Can anyone explain to me why people think there are no options for a PC based portable MP3 player?
Maybe because noone's really takling about an PC based (HD) MP3 player? They're talking about an iPod competitor (see story title). What makes the iPod so special? Here's a/. post I made earlier about the issue.
Really there's a world of difference.
Note: I don't own an iPod, it's a bit too expensive for me:-(
He added to the discussion. It's ontopic, and he brings up some interesting points like:
Granted with this all said neither is fast enough for a modestly fast hard drive to not see it as a bottleneck but trust me put you noisy fan loaded PC in your closet/basement run some quality KVM extensions USB firewire and sound (SPDIF of course:) up to your work area use a USB floppy and Firewire CDR/DVD and you have a nice nearly noiseless envirnment when you not activly accessing a disk with all the comferts of home (get a remote for the power switch X10 works well if your running windows for those hard reboots:)
Since the iPod is essentially a firewire HD, it's all interesting, besides, I've been working on a noiseless setup for awhile now, just I didn't think about the X10 switches.
What's next, CrossTheStreams ? These guys sure loved Ghostbusters:-)
Seriously, I run 'zilla 1.1a on all my machines... (linux router, home machine, all my work machines) What does 1.1b have to offer? Stability? Features? Hmmm..?
btw, 1) does anyone how I can unload plugins? Flash 5 is driving me up the wall. 2) where I can find benefical plugins (like the jre) that work?
Although MS only supports running ASP.NET on a Windows server, the client receives pure HTML that can be viewed in any browser on any platform
MS has already wrapped up that problem. Do you notice how many sites are not Mozilla friendly? Hell, even my company (a *large* enterprise software firm) produces supposedly "pure" html that coincidentally happens to not work on anything but IE.
They have browser marketshare. They still have OS marketshare. Network effect of both platforms will keep people from straying, regardless of what "standards" exist. For complete dominance, they are attempting to crush Sun by eating their Java lunch.
Go ahead, support the monopolist, foolish developer. Cry me a river when your "pure HTML" is required to break W3C standards to comply with next version of IE.
NVIDIA wants to vote it in at this meeting. ... It seems crazy to "vote it in" (as in agreeing?) with so little information. Unless you are in really deep with MS;-)
Well, AFAIK, NVidia *is* in deep with MS (see Xbox). They would not be where they are now without partnering with MS. They also have little to lose (and much to gain) if they are the premier implementor of "MSopenGL".
I did the same thing. Unfortunately, I found that the 32x ide burner is only about 10% faster than my 3 year old 8x plextor
Turn on your DMA. If you're using windows, it'll be found in the device mgr properties, AFAIK.
SCSI is no longer bandwidth king. Although UDMA33 (highest speed for an IDE CD device) is a bit CPU intensive, I can still play some games, and browse while burning (even when going from my CD->CDRW which are on the same chain!) at 40x.
Face it, aside from *fast* system disk (or crazy fast with SCSI Raid0), there's no need for SCSI @home.
Hint: if you're not using 80-conductor cabling for your media drives, you're still gonna be stuck at non-UDMA speeds.
We know who loses in this game, obviously anyone with any vested interest in WorldCom.
$64,000 question is, who *wins*?
Although not as prevalent, I'm sure this sort of "book-cooking" goes on *all the time* at random big company (corporate interviewer to accountant: what does 1+1=? Accountant: Whatever you want it to be).
Who bailed on the stock so fast that it lost 78% of it's valuation? Who had placed the shorts well ahead of "knowledge" of this event?
Well, there was investigation when 9-11 happened and some people had big money shorting AMR and UAL. I wonder who's making money off this?
I wish I had mod points to mod this up, so instead, I'll add you as a friend.
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So here's what I don't get...is the smaller profile of the device worth the extra $220?
Perhaps. Here are the reasons I can think of to justify the cost:
Form factor, as you mentioned. No MP3CD players will fit in my shirt pocket (iPod), or even my pant pocket (this new Toshiba thingy)
Hard drive == skip resistant. Okay, given that most of the MP3CD players these days are resistant enough, I still managed to buy one last year that wasn't (impossible to play on airplane).
Convenience. iPod does it right, by charging the device as you download, and transfer time is miniscule. Also, the single unit, single connection is much less clutter than 10+CD's, a CD-burner, The MP3CD player, a case, the charger, etc. Besides, once you burn the CD's you must reburn to get what you want. And as Apple knows well, interface *does* matter
Batteries. I hate em. Even rechargable NiMH AA's are a pain in the ass. AFAIK, no MP3CD player has a built-in battery pack.
So in short, I think it's just a bit more than profile.
politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
If you were saavy enough to download ad aware in first place, what is to stop you from reinstalling it and running it again once you've installed this product?
Not exactly. My immediate family members, who are not quite as savvy in computing, benefit from ad-aware, without being knowledgeable of how to download it, or if it exists... I just put it in thier startup, and tell them it's like their anti-virus. They click away, wait a couple of minutes, clear the offending files, and continue on their merry way.
Now, if they unsuspectingly downloaded this nefarious app, it would be *me* who needed to uninstall it, and *me* who reinstalls ad-aware for them. It's very annoying. I think that is the target market that Radlight wants to "infect".
Somebody calls the FBI and says that a hacker had broken into their computer. The FBI could not watch what the hacker did on the computer, even with the permission of the owner of the computer, because it was assumed that it violated the privacy of the hacker. Come on. You have to admit that is pretty silly.
