So, let me get this straight, your wife had a runaway vehicle and decided to blow through toll booths and not just stop the car to save on towing?
Gee, it's a good thing that no one was trying to cross from toll booth to toll booth, or, say slowly trying to pass another car taking all the lanes so she couldn't get by them. One would think that worrying about potential pedestrians/other cars that could be hit would override the worry about the tow cost.
Perhaps, she should have, I don't know, maybe shut off the engine at the toll booth and asked for help?
I'm not sure how the codecs actually encode, but I suspect that at the lower bitrate, you're getting digital distortion (very unpleasant) in addition to the analog distortion.
Most modern tape equipment has pretty much little to no track bleed/crosstalk (if properly maintained). There are way more variables that affect a tape that don't exist in the digital realm (speed, bias, tape material, wow and flutter, etc).
I think you're thinking of tape saturation, which is something entirely different.
I have an iMac which came with Tiger, have Leopard, just never installed it (so I have a valid Leopard license). Does this mean to get iLife and iWork I need to go to Leopard, then to Snow Leopard?
How do you even go 9 days without sleep? The longest workday I ever put in was just over 24 hours and I was already completely wrecked by the end of that. How in the world do you manage 9 days? It may just incomprehensible to me because I'm not one of those people who brag about how little sleep I get/need.
Coke, perhaps?
I've done 36 hours on, 4 off for a week when I was way younger (this was during internet time, and without drugs). It's the reason I left IT.
But I've known cokeheads who can do 3-4 days easy.
I don't disagree with your sentiment, just pointing out a factual error. S/PDIF (which stands for Sony/Phillips Digital Interconnect Format), most assuredly does contain drm
AES/EBU, the open standard you're thinking of (of which S/PDIF is a subset) does not.
No. They totally missed the point before, and it sounds like now they're just trying to latch on to an idea that helped others. The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
This is a common mis-perception shared by most musicians.
The second a musician makes their art for sale, be it by paid download or signing to a label, the point becomes to make a profit.
There are plenty of musicians out there who lay down tracks simply for their own (or their friends' - which can be the world if they offer free downloads) enjoyment.
I don't know about you, but I've been getting crappy results with simple searches in Google recently.
Used to be I wanted to find take out taxi or a random restaurant menu here in the DC area, no problem, first hit (I didn't event need to specify Alexandria VA or Alexandria LA), now I get a whole bunch of random crap, none which is what I'm looking for.
Even finding technical issues for stuff posting on mailing lists is a problem.
Advertising *is* diluting Google's product. It's the reason I switched from Yahoo, Ultraseek, etc. And, if something comes up that's better, I'll gladly switch again.
I don't care what whiz bang shit you have, if you can't find me what I want, you're useless as a search engine.
The point being, secrecy isn't bad when it works, but when it doesn't, you're in for a world of hurt, especially when you're in highly substitutable businesses such as search engines and ad banner generators.
It's more complex than this. I'm part of a small VC firm here in NoVA, and here's the differences I see from Silicon Valley:
1) Unwillingness to take risks. DC area is an entitlement society borne about due to the fact that the federal government is here. No one understands the concept that if you are CEO of a startup, you are *not* entitled to ridiculous compensation. Your pay is enough to cover your bills, no more, no less. Your payoff is when the company flourishes. 2) No cross fertilization. Again, this stems from the fact that lots of work here is classified. In the Valley, it's not unusual for someone to go from HP to Sun to Oracle to whatever startup and back again. 3) Fear of failure. The DC area is way too conservative to deal with the status loss that occurs from failing at a venture, and not having enough money to keep up with the neighbors (see point #1).
It's been a while since I've done database stuff (pretty much Oracle), but, how about:
set transaction read only
or
selecting off a database view. we used to do this when we wanted to enforce read only. i know nowadays there's updatable views, but i imagine there's a way to use the old behavior (i'm just too lazy to look it up).
I really wanted to use mod points for this discussion, but I decided to give my $.02 here.
Building software is no longer a sustainable business model. With outsourcing to the third world, and open source, there's no margin anymore. The only exception is for the big boys, who eat the little ones and become monopolistic (see Oracle, Microsoft). Or, the companies who become service companies primarily (RedHat, IBM, etc) and fund OSS.
All the advocates of the free market here on/. haven't realized the essential truth, the free market will eventually cause these monopolies due to what I've outlined in the paragraph above.
The same thing happened in the telecom sector (deregulation followed by consolidation) because of the invisible hand of the free market. Why is everyone surprised that the same is happening in software?
... things like building a pre-emptible kernel (multimedia performance is like night and day with it)?... the various sound daemons (and how to make sure they don't step on each other)?... comparisons between vendor supplied drivers and open source ones?
Have you tried Knoppmyth with front end only option? Or, if you want to repartition your drives, Knoppmyth will do that too.
