Around here (the southern part of central Jersey) we have a decent one - WBJB (WBJB.org), based out of but not run by Brookdale Community College. They tend to shy away from the noisier punk or metal music, but have a solid and reasonably dynamic playlist with progressive rock, blues, jazz, non-nashville country, classic rock, acoustic-driven rock, and other inventive, generally pleasant music. Tom Waits, Ani DiFranco, Bobby McFerrin, Nellie McKay, Belle and Sebastian, Badly Drawn Boy, etc would be some of the more notable musicians they play - and then there's a lot of less well-known ones filling the space in between. I'd have to turn to seton hall's station for the noisier stuff.
WBJB does suffer - a bit - from the short playlist syndrome you describe. Some of their music gets played a bit too often, but most of it's good enough I don't personally mind hearing lots of it for a weeks. And the playlist does seem to turn over quickly enough. They pay a fair amoutn of attention to local artists as well, which is nice, because it means I can hear a song I like then hunt down a nearby concert.
And to that end I'd suggest your local college radio and/or NPR station as possible sources, depending on your tastes.
If they don't scratch your particular itch, trying some of the small-time indyish stations that have webstreams - you can find music of just about any genre being streamed over the net, and a small or academic radio operation is more likely to weight musicianship in its playlist building than it is to weight billboard chart position.
An easily repeatable, predictable applicatoin behavoir problem like that doesn't sound much like a RAM problem. RAM issues tend to give you more sporadic errors, either memmory errors themselves or wierd bugs caused by the wrong values being pulled from memory for all sorts of things.
You sure its not a conflict between winamp and some resorce on your computer? Maybe it doesn't like your sound card drivers, or the visualizations engine hicups with your graphics card driver, or its expecting a different version of some library, or i dunno... seems to me like there's better explanations.
Thanks for the info. I scoured the web a little and didn't see anything else about the locking, so I wonder if maybe you just got a bum unit, or if maybe the problem was corrected in a later revision.
In any case, I just got myself one off of ebay for $130, including the shipping. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it works as well as I hope. My $300 nomad (well it cost that much as purchase time) has unfortunately died on me, and I can't afford to put that much cash into something else right now.
You say you have one? Great, because that means you can answer a quesiton I can't seem to find answered anywhere on the Web.
It seems from your answer it CAN play MP3s directly off the DVD, like a CD/MP3 player does with CDs? All the reviews I see just mention that it can become a DVD-ROM when connected to a PC. So I just wanted to confirm this.
Also, is it finicky about DVD-Rs, DVD+Rs or either RW variety?
It seems these things are going on Ebay for $100ish these days. Maybe with a firmware upgrade, this becames a realistic choice...
More energy than a standard cd player, sure. But I've got to figure the biggest power draw for the average portable dvd player is the screen - cut that out, and you've got a lot more energy to spare.
In addition, a typical dvd drive can grab the 5-10 mbs a given song takes up in only a few seconds - with, say, a 16MB buffer, the drive would only have to spin once every several minutes, and only very briefly. There's no reason this should take a lot of juice.
You're missing a big part of what I said. I want something like a CD/MP3 player that can use DVDs instead of CDs. I don't want to carry around 700MB of data at a pop, I want 4.7 gigs of data per disc. THat would put the player in the same leauge storage-wise as an ipod mini or one of the several competitors, but allow me to expad through replaceable media and still use standard CDs as well.
I've been looking for a while but there doesn't seem to be a player like this...
I'm envisioning a CD/MP3 Walkman-style device that can read audio off of burned DVDs. I would have imagined there would be portable DVD-Audio players capable of doing this, but I can't seem to find one.
THe closest I can find are the portable DVD players that ALSO happen to support dvd-audio and mp3. But these are far bulkier than I'm looking for, and have far shorter battery life.
I'm thinking a sub-$99 device that could double as a cd walkman, or, with a dvd in it, give me 4.7 gb of mp3s.
Do you know something I don't? I don't believe there was ever a version of Firefox for OS9. If there was, I'd love to use it - I'm stuck using an "unofficial" mozilla 1.3 on OS9 at work. The latest official mozilla for 9 was 1.2ish.
MP3's strength is that while it's a technologically inferior compression scheme to just about anything else out there - OGG, WMA and AAC all usually sound better at comparable bitrates, and there's no lossless version - it got there first.
Just about everything that supports digital music supports MP3. My CD Walkman, Nomad Jukebox, DVD Player all support MP3. Every media player on my computer supports MP3. An Ipod supports MP3. Many car stereos support MP3. The oddball exception to this is Sony's ipod-alike, but there's rumors the company will change that in future revisions.
