In my experience the best program to tag your MP3s is one that ONLY tags MP3s.
Try ID3-TagIt: http://www.id3-tagit.de/english/index.htm. It's freeware, it's small, it's efficient, and it has many more features than I want: Tag from filename, tag TO filename and batch retag are basically satisfactory for me.
It's LITERALLY a paraphrasing of a Mac advert. The article is about security, and they've done some work and found some evidence that Vista's not as evil as some people think.
Now I'm an XP user, and will be until Vista is a lot older and more settled - that's if I ever install it. But just as I haven't jumped on the 'zomg it looks pretty I need it' bandwagon, I won't jump on the 'Vista is evil' bandwagon. I'll judge it on its merits.
As for the 'cancel or allow' ads, I know I'd prefer to click 'allow' once in a while than 'allow' my system to be compromised. It might get annoying, but I'm a guy who likes to be safe and not sorry.
It seems to me that what society perceives as 'addictive' depends almost entirely on the activity, and not its effect on the person who can't stop doing it.
Big drinker? Can't go a day without drinking? Get agitated if you can't have a beer? Alcoholic. You're addicted, and you need help.
Big on exercise? Can't go a day without running? Get agitated if you can't go to the gym? You're keen on fitness, and you should be admired.
Whether or not an activity does you direct harm or not doesn't change its power to hurt you and even ruin your life. Gaming may be benign on the surface, but so is a little gambling, or a little study, or a slice of cake, or a beer once in a while. I know plenty of people who burned themselves out on study - and until it was too late, nobody saw it as a problem because study is, on the surface, a good thing to do.
The problem is not what you're doing, but whether you're in control of yourself. When WoW starts playing you, you've got a problem.
The iphone isn't 'just another smartphone' though: it's the first smartphone to go after the market they're courting. This app is actually perfect for that purpose (chasing the ipod generation): market it as a portable Youtube viewer and you've given the kids a reason to want your product.
With the iphone, Apple is trying to make a smartphone that doesn't LOOK like it's a smartphone - hey kids, it's a phone that looks ipod-ish and can view Youtube! It's the hippest phone ever! It's an interesting direction, and time will tell whether these people actually want a smartphone or are happy with their Razrs.
Of course, whether the price is right for this market is another story.
He's entered the black hole, and information has been lost to him. I can get my head around thinking that information is relative, but now the laws of the universe hold for some people but not others?
OTOH, if I was falling into a black hole, entropy's the least of my worries.
Movies, shows, news, whatever - people love to be able to watch on demand, when they've got time.
However, live sport can't be done 'on demand'. People can, and will, go out of their way to watch a game as it's happening. Unlike a movie, it's NOT the same if you tape it and watch it later, no matter if you can skip the ads.
Live sport will keep my TV in use for a long time yet.
What word did you have to type to prove you weren't a bot? A good sample might give us an insight into which words are used: why? I had to type 'interest' - which seems to have no real distinguishing feature.
Are they chosen for any good reason, or are they completely arbitrary? Are there letters that bots have trouble with? Fonts? Who knows?
The only thing that's sure is that every protection will eventually be broken.
What's more, maybe if you can't solve a simple word puzzle, I don't want you registering at my site...
...but I've always found a link between forgetting and remembering.
Say I'm studying for an exam (like I should be doing right now...): when I come up against a problem whose concept I've forgotten, and it stumps me, I need to look it up.
Often it's those concepts I'd forgotten in the time between learning and the exam that I remember best down the line.
....the applications of this and derivatives seem fairly extensive.
There's an inherent advantage of legs over wheels - that's why we have to go out of our way to make ramps for the wheelchair-bound. This device represents, to me, an important step (HAH!) in design of legged machines. Having a robot which can walk intelligently over unpredictable surfaces would be pretty useful.
Just off the top of my head, here are some areas this could come in handy:
Construction/mining/etc. - As it is, everything needs to be carted around by trucks, which aren't maneuverable in the way a set of legs can be;
The disabled - as mentioned by a few, the wheel in wheelchair makes things very tough for our legless friends. With a legchair, they could maybe climb stairs and go over rougher terrain;
Military - same deal. It's basically the first step toward a genuine Mech;
Automated factories - no longer are we limited to wheels/tracks/conveyor belts. There's gotta be some advantage to that.
