The big deal is that I get a "real world" 40 mpg out of my 96 Honda Civic,
What nobody is posting is the fuel ratings for many diffrent styles of driving. Highway and city are fine, but what about all the mail delivery and newspaper routes. During the big storm in Louisana, many people simply ran out of gas on the freeway because they were getting less than 5 MPG in the creep and stop driving. I hope the EPA includes local delivery estimates to the mix.
I do have a Prius. I have stuck a kilowatt inverter in it. It doubles as an emergency generator. I have run for days at a time off it. It would start, run at a fast idle for about 5 minutes and shut down again and repeat in about 20 minutes. A regular car would be out of gas in under 24 hour sitting at idle. I use about 1/8 of a tank a day running this way while running a couple CF lights, the fireplace blower, the small TV, the fridg, and a small chest freezer. I ran that way for an ice storm that knocked out the power for 2 days. When I ran low on gas, I filled it and still got 32 MPG on that tank. (my all time low) Not bad for 2 days of running getting 0 MPG and a week of commuting.
I would have never been able to do that with a conventional car.
The choice of a car sometimes comes down to more than just a replacement for public transportation.
I would like to see the real world numbers for letter carriers and city buses.
These are the reasons I decide to post anonymously at Slashdot.
I just post under a nickname and don't post addresses, photos, etc. You may know me by Technician, but you would be hard pressed to associate to me at a local store. Hmm.. What town?
but people can make their own custom image distributions and activate copies of Vista with fake servers lol.
True, but the alternatives will still be able to get security patches and updates and not bring the threat of litigation from the BSA. Why bother with the risk? Fight piracy. Use an alternative legal solution.
How many of them were build before MP3's were available?
I have a Reel to Reel tape recorder and a Laserdisk player. Pre-recorded material was out for both formats. I bought a DVD player several years after they came out after I found they became common and inexpensive.
Audio DRM is in a format war with 1 primary player and 3 wanabees. HD movies is also in a format war. Dont't get me started in the number of players there are in the online content between WMA WMV SWF RA PDF DOC....
Why get a player for premium content when the prices and selection of the content isn't yet listed? I have enough dead format players.
The computer in my office is not the media center in the living room. I can play DVD's and MP3's in the living room. For now that will have to suffice.
I think it's not. They design the product with more restrictive DRM knowing the consumer will not want ANY DRM.
You forgot who the customers are. For DRM it's the media companies looking for a DRM protected distribution channel. Don't forget it. MS knows where the big bucks are and who their customers are.
Then they 'listen' to the consumer by removing some, but not all of it.
This will only happen if MS fails to get the distribution chain installed due to the fact the machines simply don't sell. Then the media companies (consumers) will be willing to back off just enought to get a large DRM distribution channel set up to be tightned up with later upgrades.
I think the point was more on the lines of, if you want to play blu-ray discs all you need to do is buy a blu-ray player.
I'm thinking this will be wildly popular like the DAT tape recorder for the very same reasons. It simply doesn't work without lots of money and when it does work, it will be restricted to the point of being useless. I don't see many pre-recorded DAT tapes (or blanks) on the market. Yet another expensive restricted content format will be a limited market.
I still have a Laserdisk player. I bought it because it is DRM free (by the spec for NTSC video at broadcast quality). They promised the disks would be cheaper than VHS because the disks can be pressed cheaper than recording tapes. Tapes came down in price encumbered with Macrovision and content for laserdisk was very limited due to licensing issues and remained relatively expensive. Then DVD's came out. They still didn't come out as cheap as lower priced videotape but were a lot cheaper than laserdisks.
I'm not interested in another premium content player until I see the selection, restrictions, and pricing on the content. I have been sticking to the MP3 format because it works where the other stuff has serious compatibility issues. Let the industry know I'm sticking to formats that work and leaving the other stuff unsold. To sell premium content, first and formost, it has to have value. Don't forget it. Broken content has little value.
Yes DRM sucks, but who honestly thinks that it is unreasonable to require new hardware and new drivers for new technology.
