Actually, that's the first few notes to the Slinky song. Since Eudora existed before Ren and Stimpy aired.
The Log commercial was a parody of the Slinky commercial.
It's not recommended to use Alkaline batteries. You're welcome to try...
It wouldn't take long at $5 a set of 8 to exceed the cost of the unit. For $13 in bulk, one would have a set of batteries that could be reused for a long while.
You can also use a 2.5" Laptop HDD or an SSD in the same form factor or interface. As far as I have been able to find out, there is a lot of flexibility in options.
It doesn't use Alkaline batteries, only NImH rechargeables or a LIon battery pack.
So, you won't be replacing batteries for $1.79 a set. But a $13 set of AA Rechargeables (bought in bulk) is a lot cheaper than a $50 - $100 proprietary battery pack, and a available easily from multiple sources.
As far as I know, the $199 price includes the computer, ac cord, 8gb SD Card loaded with WattOS Linux, 512mb of RAM, Wireless and the batteries. IF you are buying direct from Nohrtec and in quantity.
If you are buying from a distributor, they will have to make a profit and will unbundle things to make room for that.
Every time a Psystar thread is posted, it degenerates into people attacking each other over EULAs, Licesing, stealing IP, etc...
This is ground covered constantly to no good result.
Just once, I'd like a Psystar thread to contain useful information about Psystar and it's possible future.
I'm tired of the flaming, attacks, and rehashing of old crap.
An easy way to turn generic hardware into a Hackintosh would be great. I own many Macs of all vintages. I have several 3 - 5 year old PC's, the newest being a Dell Dimension 530 I'd love to turn into a Mac Desktop since it's faster and has a bigger HDD than my Core Duo 2.0ghz Mini.
Someday, I might be able to afford a new iMac or a Mac Pro tower.
But, there's just too much noise in every Psystar thread. Like 99 to 1, noise to signal.
A Crunchpad at $299 would have been a no-brainer. A JuJu at $499 is too expensive.
I'll wait for Nohrtec to come out with the Touchpad version of the Gecko laptop instead.
It seems that the people behind the Juju missed the point of the Crunchpad. It was supposed to be COST REDUCED because it had no internal storage, and used the cloud for all the apps. Not, a premium cost product.
Maybe Arrington will get with Nohrtec and get something like that produced.
There were several solutions to run System 6 & 7 on Atari's (Magic Sac and Spectre 128/GCR), and Shapeshifter that ran MacOS on Amiga Computers.
They worked nice because the ST was faster and had a larger screen than the Mac, though Apple took steps to prevent folks from obtaining MacPlus ROMs (needed for the emulators) as service parts.
Let me correct myself. At least a million Spectrums exist when you add up all the Sinclair units, the Timex Portugal units, the Amstrad units, and all the clones worldwide.
The Coco III has been re-created from scratch, it just isn't available in kit form.
Someone is working on re-creating the ZX-Spectrum by replicating the ULA chip, which is the main component needed.
The Commodore 64 has already been recreated in the form of a Joystick which contains a full C-64 inside of it. Just solder in connectors for a keyboard and disk drive, and you're all set.
The Apple II has long been cloned, and you might still be able to find boards out there. Vince could probably use his Replica I board and make a Replica II from that work. Maybe someday he will.
I would love to see the TRS-80 Model I/III/IV cloned. I own one called an LNW-80 from the 1980's.
Except that our "friends" the Liberals and Green Folks WON'T LET US build more Nuclear Power Plants, even though their friends the French derive over 80% of their electrical power from Nuclear, and other countries like Japan derive the bulk of their power from Nuclear too!
France reprocesses it's nuclear waste back into fuel because the generating process isn't 100% efficient. All you have to do is to process the fuel rods and concentrate the still useful material and remove the waste, and "Voila!" as the French say... You have more fuel.
All the nuclear waste generated by all the nuclear plants in the world would fit into a container the size of a standard desk, I've heard.
I like solar. It's infinitely renewable (at least in human terms), and as we develop the technology it becomes more efficient and cheaper. It takes much less to build and manage a solar plant than a nuclear plant.
I'd like to see us build BOTH. The U.S. is mostly empty, unused land. We have plenty of space to build solar farms.
I'd go further and say that every building in the country ought to have solar collectors on their roofs AND solar water heaters for pre-heating water to further save power.
The more we can get our electrical generating capacity off fossil fuels the better we'll be.
We need Nuclear for base-load power, and solar would be great for peak load times when the sun will be out, and extra energy is needed to run cooling plants like air-conditioners.
Also, places near large bodies of water could use that method that is being used in Chicago (I believe) where very cold water is pumped up from the bottom of the lake and used to cool buildings.
