HD's have the most storage but consume a lot of elec and are more vulnerable. They do not skip. MS most be of its rocker. It is CD's that skip.
although HDs dont skip, i wouldn't recommend one if you plan to use it for jogging or anything that bounces it up and down like crazy. i had an 3g ipod and whenever i run and it bounces in my pocket, ipod's safety feature is enabled and it autoshuts off. it's a good safety feature, but you don't want to stop in the middle of jogging every 2 mins to restart your ipod or hd-based mp3 player.
i personally find portability as one of the highest priorities when deciding on an mp3 player. just like the same reason I chose the IBM X31 as my laptop, I like devices I'm carrying around to be light and easy to use.
Weighing a ton or won't fit nicely in my pocket is not a valid excuse for having tons of features.
It's a great idea but probably already patented. I mean I've always wished for electric shocks from my alarm clock (on those days that matter such as my finals), but given such a common idea, I doubt that no one's tried yet or maybe because it's already patented and the patent owner is asking for a hefty price for it.
DIAL MY JUKEBOX. One way would be for U.S. carriers to follow the model that has been established in Europe. There, carriers such as Vodafone (VOD ), Orange, and O2 have set up their own digital-music stores, letting customers download music tracks over the cellular network to their phones. Carriers get a slice of the $2.80 customers pay per song. Wireless players also could offer customers subscription services, with access to thousands of songs for a flat monthly fee of $15 or $20.
I was just thinking, how often have you had times when you're trying to remember a song or talk about a song among friends and told them you've gotta listen to this. Wouldn't it just be great that you can online to a music store, browse and download it to listen or play it for your friends?
Oh god. I can't believe this guy is still around. I just recently saw a commercial with him in it. Supposedly he's making 2 movies in Hong Kong and will be returning to UC Berkeley next year.
Take a word with negative connotations, assign it to something you don't like even if not appropriate, then watch as everyone begins to associate the word and the thing.
another keyword to point out is the word "users". By users, do they mean people who received spam, anyone who uses the internet, anyone that uses the computer, or everyone alive? (although the 1st 2 are sorta the same since if you use the internet, you most likely have an email account and by having an email account, it's almost inevitable to not receive spam)
if it's 1 in 10 people that have received spam and purchased from them, it's quite believable. spams have quite a few different levels. if you received a newsletter from some place you purchased before, is that considered spam? i think so since i didn't tell them to email me stuff. i personally havent purchased anything from spam, but i can see how 1 in 10 people could've.
i agree they should've removed the old listing in Add/Remove Programs, but they've gone a long way since pheonix 0.6 and firebird 0.8 where you extracted the program from a zip file into a random directory. one solution for novice to advance users is by removing it from your registry.
Start->Run->regedit
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall they list all of your installed programs. I've verified if you try to uninstall a previuos version of firefox, it'll remove the current version anyway, so there's really no need leave those listings around.
There's probably programs around that makes this list look prettier, but this is how i usually remove old programs from the list which were "manually" removed or can't be removed through uninstall purposes.
i wonder if it's using the same technology as Satellite TVs where theaters each get a card and which decodes the satellite transmission. Since it's only a receiver, there's no way to detect who else might be using the same card to receive it. guess it's time to get some connections with Irish theaters and start learning Irish.
all they need is a hosts file that they can allow their customers to download and map all those urls to 127.0.0.1 (which is localhost) and replace the current one located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
of course this solution only works for windows, but i'm pretty sure a similar solution is available for macs and linux systems.
one cool thing about png2ico is it takes in multiple images and displays the best one. so i can put a 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128, etc and the program displaying the icon will automatically select the best size.
As for the price difference, the laptops are very competitively priced FOR THE QUALITY OF WHAT YOU GET. Sure, there is no cheap piece-of-crap-but-it-works Apple laptop equivalent to the Office Depot Compaq special you read about in slickdeals, but we're talking internal slot-loading dvd/cdrw or dvd burners in a 12" laptop. Find me a reasonably priced Dell or Sony with those specs. And there's no comment on the Mac mini, its price competition is obvious enough.
with macs, it's extremely hard to find a deal, if any at all. there's the 10% student discount, xx% employee discounts, or the seldom deals @ amazon.com or other internet stores. however, even with these discounts, we're paying at least a 30% premium against competitors of similar specs. plus with apple controlling the pricing, it's hard for them to be competitive against other brands. apple isn't allowing customers to feel that they've gotten a really good deal which is needed some of the time in my opinion.
