They have a (semi-?)annual "Wishlist" promo, where you can pick up cool stuff for cheap prices by madly clicking on a flash graphic and being one of the lucky first n people. Sharp 37" HD AQUOS(R) Flat Panel LCD TV for $900, 2007 Porsche Cayman Coupe for $5,000 and so on. Anyway, the Zune is one of the offers this year. Think it was up for 150 bucks. I still don't find it appealing. Picked up a 60G Zen on eBay for not much more than that many months ago, and it still seems better.
And a good story, which is always worth something.:-) I have a similar one, involving four U2 tickets, ferries, a linear algebra final and sleeping outside in the rain, but I only tell it when I'm drunk, to ease the pain. Thanks for typing all that up. Entertaining, even if I'll never understand...
I know that Terminix (a client of my company) congratulated Orkin (the evil competitor) on one of their recent anniversaries. It's a way of saying "We know what you're up against, and we know it kinda sucks. Hang in there."
Ah yes, Orkin. The only company with more bugs than Microsoft.
And by your argument above, you'd prefer they take that information off completely? Then you could just phone the company and ask how many grams of trans fat there are? Truly bizarre...
HSBC, which is what you could call "a large bank," uses SSNs for everything. It's pretty annoying.
As far as I know, to contradict your info (and I'd love to be corrected on this), any non-governmental company is allowed to use SSNs for whatever they want. I looked it up briefly a little while ago, and that was my understanding, but again, I hope I'm wrong.
The search on the forums sucks. It deletes some of your search terms because they're "restricted" words for whatever reason. There's a couple of threads on it that you could, umm... never mind.:-) Anyway, if you do something like 'site:forums.gentoo.org search terms' in Google you can come up with stuff.
I think most people here would agree that often you need to own one of something to learn what kind of features are really important to you, and which don't matter so much. I've never had an iPod, but I got a Vaio portable in a moment of insanity, used it for three days, unloaded it on eBay (goddamn I hate iDiot cAsE), and bought a Zen Xtra, which has been very good to me.
Here's my list of killer features. Some are obvious, and some a lot of people won't agree with, but this is what I'm looking for:
As small as possible. I didn't think this one mattered too much, but the Zen is slightly larger than what I'd like. The screen does not matter to me. I don't need colour. I don't need video playback. I don't need to have 2 1/2" pictures of my loved ones to tote around. Just the facts, ma'am: Artist, album, title. Time's ok too. (Which leads me to another question that/. may know: how small can a HD-based player get, if a company were only interested in that? What's out there that's TINY?)
As large as possible. I have a 60G, and it's full. 3,500 CDs, lame --preset extreme... you do the math. (I would, but it's 9 in the morning.:-P) Anyway, that'll come with time.
Replaceable battery. This is a huge must. There are plenty of places I go without power, and it's great to have 3 spares ($12 on eBay) that take about 10 seconds to swap into the Zen. That's the deal-breaker on an iPod for me. Of course, if you make the battery life 30 hours, that would work too. Sony got that one right, although that thing was huge.
Decent software. Just stay out of the way, please. The Vaio software (required) was the most insanely annoying crap I've ever had to work with in my life. If it shows up as an external drive, and I can drag and drop, I'd dance a happy jig. To Finntroll. \m/ o_O \m/ KZenExplorer works fine in Linux, and I think the iPod stuff is ok (?). I must must must be able to pull stuff FROM the player TO my computer of choice. Fuck your DRM. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on music. If I can't play it where I want, when I want, you get nothing.
Gapless playback. If you ever play live stuff, you know about this one.
Full tag support. Vaio was retarded here as well. I spend many hours getting my tags right - use them!
USB charging. Not critical, but this is my dream player, so it's in there.:-)
Line-out. Again, not critical, but it's great to have a wire hanging out of my stereo waiting for an instant collection to show up.
And I want tail fins... And bubble domes... And shag carpeting! And a horn here, here, and here. You can never find a horn when you're mad.
That's about it, I think. The only real complaint I have about the Zen is its physical size. *sigh* One day...
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force Apple to incl Music's Doug Morris, "These de So it's time to get paid for it." Do "pirate tax" to every piece of hard
Good job on the ads, guys. http://rockingraven.com/slashdot.jpg
They have a (semi-?)annual "Wishlist" promo, where you can pick up cool stuff for cheap prices by madly clicking on a flash graphic and being one of the lucky first n people. Sharp 37" HD AQUOS(R) Flat Panel LCD TV for $900, 2007 Porsche Cayman Coupe for $5,000 and so on. Anyway, the Zune is one of the offers this year. Think it was up for 150 bucks. I still don't find it appealing. Picked up a 60G Zen on eBay for not much more than that many months ago, and it still seems better.
