At first glance the giant white bezel under the LCD looks out of place and kind of clunky, the screen cannot be adjusted and sits too high for most people, and the cables when attached will pull the screen back and become an annoyance. Other than that it looks pretty cool.
I was hoping for something without the integrated display. The Powermac G5's are way to gargantuan for my desktop and too expensive... and I already have an external LCD display... ah well.
If it it plays music and is easy to use (and yes, it can be easy to use without using a clickwheel) it will sell.
The Rio Carbon "iPod Mini Slayer" has been available in black for over a year now; it was actually released months before the iPod mini albiet at 1.5GB.
It was one of the first "mini" players to offer everything the iPod offered and more... in a small thin case to boot. With no iPod Mini in sight the player actually had no competition. So why didn't it sell?
Marketing. The early adopters had already bought their players so the only market left was the masses. The masses are easily influenced by style. Stylish ads, stylish interface, stylish software, stylish player.
Reviews of the black Rio Nitrus were luke-warm at best. Most people agreed that the player itself was stylish, but the interface was clunky, the software was garbage, and there were no stylish ads to say otherwise.
Lets face it, every player plays MP3... The masses don't really care whether or not the player has OGG support or lossless audio support. So when all things are equal the style factor kicks in.
This new Rio Carbon is a true testament to the success of Apples approach to marketing style. They have duplicated it right down to the box.
Unfortunately by doing so there is really no good reason for the masses to jump onboard. When mom or dad is buying an MP3 player for Christmas and they have to choose between the $249 5GB Rio Carbon or the $249 4GB iPod Mini which box do you think they will reach for?
Thankfully Archos seems to moving in the right direction; away from the behemoth awkward looking players of the past.
However, why on earth would they release a portable video player with a display only slightly larger than the iPod's (2.2 inch vs. 2 inch)? Even the gameboy has a bigger screen (2.9 inch). There is alot of wasted realestate on the new Archos which could have been used for a bigger display.
Sony should add video and audio playback capabilities to the upcoming 4.5 inch w i d e s c r e e n PSP. That would truely be an iPod killer.
I wonder when the RIAA will figure out that they are suing the wrong people...
For starters the Internet is a global medium. I really don't see how picking on a handful of John Does in the United States will limit the availability of audio on P2P networks as a whole. Even if the RIAA managed to shutdown every computer sharing audio files in the United States people would still be downloading (from the rest of the world) and not buying.
The fact is it doesn't matter where the people sharing are... because in order to stem to decline in CD sales you have to stop the downloads themselves.
I think the more successful campaign revolved around flooding the networks with low quality audio files. This way they could market CD's as a big step up. In fact even today low quality audio files are a major drawback of using P2P for regular folk.
Furthermore I wonder why the RIAA hasn't gone after.binaries newsgroups, torrents or some of the other networks where people have been "sharing" high quality MP3's and lossless audio for years. Torrents have made sharing audio via websites even more accessible than ever before: to the point that Google searches for band name / torrent usually get results.
The RIAA seems to be 2 steps behind what is going on in the real world.
Do we really need a psychologist from Columbia University to tell us that its difficult to perform tasks involving quantities over three within a tribe if you only have the volcabulary to count to two?
But when you visit samba.org do they charge you for the download?
The Real format is closed source as well. What do you think they (Real) would do if Microsoft reverse engineered the Real codec and then used it on the new M$ music store to allow compatibility with the Real player? Its all relative.
Unfortunately Sonic didn't have the staying power that Mario had / has. Sonic sucked after Sonic 2 and the Genesis... Mario was / is alive and kicking on almost every Nintendo system to date.
My 12" Powerbook G4 Rev.A can play a ~2.5 hour high resolution DivX (with the LCD off / video out plugged into a TV) at which point it starts complaining about the battery. Luckily most movies I download clock in at around 2 hours which is perfect.
I can squeeze almost 4 hours out of it browsing the web and word processing.
