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The autumn leaves drift by our windows and settle under our windows. We rake them and bag them. The days following a wind, we rake and bag and the scenario is repeated.
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When you think of fall-planted bulbs, it's usually the flowering kind - old standards like daffodils, tulips and hyacinth.
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Topic should be:Dibrom&John and others, how do you see the future of LAME?
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lame goals are:
- better low bitrates (IS and stuff)
- to tweak and add new presets (after new psy model?) in the entire range to get to the fullscale quality-based encoder similar to vorbis
or what?
The technical implementation is trivial really. It's who is running it, and how, that is important.
it does look like a hard task to implement considering all the known and half-known facts to me. I had HA community in mind of course.
I believe that I was that 3rd person for awhile. The problem is that for this situation to work, both parties have to participate equally. There was no shortage of users willing to provide feedback to the developers to improve quality, but there was little interest on the developer side in using that information and constantly providing improvements (again, we're seeing some now.. but a year after the fact, a time when many have lost interest in waiting).
that is a no-win situation...
For more information on this, I suggest going back and reading this thread:
i did read that thread some time ago and i must say that it looks kinda personal (and funny at the same time), so without knowing the exact background or being involved into lame-dev the end user (me included) can't really understand whats going on, or whats up with (or where they came from) 'front-ends' and 'feature oriented' stuff like that, although it is pretty clear that average end-user is not really important (for some lame-devs).
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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.
The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft's twist on email, Outlook.com, escalates an assault on rival services from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc. and a long list of Internet service providers.
As part of the process, all users of Microsoft's Hotmail and other email services operating under different domains such as MSN.com will be automatically converted to Outlook.com by the summer, if they don't voluntarily switch before then. All the old messages, contacts and settings in the old inboxes will be exported to Outlook.com. Users will also be able to keep their old addresses.
Email remains a key battleground, even at a time when more people are texting each other on phones.
People still regularly check their inboxes, albeit increasingly on their smartphones. The recurring email habit provides Internet companies a way to keep people coming back to websites. It gives people a reason to log in during their visits so it's easier for email providers to track their activities. Frequent visits and personal identification are two of the keys to selling ads, the main way most websites make money.
That's why Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have been retooling their email services in recent months.
After keeping Outlook.com in a "preview" phase since July 31, Microsoft Corp. is ready to accept all comers.
To welcome new users, Microsoft is financing what it believes to be the biggest marketing blitz in the history of email. Outlook.com will be featured in ads running on primetime TV, radio stations, websites, billboards and buses. Microsoft expects to spend somewhere between $30 million to $90 million on the Outlook campaign, which will run for at least three months.
The Outlook ads will overlap with an anti-Gmail marketing campaign that Microsoft launched earlier this month. The "Scroogled" attacks depict Gmail as a snoopy service that scans the contents of messages to deliver ads related to topics being discussed.
The Gmail ads are meant to be educational while the Outlook campaign is motivational, said Dharmesh Mehta, Outlook.com's senior director.
"We are trying to push people who have gotten lazy and comfortable with an email service that may not be all that great and help show them what email can really do for them," said Mehta.
By Microsoft's own admission, Hotmail had lost the competitive edge that once made it the world's largest email service. The lack of innovation left an opening for Google to exploit when it unveiled Gmail nearly nine years ago.
Gmail is now the industry leader, although estimates on its popularity vary.
Google says Gmail has more than 425 million accountholders, including those that only visit on smartphones and other mobile device. The latest data from research firm comScore, which doesn't include mobile traffic, shows Gmail with 306 million worldwide users through December, up 21 percent from the previous year. Yahoo's email ranked second with 293 million users, a 2 percent decrease from the previous year, followed by Hotmail at 267 million users, a 16 percent decline from the previous year.
Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is counting on Outlook.com to catapult the company back to the top of the email heap. During the preview period, Outlook attracted 60 million accountholders, including about 20 million that defected from Gmail, according to Microsoft. Comscore listed Outlook with 38 million users through December.
