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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Why do the idiots at EE Times think they can buy an hour of my time,
for some stupid market research, with a chance to win an iPod? If I
wanted to stupify myself with music 24 hours a day, I'd do it myself.

And besides, if I was of the iPod generation, why do they think my
opinions would be worth anything?

Grrrrr.

John
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Why do the idiots at EE Times think they can buy an hour of my time,
for some stupid market research, with a chance to win an iPod? If I
wanted to stupify myself with music 24 hours a day, I'd do it myself.

And besides, if I was of the iPod generation, why do they think my
opinions would be worth anything?

Grrrrr.

John

I have an iPod ;-) I copy books on tape or CD to it when I travel.

...Jim Thompson
 
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Genome

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Why do the idiots at EE Times think they can buy an hour of my time,
for some stupid market research, with a chance to win an iPod? If I
wanted to stupify myself with music 24 hours a day, I'd do it myself.

And besides, if I was of the iPod generation, why do they think my
opinions would be worth anything?

Grrrrr.

John

The world is populated with people who are not as intelligent as you but are
paid enough money for doing something useful to have a residual income that
is available to others who do nothing useful other than sucking the residual
income from the people who are useful.....

It's a big complicated world out there, you're just caught in the crossfire.

DNA
 
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Noway2

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Why do the idiots at EE Times think they can buy an hour of my time,
for some stupid market research, with a chance to win an iPod? If

The idiots at EE Times, or more generically Reed Business, are amongst
the worst offenders for churing out spam mail. I personally have them
added to the kill file list. I would like to bounce everything back at
them at an email that would receive the bounces so that they can choke
on all their crap.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Noway2 said:
The idiots at EE Times, or more generically Reed Business, are amongst
the worst offenders for churing out spam mail. I personally have them
added to the kill file list. I would like to bounce everything back at
them at an email that would receive the bounces so that they can choke
on all their crap.


Mailwasher lets you bounce all unwanted E-mail on a pop server.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Philip Pemberton

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim said:
I have an iPod ;-) I copy books on tape or CD to it when I travel.

I've got a Sony Minidisc portable here (the MZ-N710, second-generation NetMD)
and I do pretty much the same thing. Audiobooks, music (mostly classic rock -
Journey, etc.) and recordings of lectures. Basically a digital tape recorder
that fits in a shirt pocket.

I've actually got an MZ-RH1B on back-order. It's a third-gen HiMD Minidisc
portable, with digital upload and download, optical and analogue inputs, a
cute little OLED display and a ton of other stuff I can't remember right now.
Minidisc.org are calling it "the most perfectly realised Minidisc instrument
to date". Only thing I can see wrong with it is there's no external power port
- I guess the solution to that is to scavenge a mini-USB connector and hack
together a 2xAA-to-5V converter.

--
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If mail bounces, replace "06" with the last two digits of the current year.
 
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David L. Jones

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim said:
I have an iPod ;-) I copy books on tape or CD to it when I travel.

Audio Books are great!
I've got a MuVoTX-FM, doubles as a 1GB memory stick, and no cables.
Terrific.
An FM transmitter connects it through the car stereo, better than
talk-back shows.

Dave :)
 
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David L. Jones

Jan 1, 1970
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David said:
Audio Books are great!
I've got a MuVoTX-FM, doubles as a 1GB memory stick, and no cables.
Terrific.

BTW, how damn cheap are the asian copies of these USB stick MP3 players
these days!!
For only a few dollars more than a regular USB stick you get an MP3
Player with funky LCD display built in. Incredible.

Dave :)
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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The world is populated with people who are not as intelligent as you but are
paid enough money for doing something useful to have a residual income that
is available to others who do nothing useful other than sucking the residual
income from the people who are useful.....

It's a big complicated world out there, you're just caught in the crossfire.

Well I'm grateful to those people, without whom I'd be the dumbest
person on Earth.

John
 
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The Real Andy

Jan 1, 1970
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Why do the idiots at EE Times think they can buy an hour of my time,
for some stupid market research, with a chance to win an iPod? If I
wanted to stupify myself with music 24 hours a day, I'd do it myself.

And besides, if I was of the iPod generation, why do they think my
opinions would be worth anything?

Sounds like software vendors to me. Win a free iPod if you spend $80k
on websphere. Yay. Hows get fucked sound and i will buy me the ipod
instead.
 
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Keith

Jan 1, 1970
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BTW, how damn cheap are the asian copies of these USB stick MP3 players
these days!!
For only a few dollars more than a regular USB stick you get an MP3
Player with funky LCD display built in. Incredible.

About a year ago I bought an MP3 player that plugs into an
automotive AUX connector (aka cigarette lighter). It takes
standard USB sticks and plays over the FM radio. $30 at
WallyWorld.
 
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David L. Jones

Jan 1, 1970
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Keith said:
About a year ago I bought an MP3 player that plugs into an
automotive AUX connector (aka cigarette lighter). It takes
standard USB sticks and plays over the FM radio. $30 at
WallyWorld.

