I've bought two turntables in the last year for less than $20 each. Granted, both were used...one via eBay and on at a stoop sale.
If that doesn't do it for you, you can always get a new one for way under $100...take this one as an example.
That's probably equivalent to a standard low end component CD player. And most new vinyl (yes, they still release new records - mostly indie and club stuff, but some major label as well) is less expensive than the equivalent CD. I don't even need to bother mentioning that used vinyl can be found lots of places and is usually a hell of a deal...unless it's something rare and valuable, it will probably cost less than $3.00.
Fraud is the true exception, not successful auctions. If you look at the reported fraud rate(which admittedly, may be a bit smaller than the actual number), it comes in at way under 1%. Most auctions on eBay go off without a hitch, especially if you check the seller's feedback and don't have unrealistic expectations about an auctioned item. Just keep in mind a very simple principle - if it seems too good to be true, it very well might be.
I've been on eBay for 3 years, have made hundreds of transactions, and have only been burned once. Since the seller never sent me the item promised, I got a full refund from PayPal.
Oh jeez, the bad memories that brings up! Thanks a lot! I remember laughing when I realized that I had to install Navigator to be able to access the download for IE as well. What a joke!
Thank god that I eventually got a CD burner so I could put SP4 on CD and install it with the OS.
Not only that, but I've been able to get an RPM packaged NTFS driver for every kernel released since I installed Fedora nearly 6 months ago. Someone didn't look hard enough...
Wny do you consider the 26" a mistake? I'm considering the 26" JVC or Toshiba as a new HDTV and possibly a montior for the "living room" pc. I'm not too worried about resolution for the PC as all I am going to do is surf the web and stream some MP3's. Although it does need to function well as a TV. What do you feel is missing?
By the way, the size is perfect for the size of my apartment, so I'm not too worried about that.
"You really value and develop a relationship with your system when it takes genuine effort to get the bloody software working (e.g., off of casettes, and sometimes having to type it out manually in line number BASIC)."
That's exactly the reason some people buy and maintain antique Italian sports cars.
It's possible that their index is full. A more likely theory is that they don't really see the benefit of having content duplicated throughout the database.
How many times have you run a search and seen a link at the bottom that says something like "Google removed information from this search that is redundant to information already displayed on the page" (Can't remember exactly what it says right now). Usually, there's nothing valuable in the hidden links - why index them at all?
Non only is the MP3 format ubiquitous, but the word itself has become something of a catch-all. I've heard more than a few people talk about downloading "MP3's" from iTunes or listening to "MP3's" on their computer that are unwittingly saved in WMA format.
It's like Xeroxing something - you can do it no matter what kind of photocopier you use. ; )
True, true...mine won't go into suspend mode, which would be nice when I start traveling with it again. Maybe when IBM releases "Blue Linux", that will do the trick for me...if they decide to support older hardware.
And what the heck is up with the non-standard interface on Windows Media Player? That app is so ugly. And I'm not even talking about the skins, I just mean the default "full mode" player.
Quicktime is pretty funky too, with that brushed metal and weird sliding panels.
Stable enough for me. More stable than WinXP that was running on it until a month ago. I'm serving files over my home network with it and using it as a general surf/email box and it's been doing just peachy.
I'm a bit of a Linux newbie (been playing around with it for years, but never for more than a day or two, here and there), but I've found Fedora to be a pretty good distro. I've always gone with Mandrake in the past for the eye candy and ease of config, but Fedora is a snap. And yes, I did have to take the 30 minutes to download the NTFS kernel driver and the version of XMMS with MP3 support (available from the Dag APT repository), but since then I've found it a piece of cake to use. Even wireless was super easy to setup - with multiple configs and security keys for home and for work. And stable...my Thinkpad has been up for 14 days without a reboot.
Just sayin'. One man's "useless" is another's treasure....
And what then. All music from now on will require iTunes to play, and a license from Apple?
I think you missed a key part of the thread above. AAC is not an Apple format. Even if the DVD Forum does specify that DRM will be used, it won't necessarily be Apple's DRM. So far, Apple hasn't licensed FairPlay to anyone else.
It seems to me that they're adding compressed files into the DVD-Audio standard so that we'll be able to copy them to our portable digital music devices - which is a good thing! It wouldn't make sense to implement a DRM system which would be incompatable with 80% of the portable digital music hardware out there.
