"A female terrorist with a small child as hostage tried to ram capitol gates today. We have yet to gain inormation if^H^H how heavily armed the jihadist was."
Yeah, better Fox didn't release this as first page scoop.;)
Yes, they too have an agenda, but without their viewpoint all we'd have is hard left liberal news.
Now that's just funny....and kinda sad to be honest. I've yet to see any left-wing politician in power in USA - if there are any they would have to be in 3rd parties. And your people have been largely brainwashed into belief that 3rd parties, for all purposes don't exist.
IBM fucked up big time by being so stupidly greedy with OS/2 to kill it at birth by overcharging for it, rather than going in dirt cheap.
Yeah, I dunno if it that much about greed rather than not understanding markets (like I at age 17 when I bough my own computer + OS/2 WARP 4 thinking it's technologically superior so they *will* win - and it wasn't *that* expensive if I bought it with my summer job money) - after all in comparison to other desktop OS's the price/quality ratio was great. But that's not winning on the markets - I don't know if they were greedy, but I think the prices were justified (there are things where XP never got to same level that WARP 4 was in 97), but if they had better grasp about marketing and competing against another giant they would have used cheap price as weapon instead. So basically I agree with you that IBM fscked the comptetition with pricing - among other marketing related shortcomings.
You know this, I know this, but despite all the evidence there aren't many people who can accept this on Slashdot. It would damage their eternal belief that Microsoft is on the brink of destruction.
You know, I would love to see Microsoft burn crashing down but I don't think it's going away for some time yet (although nobody can predict the future, just make informed guesses/estimations). But it's really more on the emotional level - it's not as much from their crappy appliations (at command, taken from *NIX but with lesser functionality, executing entered commands under SYSTEM account, not under the users own account and priviledges, on XP, wtf!?) as it is because of their shady and/or downright illegal and immoral "business tactics". MS however has provided a lot of motivation for many F/OSS developers to push Linux and/or software for it further - in fact back when MS still tried to fight unix/linux systems a fault in samba was found in MS Windows vs. Linux as file-server competition. It made samba slower than it should be and thanks to that we got it fixed - and unlike some products, we never try making server run faster by allowing parts of it run in kernel space;)
To be honest I have enough trouble leaving Microsoft products at times, although often it's because they are the best at what they do.
I have understood they were pretty good in designing very realistic flight simulators - whatever happened to that?
There's nothing that beats MS Office, Visual Studio, heck even the Explorer file manager has no equivalent in terms of speed, functionality and usability compared to anything in Linux (which might simply be because Linux file management is mostly done through the CMD, hence a lack of a desire to improve the GUI experience).
See, this is why you're an ass: you lie like no tomorrow.
Whatever you mean by CMD, I can only guess from CMD being *Windows* OS command promt and text console window (kinda like terminal emulators) that you probably mean CLI applications. You might mean TUI apps, but from what you wrote I'm guessing no.
Explorer is garbage, personally when I've had to work long with windows, if it involves use of filemanager, I've tried to find at least acceptable quality free dual-pane (extra pane for showing directory tree is a plus if it can be switched on/off but a big minus if it's forced to be there).
While CLI is indeed ultimately best tool for many operations that people usually use filemanagers for, it's not the best tool for anything/everything. There exists huge amount of different GUI and TUI (Terminal User Interface) applications for Linux. For terminals Midnight Commander is probably most known, liked and if you really get deep into it, really extendable/configurable. For GUI I personally like to use ugly but powerful dual-pane filemanager named "worker" - it's also extendable, has different modes for each pane (defaulting both to showing directory content), can bind general functionality (like generating symbolic links of selected files on active pane into directory on inactive pane - or simply copying/moving them) or filetype specific (image, audio, video, etc. conversion for example) into hotkeys or buttons (which also include possibility for defining a hotkey).
As for Visual Studio, I used to like that kind of IDE's - and before that I used Borland Turbo Pascal/C/C++ type IDE's, which actually are not that bad but nothing special either. When it comes to editing code, whetever it's a small shell script or big projects, I'm like this Microsoft dude:
On Tuesday I attended a full-day Microsoft Developer Network Event in Stuttgart, Germany. They flew in Don Box and had him deliver a presentation about.NET. For this he used a laptop with Windows XP and EMACS as the "presentation tool", and the command line versions of the C++ and C# compiler that com
I have no idea whatsoever about this bug, but if you know about it then it should not bite you again - you should always keep a backup, preferrably on another computer or at least on another HD or if even that can't be managed on some system a backup copy even on same HD is better than nothing. It sounds like a bug that should be flagged critical and fixed as quick as possible, but if this was needed to teach you to backup (and not trust the applications own auto-backups it manages and keeps in same disk) your important data then there is at least one good thing resulting from it.
