The difference between using your computer and this device is that this device is dedicated for ripping songs. Go to your friends house and walk out with their entire collection in an hour. A computer on the other hand isn't meant just for ripping music. Joe Schmoe computer science major can program a ripping program very easily and upload it to the internet so everyone can use it. This machine's sole purpose is to rip music.
If you go into a local CompUSA and look at all the computers, give it two weeks and all the computers will be different. Out in Hobuck county, high speed internet finally gets out there and Mr. Joebob decides to get a computer so goes and gets one. He walks into the local computer store and sees a cheap $299.99 computer and says, sweet, finally a good deal. Gets it home and it dies 1 day after its 90-day warranty. Gets pissed and never buys another one. Plus, Mr. Joebob's wife has no idea how to use a computer and never touched it in the first place. There goes one family from the computer age. Oh, and don't forget, Mr. Joebob is going to tell his friends to not buy from the company he bought his lemon from.
Next, the dot-com boom really sparked a lot of people to get online. There were things to do online. Everyday, new dot-com startups were forming. Now, there are retively few reasons to go online. Research, shopping, gaming and e-mail. Sure, there are other reasons to go online, but not everyone knows these reasons. Everyone that got the internet when it was the thing to do are canceling because there are more things to do. E-mail is being replaced by text messaging on cell phones. You can get unlimited text messages for 9.99, way cheaper than most internet services.
Also, the number of viruses is outrageous. You go online and walk off with ITDs (Internet Transmitted Diseases). Mr. Joebob will never update his antivirus and as far as he cares, he bought it once, thats all he needs to buy. Why should he have to buy it every year. With the amount of spam mail, I am almost ready to ditch e-mail and go pay 9.99 for text messaging since everyone and their cousin has cell phones. Porn is everyone on the net. You can search for something like "Body Piercing" because you want to get a belly button ring and see more anatomy than you do in Med-School.
I for one am glad I have the router I do. I can assign up to 5 different websites to a MAC address and thats all that computer can surf to. When my kids get old enough to use the computer by themselves, that will be enabled. The internet is way less safe than it was in the late 90s.
And I didn't realize that the logo on the device uses the iPod logo with a "u" "l" "a" inserted into it. Talk about trademark infringement. These guys are brave.
How long til the RIAA finds this out and makes them disappear from the face of the earth. Good idea, but I have a feeling it won't hit the market, and if it does, it won't be there long.
What is the difference of using a macro inside the game and simply clicking on the icon in your item bar? Nothing. This is pointless. Whenever I make a post to a GM in-game, I always get the "We are investigating this issue" message. $20 says GMs are nothing but bots too. I will soon be going to a lowbie zone and upping my crossbow skills since I just got a much better crossbow in my Rogue than the bow I had (stats anyways). I say we spam the hell outta blizz's inbox and see if they notice that this kind of stuff won't be tolerated.
I totally agree. I have used Photoshop since version 4. I still use Photoshop 7 because for what I do, I haven't seen a need to go to CS or CS2. But I will continue to use Photoshop.
Was he ordered to give back the laptop after he was involved legally with them, or before? If its after, then he could be charged with obstruction of justice or tampering with evidence. Anywho, how do they know he used a secure delete software unless the moron left the software installed on the system after he deleted the files.
I would probably try the game if I could be a Klingon or a Furangi (spelling?). But I guess I will wait until they add that in, or if they add that in.
I agree. EU is just trying to show they aren't big wusses. Let them all go OSS and when the people want M$ back...tell them no. If EU wants to try to nickle and dime M$ outta money, let them try. I would tell them to piss off.
No one cares about the poor little mice. As far as they care, they are disposable. But if this was able to be done to humans, it would be a whole different story.
I own the HP zd8110 (nearly identical to the zd8000). I love it. It weights about 8.5 poinds, a huge 17" screen and quite a bit of power. I do video editing, photo editing, games and the common office applications on it. Its worth every penny and every pound. I am almost tempted to move my desktop and give it a permanent home on my desk. Power and compact size, its a wonderful life.
