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Treó 10: Another Portable Mass Storage Device
mblase writes: ""The Treó 10 is a lightweight, pocket-sized, digital music jukebox with the capacity to store over 3,000 songs - that's 150 hours of music." It's got twice the hard-drive space of Apple's iPod, but also half the RAM, half the battery life, and uses a much slower USB connection instead of FireWire. However, it's PC-compatible using MusicMatch Jukebox right out of the box, and costs only $250 instead of $400 for the iPod. CNet's article compares the two further."
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Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand for that matter.
--sdem
Humans rule. Dolphins can suck it.
Can you boot from it? Newer Macs can boot off of an iPod, which means you can install OS X on it, sit down at any Mac made in the last couple of years, hook it up, reboot, and have your setup up and running in around a minute.
I guess it doesn't matter with the Treo; it would probably be too painfully slow to run a system off of a USB drive anyway.
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i submitted this story 6 hours ago. they had to have it from one of there "regular" submitters.
And I'm betting that it's not nearly as slick as your mom's pussy, after she peels the scabs.
Where I live, the sight of a black guy walking with a (usually blonde) white woman is no longer startling, although many are not at all happy about it. The media celebrate interracial dating as A Good Thing, showing that irrational prejudices are at last dying out and a better world is coming into existence. The national problem is finally going away.
In the long run they may be right. More is involved, though, than boy-meets-girl.
Black men in this country have always been fascinated by white women, at times almost obsessed, because of the forbidden-fruit principle. Until recently, the social message, often explicit, was that blacks weren't good enough to touch a white woman. Bitterness runs deep in black men over this. (This is hardly a secret. Read the first chapter of Soul On Ice.)
The social order is now changing. While black men enjoy a new world, black women (if the television specials are right) don't much like it. Although blacks oppose discrimination by color, they have always held to a color code among themselves by which lighter women were better. This preference by their men angers black women -- dark women who get overlooked, light ones pursued chiefly for their color, and black women in general, who resent losing, every time. (White women, incidentally, at least some of them, similarly resent Asian women, who charm white men by virtue of their femininity and looks. Asian women, however, are few enough as not to pose a real threat.)
The media and advertising industry understand the color code perfectly. Note how often, when you see a black man and woman on a magazine cover, the woman is lighter, and has white characteristsics. And how few dark women show up at all.
Hostility arises that doesn't meet the eye. On average, white men hate to see black men dating whites. (So do a whole lot of white women.) In places like Washington people won't say so publicly. Privately they do.
Human behavior usually consists of rational justification of limbic instincts. A powerful instinct of all males is to protect their women from outsiders. People of other colors are outsiders. In slave days, black men were furious that they could not prevent sexual access to their women by white men. Today, the role is being reversed. Black guys know it, and revel in it. White men don't like to admit their resentment because to do so underlines their inability to do anything about it.
It's more than dating. It's potentially explosive sexual competition.
Instincts involving sex aren't always obvious, but they are there, and powerful. An example: I like the Japanese, have great respect for their intelligence individually and for their society (extraordinarily productive, unfailingly courteous, almost free of crime.) Yet if my daughter told me she planned to marry a Japanese boy of impeccable credentials, I'd nonetheless feel a visceral resentment. I wouldn't act on it, but I'd feel it. By contrast, if my son told me he planned to marry a similarly admirable Japanese girl, I'd think he was one lucky guy. The instinct is to protect the women, not the men.
Sex as a weapon of conquest, of struggle for dominance among males, is a dark corner of human behavior that we don't talk about. It exists. Raping the women of one's enemies has been a common military practice until recent times -- American armies have done it -- and still is if one believes reports from Yugoslavia.
White men regularly had their way with slave women, and you can believe that dominance, as well as sex, was involved. Dinesh D'Souza,* the Indian-born scholar now at the American Enterprise Institute, noted in his The End of Racism, (page 408, from FBI statistics) ". . . in 1991 there were 100 cases of white rapists assaulting black victims compared with more than 20,000 cases of black rapists attacking white victims -- a result that is especially remarkable considering that rapes are usually perpetrated not just for sex but in order to control, dominate, and humiliate women." And also, he doesn't add, their men.
