How do you have "mass hypocrisy"? There is no hive mind. If one person says one thing, nobody else in the community is responsible to agree.
What you're suggesting is that there is a prevailing opinion about anything in this community. That's just as silly as assuming a given American supports the current administration. You're going to be wrong almost exactly half the time.
Why does your purchasing decision depend on the actions of other people? I mean, sure, if you're opposed in principle to Apple accomodating the recording companies, I can understand that, but to me Apple's small compromise there has enabled them to make some cool stuff.
I don't know what "best" means for anybody but myself, and for my purposes, there's nothing else that's remotely close.
I'll be eager to take a look at your app...IFF it supports my iPod. : )
Hmm, here I am browsing the directory tree of my iPod. I can copy any file off of it that I want to.
There are a handful of software packages that make this transparent. iTunes doesn't, because it would jeopardize Apple's relationship with the recording industry. I don't like it too much, but it doesn't get in my way enough to cause me any headache.
The features that are being removed are non-standard hacks. Nobody should be surprised that non-standard hacks die when you update software. Nobody should also be surprised when then non-standard hackers have fixes within 24 hours.
I'd love to see another database driven music management app. ITunes is absolutely the best at what it does, and it works seamlessly with my iPod. There are zero additional features that I would think are useful.
You're entitled to your (different) opinion, but Apple has this thing DONE RIGHT.
I don't see how the 'thopter would be more maneuverable than a helicopter, and it certainly won't be able to pull G's like a high-performance conventional aircraft.
This is an interesting bit of engineering geekery, but it's hard to imagine a practical application for a large ornithopter.
Yeah, but people like that tend to make good engineers.
"This approach has a lot of problems. Let's do something different."
What problems would be solved by an ornithopter?
Caveat: Micro-air vehicles are an excellent application for ornithopter technology. However, people-carrying ornithopters would have few, if any, advantages over conventional flying machines.
In my experience, Intel's chipsets are much more reliable than Via. I don't have any experience with nforce, but I've been burned by more than one flaky AMD board.
I've learned my lesson on cheap hardware. It's not as cheap as it seems at Fry's.
See, that's just it. In the high-capacity MP3 player market, Apple has just about zero "power" in the market. They have a great player, and they have a great service, but they have no way to make people do business with them.
I'd love to see iRiver and Creative do as good of a job as Apple, but I just don't see that happening. They're too busy chasing the bottom line to come up with really usable designs.
UI design is hard. That's why so few people do it well.
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I've read LotR a couple times, and I always have to grit my teeth and press on through when the plot comes to a SCREECHING halt for 40 pages.
Council of Elrond...ugh.
I don't think I have a short attention span, but LotR can be painful. Rewarding, but painful.
How do you have "mass hypocrisy"? There is no hive mind. If one person says one thing, nobody else in the community is responsible to agree.
What you're suggesting is that there is a prevailing opinion about anything in this community. That's just as silly as assuming a given American supports the current administration. You're going to be wrong almost exactly half the time.
Er, the UK invented the stagnant society you describe. Why would they change now?
Harry Potter is fiction aimed at young adults. I'd hardly call it "schlock", any more than Chronicles of Narnia is "schlock".
Yes, it's popular. It also happens to be good.
I think all labor agreements should be reciprocal. You just try to get a work visa to India. Not gonna happen.
I think corps like H1B because it makes the employees beholden to them. That's what sucks.
So, I'm not the reactionary xenophobe you seem to assume I am.
Why does your purchasing decision depend on the actions of other people? I mean, sure, if you're opposed in principle to Apple accomodating the recording companies, I can understand that, but to me Apple's small compromise there has enabled them to make some cool stuff.
I don't know what "best" means for anybody but myself, and for my purposes, there's nothing else that's remotely close.
I'll be eager to take a look at your app...IFF it supports my iPod. : )
Oh yeah and AirTunes.
Since Jobs was instrumental in all of those products, I think you can condense the list to just him.
Now index them. Dynamically. By genre, and artist.
Uh huh. How many times do you want to re-burn your collection?
Hmm, here I am browsing the directory tree of my iPod. I can copy any file off of it that I want to.
There are a handful of software packages that make this transparent. iTunes doesn't, because it would jeopardize Apple's relationship with the recording industry. I don't like it too much, but it doesn't get in my way enough to cause me any headache.
The features that are being removed are non-standard hacks. Nobody should be surprised that non-standard hacks die when you update software. Nobody should also be surprised when then non-standard hackers have fixes within 24 hours.
I'd love to see another database driven music management app. ITunes is absolutely the best at what it does, and it works seamlessly with my iPod. There are zero additional features that I would think are useful.
You're entitled to your (different) opinion, but Apple has this thing DONE RIGHT.
There's a big difference between "Could have been a bigger success, had we predicted the market more perfectly" and "a failure".
You're describing the first.
So the only thing that's not a "failure" is to produce PRECISELY the number that customers can be made to want?
I'd say that if it makes money, and makes a splash in the market, and funds further R&D, it's a success.
Then again, I think the stock market's valuation of companies is criminally stupid, so my opinion is obviously in the minority.
"Efficient" is a function of the problem domain. How many birds fly faster than sound?
Birds are very efficient at low-speed flight. They're very inefficient at carrying large loads transcontinental distances.
They have jet engines, yes. They most certainly do not have a turbojet engine.
If you can show me the natural equivalent of a wheel on an axle, I will be very interested.
I don't see how the 'thopter would be more maneuverable than a helicopter, and it certainly won't be able to pull G's like a high-performance conventional aircraft.
This is an interesting bit of engineering geekery, but it's hard to imagine a practical application for a large ornithopter.
Yeah, but people like that tend to make good engineers.
"This approach has a lot of problems. Let's do something different."
What problems would be solved by an ornithopter?
Caveat: Micro-air vehicles are an excellent application for ornithopter technology. However, people-carrying ornithopters would have few, if any, advantages over conventional flying machines.
Flapping doesn't scale well.
In my experience, Intel's chipsets are much more reliable than Via. I don't have any experience with nforce, but I've been burned by more than one flaky AMD board.
I've learned my lesson on cheap hardware. It's not as cheap as it seems at Fry's.
From the employer's perspective, that makes perfect sense. Odds are, any given new hire will be capable of doing the job better.
It might not be "nice", but assuming that the employee gets feedback about their performance (Shape up or ship out!), it's not unreasonable.
The H1B thing sucks.
Any time you're selling more than you can make, that's a "success".
mmmm...MS Bob....delicious!
Wings and arms came from the same proto-limbs. You're splitting hairs.
It's been tried uncountable numbers of times. It's never worked. (to my knowledge)
...for three hours until the battery craps out.
So don't read it. It's not that hard.
See, that's just it. In the high-capacity MP3 player market, Apple has just about zero "power" in the market. They have a great player, and they have a great service, but they have no way to make people do business with them.
I'd love to see iRiver and Creative do as good of a job as Apple, but I just don't see that happening. They're too busy chasing the bottom line to come up with really usable designs.
UI design is hard. That's why so few people do it well.
What's Linux?