I attended a First Tier College and after a few years there, I dropped out. . . .. Ultimately, I went on to become a wealthy serial entrepreneur by persuing (sic) my ventures 100%
Bill?
Bill Gates?
Come on, man, you better than to post to Slashdot!
(But "pursuing my ventures 100%" is a genius euphemism for "creating a monopoly and violating antitrust law" -- a clever "embracing and extending" of the English language.)
Also, while mine does seem on its way out (it doesn't charge directly from the power cord, I have to replace batteries), I love the "rubber" [the Archos MP3 player] has in the corners.
That's because you've never opened the case. The rubber bumpers are probably a good idea, by themselves (although I've dropped my non-rubberized Zaurus many times, including dropping it a yard to hardwood floors).
But the rubber bumper rests directly on top of components (ic chips and what I think is a capacitor) on the printed circuit board. So pressure -- as from dropping but also notably from handling, as the bumpers are a natural place to grab when putting the Archos into or removing it from a a pocket -- pressure on the bumpers, rather than being transferred to the metal chassis, presses down delicate components and additional bends the pcb.
Any limitations on name length are (I suspect) a "feature" of the ID3 spec rather than iRiver's fault, but I have no evidence for that - as I say, I haven't installed the index yet.
I actually did a very small bit of coding on the Rockbox open source Archos firmware replacement, and as it happens, it was on the ID3 tags, so I know a little about this.
ID3 version 1 is limited to thirty (30) characters per tag field (Artists, Album, etc.), but since the iRiver is limited to -- what is it -- 56 characters, this doesn't seem to be the same limit. ID3 v1, also, I think specifies a total size of 120 characters or something, so why not just set aside the 120 needed?
ID3 version 2 tag filed length isn't limited.
(Although Rockbox last I worked on it, was limited to ~300 characters (300 less null terminators) over all tags. I was careful to make sure that reading more than 300 characters was handled by (silently) truncating -- Rockbox doesn't use any dynamic memory allocation, so static structures and fixed sized were all I had.).
Incidentally, MS Windows users looking for a really good and full-featured tagging program (with automatic abbreviation if you want it, various other forms of smart tagging, and regular expressions for converting tags), should look no farther than the free and open source mp3bookhelper.
Most of the Iriver players (I own an H120) require no software required at all.
Actually, I'm interested in the software that runs the MP3 player; it's that which I want to be able to hack -- to deal with arbitrary filename lengths, for instance.
As far as downloading files to the player, I want to be able to treat the mp3 player as a removable usb drive -- so that any method of copying files works. The last thing I want is a proprietary interface: I want to be able to do a "cp -r mp3s//cygdrive/mp3player" from cygwin, or do drag-and-drop from MS Windows Explorer.
But your comment about the file tree intrigues me: do you mean that the iRiver database can be dispensed with, and one can simply play files (and hopefully directories?) in a standard hierarchical directory system?
Ok, since my Archos broke down, I've been looking for a replacement.
So, some questions.
What kind of hard drive does it take, and how easy is it to replace the drive with a larger one. (Yeah, I know the size is 20GB -- what kind. I need 60GB, and I'd like it to fit the 60GB lap-top drive I bought for the Archos.
What's IRiver's reputation for quality? The Archos used decent parts, but they were put together shoddily. Thus the break down. (Yeah, I also replaced the drive with a 60GB, but I'm not at all the only one to have an Archos fall apart on me.)
That and Archos's crappy software and unwillingness to embrace a far better open source replacement, means I'll never buy from Archos again.
But reason I liked the Archos was that its crappy software could be replaced with the open source Rockbox. Just how hackable is iRiver's offering? Does the fact that it's linux based mean that iRiver intends to make the source available? If I can't hack it, I won't buy it: that's why I don't own an iPod or other MP3 players
Go to a soldier bar and start talking that shit and they WILL kill you. It's what they are trained to do. Right or wrong, that's the way it is. Soldiers aren't supposed to stop and think "Oh wait, I'm supposed to be protecting what he says".
I hope you're trolling.
What you've said is an affront to decent soldiers everywhere.
Soldiers aren't trained to be a blood-thirsty mob, lashing out at anyone they disagree with.
Soldiers are trained to think and act with discipline. They take an oath to "protect and defend" the Constitution, and that includes the 1st Amendment.
