But the most important thing is that for the price of an iPod you can buy two (2) of them... 20gb retails for $250.
That's wonderful. A 40 GB iPod, which, if you can't tell, has the same capacity of 2 20 GB Nomads in 1/3 of the size, retails for USD 499. So you can buy those Nomads if you want to carry TWO, HEAVIER, UGLIER mp3 players around.
For chrissake, please don't be so confrontational about the whole thing. For one thing Alan, your broad generalizations about America just show your unwillingness to look at the truth: There are a load of morons in America. Unfortunately, there are just as many morons everywhere else. Being born in a particular place or being exposed to a certain culture does not predispose anyone to being ignorant, and since you indicate you believe that in your post, you only show your own ignorance. This is not an us versun them situation, don't make it out to be one.
It just doesn't compete with the iPod as a portable media product.
My friend owns one of the previous all-in-one media jukeboxes from Archos, and he tells me all the time he wishes he had gone the path i went (iPod 20 GB). While Archos has made a neat product, this all-in-one thing is just the jack of all trades, master of none.
For my fellow Star Wars Expanded Universe geeks out there, here's an analogy. The iPod is the R2 Unit, the quintissential (sp?) astromech droid, while the Archos is that bastardized R2 Unit with parts and tubes sticking out every which way. Anyone remember the name? It's from the Essential Guide to Droids, something like the C2-R4 Multipurpose Unit.)
It's a bit of a stretch, but the analogy is accurate enough to express my point: pick one thing, stick to it, and master it. This is what the iPod has done as an MP3 player, and it has yet to be matched in that field.
Why should he? He doesn't get paid for working on Linux; it's something he does off his own back.
Linus in employed by Transmeta, and yes, he does get to work on Linux on company time. So he does get paid for it to an extent. Not to mention a cool few million he netted from selling some of his Red Hat stocks early.
Fact: the RIAA attempt to freeze technological progress in its tracks is exactly the same thing that buggy whip manufacturers tried when the car was introduced. And is doomed to the same failure.
Wow. Seeing as you seem to know this from experience, I suppose you can call bkakes "Junior". However, you have bypassed logic in order to make some sweeping statements that appeal to peoples emotions, a favorite tactic of those that have a weak point.
For example, the concepts of "free market" and "capitalism" far predate the onset of music filesharing. Being able to get something for free that's just as good (or almost as good for the audiophiles among us) as something you pay for was not part of the original free market equation.
Conclusion: if you want to get paid for the service, in this case music, you have to provide it at a price people are willing to pay, in the format that they want it. That's called 'capitalism'. Trying to thwart the free market is called 'acting like a fucking totalitarian idiot'.
There you go again, trying to pass off the free market theory when it simply does not apply to such a situation. While I have no love for the RIAA or MPAA, i almost pity them because they are one of the few industries that have to compete with "free". All they have going for them right now is quality and, for some, morality, and the gap is closing fast on the former. There somes a point at which the content on KaZaA et. all will be indistinguishable from that available in stores, and connections will enable people to have it in much less time than it takes to buy it for infinitely less money. At that time, what is your justification? The RIAA can no longer offer an alternative at that point. You say that the RIAA could have changed their business model according to the changing market conditions. Only one man has really come close to achieving what you propose for the RIAA to do (compete with a free product), and he happens to be (by the numbers) the best businessman in the world. Even he is losing ground in some areas. (I'll give you a hint, he's got an office in Redmond.)
Like I said before, it's pretty damn hard to compete with free. Any thoughts, "Old Timer"?
Jesus was a real person, as real as George Washington, Adolf Hitler, or Tom Cruise. Whether or not you disagree with the fact that he is/was a diety, historians (Most notably Tacitus) spoke of Jesus in their works, albiet with much scorn. Do some research before you spread misinformation, please. Or more likely you are just trolling.
Negative on that one. Fusion was the safest kind (to everything but your wallet.) With Microwave, the beam sometimes missed, igniting a pretty large fire.
another good googleshare...
