You're probably right, but I'll speculate, anyway... even if the Shuffle doesn't know about mp3 tags (and it probably doesn't - it can't display any of them), it could still have an "album" concept, simply by putting different albums into different folders within its filesystem. Itunes, which does know about albums, builds that filesystem, so it could do the sorting, and let the iPod Shuffle jump from folder to folder when you hit the right key combination.
In-dash mp3 players do exactly this. I put one in my wife's van, one that lets you jump from folder to folder within the CDROM by clicking a button on the front panel. By organizing songs into folders one per album, you can jump from album to album using the folder button.
I understand that you have to sacrifice some things for a player as small an inexpensive as the Shuffle. However, its users shouldn't have to sacrifice more than necessary.
Who in their right mind buys memory from an OEM? Don't get on Apple's case about expensive memory, because it's true in the PC world too! Whether it's Dell, Sony, IBM, whoever - you're almost always better off dollarwise to buy your system with the least available memory, then buy the upgrade from someone else. With the exception of the occasional special deal, this has been true for as long as I can remember.
Of course, this begs the question: does the mini allow user upgrades? Can't check because the Apple site isn't responding at the moment, but that little box looks to be shut tighter than a virgin's iPod.
Welcome to a life less orderly. As official soundtrack to the random revolution, the iPod Shuffle Songs setting takes you on a unique journey through your music collection -- you never know what's around the next tune. Meet your new ride. More roadster than Rolls, iPod shuffle rejects routine by serving up your favorite songs in a different order every time. Just plug iPod shuffle into your computer's USB port, let iTunes Autofill it with up to 240 songs(1) and get a new experience with every connection. The trail you run every day looks different with an iPod shuffle. Daily gridlock feels less mundane when you don't know what song will play next. iPod shuffle adds musical spontaneity to your life. Lose control. Love it.
...left me wondering the same thing: Can you turn it off, or is play always random?
Now I'm wondering whether you can skip from album to album if you want to. Maybe by double-clicking the + button?
3 is "Get sued by MPAA anyway". Step 4 refers to the studios' profits.
Look, so long as the MPAA goons can trace at least one packet of a movie download to your IP address, you have liability. And with BT, as long as you're downloading, you're also uploading. Use torrent, and your ass is exposed, regardless of whether the index is centralized or decentralized. Call me paranoid, but that's how I look at it.
Surly is one of the Seven Duffs. Thus, "Surly bonds" is clearly a subtle reference to drunken S&M games like those shown in the episode "Marge's Little Dungeon of Horror" from the bootleg Simpsons Director's Cut that's currently making the rounds on Kazaa.
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The line between the mathematical half of the book and the historical is clearly defined; the odd-numbered chapters are devoted to the former, the even to the latter.
It's been a long time since I read Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach", but didn't it use the same kind of formula, alternating between dialogs and discussion chapters? I really loved that book. I've heard a lot of criticism of it from mathematicians and musicians, but that noise always sounded like so much professional nitpicking to me.
Good point. A better point is that people should have a choice. Password escrow services might be an answer. Another would be for online services to develop rights of survivorship and/or allow people to designate beneficiaries - just like I had to do when I set up a new bank account last week. Maybe some people don't need these things, but those that do should have the option.
Gawd, this has huge potential. You pull up next to some guy with huge ass thump-thump-thump speakers at a traffic light. Your automated IPV6 malware running in the laptop in the passenger seat hacks into his system as you watch cross-traffic drive through the intersection. As the left-turn arrow comes on his radio faceplate begins scrolling the text "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" as the radio begins ignoring all user input from the controls. As the light turns green and you drive away, his amp gain ramps down to zero - or turns itself all the way up, blowing out his speakers and his ears - your choice.
I have absolutely NO spam on my gmail account. Why? Because my email address is l1OO0100lO1l100lO1l01@gmail.com. Or 1O00100lO1l1O0lO110l@gmail.com. Or 100O100lOl11O0lO110l@gmail.com... I forget which. But that's an implementation detail; the important point is that I get absolutely no spam!
No. Differential GPS uses two GPS receivers, one of which is usually fixed at a well-known (ie accurately surveyed) location. That typically implies a land-based receiver.
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0103/differenti al 1of2.html
WAAS is like DGPS, except it uses two geostationary satellites.
Almost. WAAS uses land-based reference sites at accurately known locations. The satellites are used only for data relay; the reference sites provide all the correction data.
Not trying to correct you. On my first reading of your post, I thought you were saying the satellites were doing the GPS corrections. An incorrect inferrence on my part, but I thought I'd try to clarify.
So tell me something I've been wondering about... does the quality of your WAAS position improve if you're close to a reference site, or in a good geometry (HDOP-wise) relative to a set of sites?
WAAS satellites were launched AFTER SA was turned off.
And it's important to note that the WAAS satellites are used for data relay only. The positioning satellites are in lower 12-hour orbits.
