well, maybe, but my four year old Rio with 92MB RAM still works fine, translucent blue casing and all - had forgotten it on a windowshelf and my son found it a couple of weeks ago, used it that day with the same batteries, and complained about the music - then I told him it was four years old.
My new 512MB flash card/MP3 player/voice recorder uses about the same amount of energy, I've got rechargeable standard AA batteries for it, and none of these use heat.
And since switching my lightbulbs for compact flourescent, my kitchen doesn't get too hot in the summer, so I don't need to buy a big fan to cool it, so I save even more energy.
Now, if I can find a way to dispose of my burnt-out old compact flourescents without paying extra...
My relatives live near Santa Barbara, which is why my sister has a Toyota Prius hybrid. Bottom line is that, for most people, wage increases have not kept up with gas price increases, and since home prices are so much higher, your economic arguments has a lot of holes in it, in that their disposal income package is smaller.
Perhaps for the very rich, it's no prob, but this last decade has seen the very rich get richer at the expense of the rich, the middle class, and the poor.
Median wages mean nothing if they don't take into account where the money goes, the relative debt levels and how much of those wages go to finance the debt, and the relative savings rates. Savings are at an all time low, by any standard, so you don't even have that to fall back on, and capital accumulation in house prices is not a sustainable source of wealth for a society.
I think more importantly than whether or not they can work a remote and podcast, is do they desire to do so?
Exactly. Why, if they refuse to have desires to be part of the consumer culture, they're not part of the Final Solution, they're part of a Terrarist Plot.
My son and I have walked to his school since he was in first grade and he's going into ninth grade now.
Sure, if it rains a heck of a lot, we get in a car, but people are too slack - when I was a kid we had to walk anywhere from one to two miles on snow-covered roads just to get to the bus stop in the first place.
and not buy groceries for you, but strappy high heels and other consumables that have cultural/fashion existence.
at least that's the definition of people in our society according to Work, Consumption & Culture: Affluence and Social Change in the Twenty-First Century by Paul Ransome.
So, the question is not "Are They Alive?" but "What Do We Consider To Be Alive?"
Sure, they can play chess and recharge their batteries, but if they can't work a remote and podcast, are they really alive or just simulated life?
Half of the pirates out there are because they won't let us play the original Japanese content versions of videos because we're "in the wrong region", or let us watch Samurai films in Mandarin.
Or because they embargo films for years.
I just say a really cool film, which the moron critics hated but the audience loved, especially the teens, called The Brothers Grimm - which was held up for a couple of years.
Now, I pay to see my movies, but if I were one of those Terry Gilliam fans one can see how one might get desperate with no films from him for years.
It's like music - if the industry didn't charge $18 for a CD and offered music we wanted, that would be half the market right there. That plus make you buy a whole CD when you only liked the one song.
People wonder why the spamming never ends, it's because 72,000 perscriptions were bought through an email ad.
Which is why, even tho it's a bother, I make sure to turn each and every spam in with full headers to the FTC at their spam@ftc.gov email reporting site.
Not to mention the Nigerian and Lottery spam to the Secret Service.
Actions speak louder than words.
[caveat - I own shares of Pfizer, Amgen, and other stuff like that]
with RAID! get your very own fusion reactor-powered laptop that weighs in at a measly 25,000 metric tons, suitable for hiking adventures in the south polar region, due to its unique power/heat output ratios.
So, you basically want a mobile wireless laptop with an array of redundant arrays of inexpensive disks?
Hello. It's a laptop.
Why would you want RAID on a laptop?
It's like buying a dirt bike and hooking it up to a boat trailer. Maybe you could do it - but why would you want to?
If you need to haul a boat, buy a basic truck - not an SUV which is a car frame that can't handle real loads - not a dirt bike which is all about speed and maneuverability and gas efficiency (power savings are key to laptops and mobile usage).
