I am sure that they could be released in such a way that they would have a hard time tracing it back to you. As well, if 10,037 people are willing to settle out of court with the RIAA, why not with me?
1) Start a band (Alternatively: illegally download some techno making software)
2) Release some songs on p2p networks
3) Wait for it...
4) Wait for it...
5) Sue 10,037 people for a profit. ("...the RIAA's probably collected over $30 million from individual file sharers.")
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a flash-based hard drive have quite a bit (~2x) slower write and read times? Perhaps if it was built into the architecture to be 'closer' to the processer such as RAM is.
This seems like they are just trying to turn RAM into a permanent storage device.
I really don't see any advantages to this as it is. Even the prices would be higher.
Suffice it to say, this ain't your daddy's Excel book.
You know what, it's generalizations like this that make me sick. My father is a professional Excel developer, and he would be VERY disgusted to hear this comment.
I don't think that deciding where the sun is located is Microsoft's biggest problem. Oh no. Let's hope that this doesn't inspire some new useless app that creates shadows on your computer based on your geographic location, the time, date, and angle of your monitor to create realistic input based shadows.
This seems to be a short-term solution to a problem that needs to be solved in the long-term.
Wouldn't it be more effective to simply improve the roads on which we drive, and perhaps shoot some city planners (with non-lethal weapons of course).
I remember watching a show on discovery channel about a massive city that they are building within a city in Japan or China or something. It fixes the problem of traffic by allowing people to live where they work. A bit communist, but whatever.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the non-lethal weapons would be loaded with lethal ammunition.
The quote you have chosen from my comment was meant as a sarcastic reason to why the shuffle should not be included. That is why I followed it with my [i]actual[/i] reasoning to why the shuffle was not included.
The fact of the matter is, they are reviewing devices with the primary purpose of being used as a thumb drive. If they were to include music players as well, they would have had to test dozens of other flash-based mp3 players, as they all generally can be used as thumb drives.
Perhaps you could make your comments constructive in emailing the article author to review flash-based mp3 players with the same benchmarks.
There is already enough apple in that article. They test them on Macs for god's sake. Oh, yes, and the article is about flash drives, not MP3 players, as the other response stated.
Well, you have a decent point there. Ours in Canada is about $0.30 / litre. Calculating off of what the original poster said of $0.30 / gallon in taxes ($0.40 CAD approx). That would be about $0.10 / litre. That would make the raw cost in USA about $0.50 (CAD) / litre, and ours is $0.70 / litre.
To me, that $0.20 difference is too much to ignore.
*scared of a negative offtopic mod*
Simply due to the fact that prices can be $0.60 a litre (CAD) over the border in USA, when they are $1.05 (CAD) right here in Canada. Surely that much of our oil can be coming from different sources than USA.
This has got to be a wake-up call to major corporations. This goes to show that price-fixing will not be tolerated in the tech industry. Now perhaps we could get this to extend to other industries such as DVD's/CD's, and maybe even OIL!
Exactly what I thought when I saw this. Does anybody think that this would be better suited as a firefox extension, so that search history could be stored locally. I mean, this is basically already done with standard history, but the advancement is more in the calendar feature.
Now will they use the same calculation as hard drive manufacturers in that 1,000,000,000 bytes = 1GB? Then you're only getting 930GB on what should be a TB disk. GARBAGE!!!!
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NAFTA! Ha! Good luck with that one. See: Softwood Lumber dispute, Mad Cow dispute... Both illegal under NAFTA.
I am sure that they could be released in such a way that they would have a hard time tracing it back to you. As well, if 10,037 people are willing to settle out of court with the RIAA, why not with me?
Task?
Generally, something that you profit from isn't called a task. More like an event.
Maybe they could pool all of their lawsuits into one day, and we could declare it an international holiday!
Can they do this? I thought that only criminal cases can go to jury.
1) Start a band (Alternatively: illegally download some techno making software)
2) Release some songs on p2p networks
3) Wait for it...