If you ever look at a 3D display of earth-orbiting satellites, they tend to fall into 3 groups: the LEO (low earth orbit) satellites are those that appear to hug the earth - this includes the ISS and Shuttle when it's up. There's the geostationary satellites, which form a much higher ring around the Earth, and include the TV and communications relay satellites. WAAS satellites are among these, as are the US's TDRS. In-between these two is a smaller swarm of satellites, much higher than the LEO, but much lower than the geostationaries. These are in 12-hour orbits; a large segment of them are GPS satellites. (Actually, there's a fourth kind of oddball group of satellites in highly elliptical orbits, polar orbits, or highly inclined geosynchronous orbits. These tend to be scientific satellites.)
WAAS uses Geostationary Satellites to enhance (augment) GPS accuracy & precision in the USA.
WAAS uses geostationary satellites to relay data, but the important part is the network of 25 ground reference sites. This sites are precisely surveyed, and used to calculate correction data for the GPS signals. This correction data is periodically uplinked to the geostationary satellites, which relay the corrections to WAAS-equipped GPS receivers. The receivers use the correction data for their location to refine the GPS calculation.
When I worked in the seismic survey business, we looked at using this. I believe that's called Differential Carrier Phase mode. It's used to measure the distance between two GPS receivers, and it basically amounts to determining their distance by counting cycles of the GPS carrier signal. The two receivers must be fairly close - to within a few Km, I believe. This requirement made the mode too hard to use for offshore surveys, the area I worked in.
The poster was probably referring to Selective Availability (SA), an intentional degradation of GPS accuracy. Military-issue GPS devices could correct for the inaccuracy, but civilian units could not - although the military would publish "correction" factors two weeks later, so people using GPS for things such as offshore seismic surveys could get more accurate positions after the fact.
I've heard the story told - don't know if it's true or not - that during the first Persion Gulf war, the US military didn't have enough GPS receivers, and had to buy a bunch off the shelf and give them to their infantry units. So, during the invasion of Kuwait and Iraq they turned of SA and everyone's GPS data all over the world got better.
The DoD permanently switched off SA sometime recently - in 2000, I believe. Turning off SA improved GPS accuracy from about 90m to about 15m. WAAS further improved that to about 5m. WAAS is only available in North America.
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You're probably right, but I'll speculate, anyway... even if the Shuffle doesn't know about mp3 tags (and it probably doesn't - it can't display any of them), it could still have an "album" concept, simply by putting different albums into different folders within its filesystem. Itunes, which does know about albums, builds that filesystem, so it could do the sorting, and let the iPod Shuffle jump from folder to folder when you hit the right key combination.
In-dash mp3 players do exactly this. I put one in my wife's van, one that lets you jump from folder to folder within the CDROM by clicking a button on the front panel. By organizing songs into folders one per album, you can jump from album to album using the folder button.
I understand that you have to sacrifice some things for a player as small an inexpensive as the Shuffle. However, its users shouldn't have to sacrifice more than necessary.
Who in their right mind buys memory from an OEM? Don't get on Apple's case about expensive memory, because it's true in the PC world too! Whether it's Dell, Sony, IBM, whoever - you're almost always better off dollarwise to buy your system with the least available memory, then buy the upgrade from someone else. With the exception of the occasional special deal, this has been true for as long as I can remember.
Of course, this begs the question: does the mini allow user upgrades? Can't check because the Apple site isn't responding at the moment, but that little box looks to be shut tighter than a virgin's iPod.
Do not eat iPod shuffle.
I guess that kind of idiotic disclaimer is inevitable when you compare an electronic device to a pack of chewing gum in a litigious society.
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Welcome to a life less orderly. As official soundtrack to the random revolution, the iPod Shuffle Songs setting takes you on a unique journey through your music collection -- you never know what's around the next tune. Meet your new ride. More roadster than Rolls, iPod shuffle rejects routine by serving up your favorite songs in a different order every time. Just plug iPod shuffle into your computer's USB port, let iTunes Autofill it with up to 240 songs(1) and get a new experience with every connection. The trail you run every day looks different with an iPod shuffle. Daily gridlock feels less mundane when you don't know what song will play next. iPod shuffle adds musical spontaneity to your life. Lose control. Love it.
Now I'm wondering whether you can skip from album to album if you want to. Maybe by double-clicking the + button?
3 is "Get sued by MPAA anyway". Step 4 refers to the studios' profits.
Look, so long as the MPAA goons can trace at least one packet of a movie download to your IP address, you have liability. And with BT, as long as you're downloading, you're also uploading. Use torrent, and your ass is exposed, regardless of whether the index is centralized or decentralized. Call me paranoid, but that's how I look at it.
Had the same problem after playing B&W, except my urge was to go slap a cow...
Surly is one of the Seven Duffs. Thus, "Surly bonds" is clearly a subtle reference to drunken S&M games like those shown in the episode "Marge's Little Dungeon of Horror" from the bootleg Simpsons Director's Cut that's currently making the rounds on Kazaa.
The line between the mathematical half of the book and the historical is clearly defined; the odd-numbered chapters are devoted to the former, the even to the latter.
It's been a long time since I read Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach", but didn't it use the same kind of formula, alternating between dialogs and discussion chapters? I really loved that book. I've heard a lot of criticism of it from mathematicians and musicians, but that noise always sounded like so much professional nitpicking to me.
let everyone burn for my sins
Hey, JESUS? Is that YOU, Jesus?
