On 2009-08-27 13:59, Rob wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009 04:54 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
I'd bet, though, that even with eclectic music tastes you have
certain listening patters that could be satisfied by having multiple
1,600 song (the number of 5MB songs that can fit in 1000MB) playlists.
Wel
On Thursday 27 August 2009 04:54 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I'd bet, though, that even with eclectic music tastes you have
> certain listening patters that could be satisfied by having multiple
> 1,600 song (the number of 5MB songs that can fit in 1000MB) playlists.
Well, first of all, I tend to lis
On 2009-08-26 22:43, Rob wrote:
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:46 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
Same with CPUs: an AMD64x2 4000+ and nvidia 7300 meet all my needs.
As far as RAM, I went to 1GB about 5 years ago, and it was Good
Enough. When I got a new mobo a couple of years ago, RAM was so
cheap, I
On 2009-08-26 23:57, Chris Metzler wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:02:52 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
Nah, that's just the Reality Distortion Field commanding him.
It's phenomenal. You didn't actually read a word of my post, did you?
Actually, I did. My mistake for not adding a smiley.
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:02:52 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Nah, that's just the Reality Distortion Field commanding him.
It's phenomenal. You didn't actually read a word of my post, did you?
-c
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On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:46 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Same with CPUs: an AMD64x2 4000+ and nvidia 7300 meet all my needs.
> As far as RAM, I went to 1GB about 5 years ago, and it was Good
> Enough. When I got a new mobo a couple of years ago, RAM was so
> cheap, I just had to go with 8GB, a
On 2009-08-26 20:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:09:59 am Ron Johnson wrote:
Delayed gratification is irrelevant to the issue being discussed.
Nobody is suggesting that Chris would have better CDs and more of
them if he waits to get home and listen to music.
But he could have
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:09:59 am Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Delayed gratification is irrelevant to the issue being discussed.
> > Nobody is suggesting that Chris would have better CDs and more of
> > them if he waits to get home and listen to music.
>
> But he could have spent his money on an MP3 playe
On 2009-08-26 12:52, Rob wrote:
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 02:43 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
However did we survive in the eras of CDs, cassette tapes, 8-track
tapes, transistor radios, or before?
We also survived in the days before email, yet here you are.
And I could still live without it...
A
On 2009-08-26 15:30, Duncan wrote:
Ron Johnson posted on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:09:59 -0500 as excerpted:
But he could have spent his money on an MP3 player which, in order to
keep costs reasonable, trades high capacity for higher quality sound.
MP3 and high quality sound? Isn't that a bit like
On 2009-08-26 14:07, Rob wrote:
[snip]
Hey, hippies (and their equally empty-headed moral descendants, showing up
at staged "town hall" meetings now to protest the looming spectre of having
to pay less for a necessity)
I'll believe that when winged pigs squeeze out of Ann Coulter's arse.
Ron Johnson posted on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:09:59 -0500 as excerpted:
> But he could have spent his money on an MP3 player which, in order to
> keep costs reasonable, trades high capacity for higher quality sound.
MP3 and high quality sound? Isn't that a bit like that old song (which I
hear at wo
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:09 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> But he could have spent his money on an MP3 player which, in order
> to keep costs reasonable, trades high capacity for higher quality sound.
> If such a beast even exists...
My 160GB Archos cost less than an 80GB iPod when I bought it, an
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 08:30 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Technology enables people to mistake "nice to have" for "essential to
> have". Nobody worried about having to leave their music collection at
> home when they went out when music was on CDs, or albums, because it
People also went for day
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 02:43 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> However did we survive in the eras of CDs, cassette tapes, 8-track
> tapes, transistor radios, or before?
We also survived in the days before email, yet here you are.
> > Or as I've mentioned, if you for instance get talking to someone abou
On 2009-08-26 08:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:18:53 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
All of this is about convenience. I have over 4,000 CDs. A
high-storage player matters a lot to me, too, for the reason above:
the higher the capacity, the more likely I am to have with me what
I wa
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:18:53 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-26 02:41, Chris Metzler wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:43:22 -0500
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> On 2009-08-25 10:01, Duncan wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>> But if it's all there on the MP3 player, there's no need to worry
> >>> ab
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:18:53 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> > All of this is about convenience. I have over 4,000 CDs. A
> > high-storage player matters a lot to me, too, for the reason above:
> > the higher the capacity, the more likely I am to have with me what
> > I want when I want it. Of *course*
On 2009-08-26 02:41, Chris Metzler wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:43:22 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-25 10:01, Duncan wrote:
[snip]
But if it's all there on the MP3 player, there's no need to worry
about trying to decide just /what/ to copy over, and then finding
you're in a totally dif
On 2009-08-26 01:19, Gerald L wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-25 19:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Yes, but think of it... you're driving along a lonely country road
when aliens abduct you and take you up to the mothership. Hu-man,"
they say, "Emperor Xymatvfg!ohq has sent us to des-troy your
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:43:22 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-25 10:01, Duncan wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > But if it's all there on the MP3 player, there's no need to worry
> > about trying to decide just /what/ to copy over, and then finding
> > you're in a totally different mood, and it's the
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-25 19:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Yes, but think of it... you're driving along a lonely country road
when aliens abduct you and take you up to the mothership. Hu-man,"
they say, "Emperor Xymatvfg!ohq has sent us to des-troy your
dis-gusting plan-et unless you immed
On Tue, 8/25/09, Ron Johnson wrote:
...
