"i want a good ipod for $200 without havibg to go to ebay. btw, i doubt it, but first post??"
Firstly, why do you want an iPod? Is it because you want to show chicks that "Oh yeah, I got cash to burn baby!" or is it because you want to be able to enjoy good music?
If it is the latter, I'd suggest you get the RiO karma or wait a couple months (Karma II is expected to come SOON). With Ogg Vorbis support and gapless playback and FLAC lossless support (opposed to some tough shit Apple Lossless format), you can easily see where the good value for money comes in.
If you want the chicks, then.. well, all I gotta say to you is, if you need an iPod to get chicks, it's gonna be a tough road for you anyway. Go flip burgers and get it when you can afford it.
If the sonyPod is competition, look to see the prices drop or features added.
The sonyPod is WAAAAAAAAAY off when it comes to being a good MP3 player. For one thing, it is not even an mp3 player. But some dumb crap ATRAC3 player.
When loading the songs to the player, the software would actually decode the mp3s, reencode them to ATRAC3, and copy THAT to the player, now, talk about reinventing the wheel!
Being a huge media company as well, I guess Sony is in between a stone and a hard place. If they make it a good player, people will pirate their music. If they make it a crap player, people will buy the iPod and still pirate their music anyway.
Makes me wonder what they think they are trying to pull off.
So if I find out that Microsoft are just about to launch a new soup called 'Wibble', I can start selling my own 'Wibble' soup first, then claim they are infringing my trademark when they launch? There must be something that prevents this. Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
Quick! Rename Gentoo to Shorthorn!
Because Trademarks are such that anything remotely similar to a establish trademark is still infringing, SuSE will have a case.
"Well, your honor, as you can see Microsoft is attempting to confuse consumers into buying their "Longhorn" Windows by misleading them into thinking that it is the more stable and crashproof Suse Shorthorn..."
"Sorry, I disagree. Yes, even after setting the Brightness control to a pretty high value, I am still left asking: why the fuck did I shell out the cash for a Radeon9800 Pro, just to see a fucking 90% BLACK SCREEN?"
Same here, they should make some of the weapons give out more light, like flickering lights or something.
Hell, having fired real weapons before, I'm sure some of the heavy iron in the game give out way too little barrel flare than in reality!
'A more interesting question is total cost of ownership; i.e. how much money this really saves over the long run (factoring in things like the fact that the PTA is probably giving the schools grief because the students are learning Office or similar skills that will help them get jobs... believe me, this happens). I'm sure someone has opinions (and hopefully data) related to that. '
That is crap and you know it. I don't see why someone exposed to a REAL OS like linux would have trouble adapting to Windows in the future.
Besides, the future of IT is Linux. Who gives a shit about Office?
In college everyone is trying to pick up that extra *NIX skills in hope that it'd be useful in securing a job when the time comes. I repeat, no one get should passed over a job just because he is trained in *NIX!
"You wouldn't want it have too much intelligence. The last thing you want is for it to tell you "Get your own fscking beer", and then go and hump your girlfriend behind your back."
Jeez, that does remind me of another robot! http://www.fantastic.nu/bender/
"So, you're saying that Yahoo should not expand into new areas, and concentrate on what they have. Then you say what they have now basically sucks. So what do you suggest they do again?"
Well, google has no more than what they have, I don't see google selling music?
Nor do I see googlebay.com?
Yet google is da-bomb today. Like, who cares about yahoo mail, google just mentions gmail and people actually sell invites on ebay.
I'd say they should know how to do things properly before expanding into yet other areas (and having more things to fumble up).
As they go on to more and more areas, the name 'yahoo' will inadvertently just get modded down as being associated with more and more failures and screwups.. and eventually, they'd end up like lycos, which got sold to some korean company.
Here downunder we basically pay $1 for 1Kwh of power, so it is not uncommon for a person to actually rack up $100 of electricity charges per week during summer and winter!
Wow, think about the profits energy companies must be making, making 99c profits for every 1c spent!
Well, I still remember a course I did in first year where during an introductory lecture, when the lecturer was talking about how programming languages have advanced from the 1s and 0s initially to asm to high level languages we have today, and finally ending off at a slide showing a computer on a pedestal and titled, "Self Programming".
So is this our future? Eventually these damned things get so clever that they can program themselves?
Anyhow, doing a CS degree in this time and age sure stinks:(
Being a closet audiophile myself, sound does indeed have qualities like that. In fact, for those of us who (are cheap headphone) audiophiles, when purchasing a headphone amp for our iPods, we can even select an opamp based on the type of sound we want. For some who'd want clear and clean sound, there is the TI opamp to use. For those who'd like the more traditional sounds with more "body" (like me), there is another brand, can't remember ATM.
