my unnergradjiate de-gree done be one of them "Marketing" de-grees from some fancy-schmancy yoo-niversity. Do that help? I done been taught that it be the sales volume of a pertickerlar brand (in this hyar case, thet thar iPod doohickey) deevided by the total sales in the pertikerlar market catergory what thet thar brand done is compeetin' in (what prolly be the total market fer Em-Pee-Three player-kajiggers) is thet right?
Hell, she done been nigh on fifteen years since I got thet that de-gree, mebbe they done changed up the deffinishuns a bit. Shucks.
I gotta get injured and stay home more Friday nights with you crazy clowns!
I don't know, I use 64 Bit SUSE Advanced Server on my Opteron box. I boot to Win2K Pro, FreeDOS or BeOS to use anything that I can't use on Linux. Hell, I even got a copy of Geoworks on the shelf.
Can't figure why someone whould tie themselves to one company's hardware or software platform. Or tie themselves to one brand of MP3 player. Seems like some sort of modern slavery to me.
It's not a bad MP3 player, I just found its controls kind of annoying. I imagine it's a personal preference thing.
What I find amusing is that Apple may have done too good a job in the "MP3 player = iPod" marketing department. A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me he bought an iPod. When he finally showed it to me it was a no-name flash MP3 player from Best Buy. But to him (and many others, I imagine) it was an iPod.
Just like Aspirin, Kleenex, and all the other genericized product names out there.
(1) So what? Is it so important that you have to know while you're DRIVING? Just drive, please.
(2)PLEASE select this BEFORE you start, or while at a stoplight! Even the fancy integrated BMW/iPod display will distract you from driving. (I was in a head-on with a 19-year old kid who was "just punching one of the radio buttons" and veered into my lane 4 years ago) PLEASE just select your music and drive!
(3)Can't those lazy sacks of shit that are riding in your car look at the MP3 player if they just HAVE to know what song is playing? I assume they already asked you.
You're probably just cranky because you're a poor college student or something and can't afford an iPod, so you criticize anything you can't afford (and also criticize those who can).
Ah, ad hominem attacks already. You need to grow up, and not take slashdot comments so personally. I don't remember criticizing you or your supposed huge income. Or, in your words, I never said it. (wow! html skills!) I had my first MP3 player YEARS ago (way back in '00!), when they were really expensive. Hell, I own 4 of the damn things now. From a 256MB flash jobbie to a 40GB monster I'll never fill up. Read between the lines for income comparisons, since that sort of thing seems to make you happy.
If the passenger needs to see the title/artist, can't that lazy shit just look at the MP3 player?
All I'm saying is Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, they don't have the best one out there, and I am highly impressed with Apple's marketing machine making everyone think they do. But she ain't true.
And PLEASE choose the playlist you want to listen to before you start driving, or while you're at a stoplight. I don't want you killing me or my daughter while looking at the head unit display trying to pull up some jazz. Thanks!
Because then you lose (1) the head-unit control of the iPod, and (2) the song/artist information on the head-unit display.
Uh, shouldn't you just be putting your MP3 player on "shuffle" before you drive and then concentrate on driving? (1)If a song comes on you don't like...why the hell is it on your MP3 player?!
(2)Shouldn't you know what the hell is on your own MP3 player? If you don't and finding out the song/artist is so freaking important, you should pull over to find out. Otherwise, keep your damn eyes on the road.
Because the iPod has the most marketshare and is therefore the best mp3 player. Marketshare pwns j00 suxx0rz! h3h3h3h
Most marketshare? Yeah, Apfel only makes two MP3 player models. Rio makes dozens of models for every taste and price range. So do many other manufacturers. So ipso facto, if there are 100 models of MP3 player out there, and two of them have 4% of the marketshare, then they have the most marketshare of any MP3 player.
Yes, I saw your sarcasm, but not sure everyone (*cough*iPod zealots*cough*) will.
iPod this, iPod that. They didn't invent the goddamn MP3 player. Why not just put a "line in" jack on any car stereo so we can use any MP3 player on any car stereo? Or any other audio device for that matter.
