Get a moist piece of paper and put it on the corner of the remote, because the wheel of the iPod is still a "touch" device that works on the same principles as a computer touch pad.
Really, all you technically need to _buy_ is the griffin remote thingy, nothing else. The pocketPC is only a one time thing from which you record the signals of the remote. If you had read the whole article, you would find that you could have done this using a computer as well.
AFAIK, Seagate is one of the oldest and most widely known manufacturer of hard disk drives. Why would they suddenly introduce a long warrenty period _purely_ to establish reputation?
I prefer WD, but a 40mb Seagate drive I bought back in the late 80's still works fine even today.
I have an iPod, and use it entirely with non-Apple software on my linux box. Please explain to me how it "needs" iTunes.
Seriously tho, the real problem that I'm trying to address is the fact that many people have begun to think something along the lines of how the only way you can get music on the iPod is from iTMS, which is not true. iTunes just provides a convinent music store which provides seamless integration with the iPod, and is obviously easier than buying the album and ripping it.
No more need for studying... just find whatever information you need on the net and cram it into your brain! I like the sound of this.
Well, that is, if the accruacy of such a system can be trusted. I for one, can't distinguish opinion from fact because I read/. too much.
After learning about the Gameboy Player that attaches to the bottom of the GameCube, I had a dream about this other attachment that allowed inserting of SNES cartridges on the left side, NES cartridges on the right side, and N64 cartridges in the middle. Technically, I believe that this is entirely possible as the GameCube has enough computing power to emulate all these systems.
Except that in my dream, I could insert Sega Genesis cartridges in the back, but in reality, that would be somewhat of an oddity...
I was never really a huge fan of Nokia becuase of the fact that all of their phones were comparitavely bulky to the newer generation flip phones from Samsung, LG, Motorola, etc. It always irritated me that every single one of their devices was essentially an elongated rectangular prism (some models like NGage being the exception), often being heavier than the competetion. Of the many models that I've tried out, I always found the buttons to be somewhat hard to press, with the "keypad lock" feature to prevent accedental pressing of buttons while in a pocket/bag absolutely unbearable compared to the relative ease of just flipping a phone open.
I, for one, don't care about "interchangable faceplates" when the devices themselves are of somewhat dated design.
Note that the headline says "Can your car get 1,700 MPG?" Sure they did some kewl stuff that's probably useful in later technologies, however, with a headline like that, there's bound to be comments about how these vehicles are not actually cars, comparable more to go-karts, or how three wheeled vehicles are actually not street legal.
If it was something like "SAE contestents achieve 1,700 MPG" then I would think that these comments would be much less.
Oh, by that I meant file transfer between the iPods is slow and buggy. Yeah, peer to peer file transfer over ethernet over firewire has excellent speed.
Actually, I don't recall mentioning Sony anywhere in there, or TCP/IP over firewire. Moreover, Apple was the developer of Firewire, so I would guess there isn't anything they haven't "figured out."
Since Firewire is a peer to peer protocol, unlike USB being host and client, it is technically possible to connect two iPods together and share files. An implementation does exist, but its described as being "slow and buggy"
One of the iPods must have iPodLinux installed, which should include firewire support, as well as SBP2 support. Compile this as a module, and then connect the two iPods together with the Sendstation Pocketdock if they are 3G, or just a regular 6pin to 6pin FW cable if they are 1st or 2nd generation. Put the other iPod into firewire disk mode, and the one running linux should be able to mount it and access the files. This is incredibly impractical, as typing on the iPod requires turning the scroll wheel until the right character appears (incredibly annoying), and also very slow. However, it just goes to show that it _is_ possible for iPods to share files with just minimal extra hardware.
All the fiction books I bought were required reading for my English class, and,yes, the prices were simply horrendous. A 200 page book (Hesse, "Beneath the Wheel" ) for example, cost $12. That is simply ludicrous.
That's why I just return the books to the store after reading. There is never any visible damage, and by not flattening out pages when reading, the spine of paperbacks still look new. I don't highlight or notate in books either (never really understood why ppl do this when you can just use post-it notes, etc).
Though arguably immoral, nobody actually loses money in this circumstance. The bookstore can resell the book at original price. Besides, I still actually buy (without returning) my fair share of books (mostly nonfiction) to balance this out.
No its not! A year after much manhandling and absolutely no protection, no caution, and sometimes just intentionally being dumb (swapping non-hot swappable disk drives, adding/removing memory while it was still up) with an ECS motherboard (which I got for $40 new, the brand is absouletly TERRIBLE) nothing bad has happened.
And this board, it is the exact opposite of "quality" because it _came_ with IDE channel 0 broken and some other problems that I had to work around.
In the article, it keeps mentioning how a "VIN is to a vehice as DNA is to a human," however, this comparison is flawed in many ways.
First of all, you use the VIN to seach for details about a vehicle in a database, its not there to build a vehicle out of, which is the essential purpose of DNA for humans.
Secondly, you can't use a DNA sequence to seach for information about a person by simply typing it into a form somewhere on the net.
And then there exists the fact that there exist humans with the exact same DNA. Identical twins, for example, have the same genetic code.
They should say something like "a VIN is to a vehicle as an SSN is to a person." Even though the SSN is only in the US, its still a better analogy in comparison.
