For us geeks that spend 15 hours a day sitting at a desk, this diet is the really the only solution to that poundage you're adding to your gut.
That's completely untrue. Over the past year, I've gone from 195 to 165 (-30 lbs), by lowering my overall calorie intake and exercising for 5 minutes every morning. Sure, I never lost 18 lbs in 5 weeks, so I had to persevere and just keep doing it every day, even if I couldn't see the results. The fact that it's taken longer means that I've developed this routine as habit, now, and am likely to continue it, and stay at my current weight (which is actually beyond my target weight).
I've also put on muscle, which gimmick diets will do nothing for.
They're not hard to find. As they're virtually intdestructable, most of the units produced are still around today. You can find them on ebay for about $20 without looking too hard. Just search for "model m".
Not to be a troll or anything, but how different is this from Apple and AirPort?
In about the same way that a grinning maniac holding a knife is different from the head chef at a 4 star restaraunt holding a knife. It's all about reputation. Microsoft has done this sort of thing in the past, and is fairly open about their intentions to continue doing similar things in the future. Apple has done no such thing.
I've had consistent problems with MS wheel mice. My biggest complaint is that the wheel is far too sensitive to being pressed. Since I use X, accidentally depressing the wheel while I scroll through some code means that I paste the contents of the clipboard right into the middle of it, often without noticing.
They also break. The last two I used had problems with where the wire meets the mouse. If you accidentally pull on the wire with a little force, the mouse just goes crazy, and is pretty much impossible to fix.
For good hardware, go to IBM. They make the best peripherals, hands down. Right now, I have a model M keyboard and one of the new IBM optical mice, which are great. The wheel is about the least sensitive I've seen (actually, it has about the same feedback as the keys on a model M), which takes a little getting used to, but is really great. It also looks damn cool (metallic blue & black, with no annoying lights peeking out the sides, like most opticals).
You could be right about the joystick, though. I haven't used one since the Atari 2600.
They're easier to learn than you'd think, you just need the patience to make it through typing about 5 wpm for a day or two.
Do yourself a favor, and COMPLETELY IGNORE the instructions on how to hold it! The folks at HandyKey have said that it's misleading, and they're redoing them in the next version. I usually put my knuckles under the strap, and my thumb *around* the device, to hold it steady.
Your hands will hurt for a week or 2, but they'll get used to it, eventually. It's just like learning a musical instrument.
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There is nothing here that wasn't already accomplished with multiple desktops.
the user can place applications that are similar to each other close together, so that, for example, looking close to straight forward you have your work applications, while to the left you have websites. Changing context just involves rotating your head.
I have 4 desktops, named "main," "comm," "devel," and "misc." Main holds any documents I'm editing, comm holds email and ftp clients, devel holds my editor and other dev tools, and misc holds my web browser. I have a console open that's always shared accross all desktops. So, it's a click on the panel, instead of a head rotation.
the user can place less important applications to the sides. The looking straight forward is the most natural position to be in. Applications that aren't important harder to look at areas. For eample a stock ticker may be above and to the right, and you can check it by glancing there. Also, you can take advantage of the human peripheral system that has been tuned to detect movement over providing clarity. A stock alert that pops up there will be noticed by the user but not interrupt the application they are working on unless they choose to look.
I tend to put the less important stuff in my "misc" desktop. I'll also put things like an email indicator, and a IM docklet in my Panel. These things have visual indications that I have a message waiting, but don't bother me if I ignore them.
Since the user will typically only place windows where they can physcally rotate their head to, the windows all end up being within reach fairly quickly
Just a few clicks away. I've never found that it takes too long to get to something.
So, make the switch! Multiple desktops are a must-have feature (like tabbed browsing in mozilla), that you miss so much that it's painful to go back to anything else, once you've tried it.
Actually, this particular project is a thin client. So, you're not really wearing the computer. You're wearing a headset that's displaying information from a remote machine, and accepting voice input.
It really is a lot like having your computer with you all the time, even though it's actually sitting on a rack in the other room. Solves a lot of those annoying problems wearables have, like the need to strap hot and heavy electronics all over your body.
Well, you'd have to reverse engineer their file format to be able to write that translator. Whoever does that, would be violating the DMCA.
