does a middle class American want to spend his or her entire evening fiddling with this to get a somewhat inferior copy for the sole purpose of saving $15?
Yes. What, you never copied cassette tapes back in the days before dual-deck high speed dubbing recorders? We used to stick two decks in a room facing one another, close the door and tell everyone in the house to shut up for an hour.
Battery life is not the limiting factor. I've got an extended run battery for my minidv camera that will keep it spinning for 4+ hours straight. Longer if I don't use the big power wasting flip-out screen. And it's not that big - still fits nicely in the palm of my hand.
Tape would be a problem. Not sure how they overcome that. Two cameras, maybe? When one runs out, stick the other up next to it and merge them in software later.
Only CAM I've ever seen was of such low resolution you could have recorded the whole 2 hour movie on a 256mb memory card. New tapeless cameras are super tiny, draw little to no power, and a 1GB flash card would be more than adequate if filmed in low quality mode. Which is what you get with a CAM.
Agreed. I'm sorry, but this device is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Nobody will buy this. It will take as long to put the shirt on this thing as it would to just iron it yourself. And what about pants? $1700 and you still have to iron your own pants?
For that matter, what are you supposed to do if you need to iron a dozen shirts? By the time this thing finishes the first three, the others will have air dried & be wrinkled. Meanwhile you have to stand around and feed it shirt after shirt.
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All of my electricity comes from a combination of wind, hydro, and nuclear. I love the Pacific Northwest.
Yeah - that's the other problem. These bastard automakers don't make enough to go around. I've had my eye on either a Prius or a Honda Insight for quite some time. None of the Toyota or Honda dealerships around here has one nor do they have plans to get one. So I can't test drive the car. They'll order one if I buy, but I won't buy a car without a good test drive. And it's the same line: "It could take 6 months to a year to get it in."
How do you expect people to actually use these vehicles if you can't test drive them and have to jump through hoops and wait a year to buy one? Most car purchases are impulse. If you want people to use these vehicles you need to get them sitting on dealer's lots so we can come by and go, "Ohh, shiny."
Seriously, a flashlight built into a cellphone would be great. How many of us have used the backlighting from the LCD to locate stuff in the dark? I'm guilty. In fact I've done it several times. So why not just put a couple of high powered LEDs in the front of the thing with an on/off button? That would get me one step closer to the perfect "Swiss Army Cellphone."
It isn't fair use. If you are using more than 30 seconds of the song, are not an archival instituation, using it for educational purposes (with permission), its no longer under fair use. Please acutally read over that clause in the copyright law.
No, it is you who needs to read over that clause. It's my damn CD. I bought it, and if I want to copy the music to my computer and listen to it there, that's fair use. The fact that I'm synching another piece of software to the music is immaterial.
That's not entrapment. Entrapment only applies to the government. Besides, holding out a stick of candy isn't entrapment, anyway. Police officers routinely dress like whores and stand on a street corner waiting to be propositioned. That's not entrapment.
Entrapment is when they approach you and convince you to do something you otherwise would not have done: "Hey buddy... I've got this MP3. You want some? It's really good. You won't get in trouble. Come on..."
Let it rest already. I am far from wealthy and I've benefited from Bush's tax cuts to the tune of several thousand dollars thus far. I appreciate being able to keep more of my own money.
People should not be free to exchange information in any manor they chose.
You need to move to China or Singapore; you'll fit in well with their thought police. America is supposed to be a free country. If I want to exchange information anonymously, that's my right to do so, and it's none of your business what that information is. If you want to live like a prisoner there are plenty of other places on the globe where you can find your sick, twisted Eden already implemented. Stop trying to implement it here.
Here's an idea: how about growing the fuck up and paying for your music and movies? How about not stealing things that don't belong to you? How about abandoning your rediculously naive and misguided notion that you are somehow entitled to free merchandise.?
Hilary? Is that you?
Simply adding a "y" to your last name isn't enough to fool us...
Sorry, the government hasn't admitted to keeping little green men there.
That's because they don't. I worked with a guy who worked for several years at Area 51. Every day he boarded an airplane with blacked out windows with other employees and was flown to work. He gets very angry when people talk about UFOs and aliens. He said, "There are cool things that I can't talk about. But there are no damn aliens. I worked there for years, I should know."
I believe what you say about there being specific depots that are the problem.
