Guess again. They want to maximize the song count to boost their advertising claims. At 64Kbps 800 songs comes to 1.5GB which would be a match for the Rio Nitrus that uses a Cornice 1 inch hard drive.
There's only one storage device in this size and price range. The Cornice 1.5GB drive. Microdrive is too expensive and flash is even more expensive. There's not that many players yet with this drive. You have the Rio Nitrus that sells for around $200. It's 1.5GB and as small as a flash MP3 player, but with 15GB Dell DJs selling for $225 I'd expect some downward price pressure here. There might be a niche for 1.5GB players between the flash players and multi-gig HD players, but it'll be squeezed by cheaper flash memory on one side and cheap HD players like the Dell DJ on the other side.
If it's not Kazaa, it'll be another P2P app like Bittorrent, Edonkey or Gnutella, all bandwidth hogs. If you don't do some kind of traffic shaping, you WILL need to block them because they'll use all available bandwidth.
VoIP on a PocketPC is a kludge at best for now. Forget about wardriving (warwalking?) with a PDA. The CF and internal WiFi cards are much lower power than laptop PCMCIA cards so you won't have the range you need. Battery life with the WiFi radio running is pretty pitiful too. Not a huge problem with outgoing calls, but forget about leaving it connected in standby to receive calls.
Still, if you want to try it, there's a few SIP softphones for PocketPC, Xten and SJPhone. Never tried them myself, but they're freeware, so doesn't cost anything to experiment.
Exactly! 99% of the time a court overturns a voter initiative, it's because it was blatantly unconstitutional. Just because it's popular doesn't make it legal under the constitution. Not that I'm saying it's always a good thing when initiatives get overturned in court. California Prop 103 (a consumer revolt against the car insurance companies) was tied up in court for years thanks to the powerful insurance lobby. It wasn't overturned, but by the time it emerged from court, it was essentially toothless.
Good idea. Always research the player before you buy. Just google for the model number + region-free. I found a cheapie Daewoo at Target. You can flash it to Macrovision free and regionless. Lots of models can be made regionless with a key code from the remote. Removing Macrovision usually needs at least a firmware flash if not a rechipping.
"It does NOT require companies to provide such tracking information for people that are not calling!"
It also does not prohibit phone companies from continuously tracking and logging this information for their own purposes (location based ads, anyone?). If it's being logged, it WILL get subpoenaed sooner or later.
All that changes is whether the phone sends its GPS data to the base station. As another poster pointed out, GSM can still calculate your position almost as accurately by measuring signal strength. That's actually been proposed as a way of implementing E911 without installing GPS in every handset. Turning off GPS won't stop that.
Don't forget that other tracking device that we all carry, cell phones. It's constantly transmitting while powered on. Right now, the phone company only logs your location by cell site, a radius of many miles. Police could still find someone by triangulating their signal with specialized (meaning expensive) equipment, but E911 changes all that. They'll be required to pinpoint the location of any caller by 50-100 meters.
These days the professional spammers control an army of trojan infected zombies running proxies that completely anonymize the source and zombies that they use to DDoS Spamhaus. You could track it back one more hop with a honeypot, but that's just one more hop. Sounds pretty criminal to me. Lots of crackers have been sent to prison for less than that.
This problem is not a malfunction. It's running out of supplies. Just load a new roll of paper before every election and you're done. One roll can easily last through the day.
"Yes, sounds good. But, how about printer problems?"
Have you ever been to a McDonald's or a grocery store? How often is the receipt printer broken? I can't remember the last time myself. I'd say we've damn near perfected that technology.
Yes, a good old fashioned suicide bombing would be simpler and more effective at doing damage. The big advantage of guided missiles is the ability to do damage from a safe distance- not a priority for a martyr. However the novelty of the attack and the resulting publicity and notoriety might be reason enough for someone to try it.
If you don't mind slumming it, most of the 2nd run theaters show month old movies for about $3 with maybe 3 or 4 trailers and no commercials. You won't impress a date by taking her there, but then again, how many movies this year were good enough to be worth the $9 full price ticket.
Most spam from foreign IPs is actually a US spammer relaying through an open relay or open proxy. That would be illegal under this bill. If the spammer is US-based, he'll have to advertise some domestic product, and he'll have some target for enforcement. What this bill does legalize is the mainsleaze spammers like Topica, Flowgo, etc. They spam from their own IPs and don't disguise themselves with proxies. If this bill makes a dent in the open proxy and open relay spammers, we'll be better off on balance. At least the "legal" spammers will be easy to block by banning their IPs.
