I'd rather use the sony stick control (plugs into the back of the tuner module) to select a track if i were travelling at 80Mph.
Of course i only have to select a new track about once a week, so that's not going to happen much. (because of the capacity of the unit, my mood sorted playlists are long)
People always make a big deal about having to lug the unit inside when they want to download music onto it.
In the old days, you had to search through your CD collection, and carry the CD you wanted to listen to to your car.
With an MP3CD system, which holds about 15 albums, you still often have to burn a CD and take it with you. If you've misplaced a CD or scratched it, you have to burn it again. If there is a particular album you want to listen to, you have to make sure you take that particular MP3CD with you, and you'll probably have to switch CDs if the albumns that you feel like listening to today, aren't all on the same CD.
With an empeg, you download your entire collection once. That's it, you never have to worry about taking music to your car ever again.
For a quick drive around town, this is no big deal, just put the radio on. When you make two 3 hour drives every weekend to get to the ski field, you really apprcieate not having CDs filling every little storage bin in your car.
The Mark II empeg features Serial, USB and Ethernet interfaces.
Many users have connected the ethernet interface to a wireless bridge so that they can upload songs whenever their car is in range of the house without having to remove the unit.
In practise, because of the capacity of the empeg, i find i only take it inside once every six months or so to put new tunes on it.
And personally, i find it much easier to drag and drop songs onto my empeg than to burn MP3 CDs.
A budget car stereo that plays MP3 CDs is no comparison to an empeg that stores up to 2500 CDs inside the dash, instantly available and thorughly cataloged. No waiting for the head unit to read the directory listing on the CD
Need to display a mathmatical formula? Well there is the small fleet-footed equation editor component that can be embeded into any OLE capable program, none of these components are tied specifically to Office, they are small reusable components(and reusable from the end users perspective too!)
FOr years and years, MS have been made it up from small reusable components. Need to display a graph in Word? Well, word doesn't have spreadsheet program built in, it embeds an Excel component.
Need a graph, well it embeds MS graph. Need an organisation chart? Well there's a seperate reusable component for that.
Your telco needs to install a DSLAM at the end of the copper section. DSL then runs over the copper between your modem and the DSLAM. After the DSLAM your packets can go straight over the ATM (or whatever over your telco uses) on the fibre back to the CO.
Problem is DSLAMs aren't cheap, so installing one to service the people in your situation takes a back seat to installing ones in COs that can serve lots more customers.
"ADSL get 1.5MBits/sec max"?
What planet do you come from?
ADSL depends mainly on the length of copper between you and the exchange (CO) which houses the DSLAM.
Here in new zealand 2MBits/s is considered the minimum acceptable speed. If you are in an area a long distance from the exchange and you get less than 2Mbit/s and you still want ADSL you have to sign a disclaimer stating that you accept the quality of service will be marginal.
At my place i get 6.4MBits/s, i think the best possible scenario is around 8-9MBits/s
If you want to use the full speed available at your house then you have to signup to a plan where the traffic is charged for. e.g 600Mb/s per month and 20cents per Mb for every Mb over 600.
Alternatively for $NZ29.95 (approx US$15) you get the speed capped at the exchange to 128Kbits/s and have no traffic charges.
These charges are just for ADSL service from the local telco, on top of that you pay an ISP to connect you to the internet and pay NZ$20-30/month for that.
Based on the number of hares currently outstanding, the common shares issuable upon conversion of the preferred shares would represent approximately 24.6 per cent of the outstanding Corel common shares after the conversion.
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bzzzz, wrong!
ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/ol d-releases/redhat-6.0/sparc/
Running it on a sparc right here... just about to install something different though, i'm sick of rebooting it twice a day.
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The cheapest empeg is $699 where as the cheapest Gidi 'micro server' is $451, the the gap isn't that huge.
No doubt this GIDI thing uses cheap 3.5inch hardrives to get the price down, so they're probably not going to hold up to in car use.
The Gidi doesn't appear to have a proper user interface either, just a small LCD display and a steering remote control.
Still there definately a market out there for cheap solutions.
Their biggest model is 20Gb.
So lets get this straight.
ipod is 10Gb = WRONG
can't transfer mp3s with ipod = WRONG
nomand is 6Gb = WRONG
At least the point about firewire being fast is correct. Wish my empeg had firewire _sigh_
I'd rather use the sony stick control (plugs into the back of the tuner module) to select a track if i were travelling at 80Mph.
Of course i only have to select a new track about once a week, so that's not going to happen much. (because of the capacity of the unit, my mood sorted playlists are long)
Ski field access roads in new zealand are like driving over dried up stoney river beds.
My car is worth jack, so i don't worry about the suspension, and i don't slow down.