My district just got our 20mbps line put in and this thing flies. I download at around 4 megabytes per second. Thats a 100meg file in under a minute. Very generous and hope its used well.
Though I have nothing wrong with OSS, an open source voting machine just smells bad. There are tons of great and nice people out there willing to make the system better and help fix holes, but there are others looking for the holes and trying to exploit them. Though I am a techie, I would prefer paper ballots. Maybe a different method of paper ballots so no more "hanging chad" incidents, but paper none the less. Now we just have to work on getting people other than people that can't count higher than 10 to count the ballots.
We have a limit of 5gb of storage on the server in the mailbox. We use Exchange 2003, but we have no limit on their personal storage. We map their My Documents location to a server so if the machine goes down, they can log into any other machine on campus and there is their documents. We really encourage the use of Personal Folders, but most don't so the size taken up from.pst files is minimal. I personally have kept every e-mail from my hire date (almost a year now). They all reside in my.pst file and its only about 150mb. If teachers fail to delete mail and the mailbox gets too full, they quit getting e-mail until they clear up space which usually we get a tech request asking us why their e-mail doesn't work. We just go in and delete a bunch of old e-mails and that works. Most of it is crap e-mails that have pictures in it that their friends sent them of their vacation. I would love to have the e-mail restricted to intra-district mailing only, but that would cause a revolution with these teachers.
I want to see some benchmarks with and AMD X2, AMD64, Pentium Duo and a Pentium 4 to see if the hardware limitations were true or not. Would be great to see AMD come out on top of this one.
I play World of Warcraft and one of the people I played with always had another person in the group. It always confused me because the other guy never talked and he never talked to the other guy. After a month or so, I finally asked him who he was and it was his dad. The guy I was playing with was only 12 and his dad wanted to make sure he wasn't being manipulated. I thought it was cool. It was him and his dad getting time together and having fun. I plan on doing it with my kid when he/she is old enough.
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Sorry, but I consider AOL to be as evil, if not a little more than Microsoft.
I would try it if they gave a free 30-day trial like WoW did. Thats how I got hooked on WoW.
You have a point, but it is very easy to take music off an iPod. Plus, the songs it rips aren't DRM'd (I know itunes doesn't DRM rips either).
The difference between using your computer and this device is that this device is dedicated for ripping songs. Go to your friends house and walk out with their entire collection in an hour. A computer on the other hand isn't meant just for ripping music. Joe Schmoe computer science major can program a ripping program very easily and upload it to the internet so everyone can use it. This machine's sole purpose is to rip music.
Next, the dot-com boom really sparked a lot of people to get online. There were things to do online. Everyday, new dot-com startups were forming. Now, there are retively few reasons to go online. Research, shopping, gaming and e-mail. Sure, there are other reasons to go online, but not everyone knows these reasons. Everyone that got the internet when it was the thing to do are canceling because there are more things to do. E-mail is being replaced by text messaging on cell phones. You can get unlimited text messages for 9.99, way cheaper than most internet services.
Also, the number of viruses is outrageous. You go online and walk off with ITDs (Internet Transmitted Diseases). Mr. Joebob will never update his antivirus and as far as he cares, he bought it once, thats all he needs to buy. Why should he have to buy it every year. With the amount of spam mail, I am almost ready to ditch e-mail and go pay 9.99 for text messaging since everyone and their cousin has cell phones. Porn is everyone on the net. You can search for something like "Body Piercing" because you want to get a belly button ring and see more anatomy than you do in Med-School.
I for one am glad I have the router I do. I can assign up to 5 different websites to a MAC address and thats all that computer can surf to. When my kids get old enough to use the computer by themselves, that will be enabled. The internet is way less safe than it was in the late 90s.
Go to target, walmart, whatever and buy a $10 crosscut shredder. If you don't want your identity stolen, is $10 really that much.
And I didn't realize that the logo on the device uses the iPod logo with a "u" "l" "a" inserted into it. Talk about trademark infringement. These guys are brave.