We need to conserve, because it's smart. But we need to expand energy sources to grow.
One cannont grow by conserving. Nobody ever made a million by starting off with a dollar and saving.10
It wouldn't install properly, and after 2 hours of being online with Microsoft, there was no resolution. I finally used "System Restore" to roll the system back to before I tried to install it and re-installed it and got it installed.
I've been trying to sync my music to the unit since Monday (today is Wednesday). It reports that 20gb is used (My collection is less than 8gb), but only about 8 albums show up on the unit.
I told the Zune software to erase the unit (losing all the pre-loaded items which I'm told I will lose forever unless I pay for them again...), and it pretended to erase the unit, but actually didn't.
The Zune software is awful and non-intuitive. The user experience is awful.
It's like someone decided to make a player that was the exact opposite of the iPod in ease of use, user experience, and software design.
My Dell DJ was 100x better than this, and it wasn't as good as an iPod at all.
It's a shame that Microsoft took a good player (the Toshiba Gigabeat) and turned it into something so much less than it's progenitor.
Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that a company has to serve it's customers, not itself...
The Zune is a flop in my opinion. I'm going to buy an iPod which is what I should have done in the first place. I just wanted to try the Zune. I made a wrong choice.
Choosing Microsoft lately has become a bad choice... The company isn't interested in providing me the best user experience at the best price.
It seems more interested in just squeezing me for every penny it can.
My old SONY Vaio (P200mmx) runs the Windows 98 it came with, perfectly fine...
Why would I want to put Damn Small Linux or some other Linux Distro on it??
This is another silly article...
Old hardware runs the OS it came with fine. It ran it fine then, it will run it fine now...
There are several Classic Emulators that could be ported to a "MacTel" with just a little work..
- Basilisk II
- SheepShaver
- vMac
- Executor
And all will run classic apps.
I'm all for buying software. I'll be buying MacOS X Tiger when it comes out. And the price for Tiger will be $129 ($99 at Amazon after a rebate).
But, Tiger will be worth that kind of money. It's a major OS supported by lots of Apps.
Zeta needs to sell for around $49.95US without Gobe Productive bundled in. Gobe Productive ought to be offered for another $19.95US for those of us who don't already own it.
Zeta needs to get a lot of installations out there. At the current pricing, what will happen is that there will be a lot of piracy and darn few sales.
Selling it for $50US won't eliminate the piracy, but it should increase the sales of the OS quite a bit.
I would like to own it and use it. But, $127 is too much money for an OS I'm only going to play with.
Zeta looks nice. It's a shame it's going to be priced so high, that I can't justify buying it.
What I was trying to say is that a DMS is in no way responsible for how an artist is paid.
That's not true.
If I run a store and I sell unauthorized copies of copyrighted books, I am doing something illegal.
Especially... If I *KNOW* the copies I'm selling, I'm printing in my back room and no money is going to the copyright holder.
Even if I claim to be holding money aside to sent to the copyright holder, the absence of an advanced agreement (contract) still makes what I'm doing illegal.
It's would be like someone selling my house, and then preseting me with the fait accompli and a check. What if I didn't want to sell my house?
Or didn't want them selling my house?
It's the absence of a contract with the copyright holder or their authorized representative (record label or agent), that makes this wrong.
It doesn't matter if you spent $99.99 for the album... what the artist receives is 100% up to the label. A label is like a bank in that they essentially loan an artist money to create an album. Every time the album is sold the label takes its cut. The artist usually doesn't make anything until the label has been repaid. After that they might make royalties anywhere in the 0-25% range (it varies wildly depending on the complexity of the contracts and the status of the artist). This may not be the "best" deal for the artists but the labels do (in many cases) perform services that many artists are in desperate need of: marketing, packaging, distribution, and tour support. FYI: not all labels are "evil"... even those who are members of the RIAA. It's really a matter of perspective.
That's non-sequitor. An artist with a contract with a record label is the normal, legal, moral way to do it.
The way "AllofMP3.com" does it, doesn't pass the "smell test".
I probably need to rejoin their service and support it.
The problem with the less expensive music services is their selections are limited.
While Michael Robertson may be touting MP3Tunes to the heavens, I find little I want to buy in its selection of music.
I've mostly exhausted what I want from mymusic.com, so my hope is they add more titles I'd want to buy when the 6 CD's in my queue run out in 6 months ($5.99 a CD, INCLUDING S/H).
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Actually, that's the first few notes to the Slinky song. Since Eudora existed before Ren and Stimpy aired. The Log commercial was a parody of the Slinky commercial.
the unit comes with WattOS which is a version of Ubuntu made for low powered netbooks.
