iRiver's IFP 395T, 595T and 599T are flash players that encode directly to MP3 from line input. I believe they go up to 320kbps.
I don't know how good their A/D is, but I've considered getting one for field & concert recordings. MiniDisc is not an option for me, due to cost and DRM restrictions.. Sony blew it.
My high school Physics teacher was always good at feigning innocence while demolishing this sort of nonsense. In what he claimed was an effort to be gender-neutral, he would send home notices in this style:
... His
participation is very important to her final mark. If she has any questions about the material, I would encourage him to contact me directly.
But MC Frontalot has way more computer references, and hence greater nerd appeal. Whoa, does this mean my favourite rapper is more "real"? Can I shoot CowboyNeal now?? "Gang war!"
Floppy disk volume:
0.0889m * 0.0889m * 0.015875m = 0.00012546345875m^3
VW Jetta Cargo capacity: 368.119 liters = 0.368119m^3 (assuming all seats in place, and NOT the wagon model)
So,
763549741511.11 floppies * 0.00012546345875m^3 = 95797591.4976523121517125m^3
divide that by the 0.00012546345875m^3 per Jetta, and we get:
~7.635 x 10^11 Jettas required to ferry the floppy disks to the dump site!
And all I want is a VW minibus. makes me seem quite modest..
Declining support, reliability problems, security issues and incompatibility with new applications should drive the remaining installed base to Windows 2000 or XP.
Yeah, it may lock up constantly, but security issues? Buddy, Windows '98 is what saved me from MSBLAST, and all its ilk. With the exception of the never-ending IE holes, all the latest security problems seem exclusive to 2000/XP. Just give me 98 and a decent firewall, and I'm off.
At least relative to their competition, Adobe has been producing harder-to-use and more expensive software for years. Remember Corel's PhotoPaint and CorelDraw? Those two bundled together sell for half of the price of Photoshop alone.
Unfortunately, they've never really caught on. Why? Because, as this product activiation scheme shows, Adobe now has virtual control over the graphics software market, and MS did with Office, are free to pull these inconviencing tricks on their users. Perhaps it's time the users (== us) considered the price of Adobe's continued dominance, and tried out some alternatives.
And maybe we can finally stop using "photoshop" as a verb...:)
So that I can continue to use computers without violating my principles,
I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that
I will be able to get along without any software that is not free.
Anyone else find it interesting that he oriented the creation of GNU around his personal beliefs? It would seem he did it mainly for himself.. Anyway, say what you will about the guy, but perhaps if he'd had any other attitude, you wouldn't be reading this now. (among many other things)
Hillary Rosen: "The Librarian's decision was based on a misguided reading of the record. Not only was improper weight given to the testimony of Yahoo! but some 140 separate licensing deals were thrown out by the Librarian. The end result significantly undervalued the music used by Internet radio companies." (as quoted here)
With these sorts of press releases, it should be more obvious how the RIAA is slanting things. I mean, "internet radio companies"?? Internet radio stations are people in basements and bedrooms - not giant corporations like Hillary would have you believe. They undertake the expenses of web broadcasting at little or no benefit to themselves. They were playing music that for the most part could not be heard anywhere else, and giving new artists a chance to get promoted. Anyway, I'm sure that's all been said.
The murder of internet radio by the RIAA is nothing less than cultural destruction.
yes.. as well as check the desktop for strange new shortcuts to websites, the "StartUp" folder for funky registration reminders, the home page of your browser, and now even the Start->Find menu.. (realplayer has taken this over, as of late) it may be a pain in the ass, but practically all vendors do it, and of course it's only getting worse.
I mean, I'm on RoadRunner cable modem: TimeWarner is my cable company and my ISP, and in some areas they could be my phone company too. Sony has its own line of PCs. This may not be as incredible as it first seems.
crayz is totally right here. Think of what Sony/RIAA could do, if they really tried. It's scary.
There's a lot of "it's the parents' fault, pay more attention to what your kids are doing" stuff being said on/., and,er, is anyone saying this a parent? Uh, have you ever tried to get a 16-year old to talk to you at all, let alone allow you to confiscate their Eminem CD/copy of SoF? If kids want to play violent games, they're going to find a way to do so, and it's darn hard for a parent to stop them.. So, I don't think restricting sales to 18+ will help, but neither will blaming the parents.