As for the lack of documentation, use the (doxygen'd) source, luke (ok, even this site admits to the lack of documentation of the protocol, but, a good programmer should be able to figure it out).
Yeah, now that I have distcc and ccache up, things are much nicer for long compiles.
Right now I have a spare sparc and my laptop in the distcc cluster crosscompiling. I used Dan Kegel's crosstool to build the tool chains on sparc and cygwin.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help the java and install parts of OO (which seems to spend a lot of time generating what looks like NLS stuff).
... on the east coast of the US. They're called turnpikes (or toll roads, or throughways). No one's stopping you from going from NYC to Albany via the Taconic, or Miami to Orlando via I-95 to I-10. If you want to get there quicker, you use the NYS Throughway or Florida Turnpike.
And, what's more, you have EZ-Pass (which I believe costs $1/month + the actual tolls) so you can go faster through the toll booths.
Plus, nowadays, many state governments are considering/have implemented HOT lanes (basically single car HOV lanes with a toll for access).
There's always the old Prismiq media player, does video too for about $128.
Sadly, the box is very customizable (it's just a linux kernel, and the company open sourced a good portion of the client software, too little too late). Due to lack of inertia, there's not very much developer support.
if they moved it to Broadway. Considering the trend to make movies/books into musicals that's there right now.
To wit, the following musicals are currently showing or coming to the great white way (courtesy of Broadway.com:
Lestat (based upon Anne Rice's "The Vampire Lestat") Spamalot (based upon "Monty Python and the Holy Grail") The Color Purple (guaranteed to win some Tony's because Oprah's backing it) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Producers (yes, I know it's about backing a failing musical, but come on) Wicked (from the book of the same name).
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So, let me get this straight, your wife had a runaway vehicle and decided to blow through toll booths and not just stop the car to save on towing?
Gee, it's a good thing that no one was trying to cross from toll booth to toll booth, or, say slowly trying to pass another car taking all the lanes so she couldn't get by them. One would think that worrying about potential pedestrians/other cars that could be hit would override the worry about the tow cost.
Perhaps, she should have, I don't know, maybe shut off the engine at the toll booth and asked for help?
It's also pretty much covered in every book about the recording industry.
See, for example:
Confessions of a Record Producer by Moses Avalon
What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business by Peter Thall
And numerous others.
Want to change your collection to ogg because it sounds better at lower bitrates?
Ogg is a container, not a codec. You can put Flac in an Ogg container, just like you can put PCM/AC3, etc in an MPEG2 container. Vorbis is a codec.
Sorry, that just always annoys me :)
I'm not sure how the codecs actually encode, but I suspect that at the lower bitrate, you're getting digital distortion (very unpleasant) in addition to the analog distortion.
Most modern tape equipment has pretty much little to no track bleed/crosstalk (if properly maintained). There are way more variables that affect a tape that don't exist in the digital realm (speed, bias, tape material, wow and flutter, etc).
I think you're thinking of tape saturation, which is something entirely different.
I'm curious about this statement.
I have an iMac which came with Tiger, have Leopard, just never installed it (so I have a valid Leopard license). Does this mean to get iLife and iWork I need to go to Leopard, then to Snow Leopard?
Twitter/Facebook down, recession declared over.
Coincidence? I think not...
You might have to go to the Pure Data solution anyway as Cycling '74 is discontinuing Max/MSP
How do you even go 9 days without sleep? The longest workday I ever put in was just over 24 hours and I was already completely wrecked by the end of that. How in the world do you manage 9 days? It may just incomprehensible to me because I'm not one of those people who brag about how little sleep I get/need.
Coke, perhaps?
I've done 36 hours on, 4 off for a week when I was way younger (this was during internet time, and without drugs). It's the reason I left IT.
But I've known cokeheads who can do 3-4 days easy.
I don't disagree with your sentiment, just pointing out a factual error. S/PDIF (which stands for Sony/Phillips Digital Interconnect Format), most assuredly does contain drm
AES/EBU, the open standard you're thinking of (of which S/PDIF is a subset) does not.
That's a pretty good description of ducking. Although since the OP wanted to entirely mute the audio, s/he'd be better off using a limiter or a gate.
A limiter is a compressor with more than 20:1 reduction. A gate is (sort of) a compressor with an infinity:1 ratio.
And, if you didn't want to pay for a compressor/limiter/gate, you could probably figure out a way to get Ardour to do it.
But muting the speakers is probably the easiest way.
Or maybe in Redmond. Hence the alternate theory that she is there and framing him.
"In Soviet Russia, wife kills you".
No. They totally missed the point before, and it sounds like now they're just trying to latch on to an idea that helped others. The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
This is a common mis-perception shared by most musicians.The second a musician makes their art for sale, be it by paid download or signing to a label, the point becomes to make a profit.
