I have held off on buying an MP3 player because I can't find one that supports OGG, has a radio in it, and gets good battery life. Assuming Toshiba puts one out that meets the first two specifications and has generous amounts of storage, I think I would look into this one.
Right now, I have a Sony ATRAC3 MP3/CD player. It gets 50 hour battery life on 2 AA batteries, and has virtually unlimited storage (as many 700MB CDs as I feel like carrying), plus it only cost $100 or so when it was purchased. Granted, it doesn't support OGG, but when I got it I didn't know about OGG.
In addition, I bought my laptop that I'm on right now from Toshiba Labor Day weekend 2003, and I've already decided I'm not buying a new one until Toshiba releases their new laptops that (according to the article I read a while back) charge 80% in 15 minutes with little discharge.
I also recall an article about a fuel-cell based laptop, lasted something like 15 hours on one fueling. Don't remember if it was Toshiba or another company.
Where are all these things? I've heard so much about them and I'm sure I'm not the only one anxiously awaiting them. Toshiba and any other companies need to hurry up and get these things out the door, as they will solve many of the biggest battery-related problems.
As if my backpack isn't heavy enough from, you know, books for school. My back hurts from the thing as it is, I'm not carrying another 50 pounds around, thank you.
But some things never change. I could not get linux to recoginze my sound card. I was told to get some second program to do it, but it was a hassel. Windows works out of the box.
Or so you think. If Linux were more widely supported, companies would provide drivers for both Windows and Linux on the CD. I must add that I have had to manually install drivers off the CD for most sound cards (among other things) I've dealt with in the last several years. It did not work out of the box.
Is it easier to install the drivers in Windows? At this time, yes, but were they made available on the CD in, say, and RPM and DEB format or something, it would not be anywhere near as difficult.
I'm seeing many calls for him to run for President as he's truly a public servant. I can't agree more, but I doubt he would ever make it. The corporate interests would use their endless supply of money to find a way to discredit him, no matter how wrongly, and keep him out. It's pathetic, it's disgusting, it's the way politics works.
If he's not willing to play ball, he would never be elected.
But perhaps making him Attorney General of the US under a different President? That's a possibility, and I would like to see that happen. Then he could continue bringing cases like these on a national scale.
Google Talk is great, but what I REALLY need is 'Google ShutUp' to make the irritating people I know go away while providing them with targetted, text-based ads.
Thinking about this for a moment..... What option would the Supreme Court have? What basis would they have to modify the bill passed by Congress?
But does it matter? The point of the Supreme Court is to serve justice and uphold the Constitution. If it believes a law is unjust, the law is declared unconstitutional. In this case, I think the court would have to side with Apple simply because they came up with it, they put the R&D into it, they innovated it, and they deserve to make the money off it. Especially when it's EASILY provable that they came up with it first.
I shouldn't have to rush off to patent something the instant I come anywhere near finishing it (especially if I'm not a major corporation that can do these things without taking out a huge loan) just to protect my work.
I, for one, don't like the first-to-file system, because it is easy for something like the recent Apple/MS iTunes interface thing. Apple CLEARLY introduced it first, and yet MS has filed for a patent. I wonder, if a case like this went before the Supreme Court, would they say that Apple had the right to the patent after all?
That would suck, some person working for years on a new device, only for someone to learn about it and file a patent first and get away with it.
We should be tackling the real issue, which is allowing patents for "a method to put numbers in a box" and the like. Obvious patents should not only not be granted, but if it's blatantly obvious, they should be fined or at the least admonished for wasting time and resources on it.
Haven't you seen any of those blogs that look like something interesting and then just turn out to be a single junk entry with a bunch of keywords which have a ton of ads and/or spyware all over? That's the entire point of this addition, is to eliminate those.
"Hello! I see you are trying to launch ze shuttle? Would you like me to help you:
A. Go to ze ISS
B. Go to ze moon
C. In Soviet Russia, the space station goes to you!"
And I, for one, welcome our holographic image overlords...