The picture isn't so bright with other formats, even when unencumbered by DRM. Want to use AACs? well, that gets you use on the Ipod or maybe a player designed to support Real's store, bue not much else. WMA support is getting pretty widespread, but you CAN'T use it directly on the Ipod, and that's the most popular player. Ogg. Hah.
I use MP3 at wastefully large bitrates - with the alt-preset extreme LAME tag, actually - to preserve sound quality while still ensuring I can play my music just about anywhere. The only better solution might be to encode everything in a lossless format, and transcode to other formats as needed - btu that would take some ripping time, processing time, space and inconvenience I'm not willing to devote right now.
All recording media is lossy, when the source material is the real world. On a CD you get an imperfect, partial representation of the real world sound -- and an imperfect partial representation of the higher-fidelity master recording. However, copying CD-quality data to CD-quality data (another CD, FLAC, lossless WMA, etc) is a lossless process.
Well, it's probably a combo of the host and overall format. TDS was nowhere near as funny, or succesful, when Kilborn was on. Stewart and those who joined the cast under him took it to new levels. The show became brilliant.
Likewise, The Man Show just wasn't as funny without Jimmy and Adam. Jimmy was still reasonably funny on his new show, but he was up against tough and also funny competition with better resources, as well as more experience in the late night field.
That's not a reason not to let them make the devices. But if they abuse those ties to restrict the consumer, it's an awfully good reason not to buy their products.
So long as OTHERS are also alowed to make players, allowing Sony et all into the game isn't a problem.
I'll beat that. My girlfriend (insert slashdotter having a gf joke here) is, like most 20somethings, vaugely computer literate - enough to get around on the net but not enough to, say, edit the windows registry or know what an MBR is.
Anyway, a few weeks ago, she decided she needed to check a train schedule online. I watched her bring up a slightly out of date version of mozilla and get our schedule! "I HATE Internet Explorer," she told me.
Furthermore, thanks to her tech geek brother, she knows that having a router sit between her computer and dsl line is a good thing. She doesn't quite understand what ports are or what a hardware firewall does, but she knows that without one she's vulnerable to all sorts of nastiness. The first thing she asks people when they're talking about going online is "Do you have a Linksys? What brand?" which is a little off, but hey, good enough for me.
I've always hoped someone would make a guide simulator of sorts for the PalmOS, using the various entries detailed in the books/radio series/tv series for source material. I'd like to be able to look up vogon poetry at a whim on my palm.
Clearly, there would be a copyright issue, but this is the 'net, and that's never stopped anyone before. Anyone know if anything like this exists?
"I sure as hell DO have to buy it if my business is selling computers."
First of all, your business doesn't have to be selling computers. IF you enter or choose to stay into the business knowing the costs involved and accepting them, that's your perogative. If you look at prices like those and say it's not worth it, that's you're perogative too.
If you can't make a buck in your biz paying their prices, then you'll go out of business. And the memory company will lose a buyer. If that happens enough, it has an incentive to lower its prices.
No one NEEDS memory - the world kept turning just fine 50 years ago when no one had personal computers. Whether it's CONVENIENT to live without it is another question. But you're under no absolute obligation to buy thie memory company's product. If it's worth $100 per meg to you, pay them the $100 per meg. If the harm you'll do yourself by being a technological backward hick is less than the harm you'll suffer by shelling out the dough, abstain from the purchase. It's your choice.
The problem is, most polarizing interests aren't geographical. What if a candidate appealed only to white people? Only to middle-class people? Only to heterosexual people? Do we need a similar system to better balance out the representation of the minorities those approaches would exclude?
Furthermore, in a one-vote-per democracy, the majority viewpoint is supposed to rule; our constitution is supposed to protect us against unjust oppression of minorities. It's not a perfect sysem - sometimes the minority is right. But arbitrarily buffering the strength of the majority really doesn't do anything to make the system more just. It just makes it less represenatitive. The minority viewpoint, in many cases, is in the minority for a reason. Most people don't believe we need a massive and costly protection against UFOs. Most people don't think free chocolate cake for everyone named Bob is a great idea. Most people don't think spending time on slashdot when they should be working is productive...
Constitutional protection of freedom of speech (when truly protected) garuntees those with minority viewpoints have, at the least, an option to inject their viewpoints into the discussion of the commons. Ideally, solid, reasonable, views gain some support over time. But arbitrarily giving extra weight to the minorirty views, whether proven or not, is foolish.
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You forgot to account for dual layer vs. single layer in several of the formats.
