Whether meant as such (which I doubt), this is effectively the smoothest troll I've ever seen. I won't say that it might not be over-valued but really, in the face of the current market perception, do you seriously mean "Now may be the right time to short Apple's stock"?
And, observing their (underpunished) missteps, you'd describe Sony as the "huge looming threat to Apple"? Don't you mean "lumbering"? I mean, Sony's in no danger of being described as beleagured but they haven't shown evidence of any of that innovation yet/lately/recently/in some time. They seem adept at turning out son of bride of iPod Killer wannabe devices but...
Lets see... Frankie says "Relax don't do it when you want to..." Three Dogs Night says "Mama told me not to..." Right then. I have this sudden urge to watch a bunch of porn and see if I can find any dialog in the past tense.
If you truly believe that the word "came" could be next in either of your examples, then you have obviously been in the Lafave grammar program.
Your reading comprehension is on par with your research skill - I said "...there are, in fact, NO viruses for the current Mac operating system." This is absolutely correct. Re-read what you wrote by way of rebuttal. Your points have nothing to do with my statement. Unless I fire up a time machine.
Is mac really an alternative? Mac is susceptible to viruses as well, there simply are not as many written for it because it is not as popular a system.
This overlooks the fact that there are, in fact, NO viruses for the current Mac operating system. It is not a case of "not as many" but none. So in comparisons of "relative" virus threat, there's a divide-by-zero problem: 90% of market is to 2% of market as 60,000 viruses is to ?? The answer, being zero, does not compute...
I'm not arguing the nature of the Mac's security, just noting that while "not as many" is correct, it is misleading as it implies that some actually exist.
And unless you have some special deal with Apple where they setup your workstation/portable to your likings (document migration from previous workstation, customization of interface, application installation, etc.), you would have also had to done the same thing.
Funny that you mention it, but actually current Macs come with a "migration assistant" which does exactly that out-of-the-box. You connect your earlier Mac in something called FireWire Target Mode (or a HD with a clone or backup of your earlier system) and the assistant will move your applications, preferences, mail, rules, bookmarks, documents, etc. Much as you joke about above. Go figure.
[yes, yes, some copy-protected stuff may require re-reg: Photoshop, perhaps others. But it beats the alternatives]
...in response to: Even old-fashion dial-up's been asymmetric since the beginning.
...you said: The first commercial modems [1962] were 300bps and were synchronous. As were all the subsequent modems through 28.8k. It wasn't until the 33.6k modems [and accompanying dial-up access] started being asynchronous. [33.6down, 28.8 up]. And of course the 56k modems were as well.
Aren't you confusing asymmetric with asynchronous?
I used both synchronous 4800bps modems at the office (branch to branch) as well as async 300 baud modems for BBS connection at home back in the early 80s. Or am I confused?
Because of Mulberry I now have a requirements list for email clients that no other client can complete.
Eudora can handle the entire list except "Be able to arbitrarily define what mailboxes are checked for new mail". Who knows what the Fall rewrite (on OS X at least) will bring...
If you had meant the other kind you could have just said 'injun' or 'red man'
Unless you speak from within a West Indian (Caribbean) community in America - in which case you actually distinguish between West Indian, East Indian, and American Indian. Bearing in mind that a West Indian (nationality) can still be East Indian (by descent).
Hmmm, I wonder if a Cherokee could marry an East Indian West Indian and create a simply Indian household?
Yes. Exactly. Current machines have (for *quite* some time) shipped with Panther. The poster to whom you extend your misplaced support talks about just having purchased *Jaguar* at that high price? They're either trolling or incredibly stupid. You just didn't spot it.
If I was gonna listen to music on the go I'd buck up and get real audiophile stack and Pair it with some Sennheiser headphones and simply play CD's through a discman. Screw that low res iPod baloney. I'd rather wait and listen to the real thing than the shadows of the handpuppets on the wall that is MP3's........
[sarcasm]Which self-respecting, so-called "audiophile" would listen to CDs though a Walkman in preference to lossless on an iPod?[/sarcasm]
C'mon man, at least argue for FLAC on the device of your choice or do the Ogg rant. Tell us you'd strap a Linn to your back, stick a pair of mono tube amps in your kilt and play only albums released one the one true label while caressing a copy of Absolute Sound. Or something, anything, that gives some credibility to your posturing. [Oops, ended my earlier sarcasm tag prematurely?]
