I would rather have an MP3 player that is a USB mass storage device so you wouldn't have to network it and could integrate it better than a webserver. Then I could use Linux and play the files through my Revolution soundcard instead of relying on an inferior DAC. (Note: don't flame me if you can indeed play the music through you Linux computer with the Java Applet; I haven't used a Karma)
I guess you didn't see the "I'm using Linux" clause, so iTunes and Musicmatch would be useless for me. I'm not interested in a dock, so that's good. Thanks for the link, though.
Point 1: Have you ever taken one apart? The pins to connect to the backpack are out in the open. I don't know if there is a protector, but it still seems stupid.
Point 2: The backpack makes it gigantic. It is far larger than other players, almost as big as the original HD players. I like the features, but most of them you can still get in the iRiver iHP 120.
I'm seriously thinking of getting one. I probably have about 3 GB of music on my computer and that would fit nicely on the iHP with room to spare. USB mass storage is nice (required) because I'm using Linux. Ogg Vorbis is cool because almost everything I've ripped is in Ogg Vorbis. Got USB 2.0 and and FM radio is a nice plus. Expensive, though, but probably well worth the money.
I was looking at the Creative Nomad Zen, but that is MP3 and Windows only (read: uses cheezy software to drive it/not USB mass storage); the RCA Lyra looks nice too: +USB mass storage, -no Ogg Vorbis. Some of the Archos ones look nice too, but if I can convince myself to spend almost $400 US, I'm getting the iHP 120.
I love RPN and the reasons are sheer consistancy and no ambiguity. For infix algebraic calculators (and equations), you need parenthesis or your equation will mean something totally different from what you intend. However, with postfix "Reverse Polish Notation", there is absolutely no ambiguity. It is also more consistant in that EVERY operator comes after the arguments, not before or in between them.
Why wouldnt you use the way of how you think of it in your head?
I'm sure some there are some U:bergeeks whose brains are hardwired for RPN, but probably not many. Probably one of the biggest reasons why I like RPN is because I hate parenthesis. I'll let the calculator do them for me. I wouldn't want to write down RPN equations because it doesn't seem to me to be totally obvious where the arguments are, but it is great for punching in equations.
For example: b +- b 2 ^ 4 a * c * --.5 ^ + 2 a * / is the same as (-b +- (b^2 -- 4ac)^.5) / (2a) [Quadratic formula]
It is totally disambiguous but confusing to read. But then again I wasn't brought up reading RPN.
IIRC, in New Jersey they stopped doing that because too many people were getting angry about it. That and getting fines for not going 5 MPH through the EZPass lane.
A while ago the NTFS guys announced that you can indeed write to NTFS, as long as you don't make any new files and don't extend or shorten the length of any existing ones. Not really full write support, but something.
About the usb mass storage devices etc., I suppose that certain features depend on having a SCSI interface, which is provided for non-SCSI devices by ide-scsi. I didn't realize that they need ide-scsi or a SCSI-like interface, and maybe they don't, but if they need ide-scsi and ide-scsi is broken, then people are in trouble. The reason I say that they might not need ide-scsi is that there apparently was an older SCSI interface that used bus/dev/lun addressing (Ex.: 0/1/0) and newer interfaces have been created. Linus wants to keep in the Unix spirit and just use device files (Ex.:/dev/sg0).
This patent applies to online gifts only, which are indeed convered by this guy's earier patent. Why someone would opt-in to a system that allows the recipient of a gift to trade it for something else without even recieving it is beyond me.
Hardest? Maybe Flagstaff, Arizona. "Well folks its just started to rain... no it's sunny and 78... no its 69 degress, overcast with 15 mph winds..."
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I know I'm in the minority here, but I would rather support one kind of thievery (the record labels/RIAA) over another (Filesharing) if one actually benefits the artists. As it is now, filesharing benefits the artists only by advertising their music, while they still get a few nickels from CD sales. I do use Gtk-Gnutella mostly to download songs that I would either never buy in the first place (Bush's Glycerine, Devil Went Down To Georgia) or to sample music (I'm an AC/DC fan now).
...cruel and unusual punishment? I thought that once you paid your debt to society, whether by forfeiture of property, money, or time (in prison), you were done. Now it seems that the want to punish people beyond the usual sentance simply because the law doesn't explicitly prohibit it. That seems unfair.
