Infact I expect a fleet of Apple Lawyers to contact/. very soon and have them remove this theme or be sued into/dev/null.:-( Someone might confuse it with MacOS X after all.
Is a series filming in England about the character "Rupert Giles." Ripper was his nickname as a teen. The series is supposedly about his years growing up and training to be a watcher..
It's been long discussed on alt.tv.buffy-the-vampire-slayer.
It should be mentioned the lifetime cost is now $250 and is only the lifetime of the individual DVR, NOT the user's lifetime. If the DVR dies they will transfer the subscription for a fee ($99 I last heard).
We worry now about cell phones and the radiation they produce or not (depending on who you believe). I have to wonder what "studies" will come out in a few years telling us that our PAN is frying us from the inside out. You have to wonder what all that EM radiation up close and personal is going to do to you.
I wouldn't carry my PAN hub in my pants pocket, um, too close to some sensitive areas.
Considering how cheap it is to get a PC dedicated to play MP3's, DIV-X movies, email, etc, AND play games. Why would someone buy an x-box to do this other than the "Gee wiz" factor? I couldn't see your average consumer running out to buy an x-blox to hack to do these things when they could just as easily buy a PC which already does them.
[1] Hmm. I never have a problem with the switch on mine.
[2] Most players come with crappy headsets, but that's ok. I would much rather use my headset-of-choice that I spent $ on than the cheap earbuds most suppily as an afterthought.
[3] Yep. Gotta love the battery life.
[4] Right now they only take up to 64M cards, Rio did come out with a firmware update not too long ago. I bet if there was enough demand they might update it again. I haven't seen 128M cards at prices I would consider buying but I haven't checked around in a while. I'm happy with the cards I have now (2x 32M and 1x 64).
[5] Has to be your player. I've done everything from dropping mine to having it accidently ripped off of me (watch those headset cords) and it kept on going and going and going.. It's built like a tank AFAIK.
Should also be mentioned it has a good backlight, very customizable settings (repeats, bookmarks, a simple EQ) and nice display which will scroll ID3 tags. Only complaint is if you have all tags visible the font is rather small (if you have less tags visible it will use a larger font).
With the relatively low prices for used ones on eBay it wouldn't be a bad buy for someone's 1st MP3 player..
I have to second the vote for the Rio500. I have mine and a few 32/64M cards and 0 complaints. It works just fine, great battery life (I get 15 or so hrs) and 128M is good for over a hour of music. It takes 10-15 minutes to fill up (over USB) which isn't too bad. No moving parts to break, is very small and very light weight. I haven't found a mp3 player yet that has seduced me to replace it (even Apple's iPod).
I bet if you looked around on eBay or such you might find a used one.
Well what I really meant was that firewire isn't all that common on PC's. I know it's getting there, but while every Mac ships with at least one firewire port there are a lot of PC's out there without firewire yet. That will change..
HFS+ is a "new and improved" version of HFS, supporting block fragments, long unicode filenames and a few other things. It brought the aging HFS into the 90's (now all we need is journaling, HFS++ anyone?;-)
Linux doesn't support HFS+ for writing yet AFAIK and HFS utilities can't read/write to HFS+ volumes. There is work to add HFS+ support to linux, no idea if there is to Windows. Hmmm.. Would decoding the partition structure be considered a violation of the DMCA?
Not sure if this is for someone you love or hate, but I recently picked up ($18 at Target) a Nemesis Factor puzzle. It's a little electronic puzzle game that will keep your vict^H^H^H^Hfriends busy for a long time. Kind of hard to explain but the puzzles involve everything from colors, sounds, words, numbers, lights, music, even the position you're holding the thing in! Some are easy, some are tricky, all are different. Up to four people can play with it at a time (it saves the status of up to 4 users as well as allowing a "guest" user) and keep separate scores.
Not a bad toy for under $20 (plus the cost of 3 AA's). Probably something for people 10+, definately not for someone who gets frustrated easily and will hurl the thing at a wall.
Considering the "protection" is making the folder "invisible" I don't think this is going to be a hard thing to do. The harder part will be writing drivers for the PC to mount FireWire drives (not common on that platform from what I understand) and read/write HFS+ formatted volumes (no idea if software to do this exists at all).
Hmm.. Interesting that all it takes is enough people to bitch, whine and moan to developers to get them to quit projects..
