the article makes some good points. low battery life, too expensive. my suggestion would be buying an older iPod. the old 20 gig model has 8-10 hours of bettery life, and goes for about $300 (same as the newer 10 gig one). you can get a 5 gig one for under $200. (and not used off ebay. either new, or factory refurbished)
yes it isnt good for jogging, etc. if you're jogging, you're probably not gonna need more than 2 hours of tunes, and a flash based mp3 player is fine. (unless you're running a marathon?)
as far as having a choice in online music stores, you do have a choice. but you have to make a choice and stick with it. choice #1: use iTunes and iPod. choice #2: use something else.
can't SCO get the linux source code, and compare it to their own closed source code, and see what is the same? i thought their claim was that IBM just dumped a bunch of their UNIX code into linux... wouldnt it be easy to find?
umm, have you ever heard of this thing called math? $26.50 / 100 discs = $0.265 per disc. that is 0 dollars and 26.5 cents. which is what the previous poster said. of course there's the fact that you can usually find blank CDs that have a mfr. rebate, bringing the cost down to 5-10 cents per disc, but PLEASE tell me where to find 2.6 cent blank CDs.
i dont think that's entirely accurate; if you download something, and read it, listen to it, or watch it (depending on what it is) and then delete it, that's similar to borrowing something from a library. libraries dont let you keep everything, which is uaully what happens when someone downloads something. also, libraries usually have only one copy of a book or movie or cd, so only one person can have it at a time. with file sharing, everyone can download the same file and keep it forever. don't say it's the same as a library.
"some CDs only have 10 songs, or less. but ours has 19 songs, which is why it's better." (paraphrased, from the Flood promo video, which i can't find a link to at the moment)
all it is is a miniature laptop. there's really nothing special about it. personally, i like the design of this thing. now, if something like that ever became available, i'd be all over it.
recording songs off the radio, or taping shows and movies off tv, is completely ok, as long as it's for your own use, as far as i know. it's probably different when you start to make digital copies and distribute them to other people. i dont give a rat's ass either way though. i buy lots of CDs and DVDs and i download lots of stuff too.
dude, 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file onto a different folder on the same hard drive? there is something seriously wrong with your computer. my performa 6200 (75 mhz) isnt that slow. maybe you should run some hard drive diagnostic program or something. i'm sure if your computer were running proberly, it would take about 5 seconds...
B) The state was so scrapped for cash that even the fifty bucks per XP is too much, and they do not consider retraining as a budget line item
i think you've hit the nail on the head... i think a few other poeple have mentioned it, the new governer wants to put the state on a tight budget, and unless microsoft wants to offer upgrades for free, this sounds like something they will go through with.
$1 per song is too much. (i think most of us agree on that). i'm willing to pay, maybe $0.25 to $0.75 per song if i'm downloading it and it's not CD quality, plus i'm not getting any liner notes or anything.
Full albums should be discounted (e.g. emusic used to do $1 per song, but $8 to $10 per album.) i.e. a whole album, downloaded, should cost less than buying a CD in a store, i.e. $12 or less.
a lot of people say 'i'm paying $15-20 for a CD with only 2 or 3 good songs on it'. the songs they play on the radio. the way radio works, you only get to hear those few songs from an album, and i've found in many cases, the songs they don't play are often better. most bands dont just try to write 2 hit songs, and 10 filler songs (unless they are trying to cash in or whatever, in which case they usually suck anyway).
if i had access to any song from any major label, for about $0.50 per song or $10 per album, even if i could only listen to it on my mac and my iPod (which is what i do for the most part anyway), i'd be very very happy.