I would upgrade from 10.3.2 to 10.3.4 which supposedly has better battery managment... but the fan runs non-stop with anything over 10.3.2... which is much more annoying than the heat.
i can tile 2 projectors together with my matrox dualhead display.. 4 doesn't seem to far fetched or newsworthy really.
its like that guy who stitched together 190+ pictures from his digital camera and claims he broke the 1 gigapixel barrier...
taking pieces of smaller images - whether they be projected or not - and stitching them together into someting bigger has been commonplace on the backs of trading cards for years..
Despite being toxic both chemically and because of its ionising radiation, plutonium is far from being 'the most toxic substance on earth' or so hazardous that 'a speck can kill'.
On both counts there are substances in daily use that, per unit of mass, have equal or greater chemical toxicity (arsenic, cyanide, caffeine) and radiotoxicity (smoke detectors).
jesus.. thanks for the story.. i would never consider lasik after reading what you went through.
who on earth would want a doctor experimenting with a laser and blades on their eyeball... i thought lasik was the next generation... i thought it was supposed to address all of these issues and uncertainty.
i think i will stick with my soft and gelly accuvue 2's...
... then a 25 disc Starwars Special Extended Lucas Edition complete with the ghost of Jar Jar and Qui Qon Jin inserted into the original trilogy Jedi ghost sequences for continuity purposes.
Years ago I was migrating my backup directory from an old 20GB drive to a brand spanking new 80GB drive.
After copying everything over to the 80GB drive I proceeded to rm -rf * the old drive to wipe it clean. What I didn't realize was that the current working directory was the 80GB drive when I did this.
A couple of days later I re-formatted the 20GB drive and installed Gentoo on it. You can imagine my surprise when I mounted the 80GB drive and nothing was on it!
Even though I had been diligently backing everything up via cron for years in case of hardware failure I lost it all due to human error.. go figure!
Yes it seems a little premature to start previewing Tiger when many Mac users, myself included, only recently upgraded to Panther.
In fact people seem to have taken to the Panther name, and the features that Panther has to offer over its predecessors. I am not exactly sure why Apple would start the phase out process after only a little more than a year with Panther...
Today spam assassin filtered (flagged) 19,246 incoming emails out of 20,145 total on my mail server. Absolutely no false positives since I installed it a year ago.. and only a few false negatives. I silently drop anything with a score over 13... my cstomers are happy.. my qmail remote queue has been happy.. spam assassin is a quality app.. spam is really not a concern anymore.
my feeling is backwards compatibility on a consol is kind of overrated. First of all as the parent thread states if you OWN gen1 games you probably own a gen1 consol.
More importantly old games look and feel their age when played on a new consol... and basically have been played to death anyways.. which is why you buy the new consol in the first place. Yaya there are a few people who prefer the odd old game.. but like the parent says.. play it on your old consol.
Why bother making something backwards compatible when noone is going to be purchasing the old games anyways... the old games look like garbage... and most people who have the old games already own the old consol.
the point of a new console is a massive leap forward in technology to open the door for exciting new games.
the entire album was on bittorrent about a week before it was released... ripped from cd presumably...
off topic for this thread... velvet revolver music-wise is not that bad but not nearly as good as audioslave's self titled release last year. why am i comparing it to audioslave? the musicians in both bands are a mishmash of talent from supergroups long gone.
agreed.. my ISP is having a hard enough time meeting their advertised 3mbit downstream 40k upstream... anything that requires peering to some other network is slower than a monkeys uncle.
Actually the iRiver PiMP 120 is pretty much a knockoff of the Archos av300.
Both are beastly and just big enough to be uncomfortable in your pocket.
Everyone has a different taste for looks... but I think these things should be designed much slimmer so they can be truely portable. Anything over 1" thick seems a little bulky especially wioth that much surface area. My PDA has a big screen and is only.4 inches think.
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At first glance the giant white bezel under the LCD looks out of place and kind of clunky, the screen cannot be adjusted and sits too high for most people, and the cables when attached will pull the screen back and become an annoyance. Other than that it looks pretty cool.
... and I already have an external LCD display ... ah well.
