Those are best-case scenarios. In reality, the Acela takes 8 hours to get from Boston to Washington, DC -- a flight I've made in about an hour and fifteen minutes.
I take Acela weekly between New York and Boston. While the flight is only 1 hour and 20 minutes, it is much slower overall.
Acela
4:52 leave work, walk across the street to Penn Station 5:00 take Acela from NYP to BBY (work on train for a FULL 3 hours) 8:30 arrive in BBY 8:40 take a cab home ---- 3:48 Total Time (all public transportation) -- FIXED TIME!
Plane
3:15 leave work, take cab/subway to LGA 4:00/4:15 arrive at LGA 5:00 deal with check-in security, luggage concerns, board plane 6:20 arrive in BOS (work on plane for a max of 45 minutes) 6:30 unboard plane 6:40 get out of airport, get cab 7:05 arrive home ---- 3:50 total time
While the times are similar, the train is 3:48 EVERY time. When I took Delta shuttle it varied from a minimum of about 3:40 to a maximum of 9 HOURS -- exhausting after a full day of work, with an average of about 5:15.
I work on the manufacturing side of Quanta. While the offices are in Taiwan, all manufacturing has been moved to Shanghai. Same with a number of these companies you just stated. The suburbs of Shanghai are one of the main electronics manufacturing areas in the world.
Lets say "well over 90%" is 97%, and you say you are getting a few hundred spam messages each day... lets say 300. That means without a spam filter you would be getting TEN THOUSAND (10,000) spam messages each day. I call your bluff. My email which is ALL over the internet gets maybe 100/day. Time to get a REAL spam filter.
The word on the street (well at least at the apple stores) was that the gold mini's we selling so poorly that they had to quietly discount them up to 50% just to get rid of their stock. Now you notice they removed this from their lineup... sorry Donald Trump.
According to the article, "Nobody wants to undermine the gun [but] We have to understand that some people use firearms technology in ways that are wrong and illegal." -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt)
I spent 2 years doing research in Alert, Nunavut (Canada) -- this is the furthest north there is any human settlement in the world. When I was there it was unusually cold, and I mean COLD! The average temps in the daytime were about -50 to -70 F and at night it would get even colder. Most of the time we would just get sent convicts who would need to serve a portion of their sentence constantly sholving/plowing through the winter (it is a US/Canada weather station and military outpost) I don't know if this is unclassified, but now it is... Well, that is what they need to do in Antartica.
come on... we have 2 very polished, mature players out there -- why put time and energy into this "proprietary" project when vlc is probably the best player out there (and already open source)?
I used to download almost 5 full albums every week illegally and once itunes came out I started buying music. I become addicited to things, and I recall purchasing almost 15 albums from itunes in ONE day!
Now, having to burn and re-rip songs to get them onto my flash based player and the increasing cost of albums (Dark Side Of The Moon is 16.99 for _9_ songs) what is my incentive to be legal anymore? It is currently less effort for me to get the album off of a kazaa then spending an hour to make nearly $20.
having been a consultant at their data center a year or so back I can attest that they had well over 50,000 machines. I am not sure about the 80GB drive per machine because from what I understood was they bought whatever drive at the time was the cheapest MB/$ and would replace any dead ones with the larger ones. Also, at any given time machines just die and many of them are not replaced or repaird for months. Their cluster accounts for all this...
has incorporated some nifty things that the company, Archos seemed to have left out such as a menu system screen reader!
There are "voice fonts" where the entire menu system is read back to you. There are a decent number of blind rockbox users, and this makes it the only mp3 player they can use. Ever see a blind person use an ipod? This customization alone is something that most blind people would pay upwards of 10-20x the cost of a device to be implemented!
And with Amazon selling the 20GB USB2.0 recorders for $79 after a rebate I don't know where you can get a better deal! (no, this is not an ad, I am just a rockbox developer)
has incorporated some nifty things that the company, Archos seemed to have left out
Currently, it can: -play movies on it's screen -alter the playing speed of MP3s -use bookmarks, different fonts, and more -and just recently there are "voice fonts" where the entire menu system is read back to you. There are a decent number of blind rockbox users, and this makes it the only mp3 player they can use. Ever see a blind person use an ipod? This customization alone is something that most blind people would pay upwards of 10-20x the cost of a device to be implemented!
