I don't know the price there, but the same people who "wired" many Starbucks also did a lot of airports (the kind with planes, not the Apple kind). Those run $6 to $11 for a full day's access. Or at least they did a few months ago, times are hard, they may have gone out of business for all I know.
Also, having taken a more leisurely cruise around likely candidate sites for 802.11b compromises (hi-tech business parks) I can state for a fact that the majority of wireless networks are begging to be compromised by someone with a darker shade of hat than mine...
On the other hand I can state (also for a fact) that some 802.11 networks in hi-tech parks are on the outside of the company firewalls, so all you can get is free IP access to the net at large, and a chance to attack some people's laptops while they are in a meeting.
I don't think it is all that common of a set up though, people sure do like the convenience of being inside the firewall. Too bad they like it more then being safe.
You have you own wireless network. Your all set up for it. Your a windows newby and someone has set it up automaticaly to connect ot whatever network is available. The building next door also has a network. Given the large precentage of peopel who have a computer but no clue how to use it, it wont be long, if it hasnt happened already, until people are simply ont he wrong network, innocently enough
Sure, I can see someone innocently turning on their laptop and using someone else's bandwidth to fetch email and surf the web, but that is a far cry from sniffing the other people's traffic!
When the iMac was unveiled it was considered by many to be nearly revolutionary. Whether you agree with this sentiment or not is another issue. However that was (I believe) in 1998, and it's nearly 2002 and the iMac of today is visually almost identical to the 1998 firstborn Bondi Blue iMac. Yeah, there have been color changes, hard drive upgrades, speed bumps, memory increases, and now even a slot-loading cd/dvd/whatever drive, but the external appearance is pretty much unchanged. Normally this wouldn't matter for a computer, but the iMac was a hit because of its style.
They also got rid of the fan at some point (yes, it had a fan in the past) and a faster front side bus.
So it's time for something "revolutionary" again.
I know! Let's make a little cube with no fan and a big LCD panel for it...
Oh, wait, that flopped. Mostly because of the price. It's not time for a "revolutionary" new Mac, but a successful one:-)
So if Steve Jobs unveils a flat panel iMac, it won't be a big surprise. The difference now will be if he doesn't, analysts will be disappointed and Apple's stock price will probably take a minor hit.
Depends on what else is released then. Also if the new iMac costs a lot more then the old one I expect bad things to happen.
First of all, a flat-screen iMac would have a bigger screen, full sized keyboard
Why would it have a bigger flat screen? That will drive the cost up. The full size keyboard can be used in any of the UBM iBook/PowerBook systems, just plug it in.
At $1200 the current iMac is pretty pricey for a so-called "low end" machine.
The low-end iMac is $999 (well, at the moment there is a $500 special in a lot of places, but ignoring that...). $1200 ($1299?) is the high end iMac.
Personally I would have a hard time buying an iMac now when I can get the iBook for $300 more. If the prices get closer I expect even more people would swing towards the laptop. Of corse that doesn't upset Apple (unless the profit margin on the iBook is smaller then on the iMac), losing iMac sales to PCs would upset them. Bumping the iMac price will make that worse, unless it turns out people really want LCD displays...
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Oh, and this had nothing at all to do with the MPAA deliberately marginalizing the "unsecured" VHS format in favor of DVD
When did they do that? Last I saw they were still releasing everything on VHS (no DVD only releases), and the VHS tapes seemed to be roughly the same price they always were.
DVDs do cost less then video tape, but not because the MPAA incresed the cost of video tape, just because for some reason they decided to make DVDs cheap. DVDs do frequently include extra content that VHS versions do not, but that isn't because they stopped putting that on VHS, it was introduced mostly with Laser Disc, never put on VHS, and now is pretty common on DVDs.
even going so far as to give away DVD players on Thanksgiving
Wow, I missed that. Why didn't slashdot cover it? I could have used a free DVD player!
Of course a technology will be adopted rapidly if the manufacturers all team up and practically give it away. But don't confuse that with it being an innovative invention.
Yeah, we all know that works, I mean after all look at the raging success of Circuit City's Divix, and Microsoft's Bob.
Personally, I can't wait until Moore's Law fails (either by falling short from or totally surpassing the prediction), so that people stop using it to degrade the really quite amazing research and amount of work that goes on in order to bring such results.
