- It just works.
- It's industrial design is a notch above the rest - the latest version has no moving buttons on the main control area - no pocket fluff can get in and clog the works.
- Firewire syncing and charging from one cable. This is far better than USB syncing as it provide more current and allows for just as fast, if not faster syncs than USB 2.0
- It's smaller - it's about the smallest hard drive based play you can buy
- Sound quality - the iPod doesn't sacrifice sound quality, there are technically better sounding units but the tradeoffs make the iPod a leader
- iTunes integration - ratings, sound check, play lists, etc - make a change on the iPod to a rating and it syncs back to the iTunes database.
- add-ons - line out on the dock, media card reader, microphone etc - the iPod has loads of accessories that are tailored specifically for it rather than generic add-ons which may or may not work.
- User interface - even with the revised top 4 buttons instead of the buttons around the you can operate it one handedly and everything is easy to read and get through.
There's probably more but I can't sit here and type all day - I have 2200 tracks to listen to on my iPod:o)
Concorde's engines are actually the most efficient of their type in the world.
And although you think of all the analogue crap in Concorde it had fly by wire when designed, the bulk of it's instrumentation was digital and the brake design is only now being adopted by other larger aircraft.
Concorde, despite being 26 years old in full service and even older by design, is still leading the way in terms of aircraft design.
Microsoft are now in the position where they've effectively patented the provision of personalised web content.
What's the betting they use this to drive adoption of Microsoft hosting solutions by charging a license fee if the solution is implemented on anything else?
It's because half the phones solf in Europe include a camera. Photo Messaging is starting to take off and it's nearest competitor the P800 includes one.
Don't forget that handset wise almost all of the driving forces are external to the US - Bluetooth, SMS, Picture Messaging...
My understanding of the GPL is that in creating a single work (Linux Kernel that doesn't require external binary objects) Linksys have taken code that may not have been GPLed (Broadcom drivers?) and spun it into a work that most definately is (The Linux kernel)
Had the broadcom drivers been seperate objects that were not spun into the Kernel but compiled seperately and loaded into memory by the kernel at run time this would not be a problem.
As someone claiming to have an understanding of the problem could you clarify my points please.
GPRS and HSCSD are just extensions to GSM. My GPRS and HSCSD phone is a GSM phone. As for HSCSD getting 56.6Kbps - that's not quite right - it gets upto 28.8kbps - the most it can manage is the equivalent of 2 simultaneous calls witho9ut the voice error correction. GPRS is about 64kbps but more often 20kbs, EDGE is hardly rolled out yet but practically it should acheive around 64kbps although the theoretical max is 384kbps.
The speeds with HSCSD and GPRS are from my own personal use and in the UK only orange offers both. No other mobile net in the UK offers HSCSD.
Funnily enough the company I work for had an arm that was called FISYS - we changed the name when we discovered that fisys mean Fart in one of the scandinavian languages.
Pace pretty much rule the UK cable box industry and are providers for a large portion of the world including the US.
Seriously though we have a totally closed cable system where all channels are encrypted unlike america where basic analogue cable is provided in the clear.
The standard in the UK btw is Euro-DOCSIS - effectively our cable boxes are cable modems with a DVB headend tacked on.
Radio 1 - "Youth" music programming 1 Xtra - Black music Radio 2 - Popular music programming Radio 3 - Classical and alternative music programming Radio 4 - Speech radio Radio 5 - News and Sports 5 Live Sports Extra - Extended coverage of live sports events Radio 6 - 80s and 90s Rock to Indie style music programming Radio 7 - Archive talk and comedy Programming Asian Network - Asian broadcasting
Not to mention a network of regional stations, and 8 national TV stations. This includes thte UK version of C-SPAN, a 24 Hour TV rolling news channel, 2 childrens channels, a youth TV channel and a more high brow TV channel for arts, films, documentaries and the like.
The government pay for World Service and BBC World programming
Actually the standard licensing systems for Microsoft Office and Windows (Microsoft has a special name for this type of license but I can't remember it exactly - probably desktop platform) are about the only things they will license on that many machines.
And the Microsoft subscription license requires you to purchase computers with Windows and Office AND subscribe to Windows and Office for that machine.
If you end the subscription license you not only loose the upgrade options etc but you also forfeit the use of the original OEM license!
For this reason we only purchase OEM copies of Windows and just leave them on the box it came with.
It scales all windows so that they can all fit on hte screen at once showing you everything you're doing - you lcik on one and they revert to their normal state but with the selected window in the forground.
Or at least thats how I imagine it from the description.
Yes but this isn't the system they're using for tracking back at the base - the GPS is in car for navigation. The other system is used with telemetry to remotely track each vehicle.
