Is it time to figure out what to do when your Napster WMA files go unsupported after Napster 2 dies?
Sure, use the age-old trick of defeating the copy-protection on your files: Get a 1/8" stereo mini-plug, and use it to loop from your audio to your microphone in. Then re-record all your music in a format that isn't crippled. You could even write a program to automate the process, although it would take as long to convert your files as your files are long in play time, unfortunately. But such is the nature of the analog 'last 1/2"' (distance between your sound card's audio out and audio in) solution.
Good point. You really can't do anything with just a closing brace, but you can do neat things with opening braces and no closing braces (infinite sets and what not).
I lived in Dresden last year, and things haven't been too wonderful there since reunification. Lots of people have been leaving the city to head west, where there are better jobs. The city of Dresden actually pays people 300,- just to move there from other parts of the country (I think some other cities in the eastern part of the country do this as well). That money will easily cover the first month of rent in most areas of the city -- everybody I met would pay about 150,- per month.
That said, this will certainly help bring a little more 'balance' to the country (the Dresden VW plant also helps). 1000 high-paying jobs means potentially 1000 families...lots of little kids that need schoolteachers, food, clothes. I'm sure that the AMD plant will bring in way more money than this in taxes after a few years anyway...
I ran Debian Linux on my ibook for about a year with absolutely no problems. The airport card it in even worked well. Installation is quite easy...book from a ramdisk image and do a net install, just like x86 (well, maybe an extra mouse click or two).
Switched to OS X when Jaguar came out, though, since it didn't suck (ie it had a decent, Apple-written X11 server).
Because I'm EXTREMELY shy, I don't feature dance, and I avoid conventions and industry events whenever possible.
'gotta love shy porn stars.
Re:Check it as a PERCENTAGE of his total wealth.
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In other words, if you go to church every Sunday and put $5 in the collection plate, you've given $60.
And tell me: do you go to church every Sunday and put $5 in the collection plate?
Which would be MORE than someone with ONE billion dollars giving away one hundred thousand dollars.
$100,000 > $60, even if the people donating the money have disparate incomes.
I'll be honest, the only donation I've ever made in my entire life was to the ACLU, and that was only $20. I'm a college student with no income to speak of, but Gates still has me beat (looking at this a little more objectively).
Also, keep in mind his Gates Foundation has a huge bank account (someone mentioned on the order of $45 billion, though I haven't verified that). Given such a large account, it can and probably will be a self-sustaining charity.
This would mean the Foundation living and donating off interest. It would also mean never needing future financial input. $60 could never hope to do that, even if it is the same percentage of income.
It probably has something to do with all the money he's donated to AIDS research and educational grants (warning, this link is to the gates foundation website so is certainly biased, but it does list the monetary amounts they've donated to various schools) in recent years.
I'll admit that he's not the best philanthropist, but he does donate a lot of money to a lot of organizations. He could just swim in it all day like Scrooge McDuck, so he deserves some definite props for doing what he does.
Don't sell him short just because he's mostly evil...
Reminds me of how this used to work when I was a child.
"Yeah, sorry I lied, but [big] brother made me do it..."
The article makes it sound like this was all completely voluntary though (ie the government simply asked for the information, no subpoenas and no PATRIOT act handwaving at how you can't mention that records were taken).
While speculation at best, it might be good to look into whether or not these "hints" you suggest were dropped.
Microsoft releases an NFS server for windows. Everybody starts using it. People stop paying attention to Samba. Some people stop working on Samba. Samba starts to lag behind Microsoft's SMB.
Then, Microsoft releases Windows 2005, and drops support for their NFS server. All the Unix people scramble at their lack of recent Samba development. Managers get pissed. Heads roll. Microsoft wins again.
Just looking at your uid, we can tell that you've been around a while. Most of us (probably) weren't around back then.
About the only kodak cameras we Gen X-ers and Gen Y-ers *might* have used would be the 110. I personally don't know anyone that actually owned one, but I do remember seeing a few of them around. Not very often, though. All my pals had Canon/Olympus/Whatever 35mm point-n-shoots growing up...
Am I the only one that sees yahoo investing?
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Wouldn't this be a smart move to make this "announcement" if yahoo wanted to invest in google's IPO?
Imagine this hypothetical scenario: Yahoo announces that they're dumping google as their search engine, just before google's IPO auction. People see this as bad news, and don't bid as much in the IPO. Yahoo can buy a lot more shares of google for less money. Yahoo then announces, "Oh, nevermind, we will use Google as our primary search engine still." Yahoo laughs all the way to the bank.
Maybe I'm just crazy. If I'm right, I'll have to start an investor's course or something.
Don't you mean, "Iraq is now a blank, unformatted hard disk whose heads have crashed."?
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Wasn't the XB-70 made in the early to mid sixties?
Also don't forget what happened to one of them. Making a big (ie passenger) aircraft that can fly that fast and that high and still be stable is ridiculously hard in the real world. Even modern-day 747s and other big round passenger aircraft are ridiculously UNstable, and require all sorts of computer operation to keep them from becoming overstressed and flying apart.
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Now, he's come up with RoboSapien, a toy that no self-respecting geek can go without.
At first glance, I thought this said "can go out with."
I'd suggest reading about the economy of orgasms as well.
Science is wonderful, isn't it?
Is it time to figure out what to do when your Napster WMA files go unsupported after Napster 2 dies?
Sure, use the age-old trick of defeating the copy-protection on your files: Get a 1/8" stereo mini-plug, and use it to loop from your audio to your microphone in. Then re-record all your music in a format that isn't crippled. You could even write a program to automate the process, although it would take as long to convert your files as your files are long in play time, unfortunately. But such is the nature of the analog 'last 1/2"' (distance between your sound card's audio out and audio in) solution.