Ahhh... how soon they forget.
The first real wave of RISC CPUs did shatter Moore's law. Performance jumped from 4 MIPS to 12 MIPS. Prices dropped from $70,000 to $10,000. It was truly cool.
Of corse in the following years CISC have mostly died (seen any new ones launched? I have seen a lot die), except the x86, and to a lesser extent the 370/390/whatever-z-or-x-name-they-have-now, and the x86 has even caught up to the RISCs, and is almost all cases passed them (it's amazing what you can do with 10x the R&D budget...).
I think there have been a few places where there was underperform, like from the 386 to the 486 maybe, or from the 486 to the P1 (and I think that was due to the length of time between the 486 and the P1), but I forget exactly when mostly because nobody kept pointing it out like Sun did with "RISC is better, eat our dust DEC".
If you look at the SRAM market you will find similar events.
Still as a long term thing Moore's "Law" is amazingly accurate. I think because it functions as a goal for R&D managers. If they can't keep up with the "Law" they tell their bosses that they need more money or the company will die, if they have managed to keep up with it they don't fight as hard for the budget (or they do, but they have less ammo to fight with). I know R&D budget isn't everything, but it is a powerful force.
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Insurance companies will also start saying things like, 'it costs $3000, you need to do more than chain it up'.
Maybe the right thing to do is drive it inside with you. I expect one could drive it right into an elevator and park it in their cube where it ought to be safer then a car in a parking lot. The question is whether social norms will allow indoor use of the thing.
As to those who say it will be good for covering 1-2 miles to the shop and back. What do you do now, this thing is not that much quicker than being on foot especially when you take into account the time taken at either end to prepare and secure it. If you take the car now because of time constraints, they are still there. If you use the car because you are lazy, then you will probably be too lazy to be bothered with this. I walk to the shop about 2/3rds of a mile away but I cut across a park etc to do so. Can this go cross country or do I need to take a longer route.
Well if you drive it around in the shop you can skip the parking and chaining it up part. If not, then yeah it's as bad as a car. I don't know if it can go seriously cross country, but I imagine it should deal with grass and small inclines. Who knows, maybe we will find out inside a year or so, they are going to put cops on them after all...
I can step down onto the road surface and cross at any point, this 'IT' will require a ramp to go up and down. What happens when 30 'IT' riders want to cross the road at once , mass traffic jam on the ramp. Will cities like to cop the Bill for rebuilding the footpath verges for all roads, what happens when a person injured by a car riding up the new all ramping verge sues over unsafe conditions.
Where I live at least all the "official" crossings have ramps, one would assume for handicap access. Problem is it is much more convent to cross in the middle of the street, and sometimes even safer. I think this thing could go down a bump like that, but up one will require lifting.
I suspect it will be treated not unlike existing scooters and skateboards.
Maybe, it sure is similar to them. It has a lot of different things too. It is hard to say if it really will take off. So much is depending on details they have not given out, and on how people react to things like indoor use.
I'm willing to wait and see. It could be a big deal, or a big nothing. I'm not so willing to buy their stock (neither to short, nor to wait for the growth).
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How comes cars still sell? I mean people put their 50k+ vehicles in a parking spot and leave it there for hours. Without a chain.
Well the car is hard to carry away, so one needs to unlock it to take it away (or get stuff from it), or break a window which is a little obvious looking. Ginger is light enough to lift and plop into a pickup truck and throw a blanket over. Not quite as obvious. Easier to steal. Maybe not easier enough to be too worried about it, but maybe.
People also tend to insure cars (against theft), we don't know how much Ginger will cost to insure yet...
Actually at this particular point in the war, the weather was really really bad, and our planes were unable to be effective against the germans. I remember seeing on the History channel a battle that took place almost exactly as it was in Saving Private Ryan with US. air power coming and saving the day at the last minute. Perhaps this was the battle the movie was based on, I don't know I'm not a history buff.
Intresting, I hadn't heard that. However I'll note the weather was pretty good in SPR, but again it is a pain to film in bad weather, and frequently not as fun to watch (Twister being a notiable exception).
Note: Saving Private Ryan had similar problems, at the end for example the German tanks were moving in daylight, that late in the war the US had air superiority and German tanks avoided the day because they would be blown up by air support.