Perhaps you don't know much about the iPod vs the iTunes Music Store?
but here's a rip:
I'll instead proffer a tip about a "rip":
"When you buy a tune from iTunes, you should probably be aware that you're not getting quite what you think you are"
When you "rip" a tune from your own collection, you should probably be aware that you're getting as much as you choose. You can elect to get the size benefits of compression or the uncompromising accuracy of lossless, with access to many options between.
"Ah, for simpler times, when we never had reason to look up the bit rate at which music is digitally sampled for CD's: 1,378 kilobits per second. The bit rate for iTunes, 128, is so low that when played side by side against the original, the difference is audible not only to audio enthusiasts, but also to mortals with ordinary hearing.
Now that's some pretentious claptrap! Aren't there any audio enthusiasts left who also happen to be mortals with ordinary hearing? That aside, I'm increasingly finding examples of fellow iTMS purchasers (whether or not they use an iPod) who find iTMS selections that sound superior to the supposedly same performance in their music collection. Not all the items, but enough such that we've actually bought items that we had the option to rip from our personal collections. But none of this is even germane (see final argument below).
Wes Phillips, contributing editor at Stereophile, says "128 is like an eight-track," and he describes the combination of iPod and iTunes as "buying a 21st-century device to live in the 1970's."
So though the guys at Stereophile and other audio mags think that the iPod is pretty slick they sure as hell don't think that you're getting great sound quality out of those things.
And, finally, none of the material you've quoted supports that conclusion ('cause it's wrong) - you've provided arguments trashing the sound quality of the iTunes Music Store selections. This has no bearing on the sound quality of the iPod, which was the assertion of yours that was disputed by the earlier poster.
some things are just... not quite finished, not very professional, not quite working right. For instance, byzantine, very unintuitive and badly organized config options. For instance, I had to resort to a hack to get her external LG CDRW drive working with iTunes, took hours of research.
Google is your friend. And iTunes works quite well with the equipment that Apple lists as supported. And then quite well with those that are supported by the hack. But if it's not on the former list, don't disparage Apple for the need for the latter, be grateful to the makers of the patch. Which takes most people about 15 mins** to find, less than two minutes to download, and less than one minute to apply.
** I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt here, but "hours of research"? The first link I get in a Google search on "iTunes support LG burner" nets me a MacFixIt link that points out the answer, one more link away.
For instance, she lost her master password, or admin password, or root password, or whatever the hell it is - who KNOWS, they've done their best to muddy the distinctions. I guess it's the "main user who has wide ranging admin powers".
How did she lose her password? It was written down? It got swept under a rug? Eaten by the dog? Where is it now?
Anyway, when I got this fixed up - basically by putting in the install CD and using a "reset password" feature - the "keychain" was totally screwed up
Perhaps because the alternative is that anyone with physical access and enough time to reboot would immediately have access to anything and everything that's been deemed important enough to be stored in the Keychain. Those passwords shouldn't be the same anyway, in the interest of good security.
, every single web page started asking for a keychain password, her email client also. Seems that the OS kept her old, forgotten password in the keychain rather than resetting it as well.
Ideally, it should have deleted the damned thing upon the forced reset but that's probably overkill for a consumer OS.
None of these have been examples of "not quite finished, not very professional, not quite working right" features, or even of "byzantine, very unintuitive and badly organized config options". I'm not saying that there aren't such examples but these simply don't illustrate/support your complaint...
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Whether meant as such (which I doubt), this is effectively the smoothest troll I've ever seen. I won't say that it might not be over-valued but really, in the face of the current market perception, do you seriously mean "Now may be the right time to short Apple's stock"?
And, observing their (underpunished) missteps, you'd describe Sony as the "huge looming threat to Apple"? Don't you mean "lumbering"? I mean, Sony's in no danger of being described as beleagured but they haven't shown evidence of any of that innovation yet/lately/recently/in some time. They seem adept at turning out son of bride of iPod Killer wannabe devices but...
Lets see... Frankie says "Relax don't do it when you want to..." Three Dogs Night says "Mama told me not to..." Right then. I have this sudden urge to watch a bunch of porn and see if I can find any dialog in the past tense.
If you truly believe that the word "came" could be next in either of your examples, then you have obviously been in the Lafave grammar program.
