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New MP3 Portables
An anonymous reader writes "This has been a busy week for the announcement of the latest crop of MP3 portables, probably just the start of many more with the holiday season only a few months away. First Samsung has announced their first jukebox model the Yepp YP-900, a 10GB unit using Toshiba's 1.8-inch drive for storage (same one as in the iPod) and eschewing FireWire (400 mbps) for a USB 2.0 (480 mbps) connection to transfer files. Mambo has also announced a jukebox player called the Digital Media-X PhotoBank Jukebox that is more akin to the Archos Jukebox Multimedia in that it can store and display photo files and possibly video files in the future. The Mambo holds 20GB of memory on a more common 2.5-inch hard drive, making it a heavier unit than the YP-900. Like the Yepp, the Mambo also goes with a USB 2.0 connection, heating up the competition between FireWire in digital music portables. The most interesting feature about the Yepp? It also has a MMC/SD card slot to facilitate trading tunes to and from other digital music players. (Take that SDMI). Finally SonicBlue has started shipping replacements for the Rio 600 and the Nike PSA[play 120 (made by Rio for gym workouts). Both the Rio S30S for the exercise-minded and the Rio S10 come with 64MB of memory and are upgradeable to 192MB through MMC flash cards. The S30S comes with an FM radio, while the base-optioned S10 is claiming 35 hours of running time on a single AA battery. Both players transfer files via USB 1.1's 12mbps port."
FP!
Yahooooooooooooo!
ipod
This is rapidly approaching Beowulf-like clichedom.
A little off topic, but I would like to know if the ipod runs well on PCs. And is it worth the value? Any review?
Thanks
YourMissionForToday: bleeng bleeng
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YourMissionForToday: Trophy's Mine!
coed.jpg: I'm glad the fall is coming. it's statistically the second-best time of the year for my prospects of getting laid
coed.jpg: #1 being may-april
YourMissionForToday: I should play some Castlevania, no?
YourMissionForToday: Getting laid is t3h r0x0r
coed.jpg: yes. the dss forum site i most recently signed up on had a bunch of castlevania and chrono cross characters for icons
YourMissionForToday: wish the gameboy advance screen didn't suck so much...I can feel my eyes struggling after playing for about 20 minutes
coed.jpg: frank said he's bringing his to the apple store tomorrow
coed.jpg: the more i think about it the more it occurs to me that this whole adventure is really just gonna be a big joke... and i laugh
YourMissionForToday: Frank is steeped in materialistic excess! He must be re-educated!
coed.jpg: my friend anj said that the apple store in plano had a big line out the door on opening day. if that's the case, meet me in the food court
coed.jpg: i'll be scarfing SBARRO
YourMissionForToday: Meet me at the forklift dealership, I drive a forklift through your wall!
coed.jpg: did i tell you home depot won't hire me cuz i have no forklift experience
coed.jpg: "Have you ever driven a forklift"
"Well, no" (not since i was 6 yrs old in dad's warehouse, i shoulda said that)
coed.jpg: "Well we really need someone good with a forklift but we'll let you know if we need you for something"
YourMissionForToday: Show them your forklift experience by impaling them, then lifting up their body and leaving it on a high shelf
coed.jpg: hahaha
coed.jpg: "Well I drove one in my most recent string of brutal unsolved murders, perhaps you heard about them. The people were impaled with a forklift and then slammed repeatedly against the top and bottm of the highest shelf, and then left there"
coed.jpg: "They were insolent"
YourMissionForToday: I want to make a video game where all you do is bust through a wall and steal stuff with a forklift, then drive out
coed.jpg: that's a fantastic idea for a game
coed.jpg: the vague aesthetic of that zoo game witht he lasso and the truck
YourMissionForToday: Yeah, and then it turns into Unreal Tournament in my mind when you impale somebody and the announcer says "FORKLIFT KILL!"
coed.jpg: "There's a pallet of flat panel LCD's on that loading dock! Steal the forklift and put it in your buddy's pickup! GO!"
coed.jpg: hahaha an FPS with a forklift as a weapon would rox0r
coed.jpg: you'd move kinda slow, but you'dbe fuckin invincible. like having the school bus in vigilante 8
YourMissionForToday: you have to corner real fast and you get turbocharged nitrocack for your forlkift
coed.jpg: but your weakness would be the propane tank... someone hits that enough times and you're toast!
