My e140 has just about replaced my iPod mini in my daily pocket payload. I gave them as Winter Solstice presents and my friends have taken to them, too.
They are exceptional, though they don't have the cachet of the iPod because of their visual design. I see my girlfriend's Nano looks so scratched and beaten that I'm glad I didn't shell out for one of those.
Good point, Gattman. I forgot about Coast to Coast. I listen to it in my sleep every night. Between my iPod and Sirius, I sometimes forget the source of what's coming through my earbuds.
One thing about Coast to Coast: When you play it in your sleep it gives you some kick-ass dreams. A few nights ago they did a show (or it was a repeat) about the recordings of ghosts by a husband and wife that do recording in graveyards and things, and I had one of the most vivid nightmares of my life. I've had dreams of being chased by Mayans and extraterrestrial abduction. I do miss Art Bell's terrific voice, though. George is OK, but he's no Art Bell. I can still remember some of his shows with that Malachy Martin priest/excorcist dude and having to look under the bed "just to make sure". I don't think I slept much those nights.
Great comment. "Free Market" has become the religion of the current age. It's a misnomer as well. The people who push Free Markets the most want nothing less than markets, or anything, to be free.
Use OpenBSD? But most of my software won't run on it. You show me an open source OS that will let me run Cubase or Sonar or ProTools and I'll run out and buy it. Yeah, I've tried the emulators, and they suck.
I'm geek enough to know what knoppix is, but I've still managed to pick up some spyware. Once the internets are a locked down, fee-for-bandwidth service, spyware will be a thing of the past.. or so pervasive that it just won't matter.
Wait a minute. Computers can already be purchased for "as little as a couple of hundred dollars". Why would I give up the smorgasbord of Windows programs for a price point that's already available? And since my family already refuses to shop at WalMart, this story is a non-starter for me. I suppose if it means a few more 11-year olds can work in Southeast Asia for 15 cents an hour, it might be worth it...
The same people who, like jmorris42, say things like "if they're not doing anything wrong, they don't have anything to worry about", or "it's good for the government to keep an eye on things by checking out folks who read certain books", scream bloody murder if you suggest that anybody wanting to buy a gun should undergo a background check or a 3-day waiting period. These big, tough right-wingers don't mind if the fbi is watching everything you do, but they want to be left alone when they want to buy an AK-47 at a gun show. Somehow, these wacky conservatives started getting taken seriously after Reagan. It's time to put them back on the margins of society where they belong.
What's absurd is that words alone can be so dangerous as to require the ratings board to effectively ban a film. Just words. No dirty pictures, no horrible violence.
That the filthy-minded ratings board is so afraid of nothing more than language is the scariest part of the whole story.
I also think of a truly subversive film like "Last Tango in Paris" and how tame it is by the standards of today. Yet it would certainly get an NC-17 rating again if it came out now.
The reason most paranoid employers will treat you like a criminal is because so many of them are, in fact, criminals, and they expect everyone else is just as crooked. My brother is a hired gun corporate attorney and without giving names, he has become quite a sad man because of the widespread diddling of the law that he sees in his world. It's as if it is now considered de rigeur by our ultra competitive corporate culture to find a way to skirt laws and ethics, and I'm not only talking about the public relations industry or military contractors. Hyper-competition, short-sightedness, and our reverence for the outdated notion of "free market" is bringing a lot of pathological behaviour along with it.
I am sick to death of this outmoted model of "intellectual property". Patents and copyrights have been so badly abused as to make them practically worthless as a structure for the exchange of ideas. I don't really care if another big budget special effects movie ever gets made, and I won't skip a beat if every movie studio, record label and 90 percent of the publishing industry shuts down tomorrow. The innovators, the artists, the authors, the journalists, the thinkers, the programmers and originators will find other ways to get their product out, and to make a living from it. They're not the ones getting rich from the product of their labors anyway. Honestly, Time Warner, Sony, etc etc etc and the army of lawyers that keep the system running and keep it corrupt, can all go to hell. Thank you.
Wait a minute. When did chaining yourself to a desk and working your ass off to make investors and investment bankers rich suddenly equal "running the show"? It's still like being the "head nigger" on the plantation. Oh, you get to whip the ones lower on the food chain, and you may get a bigger portion at dinner, but make no mistake, you are still a slave. Press releases like this that try to make working yourself into a coronary bypass seem like the greatest way to live, make me suspicious.
I think I may have stumbled upon the ultimate geek book. Charles Stross writes like English is his second language. Assembler is his first.
It's been a while since a book has made me feel like I dropped some slightly speedy acid. I highly recommend this book, but be prepared to get a headache if you read it for more than 30 minutes at a time.
It's better that we fight the aliens over there than here on our soil. Oh wait... never mind.
I guess a preemptive attack against a spacefaring race is sort of out of the question. Let's just hope the first human they run into isn't named "Bush".
The FCC will leave satellite radio along until Howard Stern creates a big splash by broadcasting on Sirius. Then, we're going to see the same sort of religious-right-backsplash we've seen all along, and the FCC will respond. They seem to have it in for that dude, especially after he stopped supporting Bush.
This is going to continue until the entire media is one big Sinclair/Clear Channel/Republican ghetto.
I accidentally surfed the AM band recently in Chicago, and couldn't believe what I found. Three 50k watt Christian stations, FOUR totally conservative talk stations, and the one station that could be relied upon to stay sane, WCFL (Chicago Federation of Labor), broadasting ESPN! So there. Anybody who believes in freedom, it's time to kiss your ass, or your country, goodbye.
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My e140 has just about replaced my iPod mini in my daily pocket payload. I gave them as Winter Solstice presents and my friends have taken to them, too. They are exceptional, though they don't have the cachet of the iPod because of their visual design. I see my girlfriend's Nano looks so scratched and beaten that I'm glad I didn't shell out for one of those.
