Also, I totally forgot to mention. The Archos is a whole lot cheaper than the Nomad. It costs $350, whereas the cheapest I've seen the Nomad for is $450, but it's typically $500. You get more bang for your buck with the Archos.
Use the Archos Jukebox 6000 instead. It has a few similarities to the Nomad: it's an MP3 player built onto a ~6 GB laptop hard drive, which interfaces with your PC via USB.
However, there are a number of differences which make it better IMHO. The Archos appears as a FAT32 formatted drive with a drive letter, to which you can drag and drop your MP3 files and directories (yes, that's right: directories, nested as deeply as you like). The Nomad has a proprietary closed means of getting the music to the device, and you need to use their special software to do it. And since the Archos is just a USB hard drive to the computer, you can use it to store more than just MP3s. The display for the Archos is smaller than for the Nomad, but full text of the song title (ID3 tag info) will scroll past, so that's no sticking point.
Windows 2000/98 treats the Archos as a USB storage device, loading the appropriate drivers for that. This is at least a degree closer to being hackable than the way Creative does it. I think most linux hackers would prefer to write a driver for a generic USB storage device than write a driver for a proprietary device with a narrow range of usefulness. Also, Archos, or the people who they license their USB bridge technology from, may be more willing than Creative to open up their interfaces for writing open-sourced drivers.
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Yeah, I mean, if it isn't directly related to computers, what good is it? I mean, who cares if they can split the atom, or splice genes. I just want my Napster.
</SARCASM>
So, does anybody know when these things will be available for purchase? It's not in the "store" section of their website. Also, I called the 800-SUN-4USA (or 800-USA-4SUN, don't remember which) and the guy I talked to told me to request price quotes from an email address that turned-out to be non-existent.
It's just a phrase I heard a lot growing up. Doesn't sound right without the "liberalism" bit. Then again, "liberalism" and "conservativism" are very relative labels that can be defined to mean pretty much what you want them to, for the convenience of the user. These days, I find "liberal" being used as a label for those who want to have their cake and eat it too, and have the government regulate everything under the sun.
The Times reported earlier last week too that a young man in Washington State called his genetics counselor with a guilty conscience: several months earlier, he told her, he'd made a sperm donation. And while he knew he had an inheritable syndrome that causes heart trouble and, often, early death, he hadn't mentioned that to the sperm bank. Troubled, the counselor called the sperm bank and found that there had, indeed, been successful pregnancies with the man's sperm. She offered to counsel those families but doesn't know whether the sperm bank even passed along the information.
So what.
I don't know the genetic history of a woman before I marry her, and I won't marry her on that basis. If I decide to have kids with her, I probably won't know if there are any genetic syndromes in her family that will get passed down to our children. Should I divorce her if I find out that there are?
It's always been a lottery the way we've been doing it for thousands of years. So why should the above sperm bank situation be any different? The counsellor has no ethical business interfering in the lives of the families involved, no matter what she knows about the donor.
Just what we need: a mouse resembling a breast! Will it be called "TitMouse"? You can have two of them, one for each hand. Surfing for porn will never be the same again.
I'm sorry, I realize none of you want to hear again the whole "playing god" thing, but I really think this has gone too far. Who does man think he is, to assume the role of god and create life? Are we really that conceited that we feel we are ALLOWED to create other organisms? I wasn't even thrilled when we began cloning other species, though at least we weren't starting with a lab table and ending up with a brand new organism.
You're right. I'll stop having sex and having kids, because I'm really not worthy of creating life.
When will the realization that we are not the be-all end-all species set in, and finally limit our scientific expeditions?
When we realize that we, as a species, do not deserve to live. We should self-destruct right now. I feel so ashamed that natural selection has deemed that we should be the most successful species. I'm going to lock myself in my room and cry now. Leave me alone!
There's a kernel debugger, right? Hit a special key sequence and the whole system stops, so you can look around at data structures? Is there? Someone please say yes...