How long til the RIAA finds this out and makes them disappear from the face of the earth. Good idea, but I have a feeling it won't hit the market, and if it does, it won't be there long.
What is the difference of using a macro inside the game and simply clicking on the icon in your item bar? Nothing. This is pointless. Whenever I make a post to a GM in-game, I always get the "We are investigating this issue" message. $20 says GMs are nothing but bots too. I will soon be going to a lowbie zone and upping my crossbow skills since I just got a much better crossbow in my Rogue than the bow I had (stats anyways). I say we spam the hell outta blizz's inbox and see if they notice that this kind of stuff won't be tolerated.
Agreed. The Mythbusters did an experiment (I use that work loosely), but Ginger seemed to be the one thing that acutually worked.
I totally agree. I have used Photoshop since version 4. I still use Photoshop 7 because for what I do, I haven't seen a need to go to CS or CS2. But I will continue to use Photoshop.
Was he ordered to give back the laptop after he was involved legally with them, or before? If its after, then he could be charged with obstruction of justice or tampering with evidence. Anywho, how do they know he used a secure delete software unless the moron left the software installed on the system after he deleted the files.
I would probably try the game if I could be a Klingon or a Furangi (spelling?). But I guess I will wait until they add that in, or if they add that in.
I agree. EU is just trying to show they aren't big wusses. Let them all go OSS and when the people want M$ back...tell them no. If EU wants to try to nickle and dime M$ outta money, let them try. I would tell them to piss off.
I guess Tennessee will have no video games except Pokemon and Barbie games.
Well, lets see here, $10 per ticket where I live, they can piss off. No wonder ticket sales are down.
No one cares about the poor little mice. As far as they care, they are disposable. But if this was able to be done to humans, it would be a whole different story.
I own the HP zd8110 (nearly identical to the zd8000). I love it. It weights about 8.5 poinds, a huge 17" screen and quite a bit of power. I do video editing, photo editing, games and the common office applications on it. Its worth every penny and every pound. I am almost tempted to move my desktop and give it a permanent home on my desk. Power and compact size, its a wonderful life.
My district just got our 20mbps line put in and this thing flies. I download at around 4 megabytes per second. Thats a 100meg file in under a minute. Very generous and hope its used well.
Though I have nothing wrong with OSS, an open source voting machine just smells bad. There are tons of great and nice people out there willing to make the system better and help fix holes, but there are others looking for the holes and trying to exploit them. Though I am a techie, I would prefer paper ballots. Maybe a different method of paper ballots so no more "hanging chad" incidents, but paper none the less. Now we just have to work on getting people other than people that can't count higher than 10 to count the ballots.
We have a limit of 5gb of storage on the server in the mailbox. We use Exchange 2003, but we have no limit on their personal storage. We map their My Documents location to a server so if the machine goes down, they can log into any other machine on campus and there is their documents. We really encourage the use of Personal Folders, but most don't so the size taken up from .pst files is minimal. I personally have kept every e-mail from my hire date (almost a year now). They all reside in my .pst file and its only about 150mb. If teachers fail to delete mail and the mailbox gets too full, they quit getting e-mail until they clear up space which usually we get a tech request asking us why their e-mail doesn't work. We just go in and delete a bunch of old e-mails and that works. Most of it is crap e-mails that have pictures in it that their friends sent them of their vacation. I would love to have the e-mail restricted to intra-district mailing only, but that would cause a revolution with these teachers.
I want to see some benchmarks with and AMD X2, AMD64, Pentium Duo and a Pentium 4 to see if the hardware limitations were true or not. Would be great to see AMD come out on top of this one.
Sounds like the government wants people to take responsibility for what they say.
I play World of Warcraft and one of the people I played with always had another person in the group. It always confused me because the other guy never talked and he never talked to the other guy. After a month or so, I finally asked him who he was and it was his dad. The guy I was playing with was only 12 and his dad wanted to make sure he wasn't being manipulated. I thought it was cool. It was him and his dad getting time together and having fun. I plan on doing it with my kid when he/she is old enough.
The Mac Mini has never come with a mouse or a keyboard anyways.