It is just a real pain to film that kind of thing at night (or to look like night), so in war movies lots of stuff that would really happen at night is filmed to be in day. (It was nice that a some of the SPR marches were filmed at night...)
Does anyone know how hard it would be to make a cell phone deactivate itself if it starts moving faster than 40 miles per hour? Could you perhaps triangulate the three nearest PCS towers?
I doubt it would be that hard since if you are going 40MPH you are probably changing cells pretty quickly and you can base it on that. However it is a bad idea. Why are you preventing the passengers from using the phone? Or the guy that got kidnapped and stuck in a trunk?
I did a google search on 'etanomic' -- nothing found. What kind of headphones are you talking about that are nearly as expensive as the iPod?
I guess it would help if I had spelled it right, they are the Etymotic ER4P, or the ER4S ($269 for either), I'm not sure how the ER6 sounds ($139) since it is new. I also remember the price as higher since I bought the Headroom Little headphone amp at the same time (another $200 or so -- prices were diffrent on the last model).
They are extreamly nice, and they do a pretty good job of preventing outside noise from bugging me. Good when the noise is fans and people on the phone, bad if it is my boss sneaking up on me.
If you go jogging it will skip a bit every 3 or 4 mins as it loads into the dimm but then it is rock solid.
Really? That seems like a bad design choice, I mean if it has enough buffer to keep 3~4 min of song, can't it spin up a minute early to avoid the skipping?
I'm not sure if the iPod does, but I've yet to hear it skip. Of corse I'm not much of a jogger (more of a walker, about 30min for a mile).
I'd love a nomad the size of an IPOD but I value the extra space more than the small size.
I hear you, but... My laptop had less then 5G of music on it. Plus the last MP3 player I had (Rio) didn't get used so much because it was a pain to change the music so I wanted to be sure about the new one:-)
I don't mind that other people want more space, even if it isn't as portable. I even admit it is likely a better choice for some people...
A shame they can't do 80G in that form factor though...oh, and it is a shame Canon won't sell me a EOS-1D for, oh, say, $1000 either:-)
Bottom line though the Ipod looks cool:)
Yeah, about that... the "mirror" surfface gets grubby real easy. So it does require a bit of upkeep. The white part doesn't show daily dirt though.
Apple claims 10 hours for the iPod, but my second charge lasted me 12 hours (I didn't let the first charge run down, I needed some more tunes).
But it's hard to load some new music in your Ipod 40 miles from anywhere on the river fishing:)
Really? I plug it into my laptop, load new stuff, and then unplug it. I haven't done it at the lake, but I have done it other places where my laptop was the only computer I had (like in the parking lot of tower records).
It's a good size to go walking with, I think I did 8 miles last week, and 2 so far this week (I'm carrying my camera this week which slows me a bit, partly because of the weight, partly because I stop and take pictures). My friend has a Nomad (or maybe the PJB), it looks too big to fit in any of my pockets except on my field jacket (or photo vest), and I don't wear those all the time!
I'm not saying the Nomad is bad, just that there are places where the iPod is definitely the better device. I'm sure there are times the Nomad would be better.
BTW, the headphones on the iPod are about 10 times better then I was expecting. Still not as good as the etanomics ones though...of corse they cost about as much as the iPod:-)
If you are sharing the files with someone you know who already OWNS the disc but does not
have the resources to encode an MP3 themselves,
are you obeying or violating the law?
Depends on the court. One upheld this right (using the term space shifting), I think during a Rio lawsuit. One didn't (MP3.com lawsuit), or maybe that was a plea, but I thought it was a judge.
If I defeat the SCMS copy protection on my minidisc or my DAT recorder, in order to make copies of my own music that I compose and perform,
should I go to prison under the DMCA? (This is not a rhetorical question, mind you, I'm actually trying to understand the approximate $10,000 barrier between an amateur and professional recording capability).
Should? Morally? Hell no. Legally? I have no idea.
Oh sure, bring in another CD that plays fine, if they can whip out a player that works with the "defective" CD you've lost. (sorta, you'll probly be able to go through a few CDs)
Well, probbably. Depends on the mood of the sales critter, after all most folks working at Walmart, or Tower don't care that much....
Plus good chance you can get the money back if you feel up to arguing that the UCC demands that you be able to test the item before final purchase (which means any sealed item buy isn't binding until after you have a reasonable time to check the item, no matter what the store policy says). Better of corse if you happen to put a copy on the laptop and point out the relivent sections...
