Reviving undead threads of weeks and months past
This is a response to a message that Jim accidentically sent privately
to me--posted with his permission:
Jim Sheldon jim.shel...@gmail.com writes:
On Mar 16, 2010 8:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Joshua Judson
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote:
Last I looked only the iPod and a handful of Creative devices supported
this, but I'd like to find something that did (or that I could hack to
do it). I'm trying to avoid
RD labrats producing `high-value IP' ...
Yah, right. Like any of those types are going to leave that stuff
behind.
Sure, the rules say they have to leave them behind. The rules are
ignored. Just like the rules about not bringing cell phones into
hospitals, or turning them off
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
... people working in government or industry where
there is a concern about espionage, accountability, privacy, or fodder
for blackmail or public criticism (so:
On 03/16/2010 05:52 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but
then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music
playing.
I did get the Clip and it's great except that it doesn't do playcounts.
Which makes it about
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote:
Last I looked only the iPod and a handful of Creative devices supported
this, but I'd like to find something that did (or that I could hack to
do it). I'm trying to avoid buying both Apple and Creative gear.
-Bill
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes:
On 03/16/2010 05:52 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but
then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music
playing.
I did get the Clip and it's great except that
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
I have the Sansa Fuze - playes Ogg Vorbis just fine. It's picky on
the movie format (non-free H.264/AAC with some weirdness), but someone
built an app (using libwine, unfortunately) that does the conversion
on Linux.
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes:
I'm afraid I haven't followed the thread (something about sandbags, sump
pumps, and river depth managed to put me into full-out thrash mode),
Eek--hope you've got that all under control, now.
so I don't know if RockBox was mentioned or not; if not, here
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
If you'd be content with something that has RF transceivers,
microphones, and/or cameras ...
The market for devices without at least one of those is fast
approaching zero, and most manufacturers have already
Nice list. Going through it:
On 03/16/2010 05:47 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
* The Touchboo
... a little big for foran iPod-replacement
agree
* The Pandora
vapor at this point. They show pictures of mass production from last
year but not available until the end of this year?
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
If you'd be content with something that has RF transceivers,
microphones, and/or cameras ...
The market for devices without at least one of those is fast
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
... people working in government or industry where
there is a concern about espionage, accountability, privacy, or fodder
for blackmail or public criticism (so: G-men ...
Government people carry BlackBerries and
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
I'm looking for a new music-player to replace my iPod Video,
which died over the weekend.
Oh--of course I forgot to include in the `candidates' list, below:
I'm afraid I haven't followed the thread (something about sandbags, sump
pumps, and river depth managed to put me into full-out thrash mode), so I
don't know if RockBox was mentioned or not; if not, here are some links
for consideration:
http://www.rockbox.org/
http://lwn.net/Articles/169103/
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
- *Several* radios
- Microphone
- Camera
Just curious, why the opposition to those? I would think that, if
we're talking hacker-appeal, that
I'm looking for a new music-player to replace my iPod Video,
which died over the weekend.
The reason I bought that iPod was that, at the time, iPods were not
yet particularly hostile toward projects like Rockbox or iPod Linux,
and the hardware was nice. It looks like that line of iPods was the
I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but
then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music
playing.
With a data plan, you can stream live music directly from Jamendo as you
walk down the street.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Joshua Judson
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
I'm looking for a new music-player to replace my iPod Video,
which died over the weekend.
Oh--of course I forgot to include in the `candidates' list, below:
* NanoNote http://sharism.cc/products/ben-nanonote/:
Cheap, expressly
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
I'm looking for a new music-player to replace my iPod Video,
which died over the weekend.
The reason I bought that iPod was that, at the time, iPods were not
yet
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
- *Several* radios
- Microphone
- Camera
Just curious, why the opposition to those? I would think that, if
we're talking hacker-appeal, that more_gizmos==better? :-)
(I can understand not wanting
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