A month ago, we lost power here in central Ohio for almost three days straight, and it wasn't the first time. The longest I've been at home without power was back in the early 90s when we lost power for a week after a powerful line of storms.
Plus, we have a well for water. When the power goes out, so does our water. Not fun, limme tell ya.
You think a day without power is bad, try several!:)
It's shitty that they didn't add some new stuff because they wanted to sell more new iPods, yes. Way to go pointing out the fact that I was moved by the response to my original post enough to make a few more. What an idiot I must be...
At least you tried to enter in a coherent debate, so I'll bite on this one.
Actually, it is more like saying that Safari will only run on 10.2 and up. Safari and iPod firmware updates are both free pieces of software that Apple has provided, and they only run on certain generations of machines/operating systems.
At least your analogy wasn't flawed. Thanks for that.
Planned obsolence would be if the original iPods were made poorly with the plan of breaking down in the future in order to force an upgrade to a newer iPod. As an owner of the original 5 GB iPod, I must say that it is still running as good as ever. Apple didn't shit on me one bit. In fact, the firmware updates they've released have made it even more functional with a longer battery life.
Planned obsolescence can be due to the material and physical makeup of any given object, but also because of software. If Microsoft were to make a new version of Word that made files that only worked with other new versions of Word, that'd be planned software obsolescence. But that wasn't my point. What I meant was that Apple has shown that the older iPod doesn't matter to them anymore. So why can't they just open up the API for people to do what they want? Again, they added calendar features... a clock... both of which were hacked in by coders outside of Apple. I can't program, and if I could, I'd be tinkering with my Pod. So my message was more or less a cry for help.
You can do whatever you want with your own hardware. You want Apple to freely give out trade secrets so that you don't have to do as much work to make your hardware do stuff it wasn't intended for.
Wishful thinking, I know.. hence the whole hacking iPod thing I mentioned towards the end.
I know why Apple is doing what they're doing... but this is like saying Panther will only run on G5s and up because they're too lazy to make it work with G4s and G3s.
And before any of you tell me that Apple isn't obligated to make the older iPods work in any way, shape, or form different from the way they were originally advertised... why'd they add AAC support? To make $$, duh! And why aren't they adding the other new features? To entice people to upgrade! Stating the obvious, I know... but it really pisses me off that they'd shit on the pioneering owners just for the sake of planned obsolescence.
OH! But my iPod still plays MP3s just fine, you say. Quit playing devils advocate. MY point is that it is SHITTY that Apple has decided to intentionally ignore older iPods... not that I hate capitalism, or Apple trying to make money, or whatever else some of you people like to pull out of your ass for the sake of argument.
Remember - the original iPod didn't have a clock, calendar, or a handful of other random crap, but Apple added it. Asking that they do so for other features shouldn't spark a flamewar.
Alas, this whole thing is trivial as there are much more important things to worry about in our world, but Apple really dropped the ball on this, IMHO. At the very least, Apple should open up the (old?) iPod API so people can do whatever the fuck they want with their own hardware.
This issue really only seems to bother people with older ipods. Gee, I wonder why. Then, those that don't have older iPods are angry because they're tired of listening about the issue altogether...
What's keeping someone from hacking the new software into old iPods? Afterall, the Non-US volume limit was just hacked...
They're nowhere NEAR the quality of custom-fit trays. The custom tray requires much less gel, and since it's closer to your teeth, less is wasted in the actual process as well.
Alright, I can speak on this with a good degree of authority, even though I am not a dentist.
First off - the toothpastes are no good. As someone already mentioned, they don't keep the peroxide close to your teeth long enough. Equally crappy are those paint-on peroxides.
White Strips are great, but they don't whiten all of your teeth, so you're left with a white section on otherwise dingy teeth. Plus it's relatively expensive for the results you get.
If you really want to whiten your teeth... you really should go see a dentist. You need to go regularly to make sure you don't have teeth that are rotting from the inside out....but I'm going to assume that you don't want to go to the dentist because they can be very expensive. Assuming that your teeth are in relatively good shape, but you drink a lot of coffee or what have you, your best bet is to search Google for a company offering both carbamide peroxide gel in syringes and CUSTOM-fit trays.
Here's the drill - You get a kit with a few syringes filled the carbamide peroxide gel, two trays, a lump of putty, and a pre-paid envelope. You take the putty, mash it into a tray and make an impression of your teeth. Take the tray, drop it into the envelope and send it to the company. Several weeks later, they send you custom-fit trays. Put some gel in the NEW tray and put the tray in your mouth for 15-30 minutes a day for a week or two. Several days later, bam... white teeth!
It's sad that a local station is allowed to spew 50,000 watts of Country music into the air, overflowing into adjacent frequencies, but if someone broadcasts a stable 1,000-watt signal, they're (still) doing something against the law.
