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Creative Zen Micro Ships Today
SpaFF writes "Today Amazon started shipping the shipping the Zen Micro, Creative's answer to the Ipod-mini and one of several touted 'ipod-killers' due out for the holiday season. Sporting 5GB of space, a form-factor similar to the Ipod-mini, built-in FM radio, and a REMOVABLE battery, the Zen Micro looks quite promising. Does anyone know if this thing will work with Linux?"
Yeah, this will go over great.....
I can confirm excellent Linux support. I have one of these devices and it is working great with Ubuntu. It just shows up as a file system, so you can just cp or drag and drop files onto it. It even comes with user friendly Linux software for the end-user (its a KDE utility, haven't installed it yet).
1) FM radio? That will hardly drive sales...if there was anything to listen to on FM, XM and Sirius wouldn't have a business plan.
2) Removable battery? That is what is supposed to kill the iPod? Huhn? How about UI? Is that any good? How do I sync it to my music Library? Historically Creative sucks at this kind of thing...
3) Sure isn't competing on price.
No OGG support. Again. Fuck it. Wake up Creative!
Compete with Apple!
Quick, to arms zealots and appleturfers! We must all screech and rant at the top of our lungs to thwart this outrage! Removable battery? How dare they!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Slashdotters like OGG because it is obscure and talking about OGG makes them feel sort of superior and above the fray. You have to consider the audience; these are undersocialized nerds/geeks/weenies who spend there day alternatively wiping their runny noses on their sleeves and whining to their cube mate about their bad luck of being birthed in a free and capitalist country. It is a hard life for these folks who aim low and succeed at failing.
I wonder why the 20gig version costs less than the 5gig version. I would rather buy a unit with 4 times the storage and pay $12 less than the 5gig unit.
Why waste the time for OggVorbis support? So that the 0.0005% consumers who use it can be happy?
http://www.arbiteronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2 004/11/04/418a0e2c1a8de
Short on patriots, America needs draft
By Ashlee Andridge
Daily Titan
November 04, 2004
I am pro draft.
As a college student, the thought of war scares me. I have so much ahead of me that I want to experience that I couldn't imagine losing my life in a war. I want to live the way I do without ever fighting to protect my country. I take for granted all the freedoms I have without realizing that someone else fought so I could have them. I have become a free-loader, never taking part in the fight but constantly reaping the benefits.
The first time I heard about the draft I couldn't get it out of my head. The current bill for the draft includes women and college attendance doesn't matter. For me, this draft could be a possibility. I began to research the idea and found many Americans upset and angry at the chance of a draft occurring.
However, through all my research, one realization hit me. Troops are spread thin. Reserves are being told they can't leave at the end of their tours. The Army contacted 4,166 members of the Individual Ready Reserve to get back into uniform and mobilize. National Security experts are saying the military will have a difficult time recruiting more soldiers. The National Guard was 10,000 short of its recruitment goal.
More than 1,000 U.S. service members have died in Iraq as of Nov. 1. More support is needed. The weight of nearly 300 million Americans is left in the hands of 130,000 soldiers.
Many Americans are against the draft because they say they don't support the war. There are soldiers who have been promised time and time again that they could come home. These soldiers are stuck there because of you and me.
Because we don't want to have to say good-bye to our families. Because we don't want to postpone our education. Because we tell ourselves that if we don't go, someone else will. It is because we are scared.
These soldiers are losing their lives not just for Iraq, but also for you and me. Believe in the war or not, it is our duty as citizens to protect our country. If there were people who were trained and willing to relieve these soldiers, they could come home to their families.
It seems as though so much of our country is made up of fake Americans. We have flags hanging in our front yard, "Support Our Troops" stickers on our bumpers and we confidently say we are proud to be Americans.
However, when the government calls upon its proud Americans for help, our pride turns into protest. There is more to being a proud American than putting a flag in your yard or a sticker on your bumper.
A proud American stands by his country to finish what was started.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Ashlee Andridge is a senior journalism major. Reach her at: opinion@dailytitan.com
>But iTMS *is* the dominant legal music download store at the moment
No-one ouside the apple fanbase has ever heard of iTMS, please keep drinking the apple juice *hic*, but no-one else in he world is falling for this.
new batteries for ipod are found very easily on the web for 50 bucks.
if a person is honestly giving up on the phenomenal connectivity, amazing and simple interface, the greatest digital music store on the planet, and the fact its the best looking mp3 player bar none. Just because of a lack of a removable battery then that person is just plain foolish. IMO.
and by foolish i mean stupid.
No, but you bitch about more crap on /. than I do and that is saying something.
;->
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Then why are you listed as one of my "fans"? You must have appreciated something that I said at one point or another. Or are you just making everyone your "friend" for no reason?
You sound like you need a drink and/or need to get laid.
Well that's quite the pointless comment as I'm an alcoholic with a fiancee. If I was married you could say I needed to get laid though