Only in the US. Worldwide, I believe players by companies like iRiver and Cowon (Iaudio) reign supreme. The iPod accounted for roughly 20 miilion out of 75 million players worldwide in 2005.
Often things like that have already depreciated, and thus making a profit on them in a sale would entail too much effort, red-tape, and lawyers. They could probably give them away, though.
I recently sat my 17" Princeton Graphics CRT out on the curb with a sign that said, "Free. Works fine." It was gone by the end of the day.
Some of us, while indeed using CDs to rip for digital music players, are NOT ripping in the lossy formats the record companies seem to want us to use. We rip to wav files, and use real headphones like Grados or Shure or "Ultimate Ears." The problem is NOT that we need "additional material" to coerce us into buying CDs; it's that we need DECENT MUSIC to BUY. It's not "piracy," or "peer-to-peer networks" that's keeping us from buying...it's the selection, or LACK OF IT. I mean, just how many Justin Timberlake albums do you want us to buy, anyway???
There's tons of better sounding players out there. Try an iRiver or Cowon with some decent headphones. The sonic quality far outstrips that of Apple's iPod. These other players just aren't "hip," apparently.
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From the Toshiba press release:
"On insertion into a PC, all the U3(TM) models automatically launch the U3(TM) Launchpad software integrated into the memory, which presents the user with a list of programs to choose from and files to work with."
So I'm guessing this is pretty much useless with my Linux boxes... Sounds like a good thing.
Ph.D. or no, it's a 20-some-odd-year-old game depicting a phosphorescent fictional/made-up "protagonist," "eating" a bunch of inanimate phosphorescent dots. No blood, no screams, no mayhem.
How could this POSSIBLY justify a "62% violent" rating?!? That's like saying you're committing murder by eating your Rice Krispies(TM) each morning.
This "Doctor" (and I use that term extremely loosely) needs to get a life. (Or maybe some paying patients...)
See? Bullying pays. Most settled, so the lawyer fees were far less than going to court. Out of $100 million, figure at least half of that was pure profit.
Good work if you can get it. (And if you can live with yourself.)
[...]if Apple were to incorporate this display tech into something, say, 1/3 the size of the Newton [...]
One third? If you did that, you'd lose much of what makes the Newton so enjoyable to use...screen real estate. And, as you get older, you'll appreciate the ability to use larger fonts and still display more than one word per screen. (Ask me how I know;-) The reaction nowadays when I pull out my Newton 2100 is, "Wow! What's that? That's cool!" And that's before they see the (almost perfect) handwriting recognition, or the way it can straighten lines and perfect curves in drawings. Or the simply intuitive way it all works. At that point, they almost always ask where they can buy one. *sniff*
The new guys at work saw me using my Newton during a meeting; thought it was a company perk, and wanted to know if they would get one!
Damn you, Steve Jobs! After almost ten years, it wobbles the mind what a current-production Newton would be like. Li-po batteries, lighter weight, certainly more apps, built-in WiMAX, Bluetooth, GPS, projected laser keyboard, etc. *Sigh* So sad...
On early models you could use AA alkalines instead of the NIHM (?) battery pack. Later models like the 2000 and 2100 had an optional battery carrier that you could fill with alkalines and slide in, instead of using the rechargeable packs.
According to Wired, the car is equipped "with an accelerometer, smoke detector, voltage meter, temperature gauge, and water sensor" to "detect a crash or other failures and shut the batteries down to prevent fire or explosion."
Seriously, though, Li-ion? I shudder to think of how those will get disposed of, eventually."
Um, probably the same way you dispose of alkaline batteries. You throw them in the trash. Lithium-Ion batteries are classified as "non-hazardous waste and are safe for disposal in the normal municipal waste stream."
Or punture and flood with saltwater if you're paranoid.