Just imagine if Apple computers only costed 10% more than their competitors, that 5% might just sky rocket up to 15%.
You can always opt for IMAP. But if you do, might as well do webmal if your email supports it. The most important part I find when having a portable email system is the contact list. With Yahoo! or GMail, my contact list is stored. However, it's synched to my contact list in Outlook. Is there any easy way to have a contact list stored on a server and have these apps all synchronize w/ it directly?
Your analysis is great! It reminded me of The Shawshank Redemption, although it's fictional.
***BEGIN SPOILER SPACE***
Andy Dufresne was convicted for murder because they found a motive and many other evidence that points out the fact that he had a similar gun and was near the location during the murder. However, for those that have watched the movie, he had a valid reason for everything, but it just wasn't as believable as him killing his own wife. After years in jail, the real truth comes out, but it's too late now.
***END SPOILER SPACE***
I really like your analysis on the fact that the law and order is merely a way for the government to give us a sense of security. of course, we hope that the people convicted are truly guilty for what they're convicted for, but with many people claiming not guilty, it becomes really hard to tell. Then there's the cases where we know the defendant is definitely guilty, but we just don't have enough evidence and have to let him walk.
But I'm curious. how do you suppose the justice system can improve. Judge by peers I learnt was an Scandinavian idea where the peers (well, only men back then) were the ones who decided if you were guilty or not and you had a chance to defend in front of everyone once a year. and during this time, all the cases collected year long will be decided. However, if the person doesn't like the decision, he's able to choose to fight and all his friends/relatives will fight the plantiff's friends/relatives and the winner of course gets to decide on the decisoin. The coolest part about their laws was the "eye for an eye". if you killed someone in family X, the people from X are legally allowed to kill someone from your family.
I sidetracked there for a moment, but jury system is good, but how does one make it better without impeding on the people's freedom and anonymity.
How bout the blockage of sound?
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I think the biggest disappointment of all would be the actual sound quality. these look like decent headphones, but the iPod Shuffle seems to be block almost half of the speakers for one of the ears. this personally will distort the audio and unbalance one of the ears.
there's been a lot of discussion on which pricing plan is better. i've actually done something thinking about this.
let's just assume that both pricing plans stay the same till we die. there's no point in saying napster's monthly fee will increase since itunes pricing per song would most likely increase also. so sticking with the same pricing structure, $15/month on Napster gives me unlimited songs and with that $15 @ iTunes, I can purchase 15 songs per month.
napster is a better structure for those who are interested in more than 15 new songs that come out each month. i'm not saying those who purchase 15 songs from iTunes, but merely interested. i personally only purchase songs which i really like. if a song sounds good, but not that good, i'd most likely not purchase it. however, with the napster structure, i can listen to songs that are awesome or just good.
same assumption as someone else (average/. reader = 20years old). average life span = 80 years old. so we have a good 60 years left. 60yrs * 12mo/yr * 15songs/mo = 10800 songs (just a bit more than enough to fill up your ipod). however, with $15/month @ napster, you can fill up your mp3 player after year 1 (5gb/month). instead of by the 60th year. of course, i'm still assuming that by that time we're still using the same mp3 players and same schema for listening to music which i highly doubt, but lets assume that for now.
i actually really like the napster plan, the more i think about it. i personally do not purchase $15 worth of itunes music/month @ the itunes store, but with the same idea of paying $20 for buffet and $10 for a decent meal, i get a lot more for the $20 buffet, than the $10 meal.
however, as i said, it depends on the user. by owning your songs, i suppose your children will "inherit" them making them legal owners of your music. with napster, your children will have to continue to pay the subscription fee in order to keep that music.
but coming back to reality. with the everchanging technology and the possibility of napster going under again (which would render all your music unusable after a month), it's a very big risk to use napster. if only napster was backed by a giant, i wouldn't be that scare.
Currently Amazon makes personalised suggestions to customers based on previous purchases by that customer, previous web pages browsed and comparisons between customers who have bought similar products.
So when it says, since the purchase of the Linksys 54G Wireless Router, your recommendation is this lovely 4 slot extra-wide toaster, it wasn't being sarcastic, but was actually serious?
I get the craziest recommendations some times, including tons of jewelry and kitchen appliances which I never even visit on the Amazon store. If they screw easy recommendations like that up, I wonder how messed up they'll be guessing my age, sex, birthday, etc...
