Sorry to say, any multi-gig portable player just cannot cut it without USB2.0
What reasonable person will wait ten hours to upload or backup his music?
That being said, Archos'AV320 (capable of playing DIVX, XVID, MP3 as well as recording MPEG4 video and MP3, w/USB2 and FW) really kills everything in the category.
I've had mine for about 3 weeks now, and its insane. Combined with a TV-capture card (WinTV) I can record shows to DivX and watch them while eating lunch, traveling home, taking a ****.
Point being all this masterbating over free formats is fun, but its not quite the most important feature, especially when most people already have large collections of mp3s.
How good/bad is the image quality?
The sound quality is very good. The image quality is poor. This is due to the fact that international Internet connectivity is not yet fast and stable enough to transmit high bandwidth streams. TVBrick is now tuned to provide a sub-VHS quality image at 9 frames per second.[emphasis mine]...This is expected to change within 2 years.
Anyone else recall the vignette in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, where the introduction of video phones led to a downward spiral of self-consciousness and vanity until eventually people were talking with cardboard cutouts of their idealized, distorted selves staring at cardboard cutouts of the other persons idealized, distorted self?
Perhaps we should embrace the benefit of non-visual communication: "the bilateral illusion of unilateral attention..."
MSFT today announced the acquisition of Integrity for $358 billion(USD).
This follows on the footsteps of several recent corporate buyouts, including the impending $5.8x10^300 (USD) Church of Scientology buyout of Truth and Morality.
Man, I am so glad I'm a fucking trans-national megacorporation. Suckas!
by appending/~%43%4d%44%52%54%41%43%4f/ after slashdot.org, one can peruse over a collection of megamaniacal ramblings. Scary as this easter egg is, the pure absurdity of the posts is funny enough to keep me laughing (and crying).
Do you guys really think the walmart execs are so familiar with the free software movement that they're trying to support a non-windows OS for ethical reasons?
Lowly Employee 1: Sir, we can save money if we use this generic software instead of buying licenses from Microsoft...
Fat Cigar Smoking Exec: Money is fantastic!
Lowly Employee: Well this Red Hat Linux looks pretty strong and has both large user base and solid support. We also have this beta OS that can use a couple of windows applications if users dont mind absurdly complex configurations and constant failing of programs... its called Lindows...
Fat Cigar Smoking Exec: Lindows sounds like Windows!
...but kids click banners. They cannot yet distinguish between content and advertising.
So the answer, then, for more succesful advertising is even further blurring of content and advertisement.
Aww, for fucks sake.
I quit. You win, Mr. Nielsen.
Sign me up to have the word Sony lased into my retina. Can I please check the weather without monkeys talking to me and cartoon cars driving across the page now?
...When he put the CD in his computer and fired up AudioGrabber... the CD locked up the program. But after rebooting his computer, he discovered that the protection was easy to thwart. The copy protection worked by introducing a false value for the start time of the CD... [he] used a function of AudioGrabber to reset that start time to zero, and then was able to encode the music without a glitch.
so.. let me get this straight... this kid can get arrested and thrown into prison under the DMCA because he clicked a checkbox in a (not even debatably) legitimate cd ripping program, to make a legal copy of his own legally purchased cd for his own legal mp3 player, because he "circumvented" the copy-control mechanisms?
"At the start of the Tron 20th anniversary menu screen, a cryptic promo is seen. After several moments of watching 80's computer graphics and designs (looking as if they're straight out of the original Tron movie) flash over a rolling timeline, the promo ends on the year 2003 and a web address flashes on the screen: www.tronkillerapp.com.
When you go visit that website you're given the impression that you have entered a restricted site by accident. A multiple answer question prompts you for your "Level 6" security clearance. Regardless of the answer you select, you are then taken to a screen where you appear to receive a communique from somebody trapped in the system:
Please...I need your help
System wide failure imminent
Must destroy system corruption
Will continue contact shortly
Do not believe their lies
We've checked the WHOIS registration for www.tronkillerapp.com and it's owned by Buena Vista. If that doesn't convince you this is some kind of viral marketing idea for Tron 2.0, nothing will."
