If MP3 players are rapidly approaching critical mass, how long will it take before car stereos will feature minijack inputs as standard?
Considering the cost of including one versus the cost of replacing the deck so that you can plug your MP3 player in, why wouldn't more manufacturers be doing this? I know a few are, but I'm in the market for a new car and the deck that comes with it figures into the real cost. Replacing the stock stereo with one that will take input from my MP3 player should be unneccessary if these things are really at critical mass.
Are you kidding? Adding a new category to Slashdot? If there's one thing I've learned, it's that the editors would rather do anything but improve on the site. Seriously. When was the last time something happened to this site other than new stories being posted?
From an economic standpoint, nothing but high gas prices is going to push manufacturers to better fuel efficiency. If gas goes to $5/gal and beyond, people will think twice before using their H2 as their primary means of transportation.
If half the nation buys 50mpg hybrid cars, and because of that, gas prices go down, the other half is going to take advantage of that and drive 10mpg SUVs. So the only real solution is to make it economically unfeasable to drive a car that isn't fuel-efficient. Which sucks, because I don't really like paying more at the pump.
I can't say what percentage of battery useage is powering headphones and electronics versus HDD activity, but I'm sure that juice taken up by the HDD spinning for an extra second is a fraction of the power it takes to spin the disc up an extra time.
IMHO abuse about how stupid/lazy/drunken the slashdot editors is unfair and misdirected. They have a workflow problem.
Well what else are we suppose to post about in duped threads?
I appreciate your explanation and you're probably 100% correct. The issue is that/. is stagnant. If what you say is correct, the solution is to change the way/. works. It'd be easy. Will they do it? No. Because the site remains popular, they make zero changes. They don't update the HTML or implement CSS, they don't implement a system for correcting dupes, they don't improve the site at all.
To be honest, I don't particularly like reading posts about stupid/lazy/drunken/. editors and so I was a hypocrite posting one myself, but I almost feel that it's a form of civil disobedience aimed at encouraging the owners to change/. for the better. It's either that or stop visiting, but +5 posts abusing/. editors in duped threads should get the point across a little more directly than dwindling readership.
First of all, about 60% of/. stories are 2-day-old posts on either Gizmodo, Engadget, Lifehacker, or Hack-A-Day. I doubt/. editors even realize this, because they obviously don't get "out" very much.
But seriously. The dupes are out of control. It takes 10 minutes a day, max, to scan the headlines OF THE SITE YOUR JOB IT IS TO EDIT. Timothy obviously does not read this site. So WTF? Could we possibly get an editor that takes his job seriously?
I don't think the issue is with private companies requiring ID. I think the article refers to the Homeland Security drone requiring ID. Private companies and private entities can do whatever they want before agreeing to do business with you.
It is, as Mr. Gilmore said, a back-door National ID system. But there is no law requiring private businesses to get ID (although with the airlines I can't say that for sure).
There is, however, a law requiring Homeland Security to check your ID before they let you on a plane. And the issue is that the text of that law is, apparently, secret. And secret laws are wrong.
Howard Dean had the momentum and the support structure to be the next president of the US(I have some personal misgivings of the man, but I feel this to be true), until that first primary, and the sceram played on cable news channels so very many times. That sunk him in the public opinion, and that was that.
The point is, people are fickle. You don't think that congress would turn on ChoicePoint if they thought they'd start taking heat from their constituents? I think these [democratic] senators would like nothing more than to be seen as the guys (and girl) that took a big business by the horns and fought in the name of consumer privacy.
The challenge with Launch is getting the filename that corresponds to a given artist - track name. Yahoo stores the files as unencrypted.wma files -- I could give you the URL to one, and you could download it with NetTransport. But unless you knew the artist - track name, you'd have to guess or been told it. Essentially this means that while you can save the files, you have to do so manually, and you have to name each one.
Take a look at the source code for the Launch player -- get into the javascript, see if you can figure out where the track information comes from.
This Napster technique automatically preserves filenames, even creating MP3 ID3 tags if you use out_lame. Essentially, you select a group of songs to be downloaded, then convert them to unencumbered MP3 (or whatever format you prefer). Rather than with other implementations such as Yahoo that require manual naming.
Nobody knows how many people are using Napster in this way. It could be 1% or 97%. Useage would be approximately the same either way. So if they're not panicking one bit right now, which I don't think they are, I think they're going to let this slide under the door.