The problem with security is there is no magic bullet, no perfect solution. There is no way that you can be 100% certian that a person is who they claim to be.
that is so true. thinking back to 007 movies, even if you have systems that require fingerprint, eye scan, or even dna verification, 007 always manages to be able to bypass those securities.
the point is it's a lot harder to acquire all the necessary info (or in this case body parts) to infiltrate the system, making the security of the system overall better.
If I recalled correctly, nVidia or ATI fiddled with benchmarks by disabling certain features which take up a lot of processing power when they detected 3dmark or other benchmarking utilities.
Technically AMD didn't falsify their benchmarks by disabling certain features. They just chose a easier opponent to fight with. (sorta like when one picks a fight with someone that looks way weaker than you to guarantee you a win).
What I find weird benchmarks usually don't just give out percentages, but actual figures. Like # of flops per second, etc. I'm not sure if any other graphs were provided, but from the links that were in the opening topic, they were all percentages. If the benchmark had listed actual results, it would've been easier to do actual comparisons with other cpus which were not benchmarked against.
Saying all that, I don't believe AMD falsified any information (unlike nVidia or ATI). What they did was purely comparing a weaker opponent. Sorta like taking the ATI Radeon 9800 and comparing it to the nVidia Geforce MX440. But comparisons like that do exist when you do a wide range of benchmarking. That's why I always make sure I know what the heck is being benchmarked or else, it'd be just throwing #s at me. It's nice that newer benchmarks tell you if higher is better or if lower is better. Sometimes it's quite easy to get confused on if something w/ a higher # is better or not.
How exactly do you use bluetooth to align with a target's bluetooth tag? Bluetooth signals go out in all directions, not like infrared which needs a direct line of sight. I guess one way would be to find the direction with the strongest signal or only send out bluetooth signals in one direction...
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thanks! the renaming trick didnt work for me.
HD's have the most storage but consume a lot of elec and are more vulnerable. They do not skip. MS most be of its rocker. It is CD's that skip.
although HDs dont skip, i wouldn't recommend one if you plan to use it for jogging or anything that bounces it up and down like crazy. i had an 3g ipod and whenever i run and it bounces in my pocket, ipod's safety feature is enabled and it autoshuts off. it's a good safety feature, but you don't want to stop in the middle of jogging every 2 mins to restart your ipod or hd-based mp3 player.
i personally find portability as one of the highest priorities when deciding on an mp3 player. just like the same reason I chose the IBM X31 as my laptop, I like devices I'm carrying around to be light and easy to use.
Weighing a ton or won't fit nicely in my pocket is not a valid excuse for having tons of features.
It's a great idea but probably already patented. I mean I've always wished for electric shocks from my alarm clock (on those days that matter such as my finals), but given such a common idea, I doubt that no one's tried yet or maybe because it's already patented and the patent owner is asking for a hefty price for it.
DIAL MY JUKEBOX. One way would be for U.S. carriers to follow the model that has been established in Europe. There, carriers such as Vodafone (VOD ), Orange, and O2 have set up their own digital-music stores, letting customers download music tracks over the cellular network to their phones. Carriers get a slice of the $2.80 customers pay per song. Wireless players also could offer customers subscription services, with access to thousands of songs for a flat monthly fee of $15 or $20. I was just thinking, how often have you had times when you're trying to remember a song or talk about a song among friends and told them you've gotta listen to this. Wouldn't it just be great that you can online to a music store, browse and download it to listen or play it for your friends?
Oh god. I can't believe this guy is still around. I just recently saw a commercial with him in it. Supposedly he's making 2 movies in Hong Kong and will be returning to UC Berkeley next year.
Take a word with negative connotations, assign it to something you don't like even if not appropriate, then watch as everyone begins to associate the word and the thing.
in psychology, this is known as conditioning. Wikipedia has a good article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioning
another keyword to point out is the word "users". By users, do they mean people who received spam, anyone who uses the internet, anyone that uses the computer, or everyone alive? (although the 1st 2 are sorta the same since if you use the internet, you most likely have an email account and by having an email account, it's almost inevitable to not receive spam)
if it's 1 in 10 people that have received spam and purchased from them, it's quite believable. spams have quite a few different levels. if you received a newsletter from some place you purchased before, is that considered spam? i think so since i didn't tell them to email me stuff. i personally havent purchased anything from spam, but i can see how 1 in 10 people could've.
i agree they should've removed the old listing in Add/Remove Programs, but they've gone a long way since pheonix 0.6 and firebird 0.8 where you extracted the program from a zip file into a random directory. one solution for novice to advance users is by removing it from your registry.
r entVersion\Uninstall they list all of your installed programs. I've verified if you try to uninstall a previuos version of firefox, it'll remove the current version anyway, so there's really no need leave those listings around.
