According to my calculation, the Nomad Zen is over twice the size (volume) of the iPod and 60% heavier.
Apple iPod (Gen 3)
103.5mm(H)*61.8mm(W)*15.7mm(D) = ~100k cubic mm and 158 grams
Nomad Zen
112.6*75.9*24.5 = ~209k cubic mm at 268g.
Furthermore, the set of functionalities that the two players offer are different (sync vs FM capability for example) so their value to user is highly different.
While I like iPod to support other formats (WMA and Vorbis Ogg) but I am satisified with AAC and MP3 for now.
The 50 iPods is used to help the students to take their minds off that they have to spend the semester taking coures like Gothic Imagination at a town called Milledgeville.
Not only that, people can publish URLs (at place's like http://www.012484.com - currently down for updating) so that with one click, you have literally instant access to their entire iTunes library from which you can stream music to your machine (instantly - no buffering at least for me).
Also with Rendezvous, another person's library on the same network can also appear as another accessbile library within iTunes.
Note: While you can browse and listen to other people's tunes, you cannot copy or send tracks to each other.
Why use all the unnecessary GPU processing to draw a semi-realistic, semi-naked chick (as linked to Nvidia's Dawn demo) when you can play pics and movies of real naked chicks that looks tons better using the system intergrated GPU?
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With statements like this: "The test was as blind as possible" and "If they couldn't hear a difference they were supposed to rank randomly" (how about indistinguishable as a choice!), I don't think I would trust infoanarchy or c't.
Sidewalk was a miserabel failure, which is why they sold it early on to Citysearch. Expedia was (intially) a money drainer which is also why they sold it as well.
However, the people they sold both Sidewalk and Expedia to is another "evil empire" - Barry Diller's USA interactive!
You're right. I also find most paintings hanging musuems can also be improved by adding some birds and meadow in the background. While you are at it, why don't you colorize Citizen Kane as well?
Not necessarily true. I watched the subtitled (not dubbed) version at Disney's own El Capitan theater in Los Angeles last year.
The DVD version will most likely have both audio tracks. Princess Monoke has it.
Well, Apple software will only run on Apple approved hardware which is only sold by Apple authorized dealers. This contributes to how Apple can claim 'Everything Just Works' (TM). We don't hear the uproar about that.
P.S. - I own an iBook and while everything does not "just works" it generally works better than a PC laptop (my previous one is a Sony VAIO SR subnote). And please intepret 'only' in the first sentence loosely, I am sure someone will find one or two exception out there but the above statement is generally true.
You are wrong regarding Expedia, which is now owned by Barry Diller's USAi company, which, of course owns Ticketmaster, Evite, Citysearch, Match.com etc i.e. .
Carl Sagan was a professor at Cornell University. It goes without saying that he was a very popular professor (at the time, not only for his popular scientist persona but also as the butt-head astronomer fame re Apple).
The problem is that he was a recluse, or rumored to be one. It was also rumored that he only taught one single 700 level grad course a year since no one ever found his course in the thick course catalog. For that matter, no one saw him on campus, in the library, in the labs, etc, either. Ever.
As a result, when I was at Cornell (7-8 years ago), at the beginning of the fall semester there was always an annual game - "Who spots Sagan on campus first".
So interesting and informative weblog from Sagan? Maybe. Interesting and informative in a class/on campus/in person? Who knows?!?
I would say it is better than that. I use a VIA C3 900 Mhz processor in a Shuttle small form factor PC (SV24) at home. It uses so little power that it does not require a CPU fan.
It is sufficient enough to do the following without problem:
Decode MPEG-2 i.e. playback DVD or VOB files.
Encode and decode MP3.
Generally Office tasks and web surfing.
Even gaming (with older games like Counterstrike) if paired up with a decent graphic card.
What it does not well (at least for me):
Encode MPEG-2.
Handle or manipulate large files (800+ MB high bitrate DivX file, apply Photoshop filter to a TIFF file etc, etc). (This is with 512 MB RAM and a large fast driveXP.)
New games that are CPU intensive.
If you have to seriously ask 'Will this have enough power for my (insert task here)?' then a C3 is probably not for you.
$800 is too much to pay for that anyway although I like its hardware specs (both firewire and USB).
Are there already a # of OS that fits on a 3.5" 1.4MB floppy disc? http://www.woalf.uklinux.net/
Also, as soon as more MB manufacturers supporting booting from USB devices (thumb drive, for example, which comes in all variety of sizes even at 1GB+)m would this features be pretty useless?
Not to be a grammar police but I do not trust an article that is filled with so many errors (grammatical and factual).
Case in point: * "take advantage of DVD's [sic] have to offer acoustically." * "gives them a little bit of Bass [sic] to liven up the sounds" * "Since the refresh rate sits at 60Hz, after a few hours of fast moving screens you'll have a guaranteed headache if you sit too close." Refresh rate is only applicable to CRT screens, not to plasma and LCD. The viewer probably got the headache from viewing fast moving images that suffer from large pixel width and low response time (ghosting) that are common to plasma/LCD displays.
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Oh, and you speak as if there is not a HUGE iPod community? Ever been to http://www.ipodlounge.com/ and the 1000+ pictures of iPod around the world?
According to my calculation, the Nomad Zen is over twice the size (volume) of the iPod and 60% heavier.
