It's a good idea, and will allow for some breathing room with certain effects/foibles of the electric car. Take, for example, batteries being left charged for a long time. As we know it, these batteries lose some of their charge, and might even become chemically unstable. Now, what if we could invent a longer charging process that would result in a more stable battery? That wouldn't inconvenience car users if they exchanged their batteries at the garage - as they don't have to wait for them to be charged. The garage could charge them on their premises, or the parent company could on theirs...
Sorry... just read some more of your post. You mention "adult driving enthusiasts will utilize" - pretty far-fetched request. Most American car enthusiasts I see driving around drive woefully underpowered SUVs with nothing in the back, and off-roaders that can't offroad. Hint: H2. A technically shit car, that many Americans love. The argument that Americans are somehow discerning car enthusiasts kind of falls apart if you look at the average American's car:)
They have a car sharing scheme in London, which is pretty cool:
You sign up and get a smartcard. You use the web to select what make/model car you want, and when you need it from/to. It gives you the pickup location nearest your house.
When you want to use the car, you go to the point at the right time, and place your smartcard on the windscreen. The doors and glove compartment open, giving you the keys. You then have full use of the car until your time's up. The cars are always gassed, always clean, and always available. You save money on taxes, congestion charge (toll), initial payment, maintenance, etc. Very, very useful. As I mentioned, you can select the type of car you want, so if you need an SUV, you select SUV. If you need to drive somewhere, you select a smaller car, and drop it off when you get to your destination, at the nearest car point.
I don't get it - you just need a bazooka or two in a van. Drive said van past the whitehouse, open the doors, let 'em rip, and floor it. Of course, you'll die soon afterwards, but hey - you just capped Dubya. At least God will reward you.;)
Or, a Laura Bush simulator, where you get points for every highschool friend you kill. Extra points for bad driving!
Then, try "Well-Regulated Militia Simulator"! Live the excitement of being crushed by a tank when the tyrannical oppressor comes! Feel like a big man, yet be completely ineffectual! In stores now!
I hear ya. You seem to be a bit confused about what Bluetooth is actually for. It's to replace infrared, to stream audio, send small amounts of data, and replace any data cables for syncing devices. It's slow on purpose, as that allows the entire bluetooth chipset to cost cents, be tiny, and consume next to no power. A WLAN connection, which is essentially what you're requesting, would add tremendously to the weight, power consumption and cost of whatever you're adding it to.
The thing with the iPod is not that you can listen to all your music on one charge, but that you can take your entire collection wherever you go. When I'm on a flight, all I need is my iPod. I don't have to scrabble about collecting which ever minidiscs I want to listen to on my holiday, or pack them all to have my whole collection.
I take my iPod to parties, and with the mains adaptor/belkin battery pack and a headphone->stereo jack lead, I have (checking itunes...) 3 weeks of music. The beauty is, it can randomise ANY track you have on there, not just whatever's on the current MD. So, if you want to play "dance" music at the party, select the dance genre.
Also, I don't have to think about what MDs to take with me - I just take all my music at once.:)
Don't even get me started on the firewire interface (so I can capture my music even faster), and the fact it's a 40gig hard disk (I keep VMWare client install and a Windows 2003 adv. server VPC on the iPod - it's configured with VPN & SSH access to my home machine, so I have a PC on my home network wherever I can find an internet-connected PC with a firewire port).
Fine - advocate the choice. If the choice was substantially better than MP3, the market will demand it. As it is, OGG is only better than MP3 on a licensing/ideology level, so why on earth would the industry spend time and money on rebranding MP3 with OGG, introducing support/codecs, updating the client software, and creating a whole bunch of issues with software just to support a few people's ideological preferences. That's like McDonalds getting rid of burgers because 2 vegetarians asked them.
Anyway, it's a de facto standard as everyone's using it. If you'd said de jure standards were not always the best, I'd agree with you. As it is, MP3 wouldn't be so popular if OGG was better.
I appreciate you didn't mention Vietnam by name, but you were defending another war, WW2. The Holocaust wasn't the only horrible thing perpetrated in WW2. Allied troops regularly blew the crap out of civilians, sometimes thousands died each day. Saying a WW2 game is cool but the game in question isn't is hypocritical, in my opinion. A life is a life.