emusic kicks so much ass. the reason i started my subscription was because the had a deal with they might be giants to get a bunch of exclusive content, as well as all their albums (that weren't on the electra label, anyway). i signed up for the 12 month thing, at $10/month, which is pretty damn cheap for unlimited downloads. even if i download 1 good album a month, it's still cheaper than buying CDs. i've spent hours looking through all their artists. occasionally i'll find one i've heard of (Reggie and the Full Effect, Alkaline Trio, Dirtbike Annie, all stuff i'd been slightly interested in but wasnt gonna shell out $15 for a CD), and they give you recommendations based on the stuff you download, and sometimes those turn up somthing good. plus they have tons of jazz, blues, classical. and they're always adding new stuff. i check all the new albums once a week or so, and i usually find something good. emusic isnt a replacement for buying CDs (or however you get your music) because the only have a limited catalog. if the major record labels had something like this, i.e. unlimited (or even limited, like 5 albums per month) in plain old MP3 (maybe you'd like ogg or something) i'd gladly pay $10, or $15, or maybe even $20 per month, and i'm sure tons of other people would too. i guess that's all i have to say for now.
are you sure it's a paperclip reset button? are you sure it isnt NOTHING? (sorry) seriously, which iMacs? i know the slot loading ones just have a little button, which can be pressed with any old stubby finger. or you can hit the power button on the from that's not recessed at all... i have no idea about the flat screen iMacs though...
yeah, i wouldnt say lupin is for everybody, i'd think twice before showing it to young children. parts of it are very funny, and slapstick, but it it does have a fair anount of violence, and a small amount of nudity (i'm not sure about the tv series though, i've never seen it).
and yes, miyazaki did work on lupin, he directed the movie castle of cagliostro and also directed some episodes of the series (the 2nd and 3rd tv series i think)
I run VPC on my 400 mhz iMac. it runs about as slow or slower than my friend's pentium (or pentium II i forget) 166 mhz. I'm running it under mac os x, which is probably slower than it would run under os 9, but vpc is still unusable for all but mundane tasks, e.g. video playback (i tried installing divx on it once, and the installert wouldnt even run, i got a fatal error every time)
i'll absolutely go if it's in boston, becuase i live only 5 miles away... but i'm sure there are tons of people who would have gone if it was in ny that won't becuase it's in boston.
not sure about hotels... but IDG wanted a guarantee on a certain number of rooms under $150/night, or something like that.
did i miss the frozen nude girl in a box? i know that's from outlaw star, but i didnt see it in firefly (that IS what you're talking abut right? that firefly is copying outlaw star becuase they also have a nude girlin a box?)
besides that though, i did think of outlaw star while i was watching the show... my brother made a comment about them being 'outlaws' as in criminals, whatever, and i though he was making a reference to outlaw star...
i usually use emusic.com as well. i'm not big into electronica yet, but emusic seems to have a lot of that, as well as any other genre of music you might be interested in. they dont have a whole lot of real popular stuff, mostly a lot of indie bands and stuff like that.
i definitely buy less CDs than i did before MP3s because popular. now, i only buy music that i really really like. before, i bought a lot of stuff to sample (granted i usually only bought things i suspected i was gonna like anyway). but now, iif i want to find out if i like something, i download it. and to any people who look down upon illegal MP3 downloads (but this is slashdot, what % of poeple here do, honestly?) i also do emusic. i have a legit supcription, and i've definitly downloaded at least a gig of music from them, which about one third of my napster, limewire, etc. to get on topic, i loathe the idea of copy-protected CDs, becuase the first thing i do when i get a CD is rip it, and put the CD away, for good in most cases. not being able to do it is probably going to make me buy less CDs rather than more. if the RIAA and artists want to do this, they should make software that allows ripping the CD to copy protected files, and burning to copy protected CDs (for mixes, MP3 CDs, etc). until they provide some way for people to use these in the versatile way that is available, people arent going to like it.
