I bet you've seen plastic "fiber optics" but maybe didn't realize it. Think monofilament fishing line. Think over-priced, cheaply made, battery operated souvenirs hawked at almost any theme park, beginning at sunset. A quick google search for fiber optic toys returns over a million results, but I find this link slightly more interesting. http://www.lumigram.com/catalog/product_info.php?c Path=1&products_id=39&osCsid=cf68985ddf6950a6751c1 2a74172c970
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That and Napster didn't really provide much value above and beyond competitive alternatives
I agree with almost everything you wrote and I'm usually someone who would never rent/lease anything. But I do think Napster's subscription model offers value above and beyond the other music stores I've encountered.
The value I find in Napster is one of discovery. For $10/month I can legally download as many full albums as I want, not the useless 30 second song clips the other guys offer, and I can listen to them at home or on the road via my laptop. This allows me to hear the work of many artists which I never would otherwise. I just wouldn't know to look for their work in a store, or I would be hesitant to spend money on their CD, having not heard their full album. That alone has been worth the price of admission to me.
I've subscribed for about 18 months now and have well over 1,000 albums in my collection on my home pc and laptops. Of those I've converted roughly 200 albums to mp3 format so that I can also take them with me on my mp3 player. (Illegal in today's world but I don't feel guilty.) If their store was compatible with my player, I wouldn't mind paying the extra 5 bucks a month to legally transfer their music to it. Of course if Napster goes away, I'll likely lose access to all of the albums I have not converted to mp3 by then, but I still feel the 10 bucks a month was well worth it considering how much new-to-me music I've found. That's less than a satellite radio subscription, and I get to pick the playlists.
I also have faith in the idea that if Napster does go away, someone will eventually come out with a "fix" for all of the locked files sitting in half-a-million former subscribers music folders.
Take no offense to the obscure website remark. Good job on being a top search result with something actually useful to public.
But I stand by my comment that people shouldn't have to track down how to have the batteries replaced. I own laptops, cameras, and cell phones which all use batteries other than AA, but I can replace every one of them myself without sending the item away or taking it to a geek counter for service. That is very different from an ipod. As a matter of fact that was the deciding factor for me when it came time to purchase a music player. I wanted to be able to carry multiple batteries, for periods when I would be away from wall sockets for more than a couple days.
The general public is not as smart as you may think when it comes to such matters. For years and years they bought overpriced, sealed battery flashlights with no user replacable batteries. When the lights stopped working they tossed them and bought another. Apparently there are quite a few who think the same about a fashionable music player, otherwise there wouldn't be a need for a ipodbatteryfaq now would there?
This battery crap has been so thoroughly debunked it's unbelievable. I have answered nearly every question I can think of about iPod batteries here:
Of course I didn't read your faq because I chose a music player which allows me to replace my own AA battery anytime I wish. But seriously, do you really expect the general public to track down your obscure faq on the web to find out what they should do about a failing battery? A failing battery in a device that most likely cost them one to several hundred dollars? I find that unbelivable.
Either way, I'm sure someone will come up with an algorithm that detects blurred images automatically. It may not be 100 percent proof, but that's still a lot better.
Nikon has sold consumer cameras with a similar feature for a few years now. They call it BSS (Best Shot Selector.) I've not used it myself but I have heard many good reports on it's effectiveness from fellow photographers. The feature allows you to shoot a series of images in quick succession and the software compares the images to select the best frame before storing it to the memory card.
Maybe you can blame the US Army Corps of Engineers for the media and everyone else talking about broken levees. After all, they are the experts. Regardless of whether the canal walls structurally failed or were simply topped by surge + waves, the end result was massive failure of the entire levee in those locations. Being pedantic in this case is pointless since a broken canal wall leads to a broken levee leads to a flooded city.
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I agree with most of what you said, especially your last statement. But your shortest statement is a bit misleading, although true according to official reports.
Most of the reported dead so far have been in MS, not LA. Many rescue workers have said they feel the number of dead they find drowned in their own homes is going to be staggering. Not to mention those who climbed into their attic and succumbed to heat exhaustion before breaking out. They have also reported all day that dead bodies were floating by and even being pushed aside as rescue workers concentrated on rescuing the visible survivors.
I'm afraid we're going to see some large fatality figures in NO before all is over.
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Better yet, what happens when two planes cross paths?
My guess is all calls get dropped; and those two planes don't make their scheduled arrival times.
What the hell is this?
If you're reading this there's 99% chance you're wasting your time on Slashdot.
Guilty as charged.
I bet you've seen plastic "fiber optics" but maybe didn't realize it. Think monofilament fishing line. Think over-priced, cheaply made, battery operated souvenirs hawked at almost any theme park, beginning at sunset. A quick google search for fiber optic toys returns over a million results, but I find this link slightly more interesting.c Path=1&products_id=39&osCsid=cf68985ddf6950a6751c1 2a74172c970
http://www.lumigram.com/catalog/product_info.php?
I would be interested to learn exactly how they collected this data.
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Thee is a LOT more info found on the page linked below than in the page linked in the summary.
http://www.mines.utah.edu/~rbsmith/RESEARCH/UUGPS
From Dell's blog...
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That and Napster didn't really provide much value above and beyond competitive alternatives
I agree with almost everything you wrote and I'm usually someone who would never rent/lease anything. But I do think Napster's subscription model offers value above and beyond the other music stores I've encountered.
