Instead buy a kenwood 8017, I own one of these for more than a year and couldn't be more happy:
detachable face (great feature in Argentina where car stereo theft is the order of the day) reads id3tags read iso9660 longnames radio memories and the usual good stuff from kenwood and best of all: allows you to browse thru directories in the CD
this last one is the best, because is a pain in the ass to reach to desired song using next (I know from my home dvd/mp3 player)
But don't go for the optional remote, its very difficult to use for mp3 selecting, only good to up/down the volume and select analog tracks.
You're bought no matter where you go. You think that CEOs aren't bought? They are, and they're a lot more successful at it than anyone reading slashdot.
Either learn to play the game according to the rules which are quite fair, or fuck off and retreat into isolationism. Grow your own goddamned corn and feed yourselves, and build your own industrial infrastructure, and your own educational institutions, and call us in 200 years.
OK. Please tell me:
Why 3rd world countries have to backup their currencies with dollars in their central banks?
Why the USS only backups its own currency with guns?
Why 3rd world countries have to pay eternally snowballing debts?
Greetings from Argentina, the world most riskfull Bond issuer
Freenet is also very well architected, unlike bogus Gnutella. It's designed to scale up, so that popular stuff gets cached all over the place. Like, more people downloading means that your connections go FASTER. This is cool
If you like Britney Spears, OK is great, but otherwise...
Marketing and author's royalties aside, the cost of making the hardcover version of book has to be significant, otherwise why would they run paperback versions at $7.
As Isaac Asimov once said: hardcovers and paperbacks reach different people, or target as the marketing people likes to say.
Why does America have a penchant for complicating the simple? All that is needed is a simple pencil, piece of paper and a bunch of people to count the votes.
Here in Brazil the voting system is fully electronic and a good part of the country can't read, so please don't go thru the "it's complicated" route because is a dead end...
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It would be very foolish for the music industry to assume that people downloading music for free will always automatically want to buy it if it turns out to be good.
On the contrary again, let me tell you, I live in Buenos Aires / Argentina, where you receive everyday in the mail, lists and lists of CD's (MP3 encoded) containing the complete set of albums of mainstream artists for just $5.-
But... I'm buying more CD's now than before, why?, because napster helpme with unknown bands that I didn't know they ever existed before.
And with alternative music this is TRUE with capitals
I've to tell you that I've an advantage, I use to travel to Brasil once a month, and the CD's there are $10.- much less that the 18-22 range in Argentina (which brings other issue, the political price of CD's, but this is a whole topic to be discussed apart).
In response to Our Gracious Lady's proposal of assistance to resolve the
current electoral impasse we have received the following, which seems to me
to be a perfect response. So I'll leave it there, and hope that I've given
you a smile or two.
Gentlemen,
We are evaluating your proposal. As an interim measure we are sending a
Marine Task Force to "liaise" with you. You should be aware that this Task
Force outnumbers your combined forces 7:1, so please do not act hasty.
We have a number of questions and observations for you:
1. A quick look at a map showed us where you are. It appears that you are
about the size of one of our aircraft carriers (an aircraft carrier is a big
ship that has lots of airplanes on it. Some of the airplanes even carry
weapons!)
2. You refer to American cars. I assume you mean the shiny metal things
that move when you put gasoline in them, do not have an electrical system
designed by Michael Faraday and are capable of retaining oil in the engine
rather than on the garage floor.
3. Gasoline is a liquid that you put in cars. It is readily available on
most street corners and costs less than bottled water. We could let you
have some if you are unsure what it is.
4. Holidays. As you know, we in America like to work. A lot. We would
require that we continue to take just two weeks a year. You should also be
aware that July, August and every Friday afternoon appear in our work
schedules.
5. While we debate your suggestion we should probably withdraw all of our
forces from NATO. Please feel free to give us a call if you need help with
anything while we are gone. By our count it's twice now that you've upset
someone over there. If you get our answering machine please leave a message
and we'll call you right back when we come in.
6. Dentistry. We'll send you someone.
7. Committees. In America we have an interesting thing called a decision.
How will that integrate with your practice of having 47 people sitting
around until the last person falls asleep? We need clarification.
While we consider your offer we think it proper to ask you to give back
everything that you've got from us (just a temporary measure). As such
please return all refrigerators, computers, aeroplanes, air conditioners
(Oops silly me what was I thinking), telephones, roads with more than one
lane, plumbing, profitable businesses etc...