Were you trying to equate your CD player with more modern portable devices? If you were, good point, except that your CD player doesn't have 40gigs of storage:)
I have iTunes on my PCs at work and at home, and it works perfectly, just like the mac. My firewire cards work fine, too, which makes me think you have a problem with your drivers, or some other software on your machine that uses your drives. Anti-virus springs to mind - that has effects on my ipod (such as making it unmountable - NAV sucks).
What the fuck is up with you guys and conspiracy theories? When someone doesn't mention your favourite player, you think the company being praised has somehow paid off the writer. What the fuck?
No. The Rio Carbon is a shitty player. It looks like someone took a Nokia phone and some tinfoil, and put them in the oven for a few hours. Read: curvy lines and selective plagiarism don't always make good design. Of course you're going to dispute this, just get back to me when someone mentions "rio carbon" in a sitcom, or as a generic term to refer to MP3 players.:) Just because you like something doesn't mean it's perfect and everyone else thinks the same way.
I'm a huge minidisc fan. They've had their day. I got my first one in '98, and I used it until I got myself an iPod in '01. They've had their day. The problem is, they use removable media. With an iPod, you have 10,000 tracks in your pocket, not in your special-bag-for-your-media-player-as-it-has-no-bui lt-in-storage. I know it's a seemingly small issue, but when you don't have the music you want to listen to on the MD in your player, you have to change the disk. Being the 21st century, I thought we were above that;) Oh yeah, and ATRAC sounds like ass.
Considering that's not what bluetooth is for, I'm not surprised you had problems with it:) It would be like me complaining that it takes a while for me to send text documents by semaphore ("my DSL is much faster!"). Bluetooth is made for streaming voice, control data, or sending text files. Anything else is stretching it beyond its design. Not to say it's not useful - I find it incredibly useful, it's just not meant to transfer megs and megs of MP3s:)
Have you seen the size of the battery in the iPod? I took my first-gen ipod apart, and the battery is a few millimeters high. AAs (and even AAAs) take up CONSIDERABLY more space. If the iPod was to use A{2,3}s, then it would be massive, removing a lot of its appeal.
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It's a good idea, and will allow for some breathing room with certain effects/foibles of the electric car. Take, for example, batteries being left charged for a long time. As we know it, these batteries lose some of their charge, and might even become chemically unstable. Now, what if we could invent a longer charging process that would result in a more stable battery? That wouldn't inconvenience car users if they exchanged their batteries at the garage - as they don't have to wait for them to be charged. The garage could charge them on their premises, or the parent company could on theirs...
You're bang on the money :) I'm eating cheese sandwiches now. The hunger was too much to bare.
Sorry... just read some more of your post. You mention "adult driving enthusiasts will utilize" - pretty far-fetched request. Most American car enthusiasts I see driving around drive woefully underpowered SUVs with nothing in the back, and off-roaders that can't offroad. Hint: H2. A technically shit car, that many Americans love. The argument that Americans are somehow discerning car enthusiasts kind of falls apart if you look at the average American's car :)
Yes, I know you have 70mph stretches out in the middle of nowhere, which isn't that great if you never see them.
You sign up and get a smartcard. You use the web to select what make/model car you want, and when you need it from/to. It gives you the pickup location nearest your house.
When you want to use the car, you go to the point at the right time, and place your smartcard on the windscreen. The doors and glove compartment open, giving you the keys. You then have full use of the car until your time's up. The cars are always gassed, always clean, and always available. You save money on taxes, congestion charge (toll), initial payment, maintenance, etc. Very, very useful. As I mentioned, you can select the type of car you want, so if you need an SUV, you select SUV. If you need to drive somewhere, you select a smaller car, and drop it off when you get to your destination, at the nearest car point.
So, freedom of speech is just bullshit, then? :)
I don't get it - you just need a bazooka or two in a van. Drive said van past the whitehouse, open the doors, let 'em rip, and floor it. Of course, you'll die soon afterwards, but hey - you just capped Dubya. At least God will reward you. ;)
You have a line from Johnny Mnemonic promoting your favourite license? You do realise that does you more harm than good, right... ;)
Then, try "Well-Regulated Militia Simulator"! Live the excitement of being crushed by a tank when the tyrannical oppressor comes! Feel like a big man, yet be completely ineffectual! In stores now!