Actually you spend one minute phoning a number which connects yo to the closest cabbie so you can tell them exactly where you are.
Their system knows when a cab is on call or not and knows where the cab is thanks to GPS or similar technology (There is a company called Addison & Lee who operate higher class courier and transport services which have decided to not use GPS since London has lots of narrow streets in which GPS is not reliable)
So you have a phone, on most networks, and you dial a number. You speak to a person. You get a cab. Hardly rocket science is it - and you don't need a GPS reciever yourself.
I want details on singal to noise ratio - picture quality, sound quality. What does the picture look like? Does the display have a sodding black border round the edge?
How is the SPDIF output created - does it support DTS?
The machine looks great and the hardware seems to be extremely well put together but the review misses out on a few key areas.
It's acknowledged that the unit would look great in a lounge or on a hi-fi rack. But nowhere is the video output from the composite and S-Video outputs mentioned.
How easy would it be to get a remote control up and running with the unit? What's the sound quality like? Can the unit drive a high end sound card with the power supply that's supplied?
I believe that story is now out of date the www.marantz.com site now states, under their History link.
MARANTZ TODAY
The Philips period ended in 2001 when Marantz Japan Inc. acquired the brand and all overseas sales subsidiaries. Today, Marantz falls under D&M Holdings, a joint holding company set up in 2002 to integrate Marantz and Hi-Fi manufacturer Denon in a strategic union that will strengthen both companies in the current tough economic climate. The company employs more than 1600 people in over fifty countries. It carefully selects its dealers to ensure that the quality of the service they provide matches the quality of the products Marantz produces. A dealer must satisfy strict requirements regarding demonstration facilities and store layout before Marantz products can be sold.
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The usual apple reasons.
:o)
- It just works.
- It's industrial design is a notch above the rest - the latest version has no moving buttons on the main control area - no pocket fluff can get in and clog the works.
- Firewire syncing and charging from one cable. This is far better than USB syncing as it provide more current and allows for just as fast, if not faster syncs than USB 2.0
- It's smaller - it's about the smallest hard drive based play you can buy
- Sound quality - the iPod doesn't sacrifice sound quality, there are technically better sounding units but the tradeoffs make the iPod a leader
- iTunes integration - ratings, sound check, play lists, etc - make a change on the iPod to a rating and it syncs back to the iTunes database.
- add-ons - line out on the dock, media card reader, microphone etc - the iPod has loads of accessories that are tailored specifically for it rather than generic add-ons which may or may not work.
- User interface - even with the revised top 4 buttons instead of the buttons around the you can operate it one handedly and everything is easy to read and get through.
There's probably more but I can't sit here and type all day - I have 2200 tracks to listen to on my iPod
America got to the wooden model stage at a cost of $400million.
The UK & France got a fleet of Concordes for 1.4billion.
How they claim it made more economic sense to create one wooden model for $400m than a fleet of awe inspiring planes for 1.4b I can't work out.
It's less than 100m per plane for a fleet of 15.
Concorde's engines are actually the most efficient of their type in the world.
And although you think of all the analogue crap in Concorde it had fly by wire when designed, the bulk of it's instrumentation was digital and the brake design is only now being adopted by other larger aircraft.
Concorde, despite being 26 years old in full service and even older by design, is still leading the way in terms of aircraft design.
It's Locutus.
/. but please attempt to spell names correctly.
It may just be a throw away comment on
Microsoft are now in the position where they've effectively patented the provision of personalised web content.
What's the betting they use this to drive adoption of Microsoft hosting solutions by charging a license fee if the solution is implemented on anything else?
It's because half the phones solf in Europe include a camera. Photo Messaging is starting to take off and it's nearest competitor the P800 includes one.
Don't forget that handset wise almost all of the driving forces are external to the US - Bluetooth, SMS, Picture Messaging...
You obviously haven't tried this feature out have you.
They have a very similar link in Event Viewer in the newer OSes. Click here to find out more about this message.
Click the link and you get taken to a page whic, as far as I can tell, just tells you that they have no further information on that error message.
Meanwhile MS are collating more and more information on what software is running on their customers' machines.
My understanding of the GPL is that in creating a single work (Linux Kernel that doesn't require external binary objects) Linksys have taken code that may not have been GPLed (Broadcom drivers?) and spun it into a work that most definately is (The Linux kernel)
Had the broadcom drivers been seperate objects that were not spun into the Kernel but compiled seperately and loaded into memory by the kernel at run time this would not be a problem.
As someone claiming to have an understanding of the problem could you clarify my points please.
