well for me at the time (I have a 1st gen) it was a number of factors...
There where very few hard drive based MP3 players out there... I had a RIO, but honestly they barely fit a CD at decent encoding... I liked the idea of carrying more than that since I used to put two of three albums onto a long play cassette.
The design was very tight... the buttons made a LOT more sense than the RIO's, the menu and playlist system was much better (hell it HAD a playlist system... the Rios didnt unless you spent 300 dollars for the upscale ones) and the battery life while maybe on par with the RIO had one thing over it.... it could be recharged and thus I wasnt spending 4 bucks on a pack of AA's every so often. Plus I could recharge it via my laptop, another cool feature.
It worked with iTunes, which a few players did atthe time, but not many of them, and vs. other players it was the one that was most seemless in its working.
It wasnt expensive.... remeber the players that where HD based where big.... while they where cheaper, you couldnt carry them. The ones that where on par with the iPod though where actually more expensive at the time. People think (and still do) the iPod is expensive....but cost per feature wise, its actually kinda cheap. The HD's alone are not much cheaper than the players.
It was a HD.... you could mount it and save your files on it which for a long time I did.... my 5 gig still doubles as a HD sometimes.... I erase it if I need to because the files are over 1 gig, load the files I need to onto it, and then just reload it.... doesnt take long at all... and no other player was firewire based, they where either USB (no USB2 yet) or worse....serial!
It was cool, no doubt about it. even if you hated it, you talked about it, and just about everyone wanted one.
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but my favorite point in the peice..... that originally DRM was never thought of for the iPod and iTunes Music Store, and that Apple felt it would damaged the sales.
Seems the RIAA decided to change Apples mind about it.... who wants to guess they would have refused to do the iTunes Music Store without it having DRM and probably wanted something stronger than what Apple gave them.
k 500 for parts to upgrade your computer....
500 for a brand new computer with better standards in most cases...
Id go with the buying a new computer....
Sorry, yes Im a mac user, but i actually have sat there and priced out buying parts vs getting a new machine since i work in a IT department and in a lot of cases where your upgrading more than one thing, buying a new machine is just much better...
getting mem, no, getting just a vid card, no, but getting mem AND a vid card and a new prossesor... get a new computer man
based on the article text... no its not.
Make cable cheaper... yes, but they are pretty much running at the same speeds
likewise its much chearper for me to pay 30 bucks a month for cable, than buy two aditional services just to get a 5 dollar price reducation to 35,
and i dont use long distance.....
dont even feel like wasting my time to post the responce.... so many people smarter than you have proven you wrong already:D
and yes I am LOVING this topic to take the edge off my work week thank you very much
read your history, Yugoslavia's policies after the breakup of the USSR where in direct line to why the breakup and bosnian war started... there was hatred there, but it was the ruling power after the breakup that let it go out of hand, not arms sales...
You do have history books in england right?
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um actually I can walk my dog quite fine thank you very much.
And recently i was just watching something about this and the big problem is money, we would be sending people out of jail, but unlike all you other countries who get money FROM US, we have to make due with what we have and thus go the cheaper route of jail rather than rehabilitation...
Course many more coutries in the world kill people who commit the crimes some of our jail population does (like rape and insest), we only kill mass murderes, and serial killers, and even then maybe 5 a year at most....
THIS IS INSIGHTFULL??? damn I wish i hadnt posted so I could mod you down....
No shit for brains he needs to be locked up for being a kook, we will go beyond the fact hes JEWISH and anti-semetic, but just the fact that he is seeing and hearing things means somethings not exactly right up there and he needs to be taken care of professionally.
And yes this IS the land of the free, but the minute your freedom is used to take away someone elses freedom, then there is a problem
considering we had him wanted.... but no one was really looking for him it wasnt a waste.... no money was spent ON looking for him....