Funkadelic! I was just reading about Augustine Jean Fresnel last night. You know his brother wrote the story that became the famous opera "Carmen"? He developed Fresnel lenses while working at a lighthouse. Died of tuberculosis. Here endeth the lesson.
I'm having a functional brain scan later today in preparation for brain surgery next week. That's where they find out which areas of my brain do what so they don't mess up anything too important. I'll see if I can have them spot this area.
I HATE it when Amazon makes "suggestions" for me. I bought the soundtrack to "Rock & Roll High School" (Ramones, old school punk, for you kids that don't know) and the next few times I visited they kept suggesting I would just love some soundtracks featuring Phil *aaagh* Collins. WTF!? I immediately cancelled my account with them and sent them some nasty e-mail about how they have insulted my taste and integrity.
Amen brother. I don't understand the appeal of this crappy Japanese animation. Of course I don't understand the appeal of most TV shows, either. Animation: Give me Simpsons, Futurama & Family Guy. Drama: Give me Kubrick.
Acer is figuring out what Apple has known for years: A hell of a lot of people buy computers for their looks. The original iMac was a slow beast, but it saved Apple because everyone thought it was cute.
And this fellow doesn't ONCE mention that this notebook only comes with an AMD Athlon processor. Intel has quite a stranglehold on the press.
No one watches family videos, not even the family. Unless you and your good lady wife are planning some more interesting videos, dump the video and stick with a still camera. People actually look at still pictures, and they can be e-mailed easily.
you cash out $9999, walk out with the rest...cash it out in small doses over time so you stay under the $10K radar.
This is known as "Structuring". Unfortunately the federal gov't takes a VERY dim view of this and can toss you in prison for quite a long stretch if they find you doing this.
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my unnergradjiate de-gree done be one of them "Marketing" de-grees from some fancy-schmancy yoo-niversity. Do that help? I done been taught that it be the sales volume of a pertickerlar brand (in this hyar case, thet thar iPod doohickey) deevided by the total sales in the pertikerlar market catergory what thet thar brand done is compeetin' in (what prolly be the total market fer Em-Pee-Three player-kajiggers) is thet right?
Hell, she done been nigh on fifteen years since I got thet that de-gree, mebbe they done changed up the deffinishuns a bit. Shucks.
I gotta get injured and stay home more Friday nights with you crazy clowns!
Admittedly, I'll probably buy an iPod long before giving any money to the very proprietary-format-freakish SONY corporation.
I don't know, I use 64 Bit SUSE Advanced Server on my Opteron box. I boot to Win2K Pro, FreeDOS or BeOS to use anything that I can't use on Linux. Hell, I even got a copy of Geoworks on the shelf.
Can't figure why someone whould tie themselves to one company's hardware or software platform. Or tie themselves to one brand of MP3 player. Seems like some sort of modern slavery to me.
Just like Aspirin, Kleenex, and all the other genericized product names out there.What I find amusing is that Apple may have done too good a job in the "MP3 player = iPod" marketing department. A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me he bought an iPod. When he finally showed it to me it was a no-name flash MP3 player from Best Buy. But to him (and many others, I imagine) it was an iPod.
(2)PLEASE select this BEFORE you start, or while at a stoplight! Even the fancy integrated BMW/iPod display will distract you from driving. (I was in a head-on with a 19-year old kid who was "just punching one of the radio buttons" and veered into my lane 4 years ago) PLEASE just select your music and drive!
(3)Can't those lazy sacks of shit that are riding in your car look at the MP3 player if they just HAVE to know what song is playing? I assume they already asked you.
Thanks. Now please drive safely.
Ah, ad hominem attacks already. You need to grow up, and not take slashdot comments so personally. I don't remember criticizing you or your supposed huge income. Or, in your words, I never said it. (wow! html skills!) I had my first MP3 player YEARS ago (way back in '00!), when they were really expensive. Hell, I own 4 of the damn things now. From a 256MB flash jobbie to a 40GB monster I'll never fill up. Read between the lines for income comparisons, since that sort of thing seems to make you happy.