Now here I was thinking that "WallyWorld" only existed in a National
Lampoons movie!
Holiday Road....

Dave :)
 
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Noway2

Jan 1, 1970
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David said:
Now here I was thinking that "WallyWorld" only existed in a National
Lampoons movie!
Holiday Road....

Dave :)

Yes, and every time I go there, I get so happy that I sing zippy-do-da
out my f-----g a--hole.
 
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YD

Jan 1, 1970
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BTW, how damn cheap are the asian copies of these USB stick MP3 players
these days!!
For only a few dollars more than a regular USB stick you get an MP3
Player with funky LCD display built in. Incredible.

Dave :)

For you, maybe. Around here the authorities go "Hey, it's foreign
technology, let's tax it", then the resalers go "Hey, imported
technology is for the rich and well-off, let's put a huge margin".
Sort of self-fulfilling.

- YD.
 
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David L. Jones

Jan 1, 1970
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YD said:
For you, maybe. Around here the authorities go "Hey, it's foreign
technology, let's tax it", then the resalers go "Hey, imported
technology is for the rich and well-off, let's put a huge margin".
Sort of self-fulfilling.

Ebay is your friend!

I buy lots of stuff from from the US via eBay that is wayyyy cheaper
than I can get here in Australia. GPS's and brand name headlamps are
two examples.

Computer and other consumer products though are best got from Singapore
via eBay. The postage usually costs more than the actual product does!

Dave :)
 
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YD

Jan 1, 1970
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Ebay is your friend!

I buy lots of stuff from from the US via eBay that is wayyyy cheaper
than I can get here in Australia. GPS's and brand name headlamps are
two examples.

Computer and other consumer products though are best got from Singapore
via eBay. The postage usually costs more than the actual product does!

Dave :)

BTDT. Importing by a private citizen is an automatic 60% tax, with the
postage added, on top of that any sales and other taxes they can get
away with, usually pulled straight out of their asses.

Marking it "gift" doesn't help, they'll look up the market value of
any "similar" goods and charge you for the bother. Importing
second-hand goods is definitely verboten.

And they still complain about the huge contraband market...

- YD.
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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BTDT. Importing by a private citizen is an automatic 60% tax, with the
postage added, on top of that any sales and other taxes they can get
away with, usually pulled straight out of their asses.

Marking it "gift" doesn't help, they'll look up the market value of
any "similar" goods and charge you for the bother. Importing
second-hand goods is definitely verboten.

And they still complain about the huge contraband market...

- YD.

Better throw the bums out...


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
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Roy L. Fuchs

Jan 1, 1970
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For you, maybe. Around here the authorities go "Hey, it's foreign
technology, let's tax it", then the resalers go "Hey, imported
technology is for the rich and well-off, let's put a huge margin".
Sort of self-fulfilling.

- YD.

Oh boy! I have seen those crap MP3 players go for hundreds of
dollars, and they have ONE function. Weeeeee...


I have a PSP, and it plays MP3, UMD movies (now dying), MP4 videos, a
picture viewer, and has WiFi connectivity to the world, so it also has
a web browser.

Oh yeah... did I mention the wide format hi res screen?

Last but maybe least for some, it plays games. Older versions can
even run an emulator and can play some Mame games or other DOS type
games.

$249 for a kit pkg with a 23MB mem stick. $200 bare bone, and buy
your own Memory stick (1GB for $40).

Hundreds of accessories being sold online.

Only complaint is that it has weak audio power, and requires an amp
in front of your headphones, but hey, Sony saw this and sells the fix.

I have never seen a Sony audio product this weak on power. Must
have been a trade off to allow to time allotment for a complete film
to play.
 
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David L. Jones

Jan 1, 1970
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YD said:
BTDT. Importing by a private citizen is an automatic 60% tax, with the
postage added, on top of that any sales and other taxes they can get
away with, usually pulled straight out of their asses.

Marking it "gift" doesn't help, they'll look up the market value of
any "similar" goods and charge you for the bother. Importing
second-hand goods is definitely verboten.

They used to do that here in Australia, and a few people were unluckly
enough to get caught doing the "gift" thing, as the duty tax limit was
about $250 or so. But now the limit is like $1000, so you can now
import some great stuff leagally without paying any duty.

Dave :)
 
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YD

Jan 1, 1970
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They used to do that here in Australia, and a few people were unluckly
enough to get caught doing the "gift" thing, as the duty tax limit was
about $250 or so. But now the limit is like $1000, so you can now
import some great stuff leagally without paying any duty.

Dave :)

That was a couple of years ago, they may have eased up on things now.
Now that the exchange rate is getting favourable again I may try to
get something cheap off ebay and see what happens.

A friend of mine ended up spending the equivalent of $40 for a $10
item. He still thinks it was a good deal as it's unavailable here and
going through an importer would have cost even more. Some bit or piece
for an RC car, his latest hobby.

- YD.
 
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