"Discharge: with the cell or battery pack in a safe area, connect a moderate resistance across the terminals until the cell or battery pack is discharged. CAUTION: the cell or battery pack may be hot! Discard: puncture plastic envelope, immerse in salt water for several hours and place in regular trash."
Li-Ion and Li-Poly batteries are a non-problem if they're discharged, and they are environmentally friendly, to boot.
My (14-year-old) daughter saved up her money and bought a small television for her room, and asked me to hook it up. I did so, and noticed it had one of those "V-Chips." As a lark, I selected all of its blocking options. We're on second tier cable (basic plus stuff like Discovery and History Channel; no movie channels) and it blocked just about every channel! Made the set unusable. I thought it funny; she, not so much.;-)
My 15-year-old daughter has been running Mandrake since she was ten. How hard can it be?;-)
Granted, some Word documents don't translate perfectly in OpenOffice, but I'm not sure that's so much a problem with OO as it is with the.doc format itself. It'll be interesting to see if Word *will* eventually support.odf documents.
And laptops are almost always a problem unto themselves, whether trying to load Linux *or* Windows. Try loading a "generic" copy of Windows, i.e., one that wasn't specfically made for your specific laptop...you'll have problems with it, too. Laptop hardware is often just too specialized to make for easy installs. That said, Linux improves by leaps and bounds with every release. The next release of Windows is due...when? 2009? I lost track...
I understand the author's reluctance to spend much time being a "system administrator," but, like I said, he would have likely been in for that when loading XP, too. OTOH, I've found that Linux installs on desktops are almost *always* easier and quicker than Windows installs. Far fewer reboots during the process, too. And Linux doesn't try to "phone home" during the installation, either.
The point is, Origami looks suspiciously like a Newton.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Everyone who sees my Newton 2100 (which I still use on a daily basis) is impressed by one particular thing: its screen real estate. Yeah, it's bigger than a Palm Pilot, but it also does more. Plus, you don't have to learn some new inane way of writing; you just write (or print). That's the second thing that impresses...writing in English (and yes, we've all heard the Trudeau jokes, but the HWR on the 2000 and 2100 was simply superb) anywhere on the screen instead of writing hieroglyphs on top of each other in one spot and numbers in another until the touch membrane is deformed.
This Pepper Pad needs its bright color screen combined with the Newton's ease-of-input and battery life. Then then they'd have a winner.
Life's gonna suck when you grow up, when you grow up, when you grow up Life's gonna suck when you grow up, it sucks pretty bad right now Hey, if you know the words, sing along You're gonna have to mow the lawn, do the dishes, make your bed You're gonna have to go to school until you're seventeen It's gonna seem about three times as long as that You might have to go to war, shoot a gun, kill a nun You might have to go to war when you get out of school Hey cheer up kids, it gets a lot worse You're gonna have to deal with stress, deal with stress, deal with stress You're gonna be a giant mess when you get back from the war Santa Claus does not exist, and there is no Easter Bunny You'll find out when you grow up that Big Bird isn't funny Life's gonna suck when you grow up, when you grow up, when you grow up Life's gonna suck when you grow up, it sucks pretty bad right now You're gonna end up smoking crack, on you're back, face the fact You're gonna end up hooked on smack and then you're gonna die And then you're gonna die
I will say, that I've never been more disgusted with Dianne Feinstein right now. She's clearly putting the interests of her campaign funders above the interest of the public.
Wow, ya think?
But isn't that what she's always done? Between her and Schumer, it's a wonder that we have any rights left at all.
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"85% of all MP3 players are iPods."
Only in the US. Worldwide, I believe players by companies like iRiver and Cowon (Iaudio) reign supreme. The iPod accounted for roughly 20 miilion out of 75 million players worldwide in 2005.
From the Latin.
Often things like that have already depreciated, and thus making a profit on them in a sale would entail too much effort, red-tape, and lawyers. They could probably give them away, though.
