Couldn't disagree with you more. Good typing skill is an enabler for numerous other lucrative abilities. It is the single class I took in high school that I hearken back to ALL THE TIME.
Well, if you choose to redefine "Democracy" to "The form of government we have in America", then I can't really argue with you.
A democratic republic is not the same thing as a democracy. Your post clearly shows that you understand this, so why are you wasting your time arguing (I mean agreeing) with me?
I won't join the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party, because that would mean I endorse their stranglehold on the American election system. So tell me again: How can my vote (any vote!) have weight? It can't. I won't vote for one of the two major parties, and the two major parties will make absolutely certain that they are the only viable options.
Hell, I could code myself a skin to do whatever I want in Winamp, but why the hell would I, when iTunes does everything I could ask of it right out of the box?
Uh, hydrogen burns. Pressurized hydrogen cans are a serious no-no on aircraft, for much more rational reasons than forbidding me to carry my Leatherman Wave.
You WILL be carrying the hydrogen around with you.
I wasn't talking about airpower. I was talking about the truth about warfare: Until there's a pair of boots on a dude with a rifle standing on the target, it's not yours yet.
That is not going to change anytime soon. The only things that DO change are the systems that support and enable that soldier to do his job more safely and precisely.
That's what airpower (and artillery and armor and all the other methods of blowing shit up) are for.
Is there any good documentation for this Byzantine interface, or do I just have to keep clicking on stuff at random, to get it to do what I want it to do?
I could never read the infinitesimal type in the media library, so I never tried. It doesn't do quick queries, or detailed queries, near as well as iTunes does.
I'll gladly trade the extra RAM footprint for the infinitely superior UI and functionality.
Depends on how you translate the name from Polish. My copy has "Karl von Clausewicz" on the spine. There are numerous different ways to spell the name in English.
Heh. Try that with the current iteration: ringtones. Let me know how that works out for you.
It'd be ridiculously simple for the phone mfr to give you a place to specify the.mid or.mp3 file you want to play as a ringtone. But then, they wouldn't be able to make money off the deal. So they won't.
I own an iPod, and Apple controls zero of my music. Not the same situation with a mobile phone, that can literally phone home whenever it wants to and change the rules on me.
Inevitable? Only if you buy into it. Which I won't.
I don't have any DRM'ed music files, for exactly the reasons you outline.
Currently, some phones can play MP3's. That's cool...it's a useful feature. But if the phone companies start trying to sell you on being able to get to your music everywhere, look out. They WILL put their hooks into you, and you WILL lose access to your data.
I am indeed from the USA, and there's only one thing that the phone companies all agree: They want to wring every available penny out of their customers. You can rely on any deal they offer is good for them and bad for you.
I will never, ever, ever let the phone company come between me and my music collection. They'll decide they want to bill me for every minute I spend listening to stuff I've got stored on my hardware.
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And, to top it all off, I found a plugin that exports iPhoto albums to Gallery. Which makes it better than world peace.
Couldn't disagree with you more. Good typing skill is an enabler for numerous other lucrative abilities. It is the single class I took in high school that I hearken back to ALL THE TIME.
Well, if you choose to redefine "Democracy" to "The form of government we have in America", then I can't really argue with you.
A democratic republic is not the same thing as a democracy. Your post clearly shows that you understand this, so why are you wasting your time arguing (I mean agreeing) with me?
That's what everybody said when Perot got 20% of the vote. What's changed?
Absolutely nothing. And it won't.
I won't join the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party, because that would mean I endorse their stranglehold on the American election system. So tell me again: How can my vote (any vote!) have weight? It can't. I won't vote for one of the two major parties, and the two major parties will make absolutely certain that they are the only viable options.
So tell me again: Where is the value in my vote?
Yup. By not voting, I give up my right to free speech.
Uh, NO.
A) We don't live in a democracy.
B) All the options on the ballot are unacceptable.
Why should I vote again?
If I'm too small for Big Brother to care about, why is he spending big bucks on systems that surveil me and all the other small people like me?
Don't need to change my font size in iTunes.
Hell, I could code myself a skin to do whatever I want in Winamp, but why the hell would I, when iTunes does everything I could ask of it right out of the box?
Uh, hydrogen burns. Pressurized hydrogen cans are a serious no-no on aircraft, for much more rational reasons than forbidding me to carry my Leatherman Wave.
You WILL be carrying the hydrogen around with you.
I wasn't talking about airpower. I was talking about the truth about warfare: Until there's a pair of boots on a dude with a rifle standing on the target, it's not yours yet.
That is not going to change anytime soon. The only things that DO change are the systems that support and enable that soldier to do his job more safely and precisely.
That's what airpower (and artillery and armor and all the other methods of blowing shit up) are for.
Is there any good documentation for this Byzantine interface, or do I just have to keep clicking on stuff at random, to get it to do what I want it to do?
I could never read the infinitesimal type in the media library, so I never tried. It doesn't do quick queries, or detailed queries, near as well as iTunes does.
I'll gladly trade the extra RAM footprint for the infinitely superior UI and functionality.
OK, so in Winamp 5, how do you say "I'd like to listen to all the music I haven't listened to before"?
How do you say "I want to listen to all my Depeche Mode" without hunting through the file system?
I used Winamp since v1.something lo these many moons ago. When iTunes came out (with its absolutely sublime database) I never looked at Winamp again.
Party shuffle is excellent, but it's hardly THE killer feature.
Depends on how you translate the name from Polish. My copy has "Karl von Clausewicz" on the spine. There are numerous different ways to spell the name in English.
You pedantic twit.
Aircraft cannot take and hold territory. They can only deny it to the enemy.
Read Clausewicz, then get back to me.
The juxtaposition of your quote, along with the one in your .sig, is very very amusing.
Heh. Try that with the current iteration: ringtones. Let me know how that works out for you.
.mid or .mp3 file you want to play as a ringtone. But then, they wouldn't be able to make money off the deal. So they won't.
It'd be ridiculously simple for the phone mfr to give you a place to specify the
I own an iPod, and Apple controls zero of my music. Not the same situation with a mobile phone, that can literally phone home whenever it wants to and change the rules on me.
Inevitable? Only if you buy into it. Which I won't.
I don't have any DRM'ed music files, for exactly the reasons you outline.
Currently, some phones can play MP3's. That's cool...it's a useful feature. But if the phone companies start trying to sell you on being able to get to your music everywhere, look out. They WILL put their hooks into you, and you WILL lose access to your data.
Do not trust them.
I am indeed from the USA, and there's only one thing that the phone companies all agree: They want to wring every available penny out of their customers. You can rely on any deal they offer is good for them and bad for you.
Hence my mistrust. : )
Silly monkey. Why do you think that you get to pick what rights you have when you're using what is essentially their phone?
I mean, they conned you into buying it, but unless they provide you with service, it's a paperweight.
"not A" does not imply "B"
You're being ridiculous. What computer company could come between me and a pile of MP3's? Not gonna happen.
I will never, ever, ever let the phone company come between me and my music collection. They'll decide they want to bill me for every minute I spend listening to stuff I've got stored on my hardware.
Yup, and I'm sure that's a suicide pact that they'll hew to if Sun starts trying to turn the screws.
2000 was a long time ago, buddy. IBM could re-brand the SuSE codebase in about four nanoseconds, and they'd be well justified in doing so.
Core Image has nothing to do with a 3D shell.