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Going.....going......Zune to the bidder from LinuxWorld. Yes, you can go now and try to put Linux on it.

Wow, that is crap.

Meh...big fat hairy deal:

- "iPod Killer" this is not
- it might be as 'cool' as any Creative or iRiver offering, but doesn't even compare to an iPod

White lettering on black screen = hurt eyes.

DOA.

By the time the second iteration arrives...it will be so far behind it will look like a Discman.

By the way...why the hell don't they put an AM radio in these things? Don't people get news, information and conversations of interest through AM? Why not?

MDN's talking "iPod Nano" pop-up ad is actually making me despise not only MDN, now when I hear the words iPod Nano I actually cringe.

I'm getting a Zune.

Keep flushing all of that money down the toilet MS!

MS Zune: "Think iPod, but in reverse."
MS Windows: "Think Mac, but in reverse."

Good job MS, way to be innovative.

Sick and tired!

You're sick, we're tired! (of you already)

"I'm getting a Zune."

Not any time "zune" you aren't, hope you don't get "sick and tired" of waiting!

AM is dead. Nobody, except maybe Americans, use it. You'll be hard pressed to find anywhere in Europe, a market amost 3 times as big as the US, that uses it.
To answer your question:
"Don't people get news, information and conversations of interest through AM? Why not?"
No, nobody in the world outside US uses AM.
Why not? Because AM sucks really hard.

I am actually surprised how good the zune will be. Don't get me wrong, I'm keeping my iPod and probably buying a new iPod next time. But this is actually better than what I thought they'd be able to create. So I hope they enjoy their 5% market share that they will get, if they are lucky and there aren't virius' and glitches (which we haven't found out yet).

"MDN's talking "iPod Nano" pop-up ad is actually making me despise not only MDN, now when I hear the words iPod Nano I actually cringe."
Block it! or are you on a windows machine?

"White lettering on black screen = hurt eyes."

It also uses more battery power. Constantly

activating all of those LCD pixels uses more

juice. Not to mention the characters being hard

to see unless the backlighting is running all

of the time. I bet the display will be hard to

read in the sun.

Black characters on white= Mac
White characters on white= MS-DOS

The Zune? They should have just called it Poo.

tryd, AM travels huge distances compared to FM. Europe is full of small countries that all speak different languages. Therefore there is no reason to use AM.

The same goes for many other technologies. Many of these countries that are compared to the US are geographically TINY and may not have had any technology preceding it. Look at Japan, tiny country almost totally destroyed in WWII. Of course it has the best technology, nothing is more than 50 years old. Telecommunications service only covers a fraction of the area of the US.

If you want to compare the US to other countries please use Canada, Australia, etc. Large, non-communist countries that don't rely on prison and sweatshop labor.

Sigh, another plastic gizmo trying to pass as an iPod. Fact: the metal back of the iPod is 90% of its fashion appeal. Because of that, when you hold it in your hand it feels expensive and valuable, like a watch with a metal back is more attractive. But because people who don't buy music players claim that the iPod is "too expensive", everybody tries to cut costs, and the metal back is always the first thing to go.

iPod competitors: stop listening to whineyboys on the Internet. No matter what you do, a device with the capacity that people want is going to cost around $200 for the entry-level version. When people are spending this much, they'd rather pay an extra $25 for something built well than accept something cheaply made. Use metal.

@tryd:

In America, AM radio is essential for news, traffic reports, and baseball games. It's FM that's going the way of the dodo bird. I could care less about FM, especially on my iPod, but I do wish I could get AM so that I can listen to baseball games if nothing else.

Each individual design decision kind of makes sense...but the blatant avoidance of Apple's motifs is typical Microsoft. "Black instead of white" (as with the mouse pointer in WIndows) is just like "Recycle bin" rather than "Trash," "Shortcut" rather than "Alias," "Explorer" rather than "Finder," even (stretching the point a bit) "ThinkPad" vs. "PowerBook."

So they avoided the Apple comparisons by inverting the properties; then they added the stuff that iPod doesn't have...these all seem like the logical moves for somebody trying to compete with iPod.

But, in the end, it's someone trying to create the iPod. And you just can't do that because Apple already did.

tryd "You'll be hard pressed to find anywhere in Europe, a market amost 3 times as big as the US, that uses it."

what is the "market" based on, GDP of both are about the same? Population is a bit higher, like 30 something percent... so that cannot be it either.

This is the best thing that can happen to ipod. People will realize that there really is no other substitute (for ipod).

As predicted, Zune's WiFi integration is underwhelming. OK, so I can loan music to somebody for a day, but streaming it to an Xbox 360 costs $100 for the adapter? Will you be able to sync with a computer wirelessly?

All I see is some questionable functionality at the expense of cost and battery life.

Are they sure the guys who made the UMPC didn't have a hand in this as well?

The WiFi feature will never work. More that

one person within a 100 mile radius would

have to buy a Zune for it to work.

After all the headlines for the Zune I must say that this is a bit underwhelming. The press made it sound like it was going to leave the iPod in the dust but there really isn't anything out of the ordinary about this player. If I was to use a non iPod mp3 player I think the samsung and scandisk to be much better options than the Zune. Truly this is much ado about nothing.

one of these days...Bang Zune ... to the moon

Bleh. Typical Microsoft. Big promises to start with, utter mediocrity when finished. If anything, Zune will make people want iPods even more because they see how bad the supposed #1 "iPod killer candidate" is.