The only way to get away with it is if the developers never set foot in the US again, and none of the servers that were used to distribute the translator were located in the US. You could always hope it gets passed around on gnutella or something, but the program would need to be readily available (ideally, distributed with the "not a module") for it to really take off.
Yes, I didn't mean to imply there was neccesarily some sort of a conspiracy going on. One interesting thing to check would be if televised movies tend to hit commercials at about the same time, too. If that is, in fact, the case, then it could be argued that it's completely intentional. The sensible way of breaking up a movie for commercials would be at the appropriate moments in the plot, which I severely doubt come every 7.5 minutes (if they do, then the existence of an even deeper conspiracy could be argued).
As for your mention of the 22 minutes, try taking a stopwatch to a prime time television program some time. They've gotten shorter. You'll find you only get about 20 or 21 minutes of content per 30 minute programming block, in many recent broadcasts.
Actually, they don't seem to mind this as much as you think. Most of the networks try to run commercials around the same time as each other, so when you surf, you're actually increasing your exposure to commercials, by catching little bits of multiple commercials as you flip by. Most commercials are very cleverly designed to be still effective if you only see a brief flash (or if it's viewed on fast-forward, which was their answer to the VCR).
This is, of course, the advertisers' opinion. They assume their commercials will be surfed into as much as surfed out of. The networks themselves really don't give a damn, because somebody channel surfing through commercials still records that they watched the show on their ratings card, so they still get to charge the advertisers for the spot.
This makes sense for television, because I can simply choose not to watch it. It does not, however, excuse things like billboards cluttering up the scenery. I cannot simply choose not to see this if I ever want to go outside again.
Our "information age" has advanced to the point where I can easily find and compare products when I've decided to make a purchase. Advertising is getting less and less effective every day, and they're responding by simply throwing more and more at us. Things are about to hit a critical mass, and the resulting economic collapse in America will show us what we're really paying for this sort of thing.
Jabber started to disappoint when they stopped supporting AIM/ICQ. I don't know if it's permanent, I don't actually know if it's still not supported. But, since AIM is what I have to use for work (otherwise, I would still just be using ICQ to talk to my friends), I needed something that could stay connected.
This is not really true. Yes, the aim and icq transports on the main servers (jabber.com, jabber.org) were taken down. However, if you go to jabberview, you can see a number of other stable servers that have fully functionaly aim and icq transports running. I've been using jabber.earth.li for months now, without a single problem.
I think the issue is that AOL is blocking the specific ip adresses of the major servers. Remember, jabber is also fairly easy to setup locally, running the server and transports right on your box, or setting up an internal server on your network that everyone at work can use, and they can still talk to their friends through the aim transport.
Because he's been living with these enhancements for so long, they've become a neccesary part of him for functioning normally. He's basically handicapped without them.
As far as brain damage is concerned, maybe that has to do with the improper handling of the equipment while it was hooked up to him. It says he was bleeding from where they ripped electrodes from his skin. If they were that careless, they could easily have done something that would give him an electrical shock or something somewhere sensitive to that sort of thing.
The airlines have really gone too far. The last time I tried to board a plane, there was a man putting his hands down my pants and up my shirt TOUCHING CERTAIN SENTSITIVE AREAS OF MY BODY. I did nothing to provoke this (in fact, I had already passed through a security checkpoint a few minutes earlier where I was frisked), other than having steel toed boots that set off the metal detector.
It's one thing to increase security, but most of the things they're hassling people about really make no sense. What about Dr. Mann's gear gave any sort of indication that it could have been a bomb? I think they're just harassing people so it looks to everyone else like they're doing a good job.
I used to hate trackpoints (eraser heads), until I got an IBM ThinkPad, and actually gave it a chance. It's incredible what difference it makes when you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard to adjust the pointer!
It's gotten to the point that it feels noticeably uncomfortable for me to use my desktop pc, since I have to move my hand over to the dang mouse all the time! Thankfully, IBM has a really nice keyboard which not only has an integrated trackpoint, but has a reduced size, much like the Happy Hacking keyboard!
If only they weren't $150, I'd get one right away. Unfortunately, it's stuck on my wishlist for now.
That does seem like a very MS strategy, to switch to a completely incompatible filesystem, just as things like NTFS drivers and projects like WINE are close to working. If you think about it, though, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to interact with OFS.
