Have to wonder what part of "unlimited" - ie "no limits" - is considered to also mean "we can slow (limit) the speed of any server(s) we want" or "only for the first x gb/month" or "only for the first 1 mb of a connection"
2008-04-14 10556, 2008
FauxFaux
Yeah, it's all rather silly.
2008-04-14 10559, 2008
BrianFreud
seems like some CEOs discovered business plans from the early dial-ups, and somehow think they can persuade people to accept sudden limits/extra fees on formerly unlimited connections
2008-04-14 10531, 2008
BrianFreud
Back when I had Comcast, they tried that on me once - turned off the line because "we detected a spike in use". I called, pointed out that there was no such clause in the contract. They tried to claim they had reason to think the line was being used by others, due to a spike in use.
2008-04-14 10504, 2008
nikki shakes her head at people...
2008-04-14 10512, 2008
FauxFaux is just hoping the base-lkine connection gets fast enough. ¬_¬
2008-04-14 10514, 2008
BrianFreud
At which point I asked them to double check their stats against mine - I'd been on vacation for 10 days; the "spike" was a 50% drop in my normal monthly total bandwidth use :P
2008-04-14 10523, 2008
nikki
BrianFreud: my online banking has been disabled and I think it's 'cause I used it from germany
2008-04-14 10540, 2008
FauxFaux
Heh BrianFreud.
2008-04-14 10558, 2008
nikki
BrianFreud: but I don't see why people going abroad is so suspicious, anyone would think I was logging in from nigeria
2008-04-14 10503, 2008
BrianFreud
lol, sounds like my cell phone - the carrier let me use it in Canada, they when I came back across the border, they permanently disabled the SIMM
2008-04-14 10537, 2008
nikki
it's even a student account, and plenty of degrees involve a year abroad
2008-04-14 10540, 2008
FauxFaux
Natwest have blocked my credit card 'cos I made more than 10 purchases in a second more than once.
2008-04-14 10551, 2008
nikki
how on earth did you manage that?
2008-04-14 10501, 2008
FauxFaux
Amazon marketplace, they all go through as a seperate transaction.
2008-04-14 10505, 2008
BrianFreud
because according to the cell company, "it indicates a SIMM chip which has been cloned. Noone ever crosses back and forth across the Canadian border once every day."
2008-04-14 10506, 2008
nikki
ahh
2008-04-14 10532, 2008
nikki
because nobody has friends just over the border...
2008-04-14 10546, 2008
FauxFaux
Obviously, if you wanted to steal £15 from someone, the best way to do it wouldn't be 12 seperate transactions of ~£1.25.
2008-04-14 10552, 2008
FauxFaux
That doesn't stand out on a bill at all.
2008-04-14 10556, 2008
BrianFreud
yeah, I'd come up to find this apt, was staying on the Can side cause it was much cheaper for hotels at that time :P
2008-04-14 10509, 2008
nikki
hehe
2008-04-14 10559, 2008
FauxFaux
Tbh, we're likely to get banned from Virgin at some point, our connection, like, doesn't go idle. Ever.
2008-04-14 10506, 2008
nikki
haha
2008-04-14 10507, 2008
BrianFreud
Oh well... if we do have this 2-3 year global depression, just wait, all the companies will be trying this stupid "extra fees for everyday things"
2008-04-14 10526, 2008
nikki
protest!
2008-04-14 10534, 2008
BrianFreud
yup
2008-04-14 10535, 2008
FauxFaux
44 "downloads" queued and 200 seedi.. er.. I mean, in the out folder since about.. the start of this month. <3
2008-04-14 10526, 2008
BrianFreud
at least in the UK, you have the BBC on the right side of the fight
2008-04-14 10518, 2008
FauxFaux
And we still kind of have a functioning legal system. *runs*
2008-04-14 10539, 2008
BrianFreud
lol
2008-04-14 10535, 2008
BrianFreud
and the best TV channels of all time: Maddie1, Maddie2, AllMaddie, MaddieAllTheTime!
2008-04-14 10514, 2008
FauxFaux
I think that's just the newspapers. (I can't actually remember the last time I watched live tv, even my parents have sufficient sky+ that it's not necessary).