I used to live in Oak Harbor, WA. Packages and letters we mailed out went missing on a regular basis. I only lived there a year and half a dozen mailings never made it to their destinations. The response every time was "Sorry, we don't know what happened to it." This after filing all sorts of paperwork and waiting weeks for them to "search".
(and if you have the DDR soundtracks, you just rip the music from them and never have to pay for another DDR Game ever again),
Exactly. That's not unfair, it's fair use. I can rip my songs and let Stepmania process them if I damn well please. Why should I have to keep buying new versions of the DDR software when all I really want are the extra songs?
Hey, I'm not arguing with you about women and their SUVs. Most people can't drive bigger vehicles period, but it sure does seem that women have even more of a problem with them.
Still, why hate the SUV when the person driving it is the problem? Take them out of their SUV, they might just buy a big pickup. Then what? You'll hate big pickups, too? It just seems silly to me.:)
If someone could come up with a cheap paver that collected solar power and all parking lots used them we could be a long way toward getting rid of oil.
Uhm, why not just use roofs? They cover a huge amount of area.
I hate SUV's. I used to only have to deal with vans and 18 wheelers, but now i have to worry about all the middle aged women running me over because they're checking their lipstick while talking on the phone.
Brilliant logic. Here's one that's equally stupid: I hate the Internet, because I have to worry about spam.
Why not hate the middle aged woman who can't drive for shit? The SUV is not the problem, it's the idiot behind the wheel.
Once you calm back down and bother to look at the cars in traffic around you, notice how most of these SUVs are single persons driving and are not being used to haul or tow vehicles.
During the commute, you fool. I hear this lame argument all the time. Did you ever stop to think about what sort of use the vehicle gets on the evenings & weekends? For all you know, it hauls half a dozen kids to soccer practice twice a week. Or a boat on the weekends. Or a bunch of friends and skiing/hiking/mountain climbing/other sporting gear.
But no, you don't think about that. Instead you whine about how all of the SUVs you see are only carrying one person. No shit, Sherlock: The driver is on his way to or from work. Of course he's by himself. Seems like you expect people to buy multiple vehicles for various uses, which makes zero economic sense. Sure, I could buy a $15k sedan for commuting in addition to my SUV. The sedan will get 35mpg if I shop well. The SUV will get 20. The extra insurance on the sedan will cost more than the extra gas for the SUV, not to mention the initial $15k outlay.
Sorry pal. I think I'll save the $15k and drive my SUV to work, by myself.
These people are bastards. I bought an 8 port 10/100 switch back when they were $400. After the warranty was up the external power supply failed. Finding it hard to locate a 6v supply that put out the necessary 5 amps, I called to purchase a replacement.
"We no sell those. You buy new switch." Then he hung up on me.
Now, when there is an outage, Tier II usually calls us. And credits our bill for the down time. Of course, paying a bit extra for a business-class cable line makes a lot of difference.
You're a business class user and have to fight with Tier 1 at all? I had a business class cable connection for a year. When I had to call, tier 1 would answer, ask me my account information, and say, "What can I help you with today?" My answer: "You can transfer me to tier 2 support."
Never had a problem. Only once did they actually ask me why. A one sentence explanation of the problem using as many acronyms as I could fit in there and, "I'll transfer you to tier 2. Hang on..."
I don't know why, but this reminds me of an experience I had at a Home Depot once. I'm walking through the store minding my own business and this guy comes up to me and asks me where some part is located. I'm dressed in my khaki slacks, nice belt, polo shirt - it never occured to me that he could possibly have mistook me for a Home Depot employee. I just figured he was lost and was asking a stranger for help.
Unfortunately I had no idea where his widget was located and so I responded, "I have no idea." He actually flinched. Then he made a horrible looking face and began to berate me, telling me I should know this stuff. It finally occured to me that he thought I was a store employee. How, I have no damn idea. I said, "You know, I don't actually work here." He rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, right." I just walked away. What a moron. I can imagine the conversation he had with the store manager about the terrible attitude of "his employees."
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does a middle class American want to spend his or her entire evening fiddling with this to get a somewhat inferior copy for the sole purpose of saving $15?
Yes. What, you never copied cassette tapes back in the days before dual-deck high speed dubbing recorders? We used to stick two decks in a room facing one another, close the door and tell everyone in the house to shut up for an hour.
