An excellent start, to be sure, but her are a few more features I'd like to see:
-Automatic coherent plot insertion. To finally add a compelling story line to those lame new Star Wars movies.
-Friends cast declothinator with male/female preference settings.
-De-Teshinator. To overwrite awful soundtracks.
-Anti-Green mode, to remove annoying bit characters like Tom Green or (as mentioned) Jar Jar Binks.
-Anti-Bruckheimer mode, to remove intense close up and schaltzy slow mo scenes backed with Aerosmith songs.
So many possibilities....
Okay, I know it's Unreal Tournament. And most gamers probably know the acronym as well. But could slashdot editors at least spell out acronyms once in a story description? Geez...
As a marathoner, I can tell you right now that a hard drive solution is a bad idea. Even with something as slim as an IPod, you're talking about too much weight bouncing around on some portion of your body -- whether your music skips or not. I doubt the people suggesting that are serious runners.
For the last two years, I've used a Nomad II MG. It's smaller than a deck of cards, expandable through cheap SmartMedia cards (64 mb standards, uprades easily to 200+ -- more than enough for a whole marathon) easily fits in the average neoprene runner's packs you get at fitness stores (which protects it from rain unless you fall into a lake) and includes an FM tuner -- a nice benefit if you grow tired of your playlist from being too lazy to change it.
Linux software for it is available. (see Nomadness.net)
As an added benefit, I've frequently used it's built in mic for recording interviews (I write for a trade pub). Beauty to this is you can take the recordings and store them with word documents on your computer.
All in all, I've been thrilled. And it's perfect for running.
One possible alternative are the Nike players. Has an armstrap and is built with runners in mind.
Only downside to either of the above is lack of Audible.com support, if that matters to you. I personally prefer going to the books on tape rental places, picking up a CD and ripping it to MP3.
Cheers,
Laz
Anybody know if you can pull off this upgrade on toshiba 3000 series satellites? I've got one of the earlier gforce 2go / 16 mb cards, and would love to drop one of the newer cards in.
But knowing Toshiba, it's probably soldered into the mobo. I've heard the processor is.
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An excellent start, to be sure, but her are a few more features I'd like to see: -Automatic coherent plot insertion. To finally add a compelling story line to those lame new Star Wars movies. -Friends cast declothinator with male/female preference settings. -De-Teshinator. To overwrite awful soundtracks. -Anti-Green mode, to remove annoying bit characters like Tom Green or (as mentioned) Jar Jar Binks. -Anti-Bruckheimer mode, to remove intense close up and schaltzy slow mo scenes backed with Aerosmith songs. So many possibilities....
Okay, I know it's Unreal Tournament. And most gamers probably know the acronym as well. But could slashdot editors at least spell out acronyms once in a story description? Geez...
As a marathoner, I can tell you right now that a hard drive solution is a bad idea. Even with something as slim as an IPod, you're talking about too much weight bouncing around on some portion of your body -- whether your music skips or not. I doubt the people suggesting that are serious runners. For the last two years, I've used a Nomad II MG. It's smaller than a deck of cards, expandable through cheap SmartMedia cards (64 mb standards, uprades easily to 200+ -- more than enough for a whole marathon) easily fits in the average neoprene runner's packs you get at fitness stores (which protects it from rain unless you fall into a lake) and includes an FM tuner -- a nice benefit if you grow tired of your playlist from being too lazy to change it. Linux software for it is available. (see Nomadness.net) As an added benefit, I've frequently used it's built in mic for recording interviews (I write for a trade pub). Beauty to this is you can take the recordings and store them with word documents on your computer. All in all, I've been thrilled. And it's perfect for running. One possible alternative are the Nike players. Has an armstrap and is built with runners in mind. Only downside to either of the above is lack of Audible.com support, if that matters to you. I personally prefer going to the books on tape rental places, picking up a CD and ripping it to MP3. Cheers, Laz
Anybody know if you can pull off this upgrade on toshiba 3000 series satellites? I've got one of the earlier gforce 2go / 16 mb cards, and would love to drop one of the newer cards in. But knowing Toshiba, it's probably soldered into the mobo. I've heard the processor is.