Is it that hard to imagine a that many people have large music collections?
Actually, it is a little hard. I would think it to be a rare person that has over 30Gig of legitimately purchased music. Another quick bit of maths. 30720 minutes @ average of 45 minutes per CD is around 680 CDs. At an average of A$25 per CD (assuming you mostly buy new release music and not a huge amount of secondhand or bargain stuff) that's over A$17,000 worth of music.
Now, there are plently of legitimate sources of free music -- I'm converting old MODs and C64 SID tunes whenever I have time -- but that's still well over US$8,000 worth of music. I don't know many people that have spent that kind of money on music. Possibly none.
I've had a couple of comments on my sig. Here's the deal. I don't care if you vote Republican, Democrat, Green or Communist, just don't vote for the shrub.
My 20Gig iPod holds my entire music collection with room to spare, about 5Gig to spare I think. My mother's 10Gig will fit everything once she's pruned out some stuff she doesn't listen to anymore (I converted her entire CD collection as part of the birthday present, so she didn't have the opportunity to decide what not to bother about.)
Why would anyone buy an iPod too small to hold their entire collection. One of the best features is that you only need to connect it to the PC when you buy a new CD or whatever. I've owned a range of portable music devices and I'd never ever buy another one that couldn't just handle my entire library at once.
A quick bit of math; Assume 1MB/minute, 2Gig = 2048 minutes = 34 hours. That's somewhere between 3 days and a week. I've gone a month without connecting my iPod to my library.
There is some discussion about this on the Nokia N-Gage forum, since the N-Gage doesn't come with a camera. No one's really found anything much yet. BTW: Your Sony link appears to go to the wrong model. It should be the DSC-FX77.
And Rage Software managed to produce a version of Doom for the Saturn that had a frame rate lower than the 32X version.
"Cottage industry" game production is perhaps best suited to retro and portable gaming, where the technical abilities are limited such that a large team and lots of money don't outweigh talent and a decent game concept.
You may actually go out and buy each CD that burn (come on, honest now, do you?)
I don't burn audio CDs.
Also, "unlimited file sharing" might make it difficult for the RIAA's suits to buy that third ivory backscratcher, but it gives exposure to independant artists when Clear Channel won't give it to them.
Speaking of radio, why do people buy CDs if they can just record the tracks from the radio? Huh? How come record labels practically beg, and often bribe, radio stations to play their music when people can just record all this free stuff and never buy a CD. Obviously exposure to music promotes consumption. It's true for the radio and it's true for the Internet.
I don't misunderstand artists. I've boughts audio CDs directly from the musical artist that wrote, performed, recorded and burnt it. Have you?
Utopian idea? What a selfish world you live in. Anyway, even if I have all the MP3s from an album, that doesn't mean I have the CD of that album. There are plenty of times where I could copy a friend's CD onto my iPod and have exactly the same listening experience as if I owned the CD, yet I still go out and buy the CD, if I can find it.
Personally, I believe a musician has the best chance of making a living by producing lots of good stuff people want. Demanding that people pay for crap is not a sustainable business model.
"If you can hear it before you pay for it, and you like it, chances are you'll pay for it."
Well, that's just sillyness. If they already have what they want, they're not going to come back and pay if given a choice not to.
Let me guess, you're a young American. Here's a clue. People do things not just for reasons of money. Bonus clue: Some people understand the power of money and spend it for reasons other than direct personal gain.
Also, some people aren't so short sighted as to believe that an immediated apparent financial gain is always the best course of action for the long time.
What, a desire to waste time logging every error on a set of home PCs? Not really.
I spent a morning with my mother's PC doing a big batch of office security patches over dial-up the other day, but it's not like I wasn't also doing other stuff at the same time. As far as drivers go, I haven't really had a problem except that the drivers for my catweasel cause the machine to reboot during startup every so often -- though that doesn't appear to have been happening as much lately, so it might not be a driver thing, but somehow related to the way things are plugged into my Soundblaster Audigy.
...anyone who doesn't own one can leave their negative comments at home. It's a superb phone and a pretty decent portable platform for game emulation. I bought a web browser for mine a couple of days back, I've got an ssh client for server maintenance on the fly and this afternoon at around 3-ish I'll be watching the Paris-Dakar rally on it. Other highlights include an Ogg Vorbis player that I use to listen to Retro Gaming Radio and to fit all this on the phone, along with commercial, shareware and freeware games and old-school demos, it even supports an application packer, currently scoring me an extra 20-something MB of space between the 4MB built-in and the 128MB MMC card.
The only thing it needs desperately is a Bluetooth keyboard.
Three switching boxes with a couple of meters of cable between them, the consoles and the TV do not a signal make.
I have approximately 12 different working consoles that I'd like to have hooked up. Switching boxes and a couple of nice deep TV cabinets will mostly do it for you, but I had to settle on four hooked up to the TV plus the Dreamcast and PC hooked up to a VGA monitor after Matrix Reloaded looked awfully green and dull due to about 8m of cable and two swtiching boxes between my PS2 and my TV.
As for controllers, I have one for each console usually sitting on top of the console itself while not being used. I disagree with the "pack everything away" approach, as you spend more time going in an out of drawers. Also, if you don't play one particular console for a while, you lose the controllers.
Anyway, my current setup isn't ideal, but given my limited space I don't mind it so much.
I had a learning remote for a while, but it could never fully replace at least one of my remotes (my Sony VCR remote with shuttle wheel). Ultimately it just became Yet Another Remote in the pile. Now I just have a pile of remotes, plus ones stored near any device that has to be turned on manually.
