If I want to play Mario 64, I'll play Mario 64. I never want to play Mario 64, so I hate it when the game that I'm loving loving loving turns into Mario 64.
Jumping puzzles suck. Jumping puzzles in POV shooters suck a lot.
So you made a choice that you're happy with. Good. Glad you found a product that suits you. Why the urge to denigrate people with different priorities than you have?
I'll bet you that the price points will not change. They're not going to undercut the prices of the iPod mini. If anything the capacities will go up, and the prices will stay the same. Kinda like Apple always does.
However, you can often find sale and reconditioned older models on Apple's site with a factory warranty.
I've been hunting around for info on this, and haven't found the answer to my question. Do you happen to know if a Mac can read a Windows (NTFS?) formatted iPod? Is there a format that's accessible to any platform? Can the iPod drive be partitioned?
I'd love to see any technical articles on the subject, and I haven't been able to formulate a cogent Google search.
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If those music players are so easy to design, why has nobody else even come close to the elegance and ease of use of the iPod?
Even the most virulent anti-Apple playa hatas have to admit "But, the interface is pretty good..."
Once I got the hang of the way iTunes wanted to organize my music, I became a total believer. I have never found a better PC music solution, and the iPod is a perfect complement.
Are there nits I could pick? Sure. But it's head and shoulders above anything else I've tried.
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I'd rather get shot while holding a polycarbonate shield than a thin metal one.
Maybe we should make a phone tree to call all the people who have bought iPods, and tell them that there is no market for the device they've bought. What are you doing this weekend? We've got a lot of people to call, so we better get organized...
Hmm, I wonder if Slashdot is a community of people, some of whom might disagree with one another. It's almost like there are some people that think one thing, and a different set of people that think something else! It's, like, each one of them is capable of making judgements on their own based on their own data and preferences, and they don't have to think the same thing as everybody else!
Get outta my way, I'm patenting this shit. It's gonna be BIG!
OK, both you and the grandparent are missing something.
Acceleration due to gravity has little to do with the G load of a collision. The instantaneous accelerations of collisions are insanely crazy stupendously scary big numbers.
Consider a baseball bat. The pitcher throws the ball at you at about 90mph. The ball leaves the bat at, what? Call it over 100 mph (which I think is really really conservative). So we've got a delta V of close to 200 miles per hour (293 feet/second according to Google). Now consider the time interval that delta V occurs in. Say it's 1/10 of a second (I betcha it's a lot faster than that). So you've got 2930 ft/s/s, or 298 G's.
Now, if the collision happens in a millisecond (which seems more like right according to my intuition) you're looking at an acceleration of 29800 G's.
So. 1000 G's is not a difficult value to exceed. The iPod is pretty tough indeed, but I'd still recommend not dropping it too often.
Which, if you think about it, is pretty much the way hard drives have always been priced. It's not substantially cheaper to manufacture a 40gb drive than an 80 gb drive.
I've never found two optical drives remotely useful. Copying CD to CD in my experience makes coasters more often than it makes good discs.
As far as "accidentally disconnecting" stuff, it's hot pluggable. No big deal. Want it attached to the computer? Get some damn velcro. Me, I keep it in a drawer until I need it.
Why would you have half a dozen firewire cables going to the back of your machine? FireWire daisy chains.
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Aha. That implication was not clear. I read the sentence three times and couldn't figure out what you meant.
And, again, do what you want. Apple will do what they want. It's a free country, and everybody's happy.
If I want to play Mario 64, I'll play Mario 64. I never want to play Mario 64, so I hate it when the game that I'm loving loving loving turns into Mario 64.
Jumping puzzles suck. Jumping puzzles in POV shooters suck a lot.
My bad my bad! I missed that part of the thread. Mea culpa.
It's a lossless codec. What do you mean that it sounds nasty?
Again, if you like FLAC, you can rip to that and convert to Apple Lossless, uh, losslessly.
What exactly makes it look effeminate?
So you made a choice that you're happy with. Good. Glad you found a product that suits you. Why the urge to denigrate people with different priorities than you have?
I'll bet you that the price points will not change. They're not going to undercut the prices of the iPod mini. If anything the capacities will go up, and the prices will stay the same. Kinda like Apple always does.
However, you can often find sale and reconditioned older models on Apple's site with a factory warranty.
Why shouldn't you?
