"I can't even think of an electronic device - any electronic device, ever - that has taken the existing functions of two devices, merged them into one, and performed those functions so well that the new device actually killed off the original existing devices"
What are you typing your response on? A Remington typewriter, right?
Arguing that convergence never happens, and happens effectively, while using a computer is really stupid.
My Treo is a great phone, and a great PDA. Add a pile o' memory, and it'd be a great music player too. Until then, I'll keep my iPod in my other pocket.
I've obviously got a 40gb iPod, Captain Clever. It's functionally identical to the nano.
What constitutes an "adaptor"? A cable? Come on. You're being silly. There are any number of programs that pull songs back off the iPod. Heck, you don't really need SOFTWARE...you just need to browse a hidden directory. No l33t hax0rzing needed.
You can burn Protected AAC files to a CD any time you want to.
Dave Matthews isn't mad that Apple is using DRM. He's mad that they're not using Microsoft's DRM, rendering his CD difficult to listen to on PCs with iPods.
Get your facts straight. You might WANT there to not exist DRM, but it is a fact of life with the recording industries running the show. Apple's scheme is about the least restrictive around, from the user's perspective.
All you have to do to not use Apple's DRM scheme is not buy their gear. Try to get an MP3 player that doesn't have Microsoft's DRM scheme on it (other than the iPods, of course).
You keep saying that, but it doesn't make it more true.
These folks came with all equipment in hand. They had 10,000 radios ready to hand out, with more on the way. They brought their own electricity, and they were not allowed to broadcast.
Why?
Because FEMA has a dude with a mic and a loudspeaker, and that should be good enough.
I didn't vote for this administration, and I feel no obligation whatsoever to be silent when they are, again, going on a power trip at the expense of essential liberties.
Your "THE ELECTED CONTROLLING AGENCY" has made a clusterfuck of this at every level. The "UNELECTED FREELANCERS" are the only ones doing anything that actually winds up making people not die.
They "cannot be allowed to come willy nilly and interrupt such an operation" because if they were to do so, people might start noticing that the "operation" has been a charlie foxtrot from 24 hours in advance of the hurricane.
If you don't think that Microsoft uses illegal, unethical, and otherwise dubious tactics to preserve their monopoly, there's nothing wrong with working for Microsoft.
For those of us that DO think those things, well, the question answers itself.
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I have not. What does that have to do with my question, which you haven't answered?
What's complicated about saying "No, Billy, you may not play Grand Theft Auto."
Seriously...draw me a diagram here.
This is somehow an iPod problem, because it's the only music player on the market that ships with earbuds, huh?
I think you're a crazyperson.
Please cite the law by which the copyright holders are authorized to delete my recordings of anything, ever.
If they want to own the content, they ought not broadcast it.
...huh?
Because my audio player lives in my Man Bag, which is far from my ears.
Uh, my powerbook has a very obvious power button right above the F12 key. Can't remember the last time I used it...
Have you priced 40 GB of flash there, Sparky?
And the Nano does have a password protection feature, if that's what it takes to get a tent in your trousers.
However, I'm certain that you'll always be able to find a reason not to buy one. So why keep talking? Just go ahead and not buy one...
Okay, moderators, "Proof by Assertion" is not insightful, ever.
Lemme get this straight. Because YOU think wifi is a bad idea on phones, nobody else should be able to have it? Righto...glad you're not in charge.
"I can't even think of an electronic device - any electronic device, ever - that has taken the existing functions of two devices, merged them into one, and performed those functions so well that the new device actually killed off the original existing devices"
What are you typing your response on? A Remington typewriter, right?
Arguing that convergence never happens, and happens effectively, while using a computer is really stupid.
My Treo is a great phone, and a great PDA. Add a pile o' memory, and it'd be a great music player too. Until then, I'll keep my iPod in my other pocket.
Good. Now stop whining about what a company that you have nothing to do with chooses to do.
Apple can't get you. You're safe. It will be OK. Put on another Dave Mathews CD.
I've obviously got a 40gb iPod, Captain Clever. It's functionally identical to the nano.
What constitutes an "adaptor"? A cable? Come on. You're being silly. There are any number of programs that pull songs back off the iPod. Heck, you don't really need SOFTWARE...you just need to browse a hidden directory. No l33t hax0rzing needed.
You can burn Protected AAC files to a CD any time you want to.
Dave Matthews isn't mad that Apple is using DRM. He's mad that they're not using Microsoft's DRM, rendering his CD difficult to listen to on PCs with iPods.
Get your facts straight. You might WANT there to not exist DRM, but it is a fact of life with the recording industries running the show. Apple's scheme is about the least restrictive around, from the user's perspective.
All you have to do to not use Apple's DRM scheme is not buy their gear. Try to get an MP3 player that doesn't have Microsoft's DRM scheme on it (other than the iPods, of course).
Seems to play my 40gb of unconstrained MP3's just fine. What digital audio players do not support some form of DRM, exactly?
So you like the sound quality on the iRiver is superior. Good.
Stereophile's tests show a 4db better s/n ratio for the iRiver. Fine.
You up for a double blind test?
Knowingly working for a corrupt organization is a corrupt act.
You keep saying that, but it doesn't make it more true.
These folks came with all equipment in hand. They had 10,000 radios ready to hand out, with more on the way. They brought their own electricity, and they were not allowed to broadcast.
Why?
Because FEMA has a dude with a mic and a loudspeaker, and that should be good enough.
Uh huh.
I didn't vote for this administration, and I feel no obligation whatsoever to be silent when they are, again, going on a power trip at the expense of essential liberties.
Your "THE ELECTED CONTROLLING AGENCY" has made a clusterfuck of this at every level. The "UNELECTED FREELANCERS" are the only ones doing anything that actually winds up making people not die.
They "cannot be allowed to come willy nilly and interrupt such an operation" because if they were to do so, people might start noticing that the "operation" has been a charlie foxtrot from 24 hours in advance of the hurricane.
Guess what: The cat's out of the bag.
"But they are the system we have decided to put in place. Not some unelected freelancers with their own agenda."
How many FEMA officials were on the last ballot in your precinct?
So people should stop trying to help, and just let FEMA do their thing?
If that were the plan, there would be nobody in the Astrodome, because all the evacuees would be dead.
FEMA officials are like those hall monitors in an elementary school. I've got some suggestions as to where they should stick their whistles.
Right, because you see lots of photographs on the radio. Good call.
"They're cheap enough that someone could buy a thousand of them and distribute them to everyone in the Astrodome."
Actually, they brought 10,000 radios to distribute.
Oh yeah, I'm sure that's it. They just don't want to see somebody else's gear stolen. Right.
Yeah.
Sure.
You must have a pretty nice digital camera. There aren't a lot that can sustain that sort of picture taking speed.
If you don't think that Microsoft uses illegal, unethical, and otherwise dubious tactics to preserve their monopoly, there's nothing wrong with working for Microsoft.
For those of us that DO think those things, well, the question answers itself.
You mean the Microsoft Word macro viruses? No, I'd say those don't count.