It all depends on how you use them, but most of the time they're not used very well.. I've seen teachers come up with some really good ideas for projects involving the internet, but not often. Here in my home province of Nova Scotia, the government is obsessed with computers, like they consider them the be all end all (or whatever the hell the saying is) to everything that's wrong with our education system. This is maybe not such a good idea: my old school, an old rural elementary/junior high with about 800 kids, has a PowerPC in every classroom, 10+ iMacs, 6 G3s w/FireWire, Studio Displays, etc, 1 huge, brand-new G4 server thing, 4 Sony Digital8 camcorders, stacks of Zip, Jaz, and CD-R disks and drives, literally innumerable hundreds of dollars worth of overpriced software.. and more on the way. Your Tax Dollars at Work. This would all be fine, if people actually used the equipment. Instead, most students seem content with reloading their hotmail accounts all day, and the only movies made were pointless. Half this stuff is still in the original packaging! And the textbooks are still falling apart!
So I guess the point of this (rambling) post is that computers are not the solution to illiterate kids and crappy grades. They are a fine educational tool, if used correctly, but we can't forget the importance of good old teaching, and work. and stuff.
In two years, one of the more high-profile open-source projects--Mozilla.org-- has released exactly zero legitimate copies of its browser. Whether the many builds of mozilla are "legitimate" or not depends on what you were expecting. Mozilla.org really makes no promises. Mozilla seems legitimate to me.. I think the fact that most of the code is external XML says something.. In fact, the best parts of Netscape 6 have nothing to do with openness. The most important part of the browser... It's AOL's obvious attempt to tie in the browser to a bunch of for-profit proprietary services. I would like to know what Mr. Taschek is basing this on. The fact that Net2Phone and some other junk was included with the first, and so far, *only* preview release of Netscape 6? If the stuff that NS6 is based on is not yet 'legitimate', how can he expect the final release to look like the preview? Netscape will without a doubt, offer a choice of components to d/l or install in the final version. And if NS6 rubs you the wrong way, stick with Mozilla.
Taschek's article is interesting, but his criticism of Mozilla (and OS in general) appears a bit unfounded.
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If homo sapiens has conciousness as a by-product of countless mindless accidents in a chaotic universe, then Davies will never know it, because he has already closed himself off to the possibility that it may, in fact, be true...
Well, that's opinion, right? Personally, I can't convince myself that humanity is a cosmic accident, not because I don't think there's enough evidence supporting it, but because what I believe is simply different. Go ahead, try to be unbiased and impartial, on any subject at all. I can guarantee that it can't be done. So Davies is just showing what he thinks, and even if he seems to bend the evidence to support himself, this is how people communicate.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know how good their A/D is, but I've considered getting one for field & concert recordings. MiniDisc is not an option for me, due to cost and DRM restrictions.. Sony blew it.
Keeping that in mind, here is perhaps the clearest illustration of why the UN should not be allowed to control the internet:
Is anyone else very, very afraid?
Hm, now where's that Soundblaster 8 clone with the non-wavetable MIDI I had lying around?
I'm gonna go nab myself a piece of the market!
The man was a genius.
But MC Frontalot has way more computer references, and hence greater nerd appeal.
Whoa, does this mean my favourite rapper is more "real"? Can I shoot CowboyNeal now??
"Gang war!"
And,
Floppy disk volume: 0.0889m * 0.0889m * 0.015875m = 0.00012546345875m^3
VW Jetta Cargo capacity: 368.119 liters = 0.368119m^3 (assuming all seats in place, and NOT the wagon model)
So, 763549741511.11 floppies * 0.00012546345875m^3 = 95797591.4976523121517125m^3
divide that by the 0.00012546345875m^3 per Jetta, and we get:
~7.635 x 10^11 Jettas required to ferry the floppy disks to the dump site!
And all I want is a VW minibus. makes me seem quite modest..
Yeah, it may lock up constantly, but security issues? Buddy, Windows '98 is what saved me from MSBLAST, and all its ilk.
With the exception of the never-ending IE holes, all the latest security problems seem exclusive to 2000/XP.
Just give me 98 and a decent firewall, and I'm off.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
Remember Corel's PhotoPaint and CorelDraw? Those two bundled together sell for half of the price of Photoshop alone.
Unfortunately, they've never really caught on. Why? Because, as this product activiation scheme shows, Adobe now has virtual control over the graphics software market, and MS did with Office, are free to pull these inconviencing tricks on their users. Perhaps it's time the users (== us) considered the price of Adobe's continued dominance, and tried out some alternatives.
