No, but it is the future. Keep the OS, keep the interface, keep the wireless, lose the cell phone and maybe the camera, and add a hard drive.
On an unrelated note, you might want to consider some anger management classes.
And maybe you should work on being less of a whiney, self-centered jackass. The iPhone is far from being overpriced. It's a high end phone, and needs to be compared to other high end phones, which all come with a higher pricetag than your basic handset. Apple is going to sell millions of these. They could still sell unlocked ones at $850 like hotcakes. A lot of people have been waiting for a great MP3 player, cell phone and pda in a single device.
Lots of the iPhone features will be available this month on the FIC Neo1973 Smartphone.
Maybe if "lots" consists of a touchscreen and big pretty buttons. Looking at the page, the Smartphone only has USB 1.1 (ick), a Micro SD slot (so you are limited to a max of 2 gigs instead of 8) no bluetooth, no Wi-Fi, and is physically larger but has no camera.
No, it's a sign that physics trumps politics. Battery-powered electric cars don't make sense for nearly all uses of automobiles. The limited range is acceptable for fork lifts and golf carts, but not for family transportation. Practical cars need to be able to be refueled in minutes.
Bullshit. The vast majority of commutes happen within the EV1's range. If it doesn't meet your needs, then don't fucking buy one. Nobody tells Harley Davidson to close up shop because you can't take your four kids to school on a motorcycle, or that Toyota has to drop the Civic line because you can't put a couch in the back.
Have you ever paid attention to government? Some days I think that government exists to pull the corrupt in. The government is the biggest source of corruption going.
Huh, I didn't know Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, Haliburton and Union Carbine were government agencies.
I swear every place was cooled to 72 degrees - needlessly.
I need 72 or less or I can't sleep. There are less snobby ways of addressing that issue - like using more swamp coolers, as the humidity is low for much of California.
Sorry to burst your bubble. But my Linux installation never slowed down to a crawl over copying files to a external device -- that's just ludicrous.
Hey Captain Straw Man! I was talking about doing a dozen or more transfers at once...even if your whole system doens't slow down, your rate of transfer will.
I think the media kio slave in KDE already does this (queuing), but I can't confirm it actually does with the iPod, since I don't own one.
So you bitch about how you have to use special Apple software to transfer files, and then extoll special Linux software to transfer files? So do you sing this jingle when you get up in the morning:
"The best part of waking up is Hypocracy in my cup!"
Well, it may be 8 seconds but I thought Apple computers were supposed to make my life EASIER.
I know how you feel. When the latest revision came out, I found out that Apple's laptops STILL wont wipe my ass for me. Of all the nerve...I wrote a letter of complaint to Steve Jobs, personally.
Why should I pay more for less features, even ones that I "don't" need?
Why should everyone else pay for a docking connector that only a small percentage of users want? Is there even a docking connector that supports DVI, 800 Mbps Firewire, Gigabit Ethernet, USB and optical audio?
Yeah... Who would of expected a mp3 player to not support simple drag and drop operations onto it's drive so you can copy your music and listen to it on said device...
Because that's retarded, that's why. Say you get a new iPod and start going through your favorite bands and one-hit-wonders. With your "simple drag and drop" you either need to wait for each transfer to finish before you start the next one, or wait as your system slows to a crawl when do multiple transfers at the same time. Or you could use iTunes, which will add your drag and drops to a queue, so only one transfer occurs at a time and you don't have to babysit it.
Windows flaws are exposed because tens-of-thousands of hackers are pounding on it.
No, Windows flaws are exposed because Microsoft only cared about having a long billited list of "features" as a selling point, not security. Marketshare is irrelevant.
Just google MacOS X Security Flaws.
Why don't you try googling for exploited Max OS X Security Flaws and get back to us.
why Specter, a moderate Republican, had introduced this bill.
Not being a facist does not make Specter a moderate, and he's rubber stamped plenty of other Bush shenanigans during his time on the judiciary committee.
Not to mention IBM's long history of over-promising and under-delivering, like telling Apple they'd have 3 ghz chips within a year of the 970's release.
Seems like a logical argument to me. There's no strictly rational reason why a person born without a functioning higher brain should have more rights than a German Shepherd;
He was talking about babies and the mentally handicapped, not Terry Schiavo.
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And you support grown men having sex with each other behinds and getting married as normal? It's no wonder you reject sense. Snap out of it!
And you were accusing liberals of being hate-based? Nothing like the smell of wingnut hypocracy in the morning....
The purpose of smoking bans is "smoking smells bad". (And some people believe the junk science health-scares even though it's completely irrational. Occasional incidental exposure to secondhand smoke is insignificant in terms of health.)