And no, that is not trying to paint the bug as feature - just like I'm not saying that it was good when I burned my HD and lost most of my data back in the days because it taught me the importance of keeping backups;) It was awful, but it did have one minor positive effect:)
In the social network of IRC we had awaylog which you could configure to capture lines which contain a string or match an expression - by default most clients captured anything with your nick. It was also a convenient way to set status, ie./away "Gone to sauna, brb" while you were away to be shown for anyone private messaging or querying/whois from you...
There was nothing that important you could not go to sleep at 3am for at least 3-5 hours when I was a teen;)
Note: Long babbling ahead, skip to end of message if bored/sane/etc. for something I actually wanted point out...
I've been addicted to social networking for a long time. I do have facebook account, and I've chosen to associate myself with only certain people, which keeps it actually around as largely interesting for me as slashdot postings - but only for very limited time.
I practically never really "use" facebook, but sometimes I do go there for one of several reasons: 1) To post text, link or images (like when I came from Kraftwek gig at Flow Festival in Finland last month) to people, like my sister for example, usually to make something easily (for me and them) available to one or (most often) several friends at once. 2) To contact someone when the only way - literally or only way using internet - is via facebook. Or if the other way (such as email when you need to contact him/her right now and he/she doesn't know it). 3) Someone else contacts me via SMS or other way and asks to continue there because of one or another reason that makes it hard/impossible other way.
Having to go there for these last two annoys me to no end. It usually means that I'm loading the freaking script-asylum webpage which will slow my computer so much that though it doesn't use much of my 50Mbp/s line, it makes all other loading via browser (or in extreme cases, which means all cases on my slower systems) any downloads as it slows any and every program running - and for what? Text based chat which makes me wan't to whip up a greasemonkey script to disable the awful automatic smilie to image conversion.
I've tried to recommend adding my social netwok addiction to their addictions;)
I can do anything I would want using it and use next to none of my machines capabilities. Talking, sharing links, videos, images, it all works - and it's way older than facebook. It's called Internet Relay Chat, and is not accessed via web, that is by using www browser - though there have been web based frontends of IRC clients for longer than I've known IRC even... But for true social network addict this is nothing but a crux you could use on extreme emergency when no other option was available. Using a client of your liking to connect at least to one IRC network (for the most popular ones there are mirrors worldwide to provide faster and less laggy connection) and join at least one channel. I'm currently on IRCNet, OFTC and Efnet networks - on what channels and using what nick(s), I won't tell.
Benefits: IRC client shows text - it can be scripted to choose links, launch them in one or another application, etc., but most clients show text only. And most support terminal/text-mode/cmd.exe type character based output. While there are channels that have bots automatically saving logs and putting them on the channell webpage the common rule is that once you said something it's gone (not readable to those not on the channell at the time you wrote it), not stored forever like is the common rule with anything you write in web. It doesn't mean that someone can't/isn't currently saving log of the conversation - probably for personal use, but like anywhere (even offline/IRL) you can find later that your being quoted for something stupid. But that has been true before internet or BBS systems just as well.
Also wherever I am, if there is a simple SSH client, I can access not only my usual channels, not only my session but use my preferred client, loaded with scripts (read plugins/extensions for browser equivalent) to enhance the experience. Heck, and old VT100 terminal connected to *nix system with ssh client will do - in fact the experience was not far from that with my old 286 system connected via null-modem cable to my linux box and using OpenDOS and Commo for the connection and terminal emulation, except for the colors:) Also, like VT100 terminals, Commo didn't seem to support sending the letters å, à & à in any mode (ansi, vt100, etc.) understoo
Working in the software industry does not mean you know that - for one because in some places the management, marketting, etc. is not messing up coders work and/or schedule.