Except they aren't here and the Japanese have no idea how they're going to do it.
You can talk it up all you want. I want a holodeck as much as the next person (can you imagine the 'adult' selection?) but come on.
So, in conclusion, I, for one, welcome our new hyper-optimistic big-talking money-receiving overlords, and remind them that as an American teen, I really really want a holodeck. ASAP.
I can almost picture one of my relatives using a computer with a type-writer keyboard. I'll get a call about the typewriter not working. I'll show up to find the monitor covered in White-Out. And smashed on the floor after they pushed it left and off the desk at the end of the line.
True, channels 2-6 aren't favorable and so far it looks like most sane TV stations are abandoning it (not my local PBS though...). I'm hoping that the FCC will drop channels 2-6 myself and expand the FM radio band into channels 5 and 6 (being that there's a gap between 4 and 5) and find some use for 2-4.
That doesn't change the fact that the switch-over will have no effect on cable viewers who will still suffer with signal leak. Realize that while OTA TV is required to go digital, cable is only required to provide those signals--even if they're downconverted to analog.
Um, do you have any idea what you're saying? BPL has been licensed to use frequencies from just above AM radio all the way up into the middle of TV Channel 5. (that's about 2MHz-80MHz) I don't know about you, but I watch TV with an antenna, and I already get tons of impulse/electrical noise on channels 2-6 as it is, not to mention an FM radio station on 88.3 trashes channel 6. It's already been proven that electrical devices that DON'T have BPL in them can cause massive amounts of interference to signals (try turning on a hair dryer or an electric paper shredder while watching the lower channels), and the introduction of BPL will only make this interference worse and constant. In addition, shortwave radio, which the rest of the world still uses, covers from 3MHz-30MHz.
And don't think that just because you have cable it's not going to affect you--cable leaks are well-known and proven to be problematic (see AVSForum.Com and the fiasco involving WBBM-DT on channel 3 in Chicago). Cable leaks allow for not only interference from OTA TV and FM station in the cable line (I've seen it before) but also allow for additional outside electrical noise. Regular electrical noise is one thing, but I've seen that and I've seen two-way interference, and let me tell you that two-way interference isn't fun (walkie-talkies). Instead of having just lines or dots in the picture, the whole picture goes away and the sound becomes that of the two-way.
You would think that since I live in a rural area that I'd be for this, and when I first heard about it, I was. But I think people I know would much rather be able to watch TV than have high-speed internet. (And yes there are a good number of people who still rely on OTA TV here)
Note how I didn't mention ham radio anywhere in there.
Based on the press release, it appears that Nextel will be dropping their iDen network in favor of CDMA (or rather migrating)... raising the somewhat stupid question of "why?" I would have expected them to migrate Sprint over to iDen.
Can someone explain what sense this makes? Wouldn't Nextel have some interest in keeping the iDen network going instead of paying royalties over CDMA? Or is the cost of continuing to build out the iDen network more than the royalties? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
If you ask me, it'd be much easier to use Ctrl+C and then navigate where you want to go and use Ctrl+V. It's difficult to hold down the mouse button while violently jerking the mouse back and forth to get to the right window.
Don't get me wrong, it looks really neat, but it's not terribly useful. Sounds like the kind of thing that would fit GREAT in Longhorn.
I could see if these people were actually doing something, but most of these people are in it for the money, I'm sorry.
With my antenna where I live, I can get 12 channels. One repeats another (Fox 21/27). Then two are nearly 100% religious (TBN and a mix of Jerry Falwell and 'FamilyNet'). Yet another is almost all infomercials (Pax or as it's now called 'i'). One more is a blend of the two. That's down to 7. Then the local UPN station spends about half their time doing religion. That's 6. Two PBS stations, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox.
On top of that, on Sundays the three latter stations fill all of Sunday morning up with religion. Two different Jerry Falwell shows on at once. Heck, the GM of the ABC station is a member of Jerry Falwell's church!
And this is Virginia, not the deep south. I somehow doubt that a lack of religion will be a problem.