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The head of the IMF warned against the destabilizing effects of capital flooding into Asia and touted capital controls as a way to prevent another financial crisis.
Profit at Citigroup rose sharply in the third quarter as the bank set aside less money to cover bad debts. Emerging markets and trader finance were areas of strength, but retail banking in the U.S. was lackluster.
India was advised to withdraw its preliminary environmental clearances for a $12 billion Posco steel project. The review was done by a committee set up by the government to review the South Korean steel giant's plan.
Ford is in discussions to sell a large part of its stake in Japan's Mazda to Sumitomo Bank and affiliated companies.
BP agreed to sell energy assets in Venezuela and Vietnam to TNK-BP for $1.8 billion to help pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts offered as much as $1.73 billion to acquire the Australian wealth manager Perpetual.
Japanese company Rakuten and China's Baidu opened an online shopping mall in China, attempting to tap the nation's burgeoning Internet sector.
China was a net buyer of U.S. Treasury debt for a second straight month in August. The country has been cutting back on its holdings since late last year.
Goldman Sachs is taking its first steps in changing the way it does business following criticism of its actions before and during the financial crisis.
U.S. stocks gained as investors responded to stronger-than-expected earnings from Citigroup and encouraging news about confidence among home builders. Shares in Asia fell as commodity prices weakened.
The dollar surrendered most of its early gains against rivals as U.S. data painted a picture of an economy still struggling.
A strong performance during the holiday season could drive the luxury-goods industry to near-record sales for the year, a Bain study found.
Walter Kwok, the former chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, is co-founding a $1 billion property investment fund.
Boeing plans to test a commercial-jet biofuel in China, part of an effort to commercialize cleaner fuels and bolster China's potential as a biofuel provider.
Shares of Global Logistic Properties, a unit of the Government of Singapore Corp., rose nearly 11% above their IPO price on their first day of trading.
The auto industry is gambling that battery-powered cars will become big sellers, but many experts say the trade-offs and economics of the cars don't make sense for most drivers.
Fraud was rife in Afghan elections last month, observers said, and as much as a quarter of votes could be disqualified.
Hopes were fading for the remaining seven Chinese miners still missing after a gas leak Saturday at a mine in Henan province. Rescuers found four more bodies, raising the death toll to 30.
The two Koreas restored a key hot line that had been severed after the March sinking of a South Korean warship, another sign that tensions are easing.
Typhoon Megi killed at least three people in the northern Philippines, and was forecast to head next toward China and Vietnam, where recent floods unrelated the storm have caused 30 deaths.
Foreign journalists and observers won't be allowed into Myanmar to cover the military-ruled country's first election in 20 years next month, officials said.
France's air-traffic authority said that at least a third of flights to and from the nation's airports would be canceled Tuesday, as protests against proposed pension overhaul intensified.
Pirates are increasingly attacking ships in the South China Sea and Indonesian waters, but fewer incidents off Somalia have caused the total to fall slightly this year, a maritime watchdog said.
Republicans in the closest races for the U.S. Congress reported a fund-raising surge, nearly erasing the financial advantage Democratic candidates have enjoyed this campaign season.
Hungary's leaders unveiled a budget plan that singles out a handful of industries for large, temporary tax increases in an effort to cut the state deficit.
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What do you do when your PC won't load Windows — or it loads, but you're locked out?
Panic is the first thing that comes to mind. But a better alternative is to create custom boot CDs to access your files and recover lost passwords.
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The boot CD most familiar to Windows users is the installation disc that came with their system. There are, however, many more specialized, third-party boot CDs that help with difficult recovery and maintenance tasks.
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For example, the anti-malware rescue CDs produced by AV vendors scan hard drives for malicious code and attempt to remove it. These boot CDs are invaluable when malware renders a Windows machine unusable or unbootable — PCs so hosed that it's no longer possible to install and use normal anti-malware tools.