Start->Run->regedit
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
There's probably programs around that makes this list look prettier, but this is how i usually remove old programs from the list which were "manually" removed or can't be removed through uninstall purposes.
haha. wrote that @ 4 or 5am that night. was pretty sleepy. thanks for pointing it out though.
i wonder if it's using the same technology as Satellite TVs where theaters each get a card and which decodes the satellite transmission. Since it's only a receiver, there's no way to detect who else might be using the same card to receive it. guess it's time to get some connections with Irish theaters and start learning Irish.
all they need is a hosts file that they can allow their customers to download and map all those urls to 127.0.0.1 (which is localhost) and replace the current one located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
of course this solution only works for windows, but i'm pretty sure a similar solution is available for macs and linux systems.
i was going to post this too!
one cool thing about png2ico is it takes in multiple images and displays the best one. so i can put a 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128, etc and the program displaying the icon will automatically select the best size.
As for the price difference, the laptops are very competitively priced FOR THE QUALITY OF WHAT YOU GET. Sure, there is no cheap piece-of-crap-but-it-works Apple laptop equivalent to the Office Depot Compaq special you read about in slickdeals, but we're talking internal slot-loading dvd/cdrw or dvd burners in a 12" laptop. Find me a reasonably priced Dell or Sony with those specs. And there's no comment on the Mac mini, its price competition is obvious enough.
with macs, it's extremely hard to find a deal, if any at all. there's the 10% student discount, xx% employee discounts, or the seldom deals @ amazon.com or other internet stores. however, even with these discounts, we're paying at least a 30% premium against competitors of similar specs. plus with apple controlling the pricing, it's hard for them to be competitive against other brands. apple isn't allowing customers to feel that they've gotten a really good deal which is needed some of the time in my opinion.
Just imagine if Apple computers only costed 10% more than their competitors, that 5% might just sky rocket up to 15%.
You can always opt for IMAP. But if you do, might as well do webmal if your email supports it. The most important part I find when having a portable email system is the contact list. With Yahoo! or GMail, my contact list is stored. However, it's synched to my contact list in Outlook. Is there any easy way to have a contact list stored on a server and have these apps all synchronize w/ it directly?
Your analysis is great! It reminded me of The Shawshank Redemption, although it's fictional.
***BEGIN SPOILER SPACE***
Andy Dufresne was convicted for murder because they found a motive and many other evidence that points out the fact that he had a similar gun and was near the location during the murder. However, for those that have watched the movie, he had a valid reason for everything, but it just wasn't as believable as him killing his own wife. After years in jail, the real truth comes out, but it's too late now.
***END SPOILER SPACE***
I really like your analysis on the fact that the law and order is merely a way for the government to give us a sense of security. of course, we hope that the people convicted are truly guilty for what they're convicted for, but with many people claiming not guilty, it becomes really hard to tell. Then there's the cases where we know the defendant is definitely guilty, but we just don't have enough evidence and have to let him walk.
But I'm curious. how do you suppose the justice system can improve. Judge by peers I learnt was an Scandinavian idea where the peers (well, only men back then) were the ones who decided if you were guilty or not and you had a chance to defend in front of everyone once a year. and during this time, all the cases collected year long will be decided. However, if the person doesn't like the decision, he's able to choose to fight and all his friends/relatives will fight the plantiff's friends/relatives and the winner of course gets to decide on the decisoin. The coolest part about their laws was the "eye for an eye". if you killed someone in family X, the people from X are legally allowed to kill someone from your family.
I sidetracked there for a moment, but jury system is good, but how does one make it better without impeding on the people's freedom and anonymity.
I think the biggest disappointment of all would be the actual sound quality. these look like decent headphones, but the iPod Shuffle seems to be block almost half of the speakers for one of the ears. this personally will distort the audio and unbalance one of the ears.
there's been a lot of discussion on which pricing plan is better. i've actually done something thinking about this.