"goatse" has a.45% googleshare of "Slashdot"!
So 1 in 200 posts mentions goatse, indicating that hardly a major story passes without some mention of that...thing.
Please don't use North Carolina as an example as a typical southern racist state, it isn't. Unless of course you typed that comment with the knowledge that North Carolina has elected a Democrat governer for the past twenty years, and that no voter fraud or disenfranchising took place in the last electon.
No matter how slim a profit may be, there are tons of large, reputable companies out there that are
losing money. Breaking even is good, a profit is merely icing on the cake, and hopfully a sign
of things to come.
On a related note, RedHat's stock is down today. As a shareholder, I'm interested to know why it would
drop on good news. Any ideas?
put a shortcut in your startup folder, link it to c:\phoenix\phoenix.exe -turbo. (of course using your
own Phoenix location). Now restart Windows. Voila!
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But the most important thing is that for the price of an iPod you can buy two (2) of them ... 20gb retails for $250.
That's wonderful. A 40 GB iPod, which, if you can't tell, has the same capacity of 2 20 GB Nomads in 1/3 of the size, retails for USD 499. So you can buy those Nomads if you want to carry TWO, HEAVIER, UGLIER mp3 players around.
That's the great thing about standards, there are so many to choose from.
-Andrew Tanenbaum
For chrissake, please don't be so confrontational about the whole thing. For one thing Alan, your broad generalizations about America just show your unwillingness to look at the truth: There are a load of morons in America. Unfortunately, there are just as many morons everywhere else. Being born in a particular place or being exposed to a certain culture does not predispose anyone to being ignorant, and since you indicate you believe that in your post, you only show your own ignorance. This is not an us versun them situation, don't make it out to be one.
It just doesn't compete with the iPod as a portable media product.
My friend owns one of the previous all-in-one media jukeboxes from Archos, and he tells me all the time he wishes he had gone the path i went (iPod 20 GB). While Archos has made a neat product, this all-in-one thing is just the jack of all trades, master of none.
For my fellow Star Wars Expanded Universe geeks out there, here's an analogy. The iPod is the R2 Unit, the quintissential (sp?) astromech droid, while the Archos is that bastardized R2 Unit with parts and tubes sticking out every which way. Anyone remember the name? It's from the Essential Guide to Droids, something like the C2-R4 Multipurpose Unit.)
It's a bit of a stretch, but the analogy is accurate enough to express my point: pick one thing, stick to it, and master it. This is what the iPod has done as an MP3 player, and it has yet to be matched in that field.
Troll? This is too funny!
For the uninformed, Linus's wife Tove was the Finnish National Karate Champion.
My take on things?
RMS is the Oracle, Linus is the Architect. Perens, Raymond, Cox, et al are the agents.
THE LINUX 0WnZ J00
Why should he? He doesn't get paid for working on Linux; it's something he does off his own back.
Linus in employed by Transmeta, and yes, he does get to work on Linux on company time. So he does get paid for it to an extent. Not to mention a cool few million he netted from selling some of his Red Hat stocks early.
Fact: the RIAA attempt to freeze technological progress in its tracks is exactly the same thing that buggy whip manufacturers tried when the car was introduced. And is doomed to the same failure.
Wow. Seeing as you seem to know this from experience, I suppose you can call bkakes "Junior". However, you have bypassed logic in order to make some sweeping statements that appeal to peoples emotions, a favorite tactic of those that have a weak point.
For example, the concepts of "free market" and "capitalism" far predate the onset of music filesharing. Being able to get something for free that's just as good (or almost as good for the audiophiles among us) as something you pay for was not part of the original free market equation.
Conclusion: if you want to get paid for the service, in this case music, you have to provide it at a price people are willing to pay, in the format that they want it. That's called 'capitalism'. Trying to thwart the free market is called 'acting like a fucking totalitarian idiot'.