Around here (the southern part of central Jersey) we have a decent one - WBJB (WBJB.org), based out of but not run by Brookdale Community College. They tend to shy away from the noisier punk or metal music, but have a solid and reasonably dynamic playlist with progressive rock, blues, jazz, non-nashville country, classic rock, acoustic-driven rock, and other inventive, generally pleasant music. Tom Waits, Ani DiFranco, Bobby McFerrin, Nellie McKay, Belle and Sebastian, Badly Drawn Boy, etc would be some of the more notable musicians they play - and then there's a lot of less well-known ones filling the space in between. I'd have to turn to seton hall's station for the noisier stuff.
WBJB does suffer - a bit - from the short playlist syndrome you describe. Some of their music gets played a bit too often, but most of it's good enough I don't personally mind hearing lots of it for a weeks. And the playlist does seem to turn over quickly enough. They pay a fair amoutn of attention to local artists as well, which is nice, because it means I can hear a song I like then hunt down a nearby concert.
And to that end I'd suggest your local college radio and/or NPR station as possible sources, depending on your tastes.
If they don't scratch your particular itch, trying some of the small-time indyish stations that have webstreams - you can find music of just about any genre being streamed over the net, and a small or academic radio operation is more likely to weight musicianship in its playlist building than it is to weight billboard chart position.
An easily repeatable, predictable applicatoin behavoir problem like that doesn't sound much like a RAM problem. RAM issues tend to give you more sporadic errors, either memmory errors themselves or wierd bugs caused by the wrong values being pulled from memory for all sorts of things.
... seems to me like there's better explanations.
You sure its not a conflict between winamp and some resorce on your computer? Maybe it doesn't like your sound card drivers, or the visualizations engine hicups with your graphics card driver, or its expecting a different version of some library, or i dunno
Thanks for the info. I scoured the web a little and didn't see anything else about the locking, so I wonder if maybe you just got a bum unit, or if maybe the problem was corrected in a later revision.
In any case, I just got myself one off of ebay for $130, including the shipping. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it works as well as I hope. My $300 nomad (well it cost that much as purchase time) has unfortunately died on me, and I can't afford to put that much cash into something else right now.
Again, thanks for the info. Much appreciated.
You say you have one? Great, because that means you can answer a quesiton I can't seem to find answered anywhere on the Web.
...
It seems from your answer it CAN play MP3s directly off the DVD, like a CD/MP3 player does with CDs? All the reviews I see just mention that it can become a DVD-ROM when connected to a PC. So I just wanted to confirm this.
Also, is it finicky about DVD-Rs, DVD+Rs or either RW variety?
It seems these things are going on Ebay for $100ish these days. Maybe with a firmware upgrade, this becames a realistic choice
The site is slashdotted, so I'll giev you the text here:
"Nader is going to win. In a landslide. A really big landslide. Really."
Yeah, I was surprised too.
More energy than a standard cd player, sure. But I've got to figure the biggest power draw for the average portable dvd player is the screen - cut that out, and you've got a lot more energy to spare.
In addition, a typical dvd drive can grab the 5-10 mbs a given song takes up in only a few seconds - with, say, a 16MB buffer, the drive would only have to spin once every several minutes, and only very briefly. There's no reason this should take a lot of juice.
You're missing a big part of what I said. I want something like a CD/MP3 player that can use DVDs instead of CDs. I don't want to carry around 700MB of data at a pop, I want 4.7 gigs of data per disc. THat would put the player in the same leauge storage-wise as an ipod mini or one of the several competitors, but allow me to expad through replaceable media and still use standard CDs as well.
I've been looking for a while but there doesn't seem to be a player like this ...
I'm envisioning a CD/MP3 Walkman-style device that can read audio off of burned DVDs. I would have imagined there would be portable DVD-Audio players capable of doing this, but I can't seem to find one.
THe closest I can find are the portable DVD players that ALSO happen to support dvd-audio and mp3. But these are far bulkier than I'm looking for, and have far shorter battery life.
I'm thinking a sub-$99 device that could double as a cd walkman, or, with a dvd in it, give me 4.7 gb of mp3s.
anyone seen anything like that?
Do you know something I don't? I don't believe there was ever a version of Firefox for OS9. If there was, I'd love to use it - I'm stuck using an "unofficial" mozilla 1.3 on OS9 at work. The latest official mozilla for 9 was 1.2ish.
MP3's strength is that while it's a technologically inferior compression scheme to just about anything else out there - OGG, WMA and AAC all usually sound better at comparable bitrates, and there's no lossless version - it got there first.
Just about everything that supports digital music supports MP3. My CD Walkman, Nomad Jukebox, DVD Player all support MP3. Every media player on my computer supports MP3. An Ipod supports MP3. Many car stereos support MP3. The oddball exception to this is Sony's ipod-alike, but there's rumors the company will change that in future revisions.