I have only been satisfied with support twice in my life.
Toshiba and DeLorme are the only two companies that I can honestly say had good support.
I know DeLorme (mapping software) is a bit off topic, but what happened was I had gotten TopoUSA 5.0 for my birthday (I had 4.0 before) but it was in CD form. In CD form, it takes 7 CDs to cover the US, however it's only one DVD.
Now my birthday is at the end of October. This software was purchased in the middle of August and had a 30-day return/exchange policy. I called up support not expecting much help. I talked to the guy and explained exactly what happened. He gave me an RMA anyway and everything was good.
As far as Toshiba goes, I think they're a great computer company all around. I have had a Toshiba laptop since August 2003 with no issues I haven't brought upon myself (heh). I don't know anybody who has had a problem with a Toshiba. I will never buy a non-Toshiba laptop. Even if Toshiba never puts AMD chips in their laptops.
I decided one day to shift my partitions around. Take a bit from RedHat and add it to Windows. Well, in the middle of it, my partition software crashed. It killed all of my non-Windows partitions (I had a C: for windows/programs, a Y: for documents and such, a few others, plus linux). Naturally GRUB panicked since it couldn't find/boot and I couldn't start Windows anymore. I did a bit of research and discovered fixmbr on the XP CD. Only problem was that when I tried to do it, it asked for an admin password. I had never set one (that I can remember, maybe Best Buy did?). So I called up tech support. I told them exactly what happened and that it was entirely my fault. They STILL tried to help me out, although they were ultimately unsuccessful. A few hours after the phone call I discovered a password reset program that I was able to use and fix it.
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I have held off on buying an MP3 player because I can't find one that supports OGG, has a radio in it, and gets good battery life. Assuming Toshiba puts one out that meets the first two specifications and has generous amounts of storage, I think I would look into this one.
Right now, I have a Sony ATRAC3 MP3/CD player. It gets 50 hour battery life on 2 AA batteries, and has virtually unlimited storage (as many 700MB CDs as I feel like carrying), plus it only cost $100 or so when it was purchased. Granted, it doesn't support OGG, but when I got it I didn't know about OGG.
In addition, I bought my laptop that I'm on right now from Toshiba Labor Day weekend 2003, and I've already decided I'm not buying a new one until Toshiba releases their new laptops that (according to the article I read a while back) charge 80% in 15 minutes with little discharge.
I also recall an article about a fuel-cell based laptop, lasted something like 15 hours on one fueling. Don't remember if it was Toshiba or another company.
Where are all these things? I've heard so much about them and I'm sure I'm not the only one anxiously awaiting them. Toshiba and any other companies need to hurry up and get these things out the door, as they will solve many of the biggest battery-related problems.
...which you'd do under a record label who would slap DRM on it, making you a very hypocritical person.
Yeah, it was much simpler when everything was just God's will.
As if my backpack isn't heavy enough from, you know, books for school. My back hurts from the thing as it is, I'm not carrying another 50 pounds around, thank you.
Dinotubes.
Thank you, I'll be here all next week.
It'$ not an ea$y que$tion to an$wer really, but I $uppo$e with $uffiient inve$tigation, we'll di$cover an an$wer.
But some things never change. I could not get linux to recoginze my sound card. I was told to get some second program to do it, but it was a hassel. Windows works out of the box.
Or so you think. If Linux were more widely supported, companies would provide drivers for both Windows and Linux on the CD. I must add that I have had to manually install drivers off the CD for most sound cards (among other things) I've dealt with in the last several years. It did not work out of the box.
Is it easier to install the drivers in Windows? At this time, yes, but were they made available on the CD in, say, and RPM and DEB format or something, it would not be anywhere near as difficult.
Are future Centrino codenames going to be 'Advance,' 'AutoZone,' or 'Pep Boys'?
I'm seeing many calls for him to run for President as he's truly a public servant. I can't agree more, but I doubt he would ever make it. The corporate interests would use their endless supply of money to find a way to discredit him, no matter how wrongly, and keep him out. It's pathetic, it's disgusting, it's the way politics works.
