grow bacteria in a petri dish, something that grows at a slow rate. Set electrodes in a dish, and you've got the potato battery effect
Mr Wizard want to confirm this?
Yeah, you're right. Man I hate myself for buying a used ipod. Damn, I wish I had you around before I bought it. I guess the experience I relied upon with both flash based and hard drive based mp3 players was all for nothing.
I guess what really moved me onto the ipod wasn't that it was sexy, or that it was an Apple, but it was the fact that I can scroll through the interface lightening quick. I haven't found anything even remotely close to its ease of use, and before lambasting me on being an Apple freak, I cross shop all the time, my 15gb ipod doesn't come close to holding my collection now, and if I could find something else that does the same things as easily I would buy it, assuming a price advantage.
I don't need the newest, fastest... I don't need it to play movies, show photos, reheat my cheese sandwich... I want to hear my music, and I want to be able to hear it when I want to, and I want to be able to find it intuitively and quickly. Until everyone else figures that out, Apple will get my money.
blow out the dust from the heat sink over the processor, and the one over the video card it it has one. dust makes for a great insulator, all the fan activity in the world won't help you out if you don't blow it out.
until the aliens post back. Personally I'd love to be able to pick up the first ratty, old interstellar couch that was just going to be left on the curb in Alpha Centauri...
that a major company would get into a marketing battle with another major company. After all, when a company introduces a successful product, it's in the entire corporate world's best interest to not introduce a competing product. It's the American way.
Absolutely. And while I'm at it, why not turn off my firewall and start downloading risky files from the dark corners of the internet, hoping to gain more spy/adware. After all, spyware and adware coders are just trying to make a buck, why don't I help them out a bit too?
I was going to be funny but...
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I guess if you really have to ask why there are no wearable computers, the humor would just be lost anyway.
That sounds like a great system. Here in my country, candidates are given campaign money by huge corporations, because the more you spend to advertise the greater return you get at the voting booth. Then after election, the elected official reciprocates by changing or enacting laws favorable to big business and large corporations.
Theoretically, any person can be elected to office here, but it usually doesn't work that way, because funding to oust an incumbant would come from corporate sponsors. My system in my country has worked well for a long time. Oh, BTW I live in America, where are you?
Ok, you win. Ok Computer was only 8 years ago. And yes, thank you everyone for pointing out what? Ten more albums? Maybe two baker's dozen? Now how many CDs are cut every year, that a full album would have to be weeded out, instead of 20 years ago when a great album would be a cause of celebration. Yes, there are a few good apples, but there's a whole lot of crap out there.
Not because you think, but...
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the death of full recorded albums is not due to any new marketing trends, it's because by and large bands aren't making albums anymore. This will surely feed the flames, but I can't recall the last time I bought anything that flowed together as a single work, regardless of what track I was listening to. I recall things like Metallica's Black, Chili Pepper's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Houses of the Holy, and I think of how much they were great albums. I scratch my head when I think of anything else I've bought that was recorded in the past ten years that was even close to that level of completeness.
good move, at the rate of a cheap USB keyboard for $15-20, you'll catch up on the price of that monitor in no time. How miserably coated with gunk do you think that keyboard is going to be before it fails? Unless the psuedo-chef is slopping stuff around like the countertop hasn't had a decent meal in a month, you can save a bundle, and not have to worry about cleaning all the crap off the display every time you touch it.
Maybe you could build a PC for that kind of money, but not at the size of the mini. Build a shuttle for $500? I think not. Also, when your PC manages to die, will it have one-stop shopping for a warranty? Apple may not be the greatest thing in the world for qc *coughibookcough* but you're not going to be building a comperable machine that will have tech support of any kind.
Boy howdy, you're not kidding when you're talking flimsy. There are a few pages on the net on how to repair battery terminals inside the unit, because they were soldered out of place from the factory and wouldn't make proper contact. The upper battery contact can become bent out of shape so as to not make proper contact on the terminals. The hard drives are prone to sudden death (and fun to change, what with the body being soldered together. (I changed mine twice) Of course I must admit I use and abuse my portable media player by actually taking it places, thereby engaging the portability functionality of the unit. I never dropped it, never slammed it, and it was always babied, it was just a fragile piece of garbage. Fragile... must be Italian.
It played AVI, but only if it had been ripped for 340x200 so it would play on the 2" display. You can read the bugfixes for the firmware on Archos' site, and battery life was ~2 hours in average weather, 20 minutes in cold weather, and 4 hours in hot weather.
Like my old Jukebox Multimedia 20, it will be overly large, have horrible horrible build quality, require ripping movies in bizzare formats with hard to find utilities, and have just enough battery life to turn on before turning off again. Not to mention buggy firmware, slow product support, incompetent technical support (when the actually respond) and a slew of vaporware... have fun with your toys kids.
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So in other words, if nobody posts news anymore, there won't be any more news?