There are plenty of musicians out there who lay down tracks simply for their own (or their friends' - which can be the world if they offer free downloads) enjoyment.
I don't know about you, but I've been getting crappy results with simple searches in Google recently.
Used to be I wanted to find take out taxi or a random restaurant menu here in the DC area, no problem, first hit (I didn't event need to specify Alexandria VA or Alexandria LA), now I get a whole bunch of random crap, none which is what I'm looking for.
Even finding technical issues for stuff posting on mailing lists is a problem.
Advertising *is* diluting Google's product. It's the reason I switched from Yahoo, Ultraseek, etc. And, if something comes up that's better, I'll gladly switch again.
I don't care what whiz bang shit you have, if you can't find me what I want, you're useless as a search engine.
The point being, secrecy isn't bad when it works, but when it doesn't, you're in for a world of hurt, especially when you're in highly substitutable businesses such as search engines and ad banner generators.
It's more complex than this. I'm part of a small VC firm here in NoVA, and here's the differences I see from Silicon Valley:
1) Unwillingness to take risks. DC area is an entitlement society borne about due to the fact that the federal government is here. No one understands the concept that if you are CEO of a startup, you are *not* entitled to ridiculous compensation. Your pay is enough to cover your bills, no more, no less. Your payoff is when the company flourishes.
2) No cross fertilization. Again, this stems from the fact that lots of work here is classified. In the Valley, it's not unusual for someone to go from HP to Sun to Oracle to whatever startup and back again.
3) Fear of failure. The DC area is way too conservative to deal with the status loss that occurs from failing at a venture, and not having enough money to keep up with the neighbors (see point #1).
It's been a while since I've done database stuff (pretty much Oracle), but, how about:
set transaction read only
or
selecting off a database view. we used to do this when we wanted to enforce read only. i know nowadays there's updatable views, but i imagine there's a way to use the old behavior (i'm just too lazy to look it up).
I really wanted to use mod points for this discussion, but I decided to give my $.02 here.
/. haven't realized the essential truth, the free market will eventually cause these monopolies due to what I've outlined in the paragraph above.
Building software is no longer a sustainable business model. With outsourcing to the third world, and open source, there's no margin anymore. The only exception is for the big boys, who eat the little ones and become monopolistic (see Oracle, Microsoft). Or, the companies who become service companies primarily (RedHat, IBM, etc) and fund OSS.
All the advocates of the free market here on
The same thing happened in the telecom sector (deregulation followed by consolidation) because of the invisible hand of the free market. Why is everyone surprised that the same is happening in software?
... things like building a pre-emptible kernel (multimedia performance is like night and day with it)? ... the various sound daemons (and how to make sure they don't step on each other)? ... comparisons between vendor supplied drivers and open source ones?
Those would be helpful.
Have you tried Knoppmyth with front end only option? Or, if you want to repartition your drives, Knoppmyth will do that too.
As for the lack of documentation, use the (doxygen'd) source, luke (ok, even this site admits to the lack of documentation of the protocol, but, a good programmer should be able to figure it out).
Yeah, now that I have distcc and ccache up, things are much nicer for long compiles.
Right now I have a spare sparc and my laptop in the distcc cluster crosscompiling. I used Dan Kegel's crosstool to build the tool chains on sparc and cygwin.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help the java and install parts of OO (which seems to spend a lot of time generating what looks like NLS stuff).
... on the east coast of the US. They're called turnpikes (or toll roads, or throughways). No one's stopping you from going from NYC to Albany via the Taconic, or Miami to Orlando via I-95 to I-10. If you want to get there quicker, you use the NYS Throughway or Florida Turnpike.
And, what's more, you have EZ-Pass (which I believe costs $1/month + the actual tolls) so you can go faster through the toll booths.
Plus, nowadays, many state governments are considering/have implemented HOT lanes (basically single car HOV lanes with a toll for access).
Or were you being sarcastic?
There's always the old Prismiq media player, does video too for about $128.
Sadly, the box is very customizable (it's just a linux kernel, and the company open sourced a good portion of the client software, too little too late). Due to lack of inertia, there's not very much developer support.
Then I guess I must have this gene in spades (yes, I RTFA) because I've been given moderator access 4 times in the last month.
just search for:
#if 0
XXX
FIXME
if they moved it to Broadway. Considering the trend to make movies/books into musicals that's there right now.
To wit, the following musicals are currently showing or coming to the great white way (courtesy of Broadway.com:
Lestat (based upon Anne Rice's "The Vampire Lestat")
Spamalot (based upon "Monty Python and the Holy Grail")
The Color Purple (guaranteed to win some Tony's because Oprah's backing it)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Producers (yes, I know it's about backing a failing musical, but come on)
Wicked (from the book of the same name).
So, why not a musical based upon Star Wars?