Germany and Japan are smaller than Texas. They're smaller than half of Texas. Put together.
The population density in the United States is radically lower than just about anywhere in Europe (never mind Japan). The cities that can sustain light rail systems either have them or are getting them (like here in Dallas). However, it's still a frightfully expensive proposition that won't pay off for most riders within 10 years.
So, there's a little more to it than "Uh, I guess Americans just like their big ass cars!" Mass transit is just not viable for a lot of people.
Would that it were different. Maybe it will be different in the future. I hope it will.
Now, high speed regional rail...whoo nelly, that would be freakin' awesome. But it's not going to happen in this state as long as Continental, American Airlines, and Southwest are all based here.
Their bias against American cars is also well-founded.
Seriously, the reliability of the last few American cars my immediate compatriots have owned is pants relative to that of the Honda Toyota Nissan Mazda ilk. Sure it's not scientific, but the American automakers will have to a) work really hard to convince me they've got reliability fixed and b) stop making fugly cars.
Apple's Quartz rendering engine I believe renders a lot of UI elements as vector objects, so I'd imagine it scales pretty darn well.
But, of course, it's from Apple, so it must suck. Just like the display they released on Monday. You know, the one with almost as high of a resolution and half the price.
That's cool man. It may well be that I was looking last year, before a lot of these articles went online. I don't currently own an iPod, but I was checking them out for, uh, budgeting purposes.
Some people like the structure of reading a book. I read O'Reilly's Palm Pilot book from cover to cover. Same thing with their Lego Mindstorms book. Lots of the data in both of these books is readily available on the Internet, but I bought the books because I was paying for structure and organization of knowledge.
It may well be that you COULD write this book by just parsing iPodLounge. If you did so, it might be worth $20 to some people.
Like I said, iPodLounge is a great resource. Had the Search feature brought me these links, it would have solved my problem. However, I didn't happen to find the FAQ link under the Javascript. You knew where to find it, and that's great.
However, thanks for the linkage and the pointer to the FAQ. I'm sure that there is useful information in there as well.
But I still don't quite understand why you've got such a mad on for people who publish books. You think O'Reilly should go out of business because people should just read HOWTOs?
I'm pretty sure that the book might have even more info in it than the blurb and the discussion.
And, specifically, the particular piece of data that I obtained is that Windows formatted iPods work with Macintoshes, but not vice versa. I was unable to find a useful discussion about that subject on iPodLounge when I looked for it.
The piece of data I wanted may very well have been there, but it wasn't close to hand.
I'm not dissing iPodLounge, it's a great resource. But books are also useful to some people. Maybe not to you...that's cool.
But deciding that a book is stupid because the information might exist somewhere else is, well, stupid.
Go ahead and write your dog crap book. Somehow I doubt that it'll sell as well as this book will.
First you say huge, and then you say one to two miles/gallon. AND get in a stab at women driver at the same time.
Nice.
Careful, or you'll feed that "all SUV/pickup drivers are assholes" stereotype, that seems to have a lot more credence to it than "women make lousy drivers".
The key feature of iTunes is that it parses the ID3 tags into a searchable database, so it doesn't have to do like Winamp and open... each... file... sequentially... to... get... the... data... from... the... tag.
I had no idea how big of a difference this made until I started using the smart playlist feature.
I used to use an organization scheme like you do. But being able to query the database and get back exactly the music I wanted, regardless of the file system structure, is an absolute killer feature. But whatever floats your boat...
Yet again, we come across the idea that people who don't know something (like, for instance, how to drive a 4000 lb truck and make it be fuel efficient) are morons, whereas you who sprang full-formed from the womb of a carbureted V8 know how to drive a 4000 lb truck to make it fuel efficient.
Okay, Truck God, I submit my puny moronic brain to your tutelage. How do I drive a Suburban and get good fuel economy?
Bonus points if you can tell me how to drive one where it's not three times as likely to murder other drivers on the road in the event of an accident. (Be ready to lay some serious engineering knowledge on me for this one. I will call bullshit.)
OK, the fact that you think I'm right wing amuses me to no end.
Anybody who disagrees with His Liberal Majesty Michael Moore must be a jack-booted Ashcroftite. Righto.
As a matter of fact, your contempt for the masses is about the most unpleasant tenet of the "liberalism" that everybody seems to think is a bad word now. The more positive (progressive?) tenets are being buried under "Gotta beat Bush!" which is a hell of a lame rallying cry.
So, you're welcome to your preconceptions. Note that they do not serve you well.
