if you hold down control and click it does a right click, i find it easier than the two buttons on my other laptops. as for the nipple, well on my pc laptops thats all i use, because the trackpad SUCKS. the macbook's trackpad is much nicer and I'd pick it over the nipple any day
You gotta think about just what they're putting that music into, highest quality in the world won't matter for shit if your putting it into overdriven dime store earbuds
Compression meh, for some things you can tell the difference, IF you know what your listening to and know your equipment
Yes, an MP3 is probably about 10% the size of an uncompressed file, but MORE than 10% of the INFORMATION is there, not all of it is there, MP3 is a lossy compression scheme, yeh you lose data, BUT there are lossless compression schemes, and they still give you a file size smaller than uncompressed data.
Does any of this MATTER? um nope not to me, whoop de do the industry complains, does i care? NO. Should the rest of the world care? Well if you are an audiophile you probably already knew about it and already listen in a way that works for you. If your not an audiophile, probably doesn't matter much, your music sounded fine yesterday, should sound fine today.
NOTE:
i am a bit of an audiophile, good etymotic earphones, high quality cartridge in the record player, good cartridge amp and low noise preamp (with hand picked parts)
ALL of the music on my ipod is compressed, jethro tull sounds great, so does blue man group, Manhattan Transfer, and panic at the disco
and whenever they start teaching it i pull out my laptop and get back to working on whatever program i was coding last. as far as teaching technology at my school goes, well it sucks. Other than the programming classes, which are taught on a linux lab that is free of district bullshit and student maintained, all of the technology lessons are mostly repeats of what they taught us to do in elementary school. We recently got a brand new computer lab, new hp desktops with LCD's and win xp, but the district techs are idiots and the current technology specialist is an idiot and lazy. I don't go to a bad school ( well actually i do but for different reasons ) but why are districts always pushing bullshit that even the schools don't want?
among our districts genious decree's:
no linux webservers
linux is a social disease
sites about linux or open source are "hacking" and blocked
only the head district tech can get around content filtering ( not even the pricipals can bypass )
all internet for all the schools is routed through the district office
it goes on
WHY! WHY ARE IDIOTS RUNNING THE SCHOOLS? FUCKING THINK OF THE CHILDREN, THEY'RE SMARTER THAN YOU!
but the point is that if you throw a hardrive to a friend, say containing 40gb of data and the throw takes 4 seconds, then you have just achieved 10gigabytes per second bandwidth wirelessly!
Gotta love/. moderation. You get modded funny for pointing out that the parent pointed out that the parent got modded flamebait for correcting the spelling in his own post . . .
you can get a signal to and from orbit without using a dish, but thats putting out 5W, and the same with point to point microwave links of the 1950's, a lot higher power than off the shelf wireless gear and no amp
shroedinger was a famous veterinarian who liked to put cats in boxes with a vial of poison and a radioactive isotope. then if the isotope decayed the vial burst and the cat died. of course you couldn't tell if the cat was dead or not until you opened the box, but that spoiled the fun. so to please the humane society he decided that the cat was both dead and alive while in the box, thus proving the idiocy of humane societies.
some say he was a physicist but he was really a veterinarian who had been attacked by a cat during his childhood
or better yet, shell out the ca$h for quicktime pro which can do full screen
IMHO the whole defective by design thing is rubbish for both platforms, microsoft doesn't try to make their software buggy they just don't try as hard as some may want to make it more secure.
I also don't get the "nobody wants to hack a mac" argument, I know plenty of people who, if they could, would love to hack a mac just to prove that I'm wrong when I tell them that macs are more secure. People are out there that would hack a mac if they could, just to prove their point. Anyone who can release a large scale mac worm is going to get noticed, but it ain't happened yet. That to me says something about the design being a bit better.
and how long is it before someone figures out how to turn off phones whenever they want? is a cool idea to be sure, but methinks it is far to much room for mischief.
and such a system would inevitably be thrown out for the interference it would cause by sending out these "handset hint" signals
Slashdot Mirror
CTRL ALT F1 to enter a virtual terminal
last i checked Caltech was in america
um not according to my dictionary, perhaps you should try speaking american?
holy shit
if you hold down control and click it does a right click, i find it easier than the two buttons on my other laptops. as for the nipple, well on my pc laptops thats all i use, because the trackpad SUCKS. the macbook's trackpad is much nicer and I'd pick it over the nipple any day
You gotta think about just what they're putting that music into, highest quality in the world won't matter for shit if your putting it into overdriven dime store earbuds
Compression meh, for some things you can tell the difference, IF you know what your listening to and know your equipment
Yes, an MP3 is probably about 10% the size of an uncompressed file, but MORE than 10% of the INFORMATION is there, not all of it is there, MP3 is a lossy compression scheme, yeh you lose data, BUT there are lossless compression schemes, and they still give you a file size smaller than uncompressed data.