Sure, not all soldiers meet this ideal; Abu Ghraib has demonstrated that, as did Lt. Calley at My Lai in 1968.
But Hugh Thompson, the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who threatened to open fire on the U.S. troops massacring the Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, and Joseph Darby, the U.S. Army soldier who reported the Abu Ghraib atrocities to his superiors -- these are men who show the true measure that soldiers should aspire to.
Your willingness to let bad soldiers off the hook is pure condescension, arrogating yourself above those you imply are "dumb muscle-bound soldiers who can't be trusted to behave like civilized men." It's pure insult to the many decent men and women who have served and are now serving our country.
Indeed, as a non-american and certainly someone who's not inside (except for my girlfriend living in the states)
Dear Reichsminister Ashcroft,
As you can see from the above, the terrorists -- or foreigners, hey, no real difference -- are stealing our pure American women now.
Please arrest this self-admitted anti-American woman-poacher and send him for some non-torture (because it's not illegal even if it breaks a law if the President says it's ok) "mechanical persuasion application" in Guantanamo, so that real Americans like myself can date his girlfriend.
If you do this, I promise not to do anything with her than you think is immoral, like dancing or criticizing the government, and to make her my submissive wife in accordance with God's desires as explained in the Holy Scriptures.
Excuse me? Where do you get off calling me a pig? If you're pissed off enough, you'd be suprised (sic) how much energy you can build up inside. And that energy can be put to constructive use.
Calm down, friend. It was a self-referential joke; I was responding to your comment about anger with an angry comment. Admittedly it was a subtle (or lame) joke.
So don't just get pissed at me -- put that energy to constructive use!;)
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Blues singer/Blind man Ray Charles was found dead in his Beverly Hills home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
From the linked article: "iVue: a wireless media player that allows content producers to lock down media files with biometric security. This week Veritouch announced that it had demonstrated the device to the RIAA and MPAA.
"In practical terms, VeriTouch's breakthrough in anti-piracy technology means that no delivered content to a customer may be copied, shared or otherwise distributed because each file is uniquely locked by the customer's live fingerprint scan," claims the company."
Now just who is going to buy this, a player that you can't let your mom or girlfriend (ok, that's not a problem for Slashdotters) or colleague borrow, that you can't use if your hand's in a cast or even in a glove (nobody plays MP3s on cold days?)?
And worse: how do you purchase tunes? Presumably, you'll have to present your fingerprint on purchase so it can be matched to the fingerprint when played. So will the media player lock you into purchasing only from merchants that process your fingerprint? How will you play free music -- like the legal live band recording at archive.org?
Perhaps it will also play fingerprint unencumbered music, but then what's the point?Why go to the extra trouble to purchase from a fingerprinting vendor, which at least will probably require hooking the player to your PC, providing the fingerprint, transmitting the stored fingerprint from the media player through the PC using some proprietary mechanism like an Active-X control?
again, who will want to pay extra to deal with having to provide a fingerprint?
The answer: no one.
So will it be legally mandated, or are the big record companies planning to stop selling CDs and sell only encrypted, DRM'd music? It has to be one of the two, or else this product has no market.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor/U.S. President Ronald Reagan was found dead in his California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
GameFAQs lists a universally-usable code to "unlock the original [U.S. Army-funded] training version [of FSW], with more enemies, civilians, open areas, levels, and [greater] difficulty"
Unfortunately, the unlock code is:
I, ___________________________________, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
After a few unlocked games, you find yourself playing is a remarkably realistic and very sandy simulator.
It works nicely (though the opie media player is buggy, notably it has what is probably a nasty memory leak, and is always killed when I turn the thing back on the next day. Also when it has a problem with a file, it stops instead of just skipping)
I use xmms on my Zaurus, mostly because the whole display isn't the damned buttons -- I can actually see a decent ten lines of the playlist.
xmms version 0.00005pre1 (yes, it's ridiculous to use ten-thousandths in versioning) works on the 5600 Sharp ROMs, but will abend on files it has problems with -- I've been able to fix some files by re-writing the ID3 tags. Streams can be played (assuming you've got a way to connect to the stream source, like networking over WiFi) if the stream's url is suffixed with:mp3 (and assuming it's an MP3 stream, of course). Another problem is that xmms will wait nearly forever, blocking user input to the app, if the network connection goes down; a SIGABORT to wake it or a SIGKILL and restart are required. Playback is something of a strain on the CPU, enough to notice on some realtime games; although doom/prboom doesn't doesn't noticeably slow down, other SDL-based games do.
xmms version 0.00007 will work on Sharp ROM 5600s too, but with a lot of Qtopia GUI stupidity -- I removed it after I discovered that launching it required a script, and thus the Qtopia GUI didn't correctly "register" the GUI instance, creating all sorts of permissions problems and the running multiple instances.
