On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:30:12PM +0100, Padraig Brady mentioned:

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Tom wrote:
> If the set passes around enough then more people have these works. the
> more folks  that have them now, while they are still legal to have, the
> likely they  will be left behind in the possible/probabale copyright
> chillout..and if  that doesnt happen then more folks than not will still
We will be getting BlackNet-like guerilla P2P pretty soon. Packaging it
into wormcode with an initial userbase of a few 100 k to Mnodes gives you
pretty bulletproof plausible deniability.
> have it for uses all manner of shades.

Mr Fork writes:
Jim Whitehead writes:
> > For toddlers, pressing play must cause the music to start immediately,
> > within half a second, for the toddler to get the causality and not press
> the
> > button multiple times.
> Or some sound indicating that the music will start real soon now.
A tonal countdown would be nice.
> > What would the ideal toddler CD player be like? It would immediately start
> > playing a CD after it was loaded.
> It'd be an MP3 player with solid state storage... instant on.
Hmm. Seems like every CD player should include the
capability to rip, encode, and cache the last few CDs
inserted.
Playback would then never need to face seek delays...
after the initial ripping, the only use of the laser
pickup would be recognizing which CD is inserted --
which might be doable faster than a seek-and-start-at-
first-track operation.
You could also take the CD out while it is "playing".
Hmm. If the CD is still in the cache, maybe you don't
even have to insert it. Or choose it from a step-through
UI. Instead, you just wave it at an electronic eye of
some sort... and the player recognizes it from the
silkscreening. Kids would like that. "Play this," they'd
say, facing the CD at the player, and the player would
start immediately.
- Gordon