About 2 years ago they were selling 160gb iPod classics. Shortly after I bought mine they stopped selling them. Now they are bringing them back and calling them an upgrade from the 120gb model. Sounds like a bit of false marketing to me.
I find it funny because it just came out the 15th in Japan on DVD. Im going pick it up when I go past a video store in the next couple days. Then I only have to worry about playing it on a Region 1 DVD player, but thats another issue.
So, what happens when the batterys in these things crap out? As far as I've seen you cant buy replacement batteries for any of the large (10gig+) portable players like the iPod or even the Dell clone. Thats one of the main concerns I have when they want me to drop $200-300+ for a decent portable mp3 player. When I buy one of these players I want to know that if the battery craps out I can swap it out with a new one instead of having to buy another $200-300 player or swap in a fresh battery if I'm on the road instead of having to find a place to recharge it.
Yea, cept it aint going happen. The Bush administration is hell bent on destroying the environment, casting away alliances 40+ years in the making, starting wars, continuing to lose a war on drugs that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer while locking up thousands of people for non-viloent crimes.
I doubt Nasa or and science/space related issues even come close to becoming part of their agenda unless a tradegy happens like the Columbia accident happens.
America will wakeup and rush back into the space arena only when it suits the politicans politically and financially and by then it will be to late. JFK did a good thing by creating the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely. Its a shame that the politicans and american publics support for that program died after that happened.
The greatest short coming I see with Pallidum is that the end user has to have that type system. It'll be a cold day in hell before I buy a Pallidum system and I'm sure these music/movie/software pirates wont buy these systems if they are crippled. So whats the problem? Pallidum might stop the average P2P user but the more technically advanced user still will have no problem trading stuff.
"I suggested that consumers pay 1 cent per commercial skipped (which is about the same as what advertisers pay)."
Why should I, the consumer, have to pay for not watching some commerical??? If I'm required to pay for not watching commericals during my faviorate TV show I'll just stop watching all together. Prices for cable service are expensive enough already, but I can't believe someone would suggest that customers pay for skipping commericals. They should be paying us to watch them, espically those f**king commericals before movies at the theatres.
This seems like a big circle to me. People either face paying artifically high prices for music, movies and software or use p2p apps to download them for free. Internet access drops in price and increases in speed, allowing people to download more at a lesser cost instead of purchasing them. Corporations see this and raise internet prices and increase their strength to control and charge for features and bandwith. Not to mention the increased size in software, music and movie files that people are getting from their p2p services, which increases the amount of bandwith taken by each user.
If you look back this cycle started back when BBS's were popular spots to download files and programs. Then the internet came and created a global network to share files, programs, and information. Im sure this will repeat itself again when technology creates the next best thing to share these same things.
Maybe if the prices for these goods was reduced to more realistic levels people would have less of a reason to download them over p2p networks. But that would never happen, since its in the corporations interests to squeeze their customers for every penny they can.
Its both sad and disturbing that this type of $hit can be gotten away with. There needs to be better ways of bringing these types of evil thing to the light of everyone. I would like to see these puppets in Congress that have the money lined pockets to pass some sorta law where any type of money donation is illegal to them or whatever political party they are a part of so we have unbiased representatives that aren't just looking out for their own good.
The link to Microshits web page has some interesting comparisons. I tend to find the availabilty of choices good in general while they are knocking it because Linux offers more than one type of component/feature. And I won't even mention the areas where MS is holding back compatibality between the two OS's, ie. the SAMBA comparison for example.
I would highly recommend any CD's from The Prodigy (Music for a Jilted Generation is my personal favorite), Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Underworld, Orbital, and Moby (have you listened to more than one of his CD's?).
You might want to look at more specific areas of techno types of electronica music such as house, Drum n Bass, Jungle, trance, hardcore. Use shoutcast or do a search on google to find music sites that you can stream music over the net and listen to. I would highly recommend looking at the music section on BBC's Radio1 channel. Fabio & Grooverider are two big DJ's in the DnB/Jungle scene that have weekly shows you can listen to that start about 7 or 8 pm Friday nights US time(2am Sat morning in the UK). But thats just my opinion....
The attacks on Sept 11 didn't suprise me in the way the terrorists chose their attack by using airplanes to destroy their targets. Just weeks before the attack I had read the novel Storming Heaven by Dale Brown which had a plot along the lines of the Sept 11 attacks. Having read alot of fiction and Sci-Fi books and having a fairly open mind, its not hard to think of ways of which terrorists could still try to attack us. I think our society is still vunerable in many ways. By attacking important links like the article points out (and doesn't point out for that matter) terrorists can still cause mass disruption if not mass destruction in our society.
New laws will only help punish those that are caught more seriously, they will not stop or prevent attacks by people who have no sense of the law. And at the same time these new laws seem to be taking away rights of society in the name of helping defend ourselves. So in a sense they have already won by forcing us to change our lives and live in fear of what they might do next.
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About 2 years ago they were selling 160gb iPod classics. Shortly after I bought mine they stopped selling them. Now they are bringing them back and calling them an upgrade from the 120gb model. Sounds like a bit of false marketing to me.