If you do use xmms, I suggest the apple-look skin (macos-something-or-other), and manually blanking the the screen to conserver power (either using an applet or this script: #!/bin/sh sudo -u zaurus qcop QPE/System 'setBlankLCD(int)' 1).
I don't know how much this card will retail for and anyway it is MMC. I don't think the Zaurus takes MMC. Why not get a 12GB compact flash card? A snip at $14,999.
Zaurus takes SD or MMC (and can't use the SD "security features" anyway); I got the (slower) SD card because I was in a hurry, as I wanted to have my music along on a ski vacation.
Not only is 15 grand way out of my price range, I use the Zaurus's CF slot for the WiFi card anyway. But since I have a lot of fans on Slashdot, I'd put the 12GB CF card on my Amazon.com "wish list", but like a good Slashdotter, I don't want to encourage business with companies holding fatuous "1-click" patents.:)
Let's see 14,999 dollars / 334 fans, yeah, only $50 each. I mean, there's the woman who put up a web site and got random strangers to pay off her credit cards. And the woman who with the BuyMeImlpants site.... Yes, e-ebegging works -- if only I were a cute woman!
Since my Archos broke down, and the "repair shop" "fixed" it -- "fixed" it so it will never work again -- I've been using my Zaurus PDA as an MP3 player.
I can get about six or seven albums*, in MP3 format, on the 512 MB SD card, so the 2 GB would give me room for about 24 albums.
And I see that this new card is faster, which will be nice: getting all those MP3s on the card does take a while.
Any idea how much the 2GB card will retail for?
* ./Opera/D'Oyly Carte Opera Company/H.M.S. Pinafore (1930) (update) ./Opera/D'Oyly Carte Opera Company/The Very Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (2 CD set) ./Opera/D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ./Opera ./Classical/Ludwig van Beethoven/Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 Eroica ./Classical/Ludwig van Beethoven/Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Choral ./Classical/Ludwig van Beethoven ./Classical/Brightest Heaven of Invention Flemish Polyphony of the High Renaissance (New London Chamber Choir) ./Classical/Aston Magna/J.S. Bach_ A Musical Offering ./Classical/Aston Magna ./Classical
I live in the spinning cube of potential doom. At least that's what my co-workers call it.
It sounds like something "Robert S." Rumsfeld would use to "persuade" "designated terrorists" in Abu Ghraib to talk.
I guess the use of "potential" in the title reminds me of so-called "Rumsfled Poetry":
"As we know,
There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know."
--Rumsfeld, at a February 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
Man, for $1700 this thing better do military creases.
I've always loved the idea of home robotics, but at $1.25 a shirt, I can get 1360 laundered at the local dry-cleaners, and get then with heavy starch applied, hung on a hanger, and put in a plastic bag.
Assuming one shirt per day, everyday -- and some days I do just wear a T-shirt -- that's more than three and half years worth of ironed shirts, with my labor limited to taking them to and from the cleaners -- and with no need to wash the shirts myself.
The idea of inflating a dummy and drying the shirt from the inside out is great "outside the box" creativity, and I give the inventor credit for it. But that method doesn't crease the sleeves properly, it doesn't iron the collar, and I'm thinking that it may result in the placket at the back of a dress shirt bulging out at precisely where you want it creased.
So it's a great idea that doesn't really substitute for ironing, and is too expensive. Much as I'd like to encourage this, it's a solution in search of a problem.
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What is a bloodthirsty, single player tyrant to do?"
George Dubya!
Uncle Dick and I told you not to break Iraq!
If you can't play nicely with the toys we already gave you, you'll just have to wait for our next invasion!
Then you can dress up in your nifty flight-suit again and everyone will say how handsome and brave you look.
But now it's time for all little tyrants to take their naps so they can be up early to learn their lines for tomorrow, dear.
I attended a First Tier College and after a few years there, I dropped out. .
. . .
