If governments fought real wars like they fight trade wars, here’s how the transcript of the communiqués between the leaders of two warring nations would read:
Leader of Absurditopia (A): I say, leader of Stupidia – we demand that you stop occupying that contested strip of land. If you refuse, we’ll have no choice but to shoot our own citizens.
Leader of Stupidia (S): You don’t scare us! That land is ours. And if you do kill some of your own people, make no mistake that we will immediately – and just as cruelly – commence to killing our own people. Courage is our national motto!
(A): Ha! You’re bluffing. But I’m not. I’ve just courageously ordered my troops to mow down in cold blood ten percent of my fellow countrymen. Take that!
(S): How dare you attack you like that! You leave us no choice but to attack us. I am ordering the Stupidian army to slaughter 15 percent of innocent Stupidians here in Stupidia. How do you like them apples?!
(A): You are cruel and inhuman to damage us by killing your people. I hereby instruct all of my fellow Absurditopians to commit suicide! Only then will you nasty Stupidians get your proper comeuppance and we Absurditopians the justice that we are due!
(S): You can’t beat us, you Absurditopian you! Listen up. I’m ordering all of my fellow citizens – Stupidians all! – to commit suicide. We’ll see who emerges victorious! --- Then a long, long silence.
I have owned MD hardware. It is crippled, deliberately by Sony. Try making a digital copy of an MD created from a digtal source to see what I mean.
You have to stop it somewhere. It really isn't to much to ask that you own the original digital source if you are making copies (or at least, can getyour hands on it;))
just recorded a lecture with my ihp-120 today
I haven't read much about your player... does it have a mic in or built in mic? A lot of people will want to use a good mic. Does it record in mp3? Again, most people will want their original source to be of a higher quality.
I have line-in, line-out, fiber-in, fiber-out. A PC makes management much easier, which is something the orignal md players desperately needed. Titleing things was a nightmare.
I was considering getting into the harddrive mp3 player market. Those a definitely nice features. But I'm going to wait till April now:) The last time I looked at mp3 players, you couldn't delete/rename/divide tracks easily on the unit itself. I think the true test for these Hi-MDs is how well you will be able to negotiate the tracks on the actual unit. Hopefully it will allow some sort of grouping system.
16 hours
I haven't seen any numbers for the new portables but old MD recorders were about 3 times that. Players even more-- topping out over 100hours.
This Hi-MD is a big jump. Way bigger then MDLP or NetMD was. IMHO, Sony has given it a second chance, personally I think they will learn from their mistakes from the first round.
MD was good technology. What crippled it was just bad marketing in the US. (Replacement for CDs... uh no) Anyone who owned MD players would not call the actual hardware crippled by any means, it just got bad vibes from advertising it as something it obviously was not. But in Asia, MDs took off. I agree, NetMD is blah.
Hi-MD will allow copying both to and from using USB..doc,.jpeg, etc. files will be able to be burned to a disc.
Some pluses for Hi-MD:
1. recording--whether it be concerts or lectures
2. lack of dependence on PC--you can modernize your entire vinyl, tape etc. collection bypassing the PC middleman
3. Battery life--I don't care if you can hold 10,000 mp3s if your battery dies before you play 50 of them
4. Multiple sources--leave a third of your Hi-MDs in your home unit, a third with your portable and a third in your car
5. Dependable--hard drives crash, I've never seen a MD crash
6. Price--you will be able to get an introductory model for $200, that price will only go down with time
that's all I can think of atm
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from von Mises, I'd go straight to Human Action.
If governments fought real wars like they fight trade wars, here’s how the transcript of the communiqués between the leaders of two warring nations would read:
Leader of Absurditopia (A): I say, leader of Stupidia – we demand that you stop occupying that contested strip of land. If you refuse, we’ll have no choice but to shoot our own citizens.
Leader of Stupidia (S): You don’t scare us! That land is ours. And if you do kill some of your own people, make no mistake that we will immediately – and just as cruelly – commence to killing our own people. Courage is our national motto!
(A): Ha! You’re bluffing. But I’m not. I’ve just courageously ordered my troops to mow down in cold blood ten percent of my fellow countrymen. Take that!
(S): How dare you attack you like that! You leave us no choice but to attack us. I am ordering the Stupidian army to slaughter 15 percent of innocent Stupidians here in Stupidia. How do you like them apples?!
(A): You are cruel and inhuman to damage us by killing your people. I hereby instruct all of my fellow Absurditopians to commit suicide! Only then will you nasty Stupidians get your proper comeuppance and we Absurditopians the justice that we are due!
(S): You can’t beat us, you Absurditopian you! Listen up. I’m ordering all of my fellow citizens – Stupidians all! – to commit suicide. We’ll see who emerges victorious!
---
Then a long, long silence.
-from http://cafehayek.com/2010/10/if-trade-wars-were-like-real-wars.html
my Antec 350W PS died last night ... not a big fan of PSs right now
I have owned MD hardware. It is crippled, deliberately by Sony. Try making a digital copy of an MD created from a digtal source to see what I mean. You have to stop it somewhere. It really isn't to much to ask that you own the original digital source if you are making copies (or at least, can getyour hands on it ;))
just recorded a lecture with my ihp-120 today
I haven't read much about your player... does it have a mic in or built in mic? A lot of people will want to use a good mic. Does it record in mp3? Again, most people will want their original source to be of a higher quality.
I have line-in, line-out, fiber-in, fiber-out. A PC makes management much easier, which is something the orignal md players desperately needed. Titleing things was a nightmare.
I was considering getting into the harddrive mp3 player market. Those a definitely nice features. But I'm going to wait till April now :) The last time I looked at mp3 players, you couldn't delete/rename/divide tracks easily on the unit itself. I think the true test for these Hi-MDs is how well you will be able to negotiate the tracks on the actual unit. Hopefully it will allow some sort of grouping system.
16 hours
I haven't seen any numbers for the new portables but old MD recorders were about 3 times that. Players even more-- topping out over 100hours.
This Hi-MD is a big jump. Way bigger then MDLP or NetMD was. IMHO, Sony has given it a second chance, personally I think they will learn from their mistakes from the first round.
MD was good technology. What crippled it was just bad marketing in the US. (Replacement for CDs ... uh no) Anyone who owned MD players would not call the actual hardware crippled by any means, it just got bad vibes from advertising it as something it obviously was not. But in Asia, MDs took off. I agree, NetMD is blah.
Hi-MD will allow copying both to and from using USB. .doc, .jpeg, etc. files will be able to be burned to a disc.
Some pluses for Hi-MD:
1. recording--whether it be concerts or lectures
2. lack of dependence on PC--you can modernize your entire vinyl, tape etc. collection bypassing the PC middleman
3. Battery life--I don't care if you can hold 10,000 mp3s if your battery dies before you play 50 of them
4. Multiple sources--leave a third of your Hi-MDs in your home unit, a third with your portable and a third in your car
5. Dependable--hard drives crash, I've never seen a MD crash
6. Price--you will be able to get an introductory model for $200, that price will only go down with time
that's all I can think of atm