JamesSavik

Any road in a never to be sufficiently damned summer thunder storm.

No mention of my story the Inquisitor http://www.gayauthors.org/story/jamessavik/theinquisitor ~600 views, good comments

I love the croissant! Slice one in half, add sliced smoked turkey, Swiss cheese, mayo, lettuce & tomato. OH... and bacon

I hear that some people are calling for a boycott of Ender's Game. Now I didn't like it but I went along with the Chick Fillet thing. I'm drawing the line at Ender's Game. I suggest a punishing boycott of asparagus as an alternative. That'll show the bastards!

Oh my God... The newsreader read right through it without blinking.

Not this millennium.

Because most "zombie movies" look like they were made in some jr high kids basement. They did do a good job on the movie from a technical standpoint.

Why did the salmon cross the road?

Happy Birthday Joe! All my best wishes for a great year to come.

meh... country muzak. When you are actually FROM the country, it gets pretty old.

Oh holy crap! This is like Christmas. And WTF is he doing with that bat?

I prefer Disney's mythology.

Mickey & Minnie

A similar number signed the Biological and Chemical Weapons convention- some while running biological and chemical weapons programs so large that they spanned hundreds of installations and hundreds of thousands of workers. Nations lie when its in their best interest. They are also known to sign "politically correct treaties" for political purposes and then do absolutely nothing to enforce them. CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) is caused by a virus spread by mites that afflict honeybees. It has nothing to do with Monsanto or GMO corn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder I can believe that some animal populations can recover enough to find their way off of the endangered list. I'm not sure that this is the case with humpback whales. A lot more population studies need to be done. I am less than impressed by some environmentalists hysterical claims. They do more harm than good. When they are proven wrong, it destroys credibility that they will need in a REAL crisis.

That's FRANKEN-stein! I doubt total head transplants will work. We don't do so well with reconnecting nerves once they've been cut. If you figure that one out there are tons of people suffering from paralysis who would benefit.

CD players took off fast. Their advantages, especially in car stereo, pushed them forward and the prices down. Compared to cassette players they were a quantum leap forward in sound and reliability. On the home audio front, the first and loudest voices were for multi-disk CD players. As the first generation players could only deal with one CD at a time, they were inconvenient and people wanted to play their CDs in batch. The first answer to multi-CD players was the CD magazine or cartridge. They typically could hold 6 CDs and could play for hours. They often came with remote controls making them much more convenient than single disk players. This Pioneer CD player holds its disk in a magazine or cartridge. The problem here is with long term reliability. With extended use, the moving parts can wear out and malfunction in rather spectacular acts of mechanical suicide. The second approach to the multi-disk CD player is the carousel. The carousel usually allows six CDs to play with an ability to program them or play random selections. Once again, this is a design with moving part that can fail with use. This particular CD carousel can play DVDs as well.

The final evolution of the CD player is the high capacity player. This model can hold up to 301 disks. They always come with a remote and are very heart of many home systems. So... where are CD players going in the future? The Numark MP103USB might be a sign of things to come. It has a CD player but also has MP3 capabilities as well. It can interface directly with PCs via a USB connector. It is a powerful and capable gadget and retails for ~$200. The future is convergence and every sign is pointing in that direction. This concludes our look at CD players.