Raising hand.. Of all the media players I have, I have no wish to replace it all. I buy compatible content and leave the other stuff on the shelf. What ever happened to the consumer is right?
I have a DVD player that can play MP3's. I have a CD player that can play MP3's. My car is the same. Winamp works just fine on the Windows PC's with MP3's. Banshee works just fine on Linux with MP3's. I just bought a flash player. I noticed there are 4 incompatible DRM formats and there is not a single portable player that will play more than one of the DRM formats. All the DRM formats are incompatible with everything except a Windows PC. (I don't have an apple.)
My decision to buy a flash player was based on not the ability to play DRM in any format, but cost, ability to play MP3's, the ability to drad and drop, the ability to expand with a card slot, and the recording abilities for both FM and Voice. I picked up a flash player for under $40 and it does not support any DRM format which is fine with me. What is not fine with me is the limited selection of legal MP3's online.
For those who need to know, the player is a Coby model MP-C751. Drag and drop from any PC. Plays MP3's and unprotected WMA files. Has FM tuner built in. Records from mic and FM as MP3's.
You may not like the specification, but you have the option to use it or not. If Vista didn't support it, you wouldn't have that option at all. So, again, where is the problem here?
If you play premium content, outputs get turned off or severly degraded. This is applied globaly, not just the premium content. Expect your VOIP or video game to go to crap if you browse a website with premium content.
i'd say try a different webmail provider. I get a LOT of spam per day, (about 100+) and 99.9% is categorised at spam by gmail. In the last month i would estimate i've had 2 spam messages hit my actual inbox. The rest were filtered out by gmail.
I've simply dumped e-mail. My home account hasn't been opened in over a month. My internal work e-mail simply dumps everything from offsite into a folder to filter later. I haven't opened that folder in months. I carry a pager and a phone. Those who know me have my work voice mail, my home number, my pager, and my address. It's removed a lot of stress.
Last year I finaly got broadband. The cable company sent a welcome packet with instructions on how to set up 5 included e-mail addresses. They have never been set up. It wasn't worth it.
So why should i spend my money on something that i will not ever fully use?
So you can use it for something else.
How many people bought an X-box and never signed up for the online service? How many people bought an I-Opener and never activated the account? How many people bought a 30 Gig I-pod and never intended to fill it with music? How many have burnt a 100 Meg program on a 700 Meg blank CD? Sometimes extra capacity is cheap. How many people buy always on unlimited internet access and shut off the PC while at work during the day?
Needing to bring 6-8 adapters when I travel overseas is a bit crazy.
If you are not out of the country much, forget the adaptors and just pick up one of the emergency power adaptors that take a couple AA batteries and leave the adaptors home. In my case, I just travel with 12 volt adaptors and a pocket inverter. Charge up in the rental car and forget AC adaptors. The pocket inverter can charge the laptop while wardriving for a free net connection.
At least most of the new phones of Motorola the A-series, the RAZR, SLVR and PEBL etc all come with USB ports for charging as well as data-transfer.
Too bad many of their FRS radios don't use a standard handsfree headset cable. Radios such as the T6200 series use the M6 plug which is very close to a standard hands free headset but not quite.
But I was trying to drive home the "I'm an honest, paying customer, and you're stealing from me, and causing me to no longer be a customer of yours" point.
That is my point exactly. You sent them a bill for the broken product after you requested it be repaired to run on your new hardware. They neither refunded or repaired the product. Telling them you bought a new copy is pointless. The PHB and accounting department will love it. Tell them you are fixing it yourself and you are pissed at the lack of consumer support is killing future relationship is the message to get across. Don't tell them you bought another copy. If they send a lawyer to see who you copied from, produce both reciepts and explain one is broken and not fixed to your satisfaction. and again ask for the refund.
Most important, make noise about the situation online. A blog of the whole affair goes a long way in the PR campaign to sell the defective products. Don't lie. Posting a smear campaign can cause lots of legal problems. Posting the facts may raise the threats, but there is no smear in the truth. Keep reciepts and all communications.
