How to crash and restore your Creative Vision M
The Creative Vision M, early 2006’s best mp3 player, can be crashed while playing a video and rapidly changing the playback speed:
It will just hang on a particular video frame and speed on the display, and not do anything. Inserting the Creative dock doesn’t help. However, a quick pinprick to the reset button located on the bottom panel of the device will restore it to perfect working order. It seems that you shouldn’t make it possible to scroll through playback speed settings at high speed…
A point for intelligent design in unintelligent spam
I keep getting the following spam which leads me to believe that comment spammers are NOT evolving:
Hey congratulations! This is a very good blog! I just read your post and I agree with you. By the way, my partner and I are running a new project about Asset depreciation software and I found your site while looking for information in this field. Your work looks very professional and you might be perfect to work with us. If you are interested, you can contact us by email. Keep up your work, it’s excellent!
Only an intelligent designer could create a spammer so stupid to think, “Hi, I read your post, btw *insert spam here*” will in the least way fool anyone..
What is important in life?
(21:10:00) Juli : surely money isn’t the most important thing in life to you
(21:10:17) liten fugl: w/o money i’ll eventually die
(21:10:26) Julie: you’ll eventually die WITH money, too.
(21:10:33) liten fugl: … good point!
Songbird? No bloatware, thanks.
Based on Firefox’s XUL technology and VLC, Songbirdnest throws itself into the world of media players and open source. However, it’s total bloatware right now. Besides having a huge number of web source bookmarks and a somewhat not too hard to look at front end, it’s just a VLC skin. And, because it uses Firefox technology, it uses an intolerable 66 MB of ram compared to Windows Media Player’s 15 MB:
Why am I going to run an uglier, slower, less feature rich media player that takes up four times as much of my system’s precious resources? Ask Paul or AtariBoy who have also reviewed it.
p.s. Importing my 9,100 tracks shouldn’t take all day.
Mathematics is not a science
I’ve decided that mathematics, while demonstrable through the process of proof, is not a science, because the process it uses to derive truth is not experimental. How many times have you sat down to work on a math problem trying permutations of expressions that you believe will lead you in the right direction only to get nowhere?
For these hard problems, the solution typically comes in a flash of next-day inspiration after you’ve studied the problem, applied the techniques of science, and gotten nowhere. You pray to the Math gods, and the next day, inspiration from the heavens falls and your homework gets done.
Therefore, I propose to classify math under theology. The theology of math is that mystic inspiration which we cannot rationally explain, but which enables us to solve problems. The realm of the problems themselves is logic, but the means of arriving at a mathematical solution defies all reason…