Where white women fit into interracial dating is less clear. Black men are physically more attractive than white, being better built (and better endowed) and more muscular -- and usually able to beat the stuffing out of white men, which whites of both sexes know. They are also unapologetically masculine (and misogynist, but that can be played down when useful), more assertive, and often charming. White-collar Caucasian men these days tend to be neutered, carefully inoffensive, and in general browbeaten by militant feminism. It is easy to see how a white woman who wanted a masculine man would find a good-looking black guy appealing. Also, given that white women today seem to dislike white men almost as much as blacks do, dating a black guy may be a way of getting even and getting a large cock.
There's a whole lot more going on here than boy meets girl.
The media, particularly television and the movies, have recently begun vigorously promoting interracial liaisons. The number of blacks on television in general has risen sharply. Why, I don't know, not being privy to the councils of Hollywood. Perhaps it's just political correctness.
On the other hand, a lot of folk believe that the only way out of our racial impasse is to breed ourselves into one in-between race. Blacks are not going to go back to Africa, say these folk correctly, nor whites to Europe. Therefore we either blend or stay forever divided. The logic to this point is hard to refute.
Our customary division on racial lines isn't satisfactory, runs this argument. It promotes injustice, and may be dangerous: The country really could go up in flames. Therefore the sooner we intermarry, the sooner our racial antagonisms will disappear. The truth of this theory is much less clear, but is not insane by any means. It seems to be what's being promoted.
Where are we headed? Certainly toward a whole lot more dating and intermarriage: This is a cork that won't go back into the bottle. In the long run, if no explosion occurs, the country will probably evolve toward the example of Brazil. Whether the consequence in the short run will be improvement in racial relations is far less certain.
The effects for a long time will be mainly psychological, as statistically significant blending won't occur soon. Too many blacks live in insular ghettoes, speak Ebonics, have sub-human IQs, and are barely socialized. For them, the prospects of intermarriage are small. The better educated and well-spoken may marry whites, but the vast urban enclaves will remain behind, slowly growing.
Maybe things will work out well. I hope so. But it ain't just true love
all the pr0n posts? where my niggaz is at?
Ballmer is the spastic one, not Jobs...
It is buggy as hell. The super high quality setting (in advanced recording options) actually creates terrible quality mp3s. See Analysis link of http://www.r3mix.net for more info. I encoded several CDs before I realized this. Boy was I pissed. I then switched to EAC and Lame (which produces better quality mp3s anyway). The people at Music Match apparently care more about adding lots of skins/gizmos/useless features, rather than making software that actually works.
It will nag and nag you until you make it the default media player for all the file types it supports. Very annoying.
The unregistered version is crippled anyway (rips and encodes slow, must register to speed up). Also displays annoying pop-up windows when exiting.
I posted this a few days ago when I made the connection between O'Reilly and /., but it got modded into oblivion. Too many coincidences going on for this kind of blatant advertising to be accidental.
Carrying around a portable pocket-pussy is even better.
is that a 3.5" hard drive in your pocket, or do you just have a small dick?
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Remember when Metallica played metal? *sigh*
I dunno, something that has twice the storage for half the price (well almost)
Let's see regular 4x performance increased in CPU power for the same cost, and then I may agree with you. Until then, your point makes little sense.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
[Read the whole thing before you mod me Offtopic.]
Burning CDs, just like pretty much everything else, requires overhead. The pipe might be technically big enough to move that ammount of data but you still have to consider that error checking, device I/O, and other things have bandwidth needs as well. Similarly, your new ATA100 hard drive will never be able to move files at peak speed because of the overhead related to it.
It doesn't "suck", it's just the way it is. USB was not invented as a means specifically for CD-RWs. Notice that the U stands for Universal. Manufacturers just realized that there may be some people that would be willing to trade speed for USB's ease of use. Saying it sucks is like bitching that you can't burn at 24X over COM1. A comparative list of speeds can be found here if you're interested.
Back on topic: This is where the iPod has everthing else out there beat hands down. Even this new Treo has some nice features but it's still USB. But does it really matter? Yes, when you first load it it'll be a pain in the arse, but after you've cleared that hurdle I don't believe you'll be sitting for hours waiting to update it. A CD with ~12 songs encoded at 128k takes up ~40M. USB tops out at 1.5MB/s. Including the afformentioned overhead, you're still only looking at 1 minute per CD. Why is it we all act like we're so important that we can't wait that long?
Agreed, it is sexy that the iPod can move files like lightning, but how long do you think it will be untill someone wises up and makes a firewire MP3 player for PCs?
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
Posting a response to an unnewsworthy article saying said article is unnewsworthy is even more unnewsworthy.
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