It really annoys me that there are standards for almost everything around us, yet as of July 2003, Web Browsing remains a mess of incompatibility and pointless fragmentation.
Pick up a telephone and one can call others all over the world. Fire up (Mozilla,Safari,Opera) and sooner or later, one is bound to run into serious (read: major incompatibility/security/crashing) problems with at least one site.
I'd like to know what's stopping the IEEE from getting their act together and ironing out THE Web Browsing standard. Don't point at the W3C and say "the IEEE's involvement would be redundant. We already have a web standards body... bla bla bla." Microsoft doesn't care about the W3C, which is glaringly obvious now, and that is the group's fatal shortcoming. Only a small group of web-savvy individuals see their recommendations as The Bible of web standards, and I can't see this ever changing.
I wish people from the IEEE, Macromedia, Adobe, Apple, AOL/Mozillla and Microsoft got together and came up with a spec that eliminated the fragmentation. Unfortunately, it seems that day will never happen. And that's a pity.
Maybe the people behind Gnutella should come up with a way to only share a fixed (yet random) set of songs at any given time.
Don't get it? Try this.
Develop a function that allows others to "see" a max of 50 songs at a time per user. The user could have thousands of songs but only 50 would be viewable at any given time. Set the refresh to something like 60 seconds... thus obfuscating the difference between the small and large fish by making it difficult to determine how many songs a user truly has.
IMHO, Sony completely BLEW it by not using MiniDiscs for their upcoming portable. They're small, have shells... perfect for the type of thing they're attempting to do... small & portable optical.
Nintendo should go with an optical format much like MD.
I got tired of paying $30 per cart for my Epson Color Stylus 777, so I checked out Google and discovered that there are a handful of (Chinese?) manufacturers producing generic ink WITH microchips included. This is important because several Epson printers have chips on their replacement ink specifically made to thwart generic ink manufacturers... my model included.
The old way of refilling these carts was to buy a chip flasher and a bunch of ink, refill the original carts, flash the chip, then reseal the carts... major pain in the ass.
That's no longer necessary.
So I ordered a few carts at around $7 each from eink4u.com and paid $40 for 3 black and 2 color carts with shipping. No problems to report thus far.
Fuck Epson.
Oh, and there are MANY places other than eink4u selling cheap ink. Look around on Foogle, or better yet, go to BizRate.
It amazes me that there are so many people out there that think owners of old iPods should buy a new one for 2.0 features, and use flawed references to push their point. I've heard of almost everything, from the thin arguments based on the different model years of a particular car to Apple's capitalistic need to make money.
I simply think it's sad that Apple clearly has no technical reason for not upgrading the 1st and 2nd generation iPods with 2.0 software other than the need to poke people in the direction of buying a new Pod.
Actually, It's some fucked up, repugnant shit.
My wish has nothing to do with some sort of twisted desire to have Apple upgrade my 20GB iPod to 30GB for free, or bitching that Chevy should give me a free AC unit because the new ones include them as standard equipment. I simply want some of the new software features.
Honestly, after seeing so many idiotic posts across the net that I've seen over this truly TRIVIAL topic, it's a wonder we ever get anything accomplished as a society.
If anything has the potential to take back the commercial airwaves (AM/FM) from ClearChannel, it is digital radio concepts like this. Is this a step in the right direction? No. It's a sprint in the right direction.
Screw IBOC. AM/FM need a digital makeover, not a legacy-supporting and shitty sounding downgrade.
Why should we fund Internet connections with "bad content" filters, complete with someone hovering over the students' backs at school?
Don't children deserve BETTER, real, live teachers in the first place?
With that said, I've never understood the hypocrisy in shunning communism (China, et al) for its inherent censorship, while at the same time, our (American) culture justifies it in the name of "child protection."
And mods... before you label this off-topic, just remember that the tax money coming from this initiative will fund the very actions stated above.
This is what I described as the legacy-supporting digital upgrade to radio. Unfortunately, I've heard nothing but bad things about it, ranging from driving lower-powered stations out of the sky and the like.
Then again, I could have been reading a bunch of lies.
No matter what though, radio needs a true upgrade coupled with a "channel" system. I'd like to see a "channel xx" format. That'd be so much better than keeping the current "xxx.x" format. And I can think of 20 more reasons. Ya dig?
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A month ago, we lost power here in central Ohio for almost three days straight, and it wasn't the first time. The longest I've been at home without power was back in the early 90s when we lost power for a week after a powerful line of storms.
Plus, we have a well for water. When the power goes out, so does our water. Not fun, limme tell ya.
You think a day without power is bad, try several!
It's shitty that they didn't add some new stuff because they wanted to sell more new iPods, yes. Way to go pointing out the fact that I was moved by the response to my original post enough to make a few more. What an idiot I must be...