Toyotas sure are cool. But I wouldn't hold my breath for that Volta. It's a stupendously beautiful car that will probably not see production. Unfortunately.
With a turbocharger, fuel consumption is pretty sensitive to how heavy your foot is. Moreso than with a normally aspirated engine.
The turbo is always compressing the intake air (powered by a turbine in the exhaust gas stream), but at lower throttle settings, its contributions to power (and bad fuel economy) are not as noticeable.
Note that a properly tuned turbocharged engine can get excellent fuel economy, oftentimes even better than a normally aspirated engine. However, if you use your right foot a lot, those gains will evaporate.
Talk about preaching to the choir. Even if you agree with some of the things Moore says, he's such an asshole when he says them, he discredits his own position.
Dude! Don't buy the book if you don't think it's valuable!
I've already learned a few things in the blurb of this article, and in the discussion of the book, that I haven't learned combing iPodLounge. And yes, I read iPodLounge regularly.
What on Earth could be "morally reprehensible" about publishing a book some people might find useful? Should everybody ask you before they try to publish a book, to find out if you think it's "morally reprehensible" or not?
The value of the book is editing and collating knowledge. There's lots of knowledge out there, and lots of people make their living collating and organizing it.
Just because Google exists doesn't mean that libraries are not useful.
Just for sake of discussion, I think iTunes kicks holy ass. The smart playlists and database organization (rather than relying on ID3 tags) are features I didn't even know I was missing from Winamp.
So, hey! Different solutions for different humans.
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You could teach us how to have really high unemployment. That'd be grand.
Oh wait, you were being sarcastic. My bad.
*dons Nomex unda-wears*
Fair play, Coward. Hoist by my own petard when I didn't bother to consult my Factbook. : )
Mmmmkay.
Germany and Japan are smaller than Texas. They're smaller than half of Texas. Put together.
The population density in the United States is radically lower than just about anywhere in Europe (never mind Japan). The cities that can sustain light rail systems either have them or are getting them (like here in Dallas). However, it's still a frightfully expensive proposition that won't pay off for most riders within 10 years.
So, there's a little more to it than "Uh, I guess Americans just like their big ass cars!" Mass transit is just not viable for a lot of people.
Would that it were different. Maybe it will be different in the future. I hope it will.
Now, high speed regional rail...whoo nelly, that would be freakin' awesome. But it's not going to happen in this state as long as Continental, American Airlines, and Southwest are all based here.
I don't understand the question.
That's their natural habitat, right?
If you're a sports car geek, Sports Car International is teh roolz. Spectacular photography, engaging writing, and it's all about sports cars.
No trucks. No SUVs. Just cars that are fun to drive fast.
They seem to get road tests with the hot toys before the big mags do, although they don't do as many zillion-car comparos.
Anyhow...I strongly recommend.
Their bias against American cars is also well-founded.
Seriously, the reliability of the last few American cars my immediate compatriots have owned is pants relative to that of the Honda Toyota Nissan Mazda ilk. Sure it's not scientific, but the American automakers will have to a) work really hard to convince me they've got reliability fixed and b) stop making fugly cars.
Otherwise, I'll keep happily buying Mazdas.
Dude.
You need a hug.
Or a valium.
Or both.
Slow your roll, Beavis.
Apple's Quartz rendering engine I believe renders a lot of UI elements as vector objects, so I'd imagine it scales pretty darn well.
But, of course, it's from Apple, so it must suck. Just like the display they released on Monday. You know, the one with almost as high of a resolution and half the price.
Must be nice to be a first-class citizen. Us proles just get to miss our flights.
Yay airport security. Animal Farm at its best.
That's cool man. It may well be that I was looking last year, before a lot of these articles went online. I don't currently own an iPod, but I was checking them out for, uh, budgeting purposes.
Some people like the structure of reading a book. I read O'Reilly's Palm Pilot book from cover to cover. Same thing with their Lego Mindstorms book. Lots of the data in both of these books is readily available on the Internet, but I bought the books because I was paying for structure and organization of knowledge.
It may well be that you COULD write this book by just parsing iPodLounge. If you did so, it might be worth $20 to some people.
Like I said, iPodLounge is a great resource. Had the Search feature brought me these links, it would have solved my problem. However, I didn't happen to find the FAQ link under the Javascript. You knew where to find it, and that's great.
However, thanks for the linkage and the pointer to the FAQ. I'm sure that there is useful information in there as well.
But I still don't quite understand why you've got such a mad on for people who publish books. You think O'Reilly should go out of business because people should just read HOWTOs?