One could wonder if some large corporation with tons of cash and no sense of ethics could hire people to just bitch and whine about software projects all day to its developers. Naaa.. We'd never see anything like that now, would we?
Ok.. Ok.. I know some people live for video games but really. It's only a game people, why the fuss?
Ok, it's not being released this week or probably this month for the Mac/PC. But there are OTHER games to play out there. The world won't stop turning. Life goes on.
From what I've seen so far of HALO I'm not even that impressed with it and am definately not running out to buy a Xbl0X to replace my PS1 that I'm quite happy with.
HALO is here today, probably will be gone tomorrow, and next year it will be in the $10 software bin.
I'm ready to give up on broadband myself. After years of living in the boonies and having broadband unavailable to me (only to be offered shortly after I moved to a large city) I still can't get it. Stalling and incompetience from Ameritech and Covad put off my DSL line for weeks. Now that my line is provisioned one delay after another (supposedly many glitches in their fulfillment system) has kept my ISP-to-be (Earthlink) from sending me my DSL modem. Meanwhile a friend up the street was up and running in 8 days and has a lot of problems and downtime.
I'm so used to my 56k link I'm probably better off sticking with it, at least it works!
You miss the point. This device isn't for computer-savvy people who can rip-mix-burn their own mp3's.. This is for mom and pop who don't know an mp3 from an IDE.
Also take a look at the extra features (that I should have mentioned when submitting the article). The box also is 'net savvy and will download to your portable mp3 player (doesn't mention which ones are supported though). So it's a little more sophisticated than your average mp3 player.
Wonder what OS it's running and what upgrades they could come up with for it. Turn it into a WebTV/PTR unit and it's a nice combo box for your bucks.
good to hear i'm not the only one who manages to scare myself playing some creepy FPS in the middle of the night.. usually it's marathon and some damn phfor jumps out at me from nowhere with their alien language.. having a nice surround sound system helps with the effect. i've jumped out of my chair and spun around looking for whoever mumbled the noise more than once..
have to say i think it's good when a game can get you that engrossed into it that it can spook you like that. try that with freecell!;-)
Excuse me? Where's this list? I still get calls being on state DNC lists!
Beefing Up Enforcement Against Spam
Where's the enforcement? Nothing on a national level, very limited on state levels.
Helping Victims of ID Theft
Have you ever been a victim of ID theft? Have you read the MANY cases where people have a very difficult time restoring their lives and credit?
Encouraging Accuracy in Credit Reporting and Compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act
"Encouraging" Yes. That sounds very forceful. I can see the FTC mailing letters to banks saying "Just a suggestion, please make sure your credit reports are accurate."
Enforcing Privacy Promises
Again, where is the enforcement?
Increasing Enforcement and Outreach on Children's Online Privacy
Again, show me the proof. You really think that sites online aren't keeping the data anyway?
Encouraging Consumers' Privacy Complaints
"Encouraging" again. Let's see some actual enforcement.
Enforcing the Telemarketing Sales Rule
Which rule is this? To obey DNC lists? Again DNC lists have little success.
Holding Workshops
Oooh. Ok. They're going to call Bill in for a workshop and "encourage" him to do the right thing..
Does anyone honestly think the government is going to raise a finger against Micro$oft any longer? Once Bill got around to learning how Washington works and spreading his money around he wound up with more than a few politicians in his pocket. Look at what happend with the anti-trust case.
The FTC hasn't had the best track record in protecting consumer's rights these days anyway. Big businesses spend big bucks to have their way. Even if some sort of "investigation" is launched you can be sure M$ will be let go with a "stern warning" at best and a "no harm done" at worst.
Anyone using XP and signing up for Passport will get what they deserve, lots of spam, ruined financial records, fradulent charges (from script kiddies hacking into.Net), and Bill's love. Unfortunately this will be millions of people who don't know any better.
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jeeze people it WAS A joke! ligthen up a little, plueeze.
Sorry. You can't.
Infact I expect a fleet of Apple Lawyers to contact /. very soon and have them remove this theme or be sued into /dev/null. :-( Someone might confuse it with MacOS X after all.
and i thought my butt hurt from sitting thru the sci-fi channel's "dune" dvd's in one 5 hr sitting..
Is a series filming in England about the character "Rupert Giles." Ripper was his nickname as a teen. The series is supposedly about his years growing up and training to be a watcher..