The reason this is different/better is because there is no risk to the end user. Napster nor RIAA will know that the customer is converting the files, so long as the customer does not share them. When the customer cancels his/her Napster service, Napster has no idea that the customer still is able to listen to the music.
Fair and reasonably priced? The service is $15, how unfair is that? A lot of work goes into the 50,000 albums you have access to. This is exactly the type of service many people have been complaining didn't exist. It even works on supported MP3/WMA players! If you have one of those players, you can have more music than you could possibly listen to anywhere you go! If you want to buy music, buy it. If you want to rent it, here's your answer. If you're an Adelphia cable modem subscriber, they have a comparable service (with a CPU-grinding-to-a-halt IE-only interface) that costs $8/month.
I would agree with you, but listening to her part in "America, The Book: The Audiobook" I almost have to disagree. She's really hilariously deadpan, but she doesn't seem to have the believeability that Steven Colbert did/does when he interviews famous people who had never heard of him, and that's really the part that she plays on the show. Ed Helms doesn't do much better, in my opionion. Any way, The Daily Show is as funny four days a week as Saturday Night Live was once a week, only back in ~1995. I love it!
Smart and funny maybe, but with friends like that who needs enemies? And before you try and tell me that that picture is out of context, yeah it's probably her worst ever, but there are dozens more where she looks like she's about to bitch-slap me. How could I love someone so fearsome?
If the routers on the internet may be used to look for potentially "criminal" packets, then new software with the potential for criminal use will have the option of point-to-point encryption. To be used by criminals and law-abiders alike.
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If MP3 players are rapidly approaching critical mass, how long will it take before car stereos will feature minijack inputs as standard?
Considering the cost of including one versus the cost of replacing the deck so that you can plug your MP3 player in, why wouldn't more manufacturers be doing this? I know a few are, but I'm in the market for a new car and the deck that comes with it figures into the real cost. Replacing the stock stereo with one that will take input from my MP3 player should be unneccessary if these things are really at critical mass.
Are you kidding? Adding a new category to Slashdot? If there's one thing I've learned, it's that the editors would rather do anything but improve on the site. Seriously. When was the last time something happened to this site other than new stories being posted?
I just checked the map to see if those two provinces were actually side-by-side.
Jesus, I should be posting as AC.
Please don't mod me up!
And no smartass comments about how my sig is ironic.
I have one, I just don't use it. I also have a Logitech Cordless Duo MX. I'll try it out tomorrow.
And for the extra mouse buttons.
From an economic standpoint, nothing but high gas prices is going to push manufacturers to better fuel efficiency. If gas goes to $5/gal and beyond, people will think twice before using their H2 as their primary means of transportation.
If half the nation buys 50mpg hybrid cars, and because of that, gas prices go down, the other half is going to take advantage of that and drive 10mpg SUVs. So the only real solution is to make it economically unfeasable to drive a car that isn't fuel-efficient. Which sucks, because I don't really like paying more at the pump.
I can't say what percentage of battery useage is powering headphones and electronics versus HDD activity, but I'm sure that juice taken up by the HDD spinning for an extra second is a fraction of the power it takes to spin the disc up an extra time.
Figure out what happened and respond. Additionally the above-mentioned .png 404's, and it's piqued my interest. Cheers.
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IMHO abuse about how stupid/lazy/drunken the slashdot editors is unfair and misdirected. They have a workflow problem.
/. is stagnant. If what you say is correct, the solution is to change the way /. works. It'd be easy. Will they do it? No. Because the site remains popular, they make zero changes. They don't update the HTML or implement CSS, they don't implement a system for correcting dupes, they don't improve the site at all.
/. editors and so I was a hypocrite posting one myself, but I almost feel that it's a form of civil disobedience aimed at encouraging the owners to change /. for the better. It's either that or stop visiting, but +5 posts abusing /. editors in duped threads should get the point across a little more directly than dwindling readership.
Well what else are we suppose to post about in duped threads?
I appreciate your explanation and you're probably 100% correct. The issue is that
To be honest, I don't particularly like reading posts about stupid/lazy/drunken
First of all, about 60% of /. stories are 2-day-old posts on either Gizmodo, Engadget, Lifehacker, or Hack-A-Day. I doubt /. editors even realize this, because they obviously don't get "out" very much.
