Now this one looks good. Thank you! I knew about the original NexII from Victor, but the company seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth a while ago, and the Nex wasn't available anywhere anumore. Glad to see they resurfaced. I've spoken to people who have used the Nex, and they're absolutely delighted with it.
Well, by design CF doesn't have a size limit, so if an artificial restriction isn't imposed on the device itself, it should take as big a CF that they can make. (actually I think there is a 128GB limit imposed by adressing, but we're still a looong way away from that).
Except that you can't buy these anywhere. They were all either "concept" devices that never made it to mass production, or if they did there was a limited batch and then they were retired. So unless you head for eBay, you're stuck.
...but this ain't it. Why? Not expandable. What I'm looking for in a mp3 player is a CompactFlash slot, so I can carry a large library of songs with me and have them available all with a simple change of the medium. Also, I don't like hard disk-based players, I prefer the solid-state ones for several reasons (battery life, sensitivity to shocks/vibrations, etc.).
I know there are several expandable mp3 players out there, but not CF-based. I don't want SD/MMC, SM, memstick, etc. because all of my other devices use CF and I don't want to switch standards. Besides, CF is arguably (still) the best flash memory standard out there.
That's an easy one. Competition. You don't make a lot of money selling high at low volumes, but selling low in high quantities. Just ask Wal-mart.
This works when there are more sources for the commodity you're selling (hence it's a 'commodity'), which is just about to happen in the diamond market.
The only way to derive substantial profits from high prices is if you're a monopoly. Which DeBeers was so far, and still is. Hopefully not for long.
Have you read the article? The vapor deposition process produces perfect diamonds. Better than the natural ones (which have small imperfections, like all natural things).
Ruby? You wish. Lab created rubies are a dollar a dozen. Almost indistinguishable from the natural ones, too.
It's also much, much easier and cheaper to create synthetic rubies than diamonds. Don't believe me? Take a look at eBay. Yes, those are authentic rubies, sapphires etc, just not pulled from the ground, but rather made in the lab.
" At its discretion, ReplayTV may automatically add, modify, or disable any feature or functionality of the ReplayTV Service or on the ReplayTV unit (when your unit connects to our server or at other times with or without notice)."
I _did_ build a computer once, but I have no great personal merit - it was a kit. A Sinclair Spectrum clone, back in the early 90's. I still got to solder the Z80 CPU, the memory chips, all of the glue logic, the I/O chips etc. Worked like a charm, but the CPU kept overheating and after a while I'd get weird errors. This was, you see, before the age of heatsinks and fans for computer chips (the 'modern' CPU at the time was Intel's 386). I eventually got another CPU and replaced the first one, and the problem with overheating went away. Must have been a bad part.
I think I still have that machine somewhere, although I haven't seen it or used it for well over 5 years.
What happens, though, when the government things that allowing due process will infringe on my right to safety?
Can you elaborate on this? I find it highly unprobable, if not impossible to conceive that denying someone's right to a trial can make you less secure. Tell me where I'm wrong, if you can.
It's really not hard. Since I was hearing a lot about OSX and wanted to try it myself, but don't have the big bucks to buy a 'true' mac, I decided to build my own. As a side note, I have been building my own PCs since 1997.
I got a beige G3 motherboard off eBay for $100, complete with 300MHz CPU/fan, 128M RAM, voltage regulator and ROM, as well as the audio "personality" card. I reused an older standard ATX case and power supply - taking advantage of the ability of the beige G3s to run from an ATX supply (there's a jumper on the motherboard which selects between a Apple-style PS and a standard ATX PS). I needed to do some drilling in the motherboard-supporting tray to get holes that corresponded to the mounting holes in the mobo. And remove the backplate - but that was it. I connected a basic ATAPI CD-ROM, and an older IDE HDD that was lying around, and it works perfectly fine. Happily runs OSX 10.2.4 now.
Lumpy, your signature tells me you're a Linux user. So get a TiVo, it runs Linux, it's trivial to get a bash prompt on it, then you can set the date manually all you like!
Good idea, but nothing new, really
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I've been doing for many years network backups of my laptops' hard drives over to my desktop and onto CDR. I use a Linux bootdisk with networking support for the laptop (so that the partitions I'm backing up are not in use at the time) and dd/gzip them over to a NFS-mounted partition through the network. Works like a charm.
Yes the updates come by modem (or more recently encoded in some "paid programming" shows on Discovery channel that the TiVo automatically tunes to and records), but that doesn't change anything. The software updates come in "slices" which are encrypted themselves. The TiVo has a hardware crypto chip that is used to decrypt those.
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Good tip; thanks. I see a few of these on eBay.
Now this one looks good. Thank you! I knew about the original NexII from Victor, but the company seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth a while ago, and the Nex wasn't available anywhere anumore. Glad to see they resurfaced. I've spoken to people who have used the Nex, and they're absolutely delighted with it.
Then Google's wrong. Check your sources, none of these has a CF slot.
They don't make/sell it anymore. The new RCA design uses SD instead of CF.