Good point, Gattman. I forgot about Coast to Coast. I listen to it in my sleep every night. Between my iPod and Sirius, I sometimes forget the source of what's coming through my earbuds. One thing about Coast to Coast: When you play it in your sleep it gives you some kick-ass dreams. A few nights ago they did a show (or it was a repeat) about the recordings of ghosts by a husband and wife that do recording in graveyards and things, and I had one of the most vivid nightmares of my life. I've had dreams of being chased by Mayans and extraterrestrial abduction. I do miss Art Bell's terrific voice, though. George is OK, but he's no Art Bell. I can still remember some of his shows with that Malachy Martin priest/excorcist dude and having to look under the bed "just to make sure". I don't think I slept much those nights.
There's nothing on radio worth listening to that I can't get elsewhere. As soon as a decent portable Sirius "walkman" comes out, it's game over.
Does anybody with all their teeth still listen to AM radio? It's all Limbaugh, Savage and other buffoons.
Those aren't bugs, they're "Republicans"
Great comment.
"Free Market" has become the religion of the current age. It's a misnomer as well. The people who push Free Markets the most want nothing less than markets, or anything, to be free.
Use OpenBSD? But most of my software won't run on it. You show me an open source OS that will let me run Cubase or Sonar or ProTools and I'll run out and buy it. Yeah, I've tried the emulators, and they suck.
To the genius who posted the "Microsoft products are toys" message: do a lot of people laugh at you?
I'm geek enough to know what knoppix is, but I've still managed to pick up some spyware. Once the internets are a locked down, fee-for-bandwidth service, spyware will be a thing of the past.. or so pervasive that it just won't matter.
You mean you're not AWARE of having problems.
Wait a minute. Computers can already be purchased for "as little as a couple of hundred dollars". Why would I give up the smorgasbord of Windows programs for a price point that's already available? And since my family already refuses to shop at WalMart, this story is a non-starter for me. I suppose if it means a few more 11-year olds can work in Southeast Asia for 15 cents an hour, it might be worth it...
The same people who, like jmorris42, say things like "if they're not doing anything wrong, they don't have anything to worry about", or "it's good for the government to keep an eye on things by checking out folks who read certain books", scream bloody murder if you suggest that anybody wanting to buy a gun should undergo a background check or a 3-day waiting period. These big, tough right-wingers don't mind if the fbi is watching everything you do, but they want to be left alone when they want to buy an AK-47 at a gun show.
Somehow, these wacky conservatives started getting taken seriously after Reagan. It's time to put them back on the margins of society where they belong.
What's absurd is that words alone can be so dangerous as to require the ratings board to effectively ban a film. Just words. No dirty pictures, no horrible violence. That the filthy-minded ratings board is so afraid of nothing more than language is the scariest part of the whole story. I also think of a truly subversive film like "Last Tango in Paris" and how tame it is by the standards of today. Yet it would certainly get an NC-17 rating again if it came out now.
The reason most paranoid employers will treat you like a criminal is because so many of them are, in fact, criminals, and they expect everyone else is just as crooked. My brother is a hired gun corporate attorney and without giving names, he has become quite a sad man because of the widespread diddling of the law that he sees in his world. It's as if it is now considered de rigeur by our ultra competitive corporate culture to find a way to skirt laws and ethics, and I'm not only talking about the public relations industry or military contractors.
Hyper-competition, short-sightedness, and our reverence for the outdated notion of "free market" is bringing a lot of pathological behaviour along with it.
I am sick to death of this outmoted model of "intellectual property".
Patents and copyrights have been so badly abused as to make them practically worthless as a structure for the exchange of ideas.
I don't really care if another big budget special effects movie ever gets made, and I won't skip a beat if every movie studio, record label and 90 percent of the publishing industry shuts down tomorrow.
The innovators, the artists, the authors, the journalists, the thinkers, the programmers and originators will find other ways to get their product out, and to make a living from it. They're not the ones getting rich from the product of their labors anyway.
Honestly, Time Warner, Sony, etc etc etc and the army of lawyers that keep the system running and keep it corrupt, can all go to hell.
Thank you.
Wait a minute. When did chaining yourself to a desk and working your ass off to make investors and investment bankers rich suddenly equal "running the show"?
It's still like being the "head nigger" on the plantation. Oh, you get to whip the ones lower on the food chain, and you may get a bigger portion at dinner, but make no mistake, you are still a slave.
Press releases like this that try to make working yourself into a coronary bypass seem like the greatest way to live, make me suspicious.
I think I may have stumbled upon the ultimate geek book. Charles Stross writes like English is his second language. Assembler is his first. It's been a while since a book has made me feel like I dropped some slightly speedy acid. I highly recommend this book, but be prepared to get a headache if you read it for more than 30 minutes at a time.
It's better that we fight the aliens over there than here on our soil. Oh wait... never mind. I guess a preemptive attack against a spacefaring race is sort of out of the question. Let's just hope the first human they run into isn't named "Bush".
The FCC will leave satellite radio along until Howard Stern creates a big splash by broadcasting on Sirius. Then, we're going to see the same sort of religious-right-backsplash we've seen all along, and the FCC will respond. They seem to have it in for that dude, especially after he stopped supporting Bush. This is going to continue until the entire media is one big Sinclair/Clear Channel/Republican ghetto. I accidentally surfed the AM band recently in Chicago, and couldn't believe what I found. Three 50k watt Christian stations, FOUR totally conservative talk stations, and the one station that could be relied upon to stay sane, WCFL (Chicago Federation of Labor), broadasting ESPN! So there. Anybody who believes in freedom, it's time to kiss your ass, or your country, goodbye.