I see it on Slashdot about once a day - usually I just hit refresh a few times and it goes away. Hopefully they'll get that one straightened out before v. 1.0
That's absolutely incredible. As predicted, it loads up in Firefox just fine, but utterly crashes IE the second it hits the page. I checked out the source and it looks pretty basic - does anyone know what it's doing to IE?
Maybe part of the reason is that the Pac Man games were so popular that they all got worn out. The Ms. Pac Man games, being played less, are now in better condition and there are more of them to go around.
"I don't know if I agree with the statement that it had a tremendous effect."
You're right, that's my main problem with the statement - you can't just go throwing around adjectives like that unless you're willing to back them up. Sure, it had *an* effect. Was it tremendous? Depends on who you ask.
I agree completely. That's why I think that this quote, from the article, is a buch of hooey.
"The lack of a DVD player hurt GameCube sales tremendously when the console was first released."
Says who? Where are the industry statistics on this one? I consider the lack of a DVD player a strenght in the product. I already have a DVD player, and so do many people. Keeping DVD's out of the GameCube meant that it stayed nice and small and cheap, exactly what I was looking for in a gaming device.
Me: "Right, except in this case the sales people said that they were having trouble keeping them in the stores. Every time they got a new shipment, they'd sell out within a few days."
You: "WTF are you talking about? Did you read the same article as me?"
If you paid attention to the thread, I was talking about my own experience in trying to buy a GameCube last week. Not the article. I was not suggesting that I'm right or that anyone is wrong...just that I tried to buy a GameCube last week and very few stores had any in stock. When I asked them about it, a few of the sales people mentioned that they were selling briskly and were having trouble keeping them in stock.
Next time, try reading the context of the thread before replying.
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I've bought two turntables in the last year for less than $20 each. Granted, both were used...one via eBay and on at a stoop sale.
If that doesn't do it for you, you can always get a new one for way under $100...take this one as an example.
That's probably equivalent to a standard low end component CD player. And most new vinyl (yes, they still release new records - mostly indie and club stuff, but some major label as well) is less expensive than the equivalent CD. I don't even need to bother mentioning that used vinyl can be found lots of places and is usually a hell of a deal...unless it's something rare and valuable, it will probably cost less than $3.00.
Ouch. Bad flashback to 1st grade. Stuck in hole! Can't get out! Reset, reset!!!
Fraud is the true exception, not successful auctions. If you look at the reported fraud rate(which admittedly, may be a bit smaller than the actual number), it comes in at way under 1%. Most auctions on eBay go off without a hitch, especially if you check the seller's feedback and don't have unrealistic expectations about an auctioned item. Just keep in mind a very simple principle - if it seems too good to be true, it very well might be.
I've been on eBay for 3 years, have made hundreds of transactions, and have only been burned once. Since the seller never sent me the item promised, I got a full refund from PayPal.
Good luck on manufacturing a uranium neutron reflector!
I've heard that you can do it with a couple of salad bowls.
Oh jeez, the bad memories that brings up! Thanks a lot! I remember laughing when I realized that I had to install Navigator to be able to access the download for IE as well. What a joke!
Thank god that I eventually got a CD burner so I could put SP4 on CD and install it with the OS.
Not only that, but I've been able to get an RPM packaged NTFS driver for every kernel released since I installed Fedora nearly 6 months ago. Someone didn't look hard enough...
Wny do you consider the 26" a mistake? I'm considering the 26" JVC or Toshiba as a new HDTV and possibly a montior for the "living room" pc. I'm not too worried about resolution for the PC as all I am going to do is surf the web and stream some MP3's. Although it does need to function well as a TV. What do you feel is missing?
By the way, the size is perfect for the size of my apartment, so I'm not too worried about that.
"You really value and develop a relationship with your system when it takes genuine effort to get the bloody software working (e.g., off of casettes, and sometimes having to type it out manually in line number BASIC)."
That's exactly the reason some people buy and maintain antique Italian sports cars.
It's possible that their index is full. A more likely theory is that they don't really see the benefit of having content duplicated throughout the database.
How many times have you run a search and seen a link at the bottom that says something like "Google removed information from this search that is redundant to information already displayed on the page" (Can't remember exactly what it says right now). Usually, there's nothing valuable in the hidden links - why index them at all?