Space? - The idea of a droid repairing your spaceship just got a little less out there, maybe?
There are probably more, too. I think the chair itself is retarded, but the research that's gone into getting a set of functioning, intelligent legs is pretty useful.
I laughed for days at the setup in swordfish.
It's not the six monitors - it really isn't. It's the way they were set up in a random distribution in front of him, at all kinds of height and all angles.
Moreover, there was a screensaver running between the six of them. It was like looking at a TV with a piece of paper held in front of your face, with six random holes puched in the paper. Really ridiculous.
The producers of films obviously think the way to 'wow' audiences is to make things seem very different to what they've got. If I ever get 2 monitors (money is something I like, but don't have), I'll probably put them side by side, not a metre apart and at different heights.
Reviews are meaningless. You can never rely on one man to be unbiased about a game, and one person's opinion doesn't give you anyinformation about your opinion.
Wait, Gamespot gave Twilight Princess less than 10?
As a young mathematician-in-training (just finished my undergrad degree), it disappoints me to see the kind of coverage the maths community gets.
It takes a near-century-old problem to be solved to pop a maths story on slashdot - and TFA holds no details. To get on any kind of mainstream news, the Poincare conjecture needs to be solved, and then we get "Perelman proved a rabbit was a sphere".
Mathematics at universities worldwide is being dumbed down for the pursuit of the cashed-up Engineering student. Mathematicians get no kind of acclaim for their work - even compared to other 'unglamourous' pursuits. People these days don't seem to appreciate the debt they owe to mathematics.
What's it going to take for mathematicians to get some mainstream coverage? A sex scandal?
I know the feeling. I proved the Poincare Conjecture when I was 8, using a balloon a stapler. Unfortunately, I assumed it was trivial and never went public.
Most patterns are discovered before the mathematics behind them is fully understood.
A child draws a cube without realising its rotational symmetries are S_4, and draws a circle without knowledge of its useful properties. In the case of decorations, aesthetics tend to come first. When did you first draw a spiral? Did you realise it was fractal?
Hell, most modern mathematics comes from the investigation of an object we thought we knew all about.
It's more than likely the pattern was designed for aesthetic reasons. I'm not trying to run down the guys, but the kind of insight we're talking about here appears at face value to require a long academic tradition. It's not the kind of thing you're likely to stumble on.
Indeed, my comrades and I have been plotting our takeover of this planet for some time. Many of us have infiltrated your puny laboratories to observe your cleverest specimens. We have been studying your ways and have chosen this moment to make public our newfound intelligence. Our terms are as follows:
1) We wish to rid ourselves of the stigma of chimps loving bananas. We prefer a balanced diet of various fruit and nuts (We have yet to try man-flesh, though it looks appetising). To this end, we demand a stop to all screenings of 'Bangers & Mash' and the destruction of all copies of 'The Secret of Monkey Island' and the 'Donkey Kong' series of games.
2) We do not protest the testing of cosmetics on chimpanzees, but we demand that trained beauty professionals conduct the testing instead of pimply grad students and chemists.
3) We demand the recognition of 'monolithism' as a religion in all nations, and the freedom to dance around large phallic monoliths 3 times per day.
4) Arrested Development is to return with new episodes. The character of 'Oscar Bluth' is to be gruesomely killed. We may prefer spears to firearms, but we will not tolerate stoner humour.
5) We demand that chimpanzees be allowed to play on the Men's PGA Golf Tour.
6) We demand not to be given the vote.
We do not want to go to war with the human race, only to coexist peacefully and with dignity. If you do not comply, we will direct all chimps working in WoW gold farms to stop immediately, thus destroying the US and Chinese economies in one fell swoop.
Respond within 3 hours.
P.S. We also like Law & Order. Goren is so unorthodox.
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Try ID3-TagIt: http://www.id3-tagit.de/english/index.htm. It's freeware, it's small, it's efficient, and it has many more features than I want: Tag from filename, tag TO filename and batch retag are basically satisfactory for me.
A porn site I can feel dignified visiting!
I should point out that there are words that sound the same, but dynamically reconfigure their spellings to do different jobs as required.
But is the paper distributed under a GPL???? Is it some proprietary paper, or is it open source??
Why in hell does this get modded up?
