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Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta

Posted by timothy on from the get-in-on-the-ground-floor dept.

Orangerobot writes "Philips Electronics is undergoing the beta test for the latest model in the Streamium line called the MC-i250. You have to trudge through a cheesy Flash presentation to get all the details, but it looks pretty good: Wi-Fi, CDDB support, online playlist management and more. It looks like they might actually get it right." Reader UVWarning's review of the current generation of Streamium indicates plenty of ways the next generation could improve on the current one.

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  1. As a concerned American patriot, by American-Patr10t · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I am ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas. I sure didn't elect that cowboy!

    And don't you dare mod this down as Offtopic; indeed, as everybody known, only pir8tes use ogg vorbis, and piracy funds terrorism!

    1. Re:As a concerned American patriot, by trelanexiph · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So how can Ogg Vorbis be supporting piracy, if none of the pirates are using Ogg Vorbis? So, how can Saddam Hussein be a threat to humanity, if none of the weapon's inspectors haven't found any weapons of mass destruction in his country?

      Short answer: he isn't.

      First, I shouldn't dip into this obvious troll's post/quagmire, but I figured I'd try in vain to clear up a few points.

      The UN resolution didn't state "we're going to go look for weapons in your country" it said "you are going to show us you have destroyed your weapons as the treaty we signed in good faith 12 years ago said you would (obviously noting the chemical genocide of the kurds in that time). Iraq has failed to do this and has created missiles which violate that treaty.

      Long answer: Bush wants to whack Saddam, so that he can lay his hands on his oil. And once he has the oil, he is no longer dependant on the Saudi's oil, and thus can start going after them!

      70% of our oil comes from venezula, and much of the rest from Alaska. Our oil interests aren't particularly threatened.

      Now let me touch on chemical and biological weapons. I quote from the movie "The Rock" "Vx is something so horrible we wish we could uninvent it." all of them are, chemical and biological weapons are a horrible slow death. Beyond that I'd like to see the US move with the full support of the UN security council. I do believe without a doubt that Saddam is in violation of the Articles and the treaty that ended the 1991 war. These weapons should have been destroyed 12 years ago. The "lets give them another month" thing just isn't cutting it anymore. In summation this is really REALLY unfortunate. Biological and chemical weapons are unfortunate, as are nuclear weapons. But there are two bottom lines here:
      A: Israel is our main interest in the Middle East, and quite frankly without us holding them back Israel would turn the Middle East into a bloodbath, Sharon is a bloodthirsty moron, and the Israeli military puts the American armed forces to shame in training and equipment. Yes they would lose eventually as the combined might of the Arab States came to bare, but the loss of humanity would be truly stunning, and entirely unacceptable.
      B: This has little to nothing to do with oil.

      Moderators: I hope you'll forgive my short venture into the world of offtopicness, and have some mercy in my attempt to answer this troll's questions.

    2. Re:As a concerned American patriot, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "Bush wants to whack Saddam, so that he can lay his hands on his oil"

      This will be why the US is going to put the funds from Iraqi oil into a trust fund then, right?

  2. USA is going to be Fucked Over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Expect more terrorist attacks. Fuckers.

    1. Re:USA is going to be Fucked Over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      More power to 'em. America gets what it deserves.

  3. gracenote CDDB - bleh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If it can be changed to use FreeDB instead of CDDB I'd be pretty happy.

    1. Re:gracenote CDDB - bleh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Those bastards. CDDB turned out to be one big ass-fuck for the thousands of contributors who made it was it is today.

  4. moron suggests, oil for babies(tm) program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why not?

    looks lights the lights are going up.

    sadman, we all know you have some diagnosis' similar to our owned 'leaders', but think for a minute.

    give US what they're going to try to take anyway, & you can keep more babies alive (God's work), & not look too bad in the mix.

    that's right, we're saying just hand it over, no questions asked, in the interest of all of yOUR survival. the wwworld is watching, so you'll get credit for it, should you make a sane choice.

    should you make a sane choice, & continue to be attacked? lookout bullow.

  5. that's what /etc/hosts is for by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or any other mechanism for fooling the DNS

    remember - real geeks route around such things

    --
    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter