When are these portable players/recorders going to include a decent (high-quality) microphone input.
Most of Archos' current product line has a microphone input (via included line-in dongle; you have to provide the mic and preamp yourself).
I bought a MiniDisc recorder for the purpose of recording live music about three years ago, and in retrospect wish I hadn't (or more accurately, wish that portable HD audio devices like today's had existed back then). For one, the mic jack ran extremely hot, even without a preamp; I had to buy a $5 Radio Shack headphone attenuator and put it into the signal chain to get a recording that was anything but clipped-out digital noise. For another, none of the portable MD models support digital OUT; they all have SPDIF In, but the only way to get a signal OFF the device and onto a computer is to patch it's analog line-out to your PC's analog line-in.
No. Every human being deserves Justice, whether or not they perform their duty in administering it enthusiastically.
But that's not the point. The point is that the time of the court, the lawyers, and the jury were used up to argue a case about some teens vandalizing mailboxes.
The quicker we can get such cases out of the way, the easier it will be to address justice for substantial crimes. In this case, I would guess that there was quite a lot of proof that the teens had committed the acts, and if they had any sense they would have agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges (lesser than vandalism?) and kept the whole case out of the court before it started, saving the court three days of trial time and the jurors three days of their lives.
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Okay, assume everyone converts to small autopiloted passenger aircraft.
What happens when the autopilot fails, and remember, it always will have SOME nonzero failure rate? Are you okay with a handful of miniplanes falling out of the sky and killing a dozen passengers at a time every year? Do you think anyone will want to ride the miniplane knowing there's nothing they can do to save their lives if something goes awry?
Part of the reason air travel is safer than car travel right now is that there are a lot fewer vehicles in the air than on the roads, and the pilots of those aircrafts are much more highly trained and regulated. Putting thousands more small craft in the air and putting all our faith in fallible technology pretty much erases those advantages.
They could easily average 25 mph and if you didn't have to go long distances (over 10 miles) were reasonable.
The same could be said about bicycles today. Well, the average biker might average 10mph rather than 25, but as an alternative to 50mph automobile transit 25mph still isn't fast enough.
Problem with many people is they're lazy and they want to take all their crap all over the place with them.
You call it a problem with the people, I call it a product requirement.
It's easier to make a sale by accomodating the wants of the consumers than to convince consumers that what you have IS what they should want.
Kind of sad, in a way, that the backward compatibility of Nintendo's latest portable system is limited to only the previous generation. But then again, the original Game Boy is fifteen years old; that's a thousand lifetimes in videogame years. There's really no reason that the Super Mario Land cart I bought when I was 13 should be expected to plug-and-play on modern hardware.
And there's always the possibility that someone could develop an adaptor than plugs into the cartridge port, with the GBC emulated in firmware, to enable that compatibility.
The PS3 will be like another year at least, maybe another two years.
True, but what about the PSP? It's right around the corner.
It doesn't seem too unreasonable to assume that many development houses will be reassigning some people who have been working on PS2 console titles to the PSP portable team. By no means does this signify a halt to development for the PS2, but it could slow it down noticeably.
if you want the movie and the extra's, you have to buy it twice.
Or, you wait until the second version comes out, and buy it only once. With the most prominent recent examples of the multiple-release marketing strategy -- the Lord of the Rings trilogy -- you can't argue that fans weren't aware that extended special editions were going to be coming out after the standard editions.
how are the pirates unethical? What money are they taking away from the studios?
Whether or not the pirates' behavior results in any real financial losses is irrelevant to the question of ethics. It is simply unethical to take something that has a price tag on it simply because you don't feel like paying.
I was reading that movie studios will now accept advertising in movies.
Product placement is nothing new. Do you think Pan-Am got their logos plastered all over "2001: A Space Odyssey" for free? How much did Burger King pay to have Taco Bell signs all over "Demolition Man"'s dystopic landscape instead of their own?;)
I hope no one's actually considering taking the up-modded "legal" advice of the Anonymous Coward in parent post seriously.
