What I find sad is whoever modded that as "insightful"; my 2 year-old nephew can formulate an opinion better than that. At least he tries to make real sentences.
You haven't ever had to change a diaper now have you? Well you're right, I s'pose... I wouldn't exactly use the word "nice" to describe the variety of colors involved.
The following is culled from this forum and other sites, with some of the more detailed information provided by UK Rio Engineer's posts.
Q: What kind of battery does Karma have?
A: Karma has a non-replaceable Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery, identical to the ones found in most other MP3 players, cell phones and a wide range of electronic products.
Q: How long does a full battery charge last?
A: Rio advertises the battery lasting 15 hours per full charge, using the following criteria: 128 MP3, Volume: 15, EQ: Off. The reality is that this battery has tested at about 16 hours with these criteria.
Q: How should I care for my battery when I first get my Karma?
A: When you first get your Karma, it will be at slightly less than a half charge. As per the included intructions, charge it for five hours before use. Then, fully charge and discharge your battery the first few times to properly calibrate it, helping to maximize your potential battery cycle length. After that, you may do partial charges without any adverse impact. Therefore, you won't need to fully charge/discharge each time.
Q: If I won't be using my Karma for an extended period, how should I leave the battery?
A: For long term storage, leave your battery about 40% charge, which reduces long-term battery degradation substantially.
Q: If my Karma is connected to AC, will it still drain the battery?
A: No. When AC is connected, Karma is powered directly from the power supply unit (charger).
Q: Can I overcharge my battery by leaving it plugged in to AC too long?
A: No. You have nothing to worry about if you forget to unplug your AC after the player is fully charged.
Q: How long does it take to charge my battery?
A: From empty, it takes about 2 hours to get to ~80-90% full. It will then trickle charge the last 10% or so, which can take another hour or so.
Q: What is the battery life of Karma?
A: Like other Li-Ion products, a good rule of thumb is about 500 cycles at 100% (don't worry, partial charges count as partial cycles). After 500 cycles, it will reduce to about an 80% charge. Based on your average daily use, do the math. This battery should last you many, many years.
Yup, that's exactly what I was thinking too. Anything that gets sent to the screen has to be totally free of any encryption mechanism. Plus, if you're using a DVI output, everything is completely digital!
Then nothing currently prevents you from using something like this DVI-Ramp to grab the video and have it sent off to disk or something.
So until the DRM mechanisms extends all the way to... Humm... Maybe I should get a patent on a DRM-enabled screen now.
Actually, the W3C spec that most closely matches the functionality of Flash is SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). It includes high quality vector graphics and effects as well as animation and scripting.
Note that this doesn't mean that it can play.SWF files, it merely provides more or less equivalent functionality.
Okay, and how about if MY business model changes and I lose my job and can't make payments on whatever it is I purchased from them, are we allowed to change the rules of the game in that case as well?
"Sorry folks, my situation changed so those payments we agreed upon, well you can forget about them. Nice doing business with ya!".
Your post was made especially funny by the fact that SÉVICE as you wrote it is a French word that the HarperCollins dictionary translates as (physical) cruelty, ill treatment.
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What I find sad is whoever modded that as "insightful"; my 2 year-old nephew can formulate an opinion better than that. At least he tries to make real sentences.
"Blu-ray and HD-DVD were not available for comment."
Well as long as they stick to copying non-German radio stations, they should be allright, shouldn't they?
Bordel!
This site has decent pictures. Big Java logo near the cockpit, and a big Sun logo on the tail. Before and after. Ouch!
Anyway, just wanted to say... great post.
...but then again, it could also be the GIMP...
Well yeah, there's more than one way to do it. ;-)
You haven't ever had to change a diaper now have you? Well you're right, I s'pose... I wouldn't exactly use the word "nice" to describe the variety of colors involved.
The following is culled from this forum and other sites, with some of the more detailed information provided by UK Rio Engineer's posts.
Q: What kind of battery does Karma have?
A: Karma has a non-replaceable Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery, identical to the ones found in most other MP3 players, cell phones and a wide range of electronic products.
Q: How long does a full battery charge last?
A: Rio advertises the battery lasting 15 hours per full charge, using the following criteria: 128 MP3, Volume: 15, EQ: Off. The reality is that this battery has tested at about 16 hours with these criteria.
Q: How should I care for my battery when I first get my Karma?
A: When you first get your Karma, it will be at slightly less than a half charge. As per the included intructions, charge it for five hours before use. Then, fully charge and discharge your battery the first few times to properly calibrate it, helping to maximize your potential battery cycle length. After that, you may do partial charges without any adverse impact. Therefore, you won't need to fully charge/discharge each time.
Q: If I won't be using my Karma for an extended period, how should I leave the battery?
A: For long term storage, leave your battery about 40% charge, which reduces long-term battery degradation substantially.
Q: If my Karma is connected to AC, will it still drain the battery?
A: No. When AC is connected, Karma is powered directly from the power supply unit (charger).
Q: Can I overcharge my battery by leaving it plugged in to AC too long?
A: No. You have nothing to worry about if you forget to unplug your AC after the player is fully charged.
Q: How long does it take to charge my battery?
A: From empty, it takes about 2 hours to get to ~80-90% full. It will then trickle charge the last 10% or so, which can take another hour or so.
Q: What is the battery life of Karma?
A: Like other Li-Ion products, a good rule of thumb is about 500 cycles at 100% (don't worry, partial charges count as partial cycles). After 500 cycles, it will reduce to about an 80% charge. Based on your average daily use, do the math. This battery should last you many, many years.
- The shareware version of Linux?? Would that be the one you install for thirty days before it starts nagging you to send a 10$ check to Linus?
- Kernel-level programming in VB? Even in Windows there is no such thing.
- Any stats for VB running as fast as C? Even Microsoft would never dare claim that!
- I'd sure love to know how to use GCC 3.1 to improve the speed of binaries created in VB... Pointers anyone?
- No journaled file-systems on Linux? When was that comment posted, 1992? What happened to ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS,
...? And no SMP???
- Linux/FSF - now that's the funniest one.
:) Wouldn't that be GNU/Linux?
- Microsoft "shared source" giving the same freedoms as the GPL?!?!
Thanks troll, that was fun.Yup, that's exactly what I was thinking too. Anything that gets sent to the screen has to be totally free of any encryption mechanism. Plus, if you're using a DVI output, everything is completely digital!
Then nothing currently prevents you from using something like this DVI-Ramp to grab the video and have it sent off to disk or something.
So until the DRM mechanisms extends all the way to... Humm... Maybe I should get a patent on a DRM-enabled screen now.
Well what do you think? The guy doesn't want to miss one nanosecond of the wallpaper babe!
Funny, I thought "he" was the common portion of 'she' and 'he'.
Note that this doesn't mean that it can play .SWF files, it merely provides more or less equivalent functionality.
Okay, and how about if MY business model changes and I lose my job and can't make payments on whatever it is I purchased from them, are we allowed to change the rules of the game in that case as well?
"Sorry folks, my situation changed so those payments we agreed upon, well you can forget about them. Nice doing business with ya!".
Seems only fair.
Well Hyperchip happens to be Canadian too!
Your post was made especially funny by the fact that SÉVICE as you wrote it is a French word that the HarperCollins dictionary translates as (physical) cruelty, ill treatment .
Sounds about right...