Some people say sharing files with others is fair use. Legally, this may actually be so, but it doesn't sound fair ethically to me (with respect to the artist and the people behind the album production).
If you are sharing the files with someone you know will buy the disc if they like it and delete it if they don't then it seems fair, but that may or may not be legal.
That CD was released last month, not this month. My Mac (iTunes) read it just fine, and CD Paranoia on Linux also read it.
However I'll warn you it isn't much like the other Garbage disks. You may not like it a whole lot.
Plus I think the best thing to do with factory damaged disks is to buy and return them. It may work better if you have a laptop so you can take it to the store and show it not playing. Even better if they only want to swap you for another of the same disk, play the next one before you leave the store. Insist they refund your money or change it for the next one. It might be worth $20 to run through their whole stock. Definitely worth it if you can run through the whole stock and get the money back.
The copy protection is embedded on the CD itself (it involved screwing with the audio and expecting the CD player to fix it using the error correction data, but that digital rips won't), so it's OS-independent
That depends on the type of factory damage (er, copy "protection"), and how the reading is done. An OS may have a driver that causes samples with damaged ECC to be interprloated, or just repeat previous samples. That would fix one kind of factory damage. Some CD reading code may ignore damaged parts of a TOC if it finds them...
64-bit is not cool now but eventually OEMs are going to lean that way for upward compatibility.
The AMD x86-64 does do 64 bit math and addressing, so if someone wants 64 bits the AMD will do it (in kind of a gross way, but quickly). In fact upward compatibility is exactly what the x86-64 is good at. It runs 32bit x86 apps quickly (unlike the iTanic), and it also runs 64 bit apps (unlike the P-IIII).
Personally I don't like either arch from a nice simple design point of view, but that's not what sells CPUs (otherwise the Alpha and MIPS would be in the lead, and AMD would be selling AMD 29000 series CPUs still...).
Well, code morphing itself does not worth the performance. For example, let's compare Intel Celeron vs Crusoe with the same speed. I doubt that Crusoe can even beat Celeron, even with the super-optimized morphing that has run for months.
That doesn't mean code morphing is a bad idea. It means at least one of the following is true:
The celeron is had better designers
Celeron designers had more resources to work with (time, money, people)
Celeron and Crusoe had different design goals
Code morphing is a bad idea
Code morphing is only a good idea when combined with something we haven't tried yet
If you look at the history of the RISC CPUs the IBM ROMP was not very fast when it first came out. As I recall that was the first commercial RISC design. It didn't mean RISC was a bad idea (RISC in fact stomped CISCs butt soundly during the first half of the 90s, and I'm not sure the most recent x86 has beaten the cold dead Alpha's corpse...and the Power4 seems a whole lot faster...). The ROMP was slow because it wasn't the best design. I think the big problem was it's MMU. They did manage to fix it up, but I don't think it got a whole lot faster then the 68020 for a long time!
I'm not saying code morphing is great either, just that a commercial failure is hardly a scientific experiment.
The real power of Crusoe processor is that it is a VLIW processor, which can jam-pack several instructions into one. *This* is the real power. Notice that P4 adopt this solution too (3 instr to 1).
And the PIII did 2 instructions, the AMD K7 did three, and RISCs have been doing 4+ for a long time. As far as VLIW goes 4-way is pretty low. The most interesting things that (seem) to be in the real Crusoe are the split load and split store (they can start a load, and later decide to complete it -- taking a fault if need be, or abort it; similar with stores, they can be queued and later canceled).
I really pessimistic about processor power that can prolong battery life n times (with n > 2), as claimed by Transmeta. IIRC, *the* major power drain is at LCD and hard drive.
I am too, but on my notebook (an older G3 PowerBook) the batt monitor shows about 4 hours with the LCD on high and minimal CPU use, it shows 4.5 when I put the LCD on max dim (almost unreadable in a room with 60watt bulbs, ok with no light in the room). Leaving the monitor on dim and running a tight loop the batt time drops to around three hours. Leaving it going until the fan (tempature sensitive) kicks in and the batt time drops a bit more.
So I would say the CPU can use more power then the backlight. No, not quite, the swing from minimal CPU use to max is more taxing then the swing from minimal backlight to max. The no backlight to min may be a bigger swing then no CPU to minimal CPU.
