I had a solar cell that fit into the cover of my Powerbook 1400. Which sucked, since who points the lid of a laptop at the sun while you're using it? But it's been around a while
Ordered up this little sucker the day I saw it, being a collector of (still)early adopter portables.
Is it cool? Yeah, the form factor and controls are the usual Sony high standard. It sounds excellent, with less amplification than the Lyra but with three pretty crappy EQ presets only. The included headphones are garbage, but have a cool 6 inch cord and a tiny plug to complete the "tiny" effect.
As for the SDMI thing, who the hell cares? Phase 1 SDMI is nothing, and I'm not planning to ever download an SDMI Phase 2 file to trigger Phase 2 protections, which aren't even finalized yet anyway. So for now, me and my gigs of music are free to use the Music Clip. But it's memory limit is a bummer, though it's hard to hang my 680mb i2go from a thin strap around my neck like the Clip.
I agree with someone's comment that the Sony designers are rocking. AIBO, the little VAIO laptops, their DV videocameras, and that really cool F505 Cybershot camera all have the same really well thought out usability.
You all are missing something. There is a very clear law in place that specifically forbids either making or distributing software which cracks DVD encryption, or using any such software to copy DVD. Sorry to say, you may not like the film industry, but they got the good old Republicans to make them a nice law called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act specifically makes it illegal to create, distribute, or utilize software that hacks the encryption, meaning that the ripping of DVDs clearly violates this law. This allows MPAA to force sites to remove the capability of distributing the software that lets you rip DVDs, which it appears that they are doing. So, whine all you want, and claim you have the 'right' to violate this law. Sorry, you don't. BTW, I think it sucks, but they did foreseee this.
This sounds like an urban legend in the making to me. I was a record producer for twelve years, and I can tell you no label would ever do something like that to a debut artist. They want that artist to recoup (be able to pay back the advance and recording costs) and no A&R guy is so sure of him/herself that they would call songs 'too good' for immediate release, especially with a new artist. One hit single on an album is no assurance of platinum, and unfortunately, unless a record goes gold or platinum, recouping the advance is very difficult.
In addition, Jewel's publisher (the company that publishes her songs, as opposed to master recordings of those songs) would scream blue murder if an A&R person ever suggested such a crazy scheme. Today's 'too good' song is tomorrow's boring yawner.
But I agree...albums have become collections of singles rather than the 'concept' album of 20 years ago. Marketing has done that. MP3 is fixing it. B)
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"Hardly anyone has a Mac?" 25 million users is "hardly anyone?"
Lessee, 18 million Linux users, 25 million Macintosh users.
I guess "hardly anyone" uses Linux?
I had a solar cell that fit into the cover of my Powerbook 1400. Which sucked, since who points the lid of a laptop at the sun while you're using it? But it's been around a while
Ordered up this little sucker the day I saw it, being a collector of (still)early adopter portables.
Is it cool? Yeah, the form factor and controls are the usual Sony high standard. It sounds excellent, with less amplification than the Lyra but with three pretty crappy EQ presets only. The included headphones are garbage, but have a cool 6 inch cord and a tiny plug to complete the "tiny" effect.
As for the SDMI thing, who the hell cares? Phase 1 SDMI is nothing, and I'm not planning to ever download an SDMI Phase 2 file to trigger Phase 2 protections, which aren't even finalized yet anyway. So for now, me and my gigs of music are free to use the Music Clip. But it's memory limit is a bummer, though it's hard to hang my 680mb i2go from a thin strap around my neck like the Clip.
I agree with someone's comment that the Sony designers are rocking. AIBO, the little VAIO laptops, their DV videocameras, and that really cool F505 Cybershot camera all have the same really well thought out usability.
You all are missing something. There is a very clear law in place that specifically forbids either making or distributing software which cracks DVD encryption, or using any such software to copy DVD. Sorry to say, you may not like the film industry, but they got the good old Republicans to make them a nice law called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act specifically makes it illegal to create, distribute, or utilize software that hacks the encryption, meaning that the ripping of DVDs clearly violates this law. This allows MPAA to force sites to remove the capability of distributing the software that lets you rip DVDs, which it appears that they are doing. So, whine all you want, and claim you have the 'right' to violate this law. Sorry, you don't. BTW, I think it sucks, but they did foreseee this.
This sounds like an urban legend in the making to me. I was a record producer for twelve years, and I can tell you no label would ever do something like that to a debut artist. They want that artist to recoup (be able to pay back the advance and recording costs) and no A&R guy is so sure of him/herself that they would call songs 'too good' for immediate release, especially with a new artist. One hit single on an album is no assurance of platinum, and unfortunately, unless a record goes gold or platinum, recouping the advance is very difficult.
In addition, Jewel's publisher (the company that publishes her songs, as opposed to master recordings of those songs) would scream blue murder if an A&R person ever suggested such a crazy scheme. Today's 'too good' song is tomorrow's boring yawner.
But I agree...albums have become collections of singles rather than the 'concept' album of 20 years ago. Marketing has done that. MP3 is fixing it. B)