I agree with you... 'who gives a shit about you building a new fucking athlon xp pc tomorrow'... hey, you said it, not me...
More importantly, if you could care less about Apple's roadmap, why did you bother clicking on the article, let alone post a comment?
Some people do care about what Apple has in the pipeline -- 'tho the article is no doubt lame-rumor-site-repostings. How insecure do you have to be to waste your time posting about how much you don't care about something. I don't go bad-mouthing the 'Apache' articles because I could set-up an MS ISS server tomorrow...
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I don't have the energy to repeat what 'Slazar' said earlier...
I am under the impression that it is -- excluding more esoteric PC hardware(Xeon, Opteron, etc...). Why should it be so shocking that a top of the line PC would perform on par with an older dual 2Ghz Mac?
It just seems sensible to me. Now the real argument would be a historical cost/performance one. But then again, most Mac users, myself included, have always paid more for hardware in order to use the Mac OS. It is really a win-win for us. Faster for less money.
I don't remember which models included this -- maybe the 1xx's -- but if you did a find for "Elvis", the result would say something like, "The king was last seen in (random city name)"...
I first read about OTECs about ten years ago in a book by Marshall Savage called The Millennial Project, a rather wild futurist yarn about colonizing the universe. It is quite an entertaining read, if only a little bit 'out there'. But it is interesting to see a number of his (no doubt collected) ideas slowly come to pass over the past decade. Sadly, their web presence is a little thin and unimpressive...
I am confused as to why you'd drop the music into the 'Music' folder as opposed to dropping it into the iTunes 'Library' icon and letting iTunes copy and organize the files to the Music folder itself.
Not trying to be contrarian, just wonderin'...
I understand that you'd have to trash the original files as they would then be duplicates, but that seems kinda trivial, and your problem would be solved, no?
That is not to say that a 'rescan' function wouldn't be useful, mind you...
... how long until we can begin summary executions for spammers. At this point, I don't care about the intrusion, I want retribution. I think the Lycos idea was one of the best I had heard of in a long time -- hit them where it hurts(bandwidth costs).
I have said the same thing here before... "slashdot the spammer's sites so they melt like a stick of butter"... I never thought of the even better idea "slashdot the spammer's sites to within an inch of their capacity so they stay online accrueing bandwidth charges"...
All the ninnies whining about lowering ourselves to their level, etc..., are rubes. Sometimes you gotta punch that bully's lights out who is stealing your lunch money(or else get someone bigger to do it for you).
I fight spam the exact same way (only on a much smaller level). I make sure to submit the email address of the registered domain owner for whatever pharmacy/deal site/mortgage broker that is being hawked, to at least a hundred of their 'assosciates' sites just to make sure they aren't missing any of the great offers out there (the ones filling up my inbox)...
"...but iPod also plays un-encrypted music files that may have been illegally downloaded."
What a ridiculous assumption!!! (not on the part of the parent post)
'May have been illegally downloaded'??? I have nearly 5000 songs that I ripped from CDs that I LEGALLY OWN!!! What kind of journalists are they hiring at CNN?
Someone may want to let them know that there was legitimate digital music before the advent of online music sellers... sheesh...
I wondered if the '/.-effect' would be a legal form of DDOS -- especially if it was directed at sites using spam as advertising...
It would seem that posting the web address of a spam-ad-linked-site and letting the feeding frenzy begin would be a novel way of sticking it to the online pharmacies/annoying-purveyors-of-crap-I-don't-want -- maybe they would think twice about putting their web site in all those e-mails...
Slightly over half a year ago, S. Pammer received spam advertising canned meat. When his order arrived, he saw the name of the supplier on the tin. When he checked the web site of that supplier, he noticed that the cost price amounted to circa a fifth of the price he had paid to the spammer. Reckoning that he could make a quick buck this way, S. Pammer started his own, comparable web site.
Slashdot Mirror
"...at Internet."
...Oh, Nevermind...
...they're just up there, 'wrenching'...
Everything's noteworthy on some level.
I hadn't heard about the stain... bummer...
Cheers
I agree with you... 'who gives a shit about you building a new fucking athlon xp pc tomorrow'... hey, you said it, not me...
More importantly, if you could care less about Apple's roadmap, why did you bother clicking on the article, let alone post a comment?
Some people do care about what Apple has in the pipeline -- 'tho the article is no doubt lame-rumor-site-repostings. How insecure do you have to be to waste your time posting about how much you don't care about something. I don't go bad-mouthing the 'Apache' articles because I could set-up an MS ISS server tomorrow...
I don't have the energy to repeat what 'Slazar' said earlier...
The switch really seems like the best of all worlds. It is no longer a platform war. Dual booting a Mactel...
As a long time mac user and occasional PC-Gamer, I'd buy a license for Windows and maybe pick up a couple of games at Costco...
It just seems like everybody is making out like bandits. PC and Mac software publishers, Microsoft...
The real losers will be the old PC manufacturers who can't build a dual-bootable, "Mac-compatible"(he,he) product.
