I just read this article: America is no longer free.
Of course, that's one man's opinion. And as much as I'd love to
believe anything anyone says, I had to research it. Which brought
me to this: MCA2006. Which I'm not patient enough to read at this hour. And that guys a lawyer, so he really should know, right??
I didn't think that Teflon was in use anymore. Then I open October's 'Cooking Light' magazine and see an ad for it (on page 167.) It wasn't an ad for any particular piece of Teflon cloated cookware, it was an ad about how safe Teflon really is. Here's the link that they want you to visit in the ad: http://www.teflon.com/learnmore
I'm not going to say that Teflon is safe or unsafe. It's really a
moot point for me. We have anodized aluminum cookware now.
Teflon is so 1995.
Zune doesn't support PlayForSure
If I had purchased media with MS's DRM format and I purchased MS's media player, I'd assume compatibility, but no. It doesn't work like that. Way to go. Confuse the customers even more.
AND why don't you go and piss off the creators and distributors of content by recommending circumvention of the DMCA (see postscript).
Now your product is doomed. It won't be widely accepted in the marketplace and you'll have problems getting content to go on it. Only Microsoft could screw it up this bad.
I'm sure everyone noticed the new iTunes that was released this
week. It has a lot of cool new features in it, but my favorite
one is skip count. It will count how many times that you say
'next' per track. I've been wanting that feature since before
play count was released (and no, I can't tell you what version of
iTunes first included play count.)
I can make smart playlists that exclude tracks that I've skipped a bunch. Now if I can only get my girlfriend to stop skipping Freddie Freeloader...
Oh yeah, and CoverFlow is cool too.
What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cathttp://www.vox.com, of course!
And I'm taking about Angel Food Cake, of course.
Last weekend I
ruined an Angel Food Cake just by picking up the wrong dish. This
dish had a mixture of sugar, salt, and (ugh) flour. I was
supposed to pick up the sugar ONLY dish. oops.
Tonight I picked up the right dish at the right time. All 12 egg whites coalesced into the perfect foam. The sugar added sweetness, the flour mixture was folded in properly and the result is sitting on a cooling rack.
Here is the recipe I used: Alton Brown's Angel Food Cake Alton Brown knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. That's why I know WHY the flour ruined the mix. Not that it really matters, but it's more fun that way.
Anyway, time to eat!
How well do you know your next-door neighbors?
All too well, and I can tell you that they have exceptionally bad taste in music.
What did you do this weekend?
This weekend I decided to give lossless audio compression a try. Disks are only going to get bigger. And that includes iPods. Why should I compress my audio with lossfull encodings (such as MP3)?
So I took a few disks and encoded them in iTunes using Apple's Lossless Encoder. It appears that this is just an AAC file at a higher bit rate. The bit rate depends on the disk in question. John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme Deluxe Edition" (2 disk set) takes up 154.4MB using 192kbps MP3 and 529.4MB using ALE. That's just 3.4x the disk space for the 'good as original' encoding. I call that not bad, not bad at all. If they all encode like that, then my 30 GB iPod can 'only' hold 2200 songs (7500/3.4). I can certainly deal with that. The only question now is: How long will my battery last if I'm only playing ALE encoded songs?
In a few years we'll have computers that can re-encode that to MP3 on the fly for use in smaller iPods (like today's nano.) But in a few years, the nano will hold 30GB, so what's the point of that? Battery life??
Should I be encoding using ALE?
My worst traveling experience was a flight from San Jose to Seattle via Reno via Salt Lake City via Spokane, all standby because they were overbooked.
Centipede! no, Tempest! NO, Robotron!! yeah
I don't play arcade games now.
