The hard disk-based iRiver players do what you describe, including recording direct to uncompressed WAV or optionally to MP3 at configurable bit rates. The line in is both analog and optical -- they have optical in and out, both.
The only problem is that they're buggy. Some people have reported recording glitches when the player goes to store the captured data to disk, i.e. periodic hiccups in the recording. I haven't really noticed it myself, but I normally record voice. A friend has recorded live music without seeing the problem, either, but enough people have reported it to raise my doubts. Also, there seem to be arbitrary recording length constraints in hardware. I believe they are dependent on the bit rate at which you're trying to record to some extent, but 2 hours seems to be the outside limit for a single file.
In the past, I might have said to hang on and iRiver would fix these problems with a firmware upgrade. I won't make that mistake again. iRiver's support for this product has been very poor since it was released, promising various firmware fixes and then never delivering, only to move on to whole new product lines while they leave the old customers with buggy hardware that doesn't do what they were told it would do.
So, proceed with caution. But I have had some decent results recording with the iRiver.
That's some genius research right there
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Well, given that it says right in the article summary that the supposed.Net CPU runs the same software as SPOT smart watches, making a link between the CPU and SPOT watches didn't take too much research, did it?
And get this... the SPOT watches were designed by Microsoft and require you to subscribe to an MSN service to use them. There, see?! Clear proof of a conspiracy linking the.Net CPU to Microsoft.
The real problem with replacing the hard drive in the iRiver is that not all 2.5" drives are created equal. Though the players look the same upon cursory inspection, it turns out that the 40 GB drive is actually physically slightly larger than the 20 GB. It won't fit. Similarly, I'd assume that a thinner 20 GB drive might rattle around in the 40 GB case -- though I've never heard of anybody wanting to swap in that direction.
For the OP, the iRiver actually has both analog and optical line out... should be good enough for whatever equipment you have at home.
Half of the articles I read about this merger mention only Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular/AT&T. What about T-Mobile? Aren't they a player too? I use their service right now and the coverage isn't necessarily the best, but the quality of the calls is good, it's a nationwide GSM network, the plan is affordable, and their customer support staff has been pretty universally friendly and helpful.
When you're quoting a case from 1997 it's helpful to say so up front. Otherwise people might get the idea that you had some meaningful statement to make about Java performance or current benchmark-optimization practices.
The reference isn't to say that Red Hat is the owner/maker of Linux, but more of a distinction in the plethora of linux options, as Red Hat stands out as the main company who is selling an O/S package, that uses the Linux kernel to Enterprises.
Interesting how nobody so far has mentioned Novell. Last I heard, folks like IBM and Sun were selling or taking advantage of both Red Hat and SuSE. In fact, IBM reps have told me that they want to see competition in the enterprise Linux marketplace. So it makes you wonder whether Sun has some other reason for trying to marginalize Novell.
Am I the only one who doesn't get it?
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At first I thought this sounded interesting for international calls, but now I see that international calls are not permitted, at least during the trial period. Am I the only one who can't figure out what this is for? I have free long distance on all my mobile phone minutes. I have unlimited calling on off-peak hours and more anytime minutes than I would possibly want to spend on my phone in a given month. Looking at the other plans my provider offers, I'd bet you couldn't even take advantage of some of them unless you had an extra battery for your phone. Who is the target market for this?
Haven't you ever stayed around at the office, with nothing much to do, but not leaving because nobody else is leaving yet? In a sense, your coworkers are asking you to work longer hours, by the implied guilt -- we're all suffering here so why aren't you? It's yet another trick in the management portfolio -- let the workers keep each other in line. Yet another reason unions were invented... so that energy can be channeled into having workers work with each other, rather than against.
In many cases, it's not even that you do these things because you love your job so much. How many times have you seen a star employee bitch endlessly about his job but still work all weekend to get a project done?
It works this way: You're working obsessively, doing long hours into the evenings and weekends. Ergo, you have very little free time. Sustaining a relationship on this kind of schedule can be difficult. You're tired all the time, you just want to go home and rest. You amuse yourself by ordering fancy gadgets from Amazon and having them shipped to the office, but this only works to a certain extent. Ultimately, the only thing that left to give you those subtle little endorphin rewards is completion of tasks.
Its an oroborous cycle: Your life becomes so structured around work that success at work is your main goal, because it's the only option left to you to feel the sense of fulfillment that the human organism naturally wants to feel. It's not that you love your job so much. It's that you've made yourself addicted to it, like the rat in a box that stops eating when given the option of taking cocaine.
I know whereof I speak, because I've been there. I'm a little older now and very thankful that I was able to wise up and get my head straight about the realities of the modern workplace.
I agree completely. Re-reading what I wrote, I think it's given some people the impression that I think "operator" is somehow a lesser job than a "systems administrator." It might be, if the terms were applied properly. My point was more that your average Linux "administrator" could probably learn a lot from an OS/390 "operator."
Au contraire! I wasn't making fun of anything. When I see somebody who's willing to give an accurate description of their job, I say to myself there's somebody who has his proverbial shit together as far as his skills go, and would probably make a pretty good hire.
