So you are saying that: - MP3's, at any bitrate, introduce audible artefacts that become intolerable for the experienced ear in certain environments? - this problem is more important than the "loudness wars" cited by many other commenters?
You're right, and you're wrong. Intellectual Design exists as an idea, and as a political movement. Intellectual Design the idea is distinct from Creationism; Intellectual Design the American political movement, however, is firmly rooted in Creationism, is funded by fundamentalist creationists, and shows no signs of being distinct from the American Creationist movement in any real sense.
Behe is not to my knowledge a member of the American Fundamentalist/ Creationist movement, though most ID'ers are. However, his own ideas are apparently a result of his conversion to Christianity.
I'd suggest that before you dismiss criticisms as a smear campaign, that you make sure that no aspects of the smear are true. Many antiCreationists are only too happy to have ammunition, 'tis true, but that does not mean that they are wrong.
I've owned MP3 players from 3 different companies, as well as PDA's from two companies, and the iPod has vastly simpler MP3 functionality than anything else.
In some areas, that simplicity comes at the cost of features; but to dismiss the differences in ease-of-use is to misunderstand the mainstream market.
"Send page by email" does not exist in Firefox. "Send link" is not the same thing.
The ctrl-M shortcut within Firefox unleashed a sea of iexplore windows on this machine. I shall not be doing it again.
Please understand that those are only examples.
I understand that the differences are trivial for some people. It should not be difficult for those people to understand, however, in a general sense, that seamless integration (like most features) is more important to others.
It cannot be reasonably argued that Firefox, Thunderbird, and NVU provide a seamless integrative experience. That's not a flaw overall, but a design decision.
It is therefore not unreasonable for those for whom a seamless integrative experience is important to prefer the integrated suite.
Because some people like tight browser-mailer integration. For instance, some people like having a "send page by email" in a browser submenu. or being able to fire up a new mail message with a single hotkey while in the browser window.
I don't think the assumption of planned theft is a fair one.
I suspect that the situation might simply be this: that the boss (if he exists, and if the story is at all accurate) was interested in using GPL software relatively casually.
One should never use other people's code casually. If the idea of being careful scared him, then he was right to abstain from use- and we should be glad that he did.
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Updated.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
42 MB download.
What's New in iPod Updater 2005-02-22 iPod shuffle Software 1.1 for iPod shuffle
* Support for iPod shuffle Battery Pack
* Increased software stability
iPod mini Software 1.3 for iPod mini
* Support for second-generation iPod mini
* Support for charging and syncing over USB with Mac OS X v10.2.8 or 10.3.4 or later
iPod Software 2.3 for iPod with dock connector
* Shuffle Songs selection in Main Menu
* Music menu item in Main Menu
* Support for iTunes 4.7 and later
iPod Software 1.5 for iPod with touch wheel or scroll wheel
* Shuffle Songs selection in Main Menu
* Music menu item in Main Menu
* Support for iTunes 4.7 and later
However, I don't see any point in comparing Corvette sales to Explorer sales, even though both are "cars". They occupy different niches, and serve different purposes.
It is my understanding that their marketshare of hard drive based players is much higher than 20%.
- 40% of tracked retail Mp3 player sales in Europe/ America/ Japan, though figures elsewhere are lower - Over 10% of MP3 decoder chips made are used for manufacture of iPods
Those sales figures are still a bit misleading- they reflect Apple's performance against flash players, which they do not make.
Even if recent news reports are correct and those figures are high, Apple still remains overwhelmingly dominant among hdd based players.
I use a PC, but we gotta give credit where credit is due.
because, w.r.t. the 1929 massacre, there was no "peace-process" at the time. Or a palestinian people as a defined entity like today.
But I didn't ask you anything about the peace process, nor about the palestinian people. I asked you why the massacre took place, and you seem to want to evade the question.
The phenomena is a national one; i.e. it involves collective behaviour of many individuals. With such phenomena, indeed the average is much more important than a single-individual's actions. If one sees phenomena only at the scale of the individual, one will not understand much of the world.
If one believes that the only levels are the national and the individual, one will similarly fall prey to much misunderstanding. It is my view that a country can also for greater understanding be seen to be composed of cliques and subcultures, who often have contrasting ideaologies and methodologies.
Why do you insist on dealing with the Palestinians only as a monolithic entity?
And BTW, the Palestinians are a people, because they define themselves as such. In their society, genocided-murderers are idolized and considered martyrs. What is that if not tarring themselves with the same brush ?
The fact that Palestinians can reasonably be seen as a single identity does not mean in any sense that such an entity is monolithic or homogenous, any more than all Israelis are Sharonesque.
I note that you still have not addressed the question as to the reason for the massacre of the Israeli Jewish settlers in 1929.