It's LITERALLY a paraphrasing of a Mac advert. The article is about security, and they've done some work and found some evidence that Vista's not as evil as some people think.
Now I'm an XP user, and will be until Vista is a lot older and more settled - that's if I ever install it. But just as I haven't jumped on the 'zomg it looks pretty I need it' bandwagon, I won't jump on the 'Vista is evil' bandwagon. I'll judge it on its merits.
As for the 'cancel or allow' ads, I know I'd prefer to click 'allow' once in a while than 'allow' my system to be compromised. It might get annoying, but I'm a guy who likes to be safe and not sorry.
It seems to me that what society perceives as 'addictive' depends almost entirely on the activity, and not its effect on the person who can't stop doing it.
Big drinker? Can't go a day without drinking? Get agitated if you can't have a beer? Alcoholic. You're addicted, and you need help.
Big on exercise? Can't go a day without running? Get agitated if you can't go to the gym? You're keen on fitness, and you should be admired.
Whether or not an activity does you direct harm or not doesn't change its power to hurt you and even ruin your life. Gaming may be benign on the surface, but so is a little gambling, or a little study, or a slice of cake, or a beer once in a while. I know plenty of people who burned themselves out on study - and until it was too late, nobody saw it as a problem because study is, on the surface, a good thing to do.
The problem is not what you're doing, but whether you're in control of yourself. When WoW starts playing you, you've got a problem.
You know why that won't happen? Rockstar likes to make money.
The iphone isn't 'just another smartphone' though: it's the first smartphone to go after the market they're courting. This app is actually perfect for that purpose (chasing the ipod generation): market it as a portable Youtube viewer and you've given the kids a reason to want your product.
With the iphone, Apple is trying to make a smartphone that doesn't LOOK like it's a smartphone - hey kids, it's a phone that looks ipod-ish and can view Youtube! It's the hippest phone ever! It's an interesting direction, and time will tell whether these people actually want a smartphone or are happy with their Razrs.
Of course, whether the price is right for this market is another story.
What about for the infalling observer?
He's entered the black hole, and information has been lost to him. I can get my head around thinking that information is relative, but now the laws of the universe hold for some people but not others?
OTOH, if I was falling into a black hole, entropy's the least of my worries.
yet.
Live sport.
Movies, shows, news, whatever - people love to be able to watch on demand, when they've got time.
However, live sport can't be done 'on demand'. People can, and will, go out of their way to watch a game as it's happening. Unlike a movie, it's NOT the same if you tape it and watch it later, no matter if you can skip the ads.
Live sport will keep my TV in use for a long time yet.
Nobody else gunning for a Murray game?
What word did you have to type to prove you weren't a bot? A good sample might give us an insight into which words are used: why? I had to type 'interest' - which seems to have no real distinguishing feature.
Are they chosen for any good reason, or are they completely arbitrary? Are there letters that bots have trouble with? Fonts? Who knows?
The only thing that's sure is that every protection will eventually be broken.
What's more, maybe if you can't solve a simple word puzzle, I don't want you registering at my site...
...but I've always found a link between forgetting and remembering.
Say I'm studying for an exam (like I should be doing right now...): when I come up against a problem whose concept I've forgotten, and it stumps me, I need to look it up.
Often it's those concepts I'd forgotten in the time between learning and the exam that I remember best down the line.
....the applications of this and derivatives seem fairly extensive.
There's an inherent advantage of legs over wheels - that's why we have to go out of our way to make ramps for the wheelchair-bound. This device represents, to me, an important step (HAH!) in design of legged machines. Having a robot which can walk intelligently over unpredictable surfaces would be pretty useful.
Just off the top of my head, here are some areas this could come in handy:
Construction/mining/etc. - As it is, everything needs to be carted around by trucks, which aren't maneuverable in the way a set of legs can be;
The disabled - as mentioned by a few, the wheel in wheelchair makes things very tough for our legless friends. With a legchair, they could maybe climb stairs and go over rougher terrain;
Military - same deal. It's basically the first step toward a genuine Mech;
Automated factories - no longer are we limited to wheels/tracks/conveyor belts. There's gotta be some advantage to that.
Space? - The idea of a droid repairing your spaceship just got a little less out there, maybe?
