I have just cracked LP copy protection. I have plugged my record player into the line in button on my sound card, dropped the needle and clicked "record". This is a banner day. Hail to me. I am off to crack my camcorder next.
I am a huge BG fan from way back. I can live with the Males that are now females - no problem. I can live with the cylons that appear to be humans. I can live with almost everything on this new series. I can addapt. What I am having the hardest time adapting to is the fact that in an era where they have ships and people living in space as second nature -- yet still have sidearms that shoot lead and the "nuclear bomb" is their strongest weapon.
What is with all the posts blaming this a sour economy?
It is NOT an economic failing when an antiquated dealer of yesterdays technology downsizes...And then eventually goes away.
Think about it. A majority of people are hooking up with local broadband dealers (cable, dsl, wireless), I would not be surprised to see AOL go the way of the Cart and Buggy dealers of old....And it will not be the economy that does them in, it will be the fact that their main product is obsolete.
This is no more a movie player than an apple fans blow up doll is a real girlfriend. (But hey -- points for trying. I would say buy something that can play a real movie and get on with life.)
Another example of taking all the shortcomings of a handheld device and mixing them with the shortcomings of a laptop.
In the real world I can't use this thing (or anything similar) in the field until I can make it through an 8 hour day of moderate to heavy use (outside away from power) without the battery going dead on me. And guess what, add the "wonders" of wireless network connectivity and GPS (2 important things for us people that have a userbase that works outside) -- and the 2 hour battery life will be at at about 60 to 75 Minutes. (I know to some of you that would constitute a full work day....but it is still not good enough for me)
Where is the Pac Man yellow Ipod. Ipod's are cool. You are a nobody if you don't have an Ipod. Is it really music if you listen to it through anything other than an Ipod. Jesus has an Ipod.
In truth, I have owned 3 different HD based digital music players....none of them ipods. Does this make me a bad person?
DRM sucks. I would much rather buy a laptop hard drive that just happens to play mp3's. Rather than a digital music player with DRM that just happens to have a hard drive.
"Wow, that is a great world occupied by some if 0.25 is near the price point for song. For the rest of us, we tend to pay 15 dollars for a cd, of about 10 songs, which is a $1.50 per song give or take. At a quarter a song,that is $2.50 cents for a cd, which means the editor basically wants his music for free. "
Well considering after all the fluff of a $15.00 CD is played out -- the artist usually see about $1.00
Take away all the fluff of printing, advertising, distribution, payola, etc....and I can see an artist still being able to get $1.00 on a $2.50 online purchase.
" Because very few people listen to AM radio these days? (as compared to FM at any rate)"
Hu? If you add up all the sports junkies with the Rush Limbaugh (sp?) crowd....you have a VERY large market.
My theory is this: If you feel the need to have 20 G of music in your pocket it is most likely because you don't want to listen to the same 6 or 7 songs on your FM dial - so FM to me is wasted. However, you can't compete canned recordings against 24 hours of live sports, news or politics with live audience interaction on todays topics. If you record then the time shift makes things to dated.
This won't be REAL news unless they find some way to use an Ipod in the equation....Hell, where have these people been for the last year -- "If it does not involve an Ipod -- then it is not unique enough to qualify for news"
5 years ago I thought about renting an old warehouse downtown by the soup kitchen. Install a couple T1's, MD 20/20 in the vending machines and then hiring the homeless people to "sort" e-mail and filter out the spam. But alas, with the dot com crash my dream was never realized.
How come whenever anyone does anything trivial that has anything to do with an Ipod...that it is reported like world peace?
Recording streams have been around as long as streams themselves....I guess it was not a big deal until someone with an Ipod started recording streams.
Next we will read about "Ipod owner creates Hello World" and a "tetris clone".
The tech bubble was the rancher buying 50,000 wild horses. We now live in the age of the rancher trying to build fences to keep the horses in, and keeping them fed.
Translation: Programming jobs may be down. But security jobs, DBA jobs, Data Entry jobs are still going strong.
Plus -- why keep building new stuff when they can't even figure out how to properly deal with spam, spy ware, and virus issues?
