Obviously you know very little about religion. Many people who devote themselves to a religion spend years studying it to know the truth. Monks devote a lifetime to such pursuits.
Yes there are, but they study interpretation and history, not the core parts of the religion. So yes, Monks sit around studying archealogy of anchient Isreal or letters from St. Paul, but they don't debate Adam & Eve, or the Ten Commandments, or Jesus dying on the cross.
But please stop pretending scientists aren't a priesthood to most people.
Most people aren't that stupid.
You admitted as much when you acknowleged the 'poor science education' that most people receive.
Do you also advocate giving Holocast deniers a part in history class? How about flat-earthers in geology? Both of these views are just as "valid" as ID.
Tips are expected by the staff merely for showing up, so they're not a motivation for better service. Tipping is only insurance against getting deliberately bad service the next time you visit.
Before the U.S. government started counting tips as taxable income, that might have been true. Afterwards, however, that is nonsense. Because tips are taxable income, it means restaurants can pay waiters *less than the minimum wage*. Getting half or more of your income from tips is a very, very, very strong incentive to provide good service.
They don't care because they are in business to make money, not to meet every billeted list of everyone in the "me" generation. Several items on your unreasonable list are direct impediments to making money, such as having files without DRM, or making them playable on anything other than Mac's, iPods or PC's.
And as far as viewing the files goes, if you have a computer capable of running iTunes, you have a computer capable of playing these videos.
And for the people who need those two things, cool. The vast majority of people could not care less, as evidenced by what players sell in the millions and those that don't.
The iPod supports MP3, WAV, AAC, Apple lossless, JPG, H.264, MPEG4, Audible, and text. One big feature of AAC that the iAudio misses out on is bookmarking. You start listening to an AAC podcast or audiobook, and it will remember where you stopped listening.
The iPod plays video at 30 fps while the iAudio only manages 15. The iPod also has larger capacity, longer battery life, and a display with three times the resolution of the iAudio's, while being smaller, lighter and thinner. You can also hook up an iPod to a TV to watch your videos...I see no mention of that feature on iAudio's site. Finally, the iAudio's controls look pretty poor next to the Clickwheel.
There's iAudio x5 that beats the shit out of iPods all day
Whatever you say, Baghdad Bob. Unless you really need audio recording, the iPod quite clearly spanks the iAudio on all fronts.
Kind of like how speeding has nothing to do with breaking the law? Oh, wait, speeding IS breaking the law! And copyright infringement IS stealing!
So everything that violates a law is stealing? Is speeding stealing? Is dumping arsenic in your well stealing? No? Then your analogy is both pointless and stupid.
His point was that he's too lazy to change a CD. Let's repeat that, because it's so blatantly stupid it requires repeating. He's too lazy to CHANGE A CD.
IT'S NOT HIS BUSINESS TO CHANGE CD'S. He bought the game, he shouldn't have to put up with this crap. End of story.
So since retail stores have security and cameras and systems to detect you leaving with merchandise you haven't paid for, thus, treating you like a criminal, you should go ahead and steal.
1) Copyright infringment has nothing to do with stealing. 2) You missed the point entirely.
His point was that people who download the game have a better experience than those who pay for a copy.
That's probably a sign that you should seek medical attention.:)
Apple is the flashy, style, radical, celebrity, hype, media focus's tech company, and the meticulously cultivate that image....which would flop if they didn't make damn good products. Their success comes from product first, hype a distant second.
Microsoft is the grey cubicle, work 60 hours a week, flyover country tech company.
But Microsoft has probably spent much more money than Apple on trying to be "cool". Remember Bob? Remember Gates's sad attempt to be Austin Powers? Microsoft's problem is that Ballmer and Gates couldn't have charisma if they had IV's dripping Charisma Juice into their viens 24 hours a day, while Steve Jobs could be a regular Charisma Juice donator.
You think anyone that doesn't agree with your opinion about the way the world works is retarded.
Ah yes, putting words in my mouth. Even the English have straw men, I guess. Of course, your attempt to be clever goes down in flames given the fact that I never actually called you a retard. Only a retard would have missed that.
I still contend you're wrong - the money a corporation has is not the money of its workers. You can try to put forth your opinion, but opinion doesn't influence fact,
The "fact" is that I covered this already. One is direct while the other is indirect. A union will take it's chunk straight out of check, whereas lobbying means a company has less money to pay you, pay out in profit sharing, or pay out in dividends.
And besides, the fact that you keep ignoring is that with a union, you get a say in where that money goes. And if you still don't like it, there's the option advocated by pro-buisness people: quit and find a different job.
As much as you want to believe this is a virtue, it isn't.