You would just have to take a different approach. It may not be compatible in the sense that you could mount an OFS drive to/mnt/win, but the very nature of using an OO structure could make it easier to access the data in other ways. I'm thinking along the lines of ODBC. This thing is supposed to be closely related to SQL Server, right? So logic would conclude that we might be able to get to that data through something like TDS.
And, once we can get to that data, we might even be able to do something meaningful with it. If they're really rewriting the office file formats to be portable and reusable, maybe they are actually bothering to come up with a format that makes sense. Wouldn't it be great if we AbiWord could be modified to use OFS as a data source, through TDS, to grab that word document off your manager's win box?
It's not even neccesarily in Microsoft's best interests to avoid this kind of information sharing. If they really have confidence that this will make them strong contenders for the server market, wouldn't something like this make a windows box really attractive as a file server for your office?
Uhhh ... It was al Queda ... riiiight.
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Yeah, and I hear they made linux really secure, too! Those bastards are destroying the American economy by making our most beloved corporations look bad!
I'm actually glad to hear they're only wasting closed source efforts on this, it won't work. We can't beat Microsoft at their own game. If somebody really needs to use MS Office, they should probably just put Windows on one of their partitions.
18 to 24 months, they say? They're wasting their time. By then, we'll have something better than MS office, and enough people using Linux to make it the new standard.
I'm glad their work is closed source, that way I know they're not wasting too many talented open source developers' time on this.
Personally, I've never run an entire company by myself. I don't feel the need to study accounting so that I can figure out my own paycheck, so why should I study business? I don't care *why* management chose to go down a certain path. Even if it looks like to wrong choice to me sometimes, I trust them, because they know a lot more about that stuff than I do.
I am an engineer, so I focus on the engineering. They tell me they want an enterprise solution, and I tell them what it's going to take to put in place. While I certainly care about the outcome of the project, and the future of the company, it's not my place to worry about it.
You go ahead and read your "business aisle" books, and I'll focus on the specs. Together, we can build something that really works.
Where I work, we have a big, crazy web application very similar to the one you're describing. It was originally created (before I got here) as a web app. This, of course, brought with it a whole mess of problems (mostly, people kept asking for crazy stuff, and we had to use lots of javascript, DHTML, etc. to support it, which brought browser compatability issues, so we tried to scale it down, and support everything, while still keeping the functionality, and the whole thing got all screwy). So, what we ended up doing, was to seperate the client interface.
We have all of the business logic in scripts on the server. These scripts take http requests and respond to them with XML. We then made a bunch of client pages (web), which completely duplicated the current functionality, but containing only presentation logic. Now, the system is open enough that we can support multiple clients. Our customers can even write their own. They can be web, desktop app, palmos, java, anything that can open an http connection, and we can concurrently support any number of different versions.
So, my suggestion, would be to pick whichever one is easiest for you, but keep the interface seperate, so you can create another client later, and not have to touch the business logic. We haven't rolled out the new version of it (so this isn't tested advice), but we have very high hopes for the maintainability and flexibility of this structure.
Re:Ok, may be I mis-interpreted what Sharzilla is
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What it does is respond to any search it monitors by taking a file you have specified (probably a.mpg tv-style ad, or a.mp3 radio-style ad), renaming it so it contains the words of the search, and spitting it back to the person. If you put a.vbs file into it, hoping to spread a macro virus, it would still need to be named.vbs for someone to be able to execute it, and anyone who downloads and executes a.vbs file from an untrusted public forum deserves to have their hands cut off.
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Are you joking? That's what Gnutella does, it transfers binaries. You could transfer a macro or trojan with Gnutella since its inception (although I've seen clients that will block.vbs files from your search). Just never open an untrusted script or executable, and you should be fine.
I think that's somewhat obvious, and was stated in the original post. It seems the only reason that article was put up here is that there were so many submissions. So, the blame lies on us, as a community. Although, really, I would have wished the editors could check the (as is now pointed out, WRONG) factual content of the article before putting up a link.
I was at best buy the other day, and I saw that they have these mini radio transmitter things for that purpose. You hook it up to the audio-out on your portable media player, choose a frequency, and it broadcasts it with a range of a few feet. So, you just set your car's radio to this frequency, and you get your music.
