I read the TFA, and I read it again. Clicked all the linkage, nothing.
I'm still looking for the Windows XP benchmarks that compare an normal Intel Duo against a Mac Branded Duo. All I see is photoshop benchmarks among 3 Mac branded duo systems, that's it.
Either I'm blind, or the entire premise of this story is based on some dolt who never even read TFA.
Re:next-gen optical network.
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Upgrade your firmware bud, speed of light is so 10baseT. Are you on a Mac?
next-gen optical network.
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next-gen optical nework. Nice! I was waiting for them to find something faster than slow old......light
The Nano, like all other iPods, absolutely works as a mass storage device, with or without drivers Fresh out of the box, an iPod does not have any flash-drive features. You have to turn those on in the iTunes software for your device. I don't know about Nanos, but I know it works on Shuffles and regular iPods.
So that's a NO, NO and a YES.
I'm not sure what the reasons are for your confusion. See above.
You cannot manage the music tracks as if they were files, however. This is a choice made by most manufacturers because the file/folder paradigm does not fit well into a music player interface, where people want to select songs by artist one day and by album the next. The database format is supported by numerous programs besides iTunes, though. Sorry? Most manufacturers? You can't snow the snowman bud. I have used many, many, types of flash based and hard drive based players and I have yet to see one, aside form the Ipod, that doesn't store tunes in a normal file format. The file/folder paradigm doesn't fit well into the music player interface? Who says a music player couldn't cache all of this tag/usage info into a 50k file and leave the files system, the one that everyone knows, the one that is compatible with every OS on earth, as is.
Do you really think the Ipod uses a propritary file system/format purely because the file/folder paradigm doesn't fit well into the music player interface?
I have seen many posts wher Ipod users rave about how Itunes remembers what tracks they listen to and rank or suggest playlist based on your listening habits.
Is this not a feature of Itunes?
I said I didn't buy an Ipod, you're assuming I haven't even seen one? I have seen and used them, the finger "wheel" pad. I haven't used Itunes much, except for setting it up for a friend or two.
I have experienced plugging in a few Nanos in to PCs. It does not show up as a hard drive. It's an Ipod wihtout drivers until you install Itunes. Perhaps Apple has changed this? Can anyone else confirm this? If it worked this way, you would me able to use any media manager with your Ipod. Can you?
Can you plug your Ipod in and use windows media player/winamp(without hacked plugin)/music match to sync tunes?
Funny how the barrier to use Itunes is characterized as a bad thing! Is Itunes a feature or a prison?
Aside from being unable to change the battery, I like the Ipod hardware now that their prices are competitive or just slightly higher than other brands. But I don't own a Ipod though, why? The software.
Itunes, for me is a huge drawback. I can get all of the useful functionality of Itunes with an array of media managers (even Windows Media Player gasp!). I know what tunes I like, I don't need software to recommend a playlist. Maybe I'm a minority music buffs that knows what he likes, but I hope I'm not.
During a long drive your friend/gf asks you: "What do you want to listen to?" Do you say: "I really like band ______?" or "Itunes says I like band _______?"
All I want is something that can play and shuffle music with easily accessible volume buttons. I want to plug it into any computer and boom, it pops up just like the flash media, mini hard drive it is. Drag and drop/sync and you're done.
Why is Apple pretending that your Ipod isnt just a hard drive/flash memory, a PCB and a battery? Why doesn't it work as a normal drive without Itunes?
Apple is unreasonably forcing you to use their software, is this the way to "think different"? Actually, Apple wants you think less, use their software, pretend you Ipod isn't a hard drive, and have a device tell you what music you listen to.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_21673.html COMPUTEX 2005--TAIPEI, TAIWAN--MAY 31, 2005 NVIDIA GeForce Go 6 Series and Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) brings state-of-the-art NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series performance to notebook platforms with a consistent graphics interface enabling interchangeable graphics cards in notebook PCs.
They have had upgradable video cards for laptops for a while now. All the Dell M170/Insp90000/XPS have them, among others. You just limited yourself by cheaping out on a budget laptop.
You get what you pay for, and you don't get what you don't pay for... in your case: upgradeability.
"Many games will give you months of entertainment."
Ya, but many games will give you 8 hours of entertainment, and that's if you're stubborn enough to finish the entire set of looping dungeons and cliches using next gen rendering on your $600 video card. Take Doom 3 for example, that's 8 hours of enjoyment for $59 CDN + Tax, assuming you're not one of the 15 people who play multiplyer. Is this game worth roughly $10 an hour? Not a chance. Now BF2 I can tell you, at 25 cents per hour, represents true value! (for me)
With the age of unique cd key games and online authentication techniques ensuring only valid users can play, perhaps it's time to use this system to truly allow users to TRY a full game. Say for $10 you get a 2 week account with the option of a lifetime account for an extra $50. Once the 2 weeks lapse, your cdkey is disabled unless you purchase that game. We're still paying $60 for the full game, but you have at least to option to cut your loss at $10.