If he's not willing to play ball, he would never be elected.
But perhaps making him Attorney General of the US under a different President? That's a possibility, and I would like to see that happen. Then he could continue bringing cases like these on a national scale.
But I suppose all we can do for now is hope.
Meanwhile, holographic storage, with its 200GB+, will move right in and take over.
Yeah. Just put the part before the @ in the username box. That'll let you on.
At least, it let me on.
Google Talk is great, but what I REALLY need is 'Google ShutUp' to make the irritating people I know go away while providing them with targetted, text-based ads.
where/what was the inspiration for Woodcrest? Well, a crest is like a high point or a "peak," and wood is... Oh dear.
Thinking about this for a moment..... What option would the Supreme Court have? What basis would they have to modify the bill passed by Congress?
But does it matter? The point of the Supreme Court is to serve justice and uphold the Constitution. If it believes a law is unjust, the law is declared unconstitutional. In this case, I think the court would have to side with Apple simply because they came up with it, they put the R&D into it, they innovated it, and they deserve to make the money off it. Especially when it's EASILY provable that they came up with it first.
I shouldn't have to rush off to patent something the instant I come anywhere near finishing it (especially if I'm not a major corporation that can do these things without taking out a huge loan) just to protect my work.
I, for one, don't like the first-to-file system, because it is easy for something like the recent Apple/MS iTunes interface thing. Apple CLEARLY introduced it first, and yet MS has filed for a patent. I wonder, if a case like this went before the Supreme Court, would they say that Apple had the right to the patent after all?
That would suck, some person working for years on a new device, only for someone to learn about it and file a patent first and get away with it.
We should be tackling the real issue, which is allowing patents for "a method to put numbers in a box" and the like. Obvious patents should not only not be granted, but if it's blatantly obvious, they should be fined or at the least admonished for wasting time and resources on it.
Haven't you seen any of those blogs that look like something interesting and then just turn out to be a single junk entry with a bunch of keywords which have a ton of ads and/or spyware all over? That's the entire point of this addition, is to eliminate those.
"Hello! I see you are trying to launch ze shuttle? Would you like me to help you: A. Go to ze ISS B. Go to ze moon C. In Soviet Russia, the space station goes to you!"
And I, for one, welcome our holographic image overlords... Except they aren't here and the Japanese have no idea how they're going to do it. You can talk it up all you want. I want a holodeck as much as the next person (can you imagine the 'adult' selection?) but come on. So, in conclusion, I, for one, welcome our new hyper-optimistic big-talking money-receiving overlords, and remind them that as an American teen, I really really want a holodeck. ASAP.
I can almost picture one of my relatives using a computer with a type-writer keyboard. I'll get a call about the typewriter not working. I'll show up to find the monitor covered in White-Out. And smashed on the floor after they pushed it left and off the desk at the end of the line.
True, channels 2-6 aren't favorable and so far it looks like most sane TV stations are abandoning it (not my local PBS though...). I'm hoping that the FCC will drop channels 2-6 myself and expand the FM radio band into channels 5 and 6 (being that there's a gap between 4 and 5) and find some use for 2-4.
That doesn't change the fact that the switch-over will have no effect on cable viewers who will still suffer with signal leak. Realize that while OTA TV is required to go digital, cable is only required to provide those signals--even if they're downconverted to analog.
Um, do you have any idea what you're saying? BPL has been licensed to use frequencies from just above AM radio all the way up into the middle of TV Channel 5. (that's about 2MHz-80MHz) I don't know about you, but I watch TV with an antenna, and I already get tons of impulse/electrical noise on channels 2-6 as it is, not to mention an FM radio station on 88.3 trashes channel 6. It's already been proven that electrical devices that DON'T have BPL in them can cause massive amounts of interference to signals (try turning on a hair dryer or an electric paper shredder while watching the lower channels), and the introduction of BPL will only make this interference worse and constant. In addition, shortwave radio, which the rest of the world still uses, covers from 3MHz-30MHz.