4) Wait for it...
5) Sue 10,037 people for a profit. ("...the RIAA's probably collected over $30 million from individual file sharers.")
Absolutely perfect. I see no flaws.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a flash-based hard drive have quite a bit (~2x) slower write and read times? Perhaps if it was built into the architecture to be 'closer' to the processer such as RAM is.
This seems like they are just trying to turn RAM into a permanent storage device.
I really don't see any advantages to this as it is. Even the prices would be higher.
x86 has been around how long? 15+ years? And they just begin discussing this now?
Land of the free?
This just in: Longhorn has been cancelled. SP3 for WinXP is on its way!
About 40,000.
Finally a use for those 40,000 MP3s on my iPod! Listening- HA! You are SO 2004.
Well if not for music piracy, will they finally press charges against CadillacMan for his pimping behaviour?
Suffice it to say, this ain't your daddy's Excel book. You know what, it's generalizations like this that make me sick. My father is a professional Excel developer, and he would be VERY disgusted to hear this comment.
I don't think that deciding where the sun is located is Microsoft's biggest problem. Oh no. Let's hope that this doesn't inspire some new useless app that creates shadows on your computer based on your geographic location, the time, date, and angle of your monitor to create realistic input based shadows.
ACK!
I'm really sorry dude. I thought you didn't know what print was :/
Just flaunting my leet ski11z. Keep it uber.
Should I... uh... stop downloading Sahara, or what?
This seems to be a short-term solution to a problem that needs to be solved in the long-term.
Wouldn't it be more effective to simply improve the roads on which we drive, and perhaps shoot some city planners (with non-lethal weapons of course).
I remember watching a show on discovery channel about a massive city that they are building within a city in Japan or China or something. It fixes the problem of traffic by allowing people to live where they work. A bit communist, but whatever.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the non-lethal weapons would be loaded with lethal ammunition.
The quote you have chosen from my comment was meant as a sarcastic reason to why the shuffle should not be included. That is why I followed it with my [i]actual[/i] reasoning to why the shuffle was not included.
The fact of the matter is, they are reviewing devices with the primary purpose of being used as a thumb drive. If they were to include music players as well, they would have had to test dozens of other flash-based mp3 players, as they all generally can be used as thumb drives.
Perhaps you could make your comments constructive in emailing the article author to review flash-based mp3 players with the same benchmarks.
There is already enough apple in that article. They test them on Macs for god's sake. Oh, yes, and the article is about flash drives, not MP3 players, as the other response stated.
Looks like it can be used for purposes other than listening to music too. *ahem*
I wonder if there is a reason that this is not taking place in Canada or other countries. Is it just not being reported? That scares me.
Well, you have a decent point there. Ours in Canada is about $0.30 / litre. Calculating off of what the original poster said of $0.30 / gallon in taxes ($0.40 CAD approx). That would be about $0.10 / litre. That would make the raw cost in USA about $0.50 (CAD) / litre, and ours is $0.70 / litre.
To me, that $0.20 difference is too much to ignore.
*scared of a negative offtopic mod* Simply due to the fact that prices can be $0.60 a litre (CAD) over the border in USA, when they are $1.05 (CAD) right here in Canada. Surely that much of our oil can be coming from different sources than USA.
This has got to be a wake-up call to major corporations. This goes to show that price-fixing will not be tolerated in the tech industry. Now perhaps we could get this to extend to other industries such as DVD's/CD's, and maybe even OIL!
Okay, okay, I admit it, I'm drunk.
Exactly what I thought when I saw this. Does anybody think that this would be better suited as a firefox extension, so that search history could be stored locally. I mean, this is basically already done with standard history, but the advancement is more in the calendar feature.
Now will they use the same calculation as hard drive manufacturers in that 1,000,000,000 bytes = 1GB? Then you're only getting 930GB on what should be a TB disk. GARBAGE!!!!