This seems pretty straightforward in my experience; people break their iPhones all the time, but they don't repair them, they upgrade to the latest model. I've actually seen people purposely manhandle the thing to justify and upgrade.
Monitor mirrors are for HR and Marketing drones... I much prefer the strategically-placed CDs (data side out) pinned to my cube wall and aimed the appropriate direction with additional pushpins behind them. It amazes me that nobody catches on until I specifically point it out to them.
Note that AOL CDs (while rarer these days) or any other free, pressed discs work best (as they are the shiniest); most CD-Rs don't work so well.
You can get a similar unit, and put whatever hard drive you want in it, for less. It's called the Neo, it's been out for quite a while, and is a decent piece of work. It connects to your computer via IDE, comes with connections for your car and a remote display so you can install it in your trunk, under your seat, wherever, if you can't fit it in your dash. You can get it with a 60GB drive for $549. Learn more at http://www2.funmp3players.com/. It's firmware is upgraded on a regular basis too. Be aware that only the people that have problems post to the message board there, don't let it deter you. (=
As for hard drives, I bought an 80GB drive solely for MP3s ($179), and it's a little over 40GB filled with my CD collection ripped (at 192KBPS). I can forsee 80GB being to small in a couple of years.
A) Why are they saying that blocking text is hard? Every story I've read on this says "it's difficult to do blah blah blah"... It's easy to say "display this song unless it says 'metallica' in the file name". Although, I suppose once you get 10 or 20 thousand titles to block it'll slow down. They should just not index them from the users when they log on to Napster and it won't be an issue.
B) What about the "legal" songs by Metallica? The bootleg live mp3's, independent remixes and such that they're losing no money over? It would block: "Metallica - Enter Sandman (live 3-2-2001).mp3" and "Metallica - Unforgiven (bob's garage techno mix).mp3".
When will they realize that it's impossible to stop this, and embrace it? I had downloaded well over a gig of MP3s (over a 28.8 dialup, no less) before Napster even came out -- they can't ban FTP (even though they'd like to).
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This seems pretty straightforward in my experience; people break their iPhones all the time, but they don't repair them, they upgrade to the latest model. I've actually seen people purposely manhandle the thing to justify and upgrade.
Monitor mirrors are for HR and Marketing drones... I much prefer the strategically-placed CDs (data side out) pinned to my cube wall and aimed the appropriate direction with additional pushpins behind them. It amazes me that nobody catches on until I specifically point it out to them.
Note that AOL CDs (while rarer these days) or any other free, pressed discs work best (as they are the shiniest); most CD-Rs don't work so well.
You can get a similar unit, and put whatever hard drive you want in it, for less. It's called the Neo, it's been out for quite a while, and is a decent piece of work. It connects to your computer via IDE, comes with connections for your car and a remote display so you can install it in your trunk, under your seat, wherever, if you can't fit it in your dash. You can get it with a 60GB drive for $549. Learn more at http://www2.funmp3players.com/. It's firmware is upgraded on a regular basis too. Be aware that only the people that have problems post to the message board there, don't let it deter you. (=
As for hard drives, I bought an 80GB drive solely for MP3s ($179), and it's a little over 40GB filled with my CD collection ripped (at 192KBPS). I can forsee 80GB being to small in a couple of years.
ScrO!
A) Why are they saying that blocking text is hard? Every story I've read on this says "it's difficult to do blah blah blah"... It's easy to say "display this song unless it says 'metallica' in the file name". Although, I suppose once you get 10 or 20 thousand titles to block it'll slow down. They should just not index them from the users when they log on to Napster and it won't be an issue.
B) What about the "legal" songs by Metallica? The bootleg live mp3's, independent remixes and such that they're losing no money over? It would block: "Metallica - Enter Sandman (live 3-2-2001).mp3" and "Metallica - Unforgiven (bob's garage techno mix).mp3".
When will they realize that it's impossible to stop this, and embrace it? I had downloaded well over a gig of MP3s (over a 28.8 dialup, no less) before Napster even came out -- they can't ban FTP (even though they'd like to).
ScrO!