I hope your New Years resolution is to stop lying. The negative effects of second hand smoke have been very, very, very well documented.
For instance, if you follow the letter of the law, it bans smoking in many private homes.
If those private homes have children in them: good. Anyone who smokes at home and has a child deserves a visit from CPS. My childhood pediatrician would turn folks in for smoking heavily at home when their child suffered badly from asthma.
Get rid of the state sponsored crap, let people choose their own insurance providers
Yes, go on pay your exorborant, ever increasing premiums to insurance companies that then take your money and use it to pay their employees to try and find ways to deny you coverage. But hey, you are free from the big bad federal government. Too bad you had to grab your ankles and pay more money to do it.
You're deluding yourself if you think that Slashdot isn't 80% pro-Nintendo bias.
The only one deluded here is you. As the Wii renaming fiasco proved, people here are perfectly capable of ripping Nintendo when they do something stupid. Attitudes towards Sony and Nintendo come not from bias, but because of the decisions those companies have made and the products they have put out. Or in simpler terms, and to borrow that old quote about the economy: it's about the price of the PS3, stupid.
The 360 will have a hard time getting into my home, though, as it seems multiplayer requires some sort of subscription.
It's $50 for a year. It's not too bad imo, I had been under the (mistaken) impression that it cost more and was a monthly charge, like an MMORPG. The high level of online support from Microsoft means that online play is usually added as a primary feature to a game, as opposed to an afterthought.
Of course this is Slashdot, and so you have to talk-up Nintendo at every chance
Of course you are forgetting the 500 conversations we had on how lame Nintendo was for renaming the Revolution to the Wii, or the positive coverage Sony was getting until they announced the price of the PS3. But then you wouldn't have been able to make your little comment about the supposed group think around here, would you?
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The iPhone is not the next-gen iPod.
No, but it is the future. Keep the OS, keep the interface, keep the wireless, lose the cell phone and maybe the camera, and add a hard drive.
On an unrelated note, you might want to consider some anger management classes.
And maybe you should work on being less of a whiney, self-centered jackass. The iPhone is far from being overpriced. It's a high end phone, and needs to be compared to other high end phones, which all come with a higher pricetag than your basic handset. Apple is going to sell millions of these. They could still sell unlocked ones at $850 like hotcakes. A lot of people have been waiting for a great MP3 player, cell phone and pda in a single device.
Lots of the iPhone features will be available this month on the FIC Neo1973 Smartphone.
Maybe if "lots" consists of a touchscreen and big pretty buttons. Looking at the page, the Smartphone only has USB 1.1 (ick), a Micro SD slot (so you are limited to a max of 2 gigs instead of 8) no bluetooth, no Wi-Fi, and is physically larger but has no camera.
No, it's a sign that physics trumps politics. Battery-powered electric cars don't make sense for nearly all uses of automobiles. The limited range is acceptable for fork lifts and golf carts, but not for family transportation. Practical cars need to be able to be refueled in minutes.
Bullshit. The vast majority of commutes happen within the EV1's range. If it doesn't meet your needs, then don't fucking buy one. Nobody tells Harley Davidson to close up shop because you can't take your four kids to school on a motorcycle, or that Toyota has to drop the Civic line because you can't put a couch in the back.
Have you ever paid attention to government? Some days I think that government exists to pull the corrupt in. The government is the biggest source of corruption going.
Huh, I didn't know Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, Haliburton and Union Carbine were government agencies.
it had horrid mileage,wasn't cheap, and carried 2 people. It had to die.
The parent already covered this - if it's not the right car for you, don't buy it. Should BMW close operations because they aren't cheap like Hyundai?
Most people don't have the luxury of having a "commuter car".
"Most people" would have liked not having to pay three bucks a gallon for gas for a couple years.
I swear every place was cooled to 72 degrees - needlessly.
I need 72 or less or I can't sleep. There are less snobby ways of addressing that issue - like using more swamp coolers, as the humidity is low for much of California.
Sorry to burst your bubble. But my Linux installation never slowed down to a crawl over copying files to a external device -- that's just ludicrous.
Hey Captain Straw Man! I was talking about doing a dozen or more transfers at once...even if your whole system doens't slow down, your rate of transfer will.
I think the media kio slave in KDE already does this (queuing), but I can't confirm it actually does with the iPod, since I don't own one.
So you bitch about how you have to use special Apple software to transfer files, and then extoll special Linux software to transfer files? So do you sing this jingle when you get up in the morning:
"The best part of waking up is Hypocracy in my cup!"
Well, it may be 8 seconds but I thought Apple computers were supposed to make my life EASIER.
I know how you feel. When the latest revision came out, I found out that Apple's laptops STILL wont wipe my ass for me. Of all the nerve...I wrote a letter of complaint to Steve Jobs, personally.