Apple iPod (Gen 3)
103.5mm(H)*61.8mm(W)*15.7mm(D) = ~100k cubic mm and 158 grams
Nomad Zen
112.6*75.9*24.5 = ~209k cubic mm at 268g.
Furthermore, the set of functionalities that the two players offer are different (sync vs FM capability for example) so their value to user is highly different.
While I like iPod to support other formats (WMA and Vorbis Ogg) but I am satisified with AAC and MP3 for now.
The 50 iPods is used to help the students to take their minds off that they have to spend the semester taking coures like Gothic Imagination at a town called Milledgeville.
Also with Rendezvous, another person's library on the same network can also appear as another accessbile library within iTunes.
Note: While you can browse and listen to other people's tunes, you cannot copy or send tracks to each other.
Why use all the unnecessary GPU processing to draw a semi-realistic, semi-naked chick (as linked to Nvidia's Dawn demo) when you can play pics and movies of real naked chicks that looks tons better using the system intergrated GPU?
With statements like this: "The test was as blind as possible" and "If they couldn't hear a difference they were supposed to rank randomly" (how about indistinguishable as a choice!), I don't think I would trust infoanarchy or c't.
(In Beavis or Butthead's voice)
"Hmm, ha, ha, he said, injector coking."
"Hmm, yeah, coking is cool."
ANd what's wrong with just posting this from her PC?
Sidewalk was a miserabel failure, which is why they sold it early on to Citysearch. Expedia was (intially) a money drainer which is also why they sold it as well.
However, the people they sold both Sidewalk and Expedia to is another "evil empire" - Barry Diller's USA interactive!
Apple did it and it has only 5% of the market. Let that be a lesson.
(Disclaimer: Well, not really considering I have swtiched may laptop to an iBook and am loving the BSD-based little thing.)
You're right. I also find most paintings hanging musuems can also be improved by adding some birds and meadow in the background. While you are at it, why don't you colorize Citizen Kane as well?
Not necessarily true. I watched the subtitled (not dubbed) version at Disney's own El Capitan theater in Los Angeles last year. The DVD version will most likely have both audio tracks. Princess Monoke has it.
Well, Apple software will only run on Apple approved hardware which is only sold by Apple authorized dealers. This contributes to how Apple can claim 'Everything Just Works' (TM). We don't hear the uproar about that. P.S. - I own an iBook and while everything does not "just works" it generally works better than a PC laptop (my previous one is a Sony VAIO SR subnote). And please intepret 'only' in the first sentence loosely, I am sure someone will find one or two exception out there but the above statement is generally true.
Seems like the technology is aimed toward wireless data so why GSM? Why not GPRS, 1xRTT, 3G, etc, instead?
Not to mention rather than the smiling Tivo face, you get a AOL voice saying 'You've got ad!' No thanks.
You are wrong regarding Expedia, which is now owned by Barry Diller's USAi company, which, of course owns Ticketmaster, Evite, Citysearch, Match.com etc i.e. .
The problem is that he was a recluse, or rumored to be one. It was also rumored that he only taught one single 700 level grad course a year since no one ever found his course in the thick course catalog. For that matter, no one saw him on campus, in the library, in the labs, etc, either. Ever.
As a result, when I was at Cornell (7-8 years ago), at the beginning of the fall semester there was always an annual game - "Who spots Sagan on campus first".
So interesting and informative weblog from Sagan? Maybe. Interesting and informative in a class/on campus/in person? Who knows?!?
May he rest in peace with the stars, however.
Not really. Grafitti was developed by Xerox first.
I would be impressed if they make my socks track each other through the journey of hamper-washer-dryer-closet drawer.
It is sufficient enough to do the following without problem:
What it does not well (at least for me):
Encode MPEG-2.
Handle or manipulate large files (800+ MB high bitrate DivX file, apply Photoshop filter to a TIFF file etc, etc). (This is with 512 MB RAM and a large fast driveXP.)
New games that are CPU intensive.
If you have to seriously ask 'Will this have enough power for my (insert task here)?' then a C3 is probably not for you.
$800 is too much to pay for that anyway although I like its hardware specs (both firewire and USB).
Not to mention the iBook has a built-in optical drive!
Apple, Sharp, and Trolltech do not offer any syncing solution for Mac OS X. It's... like... beep beep beep.. a bummer.
Are there already a # of OS that fits on a 3.5" 1.4MB floppy disc? http://www.woalf.uklinux.net/ Also, as soon as more MB manufacturers supporting booting from USB devices (thumb drive, for example, which comes in all variety of sizes even at 1GB+)m would this features be pretty useless?
Well, 100,000 JPEGs played at 30 frames/second = 56 minutes of video. That sucks! :)
Not to be a grammar police but I do not trust an article that is filled with so many errors (grammatical and factual).
Case in point:
* "take advantage of DVD's [sic] have to offer acoustically."
* "gives them a little bit of Bass [sic] to liven up the sounds"
* "Since the refresh rate sits at 60Hz, after a few hours of fast moving screens you'll have a guaranteed headache if you sit too close." Refresh rate is only applicable to CRT screens, not to plasma and LCD. The viewer probably got the headache from viewing fast moving images that suffer from large pixel width and low response time (ghosting) that are common to plasma/LCD displays.