Those who are keen can pop over to headfi.org, a community of headphone-philes!
Isn't that what they did in Resident Evil? (the office windows are all like this technology) or in Gattaca? (same) or even True Lies? (well, observe the dinner table Arnie and wifie eats at)
That space age technology is finally here!
We can enjoy the greatness of the outdoors from our homes at last!
well, i don't know they are that bad in the corporate market, but they do make pretty good hardware.
i remeember having this ethernet card from 3Com that really performs faster than another taiwanese card which i've got, albeit at 3X the price.
i've got to admit their support really sucks, not that i've tried it before, but something about them.. they seem too arrogant, even http://support.3com.com smells of "fuck off, we don't want to see you here"
I really think Yahoo should concentrate on what they have now instead of trying to expend effort into YET more areas.
Lets see what 'good' yahoo has. -yahoo auctions? who cares? -yahoo mail? with gmail now? -yahoo groups? well, that's good to some extent.. -yahoo's search engine? bleigh, that sucks without google's backend. -yahoo's portal? you really like that shebang?
Maybe 160mil is spare change to yahoo now, but if they don't establish a core competency, they will probably become irrelevant very soon!
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.apple.com.nyud.net:8090/pr/photos/imacf lat/04imac_inside_agreement.html
I don't love Apple as a corp, but I do kinda like Apple. Please slashdot! Don't hose their server!
"i want a good ipod for $200 without havibg to go to ebay. btw, i doubt it, but first post??"
Firstly, why do you want an iPod? Is it because you want to show chicks that "Oh yeah, I got cash to burn baby!" or is it because you want to be able to enjoy good music?
If it is the latter, I'd suggest you get the RiO karma or wait a couple months (Karma II is expected to come SOON). With Ogg Vorbis support and gapless playback and FLAC lossless support (opposed to some tough shit Apple Lossless format), you can easily see where the good value for money comes in.
If you want the chicks, then.. well, all I gotta say to you is, if you need an iPod to get chicks, it's gonna be a tough road for you anyway. Go flip burgers and get it when you can afford it.
If the sonyPod is competition, look to see the prices drop or features added.
The sonyPod is WAAAAAAAAAY off when it comes to being a good MP3 player. For one thing, it is not even an mp3 player. But some dumb crap ATRAC3 player.
When loading the songs to the player, the software would actually decode the mp3s, reencode them to ATRAC3, and copy THAT to the player, now, talk about reinventing the wheel!
Being a huge media company as well, I guess Sony is in between a stone and a hard place. If they make it a good player, people will pirate their music. If they make it a crap player, people will buy the iPod and still pirate their music anyway.
Makes me wonder what they think they are trying to pull off.
They predict that by 2008 it will grow.... four times bigger than the US record industry.
Is it a hint that the US record industry would be so small in the future?
*whistles*
"Brak's mother said that the world would be a better place if we'd all just spend a little more time on the toilet."
Indeed! There will be less $hit in our $ociety!
Eeeps, what's my brain thinking, I meant... Suse not Gentoo. Lol.
So if I find out that Microsoft are just about to launch a new soup called 'Wibble', I can start selling my own 'Wibble' soup first, then claim they are infringing my trademark when they launch? There must be something that prevents this.
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
Quick! Rename Gentoo to Shorthorn!
Because Trademarks are such that anything remotely similar to a establish trademark is still infringing, SuSE will have a case.
"Well, your honor, as you can see Microsoft is attempting to confuse consumers into buying their "Longhorn" Windows by misleading them into thinking that it is the more stable and crashproof Suse Shorthorn..."
Well, IANAL, but laws are mad these days. MAD!
For starters, I think the article meant eMule
All my sources seem to be using eMule, nobody uses EDonkey anymore. Embrace the power of free software!
Secondly... Jeez! Oh nuts! Now the RIAA is gonna come after us eDonkey users!
"Sorry, I disagree. Yes, even after setting the Brightness control to a pretty high value, I am still left asking: why the fuck did I shell out the cash for a Radeon9800 Pro, just to see a fucking 90% BLACK SCREEN?"
Same here, they should make some of the weapons give out more light, like flickering lights or something.
Hell, having fired real weapons before, I'm sure some of the heavy iron in the game give out way too little barrel flare than in reality!
'A more interesting question is total cost of ownership; i.e. how much money this really saves over the long run (factoring in things like the fact that the PTA is probably giving the schools grief because the students are learning Office or similar skills that will help them get jobs... believe me, this happens). I'm sure someone has opinions (and hopefully data) related to that. '
That is crap and you know it. I don't see why someone exposed to a REAL OS like linux would have trouble adapting to Windows in the future.
