So, as someone already pointed out, Sonicblue != Diamond. S3 bought diamond, took over the rio division, and pretty much killed the graphic and sound card division. fyi.
Good thing I read Penny-Arcade today before this guy posted it to slashdot, and I beat the rush. Good music, especially enjoy Castlevania. ah, memories.
1) As you have pointed out, it's been done before.
2) Once again, you pointed out, you can buy a rio for a tad bit mpre. Or can you, I'm not sure if they included the price of the smartmedia card in the final price, which would increase the final price. The rio comes with built in memory, a slot for smartmedia cards, and a nifty LCD screen in a tiny package. I think Diamond hit a home run with the rio.
While I think slashdot should post more DIY projects, and I think this is a cool project in itself. I do not think this can be classified as a hack. just my two little humble cents. But I'll probably build one anyway.:)
Finally, someone actually get's the idea. I believe SDMI will win in the long wrong, but who cares, There will be cracks out there, and with SDMI, you don't have to add the copyright watermark, and I won't. And I will continue to rip CD's and give them away freely.
Hey, Mitnick waived that right, and running from the cops didn't exactly help his case. How about you go research this case, and make an informed decision instead of believing that crap propaganda that Goldstein feeds you.
2600 is the biggest friggin piece of crap. "How to hack Geociities". Puhlease. "Free Kevin" Dammit, Mitnick deserves Jail Time. Go whine about someone who hasn't done anything illegal, and whose rights are really being denied. Hell, I know a guy who works with 2600, and he's recently gotten a job with AOL of all places. bottom line, 2600 is lame. Go get a job.
Yeah, of course us Americans haven't lost family members in wars. especially since we had to come save some french asses. I was lucky my grandfather survived, or I wouldn't be typing this. But I don't blame the Germans or the Japanese, but I will continue to laugh at the french for their pitiful attempt to fight.
Come on, who's with me! No one likes the french anyway. They'll never be missed. This ranks up there with the "internet swatch time". Maybe I should make up my own time standard....
Did you even read what I wrote? I don't see it as Red Hat ripping me off, I see it as, I'm helping give Red Hat money so that they can help the OSS community. Of course, I can't really rationalize 80 dollars with the money I earn, so I can't help the community. I feel Red Hat's going super-commercial-and-charging-way-to-friggin-much- for-a-_free_-os. So I'll just get Linux another way, probably SuSE, since I can afford their product, and some of the money I spend on them helps OSS. And are you sure about the phone support? RH 4.2,5,5.1, and 5.2 sure as hell didn't have phone support, just "e-mail support" which only helped with Installation problems, and was painfully slow, as well as lasting only thirty days. The short story is, it sucked. I've been a customer of redhat, and in the past, they've had serious issues with out of the box installations. I just can't justify 80 dollars for that, and "e-mail support"
gee, I'm going to rip on a person who seems to have justified reasons to believe what he believes, because that seems to be the cool thing to do these days.
Man. I think I'll make my sig, "Don't be a jackas."
You're right, it's not a good value, it's a good geek toy.:) But seriously, It's taking the good qualities of CD players and Tape players, mixing them, and giving them to the consumer. It's nice, but not neccesary.
But I've always wondered what made the unit so expensive. Is it the Mp3 Decoder chip, the RAM, the LCD, what?
In the past, I've been all for supporting Redhat, and buying the boxed package for 40 dollars, since I knew a good amount of that money was flowing back into the community (Reganomics? Ack!). But I think $80 dollars is a bit much for a free operating system, especially when the latest SuSE is going for 20 dollars, and of course there is always Cheapbytes. But I felt good knowing I was supporting Free Software Development, considering I'm a beginning coder myself. But this 80 bucks crapola reminds me more of a certain other 0$ company that starts with the letter M, than a OSS package. I'm disappointed Redhat. $40 is reasonable, $80 is just out of range for me.
Does anyone have an idea of a way that Diamond could take normal Mp3's and make them so you can't copy them allover the place, that won't be cracked within a matter of days? With my limited experience, I don't think it can be done.
just my thoughts on the subject. And it would be nice to find a way to upgrade the RIO, without those damn smartcards.