I myself feel that a decent part of the implosion in the amount of IT jobs available is a direct result of too many fresh-faced kids putting "system administrator" on their resumes when really they only qualify as operators. And operators of fairly unsophisticated systems, at that -- sure, z/OS systems "run themselves" most of the time, but let's see you put a 21-year-old Linux geek in charge of a mainframe.
You're probably trolling, but security has never been the purpose of NAT. It's just a side-effect, and it's not the kind of security that will substitute for a decent firewall.
But TOS seem to be for those who lived in an era with low expecations on story and effects. IMHO, TNG (WTF? BBQ!) was the first series that had acceptable story lines and effects to accomodate such a series concept.
Do yourself a favor and don't ever, ever watch Doctor Who. (Another great show, BTW)
So your Kroger card doesn't have your name associated with it. Big deal! You're still the one swiping it every time you buy groceries, so they can still track your buying patterns. For Kroger, the net effect is the same as if you had a "non-blank" card.
Why is it that everybody thinks the most evil thing about loyalty cards is that they can match your buying habits with your name? You think they really CARE what your name is?
Apple went from a pascal based operating system (OS9) to a fully functional, hyper powerful OS in less than 10 years.
Well, to be fair, though Apple did originally design the Mac OS with Pascal in mind as the primary programming language, Pascal had already been obsoleted in Apple's MPW compiler architecture by 1995, in favor of C/C++. You could still buy all the programming references with examples written in Pascal and the C headers all specified Pascal parameter-passing convetions, but the Mac OS world had pretty much transitioned to C by the time the PowerPC showed up. By the time Mac OS 9 shipped, you could hardly say it was a "Pascal based" operating system (in fact, I'm not even really sure what that phrase means).
Um, I think you're missing the point. It's not New Age bullshit. "Control" doesn't mean using your mind waves to block out the evil photons from the TV. "Control" can mean learning to tune out the TV (I don't find this too hard most of the time), but it can also mean:
Asking the proprietor of the bar/restaurant to turn off the TV
Asking the proprietor to turn down the volume
Choosing another bar/restaurant
If you're not willing to do any of the above because you're either too lazy or too incapable of normal interactions with other human beings, then the problem is you, not the TV. Not only can you not keep yourself from looking at the TV, but you're also incapable of doing anything about the problem (except, perhaps, sneakily turning off the TV with your little gadget while nobody is looking). You need to work on getting some control -- and probably some other things, if you ask me.
Thanks... thank you... and you know, it truly brings a tear to my eye when I realize that I can say that on this day, in this hour, I am truly... a nerd.
More importantly, is it really a good idea to post rants on a public Web site stating your position in a lawsuit that's still pending? Isn't that the very first thing pretty much any reputable attorney says to clients -- don't go running off your mouth about the case? "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law" is what the cops tell you in criminal law... this certainly will apply to SCO as well.
Right. And it's probable that most PowerPC instructions will have nearly identical analogs on Intel processors -- load register, jump to subroutine, pop from the stack, etc. It's all been done for years and years. So writing emulators, in general, should be a pretty trivial exercise, right? In fact, we really shouldn't be worrying about compiling for specific hardware anymore.
Yes, the process of emulating a PowerPC on an Intel x86 chip takes up 80 percent of your host CPU -- leaving 20 percent for user applications. What's so hard to understand about that?
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The hard disk-based iRiver players do what you describe, including recording direct to uncompressed WAV or optionally to MP3 at configurable bit rates. The line in is both analog and optical -- they have optical in and out, both.
The only problem is that they're buggy. Some people have reported recording glitches when the player goes to store the captured data to disk, i.e. periodic hiccups in the recording. I haven't really noticed it myself, but I normally record voice. A friend has recorded live music without seeing the problem, either, but enough people have reported it to raise my doubts. Also, there seem to be arbitrary recording length constraints in hardware. I believe they are dependent on the bit rate at which you're trying to record to some extent, but 2 hours seems to be the outside limit for a single file.
In the past, I might have said to hang on and iRiver would fix these problems with a firmware upgrade. I won't make that mistake again. iRiver's support for this product has been very poor since it was released, promising various firmware fixes and then never delivering, only to move on to whole new product lines while they leave the old customers with buggy hardware that doesn't do what they were told it would do.
So, proceed with caution. But I have had some decent results recording with the iRiver.
Well, given that it says right in the article summary that the supposed .Net CPU runs the same software as SPOT smart watches, making a link between the CPU and SPOT watches didn't take too much research, did it?
... the SPOT watches were designed by Microsoft and require you to subscribe to an MSN service to use them. There, see?! Clear proof of a conspiracy linking the .Net CPU to Microsoft.
And get this
The real problem with replacing the hard drive in the iRiver is that not all 2.5" drives are created equal. Though the players look the same upon cursory inspection, it turns out that the 40 GB drive is actually physically slightly larger than the 20 GB. It won't fit. Similarly, I'd assume that a thinner 20 GB drive might rattle around in the 40 GB case -- though I've never heard of anybody wanting to swap in that direction.
... should be good enough for whatever equipment you have at home.