I'm sorry, but this made me laugh out-loud.
I too am curious if there is some sort of kdb under linux. This sort of thing was avaliable for SCO when I was doing driver maintenance for it at my last job (but I barely knew how to use a kernel debugger at that time). I've been sysadmining IRIX at my current job, and I've been looking for a kernel debugger and the key sequence to get into it, but haven't found it yet. (Admittedly, I haven't been looking too hard, but I'm curious nonetheless).
I don't think either one "came first". It's like asking "What came first: the peak of the mountain or the hills surrounding it?" It doesn't make any sense to separate them, because they're not separate objects. If you have a black hole, eventually things will pile-up and spiral around in its gravitational field. And if you have a black hole that's "big" enough, or old enough, then *BAM*, you've got a galaxy. End of story.
The problem is that the entire field of computing is a "boys club" (actually, this generally applies to most technical fields and physical sciences as well, which is sad). This attitude is perpetuated by the majority of the members of the field. Technically savvy people tend to be condescending to those who are less savvy, and have little patience for explaining to those who need assistance. And that's why we have such a bad reputation (can anyone say BOFH?). If you want to know what's driving away the women, here's your answer: it's us. You have to make the field more hospitable and attractive to outsiders if you don't want to drive them away. 'Nuff said.
If Emacs is embeddable, then why not have the folks at Cygnus provide support for that in their IDE? I would love the benefits that come with using an IDE, but I prefer Emacs over the barebones editors they come with.
Hope this thing has a connector for an AC adapter or a cigarette-lighter adapter. The motor will make it suck up a lot more juice than any Rio or Nomad.
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Also, I totally forgot to mention. The Archos is a whole lot cheaper than the Nomad. It costs $350, whereas the cheapest I've seen the Nomad for is $450, but it's typically $500. You get more bang for your buck with the Archos.
#1: What MP3 players support USB 2.0 yet?
#2: What motherboards support USB 2.0 yet?
I have yet to see it implemented anywhere. So why single-out Apple?
Use the Archos Jukebox 6000 instead. It has a few similarities to the Nomad: it's an MP3 player built onto a ~6 GB laptop hard drive, which interfaces with your PC via USB.
However, there are a number of differences which make it better IMHO. The Archos appears as a FAT32 formatted drive with a drive letter, to which you can drag and drop your MP3 files and directories (yes, that's right: directories, nested as deeply as you like). The Nomad has a proprietary closed means of getting the music to the device, and you need to use their special software to do it. And since the Archos is just a USB hard drive to the computer, you can use it to store more than just MP3s. The display for the Archos is smaller than for the Nomad, but full text of the song title (ID3 tag info) will scroll past, so that's no sticking point.
Windows 2000/98 treats the Archos as a USB storage device, loading the appropriate drivers for that. This is at least a degree closer to being hackable than the way Creative does it. I think most linux hackers would prefer to write a driver for a generic USB storage device than write a driver for a proprietary device with a narrow range of usefulness. Also, Archos, or the people who they license their USB bridge technology from, may be more willing than Creative to open up their interfaces for writing open-sourced drivers.
Here's some links:
Archos website
Review of Archos Jukebox 6000 at Fun MP3 Players
Yeah, I mean, if it isn't directly related to computers, what good is it? I mean, who cares if they can split the atom, or splice genes. I just want my Napster.
</SARCASM>
So, does anybody know when these things will be available for purchase? It's not in the "store" section of their website. Also, I called the 800-SUN-4USA (or 800-USA-4SUN, don't remember which) and the guy I talked to told me to request price quotes from an email address that turned-out to be non-existent.
Try your CD collection (and a decent MP3 encoding program).
Hey Bob, had any "black-outs" lately?
I've had an N-Cube for years:
www.nCube.com
Catcha' later,
Paul.
Okay Johnnie, play nice.
