I know I'll purchase this movie now! I'm taking Japanese in college for two reasons: 1) To increase my job opportunities out of college in the computer field, 2) to watch anime in the original Japanese!
Granted that I wouldn't want to listen to 96Kbps audio. I'm an audiophile and that would to unacceptable, so you've got that. I also agree that solid state memory is expensive as hell. I think CD/MP3 players are fantastic, as home stereo components, but not as portables. However, you assume 8x burners are the standard, which is not the case. Gateway & Dell (I use these companies just because they are some of the most common systems I see in homes) have just recently started packageing 8x units in their boxes. Most of the systems I run across have 4x burners. Most people don't bother to upgrade for at least a 2 years (as I see it).
I do know that you can burn a Cd in less than 8 minutes. I know that I can, and I know you can, but however, I think the majority of people out there still have 4x drives (just my limited experience in tech support talking here), which takes 15 - 20 minutes.
I agree a CDr does hold more, but 10 hours?! What average person who will be taking the player on the subway, carride, bus, jogging, etc, needs 10 hours!? I can see it being usefull for heavy travelers where you can't dock a normal player and reload it with songs. And who says you have to keep them on your HDD? Just toss them on CD and archive them. Heck, why bother. 15 and 20 Gig harddrives are almost standard these days, so it really doesn't matter a whole lot. That's my take at least.
How about instead of calling me names and copping an attitude, you speak to me with a well thought out logical argument, or at the very least, don't be a pussy and post anonymously you chicken shit.
I don't doubt that they prebuffer the files, don't get me wrong, but a buddy of mine had a CD/MP3 player from Pine Technologies and it didn't seem to work very well in that respect on a car ride we had. The Jukebox is the dream, I agree! However early reviews show that sorting through directories on it is a pain.
My biggest pet peave with MP3 CD players is that they defeat the purpose of the MP3 player concept in the first place. MP3 players (i.e. the Nomad & the Rio) are so popular, not only because you can load free music on them, but with a USB connection you can do it quickly and easily. The whole concept of doing things quickly and easily makes it so convienient! I know if I set Napster to download a file (from an artist that allows his music on the system of course!) and then I jump in the shower, by the time I get out and changed, the files is complete and I can just toss it on my Nomad in a minute flat and go! I don't have to WAIT for a damn CD to burn (new or continuing an already started session). I think it's ridiculous to have to burn a CD full of files and wait and then keep coming back and burning new sessions everytime I get 1 or 2 new songs. And besides, much like mindiscs, isn't one of the advantages of an MP3 player that the music won't skip? With a CD based MP3 player, no matter how shock resistant is says it is, it's based on a system that can't handle jostling, and skips are bound to happen. Not only that but by the time you get a ton of music burned one CD, it's simply a pain to go through all the tracks to get to where you want to be! My plan, get a regular player, get a very large flash card, and encode at 96Kbps.
Depending on just how much information you want to catalog about each CD, I recommend Discplay v4.0.4. When you insert a CD is will automagically connect to the CDDB and get the nfo on your selection. Once you have this done for every CD in your collection, you can export your collection to HTML which looks really nice and it ready to put right up on the web. It's available at hotfiles.com This does limit what information is shown. I just finished my own CD database this past weekend using a program called JFile on my Palm. I wanted custom fields like "total running time", "producer", etc. Next I have to do all my vinyl (no I'm not old, I'm a DJ), and videos!
At first, everything was nice and simple. Keychains were keychains, coffee makers were coffee makers, and radios were radios. Then everything got a digital clock put into it (see the afore mentioned items). NOW some genius is gonna start putting little AIM modules in everypiece of consumer electronics out there!
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Right now the market is dominated by only 3 OSes (Windows, MacOS, and Linux), Windows taking up the vast majority. Anybody that wants to offer a new choice and give support for it should. Thing need to be varied if we are ever to break free of the strangle hold of relying on just ONE system.
We should have seen this as the natural progression of things. First, Mr. Wizard did it to a small digital clock....and now a web server. Makes sense to me. You go Mr. Wizard!!
