Well, lots of places that sell used laptops sell OEM copies of Win98 installed on them, presumably because the licensing fees are cheaper. I bought a used Latitude C600 a couple of days ago and it had Win98 as the installed OS (which I promptly replaced with Win2K.) Other people who are in the market for a cheap laptop aren't going to turn up their noses at it, they're just happy they don't have to buy an OS to go with it.
The same store, of course, had free Ubuntu CD's at the cash register, so who knows what actually happens.
it'll either be really good, yet confusing and frustrating (and make you wonder if the joke's on you) or really good for the first half and then suddenly be lame and sort of suck for the second half.
I've seen plenty of Minidiscs fail -- without any obvious damage to the disc. Memorex and Hi-Space discs were especially prone to the dreaded "disc error" message.
I *lurved* MD's back in the day... but I *love* my iPod now. I'll *lurve* my iPod once they get Rockbox fully working on it. (True gapless playback was rather nice on MD!)
Transcoding from AAC to a LOSSLESS codec means NO quality loss. That's why it's called LOSSLESS compression. Just because it's compressed does not mean there are dithering and artifacts! It wouldn't be a lossless codec otherwise.
AAC to AIFF or WAV = PCM (no quality loss) AAC to Apple Lossless, FLAC, APE, etc = lossless (no quality loss) AAC to MP3/OGG/whatever = lossy (quality loss)
(I suspect you knew that and just mistyped, but it needed to be said for the tards who think that they can burn an iTunes playlist to CD and re-rip to MP3 and think "voila!")
Prove it. I'm not opening the machine -- and if it needs to be serviced, I remove the bootloader so that it doesn't boot Rockbox first (instead of the Apple firmware.)
According to what I've read, iriver is leaving the hard disk-based MP3 player market. The iPod is now the most widely-available high-capacity player you can put Rockbox on -- unless you want to buy a used iRiver off ebay that doesn't have a warranty.
Actually Ogg does play on the iPod, now that Rockbox is running on it:
www.rockbox.org
Completely gapless playback w/Rockbox, too, with Ogg (and FLAC.)
Yeah, that's another P2P apologist line of bull, that almost all albums only contain 2 or 3 (or 1 or 2) good songs, that the rest are just filler. I've had people use that line on my to justify why they download stuff illegally. As far as I'm concerned, if the majority of albums you listen to only contain 1-3 good songs, then your taste in music sucks. (Which isn't to say that I didn't use to use P2P myself and that I don't currently use Usenet -- but let's be honest about it!)
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Not only have they gone after the non-existent WMD's in Iraq, but also capital punishment and the population being controlled by cable news channels...
He asked me why the computer in my office was running Win2K when the department (at a certain Big 12 university) had an XP license, too.
I told him it was a P3/800 with 128MB of RAM, which really wasn't even enough to run Win2K efficiently. He said, "oh, that's more than enough to run XP. XP's so much better than Windows 2000. I haven't had to look for a driver disk since I started using XP."
Needless to say, I stuck with Win2K and never asked him for any computer-related help whatsoever because I knew he was a well-meaning idiot.
The US Congress -- even though it's the bitch of movie studios -- recently passed the Family Entertainment Copyright Act, which allows for people to use the fast forward button to go past "objectionable" content. Now that Bush has signed the legislation, not only are ClearPlay's smut-/violence-/etc.-free DVD players legal, but the fast forward button is, too.
I think a case could be made for one's HOSTS file falling under the same rubric -- you're filtering out objectionable content from Websites. You object to tacky advertising (or porn ads, let's say) -- you redirect it to 127.0.0.1 and voila, no ad. Derivative work? Maybe, but it's your choice, and Congress has made it legal.
And yes, under the same legislation, you can now go to jail for sharing a copy of Episode III, too, but ostensibly that's not the main point of the law. The studios didn't want people to be able to skip objectionable content, period.
Actually, if you want to hear what a good Doctor Colin Baker could have been (given better scripts and none of the "Trial of a Time Lord" BS), listen to pretty much any of the audio plays that Big Finish has done. His performances are really good.
I've only listened to a couple of the Peter Davison ones, but "Spare Parts" is amazing.
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The same store, of course, had free Ubuntu CD's at the cash register, so who knows what actually happens.
it'll either be really good, yet confusing and frustrating (and make you wonder if the joke's on you) or really good for the first half and then suddenly be lame and sort of suck for the second half.
I *lurved* MD's back in the day... but I *love* my iPod now. I'll *lurve* my iPod once they get Rockbox fully working on it. (True gapless playback was rather nice on MD!)
How about a 60GB iPod with Rockbox on it so you can have gapless playback and FLAC support like you do on your Karma?
Transcoding from AAC to a LOSSLESS codec means NO quality loss. That's why it's called LOSSLESS compression. Just because it's compressed does not mean there are dithering and artifacts! It wouldn't be a lossless codec otherwise.
AAC to AIFF or WAV = PCM (no quality loss)
AAC to Apple Lossless, FLAC, APE, etc = lossless (no quality loss)
AAC to MP3/OGG/whatever = lossy (quality loss)
(I suspect you knew that and just mistyped, but it needed to be said for the tards who think that they can burn an iTunes playlist to CD and re-rip to MP3 and think "voila!")
Prove it. I'm not opening the machine -- and if it needs to be serviced, I remove the bootloader so that it doesn't boot Rockbox first (instead of the Apple firmware.)
According to what I've read, iriver is leaving the hard disk-based MP3 player market. The iPod is now the most widely-available high-capacity player you can put Rockbox on -- unless you want to buy a used iRiver off ebay that doesn't have a warranty.
Actually Ogg does play on the iPod, now that Rockbox is running on it: www.rockbox.org Completely gapless playback w/Rockbox, too, with Ogg (and FLAC.)
And your degree in copyright law comes from what correspondence law school?
Several more words:
Iraq (while engaging Iran)
Osama Bin Laden (while a Muhajaddin)
Yeah, that's another P2P apologist line of bull, that almost all albums only contain 2 or 3 (or 1 or 2) good songs, that the rest are just filler. I've had people use that line on my to justify why they download stuff illegally. As far as I'm concerned, if the majority of albums you listen to only contain 1-3 good songs, then your taste in music sucks. (Which isn't to say that I didn't use to use P2P myself and that I don't currently use Usenet -- but let's be honest about it!)
Not only have they gone after the non-existent WMD's in Iraq, but also capital punishment and the population being controlled by cable news channels...
I told him it was a P3/800 with 128MB of RAM, which really wasn't even enough to run Win2K efficiently. He said, "oh, that's more than enough to run XP. XP's so much better than Windows 2000. I haven't had to look for a driver disk since I started using XP."
Needless to say, I stuck with Win2K and never asked him for any computer-related help whatsoever because I knew he was a well-meaning idiot.
I think a case could be made for one's HOSTS file falling under the same rubric -- you're filtering out objectionable content from Websites. You object to tacky advertising (or porn ads, let's say) -- you redirect it to 127.0.0.1 and voila, no ad. Derivative work? Maybe, but it's your choice, and Congress has made it legal.
And yes, under the same legislation, you can now go to jail for sharing a copy of Episode III, too, but ostensibly that's not the main point of the law. The studios didn't want people to be able to skip objectionable content, period.
Actually, if you want to hear what a good Doctor Colin Baker could have been (given better scripts and none of the "Trial of a Time Lord" BS), listen to pretty much any of the audio plays that Big Finish has done. His performances are really good.
I've only listened to a couple of the Peter Davison ones, but "Spare Parts" is amazing.