I recently sat my 17" Princeton Graphics CRT out on the curb with a sign that said, "Free. Works fine." It was gone by the end of the day.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316580&pag e=1
Some of us, while indeed using CDs to rip for digital music players, are NOT ripping in the lossy formats the record companies seem to want us to use. We rip to wav files, and use real headphones like Grados or Shure or "Ultimate Ears." The problem is NOT that we need "additional material" to coerce us into buying CDs; it's that we need DECENT MUSIC to BUY. It's not "piracy," or "peer-to-peer networks" that's keeping us from buying...it's the selection, or LACK OF IT. I mean, just how many Justin Timberlake albums do you want us to buy, anyway???
There's tons of better sounding players out there. Try an iRiver or Cowon with some decent headphones. The sonic quality far outstrips that of Apple's iPod. These other players just aren't "hip," apparently.
From the Toshiba press release:
"On insertion into a PC, all the U3(TM) models automatically launch the U3(TM) Launchpad software integrated into the memory, which presents the user with a list of programs to choose from and files to work with."
So I'm guessing this is pretty much useless with my Linux boxes...
Sounds like a good thing.
Thirty years ago Radio Shack fired me while I lay in a hospital bed (motorcycle accident). Seems their HR skills haven't improved much over the years.
Ph.D. or no, it's a 20-some-odd-year-old game depicting a phosphorescent fictional/made-up "protagonist," "eating" a bunch of inanimate phosphorescent dots. No blood, no screams, no mayhem.
How could this POSSIBLY justify a "62% violent" rating?!? That's like saying you're committing murder by eating your Rice Krispies(TM) each morning.
This "Doctor" (and I use that term extremely loosely) needs to get a life. (Or maybe some paying patients...)
See? Bullying pays. Most settled, so the lawyer fees were far less than going to court. Out of $100 million, figure at least half of that was pure profit.
Good work if you can get it. (And if you can live with yourself.)
[...]if Apple were to incorporate this display tech into something, say, 1/3 the size of the Newton [...]
;-) The reaction nowadays when I pull out my Newton 2100 is, "Wow! What's that? That's cool!" And that's before they see the (almost perfect) handwriting recognition, or the way it can straighten lines and perfect curves in drawings. Or the simply intuitive way it all works. At that point, they almost always ask where they can buy one. *sniff*
One third? If you did that, you'd lose much of what makes the Newton so enjoyable to use...screen real estate. And, as you get older, you'll appreciate the ability to use larger fonts and still display more than one word per screen. (Ask me how I know
The new guys at work saw me using my Newton during a meeting; thought it was a company perk, and wanted to know if they would get one!
Damn you, Steve Jobs! After almost ten years, it wobbles the mind what a current-production Newton would be like. Li-po batteries, lighter weight, certainly more apps, built-in WiMAX, Bluetooth, GPS, projected laser keyboard, etc. *Sigh* So sad...
On early models you could use AA alkalines instead of the NIHM (?) battery pack. Later models like the 2000 and 2100 had an optional battery carrier that you could fill with alkalines and slide in, instead of using the rechargeable packs.
In the states, only California requires non-hazardous batteries to be recycled for their materials.
According to Wired, the car is equipped "with an accelerometer, smoke detector, voltage meter, temperature gauge, and water sensor" to "detect a crash or other failures and shut the batteries down to prevent fire or explosion."
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http://blog.wired.com/teslacar/FF_162_tesla3_f.jp
Seriously, though, Li-ion? I shudder to think of how those will get disposed of, eventually."
Um, probably the same way you dispose of alkaline batteries. You throw them in the trash. Lithium-Ion batteries are classified as "non-hazardous waste and are safe for disposal in the normal municipal waste stream."
Or punture and flood with saltwater if you're paranoid.
"Discharge: with the cell or battery pack in a safe area, connect a moderate resistance across the terminals until the cell or battery pack is discharged. CAUTION: the cell or battery pack may be hot! Discard: puncture plastic envelope, immerse in salt water for several hours and place in regular trash."