Dell and discounting are nearly synomymous. Before the Dell DJ, Dell used to sell IPods. You could frequently find deals like 10% off everything in the store or a $30 off $400 coupon code. Not anymore though, so you're out of luck there.
So they'll write something else in the ad instead of "sale". In the Fry's newspaper ads when something is on sale for the regular price, they'll write "WOW" next to the price.
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I doubt it. As long as AOL gets paid their $24/month for a year and you don't bother AOL for tech support on the computer, I don't think they could care less what you do with the computer.
For that matter, what's the framerate like with Pacman? The N-Gage has a 100Mhz ARM CPU. Even on a 400Mhz Xscale (same processor family) Pacman in MAME is a little choppy with the sound on. Native execution on something like a GBA SP still has a big advantage over emulation. Compare the size, price and battery life of a GBA SP to a PocketPC or N-gage running MAME.
No, not communism. It's not so much that money is irrelevant. It's that scarcity of labor and material goods is irrelevant. In the game Alpha Centauri this society was called Eudaemonia. In that utopian world, humans would use their newfound free time to pursue artistic and intellectual endeavors and develop themselves to the best of their ability. In the dystopian version, humans would descend into sloth and decadence, nothing more than couch potatoes to be served by our new robotic overlords.
As little as 5 years ago, you could find a sizable section for cassettes in most record stores which were always priced the same as LPs which died out in the late 80s. So 1984 isn't THAT far off. Cassette prices in the 90s were about $11.99 full price and under $10 in discount stores and on sale. So in my guesstimation, if regular price were $9.99, sale prices should be $7.99.
They're only suing Kazaa/Morpheus users for now, but you can be sure they're monitoring all the P2P networks. "They" being Mediadefender, Mediaforce, Ranger Inc, OverPeer, BayTSP, and others.
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Guess again. They want to maximize the song count to boost their advertising claims. At 64Kbps 800 songs comes to 1.5GB which would be a match for the Rio Nitrus that uses a Cornice 1 inch hard drive.
There's only one storage device in this size and price range. The Cornice 1.5GB drive. Microdrive is too expensive and flash is even more expensive. There's not that many players yet with this drive. You have the Rio Nitrus that sells for around $200. It's 1.5GB and as small as a flash MP3 player, but with 15GB Dell DJs selling for $225 I'd expect some downward price pressure here. There might be a niche for 1.5GB players between the flash players and multi-gig HD players, but it'll be squeezed by cheaper flash memory on one side and cheap HD players like the Dell DJ on the other side.
Blow up might not be the best description of the failure mode. Sharp rocks can rip the airbags, causing them to deflate.
If it's not Kazaa, it'll be another P2P app like Bittorrent, Edonkey or Gnutella, all bandwidth hogs. If you don't do some kind of traffic shaping, you WILL need to block them because they'll use all available bandwidth.
VoIP on a PocketPC is a kludge at best for now. Forget about wardriving (warwalking?) with a PDA. The CF and internal WiFi cards are much lower power than laptop PCMCIA cards so you won't have the range you need. Battery life with the WiFi radio running is pretty pitiful too. Not a huge problem with outgoing calls, but forget about leaving it connected in standby to receive calls.
Still, if you want to try it, there's a few SIP softphones for PocketPC, Xten and SJPhone. Never tried them myself, but they're freeware, so doesn't cost anything to experiment.
Exactly! 99% of the time a court overturns a voter initiative, it's because it was blatantly unconstitutional. Just because it's popular doesn't make it legal under the constitution. Not that I'm saying it's always a good thing when initiatives get overturned in court. California Prop 103 (a consumer revolt against the car insurance companies) was tied up in court for years thanks to the powerful insurance lobby. It wasn't overturned, but by the time it emerged from court, it was essentially toothless.
Good idea. Always research the player before you buy. Just google for the model number + region-free. I found a cheapie Daewoo at Target. You can flash it to Macrovision free and regionless. Lots of models can be made regionless with a key code from the remote. Removing Macrovision usually needs at least a firmware flash if not a rechipping.