Hey thanks. I will order 2. Actually quality of calls and equiptment is one of my biggest issues. However my HUGE pet peeve is in price -- I went to replace my ailing phone a few months back and since I did not use it much except to keep in the car for emergencies, weekend calls home, travel, etc....I did not want anything fancy -- just a cheap, NEW (not Ebay), flip phone to take a receive calls. I could not find anything under $199.00 (Sprint service) -- and since I already had a plan the 1 penny phone after the $299.99 rebate stuff did not apply to me.
I thought I could just spend about $100 for a plain generic flip phone that had no camera, no TV, No Internet, no Fancy ringers or color screen....just a freakin phone....And let me tell you -- no such animal exists anymore. (At least that is Sprint compatible.)
My kingdom for a cellphone that concentrates on 1 thing PHONE CALLS...Oh yea and this includes coverage quality and battery life.
I may be a technogeek -- but I discovered that my last 2 cellphones sure have had lots a little gadgets and cost oodles of money, but were sorely lacking in the old business of using as a phone.
Put that in your beta player and smoke it....all you suckers who jumped on the VCR bandwagon.
As soon as I get rid of all of my mp3's, gif files and any other established standard that I am so sinfully using -- I will look to recode thousand of lines of sql statements and php code to use postgres.
In other words, if it's broke then replace it. If it's not broke than keep using it.
"Maybe if phone service providers start offering 'referral incentive' to sites, that is, to pay site owners $0.001 per visit via mobile phone, we might be seeing something very quickly."
Most sites are not worth the $0.001 to visit. As longs as stuff is free....people can take the bad with the good. But cell phone companies would only want to pass that on to the user as $0.005.
well if I had a nickle for every/. comment that has the words "i am unemployed" in the text....I could get a nice dell with xp installed. so maybe he is on to something.
on the other hand maybe those people are just "too good" to do the mind numbing web scripting and j2ee tasks that the rest of us are doing now days?
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I have just cracked LP copy protection. I have plugged my record player into the line in button on my sound card, dropped the needle and clicked "record". This is a banner day. Hail to me. I am off to crack my camcorder next.
Yea....why could not she could just WAGGLE the wings to indicate she was "the good guys" like in the first series.
I am a huge BG fan from way back. I can live with the Males that are now females - no problem. I can live with the cylons that appear to be humans. I can live with almost everything on this new series. I can addapt. What I am having the hardest time adapting to is the fact that in an era where they have ships and people living in space as second nature -- yet still have sidearms that shoot lead and the "nuclear bomb" is their strongest weapon.
What distractions? I thought checking my email and clicking popup boxes was my job.
What is with all the posts blaming this a sour economy?
It is NOT an economic failing when an antiquated dealer of yesterdays technology downsizes...And then eventually goes away.
Think about it. A majority of people are hooking up with local broadband dealers (cable, dsl, wireless), I would not be surprised to see AOL go the way of the Cart and Buggy dealers of old....And it will not be the economy that does them in, it will be the fact that their main product is obsolete.
That is how I feel. As a matter of fact I am thinking of writing some myself.
- Hacking the Norelco Razor 9000
- How to make your VCR stop blinking 12:00 in 12 easy steps
and last but not least....
- The history of the can opener.
"Apple was first"
Hu? That is like saying the internet was created by Microsoft.
This is no more a movie player than an apple fans blow up doll is a real girlfriend. (But hey -- points for trying. I would say buy something that can play a real movie and get on with life.)
Another example of taking all the shortcomings of a handheld device and mixing them with the shortcomings of a laptop.
In the real world I can't use this thing (or anything similar) in the field until I can make it through an 8 hour day of moderate to heavy use (outside away from power) without the battery going dead on me. And guess what, add the "wonders" of wireless network connectivity and GPS (2 important things for us people that have a userbase that works outside) -- and the 2 hour battery life will be at at about 60 to 75 Minutes. (I know to some of you that would constitute a full work day....but it is still not good enough for me)
Where is the Pac Man yellow Ipod. Ipod's are cool. You are a nobody if you don't have an Ipod. Is it really music if you listen to it through anything other than an Ipod. Jesus has an Ipod.
In truth, I have owned 3 different HD based digital music players....none of them ipods. Does this make me a bad person?
DRM sucks. I would much rather buy a laptop hard drive that just happens to play mp3's. Rather than a digital music player with DRM that just happens to have a hard drive.
"Wow, that is a great world occupied by some if 0.25 is near the price point for song. For the rest of us, we tend to pay 15 dollars for a cd, of about 10 songs, which is a $1.50 per song give or take. At a quarter a song,that is $2.50 cents for a cd, which means the editor basically wants his music for free.