And why in HELL would you connect a slow-ass USB hard drive to a Macintosh? That's what FireWire is for.
I've been hunting around for info on this, and haven't found the answer to my question. Do you happen to know if a Mac can read a Windows (NTFS?) formatted iPod? Is there a format that's accessible to any platform? Can the iPod drive be partitioned?
I'd love to see any technical articles on the subject, and I haven't been able to formulate a cogent Google search.
If those music players are so easy to design, why has nobody else even come close to the elegance and ease of use of the iPod?
Even the most virulent anti-Apple playa hatas have to admit "But, the interface is pretty good..."
Once I got the hang of the way iTunes wanted to organize my music, I became a total believer. I have never found a better PC music solution, and the iPod is a perfect complement.
Are there nits I could pick? Sure. But it's head and shoulders above anything else I've tried.
I'd rather get shot while holding a polycarbonate shield than a thin metal one.
Metal is not "stronger" than plastic.
Maybe we should make a phone tree to call all the people who have bought iPods, and tell them that there is no market for the device they've bought. What are you doing this weekend? We've got a lot of people to call, so we better get organized...
/. is an intellectual site?
OK, that really loud BANG you just heard was your argument blowing up in your face.
He's lucky, and he's a better speller than you, and he's not anonymous.
I bet his penis is bigger than yours too. Let's get out a ruler.
Er, maybe because the iPod carries more music than most people own, and has a nice user interface?
What problem are you trying to solve?
No way. You mean aircraft hardware designers think about their hardware designs more than anonymous /. posters?
Staggering.
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Yeah, and you could get a wheelbarrow or a large lunchbox to lug it around in.
Did my grandparent poster even mention the FCC? If not, what is your argument?
If it's a lossless codec, re-encoding it in another format will do exactly nothing to the quality.
So FLAC vs. Apple Lossless will make for even less teeth gnashing than the Ogg vs. MP3 partisans. Thank God.
Hmm, I wonder if Slashdot is a community of people, some of whom might disagree with one another. It's almost like there are some people that think one thing, and a different set of people that think something else! It's, like, each one of them is capable of making judgements on their own based on their own data and preferences, and they don't have to think the same thing as everybody else!
Get outta my way, I'm patenting this shit. It's gonna be BIG!
Whoops, except I'm on CRACK and I used 9.8 f/s/s for G. Should be 32.2 f/s/s. Sorry, Mars Polar Lander. Just turned you into a terrain feature.
Divide all my falues for accelerations in G's by three. I think the rest of my math is OK.
OK, both you and the grandparent are missing something.
Acceleration due to gravity has little to do with the G load of a collision. The instantaneous accelerations of collisions are insanely crazy stupendously scary big numbers.
Consider a baseball bat. The pitcher throws the ball at you at about 90mph. The ball leaves the bat at, what? Call it over 100 mph (which I think is really really conservative). So we've got a delta V of close to 200 miles per hour (293 feet/second according to Google). Now consider the time interval that delta V occurs in. Say it's 1/10 of a second (I betcha it's a lot faster than that). So you've got 2930 ft/s/s, or 298 G's.
Now, if the collision happens in a millisecond (which seems more like right according to my intuition) you're looking at an acceleration of 29800 G's.
So. 1000 G's is not a difficult value to exceed. The iPod is pretty tough indeed, but I'd still recommend not dropping it too often.
Which, if you think about it, is pretty much the way hard drives have always been priced. It's not substantially cheaper to manufacture a 40gb drive than an 80 gb drive.
I've never found two optical drives remotely useful. Copying CD to CD in my experience makes coasters more often than it makes good discs.
As far as "accidentally disconnecting" stuff, it's hot pluggable. No big deal. Want it attached to the computer? Get some damn velcro. Me, I keep it in a drawer until I need it.
Why would you have half a dozen firewire cables going to the back of your machine? FireWire daisy chains.
Apple's design philosophy doesn't suit you. That's fine: Don't buy one.
What YOU don't seem to comprehend is that these theoretical notions have led to zero exploits.
Like, not any.
So, whether by accident or by design, Classic MacOS is the most secure operating system in common use.
Maybe they buy an xBox because they've been happily playing their PS2 for years, and are looking for something different.
Me, I'm looking at the GC, because it's cheap and has tons of superb games not available on other platforms. I wouldn't buy an xBox for anything.