My empeg has never skipped, but i have blown out a tire from hitting rocks too fast.
The empeg needs to be plugged into a powersource, so it's not as portable as the unit he mentions.
But for the senarios he lists, that's no problem the empeg would work perfectly
This is an excellent example of the limitations and problems of the MP3CD players.
If you had tried an empeg you would know that it solves all the problems you list.
"5 minutes to find a song"? Stuff that.
I've heard the Sony MP3CD units can take upto 20-30 seconds, depending on the particular CD and track layout.
People always make a big deal about having to lug the unit inside when they want to download music onto it.
In the old days, you had to search through your CD collection, and carry the CD you wanted to listen to to your car.
With an MP3CD system, which holds about 15 albums, you still often have to burn a CD and take it with you. If you've misplaced a CD or scratched it, you have to burn it again. If there is a particular album you want to listen to, you have to make sure you take that particular MP3CD with you, and you'll probably have to switch CDs if the albumns that you feel like listening to today, aren't all on the same CD.
With an empeg, you download your entire collection once. That's it, you never have to worry about taking music to your car ever again.
For a quick drive around town, this is no big deal, just put the radio on. When you make two 3 hour drives every weekend to get to the ski field, you really apprcieate not having CDs filling every little storage bin in your car.
Music can be stored in MP3 WMV or WAV.
Generally people use MP3 format allowing about 2500 CDs to be held on the highest capacity unit (dual IBM 48Gb travelstar drives).
That's about 100 days of listening if you were to listen to it 24 hours a day.
My mark I unit has an FM tuner, and the mark II has an optional FM/AM tuner.
Please check your facts.
The Mark II empeg features Serial, USB and Ethernet interfaces.
Many users have connected the ethernet interface to a wireless bridge so that they can upload songs whenever their car is in range of the house without having to remove the unit.
In practise, because of the capacity of the empeg, i find i only take it inside once every six months or so to put new tunes on it.
And personally, i find it much easier to drag and drop songs onto my empeg than to burn MP3 CDs.
A budget car stereo that plays MP3 CDs is no comparison to an empeg that stores up to 2500 CDs inside the dash, instantly available and thorughly cataloged. No waiting for the head unit to read the directory listing on the CD
Need to display a mathmatical formula? Well there is the small fleet-footed equation editor component that can be embeded into any OLE capable program, none of these components are tied specifically to Office, they are small reusable components(and reusable from the end users perspective too!)
FOr years and years, MS have been made it up from small reusable components. Need to display a graph in Word? Well, word doesn't have spreadsheet program built in, it embeds an Excel component.
Need a graph, well it embeds MS graph. Need an organisation chart? Well there's a seperate reusable component for that.
How do you disable window.open() for a specific domain ?
nasty link
You get much better deals on DSL modems from the usual computer shops
"instead of using energy, light is used" light is not energy? Damn, there's gonna be some busy scientist now that this revelation has come to light.
Your telco needs to install a DSLAM at the end of the copper section. DSL then runs over the copper between your modem and the DSLAM. After the DSLAM your packets can go straight over the ATM (or whatever over your telco uses) on the fibre back to the CO.
Problem is DSLAMs aren't cheap, so installing one to service the people in your situation takes a back seat to installing ones in COs that can serve lots more customers.
"ADSL get 1.5MBits/sec max"? What planet do you come from? ADSL depends mainly on the length of copper between you and the exchange (CO) which houses the DSLAM. Here in new zealand 2MBits/s is considered the minimum acceptable speed. If you are in an area a long distance from the exchange and you get less than 2Mbit/s and you still want ADSL you have to sign a disclaimer stating that you accept the quality of service will be marginal. At my place i get 6.4MBits/s, i think the best possible scenario is around 8-9MBits/s If you want to use the full speed available at your house then you have to signup to a plan where the traffic is charged for. e.g 600Mb/s per month and 20cents per Mb for every Mb over 600. Alternatively for $NZ29.95 (approx US$15) you get the speed capped at the exchange to 128Kbits/s and have no traffic charges. These charges are just for ADSL service from the local telco, on top of that you pay an ISP to connect you to the internet and pay NZ$20-30/month for that.
There are the same tree. NS6 is just a branch of the mozilla tree
Based on the number of hares currently outstanding, the common shares issuable upon conversion of the preferred shares would represent approximately 24.6 per cent of the outstanding Corel common shares after the conversion. http://www3.corel.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTCo ntentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTen seContentServer=62dd1ffab834691b&pagename=Corel/Pr essRelease/Details&id=CC100K15H90
Oh... alphas there too
bzzzz, wrong! ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/ol d-releases/redhat-6.0/sparc/
Running it on a sparc right here... just about to install something different though, i'm sick of rebooting it twice a day.
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