And don't think that just because you have cable it's not going to affect you--cable leaks are well-known and proven to be problematic (see AVSForum.Com and the fiasco involving WBBM-DT on channel 3 in Chicago). Cable leaks allow for not only interference from OTA TV and FM station in the cable line (I've seen it before) but also allow for additional outside electrical noise. Regular electrical noise is one thing, but I've seen that and I've seen two-way interference, and let me tell you that two-way interference isn't fun (walkie-talkies). Instead of having just lines or dots in the picture, the whole picture goes away and the sound becomes that of the two-way.
You would think that since I live in a rural area that I'd be for this, and when I first heard about it, I was. But I think people I know would much rather be able to watch TV than have high-speed internet. (And yes there are a good number of people who still rely on OTA TV here)
Note how I didn't mention ham radio anywhere in there.
Based on the press release, it appears that Nextel will be dropping their iDen network in favor of CDMA (or rather migrating)... raising the somewhat stupid question of "why?" I would have expected them to migrate Sprint over to iDen.
Can someone explain what sense this makes? Wouldn't Nextel have some interest in keeping the iDen network going instead of paying royalties over CDMA? Or is the cost of continuing to build out the iDen network more than the royalties? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
I'm very confused.
If you ask me, it'd be much easier to use Ctrl+C and then navigate where you want to go and use Ctrl+V. It's difficult to hold down the mouse button while violently jerking the mouse back and forth to get to the right window.
Don't get me wrong, it looks really neat, but it's not terribly useful. Sounds like the kind of thing that would fit GREAT in Longhorn.
and block religious channels
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
I could see if these people were actually doing something, but most of these people are in it for the money, I'm sorry.
With my antenna where I live, I can get 12 channels. One repeats another (Fox 21/27). Then two are nearly 100% religious (TBN and a mix of Jerry Falwell and 'FamilyNet'). Yet another is almost all infomercials (Pax or as it's now called 'i'). One more is a blend of the two. That's down to 7. Then the local UPN station spends about half their time doing religion. That's 6. Two PBS stations, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox.
On top of that, on Sundays the three latter stations fill all of Sunday morning up with religion. Two different Jerry Falwell shows on at once. Heck, the GM of the ABC station is a member of Jerry Falwell's church!
And this is Virginia, not the deep south. I somehow doubt that a lack of religion will be a problem.
I have only been satisfied with support twice in my life.
/boot and I couldn't start Windows anymore. I did a bit of research and discovered fixmbr on the XP CD. Only problem was that when I tried to do it, it asked for an admin password. I had never set one (that I can remember, maybe Best Buy did?). So I called up tech support. I told them exactly what happened and that it was entirely my fault. They STILL tried to help me out, although they were ultimately unsuccessful. A few hours after the phone call I discovered a password reset program that I was able to use and fix it.
Toshiba and DeLorme are the only two companies that I can honestly say had good support.
I know DeLorme (mapping software) is a bit off topic, but what happened was I had gotten TopoUSA 5.0 for my birthday (I had 4.0 before) but it was in CD form. In CD form, it takes 7 CDs to cover the US, however it's only one DVD.
Now my birthday is at the end of October. This software was purchased in the middle of August and had a 30-day return/exchange policy. I called up support not expecting much help. I talked to the guy and explained exactly what happened. He gave me an RMA anyway and everything was good.
As far as Toshiba goes, I think they're a great computer company all around. I have had a Toshiba laptop since August 2003 with no issues I haven't brought upon myself (heh). I don't know anybody who has had a problem with a Toshiba. I will never buy a non-Toshiba laptop. Even if Toshiba never puts AMD chips in their laptops.
I decided one day to shift my partitions around. Take a bit from RedHat and add it to Windows. Well, in the middle of it, my partition software crashed. It killed all of my non-Windows partitions (I had a C: for windows/programs, a Y: for documents and such, a few others, plus linux). Naturally GRUB panicked since it couldn't find
Of course, YMMV.