for the price of their drive and one of their 20gb 'disks' you could have a shock protected 20gb pocket firewire hard drive from lacie (who, shock horror, actually have a history of being reliable), or what about a 20 gb slim firewire drive from vst tech.
or screw it all and get a 75gig 3.5 inch firewire drive for 450 buckaroos.
Vivendi also own french media studios Canal+ and TF1 who generally do try and find/nurture actual creative talent in the film industry.
I'm instictively wary of any large multi-national corporation, but given that mp3.com was always eventually going to be 'aquired' by one of them, I'm slightly less nauseated than if it had been Sony or BMG.
These days it's all about degrees of corporate evil and Vivendi are in the upper levels, not quite down in the boiling core of corporate hell.
and you can pre-order the innogear minijam mp3 player from www.innogear.com now.
i did.
it reads ebooks and you can use it's 32-64 megs of ram for storage too...
i'm just going to love taking it to parties and plugging it into peoples stereo systems so that they can all get off on the latest illegal britney/eminem cut-up.
mmmmm.
-queque
i'm waiting for the samsung (developed) YOPI.
linux based, color screen, 206 MHz ARM processor, browser, mp3 player, multimedia ready baby.
mmmmm.
-queque
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culture jamming the megacorps customer information databases...
I can't wait until i see a honda asimo taking troody for a walk down 5th avenue...
or screw it all and get a 75gig 3.5 inch firewire drive for 450 buckaroos.
who runs this company, a bush cousin?
Vivendi also own french media studios Canal+ and TF1 who generally do try and find/nurture actual creative talent in the film industry.
I'm instictively wary of any large multi-national corporation, but given that mp3.com was always eventually going to be 'aquired' by one of them, I'm slightly less nauseated than if it had been Sony or BMG.
These days it's all about degrees of corporate evil and Vivendi are in the upper levels, not quite down in the boiling core of corporate hell.
Ever the grinning optimist.
queque
and you can pre-order the innogear minijam mp3 player from www.innogear.com now. i did. it reads ebooks and you can use it's 32-64 megs of ram for storage too... i'm just going to love taking it to parties and plugging it into peoples stereo systems so that they can all get off on the latest illegal britney/eminem cut-up. mmmmm. -queque
i'm waiting for the samsung (developed) YOPI. linux based, color screen, 206 MHz ARM processor, browser, mp3 player, multimedia ready baby. mmmmm. -queque
?? cake.