Mad Catz has a 7" screen that connects to a S-Video or composite video output. It's designed to fit a PS2, GameCube, or XBox, but you could probably modify the bracket to fit on your system. It's not cheap at US$199, but it might be what you're looking for.
...people have such a problem with ATRAC/ATRAC3/ATRAC3Plus. I've been using MiniDisc for quite some time now, and although the inital versions of ATRAC sucked, I have a hard time discerning between a CD original and ATRAC recorded on a recent (>=1996) unit.
Personally, I think a lot of the "We need MP3 playback" is just because people are familiar with the name. So what if you have to transcode or reencode the files or original source? Most people I've talked to listen to 128k MP3s. I highly doubt that if you can tolerate MP3 at 128k, you'd have anything to complain about with ATRAC3Plus at 256k. Even with artifacts introduced in the transcode process, the sound would still be fairly close to the original. If you care enough about the absolute most minute details in audio quality, you can rip the CD again. It doesn't take that long anyway. I can rip and encode from CD to ATRAC3Plus at 256k in about a minute a track on my 1.5GHz P4 laptop.
Sony's new Hi-MD recorders have a data storage function. Plug the unit into a USB port, and you can access it as a USB Mass Storage device. You can keep 1GB of data on the new Hi-MD discs (~US$7), or store 300MB on a reformatted 80 minute standard MiniDisc (~US$2). The main problems are 1) Hi-MD blanks are a bit rare right now (hopefully this problem won't last long), and 2) the data connection is USB1.1. If the slow transfer speed isn't a problem, you might want to consider it.
If you're behind a router, make sure you forward the appropriate ports (6881-6889 by default) to your computer. That's all I had to do to get the torrent going for me.
7. Configure the Roadrunner net connection and reboot to pick up a DHCP lease;
A bit off-topic, but you don't have to reboot to pick up a DHCP address. Unless you're installing some weird software that requires a reboot (like Roadrunner Medic that they (used to?) bundle), you can just open up a command window and enter
ipconfig/renew
or click the Repair button in the Connection Properties -> Support tab.
There is actually one way to get consumers to not buy DRM CDs, even if it is transparent to most of them. Forcing the labelling of CDs with a DRM warning tag. Even if it wouldnt impact their listening experience, they won't buy it because it has a warning that "its broken"
Too bad the industry won't label it as broken. They'll use cool techy words like DRM-Enhanced or SecureAudio or 1337HackerProofMusic. At the sight of this, the consumer will be led to believe that having DRM is a good thing for them, like some sort of sacred seal placed on the disc to prevent an evil music-piracy demon from jumping out and eating them.
Of course, we could always hope for something to jump out of the disc and eat the dumber portion of the music-buying population...
No, having to have your finger scanned is not "cool" and doesn't count as a feature.
You underestimate today's consumer. With them it's "Hey Bob! Look at my cool new MP3 player! It has a finger scanner and everything!", at this point Bob will drool and say "Wow...cool..."
They can also sell it to teenage girls with commercials stating "Protect your music!" and showing some 15 year old's little brother try to outsmart the scanner and listen to the "really cool tunes" on the player! (Remember those voice-activated diaries you'd see advertised on TV a while back?)
If this goes mainstream, I won't buy another piece of music. Not another dime....
The problem is, those of us who will refuse to purchase music under conditions like this make up a very small percentage of the population. Most sheep, er, consumers, will jump through whatever hoops necessary to listen to the latest tripe from the music industry.
I haven't tried one myself, but how about this? Reads SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Microdrive, Compact Flash, MuiltiMedia Card, Memory Stick, or Memory Stick Pro and writes to CD-R or CD-RW.
So get a pager, they are not cell phones and will do all you need
Wouldn't pagers fall under the category of personal devices along with cellphones? I'd imagine notebooks (including subnotebooks) and PDAs would be the same.
If I remember right, hailstones form as the water falls from the could, not inside the cloud itself.
Hail forms when a raindrop freezes inside a cloud, but shoots back up (due to massive updrafts), and falls back down, gaining more layers of frozen rain/ice. It continues this cycle until the ball of ice is too heavy to be lifted by the updrafts, at which point it falls to the ground as hail.
Does anyone know why they just don't do it the easy way, and lighten the load a little on the people?