The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system in the SF/Bay Area costs just about the same to use, the only difference is that its not a flat rate, but rather, a calculated fare from station to station, averaging around $3 a ride, one way. The discounts if bought in bulk are minimal (only $4 savings when $60 worth of fare is bought), and I don't think there is an "all day pass" or anything of that sort.
I think it goes to show that when you think of this kind of rapid transit system, don't think "bus fare," which is usually cheaper. It may also be because these systems are not subsidized by local or state authorities, forcing them to charge higher fare. (though I'm not sure if this is true in either of these cases)
The word actually means death by electrical shock. If you got shocked by a Van de Graff generator, and are still alive to talk about it, then you have not been "electrocuted."
Sorry to nitpick on something so minor. The rest of the points in your comment are completely valid.
I don't HAVE a cell phone? Sure, its terribly inconvinent, and I'm probably in the minority, but how is that different than having a cell phone and not being able to use it? Are you saying that people are _expected_ to have cell phones?
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Get a moist piece of paper and put it on the corner of the remote, because the wheel of the iPod is still a "touch" device that works on the same principles as a computer touch pad.
Really, all you technically need to _buy_ is the griffin remote thingy, nothing else. The pocketPC is only a one time thing from which you record the signals of the remote. If you had read the whole article, you would find that you could have done this using a computer as well.
I prefer WD, but a 40mb Seagate drive I bought back in the late 80's still works fine even today.
Seriously tho, the real problem that I'm trying to address is the fact that many people have begun to think something along the lines of how the only way you can get music on the iPod is from iTMS, which is not true. iTunes just provides a convinent music store which provides seamless integration with the iPod, and is obviously easier than buying the album and ripping it.
No more need for studying... just find whatever information you need on the net and cram it into your brain! I like the sound of this. Well, that is, if the accruacy of such a system can be trusted. I for one, can't distinguish opinion from fact because I read /. too much.
After learning about the Gameboy Player that attaches to the bottom of the GameCube, I had a dream about this other attachment that allowed inserting of SNES cartridges on the left side, NES cartridges on the right side, and N64 cartridges in the middle. Technically, I believe that this is entirely possible as the GameCube has enough computing power to emulate all these systems. Except that in my dream, I could insert Sega Genesis cartridges in the back, but in reality, that would be somewhat of an oddity...
Sell the iPod you get and you can buy 2 of those Dell "Digital Jukeboxes"
I, for one, don't care about "interchangable faceplates" when the devices themselves are of somewhat dated design.
If it was something like "SAE contestents achieve 1,700 MPG" then I would think that these comments would be much less.
Wow, imagine one of those vehicles using a steam engine. I tihnk that would actually get much lower MPG than using internal combustion.
So, you're saying that flooring the car at every stoplight and hard breaking at every opportunity is _not_ good for MPG?
Oh, by that I meant file transfer between the iPods is slow and buggy. Yeah, peer to peer file transfer over ethernet over firewire has excellent speed.
Actually, I don't recall mentioning Sony anywhere in there, or TCP/IP over firewire. Moreover, Apple was the developer of Firewire, so I would guess there isn't anything they haven't "figured out."
One of the iPods must have iPodLinux installed, which should include firewire support, as well as SBP2 support. Compile this as a module, and then connect the two iPods together with the Sendstation Pocketdock if they are 3G, or just a regular 6pin to 6pin FW cable if they are 1st or 2nd generation. Put the other iPod into firewire disk mode, and the one running linux should be able to mount it and access the files. This is incredibly impractical, as typing on the iPod requires turning the scroll wheel until the right character appears (incredibly annoying), and also very slow. However, it just goes to show that it _is_ possible for iPods to share files with just minimal extra hardware.
they would make a movie out of my European History texts.
That's why I just return the books to the store after reading. There is never any visible damage, and by not flattening out pages when reading, the spine of paperbacks still look new. I don't highlight or notate in books either (never really understood why ppl do this when you can just use post-it notes, etc).
Though arguably immoral, nobody actually loses money in this circumstance. The bookstore can resell the book at original price. Besides, I still actually buy (without returning) my fair share of books (mostly nonfiction) to balance this out.
Are we forgetting that this time its New Zealand?
And this board, it is the exact opposite of "quality" because it _came_ with IDE channel 0 broken and some other problems that I had to work around.
First of all, you use the VIN to seach for details about a vehicle in a database, its not there to build a vehicle out of, which is the essential purpose of DNA for humans.
Secondly, you can't use a DNA sequence to seach for information about a person by simply typing it into a form somewhere on the net.
And then there exists the fact that there exist humans with the exact same DNA. Identical twins, for example, have the same genetic code.
They should say something like "a VIN is to a vehicle as an SSN is to a person." Even though the SSN is only in the US, its still a better analogy in comparison.
I think it goes to show that when you think of this kind of rapid transit system, don't think "bus fare," which is usually cheaper. It may also be because these systems are not subsidized by local or state authorities, forcing them to charge higher fare. (though I'm not sure if this is true in either of these cases)
Yeah, thanks to that sketch, I can't help but laugh when hearing news about a "monorail"
OMG where has this been all my life! This totally kicks VMware's ass when it comes to running old games!
Sorry to nitpick on something so minor. The rest of the points in your comment are completely valid.
I don't HAVE a cell phone? Sure, its terribly inconvinent, and I'm probably in the minority, but how is that different than having a cell phone and not being able to use it? Are you saying that people are _expected_ to have cell phones?