There are quite a few network mp3 players out on the market. I currently use a turtle beach Audiotron, you can check out a little review I wrote up a few months ago.
The other one that has received quite a bit of press around here is the Slimp3 player. The slimp3 is a nice player, especially if you want something that you can hack, since the source code and architecture is all open.
If you want to make any wired network player wireless, there are products available.
Shouldn't you be Using Linux anyway? The majority of people who use macs don't want to tweak, they want hardware that looks good to impress their yuppie friends and software that is eye catching and easy to use.
I liked college so much, I stayed for six years. Let me give you a piece of advice, move off campus. You will have a much better time; you can do anything you want without having an RA nag at you. Its much easier to bring back girls to your apartment rather than a cramped dorm room with your roommate sleeping 5 ft away, plus you can get a cable modem without any bullshit restriction or TOS if you're in the right area.
The systems they will be offering for 3-4 grand, could probably be built for less than $2,000. A high end system is where people can save the most money rolling their own. With all the online guides and books available for PC building, just about anyone can build a pc a in day, its really not that hard. I started building them five years ago, and now I'm building budget systems on the side for friends and relatives, padding the price by at least $200 and still beating Dell's prices on their low end systems, but not the ultra low end.
I can understand the advantage of dual displays for graphics tasks but what is the advantage of having dual displays for programming? Can't you just use virtual desktops and have a big monitor? My monitor, the sony in the middle runs at 1600x1200. What would be the advantage of running 2 displays at 800x600 over running one big monitor at 1600x1200?
Its not just developing markets where piracy could be seen as beneficial for microsoft.
Even in the US, Microsoft would probably prefer people using pirated MS software over using no MS software, as long as they couldn't afford to buy the Software from MS. This is why MS gives millions worth of their products to college students every year. Up to this month, my university had an agreement to give out free ms software including: Office, Windows XP, Visual Studio, and more. This agreement has finally ended, and I can't help to wonder if MS tries use a drug dealer approach to software, to come in to a University and set up an agreement to give away software and then end it after a couple of years in hope that the University will shell out big bucks to keep the agreement.
For the pirates that can't afford MS software, they want then to become accustomed to MS software to the point where when they leave school they will buy computers with the latest version of windows preloaded and more importantly, demand that windows be in their computer at work.
None of the Windows laptops cut it with battery life or displays so I looked at the iBook.
First of all there is no such thing as a "windows laptop", because X86 can run a variety of operating systems. My PC laptop is a Fujitsu P-2000 and I currently get 7 hours of battery life running Linux on the extended battery. If I take out my media drive and but in the secondary battery I can get 14 hours of battery life.
The brand new powerbook G4 I got from work is lucky if it sees 4 hours.
I received the current top of the line powerbook to do some testing for work. I wrote a little review about it. Its pretty darn fast but for the price of my conifguration, I could buy a 3.5 pound Fujitsu P-2000 and build a top of the line Athlon system with 21in CRT.
So if you really want to go for OSX on a laptop you will probably want to go with an ibook unless you don't find spending the extra money painful. Personally, I will be sticking with my p-2000. It has a full size keyboard, DVD, CD-Burner, Built in Wireless, Firewire and 2 USB all integrated in to a 3.5 pound package.
Limewire is probably the most popular open source P2P client. Its released under the GPL plus its coded in java so it runs on all the most popular platforms. If you download the CVS version there is no spyware.
One tip though, if you are trying to run the latest CVS version in linux, edit the gui/run file and change all the semicolons to colons in order for limewire to run on Linux.
Why should the FSF care what the name is as long as Linux is free? Don't we have enough awkward names for free software as it is? I don't see one good reason to use the term GNU/Linux and frankly I find this the FAQ to hardly be in good taste, referring to Linus Torvalds as a posterboy even if they state its "other people's choice." Should Linus have a FAQ that states RMS is a whacked zealot but say that its "other people's choice." It was the FSF "choice" to put an insulting term in the FAQ.
The very nature of the GPL itself allows people to name their software whatever they want as long as they release the source. There are no grounds for changing a name, which is commonly known, to an awkward combination of words. Any marketing guy will tell you should not have a name that people can't pronounce. GNU is certainly a hard name to pronounce and just plain weird. GNU is also to blame for why we have so many poorly named free software projects.
The idea that people should change the name of Linux is in poor taste. Much credit is given to the FSF and all the great work they have done. The FSF can be recognized for the accomplishments without having to change the name of the software which has done more to call attention to the FSF than any other project. If they have a problem with it, then they should make GNU/HURD better than Linux so they can get the recognition that they think they deserve.
Yeah have you ever tried running running OSX on an imac with 128 megs of ram? You might as well put windowsXP on a 486.
Making a clueless mac zealot look like a retard
priceless.
I'm a kde user but I also use evolution. Why would I want to switch to Kroupware when evolution already does this and has the ability to connect to exchange servers? Aren't KDE and Gnome already redundant enough?
Yes we want rights, but there is no right that allows people to take other people's work, modify it, and re distribute it. These movies are not released under the GPL and frankly the GPL does not work with everything and certainly not movies.
I am not a big Mac fan and I hate how when you post anything negative about any apple product on/., you are instantly modded down, but I am an I-pod owner. I don't even have a mac, but originally I got it working on windows with Xplay and now I can access my ipod through Linux with Xpod. I'm a firm believer in the superiority of the ipod, the design, the interface, and especially the service. Last week after owning my ipod for 9 months, it finally died. I figured I would call apple and see what I could do. Instead of having to go through any hassle, Apple was really smooth.