I was hoping for something without the integrated display. The Powermac G5's are way to gargantuan for my desktop and too expensive
The Rio Carbon "iPod Mini Slayer" has been available in black for over a year now; it was actually released months before the iPod mini albiet at 1.5GB.
It was one of the first "mini" players to offer everything the iPod offered and more ... in a small thin case to boot. With no iPod Mini in sight the player actually had no competition. So why didn't it sell?
Marketing. The early adopters had already bought their players so the only market left was the masses. The masses are easily influenced by style. Stylish ads, stylish interface, stylish software, stylish player.
Reviews of the black Rio Nitrus were luke-warm at best. Most people agreed that the player itself was stylish, but the interface was clunky, the software was garbage, and there were no stylish ads to say otherwise.
Lets face it, every player plays MP3 ... The masses don't really care whether or not the player has OGG support or lossless audio support. So when all things are equal the style factor kicks in.
This new Rio Carbon is a true testament to the success of Apples approach to marketing style. They have duplicated it right down to the box.
Unfortunately by doing so there is really no good reason for the masses to jump onboard. When mom or dad is buying an MP3 player for Christmas and they have to choose between the $249 5GB Rio Carbon or the $249 4GB iPod Mini which box do you think they will reach for?
I bought my 20Gb 4G iPod for $389+tax (15%) which worked out to $447.00 .. last week .. you paid alot more than I did
However, why on earth would they release a portable video player with a display only slightly larger than the iPod's (2.2 inch vs. 2 inch)? Even the gameboy has a bigger screen (2.9 inch). There is alot of wasted realestate on the new Archos which could have been used for a bigger display.
Sony should add video and audio playback capabilities to the upcoming 4.5 inch w i d e s c r e e n PSP. That would truely be an iPod killer.
Why even bother comparing a portable video player to the iPod? Oranges and Apples really.
... its as thick as a brick.
In reality there is nothing special about the PMC OS. The Creative Zen PMC Player looks like a cheap version of the upcoming Sony PSP.
Either way you can't really call the Creative player portable
the 30 minute acid trip was ..... trippy .. and the star child ..... out of this world .....
I wonder when the RIAA will figure out that they are suing the wrong people ...
... because in order to stem to decline in CD sales you have to stop the downloads themselves.
.binaries newsgroups, torrents or some of the other networks where people have been "sharing" high quality MP3's and lossless audio for years. Torrents have made sharing audio via websites even more accessible than ever before: to the point that Google searches for band name / torrent usually get results.
For starters the Internet is a global medium. I really don't see how picking on a handful of John Does in the United States will limit the availability of audio on P2P networks as a whole. Even if the RIAA managed to shutdown every computer sharing audio files in the United States people would still be downloading (from the rest of the world) and not buying.
The fact is it doesn't matter where the people sharing are
I think the more successful campaign revolved around flooding the networks with low quality audio files. This way they could market CD's as a big step up. In fact even today low quality audio files are a major drawback of using P2P for regular folk.
Furthermore I wonder why the RIAA hasn't gone after
The RIAA seems to be 2 steps behind what is going on in the real world.
Do we really need a psychologist from Columbia University to tell us that its difficult to perform tasks involving quantities over three within a tribe if you only have the volcabulary to count to two?
But when you visit samba.org do they charge you for the download?
The Real format is closed source as well. What do you think they (Real) would do if Microsoft reverse engineered the Real codec and then used it on the new M$ music store to allow compatibility with the Real player? Its all relative.
Unfortunately Sonic didn't have the staying power that Mario had / has. Sonic sucked after Sonic 2 and the Genesis ... Mario was / is alive and kicking on almost every Nintendo system to date.
i guess your sh*t out of luck if you want to use a 15 inch+ LCD ...
My 12" Powerbook G4 Rev.A can play a ~2.5 hour high resolution DivX (with the LCD off / video out plugged into a TV) at which point it starts complaining about the battery. Luckily most movies I download clock in at around 2 hours which is perfect.
... but the fan runs non-stop with anything over 10.3.2 ... which is much more annoying than the heat.