I'm pretty sure that the book might have even more info in it than the blurb and the discussion.
And, specifically, the particular piece of data that I obtained is that Windows formatted iPods work with Macintoshes, but not vice versa. I was unable to find a useful discussion about that subject on iPodLounge when I looked for it.
The piece of data I wanted may very well have been there, but it wasn't close to hand.
I'm not dissing iPodLounge, it's a great resource. But books are also useful to some people. Maybe not to you...that's cool.
But deciding that a book is stupid because the information might exist somewhere else is, well, stupid.
Go ahead and write your dog crap book. Somehow I doubt that it'll sell as well as this book will.
So, you're telling me you got to DFW 35 minutes before your flight, and you made your flight? If that's true, you were incredibly lucky.
If not, you're making my point for me.
First you say huge, and then you say one to two miles/gallon. AND get in a stab at women driver at the same time.
Nice.
Careful, or you'll feed that "all SUV/pickup drivers are assholes" stereotype, that seems to have a lot more credence to it than "women make lousy drivers".
The key feature of iTunes is that it parses the ID3 tags into a searchable database, so it doesn't have to do like Winamp and open...
each...
file...
sequentially...
to...
get...
the...
data...
from...
the...
tag.
I had no idea how big of a difference this made until I started using the smart playlist feature.
I used to use an organization scheme like you do. But being able to query the database and get back exactly the music I wanted, regardless of the file system structure, is an absolute killer feature. But whatever floats your boat...
To pick a nit:
Yet again, we come across the idea that people who don't know something (like, for instance, how to drive a 4000 lb truck and make it be fuel efficient) are morons, whereas you who sprang full-formed from the womb of a carbureted V8 know how to drive a 4000 lb truck to make it fuel efficient.
Okay, Truck God, I submit my puny moronic brain to your tutelage. How do I drive a Suburban and get good fuel economy?
Bonus points if you can tell me how to drive one where it's not three times as likely to murder other drivers on the road in the event of an accident. (Be ready to lay some serious engineering knowledge on me for this one. I will call bullshit.)
OK, the fact that you think I'm right wing amuses me to no end.
Anybody who disagrees with His Liberal Majesty Michael Moore must be a jack-booted Ashcroftite. Righto.
As a matter of fact, your contempt for the masses is about the most unpleasant tenet of the "liberalism" that everybody seems to think is a bad word now. The more positive (progressive?) tenets are being buried under "Gotta beat Bush!" which is a hell of a lame rallying cry.
So, you're welcome to your preconceptions. Note that they do not serve you well.
Toyotas sure are cool. But I wouldn't hold my breath for that Volta. It's a stupendously beautiful car that will probably not see production. Unfortunately.
With a turbocharger, fuel consumption is pretty sensitive to how heavy your foot is. Moreso than with a normally aspirated engine.
The turbo is always compressing the intake air (powered by a turbine in the exhaust gas stream), but at lower throttle settings, its contributions to power (and bad fuel economy) are not as noticeable.
Note that a properly tuned turbocharged engine can get excellent fuel economy, oftentimes even better than a normally aspirated engine. However, if you use your right foot a lot, those gains will evaporate.
Whose vote is Fahrenheit 9/11 going to change?
Talk about preaching to the choir. Even if you agree with some of the things Moore says, he's such an asshole when he says them, he discredits his own position.
Dude! Don't buy the book if you don't think it's valuable!
I've already learned a few things in the blurb of this article, and in the discussion of the book, that I haven't learned combing iPodLounge. And yes, I read iPodLounge regularly.
What on Earth could be "morally reprehensible" about publishing a book some people might find useful? Should everybody ask you before they try to publish a book, to find out if you think it's "morally reprehensible" or not?
The value of the book is editing and collating knowledge. There's lots of knowledge out there, and lots of people make their living collating and organizing it.
Just because Google exists doesn't mean that libraries are not useful.
Emacs? Easier to use than the iPod?
I think you're a freakin' loony.
I'm trying to figure out how you could have held your finger still enough on the touchpad to not get it to move the cursor at all.
So, you're not interested in paying for the value add of somebody collating and editing the information presented in this book.
That's fine. What makes you think that there don't exist people who disagree with you?
Just for sake of discussion, I think iTunes kicks holy ass. The smart playlists and database organization (rather than relying on ID3 tags) are features I didn't even know I was missing from Winamp.
So, hey! Different solutions for different humans.
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The files are in the computer! It's so simple!
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