As much as I (and all of you) love Google, I wonder whether their moral high ground approach to search results would not exist if they did not already have the worlds traffic searching through their site.
Search engines come and go. When Google has to struggle for its existence against the Next Big Thing, how many of you really believe they won't sell out in order to keep themselves running, in effect putting the last nail in their own coffin.
Slashdot Mirror
(although clicking refresh to constantly reload slashdot feels workish.)
Sorry to say, any multi-gig portable player just cannot cut it without USB2.0 What reasonable person will wait ten hours to upload or backup his music?
That being said, Archos' AV320 (capable of playing DIVX, XVID, MP3 as well as recording MPEG4 video and MP3, w/USB2 and FW) really kills everything in the category. I've had mine for about 3 weeks now, and its insane. Combined with a TV-capture card (WinTV) I can record shows to DivX and watch them while eating lunch, traveling home, taking a ****.
Point being all this masterbating over free formats is fun, but its not quite the most important feature, especially when most people already have large collections of mp3s.
From the FAQ:
Oh yeah, this is a real viable alternative.Idoru is the second book of Gibson's "Bridge Trilogy". (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrows's Parties)
On its own, I imagine a reader would be somewhat lost.
As a whole, I think the trilogy is stellar.
As this page reminds, Enoch died in cryptonomicon and came back later on.
I knew that wasn't a plot hole.
Interesting indeed.
Anyone else recall the vignette in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, where the introduction of video phones led to a downward spiral of self-consciousness and vanity until eventually people were talking with cardboard cutouts of their idealized, distorted selves staring at cardboard cutouts of the other persons idealized, distorted self?
Perhaps we should embrace the benefit of non-visual communication: "the bilateral illusion of unilateral attention..."
Thought that said The Register was resorting to direct-mail scare tactics.
/. and El Reg fit nicely into.
"Misleadingly exaggerating the importance and status of its content"? Hmm... sounds like a category both
Fantastic piece that Frobenius Norm is.
http://www.sonarplexus.com offers a download of it.
Now if only he'd come out with another 55 mins of music so I could buy the cd...
Forcing Digital Rights Management Up Your Backdoor
MSFT today announced the acquisition of Integrity for $358 billion(USD).
This follows on the footsteps of several recent corporate buyouts, including the impending $5.8x10^300 (USD) Church of Scientology buyout of Truth and Morality.
Man, I am so glad I'm a fucking trans-national megacorporation. Suckas!
Well that page was spectacularly useless.
For an English-language press release try: here instead.
(and dont forget to notice the big bold capped FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET ONLY)
Guess I'll be getting that Pong marathon off Kazaa...
Pong marathon here I come...
Will do if you can tell me what 'crippe' is.
From the article:
So the answer, then, for more succesful advertising is even further blurring of content and advertisement.Aww, for fucks sake.
I quit. You win, Mr. Nielsen.
Sign me up to have the word Sony lased into my retina. Can I please check the weather without monkeys talking to me and cartoon cars driving across the page now?
Scientist report vast quanitities of hydrogen in Earths oceans.
How about drywall transistors and logic-gate carpets?
I wont be happy till my split-level serves pr0n.
Or as they say in the profession, "He who represents himself has a fool for a client."
so.. let me get this straight... this kid can get arrested and thrown into prison under the DMCA because he clicked a checkbox in a (not even debatably) legitimate cd ripping program, to make a legal copy of his own legally purchased cd for his own legal mp3 player, because he "circumvented" the copy-control mechanisms?
There should be an idiot clause in the DMCA
To be honest, NTFS seems to be a tip-top file system to me. The only thing I can imgaine it missing is hardcore digital rights management (cant wait).
What a clever way to force DRM down every consumers throat: break every single windows program created prior to OFS.
fuckers.
As much as I (and all of you) love Google, I wonder whether their moral high ground approach to search results would not exist if they did not already have the worlds traffic searching through their site.
Search engines come and go. When Google has to struggle for its existence against the Next Big Thing, how many of you really believe they won't sell out in order to keep themselves running, in effect putting the last nail in their own coffin.
We shall see.
What we really need is an Anti Digital Millenium Copyright Act (ADMCA) to legislate a negation of the legislated negation of our consumer rights.
This is gunna get hairy.