Filing frivolous lawsuits in small-claims courts is legally and morally wrong.
IANAL, but it's only common sense that you have no right to bill another party for your time unless there's a pre-arranged contract between the parties allowing such. Or shall I send Slashdot an invoice for "services rendered" because I spent 5 minutes contributing this post to their site? Do you think they'd pay?
This is about indentifing and locking out untrusted devices, at least from writes.
USB devices already report more-or-less unique device model names back to the host. The OS (any OS) should be able to allow an admin to set up device whitelists (or blacklists) easily enough without extend/extinguishing the existing USB standard.
Sure, it's theoretically possible that an unapproved USB device could be configured to spoof itself as an approved one, but how miniscule is the chance of that? It is likely enough to cripple hardware compatibility for the millions of USB device users at large?
No matter how they boil it down, making the decision about what is a "trusted" USB device vs. "untrusted" is something that has to be left to the administrators at a given site. Otherwise, what's to stop a user from bringing their own device that reports itself as "trusted" in and out of the building with them?
Or better yet, printing the data to the trusted USB printer and carrying the paper out the door?
So Lucas WANTED Greedo to shoot first in the original release? What, did one of the editors undermine him and cut the scene wrong, and he didn't notice until decades later?
Cringely and his sources seem to believe that Longhorn's USB device restrictions will be based on the concept of "trusted devices", that the hardware itself will have to know whether or not to let the USB host access it.
I don't see it that way. The implementation I envision is a "trusted user" approach, in which it is access rules defined in the computer's operating system that determine how USB devices can be used.
A flag in the Registry for each user. When a USB device is connected, depending on its value, the OS will give the user either full read/write access, read-only access, or no access, and will mount the USB volume accordingly.
Perhaps there are real advantages to the method Cringely believes MS will implement, but I don't see them.
And you honestly believe they'd turn down millions of dollars from a high-profile record label to keep their day jobs?
If they're smart, they'll know that the record label isn't going to give them millions of dollars.
Promise them millions, okay; loan them, perhaps. But even among the 1 out of 1000 acts that gets major label interest, maybe only 1 out of 1000 of THEM is likely to end up with millions of dollars when all is said and done.
Well the submission says Microsoft is trying to make a "last-minute" deal, which must mean that Longhorn is due to be released sometime in the next couple months, right?
As the world's first 128-bit file system, ZFS offers 16 billion billion times the capacity of 32- or 64-bit systems.
A 64-bit (unsigned) binary number can already store values up to 16 billion billion (actually, closer to 18, but who's counting). That's roughly 2.5 billion individually addressable locations for every man, woman, and child living on Earth.
Shouldn't that be enough to hold us for a few generations at least?
Neither candidate may truly support science, but it could be argued that science truly supports Kerry over Bush.
Fifty-eight Nobel Laureates have publicly pledged their support for Kerry. I'm not aware of any that have backed Bush. Is there a conclusion that can be drawn from that?
As far as I am concerned, he is an unethical shmuck who bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall.
No, Gary Kildall bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall.
I hope this doesn't degrade into a flamewar about suicide, but I think it's pretty safe to say that people who kill themselves do so because they have innate mental health problems, regardless of any triggering behavior from other people.
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When are these portable players/recorders going to include a decent (high-quality) microphone input.
Most of Archos' current product line has a microphone input (via included line-in dongle; you have to provide the mic and preamp yourself).
I bought a MiniDisc recorder for the purpose of recording live music about three years ago, and in retrospect wish I hadn't (or more accurately, wish that portable HD audio devices like today's had existed back then). For one, the mic jack ran extremely hot, even without a preamp; I had to buy a $5 Radio Shack headphone attenuator and put it into the signal chain to get a recording that was anything but clipped-out digital noise. For another, none of the portable MD models support digital OUT; they all have SPDIF In, but the only way to get a signal OFF the device and onto a computer is to patch it's analog line-out to your PC's analog line-in.