2008-04-14 10544, 2008
nikki
ruaok: should I still report bugs with the lucene search if they don't appear in the search on your test server thingy?
should those lost in translation ones be added to that wiki page?
2008-04-14 10514, 2008
Clint
nevermind, i seem to have eyesight issues
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yllona
wow. the Met production of Phillip Glass's "Satyagraha" received an absolutely scathing review. like harsh
2008-04-14 10501, 2008
BrianFreud
yeah, NPR really trashes it
2008-04-14 10501, 2008
yllona
i'm a *huge* opera buff, but 4 hours of phillip glass would be pushing the limit for me
2008-04-14 10517, 2008
yllona
i saw a porduction of messaein' s "st francis of assisi" and had the same mid numbing experience described for Satyagraha
2008-04-14 10530, 2008
BrianFreud
correction - AP, not NPR /me double-checked byline
2008-04-14 10540, 2008
yllona
and yeah, that was a butt-numbing 4 hours too.
2008-04-14 10555, 2008
BrianFreud
Honestly, I think that's true of most long operas though, at least for me
2008-04-14 10512, 2008
yllona
oh not for me...
2008-04-14 10515, 2008
BrianFreud
'tis why I walked out of that Wagner - my ears just were numb to the sound anymore
2008-04-14 10519, 2008
BrianFreud
I must admit, though, for me, opera is perhaps my least favorite form of classical anyhow
2008-04-14 10530, 2008
yllona
the tales of hoffmann production (offenbach) I saw a couple of years ago, kept me on thee edge of my seat the whole performance
2008-04-14 10521, 2008
yllona
the AP review was uglier than anyhing i've read in a while. ouch
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f209
Hi I am a bit confused....for some reason I cannot find anyway to play a file through picard
2008-04-14 10559, 2008
BrianFreud
Picard is not a player
2008-04-14 10505, 2008
f209
in order to actually preform a sound comparison
2008-04-14 10536, 2008
BrianFreud
Why would you be doing a sound comparison within Picard? It's a tagger, not a player
2008-04-14 10528, 2008
BrianFreud
yllona: The reviewer seems to be, from how he starts, somewhat not a fan of 20th century minimalism anyhow. And comments like the ones s/he makes on Sanskrit pronunciation would be true no matter what the work was.
2008-04-14 10552, 2008
yllona
BrianFreud: what's unusual is that last years production of Glass's Appomattox at San francisco opera were absolutely glowing
2008-04-14 10559, 2008
f209
BrainFrued it should have some ability to launch the file
2008-04-14 10502, 2008
yllona
and unanimous
2008-04-14 10508, 2008
f209
so you can confirm the tag is valid
2008-04-14 10524, 2008
f209
that seems like a very basic feature to request...even that it somewhere can launch your media player
2008-04-14 10525, 2008
f209
for the file
2008-04-14 10536, 2008
f209
you have selected
2008-04-14 10547, 2008
f209
is that not part of the tagger?
2008-04-14 10548, 2008
BrianFreud
f209: it's assumed you know what the files you've loaded in Picard are already
2008-04-14 10557, 2008
Kerensky98
It was a part of the old tagger.
2008-04-14 10506, 2008
f209
yea i thought it was Kerensky98
2008-04-14 10510, 2008
Kerensky98
But it sent the file to your default player.
2008-04-14 10529, 2008
Kerensky98
And that caused alot of bugs so I think it was pulled from this tagger.