I don't have any less suspicion about the validity of its conclusion than I have about the Microsoft-funded "Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux" studies
They also stated everyone suffers at one time or another. Bad web pages are part of the internet. I realise that. I typicaly open a dozen tabs at once. I don't wait for pages. It's like sitting in a traffic jam. Surfing the web is more like channel surfing. If one channel is plugged up with commercials, you move on and check it later. Tabs which have loaded I read. Tabs that fail to load in a reasonable time, I close and move on.
No surprise that I haven't heard back, but I'm sure they'll get the point when more and more of their paying customers have a problem with their legally purchased books being stolen from them by Adobe. Anyway, I'm praying that things change, and the sooner the better.
Did you also let them know you are using a scanner with OCR software to replace the e-books so you still can use the search functions?
Yeah, the media giants are a pain in the ass and generally despicable, but that doesn't make copyright bad and it doesn't mean that they aren't going to be forced to change over time.
I've always had problems with the music industry and their total rejection of providing any way to license content for in public use.
Want to put together a slide show for a wedding and set it to music? Want to play a bunch of CD's for the dance following the reception? Want to include a few CD's the guests brought because your library is too small or does not include their genre? Want to syncronise your christmas lights to a TSO song? Want to publicly play or broadcazst the music for the light show. Want to post the result on YouTube?
Just try to get a license for any of the above applications of their product. All of them are outside the license included with the disc which states for private home use only.
If you are a pro DJ, you can get an expensive license to do the reception at wedding parties, but having a CD collection and trying to do a reception for a friend is pretty much out of the question.
Other than the simple fact that the site under question clearly has a purpose for the distribution of mp3's,
MP3's are not illegal. I am free to record a file of my cat hissing at the dog and post the copyrighted MP3 online for free. Can anyone get it right. MP3's are legal. MP3's distributing copyrighted content without the copyright owners permission is the violation. Then it doesn't matter if it is Flash, Jpeg, WAV, MP3 or any other format. Free MP3's are not the issue. The issue is distribution of copyrighted works without the copyright owners permission. A link to my free files is not a copyright infringement. Permission is given to copy them.
I have posted some MP3's online. They contain content I created from scratch. Permission is granted to copy them. I have also posted some photos online that I have taken while geocaching. The same is true regarding the copyright. They are free to copy and not an infringement. They are copyrighted.
I'm about done with replacing the light bulbs (that I can) from incandescent to fluorescent, but we have a smaller chandelier that's hooked up to a dimmer.
Visit Home Depot. They now have CF chandelier lamps which work on a regular dimmer. I just got some and they work fine. They have the small base and include an adaptor so it will also fit a regular light socket. I'm trying to remember the wattage. I think they are 3 or 4 watts each.
That comment indicates that you do not understand what the iPod interface does.
Actualy I do know. You can use it for remote operation so it can be used in your alarm clock, car, etc and the radio display will show the ID tags of the items playing as well as providing power. Not all the competition put all the bells and whistles in the basic interface which is getting sound out to a high power system instead of just feeding headphones. In the under $50 market, I don't expect to remote the power and all operation of the device so I can use it as an alarm clock with it's dock.
An easy way to load songs and playlist and an easy way to feed out audio is the minimum interface I need. The other options raise the cost.
I don't need a $60 alarm clock with an I-pod dock. It's a single vendor lock-in. What I need is an alarm clock with a built in flash player with USB drag and drop loading. In the meantime I use a clock/radio/CD.
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The big deal is that I get a "real world" 40 mpg out of my 96 Honda Civic,
What nobody is posting is the fuel ratings for many diffrent styles of driving. Highway and city are fine, but what about all the mail delivery and newspaper routes. During the big storm in Louisana, many people simply ran out of gas on the freeway because they were getting less than 5 MPG in the creep and stop driving. I hope the EPA includes local delivery estimates to the mix.