It's like that silly Toyota truck I saw with Giant Truck Wheels that were bigger than the entire truck itself. Sure, you can do it, but you basically have to admit you're insane in the first place.
Now first, let me admit, I'm a Lifetime Member of Cinema Seattle, so I get to see 40 or more free films every year until I'm dead, and take a guest. Which is a total bargain.
But, as someone who's been a cineaste for decades, it is very true that the film industry has been going for the cheap easy films, which bore the pants off of us, compared with prior years, and are more hung up on stars than content.
Now, there are exceptions: The Constant Gardener, which has both a cool story and great actors; the upcoming Tim Burton film The Corpse Bride; and more.
But in general, it's not film piracy that is killing film audiences - most of the pirates in fact seem to be going for Japanese and Chinese and Indian films that the studios won't show over here, so you can't blame people for that.
It's not having better content than cable TV. There are some fine shows on cable TV nowadays, and if you have a large-screen TV, you don't have to shlep to the theater and sit next to someone who talks thru the movie.
Personally, I rank films in two groups: films that must be seen on the big screen - and films that would be just as fine seen on TV at home on some cool channel like Sundance or IFC or BBC or CBC where they don't edit it to make it saccharine barf city like the lower bands do.
And there's been a bunch of films that were so predictable, for quite a while, that I didn't even bother going to, even though they were free.
Recently that's been changing, so I have hope for a resurgance of film, but the last few years have been dreadful.
Now, the next question someone should be asking, is where the heck do you get that kind of power supply... cause the extension cord off the back of the F-16 sure doesn't run that far...
Maybe we are seeing why in Evangelion they had power couplings they had to attack their Giant Robots (ok, beasts whatever) to, and they had massive power cables to power their laser rifles...
Methinks we'll be begging the French to let us hook up to their Commercial Size Fusion Reactor to power these...
Cool if it works. But how does the laser know there's a missle on the way? And how does it keep focused on it while the pilot is trying to pull a 9-G turn? It would take gonads of neutronium to maintain a straight course while the missle is heading your way.
Because, in Soviet America, all missiles fired at our Glorious Pilots are always detectable and never use counter-measures, all laser cannons always hit their enemy Terror Targets, all Glorious Pilots never suffer ill effects from High-G turns and dives, and our Glorious Leaders are never questioned.
Now, once they affix the Laser Cannons to my mutated sharks, I'll demand [evil laugh]ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!!![/evil laugh]
.
However, just because we can affix them to planes doesn't mean we should affix them to planes. More likely is we're affixing them to the secure area of the International Space Station as "Long-Range Communication Devices".
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"The affected Windows 2000 operating system is already out of mainstream support and is not considered a consumer operating system."
... guess I'd better tell my uninfected Win98 PC to roll over and play dead then, cause King Bill declared it is no longer among the living.
..
Really
Strange, it works just fine
would be to send them to bunk with Novak and Rove in Gitmo.
I'm not sure who that would punish, but it would make me happy.
well, maybe, but my four year old Rio with 92MB RAM still works fine, translucent blue casing and all - had forgotten it on a windowshelf and my son found it a couple of weeks ago, used it that day with the same batteries, and complained about the music - then I told him it was four years old.
...
My new 512MB flash card/MP3 player/voice recorder uses about the same amount of energy, I've got rechargeable standard AA batteries for it, and none of these use heat.
And since switching my lightbulbs for compact flourescent, my kitchen doesn't get too hot in the summer, so I don't need to buy a big fan to cool it, so I save even more energy.
Now, if I can find a way to dispose of my burnt-out old compact flourescents without paying extra
I care about form AND function. That's why I bought an iPod, and I have zero issues with the battery.
Which is great. A good choice.
But if we're looking at music delivery, we need to consider that it's a wider range of devices.
Personally, I think the refund (and double if taken as store credit) is good for Apple in the long run, as people love their iPods.