I make .33 a minute... but I figure if I can work a square decade I should be set...
grow bacteria in a petri dish, something that grows at a slow rate. Set electrodes in a dish, and you've got the potato battery effect Mr Wizard want to confirm this?
Oh, well in that case, flame war averted!
I guess what really moved me onto the ipod wasn't that it was sexy, or that it was an Apple, but it was the fact that I can scroll through the interface lightening quick. I haven't found anything even remotely close to its ease of use, and before lambasting me on being an Apple freak, I cross shop all the time, my 15gb ipod doesn't come close to holding my collection now, and if I could find something else that does the same things as easily I would buy it, assuming a price advantage.
I don't need the newest, fastest... I don't need it to play movies, show photos, reheat my cheese sandwich... I want to hear my music, and I want to be able to hear it when I want to, and I want to be able to find it intuitively and quickly. Until everyone else figures that out, Apple will get my money.
it automatically filters ads from search results, or at least lets me do it easily.
the laws of physics will have changed. Whenever...
blow out the dust from the heat sink over the processor, and the one over the video card it it has one. dust makes for a great insulator, all the fan activity in the world won't help you out if you don't blow it out.
until the aliens post back. Personally I'd love to be able to pick up the first ratty, old interstellar couch that was just going to be left on the curb in Alpha Centauri...
wake me when we get to mars.
that a major company would get into a marketing battle with another major company. After all, when a company introduces a successful product, it's in the entire corporate world's best interest to not introduce a competing product. It's the American way.
Absolutely. And while I'm at it, why not turn off my firewall and start downloading risky files from the dark corners of the internet, hoping to gain more spy/adware. After all, spyware and adware coders are just trying to make a buck, why don't I help them out a bit too?
I guess if you really have to ask why there are no wearable computers, the humor would just be lost anyway.
That sounds like a great system. Here in my country, candidates are given campaign money by huge corporations, because the more you spend to advertise the greater return you get at the voting booth. Then after election, the elected official reciprocates by changing or enacting laws favorable to big business and large corporations. Theoretically, any person can be elected to office here, but it usually doesn't work that way, because funding to oust an incumbant would come from corporate sponsors. My system in my country has worked well for a long time. Oh, BTW I live in America, where are you?
And you've commanded a mastery of english...
Ok, you win. Ok Computer was only 8 years ago. And yes, thank you everyone for pointing out what? Ten more albums? Maybe two baker's dozen? Now how many CDs are cut every year, that a full album would have to be weeded out, instead of 20 years ago when a great album would be a cause of celebration. Yes, there are a few good apples, but there's a whole lot of crap out there.
the death of full recorded albums is not due to any new marketing trends, it's because by and large bands aren't making albums anymore. This will surely feed the flames, but I can't recall the last time I bought anything that flowed together as a single work, regardless of what track I was listening to. I recall things like Metallica's Black, Chili Pepper's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Houses of the Holy, and I think of how much they were great albums. I scratch my head when I think of anything else I've bought that was recorded in the past ten years that was even close to that level of completeness.
It's the new official description, issued from the Department of Redundancy Department
good move, at the rate of a cheap USB keyboard for $15-20, you'll catch up on the price of that monitor in no time. How miserably coated with gunk do you think that keyboard is going to be before it fails? Unless the psuedo-chef is slopping stuff around like the countertop hasn't had a decent meal in a month, you can save a bundle, and not have to worry about cleaning all the crap off the display every time you touch it.
Maybe you could build a PC for that kind of money, but not at the size of the mini. Build a shuttle for $500? I think not. Also, when your PC manages to die, will it have one-stop shopping for a warranty? Apple may not be the greatest thing in the world for qc *coughibookcough* but you're not going to be building a comperable machine that will have tech support of any kind.
Uhm no... everyone got rich that way 6 years ago, thanks.
Boy howdy, you're not kidding when you're talking flimsy. There are a few pages on the net on how to repair battery terminals inside the unit, because they were soldered out of place from the factory and wouldn't make proper contact. The upper battery contact can become bent out of shape so as to not make proper contact on the terminals. The hard drives are prone to sudden death (and fun to change, what with the body being soldered together. (I changed mine twice) Of course I must admit I use and abuse my portable media player by actually taking it places, thereby engaging the portability functionality of the unit. I never dropped it, never slammed it, and it was always babied, it was just a fragile piece of garbage. Fragile... must be Italian.
It played AVI, but only if it had been ripped for 340x200 so it would play on the 2" display. You can read the bugfixes for the firmware on Archos' site, and battery life was ~2 hours in average weather, 20 minutes in cold weather, and 4 hours in hot weather.
Like my old Jukebox Multimedia 20, it will be overly large, have horrible horrible build quality, require ripping movies in bizzare formats with hard to find utilities, and have just enough battery life to turn on before turning off again. Not to mention buggy firmware, slow product support, incompetent technical support (when the actually respond) and a slew of vaporware... have fun with your toys kids.
I hope that it's slightly smaller than the size of a stack of 4 floppies