Does any of this MATTER? um nope not to me, whoop de do the industry complains, does i care? NO. Should the rest of the world care? Well if you are an audiophile you probably already knew about it and already listen in a way that works for you. If your not an audiophile, probably doesn't matter much, your music sounded fine yesterday, should sound fine today.
NOTE:
i am a bit of an audiophile, good etymotic earphones, high quality cartridge in the record player, good cartridge amp and low noise preamp (with hand picked parts)
ALL of the music on my ipod is compressed, jethro tull sounds great, so does blue man group, Manhattan Transfer, and panic at the disco
and whenever they start teaching it i pull out my laptop and get back to working on whatever program i was coding last. as far as teaching technology at my school goes, well it sucks. Other than the programming classes, which are taught on a linux lab that is free of district bullshit and student maintained, all of the technology lessons are mostly repeats of what they taught us to do in elementary school. We recently got a brand new computer lab, new hp desktops with LCD's and win xp, but the district techs are idiots and the current technology specialist is an idiot and lazy. I don't go to a bad school ( well actually i do but for different reasons ) but why are districts always pushing bullshit that even the schools don't want?
n ta+vista/
among our districts genious decree's:
no linux webservers
linux is a social disease
sites about linux or open source are "hacking" and blocked
only the head district tech can get around content filtering ( not even the pricipals can bypass )
all internet for all the schools is routed through the district office
it goes on
WHY! WHY ARE IDIOTS RUNNING THE SCHOOLS? FUCKING THINK OF THE CHILDREN, THEY'RE SMARTER THAN YOU!
and for anyone wondering what school this is, your answer is: Monta Vista, i suggest looking it up on urbandictionary.com
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mo
but the point is that if you throw a hardrive to a friend, say containing 40gb of data and the throw takes 4 seconds, then you have just achieved 10gigabytes per second bandwidth wirelessly!
now if only we could throw faster!
like an imac?
no he said santa cruz, no aliens just hippies, and surfer punks
then you wiretap all 50
Gotta love /. moderation. You get modded funny for pointing out that the parent pointed out that the parent got modded flamebait for correcting the spelling in his own post . . .
we tried that already, remember, the war to end all war, world war 1
guess it didn't work
And now a song for world war, 5 or is it 6?
<Tom Lehrer>
So long mom
I'm off to drop the bomb
So don't wait up for me
</Tom Lehrer>
you can get a signal to and from orbit without using a dish, but thats putting out 5W, and the same with point to point microwave links of the 1950's, a lot higher power than off the shelf wireless gear and no amp
shroedinger was a famous veterinarian who liked to put cats in boxes with a vial of poison and a radioactive isotope. then if the isotope decayed the vial burst and the cat died. of course you couldn't tell if the cat was dead or not until you opened the box, but that spoiled the fun. so to please the humane society he decided that the cat was both dead and alive while in the box, thus proving the idiocy of humane societies.
some say he was a physicist but he was really a veterinarian who had been attacked by a cat during his childhood
um his point was that the battery itself dies completely, which is also bogus but on a different count
slashdot did that when he logged in
only if your on windows
mac and linux seem to check spelling just fine without MS Office
or they could learn to spell, nah
is called a modbook
look it up
so use iTunes
or better yet, shell out the ca$h for quicktime pro which can do full screen
IMHO the whole defective by design thing is rubbish for both platforms, microsoft doesn't try to make their software buggy they just don't try as hard as some may want to make it more secure.
I also don't get the "nobody wants to hack a mac" argument, I know plenty of people who, if they could, would love to hack a mac just to prove that I'm wrong when I tell them that macs are more secure. People are out there that would hack a mac if they could, just to prove their point. Anyone who can release a large scale mac worm is going to get noticed, but it ain't happened yet. That to me says something about the design being a bit better.
now to find my fire suit before i get flamed
in an iron shroud
above the crowd
a metal beast endowed
bow and run for my life
yum install delicious
or apt-get install delicious
perhaps emerge delicious?
and how long is it before someone figures out how to turn off phones whenever they want? is a cool idea to be sure, but methinks it is far to much room for mischief.
and such a system would inevitably be thrown out for the interference it would cause by sending out these "handset hint" signals
yeh and i can start my new career designing them
*reads mail
shit just got drafted NVM
and will it get in a motorcycle accident with its son and need stitches?