> > At last! Someone understands why I need 4,000
> > books in my basement and another thousand upstairs.
>
> But that's just it: you have them in your house, not in an
> uber-Kindle From Hell that you carry everywhere!
True, but I do pine for them when I
On 2009-08-25 19:55, Alan Meyer wrote:
On Tue, 8/25/09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
...
What will you do now? Is the fate of the entire world worth
the risk?
At last! Someone understands why I need 4,000 books in my
basement and another thousand upstairs.
But that's just it: you have them in
On 2009-08-25 19:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:43:22 am Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-25 10:01, Duncan wrote:
[snip]
But if it's all there on the MP3 player, there's no need to worry
about trying to decide just /what/ to copy over, and then finding
you're in a totally diffe
On Tue, 8/25/09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
...
> What will you do now? Is the fate of the entire world worth
> the risk?
At last! Someone understands why I need 4,000 books in my
basement and another thousand upstairs.
At last, now even _I_ understand it. I am sure now that I can
finally make
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:43:22 am Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-25 10:01, Duncan wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > But if it's all there on the MP3 player, there's no need to worry
> > about trying to decide just /what/ to copy over, and then finding
> > you're in a totally different mood, and it's the /wrong/
On 2009-08-25 10:01, Duncan wrote:
[snip]
But if it's all there on the MP3 player, there's no need to worry about
trying to decide just /what/ to copy over, and then finding you're in a
totally different mood, and it's the /wrong/ thing for your new mood,
when you're on your trip and don't ha
Ron Johnson posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:58:50 -0500 as excerpted:
> I don't understand this.
>
> A PC can store all your FLACs organized by artist and album, using
> symlinks to create playlists, and also "echo" them into low-bitrate MP3s
> for you to regularly copy into your MP3 player+earbuds
On 2009-08-24 11:59, Duncan wrote:
Rui Maciel posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:12:09 +0100 as excerpted:
There is always the option to use an external HD to store your media.
But that ruins the experience, as it's yet another piece of stuff to keep
track of and potentially lose while traveling
Rui Maciel posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:12:09 +0100 as excerpted:
> There is always the option to use an external HD to store your media.
But that ruins the experience, as it's yet another piece of stuff to keep
track of and potentially lose while traveling -- or leave it at home and
forget th
Rob posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:50:39 -0400 as excerpted:
> I've thought about a netbook as an mp3 player too, but compared to the 3
> by 5 inch Archos, even the 7" Eee was too bulky. It had to fit into my
> jacket pocket. But the netbooks may be my only choice now that SSD has
> taken over th
Rob wrote:
> Maybe someone will come out with a 5" smartbook with a hard disk in it, but
> I guess I'm not holding my breath for that ;)
There is always the option to use an external HD to store your media.
Rui Maciel
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On Monday 24 August 2009 04:50 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > First of all, I had to wait until one shipped with something other
> > than the tiny SSDs they put in the Asus EEEs and as, it seems, the
> > primary option on the initial AA1s. I'd been waiting /years/ for a
> > proper MP3 player with > 10
On Monday 24 August 2009 02:15 am, Duncan wrote:
> First of all, I had to wait until one shipped with something other than
> the tiny SSDs they put in the Asus EEEs and as, it seems, the primary
> option on the initial AA1s. I'd been waiting /years/ for a proper MP3
> player with > 100 gigs of spa
On 2009-08-24 03:59, Martijn Otto wrote:
Perhaps they want to play lossless files. Should be possible with a
user replacable firmware.
"Replaceable firmware" is orthogonal to wanting 10s of thousands of
songs in the palm of your hand.
Besides, those tiny ear buds are pretty horrible, so huge
Perhaps they want to play lossless files. Should be possible with a
user replacable firmware.
2009/8/24 Ron Johnson :
> On 2009-08-24 01:15, Duncan wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> First of all, I had to wait until one shipped with something other than
>> the tiny SSDs they put in the Asus EEEs and as, it se
On 2009-08-24 01:15, Duncan wrote:
[snip]
First of all, I had to wait until one shipped with something other than
the tiny SSDs they put in the Asus EEEs and as, it seems, the primary
option on the initial AA1s. I'd been waiting /years/ for a proper MP3
player with > 100 gigs of space, that
> - Original Message -
> From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>
I wasn't expecting much from this little sucker, but now I'm loving it. THE
reason I made a real effort to discover Linux! These little suckers just run
better on Linux & the need all the help they can get. I've never hated
M
Doug Saylor posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:43:35 -0500 as excerpted:
> A few of you guys were S helpful... I'm hoping you can help me find
> a list that can help me with my current problem. I'm using a Netbook,
> Acer Aspire One, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 & I have AT&T 3G Broadband.
> It's work
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