Your radio rant is entirely subjective to where you live. In seattle we have a few decent radio stations(107.7 and 96.5 just did format chages), one very interesting one (89.5 is a high-school run station playing mainly eurobeat), and one great one (KEXP 90.3 the greatest station on the planet). It makes sense for me to listen to those. Also, the radio is for more than music. It would be nice to get news and traffic updates on my portable player.
This is something I would also like, but as I understand it is very hard to implement. The AM reciever is apparantly much more apt to pick up the electronic noise. Most large cities I've lived in replay their sports talk radio on at least one FM station. NPR is usually on both. So just an FM tuner would suit me fine. So I need an player that supports FLAC and FM. when is someone going to make one?
I tend though to listen to an album from start to finish. This takes up more space. However, I have no problem switching the albums on the thing every couple of days.
What I'm waiting for is something that has the feature set of the Rio Karma + and FM tuner. I really want FLAC so that I can store all my music in that format, and transfer it to my portable with out converting it first.
...but the digital bits acutally reported on this and seemed to imply that Blu-Ray has at this point more momentum behind it, and possibly may be the better format. From what I've read of the two formats blu-ray does look a little better.
We must know different average users. Most of the average users I know would never try to change a setting.:) I usually have to make the rounds about once a year to clean up their messes.
To me that's not saying he didn't support it... he said it wasn't perfect and decided he was better off signing what he got than fighting a republican led congress. I don't necessairly agree with what he did, but I would never have construed his words to say he didn't support NAFTA.
for the average user the windows 9x -> XP learning curve was almost nil. Especially if they use the classic desktop. Most users don't do anything but go to the start menu and run their programs.
I think the payment that MS gave to SCO may have allowed MS to pay one lump sum instead of paying a per copy royalty. This would allow them to distribute SFU for free. This may also be why SUN recently gave SCO some money and began to distrubte solaris for x86 for free again.
I hope to one day be much richer than I am know. And I don't plan on replacing my swatch. I think it actually looks pretty good, and does what I need and is so thin that it is very comfortable.
I was pretty impressed with the last episode I saw where they escaped alcatraz. I must of seen 10 other programs in my life all concluding it was impossible. Yet they did it and made it look fairly easy.
They actually recently tried this on mythbusters on discovery and proved just how hard it was to decompress the plane. Even with a gigantic bomb near the seat of their crash test dummy he wasn't sucked out... however he probably wasn't too healthy:) But firing a gun at the window right next to him did absolutely nothing.
You should have made that more clear in your post then. You should have said, Henry Ford intended to power cars with Hemp powered engines. You made it sound like he invented and ICE that ran on Hemp.
Pardon my ignorance, but what did henry ford have to do with inventing the internal combustion engine? I was always under the impression that Nicolaus Otto and Gotlieb Daimler invented what we would recognize as ICE's. Ford developed mass production of auotmobiles. I know Ford was big on saying ethyl alcohol was the fuel of the future, but I don't recall him ever developing such an engine.
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Your radio rant is entirely subjective to where you live. In seattle we have a few decent radio stations(107.7 and 96.5 just did format chages), one very interesting one (89.5 is a high-school run station playing mainly eurobeat), and one great one (KEXP 90.3 the greatest station on the planet). It makes sense for me to listen to those. Also, the radio is for more than music. It would be nice to get news and traffic updates on my portable player.
This is something I would also like, but as I understand it is very hard to implement. The AM reciever is apparantly much more apt to pick up the electronic noise. Most large cities I've lived in replay their sports talk radio on at least one FM station. NPR is usually on both. So just an FM tuner would suit me fine. So I need an player that supports FLAC and FM. when is someone going to make one?
If they would just add FLAC support... or if the Rio Karma would add the FM tuner I'd finally be happy.
which ogg? Do you mean vorbis? because if so, I'm just silly. I rip all my CD's to FLAC.
I tend though to listen to an album from start to finish. This takes up more space. However, I have no problem switching the albums on the thing every couple of days.
What I'm waiting for is something that has the feature set of the Rio Karma + and FM tuner. I really want FLAC so that I can store all my music in that format, and transfer it to my portable with out converting it first.
I think the native americans would disagree with you.
I figured it'd be more likely *BSD/Apache.
...but the digital bits acutally reported on this and seemed to imply that Blu-Ray has at this point more momentum behind it, and possibly may be the better format. From what I've read of the two formats blu-ray does look a little better.
We must know different average users. Most of the average users I know would never try to change a setting. :) I usually have to make the rounds about once a year to clean up their messes.
To me that's not saying he didn't support it... he said it wasn't perfect and decided he was better off signing what he got than fighting a republican led congress. I don't necessairly agree with what he did, but I would never have construed his words to say he didn't support NAFTA.
for the average user the windows 9x -> XP learning curve was almost nil. Especially if they use the classic desktop. Most users don't do anything but go to the start menu and run their programs.
I don't remember Clinton ever opposing NAFTA. That was Perot's angle in the '92 election. He was the anti-NAFTA candidate.
But what's wrong with lossless compression? I have a large CD collection and I could easily get it all on to a 250gb drive using FLAC.
I think the payment that MS gave to SCO may have allowed MS to pay one lump sum instead of paying a per copy royalty. This would allow them to distribute SFU for free. This may also be why SUN recently gave SCO some money and began to distrubte solaris for x86 for free again.
I hope to one day be much richer than I am know. And I don't plan on replacing my swatch. I think it actually looks pretty good, and does what I need and is so thin that it is very comfortable.
I was pretty impressed with the last episode I saw where they escaped alcatraz. I must of seen 10 other programs in my life all concluding it was impossible. Yet they did it and made it look fairly easy.
They actually recently tried this on mythbusters on discovery and proved just how hard it was to decompress the plane. Even with a gigantic bomb near the seat of their crash test dummy he wasn't sucked out... however he probably wasn't too healthy :) But firing a gun at the window right next to him did absolutely nothing.
And just like MP3 their are royalty payments involved in using it.
Unless he unchecked that box. You do know that you can do that, right?
AAC is open, but not free. It is still owned by someone (dolby i think) and you must pay to use it.
If it played FLAC it would be the perfect player... or if the Rio Karma had an FM tuner... so close to my perfect player, still it doesn't exist.
You should have made that more clear in your post then. You should have said, Henry Ford intended to power cars with Hemp powered engines. You made it sound like he invented and ICE that ran on Hemp.
Pardon my ignorance, but what did henry ford have to do with inventing the internal combustion engine? I was always under the impression that Nicolaus Otto and Gotlieb Daimler invented what we would recognize as ICE's. Ford developed mass production of auotmobiles. I know Ford was big on saying ethyl alcohol was the fuel of the future, but I don't recall him ever developing such an engine.
FLAC is a codec... FLAC is not lossy. It is possible to design a lossless codec.
Actually they do... it's generally the sync software that takes care of the unencryption. The player works as long as it plays WMA.