I-bead: 3.4 by 0.6 by 0.9 inches, 1.3 ounces (Other flash players are similar)
Big difference here, at least to me. Yes, the ipod is very small for a hard drive player, but it's going to be a long time until it can match the size of a flash player. It's a question of what's more important to you: size or capacity.
(Also, I trust a flash player to be more durable when my clumsy self drops it on the floor)
Apple makes such great hardware....I wish they would make a flash based MP3 player to compliment the Ipod because it would rock.
Yeah I know everyone is going to say that flash memory is way too expensive, and they capacities are too small. But I would rather pay $300 for a tiny, ultralight player with 256-512MB than an ipod size 10GB player. Yes, the ipod is very small, light, and durable for a hard drive based player, but it will never come close to the size/weight/durability of flash players. Having something I can barely notice in my pocket is much more important than having every single MP3 I will ever own on hand at all times, even if this means loading new songs every 2 or 3 days (which is about how often I change the mp3 files on my flash players now).
I just got a new MP3 player from Korea called the i-bead. 256 MB of storage, built in battery that charges through the USB port, built in usb plug (no cable needed), NO DRM, shows up in Windows/Mac/Linux as a generic USB flash drive. It's pretty much everything I want, but if Apple unleashed it's useability engineers on this, I can't imagine how much better it would be.
I was thinking the same thing. That diagram does nothing but rehash a condensed version of the article with cute figures. It does nothing to enhance one's understanding of the subject matter (which isn't really that difficult to grasp anyways).
The all purpose descriptor for ANYTHING technical that goes wrong. From a dead hard drive, to the code red worm, to an intern that tripped over the power cord.....all you have to do is say that there has been a "computer glitch" and people nod their heads in understanding and let it slide.
I have not had a floppy on any of my computers I have built in the past 5 years, nor have I ever owned a floppy drive that worked properly. They are antiques; worthless pieces of hardware that should have been eliminated at least 10 years ago. There is no need for them when you can cheaply burn cds, email files to yourself, use your hard drive, etc. Linux ISOs have been bootable for a long time now, and even Microsoft Windows install cds are bootable.
Floppies are slow, low capacity, and TOTALLY UNRELIABLE. I worked as a lab assistant in college and if it wasn't for the daily floppy drive corruption problems I probably wouldn't have had a job. We were allowed 100MB of network storage, but people still used floppy drives and consequently lost their work. The sooner the public is weaned away from this antiquated technology the better.
I don't know much about the roots of Led Zepplin and Eminem, but I am a huge Beatles fan. And I'll tell you this, record companies had a lot to do with us not getting the Beatles sooner.
They received countless rejections, including the one from Decca that famously said "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out". And once they did make it big, Capitol Records still felt they needed to rearrange their albums to make them more palatable to the American public.
The biggest reasons for The Beatles making it big was their pure, raw talent, plus their strong drive to be the toppermost of the poppermost because they believed they were the "best fucking group in the god-damned world". And Brian Epstein definitely had a lot to do with their breaking through to superstardom too.
I had the same problem with my SS40G. I search the net and found that the heatpipe/heatsink device pulls on the CPU and it no longer makes good contact. You have to unseat the CPU and then reseat it after you slightly bend the heatpipes. I was skeptial at first but it solved my problem.
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Mod me as a troll if you want but this needs to be said....
The BSA is cracking down on software piracy in countries where the poverty rate is 30% and sysadmins get paid ~$300-$600 per month? How do they sleep at night? And do they REALLY think all those pirated copes of Office, IIS, etc. are going to be turned into legit sales once they put the pressure on?
I can't see this doing anything but pushing more and more people towards open source, because it is their ONLY option. The funny thing is that they really do want to use proprietary software, and if they could offer more REASONABLE prices they could probably capture more market share than with their greed-inflated prices.
But of course that will never happen, and when more and more open source software is used in its place I will laugh as they sleep in the bed they made.
I signed up for yahoo news alerts and baseball scores for my favorite team. They are rarely delivered (perhaps 1 or 2 days out of a month) even though text messages from all my friends never have any problems getting through.
Strangely enough, I get yahoo horoscopes and weather forecasts at the EXACT same time EVERY day. I wish they would get their act together, but it's a free service so I can't really complain much.
The Better Business Bureau is certainly not worthless in my experience.
I was stiffed on about $4.00 worth of candles from a well-known candle reatiler when the clerk forgot to put them in my bag as I paid for them. Customer service reps told me they could give me a replacement if I sent in my receipt. Now since it was such a small amount of money involved, I had thrown the receipt out and they said a replacement could not be made without it.