That's just one kind of boot CD. There are many others, and I'll give you some examples. In particularly difficult cases, you should try multiple types of boot discs to see which works best for you. As I've mentioned many times before in this column — multiple tools, multiple scans.
In most cases, you won't be buying a specialized boot CD but rather making it yourself. You'll download an image file and burn a disc on a functioning computer. Not too tall an order for most knowledgeable PC users nowadays — especially if you're a part-time, friends-and-family computer tech.
Recovering lost passwords using boot CDs
For every PC user, there comes a time when you need a password and don't have it. Someone hands you a computer to use, but no one remembers the password. Someone leaves the company, and you cannot get those critical files off the PC left behind. You're running the Windows installation CD to perform a repair, and surprise! It asks you for an administrator password you never knew you'd created. I've run into all of these problems and more.
In fact, I had a lost-password problem come up recently. I looked at a number of boot CDs used to recover passwords. I started out by checking with my friends on Twitter (@ryanlrussell), asking them to list their favorite password-cracking CDs.
Because I did not fully evaluate each program, I'll not mention the ones I didn't care for. But my favorite was backtrack-linux.org's Linux-based security tools package, BackTrack 4, available free on its download page. In my informal testing, BackTrack 4 was the most-compatible password-cracking app and was also the easiest to use.
Yes, this is a Linux boot CD. In fact, most of the boot CDs available are Linux (or another free Unix) under the hood. This OS has good compatibility with most PC hardware, there is a large set of Linux-based diagnostics and security tools, and it's free. You could craft a similar boot CD out of Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded environment, but the company wouldn't be happy if you gave it away free to all your friends.
To use BackTrack fully, you need to know a bit about Linux. If you're not familiar with this operating system, a couple of helpful YouTube videos show, step-by-step, how to perform the password-cracking operations. (I'll assume you know how to download, burn, and boot a BackTrack CD.) The first shows you how to reset a password, if that's all you need. The second details how to acquire the lost password.
An alternative technique, which I prefer, is to crack passwords in a full Windows environment, using the free Ophcrack application (download page) hosted by SourceForge. This tool is not part of BackTrack but can work with it.
Once you have BackTrack running and the Windows drive mounted, copy the SAM and SECURITY files (found originally in the c:windowssystem32config directory) to a functioning Windows system and run Ophcrack on the files.
Boot CDs for emergency backups and maintenance
BackTrack 4 has many other tools in addition to password-cracking — far more than I can cover here. You can find a number of tutorials on the BackTrack Web site for these other operations. It makes a good playground if you'd like to learn more about PC security.
With a little experimentation, for example, you can learn how to access almost any file on the failed PC. This offers a way to recover and back up data files before you erase the hard drive and completely reinstall Windows.
A more specialized boot CD I've used and recommend is the GParted Live app (info page). GParted's specialty is drive partition management — use it to copy, expand, and edit partitions.
A word of warning: Since you're working on live drives, a mistake could potentially erase lots of data. So exercise extreme caution when using apps like GParted. Back up if you can. That said, more than once I've had to break out these tools when the data was in such poor shape that I could not back it up cleanly with traditional methods.
Finally, I will also mention that some folks carry Linux around on discs or USB flash drives to boot unknown machines. It lets them run public PCs in a configuration to their liking and with more trust than they'd get with a random, walk-up Windows box.
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Em G Am C B
People, working every night and day
Never give yourself no time
G Am C B
Got too many bills to pay
Em G Am C B
Slow down, nothing's gonna disappear
Em G
If you give yourself some room
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Clappa your hands, stompa your feet
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When you can't seem to shake off all the feelings that are breaking
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"We have every reason to anticipate we're coming back," co-creator and executive producer Michelle King told reporters on a conference call Monday. Added her husband, co-creator and executive producer Robert King, "We're writing as if we're coming back."