I've received a few e-mails about the recent movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and I thought I'd share some of my responses with you. Q From e-mail: I just had to laugh at the part in the movie where someone called Dial-A-Joke. I remember calling that number to hear the joke of the day. Was it really you who did this? WOZ: Experimenting with blue boxes to make calls anywhere in the world while at Berkely in 1971-1972, I encountered a few Dial-a-Jokes in the world. I never used the blue box to save money on phone calls, I was an ethical hacker. So while working as an engineer at Hewlett Packard, designing scientific calculators, I started the first Dial-a-Joke in the San Francisco Bay Area. This was before you could buy answering machines or even telephones. I had to rent a very expensive machine made for theaters, and eventually had to quit because I couldn't afford it. I got so many calls that I had to keep changing the number. Anyone with a similar number would get 100 calls a day. The best known numbers that I had were (408) 255-6666 and (408) 575-1625. I operated Dial-a-Joke out of my Cupertino apartment, where I did a lot of the Apple designing (I designed every bit and wrote all the code including BASIC myself). I used a thick Eastern accent, like Russian, and used the name Stanley Zebrezuskinitsky when I took live calls. Q From e-mail: Hi Mr. Woz, I just wanted to say that I just saw Pirates of Silicon Valley and was amazed at what went on way back when. I commend you for remaining the same person you've always been rather than turning into a money hungry, stuck up person like so many others do. It's so interesting to me that you made the computer that made Apple even possible, but it was Steve Job's that seemed to take all the credit. Was the scene with the man being interviewed really true? Did Steve Job's actually demean a potential employee?? I have to say, that they portrayed him as a real jerk who was very demeaning to his employees if they did not perform to his liking. And actually, Bill Gates was no better. They were and maybe still are hungry for the power. The other thing that I found interesting and didn't realize was that Microsoft now owns part of Apple. Steve Jobs is definitely a brilliant business man but after seeing what Bill Gates has done I'd have to say that he's even more savvy! Anyway, those were just a few thoughts I had. I was just really impressed with your character and how you've remained the same person that you were when you created that first computer. I hope you don't mind my two cents. : - ) WOZ: It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed. I designed the computers just to do it and show the world that it could be done and help them happen. Later Steve Jobs suggested starting a company to make money from it. I'd been giving out schematics for free at the Homebrew Computer Club. That's what I believed in. It was hard for me to even start the company when it looked like there might be real money in it. I often wonder why I remained the person I always wanted to be, from late high school on. I wanted to be an engineer and then a 5th grade teacher and I wanted a computer someday and I wanted to be nice to people and I wanted to tell and make jokes and I wanted a family and home. It couldn't have come truer for me. Watch for more comments in the coming days. What exactly were some of my important contributions? Click here to find out. These are Woz's comments, not my own.
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I'm using it now, because it does what I need it too, I can't always say that for Linux unfortunately.
it's cool as hell, but a lot of stuff has to work right at the correct time for this time. good luck NEAR.
So, as someone already pointed out, Sonicblue != Diamond. S3 bought diamond, took over the rio division, and pretty much killed the graphic and sound card division. fyi.
Ogg Vorbis?
Access Denied message. it would be cool if randomly popped up when I had 5 xterms opened at once. ;)
Key word being "mobile".
go look at the register.co.uk, they've been covering this for weeks if not months.
-Didel, who misses his kuro5hin, dammit.
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well it isn't.
Wait a minute... You like your freedom so much, that you're going to take someone elses freedom away? ok. whatever.
Good thing I read Penny-Arcade today before this guy posted it to slashdot, and I beat the rush. Good music, especially enjoy Castlevania. ah, memories.
Why I don't consider this a cool hack.
1) As you have pointed out, it's been done before.
2) Once again, you pointed out, you can buy a rio for a tad bit mpre. Or can you, I'm not sure if they included the price of the smartmedia card in the final price, which would increase the final price. The rio comes with built in memory, a slot for smartmedia cards, and a nifty LCD screen in a tiny package. I think Diamond hit a home run with the rio.
While I think slashdot should post more DIY projects, and I think this is a cool project in itself. I do not think this can be classified as a hack. just my two little humble cents. But I'll probably build one anyway. :)
Finally, someone actually get's the idea. I believe SDMI will win in the long wrong, but who cares, There will be cracks out there, and with SDMI, you don't have to add the copyright watermark, and I won't. And I will continue to rip CD's and give them away freely.
Hey, Mitnick waived that right, and running from the cops didn't exactly help his case. How about you go research this case, and make an informed decision instead of believing that crap propaganda that Goldstein feeds you.
2600 is the biggest friggin piece of crap. "How to hack Geociities". Puhlease. "Free Kevin" Dammit, Mitnick deserves Jail Time. Go whine about someone who hasn't done anything illegal, and whose rights are really being denied. Hell, I know a guy who works with 2600, and he's recently gotten a job with AOL of all places. bottom line, 2600 is lame. Go get a job.
Yeah, of course us Americans haven't lost family members in wars. especially since we had to come save some french asses. I was lucky my grandfather survived, or I wouldn't be typing this. But I don't blame the Germans or the Japanese, but I will continue to laugh at the french for their pitiful attempt to fight.
Come on, who's with me! No one likes the french anyway. They'll never be missed. This ranks up there with the "internet swatch time". Maybe I should make up my own time standard....
Palm War! Yeah baby! I love that game. I should probably go register it.
