This forum comment and this superuser answer suggest that the audio compression contributes to loss of quality. I've noticed that music played over my BT setup sometimes pitch bends in ways I don't remember the original doing, and I'm wondering if SBC has something to do with it.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 on a Mac Pro, connecting to a pair of Sony…
Dr. Frank Munz: Resize AWS EC2 Cloud Instances
Dr Munz says: "You cannot dynamically resize a running cloud instance. E.g. there is no API call to ask for 2.2 GHz CPU speed instead of 1.8 GHz or to dynamically add another 3.5 GB of RAM."
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Roddy Rodstein:…
Tech Cast Live - Java and Oracle, One Year Later - February 15th 10AM PST (Oracle Technology Network Blog (aka TechBlog))
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The impact of IT decisions on organizational culture - O'Reilly Radar
"While I believe we recognize the limiting qualities of IT…
This is the third installment of a series on our deployment of System Center at my workplace, emphasis on SQL Server MP. At this point we’ve got Operations Manager installed, and up and running, and we’ve been able to categorize all the monitored servers into production, preproduction, test and DR using groups that have dynamic membership…
I understand that the "mm" suffix [in various GTK-associated C++ binding libraries] means "minus minus," but where exactly does it come from?
I understand that there is a programming language called "C--," but if there were bindings (and I'm pretty sure I've seen some), they would be suffixed "--".
TL;DR: Is there some page on gnu.org…
The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on April 20th. Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community. Register Presenter: Matt Hidinger Topic: Onion Architecture Location: Illinois Technology Association 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 Room A/B …
The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on June 15th. Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community. Register Presenter: Tim Murphy Topic: Document Generation Architectures Location: TechNexus 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 Room A/B…
Frustrated by technically interesting yet agonizing conferences, Dr. Masha Petrova leaves geeks with no excuses for making bad presentations, and begins her campaign ensure that the people with good ideas also have good presentation skills to back them up, and get them noticed.
CodePlex Daily Summary for Sunday, October 23, 2011Popular ReleasesView Layout Replicator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: View Layout Replicator (1.0.921.51): Added CodePlex and PayPal links New iconSiteMap Editor for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: SiteMap Editor (1.0.921.340): Added CodePlex and PayPal links New iconRibbon Browser…
Don’t forget to mark your calendar for Thursday May 6th as the .NET Rocks Road Trip comes to town! Where: Reynolds Theatre, Duke University, West Campus 125 Science Dr. Durham, NC 27708 When: Thursday, May 06, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM (ET) Have a day. :-|
Writing a recent piece on the pains of index fragmentation, I found myself wondering why, in SQL Server, you can’t set the equivalent of a fill factor, on a heap table. I scratched my head…who might know? Phil Factor, of course! I approached him with a due sense of optimism only to find that not only did he not know, he also…
The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on May 18th. Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community. Register Presenter: Scott Seely Topic: Azure For Architects Location: TechNexus 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 Room A/B …
At JavaOne 2012, Venkat Subramaniam of Agile Developer, Inc, presented a conference session titled "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Java Generics." Dr Subramaniam discussed the use of generics, what to watch out for when using generics, and best practices.
To learn more about working with generics, see the…
One week remains until OTN Architect Day: Cloud Computing kicks of at the spectacular Oracle HQ campus in Redwood Shores, CA. The event is free, and there is still time to register.
When:
Tuesday July 9, 2013
8:30am - 12:30pm
Where:
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One week remains until OTN Architect Day: Cloud Computing kicks of at the spectacular Oracle HQ campus in Redwood Shores, CA. The event is free, and there is still time to register.
When:
Tuesday July 9, 2013
8:30am - 12:30pm
Where:
…
Technical people generally don't easily adapt to being good salespeople. When a technical person takes on a customer-facing role as a support engineer, there are a whole lot of new skills required. Dr Petrova relates how the experience of a change in job gave her a new respect for the skills of sales and…
In this one-hour webinar, BioPharm Systems' Dr. Rodney Lemery, vice president of safety and pharmacovigilance, will review a number of public databases available to use during the evaluation and investigation of identified safety signals. The discussion will focus on the use of free and paid longitudinal…
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//...Code to determine shapes types involved in collision here...
//...Rectangle-Line collision detected.
if(_rbTest->GetCollisionShape()->Intersects(*_ground->GetCollisionShape())) {
//Convert incoming shape to a line.
a2de::Line…
Over the past few years, companies conducting clinical trials have increasingly been interested in integrating their pharmacovigilance systems with other clinical and safety solutions to streamline their processes. Please join BioPharm Systems’ Dr. Rodney Lemery, vice president…
Most productive people use some form of a work plan to sort out what they need to do and to guide them when they are doing the work. People generally agree that they need a work plan for new work, b... [Author: Dr Neil Miller - Computers and Internet - August 24, 2009]
Dr. Masha Petrova compresses, into a small space, much good advice on networking with other professional people. She draws from her own experience as a technical expert to provide a detailed checklist of things you should and shouldn't do at conferences or tradeshows to be a…
Amazon s'associe à Nokia pour créer son propre service de cartographie
Un autre acteur majeur du mobile tourne le dos à Google Maps
Après Apple qui lâchera définitivement Google Maps dès la sortie imminente d'iOS 6, c'est maintenant au tour d'Amazon de lancer…