Ultimately, I went on to become a wealthy serial entrepreneur by persuing (sic) my ventures 100%
Bill?
Bill Gates?
Come on, man, you better than to post to Slashdot!
(But "pursuing my ventures 100%" is a genius euphemism for "creating a monopoly and violating antitrust law" -- a clever "embracing and extending" of the English language.)
In Germany, some universities can even revoke your PhD if you've commited (sic) a felony (unrelated to your PhD or any misuse of knowledge)
What if you, like, annex Austria, or, you know, invade Poland.
I mean, you know, by accident, or something?
Also, while mine does seem on its way out (it doesn't charge directly from the power cord, I have to replace batteries), I love the "rubber" [the Archos MP3 player] has in the corners.
That's because you've never opened the case. The rubber bumpers are probably a good idea, by themselves (although I've dropped my non-rubberized Zaurus many times, including dropping it a yard to hardwood floors).
But the rubber bumper rests directly on top of components (ic chips and what I think is a capacitor) on the printed circuit board. So pressure -- as from dropping but also notably from handling, as the bumpers are a natural place to grab when putting the Archos into or removing it from a a pocket -- pressure on the bumpers, rather than being transferred to the metal chassis, presses down delicate components and additional bends the pcb.
Good idea, bad implementation.
Any limitations on name length are (I suspect) a "feature" of the ID3 spec rather than iRiver's fault, but I have no evidence for that - as I say, I haven't installed the index yet.
I actually did a very small bit of coding on the Rockbox open source Archos firmware replacement, and as it happens, it was on the ID3 tags, so I know a little about this.
ID3 version 1 is limited to thirty (30) characters per tag field (Artists, Album, etc.), but since the iRiver is limited to -- what is it -- 56 characters, this doesn't seem to be the same limit. ID3 v1, also, I think specifies a total size of 120 characters or something, so why not just set aside the 120 needed?
ID3 version 2 tag filed length isn't limited.
(Although Rockbox last I worked on it, was limited to ~300 characters (300 less null terminators) over all tags. I was careful to make sure that reading more than 300 characters was handled by (silently) truncating -- Rockbox doesn't use any dynamic memory allocation, so static structures and fixed sized were all I had.).
Incidentally, MS Windows users looking for a really good and full-featured tagging program (with automatic abbreviation if you want it, various other forms of smart tagging, and regular expressions for converting tags), should look no farther than the free and open source mp3bookhelper.
Most of the Iriver players (I own an H120) require no software required at all.
/cygdrive/mp3player" from cygwin, or do drag-and-drop from MS Windows Explorer.
Actually, I'm interested in the software that runs the MP3 player; it's that which I want to be able to hack -- to deal with arbitrary filename lengths, for instance.
As far as downloading files to the player, I want to be able to treat the mp3 player as a removable usb drive -- so that any method of copying files works. The last thing I want is a proprietary interface: I want to be able to do a "cp -r mp3s/
But your comment about the file tree intrigues me: do you mean that the iRiver database can be dispensed with, and one can simply play files (and hopefully directories?) in a standard hierarchical directory system?
Ok, since my Archos broke down, I've been looking for a replacement.
So, some questions.
What kind of hard drive does it take, and how easy is it to replace the drive with a larger one. (Yeah, I know the size is 20GB -- what kind. I need 60GB, and I'd like it to fit the 60GB lap-top drive I bought for the Archos.
What's IRiver's reputation for quality? The Archos used decent parts, but they were put together shoddily. Thus the break down. (Yeah, I also replaced the drive with a 60GB, but I'm not at all the only one to have an Archos fall apart on me.)
That and Archos's crappy software and unwillingness to embrace a far better open source replacement, means I'll never buy from Archos again.
But reason I liked the Archos was that its crappy software could be replaced with the open source Rockbox. Just how hackable is iRiver's offering? Does the fact that it's linux based mean that iRiver intends to make the source available? If I can't hack it, I won't buy it: that's why I don't own an iPod or other MP3 players
Go to a soldier bar and start talking that shit and they WILL kill you. It's what they are trained to do. Right or wrong, that's the way it is. Soldiers aren't supposed to stop and think "Oh wait, I'm supposed to be protecting what he says".
I hope you're trolling.
What you've said is an affront to decent soldiers everywhere.
Soldiers aren't trained to be a blood-thirsty mob, lashing out at anyone they disagree with.