And with Amazon selling the 20GB USB2.0 recorders for $79 after a rebate I don't know where you can get a better deal!
This is the MOST configurable, standards-compliant email client out there. Go check it out and be amazed. It offers all the functionality of Outlook with none of the worries. Now it included a Bayseian filter system built right in. This product can't be beat!
If you want to see some incredible open firmware replacements that fix many if not all of the original shortcomings then check out rockbox at http://rockbox.haxx.se/ and avOS at http://avos.sourceforge.net/ -- These both have been created in an attempt to fix the god-awful archos firmware. Go on and check it out. Rockbox is amazing!
Music File Sharers Keep Sharing By AMY HARMON with JOHN SCHWARTZ
espite the lawsuits filed last week against 261 people accused of illicitly distributing music over the Internet, millions of others continue to copy and share songs without paying for them.
Last week, more than four million Americans used KaZaA, the most popular file-sharing software, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, only about 5 percent fewer than the week before the record industry's lawsuits became big news. One smaller service, iMesh, even experienced a slight uptick in users.
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The sweeping legal campaign appears to be educating some file swappers who did not think they were breaking the law and scaring some of those who did. But the barrage of lawsuits has also highlighted a stark break between the legal status of file sharing in the United States and the apparent cultural consensus on its morality.
In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted this week, only 36 percent of those responding said file swapping was never acceptable. That helps explain why the pop radio hit "Right Thurr," by Chingy, was available to download free from 3.5 million American personal computers last week, while two million file swappers in the United States shared songs from rock icons like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, according to the tracking company Big Champagne.
The persistent lack of guilt over online copying suggests that the record industry's antipiracy campaign, billed as a last-ditch effort to reverse a protracted sales slump, is only the beginning of the difficult process of persuading large numbers of people to buy music again.
Mitch Bainwol, the new chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America, which brought the suits, said in an interview that the group had succeeded in communicating that file sharing is illegal and would have consequences. But he acknowledged that shifting attitudes would be the next battle in what he conceded was more an effort to contain file swapping than to wipe it out.
"It's a two-step process," he said. "I don't think anyone has an expectation that file-sharing becomes extinct. What we're trying to drive for is an environment in which legitimate online music can flourish."
The record industry argues that sharing songs online is just like stealing a CD from a record store. But to many Americans, file sharing seems more like taping a song off a radio. The truth, copyright experts say, may lie somewhere between.
And instead of significantly damping enthusiasm for file sharing, the record industry's lawsuits appear to be spurring increasingly sharp debates about how the balance between the rights of copyright holders and those of copyright users should be redefined for a digital age.
"Law, technology and ethics are not in sync right now," said Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican who has called a hearing on the subject for later this month. "I presume these lawsuits are having some impact, but they're not solving the problem."
Soli Shin of Manhattan is not waiting for lawmakers to act. She gave some thought to the ethics of file sharing after hearing of the lawsuits and took her own library of 1,094 songs offline, because she knew they were aimed at people who "share" their music files with others. But she saw no reason to stop getting new music for herself.
"It's really a great convenience," Ms. Shin, 13, said. "If I like what I download maybe I'll buy it."
According to The Times/CBS News poll, adults under 30 are more inclined to consider music sharing over the Internet to be acceptable: 29 percent of them say the practice is acceptable at all times, compared with 9 percent of people older than that.
But the file-sharing trend, which includes many school-age people, has spread across nearly every demographic group, with 27 percent of Internet users between the ages of 30 and 49 involved, according to a survey released in July by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Even 1
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Those are best-case scenarios. In reality, the Acela takes 8 hours to get from Boston to Washington, DC -- a flight I've made in about an hour and fifteen minutes.
I take Acela weekly between New York and Boston. While the flight is only 1 hour and 20 minutes, it is much slower overall.
Acela
4:52 leave work, walk across the street to Penn Station
5:00 take Acela from NYP to BBY (work on train for a FULL 3 hours)
8:30 arrive in BBY
8:40 take a cab home
----
3:48 Total Time (all public transportation) -- FIXED TIME!