And its the principal of the matter, the country he was in did cause the bosnian war which DID kill US and UN troops when we went there to stop it, it ALSO caused the mass slaughter of muslims in that region... the sanctions where ment to cause the country to back down by preventing them from contributing or having the world contribute to them... even the US couldnt last without imports and exports.... he made it ok to dissregard those sanctions.
if that was the case the middle east would be a glass factory... take off your tinfoil hat please....
and he did break the law, they arnt taking him in cause hes a asshole, they are taking him in cause he went and broke US law to play in a country that caused the Bosnian war because was on another one of his ego trips thinking he was invincible.... yeah he won the match but in the prosses had hundreds of countries looking to arrest him and deport him
well they have wanted him for 12 years, if they REALLY wanted him im sure he would haven been found.... he got stupid and caught and now they are following proccedure, no big deal about it... Cant let him go since he broken international law with that game of chess..
Personally I think the guy is a asshat, he was and probably still is a the greatest chess player who ever lived, but someone really needs to sew his mouth shut since any idea of genius instantly goes out the door when he opens his mouth and shit comes out
and looks 100 times better at that and can be played on a PS2 too.
On another note, I play FFXI and not only can you be a Ninja or Samurai (you have to quest to get the job type though, its not a starting class) but the Beastmen enemys you face can ALSO be those job types too.... not cool when you get a sam or nin special attack done to you
dude enough with the STFU... actually it was a ass trying to get Quake3 to run on OS X after i got it from my mom for.... get this..... A DOLLAR AT THE DOLLAR STORE!
if i got it for that cheap and os x really hadnt been out long, then it is very unlikely that OS X users where at fault. besides, the mac version with the update works great.
then explain to me why we just sent back 50 Dells after 1 year while we have sent back 1 macs (the other was repaired in house by Apple for free which Dell refused to do). And we purchased about the same amount.
Dells quality control sucks Im sorry to tell you, but unless your in a school/buisness enviroment where you purchase in bulk, you wouldnt know that
We ARE talking about the.Net king, and the guy who said the world only needed 4 computers..... and then went on to make himself dirty ritch selling them to everyone else..... do I think DVD will be obsolete in 10 years..... well people still use tape.
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They ARE real CD's its the copy protection on them that prevents them from being ripped by anyone.
would would be interesting to see is if this will drastically effect what happens now with their other lawsuits...
I hope to see a lot of the other judges reading the brief and throwing out the other cases too... Goodbye SCO.
There where very few hard drive based MP3 players out there... I had a RIO, but honestly they barely fit a CD at decent encoding... I liked the idea of carrying more than that since I used to put two of three albums onto a long play cassette.
The design was very tight... the buttons made a LOT more sense than the RIO's, the menu and playlist system was much better (hell it HAD a playlist system... the Rios didnt unless you spent 300 dollars for the upscale ones) and the battery life while maybe on par with the RIO had one thing over it.... it could be recharged and thus I wasnt spending 4 bucks on a pack of AA's every so often. Plus I could recharge it via my laptop, another cool feature.
It worked with iTunes, which a few players did atthe time, but not many of them, and vs. other players it was the one that was most seemless in its working.
It wasnt expensive.... remeber the players that where HD based where big.... while they where cheaper, you couldnt carry them. The ones that where on par with the iPod though where actually more expensive at the time. People think (and still do) the iPod is expensive....but cost per feature wise, its actually kinda cheap. The HD's alone are not much cheaper than the players.
It was a HD.... you could mount it and save your files on it which for a long time I did.... my 5 gig still doubles as a HD sometimes.... I erase it if I need to because the files are over 1 gig, load the files I need to onto it, and then just reload it.... doesnt take long at all... and no other player was firewire based, they where either USB (no USB2 yet) or worse....serial!
It was cool, no doubt about it. even if you hated it, you talked about it, and just about everyone wanted one.
