I know that is what the chart implies, but the text says otherwise:
The iRiver R&D team estimates that customers who use iMP-250 and 350 might be forced to make a selection between Ogg firmware and MP3 & WMA firmware. ... The iFP-300 series would be same as the iMP-250 and 350 that require a selection between Ogg firmware and MP3 &WMA firmware.
Yes it can record WAV files, via the optical input or external microphone jack. Check the CD-Freaks article for the official product description blurb.
What is missing, and would be really great, is for the device too encode OGG files as well!
Rather than just reading about them, view actual footage of many nuclear tests as well as extensive interviews with Teller in Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie It is a very moving documentary chronicling the development of atomic weaponry.
Before any king can return, New Line Cinema will re-release of the first two "Lord of the Rings" pics worldwide, this time with additional scenes and footage added.
Just two weeks before the Dec. 17 release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" -- the final installment of the Peter Jackson-helmed epic trilogy -- the first two "Ring" entries will be unspooling worldwide.
In memoranda sent to exhibitors on Wednesday, New Line laid out a game plan to promote the third film by refreshing filmgoers' memories with "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers."
Plan calls for putting the films on 100-150 screens in top 10 U.S. markets. Many other U.S. cities will have one cinema participating in the special extended edition screenings. Running times for the extended editions are 208 minutes for "Fellowship of the Ring" and 214 minutes for "The Two Towers."
Advanced ticket sales are scheduled to begin in late September or early October on exhibitor Web sites and movie ticketing sites like Fandango, MovieFone and Movietickets.com.
"The release of the third film affords us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give audiences a compelling new theatrical experience of Peter Jackson's sprawling vision for this trilogy," said Rolf Mittweg, prexy and chief operating officer for worldwide distribution and marketing.
The cost, one New Line insider estimated, will be between $10 million and $15 million. Due to the extended length of the new prints, the move is being cast as a promotional tool rather than a moneymaker.
"It is important to note," the memo says, "that these events are produced as a marketing/publicity stunt and not as a revenue generating opportunity" and that media support will be limited largely to the Internet and participating theaters.
Starting the week of Dec. 5, the extended DVD cut of "Fellowship of the Ring" will be released in some 100 or so theaters in the U.S. and in 20 theaters in Canada.
Then, the week of Dec. 12, sequel "Two Towers" will unspool, just a month after having preemed on DVD, leading up to a worldwide Dec. 16 daylong marathon, during which all three films will be shown back-to-back. Exhib guidelines call for a 3 p.m. showing of "Fellowship" followed by a 7 p.m. screening of "Two Towers" and then an 11 p.m. screening of "Return of the King," which will carry over into Dec. 17 -- the day of its global release.
Overseas, it's not yet clear whether all exhibs will be showing the new footage-added prints of the previous "Rings" pics. According to one New Line insider, the decision is being left to exhibs, which will make their requests known to New Line in the next few weeks.
Italy and Japan will not immediately be included in the foreign promotional blitz. Italo comedies dominate that country around the holidays, and corporate sibling Warner Bros. will be carpeting Japan with the next "Harry Potter" pic. Triad of "Rings" pics will instead screen in January in Italy and February in Japan.
"King" is produced by Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Jackson, with a screenplay by Walsh & Philippa Boyens and Jackson, based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Perhaps more exciting than the extended edition re-releases is the promise of marathon showings December 16th.
FOTR @ 1500
TTT @ 1900
ROTK @ 2300
Not only can you to see the entire story at once, but beat all the other line-standing fans by 1 whole hour! That must count for some serious geek points in the grand scheme of things.
Call your favorite theater today and request that they carry this special engagement. If they won't, drive to a big city, this ought to be worth it!
"Customers may not acquire a license in Dynix/ptx from today's date forward."
In a departure from their standard MO, SCO doesn't threaten IBM customers who currently hold Dynix/ptx licenses, and instead just claims that no new licenses may be issued.
Maybe they are starting to worry about gettting nailed on extortion charges?
AT&T wireless provides an email->SMS gateway already. phonenumber@mobile.att.net will send an SMS to whatever poor shmuck has the number. As far as I can tell, there is no filtering, because I get an average of 4 spams per day on my phone now. It has been getting steadily worse over the last year.
I've never posted my phone number with the domain or used it anywhere, but 10 million spams will cover a whole area code and hit quite a few cell phones, especially if you target the new area codes overlaid specially for mobile devices. Alternately, spammers could harvest phone numbers online (e.g. resumes, personal pages) and compare them against online phone directories, assuming a greater probability of hitting a cell phone with an unlisted number. The latter is my pet theory for how my own problem got so bad.
