I take it you don't drive in snow. ABS is consistently worse on deformable surfaces, as it doesnt.. well, deform the surface, it floats over it instead. I didn't know this came as a surprise, hell, they taught us this in driver's ed.
I thought driving away from an accident was illegal.
Clearly he meant after dealing with whatever has to be done. You don't park your car at the accident site in perpetuity.
Seriously, trucks are way safer, if driven slower than I want to drive. That's why I drive a AWD car so I can pass you safely.
4wd might help you go, but all cars stop with the same number of wheels. If you're in a situation where passing wouldn't be safe with 2wd, you're probably pushing the limits a bit too far.
Apple had a great design with the 3rd gen, and then ruined it by putting the buttons on the wheel.
I agree. I had a 20gb third gen that I used until about a week ago when I left it in a lab.
Great design, acceptable feature set (no decent playlist making features, no dedicated volume). But if mine is any indication, tough as nails. That thing lived in my pocket for 6 years. No mp3 player I had owned previously lasted anywhere near that long (I've owned LGs, 2 Creative Nomad IIs, a nomad jukebox, 2 rio pnp 300s, etc.). The only thing I did for the ipod was replace the battery a couple years back.
Apple almost won me over with that longevity, but this recent DB hash BS has lost me as a customer. I use linux. I don't use itunes. If they can't deal with that, then its their loss.
but it only draws the quoted 1200 watts while brewing. When its only keeping the hot plate warm, the thermostat kicks the heater in and out on a fairly low duty cycle.
Checking customer bag contents against receipts is an effective way to prevent this sort of theft. Of course, it also pisses off the customers.
Indeed it would. I've never had my bags searched like that at a store, but if it ever happens, I'm not going back. If i wanted to be searched, id go smoke some hash at the police station.
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Yeah, they'll just dig up some locally-sourced microcontrollers.
As I sit on the fourth floor of the engineering building, with its floor to ceiling windows, and the sun pouring in, I am left thanking $DEITY that my thinkpad has a matte screen. If it had one of these terrible glossy screens, I would be viewing myself and the brilliantly lit wall behind me instead of slashdot.
I see reading comprehension continues to decline on./. The ggp said not to make a personal backup, but suggested this probably didn't apply to the border-security case anyway.
If you read the discussion attached to that article when it was posted on Slashdot, you'll find many many solutions to this issue. Apparently the fix is trivial, and that was just a press release to get attention.
for what its worth, audiophile shops often treat their records poorly. They get played a lot, they sit around while people discuss the hardware, etc. In home use, this doesn't really become a problem if you put the disc away promptly, and use a decent record brush. Record vacuums can also clear up the sound of a dusty LP.
But I admit, this is far too much effort for most, so by all means buy cds. Vinyl is a hobby, and imo it doesn't make much sense for most people.
Oh give me a break. We're talking about 78s here, not LPs. 78s are noisy as shit, and have terrible dynamic range, mostly due to the fact that they were recorded by mechanical means before the invention of the electric microphone.
Even if these were LPs, calling it pointless would make absolutely no sense. A properly recorded record sounds bloody good as FLAC/mp3-V0.
For what its worth (people always seem to question your setup when discussing audio) I'm running a Project 1 Xpression w/ speed box using a Grado Gold cart feeding Nad PP1 phono stage to Nad c370 amp powering Totem Hawk towers. My digital side is a modified ART DI/O DAC using inputs from my PC or cd transport.
78s are mono. So if he used mono files, then 128kbps isn't bad at all. Add this to the fact that 78s had terrible dynamic range, and in the end they shouldn't sound too bad.
Feel free to post and tell me I'm wrong, I didn't feel like adding to this poor man's woes by downloading some files during a slashdotting.
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I believe the conversation was about ABS, not stability management systems. Changing the subject is no excuse to declare yourself correct.
Let me guess: You think that you're an above average computer user.
I take it you don't drive in snow. ABS is consistently worse on deformable surfaces, as it doesnt.. well, deform the surface, it floats over it instead. I didn't know this came as a surprise, hell, they taught us this in driver's ed.
Further, try Your Woman by White Town... they REALLY didn't have any other good songs, ever, but they didn't have a single either.
Yeah, the rest of the album was very.... different.
I thought driving away from an accident was illegal.