It's better than being a hypocritical snob.
This particular pro-union argument used the perfect solution fallacy in an attempt to invalidate what I put forth.
Find where someone said unions were perfect, or that was a perfect waste of time.
Seems your language skills are limited to swearing and breezing
As a self-centered grandstander, that's all you deserve.
without comprehending any of them.
Small-mindedness is easy to understand, it just needs to be ignored.
Besides, if someone else causes an accident, it is their problem, not mine. If I cause it, *MY* insurance pays for it... and I have an excellent driving record, so no insurance company is losing any money on ME.
Ha. Either you have never dealt with an insurance company, or were lucky when you did so. Here's clue 101: insurance companies are in business to take premiums and deny claims. This means when you get in an accident, your insurance company will fight with your health insurer, the insurer of the other driver, and if all else fails, you. To list a couple of examples, my aunt was broadsided by a pickup truck than ran a red light. The truck drivers insurance company fought it out for over a year, basically on the grounds that if my aunt hadn't been driving through the intersection at the time (nevermind that the light was green), their driver wasn't 100% at fault and so they refused to cover 100% of the damages. My sister was in an accident and had some of her teeth knocked out...despite having dental insurance in addition to supposedly full coverage, Blue Cross fought coverage on the grounds that it was "cosmetic surgery".
Either that, or please leave and go start your own country where you can force your narrow views on anyone foolish or unfortunate enough to live there.
No, better yet, either realize that driving is a priveledge and not a right, or move your ass to Afganistan where every man can be an island.
I see your point, but I don't agree - mainly because when a corporation uses its own money to do political activity.
The only difference between a copororate donation and a union donation is the first is direct while the latter is indirect. Either way, the money still comes from your efforts as a worker. And as I added later, at least with a union you get a say in where that money goes.
Incidentally, using the word 'retarded' to make your point goes a long way toward robbing you of your credibility. If your position cannot be expressed without disparaging the opposition, you might be just a little too emotionally invested to be making arguments in a public forum.
LOL. You should go to England sometime, and take note of how people can be incredibly nasty to eachother while being perfectly polite at the same time. I will at least call you a retard to your face, and there *are* a lot of retarded, boilerplate, anti-union arugments out there.
Yup, it was pretty tacky of you to call anyone who complains about easily scratched screens an "idiot" and calling Apple customers "whiners", who happen to number in the millions.
Moral of the story: don't be a dick and you wont get treated like one.
You couldn't have made it easier to discount your opinion as irrelevant if you'd written it in chinese (which I can't read). Well done.
Ah, so the the dick throws his hands in the air, claims the moral highground, and victory with it. Sorry, doesn't work that way.
That being said, I guess I'll explain this issue to you since you seem to have an honest misunderstanding of it.
No, YOU don't understand. They used a thinner coating that leads to the screen being scratched more easily. Even Apple has acknowledged this to be a problem, although they claim it has occured on only 1% of the Nanos. The color of the case is irrelevant. And despite your rambling about how screen gaurds are necessary, any product that can be easily damaged in the first day of normal use is defective. More so when you consider this wasn't a problem with the previous 16 million iPods.
I have a GeForce 4 MX - which is decent but slightly dated
More than a little. I had the same expereince with Theif 3: got the game, installed it, but it wouldn't run because I didn't have a DX9 card. Son of a bitch!
I have a 6800 GT now, more than qualified to run B&W 2, but the game is an absolute dog. It does not look that much better than the previous game, yet I've caught it trying to use up to a gig of ram. Hitting ESC during the game (to save or quit) sometimes takes over a minute to bring up the menu.
Oh I see, you are going to try the lame insurance argument.
The only "lame" thing is expecting others to pay for your dumb ass.
Inotherwords... noboby should be allowed to:...spew random bullshit. Quit being a whiny bitch and buckle your damn seat belt, so other people don't have to fork out money when you get in an accident. Deal with it.
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Obviously you know very little about religion. Many people who devote themselves to a religion spend years studying it to know the truth. Monks devote a lifetime to such pursuits.
Yes there are, but they study interpretation and history, not the core parts of the religion. So yes, Monks sit around studying archealogy of anchient Isreal or letters from St. Paul, but they don't debate Adam & Eve, or the Ten Commandments, or Jesus dying on the cross.
But please stop pretending scientists aren't a priesthood to most people.
Most people aren't that stupid.
You admitted as much when you acknowleged the 'poor science education' that most people receive.
wtf are you talking about?
Copernicus! all the current scientific minds say the earth is flat
Really? Which ones? Sure you don't mean "religious minds", which kind of defeats your point?