They could never answer my question as to how me producing a receipt for them would prove that the clerk made the mistake. After all, couldn't I just make up a story about not getting my merchandise and then get double what I paid for, just by showing them a recipt?
Now I know someone is going to say it was my fault for not keeping the receipt, and the company can't just hand over free merchandise to anyone who walks in and claims they were stiffed. That's true, but I am the customer, and I am under no obligation to keep my receipt just in case they screw up. Why should their mistake cost me money? And who goes through all this trouble for $4.00 worth of merchandise anyways?
After being given the shaft I filled out a report on bbb.org one day when I was bored at work. I didn't expect much out of it, but a month or so later I got a check from the company in question for $4.00! I wasn't worried about the money, but the principle of it got me more mad than anything.
It's a shame that they lost a customer for life over such a small amount of money. I could be missing a Whopper at the Burger King drive through and get a replacement with no problem because most companies understand that people treated fairly usually will not try to screw the company in return.
So, since we're talking about Speakeasy....does anyone know if they are likely to go under anytime soon?
I ask this as a 2 year DirecTV/Telocity customer (very satisfied) that is in the process of switching to Speakeasy because DirecTV isn't available on my new house's phone line.
I honestly don't think its a rationalization, I think it makes sense. I'm sure we've all heard the saying that goes "only unpopular speech needs protection".
Gun ownership is popular among enough people to have its own advocacy group. Whereas flag burners and drug users and opposers of the so-called War on Terror are not. If I was in charge of the ACLU's limited resources, I would make the same decision
I've always heard that the reason The ACLU does not get involved in 2nd Amendment issues is because of the size and strength of the NRA. Because of the NRA, we can be sure that the right to keep and bear arms will be defended and the ALCU can avoid redundancy and throw their weigth behind other causes.
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I would think that a stadium of 60k+ would have better cost cutting measures to worry about than 5 payphones that cost only $750/month to maintain.
Probably like this:
Frustrated Schilling smashes QuesTec machine.
Dre's protege wears a "Fuck Napster" shirt on MTV
Photo here
But if you do act out and assault someone, your thoughts and motives (not just the act committed)can be used determine the severity of the crime.
Base hit.
Replace that with THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD and the sentence is also still true!!
Ipod: 4.1 by 2.4 by 0.62 inches, 5.6 ounces
I-bead: 3.4 by 0.6 by 0.9 inches, 1.3 ounces
(Other flash players are similar)
Big difference here, at least to me. Yes, the ipod is very small for a hard drive player, but it's going to be a long time until it can match the size of a flash player. It's a question of what's more important to you: size or capacity.
(Also, I trust a flash player to be more durable when my clumsy self drops it on the floor)
Apple makes such great hardware....I wish they would make a flash based MP3 player to compliment the Ipod because it would rock.
Yeah I know everyone is going to say that flash memory is way too expensive, and they capacities are too small. But I would rather pay $300 for a tiny, ultralight player with 256-512MB than an ipod size 10GB player. Yes, the ipod is very small, light, and durable for a hard drive based player, but it will never come close to the size/weight/durability of flash players. Having something I can barely notice in my pocket is much more important than having every single MP3 I will ever own on hand at all times, even if this means loading new songs every 2 or 3 days (which is about how often I change the mp3 files on my flash players now).
I just got a new MP3 player from Korea called the i-bead. 256 MB of storage, built in battery that charges through the USB port, built in usb plug (no cable needed), NO DRM, shows up in Windows/Mac/Linux as a generic USB flash drive. It's pretty much everything I want, but if Apple unleashed it's useability engineers on this, I can't imagine how much better it would be.
Paul McCartney's cigarette on the Abbey Road cover has been removed.
Your idea is as bad as Anti-spam software companies using spam to sell their product.
I was thinking the same thing. That diagram does nothing but rehash a condensed version of the article with cute figures. It does nothing to enhance one's understanding of the subject matter (which isn't really that difficult to grasp anyways).
There have been several rumors lately that the Nex IIe from Frontier Labs will support Oggs RealSoonNow (tm).
Link to yahoo group thread.
use the NYT archive
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http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/02/17/technology/
glitch.
The all purpose descriptor for ANYTHING technical that goes wrong. From a dead hard drive, to the code red worm, to an intern that tripped over the power cord.....all you have to do is say that there has been a "computer glitch" and people nod their heads in understanding and let it slide.
I have not had a floppy on any of my computers I have built in the past 5 years, nor have I ever owned a floppy drive that worked properly. They are antiques; worthless pieces of hardware that should have been eliminated at least 10 years ago. There is no need for them when you can cheaply burn cds, email files to yourself, use your hard drive, etc. Linux ISOs have been bootable for a long time now, and even Microsoft Windows install cds are bootable.
