I would say that it's pretty good value for money.
- It's smaller and lighter (important when you're carrying it around all day). The regular iPod doesn't reallt fit well in a pocket - when my iPod mini's in my pocket, I hardly know it's there.
- It looks nice. Not on a lot of people's must-have lists, I must admit... But you can't help admit that it's nicer than the regular iPod - most of my friends are forever polishing the shiny back of their iPods. Minis don't have that problem because of the matt finish. Resists scratches better too. It'll look better for longer.
- The interface is nicer. I hate using those four buttons above the wheel on the regular iPod. They feel awful. The Mini shows that they can be moved to the wheel, thereby reducing the footprint of the front panel.
- I have well over 50Gb of music at home. I do NOT need to carry it ALL around. Who likes every song on every album they own anyway? I bet -- like myself -- most people only like 2 or 3 songs on each album they have. This means that 4Gb is pretty much about right for me to have all my favourite songs, and none of the stuff I don't like. Took me about 2 hours to identify my favourite stuff. I pretty much use my Mini on random, and I know I'm going to like whatever it decides to pull up next.
Oh, and despite being in the UK where they're not available yet, I was able to get one in the States about three months ago AND take advantage of the favourable exchange rate (I think I paid about 150 for it, all included).
Exactly, this is dumb to offer songs at that price. Especially when I can get the real CD CHEAPER, in a nice case and with the little booklet and everything, and then create a BETTER QUALITY version that will play on both my PC and iPod without any DRM crap.
I use play.com for my cheap CD's. I've spent a *lot* of money buying my CD's, DVD's and games from that place over the years.. Between those two sites, you don't have to pay 'retail' price ever again!
OK, show me the evidence that proves that using a mobile near a fuel tank will make it catch on fire. These warnings given out are just paranoia. No-one's proved it yet. Just like phones on planes will cause it to crash. Amazing that such things which supposedly endanger lives aren't researched.
There have been reports that pretty much EVERY fire is caused by static. There is NOT A SINGLE DOCUMENTED CASE that proves the mobile phone was the cause of the fire. The power transmitted by a phone is nothing compare to what can be generated by static as someone slides off their seat and out of the car.
If you thought there was a risk, don't you think this thing would be happening a lot more often? Don't you think a lot more people would be DEAD?
A show on the BBC last year filled a caravan with petrol (and allowed time for it to be filled with vapours), and added about 10 mobile phones. They were all called at once and nothing happened. The only way they could get the thing to explode was by sending it a static charge.
Heh. My brother did something similar on the ZX Spectrum. He typed 80 lines of CIRCLE statements to great a 'tunnel' effect, and was most dejected when I told him it could be done in three lines with a FOR..NEXT loop.:-)
It is a Trojan - it doesn't have to do anything malicious, just something that is blatently NOT what its description (filename in this case) suggests. And you're capturing data from the users that run it, so it could be argued that it is in fact malicious.
BitTorrent is incredibly simple to use. Install the client and go to one of the web sites that host torrent lists. You should be up and away in no time.
You don't have as much content as you do on KaZaa, but you don't have as much bogus, *crappy* content, either.
I use KaZaa for pictures, single songs, etc., and BT for films, software, TV shows, and albums.
You're the one who's missing out here, simply because you can't spend 30 minutes reading about something...
Bose aren't that great. Compared to the normal hi-fi stuff you buy in non-specialist places, they're pretty good. But they're not the be-all and end-all of home theatre systems.
I could name a few albums, but there's not much point really (lest the thread degenerate into a band-slagging competition). You'll just have to take my word for it - I've bought plenty.
Agreed, quite a few albums really do only have a few good songs on them, which is why I download a few songs using p2p for any album I'm considering purchasing. If I don't think the album is worth the money, I don't buy.
That said, I don't pay 15 per CD because I buy from play.com and their prices are great. I haven't paid over 10 for a disc in ages. And because I now try before I buy and can get the discs at a good prices, I'm buying more CD's than ever before.
It's hilarious because the guy says that all copy protection can be hacked, yet thinks putting DRM'd material on the disc is a great idea.
Why bother? If they're trusting us, they don't need to use DRM, do they?
Doesn't sound like a great idea to me. The quality of the tracks won't be as high as the CDDA data, and this extra content will simply reduce the amount of space available for the 'proper' audio data. I don't want all the music artists doing a 'Linkin Park' and releasing albums with 30 minutes of music on them.
And the digital content will only play on Sony-licenced equipment. So they trust us, as long as they're getting their money from the equipment we have to buy in order to access it.
Have you considered organising your photo collection? If you're prepared to tag your photographs, why not just rename them to something more readable and stick 'em in a directory structure that make sense?
I've got thousands of photographs (about 5Gb's worth) taken over the years organised into a reasonably efficient directory structure, and I didn't have to write any software to do it.:-)
Friction is INDEPENDANT of surface area. Check your physics books. If there's less surface area there's higher pressure, so the friction stays the same.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1999/ph161/friction.html
As a general rule, of course. This can change depending what materials you're using.
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I would say that it's pretty good value for money.
- It's smaller and lighter (important when you're carrying it around all day). The regular iPod doesn't reallt fit well in a pocket - when my iPod mini's in my pocket, I hardly know it's there.
- It looks nice. Not on a lot of people's must-have lists, I must admit... But you can't help admit that it's nicer than the regular iPod - most of my friends are forever polishing the shiny back of their iPods. Minis don't have that problem because of the matt finish. Resists scratches better too. It'll look better for longer.
- The interface is nicer. I hate using those four buttons above the wheel on the regular iPod. They feel awful. The Mini shows that they can be moved to the wheel, thereby reducing the footprint of the front panel.