We suggest that you may want to consider identifying any useful ideas that
you would like us to make into practical, profitable, products. Except the
Sinclair C5, the Millennium Dome, Birmingham, the Channel Tunnel, and
anything you have that involves a railway or cooking. A 3" x 5" postcard
should probably be sufficient to list these items.
In the meantime, we will hold a referendum on your suggestion. We'll get
back to you.
Regards,
The Citizens of the USA
It would be nice to have Tivo in my country (Argentina PAL-N) but they're only thinking in NTSC since day one.
Most part of the world uses PAL standards, and they refuse to gain this huge market. Why not sell the program updates thru the web and go Global?
> We're going to see some serious criticism and finger pointing over the use of exit polls and voting results models.
Here in Argentina, the goverment prohibited the exit polls, and we only have one national hour.
BTW, here we have direct voting, but if the 1st runner doesnt have at least 10 point difference, comes the ballotage.
Why when one thinks of things to come 5 years from now, he always thinks first, second and third place of Microsoft?
This is a company with an innovation pace well under others like Cisco / IBM / or the other you're thinking, not to mention the OPEN community.
What if in a few days, one of them make a huge discovery like... let me think a moment... radical new chip technology, quantum computing in a box, real human brain emulators or something like that.
I'm sure that is not coming from MS for sure, and the one to get there first has the possibility to became a huge monster.
so again why is always MS ?
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Simply: recharge your t-shirt Li-ion's with piezoelectric chargers pumped by your own body movements...
So? I don't recall signing a piece of paper, when I bought my Xbox
They put (as many others) some in the line of: By pressing the ON button you accept our EULA.
IANAL, but I think this is crap
Why not use that area for writting usefull data in scrapped disks (IE buffer underrun)?
Instead buy a kenwood 8017, I own one of these for more than a year and couldn't be more happy:
detachable face (great feature in Argentina where car stereo theft is the order of the day)
reads id3tags
read iso9660 longnames
radio memories and the usual good stuff from kenwood
and best of all: allows you to browse thru directories in the CD
this last one is the best, because is a pain in the ass to reach to desired song using next (I know from my home dvd/mp3 player)
But don't go for the optional remote, its very difficult to use for mp3 selecting, only good to up/down the volume and select analog tracks.
Enjoy!
You're bought no matter where you go. You think that CEOs aren't bought? They are, and they're a lot more successful at it than anyone reading slashdot.
better than cowboyneal?
when I going to receive prizes for FP ?
Now we can se what's inside Ronald Reagan...
Imagine
US is at war at this moment!!
so, there is no peace time, spam is allowed!
even better: caperucita roja
sombrero rojo podria ser, porque no?
Try to put 64 kb/s in that mhz range and you will have only a couple of customers and your bandwidth full.
OTOH in think your planned use for 802.11 is out of scope, why not simply put line of sight radio or laser links?
Either learn to play the game according to the rules which are quite fair, or fuck off and retreat into isolationism. Grow your own goddamned corn and feed yourselves, and build your own industrial infrastructure, and your own educational institutions, and call us in 200 years.
OK. Please tell me:
Why 3rd world countries have to backup their currencies with dollars in their central banks?
Why the USS only backups its own currency with guns?
Why 3rd world countries have to pay eternally snowballing debts?
Greetings from Argentina, the world most riskfull Bond issuer
Place an hostile offer for all the WD stocks, and you will have cheap disks to spare...
Does anybody know if this box supports PAL formats?
A simple thing triggers so many questions for me:
Why there is no negative images on TV besides the falling WTC and hitting planes?
Are the media waiting for the war to develop to zero with the images of the innocent death people on "the other side"?
(message form the other city hitted TWICE by islamic terrorists: BUENOS AIRES)
Freenet is also very well architected, unlike bogus Gnutella. It's designed to scale up, so that popular stuff gets cached all over the place. Like, more people downloading means that your connections go FASTER. This is cool
If you like Britney Spears, OK is great, but otherwise...
Marketing and author's royalties aside, the cost of making the hardcover version of book has to be significant, otherwise why would they run paperback versions at $7.
As Isaac Asimov once said: hardcovers and paperbacks reach different people, or target as the marketing people likes to say.