There you go again, trying to pass off the free market theory when it simply does not apply to such a situation. While I have no love for the RIAA or MPAA, i almost pity them because they are one of the few industries that have to compete with "free". All they have going for them right now is quality and, for some, morality, and the gap is closing fast on the former. There somes a point at which the content on KaZaA et. all will be indistinguishable from that available in stores, and connections will enable people to have it in much less time than it takes to buy it for infinitely less money. At that time, what is your justification? The RIAA can no longer offer an alternative at that point. You say that the RIAA could have changed their business model according to the changing market conditions. Only one man has really come close to achieving what you propose for the RIAA to do (compete with a free product), and he happens to be (by the numbers) the best businessman in the world. Even he is losing ground in some areas. (I'll give you a hint, he's got an office in Redmond.)
Like I said before, it's pretty damn hard to compete with free. Any thoughts, "Old Timer"?
Jesus was a real person, as real as George Washington, Adolf Hitler, or Tom Cruise. Whether or not you disagree with the fact that he is/was a diety, historians (Most notably Tacitus) spoke of Jesus in their works, albiet with much scorn. Do some research before you spread misinformation, please. Or more likely you are just trolling.
Well, seeing as it's set in about 2001 or so, wouldn't Morpheus prefer the FastTrack Client called Morpheus? (available at the time)
Negative on that one. Fusion was the safest kind (to everything but your wallet.) With Microwave, the beam sometimes missed, igniting a pretty large fire.
If you played Simcity 2000.
Microwave power plants were an expensive, moderately dangerous power plant (Missed beam, anyone?)
I never really was a fan, but I did wonder if such a thing was scientifically valid. Guess it was.
Mac OS X is certified as a real UNIX by OpenGroup, who own the rights to it.
It is a bonafide UNIX brand OS. Period.
Just as an aside, you cannot make something more realistic than Real Life.
It's like saying someone's impression of a character in a movie is better than the original. It just doesn't work that way.
I feel it is my duty to invoke Godwin's law on you. Good post, but you pulled out the Hitler comparison, SO THREAD IS OVER.
I'll go ahead and bite this one.
In case you haven't been reading, I'm sure you'll be delighted to hear that the Intel P4 3.06GHz w/ 800 FSB has been delayed because of defects.
Also, seeing as this is an Athlon64 2800+, it makes sense to compare it to a 2.8GHz P4.
This is my third post in a row doing such, but I feel it is my duty to invoke Godwin's Law.
Why can't people on Slashdot just stop making so many Nazi and Hitler analogies?
Sorry, I'd hate for it to come to this, but I invoke Godwin's Law.
Thread is over.
Nothing to see here.
another good googleshare... .45% googleshare of "Slashdot"!
"goatse" has a
So 1 in 200 posts mentions goatse, indicating that hardly a major story passes without some mention of that...thing.
RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Complexity. RISC chips have many MORE instructions, but they are all very small.
Please don't use North Carolina as an example as a typical southern racist state, it isn't. Unless of course you typed that comment with the knowledge that North Carolina has elected a Democrat governer for the past twenty years, and that no voter fraud or disenfranchising took place in the last electon.
No matter how slim a profit may be, there are tons of large, reputable companies out there that are
losing money. Breaking even is good, a profit is merely icing on the cake, and hopfully a sign
of things to come.
On a related note, RedHat's stock is down today. As a shareholder, I'm interested to know why it would
drop on good news. Any ideas?
put a shortcut in your startup folder, link it to c:\phoenix\phoenix.exe -turbo. (of course using your own Phoenix location). Now restart Windows. Voila!
IEEE 1394a (FireWire or iLink) has sustained transfer rate of 400 Mb/s. (thats megabits per second)
USB 2.0 has a peak transfer rate of 480 Mb/s, but usually you won't get that kind of throughput.
With the ATA 100 standard, the 100 is for 100 MB/s, thats 800 megabits per second, so ATA100 is twice as fast as FireWire.
However, the IEEE 1394b standard will operate at 1600 Mb/s, or about 2x as fast as ATA 100, so good things are to come.