At least you tried to enter in a coherent debate, so I'll bite on this one.
Actually, it is more like saying that Safari will only run on 10.2 and up. Safari and iPod firmware updates are both free pieces of software that Apple has provided, and they only run on certain generations of machines/operating systems.
At least your analogy wasn't flawed. Thanks for that.
Planned obsolence would be if the original iPods were made poorly with the plan of breaking down in the future in order to force an upgrade to a newer iPod. As an owner of the original 5 GB iPod, I must say that it is still running as good as ever. Apple didn't shit on me one bit. In fact, the firmware updates they've released have made it even more functional with a longer battery life.
Planned obsolescence can be due to the material and physical makeup of any given object, but also because of software. If Microsoft were to make a new version of Word that made files that only worked with other new versions of Word, that'd be planned software obsolescence. But that wasn't my point. What I meant was that Apple has shown that the older iPod doesn't matter to them anymore. So why can't they just open up the API for people to do what they want? Again, they added calendar features... a clock... both of which were hacked in by coders outside of Apple. I can't program, and if I could, I'd be tinkering with my Pod. So my message was more or less a cry for help.
You can do whatever you want with your own hardware. You want Apple to freely give out trade secrets so that you don't have to do as much work to make your hardware do stuff it wasn't intended for.
Wishful thinking, I know.. hence the whole hacking iPod thing I mentioned towards the end.
And I assume you're cooler than I simply because you listen to RATT instead?
I know why Apple is doing what they're doing... but this is like saying Panther will only run on G5s and up because they're too lazy to make it work with G4s and G3s.
And before any of you tell me that Apple isn't obligated to make the older iPods work in any way, shape, or form different from the way they were originally advertised... why'd they add AAC support? To make $$, duh! And why aren't they adding the other new features? To entice people to upgrade! Stating the obvious, I know... but it really pisses me off that they'd shit on the pioneering owners just for the sake of planned obsolescence.
OH! But my iPod still plays MP3s just fine, you say. Quit playing devils advocate. MY point is that it is SHITTY that Apple has decided to intentionally ignore older iPods... not that I hate capitalism, or Apple trying to make money, or whatever else some of you people like to pull out of your ass for the sake of argument.
Remember - the original iPod didn't have a clock, calendar, or a handful of other random crap, but Apple added it. Asking that they do so for other features shouldn't spark a flamewar.
Alas, this whole thing is trivial as there are much more important things to worry about in our world, but Apple really dropped the ball on this, IMHO. At the very least, Apple should open up the (old?) iPod API so people can do whatever the fuck they want with their own hardware.
This issue really only seems to bother people with older ipods. Gee, I wonder why. Then, those that don't have older iPods are angry because they're tired of listening about the issue altogether...
What's keeping someone from hacking the new software into old iPods? Afterall, the Non-US volume limit was just hacked...
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I'd love to hear that out loud in a court preceding.
Yeah. Like our constitution means anything anymore.
Troll? I think not.
They're nowhere NEAR the quality of custom-fit trays. The custom tray requires much less gel, and since it's closer to your teeth, less is wasted in the actual process as well.
Mouthgards suck.
If you're gonna do it, do it right.
Alright, I can speak on this with a good degree of authority, even though I am not a dentist.
...but I'm going to assume that you don't want to go to the dentist because they can be very expensive. Assuming that your teeth are in relatively good shape, but you drink a lot of coffee or what have you, your best bet is to search Google for a company offering both carbamide peroxide gel in syringes and CUSTOM-fit trays.
First off - the toothpastes are no good. As someone already mentioned, they don't keep the peroxide close to your teeth long enough. Equally crappy are those paint-on peroxides.
White Strips are great, but they don't whiten all of your teeth, so you're left with a white section on otherwise dingy teeth. Plus it's relatively expensive for the results you get.
If you really want to whiten your teeth... you really should go see a dentist. You need to go regularly to make sure you don't have teeth that are rotting from the inside out.
Here's the drill - You get a kit with a few syringes filled the carbamide peroxide gel, two trays, a lump of putty, and a pre-paid envelope. You take the putty, mash it into a tray and make an impression of your teeth. Take the tray, drop it into the envelope and send it to the company. Several weeks later, they send you custom-fit trays. Put some gel in the NEW tray and put the tray in your mouth for 15-30 minutes a day for a week or two. Several days later, bam... white teeth!
It's sad that a local station is allowed to spew 50,000 watts of Country music into the air, overflowing into adjacent frequencies, but if someone broadcasts a stable 1,000-watt signal, they're (still) doing something against the law.
Me, bitter? Nah...
It really annoys me that there are standards for almost everything around us, yet as of July 2003, Web Browsing remains a mess of incompatibility and pointless fragmentation.