Would it require a kernel patch to create a "Recycle Bin" of sorts? Maybe a piece of code could check for the UID or GID of the file being deleted and decide whether to back it up, based on a table of UID/GID's. It would probably be useful now that Linux systems are becoming more desktop and end-user oriented.
As an amusing anecdote, I once was writing a rudimentary file manager when I accidentally deleted all my source! After locking down my filesystem and learning how to undelete files, I realized that the code to copy files recursively that I had just written and tested I had used to copy the entire source tree.
Yeah, but geeks usually understand that "Hmm, my powerstip probably can't carry an infinite amount of electricity, so why don't I use another socket instead of daisy-chaining powerstrips." and maybe even know by experience: "The breaker kicked last time I tried to microwave a burrito, watch TV, toast toast, run the AC, and burn a CD." Many people wouldn't even realize the first thing, and even fewer probably have tried to do the second. And honestly, what geek (except art, lit, history, and philosophy geeks) don't already have a basic understanding of electricity?
But all those tags should compress down to darn near nothing in even a small document. I'm sure that you could use SVG for raster images also, yielding something that, when compressed, is probably not much worse than a bitmap. If you want more compression, why are you using a lossless image format?
Even though the computers are locked down (and Mac OS X is *nix so it won't be pseudo-locked like WinXP), kids will still be able probably to play Java games or the like. Or some industrious kids could boot up YD-Linux and do whatever they want.
At my HS, the most common use for TI-8* calculators is playing games. Who says there will be any difference with these computers?
No, but seriously, my computer (Linux 2.6.0-test5) rarely touches the swapfile. I have 256 MB of ram and right now I've got Netscape (3 tabs) and Open Office running on Enlightenment and not a bit of swapspace is used. Admittedly, I don't run too many apps anyway while you are probably running something else.
Amazon's "One-Click-Suing" patent only covers the suing of one entity, while the RIAA's patent covers the suing of hundreds at a time. So, now the RIAA is suing AT&T not only for suing PayPal and EBay, violating their patent on multiple suits with one click, but for AT&T letting filesharers download music unmonitored on their networks!
You need to visit my High School AP Java class. Open book, multiple choice tests, three days to finish a 20 minute programming assignment, and two of the computers already cracked to run Warcraft II and GTA Vice City.
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I would rather have an MP3 player that is a USB mass storage device so you wouldn't have to network it and could integrate it better than a webserver. Then I could use Linux and play the files through my Revolution soundcard instead of relying on an inferior DAC. (Note: don't flame me if you can indeed play the music through you Linux computer with the Java Applet; I haven't used a Karma)
I guess you didn't see the "I'm using Linux" clause, so iTunes and Musicmatch would be useless for me. I'm not interested in a dock, so that's good. Thanks for the link, though.
I think that the backpack idea is dumb.
Point 1: Have you ever taken one apart? The pins to connect to the backpack are out in the open. I don't know if there is a protector, but it still seems stupid.
Point 2: The backpack makes it gigantic. It is far larger than other players, almost as big as the original HD players. I like the features, but most of them you can still get in the iRiver iHP 120.
I'm seriously thinking of getting one. I probably have about 3 GB of music on my computer and that would fit nicely on the iHP with room to spare. USB mass storage is nice (required) because I'm using Linux. Ogg Vorbis is cool because almost everything I've ripped is in Ogg Vorbis. Got USB 2.0 and and FM radio is a nice plus. Expensive, though, but probably well worth the money.
I was looking at the Creative Nomad Zen, but that is MP3 and Windows only (read: uses cheezy software to drive it/not USB mass storage); the RCA Lyra looks nice too: +USB mass storage, -no Ogg Vorbis. Some of the Archos ones look nice too, but if I can convince myself to spend almost $400 US, I'm getting the iHP 120.
Does anyone else have more information?
For example: b +- b 2 ^ 4 a * c * -- .5 ^ + 2 a * / is the same as (-b +- (b^2 -- 4ac)^.5) / (2a) [Quadratic formula]
It is totally disambiguous but confusing to read. But then again I wasn't brought up reading RPN.
... and is really sweet with an RPN shell on it.
I just found a nice tripod for my old telescope. Would it be worth it to use it to look at the meteor shower? How much could I see?