But there are other reasons... For one, I worked in one firm where my job consisted of mostly porting code - mostly libraries and tools for internal use - between Visual Basic (yuff, I would never had needed to learn that if it wasn't for the job) and Java (lesser yuff, but back then I liked Java - haven't discovered perl yet, didn't know a language can easily be made mixing both cross-platform and platform specific anyway you like, without a class for everything and their gnomes). There were projects, though mostly I knew nothing of them. One project was porting an important and huge library from Java to VB - it was a breeze. I had a lot of free time because there was almost never a hurry.
But I don't know about the projects that were the moneymakers. I know that my work was also needed to complete those projects and I never heard anything negative, but then I guess I wasn't in direct contact with those who might have worked under pressure... But from how I feel it seemed that the firm was finishing it's projects in timely fashion.
I don't think peer-to-peer video with computers has ever been not obvious - it's made obvious already back in the day of first video phone systems made known to public. Since that, for programmers, it only needed a network system with enough bandwidth to make it obvious - and research probably started in several places way before it became possible and viable for common people.
The main motive for a private enterprise and for people in general, is profit.
For private enterprise, sure, but people have much greater hobbies - generally profit is seen as means to an end (or to ends if you will), at least by healthy individuals.
But people in general have very little motive to colonize mars (as being part of it), and to be able to achieve it they would need to either be able to pay someone enough to make it profitable or do all the work needed to get and set up conditions they can live in there themselves. I don't see that as likely - However there might be growing amount of people willing to leave from this planet to existing colony in future... if there would be one, that is. And I see such colony being rather unlikely to be done as a long term for-profit business plan - in comparison a (multi)government supported colonization sounds far greater, but one likely to happen much further in future, if ever (rooting for the former).
I'm pretty sure going to the toilet in the middle of the night costs as much as it ever did (unless you count accidentally dropping your phone in).
If you got there alive and unharmed, sure, but it wasn't until indoor toilets becoming the norm for middle- and low-class people too, which wasn't that long ago (in wealthy countries - for the whole globe we still have long to go to get there), when it got safe too.
Seriously, the AC is talking of running servers on office environment for 6 years now - unless it's fiction he obviously must have a job as maintaining servers and/or as system administrator for them.
And you AC talk about "nub" (wtf is that anyway, must you turn l33t sp33k even dumber?). 6 years (and who knows how long experience of Linux out-of-field), and you AC talk about mistake in the beginning.
Yeah, just one thing I'm interested about your post: what is this "normal", and how do you define a certain point more "normal" than others? Is there a scientifically proven "normal" temperature of earth?
Yeah, I know... no... but maybe you meant something else?
How narcist of you. Or selfish - selfish is not necessary narcist, though narcist always is selfish, I know, but your message sounded a bit narcistic...
I think the piece about dealing with hurricanes was meant to mean better dealing with surviving them, not prevent them with magical pixie fairies.
It's obvious to anyone with no anti-Obama bias effecting their interpratation (if that's not right word, sorry, not my native language) of everything so they see something other than what it obvious means - something they can call laughable.
Lots of sex, with lots of partners (as stated) increases your risk of getting an STD. Especially if you don't wear protection. People (in general) only wear protection a fraction of the time they have sex (don't know the numbers, but if you are an adult, can you tell me you/he wore a condom 100% of the times you got a blow job, or had sex, etc.)
Not in a trusting relationship, but other than that I've been very strict about using condom 100% time during random sex slash with friends with benefits. Especially with men/anal with women, but that's not important as it already was 100% anyway.
So, care to tell me how the healthy and fit patient is supposed to feel walking into a doctors office to find the nurse waddling up to their industrial-strength chair?
And then finding yourself growing impatient as you have to wait an extra 10 minutes for your obese doctor to come wheezing in from his smoke break to talk to you about lifestyle choices?
Funny thing about bias and obesity. It tends to swing both ways. Seems the arrogance of the med industry thinks this is a one-way door.
Of course it goes both ways, and the study makes no claim it doesn't, or does it now?
Btw, I've had a doctor a bit like you describe (not as over the top, but the drift is same), and he was one of my best doctors. He never judged people but did his best to help with whatever was their problem. If he thought the patients life choices may affect how he/she follows the treatment he might have verbally pushed the importance of it, but never did he mistreat at least me.
I wouldn't know, but maybe the fact he knew that he too was only a human might have had something to do with it.