Your reading comprehension is on par with your research skill - I said "...there are, in fact, NO viruses for the current Mac operating system." This is absolutely correct. Re-read what you wrote by way of rebuttal. Your points have nothing to do with my statement. Unless I fire up a time machine.
Is mac really an alternative? Mac is susceptible to viruses as well, there simply are not as many written for it because it is not as popular a system.
This overlooks the fact that there are, in fact, NO viruses for the current Mac operating system. It is not a case of "not as many" but none. So in comparisons of "relative" virus threat, there's a divide-by-zero problem: 90% of market is to 2% of market as 60,000 viruses is to ?? The answer, being zero, does not compute...
I'm not arguing the nature of the Mac's security, just noting that while "not as many" is correct, it is misleading as it implies that some actually exist.
I've found that I'm pulled aside for added security checks much less frequently if my beard is well trimmed
I'm a woman, you insensitive clod!
And unless you have some special deal with Apple where they setup your workstation/portable to your likings (document migration from previous workstation, customization of interface, application installation, etc.), you would have also had to done the same thing.
Funny that you mention it, but actually current Macs come with a "migration assistant" which does exactly that out-of-the-box. You connect your earlier Mac in something called FireWire Target Mode (or a HD with a clone or backup of your earlier system) and the assistant will move your applications, preferences, mail, rules, bookmarks, documents, etc. Much as you joke about above. Go figure.
[yes, yes, some copy-protected stuff may require re-reg: Photoshop, perhaps others. But it beats the alternatives]
...in response to: Even old-fashion dial-up's been asymmetric since the beginning.
...you said: The first commercial modems [1962] were 300bps and were synchronous. As were all the subsequent modems through 28.8k. It wasn't until the 33.6k modems [and accompanying dial-up access] started being asynchronous. [33.6down, 28.8 up]. And of course the 56k modems were as well.
Aren't you confusing asymmetric with asynchronous?
I used both synchronous 4800bps modems at the office (branch to branch) as well as async 300 baud modems for BBS connection at home back in the early 80s. Or am I confused?
Has there ever been a case where the government has bailed out an individual company because they rely on that company's technology?
n ment_secr.html or look up Crater Corp v. Lucent (Fed. Cir. 2005)
It's unnecessary to do so if you can simply use the technology anyway, yet prevent the civil case agaist the infringer. See http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/2005/09/gover
Because of Mulberry I now have a requirements list for email clients that no other client can complete.
Eudora can handle the entire list except "Be able to arbitrarily define what mailboxes are checked for new mail". Who knows what the Fall rewrite (on OS X at least) will bring...
When are they going to make a cool cassette decks for the PC?
e rt-tapes-mp3-copy-digital-music-cassette.html
I won't evaluate its "coolness" but here goes: The Meritline DIGI DECK http://www.meritline.com/meritline-digi-deck-conv
If you had meant the other kind you could have just said 'injun' or 'red man'
Unless you speak from within a West Indian (Caribbean) community in America - in which case you actually distinguish between West Indian, East Indian, and American Indian. Bearing in mind that a West Indian (nationality) can still be East Indian (by descent).
Hmmm, I wonder if a Cherokee could marry an East Indian West Indian and create a simply Indian household?
Next up, tech writers will begin to present half-baked, incomplete work. Oh, wait...
No, the grammar wasn't above reproach either.
"Kick out as many" perhaps needed "as _____"?
Who're the "them" that are confused and intimidated?
There was no verb in the final phrase.
There were at least two more but I'd find it hard to dredge up the guidelines governing the transgressions.
Yes, but... will it run Linux?
Bullshit meaning that scenario could not happen?
Yes. Exactly. Current machines have (for *quite* some time) shipped with Panther. The poster to whom you extend your misplaced support talks about just having purchased *Jaguar* at that high price? They're either trolling or incredibly stupid. You just didn't spot it.
Shouldn't that be "its image"?
It's like apt-get for Windows
Official nomenclature: apt-force-feed (or apt-cram)
becoming the "SCO(tm) of the chip world
Wow. I read that as SCrO(tum) of the chip world". Apt.
If I was gonna listen to music on the go I'd buck up and get real audiophile stack and Pair it with some Sennheiser headphones and simply play CD's through a discman. Screw that low res iPod baloney. I'd rather wait and listen to the real thing than the shadows of the handpuppets on the wall that is MP3's........