But seriously. The dupes are out of control. It takes 10 minutes a day, max, to scan the headlines OF THE SITE YOUR JOB IT IS TO EDIT. Timothy obviously does not read this site. So WTF? Could we possibly get an editor that takes his job seriously?
It makes me sick that people can't fathom the concept that within such a large group you will have people at all extremes.
Of course there will always be people at all extremes. The issue at hand is that one extreme is infiltrating normal everyday life.
I don't think the issue is with private companies requiring ID. I think the article refers to the Homeland Security drone requiring ID. Private companies and private entities can do whatever they want before agreeing to do business with you.
It is, as Mr. Gilmore said, a back-door National ID system. But there is no law requiring private businesses to get ID (although with the airlines I can't say that for sure).
There is, however, a law requiring Homeland Security to check your ID before they let you on a plane. And the issue is that the text of that law is, apparently, secret. And secret laws are wrong.
Why would you have to prove that? If the customer showed his ID and it was valid, the insurance company doesn't need proof that it's a valid license.
Howard Dean had the momentum and the support structure to be the next president of the US(I have some personal misgivings of the man, but I feel this to be true), until that first primary, and the sceram played on cable news channels so very many times. That sunk him in the public opinion, and that was that.
The point is, people are fickle. You don't think that congress would turn on ChoicePoint if they thought they'd start taking heat from their constituents? I think these [democratic] senators would like nothing more than to be seen as the guys (and girl) that took a big business by the horns and fought in the name of consumer privacy.
That's really cool. I peeked at your website for a second, but do you have anything else like that I'd be interested in?
The challenge with Launch is getting the filename that corresponds to a given artist - track name. Yahoo stores the files as unencrypted .wma files -- I could give you the URL to one, and you could download it with NetTransport. But unless you knew the artist - track name, you'd have to guess or been told it. Essentially this means that while you can save the files, you have to do so manually, and you have to name each one.
Take a look at the source code for the Launch player -- get into the javascript, see if you can figure out where the track information comes from.
This Napster technique automatically preserves filenames, even creating MP3 ID3 tags if you use out_lame. Essentially, you select a group of songs to be downloaded, then convert them to unencumbered MP3 (or whatever format you prefer). Rather than with other implementations such as Yahoo that require manual naming.
Nobody knows how many people are using Napster in this way. It could be 1% or 97%. Useage would be approximately the same either way. So if they're not panicking one bit right now, which I don't think they are, I think they're going to let this slide under the door.
The reason this is different/better is because there is no risk to the end user. Napster nor RIAA will know that the customer is converting the files, so long as the customer does not share them. When the customer cancels his/her Napster service, Napster has no idea that the customer still is able to listen to the music.
Fair and reasonably priced? The service is $15, how unfair is that? A lot of work goes into the 50,000 albums you have access to. This is exactly the type of service many people have been complaining didn't exist. It even works on supported MP3/WMA players! If you have one of those players, you can have more music than you could possibly listen to anywhere you go! If you want to buy music, buy it. If you want to rent it, here's your answer.
If you're an Adelphia cable modem subscriber, they have a comparable service (with a CPU-grinding-to-a-halt IE-only interface) that costs $8/month.
What newsreader program do you reccommend?
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I would agree with you, but listening to her part in "America, The Book: The Audiobook" I almost have to disagree. She's really hilariously deadpan, but she doesn't seem to have the believeability that Steven Colbert did/does when he interviews famous people who had never heard of him, and that's really the part that she plays on the show. Ed Helms doesn't do much better, in my opionion.
Any way, The Daily Show is as funny four days a week as Saturday Night Live was once a week, only back in ~1995. I love it!
Smart and funny maybe, but with friends like that who needs enemies?
And before you try and tell me that that picture is out of context, yeah it's probably her worst ever, but there are dozens more where she looks like she's about to bitch-slap me. How could I love someone so fearsome?
just invaded TWO (read: TWO) countries in the past TWO YEARS
What was the other one?
And by the way, we can say and do whatever the heck we want with NK. We're still technically at war with them.
If the routers on the internet may be used to look for potentially "criminal" packets, then new software with the potential for criminal use will have the option of point-to-point encryption. To be used by criminals and law-abiders alike.