Did anyone else get the feeling they were comparing apples to oranges?
I thought the key drive section was well done, but really shouldn't this have been 2 articles? One comparing flash drives and one comparing portable hard drives?
And speaking of hard drives, of course you are going to look at Seagate, but if you are doing a comparison guide wouldn't you look at a couple of other brands too? This section seemed more like an infomercial than an actual objective comparison.
We should be thanking these pirates. They may have hinder the success of episode III. But their presence can help to lower global warming, which is a far more important issue*.
The dampeners on the Stargate have nothing to do with the stability of the wormhole. They are there to prevent the seismic tremors that the gate creates when opening.
Has anyone ever noticed that this is an Earth only problem? No other planet's gate seems to have that issue, just the Earth gates.
"It sounds like a good thing, but the trouble is someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it."
And if the city of San Francisco planned, implemented and maintained such a system, eventually companies like Verizon might have to actually plan, implement and maintain their systems.
"Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?" he said. "The customer has come to expect so much. They want it to work in the elevator; they want it to work in the basement."
Uh, yeah we would. What's wrong with that? Isn't the ultimate purpose of cell phones to replace home land-line phones? Why would I, as a consumer, want to pay for 2 phones? And isn't another major concept behind cell phones emergency calling? I know most people think of that as car trouble in the middle of nowhere, but shouldn't it also include elevators or my living room? I assume that if my house is in that little beige blob, then I'm going to have service there. Or at the very least on my front step. If my house is in Verizon's little coverage blob and doesn't receive service, isn't that called false advertising?
It's days like this that make me glad I'm an AT&T Wireless customer.
That's an excellent point. Granted a large number of homes get MTV, but it still is a "closed door" situation. Couldn't they have put it on the UPN network so everyone could see it?:)
And if you are going to put it on a cable station, wouldn't you give the event to the schmucks over at G4 TV?
What are these "Music Videos" of which you speak? I think they play some of those from 2am-5am. Personally I miss the days of Beavis and Butthead.
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I've been buying CDs for the past 15 years or so. So as you might imagine just adding those to my library takes a good chunk of space on my iPod.
Add into that the few albums I've purchased via iTunes, plus the 3-4 free songs per week on iTunes and the Pepsi/Apple song giveaways. What does it add up to? 1GB left on a 40GB iPod.
My point is that most of us have already spent a lot of money on CDs and digital music.
Now can someone explain to me why I would want to rent music each month? The music I buy is the music I like and want to listen to in the future. When I purchase music, I can listen to it whenever I want. Now if I'm renting music, how do I know some RIAA executive won't decide to back out on a Napster deal and I won't be able to listen to the music I've rented?
The only complaints I have about the iTunes Music Store are partial albums and full album only tracks. How do you not put the full album up and why are you missing random tracks in the middle? And when the group is a one hit wonder, why make that track a full album only purchase? I knwo to sell the album. But how much money are they losing on that deal from people who aren't going to buy the full album but would but the one track?
But seriously am I the only one who thinks maybe we should question the contracts between Napster and the RIAA?
Hey at least this time they almost got the lighting correct.
All of the shadows point the same way, except the photographer/camera doesn't cast a shadow.
Did Susan Richards take the photo or what?
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RTFA? You must be new to /. Posting at no point requires reading the article. After all, why would anyone want to post an informed opinion?
Besides, I'm fairly certain the OP was meant as a joke.
Did anyone else get the feeling they were comparing apples to oranges?
I thought the key drive section was well done, but really shouldn't this have been 2 articles? One comparing flash drives and one comparing portable hard drives?
And speaking of hard drives, of course you are going to look at Seagate, but if you are doing a comparison guide wouldn't you look at a couple of other brands too? This section seemed more like an infomercial than an actual objective comparison.
We should be thanking these pirates. They may have hinder the success of episode III. But their presence can help to lower global warming, which is a far more important issue*.
* see graph http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.jpg
Suppose that the next time man set foot on the moon is in the year 2018.
Does it bother anyone else that that would mean that it took us 46 years to make it back to the moon?
Doesn't that seem like a horribly long time considering all of the technical advances of the past 2 decades?
I would think private industry will reach the moon before NASA gets there again.
What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.
The dampeners on the Stargate have nothing to do with the stability of the wormhole. They are there to prevent the seismic tremors that the gate creates when opening.
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Has anyone ever noticed that this is an Earth only problem? No other planet's gate seems to have that issue, just the Earth gates.
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Hello? Am I the only one who has seen Stargate: SG-1?
Self replicating robots. Bad idea. Bad.
When they eliminate the BS that is region coding, then I'll start to get excited and believe they are headed in the right direction.
"It sounds like a good thing, but the trouble is someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it."
And if the city of San Francisco planned, implemented and maintained such a system, eventually companies like Verizon might have to actually plan, implement and maintain their systems.
"Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?" he said. "The customer has come to expect so much. They want it to work in the elevator; they want it to work in the basement."
Uh, yeah we would. What's wrong with that? Isn't the ultimate purpose of cell phones to replace home land-line phones? Why would I, as a consumer, want to pay for 2 phones? And isn't another major concept behind cell phones emergency calling? I know most people think of that as car trouble in the middle of nowhere, but shouldn't it also include elevators or my living room? I assume that if my house is in that little beige blob, then I'm going to have service there. Or at the very least on my front step. If my house is in Verizon's little coverage blob and doesn't receive service, isn't that called false advertising?
It's days like this that make me glad I'm an AT&T Wireless customer.
That's an excellent point. Granted a large number of homes get MTV, but it still is a "closed door" situation. Couldn't they have put it on the UPN network so everyone could see it? :)
And if you are going to put it on a cable station, wouldn't you give the event to the schmucks over at G4 TV?
What are these "Music Videos" of which you speak? I think they play some of those from 2am-5am. Personally I miss the days of Beavis and Butthead.
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I've been buying CDs for the past 15 years or so. So as you might imagine just adding those to my library takes a good chunk of space on my iPod.
Add into that the few albums I've purchased via iTunes, plus the 3-4 free songs per week on iTunes and the Pepsi/Apple song giveaways. What does it add up to? 1GB left on a 40GB iPod.
My point is that most of us have already spent a lot of money on CDs and digital music.
Now can someone explain to me why I would want to rent music each month? The music I buy is the music I like and want to listen to in the future. When I purchase music, I can listen to it whenever I want. Now if I'm renting music, how do I know some RIAA executive won't decide to back out on a Napster deal and I won't be able to listen to the music I've rented?
The only complaints I have about the iTunes Music Store are partial albums and full album only tracks. How do you not put the full album up and why are you missing random tracks in the middle? And when the group is a one hit wonder, why make that track a full album only purchase? I knwo to sell the album. But how much money are they losing on that deal from people who aren't going to buy the full album but would but the one track?
But seriously am I the only one who thinks maybe we should question the contracts between Napster and the RIAA?
You are assuming we don't already own Macs.
:)
Although I will admit my music library is currently being stored on my Gateway and my iPod is Windows formatted.
But that may change when my Mac Mini ships on Wednesday.
Hey at least this time they almost got the lighting correct. All of the shadows point the same way, except the photographer/camera doesn't cast a shadow. Did Susan Richards take the photo or what?