I'd like AT&T to implement some filtering and/or a whitelist option.
My first reaction to the story was to wish someone had referred Jesse and his father to the EFF instead of letting the RIAA bully them into a settlement.
Upon futher reflection though, perhaps the Jordans have made a huge personal sacrifice as part of a very strategic move against the RIAA. IF, and it's a big if, the facts of the case do make it out to the public (i.e. that he was just making a search engine for the campus network, which has plenty of legitimate uses) this may be the match lighting the fuse of a popular boycott of the RIAA.
Maybe not, but whether the plan works or not, we should all donate a bit and help Jesse get his life savings back. (12000/.'ers X $1 each)
Sony Ericsson continues to lead the way into a feature-rich paradise that turns into purgatory when you realize they still haven't spent the time to figure how to make a phone that can just place and receive calls, quickly and consistently.
I've owned a T68i for 6+ months now, and it is flashy and pretty and seductively geekish, but can't make a simple phone call! My friends with T68*s have all had similar issues and we're migrating back to the good Nokias - behind in features, but first in phones.
Thanks for the reminder Pesto, you're absolutely right that credit was and is due to the News & Observer. However, Living in Phoenix we don't hear much about the N&O, and thanks to the aggregation of Google News I was able to find the information, despite its (now not so) obscure source.
It does seem a little funny to argue about the production versus aggregation/distribution of news when the article in question was little more than an edited transcript. What do you mean by the commodification of news production?
We need the phone manufacturers to stop seducing us geeks with all the sexy little features (camera, games, MMS) and focus on making phones that do what phones should - make calls, quickly and reliably. Maybe then the service providers could work on their quality of service, rather than wasting all their techs on fancy new features we don't need.
BTW, I have a T68i and I'll never buy another Sony Ericsson until they fix the stupid interface lag.
from the conspiracy theory dept.:
Just a conjecture, but it wouldn't seem out of step with **AA tactics to take down DALnet in order to curb illegal file sharing.
Since it runs on pure hydrogen, they could put Pinto gas tanks on it and let everyone drive their own personal Hindenburg.
~Chaltek
Ahh.. the joys of being named after a TV character
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Being named after The Captain has given me an interesting childhood, and I'd just like to say thanks to W.S. for helping to create such a beloved and memorable character.
There's a lot of assumptions involved in radiometric dating (of which carbon dating is a type). First, you pick an isotope of an element which has a nice long half-life. Then, you guess at how much of that isotope was in the environment (and therefore the object you are dating as well) at the time period you assume the object was made. The other assumptions are that there is a constant decay rate of the isotope and that the object being dated becomes a closed system, not seeping or leeching any of that isotope from its surroundings.
So what you really have with dates like the 77 million years is a best guess from a bunch of scientists who want it to be around 100 million and then crunch the numbers to get a more precise answer.
We've always known that paleontologists were mostly just guessing at things, but how the heck are they going to figure out "how such dinosaurs were built and how they moved" from a stomach full of "ferns, conifers and a magnolia-type plant"???
Battered women's shelters don't need to reprogram the phones to work, 911 calls will go through without any service plan.
The different providers use protocols which are fundamentally incompatible (TDMA, CDMA, now GSM.. etc.) and often different frequencies as well, so converting old phones would require new hardware, which is cost prohibitive.
Check the model numbers, you probably don't have the exact same model. The way is works, at least with Nokia phones is you can have the first 2 digits the same for the series, and the last 2 different and provider specific. e.g. 82xx series has 8260 for ATT, 8290 for Verizon, and so on.
The real problem is too many competing protocols (American Individuality at work:-) but that is slowly changing. ATT at least is converting to the worldwide GSM standard so my new T68i will work with a European provider should I decide to move. Once the rest of the American companies switch as well, your problem will be solved. One phone, any provider.
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I apologize for the troll remark. That was stupid or me and uncalled for. You were absolutely correct and I just didn't read the full RFC.
Seems like a troll, but I'll bite.
While the original HTTP RFC did not include user:pass@domain syntax, the URL RFC 1738 does.
I know that is what the chart implies, but the text says otherwise:
The iRiver R&D team estimates that customers who use iMP-250 and 350 might be forced to make a selection between Ogg firmware and MP3 & WMA firmware.
...
The iFP-300 series would be same as the iMP-250 and 350 that require a selection between Ogg firmware and MP3 &WMA firmware.