I didnt try it out, so I dont know how the quality it, but it's a clever solution to the problem, if you have a CD player and radio in your car, but no tape deck.
Ah, sure we've got the bandwidth. We have plenty of stuff out there right now exactly like the metaverse (except for the cool goggles, but we have stuff sorta similar with VR). Look at an MMORPG like EverQuest or Asheron's Call. That's pretty much exactly as Neal Stephenson described the metaverse (technically, sure, it's medeival instead of modern, and not really commercialized in the same way). The only difference, really, is that they're maintained by a set of developers, without any real opportunity for the same level of user interaction.
What would really rock is a MMORPG, like EQ, but with a sci-fi feel. I'd throw them my $10 a month at the drop of a hat. Well, it'd have to run on Linux, too;)
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Indentation style can be adapted to, but what about these:
Tabs or spaces?
2, 4 or 8?
For us geeks that spend 15 hours a day sitting at a desk, this diet is the really the only solution to that poundage you're adding to your gut.
That's completely untrue. Over the past year, I've gone from 195 to 165 (-30 lbs), by lowering my overall calorie intake and exercising for 5 minutes every morning. Sure, I never lost 18 lbs in 5 weeks, so I had to persevere and just keep doing it every day, even if I couldn't see the results. The fact that it's taken longer means that I've developed this routine as habit, now, and am likely to continue it, and stay at my current weight (which is actually beyond my target weight).
I've also put on muscle, which gimmick diets will do nothing for.
They're not hard to find. As they're virtually intdestructable, most of the units produced are still around today. You can find them on ebay for about $20 without looking too hard. Just search for "model m".
Not to be a troll or anything, but how different is this from Apple and AirPort?
In about the same way that a grinning maniac holding a knife is different from the head chef at a 4 star restaraunt holding a knife. It's all about reputation. Microsoft has done this sort of thing in the past, and is fairly open about their intentions to continue doing similar things in the future. Apple has done no such thing.
I've had consistent problems with MS wheel mice. My biggest complaint is that the wheel is far too sensitive to being pressed. Since I use X, accidentally depressing the wheel while I scroll through some code means that I paste the contents of the clipboard right into the middle of it, often without noticing.
They also break. The last two I used had problems with where the wire meets the mouse. If you accidentally pull on the wire with a little force, the mouse just goes crazy, and is pretty much impossible to fix.
For good hardware, go to IBM. They make the best peripherals, hands down. Right now, I have a model M keyboard and one of the new IBM optical mice, which are great. The wheel is about the least sensitive I've seen (actually, it has about the same feedback as the keys on a model M), which takes a little getting used to, but is really great. It also looks damn cool (metallic blue & black, with no annoying lights peeking out the sides, like most opticals).
You could be right about the joystick, though. I haven't used one since the Atari 2600.
They're easier to learn than you'd think, you just need the patience to make it through typing about 5 wpm for a day or two.
Do yourself a favor, and COMPLETELY IGNORE the instructions on how to hold it! The folks at HandyKey have said that it's misleading, and they're redoing them in the next version. I usually put my knuckles under the strap, and my thumb *around* the device, to hold it steady.
Your hands will hurt for a week or 2, but they'll get used to it, eventually. It's just like learning a musical instrument.
the user can place applications that are similar to each other close together, so that, for example, looking close to straight forward you have your work applications, while to the left you have websites. Changing context just involves rotating your head.
I have 4 desktops, named "main," "comm," "devel," and "misc." Main holds any documents I'm editing, comm holds email and ftp clients, devel holds my editor and other dev tools, and misc holds my web browser. I have a console open that's always shared accross all desktops. So, it's a click on the panel, instead of a head rotation.
the user can place less important applications to the sides. The looking straight forward is the most natural position to be in. Applications that aren't important harder to look at areas. For eample a stock ticker may be above and to the right, and you can check it by glancing there. Also, you can take advantage of the human peripheral system that has been tuned to detect movement over providing clarity. A stock alert that pops up there will be noticed by the user but not interrupt the application they are working on unless they choose to look.
I tend to put the less important stuff in my "misc" desktop. I'll also put things like an email indicator, and a IM docklet in my Panel. These things have visual indications that I have a message waiting, but don't bother me if I ignore them.