No one can blame fans of the CBS legal drama for being concerned. For all the show's critical acclaim and big-name guest stars, The Good Wife dipped to a series low 1.4 rating in the adults ages 18-49 demo on Feb. 17. The show bounced back to a 1.6 the following week, and the Kings said the ratings haven't been an issue with CBS. "They're very sophisticated in terms of how the ratings work," Michelle said. "They've never given anything but a positive response and they really focus on the creative and just say that they're fans of the show."
Creatively, the show is enjoying a recent resurgence with critics now that Alicia (Julianna Margulies) has been made an equity partner at the once-again-profitable Lockhart Gardner and Peter's campaign to become the next Governor of Illinois is hitting its peak. So what's next for Alicia and Will (Josh Charles) after their weak moment? When will fans find out if Peter (Chris Noth) is headed to the Governor's mansion? Read on for all that and more:
Willicia, the sequel? Not so fast...: Just because Alicia and Will kissed, doesn't mean it's time to start dusting off the "Team Will" T-shirts. "She was off the hook ethically and morally because of the way Peter behaved, and now things are warming up with Peter again and she does see a change in Peter. It's a difficult situation because the sexuality with Will doesn't go away," Robert said. "The most interesting love triangle is what happens when the drama doesn't give the character an easy out. So I think it's Alicia struggling with her attraction to two men, and we're going to explore that all the way through the end of the year." If anything, this kiss will drive Will and Alicia away from each other — specifically Will towards Laura (Amanda Peet). "Does it create commitments that wouldn't exist if the kiss didn't happen? That's the question," Robert said.
Cary 2.0: After having visions of yachts dancing in his head, Cary (Matt Czuchry) won't let go of his lost promotion so easily. "He thinks Lockhart Gardner is a corrupt place. They promised something and then pulled it back," Robert said, "and he's not giving up [on his] designs on outside the firm." His quest for revenge may make enemies, but he'll have one big ally in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi). "One of the things that Kalinda likes is when Cary is in take-no-prisoners mode. When he is not the suburban white boy who sits back passively, but someone who attacks something and is proactive," Robert said. "So, yes, Kalinda is attracted to that."
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I took away more in this reading the idea of group guilt and point of no return. There are phrases like "I must," "bound by law," etc that seem to paint all, even the most manipulative players as pawns. Or, flies trapped in the amber. As if everyone contributes just a little in the laying of brick but then the structure itself has closed them in, forcing their hand. That self-reinforcing snowball effect is what's scary.
A fictionalized history of the Salem witch trials. The author changes some of the dynamics of the time, making the girls older than they really were, and introducing a love triangle between a major player, John Proctor, and one of the main girls involved in accusations, Abigail Williams. This is unfortunate, because it loses some of the power that the play might have by adding in the revenge fantasy of a teenage girl who in real life was a bored pre-teen. In spite of that, the play uses characters and situations that actually existed, and is a powerful indictment of mob hysteria. The work is still relevant, as people continue to deal with situations of mass responses to events.
Loved it. Learned the term "scapegoat." Hated Abigail, who symbolized every evil in the world to me. I don't know why, but Abigail was my scapegoat--what the citizens of Salem did was all the fault of Abigail. I think that for me she symbolized cheerleaders and popular girls in my school.
I hate to rate this so low when it seems that the only people who do so are those forced to read it by a cruel teacher. I'm even more troubled by the fact that I haven't seen anyone else bring up what bothers me about this play.
Yes, it's well written -- that is, the dialogue is expertly handled. There are truly beautiful passages, such as this one:
I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up.
But when it comes down to it, this is yet another piece of literature in which men HAVE sex, but women ARE sex. Men have complex lives and motivations; women's lives center entirely around men, specifically around attraction to and dependence on men.
