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on from the no-beefs-with-better-battery dept.
X Bass writes "Available Tuesday, Dell's 15 and 20GB DJ adds to the growing field of iPod wannabes. Is it worthy or is it just another player that falls short of the iPod's greatness?"
IPod's greatness?
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More like IPod's proprietry, useless, 2 itunes background processes, overpriced crapness.
iPod's greatness?
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Anonymous Coward
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Ohmygawd, I forgot to buy an iPod!
THE GREASED-UP YODA DOLL UP MY ASS IS ON TEH SPOKE
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footballs for closet fags
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Like those highschool fags that got arrested for "initiating" new teammates by fucking them in the ass at the teams cabin.
Re:same thing that makes $300 cell phones better
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Errr... except it's not really smaller (yes maybe by a few mm it might be) and I'd MUCH rather have the sexy iRiver portable than an apple. Going into public with an apple device would make my friends question my sexuality.
In the end, the iPod is a piece of crap compared to the features and sound quality of at least the iRiver portable, I can't say much to the others. There are a few useability things the iPod may have, but then it's not really all that great to use if you have to run either iTunes OR MusicMatch to put files on it.
MOD PARENT INFORMATIVE!
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Even better, knock up some text on some faggotty subject of particular interest to Slashdot nerds, such as Linux, just interesting enough to be accepted as a story. After they've posted it to the front page, redirect the URL to you-know-where, and cackle as the geeky faggots howl and moan at sight of the holy goatse!
iPod is dying
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The *iPod Wailing Song
What's left for me to see In my ship I sailed so far What can the answer be Don't know what the questions are. And after all I've done Still I cannot feel the sun Tell me save me In the end our lost souls must repent. I must know it is for certain Can it be the final curtain As long as the wind will blow I'll be searching high and low. Who knows what's really true They say the end is so near Why are we all so cruel We just fill ourselves with fear. And heaven and hell will turn All that we love shall burn Hear me trust me In the end our lost sould must repent. I must know it is for certain Can it be the final curtain As long as the wind will blow I'll be searching high and low Final curtain Final curtain
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flask of ripe urine pressed to iPod lips iPod drink up
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you iPod fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a iPod box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this iPod box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various iPod machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a iPod box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the iPod machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that iPod is a "superior" machine.
iPod addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a iPod over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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It is common knowledge that *iPod is dying. Almost everyone knows that ever hapless *iPod is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *iPod is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *iPod community. The numbers continue to decline for *iPod but iPod may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for iPod continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpeniPod leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpeniPod. How many users of iPod are there? Let's see. The number of OpeniPod versus NetiPod posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetiPod users. iPod/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetiPod posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of iPod/OS. A recent article put iPod at about 80 percent of the *iPod market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 iPod users. This is consistent with the number of iPod Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, iPod went out of business and was taken over by iPodI who sell another troubled OS. Now iPodI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that *iPod has steadily declined in market share. *iPod is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *iPod is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all pra
The Apple Zealotry on this site is out of hand!
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Why must all you Zealots bash everything that is not Apple. Come on, Apple stuff is overpriced, Horrible colours, and SLOW!
Take the G5 for example, it was WHIPPED into the mud by The Athlon 64-FX yet you zealots tried to justify their loss when it it is A CLEAR LOSER. Don't mention Virgina Tech either, when someone puts a Athlon 64 cluster together you are going to be hurting.
~Anyway, I have recently used a DELL at Work, and it is a very high quality machine. My next machine WILL be a DELL, and notsome 3000 cheese grater.
Re:Well...
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Not only that fagbitch, I'll surely grind your homo foreskin up as a stew and serve it to your starving crackwhore "mother" (ironic since your "mother" features both an airplane-hanger-sized vagina and a monstrous semen-dribbling cock). Given some nourishment, your "mother" will certainly perform random acts of whatever-the-fuck-i-want, including orally sodomizing her/his pedophile "son" "Sir Haxalot". Really, aren't you dead yet?
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More like IPod's proprietry, useless, 2 itunes background processes, overpriced crapness.
Ohmygawd, I forgot to buy an iPod!
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Like those highschool fags that got arrested for "initiating" new teammates by fucking them in the ass at the teams cabin.
Errr... except it's not really smaller (yes maybe by a few mm it might be) and I'd MUCH rather have the sexy iRiver portable than an apple. Going into public with an apple device would make my friends question my sexuality.
In the end, the iPod is a piece of crap compared to the features and sound quality of at least the iRiver portable, I can't say much to the others. There are a few useability things the iPod may have, but then it's not really all that great to use if you have to run either iTunes OR MusicMatch to put files on it.
Even better, knock up some text on some faggotty subject of particular interest to Slashdot nerds, such as Linux, just interesting enough to be accepted as a story. After they've posted it to the front page, redirect the URL to you-know-where, and cackle as the geeky faggots howl and moan at sight of the holy goatse!
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The *iPod Wailing Song
What's left for me to see
In my ship I sailed so far
What can the answer be
Don't know what the questions are.
And after all I've done
Still I cannot feel the sun
Tell me save me
In the end our lost souls must repent.
I must know it is for certain
Can it be the final curtain
As long as the wind will blow
I'll be searching high and low.
Who knows what's really true
They say the end is so near
Why are we all so cruel
We just fill ourselves with fear.
And heaven and hell will turn
All that we love shall burn
Hear me trust me
In the end our lost sould must repent.
I must know it is for certain
Can it be the final curtain
As long as the wind will blow
I'll be searching high and low
Final curtain
Final curtain
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pressed to iPod lips
iPod drink up
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you iPod fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a iPod box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this iPod box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various iPod machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a iPod box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the iPod machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that iPod is a "superior" machine.
iPod addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a iPod over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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It is common knowledge that *iPod is dying. Almost everyone knows that ever hapless *iPod is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *iPod is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *iPod community. The numbers continue to decline for *iPod but iPod may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for iPod continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpeniPod leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpeniPod. How many users of iPod are there? Let's see. The number of OpeniPod versus NetiPod posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetiPod users. iPod/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetiPod posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of iPod/OS. A recent article put iPod at about 80 percent of the *iPod market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 iPod users. This is consistent with the number of iPod Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, iPod went out of business and was taken over by iPodI who sell another troubled OS. Now iPodI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that *iPod has steadily declined in market share. *iPod is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *iPod is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all pra
Why must all you Zealots bash everything that is not Apple. Come on, Apple stuff is overpriced, Horrible colours, and SLOW!
Take the G5 for example, it was WHIPPED into the mud by The Athlon 64-FX yet you zealots tried to justify their loss when it it is A CLEAR LOSER. Don't mention Virgina Tech either, when someone puts a Athlon 64 cluster together you are going to be hurting.
Anyway, instead of laughing at Mandrake, Windows and Dell, try looking at your own Problems. Panther is DESTROYING firewire drives.
~Anyway, I have recently used a DELL at Work, and it is a very high quality machine. My next machine WILL be a DELL, and notsome 3000 cheese grater.
Not only that fagbitch, I'll surely grind your homo foreskin up as a stew and serve it to your starving crackwhore "mother" (ironic since your "mother" features both an airplane-hanger-sized vagina and a monstrous semen-dribbling cock). Given some nourishment, your "mother" will certainly perform random acts of whatever-the-fuck-i-want, including orally sodomizing her/his pedophile "son" "Sir Haxalot". Really, aren't you dead yet?