I am under the impression that it is -- excluding more esoteric PC hardware(Xeon, Opteron, etc...). Why should it be so shocking that a top of the line PC would perform on par with an older dual 2Ghz Mac?
It just seems sensible to me. Now the real argument would be a historical cost/performance one. But then again, most Mac users, myself included, have always paid more for hardware in order to use the Mac OS. It is really a win-win for us. Faster for less money.
I don't remember which models included this -- maybe the 1xx's -- but if you did a find for "Elvis", the result would say something like, "The king was last seen in (random city name)"...
Silly...
I first read about OTECs about ten years ago in a book by Marshall Savage called The Millennial Project, a rather wild futurist yarn about colonizing the universe. It is quite an entertaining read, if only a little bit 'out there'. But it is interesting to see a number of his (no doubt collected) ideas slowly come to pass over the past decade. Sadly, their web presence is a little thin and unimpressive...
I am confused as to why you'd drop the music into the 'Music' folder as opposed to dropping it into the iTunes 'Library' icon and letting iTunes copy and organize the files to the Music folder itself.
Not trying to be contrarian, just wonderin'...
I understand that you'd have to trash the original files as they would then be duplicates, but that seems kinda trivial, and your problem would be solved, no?
That is not to say that a 'rescan' function wouldn't be useful, mind you...
I thought that was what the Viagr@ was intended for...
I am not saying it deserved a '5 - insightful' or anything, but sheesh, have some heart...
How can the first comment about a dupe(and the third comment to an article) be redundant?
Yep... about a year ago...
... how long until we can begin summary executions for spammers. At this point, I don't care about the intrusion, I want retribution. I think the Lycos idea was one of the best I had heard of in a long time -- hit them where it hurts(bandwidth costs).
I have said the same thing here before... "slashdot the spammer's sites so they melt like a stick of butter"... I never thought of the even better idea "slashdot the spammer's sites to within an inch of their capacity so they stay online accrueing bandwidth charges"...
All the ninnies whining about lowering ourselves to their level, etc..., are rubes. Sometimes you gotta punch that bully's lights out who is stealing your lunch money(or else get someone bigger to do it for you).
I fight spam the exact same way (only on a much smaller level). I make sure to submit the email address of the registered domain owner for whatever pharmacy/deal site/mortgage broker that is being hawked, to at least a hundred of their 'assosciates' sites just to make sure they aren't missing any of the great offers out there (the ones filling up my inbox)...
NOVELL: They finally did it. They killed my fucking car.
DARL: Vee vant zat money, Lebowski.
SCOLAWYER1: Ja, uzzervize vee kill ze girl.
SCOLAWYER2: Ja, it seems you forgot our little deal, Lebowski.
NOVELL: You don't have the fucking girl, dipshits. We know you never did. So you've got nothin' on my Johnson.
LINUXUSERS: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
IBM: They're nihilists, Donny, nothing to be afraid of.
DARL: Vee don't care. Vee still vant zat money or vee fuck you up.
SCOLAWYER1: Ja, vee still vant ze money. Vee sreaten you.
IBM: Fuck you. Fuck the three of you.
NOVELL: Hey, cool it IBM.
IBM: There's no ransom if you don't have a fucking hostage. That's what ransom is. Those are the fucking rules.
DARL: Zere ARE no ROOLZ!
IBM: NO RULES! YOU CABBAGE-EATING SONS- OF- BITCHES--
SCOLAWYER1: His girlfriend gafe up her toe! She sought we'd be getting million dollars! Iss not fair!
IBM: Fair! WHO'S THE FUCKING NIHILIST HERE! WHAT ARE YOU, A BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?!
NOVELL: Hey, cool it IBM. Listen, pal, there never was any money. The big SCObowski gave me an empty briefcase, man, so take it up with him.
IBM: AND I'D LIKE MY UNDIES BACK!
I always was fascinated by these towers
Seems like an innovative means of power production with many usefull by-products...
What a ridiculous assumption!!! (not on the part of the parent post)
'May have been illegally downloaded'??? I have nearly 5000 songs that I ripped from CDs that I LEGALLY OWN!!! What kind of journalists are they hiring at CNN?
Someone may want to let them know that there was legitimate digital music before the advent of online music sellers... sheesh...
I have never wanted Mod points this bad in my life...for an AC no less.
KUDOS!!!!
I wondered if the '/.-effect' would be a legal form of DDOS -- especially if it was directed at sites using spam as advertising...
t -- maybe they would think twice about putting their web site in all those e-mails...
It would seem that posting the web address of a spam-ad-linked-site and letting the feeding frenzy begin would be a novel way of sticking it to the online pharmacies/annoying-purveyors-of-crap-I-don't-wan
an 21" NEC CRT back around '94...
Oh, if only I waited...
Tho' it did survive getting tossed on the ground after the Cali' earthquake... I wouldn't wanna try that with a new 30" LCD...
has gone Golden Master...HA!
This can't be for real...
NORAD eat your heart out...
Now that would be a cool 'Inaction Figure'...
BTW, I thought nerds/geeks were actually really proficient with the opposite sex, just a little slower to 'interface hardware and software'...
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