IIRC, in New Jersey they stopped doing that because too many people were getting angry about it. That and getting fines for not going 5 MPH through the EZPass lane.
A while ago the NTFS guys announced that you can indeed write to NTFS, as long as you don't make any new files and don't extend or shorten the length of any existing ones. Not really full write support, but something.
/dev/sg0).
About the usb mass storage devices etc., I suppose that certain features depend on having a SCSI interface, which is provided for non-SCSI devices by ide-scsi. I didn't realize that they need ide-scsi or a SCSI-like interface, and maybe they don't, but if they need ide-scsi and ide-scsi is broken, then people are in trouble. The reason I say that they might not need ide-scsi is that there apparently was an older SCSI interface that used bus/dev/lun addressing (Ex.: 0/1/0) and newer interfaces have been created. Linus wants to keep in the Unix spirit and just use device files (Ex.:
There is at least a C+@.
Maybe my computer will finally learn that when I type rm -rf ~ I don't really want to do that.
This patent applies to online gifts only, which are indeed convered by this guy's earier patent. Why someone would opt-in to a system that allows the recipient of a gift to trade it for something else without even recieving it is beyond me.
Hardest? Maybe Flagstaff, Arizona. "Well folks its just started to rain... no it's sunny and 78... no its 69 degress, overcast with 15 mph winds..."
I know I'm in the minority here, but I would rather support one kind of thievery (the record labels/RIAA) over another (Filesharing) if one actually benefits the artists. As it is now, filesharing benefits the artists only by advertising their music, while they still get a few nickels from CD sales. I do use Gtk-Gnutella mostly to download songs that I would either never buy in the first place (Bush's Glycerine, Devil Went Down To Georgia) or to sample music (I'm an AC/DC fan now).
But can it fly at only 88 miles/hour without stalling? I mean, flux capacitors are funny devices that work only at certain speeds.
...cruel and unusual punishment? I thought that once you paid your debt to society, whether by forfeiture of property, money, or time (in prison), you were done. Now it seems that the want to punish people beyond the usual sentance simply because the law doesn't explicitly prohibit it. That seems unfair.
Would it require a kernel patch to create a "Recycle Bin" of sorts? Maybe a piece of code could check for the UID or GID of the file being deleted and decide whether to back it up, based on a table of UID/GID's. It would probably be useful now that Linux systems are becoming more desktop and end-user oriented.
As an amusing anecdote, I once was writing a rudimentary file manager when I accidentally deleted all my source! After locking down my filesystem and learning how to undelete files, I realized that the code to copy files recursively that I had just written and tested I had used to copy the entire source tree.
Yeah, but geeks usually understand that "Hmm, my powerstip probably can't carry an infinite amount of electricity, so why don't I use another socket instead of daisy-chaining powerstrips." and maybe even know by experience: "The breaker kicked last time I tried to microwave a burrito, watch TV, toast toast, run the AC, and burn a CD." Many people wouldn't even realize the first thing, and even fewer probably have tried to do the second. And honestly, what geek (except art, lit, history, and philosophy geeks) don't already have a basic understanding of electricity?
But all those tags should compress down to darn near nothing in even a small document. I'm sure that you could use SVG for raster images also, yielding something that, when compressed, is probably not much worse than a bitmap. If you want more compression, why are you using a lossless image format?
Even though the computers are locked down (and Mac OS X is *nix so it won't be pseudo-locked like WinXP), kids will still be able probably to play Java games or the like. Or some industrious kids could boot up YD-Linux and do whatever they want.
At my HS, the most common use for TI-8* calculators is playing games. Who says there will be any difference with these computers?
You must be running Windows Longhorn.
No, but seriously, my computer (Linux 2.6.0-test5) rarely touches the swapfile. I have 256 MB of ram and right now I've got Netscape (3 tabs) and Open Office running on Enlightenment and not a bit of swapspace is used. Admittedly, I don't run too many apps anyway while you are probably running something else.
Amazon's "One-Click-Suing" patent only covers the suing of one entity, while the RIAA's patent covers the suing of hundreds at a time. So, now the RIAA is suing AT&T not only for suing PayPal and EBay, violating their patent on multiple suits with one click, but for AT&T letting filesharers download music unmonitored on their networks!
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