Apple overnights me a box
I stick ipod in box
I call to have the shipping company pick up box
Apple sends me a brand new ipod, arrives 2 days later
That's what I call service, most of the other players I've seen have a very limited warranty and the companies are almost guaranteed to object to a replacement. Apple was amazing and they should be, with the recent release of the ipod for windows, they are bound to get a few converts if they keep that level of service.
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Wired had an article about KaZaA's globalization strategy a few weeks ago.
The other one that has received quite a bit of press around here is the Slimp3 player. The slimp3 is a nice player, especially if you want something that you can hack, since the source code and architecture is all open.
If you want to make any wired network player wireless, there are products available.
Obivously the poster didn't read this. :)
Does she come with the CD as well? How about a little divx clip in there ?
Shouldn't you be Using Linux anyway? The majority of people who use macs don't want to tweak, they want hardware that looks good to impress their yuppie friends and software that is eye catching and easy to use.
I liked college so much, I stayed for six years. Let me give you a piece of advice, move off campus. You will have a much better time; you can do anything you want without having an RA nag at you. Its much easier to bring back girls to your apartment rather than a cramped dorm room with your roommate sleeping 5 ft away, plus you can get a cable modem without any bullshit restriction or TOS if you're in the right area.
The systems they will be offering for 3-4 grand, could probably be built for less than $2,000. A high end system is where people can save the most money rolling their own. With all the online guides and books available for PC building, just about anyone can build a pc a in day, its really not that hard. I started building them five years ago, and now I'm building budget systems on the side for friends and relatives, padding the price by at least $200 and still beating Dell's prices on their low end systems, but not the ultra low end.
I can understand the advantage of dual displays for graphics tasks but what is the advantage of having dual displays for programming? Can't you just use virtual desktops and have a big monitor? My monitor, the sony in the middle runs at 1600x1200. What would be the advantage of running 2 displays at 800x600 over running one big monitor at 1600x1200?
Not on my laptop, its a Trasnmeta TM5800 with longrun disabled so there is not reduction of clockrate.
Even in the US, Microsoft would probably prefer people using pirated MS software over using no MS software, as long as they couldn't afford to buy the Software from MS. This is why MS gives millions worth of their products to college students every year. Up to this month, my university had an agreement to give out free ms software including: Office, Windows XP, Visual Studio, and more. This agreement has finally ended, and I can't help to wonder if MS tries use a drug dealer approach to software, to come in to a University and set up an agreement to give away software and then end it after a couple of years in hope that the University will shell out big bucks to keep the agreement.
For the pirates that can't afford MS software, they want then to become accustomed to MS software to the point where when they leave school they will buy computers with the latest version of windows preloaded and more importantly, demand that windows be in their computer at work.
Thanks, I found that pref finally, when I was writing the article I was thinking to myself, they had to think of this, thanks for the tip
First of all there is no such thing as a "windows laptop", because X86 can run a variety of operating systems. My PC laptop is a Fujitsu P-2000 and I currently get 7 hours of battery life running Linux on the extended battery. If I take out my media drive and but in the secondary battery I can get 14 hours of battery life.
The brand new powerbook G4 I got from work is lucky if it sees 4 hours.
So if you really want to go for OSX on a laptop you will probably want to go with an ibook unless you don't find spending the extra money painful. Personally, I will be sticking with my p-2000. It has a full size keyboard, DVD, CD-Burner, Built in Wireless, Firewire and 2 USB all integrated in to a 3.5 pound package.
One tip though, if you are trying to run the latest CVS version in linux, edit the gui/run file and change all the semicolons to colons in order for limewire to run on Linux.
The very nature of the GPL itself allows people to name their software whatever they want as long as they release the source. There are no grounds for changing a name, which is commonly known, to an awkward combination of words. Any marketing guy will tell you should not have a name that people can't pronounce. GNU is certainly a hard name to pronounce and just plain weird. GNU is also to blame for why we have so many poorly named free software projects.
The idea that people should change the name of Linux is in poor taste. Much credit is given to the FSF and all the great work they have done. The FSF can be recognized for the accomplishments without having to change the name of the software which has done more to call attention to the FSF than any other project. If they have a problem with it, then they should make GNU/HURD better than Linux so they can get the recognition that they think they deserve.
Yeah have you ever tried running running OSX on an imac with 128 megs of ram? You might as well put windowsXP on a 486. Making a clueless mac zealot look like a retard priceless.
Well it has seemed to work fine for Ximian for quite some time. I haven't heard about anyone compromising go-gnome.
I'm a kde user but I also use evolution. Why would I want to switch to Kroupware when evolution already does this and has the ability to connect to exchange servers? Aren't KDE and Gnome already redundant enough?
Netflix opened an East coast distribution center about 5 months ago. I live in PA and all my dvd's come from baltimore.
Resale is completly different, yes if you buy a tape you can sell it, but you can not edit it, copy it, and sell 1000 edited copies of that tape.
Obviously this is a beta when a cricket game is the top sports story.
Yes we want rights, but there is no right that allows people to take other people's work, modify it, and re distribute it. These movies are not released under the GPL and frankly the GPL does not work with everything and certainly not movies.
i know look at my journal!
- Apple overnights me a box
- I stick ipod in box
- I call to have the shipping company pick up box
- Apple sends me a brand new ipod, arrives 2 days later
That's what I call service, most of the other players I've seen have a very limited warranty and the companies are almost guaranteed to object to a replacement. Apple was amazing and they should be, with the recent release of the ipod for windows, they are bound to get a few converts if they keep that level of service.I know there is a workaround, look at my fucking journal!