I never made any claims about Jobs' predictions for the iPod. You mis-read my comments and asked for something unrelated to what I was talking about. To explain for the umpteenth time:
If the iPhone is just like the iPod -- and note here that I am not claiming that you said this, though TheRealMindChild did -- then the iPhone's sales will follow the basic trend of the iPod's sales. The known sales record of the iPod in its first two years is a tiny fraction of Jobs' stated goal for iPhone sales in 2008. By the standards set by Jobs himself, that would be a failure.
If it isn't true that the iPhone is just like the iPod (the only other option), then it makes no sense to say the iPhone will be a success just because the iPod was (eventually). Since that doesn't mean that the iPhone won't be a success, I find it amazing that this is such a controversial proposition, especially one that could anger you so.
You do seem to have some incredible problems with your vision and your temper. Your rage blinds you to the quote from Jobs sitting in your face and prompts you to invent claims that I've never made. Hell, you can't even mock my hyperbole correctly: I said a dozen times, not 20.
I'd ask you to calm down, but I don't think I have the patience to wait that long.
Look, I've had this discussion about a dozen times before. Either you claim that the iPhone is just like the iPod, in which case it'll sell approximately 1/20th of what Jobs claimed it will in its first year, or the iPhone isn't just like the iPod, in which case extrapolating the iPod's success for the iPhone makes no sense. Since the latter option still allows for your belief that the iPhone will be a big success, why don't we agree on that one and be done with it?
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So apparently Stallman doesn't think owners of businesses deserve the same rights and protections that consumers get. Well, when you put it like that, it sounds pretty good to me.
On the Series 2 boxes at least, it's incredibly easy to disable the DRM. DirectShow Dump will remove the DRM from videos transfered via TiVoToGo. The hack script The Zipper disables DRM permanently for new recordings, in addition to enabling a lot of other cool stuff. It requires a bit more effort, but it's relatively painless if you're already going to the effort to upgrade your drives.
I don't know about the Series 3 boxes. They're not really worth the money anyway, so I haven't looked into it.
Now, you do bring up an interesting point about blocking software players, and just eliminating them altogether. Setting aside the problems this would cause with the likes of Microsoft and other players heavily invested in the concept of HTPCs, it might slow things down. However, I don't think there's any reason to think that they keys can't be extracted from the hardware -- that's just too good of a technical challenge to pass up. And again, if the rate at which keys get compromised is much, much faster than the rate at which compromised keys can be revoked, then the AACS loses control. In practice, there's no such thing as a true hardware player. The set top players out there use generic hardware to save cost and run AACS in software, meaning they're just as vulnerable as WinDVD. (Note that it's the XBox's HD-DVD drive that has enabled most of the current cracks.) If they really wanted to stump the hackers, they could implement AACS in a custom ASIC, which would require an electron microscope to crack. Device manufacturers (and users) would balk at the cost though.
goatse? What's wrong with you people? I thought this was a site for pedantic computer nerds. It was and is goatse.cx. The CX is an integral part of the name. Otherwise you just don't get the pun.
(No one ever said it was a good pun, but what are you gonna do.)
I'm still having trouble parsing it. I read it to say that there was little overlap between women who say something is true and those who say it is false. I'm having a wee bit difficulty seeing how it could be any other way.
At my university, the baseball field was situated next to a projects workshop. We noticed that there were certain raised hills from which you could see into the stadium, so one day we got up there to watch a game.
Someone spotted us and they literally stopped the game because of it. Over the loudspeaker we heard: "Will the people on the back fence please get off. The game cannot continue until you do." We weren't actually standing on the fence, but apparently they couldn't tell the difference. Maybe they were looking out for our safety, but it was pretty weird to be singled out like that in front of a few thousand people.
Actually, I don't like to sit on others' WiFi connections. If it's encrypted, then that means they've at least made an attempt to keep me out, so I feel ethically obligated to respect that. On top of that, if they know to encrypt the connection, then it's more likely they'll notice me on their network. And if they're really smart, they can snoop my traffic and pick up all sorts of stuff.
As for setting up my own wireless ISP... that just seems like waaay too many headaches for me.
Ah, welcome to the bane of existence. I get about 20 or so and they're ALL encrypted so I can't even bum off someone else's connection! Some of them come in stronger than my own wireless -- it's to the point where I can't reliably get connection even in the next room.
I'm not lying and honestly I wasn't trying to be funny. It's just something that happened to me that seemed relevant to the topic, so it's actually pretty interesting to me that other people think it's funny.
Yes, my keyboard has the F and J bumps too. IIRC, the way they arranged it, F was where it normally is, so that was fine, but K was in the J position. If not noticing that the J dot was missing makes me a bad typist, eh.. whatever. I never claimed to be an excellent typist, but I do have the keyboard memorized. I type around 80-90 wpm, which fast enough to keep up with my speed of thought. (I'm not pulling that out of thin air, I just took a test.)
Our parents were afraid of/bothered by rock and roll/Madonna. We're afraid of/bothered by texting. Was I the only one who tried to read this as a song lyric? Not very catchy.
You could, I suppose, write on every ionic compound a paragraph about ionic lattices, and an explanation about dipole-dipole interactions on every polar molecule's card, but how is that different from the textbook? Here's what's actually on the cards:
Silver Noble (Ag) Silver is used in jewlery, mirrors, coins, photography, silverware, electronic products, coatings of foods, and instruments. Expensive, though, but not for the queen! Sounds like a hoot!
Agreed. I have an IBM Model M which features keys that can be removed and switched around to accommodate different keymaps. Once my roommates decided to remap my keyboard to say "FUCK" on the home row. It was weeks before they broke down and finally told me to look at the keyboard.
At any time, at any point in the menu, say "Operator" or hit 0. You will hear:
"Operator" "I'm sorry, I didn't understand that." "Operator" "It sounds like you want to talk to an operator, is that correct?" "Operator" "Connecting..."
That I know that exact script should be some indication how much time I've spent on that line over the past few years... Even if you do go through the menu and enter in your info, it'll eventually send you to an operator, who will ask you to repeat it all anyway.
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Wow, that was retarded. You've just run out of stuff to make up, haven't you?
I never made any claims about Jobs' predictions for the iPod. You mis-read my comments and asked for something unrelated to what I was talking about. To explain for the umpteenth time:
If the iPhone is just like the iPod -- and note here that I am not claiming that you said this, though TheRealMindChild did -- then the iPhone's sales will follow the basic trend of the iPod's sales. The known sales record of the iPod in its first two years is a tiny fraction of Jobs' stated goal for iPhone sales in 2008. By the standards set by Jobs himself, that would be a failure.
If it isn't true that the iPhone is just like the iPod (the only other option), then it makes no sense to say the iPhone will be a success just because the iPod was (eventually). Since that doesn't mean that the iPhone won't be a success, I find it amazing that this is such a controversial proposition, especially one that could anger you so.
...you turned it up to 11?
You do seem to have some incredible problems with your vision and your temper. Your rage blinds you to the quote from Jobs sitting in your face and prompts you to invent claims that I've never made. Hell, you can't even mock my hyperbole correctly: I said a dozen times, not 20.
I'd ask you to calm down, but I don't think I have the patience to wait that long.
You're seeing things, BTW. I can't have made up any facts because I never presented anything as fact.
Look, I've had this discussion about a dozen times before. Either you claim that the iPhone is just like the iPod, in which case it'll sell approximately 1/20th of what Jobs claimed it will in its first year, or the iPhone isn't just like the iPod, in which case extrapolating the iPod's success for the iPhone makes no sense. Since the latter option still allows for your belief that the iPhone will be a big success, why don't we agree on that one and be done with it?
Yeah, pretty much exactly like the iPod.
Now, go look up the 1G and 2G iPod sales in the 2 years before they introduced the much cheaper iPod Mini.
On the Series 2 boxes at least, it's incredibly easy to disable the DRM. DirectShow Dump will remove the DRM from videos transfered via TiVoToGo. The hack script The Zipper disables DRM permanently for new recordings, in addition to enabling a lot of other cool stuff. It requires a bit more effort, but it's relatively painless if you're already going to the effort to upgrade your drives.
I don't know about the Series 3 boxes. They're not really worth the money anyway, so I haven't looked into it.
You're sure you weren't high at the time?
goatse? What's wrong with you people? I thought this was a site for pedantic computer nerds. It was and is goatse.cx. The CX is an integral part of the name. Otherwise you just don't get the pun.
(No one ever said it was a good pun, but what are you gonna do.)
I'm still having trouble parsing it. I read it to say that there was little overlap between women who say something is true and those who say it is false. I'm having a wee bit difficulty seeing how it could be any other way.
At my university, the baseball field was situated next to a projects workshop. We noticed that there were certain raised hills from which you could see into the stadium, so one day we got up there to watch a game.
Someone spotted us and they literally stopped the game because of it. Over the loudspeaker we heard: "Will the people on the back fence please get off. The game cannot continue until you do." We weren't actually standing on the fence, but apparently they couldn't tell the difference. Maybe they were looking out for our safety, but it was pretty weird to be singled out like that in front of a few thousand people.
Actually, I don't like to sit on others' WiFi connections. If it's encrypted, then that means they've at least made an attempt to keep me out, so I feel ethically obligated to respect that. On top of that, if they know to encrypt the connection, then it's more likely they'll notice me on their network. And if they're really smart, they can snoop my traffic and pick up all sorts of stuff.
As for setting up my own wireless ISP... that just seems like waaay too many headaches for me.
Ah, welcome to the bane of existence. I get about 20 or so and they're ALL encrypted so I can't even bum off someone else's connection! Some of them come in stronger than my own wireless -- it's to the point where I can't reliably get connection even in the next room.
I'm not lying and honestly I wasn't trying to be funny. It's just something that happened to me that seemed relevant to the topic, so it's actually pretty interesting to me that other people think it's funny.
Yes, my keyboard has the F and J bumps too. IIRC, the way they arranged it, F was where it normally is, so that was fine, but K was in the J position. If not noticing that the J dot was missing makes me a bad typist, eh.. whatever. I never claimed to be an excellent typist, but I do have the keyboard memorized. I type around 80-90 wpm, which fast enough to keep up with my speed of thought. (I'm not pulling that out of thin air, I just took a test.)
Silver is used in jewlery, mirrors, coins, photography, silverware, electronic products, coatings of foods, and instruments. Expensive, though, but not for the queen! Sounds like a hoot!
May 19th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
John, you're an idiot. urbanriot:
May 19th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I have these in my bathroom... I'm going to sue Microsoft. In my experience, Tech.Blorge is generally a POS.
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Agreed. I have an IBM Model M which features keys that can be removed and switched around to accommodate different keymaps. Once my roommates decided to remap my keyboard to say "FUCK" on the home row. It was weeks before they broke down and finally told me to look at the keyboard.
At any time, at any point in the menu, say "Operator" or hit 0. You will hear:
"Operator"
"I'm sorry, I didn't understand that."
"Operator"
"It sounds like you want to talk to an operator, is that correct?"
"Operator"
"Connecting..."
That I know that exact script should be some indication how much time I've spent on that line over the past few years...
Even if you do go through the menu and enter in your info, it'll eventually send you to an operator, who will ask you to repeat it all anyway.
So in normal mode you're entering commands by pantomime or what? How do I do CTRL-V hj R /?
Hey, that's my band's name!