If you RTFA, it says service costs $34.95 a month. These are not wide open APs.
"It does NOT require companies to provide such tracking information for people that are not calling!"
It also does not prohibit phone companies from continuously tracking and logging this information for their own purposes (location based ads, anyone?). If it's being logged, it WILL get subpoenaed sooner or later.
All that changes is whether the phone sends its GPS data to the base station. As another poster pointed out, GSM can still calculate your position almost as accurately by measuring signal strength. That's actually been proposed as a way of implementing E911 without installing GPS in every handset. Turning off GPS won't stop that.
Don't forget that other tracking device that we all carry, cell phones. It's constantly transmitting while powered on. Right now, the phone company only logs your location by cell site, a radius of many miles. Police could still find someone by triangulating their signal with specialized (meaning expensive) equipment, but E911 changes all that. They'll be required to pinpoint the location of any caller by 50-100 meters.
These days the professional spammers control an army of trojan infected zombies running proxies that completely anonymize the source and zombies that they use to DDoS Spamhaus. You could track it back one more hop with a honeypot, but that's just one more hop. Sounds pretty criminal to me. Lots of crackers have been sent to prison for less than that.
This problem is not a malfunction. It's running out of supplies. Just load a new roll of paper before every election and you're done. One roll can easily last through the day.
"Yes, sounds good. But, how about printer problems?"
Have you ever been to a McDonald's or a grocery store? How often is the receipt printer broken? I can't remember the last time myself. I'd say we've damn near perfected that technology.
It sure did. Zmodem was as least 5 times faster than kermit at file transfers.
Yes, a good old fashioned suicide bombing would be simpler and more effective at doing damage. The big advantage of guided missiles is the ability to do damage from a safe distance- not a priority for a martyr. However the novelty of the attack and the resulting publicity and notoriety might be reason enough for someone to try it.
If you don't mind slumming it, most of the 2nd run theaters show month old movies for about $3 with maybe 3 or 4 trailers and no commercials. You won't impress a date by taking her there, but then again, how many movies this year were good enough to be worth the $9 full price ticket.
Most spam from foreign IPs is actually a US spammer relaying through an open relay or open proxy. That would be illegal under this bill. If the spammer is US-based, he'll have to advertise some domestic product, and he'll have some target for enforcement. What this bill does legalize is the mainsleaze spammers like Topica, Flowgo, etc. They spam from their own IPs and don't disguise themselves with proxies. If this bill makes a dent in the open proxy and open relay spammers, we'll be better off on balance. At least the "legal" spammers will be easy to block by banning their IPs.
Dell and discounting are nearly synomymous. Before the Dell DJ, Dell used to sell IPods. You could frequently find deals like 10% off everything in the store or a $30 off $400 coupon code. Not anymore though, so you're out of luck there.
So they'll write something else in the ad instead of "sale". In the Fry's newspaper ads when something is on sale for the regular price, they'll write "WOW" next to the price.
I doubt it. As long as AOL gets paid their $24/month for a year and you don't bother AOL for tech support on the computer, I don't think they could care less what you do with the computer.
For that matter, what's the framerate like with Pacman? The N-Gage has a 100Mhz ARM CPU. Even on a 400Mhz Xscale (same processor family) Pacman in MAME is a little choppy with the sound on. Native execution on something like a GBA SP still has a big advantage over emulation. Compare the size, price and battery life of a GBA SP to a PocketPC or N-gage running MAME.
No, not communism. It's not so much that money is irrelevant. It's that scarcity of labor and material goods is irrelevant. In the game Alpha Centauri this society was called Eudaemonia. In that utopian world, humans would use their newfound free time to pursue artistic and intellectual endeavors and develop themselves to the best of their ability. In the dystopian version, humans would descend into sloth and decadence, nothing more than couch potatoes to be served by our new robotic overlords.
As little as 5 years ago, you could find a sizable section for cassettes in most record stores which were always priced the same as LPs which died out in the late 80s. So 1984 isn't THAT far off. Cassette prices in the 90s were about $11.99 full price and under $10 in discount stores and on sale. So in my guesstimation, if regular price were $9.99, sale prices should be $7.99.
They're only suing Kazaa/Morpheus users for now, but you can be sure they're monitoring all the P2P networks. "They" being Mediadefender, Mediaforce, Ranger Inc, OverPeer, BayTSP, and others.