I don't think IBM stands for International Business Machine anymore...
Now it stands for:
Inmensa Bola de Mierda
Why does America have a penchant for complicating the simple? All that is needed is a simple pencil, piece of paper and a bunch of people to count the votes.
Here in Brazil the voting system is fully electronic and a good part of the country can't read, so please don't go thru the "it's complicated" route because is a dead end...
It would be very foolish for the music industry to assume that people downloading music for free will always automatically want to buy it if it turns out to be good.
On the contrary again, let me tell you, I live in Buenos Aires / Argentina, where you receive everyday in the mail, lists and lists of CD's (MP3 encoded) containing the complete set of albums of mainstream artists for just $5.-
But... I'm buying more CD's now than before, why?, because napster helpme with unknown bands that I didn't know they ever existed before.
And with alternative music this is TRUE with capitals
I've to tell you that I've an advantage, I use to travel to Brasil once a month, and the CD's there are $10.- much less that the 18-22 range in Argentina (which brings other issue, the political price of CD's, but this is a whole topic to be discussed apart).
In response to Our Gracious Lady's proposal of assistance to resolve the current electoral impasse we have received the following, which seems to me to be a perfect response. So I'll leave it there, and hope that I've given you a smile or two.
Gentlemen,
We are evaluating your proposal. As an interim measure we are sending a Marine Task Force to "liaise" with you. You should be aware that this Task Force outnumbers your combined forces 7:1, so please do not act hasty.
We have a number of questions and observations for you:
1. A quick look at a map showed us where you are. It appears that you are about the size of one of our aircraft carriers (an aircraft carrier is a big ship that has lots of airplanes on it. Some of the airplanes even carry weapons!)
2. You refer to American cars. I assume you mean the shiny metal things that move when you put gasoline in them, do not have an electrical system designed by Michael Faraday and are capable of retaining oil in the engine rather than on the garage floor.
3. Gasoline is a liquid that you put in cars. It is readily available on most street corners and costs less than bottled water. We could let you have some if you are unsure what it is.
4. Holidays. As you know, we in America like to work. A lot. We would require that we continue to take just two weeks a year. You should also be aware that July, August and every Friday afternoon appear in our work schedules.
5. While we debate your suggestion we should probably withdraw all of our forces from NATO. Please feel free to give us a call if you need help with anything while we are gone. By our count it's twice now that you've upset someone over there. If you get our answering machine please leave a message and we'll call you right back when we come in.
6. Dentistry. We'll send you someone.
7. Committees. In America we have an interesting thing called a decision. How will that integrate with your practice of having 47 people sitting around until the last person falls asleep? We need clarification.
While we consider your offer we think it proper to ask you to give back everything that you've got from us (just a temporary measure). As such please return all refrigerators, computers, aeroplanes, air conditioners (Oops silly me what was I thinking), telephones, roads with more than one lane, plumbing, profitable businesses etc...
We suggest that you may want to consider identifying any useful ideas that you would like us to make into practical, profitable, products. Except the Sinclair C5, the Millennium Dome, Birmingham, the Channel Tunnel, and anything you have that involves a railway or cooking. A 3" x 5" postcard should probably be sufficient to list these items.
In the meantime, we will hold a referendum on your suggestion. We'll get back to you.
Regards,
The Citizens of the USA
It would be nice to have Tivo in my country (Argentina PAL-N) but they're only thinking in NTSC since day one.
Most part of the world uses PAL standards, and they refuse to gain this huge market. Why not sell the program updates thru the web and go Global?
> We're going to see some serious criticism and finger pointing over the use of exit polls and voting results models.
Here in Argentina, the goverment prohibited the exit polls, and we only have one national hour.
BTW, here we have direct voting, but if the 1st runner doesnt have at least 10 point difference, comes the ballotage.
Why when one thinks of things to come 5 years from now, he always thinks first, second and third place of Microsoft?
This is a company with an innovation pace well under others like Cisco / IBM / or the other you're thinking, not to mention the OPEN community.
What if in a few days, one of them make a huge discovery like... let me think a moment... radical new chip technology, quantum computing in a box, real human brain emulators or something like that.
I'm sure that is not coming from MS for sure, and the one to get there first has the possibility to became a huge monster.
so again why is always MS ?