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Remember folks, always document your calculators.
Net Profit:
:-) I have a similar one, involving four U2 tickets, ferries, a linear algebra final and sleeping outside in the rain, but I only tell it when I'm drunk, to ease the pain. Thanks for typing all that up. Entertaining, even if I'll never understand...
$165 for 16 hours of my time.
And a good story, which is always worth something.
It's even Wiiner than the last one, and it's got the same great Wiiness you've come to love every night.
ET was a console? What planet are you from?
My steaks are wrapped in plastic, but I eat them raw, so it's ok right?
I know that Terminix (a client of my company) congratulated Orkin (the evil competitor) on one of their recent anniversaries. It's a way of saying "We know what you're up against, and we know it kinda sucks. Hang in there."
Ah yes, Orkin. The only company with more bugs than Microsoft.
And by your argument above, you'd prefer they take that information off completely? Then you could just phone the company and ask how many grams of trans fat there are? Truly bizarre...
RTFM n00bz!!
dd if=/dev/sda | rsh user@dest "gzip -9 >yizzow.gz"
And then just restore with
rsh user@dest "cat yizzow.gz | gunzip" | dd of=/dev/sda
Jeez. Was that so tough?
HSBC, which is what you could call "a large bank," uses SSNs for everything. It's pretty annoying.
As far as I know, to contradict your info (and I'd love to be corrected on this), any non-governmental company is allowed to use SSNs for whatever they want. I looked it up briefly a little while ago, and that was my understanding, but again, I hope I'm wrong.
Don't forget your 'fuckroland' tags, kids.
...and over here, Swiss cheese, spliced with chalk and a beard.
I wasn't aware the Wii was for sale yet.
That was the standard unlock code for nukes during the Cold War. :-) Sleep well tonight!
The search on the forums sucks. It deletes some of your search terms because they're "restricted" words for whatever reason. There's a couple of threads on it that you could, umm... never mind. :-) Anyway, if you do something like 'site:forums.gentoo.org search terms' in Google you can come up with stuff.
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It happens. The only interesting thing here is how long they'll take to deal with it.
Here's my list of killer features. Some are obvious, and some a lot of people won't agree with, but this is what I'm looking for:
- As small as possible. I didn't think this one mattered too much, but the Zen is slightly larger than what I'd like. The screen does not matter to me. I don't need colour. I don't need video playback. I don't need to have 2 1/2" pictures of my loved ones to tote around. Just the facts, ma'am: Artist, album, title. Time's ok too. (Which leads me to another question that
/. may know: how small can a HD-based player get, if a company were only interested in that? What's out there that's TINY?)
- As large as possible. I have a 60G, and it's full. 3,500 CDs, lame --preset extreme... you do the math. (I would, but it's 9 in the morning.
:-P) Anyway, that'll come with time.
- Replaceable battery. This is a huge must. There are plenty of places I go without power, and it's great to have 3 spares ($12 on eBay) that take about 10 seconds to swap into the Zen. That's the deal-breaker on an iPod for me. Of course, if you make the battery life 30 hours, that would work too. Sony got that one right, although that thing was huge.
- Decent software. Just stay out of the way, please. The Vaio software (required) was the most insanely annoying crap I've ever had to work with in my life. If it shows up as an external drive, and I can drag and drop, I'd dance a happy jig. To Finntroll. \m/ o_O \m/ KZenExplorer works fine in Linux, and I think the iPod stuff is ok (?). I must must must be able to pull stuff FROM the player TO my computer of choice. Fuck your DRM. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on music. If I can't play it where I want, when I want, you get nothing.
- Gapless playback. If you ever play live stuff, you know about this one.
- Full tag support. Vaio was retarded here as well. I spend many hours getting my tags right - use them!
- USB charging. Not critical, but this is my dream player, so it's in there.
:-)
- Line-out. Again, not critical, but it's great to have a wire hanging out of my stereo waiting for an instant collection to show up.
And I want tail fins... And bubble domes... And shag carpeting! And a horn here, here, and here. You can never find a horn when you're mad.That's about it, I think. The only real complaint I have about the Zen is its physical size. *sigh* One day...
It's the MoP saying that, not Microsoft.
Editors?
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That's hardly fair. Those drumming games rule.
Will this program detect the imminent destruction of the universe?
You could strap it to something else and play Virtually Jenna! Man, I'm excited now. No, not like that you sickos!