It's not recommended to use Alkaline batteries. You're welcome to try... It wouldn't take long at $5 a set of 8 to exceed the cost of the unit. For $13 in bulk, one would have a set of batteries that could be reused for a long while.
You can also use a 2.5" Laptop HDD or an SSD in the same form factor or interface. As far as I have been able to find out, there is a lot of flexibility in options.
It doesn't use Alkaline batteries, only NImH rechargeables or a LIon battery pack. So, you won't be replacing batteries for $1.79 a set. But a $13 set of AA Rechargeables (bought in bulk) is a lot cheaper than a $50 - $100 proprietary battery pack, and a available easily from multiple sources.
As far as I know, the $199 price includes the computer, ac cord, 8gb SD Card loaded with WattOS Linux, 512mb of RAM, Wireless and the batteries. IF you are buying direct from Nohrtec and in quantity. If you are buying from a distributor, they will have to make a profit and will unbundle things to make room for that.
Every time a Psystar thread is posted, it degenerates into people attacking each other over EULAs, Licesing, stealing IP, etc... This is ground covered constantly to no good result. Just once, I'd like a Psystar thread to contain useful information about Psystar and it's possible future. I'm tired of the flaming, attacks, and rehashing of old crap. An easy way to turn generic hardware into a Hackintosh would be great. I own many Macs of all vintages. I have several 3 - 5 year old PC's, the newest being a Dell Dimension 530 I'd love to turn into a Mac Desktop since it's faster and has a bigger HDD than my Core Duo 2.0ghz Mini. Someday, I might be able to afford a new iMac or a Mac Pro tower. But, there's just too much noise in every Psystar thread. Like 99 to 1, noise to signal.
Meant to spell JooJoo instead of JuJu. A Freudian slip perhaps?
A Crunchpad at $299 would have been a no-brainer. A JuJu at $499 is too expensive. I'll wait for Nohrtec to come out with the Touchpad version of the Gecko laptop instead. It seems that the people behind the Juju missed the point of the Crunchpad. It was supposed to be COST REDUCED because it had no internal storage, and used the cloud for all the apps. Not, a premium cost product. Maybe Arrington will get with Nohrtec and get something like that produced.
"the loansharking fly thing with the big nose" sounded Italian to me, not Jewish. I guess you've never met Italian shopkeepers before.
There were several solutions to run System 6 & 7 on Atari's (Magic Sac and Spectre 128/GCR), and Shapeshifter that ran MacOS on Amiga Computers. They worked nice because the ST was faster and had a larger screen than the Mac, though Apple took steps to prevent folks from obtaining MacPlus ROMs (needed for the emulators) as service parts.
Let me correct myself. At least a million Spectrums exist when you add up all the Sinclair units, the Timex Portugal units, the Amstrad units, and all the clones worldwide.
There really aren't all that few Spectrums around as they were made in the millions worldwide. They are on eBay constantly.
The Coco III has been re-created from scratch, it just isn't available in kit form. Someone is working on re-creating the ZX-Spectrum by replicating the ULA chip, which is the main component needed. The Commodore 64 has already been recreated in the form of a Joystick which contains a full C-64 inside of it. Just solder in connectors for a keyboard and disk drive, and you're all set. The Apple II has long been cloned, and you might still be able to find boards out there. Vince could probably use his Replica I board and make a Replica II from that work. Maybe someday he will. I would love to see the TRS-80 Model I/III/IV cloned. I own one called an LNW-80 from the 1980's.
Except that our "friends" the Liberals and Green Folks WON'T LET US build more Nuclear Power Plants, even though their friends the French derive over 80% of their electrical power from Nuclear, and other countries like Japan derive the bulk of their power from Nuclear too!
France reprocesses it's nuclear waste back into fuel because the generating process isn't 100% efficient. All you have to do is to process the fuel rods and concentrate the still useful material and remove the waste, and "Voila!" as the French say... You have more fuel.
All the nuclear waste generated by all the nuclear plants in the world would fit into a container the size of a standard desk, I've heard.
I like solar. It's infinitely renewable (at least in human terms), and as we develop the technology it becomes more efficient and cheaper. It takes much less to build and manage a solar plant than a nuclear plant.
I'd like to see us build BOTH. The U.S. is mostly empty, unused land. We have plenty of space to build solar farms.
I'd go further and say that every building in the country ought to have solar collectors on their roofs AND solar water heaters for pre-heating water to further save power.
The more we can get our electrical generating capacity off fossil fuels the better we'll be.
We need Nuclear for base-load power, and solar would be great for peak load times when the sun will be out, and extra energy is needed to run cooling plants like air-conditioners.
Also, places near large bodies of water could use that method that is being used in Chicago (I believe) where very cold water is pumped up from the bottom of the lake and used to cool buildings.