/. reader = 20years old). average life span = 80 years old. so we have a good 60 years left. 60yrs * 12mo/yr * 15songs/mo = 10800 songs (just a bit more than enough to fill up your ipod). however, with $15/month @ napster, you can fill up your mp3 player after year 1 (5gb/month). instead of by the 60th year. of course, i'm still assuming that by that time we're still using the same mp3 players and same schema for listening to music which i highly doubt, but lets assume that for now.
let's just assume that both pricing plans stay the same till we die. there's no point in saying napster's monthly fee will increase since itunes pricing per song would most likely increase also. so sticking with the same pricing structure, $15/month on Napster gives me unlimited songs and with that $15 @ iTunes, I can purchase 15 songs per month.
napster is a better structure for those who are interested in more than 15 new songs that come out each month. i'm not saying those who purchase 15 songs from iTunes, but merely interested. i personally only purchase songs which i really like. if a song sounds good, but not that good, i'd most likely not purchase it. however, with the napster structure, i can listen to songs that are awesome or just good.
same assumption as someone else (average
i actually really like the napster plan, the more i think about it. i personally do not purchase $15 worth of itunes music/month @ the itunes store, but with the same idea of paying $20 for buffet and $10 for a decent meal, i get a lot more for the $20 buffet, than the $10 meal.
however, as i said, it depends on the user. by owning your songs, i suppose your children will "inherit" them making them legal owners of your music. with napster, your children will have to continue to pay the subscription fee in order to keep that music.
but coming back to reality. with the everchanging technology and the possibility of napster going under again (which would render all your music unusable after a month), it's a very big risk to use napster. if only napster was backed by a giant, i wouldn't be that scare.
That's only if you consider XP, XP SP1, XP SP2 to be one release. If you look at the version #s for these 3 releases, they're actually different.
Currently Amazon makes personalised suggestions to customers based on previous purchases by that customer, previous web pages browsed and comparisons between customers who have bought similar products.
So when it says, since the purchase of the Linksys 54G Wireless Router, your recommendation is this lovely 4 slot extra-wide toaster, it wasn't being sarcastic, but was actually serious?
I get the craziest recommendations some times, including tons of jewelry and kitchen appliances which I never even visit on the Amazon store. If they screw easy recommendations like that up, I wonder how messed up they'll be guessing my age, sex, birthday, etc...
The problem with security is there is no magic bullet, no perfect solution. There is no way that you can be 100% certian that a person is who they claim to be.
that is so true. thinking back to 007 movies, even if you have systems that require fingerprint, eye scan, or even dna verification, 007 always manages to be able to bypass those securities.
the point is it's a lot harder to acquire all the necessary info (or in this case body parts) to infiltrate the system, making the security of the system overall better.
If I recalled correctly, nVidia or ATI fiddled with benchmarks by disabling certain features which take up a lot of processing power when they detected 3dmark or other benchmarking utilities.
Technically AMD didn't falsify their benchmarks by disabling certain features. They just chose a easier opponent to fight with. (sorta like when one picks a fight with someone that looks way weaker than you to guarantee you a win).
What I find weird benchmarks usually don't just give out percentages, but actual figures. Like # of flops per second, etc. I'm not sure if any other graphs were provided, but from the links that were in the opening topic, they were all percentages. If the benchmark had listed actual results, it would've been easier to do actual comparisons with other cpus which were not benchmarked against.
Saying all that, I don't believe AMD falsified any information (unlike nVidia or ATI). What they did was purely comparing a weaker opponent. Sorta like taking the ATI Radeon 9800 and comparing it to the nVidia Geforce MX440. But comparisons like that do exist when you do a wide range of benchmarking. That's why I always make sure I know what the heck is being benchmarked or else, it'd be just throwing #s at me. It's nice that newer benchmarks tell you if higher is better or if lower is better. Sometimes it's quite easy to get confused on if something w/ a higher # is better or not.
How exactly do you use bluetooth to align with a target's bluetooth tag? Bluetooth signals go out in all directions, not like infrared which needs a direct line of sight. I guess one way would be to find the direction with the strongest signal or only send out bluetooth signals in one direction...
nevermind, just tried it on a different computer and is downloading super fast! thanks! sorry about the confusion.
guess the /. effect wins again. using bittornado, i've been getting the Problem connecting to tracker - (10060, 'Operation timed out')
Tracker is currently http://tracker.degreez.net/announce
anyway someone could put this up on a different tracker?