Hmm. Good to know--I'm mostly wanting one that is for use at home, so looking for good sound over portability (though some vague portability would be useful, more of a "let me drag this into work for the weekend" than "I'm going to the beach, whoot!").
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meara - Oct 11, 2005 6:16:21 pm PDT #4937 of 10003
Cass - Oct 11, 2005 6:38:49 pm PDT #4938 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
want to get one of those things that are speakers that you plop your iPod into.I have the crazy expensive Bose dock and really love it but I could justify that my iPod is my only stereo system.
I also have the JPL dock (a much wee-er round one that I'll froogle in a moment) which works out really nicely too.
I didn't mean to have two so much as I got a little distracted on some Christmas lists and decided having two, in different parts of the house, was nice.
I actually had bought myself an Altec just before that but I didn't like it as much. Worked fine for "listening to an iPod" but it wasn't something I would want to listen to at home when I wanted to hear music more than play with the cute iPod. I returned that one.
Huh. Didn't realize I had that much to say.
Also, ita, the two step (print to file as a postscript - specifying page size and such - and then distill into a pdf) is the best option. If you are still having trouble tomorrow, I can probably help. Wickedly cool software but not the most intuitive once you want to bend it to your will as opposed to going default.
DCJensen - Oct 11, 2005 6:40:54 pm PDT #4939 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I have DSL.
Cass - Oct 11, 2005 6:40:56 pm PDT #4940 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
JBL dock [link]
le nubian - Oct 12, 2005 3:07:19 am PDT #4941 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Steph L. - Oct 12, 2005 5:54:32 am PDT #4942 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Can anyone explain Unicode to me? I have 2 requirements for the explanation: (1) pretend I'm a complete moron -- as in, I don't really know *what* Unicode IS (I thought it was a font); and (2) how does it apply to typesetting?
I will be eternally grateful. Every website I've pulled up about Unicode -- including Wikipedia -- has just made my head hurt.
tommyrot - Oct 12, 2005 5:56:50 am PDT #4943 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A Unicode character has two bytes, as opposed to one byte for each ASCII character. This allows many more possible Unicode characters (256²?) , in order to accomodate the many characters of the many languages of the world.
That's all I know.
Tom Scola - Oct 12, 2005 6:04:17 am PDT #4944 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Very basically, since computers fundamentally deal with (binary) numbers, computers have have had to assign numbers to each of the characters on the keyboard so that it can process them.
Back in the Dark Ages of computing, different computer manufacturers used different sets of numbers to encode letters. In the US, they finally put an end to this madness by specifiying a standard encoding for all the letters and symbols, called ASCII.
But when computers around the world started connecting to each other on the Internet, another problem became apparent: computers in different countries each used their own encoding for their own alphabets, even if their alphabets used the same symbols.
Unicode is an attempt to provide a single encoding for all the alphabet systems in the world. It's a really big, complicated subject.
Tom Scola - Oct 12, 2005 6:06:29 am PDT #4945 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
A Unicode character has two bytes, as opposed to one byte for each ASCII character. This allows many more possible Unicode characters (256²?) , in order to accomodate the many characters of the many languages of the world.
Unicode characters can be as long as 22 bits. [link]
tommyrot - Oct 12, 2005 6:08:41 am PDT #4946 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Unicode characters can be as long as 22 bits.
Oh.
Now I know I knew less than I thought I knew.