I do have a Prius. I have stuck a kilowatt inverter in it. It doubles as an emergency generator. I have run for days at a time off it. It would start, run at a fast idle for about 5 minutes and shut down again and repeat in about 20 minutes. A regular car would be out of gas in under 24 hour sitting at idle. I use about 1/8 of a tank a day running this way while running a couple CF lights, the fireplace blower, the small TV, the fridg, and a small chest freezer. I ran that way for an ice storm that knocked out the power for 2 days. When I ran low on gas, I filled it and still got 32 MPG on that tank. (my all time low) Not bad for 2 days of running getting 0 MPG and a week of commuting.
I would have never been able to do that with a conventional car.
The choice of a car sometimes comes down to more than just a replacement for public transportation.
I would like to see the real world numbers for letter carriers and city buses.
These are the reasons I decide to post anonymously at Slashdot.
I just post under a nickname and don't post addresses, photos, etc. You may know me by Technician, but you would be hard pressed to associate to me at a local store. Hmm.. What town?
But I prefer parking fines since it requires a lower investment and less skilled personnel.
More importantly, they are away and are not carrying a high power loaded weapon.
but people can make their own custom image distributions and activate copies of Vista with fake servers lol.
True, but the alternatives will still be able to get security patches and updates and not bring the threat of litigation from the BSA. Why bother with the risk? Fight piracy. Use an alternative legal solution.
How many of them were build before MP3's were available?
I have a Reel to Reel tape recorder and a Laserdisk player. Pre-recorded material was out for both formats. I bought a DVD player several years after they came out after I found they became common and inexpensive.
Audio DRM is in a format war with 1 primary player and 3 wanabees. HD movies is also in a format war. Dont't get me started in the number of players there are in the online content between WMA WMV SWF RA PDF DOC....
Why get a player for premium content when the prices and selection of the content isn't yet listed? I have enough dead format players.
The computer in my office is not the media center in the living room. I can play DVD's and MP3's in the living room. For now that will have to suffice.
I think it's not. They design the product with more restrictive DRM knowing the consumer will not want ANY DRM.
You forgot who the customers are. For DRM it's the media companies looking for a DRM protected distribution channel. Don't forget it. MS knows where the big bucks are and who their customers are.
Then they 'listen' to the consumer by removing some, but not all of it.
This will only happen if MS fails to get the distribution chain installed due to the fact the machines simply don't sell. Then the media companies (consumers) will be willing to back off just enought to get a large DRM distribution channel set up to be tightned up with later upgrades.
Wake me up when MS sells 1 million Zune tracks.
I think the point was more on the lines of, if you want to play blu-ray discs all you need to do is buy a blu-ray player.
I'm thinking this will be wildly popular like the DAT tape recorder for the very same reasons. It simply doesn't work without lots of money and when it does work, it will be restricted to the point of being useless. I don't see many pre-recorded DAT tapes (or blanks) on the market. Yet another expensive restricted content format will be a limited market.
I still have a Laserdisk player. I bought it because it is DRM free (by the spec for NTSC video at broadcast quality). They promised the disks would be cheaper than VHS because the disks can be pressed cheaper than recording tapes. Tapes came down in price encumbered with Macrovision and content for laserdisk was very limited due to licensing issues and remained relatively expensive. Then DVD's came out. They still didn't come out as cheap as lower priced videotape but were a lot cheaper than laserdisks.
I'm not interested in another premium content player until I see the selection, restrictions, and pricing on the content. I have been sticking to the MP3 format because it works where the other stuff has serious compatibility issues. Let the industry know I'm sticking to formats that work and leaving the other stuff unsold. To sell premium content, first and formost, it has to have value. Don't forget it. Broken content has little value.
Yes DRM sucks, but who honestly thinks that it is unreasonable to require new hardware and new drivers for new technology.
Raising hand.. Of all the media players I have, I have no wish to replace it all. I buy compatible content and leave the other stuff on the shelf. What ever happened to the consumer is right?
