Yeah, I played with ifp-line, and it indeed works pretty well. But I like being able to use the full power of bash on the device.
What is really spiffy, is that under Ubuntu, the drive automatically mounts, so I just plug it in and copy. My goal (I just loaded the firmware the other day) is to run it all in a cron job, so I can just plug it in and let the machine fill it automatically.
iRiver recently released firmware which lets their devices look like any other USB drive. I was able to plug it in cold to a Linux box and copy music to it with "cp". No drivers needed (other than the standard USB ones which you already have.)
Plays mp3s. Plays oggs. Battery life's quite good, to. Though it's not cheap.
No offense to Firefly...I haven't seen it...but I have to point out that a little show called "The X-Files" ran for two or three years on Friday night.
Unfortunately this doesn't work for one of the earliest criticisms of evolutionary theory, which was that it only explained small-scale changes in a single species but didn't explain how speciation occurred.
One of the earliest attacks on Darwin went something like "Well, sure, that explains how minor changes occur to species, but it doesn't explain how species came about in the first place."
Also, your number (2) has to be more rigorous than just "tends" in order for the logic chain to work.
No, not like that at all. Because if I contribute to Encarta, I lose the rights to what I wrote. No one can use it except Microsoft.
This is totally different from BSD, which everyone can use, including Microsoft.
It's one thing to spend your free time contributing to BSD so everyone can benefit. It's quite another to spend your free time contributing to Microsoft, so Microsoft, and ONLY Microsoft can benefit.
I can see spending time without pay to contribute to something that is a good to the IT community in general, even it that community includes Microsoft. What I can't see is spending time without pay to contribute to a company with billions in the bank so it can better compete against things like Wiki and Britanica. Microsoft is not a charity.
Yes. However, they don't take away my rights to sell them myself...
If I were to contribute an essay to Wiki, I could retain rights and post it on my own site. If I were to "contribute" an essay to Encarta, Microsoft could sue my ass for posting it on my own site.
I don't give up writes to my own work without being compensated.
Uh...that's entirely beside the point. What I was asking was why would anyone in their right mind spend their own time to improve the product made by a company with $10 billion in the bank, and worse, give up their own rights to those improvements?
Before jumping to too many conclusions about this, remember that it is a report of a mutation one gene in one organism. It very well may be very specific to this particulary gene. Worthy of study. Not yet worthy of making broad conclusions.
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For some, AV is another word for "home movies". I've 15 minidv tapes of my kid that I'd really like to be able to get onto a random-access medium.
That's funny...I thought they were cancelling it because the ratings were too low to support the cost of production.
An FP-599. (Flash player)
I had an old Samsung mp3 player, and hated it. It was shoddily built.
I own 700 CDs. That's about 6000 files or so and doesn't even count the songs I legitimately downloaded. Do the math. It's a lot more than 40 gigs.
I've been buying CDs for twenty years. They add up.
Yeah, I played with ifp-line, and it indeed works pretty well. But I like being able to use the full power of bash on the device.
What is really spiffy, is that under Ubuntu, the drive automatically mounts, so I just plug it in and copy. My goal (I just loaded the firmware the other day) is to run it all in a cron job, so I can just plug it in and let the machine fill it automatically.
iRiver recently released firmware which lets their devices look like any other USB drive. I was able to plug it in cold to a Linux box and copy music to it with "cp". No drivers needed (other than the standard USB ones which you already have.)
Plays mp3s. Plays oggs. Battery life's quite good, to. Though it's not cheap.
The phrase "little show" was "sarcasm". Please ask your composition teacher what that word means.
For the reading comprehension impared:
"X-Files" + Friday night = High ratings.
Thus Friday night scheduling obviously doesn't kill a popular show.
Therefore, while "Firefly" may well have been good, it wasn't the mere scheduling that killed it.
Q.E.D.
No offense to Firefly...I haven't seen it...but I have to point out that a little show called "The X-Files" ran for two or three years on Friday night.
I'm supposed to watch 3 * 26 hours of television just to wait until it starts to get good?
Sorry...there's too little time to waste waiting for crap to stop smelling so bad when there is decent stuff to watch.
Now maybe all this damn whining about a third-rate TV show will stop.
One of the earliest attacks on Darwin went something like "Well, sure, that explains how minor changes occur to species, but it doesn't explain how species came about in the first place."
Also, your number (2) has to be more rigorous than just "tends" in order for the logic chain to work.
Yes, and CDDB. Lots of people were suckered.
Probably because he doesn't give Novell complete and exclusive rights to Linux.
This is totally different from BSD, which everyone can use, including Microsoft.
It's one thing to spend your free time contributing to BSD so everyone can benefit. It's quite another to spend your free time contributing to Microsoft, so Microsoft, and ONLY Microsoft can benefit.
I can see spending time without pay to contribute to something that is a good to the IT community in general, even it that community includes Microsoft. What I can't see is spending time without pay to contribute to a company with billions in the bank so it can better compete against things like Wiki and Britanica. Microsoft is not a charity.
If I were to contribute an essay to Wiki, I could retain rights and post it on my own site. If I were to "contribute" an essay to Encarta, Microsoft could sue my ass for posting it on my own site.
I don't give up writes to my own work without being compensated.
If I contribute to an open-source project, I don't lose the rights to my own work.
Uh...that's entirely beside the point. What I was asking was why would anyone in their right mind spend their own time to improve the product made by a company with $10 billion in the bank, and worse, give up their own rights to those improvements?
What's next, and "community" site to allow programmers to write new applications for Microsoft to sell?
You're right. The old model that the networks built over the last thirty years won't work with downloads.
But times change. They can fight a rearguard action trying to save their old model, or they can create a new model works in the existing environment.
Heh. I guess I wasn't the only one who christianed a new machine by running fractint on it. Gave it up around 1998 because there was just no point.
Not true. It has to go through more atmosphere if it is at a lower angle of incidence.
Before jumping to too many conclusions about this, remember that it is a report of a mutation one gene in one organism. It very well may be very specific to this particulary gene. Worthy of study. Not yet worthy of making broad conclusions.
If this stopped all mutations, they'd have noticed about forty years ago.
Perhaps someone should stand up and refuse to settle. What did your lawyer say about your chances if you went to trial?