Mp3 CD players are a good idea, but the Genica CD player from computer Geeks is not great product IMO!
I thought, hey this looks neat, so I bought one. First one was great, bad interface, hard buttons, but it worked, for about 21 days, then it died for no apparent reason. Returned it, got another one, I guess they didint test it, because from the very first day it wasnt working properly.
It would start spinning too fast and the laser wasnt able to read the CD. If I would tilt it slightly I could see the CD slow down and it began reading again. It got worst and worst also.
Finaly I returned that one too and asked for a refund.
Its a first gen product and for 99$ well you get what you pay for.
We have a CTI suite called Focus with IVR (what they need), an ACD and Predictive Dialing.
Now Im surely preaching our product but has one important thing that others dont, flexibility.
MAJOR Flexibility, through scripting, and not some proprietary scripting language either (Im know some of you are going to shoot me for this...) but we use VB script.
Why ? you might ask, because, WHO cant code in vb, seriously.
We use Dialogic boards, and currently support Visual Voice pro 5, but we are working on our one voice module which should be finished soon.
In any case, I think TMBG should be looking into real telephony solutions for this wether it be ours or another companies.
We have that power, cause evolution gave it to us, why wouldnt we have the right to use it ?
Animals have the power/sense to know if another is sick and decide not to mate with him, WE DONT, we had to wait several millenia to have the ability to do so, now that we have it after hard work and time, we shouldnt use it ????
I know its not clear cut, but my point is one to be considered with the others...
you are obviously NOT french or a quebecer or else you would know about BLEU NUIT every saturday night on TQS (channel 5).
Soft porn, but PORN nontheless. Plus now they have a series running at 11:30PM EVERY WEEK NIGHT.
Plus showcase ALWAYS plays those movies like CRASH, Videodrome, GIA etc.... with lots and lots of nudity. Bravo also has nudity. And several other French channels OFTEN have nudity but TQS is the one with the title.
If you look closely at the definition of entrapment you'll notice "in criminal law". I dont think entrapment exists in civil law. Since copyright infringment isnt a crime, then entrapment would certainly not apply here.
Umm, Eric, I dont have time to check out the post, but I think you have the wrong one : ------------- "by smartin on Tuesday, May 02, @02:20PM EST (#86)"
Now, I went and looked at this comment. Wanna know the big secret? Here goes:
Posting the data is all well and good, but.... (Score:2) by smartin on 03:20 PM May 2nd, 2000 EST (#86) ---------------
It mostly depends on how you encode it, and the bitrate you use for your mp3's. Basicaly fiting a 1h30 movie on a 650 mb CD, would give you a pretty good quality movie. You can choose different options while encoding which gives you different results wether its a fast action movie, or a non action movie. Now if I could only get my hands on dual 1 ghz PIII to encode this stuff faster...
I saw the movie RKO 281 last night! BTW an Excelent movie.
Its the story sorrounding the making of Citizen Kane by Orson Wells.
It was based on the live of William Randolph Hearst. Now if you want to talk about corporatism and Information control, thats your guy.
At that time he had s much influence in the corporate world he came close to preventing Citizen Kane from getting on the big screen.
Since then others have joined the race for information distribution, but the Hearst Corporation lives on, they have diversified in all fields of communication. i.e. The Hearst Interactive Media group created in 1993 have a partnership in the well known website women.com and others.
But basicaly what Im saying, Hearst was powerfull back then, and some companies can be now.
If you'd like a brief history on Hearst AND the Hearst Corporation : http://www.hearstcorp.com/ah7.html
oh and RKO 281 is a good movie you should check it out. its an HBO production. recently release, in DVD also.
Well this little device might be our salvation. With such a fully featured small computer with a low price like that. How can other companies continue selling their MP3 only systems for 500 + bucks ?
I think price will start falling quick if this gets popular. (admitedly they need to get that wav out problem fixed)
This list covers ANYTHING under the sun or almost that was invented in the 20th centery or almost.
