This is why I prefer female voices. Most of the gadgets I have can't reproduce lower frequencies very well, either distorting or removing them via a high-pass filter of some sort. Add in even a small amount of background noise and I can't pick the male voices out over the noise. I'd rather listen to a male voice, but with most gadgets it's not practical.

Wow, yeah that's pretty rough. I would give most of the credit for Has Been's greatness to Ben Folds, although Shatner definitely contributed lyrically.

Probably the most informative thing I've said on Slashdot in years and I forgot to log in. How's that for Karma? An additional tip - sometimes you'll even get some non-local channels unencrypted, depending on your carrier. I get TBS and some cartoon network that aren't available OTA, but some smaller carriers may even have more clearQAM content.

I'm a bit sad they don't mention his music at all. The first album he recorded was pretty terrible, but Has Been is a surprisingly interesting, and often very good, album. Throughout this article I was reminded of several of the songs on it, most specifically "Real." The album as a whole is pretty self-reflective and fairly humorous, so you get to see another iteration of Bill. Oh, and he doesn't try to sing, which helps a lot.

If you happen to be looking for something a little different and have an open mind, I'd say it's definitely worth a listen. It is definitely one of the most pleasant nearly-random musical finds of my life. Ben Folds had a pretty big hand in it, so fans of Ben may be more likely to appreciate it than others.

If I could get TWC to guarantee 3Mb/s with "up to" 10Mb/s (which, with TurboBoost or whatever it's called, they might as well call it "up to" 14 Mb/s, since I can hit that speed about as often as I can 10Mb/s), I'd probably be pretty happy with that.

As it is, it's not uncommon for me to be able to pull less than 700Kb/s down on my "up to" 10Mb/s connection, which is, in my opinion, disgraceful. 3Mb/s as a guaranteed minimum would actually be a blessing.

The issue isn't so much that they advertise the [generally unattainable] maximum; it's more that they don't advertise or adhere to any minimum speed or QoS metrics.

I can't thank you enough for using that word in an appropriate context. That's probably the first time in 6 months I've seen defiantly on the internet and not wanted to murder the person that typed it.

Interestingly enough, as off-topic as I expected this to be, I was surprised at how on-topic it was, given the subject matter.

Not sure if this was introduced with the P4, but I definitely learned the would-have-been-hard way that this throttling existed in those CPUs. I had a machine where the top two heat sink mounts pulled through the motherboard and I had effectively been running my CPU with no heat sink for several weeks before I figured it out. Every time I did anything remotely CPU-intensive, the system would slow to a crawl. If I let it sit for a while it would be fine.

I managed to reattach the heat sink, and that CPU is still working fine today. If this throttling were not included, I guarantee you that would have been the end of that chip.

I laughed out loud at this. Now if I could only decode it.

Jack Daniels and broken dreams?

I have found that equally useful to Doxygen's standard documentation are the caller/callee graphs (and the source browser as well!). These features are invaluable but they don't get used when you generate documentation with a more-or-less default config.