The kind of moron who acquires new music periodically?
Re:That kills it for me too. Sorry try again Sony.
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iPods work as USB drives, but only play music loaded with iTunes or one of the many 3rd party reverse engineered iPod loading apps (GTKPod and ephPod come to mind).
The iPod display gets all song metadata from a database file, not the tags on the individual song files.
I had no interest in getting an iPod until I downloaded iTunes and fell in love with it. The inspired me to find out more about the iPod which eventually led to me getting one.
I'd love an FM tuner on my Zen Touch. It'd be perfect for listen to Red Sox games while I'm in the kitchen doing dishes (or even at the game watching live).
I don't know where you live, so you might be able to get Red Sox games on an FM station, but most people, including those at Fenway, can only listen to the Red Sox on AM radio.
What!? Where is this software that isn't any different than iTunes? I've been looking for it ever since I migrated to linux.
I've yet to find anything that can touch iTunes' ability to organize music, edit tags, and burn cds.
A cast iron frying pan by any other name is still a chunk of cast iron in the shape of a frying pan.
There reallt isn't much difference from pne to the next.
If they were Intel, they would have 80% market share. Whether or not they would beat Intel under those circumstances is left as an exercise for the reader, dumbass.
Quick, how much is your monthly bill (inc. taxes and whatnot, to the penny)? I hope you know this exact number, because I think you are full of shit. Cable companies increase rates, wit hor without your assent. It's what they do,
As very poor former TiVo user and current Myth user, I can't say that I recommend doling out the cash for a dedicated Myth system, but I have been able to turn my two piece-of-shit machines into a functioning myth system.
The backend is an hp 1GHz P3 machine with an el cheapo Pinnacle capture card ($80 at CompUSA in 2002) running FC3.
This machine became a linux box a little more than a month ago when my win2k install ate its own registry and I couldn't scrounge up a copy of a wndows OS to reinstall.
The frontend is a gateway 400Mhz PII running KnoppMyth that I bpught from a friend for $80 a cuouple years ago. I recently replaced the original 2GB harddrive with a 40 gig scavenged from an unused DirecTivo.
Anyhow, the system is great, cheap (for me), and I was able to get it all running an incompetent n00b.
It is a lot like those OfficeJet printer/scanner/copier/fax machines. When you attempt to do many things it turns out that it often winds up that you do none of them well.
A copier that couldn't print or scan would be pretty worthless, don't you think?
Or maybe you want a fax machine that won't print or scan. That would also qualify as "broken."
Strange, my time warner HD PVR records HD just fine.
As long as Time Warner wants it to. The original question was "How do they prevent recording from the output of the cable box?"
The answer, for those who insist on being obtuse (I'm looking at you parent), is that there are as yet no consumer devices capable of recording an uncompressed HDTV stream.
Cable company PVRs are irrelevant to the discussion, as they will be first in line to honor the broadcast flag, whether or not thewy are legally required to.
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Yeah, but this isn't a plasma.
Or, get a Sony flash player with a screen for half the cost of an iPod. Or is that forbidden?
The kind of moron who acquires new music periodically?
iPods work as USB drives, but only play music loaded with iTunes or one of the many 3rd party reverse engineered iPod loading apps (GTKPod and ephPod come to mind).
The iPod display gets all song metadata from a database file, not the tags on the individual song files.
I had no interest in getting an iPod until I downloaded iTunes and fell in love with it. The inspired me to find out more about the iPod which eventually led to me getting one.
So there.
I'd love an FM tuner on my Zen Touch. It'd be perfect for listen to Red Sox games while I'm in the kitchen doing dishes (or even at the game watching live). I don't know where you live, so you might be able to get Red Sox games on an FM station, but most people, including those at Fenway, can only listen to the Red Sox on AM radio.
Many people, myself included, often listen to music they haven't heard before. Those tracks are often harded to identify.
What!? Where is this software that isn't any different than iTunes? I've been looking for it ever since I migrated to linux. I've yet to find anything that can touch iTunes' ability to organize music, edit tags, and burn cds.
The display isn't backlit, it's OLED.
Blocks, as in "city block," measure distance or area, not volume.
Get your units of measurement straight before you start calling yourself a geek.
You have no idea what a podcast is, do you? Hint: it is not the act of playing music from your iPod over a radio.
A cast iron frying pan by any other name is still a chunk of cast iron in the shape of a frying pan. There reallt isn't much difference from pne to the next.
If they were Intel, they would have 80% market share. Whether or not they would beat Intel under those circumstances is left as an exercise for the reader, dumbass.
We're not stranded on a desert island with only 1 box, you know. I have cd player in addition to my TiVo.
Hell, apparently I even have web access, too.
Quick, how much is your monthly bill (inc. taxes and whatnot, to the penny)? I hope you know this exact number, because I think you are full of shit. Cable companies increase rates, wit hor without your assent. It's what they do,
While I agree with the general sentiment, take a look at the UID's of self and parent. Geeks are not that rare.
Nice try, but it is more like the .1% of you who are uber-geeks create apps for the 3% of who are geek enough to find and install it./p?
I think most of us can imagine the hardware we want being available.
How would we know we wanted it otherwise?
As very poor former TiVo user and current Myth user, I can't say that I recommend doling out the cash for a dedicated Myth system, but I have been able to turn my two piece-of-shit machines into a functioning myth system. The backend is an hp 1GHz P3 machine with an el cheapo Pinnacle capture card ($80 at CompUSA in 2002) running FC3. This machine became a linux box a little more than a month ago when my win2k install ate its own registry and I couldn't scrounge up a copy of a wndows OS to reinstall. The frontend is a gateway 400Mhz PII running KnoppMyth that I bpught from a friend for $80 a cuouple years ago. I recently replaced the original 2GB harddrive with a 40 gig scavenged from an unused DirecTivo. Anyhow, the system is great, cheap (for me), and I was able to get it all running an incompetent n00b.
A copier that couldn't print or scan would be pretty worthless, don't you think?
Or maybe you want a fax machine that won't print or scan. That would also qualify as "broken."
As long as Time Warner wants it to. The original question was "How do they prevent recording from the output of the cable box?"
The answer, for those who insist on being obtuse (I'm looking at you parent), is that there are as yet no consumer devices capable of recording an uncompressed HDTV stream.
Cable company PVRs are irrelevant to the discussion, as they will be first in line to honor the broadcast flag, whether or not thewy are legally required to.
You sir, have just fallen for the oldest trick (since 2001) in the Slashdot book!
and is not too far away from true 1080i resolution. So that's what, more almost 1080i than the Dell?
Yes, it won't record any flagged content.
Of course, it's a fucking display so it doesn't record anything, but it honors the broadcast flag anyway.
Gateway only sells EDTV plasmas.