The iTunes database is THE killer feature. Winamp's media library is a pale, pale imitation. Particularly since I found musicmobs.com, iTunes has distinguished itself from the competition. And I haven't TOUCHED the iTMS. I won't pay a buck a track for DRMed songs.
iTunes is the best way I've found to manage my (medium sized) music library. I've been using it to clean up my ID3 tags, after looking for years for a suitable tool that would work with Winamp.
Winamp was my media player of choice for a long time, and WA5 is a great piece of software. But iTunes does what I need it to do, and I'm willing to give up a little memory and processor time for the enhanced utility.
And, when my iPod arrives, it'll be all ready to go. : )
Hey, let's settle down with the ad hominem attacks, OK?
Doing Google searches has nothing to do with predicting Microsoft's branding strategy. And if you think the anti-trust legislation is going to be circumvented by a name change, think you're in error.
Now, there are a dozen other loopholes (the most conspicuous of which will be the utter lack of enforcement) that Microsoft will wiggle through, but trying to change the name would be silly.
Microsoft's operating system is Windows. They will not relinquish that mindshare. Frankly, I hope they do, because it's going to be a great opening for the competing systems to come in and eat their lunch.
I think we should all write in "My Dad". Not "moofie's Dad", mind you, but "My Dad".
I know a lot of us might not get along well with our families (I happen to have gotten really lucky in that particular lottery), but I can't think of very many average-Joe American dads that would do a worse job than ANY of the candidates.
I heard on the radio last night that this election is so close, it's going to be decided by nine welders in Cleveland. I say let one of the welders have the job...
That DX50 was a hot, hot rig. I remember a friend of mine had a Packard Bell DX50. I mean, it's a Packard Bell, but it's a DX50!
I actually got really lucky with a Packard Bell pentium system I picked up cheap. I threw in a P90 Overdrive chip, and that thing ran like a watch for years. Good computer. Who'd a thunk it?
Which wireless broadband system has the same cost/person to install in a metropolis, and out in the boonies?
Hint: There isn't one. The sunk cost to support (say) 1000 users is the same as the cost to support 10. And you might note that 10 people have less money than 1000 people.
Yet another excellent reason to go back to the good ol' days of no calculators on the SAT.
You'll pry my HP 48G out of my cold, dead hands, but I already passed the SAT with flying colors, using only a pencil and my brain.
I am a huge fan of computer-augmented math capabilities (I write a spreadsheet to do simple math), but the SAT need not test that. It should test basic mathematical abilities (such as might be found in a post-holocaust Earth).
That's exactly right. To my mind, that's THE killer feature of the AirPort system. Fortunately for the PC crowd, this feature incorporated in many Centrino notebooks nowadays. My mom's Hewcom Packpaq has a little button on the front edge of the laptop that disables the WiFi radio. Staggeringly enough for Windows, the network connection seems to fail over to an available wired connection when you do that.
Unless I knew better (which I do), I'd say that HcomPaq knew WTF they were doing.
This "feature" would CRUSH the battery performance of the iPod.
Everybody who has WiFi on their PDA seems to complain "Holy SHIT does this spank my battery life!" Yeah. Sure does. It's a big fucking radio transmitter.
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It was pretty clearly outlined in the post. WalMart buys product from China that is manufactured by "slave" labor.
Whether the laborers are in fact "slaves", it's safe to conclude that the average factory conditions in China are pretty darn ugly.
Bend over and I'll show you.
Very, very, very few.
No.
The iTunes database is THE killer feature. Winamp's media library is a pale, pale imitation. Particularly since I found musicmobs.com, iTunes has distinguished itself from the competition. And I haven't TOUCHED the iTMS. I won't pay a buck a track for DRMed songs.
iTunes is the best way I've found to manage my (medium sized) music library. I've been using it to clean up my ID3 tags, after looking for years for a suitable tool that would work with Winamp.
Winamp was my media player of choice for a long time, and WA5 is a great piece of software. But iTunes does what I need it to do, and I'm willing to give up a little memory and processor time for the enhanced utility.
And, when my iPod arrives, it'll be all ready to go. : )
Hey, let's settle down with the ad hominem attacks, OK?
Doing Google searches has nothing to do with predicting Microsoft's branding strategy. And if you think the anti-trust legislation is going to be circumvented by a name change, think you're in error.