The value I find in Napster is one of discovery. For $10/month I can legally download as many full albums as I want, not the useless 30 second song clips the other guys offer, and I can listen to them at home or on the road via my laptop. This allows me to hear the work of many artists which I never would otherwise. I just wouldn't know to look for their work in a store, or I would be hesitant to spend money on their CD, having not heard their full album. That alone has been worth the price of admission to me.
I've subscribed for about 18 months now and have well over 1,000 albums in my collection on my home pc and laptops. Of those I've converted roughly 200 albums to mp3 format so that I can also take them with me on my mp3 player. (Illegal in today's world but I don't feel guilty.) If their store was compatible with my player, I wouldn't mind paying the extra 5 bucks a month to legally transfer their music to it. Of course if Napster goes away, I'll likely lose access to all of the albums I have not converted to mp3 by then, but I still feel the 10 bucks a month was well worth it considering how much new-to-me music I've found. That's less than a satellite radio subscription, and I get to pick the playlists.
I also have faith in the idea that if Napster does go away, someone will eventually come out with a "fix" for all of the locked files sitting in half-a-million former subscribers music folders.
Take no offense to the obscure website remark. Good job on being a top search result with something actually useful to public.
But I stand by my comment that people shouldn't have to track down how to have the batteries replaced. I own laptops, cameras, and cell phones which all use batteries other than AA, but I can replace every one of them myself without sending the item away or taking it to a geek counter for service. That is very different from an ipod. As a matter of fact that was the deciding factor for me when it came time to purchase a music player. I wanted to be able to carry multiple batteries, for periods when I would be away from wall sockets for more than a couple days.
The general public is not as smart as you may think when it comes to such matters. For years and years they bought overpriced, sealed battery flashlights with no user replacable batteries. When the lights stopped working they tossed them and bought another. Apparently there are quite a few who think the same about a fashionable music player, otherwise there wouldn't be a need for a ipodbatteryfaq now would there?
This battery crap has been so thoroughly debunked it's unbelievable. I have answered nearly every question I can think of about iPod batteries here:
Of course I didn't read your faq because I chose a music player which allows me to replace my own AA battery anytime I wish. But seriously, do you really expect the general public to track down your obscure faq on the web to find out what they should do about a failing battery? A failing battery in a device that most likely cost them one to several hundred dollars? I find that unbelivable.
I burn, rip and share it, and give away copies to anyone who asks ;-)
Link please.
Is Christiane Amanpour on her way to the moon?
One can only hope.
Either way, I'm sure someone will come up with an algorithm that detects blurred images automatically. It may not be 100 percent proof, but that's still a lot better.
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Nikon has sold consumer cameras with a similar feature for a few years now. They call it BSS (Best Shot Selector.) I've not used it myself but I have heard many good reports on it's effectiveness from fellow photographers. The feature allows you to shoot a series of images in quick succession and the software compares the images to select the best frame before storing it to the memory card.
http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/ei_cs/faq/qa/qno_1
the windmills in CA. killed over 6000 birds in one year.
So? "Nationwide, rural cats probably kill over a billion small mammals and hundreds of millions of birds each year." http://wildlife.wisc.edu/extension/catfly3.htm
I say we burn the cats for fuel, or as a cleaner alternative, round them up and throw 'em on a big ass treadmill.
I'm curious, what does one do with ten 60GB iPods?
If I win, I'll have 9 new iFriends.
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Woldry, meet Oprah - Oprah, Woldry.
Fire up the press and happy selling!
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I'd be very careful before opening that rar file, for more than one reason.
Due to spam, email is now no longer a reliable means of transportation, ...
Dude, that whole information superhighway thing was just a metaphor, or something.
Under my grubby paw sits a 2 or 3 year old Logitech optical scroll mouse for notebooks. It was the only one I could find with a power switch at that time but now almost all of their notebook mice have a similar feature. Some have a storage compartment for the USB dongle which cuts the power when stowed.
I think SUV drivers are morons...
I think global warming is real, man-made and bad...
And anyone that hears you spouting such nonsense only thinks less of you and the cause you stand for. That's bad for everyone.
FWIW, I drive a Honda and not an SUV but your attitude still irks me and is no less radical than the one you replied to. Where is your evidence?
Add kudzoo to that list here in NC. The only thing that could kill it off would be a really, really, really big goat.
Maybe you can blame the US Army Corps of Engineers for the media and everyone else talking about broken levees. After all, they are the experts. Regardless of whether the canal walls structurally failed or were simply topped by surge + waves, the end result was massive failure of the entire levee in those locations. Being pedantic in this case is pointless since a broken canal wall leads to a broken levee leads to a flooded city.
Are you refering to Lenna?
One of her Playboy photos was widely used as a standard for testing image compression algorithms.
I agree with most of what you said, especially your last statement. But your shortest statement is a bit misleading, although true according to official reports.
Most of the reported dead so far have been in MS, not LA. Many rescue workers have said they feel the number of dead they find drowned in their own homes is going to be staggering. Not to mention those who climbed into their attic and succumbed to heat exhaustion before breaking out. They have also reported all day that dead bodies were floating by and even being pushed aside as rescue workers concentrated on rescuing the visible survivors.
I'm afraid we're going to see some large fatality figures in NO before all is over.