You've never read an economics textbook, have you? Printed money is (was) used as a substitute for gold, which used to be the primary form of monetary transaction. When the US Mint was created and gold was taken away as a form of legal tender, you could give your gold to the goverment and recieve a paper notes in exchange. The initial idea was for the paper to have to same value as the (now locked away) gold. However, when the Government prints money that has no backing against the original gold standard, you have a greenback, with itself has no inherent value and thusly must take it's value from gold-backed money, devaluing all currency. That's why they can't (or shouldn't) just print money when they need it. Extra money without extra value equals inflation, which, by the way, is a bad thing.
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Personally, I think a lot of the "We need MP3 playback" is just because people are familiar with the name. So what if you have to transcode or reencode the files or original source? Most people I've talked to listen to 128k MP3s. I highly doubt that if you can tolerate MP3 at 128k, you'd have anything to complain about with ATRAC3Plus at 256k. Even with artifacts introduced in the transcode process, the sound would still be fairly close to the original. If you care enough about the absolute most minute details in audio quality, you can rip the CD again. It doesn't take that long anyway. I can rip and encode from CD to ATRAC3Plus at 256k in about a minute a track on my 1.5GHz P4 laptop.
Sony's new Hi-MD recorders have a data storage function. Plug the unit into a USB port, and you can access it as a USB Mass Storage device. You can keep 1GB of data on the new Hi-MD discs (~US$7), or store 300MB on a reformatted 80 minute standard MiniDisc (~US$2). The main problems are 1) Hi-MD blanks are a bit rare right now (hopefully this problem won't last long), and 2) the data connection is USB1.1. If the slow transfer speed isn't a problem, you might want to consider it.
If you're behind a router, make sure you forward the appropriate ports (6881-6889 by default) to your computer. That's all I had to do to get the torrent going for me.
Perhaps you're thinking of Wargames?
A bit off-topic, but you don't have to reboot to pick up a DHCP address. Unless you're installing some weird software that requires a reboot (like Roadrunner Medic that they (used to?) bundle), you can just open up a command window and enter
or click the Repair button in the Connection Properties -> Support tab.Too bad the industry won't label it as broken. They'll use cool techy words like DRM-Enhanced or SecureAudio or 1337HackerProofMusic. At the sight of this, the consumer will be led to believe that having DRM is a good thing for them, like some sort of sacred seal placed on the disc to prevent an evil music-piracy demon from jumping out and eating them.
Of course, we could always hope for something to jump out of the disc and eat the dumber portion of the music-buying population...
You underestimate today's consumer. With them it's "Hey Bob! Look at my cool new MP3 player! It has a finger scanner and everything!", at this point Bob will drool and say "Wow...cool..."
They can also sell it to teenage girls with commercials stating "Protect your music!" and showing some 15 year old's little brother try to outsmart the scanner and listen to the "really cool tunes" on the player! (Remember those voice-activated diaries you'd see advertised on TV a while back?)
The problem is, those of us who will refuse to purchase music under conditions like this make up a very small percentage of the population. Most sheep, er, consumers, will jump through whatever hoops necessary to listen to the latest tripe from the music industry.
I haven't tried one myself, but how about this? Reads SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Microdrive, Compact Flash, MuiltiMedia Card, Memory Stick, or Memory Stick Pro and writes to CD-R or CD-RW.
It's not x86 processors the title is referring to. Agent 86 was Maxwell Smart (played by Don Adams) in the '60s TV series "Get Smart."
You know, ther guy with the phone in his shoe?
Wouldn't pagers fall under the category of personal devices along with cellphones? I'd imagine notebooks (including subnotebooks) and PDAs would be the same.
That's why business ethics is an oxymoron.
Hail forms when a raindrop freezes inside a cloud, but shoots back up (due to massive updrafts), and falls back down, gaining more layers of frozen rain/ice. It continues this cycle until the ball of ice is too heavy to be lifted by the updrafts, at which point it falls to the ground as hail.
Easy...Remote control from Redmond.
Too much late-night pr0n surfing, by chance?
You've never read an economics textbook, have you? Printed money is (was) used as a substitute for gold, which used to be the primary form of monetary transaction. When the US Mint was created and gold was taken away as a form of legal tender, you could give your gold to the goverment and recieve a paper notes in exchange. The initial idea was for the paper to have to same value as the (now locked away) gold. However, when the Government prints money that has no backing against the original gold standard, you have a greenback, with itself has no inherent value and thusly must take it's value from gold-backed money, devaluing all currency. That's why they can't (or shouldn't) just print money when they need it. Extra money without extra value equals inflation, which, by the way, is a bad thing.
B4k4 declares SCO Invalid!
It's funny. Laugh!