And maybe we can finally stop using "photoshop" as a verb... :)
That may be so...
However, while msblast was flattening people worldwide, I remained blissfully immune thanks to crummy ol' Win98 SE.
There's something to be said for "legacy" OSs.
Anyone else find it interesting that he oriented the creation of GNU around his personal beliefs? It would seem he did it mainly for himself..
Anyway, say what you will about the guy, but perhaps if he'd had any other attitude, you wouldn't be reading this now. (among many other things)
As if they need any more holy wars...
With these sorts of press releases, it should be more obvious how the RIAA is slanting things. I mean, "internet radio companies"?? Internet radio stations are people in basements and bedrooms - not giant corporations like Hillary would have you believe. They undertake the expenses of web broadcasting at little or no benefit to themselves. They were playing music that for the most part could not be heard anywhere else, and giving new artists a chance to get promoted. Anyway, I'm sure that's all been said.
The murder of internet radio by the RIAA is nothing less than cultural destruction.
as well as check the desktop for strange new shortcuts to websites, the "StartUp" folder for funky registration reminders, the home page of your browser, and now even the Start->Find menu.. (realplayer has taken this over, as of late)
it may be a pain in the ass, but practically all vendors do it, and of course it's only getting worse.
who's up for a new definition of freeware?
The hard transfer limit for this user has been reached
Well, guess I don't get to find out how to enter.. mirror, anyone?
Remember kids, use that preview button.
crayz is totally right here. Think of what Sony/RIAA could do, if they really tried. It's scary.
There's a lot of "it's the parents' fault, pay more attention to what your kids are doing" stuff being said on /., and,er, is anyone saying this a parent?
Uh, have you ever tried to get a 16-year old to talk to you at all, let alone allow you to confiscate their Eminem CD/copy of SoF? If kids want to play violent games, they're going to find a way to do so, and it's darn hard for a parent to stop them..
So, I don't think restricting sales to 18+ will help, but neither will blaming the parents.
Here in my home province of Nova Scotia, the government is obsessed with computers, like they consider them the be all end all (or whatever the hell the saying is) to everything that's wrong with our education system. This is maybe not such a good idea: my old school, an old rural elementary/junior high with about 800 kids, has a PowerPC in every classroom, 10+ iMacs, 6 G3s w/FireWire, Studio Displays, etc, 1 huge, brand-new G4 server thing, 4 Sony Digital8 camcorders, stacks of Zip, Jaz, and CD-R disks and drives, literally innumerable hundreds of dollars worth of overpriced software.. and more on the way. Your Tax Dollars at Work.
This would all be fine, if people actually used the equipment. Instead, most students seem content with reloading their hotmail accounts all day, and the only movies made were pointless. Half this stuff is still in the original packaging! And the textbooks are still falling apart!
So I guess the point of this (rambling) post is that computers are not the solution to illiterate kids and crappy grades. They are a fine educational tool, if used correctly, but we can't forget the importance of good old teaching, and work. and stuff.
There's an extra quotation mark after the link! http://www.intel.com/p ressroom/archive/releases/dp062800.htm is the real page.
There already is a Win32 version, along with BeOS, Solaris, etc. This looks pretty cool.. cross platform, free and all...
How about MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 :)
Catchy, no?
Whether the many builds of mozilla are "legitimate" or not depends on what you were expecting. Mozilla.org really makes no promises. Mozilla seems legitimate to me.. I think the fact that most of the code is external XML says something..
In fact, the best parts of Netscape 6 have nothing to do with openness. The most important part of the browser
I would like to know what Mr. Taschek is basing this on. The fact that Net2Phone and some other junk was included with the first, and so far, *only* preview release of Netscape 6? If the stuff that NS6 is based on is not yet 'legitimate', how can he expect the final release to look like the preview? Netscape will without a doubt, offer a choice of components to d/l or install in the final version. And if NS6 rubs you the wrong way, stick with Mozilla.
Taschek's article is interesting, but his criticism of Mozilla (and OS in general) appears a bit unfounded.
Well, that's opinion, right? Personally, I can't convince myself that humanity is a cosmic accident, not because I don't think there's enough evidence supporting it, but because what I believe is simply different.
Go ahead, try to be unbiased and impartial, on any subject at all. I can guarantee that it can't be done. So Davies is just showing what he thinks, and even if he seems to bend the evidence to support himself, this is how people communicate.