In yet another Twitter review (and a nice one at that), I caught this quote (emphasis is mine):
If you are a twitterer, you can follow my infrequent tweets under my screen name of tevslin. My last tweet is from 3:45AM this morning complaining that I was up for an early flight. Don’t know why you want to know this; don’t know why I wrote it; but that’s what social people do.
Excellent!
I came across this wonderful quote at Doc Searls blog:
I can tell you that there are two things nearly every congressperson does not understand. One is economics. The other is technology. Now proceed.
This explains so many flaming discussions at Slashdot …
Sidenote: it seems this is the third post for today, and the third one that is somehow related to Google. This is not intentional.
It’s a wide known fact that Google allows (or, depending on how you look at it, forces) its employees to work 20% of the time on the side projects. What kind of projects? What do they actually do? Where this time goes? Here is an idea from the hilarious article at Cracked.com:
Google engineers are given “20 percent time” in which they are free to pursue their own personal projects. This incentive has produced such efforts as Gmail, Google News, and 20% more employee masturbation.
Smart people say:
The devil is in the details
Why or why don’t I listen to them more often?
Microsoft .WAV RIFF files.
These appear to be very similar to IFF files, but not the same. They are the native sound file format of Windows. (Obviously, Windows was of such incredible importance to the computer industry that it just had to have its own sound file format.) Normally .wav files have all formatting information in their headers, and so do not need any format options specified for an input file. If any are, they will override the file header, and you will be warned to this effect. You had better know what you are doing! Output format options will cause a format conversion, and the .wav will written appropriately. SoX currently can read PCM, ULAW, ALAW, MS ADPCM, and IMA (or DVI) ADPCM. It can write all of these formats including (NEW!) the ADPCM encoding.
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