Yeah, I doubt the iOS 5 can provide me the functionality I get with phone + computer. No, I don't doubt, I know - it won't rip my CD's or DVD's (whether for music or video too it won't do it) for one. I could list many others, but why? I made it really easy for you and you either get it or don't - besides as someone who's never gonna own an iPhone (*knocks on wood*, there's been two iPod's already, practically free second hand - but I used gtkpod, not iTunes to manage them).
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I don't know what dictionary the GP's definition came from, but nevertheless both definitions seem to fit your claim. It's frightening.
"A female terrorist with a small child as hostage tried to ram capitol gates today. We have yet to gain inormation if^H^H how heavily armed the jihadist was."
Yeah, better Fox didn't release this as first page scoop. ;)
I guess the joke is there seems to be zero comments on the subject.
There can be - Ususally it's called black humor. but when the trains and passengers are "enemies" it's a hilarious triumph. To some.
OT, yes.
Now that's just funny. ...and kinda sad to be honest. I've yet to see any left-wing politician in power in USA - if there are any they would have to be in 3rd parties. And your people have been largely brainwashed into belief that 3rd parties, for all purposes don't exist.
Yeah, I dunno if it that much about greed rather than not understanding markets (like I at age 17 when I bough my own computer + OS/2 WARP 4 thinking it's technologically superior so they *will* win - and it wasn't *that* expensive if I bought it with my summer job money) - after all in comparison to other desktop OS's the price/quality ratio was great. But that's not winning on the markets - I don't know if they were greedy, but I think the prices were justified (there are things where XP never got to same level that WARP 4 was in 97), but if they had better grasp about marketing and competing against another giant they would have used cheap price as weapon instead.
So basically I agree with you that IBM fscked the comptetition with pricing - among other marketing related shortcomings.
You know, I would love to see Microsoft burn crashing down but I don't think it's going away for some time yet (although nobody can predict the future, just make informed guesses/estimations). But it's really more on the emotional level - it's not as much from their crappy appliations (at command, taken from *NIX but with lesser functionality, executing entered commands under SYSTEM account, not under the users own account and priviledges, on XP, wtf!?) as it is because of their shady and/or downright illegal and immoral "business tactics". ;)
MS however has provided a lot of motivation for many F/OSS developers to push Linux and/or software for it further - in fact back when MS still tried to fight unix/linux systems a fault in samba was found in MS Windows vs. Linux as file-server competition. It made samba slower than it should be and thanks to that we got it fixed - and unlike some products, we never try making server run faster by allowing parts of it run in kernel space
I have understood they were pretty good in designing very realistic flight simulators - whatever happened to that?
See, this is why you're an ass: you lie like no tomorrow.
Whatever you mean by CMD, I can only guess from CMD being *Windows* OS command promt and text console window (kinda like terminal emulators) that you probably mean CLI applications. You might mean TUI apps, but from what you wrote I'm guessing no.
Explorer is garbage, personally when I've had to work long with windows, if it involves use of filemanager, I've tried to find at least acceptable quality free dual-pane (extra pane for showing directory tree is a plus if it can be switched on/off but a big minus if it's forced to be there).
While CLI is indeed ultimately best tool for many operations that people usually use filemanagers for, it's not the best tool for anything/everything. There exists huge amount of different GUI and TUI (Terminal User Interface) applications for Linux. For terminals Midnight Commander is probably most known, liked and if you really get deep into it, really extendable/configurable. For GUI I personally like to use ugly but powerful dual-pane filemanager named "worker" - it's also extendable, has different modes for each pane (defaulting both to showing directory content), can bind general functionality (like generating symbolic links of selected files on active pane into directory on inactive pane - or simply copying/moving them) or filetype specific (image, audio, video, etc. conversion for example) into hotkeys or buttons (which also include possibility for defining a hotkey).
As for Visual Studio, I used to like that kind of IDE's - and before that I used Borland Turbo Pascal/C/C++ type IDE's, which actually are not that bad but nothing special either. When it comes to editing code, whetever it's a small shell script or big projects, I'm like this Microsoft dude:
I have no idea whatsoever about this bug, but if you know about it then it should not bite you again - you should always keep a backup, preferrably on another computer or at least on another HD or if even that can't be managed on some system a backup copy even on same HD is better than nothing. It sounds like a bug that should be flagged critical and fixed as quick as possible, but if this was needed to teach you to backup (and not trust the applications own auto-backups it manages and keeps in same disk) your important data then there is at least one good thing resulting from it.