Since the user will typically only place windows where they can physcally rotate their head to, the windows all end up being within reach fairly quickly
Just a few clicks away. I've never found that it takes too long to get to something.
So, make the switch! Multiple desktops are a must-have feature (like tabbed browsing in mozilla), that you miss so much that it's painful to go back to anything else, once you've tried it.
Actually, this particular project is a thin client. So, you're not really wearing the computer. You're wearing a headset that's displaying information from a remote machine, and accepting voice input.
It really is a lot like having your computer with you all the time, even though it's actually sitting on a rack in the other room. Solves a lot of those annoying problems wearables have, like the need to strap hot and heavy electronics all over your body.
Well, you'd have to reverse engineer their file format to be able to write that translator. Whoever does that, would be violating the DMCA.
The only way to get away with it is if the developers never set foot in the US again, and none of the servers that were used to distribute the translator were located in the US. You could always hope it gets passed around on gnutella or something, but the program would need to be readily available (ideally, distributed with the "not a module") for it to really take off.
Yes, I didn't mean to imply there was neccesarily some sort of a conspiracy going on. One interesting thing to check would be if televised movies tend to hit commercials at about the same time, too. If that is, in fact, the case, then it could be argued that it's completely intentional. The sensible way of breaking up a movie for commercials would be at the appropriate moments in the plot, which I severely doubt come every 7.5 minutes (if they do, then the existence of an even deeper conspiracy could be argued).
As for your mention of the 22 minutes, try taking a stopwatch to a prime time television program some time. They've gotten shorter. You'll find you only get about 20 or 21 minutes of content per 30 minute programming block, in many recent broadcasts.
Actually, they don't seem to mind this as much as you think. Most of the networks try to run commercials around the same time as each other, so when you surf, you're actually increasing your exposure to commercials, by catching little bits of multiple commercials as you flip by. Most commercials are very cleverly designed to be still effective if you only see a brief flash (or if it's viewed on fast-forward, which was their answer to the VCR).
This is, of course, the advertisers' opinion. They assume their commercials will be surfed into as much as surfed out of. The networks themselves really don't give a damn, because somebody channel surfing through commercials still records that they watched the show on their ratings card, so they still get to charge the advertisers for the spot.
This makes sense for television, because I can simply choose not to watch it. It does not, however, excuse things like billboards cluttering up the scenery. I cannot simply choose not to see this if I ever want to go outside again.
Our "information age" has advanced to the point where I can easily find and compare products when I've decided to make a purchase. Advertising is getting less and less effective every day, and they're responding by simply throwing more and more at us. Things are about to hit a critical mass, and the resulting economic collapse in America will show us what we're really paying for this sort of thing.
Jabber started to disappoint when they stopped supporting AIM/ICQ. I don't know if it's permanent, I don't actually know if it's still not supported. But, since AIM is what I have to use for work (otherwise, I would still just be using ICQ to talk to my friends), I needed something that could stay connected.
This is not really true. Yes, the aim and icq transports on the main servers (jabber.com, jabber.org) were taken down. However, if you go to jabberview, you can see a number of other stable servers that have fully functionaly aim and icq transports running. I've been using jabber.earth.li for months now, without a single problem.
I think the issue is that AOL is blocking the specific ip adresses of the major servers. Remember, jabber is also fairly easy to setup locally, running the server and transports right on your box, or setting up an internal server on your network that everyone at work can use, and they can still talk to their friends through the aim transport.
Because he's been living with these enhancements for so long, they've become a neccesary part of him for functioning normally. He's basically handicapped without them.
As far as brain damage is concerned, maybe that has to do with the improper handling of the equipment while it was hooked up to him. It says he was bleeding from where they ripped electrodes from his skin. If they were that careless, they could easily have done something that would give him an electrical shock or something somewhere sensitive to that sort of thing.
The airlines have really gone too far. The last time I tried to board a plane, there was a man putting his hands down my pants and up my shirt TOUCHING CERTAIN SENTSITIVE AREAS OF MY BODY. I did nothing to provoke this (in fact, I had already passed through a security checkpoint a few minutes earlier where I was frisked), other than having steel toed boots that set off the metal detector.