My relatives live near Santa Barbara, which is why my sister has a Toyota Prius hybrid. Bottom line is that, for most people, wage increases have not kept up with gas price increases, and since home prices are so much higher, your economic arguments has a lot of holes in it, in that their disposal income package is smaller.
Perhaps for the very rich, it's no prob, but this last decade has seen the very rich get richer at the expense of the rich, the middle class, and the poor.
Median wages mean nothing if they don't take into account where the money goes, the relative debt levels and how much of those wages go to finance the debt, and the relative savings rates. Savings are at an all time low, by any standard, so you don't even have that to fall back on, and capital accumulation in house prices is not a sustainable source of wealth for a society.
W.I.L.L.I.A.M.: dude, i'm already one of them. just think of Will.i.am ...
I think more importantly than whether or not they can work a remote and podcast, is do they desire to do so?
...
Exactly. Why, if they refuse to have desires to be part of the consumer culture, they're not part of the Final Solution, they're part of a Terrarist Plot.
where's the sarcasm key on this keyboard
it is over $3 in some parts of California, for example, and about $2.80 around here in Washington state.
But we could always have the kids bike to school - and when they get old enough, they could get a single seat moped.
Those get great mileage, and they're babe magnets (for either gender).
My son and I have walked to his school since he was in first grade and he's going into ninth grade now.
Sure, if it rains a heck of a lot, we get in a car, but people are too slack - when I was a kid we had to walk anywhere from one to two miles on snow-covered roads just to get to the bus stop in the first place.
And, yeah, it was a lot of fun.
and not buy groceries for you, but strappy high heels and other consumables that have cultural/fashion existence.
at least that's the definition of people in our society according to Work, Consumption & Culture: Affluence and Social Change in the Twenty-First Century by Paul Ransome.
So, the question is not "Are They Alive?" but "What Do We Consider To Be Alive?"
Sure, they can play chess and recharge their batteries, but if they can't work a remote and podcast, are they really alive or just simulated life?
nothing will happen. I've been recharging alkaline AA batteries for years.
mind you, since i orginally was an electrician/electronics tech years ago, i tend to do such things in the garage or porch just to be safe.
but the charger says it can recharge them, so what's the prob?
music doesn't care about form, just function.
expensive MP3 player? it cost me $19.99 for a 512MB flash card / MP3 player / voice recorder. that's just a little more expensive than a CD sadly.
...
my battery charger cost me $12.99 - almost as expensive as the MP3 player
but so long as it recharges alkaline AA and AAA batteries - I'm happy.
Half of the pirates out there are because they won't let us play the original Japanese content versions of videos because we're "in the wrong region", or let us watch Samurai films in Mandarin.
Or because they embargo films for years.
I just say a really cool film, which the moron critics hated but the audience loved, especially the teens, called The Brothers Grimm - which was held up for a couple of years.
Now, I pay to see my movies, but if I were one of those Terry Gilliam fans one can see how one might get desperate with no films from him for years.
It's like music - if the industry didn't charge $18 for a CD and offered music we wanted, that would be half the market right there. That plus make you buy a whole CD when you only liked the one song.
you can recharge alkaline batteries.
i just bought a recharger from TigerDirect two weeks ago to power my new MP3/512MBflash/voicerecorder stick to do just that.
so, they are "rechargeable". just not NiMH or NiCaD.
quick, to the cloning tubes, boy wonder!
ignore the fact that only so many people exist upon this earth and let's crank out some more!
it was still going strong four years later, dust covered, when my son found it on one of my shelves.
..."
He used it that day - and then said "God, dad, the music here is so lame!" So I told him it was music from that far back and he went "Oh
Now that is battery life - and just using AA batteries.
they own the patents to the iPod after all ...
People wonder why the spamming never ends, it's because 72,000 perscriptions were bought through an email ad.
Which is why, even tho it's a bother, I make sure to turn each and every spam in with full headers to the FTC at their spam@ftc.gov email reporting site.
Not to mention the Nigerian and Lottery spam to the Secret Service.