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Here's some links:
the pdf file explaining why, and the
html-ization of the pdf from google
Check out what I'm getting(in the mail already)
Great!
Got any advice for my non-linux machines? That's where I'd really spend most of my time (@work, etc)
Maybe because noone's really takling about an PC based (HD) MP3 player? /. post I made earlier about the issue.
They're talking about an iPod competitor (see story title). What makes the iPod so special? Here's a
Really there's a world of difference.
Note: I don't own an iPod, it's a bit too expensive for me :-(
Granted with this all said neither is fast enough for a modestly fast hard drive to not see it as a bottleneck but trust me put you noisy fan loaded PC in your closet/basement run some quality KVM extensions USB firewire and sound (SPDIF of course :) up to your work area use a USB floppy and Firewire CDR/DVD and you have a nice nearly noiseless envirnment when you not activly accessing a disk with all the comferts of home (get a remote for the power switch X10 works well if your running windows for those hard reboots :)
Since the iPod is essentially a firewire HD, it's all interesting, besides, I've been working on a noiseless setup for awhile now, just I didn't think about the X10 switches.
What's next, CrossTheStreams ? :-)
These guys sure loved Ghostbusters
Seriously, I run 'zilla 1.1a on all my machines... (linux router, home machine, all my work machines) What does 1.1b have to offer? Stability? Features? Hmmm..?
btw,
1) does anyone how I can unload plugins? Flash 5 is driving me up the wall.
2) where I can find benefical plugins (like the jre) that work?
Javascript is broken on IE, so in order to "fix" things, you have to write for two platforms, IE and everyone else.
If you can't see why this will make your page unrenderable with Mozilla, when IE is broken w/r/t standards, I wont try any further.
MS has already wrapped up that problem. Do you notice how many sites are not Mozilla friendly?
Hell, even my company (a *large* enterprise software firm) produces supposedly "pure" html that coincidentally happens to not work on anything but IE.
They have browser marketshare. They still have OS marketshare. Network effect of both platforms will keep people from straying, regardless of what "standards" exist. For complete dominance, they are attempting to crush Sun by eating their Java lunch.
Go ahead, support the monopolist, foolish developer. Cry me a river when your "pure HTML" is required to break W3C standards to comply with next version of IE.
It seems crazy to "vote it in" (as in agreeing?) with so little information. Unless you are in really deep with MS
Well, AFAIK, NVidia *is* in deep with MS (see Xbox). They would not be where they are now without partnering with MS. They also have little to lose (and much to gain) if they are the premier implementor of "MSopenGL".
Turn on your DMA. If you're using windows, it'll be found in the device mgr properties, AFAIK.
SCSI is no longer bandwidth king. Although UDMA33 (highest speed for an IDE CD device) is a bit CPU intensive, I can still play some games, and browse while burning (even when going from my CD->CDRW which are on the same chain!) at 40x.
Face it, aside from *fast* system disk (or crazy fast with SCSI Raid0), there's no need for SCSI @home. Hint: if you're not using 80-conductor cabling for your media drives, you're still gonna be stuck at non-UDMA speeds.
We know who loses in this game, obviously anyone with any vested interest in WorldCom.
$64,000 question is, who *wins*?
Although not as prevalent, I'm sure this sort of "book-cooking" goes on *all the time* at random big company (corporate interviewer to accountant: what does 1+1=? Accountant: Whatever you want it to be).
Who bailed on the stock so fast that it lost 78% of it's valuation? Who had placed the shorts well ahead of "knowledge" of this event?
Well, there was investigation when 9-11 happened and some people had big money shorting AMR and UAL. I wonder who's making money off this?
Hmmm... jee, maybe me, sincewe already covered it
I wish I had mod points to mod this up, so instead, I'll add you as a friend.
Perhaps. Here are the reasons I can think of to justify the cost:
So in short, I think it's just a bit more than profile.
Heh,
And they'll be running on Rednix
You have done your math. The average KaZaA user is probably more affected by sticker shock.
My monthly bill is WHAT?!?!?
Also, what about those "clued in" kids whose parents don't care about the bandwidth use until it hits THEIR bottom line?
Fact is, it's still a big deal
Kinda like the guy in this movie?
The things that will destroy us are:
politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without character;
business without morality;
science without humanity,
and worship without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
CTRL+HOME is good enough for me.
I agree about not having an icon, that sucks for n00b's tho.
But wait, that's not all... included is a great review of RAID.
This issue is discussed in detail on K5.
Dude, that page doesn't exist. You want to clarify what you meant, or are you just trolling ?
Not exactly. My immediate family members, who are not quite as savvy in computing, benefit from ad-aware, without being knowledgeable of how to download it, or if it exists... I just put it in thier startup, and tell them it's like their anti-virus. They click away, wait a couple of minutes, clear the offending files, and continue on their merry way.
Now, if they unsuspectingly downloaded this nefarious app, it would be *me* who needed to uninstall it, and *me* who reinstalls ad-aware for them. It's very annoying. I think that is the target market that Radlight wants to "infect".
So, the foward looking question: Does 802.11g use OFDM also (albeit on the 2.4Ghz band)?
s/owner/Employer/g
s/hacker/Employee/g
I think workplace privacy is silly, sure.