It's one thing to increase security, but most of the things they're hassling people about really make no sense. What about Dr. Mann's gear gave any sort of indication that it could have been a bomb? I think they're just harassing people so it looks to everyone else like they're doing a good job.
I used to hate trackpoints (eraser heads), until I got an IBM ThinkPad, and actually gave it a chance. It's incredible what difference it makes when you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard to adjust the pointer!
It's gotten to the point that it feels noticeably uncomfortable for me to use my desktop pc, since I have to move my hand over to the dang mouse all the time! Thankfully, IBM has a really nice keyboard which not only has an integrated trackpoint, but has a reduced size, much like the Happy Hacking keyboard!
If only they weren't $150, I'd get one right away. Unfortunately, it's stuck on my wishlist for now.
Space Saver 2 Keyboard - Black
and there's a usb, too:
Trackpoint USB Space Saver Keyboard - Black(US English)
That does seem like a very MS strategy, to switch to a completely incompatible filesystem, just as things like NTFS drivers and projects like WINE are close to working. If you think about it, though, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to interact with OFS.
/mnt/win, but the very nature of using an OO structure could make it easier to access the data in other ways. I'm thinking along the lines of ODBC. This thing is supposed to be closely related to SQL Server, right? So logic would conclude that we might be able to get to that data through something like TDS.
You would just have to take a different approach. It may not be compatible in the sense that you could mount an OFS drive to
And, once we can get to that data, we might even be able to do something meaningful with it. If they're really rewriting the office file formats to be portable and reusable, maybe they are actually bothering to come up with a format that makes sense. Wouldn't it be great if we AbiWord could be modified to use OFS as a data source, through TDS, to grab that word document off your manager's win box?
It's not even neccesarily in Microsoft's best interests to avoid this kind of information sharing. If they really have confidence that this will make them strong contenders for the server market, wouldn't something like this make a windows box really attractive as a file server for your office?
Yeah, and I hear they made linux really secure, too! Those bastards are destroying the American economy by making our most beloved corporations look bad!
18 to 24 months, they say? They're wasting their time. By then, we'll have something better than MS office, and enough people using Linux to make it the new standard.
I'm glad their work is closed source, that way I know they're not wasting too many talented open source developers' time on this.
I am an engineer, so I focus on the engineering. They tell me they want an enterprise solution, and I tell them what it's going to take to put in place. While I certainly care about the outcome of the project, and the future of the company, it's not my place to worry about it.
You go ahead and read your "business aisle" books, and I'll focus on the specs. Together, we can build something that really works.
We have all of the business logic in scripts on the server. These scripts take http requests and respond to them with XML. We then made a bunch of client pages (web), which completely duplicated the current functionality, but containing only presentation logic. Now, the system is open enough that we can support multiple clients. Our customers can even write their own. They can be web, desktop app, palmos, java, anything that can open an http connection, and we can concurrently support any number of different versions.
So, my suggestion, would be to pick whichever one is easiest for you, but keep the interface seperate, so you can create another client later, and not have to touch the business logic. We haven't rolled out the new version of it (so this isn't tested advice), but we have very high hopes for the maintainability and flexibility of this structure.
What it does is respond to any search it monitors by taking a file you have specified (probably a .mpg tv-style ad, or a .mp3 radio-style ad), renaming it so it contains the words of the search, and spitting it back to the person. If you put a .vbs file into it, hoping to spread a macro virus, it would still need to be named .vbs for someone to be able to execute it, and anyone who downloads and executes a .vbs file from an untrusted public forum deserves to have their hands cut off.
Are you joking? That's what Gnutella does, it transfers binaries. You could transfer a macro or trojan with Gnutella since its inception (although I've seen clients that will block .vbs files from your search). Just never open an untrusted script or executable, and you should be fine.
I think that's somewhat obvious, and was stated in the original post. It seems the only reason that article was put up here is that there were so many submissions. So, the blame lies on us, as a community. Although, really, I would have wished the editors could check the (as is now pointed out, WRONG) factual content of the article before putting up a link.
I didnt try it out, so I dont know how the quality it, but it's a clever solution to the problem, if you have a CD player and radio in your car, but no tape deck.
What would really rock is a MMORPG, like EQ, but with a sci-fi feel. I'd throw them my $10 a month at the drop of a hat. Well, it'd have to run on Linux, too ;)