Pick up a telephone and one can call others all over the world. Fire up (Mozilla,Safari,Opera) and sooner or later, one is bound to run into serious (read: major incompatibility/security/crashing) problems with at least one site.
I'd like to know what's stopping the IEEE from getting their act together and ironing out THE Web Browsing standard. Don't point at the W3C and say "the IEEE's involvement would be redundant. We already have a web standards body... bla bla bla." Microsoft doesn't care about the W3C, which is glaringly obvious now, and that is the group's fatal shortcoming. Only a small group of web-savvy individuals see their recommendations as The Bible of web standards, and I can't see this ever changing.
I wish people from the IEEE, Macromedia, Adobe, Apple, AOL/Mozillla and Microsoft got together and came up with a spec that eliminated the fragmentation. Unfortunately, it seems that day will never happen. And that's a pity.
It'd be like eBay feedback...
Great language!! Would code in again!!! C++++++++++++++++++
No, it doesn't come until Dems get back into the White House, unfortunately.
The parent comment is funny because it's almost true.
There are too many acronyms in this thread! My head is going to explode!!
*cough*
So this means I'm allowed to cover a billboard five minutes from my house with a banner that says "www.goatse.cx" in 4500 point font?
Maybe the people behind Gnutella should come up with a way to only share a fixed (yet random) set of songs at any given time.
:(
Don't get it? Try this.
Develop a function that allows others to "see" a max of 50 songs at a time per user. The user could have thousands of songs but only 50 would be viewable at any given time. Set the refresh to something like 60 seconds... thus obfuscating the difference between the small and large fish by making it difficult to determine how many songs a user truly has.
If I knew how to code, I'd do it myself
IMHO, Sony completely BLEW it by not using MiniDiscs for their upcoming portable. They're small, have shells... perfect for the type of thing they're attempting to do... small & portable optical.
Nintendo should go with an optical format much like MD.
I got tired of paying $30 per cart for my Epson Color Stylus 777, so I checked out Google and discovered that there are a handful of (Chinese?) manufacturers producing generic ink WITH microchips included. This is important because several Epson printers have chips on their replacement ink specifically made to thwart generic ink manufacturers... my model included.
The old way of refilling these carts was to buy a chip flasher and a bunch of ink, refill the original carts, flash the chip, then reseal the carts... major pain in the ass.
That's no longer necessary.
So I ordered a few carts at around $7 each from eink4u.com and paid $40 for 3 black and 2 color carts with shipping. No problems to report thus far.
Fuck Epson.
Oh, and there are MANY places other than eink4u selling cheap ink. Look around on Foogle, or better yet, go to BizRate.
It amazes me that there are so many people out there that think owners of old iPods should buy a new one for 2.0 features, and use flawed references to push their point. I've heard of almost everything, from the thin arguments based on the different model years of a particular car to Apple's capitalistic need to make money.
I simply think it's sad that Apple clearly has no technical reason for not upgrading the 1st and 2nd generation iPods with 2.0 software other than the need to poke people in the direction of buying a new Pod.
Actually, It's some fucked up, repugnant shit.
My wish has nothing to do with some sort of twisted desire to have Apple upgrade my 20GB iPod to 30GB for free, or bitching that Chevy should give me a free AC unit because the new ones include them as standard equipment. I simply want some of the new software features.
Honestly, after seeing so many idiotic posts across the net that I've seen over this truly TRIVIAL topic, it's a wonder we ever get anything accomplished as a society.
Unfortunately, HFS, FAT(16/32), BFS, NTFS... none of them have this built in.
I want to see a filesystem with Evil Bit support!
If anything has the potential to take back the commercial airwaves (AM/FM) from ClearChannel, it is digital radio concepts like this. Is this a step in the right direction? No. It's a sprint in the right direction.
Screw IBOC. AM/FM need a digital makeover, not a legacy-supporting and shitty sounding downgrade.
Why should we fund Internet connections with "bad content" filters, complete with someone hovering over the students' backs at school?
Don't children deserve BETTER, real, live teachers in the first place?
With that said, I've never understood the hypocrisy in shunning communism (China, et al) for its inherent censorship, while at the same time, our (American) culture justifies it in the name of "child protection."
And mods... before you label this off-topic, just remember that the tax money coming from this initiative will fund the very actions stated above.
This is what I described as the legacy-supporting digital upgrade to radio. Unfortunately, I've heard nothing but bad things about it, ranging from driving lower-powered stations out of the sky and the like.
Then again, I could have been reading a bunch of lies.
No matter what though, radio needs a true upgrade coupled with a "channel" system. I'd like to see a "channel xx" format. That'd be so much better than keeping the current "xxx.x" format. And I can think of 20 more reasons. Ya dig?
Wouldn't this make all sorts of chaotic noise (read: dropped packets) in a WiFi setup?