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the article makes some good points. low battery life, too expensive. my suggestion would be buying an older iPod. the old 20 gig model has 8-10 hours of bettery life, and goes for about $300 (same as the newer 10 gig one). you can get a 5 gig one for under $200. (and not used off ebay. either new, or factory refurbished)
yes it isnt good for jogging, etc. if you're jogging, you're probably not gonna need more than 2 hours of tunes, and a flash based mp3 player is fine. (unless you're running a marathon?)
as far as having a choice in online music stores, you do have a choice. but you have to make a choice and stick with it. choice #1: use iTunes and iPod. choice #2: use something else.
are you referring to the saturday night live fake commercial for 'happy fun ball'?
can't SCO get the linux source code, and compare it to their own closed source code, and see what is the same? i thought their claim was that IBM just dumped a bunch of their UNIX code into linux... wouldnt it be easy to find?
umm, have you ever heard of this thing called math? $26.50 / 100 discs = $0.265 per disc. that is 0 dollars and 26.5 cents. which is what the previous poster said. of course there's the fact that you can usually find blank CDs that have a mfr. rebate, bringing the cost down to 5-10 cents per disc, but PLEASE tell me where to find 2.6 cent blank CDs.
i dont think that's entirely accurate; if you download something, and read it, listen to it, or watch it (depending on what it is) and then delete it, that's similar to borrowing something from a library. libraries dont let you keep everything, which is uaully what happens when someone downloads something. also, libraries usually have only one copy of a book or movie or cd, so only one person can have it at a time. with file sharing, everyone can download the same file and keep it forever. don't say it's the same as a library.
"im sick of running 8,6 on it and want a modern OS."
well, you could upgrade to 9.1... not a huge improvement, but if you can't run OS X and dont want to do linux, you might as well...
"some CDs only have 10 songs, or less. but ours has 19 songs, which is why it's better." (paraphrased, from the Flood promo video, which i can't find a link to at the moment)
all it is is a miniature laptop. there's really nothing special about it. personally, i like the design of this thing. now, if something like that ever became available, i'd be all over it.
recording songs off the radio, or taping shows and movies off tv, is completely ok, as long as it's for your own use, as far as i know. it's probably different when you start to make digital copies and distribute them to other people. i dont give a rat's ass either way though. i buy lots of CDs and DVDs and i download lots of stuff too.
if he has an 8600, he should be running OS 9.1...
dude, 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file onto a different folder on the same hard drive? there is something seriously wrong with your computer. my performa 6200 (75 mhz) isnt that slow. maybe you should run some hard drive diagnostic program or something. i'm sure if your computer were running proberly, it would take about 5 seconds...
i think you've hit the nail on the head... i think a few other poeple have mentioned it, the new governer wants to put the state on a tight budget, and unless microsoft wants to offer upgrades for free, this sounds like something they will go through with.
besides, what would you prefer to use? quicktime, windows media, or realmedia? though, i prefer mpeg to any of those...
$1 per song is too much. (i think most of us agree on that). i'm willing to pay, maybe $0.25 to $0.75 per song if i'm downloading it and it's not CD quality, plus i'm not getting any liner notes or anything.
Full albums should be discounted (e.g. emusic used to do $1 per song, but $8 to $10 per album.) i.e. a whole album, downloaded, should cost less than buying a CD in a store, i.e. $12 or less.
a lot of people say 'i'm paying $15-20 for a CD with only 2 or 3 good songs on it'. the songs they play on the radio. the way radio works, you only get to hear those few songs from an album, and i've found in many cases, the songs they don't play are often better. most bands dont just try to write 2 hit songs, and 10 filler songs (unless they are trying to cash in or whatever, in which case they usually suck anyway).
if i had access to any song from any major label, for about $0.50 per song or $10 per album, even if i could only listen to it on my mac and my iPod (which is what i do for the most part anyway), i'd be very very happy.