Like others said, HIGHWAYS ???? The romans did good work, we just pave the floor.
Seriously, this isnt a list of the greatest achievments it should be called www.ALL_20th_century_achievements.com/except_for_w eapons.html
Im sorry but this is not good, someone just compiled a list put it on the net and wanted hits. I saw the first page, and didint even bother clicking the list.
3D PONG! playing pong in a real 3D environment, 360 degrees to cover! FUn for HOURS! 3D pong, if your not disy after playing 3D pong we will give you a ticket to the amusement park.
I dont know about patent law, but your right, The supreme court has the right to interpret any law as they see fit, of course they have to take into account precedent. The big difference in the US as compared to other places, (in example Quebec, canada) thats where I live and studied Paralegal Tech., the big difference is Common Law relies heavily on Jurisprudence which is precedent. Meaning, the supreme court CAN make law, if they see fit to do so, decisions they make have to be upheld in the lower courts. Thats why precedent is so important in the US and canada, because they use common law. In quebec, we use Napoleon law, where jurisprudence ONLY is usefull for determining the higher courts interpretation of the law, and not their decisions. Meaning, the higher courts CANNOT make a decision that bypasses a law, they HAVE to respect the law. In common law you CAN decide the law shouldnt fit in a certain situation and render a verdict not in accordance with the law, in which case you set precedent. This is an oversimplificated explanation, but a true one nonetheless. I guess this is off topic, so moderate all you wish!!!
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Mp3 CD players are a good idea, but the Genica CD player from computer Geeks is not great product IMO!
I thought, hey this looks neat, so I bought one. First one was great, bad interface, hard buttons, but it worked, for about 21 days, then it died for no apparent reason. Returned it, got another one, I guess they didint test it, because from the very first day it wasnt working properly.
It would start spinning too fast and the laser wasnt able to read the CD. If I would tilt it slightly I could see the CD slow down and it began reading again. It got worst and worst also.
Finaly I returned that one too and asked for a refund.
Its a first gen product and for 99$ well you get what you pay for.
Im an integrator for a company called Decisif.
We have a CTI suite called Focus with IVR (what they need), an ACD and Predictive Dialing.
Now Im surely preaching our product but has one important thing that others dont, flexibility.
MAJOR Flexibility, through scripting, and not some proprietary scripting language either (Im know some of you are going to shoot me for this...) but we use VB script.
Why ? you might ask, because, WHO cant code in vb, seriously.
We use Dialogic boards, and currently support Visual Voice pro 5, but we are working on our one voice module which should be finished soon.
In any case, I think TMBG should be looking into real telephony solutions for this wether it be ours or another companies.
I dont think it was inveted in South africa.
Nontheless, we do have that in canada.
All the wireless companies have it : Bell canada, Rogers/AT&T, Clearnet and Fido.
But none of them offer free incomming calls.
The only company Ive seen that offers decent servie through this method is Bell canada.
You can still have services like weekends and nights for 1 cents a minute, 200 minutes of internet per month for 5 $ etc...
They just take it of the vouchers money once a month. Good for ppl with bad or no credit. But a plan is still better, will always cost lest per call.
just as a side note
heroin, crack and E do not go into the same category as LSD.
I would tend to disagree!
Sun's business is hardware not software, same as Macintosh.
So linux running on sparc does not take away from Sun's market. Why do you think sun is welcoming linux ?
I totaly agree with his views.
We have that power, cause evolution gave it to us, why wouldnt we have the right to use it ?
Animals have the power/sense to know if another is sick and decide not to mate with him, WE DONT, we had to wait several millenia to have the ability to do so, now that we have it after hard work and time, we shouldnt use it ????
I know its not clear cut, but my point is one to be considered with the others...
you are obviously NOT french or a quebecer
or else you would know about BLEU NUIT every saturday night on TQS (channel 5).
Soft porn, but PORN nontheless.
Plus now they have a series running at 11:30PM EVERY WEEK NIGHT.