Soldiers are trained to think and act with discipline. They take an oath to "protect and defend" the Constitution, and that includes the 1st Amendment.
Sure, not all soldiers meet this ideal; Abu Ghraib has demonstrated that, as did Lt. Calley at My Lai in 1968.
But Hugh Thompson, the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who threatened to open fire on the U.S. troops massacring the Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, and Joseph Darby, the U.S. Army soldier who reported the Abu Ghraib atrocities to his superiors -- these are men who show the true measure that soldiers should aspire to.
Your willingness to let bad soldiers off the hook is pure condescension, arrogating yourself above those you imply are "dumb muscle-bound soldiers who can't be trusted to behave like civilized men." It's pure insult to the many decent men and women who have served and are now serving our country.
Indeed, as a non-american and certainly someone who's not inside (except for my girlfriend living in the states)
Dear Reichsminister Ashcroft,
As you can see from the above, the terrorists -- or foreigners, hey, no real difference -- are stealing our pure American women now.
Please arrest this self-admitted anti-American woman-poacher and send him for some non-torture (because it's not illegal even if it breaks a law if the President says it's ok) "mechanical persuasion application" in Guantanamo, so that real Americans like myself can date his girlfriend.
If you do this, I promise not to do anything with her than you think is immoral, like dancing or criticizing the government, and to make her my submissive wife in accordance with God's desires as explained in the Holy Scriptures.
Excuse me? Where do you get off calling me a pig? If you're pissed off enough, you'd be suprised (sic) how much energy you can build up inside. And that energy can be put to constructive use.
;)
Calm down, friend. It was a self-referential joke; I was responding to your comment about anger with an angry comment. Admittedly it was a subtle (or lame) joke.
So don't just get pissed at me -- put that energy to constructive use!
Maybe emotions could be used to help provide movement as well. An intense emotion such as anger has been known to motivate people.
Fuck off, pig!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Blues singer/Blind man Ray Charles was found dead in his Beverly Hills home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Forced to take hormones to cure his homosexuality.
Yet another reason not to use "that's teh ghey" as a term of disparagement.
(Not to mention it just sounds stupid.)
Ok, let's get a list of public viewings together.
Here's a list of web casts.
Anyone else have information on live viewings?
Thanks.
This is The RIAA's dream. Everyone has to buy new... it's no longer possible to sell your music or give it to your little brother.
No, the RIAA's dream is mandatory cochlear implants with attached DRM'd combination locks and a coin slot.
I mean, why should the music on someone else's boombox or stereo be free for you?
"Please deposit twenty-five cents for another minute of music."
From the linked article: "iVue: a wireless media player that allows content producers to lock down media files with biometric security. This week Veritouch announced that it had demonstrated the device to the RIAA and MPAA.
"In practical terms, VeriTouch's breakthrough in anti-piracy technology means that no delivered content to a customer may be copied, shared or otherwise distributed because each file is uniquely locked by the customer's live fingerprint scan," claims the company."
Now just who is going to buy this, a player that you can't let your mom or girlfriend (ok, that's not a problem for Slashdotters) or colleague borrow, that you can't use if your hand's in a cast or even in a glove (nobody plays MP3s on cold days?)?
And worse: how do you purchase tunes? Presumably, you'll have to present your fingerprint on purchase so it can be matched to the fingerprint when played. So will the media player lock you into purchasing only from merchants that process your fingerprint? How will you play free music -- like the legal live band recording at archive.org?
Perhaps it will also play fingerprint unencumbered music, but then what's the point?Why go to the extra trouble to purchase from a fingerprinting vendor, which at least will probably require hooking the player to your PC, providing the fingerprint, transmitting the stored fingerprint from the media player through the PC using some proprietary mechanism like an Active-X control?
again, who will want to pay extra to deal with having to provide a fingerprint?
The answer: no one.
So will it be legally mandated, or are the big record companies planning to stop selling CDs and sell only encrypted, DRM'd music? It has to be one of the two, or else this product has no market.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor/U.S. President Ronald Reagan was found dead in his California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Unfortunately, the unlock code is:After a few unlocked games, you find yourself playing is a remarkably realistic and very sandy simulator.