emusic kicks so much ass. the reason i started my subscription was because the had a deal with they might be giants to get a bunch of exclusive content, as well as all their albums (that weren't on the electra label, anyway). i signed up for the 12 month thing, at $10/month, which is pretty damn cheap for unlimited downloads. even if i download 1 good album a month, it's still cheaper than buying CDs. i've spent hours looking through all their artists. occasionally i'll find one i've heard of (Reggie and the Full Effect, Alkaline Trio, Dirtbike Annie, all stuff i'd been slightly interested in but wasnt gonna shell out $15 for a CD), and they give you recommendations based on the stuff you download, and sometimes those turn up somthing good. plus they have tons of jazz, blues, classical. and they're always adding new stuff. i check all the new albums once a week or so, and i usually find something good. emusic isnt a replacement for buying CDs (or however you get your music) because the only have a limited catalog. if the major record labels had something like this, i.e. unlimited (or even limited, like 5 albums per month) in plain old MP3 (maybe you'd like ogg or something) i'd gladly pay $10, or $15, or maybe even $20 per month, and i'm sure tons of other people would too. i guess that's all i have to say for now.
are you sure it's a paperclip reset button? are you sure it isnt NOTHING? (sorry) seriously, which iMacs? i know the slot loading ones just have a little button, which can be pressed with any old stubby finger. or you can hit the power button on the from that's not recessed at all... i have no idea about the flat screen iMacs though...
i enjoyed all of the rama books. the later ones were not fantastic, but i thought they were all interesting.
also note that formac uses firewire and eyetv uses usb. firewire = teh rox, usb = teh sux. (for video, anyway)
as comedian dane cook says
'speak and spell... they should call it speak like the devil'
'a b c d e f g, i will kill your family'
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yeah, i wouldnt say lupin is for everybody, i'd think twice before showing it to young children. parts of it are very funny, and slapstick, but it it does have a fair anount of violence, and a small amount of nudity (i'm not sure about the tv series though, i've never seen it).
and yes, miyazaki did work on lupin, he directed the movie castle of cagliostro and also directed some episodes of the series (the 2nd and 3rd tv series i think)
I run VPC on my 400 mhz iMac. it runs about as slow or slower than my friend's pentium (or pentium II i forget) 166 mhz. I'm running it under mac os x, which is probably slower than it would run under os 9, but vpc is still unusable for all but mundane tasks, e.g. video playback (i tried installing divx on it once, and the installert wouldnt even run, i got a fatal error every time)
i'll absolutely go if it's in boston, becuase i live only 5 miles away... but i'm sure there are tons of people who would have gone if it was in ny that won't becuase it's in boston.
not sure about hotels... but IDG wanted a guarantee on a certain number of rooms under $150/night, or something like that.
did i miss the frozen nude girl in a box? i know that's from outlaw star, but i didnt see it in firefly (that IS what you're talking abut right? that firefly is copying outlaw star becuase they also have a nude girlin a box?)
besides that though, i did think of outlaw star while i was watching the show... my brother made a comment about them being 'outlaws' as in criminals, whatever, and i though he was making a reference to outlaw star...
i usually use emusic.com as well. i'm not big into electronica yet, but emusic seems to have a lot of that, as well as any other genre of music you might be interested in. they dont have a whole lot of real popular stuff, mostly a lot of indie bands and stuff like that.
i definitely buy less CDs than i did before MP3s because popular. now, i only buy music that i really really like. before, i bought a lot of stuff to sample (granted i usually only bought things i suspected i was gonna like anyway). but now, iif i want to find out if i like something, i download it. and to any people who look down upon illegal MP3 downloads (but this is slashdot, what % of poeple here do, honestly?) i also do emusic. i have a legit supcription, and i've definitly downloaded at least a gig of music from them, which about one third of my napster, limewire, etc. to get on topic, i loathe the idea of copy-protected CDs, becuase the first thing i do when i get a CD is rip it, and put the CD away, for good in most cases. not being able to do it is probably going to make me buy less CDs rather than more. if the RIAA and artists want to do this, they should make software that allows ripping the CD to copy protected files, and burning to copy protected CDs (for mixes, MP3 CDs, etc). until they provide some way for people to use these in the versatile way that is available, people arent going to like it.