It's been long discussed on alt.tv.buffy-the-vampire-slayer.
It should be mentioned the lifetime cost is now $250 and is only the lifetime of the individual DVR, NOT the user's lifetime. If the DVR dies they will transfer the subscription for a fee ($99 I last heard).
We worry now about cell phones and the radiation they produce or not (depending on who you believe). I have to wonder what "studies" will come out in a few years telling us that our PAN is frying us from the inside out. You have to wonder what all that EM radiation up close and personal is going to do to you.
I wouldn't carry my PAN hub in my pants pocket, um, too close to some sensitive areas.
I'd rather be out GeoCaching. Safer, legal (well no one can arrest you for hacking at least), and there's treasure to be found!
Considering how cheap it is to get a PC dedicated to play MP3's, DIV-X movies, email, etc, AND play games. Why would someone buy an x-box to do this other than the "Gee wiz" factor? I couldn't see your average consumer running out to buy an x-blox to hack to do these things when they could just as easily buy a PC which already does them.
Given M$ ability to create bloatware I wonder what their small, light-weight, embedded XP systems look like? Hmm... a Pentium IV with 256M of RAM?
eXtra Puddin...
[1] Hmm. I never have a problem with the switch on mine.
[2] Most players come with crappy headsets, but that's ok. I would much rather use my headset-of-choice that I spent $ on than the cheap earbuds most suppily as an afterthought.
[3] Yep. Gotta love the battery life.
[4] Right now they only take up to 64M cards, Rio did come out with a firmware update not too long ago. I bet if there was enough demand they might update it again. I haven't seen 128M cards at prices I would consider buying but I haven't checked around in a while. I'm happy with the cards I have now (2x 32M and 1x 64).
[5] Has to be your player. I've done everything from dropping mine to having it accidently ripped off of me (watch those headset cords) and it kept on going and going and going.. It's built like a tank AFAIK.
Should also be mentioned it has a good backlight, very customizable settings (repeats, bookmarks, a simple EQ) and nice display which will scroll ID3 tags. Only complaint is if you have all tags visible the font is rather small (if you have less tags visible it will use a larger font).
With the relatively low prices for used ones on eBay it wouldn't be a bad buy for someone's 1st MP3 player..
Just a further note.. a quick scan of eBay lists quite a few 500's for less than $100 easy, most are around $50-60.
I have to second the vote for the Rio500. I have mine and a few 32/64M cards and 0 complaints. It works just fine, great battery life (I get 15 or so hrs) and 128M is good for over a hour of music. It takes 10-15 minutes to fill up (over USB) which isn't too bad. No moving parts to break, is very small and very light weight. I haven't found a mp3 player yet that has seduced me to replace it (even Apple's iPod).
I bet if you looked around on eBay or such you might find a used one.
Anther point for the iPod.. No nasty copy-protection. :-)
Well what I really meant was that firewire isn't all that common on PC's. I know it's getting there, but while every Mac ships with at least one firewire port there are a lot of PC's out there without firewire yet. That will change..
HFS+ is a "new and improved" version of HFS, supporting block fragments, long unicode filenames and a few other things. It brought the aging HFS into the 90's (now all we need is journaling, HFS++ anyone? ;-)
Linux doesn't support HFS+ for writing yet AFAIK and HFS utilities can't read/write to HFS+ volumes. There is work to add HFS+ support to linux, no idea if there is to Windows. Hmmm.. Would decoding the partition structure be considered a violation of the DMCA?
Not sure if this is for someone you love or hate, but I recently picked up ($18 at Target) a Nemesis Factor puzzle. It's a little electronic puzzle game that will keep your vict^H^H^H^Hfriends busy for a long time. Kind of hard to explain but the puzzles involve everything from colors, sounds, words, numbers, lights, music, even the position you're holding the thing in! Some are easy, some are tricky, all are different. Up to four people can play with it at a time (it saves the status of up to 4 users as well as allowing a "guest" user) and keep separate scores.
Not a bad toy for under $20 (plus the cost of 3 AA's). Probably something for people 10+, definately not for someone who gets frustrated easily and will hurl the thing at a wall.
Considering the "protection" is making the folder "invisible" I don't think this is going to be a hard thing to do. The harder part will be writing drivers for the PC to mount FireWire drives (not common on that platform from what I understand) and read/write HFS+ formatted volumes (no idea if software to do this exists at all).
