Did I understand correctly, Mac OS didn't protect the memory before now? Or didn't have preemptive multitasking? Think I should get the good old Amiga 1200 w/ '040 + MMU out of the closet...
So AIM is AOL's, who cares? It's just another protocol (and it's their), and not so great either. Wonder if Napster will get sued for dominating Napster protocol?
Ok, hands up who doesn't actually turn off about 99% of the new 'features' in MS products? Just about every checkbox in my case gets cleared. So as long as these feature can be turned off, it's ok with me. But just to remind it's not just MS using these tracking things, check the Realplayer options...it seems to be a trend to send 'anonymous information' from programs (Winamp etc).
Anyway, anonymous surfing is a joke. For all you who think you're safe from any tracking as you've turned off cookies etc, session tracking can be done otherwise. If you haven't noticed, long URLs (something like session_id=wekj5iogocx06498sskbi45...) are just to track you. All links are generated dynamically and include this string, so every page knows where you've been and how long.
Further, browsers give lot of information about you, such as browser vendor/type/version, OS, screen modes (javascript), etc. These combined with the IP address, you (your machine) may be identified. I've even seen a site using traceroute to trace the location of a user.
So maybe this "persistence" thing is not a big deal.
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So if I start a company with million shares and sell one of the shares to my mom for $1000, I will become a billionaire too? That was easy!
Did I understand correctly, Mac OS didn't protect the memory before now? Or didn't have preemptive multitasking? Think I should get the good old Amiga 1200 w/ '040 + MMU out of the closet...
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So AIM is AOL's, who cares? It's just another protocol (and it's their), and not so great either. Wonder if Napster will get sued for dominating Napster protocol?
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Ok, hands up who doesn't actually turn off about 99% of the new 'features' in MS products? Just about every checkbox in my case gets cleared. So as long as these feature can be turned off, it's ok with me. But just to remind it's not just MS using these tracking things, check the Realplayer options...it seems to be a trend to send 'anonymous information' from programs (Winamp etc). Anyway, anonymous surfing is a joke. For all you who think you're safe from any tracking as you've turned off cookies etc, session tracking can be done otherwise. If you haven't noticed, long URLs (something like session_id=wekj5iogocx06498sskbi45...) are just to track you. All links are generated dynamically and include this string, so every page knows where you've been and how long. Further, browsers give lot of information about you, such as browser vendor/type/version, OS, screen modes (javascript), etc. These combined with the IP address, you (your machine) may be identified. I've even seen a site using traceroute to trace the location of a user. So maybe this "persistence" thing is not a big deal.
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Pros:
Cons:
- LCD - no song titles
- Does not play mp3's exceeding 196kbps
- Plays only the first 80 songs in a directory
- UI - for example changing the directory is ridiculously hard!
- Cheap looks & feeling
- Sometimes starts playing from the last directory
- Sorting - doesn't understand long filenames, sorts 'em sometimes in a weird way
- "Manual" - it's four small pages written in very poor english
- No playlist support
- Poor sound of the voice recording
- When playing normal CD's, disc spins 1x speed - no buffering (may skip)
However, I'm quite happy with the machine and haven't had any problems with Mp3 CD's containing other files.---------------------------