Did you even read what I wrote? I don't see it as Red Hat ripping me off, I see it as, I'm helping give Red Hat money so that they can help the OSS community. Of course, I can't really rationalize 80 dollars with the money I earn, so I can't help the community. I feel Red Hat's going super-commercial-and-charging-way-to-friggin-much- for-a-_free_-os. So I'll just get Linux another way, probably SuSE, since I can afford their product, and some of the money I spend on them helps OSS. And are you sure about the phone support? RH 4.2,5,5.1, and 5.2 sure as hell didn't have phone support, just "e-mail support" which only helped with Installation problems, and was painfully slow, as well as lasting only thirty days. The short story is, it sucked. I've been a customer of redhat, and in the past, they've had serious issues with out of the box installations. I just can't justify 80 dollars for that, and "e-mail support"
gee, I'm going to rip on a person who seems to have justified reasons to believe what he believes, because that seems to be the cool thing to do these days.
Man. I think I'll make my sig, "Don't be a jackas."
You're right, it's not a good value, it's a good geek toy. :) But seriously, It's taking the good qualities of CD players and Tape players, mixing them, and giving them to the consumer. It's nice, but not neccesary.
But I've always wondered what made the unit so expensive. Is it the Mp3 Decoder chip, the RAM, the LCD, what?
In the past, I've been all for supporting Redhat, and buying the boxed package for 40 dollars, since I knew a good amount of that money was flowing back into the community (Reganomics? Ack!). But I think $80 dollars is a bit much for a free operating system, especially when the latest SuSE is going for 20 dollars, and of course there is always Cheapbytes. But I felt good knowing I was supporting Free Software Development, considering I'm a beginning coder myself. But this 80 bucks crapola reminds me more of a certain other 0$ company that starts with the letter M, than a OSS package. I'm disappointed Redhat. $40 is reasonable, $80 is just out of range for me.
Does anyone have an idea of a way that Diamond could take normal Mp3's and make them so you can't copy them allover the place, that won't be cracked within a matter of days? With my limited experience, I don't think it can be done.
just my thoughts on the subject. And it would be nice to find a way to upgrade the RIO, without those damn smartcards.
yeah, sorry about the readability issue, but I figured, better than nothing.
I've received a few e-mails about the recent movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and I thought I'd share some of my responses with you. Q From e-mail: I just had to laugh at the part in the movie where someone called Dial-A-Joke. I remember calling that number to hear the joke of the day. Was it really you who did this? WOZ: Experimenting with blue boxes to make calls anywhere in the world while at Berkely in 1971-1972, I encountered a few Dial-a-Jokes in the world. I never used the blue box to save money on phone calls, I was an ethical hacker. So while working as an engineer at Hewlett Packard, designing scientific calculators, I started the first Dial-a-Joke in the San Francisco Bay Area. This was before you could buy answering machines or even telephones. I had to rent a very expensive machine made for theaters, and eventually had to quit because I couldn't afford it. I got so many calls that I had to keep changing the number. Anyone with a similar number would get 100 calls a day. The best known numbers that I had were (408) 255-6666 and (408) 575-1625. I operated Dial-a-Joke out of my Cupertino apartment, where I did a lot of the Apple designing (I designed every bit and wrote all the code including BASIC myself). I used a thick Eastern accent, like Russian, and used the name Stanley Zebrezuskinitsky when I took live calls. Q From e-mail: Hi Mr. Woz, I just wanted to say that I just saw Pirates of Silicon Valley and was amazed at what went on way back when. I commend you for remaining the same person you've always been rather than turning into a money hungry, stuck up person like so many others do. It's so interesting to me that you made the computer that made Apple even possible, but it was Steve Job's that seemed to take all the credit. Was the scene with the man being interviewed really true? Did Steve Job's actually demean a potential employee?? I have to say, that they portrayed him as a real jerk who was very demeaning to his employees if they did not perform to his liking. And actually, Bill Gates was no better. They were and maybe still are hungry for the power. The other thing that I found interesting and didn't realize was that Microsoft now owns part of Apple. Steve Jobs is definitely a brilliant business man but after seeing what Bill Gates has done I'd have to say that he's even more savvy! Anyway, those were just a few thoughts I had. I was just really impressed with your character and how you've remained the same person that you were when you created that first computer. I hope you don't mind my two cents. : - ) WOZ: It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed. I designed the computers just to do it and show the world that it could be done and help them happen. Later Steve Jobs suggested starting a company to make money from it. I'd been giving out schematics for free at the Homebrew Computer Club. That's what I believed in. It was hard for me to even start the company when it looked like there might be real money in it. I often wonder why I remained the person I always wanted to be, from late high school on. I wanted to be an engineer and then a 5th grade teacher and I wanted a computer someday and I wanted to be nice to people and I wanted to tell and make jokes and I wanted a family and home. It couldn't have come truer for me. Watch for more comments in the coming days. What exactly were some of my important contributions? Click here to find out. These are Woz's comments, not my own.
I don't see why not, I have an original Apple II reference manual that has the schematics in the back, as well as some source code.