Oh wait... never mind.
Good point. A better point is that people should have a choice. Password escrow services might be an answer. Another would be for online services to develop rights of survivorship and/or allow people to designate beneficiaries - just like I had to do when I set up a new bank account last week. Maybe some people don't need these things, but those that do should have the option.
drive-by hackings
Gawd, this has huge potential. You pull up next to some guy with huge ass thump-thump-thump speakers at a traffic light. Your automated IPV6 malware running in the laptop in the passenger seat hacks into his system as you watch cross-traffic drive through the intersection. As the left-turn arrow comes on his radio faceplate begins scrolling the text "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" as the radio begins ignoring all user input from the controls. As the light turns green and you drive away, his amp gain ramps down to zero - or turns itself all the way up, blowing out his speakers and his ears - your choice.
I have absolutely NO spam on my gmail account. Why? Because my email address is l1OO0100lO1l100lO1l01@gmail.com. Or 1O00100lO1l1O0lO110l@gmail.com. Or 100O100lOl11O0lO110l@gmail.com... I forget which. But that's an implementation detail; the important point is that I get absolutely no spam!
Ask the grues. They know.
...they don't know what QQXXZZ.DLL is either.
In Windows XP, QQXXZZ.DLL was renamed to PLUGH.DLL
No. DGPS uses land-based antennas.
i al 1of2.html
No. Differential GPS uses two GPS receivers, one of which is usually fixed at a well-known (ie accurately surveyed) location. That typically implies a land-based receiver.
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0103/different
WAAS is like DGPS, except it uses two geostationary satellites.
Almost. WAAS uses land-based reference sites at accurately known locations. The satellites are used only for data relay; the reference sites provide all the correction data.
http://gpsinformation.net/exe/waas.html
Not trying to correct you. On my first reading of your post, I thought you were saying the satellites were doing the GPS corrections. An incorrect inferrence on my part, but I thought I'd try to clarify.
So tell me something I've been wondering about... does the quality of your WAAS position improve if you're close to a reference site, or in a good geometry (HDOP-wise) relative to a set of sites?
WAAS satellites were launched AFTER SA was turned off.
And it's important to note that the WAAS satellites are used for data relay only. The positioning satellites are in lower 12-hour orbits.
If you ever look at a 3D display of earth-orbiting satellites, they tend to fall into 3 groups: the LEO (low earth orbit) satellites are those that appear to hug the earth - this includes the ISS and Shuttle when it's up. There's the geostationary satellites, which form a much higher ring around the Earth, and include the TV and communications relay satellites. WAAS satellites are among these, as are the US's TDRS. In-between these two is a smaller swarm of satellites, much higher than the LEO, but much lower than the geostationaries. These are in 12-hour orbits; a large segment of them are GPS satellites. (Actually, there's a fourth kind of oddball group of satellites in highly elliptical orbits, polar orbits, or highly inclined geosynchronous orbits. These tend to be scientific satellites.)
WAAS uses Geostationary Satellites to enhance (augment) GPS accuracy & precision in the USA.
WAAS uses geostationary satellites to relay data, but the important part is the network of 25 ground reference sites. This sites are precisely surveyed, and used to calculate correction data for the GPS signals. This correction data is periodically uplinked to the geostationary satellites, which relay the corrections to WAAS-equipped GPS receivers. The receivers use the correction data for their location to refine the GPS calculation.
Didn't know that about India and Japan. WAAS uses land-base antennas, which is why it's geographically constrained.
As for the EU, I thought they were planning their own complete satellite-based positioning system, not just a WAAS implementation.
When I worked in the seismic survey business, we looked at using this. I believe that's called Differential Carrier Phase mode. It's used to measure the distance between two GPS receivers, and it basically amounts to determining their distance by counting cycles of the GPS carrier signal. The two receivers must be fairly close - to within a few Km, I believe. This requirement made the mode too hard to use for offshore surveys, the area I worked in.
The poster was probably referring to Selective Availability (SA), an intentional degradation of GPS accuracy. Military-issue GPS devices could correct for the inaccuracy, but civilian units could not - although the military would publish "correction" factors two weeks later, so people using GPS for things such as offshore seismic surveys could get more accurate positions after the fact.
I've heard the story told - don't know if it's true or not - that during the first Persion Gulf war, the US military didn't have enough GPS receivers, and had to buy a bunch off the shelf and give them to their infantry units. So, during the invasion of Kuwait and Iraq they turned of SA and everyone's GPS data all over the world got better.
The DoD permanently switched off SA sometime recently - in 2000, I believe. Turning off SA improved GPS accuracy from about 90m to about 15m. WAAS further improved that to about 5m. WAAS is only available in North America.
Maybe if her zeros were over my pole.
You just keep your pole in the left-hand plane, mister. I don't want your unstable mess all over the place!
hey baby, I'll be your derivative so I can be tangent to all your curves.
Wouldn't you rather be normal to her zeros?
...especially the detailed, in-depth research into topics such as "fluid-damped, mutually exciting, pair-coupled oscillators."