You idiot. Thinkpad was made by IBM... IBM MADE the frackin' G5 processors. The GUTS of Apples were IBMS.

and btw, white on black uses less battery power.

Remind me why I should care about this? Even if it were as good as an iPod, I already own two iPods (20gb, 4gb Nano).

A day late and a dollar short.

Why didn't they go green text on black? At least then it would look like DOS. So retro man.

Interesting thing... the talking pop-up ads manage to make their presence known running Firefox 1.0 on Mac OSX, but are completely blocked using Firefox 1.5 on Win2K. What gives with that??

'Zune' I'll be getting an iPod next gen... Maybe even pick up a spare older model on eBay. I'm starting to like the notion of collecting some of the original iPods just for historical purposes - and they still work just fine. I like the firewire ports - wish the new ones still had 'em.

MDN magic word "radio" - as in, I don't want no stinkin' radio in my iPod.

I love how Micro$oft takes everything Apple does and just reverses it clumsily.

@huh?

Why are you still using Firefox 1.0 on OSX? There's obviously a reason - I just can't think of it.

The pics from Gizmodo look like they were taken by a minimart security cam...

@huh?

And why are you using Win2K? There's obviously a reason - I just can't think of it.

So with the X-box and this Zune thing I guess MS is slowly moving into the Hardware business.

Pretty soon they will be doing PC boxes just like Apple - well not just like Apple - just like Apple but the opposite.

The next phase of the PC wars?

Until you've driven across Saskatchewan at night in January when it's -40C/-40F and no city or town with a radio station is less than 200 miles/ 320 kilometres away and you want to know whether a blizzard is on its way, don't knock AM radio from a country that can broadcast only on FM at five watts because it's only four square kilometres wide and butting up against another country that's populated with yet another 200 million people speaking yet another language.

Besides, the real good stuff is on 50,000-watt AM radio: George Noorey interviewing aliens from the planet Mong between 25 minutes of ads each hour, for example.

Not to beat a "missing feature" to death but AM radio is often a better signal and does offer, sports, news, weather, traffic, and lots of talk radio of all kinds. FM radio offers a compressed signal for music and is subject to a lot of interference. I probably listen to at least an hour of AM radio every day. It's really seen a resurgence with the growth of talk radio and the homogenization of radio programming on the FM band. Seriously...if some manufacturer of an MP3 player quietly included AM in the feature set...I'd buy one...and I own three iPods and love them including a first gen that still works great...no battery replacement ever.

Someone help me please
I deleted and emptied the trash with my Originals Pictures in it is there anyway to recover those files??????? I have movies on there that are not saved anywhere please tell me i can get them back


S O S HELP

Until you find out whether there's any software that can recover the movies, don't save anything more to the disk! You might obliterate the files with the new stuff.

@jarrettnewsdaily

You have to use Time Machine.

i would use an AM radio attachment on my iPods.

Does anyone know of a technical limitation such that they could not just add it to the existing radio remote that they sell.

1. FM for the gym audio system
2. AM for news/traffic/weather/live sports
3. iPod for music
___

4. Profit!

AM matters because it matters in the U.S.

I don't care one wit about Europe. If I wake up tommorow and it has disappeared, that's fine with me. Europeans are cowards, fools, and fags.

to dunx


yeah i understand that...

but seriously does anyone know of away to recover my files? or to revert my computer back to a previous day so that the files are back????

please just help someone else has had to of had this problem before

Zune is a complete me-too product, skimping in some areas (size, asthetics, etc...) in order to try and compete in other arena's that are necessarially markets.

When MS says this is a four - five year endevor, it is because they are back at the same old game. Throw Zune at the wall with a bunch of advertising (I will not use the word marketing - this product does not deserve such acolades) dollars, and see what sticks. Over the course of serveral years and revisions, they may get something right, but how much share will they really have is the question?

Most importantly, when will Zune become profitable? If ever?

Near the time Zune launches, Apple will have countered with the all new nano - untouchable at it's price point, and iPhone, which will steer the gadget market a different direction for $300...

Oh, Apple will offer a slighly revised iPod with 40 and 80 GB hard drives at the same price points.

Plastic? People aren't going to buy that.

http://getkickedoffaplanewearingthis.blogspot.com/

Jarrett,

Don't save anything to the drive you deleted the files from...it could over right the data. Of course if you use secure delete it probably is gone for good.

Go to http://www.pcinspector.de. They have free software that can recover "SOME" file types.

Or wait for "Time Machne" in Leopard.

I meant "over write" the data

"FM support is fairly complete, with both an FM tuner and an FM transmitter so you can beam the music to your car. The FM transmitter also feeds up Song and Artist information so you can see what's playing from your car stereo (if it supports that feature, like in GM cars). Pretty neat."

This is from the gizmodo report. And thats a cool feature. As a whole i wont say that it is compelling enough to ditch my iPod but it is a stronger player then anything creative has come up with.

Plastic? Right - people will inherently feel the difference in quality between the iPod and the Zune - and immediately justify the iPod as the product they want to plunk down $300 - $400 for.

Jarrett...

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/datarecovery.html

This is the only program that I've heard of that might possible work. You need to know, that in it's current version, the mac 0S isn't designed to allow recovery of files after they've been deleted easily. A friend of mine used this site to recover some movie files from a folder that had been trashed using this software. But not all of them.

The earlier advice about stop using your mac is correct. Surfing the net downloads files into cache... possible overwriting your files. Get the software in the above url and then try and get the files back.

good luck (crossing fingers)