While I disagree with the views and actions of Sharon and his ilk, I agree with you that it is blinkered to think that he sprang up out of nowhere, and that there are not normal human reasons for his rise to power; the same is true for the rise to power of similarly questionable leaders, factions, and patterns of behavior among the Palestinians.
It is a collective Palestinian behaviour.
The views and actions of Palestinians seem to range the normal gamut from saintly to criminal. You seem to wish to tar them all with the same brush; this does not seem logical or evidence-based. Such demonisation is the first step taken by those who wish to justify racism and genocide. Palestinian bombers doubtless think the same way about Israeli Jews.
(1) Are you claiming that the murders were part of a Palestinian conspiracy? Because usually, the people promising peace are not the people doing the murdering. Is that the case here? "The Palestinians" are no more a united, homogenous group than are "The Israeli Jews".
(2) Why were the Hebron settlers murdered, and were their murderers brought to justice by any common, civilised sense of the term? What often happens is that in the understandable thirst for retribution, the actual reasons for the violence are trivialised, and the social order is suspended or abandoned- which only helps bring about more violence.
Although the "recovery time" with respect to necessary sick leave, bed rest, etc. is practically nil, I am a bit unclear as to what she could be claiming.
Is she REALLY saying that there is no pain, no limping, no observable problems after the removal of an anatomically complete sixth toe? (as opposed to a boneless vestigial)
Such a claim would be in opposition to my (admittedly generalist) experience- including experience with the removal of toes.
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So you are saying that:
- MP3's, at any bitrate, introduce audible artefacts that become intolerable for the experienced ear in certain environments?
- this problem is more important than the "loudness wars" cited by many other commenters?
Am I correct that this is what you are saying?
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about the iPod.
You're right, and you're wrong. Intellectual Design exists as an idea, and as a political movement.
Intellectual Design the idea is distinct from Creationism; Intellectual Design the American political movement, however, is firmly rooted in Creationism, is funded by fundamentalist creationists, and shows no signs of being distinct from the American Creationist movement in any real sense.
Behe is not to my knowledge a member of the American Fundamentalist/ Creationist movement, though most ID'ers are. However, his own ideas are apparently a result of his conversion to Christianity.
I'd suggest that before you dismiss criticisms as a smear campaign, that you make sure that no aspects of the smear are true. Many antiCreationists are only too happy to have ammunition, 'tis true, but that does not mean that they are wrong.
I've owned MP3 players from 3 different companies, as well as PDA's from two companies, and the iPod has vastly simpler MP3 functionality than anything else.
In some areas, that simplicity comes at the cost of features; but to dismiss the differences in ease-of-use is to misunderstand the mainstream market.
The best PPC video player is TCMP; the PalmOS port is also great. It's played everything I've thrown at it thus far.
From http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about
Supported file containers
- AVI (*.avi)
- Matroska (*.mkv, *.mka)
- MP4 (*.mp4, *.m4a)
- Ogg Media (*.ogg, *.ogm)
- ASF (*.asf)
Supported audio codecs
- Mpeg 1 Layer III
- Ogg Vorbis
- Musepack
- Windows Media Audio (on Windows Mobile devices)
- AC-3
- AMR
- Adpcm, uLaw
Supported video codecs
- DivX
- XviD
- MPEG4-SP (plus B-frame support)
- MPEG1
- M-JPEG
- Windows Media Video (on Windows Mobile devices)
"Send page by email" does not exist in Firefox. "Send link" is not the same thing.
The ctrl-M shortcut within Firefox unleashed a sea of iexplore windows on this machine. I shall not be doing it again.
Please understand that those are only examples.
I understand that the differences are trivial for some people. It should not be difficult for those people to understand, however, in a general sense, that seamless integration (like most features) is more important to others.
It cannot be reasonably argued that Firefox, Thunderbird, and NVU provide a seamless integrative experience. That's not a flaw overall, but a design decision.
It is therefore not unreasonable for those for whom a seamless integrative experience is important to prefer the integrated suite.
You asked, I answered. That's the "why".
Because some people like tight browser-mailer integration. For instance, some people like having a "send page by email" in a browser submenu. or being able to fire up a new mail message with a single hotkey while in the browser window.
Different folks, different preferences.
Can you intelligently discuss the pros and cons of the iPod as compared to its competitors?
Or do you just hate iPods because they are popular?
An excellent response to an overall-irritating article.
I don't think the assumption of planned theft is a fair one.
I suspect that the situation might simply be this: that the boss (if he exists, and if the story is at all accurate) was interested in using GPL software relatively casually.
One should never use other people's code casually. If the idea of being careful scared him, then he was right to abstain from use- and we should be glad that he did.