And no, that is not trying to paint the bug as feature - just like I'm not saying that it was good when I burned my HD and lost most of my data back in the days because it taught me the importance of keeping backups ;) It was awful, but it did have one minor positive effect :)
In the social network of IRC we had awaylog which you could configure to capture lines which contain a string or match an expression - by default most clients captured anything with your nick. /away "Gone to sauna, brb" while you were away to be shown for anyone private messaging or querying /whois from you...
It was also a convenient way to set status, ie.
There was nothing that important you could not go to sleep at 3am for at least 3-5 hours when I was a teen ;)
Note: Long babbling ahead, skip to end of message if bored/sane/etc. for something I actually wanted point out...
I've been addicted to social networking for a long time.
I do have facebook account, and I've chosen to associate myself with only certain people, which keeps it actually around as largely interesting for me as slashdot postings - but only for very limited time.
I practically never really "use" facebook, but sometimes I do go there for one of several reasons:
1) To post text, link or images (like when I came from Kraftwek gig at Flow Festival in Finland last month) to people, like my sister for example, usually to make something easily (for me and them) available to one or (most often) several friends at once.
2) To contact someone when the only way - literally or only way using internet - is via facebook. Or if the other way (such as email when you need to contact him/her right now and he/she doesn't know it).
3) Someone else contacts me via SMS or other way and asks to continue there because of one or another reason that makes it hard/impossible other way.
Having to go there for these last two annoys me to no end. It usually means that I'm loading the freaking script-asylum webpage which will slow my computer so much that though it doesn't use much of my 50Mbp/s line, it makes all other loading via browser (or in extreme cases, which means all cases on my slower systems) any downloads as it slows any and every program running - and for what? Text based chat which makes me wan't to whip up a greasemonkey script to disable the awful automatic smilie to image conversion.
I've tried to recommend adding my social netwok addiction to their addictions ;)
I can do anything I would want using it and use next to none of my machines capabilities. Talking, sharing links, videos, images, it all works - and it's way older than facebook.
It's called Internet Relay Chat, and is not accessed via web, that is by using www browser - though there have been web based frontends of IRC clients for longer than I've known IRC even... But for true social network addict this is nothing but a crux you could use on extreme emergency when no other option was available. Using a client of your liking to connect at least to one IRC network (for the most popular ones there are mirrors worldwide to provide faster and less laggy connection) and join at least one channel.
I'm currently on IRCNet, OFTC and Efnet networks - on what channels and using what nick(s), I won't tell.
Benefits: IRC client shows text - it can be scripted to choose links, launch them in one or another application, etc., but most clients show text only. And most support terminal/text-mode/cmd.exe type character based output.
While there are channels that have bots automatically saving logs and putting them on the channell webpage the common rule is that once you said something it's gone (not readable to those not on the channell at the time you wrote it), not stored forever like is the common rule with anything you write in web. It doesn't mean that someone can't/isn't currently saving log of the conversation - probably for personal use, but like anywhere (even offline/IRL) you can find later that your being quoted for something stupid. But that has been true before internet or BBS systems just as well.
Also wherever I am, if there is a simple SSH client, I can access not only my usual channels, not only my session but use my preferred client, loaded with scripts (read plugins/extensions for browser equivalent) to enhance the experience. Heck, and old VT100 terminal connected to *nix system with ssh client will do - in fact the experience was not far from that with my old 286 system connected via null-modem cable to my linux box and using OpenDOS and Commo for the connection and terminal emulation, except for the colors :) Also, like VT100 terminals, Commo didn't seem to support sending the letters å, à & à in any mode (ansi, vt100, etc.) understoo
Working in the software industry does not mean you know that - for one because in some places the management, marketting, etc. is not messing up coders work and/or schedule.
But there are other reasons... For one, I worked in one firm where my job consisted of mostly porting code - mostly libraries and tools for internal use - between Visual Basic (yuff, I would never had needed to learn that if it wasn't for the job) and Java (lesser yuff, but back then I liked Java - haven't discovered perl yet, didn't know a language can easily be made mixing both cross-platform and platform specific anyway you like, without a class for everything and their gnomes). There were projects, though mostly I knew nothing of them. One project was porting an important and huge library from Java to VB - it was a breeze. I had a lot of free time because there was almost never a hurry.
But I don't know about the projects that were the moneymakers. I know that my work was also needed to complete those projects and I never heard anything negative, but then I guess I wasn't in direct contact with those who might have worked under pressure... But from how I feel it seemed that the firm was finishing it's projects in timely fashion.