It works nicely (though the opie media player is buggy, notably it has what is probably a nasty memory leak, and is always killed when I turn the thing back on the next day. Also when it has a problem with a file, it stops instead of just skipping)
:mp3 (and assuming it's an MP3 stream, of course). Another problem is that xmms will wait nearly forever, blocking user input to the app, if the network connection goes down; a SIGABORT to wake it or a SIGKILL and restart are required. Playback is something of a strain on the CPU, enough to notice on some realtime games; although doom/prboom doesn't doesn't noticeably slow down, other SDL-based games do.
I use xmms on my Zaurus, mostly because the whole display isn't the damned buttons -- I can actually see a decent ten lines of the playlist.
xmms version 0.00005pre1 (yes, it's ridiculous to use ten-thousandths in versioning) works on the 5600 Sharp ROMs, but will abend on files it has problems with -- I've been able to fix some files by re-writing the ID3 tags. Streams can be played (assuming you've got a way to connect to the stream source, like networking over WiFi) if the stream's url is suffixed with
xmms version 0.00007 will work on Sharp ROM 5600s too, but with a lot of Qtopia GUI stupidity -- I removed it after I discovered that launching it required a script, and thus the Qtopia GUI didn't correctly "register" the GUI instance, creating all sorts of permissions problems and the running multiple instances.
If you do use xmms, I suggest the apple-look skin (macos-something-or-other), and manually blanking the the screen to conserver power (either using an applet or this script:
#!/bin/sh
sudo -u zaurus qcop QPE/System 'setBlankLCD(int)' 1).
I don't know how much this card will retail for and anyway it is MMC. I don't think the Zaurus takes MMC. Why not get a 12GB compact flash card? A snip at $14,999.
:)
Zaurus takes SD or MMC (and can't use the SD "security features" anyway); I got the (slower) SD card because I was in a hurry, as I wanted to have my music along on a ski vacation.
Not only is 15 grand way out of my price range, I use the Zaurus's CF slot for the WiFi card anyway. But since I have a lot of fans on Slashdot, I'd put the 12GB CF card on my Amazon.com "wish list", but like a good Slashdotter, I don't want to encourage business with companies holding fatuous "1-click" patents.
Let's see 14,999 dollars / 334 fans, yeah, only $50 each. I mean, there's the woman who put up a web site and got random strangers to pay off her credit cards. And the woman who with the BuyMeImlpants site.... Yes, e-ebegging works -- if only I were a cute woman!
I don't need, but i want it.
Since my Archos broke down, and the "repair shop" "fixed" it -- "fixed" it so it will never work again -- I've been using my Zaurus PDA as an MP3 player.
I can get about six or seven albums*, in MP3 format, on the 512 MB SD card, so the 2 GB would give me room for about 24 albums.
And I see that this new card is faster, which will be nice: getting all those MP3s on the card does take a while.
Any idea how much the 2GB card will retail for?
Well, I don't think any Slashdotters will be getting those patents on moving and interacting.
And certainly not the patents on moving and interacting with women.
(Well, maybe with one woman: the patent on moving back into the basement and interacting with Mom.)
:)
It sounds like something "Robert S." Rumsfeld would use to "persuade" "designated terrorists" in Abu Ghraib to talk.
I guess the use of "potential" in the title reminds me of so-called "Rumsfled Poetry":
--Rumsfeld, at a February 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
their new variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency code division multiplexing (WSF-OFCDM) downstream technology
This is a lie!
I had nothing to do with this!
(And I don't do variable spreading of my factor. And certainly not in a car going 35 mph.)
(Ok, now that you've laughed at me, "Vote" in my unofficial presidential poll.)
Man, for $1700 this thing better do military creases.
I've always loved the idea of home robotics, but at $1.25 a shirt, I can get 1360 laundered at the local dry-cleaners, and get then with heavy starch applied, hung on a hanger, and put in a plastic bag.
Assuming one shirt per day, everyday -- and some days I do just wear a T-shirt -- that's more than three and half years worth of ironed shirts, with my labor limited to taking them to and from the cleaners -- and with no need to wash the shirts myself.
The idea of inflating a dummy and drying the shirt from the inside out is great "outside the box" creativity, and I give the inventor credit for it. But that method doesn't crease the sleeves properly, it doesn't iron the collar, and I'm thinking that it may result in the placket at the back of a dress shirt bulging out at precisely where you want it creased.
So it's a great idea that doesn't really substitute for ironing, and is too expensive. Much as I'd like to encourage this, it's a solution in search of a problem.