Yes, the 350 will support Ogg. Details from iRiver
However, due to its limited (8mb) flash rom you'll have to select between MP3 and Ogg support.
Here is iRiver's schedule and detailed information regarding Ogg support for their existing players.
Yes it can record WAV files, via the optical input or external microphone jack. Check the CD-Freaks article for the official product description blurb.
What is missing, and would be really great, is for the device too encode OGG files as well!
Rather than just reading about them, view actual footage of many nuclear tests as well as extensive interviews with Teller in Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
It is a very moving documentary chronicling the development of atomic weaponry.
Before any king can return, New Line Cinema will re-release of the first two "Lord of the Rings" pics worldwide, this time with additional scenes and footage added.
Just two weeks before the Dec. 17 release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" -- the final installment of the Peter Jackson-helmed epic trilogy -- the first two "Ring" entries will be unspooling worldwide.
In memoranda sent to exhibitors on Wednesday, New Line laid out a game plan to promote the third film by refreshing filmgoers' memories with "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers."
Plan calls for putting the films on 100-150 screens in top 10 U.S. markets. Many other U.S. cities will have one cinema participating in the special extended edition screenings. Running times for the extended editions are 208 minutes for "Fellowship of the Ring" and 214 minutes for "The Two Towers."
Advanced ticket sales are scheduled to begin in late September or early October on exhibitor Web sites and movie ticketing sites like Fandango, MovieFone and Movietickets.com.
"The release of the third film affords us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give audiences a compelling new theatrical experience of Peter Jackson's sprawling vision for this trilogy," said Rolf Mittweg, prexy and chief operating officer for worldwide distribution and marketing.
The cost, one New Line insider estimated, will be between $10 million and $15 million. Due to the extended length of the new prints, the move is being cast as a promotional tool rather than a moneymaker.
"It is important to note," the memo says, "that these events are produced as a marketing/publicity stunt and not as a revenue generating opportunity" and that media support will be limited largely to the Internet and participating theaters.
Starting the week of Dec. 5, the extended DVD cut of "Fellowship of the Ring" will be released in some 100 or so theaters in the U.S. and in 20 theaters in Canada.
Then, the week of Dec. 12, sequel "Two Towers" will unspool, just a month after having preemed on DVD, leading up to a worldwide Dec. 16 daylong marathon, during which all three films will be shown back-to-back. Exhib guidelines call for a 3 p.m. showing of "Fellowship" followed by a 7 p.m. screening of "Two Towers" and then an 11 p.m. screening of "Return of the King," which will carry over into Dec. 17 -- the day of its global release.
Overseas, it's not yet clear whether all exhibs will be showing the new footage-added prints of the previous "Rings" pics. According to one New Line insider, the decision is being left to exhibs, which will make their requests known to New Line in the next few weeks.
Italy and Japan will not immediately be included in the foreign promotional blitz. Italo comedies dominate that country around the holidays, and corporate sibling Warner Bros. will be carpeting Japan with the next "Harry Potter" pic. Triad of "Rings" pics will instead screen in January in Italy and February in Japan.
"King" is produced by Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Jackson, with a screenplay by Walsh & Philippa Boyens and Jackson, based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Perhaps more exciting than the extended edition re-releases is the promise of marathon showings December 16th.
FOTR @ 1500
TTT @ 1900
ROTK @ 2300
Not only can you to see the entire story at once, but beat all the other line-standing fans by 1 whole hour!
That must count for some serious geek points in the grand scheme of things.
Call your favorite theater today and request that they carry this special engagement. If they won't, drive to a big city, this ought to be worth it!
"Customers may not acquire a license in Dynix/ptx from today's date forward."
In a departure from their standard MO, SCO doesn't threaten IBM customers who currently hold Dynix/ptx licenses, and instead just claims that no new licenses may be issued.
Maybe they are starting to worry about gettting nailed on extortion charges?
To avoid the slowness of SCO's Cold Fusion, use this Yahoo! Finance mirror of the Press release:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030813/law050_1.html
AT&T wireless provides an email->SMS gateway already. phonenumber@mobile.att.net will send an SMS to whatever poor shmuck has the number. As far as I can tell, there is no filtering, because I get an average of 4 spams per day on my phone now. It has been getting steadily worse over the last year.
I've never posted my phone number with the domain or used it anywhere, but 10 million spams will cover a whole area code and hit quite a few cell phones, especially if you target the new area codes overlaid specially for mobile devices. Alternately, spammers could harvest phone numbers online (e.g. resumes, personal pages) and compare them against online phone directories, assuming a greater probability of hitting a cell phone with an unlisted number.
