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Re: The backs of receivers today suck

shiva — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:06:32 -0000

true. And I made the mistake of suggesting an audio only receiver. Emotiva suggested by Charles (above) is a better choice.

On a side note, if you don't care about extracting all the goodness of the audio stream in HDMI, then switching using the audio decoder on the TV should suffice (as you mentioned in your other post http://scripting.com/2014/1...

However you are very right. "high-end" audio companies need to integrated an HDMI switch in their products, and make it straighforward to get this all working. Good audio can be such a positive experience, and there is nothing in the market that makes this part painless.

Re: The backs of receivers today suck

shiva — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:02:01 -0000

Have you had a chance to look at Peachtree?http://www.peachtreeaudio.com/

They make a very good package of day and amp integrated very well, with some sanity in the inputs.

Re: Traveler’s Notebook Star Ferry Give-Away

shiva — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:49:46 -0000

I've been in love with MD paper since the day I picked up a paperpad at a local designer boutique in Vancouver. Amazed how this paper is ink resistant, while remaining so thin. Just a pleasure to write on!

https://twitter.com/shiva/s...

Re: http://casestatement.tumblr.com/post/11213857807

shiva — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:00:04 -0000

I guess, choice of the default value in one? Why you chose to keep the value with default as the last parameter might be two? What where the others. I'm curious now.

Re: Nadal versus Djokovic – Wimbledon Final!

shiva — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:43:44 -0000

This probably going to be match of the year! What great battles have we been treated to the first half of the year! After almost ten years of watching very little tennis, I can't wait for this one!

Re: Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges

shiva — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:59:27 -0000

There is this thingie called a one-way hash. Ie. one gets access if you provide the password, but they don't ever have to store the information unencrypted ie let their employees see it.

http://www.aspencrypt.com/c...

Re: Power of 2

shiva — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:27:14 -0000

or ((n & -n) == n), then is a power of 2. But this will work only for power of 2 (as already specified in the blog post above) :)

Re: Power of 2

shiva — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:48:12 -0000

good catch. Fixed it.

Re: Barcamp Vancouver 2010 – Roundup

shiva — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:00:00 -0000

Updated. Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: NSFW: Yep, Montblanc Killed my MacBook Pro Today

shiva — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:07:41 -0000

If only you had chosen a namiki falcon, instead of the montblanc and ditched that cheap pretend notebook called moleskine and got one with a real heritage and quality (clairefontaine)...

Re: Nebbiolo Tasting

shiva — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:36:35 -0000

QOTD #1: 1997 ... yeah! I'm that young .. err old .. nevermind ;)
QOTD #2: Never tried em. and I'm on it.

Btw, its been a while since I saw any of your videos, even longer since I last visited the site (I usually view them in Google reader). I noticed that you have added springpadit -- which is awesome! This is going to completely change the way I interact with your website too! Great job on continuing to improve the website. I don't think there are many content producers who *still* value having their own unique identity on the web.

Re: Why does Java not support unsigned int? – Part 1

shiva — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:40:06 -0000

There are more issues than simply overflow. Type coercion, for instance

eg in C:

unsigned int age = -1

if (age < 18) {
printf ("Cannot Access");
} else {
printf ("Granted");
}

What do you think gets printed?

Re: What happened with Pulse? (Scripting News)

shiva — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:42:50 -0000

This is just bullshit. I have both the NYT and Pulse, and I go to the Pulse app more than I care to admit. The ability to view more than one RSS source in an RSS app, seems to be lost to NYT.

Pulse, also seems to identify items I click more on, and show relevant data. (Maybe this is my perception, but I tend to click more of the articles presented than the NYT app). Also, it lets you view articles in a "text-only" scrollable format vs NYT 3-word column layout.

There are things that Pulse can improve on, but I don't see why the app has to be pulled for this. It is simply a question of not making NYT feeds not available by default. Further, NYT gives their feeds as non-authenticated RSS and shouldn't be freely accessible on any feed reader I choose to read it in?