No. Every human being deserves Justice, whether or not they perform their duty in administering it enthusiastically.
But that's not the point. The point is that the time of the court, the lawyers, and the jury were used up to argue a case about some teens vandalizing mailboxes.
The quicker we can get such cases out of the way, the easier it will be to address justice for substantial crimes. In this case, I would guess that there was quite a lot of proof that the teens had committed the acts, and if they had any sense they would have agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges (lesser than vandalism?) and kept the whole case out of the court before it started, saving the court three days of trial time and the jurors three days of their lives.
Okay, assume everyone converts to small autopiloted passenger aircraft.
What happens when the autopilot fails, and remember, it always will have SOME nonzero failure rate? Are you okay with a handful of miniplanes falling out of the sky and killing a dozen passengers at a time every year? Do you think anyone will want to ride the miniplane knowing there's nothing they can do to save their lives if something goes awry?
Part of the reason air travel is safer than car travel right now is that there are a lot fewer vehicles in the air than on the roads, and the pilots of those aircrafts are much more highly trained and regulated. Putting thousands more small craft in the air and putting all our faith in fallible technology pretty much erases those advantages.
They could easily average 25 mph and if you didn't have to go long distances (over 10 miles) were reasonable.
The same could be said about bicycles today. Well, the average biker might average 10mph rather than 25, but as an alternative to 50mph automobile transit 25mph still isn't fast enough.
Problem with many people is they're lazy and they want to take all their crap all over the place with them.
You call it a problem with the people, I call it a product requirement.
It's easier to make a sale by accomodating the wants of the consumers than to convince consumers that what you have IS what they should want.
Kind of sad, in a way, that the backward compatibility of Nintendo's latest portable system is limited to only the previous generation. But then again, the original Game Boy is fifteen years old; that's a thousand lifetimes in videogame years. There's really no reason that the Super Mario Land cart I bought when I was 13 should be expected to plug-and-play on modern hardware.
And there's always the possibility that someone could develop an adaptor than plugs into the cartridge port, with the GBC emulated in firmware, to enable that compatibility.
The PS3 will be like another year at least, maybe another two years.
True, but what about the PSP? It's right around the corner.
It doesn't seem too unreasonable to assume that many development houses will be reassigning some people who have been working on PS2 console titles to the PSP portable team. By no means does this signify a halt to development for the PS2, but it could slow it down noticeably.
if you want the movie and the extra's, you have to buy it twice.
;)
Or, you wait until the second version comes out, and buy it only once. With the most prominent recent examples of the multiple-release marketing strategy -- the Lord of the Rings trilogy -- you can't argue that fans weren't aware that extended special editions were going to be coming out after the standard editions.
how are the pirates unethical? What money are they taking away from the studios?
Whether or not the pirates' behavior results in any real financial losses is irrelevant to the question of ethics. It is simply unethical to take something that has a price tag on it simply because you don't feel like paying.
I was reading that movie studios will now accept advertising in movies.
Product placement is nothing new. Do you think Pan-Am got their logos plastered all over "2001: A Space Odyssey" for free? How much did Burger King pay to have Taco Bell signs all over "Demolition Man"'s dystopic landscape instead of their own?
I hope no one's actually considering taking the up-modded "legal" advice of the Anonymous Coward in parent post seriously.
Filing frivolous lawsuits in small-claims courts is legally and morally wrong.
IANAL, but it's only common sense that you have no right to bill another party for your time unless there's a pre-arranged contract between the parties allowing such. Or shall I send Slashdot an invoice for "services rendered" because I spent 5 minutes contributing this post to their site? Do you think they'd pay?
"Google: The Service that Launched a Google of Browsers".
That should be "a googol of browsers".
This is about indentifing and locking out untrusted devices, at least from writes.
