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iPod's Two-Year Anniversary
the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow writes "Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. This Sunday's New York Times Magazine has a long article on it: The Guts of a New Machine."
to devolve from "Soul" to "Guts".
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
Hey, it's also the Two-Year Anniversary of when I started paying for my iPod, which continues to this day.
Anybody who has an iPod knows how cool they are, and if you have one of those imitation players, you owe Apple for being the first to innovate. I love my pod.
I can tell one thing for sure about Apple. They have brilliant marketing - they take simple MP3 player does some magic advertising and tadam! we have the thing that changes culture
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco
"But then you meet the girl, and she says, 'Let me see what's on your iPod.' You pull out a tape player, and she walks away."
Hmm.
iPenisenvy?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
The hard disk only spins briefly so fill the 32MB cache. (Or is it 64? Not sure.) After that, music plays from the cache. Even so, I've dropped my iPod while the HD was spinning, and after a brief heart attack, discovered it was still running fine.
(Phew.)
Young, stupid and camera owning...a dangerous combination...
True. Maybe they should apply for a job with Apple's customer service. They're the ones that told him to replace the entire iPod even though they offer a replacement battery.
The original poster was "CmdrTaco," an editor here and also a well-known troll.
Hey, I think we finally found a post that contains legitimate irony on Slashdot. Now all the grammar nazis can relax!
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Slashdot is not a person. It is however something akin to a rorschach test.
War is necrophilia.
1) You mean you can't afford one. 2) It's the same iPod for Mac & Windows. Has been for 6-12 months. 3) RTFA. It covers the fact that the "Design" is more abot how it works than how it looks. Doh!
As a side note, who's bright idea was it to use USB 1.1 for a 20 Gb HD? Oh, Firewire isn't standard on PCs? That's too bad.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
iT iS wiTh out a doubt the best piEce of hardware iHave purchased since my AmiGa 500.
iCannot liVe wiThout iT.
iT has changed me and the way iSpell.
This
It took me a little while to realise that this was caused by my wallet banging against the remote control...
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A product not meeting your exacting needs means that its not meeting your exacting needs, not that its "flawed".
2) No ogg vorbis support.
Fuck Ogg. Fuck it up its stupid ass. Outside of about 5 regular trolls on Slashdot, nobody cares about Ogg.
Its "allow 6 to 8 weeks" not "we will NOT give it to you before 6 weeks". They usually ship before that, if they are not too busy or anything. But if they are busy, say, its getting close to xmas and everyone is shipping stuff all over the place, then its gonna take longer. Hence the 6 to 8.
My friend bought DVDs off Amazon once, took 9 weeks to get here. Of course, he had used an "e with acute accent" to correctly name the city, and somewhere in the long chain of transmitting this info the e acute got transformed into seven A, so the thing was shipped to another continent and back (wich is odd, because it clearly stated Canada on the damn thing, I don't really see why they sent it to germany...go figure).
You can't take the sky from me...