I can squeeze almost 4 hours out of it browsing the web and word processing.
I would upgrade from 10.3.2 to 10.3.4 which supposedly has better battery managment
why is tiling 4 projectors together newsworthy?
.. 4 doesn't seem to far fetched or newsworthy really.
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i can tile 2 projectors together with my matrox dualhead display
its like that guy who stitched together 190+ pictures from his digital camera and claims he broke the 1 gigapixel barrier
taking pieces of smaller images - whether they be projected or not - and stitching them together into someting bigger has been commonplace on the backs of trading cards for years
Despite being toxic both chemically and because of its ionising radiation, plutonium is far from being 'the most toxic substance on earth' or so hazardous that 'a speck can kill'.
On both counts there are substances in daily use that, per unit of mass, have equal or greater chemical toxicity (arsenic, cyanide, caffeine) and radiotoxicity (smoke detectors).
more: http://www.uic.com.au/nip18.htm
jesus .. thanks for the story .. i would never consider lasik after reading what you went through.
... i thought lasik was the next generation ... i thought it was supposed to address all of these issues and uncertainty.
...
who on earth would want a doctor experimenting with a laser and blades on their eyeball
i think i will stick with my soft and gelly accuvue 2's
... then a 25 disc Starwars Special Extended Lucas Edition complete with the ghost of Jar Jar and Qui Qon Jin inserted into the original trilogy Jedi ghost sequences for continuity purposes.
Years ago I was migrating my backup directory from an old 20GB drive to a brand spanking new 80GB drive.
.. go figure!
After copying everything over to the 80GB drive I proceeded to rm -rf * the old drive to wipe it clean. What I didn't realize was that the current working directory was the 80GB drive when I did this.
A couple of days later I re-formatted the 20GB drive and installed Gentoo on it. You can imagine my surprise when I mounted the 80GB drive and nothing was on it!
Even though I had been diligently backing everything up via cron for years in case of hardware failure I lost it all due to human error
Yes it seems a little premature to start previewing Tiger when many Mac users, myself included, only recently upgraded to Panther.
...
In fact people seem to have taken to the Panther name, and the features that Panther has to offer over its predecessors. I am not exactly sure why Apple would start the phase out process after only a little more than a year with Panther
Garfield comes to mind ... or Sylvester ...
freeBSD 4.9: /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
cd
make
make install
edit
how hard was that?
Today spam assassin filtered (flagged) 19,246 incoming emails out of 20,145 total on my mail server. Absolutely no false positives since I installed it a year ago .. and only a few false negatives. I silently drop anything with a score over 13 ... my cstomers are happy .. my qmail remote queue has been happy .. spam assassin is a quality app .. spam is really not a concern anymore.
my feeling is backwards compatibility on a consol is kind of overrated. First of all as the parent thread states if you OWN gen1 games you probably own a gen1 consol.
... and basically have been played to death anyways .. which is why you buy the new consol in the first place. Yaya there are a few people who prefer the odd old game .. but like the parent says .. play it on your old consol.
... the old games look like garbage ... and most people who have the old games already own the old consol.
More importantly old games look and feel their age when played on a new consol
Why bother making something backwards compatible when noone is going to be purchasing the old games anyways
the point of a new console is a massive leap forward in technology to open the door for exciting new games.
the entire album was on bittorrent about a week before it was released ... ripped from cd presumably ...
... velvet revolver music-wise is not that bad but not nearly as good as audioslave's self titled release last year. why am i comparing it to audioslave? the musicians in both bands are a mishmash of talent from supergroups long gone.
off topic for this thread
agreed .. my ISP is having a hard enough time meeting their advertised 3mbit downstream 40k upstream ... anything that requires peering to some other network is slower than a monkeys uncle.
Both are beastly and just big enough to be uncomfortable in your pocket.
Everyone has a different taste for looks ... but I think these things should be designed much slimmer so they can be truely portable. Anything over 1" thick seems a little bulky especially wioth that much surface area. My PDA has a big screen and is only .4 inches think.