Floppies are slow, low capacity, and TOTALLY UNRELIABLE. I worked as a lab assistant in college and if it wasn't for the daily floppy drive corruption problems I probably wouldn't have had a job. We were allowed 100MB of network storage, but people still used floppy drives and consequently lost their work. The sooner the public is weaned away from this antiquated technology the better.
http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/technology/0 3ONLI.html
I don't know much about the roots of Led Zepplin and Eminem, but I am a huge Beatles fan. And I'll tell you this, record companies had a lot to do with us not getting the Beatles sooner.
They received countless rejections, including the one from Decca that famously said "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out". And once they did make it big, Capitol Records still felt they needed to rearrange their albums to make them more palatable to the American public.
The biggest reasons for The Beatles making it big was their pure, raw talent, plus their strong drive to be the toppermost of the poppermost because they believed they were the "best fucking group in the god-damned world". And Brian Epstein definitely had a lot to do with their breaking through to superstardom too.
I had the same problem with my SS40G. I search the net and found that the heatpipe/heatsink device pulls on the CPU and it no longer makes good contact. You have to unseat the CPU and then reseat it after you slightly bend the heatpipes. I was skeptial at first but it solved my problem.
Here's the original appearance of this article
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html
Mod me as a troll if you want but this needs to be said....
The BSA is cracking down on software piracy in countries where the poverty rate is 30% and sysadmins get paid ~$300-$600 per month? How do they sleep at night? And do they REALLY think all those pirated copes of Office, IIS, etc. are going to be turned into legit sales once they put the pressure on?
I can't see this doing anything but pushing more and more people towards open source, because it is their ONLY option. The funny thing is that they really do want to use proprietary software, and if they could offer more REASONABLE prices they could probably capture more market share than with their greed-inflated prices.
But of course that will never happen, and when more and more open source software is used in its place I will laugh as they sleep in the bed they made.
Hahaha. No shit.
I've been signed up for them since June.
And I KNOW newsworthy things happen in December.
I signed up for yahoo news alerts and baseball scores for my favorite team. They are rarely delivered (perhaps 1 or 2 days out of a month) even though text messages from all my friends never have any problems getting through.
Strangely enough, I get yahoo horoscopes and weather forecasts at the EXACT same time EVERY day. I wish they would get their act together, but it's a free service so I can't really complain much.
The Better Business Bureau is certainly not worthless in my experience.
I was stiffed on about $4.00 worth of candles from a well-known candle reatiler when the clerk forgot to put them in my bag as I paid for them. Customer service reps told me they could give me a replacement if I sent in my receipt. Now since it was such a small amount of money involved, I had thrown the receipt out and they said a replacement could not be made without it. They could never answer my question as to how me producing a receipt for them would prove that the clerk made the mistake. After all, couldn't I just make up a story about not getting my merchandise and then get double what I paid for, just by showing them a recipt?
Now I know someone is going to say it was my fault for not keeping the receipt, and the company can't just hand over free merchandise to anyone who walks in and claims they were stiffed. That's true, but I am the customer, and I am under no obligation to keep my receipt just in case they screw up. Why should their mistake cost me money? And who goes through all this trouble for $4.00 worth of merchandise anyways?
After being given the shaft I filled out a report on bbb.org one day when I was bored at work. I didn't expect much out of it, but a month or so later I got a check from the company in question for $4.00! I wasn't worried about the money, but the principle of it got me more mad than anything.
It's a shame that they lost a customer for life over such a small amount of money. I could be missing a Whopper at the Burger King drive through and get a replacement with no problem because most companies understand that people treated fairly usually will not try to screw the company in return.
So, since we're talking about Speakeasy....does anyone know if they are likely to go under anytime soon?
I ask this as a 2 year DirecTV/Telocity customer (very satisfied) that is in the process of switching to Speakeasy because DirecTV isn't available on my new house's phone line.
I honestly don't think its a rationalization, I think it makes sense. I'm sure we've all heard the saying that goes "only unpopular speech needs protection".
Gun ownership is popular among enough people to have its own advocacy group. Whereas flag burners and drug users and opposers of the so-called War on Terror are not. If I was in charge of the ACLU's limited resources, I would make the same decision
I've always heard that the reason The ACLU does not get involved in 2nd Amendment issues is because of the size and strength of the NRA. Because of the NRA, we can be sure that the right to keep and bear arms will be defended and the ALCU can avoid redundancy and throw their weigth behind other causes.