I'm not sure what you mean but at least you put socialism in quotes.
I don't think peer-to-peer video with computers has ever been not obvious - it's made obvious already back in the day of first video phone systems made known to public. Since that, for programmers, it only needed a network system with enough bandwidth to make it obvious - and research probably started in several places way before it became possible and viable for common people.
Extreme left? Wait... I get it! What country are you pointing your finger at?
Aw man, I wrote "people have much greater hobbies", but what I meant to write was "greater motives".
For private enterprise, sure, but people have much greater hobbies - generally profit is seen as means to an end (or to ends if you will), at least by healthy individuals.
But people in general have very little motive to colonize mars (as being part of it), and to be able to achieve it they would need to either be able to pay someone enough to make it profitable or do all the work needed to get and set up conditions they can live in there themselves. I don't see that as likely - However there might be growing amount of people willing to leave from this planet to existing colony in future... if there would be one, that is. And I see such colony being rather unlikely to be done as a long term for-profit business plan - in comparison a (multi)government supported colonization sounds far greater, but one likely to happen much further in future, if ever (rooting for the former).
I'm pretty sure going to the toilet in the middle of the night costs as much as it ever did (unless you count accidentally dropping your phone in).
If you got there alive and unharmed, sure, but it wasn't until indoor toilets becoming the norm for middle- and low-class people too, which wasn't that long ago (in wealthy countries - for the whole globe we still have long to go to get there), when it got safe too.
Seriously, the AC is talking of running servers on office environment for 6 years now - unless it's fiction he obviously must have a job as maintaining servers and/or as system administrator for them.
And you AC talk about "nub" (wtf is that anyway, must you turn l33t sp33k even dumber?). 6 years (and who knows how long experience of Linux out-of-field), and you AC talk about mistake in the beginning.
Really? :) *sparkle*
Yeah, just one thing I'm interested about your post: what is this "normal", and how do you define a certain point more "normal" than others? Is there a scientifically proven "normal" temperature of earth?
Yeah, I know... no... but maybe you meant something else?
How narcist of you. Or selfish - selfish is not necessary narcist, though narcist always is selfish, I know, but your message sounded a bit narcistic...
I think the piece about dealing with hurricanes was meant to mean better dealing with surviving them, not prevent them with magical pixie fairies.
It's obvious to anyone with no anti-Obama bias effecting their interpratation (if that's not right word, sorry, not my native language) of everything so they see something other than what it obvious means - something they can call laughable.
Not. Difficult. At. All.
Lots of sex, with lots of partners (as stated) increases your risk of getting an STD. Especially if you don't wear protection. People (in general) only wear protection a fraction of the time they have sex (don't know the numbers, but if you are an adult, can you tell me you/he wore a condom 100% of the times you got a blow job, or had sex, etc.)
Not in a trusting relationship, but other than that I've been very strict about using condom 100% time during random sex slash with friends with benefits. Especially with men/anal with women, but that's not important as it already was 100% anyway.
So, care to tell me how the healthy and fit patient is supposed to feel walking into a doctors office to find the nurse waddling up to their industrial-strength chair?
And then finding yourself growing impatient as you have to wait an extra 10 minutes for your obese doctor to come wheezing in from his smoke break to talk to you about lifestyle choices?
Funny thing about bias and obesity. It tends to swing both ways. Seems the arrogance of the med industry thinks this is a one-way door.
Of course it goes both ways, and the study makes no claim it doesn't, or does it now?
Btw, I've had a doctor a bit like you describe (not as over the top, but the drift is same), and he was one of my best doctors. He never judged people but did his best to help with whatever was their problem. If he thought the patients life choices may affect how he/she follows the treatment he might have verbally pushed the importance of it, but never did he mistreat at least me.
I wouldn't know, but maybe the fact he knew that he too was only a human might have had something to do with it.
Yeah, I doubt the iOS 5 can provide me the functionality I get with phone + computer. No, I don't doubt, I know - it won't rip my CD's or DVD's (whether for music or video too it won't do it) for one. I could list many others, but why? I made it really easy for you and you either get it or don't - besides as someone who's never gonna own an iPhone (*knocks on wood*, there's been two iPod's already, practically free second hand - but I used gtkpod, not iTunes to manage them).