, I would post the 600mb flac archive with all the other goodies... provided it is actually legal.
my paid download died after 900k, and connection refused on any further attempt - this is even before the damn webserver could process the URL!
On the sidekick, for an end-user to install an app, it has to be in the catalog. The catalog is locked down by the carrier and danger (the phone OS people).
If you get a dev key, YOU can do what you want with YOUR phone, but others still cannot use your apps unless they have dev keys as well, or the app is in the catalog.
Catalog apps usually cost money to download, but I noticed a few (2 in like 50) are free.
(T-Mobile, Sidekick Slide (developer.danger.com) )
Because they only sign apps that cost money to install through the catalog, of which the carrier gets a cut. I forgot to mention this...
Im not sure if the licence on firefox would allow that, but I'm fairly sure Mozilla would be upset about it.