I am honestly not suprised why so many people use P2P to "try" before they buy. It's currently the only way to really know if a game is worthwhile before purchasing.
1. You don't need to recompile your kernel to use Linux 2. You don't need to know C to recompile your kernel. Its a checklist of features then: make install, I think you can do just a now. Oh ya you have to unzip something too, better leave that last step to the PHds, right?
I don't have clue about C but I'm able to create custom kernels, load modules for wierd hardware, compile source code. Not big things, but the point is, I don't know how to code!
Linux, in general has detailed documentation and a huge number of support forums. So you have something and someone to tell you how to do you task.... the question is:
Do you want to put down the mouse and try? The answer is often, no. Which is fine, but don't xblast Linux because you're f#@king lazy!!!!
A qualitative laptop review with no images, thanks/. I'll never get that minute of my life back. This hulking, ugly, outdated and overpriced laptop was trumped before it was fab'd by the Dell XPS Gen 2, which can be had for much much less $$$. Dell has even moved on from that model to the new XPS M170 which is also cheaper and blows this awful laptop completely out of the water.
This project is related to speeding 18 wheelers on Highway 401, currently the busiest highway in North America. It is not intended for use with passenger vehicles, or cars. CNN is spinning the story a bit into some obtrusive civilian control technlogy.
Really we just want transports to max out at 110kph, still 10 over the limit.
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I read the TFA, and I read it again. Clicked all the linkage, nothing.
I'm still looking for the Windows XP benchmarks that compare an normal Intel Duo against a Mac Branded Duo. All I see is photoshop benchmarks among 3 Mac branded duo systems, that's it.
Either I'm blind, or the entire premise of this story is based on some dolt who never even read TFA.
Upgrade your firmware bud, speed of light is so 10baseT. Are you on a Mac?
next-gen optical nework.
Nice! I was waiting for them to find something faster than slow old......light
The Nano, like all other iPods, absolutely works as a mass storage device, with or without drivers
Fresh out of the box, an iPod does not have any flash-drive features. You have to turn those on in the iTunes software for your device.
I don't know about Nanos, but I know it works on Shuffles and regular iPods.
So that's a NO, NO and a YES.
I'm not sure what the reasons are for your confusion.
See above.
You cannot manage the music tracks as if they were files, however. This is a choice made by most manufacturers because the file/folder paradigm does not fit well into a music player interface, where people want to select songs by artist one day and by album the next. The database format is supported by numerous programs besides iTunes, though.
Sorry? Most manufacturers? You can't snow the snowman bud. I have used many, many, types of flash based and hard drive based players and I have yet to see one, aside form the Ipod, that doesn't store tunes in a normal file format. The file/folder paradigm doesn't fit well into the music player interface? Who says a music player couldn't cache all of this tag/usage info into a 50k file and leave the files system, the one that everyone knows, the one that is compatible with every OS on earth, as is.
Do you really think the Ipod uses a propritary file system/format purely because the file/folder paradigm doesn't fit well into the music player interface?
I have seen many posts wher Ipod users rave about how Itunes remembers what tracks they listen to and rank or suggest playlist based on your listening habits.
Is this not a feature of Itunes?
I said I didn't buy an Ipod, you're assuming I haven't even seen one? I have seen and used them, the finger "wheel" pad. I haven't used Itunes much, except for setting it up for a friend or two.
I have experienced plugging in a few Nanos in to PCs. It does not show up as a hard drive. It's an Ipod wihtout drivers until you install Itunes. Perhaps Apple has changed this? Can anyone else confirm this?
If it worked this way, you would me able to use any media manager with your Ipod. Can you?
Can you plug your Ipod in and use windows media player/winamp(without hacked plugin)/music match to sync tunes?
Funny how the barrier to use Itunes is characterized as a bad thing!
Is Itunes a feature or a prison?
Aside from being unable to change the battery, I like the Ipod hardware now that their prices are competitive or just slightly higher than other brands. But I don't own a Ipod though, why? The software.
Itunes, for me is a huge drawback. I can get all of the useful functionality of Itunes with an array of media managers (even Windows Media Player gasp!). I know what tunes I like, I don't need software to recommend a playlist. Maybe I'm a minority music buffs that knows what he likes, but I hope I'm not.
During a long drive your friend/gf asks you: "What do you want to listen to?"
Do you say:
"I really like band ______?"
or
"Itunes says I like band _______?"