2008-04-14 10532, 2008
f209
Its assumed you already know what the files your trying to tag are..so your assuming their file names are at least partially valid
2008-04-14 10505, 2008
f209
ya know..i can kinda agree with that...but lets say we have a song that there are three different recordings of
and you want to actually listen to it..and make sure its the right one
2008-04-14 10541, 2008
f209
that seems like a very normal situation
2008-04-14 10540, 2008
BrianFreud
well, there's tickets open for it, but that explains why you cannot figure out how to do it - not currently supported :)
2008-04-14 10503, 2008
f209
thanks...yea i mean...it just seems like a very useful feature...i definitely know of times when i used to find a file that was lets say tagged for example...Elton John - Rocket Man
2008-04-14 10513, 2008
f209
and ended up being Elton John and Billy Joel - Rocket Man Duet
2008-04-14 10515, 2008
f209
or something
2008-04-14 10525, 2008
f209
and the tagger said it was highly similar to the original
2008-04-14 10543, 2008
f209
using the play feature would help me confirm matches were valid many times in the old version
2008-04-14 10505, 2008
BrianFreud
well, again, the tagger can guess based on your extant tags, and it can try for a puid match, but at base, it assumes you know already what it is you are tagging
2008-04-14 10527, 2008
BrianFreud
hence why there's no "auto-save on lookup" or similar feature
2008-04-14 10506, 2008
nikki is actually surprised it hasn't yet been implemented
2008-04-14 10526, 2008
f209
yea I'm still pretty suprised that was removed
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f209
thanks though...i thought i was just missing the feature somehow
2008-04-14 10506, 2008
nikki
it wasn't removed really, picard is a complete rewrite, it's just that nobody added it to picard
2008-04-14 10529, 2008
f209
i see, ok thanks
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nikki ponders whether she should use tracknumber and tracktotal or tracknumber=x/y
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yllona
i like track x of total, but thats jut me
2008-04-14 10518, 2008
yllona
* just me
2008-04-14 10517, 2008
nikki
how do you represent that in tags though?
2008-04-14 10553, 2008
nikki
they both have the track number and the total number of tracks, but they represent it in different says
2008-04-14 10555, 2008
nikki
ways, even
2008-04-14 10530, 2008
yllona
in tags i'd just do 01-01 (disc 1, track 1) i guess
2008-04-14 10558, 2008
Kerensky98
Picard does the 1/12 (track 1 of 12 tracks) like iTunes uses.
2008-04-14 10509, 2008
Kerensky98
I don't think it can be changed.
2008-04-14 10530, 2008
nikki
this program I'm using does tracknumber and tracktotal, I'm not sure whether I should convert my old stuff into that or the new stuff into x/y style
2008-04-14 10534, 2008
nikki
dilemma!
2008-04-14 10545, 2008
nikki curses at vorbis comments for being too "do whatever the hell you want"
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nikki prods ruaok
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ruaok
dah?
2008-04-14 10555, 2008
nikki
should I still report bugs with the lucene search if they don't appear in the search on your test server thingy?
2008-04-14 10534, 2008
ruaok
how drastic is the bug?
2008-04-14 10548, 2008
nikki
minor
2008-04-14 10529, 2008
ruaok
then don't worry about it...
2008-04-14 10534, 2008
nikki
ok then
2008-04-14 10546, 2008
BrianFreud
Hey nikki or anyone else in the UK, which would be more correct? 1983-09-20: Glasgow Apollo, Glasgow, UK or 1983-09-20: Glasgow Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland ?
2008-04-14 10506, 2008
nikki
the former
2008-04-14 10518, 2008
BrianFreud
ok, thanks
2008-04-14 10519, 2008
nikki
or Scotland, UK
2008-04-14 10527, 2008
nikki never decided on that bit
2008-04-14 10548, 2008
BrianFreud
yeah, when it comes to Northern Ireland, Wales, or Scotland, never quite sure how those 3 ought to be listed
2008-04-14 10514, 2008
yllona
is GB ever used anymore?
2008-04-14 10531, 2008
nikki
I always put them as UK, because they're not independent countries, but I feel bad leaving the country out
2008-04-14 10556, 2008
nikki
UK is better imo because GB just means england, wales and scotland
2008-04-14 10507, 2008
yllona
nikki: thanks
2008-04-14 10537, 2008
nikki
but confusingly the iso code for the UK is "GB"...
2008-04-14 10515, 2008
yllona
yeah, i saw that when reviewing some docs a couple of weeks back.
2008-04-14 10540, 2008
yllona
wasn't sure *what* to do
2008-04-14 10508, 2008
BrianFreud
hmmm, I've never seen any bootlegs from them, but I guess I'd run into the same for a boot from somewhere like Guam or Puerto Rico, as to whether to include the , USA
2008-04-14 10526, 2008
nikki
they at least have their own iso codes :P
2008-04-14 10532, 2008
BrianFreud
technically it'd be more correct with it, but they don't really need it
2008-04-14 10543, 2008
yllona
techically those are territories, the PR is not happy about that *at all*. and most 'ricans i know, fing a bit offensive. but yes they have their own iso codes