I find it funny because it just came out the 15th in Japan on DVD. Im going pick it up when I go past a video store in the next couple days. Then I only have to worry about playing it on a Region 1 DVD player, but thats another issue.
Makes me wish I didnt just buy a 40gig iPod in Ginza. Damn damn damn
So, what happens when the batterys in these things crap out? As far as I've seen you cant buy replacement batteries for any of the large (10gig+) portable players like the iPod or even the Dell clone. Thats one of the main concerns I have when they want me to drop $200-300+ for a decent portable mp3 player. When I buy one of these players I want to know that if the battery craps out I can swap it out with a new one instead of having to buy another $200-300 player or swap in a fresh battery if I'm on the road instead of having to find a place to recharge it.
Yea, cept it aint going happen. The Bush administration is hell bent on destroying the environment, casting away alliances 40+ years in the making, starting wars, continuing to lose a war on drugs that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer while locking up thousands of people for non-viloent crimes.
I doubt Nasa or and science/space related issues even come close to becoming part of their agenda unless a tradegy happens like the Columbia accident happens.
America will wakeup and rush back into the space arena only when it suits the politicans politically and financially and by then it will be to late. JFK did a good thing by creating the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely. Its a shame that the politicans and american publics support for that program died after that happened.
The greatest short coming I see with Pallidum is that the end user has to have that type system. It'll be a cold day in hell before I buy a Pallidum system and I'm sure these music/movie/software pirates wont buy these systems if they are crippled. So whats the problem? Pallidum might stop the average P2P user but the more technically advanced user still will have no problem trading stuff.
"I suggested that consumers pay 1 cent per commercial skipped (which is about the same as what advertisers pay)."
Why should I, the consumer, have to pay for not watching some commerical??? If I'm required to pay for not watching commericals during my faviorate TV show I'll just stop watching all together. Prices for cable service are expensive enough already, but I can't believe someone would suggest that customers pay for skipping commericals. They should be paying us to watch them, espically those f**king commericals before movies at the theatres.
This seems like a big circle to me. People either face paying artifically high prices for music, movies and software or use p2p apps to download them for free. Internet access drops in price and increases in speed, allowing people to download more at a lesser cost instead of purchasing them. Corporations see this and raise internet prices and increase their strength to control and charge for features and bandwith. Not to mention the increased size in software, music and movie files that people are getting from their p2p services, which increases the amount of bandwith taken by each user.
If you look back this cycle started back when BBS's were popular spots to download files and programs. Then the internet came and created a global network to share files, programs, and information. Im sure this will repeat itself again when technology creates the next best thing to share these same things.
Maybe if the prices for these goods was reduced to more realistic levels people would have less of a reason to download them over p2p networks. But that would never happen, since its in the corporations interests to squeeze their customers for every penny they can.
Its both sad and disturbing that this type of $hit can be gotten away with. There needs to be better ways of bringing these types of evil thing to the light of everyone. I would like to see these puppets in Congress that have the money lined pockets to pass some sorta law where any type of money donation is illegal to them or whatever political party they are a part of so we have unbiased representatives that aren't just looking out for their own good.
The link to Microshits web page has some interesting comparisons. I tend to find the availabilty of choices good in general while they are knocking it because Linux offers more than one type of component/feature. And I won't even mention the areas where MS is holding back compatibality between the two OS's, ie. the SAMBA comparison for example.
But thats my quick 2 cents worth opinion.
I would highly recommend any CD's from The Prodigy (Music for a Jilted Generation is my personal favorite), Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Underworld, Orbital, and Moby (have you listened to more than one of his CD's?).
You might want to look at more specific areas of techno types of electronica music such as house, Drum n Bass, Jungle, trance, hardcore. Use shoutcast or do a search on google to find music sites that you can stream music over the net and listen to. I would highly recommend looking at the music section on BBC's Radio1 channel. Fabio & Grooverider are two big DJ's in the DnB/Jungle scene that have weekly shows you can listen to that start about 7 or 8 pm Friday nights US time(2am Sat morning in the UK). But thats just my opinion....
Glad to see some people coming around and realizing the evilness of MS.
I loved Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon so I can't wait to read this one and see how good it is.
The attacks on Sept 11 didn't suprise me in the way the terrorists chose their attack by using airplanes to destroy their targets. Just weeks before the attack I had read the novel Storming Heaven by Dale Brown which had a plot along the lines of the Sept 11 attacks. Having read alot of fiction and Sci-Fi books and having a fairly open mind, its not hard to think of ways of which terrorists could still try to attack us. I think our society is still vunerable in many ways. By attacking important links like the article points out (and doesn't point out for that matter) terrorists can still cause mass disruption if not mass destruction in our society.
New laws will only help punish those that are caught more seriously, they will not stop or prevent attacks by people who have no sense of the law. And at the same time these new laws seem to be taking away rights of society in the name of helping defend ourselves. So in a sense they have already won by forcing us to change our lives and live in fear of what they might do next.