MP3.com already implements a system by which it looks at the artists you download and comes up with a list of other artists you might also like. This could DEFINATELY use improvement, as some of the choices are based only on the name of the group, and not the style of music. Now this suggestion might get me marked as a troll, but it is definately a money maker! The Adult industry is one of the biggest money makers on the internet. If you could develop a system that would monitor the sort of types of pornography or the type of girls (brunettes, blones, racial preference, etc) that people tend to look so a company could target certain pictures at different people, any site would be begging you for a copy of your software!
A few years ago AT&T started a program called "project angel" which was intended to replace POTS lines with a cellular system in the home. Check out this story at Cnet.com.
Reminds me of that episode of The Tick where Tick tried to detonate explosives on the moon to erase Chairface Chipendale's name he carved in with a lazer! You know that funny!
I'd like to see this thing have the ability to connect to a TiVo or ReplayTV device and transfer programs you've recorded on the internal HD to a DVD! Problem is, this may be prevented because you could just grab movies off of HBO/Showtime/Skin-a-max/etc, and burn them, eliminating the need to buy the actual movie, save some video and audio quality concerns.
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First of all, I could understand smaller bands sueing napster, because they may very well be taking money from a band that has very little if no following to begin with. However Selloutica, and Dr. Dre are QUITE established and have money to wipe their asses with thousand dollar bills! They are the last people who should be worring about losing money! Especially when the majority of the public doesn't even know what an mp3 is. CD sales have been astronomical over the past year, and yet they still complain! As for banning users, boohoo! So now I just have to take 5 minutes to use a proxy and get a new username. They just don't get it.
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I know I'll purchase this movie now! I'm taking Japanese in college for two reasons: 1) To increase my job opportunities out of college in the computer field, 2) to watch anime in the original Japanese!
I don't think I conveyed (sp?) my point well enough. CD/MP3 players are fantastic, in a home stereo setting, but in my opinion, not at portables.
I'm not trying to dictate anything, I'm just giving my point of view and get some feedback (positive or negative)
Granted that I wouldn't want to listen to 96Kbps audio. I'm an audiophile and that would to unacceptable, so you've got that. I also agree that solid state memory is expensive as hell. I think CD/MP3 players are fantastic, as home stereo components, but not as portables. However, you assume 8x burners are the standard, which is not the case. Gateway & Dell (I use these companies just because they are some of the most common systems I see in homes) have just recently started packageing 8x units in their boxes. Most of the systems I run across have 4x burners. Most people don't bother to upgrade for at least a 2 years (as I see it).
I do know that you can burn a Cd in less than 8 minutes. I know that I can, and I know you can, but however, I think the majority of people out there still have 4x drives (just my limited experience in tech support talking here), which takes 15 - 20 minutes.
I agree a CDr does hold more, but 10 hours?! What average person who will be taking the player on the subway, carride, bus, jogging, etc, needs 10 hours!? I can see it being usefull for heavy travelers where you can't dock a normal player and reload it with songs. And who says you have to keep them on your HDD? Just toss them on CD and archive them. Heck, why bother. 15 and 20 Gig harddrives are almost standard these days, so it really doesn't matter a whole lot. That's my take at least.
How about instead of calling me names and copping an attitude, you speak to me with a well thought out logical argument, or at the very least, don't be a pussy and post anonymously you chicken shit.
I don't doubt that they prebuffer the files, don't get me wrong, but a buddy of mine had a CD/MP3 player from Pine Technologies and it didn't seem to work very well in that respect on a car ride we had.
The Jukebox is the dream, I agree! However early reviews show that sorting through directories on it is a pain.