Well, by design CF doesn't have a size limit, so if an artificial restriction isn't imposed on the device itself, it should take as big a CF that they can make. (actually I think there is a 128GB limit imposed by adressing, but we're still a looong way away from that).
Except that you can't buy these anywhere. They were all either "concept" devices that never made it to mass production, or if they did there was a limited batch and then they were retired. So unless you head for eBay, you're stuck.
...but this ain't it. Why? Not expandable. What I'm looking for in a mp3 player is a CompactFlash slot, so I can carry a large library of songs with me and have them available all with a simple change of the medium. Also, I don't like hard disk-based players, I prefer the solid-state ones for several reasons (battery life, sensitivity to shocks/vibrations, etc.).
I know there are several expandable mp3 players out there, but not CF-based. I don't want SD/MMC, SM, memstick, etc. because all of my other devices use CF and I don't want to switch standards. Besides, CF is arguably (still) the best flash memory standard out there.
Pricegrabber is your friend. Search for "Actiontec dual modem" and you'll find it in several places, the cheapest at Provantage.
Some of the sites did it at the right time. Slackware was closed 2 days ago, on the 27th.
Sure, a microscope can distinguish Verneuil-grown rubies - but the newer liquid-phase epitaxial ones are not so easy.
Just in case anyone is interested, here's a link to the patent Linares received for their vapor process.
That's an easy one. Competition. You don't make a lot of money selling high at low volumes, but selling low in high quantities. Just ask Wal-mart.
This works when there are more sources for the commodity you're selling (hence it's a 'commodity'), which is just about to happen in the diamond market.
The only way to derive substantial profits from high prices is if you're a monopoly. Which DeBeers was so far, and still is. Hopefully not for long.
Have you read the article? The vapor deposition process produces perfect diamonds. Better than the natural ones (which have small imperfections, like all natural things).
Ruby? You wish. Lab created rubies are a dollar a dozen. Almost indistinguishable from the natural ones, too.
It's also much, much easier and cheaper to create synthetic rubies than diamonds. Don't believe me? Take a look at eBay. Yes, those are authentic rubies, sapphires etc, just not pulled from the ground, but rather made in the lab.
699 kicks in the meaty parts from me.
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And thus I've joined the trollfest.
No, because your user agreement says:
" At its discretion, ReplayTV may automatically add, modify, or disable any feature or functionality of the ReplayTV Service or on the ReplayTV unit (when your unit connects to our server or at other times with or without notice)."
I _did_ build a computer once, but I have no great personal merit - it was a kit. A Sinclair Spectrum clone, back in the early 90's. I still got to solder the Z80 CPU, the memory chips, all of the glue logic, the I/O chips etc. Worked like a charm, but the CPU kept overheating and after a while I'd get weird errors. This was, you see, before the age of heatsinks and fans for computer chips (the 'modern' CPU at the time was Intel's 386). I eventually got another CPU and replaced the first one, and the problem with overheating went away. Must have been a bad part.
I think I still have that machine somewhere, although I haven't seen it or used it for well over 5 years.
What happens, though, when the government things that allowing due process will infringe on my right to safety?
Can you elaborate on this? I find it highly unprobable, if not impossible to conceive that denying someone's right to a trial can make you less secure. Tell me where I'm wrong, if you can.
It's really not hard. Since I was hearing a lot about OSX and wanted to try it myself, but don't have the big bucks to buy a 'true' mac, I decided to build my own. As a side note, I have been building my own PCs since 1997.
I got a beige G3 motherboard off eBay for $100, complete with 300MHz CPU/fan, 128M RAM, voltage regulator and ROM, as well as the audio "personality" card. I reused an older standard ATX case and power supply - taking advantage of the ability of the beige G3s to run from an ATX supply (there's a jumper on the motherboard which selects between a Apple-style PS and a standard ATX PS). I needed to do some drilling in the motherboard-supporting tray to get holes that corresponded to the mounting holes in the mobo. And remove the backplate - but that was it. I connected a basic ATAPI CD-ROM, and an older IDE HDD that was lying around, and it works perfectly fine. Happily runs OSX 10.2.4 now.
As it has been stated in the TiVo Coffee House forum by TiVo employees, there will be no upgrade for the Series 1 hardware.
Except that it doesn't do what TiVo does, i.e. it doesn't record TV!
>>My TV has a better picture.
>Say what now? [sourceforge.net]
My TV has a better picture because it's friggin bigger than the computer monitor, and no Dscaler will help that.
Lumpy, your signature tells me you're a Linux user. So get a TiVo, it runs Linux, it's trivial to get a bash prompt on it, then you can set the date manually all you like!
I've been doing for many years network backups of my laptops' hard drives over to my desktop and onto CDR. I use a Linux bootdisk with networking support for the laptop (so that the partitions I'm backing up are not in use at the time) and dd/gzip them over to a NFS-mounted partition through the network. Works like a charm.
Yes the updates come by modem (or more recently encoded in some "paid programming" shows on Discovery channel that the TiVo automatically tunes to and records), but that doesn't change anything. The software updates come in "slices" which are encrypted themselves. The TiVo has a hardware crypto chip that is used to decrypt those.