Miller brought up the very real issues of property and land-lust that dominated the real trial. Why did he insist on sexualizing the girls involved -- to the point where he had to make one of the girls several years older than she really was? The terrifying thing about what the real "afflicted girls" did was that it comes across as a sort of motiveless malignity. They were lashing out at their own repressive society, possibly egged on by parents who wanted to use them as weapons in battles over land. That's fascinating.
Instead, Miller decided to say that the girls really were engaged in "witchcraft" -- or at least in stereotypical witch behavior: dancing naked in the woods at night, concocting evil brews. He insists that "there are accounts of similar klatches in Europe, where the daughters of the towns would assemble at night and, sometimes with fetishes, sometimes with a selected young man, give themselves to love, with some bastardly results." He doesn't seem to realize that these "accounts" are all from accusers or from the tortured accused. He really seems to believe that this went on.
Then there's the main character: John Proctor. Can't imagine why I have a hard time sympathizing with him.
Imagine you know a family with three young children. They hire an au pair. The dad has an affair with this young woman -- hardly older than a girl, a virgin, completely inexperienced in life or love. The mom suspects that something is going on and fires her, but stays with the dad. The dad bitches at the mom for always giving him that look and not acting happy to see him all the time. The mom breaks down crying and admits that her cold behavior must have pushed him into having an affair. The dad also bitches at the au pair, because this affair got her hopes up and she really thought it meant something to him the way it did to her. He screams at this teenager (who was lucky not to get pregnant, btw, since they didn't use birth control) to get over it, already -- he's married and he's staying that way.
If you heard about something like this -- maybe it happened to a friend of yours, maybe you read about it in a novel -- would your first sympathy really be with the poor, tormented man who has to put up with all these women acting like he owes them something?
Why has no one pointed out how creepy it is that John Proctor is genuinely supposed to be a sympathetic character, and Abigail is a monster?
And by the way -- contrary to what Miller says in his afterword, the only "legend" that "has it that Abigail turned up later as a prostitute in Boston" is the one he started by writing this.
Sorry. I'm not in 9th grade, and I still have problems with this modern classic. I understand why it is one; but I just can't give it the three "I liked it!" stars.
This was a very interesting read. It was terrifying, frustrating, and infuriating. The Salem witch trials often have that effect on me.
I found myself yelling out loud during parts of the book.
I wasn't too pleased with the treatment of the women in this book, both by the other characters and the author. There was a definite "blame the psychotic mistress/cold distant wife" angle. The man who cheated on his wife and resented her feelings about it was supposed to be sympathetic, and it was hard for me to side with him, for obvious reasons.
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"Anyone that did not read the article in Tuesday's paper about the charter school in Chicago should go back a read it. Especially the DCSS board. Sure it sounds tough, but it is getting results and teaching valuable lessons. Order and discipline is the answer."
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USTPC 3 years, 9 months ago
Rather than dilute the educational funds that are already inadequate, how about we change how the public schools are ran and allow them to provide order and discipline rather than just a babysitting service?
Right now teachers are underpaid which means that the brightest minds in our country are choosing not to teach. What does that leave us with? A teacher who shoplifts and does not lose her job.
Instead of giving in to parents who throw a fit because little Johnny or little Joanie gets disciplined for breaking the rules or is failed because they did not do their homework how about we change the rules that will allow the public schools to provide the order and discipline that is needed?
The problems with public schools needs to be fixed but because the officials we elect are in the higher income earning minority and are able to send their kids to private school there is no motivation to fix the problem.
This is kind of like the social security/medicare problem. If our senators and representatives had to live off social security and medicare like the majority of us will, rather than voting themselves a lifetime retirement and medical plan, they would make sure it was funded properly. The same applies to public schools.
waltspecht 3 years, 9 months ago
Until the Public demands strong discipline, and adhearance to a work ethic in our Public Schools, this will never happen. The basis for school funding is bodies in the classroom, until that changes the problems will remain. Every Administrator works to keep the students in school, not for the good of the Student, but for the monetary good of the system. That is one of the first things that needs to change. The School should be run for the benefit of the students that want to learn, and have displayed an ability to learn.
rorschach 3 years, 9 months ago
Ditto to that!