That's not to say the Crusoe can magically turn a one hour batt to six hours, but it might get one hour to two.
I agree completely. The 85% of it I saw was fantastic. Of course my VCR set to record for one hour failed to get the last 10 minutes, thanks for the warning UPN.
You, my friend, need a TiVo.:-)
UPN did tell some people ahead of time (The Tribune for one, at least 3 days ahead of time, and whoever writes the zap2it articles, and...). The didn't advertise the fact, that is, in it's ton of advertisements for the musical buffy they didn't bother to note it was 1:08 minutes like NBC (or whoever) did with Alias. They really should have.
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I don't know the price there, but the same people who "wired" many Starbucks also did a lot of airports (the kind with planes, not the Apple kind). Those run $6 to $11 for a full day's access. Or at least they did a few months ago, times are hard, they may have gone out of business for all I know.
On the other hand I can state (also for a fact) that some 802.11 networks in hi-tech parks are on the outside of the company firewalls, so all you can get is free IP access to the net at large, and a chance to attack some people's laptops while they are in a meeting.
I don't think it is all that common of a set up though, people sure do like the convenience of being inside the firewall. Too bad they like it more then being safe.
Sure, I can see someone innocently turning on their laptop and using someone else's bandwidth to fetch email and surf the web, but that is a far cry from sniffing the other people's traffic!
They also got rid of the fan at some point (yes, it had a fan in the past) and a faster front side bus.
I know! Let's make a little cube with no fan and a big LCD panel for it...
Oh, wait, that flopped. Mostly because of the price. It's not time for a "revolutionary" new Mac, but a successful one :-)
Depends on what else is released then. Also if the new iMac costs a lot more then the old one I expect bad things to happen.
Why would it have a bigger flat screen? That will drive the cost up. The full size keyboard can be used in any of the UBM iBook/PowerBook systems, just plug it in.
The low-end iMac is $999 (well, at the moment there is a $500 special in a lot of places, but ignoring that...). $1200 ($1299?) is the high end iMac.
Personally I would have a hard time buying an iMac now when I can get the iBook for $300 more. If the prices get closer I expect even more people would swing towards the laptop. Of corse that doesn't upset Apple (unless the profit margin on the iBook is smaller then on the iMac), losing iMac sales to PCs would upset them. Bumping the iMac price will make that worse, unless it turns out people really want LCD displays...
When did they do that? Last I saw they were still releasing everything on VHS (no DVD only releases), and the VHS tapes seemed to be roughly the same price they always were.
DVDs do cost less then video tape, but not because the MPAA incresed the cost of video tape, just because for some reason they decided to make DVDs cheap. DVDs do frequently include extra content that VHS versions do not, but that isn't because they stopped putting that on VHS, it was introduced mostly with Laser Disc, never put on VHS, and now is pretty common on DVDs.
Wow, I missed that. Why didn't slashdot cover it? I could have used a free DVD player!
Yeah, we all know that works, I mean after all look at the raging success of Circuit City's Divix, and Microsoft's Bob.
Ahhh... how soon they forget.
The first real wave of RISC CPUs did shatter Moore's law. Performance jumped from 4 MIPS to 12 MIPS. Prices dropped from $70,000 to $10,000. It was truly cool.
Of corse in the following years CISC have mostly died (seen any new ones launched? I have seen a lot die), except the x86, and to a lesser extent the 370/390/whatever-z-or-x-name-they-have-now, and the x86 has even caught up to the RISCs, and is almost all cases passed them (it's amazing what you can do with 10x the R&D budget...).
I think there have been a few places where there was underperform, like from the 386 to the 486 maybe, or from the 486 to the P1 (and I think that was due to the length of time between the 486 and the P1), but I forget exactly when mostly because nobody kept pointing it out like Sun did with "RISC is better, eat our dust DEC".
If you look at the SRAM market you will find similar events.
Still as a long term thing Moore's "Law" is amazingly accurate. I think because it functions as a goal for R&D managers. If they can't keep up with the "Law" they tell their bosses that they need more money or the company will die, if they have managed to keep up with it they don't fight as hard for the budget (or they do, but they have less ammo to fight with). I know R&D budget isn't everything, but it is a powerful force.