I have a DVD player that can play MP3's. I have a CD player that can play MP3's. My car is the same. Winamp works just fine on the Windows PC's with MP3's. Banshee works just fine on Linux with MP3's. I just bought a flash player. I noticed there are 4 incompatible DRM formats and there is not a single portable player that will play more than one of the DRM formats. All the DRM formats are incompatible with everything except a Windows PC. (I don't have an apple.)
My decision to buy a flash player was based on not the ability to play DRM in any format, but cost, ability to play MP3's, the ability to drad and drop, the ability to expand with a card slot, and the recording abilities for both FM and Voice. I picked up a flash player for under $40 and it does not support any DRM format which is fine with me. What is not fine with me is the limited selection of legal MP3's online.
For those who need to know, the player is a Coby model MP-C751. Drag and drop from any PC. Plays MP3's and unprotected WMA files. Has FM tuner built in. Records from mic and FM as MP3's.
You may not like the specification, but you have the option to use it or not. If Vista didn't support it, you wouldn't have that option at all. So, again, where is the problem here?
If you play premium content, outputs get turned off or severly degraded. This is applied globaly, not just the premium content. Expect your VOIP or video game to go to crap if you browse a website with premium content.
But thank God they don't have to worry about losing money from pirates
They fixed the piracy thing just fine. Now they must deal with competition and churn. It's going to be a great year for Apple and Linux.
People making new purchases are much freer to choose from a competitor that may not have the same problems.
Your wish is granted. Wait for the first video card to be exploited to rip premium content. The hardware de-auth will take care of the rest.
People making new purchases are much freer to choose from a competitor that may not have the same problems.
I see Apple having a very good year.
i'd say try a different webmail provider. I get a LOT of spam per day, (about 100+) and 99.9% is categorised at spam by gmail. In the last month i would estimate i've had 2 spam messages hit my actual inbox. The rest were filtered out by gmail.
I've simply dumped e-mail. My home account hasn't been opened in over a month. My internal work e-mail simply dumps everything from offsite into a folder to filter later. I haven't opened that folder in months. I carry a pager and a phone. Those who know me have my work voice mail, my home number, my pager, and my address. It's removed a lot of stress.
Last year I finaly got broadband. The cable company sent a welcome packet with instructions on how to set up 5 included e-mail addresses. They have never been set up. It wasn't worth it.
So why should i spend my money on something that i will not ever fully use?
So you can use it for something else.
How many people bought an X-box and never signed up for the online service? How many people bought an I-Opener and never activated the account? How many people bought a 30 Gig I-pod and never intended to fill it with music? How many have burnt a 100 Meg program on a 700 Meg blank CD?
Sometimes extra capacity is cheap. How many people buy always on unlimited internet access and shut off the PC while at work during the day?
Harrison says that the current PS3 game lineup is using less than half of the machines power
Sounds like he's putting spin on a bad data bottleneck to the processor so the processor runs only half loaded.
Needing to bring 6-8 adapters when I travel overseas is a bit crazy.
If you are not out of the country much, forget the adaptors and just pick up one of the emergency power adaptors that take a couple AA batteries and leave the adaptors home. In my case, I just travel with 12 volt adaptors and a pocket inverter. Charge up in the rental car and forget AC adaptors. The pocket inverter can charge the laptop while wardriving for a free net connection.
At least most of the new phones of Motorola the A-series, the RAZR, SLVR and PEBL etc all come with USB ports for charging as well as data-transfer.
Too bad many of their FRS radios don't use a standard handsfree headset cable. Radios such as the T6200 series use the M6 plug which is very close to a standard hands free headset but not quite.
do we really need that huge socket plus a usb adapter?
Powers the $15 inverter so I don't have to buy a $100 12 volt laptop power supply.
But I was trying to drive home the "I'm an honest, paying customer, and you're stealing from me, and causing me to no longer be a customer of yours" point.
That is my point exactly. You sent them a bill for the broken product after you requested it be repaired to run on your new hardware. They neither refunded or repaired the product. Telling them you bought a new copy is pointless. The PHB and accounting department will love it. Tell them you are fixing it yourself and you are pissed at the lack of consumer support is killing future relationship is the message to get across. Don't tell them you bought another copy. If they send a lawyer to see who you copied from, produce both reciepts and explain one is broken and not fixed to your satisfaction. and again ask for the refund.