If the passenger needs to see the title/artist, can't that lazy shit just look at the MP3 player?
And PLEASE choose the playlist you want to listen to before you start driving, or while you're at a stoplight. I don't want you killing me or my daughter while looking at the head unit display trying to pull up some jazz. Thanks!All I'm saying is Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, they don't have the best one out there, and I am highly impressed with Apple's marketing machine making everyone think they do. But she ain't true.
Uh, shouldn't you just be putting your MP3 player on "shuffle" before you drive and then concentrate on driving?
(1)If a song comes on you don't like...why the hell is it on your MP3 player?!
(2)Shouldn't you know what the hell is on your own MP3 player? If you don't and finding out the song/artist is so freaking important, you should pull over to find out. Otherwise, keep your damn eyes on the road.
Because the iPod has the most marketshare and is therefore the best mp3 player. Marketshare pwns j00 suxx0rz! h3h3h3h
Yes, I saw your sarcasm, but not sure everyone (*cough*iPod zealots*cough*) will.Most marketshare? Yeah, Apfel only makes two MP3 player models. Rio makes dozens of models for every taste and price range. So do many other manufacturers. So ipso facto, if there are 100 models of MP3 player out there, and two of them have 4% of the marketshare, then they have the most marketshare of any MP3 player.
iPod this, iPod that. They didn't invent the goddamn MP3 player. Why not just put a "line in" jack on any car stereo so we can use any MP3 player on any car stereo? Or any other audio device for that matter.
Had an MP3 player long before the iPod existed.
Why does that sound ominous too me?
Funkadelic! I was just reading about Augustine Jean Fresnel last night. You know his brother wrote the story that became the famous opera "Carmen"? He developed Fresnel lenses while working at a lighthouse. Died of tuberculosis. Here endeth the lesson.
You mean now when someone gets caught by their spouse/parent/grandparent/SO/support tech with porn on their computer they can't say:
"All I did was open that e-mail. I didn't know that it was porn!"
I hear it every week.
I'm having a functional brain scan later today in preparation for brain surgery next week. That's where they find out which areas of my brain do what so they don't mess up anything too important. I'll see if I can have them spot this area.
"They're very GOOD scissors..."
I've got a black and white cat named Adam 12. Strangely, very few people seem to understand the name. Am I just too old?
I HATE it when Amazon makes "suggestions" for me. I bought the soundtrack to "Rock & Roll High School" (Ramones, old school punk, for you kids that don't know) and the next few times I visited they kept suggesting I would just love some soundtracks featuring Phil *aaagh* Collins. WTF!? I immediately cancelled my account with them and sent them some nasty e-mail about how they have insulted my taste and integrity.
Amen brother. I don't understand the appeal of this crappy Japanese animation. Of course I don't understand the appeal of most TV shows, either. Animation: Give me Simpsons, Futurama & Family Guy. Drama: Give me Kubrick.
You said it brother. I've been putting the weight of my code in DBs for the past couple of years and life has become easier.
You're right that a lightweight, fast RDB engine one could include in one's code would be mighty handy. If I had the skills...
THAT should be the name of the earth-simulator.
And this fellow doesn't ONCE mention that this notebook only comes with an AMD Athlon processor. Intel has quite a stranglehold on the press.
No one watches family videos, not even the family. Unless you and your good lady wife are planning some more interesting videos, dump the video and stick with a still camera. People actually look at still pictures, and they can be e-mailed easily.
you cash out $9999, walk out with the rest...cash it out in small doses over time so you stay under the $10K radar.
This is known as "Structuring". Unfortunately the federal gov't takes a VERY dim view of this and can toss you in prison for quite a long stretch if they find you doing this.
Come on, Pirillo. Timothy just posted the review, Honestpuck wrote it.
"Look out! He's got a board with a nail in it!
How does Gateway square it's no AMD policy with SuSe's 64-bit x86 Linux versions? Will Gateway once again be forced to supply a decent processor?