Maybe the right thing to do is drive it inside with you. I expect one could drive it right into an elevator and park it in their cube where it ought to be safer then a car in a parking lot. The question is whether social norms will allow indoor use of the thing.
Well if you drive it around in the shop you can skip the parking and chaining it up part. If not, then yeah it's as bad as a car. I don't know if it can go seriously cross country, but I imagine it should deal with grass and small inclines. Who knows, maybe we will find out inside a year or so, they are going to put cops on them after all...
Where I live at least all the "official" crossings have ramps, one would assume for handicap access. Problem is it is much more convent to cross in the middle of the street, and sometimes even safer. I think this thing could go down a bump like that, but up one will require lifting.
Maybe, it sure is similar to them. It has a lot of different things too. It is hard to say if it really will take off. So much is depending on details they have not given out, and on how people react to things like indoor use.
I'm willing to wait and see. It could be a big deal, or a big nothing. I'm not so willing to buy their stock (neither to short, nor to wait for the growth).
Well the car is hard to carry away, so one needs to unlock it to take it away (or get stuff from it), or break a window which is a little obvious looking. Ginger is light enough to lift and plop into a pickup truck and throw a blanket over. Not quite as obvious. Easier to steal. Maybe not easier enough to be too worried about it, but maybe.
People also tend to insure cars (against theft), we don't know how much Ginger will cost to insure yet...
Intresting, I hadn't heard that. However I'll note the weather was pretty good in SPR, but again it is a pain to film in bad weather, and frequently not as fun to watch (Twister being a notiable exception).
Note: Saving Private Ryan had similar problems, at the end for example the German tanks were moving in daylight, that late in the war the US had air superiority and German tanks avoided the day because they would be blown up by air support.
It is just a real pain to film that kind of thing at night (or to look like night), so in war movies lots of stuff that would really happen at night is filmed to be in day. (It was nice that a some of the SPR marches were filmed at night...)
I doubt it would be that hard since if you are going 40MPH you are probably changing cells pretty quickly and you can base it on that. However it is a bad idea. Why are you preventing the passengers from using the phone? Or the guy that got kidnapped and stuck in a trunk?
I guess it would help if I had spelled it right, they are the Etymotic ER4P, or the ER4S ($269 for either), I'm not sure how the ER6 sounds ($139) since it is new. I also remember the price as higher since I bought the Headroom Little headphone amp at the same time (another $200 or so -- prices were diffrent on the last model).
They are extreamly nice, and they do a pretty good job of preventing outside noise from bugging me. Good when the noise is fans and people on the phone, bad if it is my boss sneaking up on me.
Really? That seems like a bad design choice, I mean if it has enough buffer to keep 3~4 min of song, can't it spin up a minute early to avoid the skipping?
I'm not sure if the iPod does, but I've yet to hear it skip. Of corse I'm not much of a jogger (more of a walker, about 30min for a mile).
I hear you, but... My laptop had less then 5G of music on it. Plus the last MP3 player I had (Rio) didn't get used so much because it was a pain to change the music so I wanted to be sure about the new one :-)
I don't mind that other people want more space, even if it isn't as portable. I even admit it is likely a better choice for some people...
A shame they can't do 80G in that form factor though...oh, and it is a shame Canon won't sell me a EOS-1D for, oh, say, $1000 either :-)
Yeah, about that... the "mirror" surfface gets grubby real easy. So it does require a bit of upkeep. The white part doesn't show daily dirt though.
Apple claims 10 hours for the iPod, but my second charge lasted me 12 hours (I didn't let the first charge run down, I needed some more tunes).
Really? I plug it into my laptop, load new stuff, and then unplug it. I haven't done it at the lake, but I have done it other places where my laptop was the only computer I had (like in the parking lot of tower records).
It's a good size to go walking with, I think I did 8 miles last week, and 2 so far this week (I'm carrying my camera this week which slows me a bit, partly because of the weight, partly because I stop and take pictures). My friend has a Nomad (or maybe the PJB), it looks too big to fit in any of my pockets except on my field jacket (or photo vest), and I don't wear those all the time!
I'm not saying the Nomad is bad, just that there are places where the iPod is definitely the better device. I'm sure there are times the Nomad would be better.
BTW, the headphones on the iPod are about 10 times better then I was expecting. Still not as good as the etanomics ones though...of corse they cost about as much as the iPod :-)
Well they could use a multicast network, like, say cable TV...