What I'd prefer is a fixed broadcast point somewhere in the room that can be controlled from, say, my Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone. Even then, it has to cope with a weird range of remotes, including ones for an Apple PowerCD, and Olivetti Envision and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum.
76 percent of active Web surfers, access the Internet using a non-browser based Internet application.
I would have thought more like 100%. Is there anyone out there that doesn't use at least one of; email, ftp, irc, IM, streaming media, news or ssh outside of a browser at some time during, say, a week's worth of connections?
My Series 60 phone gives 3rd-party apps access to the mic, speaker and GPRS data connection. VoIP will take off when someone produces an app for the S60 and other popular "smart" phones that allows VoIP calls to be made as easily as a normal voice call, but cheaper.
Of course, since I have A$30 a month free on voice calls, but data costs A$.0055/k, that's going to be tricky. Also, there's nothing to stop mobile providers blocking the service. I can't connect to ICQ using Agile Messenger, nor can people surf my phone if I run an httpd.
At work I can tell when the CPU load goes to 100% because my laptop's fan kicks in. At home it would have to fight with, depending on the PC, distributed.net or the new BOINC.
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Now, there are plently of legitimate sources of free music -- I'm converting old MODs and C64 SID tunes whenever I have time -- but that's still well over US$8,000 worth of music. I don't know many people that have spent that kind of money on music. Possibly none.
I've had a couple of comments on my sig. Here's the deal. I don't care if you vote Republican, Democrat, Green or Communist, just don't vote for the shrub.
Wow, a lot of reponses. I sit corrected. Also, it looks like the 1.5Gig Rio Nitrus is selling quite well, so a small iPod probably would too.
Size has little to do with jogging, what you want is solid-state, no moving parts. This little iPod doesn't offer that either.
Why would anyone buy an iPod too small to hold their entire collection. One of the best features is that you only need to connect it to the PC when you buy a new CD or whatever. I've owned a range of portable music devices and I'd never ever buy another one that couldn't just handle my entire library at once.
A quick bit of math; Assume 1MB/minute, 2Gig = 2048 minutes = 34 hours. That's somewhere between 3 days and a week. I've gone a month without connecting my iPod to my library.
There is some discussion about this on the Nokia N-Gage forum, since the N-Gage doesn't come with a camera. No one's really found anything much yet. BTW: Your Sony link appears to go to the wrong model. It should be the DSC-FX77.
"Cottage industry" game production is perhaps best suited to retro and portable gaming, where the technical abilities are limited such that a large team and lots of money don't outweigh talent and a decent game concept.
Also, "unlimited file sharing" might make it difficult for the RIAA's suits to buy that third ivory backscratcher, but it gives exposure to independant artists when Clear Channel won't give it to them.
Speaking of radio, why do people buy CDs if they can just record the tracks from the radio? Huh? How come record labels practically beg, and often bribe, radio stations to play their music when people can just record all this free stuff and never buy a CD. Obviously exposure to music promotes consumption. It's true for the radio and it's true for the Internet.
I don't misunderstand artists. I've boughts audio CDs directly from the musical artist that wrote, performed, recorded and burnt it. Have you?
Did anyone here go to the Sugar Bowl? Reactions? Were the bins filled with Tomb Raider on the way out? Anyone?
Personally, I believe a musician has the best chance of making a living by producing lots of good stuff people want. Demanding that people pay for crap is not a sustainable business model.
Also, some people aren't so short sighted as to believe that an immediated apparent financial gain is always the best course of action for the long time.
I spent a morning with my mother's PC doing a big batch of office security patches over dial-up the other day, but it's not like I wasn't also doing other stuff at the same time. As far as drivers go, I haven't really had a problem except that the drivers for my catweasel cause the machine to reboot during startup every so often -- though that doesn't appear to have been happening as much lately, so it might not be a driver thing, but somehow related to the way things are plugged into my Soundblaster Audigy.
The only thing it needs desperately is a Bluetooth keyboard.
I have approximately 12 different working consoles that I'd like to have hooked up. Switching boxes and a couple of nice deep TV cabinets will mostly do it for you, but I had to settle on four hooked up to the TV plus the Dreamcast and PC hooked up to a VGA monitor after Matrix Reloaded looked awfully green and dull due to about 8m of cable and two swtiching boxes between my PS2 and my TV.
As for controllers, I have one for each console usually sitting on top of the console itself while not being used. I disagree with the "pack everything away" approach, as you spend more time going in an out of drawers. Also, if you don't play one particular console for a while, you lose the controllers.
Anyway, my current setup isn't ideal, but given my limited space I don't mind it so much.
What I'd prefer is a fixed broadcast point somewhere in the room that can be controlled from, say, my Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone. Even then, it has to cope with a weird range of remotes, including ones for an Apple PowerCD, and Olivetti Envision and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum.
Windows XP users should install SP1, then removing MSN Messenger can simply be removed from the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
Of course, since I have A$30 a month free on voice calls, but data costs A$.0055/k, that's going to be tricky. Also, there's nothing to stop mobile providers blocking the service. I can't connect to ICQ using Agile Messenger, nor can people surf my phone if I run an httpd.
That was the only thing I was going to add to this discussion and someone took it away from me. "+1 I was going to say that"?
At work I can tell when the CPU load goes to 100% because my laptop's fan kicks in. At home it would have to fight with, depending on the PC, distributed.net or the new BOINC.
I think paypopup.com is in my .hosts file as 127.0.0.1.
No, but I frequently get stares. Does that count?
I don't have Java enabled on my desktops AND I'm actually posting this from my mobile phone. How do I join in again?
I'm suggesting that the stories are getting worse. The comments are easy to filter.