All I want is something that can play and shuffle music with easily accessible volume buttons. I want to plug it into any computer and boom, it pops up just like the flash media, mini hard drive it is. Drag and drop/sync and you're done.
Why is Apple pretending that your Ipod isnt just a hard drive/flash memory, a PCB and a battery? Why doesn't it work as a normal drive without Itunes?
Apple is unreasonably forcing you to use their software, is this the way to "think different"?
Actually, Apple wants you think less, use their software, pretend you Ipod isn't a hard drive, and have a device tell you what music you listen to.
Hey! We're violent too! Have you even seen a Toronto newspaper lately?
Urban gangs, bitter about failing math in middle school, are trying deparately make thier mark in statistics by raising our violent crime rate!
Etobicoke=Toronto
For over a decade!
You mean the 576 byte file TheSimpsonsIntro.gvp?
Where did you get the MPEG-2 gvi file? Or did you even try clicking TFL
That XP quote is spot on. WTF is your point?
Ya! And you have to buy a new mousepad too! Bastards!
MOD PARENT UP!
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_21673.html
COMPUTEX 2005--TAIPEI, TAIWAN--MAY 31, 2005
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6 Series and Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) brings state-of-the-art NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series performance to notebook platforms with a consistent graphics interface enabling interchangeable graphics cards in notebook PCs.
They have had upgradable video cards for laptops for a while now. All the Dell M170/Insp90000/XPS have them, among others. You just limited yourself by cheaping out on a budget laptop.
You get what you pay for, and you don't get what you don't pay for... in your case: upgradeability.
Even 800kbps Firewire(b), which no one has (yours is probably 400kbps) isn't enough to transfer video.
They don't care.
People with POS PCs like yours are not even in the fringe market for new GPUs.
They are "Apple's recent patents"!
RTFA
That's a four lane divided highway for those of us who don't own horses.
"Many games will give you months of entertainment."
Ya, but many games will give you 8 hours of entertainment, and that's if you're stubborn enough to finish the entire set of looping dungeons and cliches using next gen rendering on your $600 video card. Take Doom 3 for example, that's 8 hours of enjoyment for $59 CDN + Tax, assuming you're not one of the 15 people who play multiplyer. Is this game worth roughly $10 an hour? Not a chance. Now BF2 I can tell you, at 25 cents per hour, represents true value! (for me)
With the age of unique cd key games and online authentication techniques ensuring only valid users can play, perhaps it's time to use this system to truly allow users to TRY a full game. Say for $10 you get a 2 week account with the option of a lifetime account for an extra $50. Once the 2 weeks lapse, your cdkey is disabled unless you purchase that game. We're still paying $60 for the full game, but you have at least to option to cut your loss at $10.
I am honestly not suprised why so many people use P2P to "try" before they buy. It's currently the only way to really know if a game is worthwhile before purchasing.
Give us another option!
And TV Tuners get VERY HOT. You can easily cook an egg on that metal shield surrounding the tuner circuitry.
Ya, who would think you might actually get what you pay for? And clearly not get what you didn't pay for.
Dell is cheap as in price. Don't expect the world on a nickel, in fact don't even dream about it, it's not going to happen!
1. You don't need to recompile your kernel to use Linux
2. You don't need to know C to recompile your kernel. Its a checklist of features then: make install, I think you can do just a now. Oh ya you have to unzip something too, better leave that last step to the PHds, right?
I don't have clue about C but I'm able to create custom kernels, load modules for wierd hardware, compile source code. Not big things, but the point is, I don't know how to code!
Linux, in general has detailed documentation and a huge number of support forums. So you have something and someone to tell you how to do you task.... the question is:
Do you want to put down the mouse and try?
The answer is often, no. Which is fine, but don't xblast Linux because you're f#@king lazy!!!!
Funniest thing I've ever read on Slashdot... made my night.
A qualitative laptop review with no images, thanks /. I'll never get that minute of my life back.
This hulking, ugly, outdated and overpriced laptop was trumped before it was fab'd by the Dell XPS Gen 2, which can be had for much much less $$$. Dell has even moved on from that model to the new XPS M170 which is also cheaper and blows this awful laptop completely out of the water.
And how exactly does a digital camera enable one to steal documents any better than a 10 year old film camera?
In fact with the high detail of film, wouldn't they have an advantage over digicams? Aren't we talking 1930's spy cam stuff here?
This project is related to speeding 18 wheelers on Highway 401, currently the busiest highway in North America. It is not intended for use with passenger vehicles, or cars. CNN is spinning the story a bit into some obtrusive civilian control technlogy.
Really we just want transports to max out at 110kph, still 10 over the limit.