I've recorded at home on tape and played it in the car, but it's a logistical inconvenience, not to mention that it introduces a delay. Talk radio tends to be topical and the subjects go stale pretty fast. And as the other poster noted, 'need' doesn't enter into these things. My dishwasher has 47 buttons on it, so why can't my car radio record programs for me. I just wanna have it. Gimmee gimmee gimmee.
Come on. The suit against Diamond Rio established that the mere ability to input and play MP3s is not actionable. No seller of an MP3 player is going to be sued. Even Sony has gotten into the MP3 act, albeit their load process for their pen-like player has been made a real pain.
Cops have better things to do than to see if you paid for the music you're playing. Considering recent developments, I'd be more concerned about Dr. Dre executing a drive-by on me.
Adding features to digital products is relatively easy, so in addition to the MP3 playback and voice capability, give the player a Tivo-like feature. I want to be able to listen to a radio station with the unit recording it in the background so that I can shut off the car, run an errand, then come back to listen starting where I left off. Not to mention rewind a bit to listen to something a second time. I like talk radio and it would be great not to have to miss things when I'm driving around. It would also be nice to be able to set the unit to record specific programs at specific station/times for later listening.
I can't decide whether this posting is evidence of liberalism or just another New American screaming "Sue the bastards!" at the first whiff of something s/he considers {'offensive', 'insensitive', 'hate speech', blah blah blah }. Do you want to run to teacher every time the world calls you a name? Deal with it and get over the Hall Monitor mindset.
I normally remove my cat from the computer room when I'm not there, because she loves the top of my monitor. Once, I forgot and she ensconced herself on top and then vomited a nice big hairball into it. Bye bye $600. Luckily the monitor was in power-save mode, so she didn't become feline fricassee.
I hate electronic docs. Having to keep a doc window open and navigate back and forth between it and a running app is a major pain. There's never enough screen real estate, browsing and bookmarking is difficult if not impossible, and online docs are generally not as well organized unless they were originally written to be printable manuals. If the electronic doc is just the printed manual in PDF form, I print it! Trouble is, my printout is generally not as usable as a bound book. Any time I get some expensive software in a big box with all the heft of a bag of potato chips, I feel the manufacturer is screwing me for the sake of a few bucks, regardless of how wonderful the electronic doc is. My local bookstore's computer section was greatly expanded recently. If online docs were so usable, they'd just be selling these books on CDROM and saving all that space devoted to paper. That they aren't should be telling you something about people's preferences.
My biggest gripe with the Kodak cameras (I have a DC260, but hear the same gripe about the 290) is the delay between pushing the button and the actual picture taking. It's on the order of a half second and takes getting used to. People who are using the camera for the first time invariably move it before the picture is captured. It also drains the batteries quickly if the LCD screen is used. It would also be nice if it had a macro capability for close up shots. That said, I haven't found a camera I like better. I particularly like the fact that it has a USB connector; it makes getting the pics out of the camera easy.
Interesting. We in America are worried about you in the UK, since we've had to spill our blood to save your bacon twice in this century (yes, I'm one of those anal-retentive types who still considers this to be the 20th). You're welcome. If we didn't have to keep rescuing and defending you, maybe we wouldn't have as much need for a military. Your opinions will start to count when you can win your own wars against something other than a third-world banana republic. Or, radical thought, avoid the developments that lead to war in the first place. Meanwhile, we're going to build the baddest force we can for the next time you pacifists are staring across the channel at an invading army. By the way, I agree with you about Kosovo. The 'hundreds of thousands' of victimes of 'ethnic cleansing' have shrunk and shrunk to the point where it's clear that it was a complete lie. Many of us tried to get rid of the guy responsible, but didn't succeed. So watch out for the next scandal, world. No one is safe when B.C. needs a distraction. As for the nice folks who won in Vietnam, tell the thousands of ethnic Chinese who perished in their seagoing Final Solution what evil bastards the Americans are.
I got one of the Cox @Home snotty emails about running a server and told to knock it off under the threat of losing my account. What makes this interesting is that I had installed a hardware firewall to block all connection attempts from the WAN. Their nebulous email also muttered something about exceeding a 500 mb (per month)upload cap. I wrote to them and said, "what the hell?". Well, I came to discover that their incompetent staff had coded their server probe software to assume Napster was running if they couldn't get a connection! So anyone running a firewall like me got one of these "you are in violation..." messages. Their email inbox must have melted under the flames they got, since a short time later, a veeerry apologetic email was sent saying in effect, "Oops. We didn't mean it. Stop hitting us. Have a nice day." What's even more ironic is that Napster was once of the featured download offerings from Cox @Home the week prior to all this. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right is doing. By the way, Napster works just dandy inside a firewall. If you tell the install that a firewall is in place, it does something differently. I presume that its configured so that the Napster server tells your machine to initiate the transfer instead of waiting for an outside connection to do so, but I haven't confirmed this.
Why even fight this on the basis of linking? Just publish the URL in plaintext and let people paste it into their browsers. An additional 5 seconds of effort for the user (ok, maybe much longer for someone exquisitely lame, but are they going to be looking for a technical CSS crack anyway?). It has the virtue of being on much safer first amendment ground - even more so now with the ruling that source code == free speech. It would be a tough argument to attempt to censor a web page's publication of something that says "www.decss.com". That said, I applaud anyone who has the wherewithal and inclination to battle the MPAA Fascisti in their attempt to stand athwart the internet yelling 'Stop!"
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Anyone who can get to this site, how about posting the IP #.
Same here. It would certanly take a hair-trigger reaction to get it out of the DNS before the first reply post, though.