Updated.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
42 MB download.
What's New in iPod Updater 2005-02-22
iPod shuffle Software 1.1 for iPod shuffle
* Support for iPod shuffle Battery Pack
* Increased software stability
iPod mini Software 1.3 for iPod mini
* Support for second-generation iPod mini
* Support for charging and syncing over USB with Mac OS X v10.2.8 or 10.3.4 or later
iPod Software 2.3 for iPod with dock connector
* Shuffle Songs selection in Main Menu
* Music menu item in Main Menu
* Support for iTunes 4.7 and later
iPod Software 1.5 for iPod with touch wheel or scroll wheel
* Shuffle Songs selection in Main Menu
* Music menu item in Main Menu
* Support for iTunes 4.7 and later
I'm not an American.
I used to hold the same opinion that you do.
I have researched the issue because it impinges on my work.
I was surprised by the facts.
I still hate guns, but I don't agree with you any more.
Check the facts for yourself.
It's daytime.
Although the extra services are theoretically bothersome, iTunes still works acceptably on my ancient P-III.
I have 75 GB of MP3's and 40 GB of iPod, and iTunes hasn't had a problem yet...
{Shrug}
I guess if you insist.
However, I don't see any point in comparing Corvette sales to Explorer sales, even though both are "cars". They occupy different niches, and serve different purposes.
Have fun!
It is my understanding that their marketshare of hard drive based players is much higher than 20%.
- 40% of tracked retail Mp3 player sales in Europe/ America/ Japan, though figures elsewhere are lower
- Over 10% of MP3 decoder chips made are used for manufacture of iPods
Those sales figures are still a bit misleading- they reflect Apple's performance against flash players, which they do not make.
Even if recent news reports are correct and those figures are high, Apple still remains overwhelmingly dominant among hdd based players.
I use a PC, but we gotta give credit where credit is due.
That's also quite reasonable though likely less palatable. :D
Tell her that she can ditch the utilities but keep the PC as a backup/data entry device.
This is true no matter what device she uses.
No-one is keeping consumer grade point-and-shoot cameras for 30 years either!
Well, my position is that your use of Occam's razor here is too similar to that which has produced error and atrocity in the past, for my agreement.
Occam's Razor is a wonderful tool, but like any edged implement, it can be misused to the injury of all.
because, w.r.t. the 1929 massacre, there was no "peace-process" at the time. Or a palestinian people as a defined entity like today.
But I didn't ask you anything about the peace process, nor about the palestinian people. I asked you why the massacre took place, and you seem to want to evade the question.
The phenomena is a national one; i.e. it involves collective behaviour of many individuals. With such phenomena, indeed the average is much more important than a single-individual's actions. If one sees phenomena only at the scale of the individual, one will not understand much of the world.
If one believes that the only levels are the national and the individual, one will similarly fall prey to much misunderstanding. It is my view that a country can also for greater understanding be seen to be composed of cliques and subcultures, who often have contrasting ideaologies and methodologies.
Why do you insist on dealing with the Palestinians only as a monolithic entity?
And BTW, the Palestinians are a people, because they define themselves as such. In their society, genocided-murderers are idolized and considered martyrs. What is that if not tarring themselves with the same brush ?
The fact that Palestinians can reasonably be seen as a single identity does not mean in any sense that such an entity is monolithic or homogenous, any more than all Israelis are Sharonesque.
You're not making sense.
I note that you still have not addressed the question as to the reason for the massacre of the Israeli Jewish settlers in 1929.
While I disagree with the views and actions of Sharon and his ilk, I agree with you that it is blinkered to think that he sprang up out of nowhere, and that there are not normal human reasons for his rise to power; the same is true for the rise to power of similarly questionable leaders, factions, and patterns of behavior among the Palestinians.
It is a collective Palestinian behaviour.
The views and actions of Palestinians seem to range the normal gamut from saintly to criminal. You seem to wish to tar them all with the same brush; this does not seem logical or evidence-based. Such demonisation is the first step taken by those who wish to justify racism and genocide. Palestinian bombers doubtless think the same way about Israeli Jews.
(1) Are you claiming that the murders were part of a Palestinian conspiracy? Because usually, the people promising peace are not the people doing the murdering. Is that the case here? "The Palestinians" are no more a united, homogenous group than are "The Israeli Jews".
(2) Why were the Hebron settlers murdered, and were their murderers brought to justice by any common, civilised sense of the term? What often happens is that in the understandable thirst for retribution, the actual reasons for the violence are trivialised, and the social order is suspended or abandoned- which only helps bring about more violence.
Difference is, the Zodiac is a PDA with better specs than anything else in its price segment.
I'm a doctor.
Although the "recovery time" with respect to necessary sick leave, bed rest, etc. is practically nil, I am a bit unclear as to what she could be claiming.
Is she REALLY saying that there is no pain, no limping, no observable problems after the removal of an anatomically complete sixth toe? (as opposed to a boneless vestigial)
Such a claim would be in opposition to my (admittedly generalist) experience- including experience with the removal of toes.
Hell, people limp after having a toenail removed.