The picture isn't so bright with other formats, even when unencumbered by DRM. Want to use AACs? well, that gets you use on the Ipod or maybe a player designed to support Real's store, bue not much else. WMA support is getting pretty widespread, but you CAN'T use it directly on the Ipod, and that's the most popular player. Ogg. Hah.
I use MP3 at wastefully large bitrates - with the alt-preset extreme LAME tag, actually - to preserve sound quality while still ensuring I can play my music just about anywhere. The only better solution might be to encode everything in a lossless format, and transcode to other formats as needed - btu that would take some ripping time, processing time, space and inconvenience I'm not willing to devote right now.
All recording media is lossy, when the source material is the real world. On a CD you get an imperfect, partial representation of the real world sound -- and an imperfect partial representation of the higher-fidelity master recording. However, copying CD-quality data to CD-quality data (another CD, FLAC, lossless WMA, etc) is a lossless process.
That's what happens when a dual-core processor does your linking for you.
yeah, but it's DUMB.
Well, it's probably a combo of the host and overall format. TDS was nowhere near as funny, or succesful, when Kilborn was on. Stewart and those who joined the cast under him took it to new levels. The show became brilliant.
Likewise, The Man Show just wasn't as funny without Jimmy and Adam. Jimmy was still reasonably funny on his new show, but he was up against tough and also funny competition with better resources, as well as more experience in the late night field.
Now it's a Spyware Mosaic.
That's not a reason not to let them make the devices. But if they abuse those ties to restrict the consumer, it's an awfully good reason not to buy their products.
So long as OTHERS are also alowed to make players, allowing Sony et all into the game isn't a problem.
I'll beat that. My girlfriend (insert slashdotter having a gf joke here) is, like most 20somethings, vaugely computer literate - enough to get around on the net but not enough to, say, edit the windows registry or know what an MBR is.
Anyway, a few weeks ago, she decided she needed to check a train schedule online. I watched her bring up a slightly out of date version of mozilla and get our schedule! "I HATE Internet Explorer," she told me.
Furthermore, thanks to her tech geek brother, she knows that having a router sit between her computer and dsl line is a good thing. She doesn't quite understand what ports are or what a hardware firewall does, but she knows that without one she's vulnerable to all sorts of nastiness. The first thing she asks people when they're talking about going online is "Do you have a Linksys? What brand?" which is a little off, but hey, good enough for me.
I think there might also be some issue if he slept with one of the male scientists.
"From scratch? You wish. Even Linus doesn't claim that."
You're right. He clearly started with code from SCO.
I've always hoped someone would make a guide simulator of sorts for the PalmOS, using the various entries detailed in the books/radio series/tv series for source material. I'd like to be able to look up vogon poetry at a whim on my palm.
Clearly, there would be a copyright issue, but this is the 'net, and that's never stopped anyone before. Anyone know if anything like this exists?
"I sure as hell DO have to buy it if my business is selling computers."
First of all, your business doesn't have to be selling computers. IF you enter or choose to stay into the business knowing the costs involved and accepting them, that's your perogative. If you look at prices like those and say it's not worth it, that's you're perogative too.
If you can't make a buck in your biz paying their prices, then you'll go out of business. And the memory company will lose a buyer. If that happens enough, it has an incentive to lower its prices.
No one NEEDS memory - the world kept turning just fine 50 years ago when no one had personal computers. Whether it's CONVENIENT to live without it is another question. But you're under no absolute obligation to buy thie memory company's product. If it's worth $100 per meg to you, pay them the $100 per meg. If the harm you'll do yourself by being a technological backward hick is less than the harm you'll suffer by shelling out the dough, abstain from the purchase. It's your choice.
You must be new around here.
The problem is, most polarizing interests aren't geographical. What if a candidate appealed only to white people? Only to middle-class people? Only to heterosexual people? Do we need a similar system to better balance out the representation of the minorities those approaches would exclude?
...
Furthermore, in a one-vote-per democracy, the majority viewpoint is supposed to rule; our constitution is supposed to protect us against unjust oppression of minorities. It's not a perfect sysem - sometimes the minority is right. But arbitrarily buffering the strength of the majority really doesn't do anything to make the system more just. It just makes it less represenatitive. The minority viewpoint, in many cases, is in the minority for a reason. Most people don't believe we need a massive and costly protection against UFOs. Most people don't think free chocolate cake for everyone named Bob is a great idea. Most people don't think spending time on slashdot when they should be working is productive
Constitutional protection of freedom of speech (when truly protected) garuntees those with minority viewpoints have, at the least, an option to inject their viewpoints into the discussion of the commons. Ideally, solid, reasonable, views gain some support over time. But arbitrarily giving extra weight to the minorirty views, whether proven or not, is foolish.