For the OP, the iRiver actually has both analog and optical line out
Here I was thinking Sony had some kind of "high definition" MP3 player, but no, it's HDD as in "hard disk drive."
Half of the articles I read about this merger mention only Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular/AT&T. What about T-Mobile? Aren't they a player too? I use their service right now and the coverage isn't necessarily the best, but the quality of the calls is good, it's a nationwide GSM network, the plan is affordable, and their customer support staff has been pretty universally friendly and helpful.
When you're quoting a case from 1997 it's helpful to say so up front. Otherwise people might get the idea that you had some meaningful statement to make about Java performance or current benchmark-optimization practices.
At first I thought this sounded interesting for international calls, but now I see that international calls are not permitted, at least during the trial period. Am I the only one who can't figure out what this is for? I have free long distance on all my mobile phone minutes. I have unlimited calling on off-peak hours and more anytime minutes than I would possibly want to spend on my phone in a given month. Looking at the other plans my provider offers, I'd bet you couldn't even take advantage of some of them unless you had an extra battery for your phone. Who is the target market for this?
Haven't you ever stayed around at the office, with nothing much to do, but not leaving because nobody else is leaving yet? In a sense, your coworkers are asking you to work longer hours, by the implied guilt -- we're all suffering here so why aren't you? It's yet another trick in the management portfolio -- let the workers keep each other in line. Yet another reason unions were invented ... so that energy can be channeled into having workers work with each other, rather than against.
In many cases, it's not even that you do these things because you love your job so much. How many times have you seen a star employee bitch endlessly about his job but still work all weekend to get a project done?
It works this way: You're working obsessively, doing long hours into the evenings and weekends. Ergo, you have very little free time. Sustaining a relationship on this kind of schedule can be difficult. You're tired all the time, you just want to go home and rest. You amuse yourself by ordering fancy gadgets from Amazon and having them shipped to the office, but this only works to a certain extent. Ultimately, the only thing that left to give you those subtle little endorphin rewards is completion of tasks.
Its an oroborous cycle: Your life becomes so structured around work that success at work is your main goal, because it's the only option left to you to feel the sense of fulfillment that the human organism naturally wants to feel. It's not that you love your job so much. It's that you've made yourself addicted to it, like the rat in a box that stops eating when given the option of taking cocaine.
I know whereof I speak, because I've been there. I'm a little older now and very thankful that I was able to wise up and get my head straight about the realities of the modern workplace.
I agree completely. Re-reading what I wrote, I think it's given some people the impression that I think "operator" is somehow a lesser job than a "systems administrator." It might be, if the terms were applied properly. My point was more that your average Linux "administrator" could probably learn a lot from an OS/390 "operator."
Au contraire! I wasn't making fun of anything. When I see somebody who's willing to give an accurate description of their job, I say to myself there's somebody who has his proverbial shit together as far as his skills go, and would probably make a pretty good hire.
I myself feel that a decent part of the implosion in the amount of IT jobs available is a direct result of too many fresh-faced kids putting "system administrator" on their resumes when really they only qualify as operators. And operators of fairly unsophisticated systems, at that -- sure, z/OS systems "run themselves" most of the time, but let's see you put a 21-year-old Linux geek in charge of a mainframe.
You're probably trolling, but security has never been the purpose of NAT. It's just a side-effect, and it's not the kind of security that will substitute for a decent firewall.
Now where's the Intelligence and Wisdom in that?
So your Kroger card doesn't have your name associated with it. Big deal! You're still the one swiping it every time you buy groceries, so they can still track your buying patterns. For Kroger, the net effect is the same as if you had a "non-blank" card.
Why is it that everybody thinks the most evil thing about loyalty cards is that they can match your buying habits with your name? You think they really CARE what your name is?
- Asking the proprietor of the bar/restaurant to turn off the TV
- Asking the proprietor to turn down the volume
- Choosing another bar/restaurant
If you're not willing to do any of the above because you're either too lazy or too incapable of normal interactions with other human beings, then the problem is you, not the TV. Not only can you not keep yourself from looking at the TV, but you're also incapable of doing anything about the problem (except, perhaps, sneakily turning off the TV with your little gadget while nobody is looking). You need to work on getting some control -- and probably some other things, if you ask me.Thanks ... thank you ... and you know, it truly brings a tear to my eye when I realize that I can say that on this day, in this hour, I am truly ... a nerd.
More importantly, is it really a good idea to post rants on a public Web site stating your position in a lawsuit that's still pending? Isn't that the very first thing pretty much any reputable attorney says to clients -- don't go running off your mouth about the case? "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law" is what the cops tell you in criminal law ... this certainly will apply to SCO as well.
Right. And it's probable that most PowerPC instructions will have nearly identical analogs on Intel processors -- load register, jump to subroutine, pop from the stack, etc. It's all been done for years and years. So writing emulators, in general, should be a pretty trivial exercise, right? In fact, we really shouldn't be worrying about compiling for specific hardware anymore.
Yes, the process of emulating a PowerPC on an Intel x86 chip takes up 80 percent of your host CPU -- leaving 20 percent for user applications. What's so hard to understand about that?