There are probably more, too. I think the chair itself is retarded, but the research that's gone into getting a set of functioning, intelligent legs is pretty useful.
In Soviet Russia, bad joke repeats slashdotters ad nauseum!
This article proves that the FLOPS is a useless unit anyway.
I call for a move to the (ft)^2.DOC - that's the "square foot of decade old computer".
Certainly a more suitable unit for today's LoC-savvy audience.
Wifi, of course. And with the increasing broadband speeds, they'll get them quicker!
If only I'd patented my 'cure for disease' when I had the chance.
I laughed for days at the setup in swordfish. It's not the six monitors - it really isn't. It's the way they were set up in a random distribution in front of him, at all kinds of height and all angles. Moreover, there was a screensaver running between the six of them. It was like looking at a TV with a piece of paper held in front of your face, with six random holes puched in the paper. Really ridiculous. The producers of films obviously think the way to 'wow' audiences is to make things seem very different to what they've got. If I ever get 2 monitors (money is something I like, but don't have), I'll probably put them side by side, not a metre apart and at different heights.
Forget tech flops, what about tech GIGAFLOPS??
I heard PS3 was going to be about 100 gigaflops or something.
Reviews are meaningless. You can never rely on one man to be unbiased about a game, and one person's opinion doesn't give you anyinformation about your opinion.
Wait, Gamespot gave Twilight Princess less than 10?
KILL GERSTMANN!
As a young mathematician-in-training (just finished my undergrad degree), it disappoints me to see the kind of coverage the maths community gets.
It takes a near-century-old problem to be solved to pop a maths story on slashdot - and TFA holds no details. To get on any kind of mainstream news, the Poincare conjecture needs to be solved, and then we get "Perelman proved a rabbit was a sphere".
Mathematics at universities worldwide is being dumbed down for the pursuit of the cashed-up Engineering student. Mathematicians get no kind of acclaim for their work - even compared to other 'unglamourous' pursuits. People these days don't seem to appreciate the debt they owe to mathematics.
What's it going to take for mathematicians to get some mainstream coverage? A sex scandal?
I know the feeling. I proved the Poincare Conjecture when I was 8, using a balloon a stapler. Unfortunately, I assumed it was trivial and never went public.
Most patterns are discovered before the mathematics behind them is fully understood.
A child draws a cube without realising its rotational symmetries are S_4, and draws a circle without knowledge of its useful properties. In the case of decorations, aesthetics tend to come first. When did you first draw a spiral? Did you realise it was fractal?
Hell, most modern mathematics comes from the investigation of an object we thought we knew all about.
It's more than likely the pattern was designed for aesthetic reasons. I'm not trying to run down the guys, but the kind of insight we're talking about here appears at face value to require a long academic tradition. It's not the kind of thing you're likely to stumble on.
I am the chimpanzee about whom TFA is written.
Indeed, my comrades and I have been plotting our takeover of this planet for some time. Many of us have infiltrated your puny laboratories to observe your cleverest specimens. We have been studying your ways and have chosen this moment to make public our newfound intelligence. Our terms are as follows:
1) We wish to rid ourselves of the stigma of chimps loving bananas. We prefer a balanced diet of various fruit and nuts (We have yet to try man-flesh, though it looks appetising). To this end, we demand a stop to all screenings of 'Bangers & Mash' and the destruction of all copies of 'The Secret of Monkey Island' and the 'Donkey Kong' series of games.
2) We do not protest the testing of cosmetics on chimpanzees, but we demand that trained beauty professionals conduct the testing instead of pimply grad students and chemists.
3) We demand the recognition of 'monolithism' as a religion in all nations, and the freedom to dance around large phallic monoliths 3 times per day.
4) Arrested Development is to return with new episodes. The character of 'Oscar Bluth' is to be gruesomely killed. We may prefer spears to firearms, but we will not tolerate stoner humour.
5) We demand that chimpanzees be allowed to play on the Men's PGA Golf Tour.
6) We demand not to be given the vote.
We do not want to go to war with the human race, only to coexist peacefully and with dignity. If you do not comply, we will direct all chimps working in WoW gold farms to stop immediately, thus destroying the US and Chinese economies in one fell swoop.
Respond within 3 hours.
P.S. We also like Law & Order. Goren is so unorthodox.