Another bully, trying to put down competition (P.S I like the NYT app, and it's no river of news, either)

Re: How to brew tea (Earl Grey) – The English Way

shiva — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:35:30 -0000

It sure is.. :)

Re: iCaved

shiva — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:27:55 -0000

1. No question of justification here. I have a use case for the iPad and therefore I bought it.
2. Don't understand why buying the iPad = being comfortable with apple gilded cage. I'm still disappointed with apple policies, but it makes perfect business sense for them to maintain a monopoly.
3. The one thing I think the iPad will not do, is fade in it's utility. You either have a need for it or you don't. Bottomline, is that if you consume a lot of digital content, the iPad feels that niche that most existing devices don't. Like reading this over a cup of coffee, or in the park, photo walking etc...
4. I don't understand your line about authorship vs authority? Care to elaborate?

Re: I too have something to say about the iPad…

shiva — Sun, 30 May 2010 00:43:24 -0000

Please refer http://shiv.me/2010/05/29/icaved.html

Also, William Blake said ,"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." Who am I to argue with Mr Blake? :)

Re: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/499842575

shiva — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:23:53 -0000

Awesome. Nice to see you pumped. I'm sure you'll hit the mark, whatever you've set your eyes on.

I know exactly what you mean. There comes a time, now and then, particularly with all the "social" interaction we have, when one has to step back and re-focus on what defines oneself.

Even if that means that you'll be less available (if that is even possible for you - still remember the 5AM call), I think your followers will be glad that when you come back, you will even more awesome!

Hope to see more winelibrary shows, and the Q&A show that you mentioned.

Re: Huge Announcement!

shiva — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:12:37 -0000

You .. Gary Vay .. ner ..chuk is going to stop drinking wine?! Really? Come on dude, that was too easy :)

P.S: If you had said that you had bought the Jets, then maybe .. I would have believed it

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - I was pranked called at 5 am at SXSW What I think...

shiva — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:47:16 -0000

@garyvee With that attitude, man you are going to buy the JETS for sure!!

Re: 2005 St Emilion Tasting

shiva — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:03:56 -0000

QOTD #1 - Yes, yes and oh yeah. I tried some last time I was in France (late 2008). don't remember the specific one, but my mouth waters as I think about it.
QOTD #2 - I've got 2. How I met you mother (HIMYM), and Big Bang Theory

Re: Me and iPad: Not now. (Scripting News)

shiva — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:09:17 -0000

I think that is key. Most techies, who played with tech in the 80s or 90s, before PC became all the rage, have a gut feeling that something is wrong with the iPad, that it takes away something that we hold dear -- the ability to tinker with our gadgets. Well, to be honest, it makes it a hard and expensive proposition (if we mess up).

I really want one, but I will deny myself one, until my conditions are met. (http://shiv.me/2010/02/03/i...

Re: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/439264842

shiva — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:50:51 -0000

bang on as usual. (This is getting boring you know .. ;) ). That is precisely how a company can get my loyalty. But before the "brands" start writing a script to spam me, I think the key is to let customers that tweets/blogs about a product know that there is a human being on the other end that acknowledges their thoughts.

Re: Head to Head 2007 St Veran Tasting

shiva — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:01:23 -0000

Awesome review!! must resist this deep desire to grab that until the weekend's around. kudos to Mott for some nice walk-around camera work!

qotd: Thunder?! I always bring the thunder .. every living second. like now ... and now .. :)

Re: Where can I get some no-frills hosting? (Scripting News)

shiva — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:43:27 -0000

Have you heard of http://asmallorange.com/hos... ? There were one of the 2 that I looked at before choosing webfaction. They have a $25/year plan. The only thing they fail on is "only static hosting". It comes with 75MB storage and 3GB bandwidth. It was quite compelling an offer, but too limited for my needs.

Re: Seesmic Desktop Adds Support for Twitter Lists

shiva — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:40:11 -0000

I like Seesmic, and have been following loic and his band for a while, but I also believe in credit where it is due. I think it is kinda lazy of the so-called journos, just throwing link-baits around with no-abandon.

If it makes any difference, good job to you Dave.

personally, I would like to see an update on the main article (again, I'm completely irrelevant in this case :) )

*Update* just noticed that they have changed the title, a mention of the real "firsts" would be nice