Besides, the future of IT is Linux. Who gives a shit about Office?
In college everyone is trying to pick up that extra *NIX skills in hope that it'd be useful in securing a job when the time comes. I repeat, no one get should passed over a job just because he is trained in *NIX!
"You wouldn't want it have too much intelligence. The last thing you want is for it to tell you "Get your own fscking beer", and then go and hump your girlfriend behind your back."
Jeez, that does remind me of another robot!
http://www.fantastic.nu/bender/
But i guess even in nature, information wants to be free...
It should be "The Penis Mightier than the Sword"
Too bad we couldn't just live in a society where we wouldn't have to worry about dying!
Too bad we couldn't just live in a society where we wouldn't have to worry about debt!
Too bad we couldn't just live in a society where we wouldn't have to worry about sharks!
Too bad we couldn't just live in a society where we wouldn't have to worry about lightning!
Isn't Jesus the answer to all these?
*ducks*
In the summary.. "how beer helps police... free radicals.."
BEER! The saviour of the free world!
Person walking on the street
Person get hit by car
Person grieviously hurt
Person uses a small medikit with a red cross on it
*BING!* Back to life!
"So, you're saying that Yahoo should not expand into new areas, and concentrate on what they have. Then you say what they have now basically sucks. So what do you suggest they do again?"
Well, google has no more than what they have, I don't see google selling music?
Nor do I see googlebay.com?
Yet google is da-bomb today. Like, who cares about yahoo mail, google just mentions gmail and people actually sell invites on ebay.
I'd say they should know how to do things properly before expanding into yet other areas (and having more things to fumble up).
As they go on to more and more areas, the name 'yahoo' will inadvertently just get modded down as being associated with more and more failures and screwups.. and eventually, they'd end up like lycos, which got sold to some korean company.
Here downunder we basically pay $1 for 1Kwh of power, so it is not uncommon for a person to actually rack up $100 of electricity charges per week during summer and winter!
Wow, think about the profits energy companies must be making, making 99c profits for every 1c spent!
Well, I still remember a course I did in first year where during an introductory lecture, when the lecturer was talking about how programming languages have advanced from the 1s and 0s initially to asm to high level languages we have today, and finally ending off at a slide showing a computer on a pedestal and titled, "Self Programming".
:(
So is this our future? Eventually these damned things get so clever that they can program themselves?
Anyhow, doing a CS degree in this time and age sure stinks
Being a closet audiophile myself, sound does indeed have qualities like that. In fact, for those of us who (are cheap headphone) audiophiles, when purchasing a headphone amp for our iPods, we can even select an opamp based on the type of sound we want. For some who'd want clear and clean sound, there is the TI opamp to use. For those who'd like the more traditional sounds with more "body" (like me), there is another brand, can't remember ATM.
Those who are keen can pop over to headfi.org, a community of headphone-philes!
From the article:
Step 1: Proof of concept.
Step 2: Power for backlight inverter.
Step 3: Profit! Err, I mean tediously build custom video cables.
OMG!
SHE READS SLASHDOT!
Isn't that what they did in Resident Evil? (the office windows are all like this technology) or in Gattaca? (same) or even True Lies? (well, observe the dinner table Arnie and wifie eats at)
That space age technology is finally here!
We can enjoy the greatness of the outdoors from our homes at last!
There has never been a better place to be a geek!
well, i don't know they are that bad in the corporate market, but they do make pretty good hardware.
i remeember having this ethernet card from 3Com that really performs faster than another taiwanese card which i've got, albeit at 3X the price.
i've got to admit their support really sucks, not that i've tried it before, but something about them.. they seem too arrogant, even http://support.3com.com smells of "fuck off, we don't want to see you here"
Roland: It's a waste. A goddamn waste.
I really think Yahoo should concentrate on what they have now instead of trying to expend effort into YET more areas.
Lets see what 'good' yahoo has.
-yahoo auctions? who cares?
-yahoo mail? with gmail now?
-yahoo groups? well, that's good to some extent..
-yahoo's search engine? bleigh, that sucks without google's backend.
-yahoo's portal? you really like that shebang?
Maybe 160mil is spare change to yahoo now, but if they don't establish a core competency, they will probably become irrelevant very soon!
"I know I'm going against the crowd, but has anyone found anything quite as good as MusicMatch's Smart Tagging capability?"
Yes, it is called "foobar2000"
The tagging capabilities in foobar are really second to none!
And it's an opensourced player too!