Why should I pay more for less features, even ones that I "don't" need?
Why should everyone else pay for a docking connector that only a small percentage of users want? Is there even a docking connector that supports DVI, 800 Mbps Firewire, Gigabit Ethernet, USB and optical audio?
Apple needs to put docking connectors on their laptops before they're going to be taken seriously in the enterprise.
Yes, you need to preserve those 8 seconds a day you spend plugging and unplugging those cables.
Yeah... Who would of expected a mp3 player to not support simple drag and drop operations onto it's drive so you can copy your music and listen to it on said device...
Because that's retarded, that's why. Say you get a new iPod and start going through your favorite bands and one-hit-wonders. With your "simple drag and drop" you either need to wait for each transfer to finish before you start the next one, or wait as your system slows to a crawl when do multiple transfers at the same time. Or you could use iTunes, which will add your drag and drops to a queue, so only one transfer occurs at a time and you don't have to babysit it.
Windows flaws are exposed because tens-of-thousands of hackers are pounding on it.
No, Windows flaws are exposed because Microsoft only cared about having a long billited list of "features" as a selling point, not security. Marketshare is irrelevant.
Just google MacOS X Security Flaws.
Why don't you try googling for exploited Max OS X Security Flaws and get back to us.
why Specter, a moderate Republican, had introduced this bill.
Not being a facist does not make Specter a moderate, and he's rubber stamped plenty of other Bush shenanigans during his time on the judiciary committee.
Not to mention IBM's long history of over-promising and under-delivering, like telling Apple they'd have 3 ghz chips within a year of the 970's release.
Seems like a logical argument to me. There's no strictly rational reason why a person born without a functioning higher brain should have more rights than a German Shepherd;
He was talking about babies and the mentally handicapped, not Terry Schiavo.
And you support grown men having sex with each other behinds and getting married as normal? It's no wonder you reject sense. Snap out of it!
And you were accusing liberals of being hate-based? Nothing like the smell of wingnut hypocracy in the morning....
The purpose of smoking bans is "smoking smells bad". (And some people believe the junk science health-scares even though it's completely irrational. Occasional incidental exposure to secondhand smoke is insignificant in terms of health.)
I hope your New Years resolution is to stop lying. The negative effects of second hand smoke have been very, very, very well documented.
For instance, if you follow the letter of the law, it bans smoking in many private homes.
If those private homes have children in them: good. Anyone who smokes at home and has a child deserves a visit from CPS. My childhood pediatrician would turn folks in for smoking heavily at home when their child suffered badly from asthma.
Personally, I am more for a vastly smaller government
Smashing, yay elitism.
I'm also against the current system of socialized medicine.. how about a government sponsored non-profit insurance company
A government sponsored non-profit insurance system is socialized medicine.
Get rid of the state sponsored crap, let people choose their own insurance providers
Yes, go on pay your exorborant, ever increasing premiums to insurance companies that then take your money and use it to pay their employees to try and find ways to deny you coverage. But hey, you are free from the big bad federal government. Too bad you had to grab your ankles and pay more money to do it.
You misspelled "because of" as "inspite of."
Perhaps you should sit back and try to figure out what the democrats are doing wrong to keep themselves from keeping the majority.
Lose their fear of challenging the media, and the notion that not being ultra conservative == liberal.
During the last election did didn't get people voting for Democrats you got people voting against the repbulcans.
That's part of it, but the fact remains that the Democrats took Congress by winning tough races, not by running as 'Not Republicans'.
You're deluding yourself if you think that Slashdot isn't 80% pro-Nintendo bias.
The only one deluded here is you. As the Wii renaming fiasco proved, people here are perfectly capable of ripping Nintendo when they do something stupid. Attitudes towards Sony and Nintendo come not from bias, but because of the decisions those companies have made and the products they have put out. Or in simpler terms, and to borrow that old quote about the economy: it's about the price of the PS3, stupid.
The 360 will have a hard time getting into my home, though, as it seems multiplayer requires
some sort of subscription.
It's $50 for a year. It's not too bad imo, I had been under the (mistaken) impression that it cost more and was a monthly charge, like an MMORPG. The high level of online support from Microsoft means that online play is usually added as a primary feature to a game, as opposed to an afterthought.
Of course this is Slashdot, and so you have to talk-up Nintendo at every chance
Of course you are forgetting the 500 conversations we had on how lame Nintendo was for renaming the Revolution to the Wii, or the positive coverage Sony was getting until they announced the price of the PS3. But then you wouldn't have been able to make your little comment about the supposed group think around here, would you?
Blade 2 is the best, imo.