- I have well over 50Gb of music at home. I do NOT need to carry it ALL around. Who likes every song on every album they own anyway? I bet -- like myself -- most people only like 2 or 3 songs on each album they have. This means that 4Gb is pretty much about right for me to have all my favourite songs, and none of the stuff I don't like. Took me about 2 hours to identify my favourite stuff. I pretty much use my Mini on random, and I know I'm going to like whatever it decides to pull up next.
Oh, and despite being in the UK where they're not available yet, I was able to get one in the States about three months ago AND take advantage of the favourable exchange rate (I think I paid about 150 for it, all included).
Exactly, this is dumb to offer songs at that price. Especially when I can get the real CD CHEAPER, in a nice case and with the little booklet and everything, and then create a BETTER QUALITY version that will play on both my PC and iPod without any DRM crap.
Excellent business model, I don't think.
I use play.com for my cheap CD's. I've spent a *lot* of money buying my CD's, DVD's and games from that place over the years.. Between those two sites, you don't have to pay 'retail' price ever again!
You know, for someone who claims to know so much about this hazard, you haven't posted a single piece of evidence.
Put up, or shut up.
OK, show me the evidence that proves that using a mobile near a fuel tank will make it catch on fire. These warnings given out are just paranoia. No-one's proved it yet. Just like phones on planes will cause it to crash. Amazing that such things which supposedly endanger lives aren't researched.
There have been reports that pretty much EVERY fire is caused by static. There is NOT A SINGLE DOCUMENTED CASE that proves the mobile phone was the cause of the fire. The power transmitted by a phone is nothing compare to what can be generated by static as someone slides off their seat and out of the car.
If you thought there was a risk, don't you think this thing would be happening a lot more often? Don't you think a lot more people would be DEAD?
A show on the BBC last year filled a caravan with petrol (and allowed time for it to be filled with vapours), and added about 10 mobile phones. They were all called at once and nothing happened. The only way they could get the thing to explode was by sending it a static charge.
You might not care about losing your penis, but I sure do. ;-)
Heh. My brother did something similar on the ZX Spectrum. He typed 80 lines of CIRCLE statements to great a 'tunnel' effect, and was most dejected when I told him it could be done in three lines with a FOR..NEXT loop. :-)
Ah yes, those iPod's are a pain in the ass sometimes, aren't they? :-)
Let me know when someone does it on a Spectrum 48K. :-)
48 pints of Guinness in a day? Good luck waking up from a severe case of death. ;-)
It is a Trojan - it doesn't have to do anything malicious, just something that is blatently NOT what its description (filename in this case) suggests. And you're capturing data from the users that run it, so it could be argued that it is in fact malicious.
No, they just lied in case the feds come smashing down their door. ;-)
Dude, you *are* lazy.
BitTorrent is incredibly simple to use. Install the client and go to one of the web sites that host torrent lists. You should be up and away in no time.
You don't have as much content as you do on KaZaa, but you don't have as much bogus, *crappy* content, either.
I use KaZaa for pictures, single songs, etc., and BT for films, software, TV shows, and albums.
You're the one who's missing out here, simply because you can't spend 30 minutes reading about something...
That's a great idea. The version I've just downloaded is 3,282,452 bytes, or 26259616 bits. Let's call it 26.25Mbit to keep things simple.
2500Mbit/26.25Mbit = over 95 copies of the book per second.
Holy fast reading, Batman!
3c a minute is nearly $1300 per month. Poverty?
Bose aren't that great. Compared to the normal hi-fi stuff you buy in non-specialist places, they're pretty good. But they're not the be-all and end-all of home theatre systems.
And yes, I've been to one of their demos.
I could name a few albums, but there's not much point really (lest the thread degenerate into a band-slagging competition). You'll just have to take my word for it - I've bought plenty.
Agreed, quite a few albums really do only have a few good songs on them, which is why I download a few songs using p2p for any album I'm considering purchasing. If I don't think the album is worth the money, I don't buy.
That said, I don't pay 15 per CD because I buy from play.com and their prices are great. I haven't paid over 10 for a disc in ages. And because I now try before I buy and can get the discs at a good prices, I'm buying more CD's than ever before.
~S
It's hilarious because the guy says that all copy protection can be hacked, yet thinks putting DRM'd material on the disc is a great idea.
Why bother? If they're trusting us, they don't need to use DRM, do they?
Doesn't sound like a great idea to me. The quality of the tracks won't be as high as the CDDA data, and this extra content will simply reduce the amount of space available for the 'proper' audio data. I don't want all the music artists doing a 'Linkin Park' and releasing albums with 30 minutes of music on them.
And the digital content will only play on Sony-licenced equipment. So they trust us, as long as they're getting their money from the equipment we have to buy in order to access it.
No thanks.
Have you considered organising your photo collection? If you're prepared to tag your photographs, why not just rename them to something more readable and stick 'em in a directory structure that make sense?
:-)
I've got thousands of photographs (about 5Gb's worth) taken over the years organised into a reasonably efficient directory structure, and I didn't have to write any software to do it.
Friction is INDEPENDANT of surface area. Check your physics books. If there's less surface area there's higher pressure, so the friction stays the same.
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http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1999/ph161/friction.htm
As a general rule, of course. This can change depending what materials you're using.
We certainly have IMAX cinemas here in England. There's one here in Bristol, and there are plenty of them around the country.
The local IMAX was showing Matrix: Reloaded in IMAX format last week.
~S
"Not a laser?"
You sir, are an idiot. Check your CD/DVD player sometime.
You do all realise that you've spelt it wrong, right? If you did it on purpose, then you're all too drunk to be correcting each other. :-)