Seems the RIAA decided to change Apples mind about it.... who wants to guess they would have refused to do the iTunes Music Store without it having DRM and probably wanted something stronger than what Apple gave them.
you know rich moronic skript kiddies...
k 500 for parts to upgrade your computer.... 500 for a brand new computer with better standards in most cases... Id go with the buying a new computer.... Sorry, yes Im a mac user, but i actually have sat there and priced out buying parts vs getting a new machine since i work in a IT department and in a lot of cases where your upgrading more than one thing, buying a new machine is just much better... getting mem, no, getting just a vid card, no, but getting mem AND a vid card and a new prossesor... get a new computer man
based on the article text... no its not. Make cable cheaper... yes, but they are pretty much running at the same speeds likewise its much chearper for me to pay 30 bucks a month for cable, than buy two aditional services just to get a 5 dollar price reducation to 35, and i dont use long distance.....
dont even feel like wasting my time to post the responce.... so many people smarter than you have proven you wrong already :D
and yes I am LOVING this topic to take the edge off my work week thank you very much
the only people who usually fill up their trash on a mac are former PC users... but nice try
To flamebait friday... between this one and the Bobbie Fisher one, I think the UN is going to be sanctioning Cowboy for attempting to start a war!
You do have history books in england right?
And recently i was just watching something about this and the big problem is money, we would be sending people out of jail, but unlike all you other countries who get money FROM US, we have to make due with what we have and thus go the cheaper route of jail rather than rehabilitation...
Course many more coutries in the world kill people who commit the crimes some of our jail population does (like rape and insest), we only kill mass murderes, and serial killers, and even then maybe 5 a year at most....
they didnt care he played chess, heck they didnt even care he was there....
if you read the above posted letter and sanction, they cared the guy made over 4.5 MILLION dollars playing there...
Like someone said before, its just like Cuba, you can go there, you just cant buy anything or have anything be bought for you
so right there in black and white, he took money therefore he is guilty...
No shit for brains he needs to be locked up for being a kook, we will go beyond the fact hes JEWISH and anti-semetic, but just the fact that he is seeing and hearing things means somethings not exactly right up there and he needs to be taken care of professionally.
And yes this IS the land of the free, but the minute your freedom is used to take away someone elses freedom, then there is a problem
considering we had him wanted.... but no one was really looking for him it wasnt a waste.... no money was spent ON looking for him.... And its the principal of the matter, the country he was in did cause the bosnian war which DID kill US and UN troops when we went there to stop it, it ALSO caused the mass slaughter of muslims in that region... the sanctions where ment to cause the country to back down by preventing them from contributing or having the world contribute to them... even the US couldnt last without imports and exports.... he made it ok to dissregard those sanctions.
if that was the case the middle east would be a glass factory... take off your tinfoil hat please.... and he did break the law, they arnt taking him in cause hes a asshole, they are taking him in cause he went and broke US law to play in a country that caused the Bosnian war because was on another one of his ego trips thinking he was invincible.... yeah he won the match but in the prosses had hundreds of countries looking to arrest him and deport him
Personally I think the guy is a asshat, he was and probably still is a the greatest chess player who ever lived, but someone really needs to sew his mouth shut since any idea of genius instantly goes out the door when he opens his mouth and shit comes out
and looks 100 times better at that and can be played on a PS2 too. On another note, I play FFXI and not only can you be a Ninja or Samurai (you have to quest to get the job type though, its not a starting class) but the Beastmen enemys you face can ALSO be those job types too.... not cool when you get a sam or nin special attack done to you
dude enough with the STFU... actually it was a ass trying to get Quake3 to run on OS X after i got it from my mom for.... get this..... A DOLLAR AT THE DOLLAR STORE! if i got it for that cheap and os x really hadnt been out long, then it is very unlikely that OS X users where at fault. besides, the mac version with the update works great.
then explain to me why we just sent back 50 Dells after 1 year while we have sent back 1 macs (the other was repaired in house by Apple for free which Dell refused to do). And we purchased about the same amount. Dells quality control sucks Im sorry to tell you, but unless your in a school/buisness enviroment where you purchase in bulk, you wouldnt know that
We ARE talking about the .Net king, and the guy who said the world only needed 4 computers..... and then went on to make himself dirty ritch selling them to everyone else..... do I think DVD will be obsolete in 10 years..... well people still use tape.
no but i think he should now be the powerful master we bow to for doing it
i didnt say it was impossable... just not easy and in my mind not worth the effort when i have more important things to do like look at pron.