Non only is the MP3 format ubiquitous, but the word itself has become something of a catch-all. I've heard more than a few people talk about downloading "MP3's" from iTunes or listening to "MP3's" on their computer that are unwittingly saved in WMA format.
It's like Xeroxing something - you can do it no matter what kind of photocopier you use. ; )
True, true...mine won't go into suspend mode, which would be nice when I start traveling with it again. Maybe when IBM releases "Blue Linux", that will do the trick for me...if they decide to support older hardware.
And what the heck is up with the non-standard interface on Windows Media Player? That app is so ugly. And I'm not even talking about the skins, I just mean the default "full mode" player.
Quicktime is pretty funky too, with that brushed metal and weird sliding panels.
Screw them both...I use Foobar for audio files.
Stable enough for me. More stable than WinXP that was running on it until a month ago. I'm serving files over my home network with it and using it as a general surf/email box and it's been doing just peachy.
I'm a bit of a Linux newbie (been playing around with it for years, but never for more than a day or two, here and there), but I've found Fedora to be a pretty good distro. I've always gone with Mandrake in the past for the eye candy and ease of config, but Fedora is a snap. And yes, I did have to take the 30 minutes to download the NTFS kernel driver and the version of XMMS with MP3 support (available from the Dag APT repository), but since then I've found it a piece of cake to use. Even wireless was super easy to setup - with multiple configs and security keys for home and for work. And stable...my Thinkpad has been up for 14 days without a reboot.
Just sayin'. One man's "useless" is another's treasure....
I think that was at Brown University. http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/
And what then. All music from now on will require iTunes to play, and a license from Apple?
I think you missed a key part of the thread above. AAC is not an Apple format. Even if the DVD Forum does specify that DRM will be used, it won't necessarily be Apple's DRM. So far, Apple hasn't licensed FairPlay to anyone else.
It seems to me that they're adding compressed files into the DVD-Audio standard so that we'll be able to copy them to our portable digital music devices - which is a good thing! It wouldn't make sense to implement a DRM system which would be incompatable with 80% of the portable digital music hardware out there.
The Saturn is strange, but by no means unique. Didn't the Jaguar have two 32 bit main processors? Tom and Jerry, I think they were called?
Running XP SP1 w/ IE 6 SP 1. Been using FireFox since it was Phoenix 0.2 and hardly ever fire up IE anymore, though...
I see it on Slashdot about once a day - usually I just hit refresh a few times and it goes away. Hopefully they'll get that one straightened out before v. 1.0
That's absolutely incredible. As predicted, it loads up in Firefox just fine, but utterly crashes IE the second it hits the page. I checked out the source and it looks pretty basic - does anyone know what it's doing to IE?
Or even better, pull it out of a Creative MuVo, for $50 less.
Maybe part of the reason is that the Pac Man games were so popular that they all got worn out. The Ms. Pac Man games, being played less, are now in better condition and there are more of them to go around.
Just a theory, anyway.
"I don't know if I agree with the statement that it had a tremendous effect."
You're right, that's my main problem with the statement - you can't just go throwing around adjectives like that unless you're willing to back them up. Sure, it had *an* effect. Was it tremendous? Depends on who you ask.
I agree completely. That's why I think that this quote, from the article, is a buch of hooey.
"The lack of a DVD player hurt GameCube sales tremendously when the console was first released."
Says who? Where are the industry statistics on this one? I consider the lack of a DVD player a strenght in the product. I already have a DVD player, and so do many people. Keeping DVD's out of the GameCube meant that it stayed nice and small and cheap, exactly what I was looking for in a gaming device.
Me: "Right, except in this case the sales people said that they were having trouble keeping them in the stores. Every time they got a new shipment, they'd sell out within a few days."
You: "WTF are you talking about? Did you read the same article as me?"
If you paid attention to the thread, I was talking about my own experience in trying to buy a GameCube last week. Not the article. I was not suggesting that I'm right or that anyone is wrong...just that I tried to buy a GameCube last week and very few stores had any in stock. When I asked them about it, a few of the sales people mentioned that they were selling briskly and were having trouble keeping them in stock.
Next time, try reading the context of the thread before replying.