USB devices already report more-or-less unique device model names back to the host. The OS (any OS) should be able to allow an admin to set up device whitelists (or blacklists) easily enough without extend/extinguishing the existing USB standard.
Sure, it's theoretically possible that an unapproved USB device could be configured to spoof itself as an approved one, but how miniscule is the chance of that? It is likely enough to cripple hardware compatibility for the millions of USB device users at large?
No matter how they boil it down, making the decision about what is a "trusted" USB device vs. "untrusted" is something that has to be left to the administrators at a given site. Otherwise, what's to stop a user from bringing their own device that reports itself as "trusted" in and out of the building with them?
Or better yet, printing the data to the trusted USB printer and carrying the paper out the door?
I would have built a wetware turing machine using a dozen grad students armed with abacii. In treacle.
That sounds like a sweeeeet system dude
So Lucas WANTED Greedo to shoot first in the original release? What, did one of the editors undermine him and cut the scene wrong, and he didn't notice until decades later?
Cringely and his sources seem to believe that Longhorn's USB device restrictions will be based on the concept of "trusted devices", that the hardware itself will have to know whether or not to let the USB host access it.
I don't see it that way. The implementation I envision is a "trusted user" approach, in which it is access rules defined in the computer's operating system that determine how USB devices can be used.
A flag in the Registry for each user. When a USB device is connected, depending on its value, the OS will give the user either full read/write access, read-only access, or no access, and will mount the USB volume accordingly.
Perhaps there are real advantages to the method Cringely believes MS will implement, but I don't see them.
most editors don't do MPEG editing. [...] Why? Because it's lossy!
Actually, I think it's more likely that most video editors don't do MPEG editing because the MPEG data stream doesn't do non-linear access very well.
So Firefox doesn't ever save an image file that was HTTP'd off the network to a cache directory and load it from disk as needed?
And you honestly believe they'd turn down millions of dollars from a high-profile record label to keep their day jobs?
If they're smart, they'll know that the record label isn't going to give them millions of dollars.
Promise them millions, okay; loan them, perhaps. But even among the 1 out of 1000 acts that gets major label interest, maybe only 1 out of 1000 of THEM is likely to end up with millions of dollars when all is said and done.
"I demand high reliablity from my TV."
Why? It's TV. The world's not going to end if a crash causes you to miss the first five minutes of MythBusters...
Well the submission says Microsoft is trying to make a "last-minute" deal, which must mean that Longhorn is due to be released sometime in the next couple months, right?
My point is, you could put all of the world's data together on a single 64-bit filesystem and still have plenty of address space left over.
Even including all the world's porn.
As the world's first 128-bit file system, ZFS offers 16 billion billion times the capacity of 32- or 64-bit systems.
A 64-bit (unsigned) binary number can already store values up to 16 billion billion (actually, closer to 18, but who's counting). That's roughly 2.5 billion individually addressable locations for every man, woman, and child living on Earth.
Shouldn't that be enough to hold us for a few generations at least?
Get file with copy of prime numbers. ...all of them?
You say you shut down daily - only Windows users would regard that as normal.
No, most normal people turn their appliances off when they're not being used. Home computers are no exception.
Neither candidate may truly support science, but it could be argued that science truly supports Kerry over Bush.
Fifty-eight Nobel Laureates have publicly pledged their support for Kerry. I'm not aware of any that have backed Bush. Is there a conclusion that can be drawn from that?
I'm sure Andrew Carnegie only founded CMU as a Social Investing strategy to get free publicity for his U.S. Steel business... right?
He was, for all intents and purposes, the Bill Gates of the 19th century, after all.
As far as I am concerned, he is an unethical shmuck who bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall.
No, Gary Kildall bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall.
I hope this doesn't degrade into a flamewar about suicide, but I think it's pretty safe to say that people who kill themselves do so because they have innate mental health problems, regardless of any triggering behavior from other people.