Li-Ion and Li-Poly batteries are a non-problem if they're discharged, and they are environmentally friendly, to boot.
My (14-year-old) daughter saved up her money and bought a small television for her room, and asked me to hook it up. I did so, and noticed it had one of those "V-Chips." As a lark, I selected all of its blocking options. We're on second tier cable (basic plus stuff like Discovery and History Channel; no movie channels) and it blocked just about every channel! Made the set unusable. I thought it funny; she, not so much. ;-)
Riiiiiiiight. That was trolling? And just how would you moderators define a country that shuts down legal proceedings that it disapproves of?
Open your f*****g eyes.
Sheep.
...to your police state.
My 15-year-old daughter has been running Mandrake since she was ten. How hard can it be? ;-)
.doc format itself. It'll be interesting to see if Word *will* eventually support .odf documents.
Granted, some Word documents don't translate perfectly in OpenOffice, but I'm not sure that's so much a problem with OO as it is with the
And laptops are almost always a problem unto themselves, whether trying to load Linux *or* Windows. Try loading a "generic" copy of Windows, i.e., one that wasn't specfically made for your specific laptop...you'll have problems with it, too. Laptop hardware is often just too specialized to make for easy installs. That said, Linux improves by leaps and bounds with every release. The next release of Windows is due...when? 2009? I lost track...
I understand the author's reluctance to spend much time being a "system administrator," but, like I said, he would have likely been in for that when loading XP, too. OTOH, I've found that Linux installs on desktops are almost *always* easier and quicker than Windows installs. Far fewer reboots during the process, too. And Linux doesn't try to "phone home" during the installation, either.
Obvious: http://www.lp.org/
Of course, they would also hold you accountable (a dirty word in today's society, apparently).
The point is, Origami looks suspiciously like a Newton.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Everyone who sees my Newton 2100 (which I still use on a daily basis) is impressed by one particular thing: its screen real estate. Yeah, it's bigger than a Palm Pilot, but it also does more. Plus, you don't have to learn some new inane way of writing; you just write (or print). That's the second thing that impresses...writing in English (and yes, we've all heard the Trudeau jokes, but the HWR on the 2000 and 2100 was simply superb) anywhere on the screen instead of writing hieroglyphs on top of each other in one spot and numbers in another until the touch membrane is deformed.
This Pepper Pad needs its bright color screen combined with the Newton's ease-of-input and battery life. Then then they'd have a winner.
Life's gonna suck when you grow up, when you grow up, when you grow up
s -Gonna-Suck.html
Life's gonna suck when you grow up, it sucks pretty bad right now
Hey, if you know the words, sing along
You're gonna have to mow the lawn, do the dishes, make your bed
You're gonna have to go to school until you're seventeen
It's gonna seem about three times as long as that
You might have to go to war, shoot a gun, kill a nun
You might have to go to war when you get out of school
Hey cheer up kids, it gets a lot worse
You're gonna have to deal with stress, deal with stress, deal with stress
You're gonna be a giant mess when you get back from the war
Santa Claus does not exist, and there is no Easter Bunny
You'll find out when you grow up that Big Bird isn't funny
Life's gonna suck when you grow up, when you grow up, when you grow up
Life's gonna suck when you grow up, it sucks pretty bad right now
You're gonna end up smoking crack, on you're back, face the fact
You're gonna end up hooked on smack and then you're gonna die
And then you're gonna die
Dennis Leary
http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/D/Denis-Leary/Life'
Doesn't anyone do mpeg or QT anymore so the rest of us can view it?
I will say, that I've never been more disgusted with Dianne Feinstein right now. She's clearly putting the interests of her campaign funders above the interest of the public.
Wow, ya think?
But isn't that what she's always done? Between her and Schumer, it's a wonder that we have any rights left at all.
No open formats such as mp3; excuse: piracy.
Since when was MP3 an "open format?"
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html