Do you also advocate giving Holocast deniers a part in history class? How about flat-earthers in geology? Both of these views are just as "valid" as ID.
Tips are expected by the staff merely for showing up, so they're not a motivation for better service. Tipping is only insurance against getting deliberately bad service the next time you visit.
Before the U.S. government started counting tips as taxable income, that might have been true. Afterwards, however, that is nonsense. Because tips are taxable income, it means restaurants can pay waiters *less than the minimum wage*. Getting half or more of your income from tips is a very, very, very strong incentive to provide good service.
They don't care because they are in business to make money, not to meet every billeted list of everyone in the "me" generation. Several items on your unreasonable list are direct impediments to making money, such as having files without DRM, or making them playable on anything other than Mac's, iPods or PC's.
And as far as viewing the files goes, if you have a computer capable of running iTunes, you have a computer capable of playing these videos.
No OGG? Then you can't even listen to Wikipedia.
Oh. Darn.
Didn't know that. :) So it looks like it's down to the FM tuner.
has an fm tuner, line in recording
And for the people who need those two things, cool. The vast majority of people could not care less, as evidenced by what players sell in the millions and those that don't.
supports MP3, OGG, WMA, ASF, FLAC, WAV, MPEG4, JPG, TXT, AVI
The iPod supports MP3, WAV, AAC, Apple lossless, JPG, H.264, MPEG4, Audible, and text. One big feature of AAC that the iAudio misses out on is bookmarking. You start listening to an AAC podcast or audiobook, and it will remember where you stopped listening.
The iPod plays video at 30 fps while the iAudio only manages 15. The iPod also has larger capacity, longer battery life, and a display with three times the resolution of the iAudio's, while being smaller, lighter and thinner. You can also hook up an iPod to a TV to watch your videos...I see no mention of that feature on iAudio's site. Finally, the iAudio's controls look pretty poor next to the Clickwheel.
There's iAudio x5 that beats the shit out of iPods all day
Whatever you say, Baghdad Bob. Unless you really need audio recording, the iPod quite clearly spanks the iAudio on all fronts.
That's Stephen King...wildly excessive detail.
Um, skip this submission and don't read the coments?
...moreso when they're working with a government agency. They aren't vigilaties! They're free-lance mercenaries!
Kind of like how speeding has nothing to do with breaking the law? Oh, wait, speeding IS breaking the law! And copyright infringement IS stealing!
So everything that violates a law is stealing? Is speeding stealing? Is dumping arsenic in your well stealing? No? Then your analogy is both pointless and stupid.
His point was that he's too lazy to change a CD. Let's repeat that, because it's so blatantly stupid it requires repeating. He's too lazy to CHANGE A CD.
IT'S NOT HIS BUSINESS TO CHANGE CD'S. He bought the game, he shouldn't have to put up with this crap. End of story.
So since retail stores have security and cameras and systems to detect you leaving with merchandise you haven't paid for, thus, treating you like a criminal, you should go ahead and steal.
1) Copyright infringment has nothing to do with stealing.
2) You missed the point entirely.
His point was that people who download the game have a better experience than those who pay for a copy.
Daemon tools can emulate some protection schemes. Works with B&W 2. :)
He seems to morph into a different creature entirely when he gets in front of a keyboard.
That's because he's trolling to get hits for whomever he's working for. And he generally does it very, very well.
Dvorak's comments make sense to me.
:)
...which would flop if they didn't make damn good products. Their success comes from product first, hype a distant second.
That's probably a sign that you should seek medical attention.
Apple is the flashy, style, radical, celebrity, hype, media focus's tech company, and the meticulously cultivate that image.
Microsoft is the grey cubicle, work 60 hours a week, flyover country tech company.
But Microsoft has probably spent much more money than Apple on trying to be "cool". Remember Bob? Remember Gates's sad attempt to be Austin Powers? Microsoft's problem is that Ballmer and Gates couldn't have charisma if they had IV's dripping Charisma Juice into their viens 24 hours a day, while Steve Jobs could be a regular Charisma Juice donator.
LOL! You mean like the way all the AMD fanboys on /. have been praying for Intel to fall for a decade? Or the Linux prayers for MS to fall?
/. people aren't paid large sums of money to make predictions, so it's not quite as funny.
Pretty much. But of course,
Quicktime Pro is a $30 upgrade no user should have to pay for just to do this job.
Wouldn't iMovie suffice for this?
You think anyone that doesn't agree with your opinion about the way the world works is retarded.
Ah yes, putting words in my mouth. Even the English have straw men, I guess. Of course, your attempt to be clever goes down in flames given the fact that I never actually called you a retard. Only a retard would have missed that.