Plane
3:15 leave work, take cab/subway to LGA
4:00/4:15 arrive at LGA
5:00 deal with check-in security, luggage concerns, board plane
6:20 arrive in BOS (work on plane for a max of 45 minutes)
6:30 unboard plane
6:40 get out of airport, get cab
7:05 arrive home
----
3:50 total time
While the times are similar, the train is 3:48 EVERY time. When I took Delta shuttle it varied from a minimum of about 3:40 to a maximum of 9 HOURS -- exhausting after a full day of work, with an average of about 5:15.
Almost all seats now include either a plane power adapter or a standard plug. If you will pay $40/flight, you can surely buy an air adapter.
I work on the manufacturing side of Quanta. While the offices are in Taiwan, all manufacturing has been moved to Shanghai. Same with a number of these companies you just stated. The suburbs of Shanghai are one of the main electronics manufacturing areas in the world.
Lets say "well over 90%" is 97%, and you say you are getting a few hundred spam messages each day... lets say 300. That means without a spam filter you would be getting TEN THOUSAND (10,000) spam messages each day. I call your bluff. My email which is ALL over the internet gets maybe 100/day. Time to get a REAL spam filter.
There goes another great University of Michigan alumni. Go Blue!
Just look at the Macintosh interface from 4 years ago.
The word on the street (well at least at the apple stores) was that the gold mini's we selling so poorly that they had to quietly discount them up to 50% just to get rid of their stock. Now you notice they removed this from their lineup... sorry Donald Trump.
check it out www.rockbox.haxx -- an open source project for something that is not PC related or uses linux. A huge props to those guys.
than Ad in your Slashdot? I sure hope so, because these ads disguised as "stories" are getting a bit old.
Finally someone can beta test the new longhorn minimal configuration. See benchmark test results up at www.nasa.gov/longhorn.html
let's try replacing a word or two...
According to the article, "Nobody wants to undermine the gun [but] We have to understand that some people use firearms technology in ways that are wrong and illegal." -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt)
I spent 2 years doing research in Alert, Nunavut (Canada) -- this is the furthest north there is any human settlement in the world. When I was there it was unusually cold, and I mean COLD! The average temps in the daytime were about -50 to -70 F and at night it would get even colder. Most of the time we would just get sent convicts who would need to serve a portion of their sentence constantly sholving/plowing through the winter (it is a US/Canada weather station and military outpost) I don't know if this is unclassified, but now it is... Well, that is what they need to do in Antartica.
come on... we have 2 very polished, mature players out there -- why put time and energy into this "proprietary" project when vlc is probably the best player out there (and already open source)?
here is a picture of the child. Quite amazing! check out those quads!
stop clicking the "next page" links every paragraph and try this out! anandtech.com review [anandtech.com]
I used to download almost 5 full albums every week illegally and once itunes came out I started buying music. I become addicited to things, and I recall purchasing almost 15 albums from itunes in ONE day!
Now, having to burn and re-rip songs to get them onto my flash based player and the increasing cost of albums (Dark Side Of The Moon is 16.99 for _9_ songs) what is my incentive to be legal anymore? It is currently less effort for me to get the album off of a kazaa then spending an hour to make nearly $20.
having been a consultant at their data center a year or so back I can attest that they had well over 50,000 machines. I am not sure about the 80GB drive per machine because from what I understood was they bought whatever drive at the time was the cheapest MB/$ and would replace any dead ones with the larger ones. Also, at any given time machines just die and many of them are not replaced or repaird for months. Their cluster accounts for all this...
please, check out this site for a much more complete product, with more tunes in the database, and it's free! http://www.musicbrainz.org/
please check out fatwallet.com for relevent information. No, I do not work for Archos, I am a member of the rockbox team, and do not call me a liar.
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http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php
The Rockbox software (http://rockbox.haxx.se)
has incorporated some nifty things that the company, Archos seemed to have left out such as a menu system screen reader!
There are "voice fonts" where the entire menu system is read back to you. There are a decent number of blind rockbox users, and this makes it the only mp3 player they can use. Ever see a blind person use an ipod? This customization alone is something that most blind people would pay upwards of 10-20x the cost of a device to be implemented!