Check out iPod Hacks for a lot more info.
Hmm.. Interesting that all it takes is enough people to bitch, whine and moan to developers to get them to quit projects..
One could wonder if some large corporation with tons of cash and no sense of ethics could hire people to just bitch and whine about software projects all day to its developers. Naaa.. We'd never see anything like that now, would we?
Ok.. Ok.. I know some people live for video games but really. It's only a game people, why the fuss?
Ok, it's not being released this week or probably this month for the Mac/PC. But there are OTHER games to play out there. The world won't stop turning. Life goes on.
From what I've seen so far of HALO I'm not even that impressed with it and am definately not running out to buy a Xbl0X to replace my PS1 that I'm quite happy with.
HALO is here today, probably will be gone tomorrow, and next year it will be in the $10 software bin.
I'm ready to give up on broadband myself. After years of living in the boonies and having broadband unavailable to me (only to be offered shortly after I moved to a large city) I still can't get it. Stalling and incompetience from Ameritech and Covad put off my DSL line for weeks. Now that my line is provisioned one delay after another (supposedly many glitches in their fulfillment system) has kept my ISP-to-be (Earthlink) from sending me my DSL modem. Meanwhile a friend up the street was up and running in 8 days and has a lot of problems and downtime.
I'm so used to my 56k link I'm probably better off sticking with it, at least it works!
Read all about it here hahahaha.
The same ones that might drop $3000 for a 60" TV? What's wrong with 30"?
You miss the point. This device isn't for computer-savvy people who can rip-mix-burn their own mp3's.. This is for mom and pop who don't know an mp3 from an IDE.
Also take a look at the extra features (that I should have mentioned when submitting the article). The box also is 'net savvy and will download to your portable mp3 player (doesn't mention which ones are supported though). So it's a little more sophisticated than your average mp3 player.
Wonder what OS it's running and what upgrades they could come up with for it. Turn it into a WebTV/PTR unit and it's a nice combo box for your bucks.
good to hear i'm not the only one who manages to scare myself playing some creepy FPS in the middle of the night.. usually it's marathon and some damn phfor jumps out at me from nowhere with their alien language.. having a nice surround sound system helps with the effect. i've jumped out of my chair and spun around looking for whoever mumbled the noise more than once..
;-)
have to say i think it's good when a game can get you that engrossed into it that it can spook you like that. try that with freecell!
Creating a National Do-Not-Call List
Excuse me? Where's this list? I still get calls being on state DNC lists!
Beefing Up Enforcement Against Spam
Where's the enforcement? Nothing on a national level, very limited on state levels.
Helping Victims of ID Theft
Have you ever been a victim of ID theft? Have you read the MANY cases where people have a very difficult time restoring their lives and credit?
Encouraging Accuracy in Credit Reporting and Compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act
"Encouraging" Yes. That sounds very forceful. I can see the FTC mailing letters to banks saying "Just a suggestion, please make sure your credit reports are accurate."
Enforcing Privacy Promises
Again, where is the enforcement?
Increasing Enforcement and Outreach on Children's Online Privacy
Again, show me the proof. You really think that sites online aren't keeping the data anyway?
Encouraging Consumers' Privacy Complaints
"Encouraging" again. Let's see some actual enforcement.
Enforcing the Telemarketing Sales Rule
Which rule is this? To obey DNC lists? Again DNC lists have little success.
Holding Workshops
Oooh. Ok. They're going to call Bill in for a workshop and "encourage" him to do the right thing..
I'm glad you have faith in the FTC. I don't.
Does anyone honestly think the government is going to raise a finger against Micro$oft any longer? Once Bill got around to learning how Washington works and spreading his money around he wound up with more than a few politicians in his pocket. Look at what happend with the anti-trust case.
.Net), and Bill's love. Unfortunately this will be millions of people who don't know any better.
The FTC hasn't had the best track record in protecting consumer's rights these days anyway. Big businesses spend big bucks to have their way. Even if some sort of "investigation" is launched you can be sure M$ will be let go with a "stern warning" at best and a "no harm done" at worst.
Anyone using XP and signing up for Passport will get what they deserve, lots of spam, ruined financial records, fradulent charges (from script kiddies hacking into