Apparently the Help page of the MSN Music site contained instructions on how to circumvent the block on playing their songs on an IPOD.
To transfer MSN-downloaded music to an iPod, you need to first create a CD with the music, and then you need to import that CD into iTunes. This process will convert the music into a format that can play on the iPod.
I can't beleive that I read through all of the postings on this subject and nobody mentioned perhaps the most amazing national treasure of all...JELLYSTONE. Where else in the United States can you find such virgin lands populated wholly by talking animals (a feat in and of itself) not to mention the chance to meet an American icon Yogi Bear. No not that foolish man who has tried to gain fame by naming himself Yogi Berra, but the indomitable, unsurpassable and original talking Bear...
If you can only go to one place, I vote for Jellystone.
OK, so how much does one of these bad boys cost??? I looked through their site and saw no information regarding that aspect of the project. They are for sale, but they don't give me enough information to know if I want to buy one.
Well, I figure that if they are not saying then it must be more than I can pay...
You are probably correct, a class action lawsuit ends up giving the attorneys who handled it money and the class members end up receiving something less than they thought they should. I agree completely. But what is your solution? Let Palm just get away with the false advertising. What incentive do they ever have to actually tell the truth on their packaging if all they have to do is say oops we messed up and we will fix the packaging...
What about the people who bought it on the basis that it was a 16 bit display for a good price. Perhaps they would not have otherwise purchased this product at the price it was knowing it only had a 12 bit display. At the very least Palm pays some attorneys fees and gets some pretty crappy PR and maybe next time thinks twice before tossing a label on a box that isn't true...
For those who actually own a Palm m130 and are more than a little honked off about this, shoot me an e-mail.
I am putting together the class members to begin a class action suit against Palm to force them to take responsibility for this.
Don't think you are going to get boatloads of money or anything, but they will have to sit up and take notice of the fact that they can't just say oops I'm sorry, but not offer refunds for at least a portion of the cost of these units. I mean come on, 12 bit v. 16 bit, who do they think they are kidding.
Doing some quick research, it would appear that a computer (without monitor) that is always on costs on average approximately $100.00 per year. Of course multiplying that times 10,000 gives you an annual cost of $1,000,000.00 or $83,333.33 per month. The actual costs would depend upon the system components, speed, etc...
If they each had a 14 inch monitor that was always on, it would double the bill annually. I can't imagine they would have one monitor for each machine, that would make no sense. The way I figure it, they still have one heck of a bill each month when speaking from a Joe Schmoe standpoint, but I don't think that they would have any trouble meeting that bill with the traffic they get and their limited advertising. Of course that bill is just for the computers themselves, not to mention the cooling infrastructure, lighting, etc... Anyone have any experience in the area of cluster cooling and the expenses associated with it? I know I saw something on Discovery or TLC about the units used in the old days, but what about now?
What is with this incessant desire to make things ever smaller and smaller? I'm just going to take my teeny tiny Motorola V. Series 66 phone, my ultra slim Fujitsu LifeBook S-4510 , which of course is running with QNX as the operating system, viewing the worlds smallest website and neatly set them all in my Mini Cooper S and drive off the nearest curb, falling to my death while transferring all my life's memories onto my IBM Microdrive.
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Apparently the Help page of the MSN Music site contained instructions on how to circumvent the block on playing their songs on an IPOD.
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To transfer MSN-downloaded music to an iPod, you need to first create a CD with the music, and then you need to import that CD into iTunes. This process will convert the music into a format that can play on the iPod.
You can read about it here http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/09/03/ms_m
I can't beleive that I read through all of the postings on this subject and nobody mentioned perhaps the most amazing national treasure of all...JELLYSTONE. Where else in the United States can you find such virgin lands populated wholly by talking animals (a feat in and of itself) not to mention the chance to meet an American icon Yogi Bear. No not that foolish man who has tried to gain fame by naming himself Yogi Berra, but the indomitable, unsurpassable and original talking Bear...
If you can only go to one place, I vote for Jellystone.
So, let me get this straight. You have an Oil powered Barbie car that you drive to work???
OK, so how much does one of these bad boys cost??? I looked through their site and saw no information regarding that aspect of the project. They are for sale, but they don't give me enough information to know if I want to buy one.
Well, I figure that if they are not saying then it must be more than I can pay...
You are probably correct, a class action lawsuit ends up giving the attorneys who handled it money and the class members end up receiving something less than they thought they should. I agree completely. But what is your solution? Let Palm just get away with the false advertising. What incentive do they ever have to actually tell the truth on their packaging if all they have to do is say oops we messed up and we will fix the packaging...
What about the people who bought it on the basis that it was a 16 bit display for a good price. Perhaps they would not have otherwise purchased this product at the price it was knowing it only had a 12 bit display. At the very least Palm pays some attorneys fees and gets some pretty crappy PR and maybe next time thinks twice before tossing a label on a box that isn't true...
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For those who actually own a Palm m130 and are more than a little honked off about this, shoot me an e-mail.
I am putting together the class members to begin a class action suit against Palm to force them to take responsibility for this.
Don't think you are going to get boatloads of money or anything, but they will have to sit up and take notice of the fact that they can't just say oops I'm sorry, but not offer refunds for at least a portion of the cost of these units. I mean come on, 12 bit v. 16 bit, who do they think they are kidding.
Doing some quick research, it would appear that a computer (without monitor) that is always on costs on average approximately $100.00 per year. Of course multiplying that times 10,000 gives you an annual cost of $1,000,000.00 or $83,333.33 per month. The actual costs would depend upon the system components, speed, etc...
If they each had a 14 inch monitor that was always on, it would double the bill annually. I can't imagine they would have one monitor for each machine, that would make no sense. The way I figure it, they still have one heck of a bill each month when speaking from a Joe Schmoe standpoint, but I don't think that they would have any trouble meeting that bill with the traffic they get and their limited advertising. Of course that bill is just for the computers themselves, not to mention the cooling infrastructure, lighting, etc... Anyone have any experience in the area of cluster cooling and the expenses associated with it? I know I saw something on Discovery or TLC about the units used in the old days, but what about now?
All of my statistics came from here.
Me: Hmmmm, what was that sound I just heard?
You: Ummm, was it was a rocket crashing into the ground at unbelievable speed.
Me: No, I think it was just the sound of a server performing its own crash and burnafter 4 minutes and 30 seconds of slashdot effect.
You: I hope this isn't a sign of things to come...
What is with this incessant desire to make things ever smaller and smaller? I'm just going to take my teeny tiny Motorola V. Series 66 phone, my ultra slim Fujitsu LifeBook S-4510 , which of course is running with QNX as the operating system, viewing the worlds smallest website and neatly set them all in my Mini Cooper S and drive off the nearest curb, falling to my death while transferring all my life's memories onto my IBM Microdrive.