Actions speak louder than words.
[caveat - I own shares of Pfizer, Amgen, and other stuff like that]
with RAID! get your very own fusion reactor-powered laptop that weighs in at a measly 25,000 metric tons, suitable for hiking adventures in the south polar region, due to its unique power/heat output ratios.
Never be cold again!
Only $400 trillion USD!
So, you basically want a mobile wireless laptop with an array of redundant arrays of inexpensive disks?
Hello. It's a laptop.
Why would you want RAID on a laptop?
It's like buying a dirt bike and hooking it up to a boat trailer. Maybe you could do it - but why would you want to?
If you need to haul a boat, buy a basic truck - not an SUV which is a car frame that can't handle real loads - not a dirt bike which is all about speed and maneuverability and gas efficiency (power savings are key to laptops and mobile usage).
It's like that silly Toyota truck I saw with Giant Truck Wheels that were bigger than the entire truck itself. Sure, you can do it, but you basically have to admit you're insane in the first place.
Someone needs a clue stick upgrade at Intel.
Now first, let me admit, I'm a Lifetime Member of Cinema Seattle, so I get to see 40 or more free films every year until I'm dead, and take a guest. Which is a total bargain.
But, as someone who's been a cineaste for decades, it is very true that the film industry has been going for the cheap easy films, which bore the pants off of us, compared with prior years, and are more hung up on stars than content.
Now, there are exceptions: The Constant Gardener, which has both a cool story and great actors; the upcoming Tim Burton film The Corpse Bride; and more.
But in general, it's not film piracy that is killing film audiences - most of the pirates in fact seem to be going for Japanese and Chinese and Indian films that the studios won't show over here, so you can't blame people for that.
It's not having better content than cable TV. There are some fine shows on cable TV nowadays, and if you have a large-screen TV, you don't have to shlep to the theater and sit next to someone who talks thru the movie.
Personally, I rank films in two groups: films that must be seen on the big screen - and films that would be just as fine seen on TV at home on some cool channel like Sundance or IFC or BBC or CBC where they don't edit it to make it saccharine barf city like the lower bands do.
And there's been a bunch of films that were so predictable, for quite a while, that I didn't even bother going to, even though they were free.
Recently that's been changing, so I have hope for a resurgance of film, but the last few years have been dreadful.
the Bad Guys will buy lots of Disco Balls.
That and giant enormous mirrors and tin foil hats.
Oh, come on, did you actually think noone would think of it?
They should have called it THFS - TowelHead Frying System, because that's what it will really be used for.
The enemy a weapon is used for is almost always different from the enemy or tactical/strategic situation the weapon was designed for.
Only a fool - and we've got a bunch of those - fails to learn from history.
1.21 GIGAWATTS!
... cause the extension cord off the back of the F-16 sure doesn't run that far ...
...
...
Now, the next question someone should be asking, is where the heck do you get that kind of power supply
Maybe we are seeing why in Evangelion they had power couplings they had to attack their Giant Robots (ok, beasts whatever) to, and they had massive power cables to power their laser rifles
Methinks we'll be begging the French to let us hook up to their Commercial Size Fusion Reactor to power these
Cool if it works. But how does the laser know there's a missle on the way? And how does it keep focused on it while the pilot is trying to pull a 9-G turn? It would take gonads of neutronium to maintain a straight course while the missle is heading your way.
Because, in Soviet America, all missiles fired at our Glorious Pilots are always detectable and never use counter-measures, all laser cannons always hit their enemy Terror Targets, all Glorious Pilots never suffer ill effects from High-G turns and dives, and our Glorious Leaders are never questioned.
Now, once they affix the Laser Cannons to my mutated sharks, I'll demand [evil laugh]ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!!![/evil laugh]
.
However, just because we can affix them to planes doesn't mean we should affix them to planes. More likely is we're affixing them to the secure area of the International Space Station as "Long-Range Communication Devices".