It's just a phrase I heard a lot growing up. Doesn't sound right without the "liberalism" bit. Then again, "liberalism" and "conservativism" are very relative labels that can be defined to mean pretty much what you want them to, for the convenience of the user. These days, I find "liberal" being used as a label for those who want to have their cake and eat it too, and have the government regulate everything under the sun.
So what.
I don't know the genetic history of a woman before I marry her, and I won't marry her on that basis. If I decide to have kids with her, I probably won't know if there are any genetic syndromes in her family that will get passed down to our children. Should I divorce her if I find out that there are?
It's always been a lottery the way we've been doing it for thousands of years. So why should the above sperm bank situation be any different? The counsellor has no ethical business interfering in the lives of the families involved, no matter what she knows about the donor.
"Planet Starbucks..."
"The Microsoft Galaxy..."
What a load of crap.
Just what we need: a mouse resembling a breast! Will it be called "TitMouse"? You can have two of them, one for each hand. Surfing for porn will never be the same again.
Can you say "gaping security hole"? I knew you could.
I'm sorry, I realize none of you want to hear again the whole "playing god" thing, but I really think this has gone too far. Who does man think he is, to assume the role of god and create life? Are we really that conceited that we feel we are ALLOWED to create other organisms? I wasn't even thrilled when we began cloning other species, though at least we weren't starting with a lab table and ending up with a brand new organism.
You're right. I'll stop having sex and having kids, because I'm really not worthy of creating life.
When will the realization that we are not the be-all end-all species set in, and finally limit our scientific expeditions?
When we realize that we, as a species, do not deserve to live. We should self-destruct right now. I feel so ashamed that natural selection has deemed that we should be the most successful species. I'm going to lock myself in my room and cry now. Leave me alone!
Catcha' later,
Paul.
Take a closer look at that icrash report, dude. The test system was running IRIX, not Linux. Sorry to disappoint.
Catcha' later,
Paul.
They make some of the finest machines available ( Octane 2000, O2 ),
:)
Perhaps you meant "Origin 2000", or just "Octane".
Catcha' later,
Paul.
There's a kernel debugger, right? Hit a special key sequence and the whole system stops, so you can look around at data structures? Is there? Someone please say yes...
I'm sorry, but this made me laugh out-loud.
I too am curious if there is some sort of kdb under linux. This sort of thing was avaliable for SCO when I was doing driver maintenance for it at my last job (but I barely knew how to use a kernel debugger at that time). I've been sysadmining IRIX at my current job, and I've been looking for a kernel debugger and the key sequence to get into it, but haven't found it yet. (Admittedly, I haven't been looking too hard, but I'm curious nonetheless).
Catcha' later,
Paul.
I don't think either one "came first". It's like asking "What came first: the peak of the mountain or the hills surrounding it?" It doesn't make any sense to separate them, because they're not separate objects. If you have a black hole, eventually things will pile-up and spiral around in its gravitational field. And if you have a black hole that's "big" enough, or old enough, then *BAM*, you've got a galaxy. End of story.
For the same reason dogs piss on lampposts.
The problem is that the entire field of computing is a "boys club" (actually, this generally applies to most technical fields and physical sciences as well, which is sad). This attitude is perpetuated by the majority of the members of the field. Technically savvy people tend to be condescending to those who are less savvy, and have little patience for explaining to those who need assistance. And that's why we have such a bad reputation (can anyone say BOFH?). If you want to know what's driving away the women, here's your answer: it's us. You have to make the field more hospitable and attractive to outsiders if you don't want to drive them away. 'Nuff said.
If Emacs is embeddable, then why not have the folks at Cygnus provide support for that in their IDE? I would love the benefits that come with using an IDE, but I prefer Emacs over the barebones editors they come with.
Hope this thing has a connector for an AC adapter or a cigarette-lighter adapter. The motor will make it suck up a lot more juice than any Rio or Nomad.
Why have only ten seconds of anti-skip? RAM is cheap. Buffer the whole song. It doesn't have to be static RAM.