We need to conserve, because it's smart. But we need to expand energy sources to grow.
One cannont grow by conserving. Nobody ever made a million by starting off with a dollar and saving .10
It wouldn't install properly, and after 2 hours of being online with Microsoft, there was no resolution. I finally used "System Restore" to roll the system back to before I tried to install it and re-installed it and got it installed. I've been trying to sync my music to the unit since Monday (today is Wednesday). It reports that 20gb is used (My collection is less than 8gb), but only about 8 albums show up on the unit. I told the Zune software to erase the unit (losing all the pre-loaded items which I'm told I will lose forever unless I pay for them again...), and it pretended to erase the unit, but actually didn't. The Zune software is awful and non-intuitive. The user experience is awful. It's like someone decided to make a player that was the exact opposite of the iPod in ease of use, user experience, and software design. My Dell DJ was 100x better than this, and it wasn't as good as an iPod at all. It's a shame that Microsoft took a good player (the Toshiba Gigabeat) and turned it into something so much less than it's progenitor. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that a company has to serve it's customers, not itself... The Zune is a flop in my opinion. I'm going to buy an iPod which is what I should have done in the first place. I just wanted to try the Zune. I made a wrong choice. Choosing Microsoft lately has become a bad choice... The company isn't interested in providing me the best user experience at the best price. It seems more interested in just squeezing me for every penny it can.
My old SONY Vaio (P200mmx) runs the Windows 98 it came with, perfectly fine... Why would I want to put Damn Small Linux or some other Linux Distro on it?? This is another silly article... Old hardware runs the OS it came with fine. It ran it fine then, it will run it fine now...
Sheepshaver runs PPC Classic apps. Thanks anyway!
There are several Classic Emulators that could be ported to a "MacTel" with just a little work.. - Basilisk II - SheepShaver - vMac - Executor And all will run classic apps.
RDF = "Reality Distortion Field"
Currently, Zeta costs 99EUR or 127.70USD..
That's WAY too expensive.
I'm all for buying software. I'll be buying MacOS X Tiger when it comes out. And the price for Tiger will be $129 ($99 at Amazon after a rebate).
But, Tiger will be worth that kind of money. It's a major OS supported by lots of Apps.
Zeta needs to sell for around $49.95US without Gobe Productive bundled in. Gobe Productive ought to be offered for another $19.95US for those of us who don't already own it.
Zeta needs to get a lot of installations out there. At the current pricing, what will happen is that there will be a lot of piracy and darn few sales.
Selling it for $50US won't eliminate the piracy, but it should increase the sales of the OS quite a bit.
I would like to own it and use it. But, $127 is too much money for an OS I'm only going to play with.
Zeta looks nice. It's a shame it's going to be priced so high, that I can't justify buying it.
The Author Julian May in many of her books talks about a similar concept called "Decamole". Cool to see it in reality...
What I was trying to say is that a DMS is in no way responsible for how an artist is paid.
That's not true.
If I run a store and I sell unauthorized copies of copyrighted books, I am doing something illegal.
Especially... If I *KNOW* the copies I'm selling, I'm printing in my back room and no money is going to the copyright holder.
Even if I claim to be holding money aside to sent to the copyright holder, the absence of an advanced agreement (contract) still makes what I'm doing illegal.
It's would be like someone selling my house, and then preseting me with the fait accompli and a check. What if I didn't want to sell my house?
Or didn't want them selling my house?
It's the absence of a contract with the copyright holder or their authorized representative (record label or agent), that makes this wrong.
It doesn't matter if you spent $99.99 for the album... what the artist receives is 100% up to the label. A label is like a bank in that they essentially loan an artist money to create an album. Every time the album is sold the label takes its cut. The artist usually doesn't make anything until the label has been repaid. After that they might make royalties anywhere in the 0-25% range (it varies wildly depending on the complexity of the contracts and the status of the artist). This may not be the "best" deal for the artists but the labels do (in many cases) perform services that many artists are in desperate need of: marketing, packaging, distribution, and tour support. FYI: not all labels are "evil"... even those who are members of the RIAA. It's really a matter of perspective.
That's non-sequitor. An artist with a contract with a record label is the normal, legal, moral way to do it.
The way "AllofMP3.com" does it, doesn't pass the "smell test".
I won't patronize a service like that.
Yes, thank you...
I've used eMusic too...
I probably need to rejoin their service and support it.
The problem with the less expensive music services is their selections are limited.
While Michael Robertson may be touting MP3Tunes to the heavens, I find little I want to buy in its selection of music.
I've mostly exhausted what I want from mymusic.com, so my hope is they add more titles I'd want to buy when the 6 CD's in my queue run out in 6 months ($5.99 a CD, INCLUDING S/H).