Good point. You really can't do anything with just a closing brace, but you can do neat things with opening braces and no closing braces (infinite sets and what not).
Take that, SCO!
I lived in Dresden last year, and things haven't been too wonderful there since reunification. Lots of people have been leaving the city to head west, where there are better jobs. The city of Dresden actually pays people 300,- just to move there from other parts of the country (I think some other cities in the eastern part of the country do this as well). That money will easily cover the first month of rent in most areas of the city -- everybody I met would pay about 150,- per month.
That said, this will certainly help bring a little more 'balance' to the country (the Dresden VW plant also helps). 1000 high-paying jobs means potentially 1000 families...lots of little kids that need schoolteachers, food, clothes. I'm sure that the AMD plant will bring in way more money than this in taxes after a few years anyway...
That movie is going to have to star a real fat opera-singing chick.
Switched to OS X when Jaguar came out, though, since it didn't suck (ie it had a decent, Apple-written X11 server).
And by this I don't mean that linux sucks, I mean that MacOS 10.1 sucked.
I ran Debian Linux on my ibook for about a year with absolutely no problems. The airport card it in even worked well. Installation is quite easy...book from a ramdisk image and do a net install, just like x86 (well, maybe an extra mouse click or two).
Switched to OS X when Jaguar came out, though, since it didn't suck (ie it had a decent, Apple-written X11 server).
Am I not the only person that immediately thought of the Marauder's Map?
Kind of adds new meaning to that famous quote:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. clarke
military uses (maps anyone?)
Am I not the only person that immediately thought of the Marauder's Map?
Apparently size does matter, even if it's only a 0.86mm difference.
Don't you mean 0.034 inches?
*badum crash*
From her website:
Because I'm EXTREMELY shy, I don't feature dance, and I avoid conventions and industry events whenever possible.
'gotta love shy porn stars.
In other words, if you go to church every Sunday and put $5 in the collection plate, you've given $60.
And tell me: do you go to church every Sunday and put $5 in the collection plate?
Which would be MORE than someone with ONE billion dollars giving away one hundred thousand dollars.
$100,000 > $60, even if the people donating the money have disparate incomes.
I'll be honest, the only donation I've ever made in my entire life was to the ACLU, and that was only $20. I'm a college student with no income to speak of, but Gates still has me beat (looking at this a little more objectively).
Also, keep in mind his Gates Foundation has a huge bank account (someone mentioned on the order of $45 billion, though I haven't verified that). Given such a large account, it can and probably will be a self-sustaining charity.
This would mean the Foundation living and donating off interest. It would also mean never needing future financial input. $60 could never hope to do that, even if it is the same percentage of income.
It probably has something to do with all the money he's donated to AIDS research and educational grants (warning, this link is to the gates foundation website so is certainly biased, but it does list the monetary amounts they've donated to various schools) in recent years.
I'll admit that he's not the best philanthropist, but he does donate a lot of money to a lot of organizations. He could just swim in it all day like Scrooge McDuck, so he deserves some definite props for doing what he does.
Don't sell him short just because he's mostly evil...
Reminds me of how this used to work when I was a child.
"Yeah, sorry I lied, but [big] brother made me do it..."
The article makes it sound like this was all completely voluntary though (ie the government simply asked for the information, no subpoenas and no PATRIOT act handwaving at how you can't mention that records were taken).
While speculation at best, it might be good to look into whether or not these "hints" you suggest were dropped.
Yes, but how do lights, music, and smells accurately convey petrification?
I know it's fiction, but lets try and have a semi-believable premise, yes?
How's this:
Once upon, in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...
Think about it.
Microsoft releases an NFS server for windows. Everybody starts using it. People stop paying attention to Samba. Some people stop working on Samba. Samba starts to lag behind Microsoft's SMB.
Then, Microsoft releases Windows 2005, and drops support for their NFS server. All the Unix people scramble at their lack of recent Samba development. Managers get pissed. Heads roll. Microsoft wins again.
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around 1969 if I remember correctly
Just looking at your uid, we can tell that you've been around a while. Most of us (probably) weren't around back then.
About the only kodak cameras we Gen X-ers and Gen Y-ers *might* have used would be the 110. I personally don't know anyone that actually owned one, but I do remember seeing a few of them around. Not very often, though. All my pals had Canon/Olympus/Whatever 35mm point-n-shoots growing up...
Wouldn't this be a smart move to make this "announcement" if yahoo wanted to invest in google's IPO?
Imagine this hypothetical scenario: Yahoo announces that they're dumping google as their search engine, just before google's IPO auction. People see this as bad news, and don't bid as much in the IPO. Yahoo can buy a lot more shares of google for less money. Yahoo then announces, "Oh, nevermind, we will use Google as our primary search engine still." Yahoo laughs all the way to the bank.
Maybe I'm just crazy. If I'm right, I'll have to start an investor's course or something.
Lonely Planet is a registered trademark of Lonely Planet Publications.
I wonder if we'll be reading about a trademark infringement lawsuit?
Iraq is now a blank, unformatted hard disk
Don't you mean, "Iraq is now a blank, unformatted hard disk whose heads have crashed."?
Wasn't the XB-70 made in the early to mid sixties?
Also don't forget what happened to one of them. Making a big (ie passenger) aircraft that can fly that fast and that high and still be stable is ridiculously hard in the real world. Even modern-day 747s and other big round passenger aircraft are ridiculously UNstable, and require all sorts of computer operation to keep them from becoming overstressed and flying apart.
I take it you didn't get to the part of his review where Sauron wins, Gandalf dies, and the orcs take over Gondor.