I still contend you're wrong - the money a corporation has is not the money of its workers. You can try to put forth your opinion, but opinion doesn't influence fact,
The "fact" is that I covered this already. One is direct while the other is indirect. A union will take it's chunk straight out of check, whereas lobbying means a company has less money to pay you, pay out in profit sharing, or pay out in dividends.
And besides, the fact that you keep ignoring is that with a union, you get a say in where that money goes. And if you still don't like it, there's the option advocated by pro-buisness people: quit and find a different job.
As much as you want to believe this is a virtue, it isn't.
It's better than being a hypocritical snob.
This particular pro-union argument used the perfect solution fallacy in an attempt to invalidate what I put forth.
Find where someone said unions were perfect, or that was a perfect waste of time.
Seems your language skills are limited to swearing and breezing
As a self-centered grandstander, that's all you deserve.
without comprehending any of them.
Small-mindedness is easy to understand, it just needs to be ignored.
Besides, if someone else causes an accident, it is their problem, not mine. If I cause it, *MY* insurance pays for it... and I have an excellent driving record, so no insurance company is losing any money on ME.
Ha. Either you have never dealt with an insurance company, or were lucky when you did so. Here's clue 101: insurance companies are in business to take premiums and deny claims. This means when you get in an accident, your insurance company will fight with your health insurer, the insurer of the other driver, and if all else fails, you. To list a couple of examples, my aunt was broadsided by a pickup truck than ran a red light. The truck drivers insurance company fought it out for over a year, basically on the grounds that if my aunt hadn't been driving through the intersection at the time (nevermind that the light was green), their driver wasn't 100% at fault and so they refused to cover 100% of the damages. My sister was in an accident and had some of her teeth knocked out...despite having dental insurance in addition to supposedly full coverage, Blue Cross fought coverage on the grounds that it was "cosmetic surgery".
Either that, or please leave and go start your own country where you can force your narrow views on anyone foolish or unfortunate enough to live there.
No, better yet, either realize that driving is a priveledge and not a right, or move your ass to Afganistan where every man can be an island.
They aren't democracies, but more so oligarchies. Rule by a powerful few as opposed to rule by a single individual.
I see your point, but I don't agree - mainly because when a corporation uses its own money to do political activity.
The only difference between a copororate donation and a union donation is the first is direct while the latter is indirect. Either way, the money still comes from your efforts as a worker. And as I added later, at least with a union you get a say in where that money goes.
Incidentally, using the word 'retarded' to make your point goes a long way toward robbing you of your credibility. If your position cannot be expressed without disparaging the opposition, you might be just a little too emotionally invested to be making arguments in a public forum.
LOL. You should go to England sometime, and take note of how people can be incredibly nasty to eachother while being perfectly polite at the same time. I will at least call you a retard to your face, and there *are* a lot of retarded, boilerplate, anti-union arugments out there.
Name calling, personal attacks, insults...
Yup, it was pretty tacky of you to call anyone who complains about easily scratched screens an "idiot" and calling Apple customers "whiners", who happen to number in the millions.
Moral of the story: don't be a dick and you wont get treated like one.
You couldn't have made it easier to discount your opinion as irrelevant if you'd written it in chinese (which I can't read). Well done.
Ah, so the the dick throws his hands in the air, claims the moral highground, and victory with it. Sorry, doesn't work that way.
That being said, I guess I'll explain this issue to you since you seem to have an honest misunderstanding of it.
No, YOU don't understand. They used a thinner coating that leads to the screen being scratched more easily. Even Apple has acknowledged this to be a problem, although they claim it has occured on only 1% of the Nanos. The color of the case is irrelevant. And despite your rambling about how screen gaurds are necessary, any product that can be easily damaged in the first day of normal use is defective. More so when you consider this wasn't a problem with the previous 16 million iPods.
I have a GeForce 4 MX - which is decent but slightly dated
More than a little. I had the same expereince with Theif 3: got the game, installed it, but it wouldn't run because I didn't have a DX9 card. Son of a bitch!
I have a 6800 GT now, more than qualified to run B&W 2, but the game is an absolute dog. It does not look that much better than the previous game, yet I've caught it trying to use up to a gig of ram. Hitting ESC during the game (to save or quit) sometimes takes over a minute to bring up the menu.
Oh I see, you are going to try the lame insurance argument.
...spew random bullshit. Quit being a whiny bitch and buckle your damn seat belt, so other people don't have to fork out money when you get in an accident. Deal with it.
The only "lame" thing is expecting others to pay for your dumb ass.
Inotherwords... noboby should be allowed to: