"MP3 players (both hardware and software) existed for years before iPod."
Did you even use any of the ones that existed before the iPod? Yes, they existed. And very emphatically yes did their UI suck. As well as their music management (or for that era I should say file/directory management).
The nomad was a fricken brick. Yes, wireless, yes more space, both physically and capacity. And once the iPod kicked the mp3 market it in the rear the nomad was rather lame.
Form factor is very easily overlooked but thinking back to when I got my first iPod it was a big fricken deal. I had used a Rio Volt (cd based) up until the screen got busted up in an accident. I was skeptical of that Apple thing. Now, I wasn't getting into the ground floor since I got one of the Videos, but it was a "god damn" moment when I got it.
Insanely long battery life and about the size of a deck of cards and it could store all of my albums. At once. And no clunky order-playlists-by-file-order crap. And dear god did the UI blow away the Volt's.
It could be *comfortably* stuck in a shirt or (front) pants pocket. No jacket, overshirt, vest, whatever needed.
Secondly, I shall walk blithely into your clever trap and freely admit that evil Apple forced a choice on its customers to upgrade to a higher bit-rate version that had no drm (but still in the Apple-nonexclusive AAC format) for a reduced price (over repurchasing it) for any song they had previously purchased with the malignant, draconian DRM if it was their wish to do so. Feel free to twist and spin as you will do it anyways.
But government mandates force ILEC Telcos to provide (phone) service to anyone within their service area, regardless of being able to make a profit off the line! That makes Baby Invisible Hand cry. That cost causes a marginal increase in everyone's bill, and they get no direct and immediate benefit (unless they wanted to call someone in an otherwise unserviceable area).
Reasonable government mandates must be stopped before they take away the freedom of "we don't provide service to your unprofitable area" ISPs!
You can only win a war that doesn't exist in the history books.
War was never declared. There is no clearly defined enemy. There is no victory condition. There is no exit strategy.
Afghanistan is a conflict, not a war. Calling it a war gives it undue merit (and we ourselves haven't lived up to the standards that a 'lawful' war would require).
My apologies to your survivors (or congratulations, their decision) but you neglected to wear body armor capable of withstanding an anti-materiel round. You got what you deserved for being so careless.
"if you conveniently ignore the cost of our climate warming up" assuming that it is AGW and not just GW. It really isn't an externality if the climate is changing regardless of what humans are up to.
The best beans are freshly roasted and they have a fairly short shelf life (not for going bad but for going stale) and a regular drinker could easily go through 12 oz of beans a week. That can be $10+ a week.
And if you don't walk around in type IV body armor you deserve to get shot by small arms and if you don't drive a heavy armored vehicle you deserve to get shot by anti-materiel weapons.
Or people could just not be jerks. Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do it.
Thought the iPads had free shipping. You're going to be paying taxes either way and I don't know about a recycling fee but that sounds like a state/local thing.
If a site wants to be taken seriously they should probably get rid of those flashing animated gifs (that bad religious tract vibe should probably go to).
Parts of the App Store don't (or didn't) like to work on jailbroken phones, so by jailbreaking, he was removing previous functionality so by your (narrow) definition destruction (inclusive) or vandalism did take place.
Churchill's Ultra Secret was a bad idea anyways. We should have just told the Germans to change their ciphers so all those chaps at Bletchley could go home and have a proper rest.
Nuke what? What structures and populations there are could easily (and more importantly more cheaply) could be dealt with using conventional weapons. The problem with that? The structures and populations that live in them aren't our enemy. It's the whackos out in the boonies hiding in caves (or other countries) that blow up our troops and their fellow countrymen. Low target density and the terrain is naturally hardened. And there's the little fact you can't actually use nukes these days.
Apple fanboys seem to be more of an invention of the haters than something that actually exists, at least here on/.. The only ones I've seen going on and on about the (lack of) merits of Apple are the haters using fictitious fanboys as a mouthpiece or strawman.
"no matter what evidence or logic you present them with to counter their claims, you're always wrong." Hmm, seems to fit the Haters as well.
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Atheists know that god doesn't exist, they hope that god doesn't notice that they exist. It's a lot to worry about.
"MP3 players (both hardware and software) existed for years before iPod."
Did you even use any of the ones that existed before the iPod?
Yes, they existed. And very emphatically yes did their UI suck. As well as their music management (or for that era I should say file/directory management).
The nomad was a fricken brick. Yes, wireless, yes more space, both physically and capacity. And once the iPod kicked the mp3 market it in the rear the nomad was rather lame.
Hey now, we have the best new program in existence, The Daily Show, anchored by Jon Stewart.
Form factor is very easily overlooked but thinking back to when I got my first iPod it was a big fricken deal. I had used a Rio Volt (cd based) up until the screen got busted up in an accident. I was skeptical of that Apple thing. Now, I wasn't getting into the ground floor since I got one of the Videos, but it was a "god damn" moment when I got it.
Insanely long battery life and about the size of a deck of cards and it could store all of my albums. At once. And no clunky order-playlists-by-file-order crap. And dear god did the UI blow away the Volt's.
It could be *comfortably* stuck in a shirt or (front) pants pocket. No jacket, overshirt, vest, whatever needed.
Mere months? Pre-orders took almost two years and that's if they [c|w]ould actually take your payment.
First, it is "paid", not "payed".
Secondly, I shall walk blithely into your clever trap and freely admit that evil Apple forced a choice on its customers to upgrade to a higher bit-rate version that had no drm (but still in the Apple-nonexclusive AAC format) for a reduced price (over repurchasing it) for any song they had previously purchased with the malignant, draconian DRM if it was their wish to do so. Feel free to twist and spin as you will do it anyways.
Taco hasn't trolled Apple in a few days. This one is fairly obvious and uninspired, so let it slide.
But government mandates force ILEC Telcos to provide (phone) service to anyone within their service area, regardless of being able to make a profit off the line! That makes Baby Invisible Hand cry. That cost causes a marginal increase in everyone's bill, and they get no direct and immediate benefit (unless they wanted to call someone in an otherwise unserviceable area).
Reasonable government mandates must be stopped before they take away the freedom of "we don't provide service to your unprofitable area" ISPs!
"We aren't responsible enough as a society at viewing all that information fairly to be trusted with it indiscriminately."
I wish I had mod points to give you.
As it is, knee pads are our society's thinking caps.
You can only win a war that doesn't exist in the history books.
War was never declared. There is no clearly defined enemy. There is no victory condition. There is no exit strategy.
Afghanistan is a conflict, not a war. Calling it a war gives it undue merit (and we ourselves haven't lived up to the standards that a 'lawful' war would require).
My apologies to your survivors (or congratulations, their decision) but you neglected to wear body armor capable of withstanding an anti-materiel round. You got what you deserved for being so careless.
"if you conveniently ignore the cost of our climate warming up" assuming that it is AGW and not just GW. It really isn't an externality if the climate is changing regardless of what humans are up to.
The best beans are freshly roasted and they have a fairly short shelf life (not for going bad but for going stale) and a regular drinker could easily go through 12 oz of beans a week. That can be $10+ a week.
And if you don't walk around in type IV body armor you deserve to get shot by small arms and if you don't drive a heavy armored vehicle you deserve to get shot by anti-materiel weapons.
Or people could just not be jerks. Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do it.
Thought the iPads had free shipping. You're going to be paying taxes either way and I don't know about a recycling fee but that sounds like a state/local thing.
Isn't "I don't know" one of the text book answers to anything after Bork?
If a site wants to be taken seriously they should probably get rid of those flashing animated gifs (that bad religious tract vibe should probably go to).
More papers to deal with at tax time.
Two problems:
1) Vacuums are hard.
2) Nature abhors it.
Well, everyone knows that arena is serious business.
He did remove functionality though.
Parts of the App Store don't (or didn't) like to work on jailbroken phones, so by jailbreaking, he was removing previous functionality so by your (narrow) definition destruction (inclusive) or vandalism did take place.
Churchill's Ultra Secret was a bad idea anyways. We should have just told the Germans to change their ciphers so all those chaps at Bletchley could go home and have a proper rest.
Nuke what? What structures and populations there are could easily (and more importantly more cheaply) could be dealt with using conventional weapons. The problem with that? The structures and populations that live in them aren't our enemy. It's the whackos out in the boonies hiding in caves (or other countries) that blow up our troops and their fellow countrymen. Low target density and the terrain is naturally hardened. And there's the little fact you can't actually use nukes these days.
Why is this slideshow-fest in Apple? Seemed most of the slides were non-Apple.
Apple fanboys seem to be more of an invention of the haters than something that actually exists, at least here on /.. The only ones I've seen going on and on about the (lack of) merits of Apple are the haters using fictitious fanboys as a mouthpiece or strawman.
"no matter what evidence or logic you present them with to counter their claims, you're always wrong." Hmm, seems to fit the Haters as well.