Most important, make noise about the situation online. A blog of the whole affair goes a long way in the PR campaign to sell the defective products. Don't lie. Posting a smear campaign can cause lots of legal problems. Posting the facts may raise the threats, but there is no smear in the truth. Keep reciepts and all communications.
You need to go back to
your account and select options from there.
I don't have an account. Since the account settings appear to be broken, I won't bother getting an account.
I don't have any less suspicion about the validity of its conclusion than I have about the Microsoft-funded "Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux" studies
They also stated everyone suffers at one time or another. Bad web pages are part of the internet. I realise that. I typicaly open a dozen tabs at once. I don't wait for pages. It's like sitting in a traffic jam. Surfing the web is more like channel surfing. If one channel is plugged up with commercials, you move on and check it later. Tabs which have loaded I read. Tabs that fail to load in a reasonable time, I close and move on.
Some links are broken. Get used to it.
No surprise that I haven't heard back, but I'm sure they'll get the point when more and more of their paying customers have a problem with their legally purchased books being stolen from them by Adobe. Anyway, I'm praying that things change, and the sooner the better.
Did you also let them know you are using a scanner with OCR software to replace the e-books so you still can use the search functions?
Yeah, the media giants are a pain in the ass and generally despicable, but that doesn't make copyright bad and it doesn't mean that they aren't going to be forced to change over time.
I've always had problems with the music industry and their total rejection of providing any way to license content for in public use.
Want to put together a slide show for a wedding and set it to music?
Want to play a bunch of CD's for the dance following the reception? Want to include a few CD's the guests brought because your library is too small or does not include their genre?
Want to syncronise your christmas lights to a TSO song? Want to publicly play or broadcazst the music for the light show. Want to post the result on YouTube?
Just try to get a license for any of the above applications of their product. All of them are outside the license included with the disc which states for private home use only.
If you are a pro DJ, you can get an expensive license to do the reception at wedding parties, but having a CD collection and trying to do a reception for a friend is pretty much out of the question.
Other than the simple fact that the site under question clearly has a purpose for the distribution of mp3's,
MP3's are not illegal. I am free to record a file of my cat hissing at the dog and post the copyrighted MP3 online for free. Can anyone get it right. MP3's are legal. MP3's distributing copyrighted content without the copyright owners permission is the violation. Then it doesn't matter if it is Flash, Jpeg, WAV, MP3 or any other format. Free MP3's are not the issue. The issue is distribution of copyrighted works without the copyright owners permission. A link to my free files is not a copyright infringement. Permission is given to copy them.
I have posted some MP3's online. They contain content I created from scratch. Permission is granted to copy them. I have also posted some photos online that I have taken while geocaching. The same is true regarding the copyright. They are free to copy and not an infringement. They are copyrighted.
I'm about done with replacing the light bulbs (that I can) from incandescent to fluorescent, but we have a smaller chandelier that's hooked up to a dimmer.
Visit Home Depot. They now have CF chandelier lamps which work on a regular dimmer. I just got some and they work fine. They have the small base and include an adaptor so it will also fit a regular light socket. I'm trying to remember the wattage. I think they are 3 or 4 watts each.
That comment indicates that you do not understand what the iPod interface does.
Actualy I do know. You can use it for remote operation so it can be used in your alarm clock, car, etc and the radio display will show the ID tags of the items playing as well as providing power. Not all the competition put all the bells and whistles in the basic interface which is getting sound out to a high power system instead of just feeding headphones. In the under $50 market, I don't expect to remote the power and all operation of the device so I can use it as an alarm clock with it's dock.
An easy way to load songs and playlist and an easy way to feed out audio is the minimum interface I need. The other options raise the cost.
I don't need a $60 alarm clock with an I-pod dock. It's a single vendor lock-in. What I need is an alarm clock with a built in flash player with USB drag and drop loading. In the meantime I use a clock/radio/CD.