My biggest pet peave with MP3 CD players is that they defeat the purpose of the MP3 player concept in the first place. MP3 players (i.e. the Nomad & the Rio) are so popular, not only because you can load free music on them, but with a USB connection you can do it quickly and easily. The whole concept of doing things quickly and easily makes it so convienient! I know if I set Napster to download a file (from an artist that allows his music on the system of course!) and then I jump in the shower, by the time I get out and changed, the files is complete and I can just toss it on my Nomad in a minute flat and go! I don't have to WAIT for a damn CD to burn (new or continuing an already started session). I think it's ridiculous to have to burn a CD full of files and wait and then keep coming back and burning new sessions everytime I get 1 or 2 new songs. And besides, much like mindiscs, isn't one of the advantages of an MP3 player that the music won't skip? With a CD based MP3 player, no matter how shock resistant is says it is, it's based on a system that can't handle jostling, and skips are bound to happen. Not only that but by the time you get a ton of music burned one CD, it's simply a pain to go through all the tracks to get to where you want to be! My plan, get a regular player, get a very large flash card, and encode at 96Kbps.
Offer to network your old highschool or gradeschool! If there are teachers there who still know you, you have a foot in the door already!
I like the new News Icon! It's much nicer than the old one.
Keep a copy of the cover of every major news publication in the world, possibly a copy of the front page article.
You're not even 13 and you read /.!!! I wish I had been that smart at your age (I started at 17, and am presently 18)
Depending on just how much information you want to catalog about each CD, I recommend Discplay v4.0.4. When you insert a CD is will automagically connect to the CDDB and get the nfo on your selection. Once you have this done for every CD in your collection, you can export your collection to HTML which looks really nice and it ready to put right up on the web. It's available at hotfiles.com This does limit what information is shown. I just finished my own CD database this past weekend using a program called JFile on my Palm. I wanted custom fields like "total running time", "producer", etc. Next I have to do all my vinyl (no I'm not old, I'm a DJ), and videos!
At first, everything was nice and simple. Keychains were keychains, coffee makers were coffee makers, and radios were radios. Then everything got a digital clock put into it (see the afore mentioned items). NOW some genius is gonna start putting little AIM modules in everypiece of consumer electronics out there!
YOU'D hate to on the beltway?! I LIVE IN DC, how do you think I feel!!!
Troll me or don't, but it has to be said
two words: blue screen
Thank you.
Right now the market is dominated by only 3 OSes (Windows, MacOS, and Linux), Windows taking up the vast majority. Anybody that wants to offer a new choice and give support for it should. Thing need to be varied if we are ever to break free of the strangle hold of relying on just ONE system.
We should have seen this as the natural progression of things. First, Mr. Wizard did it to a small digital clock....and now a web server. Makes sense to me. You go Mr. Wizard!!
Now I know how a heroin addict feels!
/me stops shaking uncontrolably
MP3.com already implements a system by which it looks at the artists you download and comes up with a list of other artists you might also like. This could DEFINATELY use improvement, as some of the choices are based only on the name of the group, and not the style of music.
Now this suggestion might get me marked as a troll, but it is definately a money maker! The Adult industry is one of the biggest money makers on the internet. If you could develop a system that would monitor the sort of types of pornography or the type of girls (brunettes, blones, racial preference, etc) that people tend to look so a company could target certain pictures at different people, any site would be begging you for a copy of your software!
A few years ago AT&T started a program called "project angel" which was intended to replace POTS lines with a cellular system in the home. Check out this story at Cnet.com.
Reminds me of that episode of The Tick where Tick tried to detonate explosives on the moon to erase Chairface Chipendale's name he carved in with a lazer! You know that funny!
Yah know, I didn't even think of that. Thanks for the enlightenment!
I'd like to see this thing have the ability to connect to a TiVo or ReplayTV device and transfer programs you've recorded on the internal HD to a DVD! Problem is, this may be prevented because you could just grab movies off of HBO/Showtime/Skin-a-max/etc, and burn them, eliminating the need to buy the actual movie, save some video and audio quality concerns.
First of all, I could understand smaller bands sueing napster, because they may very well be taking money from a band that has very little if no following to begin with. However Selloutica, and Dr. Dre are QUITE established and have money to wipe their asses with thousand dollar bills! They are the last people who should be worring about losing money! Especially when the majority of the public doesn't even know what an mp3 is. CD sales have been astronomical over the past year, and yet they still complain!
As for banning users, boohoo! So now I just have to take 5 minutes to use a proxy and get a new username. They just don't get it.