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Did you know there was a hunger strike? I didn't. Would anyone care to know what their grievances are? I would. .< 11:57:13 PM  >Below is my first post from the rss feed of ProSound News which I generated using Radio and a tool called Radio Distiller. Here's some more information. .< 11:39:16 PM >Cedar Suppresses Noise for Pro Tools/SADiE Cambridge, U.K.--Cedar Audio has launched the DNS2000, an automated implementation of its noise-suppression technology designed specifically for Pro Tools users. [ProSound News] 'Connected to a Pro Tools host system using just a simple USB cable, the DNS2000 processor unit provides the DSP as well as the 24-bit AES/EBU and S/PDIF I/O for the system.' From the description, it sounds like a hopped up version of the manual declicker in Sonic. I use manual declicking on every project that goes out of my studio . . . and that's mostly new recordings. .< 11:20:49 PM >Lawrence has some hints about how to add the date to the title of your archive pages in Radio. .< 11:06:35 PM >MS to offer Europe extra antitrust 'concessions'. But the beef is not yet entirely visible... [The Register] 'Microsoft is attempting to settle the European antitrust matter with what it describes as concessions going beyond those offered as part of the MS-DoJ settlement in the US.' .< 11:01:39 PM >There's a bug in the idea that the government could require the computer hacks that the entertainment industry wants. At some point the government will realize that it would render its own computers unusable.  [Scripting News]Let's hope it happens before they come to this realization before their computers actually are unusable. .< 10:57:29 PM >Plucker: An Alternative to AvantGo [Mac OS X Hints] Geeks only! .< 10:52:22 PM >MacNN: Mozilla 0.99: browser effort continues dev. [mac.scripting.com] Server's still down! .< 10:46:18 PM >MacCentral: LaunchBar gets faster, adds new features. [mac.scripting.com] I installed this utility soon after getting OS X. I loved it. Certain things are brilliant. But I'm using it less and less. I like the entire app to come forward most of the time, not just the window I select. And when I've ended up with multiple copies of Radio running when I thought I was pulling the app forward but I instead I was launching an old version which was still in its list. .< 10:32:13 PM >Tariff on Blank CDs? Blame Canada. The Private Copying Tariff would impose a tax on all recordable media in Canada. Opponents say many things, including how this would create a new industry in CD smuggling. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] "Independent Canadian musicians also plan to fight the proposal, saying the new tax would result in their paying a fee to the recording industry in order to distribute their music." Earnest do-gooders, the cpcc, miss the point. Sigh. .< 10:26:52 PM >Greeley Tribune Online: "An intramural basketball team at the University of Northern Colorado called 'The Fighting Whities' is turning the tables on the Eaton mascot issue. " They're trying to make a point. I'm afraid it's going to get lost in the shuffle. It's just too funny. .< 10:02:32 PM >Ray Whitmer: SOAP Scripts in Mozilla. [Scripting News]I'm curious to read about this but mozilla.org is down. .< 9:49:25 PM >Canada to Seek Clarification of U.S. Nuclear Plans. iWon Mar 12 2002 3:15PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Yeah. 'What the hell are you up to down there?!' .< 9:47:31 PM >New feature: Google-It! Macro for Item Templates. [Dave Winer: Radio UserLand] Cute. But again, I'll wait. It's fun when you first see it. But is your title necessarily the search string you want people to use? Now what would be handy is a little right click script that you could use on text you select in your story. And it would stick a tiny graphic beside the linked text so that folks got to know what that particular link was all about. I suppose this is something one could wip up oneself. So let's label this macro and inspiration. .< 9:14:53 PM >Computerworld: Wireless LANs gain over cellular. Anderson isn't alone. A growing number of U.S. localities, including the California cities of Glendale and Oakland and counties of Orange and San Diego, have embraced Wi-Fi technology as the high-speed wireless backbone of their networks. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 8:31:32 PM >ScriptBuilders: itunesBlog posts your currently playing iTunes song as a news item on your weblog. [mac.scripting.com] Cute. If I weren't working with pro audio geat all day long, and if I thought my computer could generate decent sound quality, I'd use this puppy. But I'm an audio snob! ;-> .< 8:26:54 PM >Canada Revenue deserves kudos for Netfile service. globetechnology.com Mar 12 2002 6:33PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] "Being that it's tax time, you're probably in no mood to hear anything complimentary said about the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
Still, it's only right to point out the success of Canada Revenue's Netfile service, which allows people to file their personal income tax returns over the Internet." The point is that you don't need to create a 'print-friendly' version of your page if you use css properly. .< 11:35:41 AM >Thestar.com/GTA population jumps 9.8% since '96: "Canada's biggest city just keeps growing, according to 2001 census data released today by Statistics Canada. More than 400,000 new residents settled in metropolitan Toronto between 1996 and 2001, pushing the area's official population to 4.68 million. The country's population grew 4 per cent to 30,007,094 residents. Canada's population climbed by 4.0 per cent in the last five years of the 20th century as immigrants grabbed the wheel from fertile baby boomers as the main drivers of growth." Immigration is the key in this country. .< 11:29:13 AM >Arts: "Say you are going to a Canadian Studies conference, and chances are people will nod politely. Tell them that it is in India and their jaws drop. It makes strategic sense to study Canada in the United States or Great Britain. But India? " .< 11:12:58 AM >C't has a Power Mac G4/Mac OS X performance analysis using the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, and the results versus Pentium systems are not at all impressive. The Register takes Apple to task for its "speed boasts", writing, "The problem is, one former Apple engineer told us, in serializing the twenty five year old BSD layer with the fifteen year old code of the extensions NeXT began to add in the mid 1980s." [Macintouch] Can you say 'Altivec'? .< 11:07:26 AM >Ballmer: Redmond überdog will act responsibly. No more pogoing round the podium then... [The Register] "Jim Allchin, Platforms vice president, appeared to contradict Ballmer's testimony, when he conceded that Microsoft had engaged in "unlawful" practices to maintain a monopoly in the PC operating system space." Let's keep this in mind folks. I know they broke the law. You know they broke the law. And they know they broke the law. .< 1:56:26 AM >.< 12:19:17 AM >Mac performance: up to snuff or up the duff? [The Register] "OS X boasts some very nice features in this regard, particularly in audio processing latency under load. OS X has a higher latency at idle than most other OS's, but its latency under load stayed the same, and was better than the other OS's. Nearly fixed latency under load is pretty damn nice for a non-real-time OS. " .< 12:08:31 AM >Business 2.0: Cool Design Won't Save a Dud Product. Apple copycatting isn't the only reason some products fail. Bad planning and overinflated expectations can doom even the most awe-inspiring designs. And that's a shame. Many consumer-product launches turn into train wrecks because companies keep making a few of the same lethal mistakes. [Tomalak's Realm] 'Pentagram partner Robert Brunner dates the era of design excess to shortly after the launch of the first iMac, when the word iMac became a verb. "So many companies said they wanted to 'iMac' a new laptop or telephone. They saw [it] as a metaphor for colorful, exciting, successful design. It drove us nuts," Brunner says. It has been four years since that product's debut, but many in the industry are still Apple-obsessed. "Back then, everything was covered with disgusting, translucent plastic. Now it's metallic silver paint." ' |
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