GPRS and HSCSD are just extensions to GSM. My GPRS and HSCSD phone is a GSM phone. As for HSCSD getting 56.6Kbps - that's not quite right - it gets upto 28.8kbps - the most it can manage is the equivalent of 2 simultaneous calls witho9ut the voice error correction. GPRS is about 64kbps but more often 20kbs, EDGE is hardly rolled out yet but practically it should acheive around 64kbps although the theoretical max is 384kbps.
The speeds with HSCSD and GPRS are from my own personal use and in the UK only orange offers both. No other mobile net in the UK offers HSCSD.
Funnily enough the company I work for had an arm that was called FISYS - we changed the name when we discovered that fisys mean Fart in one of the scandinavian languages.
We don't need a standard - we have Pace :o)
Pace pretty much rule the UK cable box industry and are providers for a large portion of the world including the US.
Seriously though we have a totally closed cable system where all channels are encrypted unlike america where basic analogue cable is provided in the clear.
The standard in the UK btw is Euro-DOCSIS - effectively our cable boxes are cable modems with a DVB headend tacked on.
Rio Karma - 2.7 X 3.0 X 0.9 = 7.29
:-)
Apple iPod - 4.1 X 2.4 X 0.62 = 6.1008
I make the iPod smaller.
Not that the Karma is a BAD player - it's just not as small as the Rio fanboys claim
Radio 6 is music not talk.
Radio 1 - "Youth" music programming
1 Xtra - Black music
Radio 2 - Popular music programming
Radio 3 - Classical and alternative music programming
Radio 4 - Speech radio
Radio 5 - News and Sports
5 Live Sports Extra - Extended coverage of live sports events
Radio 6 - 80s and 90s Rock to Indie style music programming
Radio 7 - Archive talk and comedy Programming
Asian Network - Asian broadcasting
Not to mention a network of regional stations, and 8 national TV stations. This includes thte UK version of C-SPAN, a 24 Hour TV rolling news channel, 2 childrens channels, a youth TV channel and a more high brow TV channel for arts, films, documentaries and the like.
The government pay for World Service and BBC World programming
Actually the standard licensing systems for Microsoft Office and Windows (Microsoft has a special name for this type of license but I can't remember it exactly - probably desktop platform) are about the only things they will license on that many machines.
And the Microsoft subscription license requires you to purchase computers with Windows and Office AND subscribe to Windows and Office for that machine.
If you end the subscription license you not only loose the upgrade options etc but you also forfeit the use of the original OEM license!
For this reason we only purchase OEM copies of Windows and just leave them on the box it came with.
The image with the small sized windows I believe is the new app - Exposé
It scales all windows so that they can all fit on hte screen at once showing you everything you're doing - you lcik on one and they revert to their normal state but with the selected window in the forground.
Or at least thats how I imagine it from the description.
Can't be any worse than the extra round trips BT based DSL takes in the UK.
All our traffic is routed via BT's ATM network as encapsulated packets from home to my ISP then back again.
Up a mile then down again shouldn't be that bad.
Where as these things always suck. Large canister, hose attachment, high efficiency, no bags and great industrial design.
I've got the standard cylinder version but as soon as the robot verion is released in full I'm getting one.
Actually it's from the BBC's coverage of the UK launch. In the US Electrolux use the Eureka brand.
Option pound - as the americans call it pound and not hash.
Yes but this isn't the system they're using for tracking back at the base - the GPS is in car for navigation. The other system is used with telemetry to remotely track each vehicle.
Actually you spend one minute phoning a number which connects yo to the closest cabbie so you can tell them exactly where you are.
Their system knows when a cab is on call or not and knows where the cab is thanks to GPS or similar technology (There is a company called Addison & Lee who operate higher class courier and transport services which have decided to not use GPS since London has lots of narrow streets in which GPS is not reliable)
So you have a phone, on most networks, and you dial a number. You speak to a person. You get a cab. Hardly rocket science is it - and you don't need a GPS reciever yourself.
They're just interface standards and numbers.
I want details on singal to noise ratio - picture quality, sound quality. What does the picture look like? Does the display have a sodding black border round the edge?
How is the SPDIF output created - does it support DTS?
Just listing ports tells you nothing.
The machine looks great and the hardware seems to be extremely well put together but the review misses out on a few key areas.
It's acknowledged that the unit would look great in a lounge or on a hi-fi rack. But nowhere is the video output from the composite and S-Video outputs mentioned.
How easy would it be to get a remote control up and running with the unit? What's the sound quality like? Can the unit drive a high end sound card with the power supply that's supplied?
These are the questions I want answered.
Does Joe Sixpack really have a six-pack?
I've lost a bit of weight so far but I'm far from the six-pack stage. Do I loose my geekiness once I have a siz pack?
I'll probably be throwing most of my karma away on this question but hey half the fun is trying to gain it in the first place.