You see, not everyone is programmed to get choked up with emotion when they see a historical event portrayed in a game. :)
Because they're frequently used for similar applications? Are you trying to be sarcastic here? :-P
I hear ya. You seem to be a bit confused about what Bluetooth is actually for. It's to replace infrared, to stream audio, send small amounts of data, and replace any data cables for syncing devices. It's slow on purpose, as that allows the entire bluetooth chipset to cost cents, be tiny, and consume next to no power. A WLAN connection, which is essentially what you're requesting, would add tremendously to the weight, power consumption and cost of whatever you're adding it to.
they're watching us right now! run!
I take my iPod to parties, and with the mains adaptor/belkin battery pack and a headphone->stereo jack lead, I have (checking itunes...) 3 weeks of music. The beauty is, it can randomise ANY track you have on there, not just whatever's on the current MD. So, if you want to play "dance" music at the party, select the dance genre.
Also, I don't have to think about what MDs to take with me - I just take all my music at once. :)
Don't even get me started on the firewire interface (so I can capture my music even faster), and the fact it's a 40gig hard disk (I keep VMWare client install and a Windows 2003 adv. server VPC on the iPod - it's configured with VPN & SSH access to my home machine, so I have a PC on my home network wherever I can find an internet-connected PC with a firewire port).
In case you HAVE been on mars for the last 6 years, two programming languages.
ba-DING.
Small, easy-to-compress files? yes. Hundreds of megs of MP3s? No.
Anyway, it's a de facto standard as everyone's using it. If you'd said de jure standards were not always the best, I'd agree with you. As it is, MP3 wouldn't be so popular if OGG was better.
I appreciate you didn't mention Vietnam by name, but you were defending another war, WW2. The Holocaust wasn't the only horrible thing perpetrated in WW2. Allied troops regularly blew the crap out of civilians, sometimes thousands died each day. Saying a WW2 game is cool but the game in question isn't is hypocritical, in my opinion. A life is a life.
Were you trying to equate your CD player with more modern portable devices? If you were, good point, except that your CD player doesn't have 40gigs of storage :)
I have iTunes on my PCs at work and at home, and it works perfectly, just like the mac. My firewire cards work fine, too, which makes me think you have a problem with your drivers, or some other software on your machine that uses your drives. Anti-virus springs to mind - that has effects on my ipod (such as making it unmountable - NAV sucks).
No. The Rio Carbon is a shitty player. It looks like someone took a Nokia phone and some tinfoil, and put them in the oven for a few hours. Read: curvy lines and selective plagiarism don't always make good design. Of course you're going to dispute this, just get back to me when someone mentions "rio carbon" in a sitcom, or as a generic term to refer to MP3 players. :) Just because you like something doesn't mean it's perfect and everyone else thinks the same way.
I'm a huge minidisc fan. They've had their day. I got my first one in '98, and I used it until I got myself an iPod in '01. They've had their day. The problem is, they use removable media. With an iPod, you have 10,000 tracks in your pocket, not in your special-bag-for-your-media-player-as-it-has-no-bui lt-in-storage. I know it's a seemingly small issue, but when you don't have the music you want to listen to on the MD in your player, you have to change the disk. Being the 21st century, I thought we were above that ;) Oh yeah, and ATRAC sounds like ass.
Considering that's not what bluetooth is for, I'm not surprised you had problems with it :) It would be like me complaining that it takes a while for me to send text documents by semaphore ("my DSL is much faster!"). Bluetooth is made for streaming voice, control data, or sending text files. Anything else is stretching it beyond its design. Not to say it's not useful - I find it incredibly useful, it's just not meant to transfer megs and megs of MP3s :)
Have you seen the size of the battery in the iPod? I took my first-gen ipod apart, and the battery is a few millimeters high. AAs (and even AAAs) take up CONSIDERABLY more space. If the iPod was to use A{2,3}s, then it would be massive, removing a lot of its appeal.