Battery life is not the limiting factor. I've got an extended run battery for my minidv camera that will keep it spinning for 4+ hours straight. Longer if I don't use the big power wasting flip-out screen. And it's not that big - still fits nicely in the palm of my hand.
Tape would be a problem. Not sure how they overcome that. Two cameras, maybe? When one runs out, stick the other up next to it and merge them in software later.
Only CAM I've ever seen was of such low resolution you could have recorded the whole 2 hour movie on a 256mb memory card. New tapeless cameras are super tiny, draw little to no power, and a 1GB flash card would be more than adequate if filmed in low quality mode. Which is what you get with a CAM.
Agreed. I'm sorry, but this device is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Nobody will buy this. It will take as long to put the shirt on this thing as it would to just iron it yourself. And what about pants? $1700 and you still have to iron your own pants?
For that matter, what are you supposed to do if you need to iron a dozen shirts? By the time this thing finishes the first three, the others will have air dried & be wrinkled. Meanwhile you have to stand around and feed it shirt after shirt.
All of my electricity comes from a combination of wind, hydro, and nuclear. I love the Pacific Northwest.
Yeah - that's the other problem. These bastard automakers don't make enough to go around. I've had my eye on either a Prius or a Honda Insight for quite some time. None of the Toyota or Honda dealerships around here has one nor do they have plans to get one. So I can't test drive the car. They'll order one if I buy, but I won't buy a car without a good test drive. And it's the same line: "It could take 6 months to a year to get it in."
How do you expect people to actually use these vehicles if you can't test drive them and have to jump through hoops and wait a year to buy one? Most car purchases are impulse. If you want people to use these vehicles you need to get them sitting on dealer's lots so we can come by and go, "Ohh, shiny."
Seriously, a flashlight built into a cellphone would be great. How many of us have used the backlighting from the LCD to locate stuff in the dark? I'm guilty. In fact I've done it several times. So why not just put a couple of high powered LEDs in the front of the thing with an on/off button? That would get me one step closer to the perfect "Swiss Army Cellphone."
Some very cool videos available
Heh. Not anymore, they aren't.
It isn't fair use. If you are using more than 30 seconds of the song, are not an archival instituation, using it for educational purposes (with permission), its no longer under fair use. Please acutally read over that clause in the copyright law.
No, it is you who needs to read over that clause. It's my damn CD. I bought it, and if I want to copy the music to my computer and listen to it there, that's fair use. The fact that I'm synching another piece of software to the music is immaterial.
That's not entrapment. Entrapment only applies to the government. Besides, holding out a stick of candy isn't entrapment, anyway. Police officers routinely dress like whores and stand on a street corner waiting to be propositioned. That's not entrapment.
Entrapment is when they approach you and convince you to do something you otherwise would not have done: "Hey buddy... I've got this MP3. You want some? It's really good. You won't get in trouble. Come on..."
tax cuts for the wealthy
Let it rest already. I am far from wealthy and I've benefited from Bush's tax cuts to the tune of several thousand dollars thus far. I appreciate being able to keep more of my own money.
People should not be free to exchange information in any manor they chose.
You need to move to China or Singapore; you'll fit in well with their thought police. America is supposed to be a free country. If I want to exchange information anonymously, that's my right to do so, and it's none of your business what that information is. If you want to live like a prisoner there are plenty of other places on the globe where you can find your sick, twisted Eden already implemented. Stop trying to implement it here.
Here's an idea: how about growing the fuck up and paying for your music and movies? How about not stealing things that don't belong to you? How about abandoning your rediculously naive and misguided notion that you are somehow entitled to free merchandise.?
Hilary? Is that you?
Simply adding a "y" to your last name isn't enough to fool us...
Start shooting a million civilians of thier own country because they want to go see what thier tax dollars are paying for?
Yes. It is a top secret government installation and you can be shot on sight. If a million people just waltzed on in there, they would be massacred.
Sorry, the government hasn't admitted to keeping little green men there.
That's because they don't. I worked with a guy who worked for several years at Area 51. Every day he boarded an airplane with blacked out windows with other employees and was flown to work. He gets very angry when people talk about UFOs and aliens. He said, "There are cool things that I can't talk about. But there are no damn aliens. I worked there for years, I should know."
She and her husband are lucky they weren't simply shot on sight.
I believe what you say about there being specific depots that are the problem.