Jimboob 3 years, 9 months ago
Hells Bells... You can't even expect that in the real world. Poor service in restaurants, Hotel rooms not clean, Businesses that can't keep appointments. Maybe it's that way everywhere now but I never noticed it until I moved to Albany.
coachjohnson42 3 years, 9 months ago
Albany will not be getting any new charter schools...FORGET ABOUT IT
Abytaxpayer 3 years, 9 months ago
CJ42 your such a Brain FART! What happened could not figure how to use your Card.
waltspecht 3 years, 9 months ago
For one that has advocated involvement and improvement, why not Charter Schools Coach? Many have a very good proven track record for producing productive Citzens. If the Public Schools fear the competition, I think that is a good thing. Force them to improve the product they produce, or get out of the business. Just like in any other Industry.
USTPC 3 years, 9 months ago
Charter schools get to play by different rules than public schools. If charter schools are really the answer then let them play by the same rules as public schools. They must take anybody and everybody in their district, they cannot enforce rules or regulations even if a student blatantly breaks them, all charter schools must provide transportation to and from school, all charter schools must provide nutritional lunches and/or breakfast, etc. etc. etc.
USTPC 3 years, 9 months ago
Right now across the country there are an estimated 365,000 students on a waiting list to get into a charter school. Students and their parents have to apply and get accepted. This allows for the charter schools to choose only those students that will do well giving them a distinct advantage over public schools who have to take any and all.
waltspecht 3 years, 9 months ago
Maybe, just maybe, those rules the Charter Schools take advantage of should apply to all schools. It's about time Public Education became that again, instead of a day care. Where the few disrutive students rob the majority of the students of their education. Harsh it might seem, but how else do you propose attacking the problem? I can remember when some students didn't get accepted to a College. It seems now there is a College somewhere that will take anyone. This is because it is all about money now, not Education. The Public Schools have become the same.
USTPC 3 years, 9 months ago
Good idea but that is not how it works. Charter schools are set up under rules that are different than public schools and public schools are not allowed to function and run under the same rules as charter schools. There is no question rules and regulations need to change in the education system but setting up charter schools to siphon off the top students is not the answer.
Sister_Ruby 3 years, 9 months ago
The cheating teachers in Atlanta are being dealt with this week. They have been given two choices: Resign or Be Fired. I wonder how the "entities" in Albany will proceed.
Sally_O 3 years, 9 months ago
Probably give them two weeks suspension with pay.
TrixibelleBento 3 years, 9 months ago
The schools are failing because we have a breakdown in society. 40% of children born now are out of wedlock and their "parents" don't really care about disciplining or giving structure and boundaries. Plus, every parent out there doesn't want anyone putting a hand on their precious child. I wish paddling came back. That was a very effective tool in keeping kids in line. No one wants to do that anymore and now you've got very spoiled kids who turn into rotten adults who have never been told "no".
They go out into the workplace and find out that the world is a lot more harsh than they were prepared for. We're turning out a sorry bunch of youngsters who don't understand work ethic and have their hands out waiting for everything to be given to them.
Citizen_A 3 years, 9 months ago
Bringing paddling back would be wonderful, but parents aren't going to let that happen. They aren't going to want the principal do anything they wouldn't do themselves. Half the battle would be won if parents would "whoop that butt" themselves. The parents these days are too indulgent of their children. Too many are sparing the rod and spoiling the child...and it's biting us all in the butt...no pun intended.
Abytaxpayer 3 years, 9 months ago
@ USTPC GREAT Post.
The problems with public schools needs to be fixed but because the officials have no motivation to fix the problem. If you did not read USTPC's post at the beginning please go back and read it.
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