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Good player (Score:3, Interesting)by Mephisto_kur (300898) on Friday January 30, @11:44PM (#8142065)(http://www.heavybrick.com/)I've had mine since before the holidays (actually meant to do a review and never got around to it). Worked perfectly out of the box. My wife and I used it for a cross country trip over the Christmas break, and never had an issue with it. I would put 16 hours as minimum for battery life. It survived on one charge the entire distance from Northern Virginia to Omaha (about 1200 miles, and 18 hours) and still had two bars on the meter left. Obviously - batteries are always a YMMV.Altho not as small as the iPod, it has a more rugged feel to it. More solid, and less fragile. Plus it doesn't look so friggin' girlie.Sound is great, but those earbuds *are* crap. The thing puts out enough power to push studio headphones - cheap ones, yes, but still. On good phones it sounds great.The version of MusicMatch included with it sucks. For those (like myself) that hate reading manuals, it is absolutely horrible. But the Windows Media Player access is logical, so I normally use that.If you do not have USB 2.0, get it. My initial transfer of about 11GB of songs took overnight. I bought a 2.0 card the next day. Transfers are exponentially faster now. Oh, and I run it through an *unpowered* hub when I use the USB1.x connection, and never had any problems with it being detected.Over all, I like it. Plus it's well padded with the C note I saved by avoiding Apple.--------------------------Re:Good player (Score:0)by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31, @12:49AM (#8142360)Plus it doesn't look so friggin' girlie.Horrors of horrors! Wouldn't want to look bad now would you.Plus it's well padded with the C note I saved by avoiding Apple.So drop it on the C note and see how your fancy Dell player stands up.Moron.[ Parent ]-------------------------------Re:Ear buds (Score:1)by beakburke (550627) on Saturday January 31, @03:22AM (#8142775)(http://slashdot.org/)Actually, as far as earbuds go, the apple earbuds are pretty good. For earbuds.--Lawrence Summers on new studies of income inequality: "All reports are now in. Life is now officially unfair."[ Parent ]------------------------------- I wish you were right (Score:0)by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31, @11:10AM (#8143876)At Head-Fi, I would say most of the new posters are people who bought an iPod, and could not stand the sound of the headphones. So after spending a great deal of money they have to buy decent headphones. As the apples are of poor design, as in fall out of most peoples ears, poor quality, and white, so they get dirty and gross looking fast. Nothing like looking at your classmates stained white cord, yellowed around the ears, and peanut butter coloured around neck. Real classy.-------------------------------Re:Good player (Score:2)by nordicfrost (118437) on Saturday January 31, @04:23AM (#8142921)(http://www.vg.no/)Plus it doesn't look so friggin' girlie.Let me guess: You're the kind of guy who watch "Queer eye for the straight guy" by accident, and cry out 'Why did they dress him up in girlie clothes?!?', right?It's a matter of style. iPod has it, while the the Dell DJ looks like it still is a prototype. Friends of mine that reviewed the Dell also says it sucks in UI and you can't even hook it up to another computer without drivers. To me, that's like flushing a 50 USD saving into the crapper.
Art Comes to Life: In a 1999 episode of TV's "The Simpsons," Homer became a temporary multibillionaire by accidentally inventing a "tomacco" plant that sprouted tobacco-bred tomatoes that were hopelessly addictive from even a single bite. Inspired (and hoping to draw attention to the show's anti-smoking message), Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Ore., tried to grow such a plant and has somewhat succeeded, although a forensic researcher believes that only the plant itself, and not the fruit, contains nicotine. In February, he announced that he would auction off the golf-ball-sized fruit.
Q. What is the best true headline ever to appear in an actual newspaper?A. In our opinion, that would be a headline from the Petersburg (Va.) Progressive-Index, over a story about a mishap during the 2001 Bike Week gathering of motorcyclists in Florida. The headline, which was sent to us by alert reader Mary Ellen Lloyd, says: ''Skydiver lands on beer vendor at women's cole-slaw wrestling event.''
"Bullshit" doesn't begin to do justice of the level of falsehood present here. We're talking about taking the very essence of falsity, distilling it over the flames of ignorance, condensing it within intestinal walls of monumentally bovine intellectual apathy and sponsoring a college kegger with the elixir-excremento obtained therefrom.
I don't know... It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to use a thesaurus.