I used to live in Oak Harbor, WA. Packages and letters we mailed out went missing on a regular basis. I only lived there a year and half a dozen mailings never made it to their destinations. The response every time was "Sorry, we don't know what happened to it." This after filing all sorts of paperwork and waiting weeks for them to "search".
(and if you have the DDR soundtracks, you just rip the music from them and never have to pay for another DDR Game ever again),
Exactly. That's not unfair, it's fair use. I can rip my songs and let Stepmania process them if I damn well please. Why should I have to keep buying new versions of the DDR software when all I really want are the extra songs?
Hey, I'm not arguing with you about women and their SUVs. Most people can't drive bigger vehicles period, but it sure does seem that women have even more of a problem with them.
:)
Still, why hate the SUV when the person driving it is the problem? Take them out of their SUV, they might just buy a big pickup. Then what? You'll hate big pickups, too? It just seems silly to me.
If someone could come up with a cheap paver that collected solar power and all parking lots used them we could be a long way toward getting rid of oil.
Uhm, why not just use roofs? They cover a huge amount of area.
I hate SUV's. I used to only have to deal with vans and 18 wheelers, but now i have to worry about all the middle aged women running me over because they're checking their lipstick while talking on the phone.
Brilliant logic. Here's one that's equally stupid: I hate the Internet, because I have to worry about spam.
Why not hate the middle aged woman who can't drive for shit? The SUV is not the problem, it's the idiot behind the wheel.
Once you calm back down and bother to look at the cars in traffic around you, notice how most of these SUVs are single persons driving and are not being used to haul or tow vehicles.
During the commute, you fool. I hear this lame argument all the time. Did you ever stop to think about what sort of use the vehicle gets on the evenings & weekends? For all you know, it hauls half a dozen kids to soccer practice twice a week. Or a boat on the weekends. Or a bunch of friends and skiing/hiking/mountain climbing/other sporting gear.
But no, you don't think about that. Instead you whine about how all of the SUVs you see are only carrying one person. No shit, Sherlock: The driver is on his way to or from work. Of course he's by himself. Seems like you expect people to buy multiple vehicles for various uses, which makes zero economic sense. Sure, I could buy a $15k sedan for commuting in addition to my SUV. The sedan will get 35mpg if I shop well. The SUV will get 20. The extra insurance on the sedan will cost more than the extra gas for the SUV, not to mention the initial $15k outlay.
Sorry pal. I think I'll save the $15k and drive my SUV to work, by myself.
The point here is that all these companies sell products that the people *watching* would buy.
... etc.
Pro gaming just needs to concentrate on the right advertisers:
- Jolt cola
- Pizza hut
- Acne medications
- Miracle weight loss pills
- "Big & short" clothing companies
- Porn distributors
- Overprotective mothers
Definately don't go with Hawking Tech.
These people are bastards. I bought an 8 port 10/100 switch back when they were $400. After the warranty was up the external power supply failed. Finding it hard to locate a 6v supply that put out the necessary 5 amps, I called to purchase a replacement.
"We no sell those. You buy new switch." Then he hung up on me.
Now, when there is an outage, Tier II usually calls us. And credits our bill for the down time. Of course, paying a bit extra for a business-class cable line makes a lot of difference.
You're a business class user and have to fight with Tier 1 at all? I had a business class cable connection for a year. When I had to call, tier 1 would answer, ask me my account information, and say, "What can I help you with today?" My answer: "You can transfer me to tier 2 support."
Never had a problem. Only once did they actually ask me why. A one sentence explanation of the problem using as many acronyms as I could fit in there and, "I'll transfer you to tier 2. Hang on..."
I don't know why, but this reminds me of an experience I had at a Home Depot once. I'm walking through the store minding my own business and this guy comes up to me and asks me where some part is located. I'm dressed in my khaki slacks, nice belt, polo shirt - it never occured to me that he could possibly have mistook me for a Home Depot employee. I just figured he was lost and was asking a stranger for help.
Unfortunately I had no idea where his widget was located and so I responded, "I have no idea." He actually flinched. Then he made a horrible looking face and began to berate me, telling me I should know this stuff. It finally occured to me that he thought I was a store employee. How, I have no damn idea. I said, "You know, I don't actually work here." He rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, right." I just walked away. What a moron. I can imagine the conversation he had with the store manager about the terrible attitude of "his employees."