*WHAM*! *WHAM*! We *WHAM*! don't *WHAM*! like *WHAM*! to *WHAM*! have *WHAM*! that *WHAM*! discussed *WHAM*! outside *WHAM*! secure *WHAM* areas. *WHAM*! *WHAM*! *WHAM*! *WHAM*! *WHAM*! *WHAM*! *WHAM*!
I've recorded at home on tape and played it in the car, but it's a logistical inconvenience, not to mention that it introduces a delay. Talk radio tends to be topical and the subjects go stale pretty fast. And as the other poster noted, 'need' doesn't enter into these things. My dishwasher has 47 buttons on it, so why can't my car radio record programs for me. I just wanna have it. Gimmee gimmee gimmee.
Come on. The suit against Diamond Rio established that the mere ability to input and play MP3s is not actionable. No seller of an MP3 player is going to be sued. Even Sony has gotten into the MP3 act, albeit their load process for their pen-like player has been made a real pain.
Cops have better things to do than to see if you paid for the music you're playing. Considering recent developments, I'd be more concerned about Dr. Dre executing a drive-by on me.
Adding features to digital products is relatively easy, so in addition to the MP3 playback and voice capability, give the player a Tivo-like feature. I want to be able to listen to a radio station with the unit recording it in the background so that I can shut off the car, run an errand, then come back to listen starting where I left off. Not to mention rewind a bit to listen to something a second time. I like talk radio and it would be great not to have to miss things when I'm driving around. It would also be nice to be able to set the unit to record specific programs at specific station/times for later listening.
I can't decide whether this posting is evidence of liberalism or just another New American screaming "Sue the bastards!" at the first whiff of something s/he considers {'offensive', 'insensitive', 'hate speech', blah blah blah }. Do you want to run to teacher every time the world calls you a name? Deal with it and get over the Hall Monitor mindset.
I normally remove my cat from the computer room when I'm not there, because she loves the top of my monitor. Once, I forgot and she ensconced herself on top and then vomited a nice big hairball into it. Bye bye $600. Luckily the monitor was in power-save mode, so she didn't become feline fricassee.
I knew that all that practice writing entries for the International Obfuscated C Code Contest would pay off.
I hate electronic docs. Having to keep a doc window open and navigate back and forth between it and a running app is a major pain. There's never enough screen real estate, browsing and bookmarking is difficult if not impossible, and online docs are generally not as well organized unless they were originally written to be printable manuals. If the electronic doc is just the printed manual in PDF form, I print it! Trouble is, my printout is generally not as usable as a bound book. Any time I get some expensive software in a big box with all the heft of a bag of potato chips, I feel the manufacturer is screwing me for the sake of a few bucks, regardless of how wonderful the electronic doc is. My local bookstore's computer section was greatly expanded recently. If online docs were so usable, they'd just be selling these books on CDROM and saving all that space devoted to paper. That they aren't should be telling you something about people's preferences.
My biggest gripe with the Kodak cameras (I have a DC260, but hear the same gripe about the 290) is the delay between pushing the button and the actual picture taking. It's on the order of a half second and takes getting used to. People who are using the camera for the first time invariably move it before the picture is captured. It also drains the batteries quickly if the LCD screen is used. It would also be nice if it had a macro capability for close up shots. That said, I haven't found a camera I like better. I particularly like the fact that it has a USB connector; it makes getting the pics out of the camera easy.
FNAR - "For no apparent reason"
Interesting. We in America are worried about you in the UK, since we've had to spill our blood to save your bacon twice in this century (yes, I'm one of those anal-retentive types who still considers this to be the 20th). You're welcome. If we didn't have to keep rescuing and defending you, maybe we wouldn't have as much need for a military. Your opinions will start to count when you can win your own wars against something other than a third-world banana republic. Or, radical thought, avoid the developments that lead to war in the first place. Meanwhile, we're going to build the baddest force we can for the next time you pacifists are staring across the channel at an invading army. By the way, I agree with you about Kosovo. The 'hundreds of thousands' of victimes of 'ethnic cleansing' have shrunk and shrunk to the point where it's clear that it was a complete lie. Many of us tried to get rid of the guy responsible, but didn't succeed. So watch out for the next scandal, world. No one is safe when B.C. needs a distraction. As for the nice folks who won in Vietnam, tell the thousands of ethnic Chinese who perished in their seagoing Final Solution what evil bastards the Americans are.
I got one of the Cox @Home snotty emails about running a server and told to knock it off under the threat of losing my account. What makes this interesting is that I had installed a hardware firewall to block all connection attempts from the WAN. Their nebulous email also muttered something about exceeding a 500 mb (per month)upload cap. I wrote to them and said, "what the hell?". Well, I came to discover that their incompetent staff had coded their server probe software to assume Napster was running if they couldn't get a connection! So anyone running a firewall like me got one of these "you are in violation ..." messages. Their email inbox must have melted under the flames they got, since a short time later, a veeerry apologetic email was sent saying in effect, "Oops. We didn't mean it. Stop hitting us. Have a nice day." What's even more ironic is that Napster was once of the featured download offerings from Cox @Home the week prior to all this. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right is doing. By the way, Napster works just dandy inside a firewall. If you tell the install that a firewall is in place, it does something differently. I presume that its configured so that the Napster server tells your machine to initiate the transfer instead of waiting for an outside connection to do so, but I haven't confirmed this.
Why even fight this on the basis of linking? Just publish the URL in plaintext and let people paste it into their browsers. An additional 5 seconds of effort for the user (ok, maybe much longer for someone exquisitely lame, but are they going to be looking for a technical CSS crack anyway?). It has the virtue of being on much safer first amendment ground - even more so now with the ruling that source code == free speech. It would be a tough argument to attempt to censor a web page's publication of something that says "www.decss.com". That said, I applaud anyone who has the wherewithal and inclination to battle the MPAA Fascisti in their attempt to stand athwart the internet yelling 'Stop!"