And with Amazon selling the 20GB USB2.0 recorders for $79 after a rebate I don't know where you can get a better deal! (no, this is not an ad, I am just a rockbox developer)
The Rockbox software (http://rockbox.haxx.se)
has incorporated some nifty things that the company, Archos seemed to have left out
Currently, it can:
-play movies on it's screen
-alter the playing speed of MP3s
-use bookmarks, different fonts, and more
-and just recently there are "voice fonts" where the entire menu system is read back to you. There are a decent number of blind rockbox users, and this makes it the only mp3 player they can use. Ever see a blind person use an ipod? This customization alone is something that most blind people would pay upwards of 10-20x the cost of a device to be implemented!
And with Amazon selling the 20GB USB2.0 recorders for $79 after a rebate I don't know where you can get a better deal!
This is the MOST configurable, standards-compliant email client out there. Go check it out and be amazed. It offers all the functionality of Outlook with none of the worries. Now it included a Bayseian filter system built right in. This product can't be beat!
If you want to see some incredible open firmware replacements that fix many if not all of the original shortcomings then check out rockbox at http://rockbox.haxx.se/ and avOS at http://avos.sourceforge.net/ -- These both have been created in an attempt to fix the god-awful archos firmware. Go on and check it out. Rockbox is amazing!
I tried out the new Napster/Samsung player (it turned out to be SH*T!) Check out pictures here:
http://www.linenberg.com/nap/
I can not reccomend not to buy it enough!
Music File Sharers Keep Sharing
By AMY HARMON with JOHN SCHWARTZ
espite the lawsuits filed last week against 261 people accused of illicitly distributing music over the Internet, millions of others continue to copy and share songs without paying for them.
Last week, more than four million Americans used KaZaA, the most popular file-sharing software, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, only about 5 percent fewer than the week before the record industry's lawsuits became big news. One smaller service, iMesh, even experienced a slight uptick in users.
Advertisement
The sweeping legal campaign appears to be educating some file swappers who did not think they were breaking the law and scaring some of those who did. But the barrage of lawsuits has also highlighted a stark break between the legal status of file sharing in the United States and the apparent cultural consensus on its morality.
In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted this week, only 36 percent of those responding said file swapping was never acceptable. That helps explain why the pop radio hit "Right Thurr," by Chingy, was available to download free from 3.5 million American personal computers last week, while two million file swappers in the United States shared songs from rock icons like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, according to the tracking company Big Champagne.
The persistent lack of guilt over online copying suggests that the record industry's antipiracy campaign, billed as a last-ditch effort to reverse a protracted sales slump, is only the beginning of the difficult process of persuading large numbers of people to buy music again.
Mitch Bainwol, the new chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America, which brought the suits, said in an interview that the group had succeeded in communicating that file sharing is illegal and would have consequences. But he acknowledged that shifting attitudes would be the next battle in what he conceded was more an effort to contain file swapping than to wipe it out.
"It's a two-step process," he said. "I don't think anyone has an expectation that file-sharing becomes extinct. What we're trying to drive for is an environment in which legitimate online music can flourish."
The record industry argues that sharing songs online is just like stealing a CD from a record store. But to many Americans, file sharing seems more like taping a song off a radio. The truth, copyright experts say, may lie somewhere between.
And instead of significantly damping enthusiasm for file sharing, the record industry's lawsuits appear to be spurring increasingly sharp debates about how the balance between the rights of copyright holders and those of copyright users should be redefined for a digital age.
"Law, technology and ethics are not in sync right now," said Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican who has called a hearing on the subject for later this month. "I presume these lawsuits are having some impact, but they're not solving the problem."
Soli Shin of Manhattan is not waiting for lawmakers to act. She gave some thought to the ethics of file sharing after hearing of the lawsuits and took her own library of 1,094 songs offline, because she knew they were aimed at people who "share" their music files with others. But she saw no reason to stop getting new music for herself.
"It's really a great convenience," Ms. Shin, 13, said. "If I like what I download maybe I'll buy it."
According to The Times/CBS News poll, adults under 30 are more inclined to consider music sharing over the Internet to be acceptable: 29 percent of them say the practice is acceptable at all times, compared with 9 percent of people older than that.
But the file-sharing trend, which includes many school-age people, has spread across nearly every demographic group, with 27 percent of Internet users between the ages of 30 and 49 involved, according to a survey released in July by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Even 1