Plus showcase ALWAYS plays those movies like CRASH, Videodrome, GIA etc.... with lots and lots of nudity. Bravo also has nudity. And several other French channels OFTEN have nudity but TQS is the one with the title.
If you look closely at the definition of entrapment you'll notice "in criminal law". I dont think entrapment exists in civil law. Since copyright infringment isnt a crime, then entrapment would certainly not apply here.
No please we have enough problems as it is in Quebec, we dont need more
This guy is right, I hadnt though of that, but moderate this last post UP, UP, UP!!!
Umm, Eric, I dont have time to check out the post, but I think you have the wrong one :
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"by smartin on Tuesday, May 02, @02:20PM EST (#86)"
Now, I went and looked at this comment. Wanna know the big secret? Here goes:
Posting the data is all well and good, but.... (Score:2)
by smartin on 03:20 PM May 2nd, 2000 EST (#86)
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That is what you posted, look at the times!
It mostly depends on how you encode it, and the bitrate you use for your mp3's. Basicaly fiting a 1h30 movie on a 650 mb CD, would give you a pretty good quality movie. You can choose different options while encoding which gives you different results wether its a fast action movie, or a non action movie. Now if I could only get my hands on dual 1 ghz PIII to encode this stuff faster...
I saw the movie RKO 281 last night! BTW an Excelent movie.
Its the story sorrounding the making of Citizen Kane by Orson Wells.
It was based on the live of William Randolph Hearst. Now if you want to talk about corporatism and Information control, thats your guy.
At that time he had s much influence in the corporate world he came close to preventing Citizen Kane from getting on the big screen.
Since then others have joined the race for information distribution, but the Hearst Corporation lives on, they have diversified in all fields of communication. i.e. The Hearst Interactive Media group created in 1993 have a partnership in the well known website women.com and others.
But basicaly what Im saying, Hearst was powerfull back then, and some companies can be now.
If you'd like a brief history on Hearst AND the Hearst Corporation : http://www.hearstcorp.com/ah7.html
oh and RKO 281 is a good movie you should check it out. its an HBO production. recently release, in DVD also.
Doesnt this remind you of the netwinder !!
Well this little device might be our salvation.
With such a fully featured small computer with a low price like that. How can other companies continue selling their MP3 only systems for 500 + bucks ?
I think price will start falling quick if this gets popular. (admitedly they need to get that wav out problem fixed)
Nonetheless, its impressive.
This list covers ANYTHING under the sun or almost that was invented in the 20th centery or almost.
w eapons.html
Like others said, HIGHWAYS ???? The romans did good work, we just pave the floor.
Seriously, this isnt a list of the greatest achievments it should be called www.ALL_20th_century_achievements.com/except_for_
Im sorry but this is not good, someone just compiled a list put it on the net and wanted hits. I saw the first page, and didint even bother clicking the list.
3D PONG! playing pong in a real 3D environment, 360 degrees to cover! FUn for HOURS! 3D pong, if your not disy after playing 3D pong we will give you a ticket to the amusement park.
I dont know about patent law, but your right, The supreme court has the right to interpret any law as they see fit, of course they have to take into account precedent. The big difference in the US as compared to other places, (in example Quebec, canada) thats where I live and studied Paralegal Tech., the big difference is Common Law relies heavily on Jurisprudence which is precedent. Meaning, the supreme court CAN make law, if they see fit to do so, decisions they make have to be upheld in the lower courts. Thats why precedent is so important in the US and canada, because they use common law. In quebec, we use Napoleon law, where jurisprudence ONLY is usefull for determining the higher courts interpretation of the law, and not their decisions. Meaning, the higher courts CANNOT make a decision that bypasses a law, they HAVE to respect the law. In common law you CAN decide the law shouldnt fit in a certain situation and render a verdict not in accordance with the law, in which case you set precedent. This is an oversimplificated explanation, but a true one nonetheless. I guess this is off topic, so moderate all you wish!!!