The latter is my pet theory for how my own problem got so bad.
I'd like AT&T to implement some filtering and/or a whitelist option.
Just my 2 cents. Take it or leave it. ~Kirk
My first reaction to the story was to wish someone had referred Jesse and his father to the EFF instead of letting the RIAA bully them into a settlement.
/.'ers X $1 each)
Upon futher reflection though, perhaps the Jordans have made a huge personal sacrifice as part of a very strategic move against the RIAA. IF, and it's a big if, the facts of the case do make it out to the public (i.e. that he was just making a search engine for the campus network, which has plenty of legitimate uses) this may be the match lighting the fuse of a popular boycott of the RIAA.
Maybe not, but whether the plan works or not, we should all donate a bit and help Jesse get his life savings back. (12000
~Kirk
Sony Ericsson continues to lead the way into a feature-rich paradise that turns into purgatory when you realize they still haven't spent the time to figure how to make a phone that can just place and receive calls, quickly and consistently.
I've owned a T68i for 6+ months now, and it is flashy and pretty and seductively geekish, but can't make a simple phone call! My friends with T68*s have all had similar issues and we're migrating back to the good Nokias - behind in features, but first in phones.
Thanks for the reminder Pesto, you're absolutely right that credit was and is due to the News & Observer.
However, Living in Phoenix we don't hear much about the N&O, and thanks to the aggregation of Google News I was able to find the information, despite its (now not so) obscure source.
It does seem a little funny to argue about the production versus aggregation/distribution of news when the article in question was little more than an edited transcript. What do you mean by the commodification of news production?
We need the phone manufacturers to stop seducing us geeks with all the sexy little features (camera, games, MMS) and focus on making phones that do what phones should - make calls, quickly and reliably. Maybe then the service providers could work on their quality of service, rather than wasting all their techs on fancy new features we don't need.
BTW, I have a T68i and I'll never buy another Sony Ericsson until they fix the stupid interface lag.
from the conspiracy theory dept.:
Just a conjecture, but it wouldn't seem out of step with **AA tactics to take down DALnet in order to curb illegal file sharing.
~Chaltek
Since it runs on pure hydrogen, they could put Pinto gas tanks on it and let everyone drive their own personal Hindenburg.
~Chaltek
Being named after The Captain has given me an interesting childhood, and I'd just like to say thanks to W.S. for helping to create such a beloved and memorable character.
~Kirk
There's a lot of assumptions involved in radiometric dating (of which carbon dating is a type).
First, you pick an isotope of an element which has a nice long half-life. Then, you guess at how much of that isotope was in the environment (and therefore the object you are dating as well) at the time period you assume the object was made.
The other assumptions are that there is a constant decay rate of the isotope and that the object being dated becomes a closed system, not seeping or leeching any of that isotope from its surroundings.
So what you really have with dates like the 77 million years is a best guess from a bunch of scientists who want it to be around 100 million and then crunch the numbers to get a more precise answer.
Let the rebuttals begin... =)
~Chaltek
We've always known that paleontologists were mostly just guessing at things, but how the heck are they going to figure out "how such dinosaurs were built and how they moved" from a stomach full of "ferns, conifers and a magnolia-type plant"???
~Chaltek
I've been warning my friends still hooked on EverCrack and DAOC that they're throwing their lives away... maybe this will convince them.
Printable LCDs
Biometrics
Holographic Storage
Overclocking (Cooling)
Your Rights Online (DMCA)
~Chaltek
Battered women's shelters don't need to reprogram the phones to work, 911 calls will go through without any service plan.
:-) but that is slowly changing. ATT at least is converting to the worldwide GSM standard so my new T68i will work with a European provider should I decide to move. Once the rest of the American companies switch as well, your problem will be solved. One phone, any provider.
The different providers use protocols which are fundamentally incompatible (TDMA, CDMA, now GSM.. etc.) and often different frequencies as well, so converting old phones would require new hardware, which is cost prohibitive.
Check the model numbers, you probably don't have the exact same model. The way is works, at least with Nokia phones is you can have the first 2 digits the same for the series, and the last 2 different and provider specific. e.g. 82xx series has 8260 for ATT, 8290 for Verizon, and so on.
The real problem is too many competing protocols (American Individuality at work
~Chaltek
Too new to have a sig.
There's supposed to be a hi-res version coming out tonight (9/30) at midnight.