Now, there are a dozen other loopholes (the most conspicuous of which will be the utter lack of enforcement) that Microsoft will wiggle through, but trying to change the name would be silly.
Microsoft's operating system is Windows. They will not relinquish that mindshare. Frankly, I hope they do, because it's going to be a great opening for the competing systems to come in and eat their lunch.
So you think that buying stock in an unethical company is ethically neutral?
I think you're wrong.
Hmm...so government intervention slashes productivity at MS to a standstill?
Mission accomplished.
I think we should all write in "My Dad". Not "moofie's Dad", mind you, but "My Dad".
I know a lot of us might not get along well with our families (I happen to have gotten really lucky in that particular lottery), but I can't think of very many average-Joe American dads that would do a worse job than ANY of the candidates.
I heard on the radio last night that this election is so close, it's going to be decided by nine welders in Cleveland. I say let one of the welders have the job...
Or "covered in cow shit", which I think is an apt image as well.
You don't seriously think that "Longhorn" is anything other than a code-name, do you?
That DX50 was a hot, hot rig. I remember a friend of mine had a Packard Bell DX50. I mean, it's a Packard Bell, but it's a DX50!
I actually got really lucky with a Packard Bell pentium system I picked up cheap. I threw in a P90 Overdrive chip, and that thing ran like a watch for years. Good computer. Who'd a thunk it?
Which wireless broadband system has the same cost/person to install in a metropolis, and out in the boonies?
Hint: There isn't one. The sunk cost to support (say) 1000 users is the same as the cost to support 10. And you might note that 10 people have less money than 1000 people.
(Yes, these numbers are made up.)
I use my calculator all the damn time. But I've proven that I can do arithmetic by hand, which is still a useful skill.
Hell, I use Excel to add a column of numbers...it's just easier and less error-prone.
I also use Excel to integrate and take derivatives, so I'm a dork. : )
I've got 151mb free on my 512mb WinXP box here. I'm running Trillian, iTunes, Palm Desktop, Firebird, and Thunderbird.
I hit that swap file not-infrequently. I want another 512.
Strike Commander was about 34 floppies, if I remember correctly.
Somewhere, I've got a copy of Office 4.2 for Macintosh on 42 floppies. That install was a BEE-YOTCH.
Revolutionary ground breaking gameplay? Wow, that would be a switch for id.
They make great engines, but revolutionary GAMES? Not for a while...
What about them?
Changing the test to allow calculators was a bad idea.
Yet another excellent reason to go back to the good ol' days of no calculators on the SAT.
You'll pry my HP 48G out of my cold, dead hands, but I already passed the SAT with flying colors, using only a pencil and my brain.
I am a huge fan of computer-augmented math capabilities (I write a spreadsheet to do simple math), but the SAT need not test that. It should test basic mathematical abilities (such as might be found in a post-holocaust Earth).
But hey, it's just my opinion.
You can't work enough over the summer to pay for tuition at Duke. You've either got a loan, a grant, or a rich family.
Well, if you CAN make $30k over a summer, you're kinda wasting your time in college....
$299 iPod/$30,000 tuition = an insignificant fraction.
Microsoft owned (past tense) a little bit of stock in Apple. They sold it at a big profit. There are no hidden alliances here.
Sounds like the proctors were doing their job.
Anybody fooling with any object other than a pencil and the test booklet in the SAT room should be summarily dismissed and fined.
Don't worry. Momsy and Dadsy will buy you a laptop if they can afford to send you to Duke.
That's exactly right. To my mind, that's THE killer feature of the AirPort system. Fortunately for the PC crowd, this feature incorporated in many Centrino notebooks nowadays. My mom's Hewcom Packpaq has a little button on the front edge of the laptop that disables the WiFi radio. Staggeringly enough for Windows, the network connection seems to fail over to an available wired connection when you do that.
Unless I knew better (which I do), I'd say that HcomPaq knew WTF they were doing.
$79 bucks, with no goofy sticking-out-of-the-side-of-the-computer-snagging- on-my-laptop-bag-antenna.
Thanks for askin'.
This "feature" would CRUSH the battery performance of the iPod.
Everybody who has WiFi on their PDA seems to complain "Holy SHIT does this spank my battery life!" Yeah. Sure does. It's a big fucking radio transmitter.