[sarcasm]Which self-respecting, so-called "audiophile" would listen to CDs though a Walkman in preference to lossless on an iPod?[/sarcasm]
C'mon man, at least argue for FLAC on the device of your choice or do the Ogg rant. Tell us you'd strap a Linn to your back, stick a pair of mono tube amps in your kilt and play only albums released one the one true label while caressing a copy of Absolute Sound. Or something, anything, that gives some credibility to your posturing. [Oops, ended my earlier sarcasm tag prematurely?]
Perhaps you don't know much about audio
Perhaps you don't know much about the iPod vs the iTunes Music Store?
but here's a rip:
I'll instead proffer a tip about a "rip":
"When you buy a tune from iTunes, you should probably be aware that you're not getting quite what you think you are"
When you "rip" a tune from your own collection, you should probably be aware that you're getting as much as you choose. You can elect to get the size benefits of compression or the uncompromising accuracy of lossless, with access to many options between.
"Ah, for simpler times, when we never had reason to look up the bit rate at which music is digitally sampled for CD's: 1,378 kilobits per second. The bit rate for iTunes, 128, is so low that when played side by side against the original, the difference is audible not only to audio enthusiasts, but also to mortals with ordinary hearing.
Now that's some pretentious claptrap! Aren't there any audio enthusiasts left who also happen to be mortals with ordinary hearing? That aside, I'm increasingly finding examples of fellow iTMS purchasers (whether or not they use an iPod) who find iTMS selections that sound superior to the supposedly same performance in their music collection. Not all the items, but enough such that we've actually bought items that we had the option to rip from our personal collections. But none of this is even germane (see final argument below).
Wes Phillips, contributing editor at Stereophile, says "128 is like an eight-track," and he describes the combination of iPod and iTunes as "buying a 21st-century device to live in the 1970's."
So though the guys at Stereophile and other audio mags think that the iPod is pretty slick they sure as hell don't think that you're getting great sound quality out of those things.
And, finally, none of the material you've quoted supports that conclusion ('cause it's wrong) - you've provided arguments trashing the sound quality of the iTunes Music Store selections. This has no bearing on the sound quality of the iPod, which was the assertion of yours that was disputed by the earlier poster.
some things are just... not quite finished, not very professional, not quite working right. For instance, byzantine, very unintuitive and badly organized config options. For instance, I had to resort to a hack to get her external LG CDRW drive working with iTunes, took hours of research.
Google is your friend. And iTunes works quite well with the equipment that Apple lists as supported. And then quite well with those that are supported by the hack. But if it's not on the former list, don't disparage Apple for the need for the latter, be grateful to the makers of the patch. Which takes most people about 15 mins** to find, less than two minutes to download, and less than one minute to apply.
** I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt here, but "hours of research"? The first link I get in a Google search on "iTunes support LG burner" nets me a MacFixIt link that points out the answer, one more link away.
For instance, she lost her master password, or admin password, or root password, or whatever the hell it is - who KNOWS, they've done their best to muddy the distinctions. I guess it's the "main user who has wide ranging admin powers".
How did she lose her password? It was written down? It got swept under a rug? Eaten by the dog? Where is it now?
Anyway, when I got this fixed up - basically by putting in the install CD and using a "reset password" feature - the "keychain" was totally screwed up
Perhaps because the alternative is that anyone with physical access and enough time to reboot would immediately have access to anything and everything that's been deemed important enough to be stored in the Keychain. Those passwords shouldn't be the same anyway, in the interest of good security.
, every single web page started asking for a keychain password, her email client also. Seems that the OS kept her old, forgotten password in the keychain rather than resetting it as well.
Ideally, it should have deleted the damned thing upon the forced reset but that's probably overkill for a consumer OS.
None of these have been examples of "not quite finished, not very professional, not quite working right" features, or even of "byzantine, very unintuitive and badly organized config options". I'm not saying that there aren't such examples but these simply don't illustrate/support your complaint...
The people who did that one (not going to name the company) should be in the bad software decision hall of fame.
How do they get into the Hall of Fame if the afflicted users refuse "to name the company"?
people start to care when they see a song on every other service, except iTunes
If you were a music creator/maker, where'd you want to make sure that your music is available this year?
But didn't you or your white box assembler install the Asus probe utility to monitor and test your hardware and BIOS?
(2) Anaphora resolution. "I saw a dog on the street this morning. It was barking". So who's barking, street or dog?
Obviously, the morning was barking. That's when it's bloody, farking cold out.