Depends on the court. One upheld this right (using the term space shifting), I think during a Rio lawsuit. One didn't (MP3.com lawsuit), or maybe that was a plea, but I thought it was a judge.
Should? Morally? Hell no. Legally? I have no idea.
Well, probbably. Depends on the mood of the sales critter, after all most folks working at Walmart, or Tower don't care that much....
Plus good chance you can get the money back if you feel up to arguing that the UCC demands that you be able to test the item before final purchase (which means any sealed item buy isn't binding until after you have a reasonable time to check the item, no matter what the store policy says). Better of corse if you happen to put a copy on the laptop and point out the relivent sections...
Still that requires a lot of arguing...
If you are sharing the files with someone you know will buy the disc if they like it and delete it if they don't then it seems fair, but that may or may not be legal.
That CD was released last month, not this month. My Mac (iTunes) read it just fine, and CD Paranoia on Linux also read it.
However I'll warn you it isn't much like the other Garbage disks. You may not like it a whole lot.
Plus I think the best thing to do with factory damaged disks is to buy and return them. It may work better if you have a laptop so you can take it to the store and show it not playing. Even better if they only want to swap you for another of the same disk, play the next one before you leave the store. Insist they refund your money or change it for the next one. It might be worth $20 to run through their whole stock. Definitely worth it if you can run through the whole stock and get the money back.
That depends on the type of factory damage (er, copy "protection"), and how the reading is done. An OS may have a driver that causes samples with damaged ECC to be interprloated, or just repeat previous samples. That would fix one kind of factory damage. Some CD reading code may ignore damaged parts of a TOC if it finds them...
The AMD x86-64 does do 64 bit math and addressing, so if someone wants 64 bits the AMD will do it (in kind of a gross way, but quickly). In fact upward compatibility is exactly what the x86-64 is good at. It runs 32bit x86 apps quickly (unlike the iTanic), and it also runs 64 bit apps (unlike the P-IIII).
Personally I don't like either arch from a nice simple design point of view, but that's not what sells CPUs (otherwise the Alpha and MIPS would be in the lead, and AMD would be selling AMD 29000 series CPUs still...).
That doesn't mean code morphing is a bad idea. It means at least one of the following is true:
If you look at the history of the RISC CPUs the IBM ROMP was not very fast when it first came out. As I recall that was the first commercial RISC design. It didn't mean RISC was a bad idea (RISC in fact stomped CISCs butt soundly during the first half of the 90s, and I'm not sure the most recent x86 has beaten the cold dead Alpha's corpse...and the Power4 seems a whole lot faster...). The ROMP was slow because it wasn't the best design. I think the big problem was it's MMU. They did manage to fix it up, but I don't think it got a whole lot faster then the 68020 for a long time!
I'm not saying code morphing is great either, just that a commercial failure is hardly a scientific experiment.
And the PIII did 2 instructions, the AMD K7 did three, and RISCs have been doing 4+ for a long time. As far as VLIW goes 4-way is pretty low. The most interesting things that (seem) to be in the real Crusoe are the split load and split store (they can start a load, and later decide to complete it -- taking a fault if need be, or abort it; similar with stores, they can be queued and later canceled).
I am too, but on my notebook (an older G3 PowerBook) the batt monitor shows about 4 hours with the LCD on high and minimal CPU use, it shows 4.5 when I put the LCD on max dim (almost unreadable in a room with 60watt bulbs, ok with no light in the room). Leaving the monitor on dim and running a tight loop the batt time drops to around three hours. Leaving it going until the fan (tempature sensitive) kicks in and the batt time drops a bit more.
So I would say the CPU can use more power then the backlight. No, not quite, the swing from minimal CPU use to max is more taxing then the swing from minimal backlight to max. The no backlight to min may be a bigger swing then no CPU to minimal CPU.
That's not to say the Crusoe can magically turn a one hour batt to six hours, but it might get one hour to two.
Those being?
You, my friend, need a TiVo. :-)
UPN did tell some people ahead of time (The Tribune for one, at least 3 days ahead of time, and whoever writes the zap2it articles, and...). The didn't advertise the fact, that is, in it's ton of advertisements for the musical buffy they didn't bother to note it was 1:08 minutes like NBC (or whoever) did with Alias. They really should have.