YourMissionForToday: if you crash into the wall at sams club, 10 tons of cat food tins land on your head
coed.jpg: Or... CRAZY FORKLIFT! You're a newly-hired night-shift loader at Sam's, and your boss is an asshole. He says "Get this pallet of new Color-Safe CHeer(tm) to aisle 7, put it on the third shelf!" ANd you have to do it as fast as possible, your forklift can go up to 120 mph, and you leave a wake of terror as you rip through the warehouse
YourMissionForToday: Yeah
coed.jpg: your forklift is all bad-ass, with not just the prongs but also the big side-clamps that hold the pallet on the lift, cuz you drive like a maniac and blare rock music on your forklift's boomin system
YourMissionForToday: Pimpin forklift with loads of chrome
coed.jpg: yeah!
YourMissionForToday: You can crush someone's head with the side clamps! They're like a vice!
coed.jpg: you can smash through walls, knock over shelves, none of it matters! as long as you get the pallet to the shelf!
or wait, you know what fuck the shelf... into the truck that's backed up to the loading dock that your buddy's waiting to drive off in
coed.jpg: Ditch the soap or whatever and head over to electronicas
YourMissionForToday: But watch out for land mines in the Cambodian Jungle forklift level!
coed.jpg: hahaha
coed.jpg: yeah you have big mud tires on your forklift, and roof lights
YourMissionForToday: There could be one level where you have to steal enough parts from an assembly line to make a killer forklift, and oyu have to drive across a bunch of conveyer belts
coed.jpg: haha! Forkker?
YourMissionForToday: Yeah, and when you drop all the proper parts in the foundry, it cuts to this FMV where your AWeSOMe NEW FORKLIFT EMERGES off the assembly line
YourMissionForToday: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=40343&cid=430
coed.jpg: haha
coed.jpg: it's so appropriate!
YourMissionForToday: I can't wait for some stoned guy to see that
coed.jpg: hahaha
YourMissionForToday: Maybe you have to kill zombies with your forklift, or you're a superhero and you can fly off your forklift to like ten rows down at sam's and land on some guy who'ss trying to run away
coed.jpg: hahaha, or you have a reach-lift, with a big extendible arm you can lash out with and smash people and things
YourMissionForToday: Yeah, or like you can impale a big can of oil with your forklift, and then ram it in reverse so that oil spills all over the place and the cops can't pursue you
coed.jpg: oh that's great
coed.jpg: and if you grab something and send it up real fast as you drive real fast (without impaling it), it flies over your head and lands behind you
YourMissionForToday: cool, you could use crates of explosives...or depth charges!
coed.jpg: yeah! have summadis!
coed.jpg: but impaling people, stacking 3 or 4 on each prong, that would be the real point of the game
YourMissionForToday: and you could ride your forklift over to these hydraulic lifts, and the higher you dump people on the shelf, the more points!
We will stop it when we have the hardware. Until then, just live with it, mkay...
Highly Off Topic
Why is there such rampant hostility on Slashdot? Why do people feel inclined to jump down each other's throat for no reason? Why are there people here who seem to only visit for the chance to point out someone's spelling error? What in the hell is wrong with us? This is no community, this is the home of trolls and zealots. Nothing good comes from this anymore, Taco should do the right thing and just destroy this site. It serves no purpose other than to provide an outlet for cowards to flame their fellow geek in. Bye.
Let me guess, your name is Dana, no?
omfg...slashdot.
don't forget:
6) Is the user interface usable?
7) Is the user interface usable?
8) Is the user interface usable?
9) Is the user interface usable?
enough already
"we" is not "shit"
cant this article be any longer? why have such a huge chunk of text in the front page???
I switched from various brands of PCs to using Macs about seven years ago. On the rare times when I've had an issue with a Mac that was covered by warranty, I've had incredible service just like what you describe. In fact, there was one time when I did something to cause a hard drive to die. I knew what I'd done and was very willing to pay to have it fixed. The guy said they'd cover it anyway. To be honest, service like that is a big part of the reason I happily pay a few more dollars for a Mac. I don't WANT Apple to start allowing cheap clones again, because the excellent service is part of what I'm paying for when I buy their hardware.
iPAQ touchscreen dies. Send you a box, stick iPAQ in box, shipper picks up... and then it differs from there. HPAQ bitches about how Linux is loaded on there. They try to charge $150. They send iPAQ back. I replace bootloader with CE bootloader. I send it back. They say "We found Linux." I say "Update the problem description! They say "Ok, fixed." They ship it back with a replaced stylus lock. Touchscreen still not sensing right. Finally, call and scream. Compaq says "Someone might get back to you within 48 hours." Later that night, someone calls: "We're sorry. Linux really was supported on the iPAQ. We're shipping you a new one." Courier arrives next day, delivering new iPAQ, and asking for old one. New iPAQ works.
Lesson: Wipe it clean before sending it back.
--j