"
Well considering after all the fluff of a $15.00 CD is played out -- the artist usually see about $1.00
Take away all the fluff of printing, advertising, distribution, payola, etc....and I can see an artist still being able to get $1.00 on a $2.50 online purchase.
" Because very few people listen to AM radio these days? (as compared to FM at any rate)"
Hu? If you add up all the sports junkies with the Rush Limbaugh (sp?) crowd....you have a VERY large market.
My theory is this: If you feel the need to have 20 G of music in your pocket it is most likely because you don't want to listen to the same 6 or 7 songs on your FM dial - so FM to me is wasted. However, you can't compete canned recordings against 24 hours of live sports, news or politics with live audience interaction on todays topics. If you record then the time shift makes things to dated.
This won't be REAL news unless they find some way to use an Ipod in the equation....Hell, where have these people been for the last year -- "If it does not involve an Ipod -- then it is not unique enough to qualify for news"
5 years ago I thought about renting an old warehouse downtown by the soup kitchen. Install a couple T1's, MD 20/20 in the vending machines and then hiring the homeless people to "sort" e-mail and filter out the spam. But alas, with the dot com crash my dream was never realized.
How come whenever anyone does anything trivial that has anything to do with an Ipod...that it is reported like world peace?
Recording streams have been around as long as streams themselves....I guess it was not a big deal until someone with an Ipod started recording streams.
Next we will read about "Ipod owner creates Hello World" and a "tetris clone".
The tech bubble was the rancher buying 50,000 wild horses. We now live in the age of the rancher trying to build fences to keep the horses in, and keeping them fed.
Translation: Programming jobs may be down. But security jobs, DBA jobs, Data Entry jobs are still going strong.
Plus -- why keep building new stuff when they can't even figure out how to properly deal with spam, spy ware, and virus issues?
He didn't really lose - they just brought in someone from overseas who agreed to win less money.
Ok. I know this is already a +5 funny, but I would love to give it A 6. I really did laugh out loud at that one. Kudos.
"Nothing like taking a small image-based site and exposing it to a slashdotting, huh?"
That is just a good test to see if you have found just the right $5 a month provider or not.
Hey thanks. I will order 2. Actually quality of calls and equiptment is one of my biggest issues. However my HUGE pet peeve is in price -- I went to replace my ailing phone a few months back and since I did not use it much except to keep in the car for emergencies, weekend calls home, travel, etc....I did not want anything fancy -- just a cheap, NEW (not Ebay), flip phone to take a receive calls. I could not find anything under $199.00 (Sprint service) -- and since I already had a plan the 1 penny phone after the $299.99 rebate stuff did not apply to me.
I thought I could just spend about $100 for a plain generic flip phone that had no camera, no TV, No Internet, no Fancy ringers or color screen....just a freakin phone....And let me tell you -- no such animal exists anymore. (At least that is Sprint compatible.)
My kingdom for a cellphone that concentrates on 1 thing PHONE CALLS...Oh yea and this includes coverage quality and battery life.
I may be a technogeek -- but I discovered that my last 2 cellphones sure have had lots a little gadgets and cost oodles of money, but were sorely lacking in the old business of using as a phone.
What is wrong with Python? I think it is a very good choice.
Put that in your beta player and smoke it....all you suckers who jumped on the VCR bandwagon.
As soon as I get rid of all of my mp3's, gif files and any other established standard that I am so sinfully using -- I will look to recode thousand of lines of sql statements and php code to use postgres.
In other words, if it's broke then replace it. If it's not broke than keep using it.
"Maybe if phone service providers start offering 'referral incentive' to sites, that is, to pay site owners $0.001 per visit via mobile phone, we might be seeing something very quickly."
Most sites are not worth the $0.001 to visit. As longs as stuff is free....people can take the bad with the good. But cell phone companies would only want to pass that on to the user as $0.005.
Man look at those system reqs, I was wondering when someone would produce a really good FPS using Java.
well if I had a nickle for every /. comment that has the words "i am unemployed" in the text....I could get a nice dell with xp installed. so maybe he is on to something.
on the other hand maybe those people are just "too good" to do the mind numbing web scripting and j2ee tasks that the rest of us are doing now days?