Clearly he meant after dealing with whatever has to be done. You don't park your car at the accident site in perpetuity.
Seriously, trucks are way safer, if driven slower than I want to drive. That's why I drive a AWD car so I can pass you safely.
4wd might help you go, but all cars stop with the same number of wheels. If you're in a situation where passing wouldn't be safe with 2wd, you're probably pushing the limits a bit too far.
I agree. I had a 20gb third gen that I used until about a week ago when I left it in a lab.
Great design, acceptable feature set (no decent playlist making features, no dedicated volume). But if mine is any indication, tough as nails. That thing lived in my pocket for 6 years. No mp3 player I had owned previously lasted anywhere near that long (I've owned LGs, 2 Creative Nomad IIs, a nomad jukebox, 2 rio pnp 300s, etc.). The only thing I did for the ipod was replace the battery a couple years back.
Apple almost won me over with that longevity, but this recent DB hash BS has lost me as a customer. I use linux. I don't use itunes. If they can't deal with that, then its their loss.
a cooked version of whatever you put into it in the first place?
why AC?
what about gcc and vi?
meh, let's just steal a dell instead.
$ ping www.google.ca
PING www.l.google.com (209.85.171.103) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cg-in-f103.google.com (209.85.171.103): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=1282654 ms
64 bytes from cg-in-f103.google.com (209.85.171.103): icmp_seq=6 ttl=242 time=1589264 ms
but it only draws the quoted 1200 watts while brewing. When its only keeping the hot plate warm, the thermostat kicks the heater in and out on a fairly low duty cycle.
Checking customer bag contents against receipts is an effective way to prevent this sort of theft. Of course, it also pisses off the customers.
Indeed it would. I've never had my bags searched like that at a store, but if it ever happens, I'm not going back. If i wanted to be searched, id go smoke some hash at the police station.
Yeah, they'll just dig up some locally-sourced microcontrollers.
I'm thinking that the software is just making numbers up.
Not a chance
Hi! It's Mr Joe Collegestudent here.
As I sit on the fourth floor of the engineering building, with its floor to ceiling windows, and the sun pouring in, I am left thanking $DEITY that my thinkpad has a matte screen. If it had one of these terrible glossy screens, I would be viewing myself and the brilliantly lit wall behind me instead of slashdot.
I see reading comprehension continues to decline on ./. The ggp said not to make a personal backup, but suggested this probably didn't apply to the border-security case anyway.
If you read the discussion attached to that article when it was posted on Slashdot, you'll find many many solutions to this issue. Apparently the fix is trivial, and that was just a press release to get attention.
Neat. My 32 bit linux sees 4gb just fine. As the sibling posters said, clearly you're just uninformed.
it depends, is that $0.0000002 dollars or $0.0000002 cents?
Well, I tend to play my music more than I walk on it. CDs dont get eaten, don't stretch, don't get overwritten or demagnetized, etc.
But by all means, keep walking on your good ol' tapes
Or even getting phone service at all?
Does your phone company not offer dry dsl?
for what its worth, audiophile shops often treat their records poorly. They get played a lot, they sit around while people discuss the hardware, etc. In home use, this doesn't really become a problem if you put the disc away promptly, and use a decent record brush. Record vacuums can also clear up the sound of a dusty LP.
But I admit, this is far too much effort for most, so by all means buy cds. Vinyl is a hobby, and imo it doesn't make much sense for most people.
Oh give me a break. We're talking about 78s here, not LPs. 78s are noisy as shit, and have terrible dynamic range, mostly due to the fact that they were recorded by mechanical means before the invention of the electric microphone.
Even if these were LPs, calling it pointless would make absolutely no sense. A properly recorded record sounds bloody good as FLAC/mp3-V0.
For what its worth (people always seem to question your setup when discussing audio) I'm running a Project 1 Xpression w/ speed box using a Grado Gold cart feeding Nad PP1 phono stage to Nad c370 amp powering Totem Hawk towers. My digital side is a modified ART DI/O DAC using inputs from my PC or cd transport.
78s are mono. So if he used mono files, then 128kbps isn't bad at all. Add this to the fact that 78s had terrible dynamic range, and in the end they shouldn't sound too bad.
Feel free to post and tell me I'm wrong, I didn't feel like adding to this poor man's woes by downloading some files during a slashdotting.