The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread VI

[salty mud]

Well if I could find what I am looking for on Google would I come and ask here?

Probably, most people just totally forget about Google.

 

[gangleri2001]

Does anybody know if Spotify is already available in the U.S.?

 

[GoodGame]

Does anybody know if Spotify is already available in the U.S.?

What category of item is that?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

What category of item is that?

Spotify.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I remember some time ago, I saw on tv that a farmer or something allegedly caught a space alien looking through his window on videotape, and that some experts said that it would take Hollywood $50,000 to create that effect, and that the video was released only to a documentary. is there any more information on it? and perhaps a video on the internet?

My question stands.

 

[GoodGame]

Spotify.

ZOMG, so it is available in the USA! But is that the correct spotify?

 

[Integral]

Denizens of OT -

I need a free text editor. Specifically, one which features syntax highlighting. Even more specifically, one which allows me to create my own syntax highlighting styles. I already know of Notepad++, but there should be others that allow user-defined syntax highlighting. Help would be appreciated.

 

[Flying Pig]

Notepad++ is brilliant, I use it all the time

 

[GinandTonic]

Does this product exist?

I want to get my dear sweet silver-haired mother a MP3 player for fixed stereo. It needs to be very simple to use - read big screen for old eyes. Her stereo has a built in mp3 player from usb fob but you have to squint at a tiny screen and use rubbish controls.

I guess she needs 20-40 gigs. The problem is that most MP3 players that size are expensive because either they work hard to be tiny (which is clearly irrelivant for the task) and/ or have video functionality. They are indeed so expensive they cost as much as a low-end HDD net-book. I could go the net-book path but it does seem to be wild overkill.

Should I just try to pick up a five year old ipod from the hdd days? I cant help but feel that this need must be fairly common and solvable for closer to £50 than the £2-300 for a netbook or high-end tiny video mp3 player.

So 20-40 gigs, size irrelivant, interface important, to wack into the aux line.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Spotify.

That is such a hilarious way to troll people.

 

[Loki130]

I have managed to procure a rather cheap disk set of season 1 of battlestar galactica. however, it's missing the last disk, with the finale. is there any way I can get the last episode without having to buy the whole season?

 

[Flying Pig]

iTunes?

 

[Zelig]

Does this product exist?

I want to get my dear sweet silver-haired mother a MP3 player for fixed stereo. It needs to be very simple to use - read big screen for old eyes. Her stereo has a built in mp3 player from usb fob but you have to squint at a tiny screen and use rubbish controls.

I guess she needs 20-40 gigs. The problem is that most MP3 players that size are expensive because either they work hard to be tiny (which is clearly irrelivant for the task) and/ or have video functionality. They are indeed so expensive they cost as much as a low-end HDD net-book. I could go the net-book path but it does seem to be wild overkill.

Should I just try to pick up a five year old ipod from the hdd days? I cant help but feel that this need must be fairly common and solvable for closer to £50 than the £2-300 for a netbook or high-end tiny video mp3 player.

So 20-40 gigs, size irrelivant, interface important, to wack into the aux line.

Buy her glasses to go with a normal mp3 player?

 

[GinandTonic]

Buy her glasses to go with a normal mp3 player?

What normal mp3 player? ipod classic in pc world starts at 120 gig £175, ipod touch 32 gig at £282. Baby ipods are out because their screens are too small.

At that price I can get a netbook with 160 gig hd.

Essentially ipod is a nonstarter as for the same price the netbook is a better soloution in every way, it's just that the netbook is a complete waste of 90% of it's power and functionality.

 

[Zelig]

So get a netbook then.

They really don't have much power, I use mine as a server, since it doesn't take much electricity, and it's too slow to do any actual work on.

 

[GinandTonic]

So get a netbook then.

They really don't have much power, I use mine as a server, since it doesn't take much electricity, and it's too slow to do any actual work on.

Sure, but that means I end up spending twice as much on a device to fill the function than I would have five years ago!

 

[Bigfoot3814]

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what color his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

 

[Kerozine]

So get a netbook then.

They really don't have much power, I use mine as a server, since it doesn't take much electricity, and it's too slow to do any actual work on.

What kinda work?

 

[Cutlass]

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what color his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

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[Phlegmak]

Denizens of OT -

I need a free text editor. Specifically, one which features syntax highlighting. Even more specifically, one which allows me to create my own syntax highlighting styles. I already know of Notepad++, but there should be others that allow user-defined syntax highlighting. Help would be appreciated.

emacs. It's not user friendly though. emacs is what I use 99% of the time, regardless of operating system.