I think it behooves us to also look at the other side of it, impossible as it may be to properly quantify. How many lives have been saved by the use of Tasers? For instance, without a taser it may indeed be much more likely for cops to have to resort to guns and/or other less predictable violent means to protect themselves. Or, if using the traditional hand-to-hand or club route, there's a much more significant risk of the suspect outmaneuvering the cop and gaining the upper hand, thereby putting him/her in more danger.
I won't argue with the fact that tasers are painful, probably over-used and sometimes lethal, but that's not to say they should be banned. Perhaps more oversight on its use? Like guns (forgive me if i make assumptions here, TV is my only education in this matter), if they are discharged in the line of duty there should be some sort of hoopla, an investigation of some sort and severe punishment if it was found to be used as a first-resort, they would likely be used more cautiously.
Education is also an important factor, it's possible that the cops that have killed with them were not properly educated as to their lethality and would have exercised more caution if they were.
All signs indicate Apple's trying to position the iPhone a step-up from the iPod, not a replacement. I really doubt it will ever drop below the price of the most expensive iPod, even with a contract.
You may be right, but Apple tends drop the prices of their high-end ipods as technology becomes cheaper and add value(i.e. bigger harddrive, video support), and there is currently already a key difference between the high-end ipod and the iPhone, which is that the iPhone is, as a music playing device, not much more than a glorified nano (currently $249 for the 8 gig model, and flash memory prices seem to be dropping every day). If you're a serious music geek, 8 gigs is nowhere near enough, though the 80 gig iPod is much more in line with my uses.
This is not to say your argument is wrong, i just think factors will change over time and as such a $300 dollar iPhone may materialize in a year or two with changes to the iPod line.
I think the real reason comes from the PC users. They want to overcompensate for their crappy machines and dull OS by blinging it up. Just like somebody who blings up their Hyundai shitbox with flashing lights because they can't afford a better car.
I think if you randomly picked any given "case modder" you'd find on average the he (yes, he) is a teenager, an avid gamer, and generally has a lot of time on his hands to pursue hobbies like this.
The fact that there's virtually no gaming community on the mac is probably the biggest reason you don't see mac pros with neon lights. That and the average teenager is probably not going to be able to justify the money spent on a mac when he can get a PC for a hell of a lot cheaper *and* have more fun fiddling with it.
I use a mac now but i used to use PCs when i was younger and enjoyed the hell out of building my own system from parts, tweaking it, overclocking it, wringing the most possible performance out of it at the cheapest possible price. Now my job requires that i use a mac and even if it didn't, i'd still use one over a PC, but were i 10 years younger, i would definitely still be using a PC.
Not only is it ridiculous to assume that she had *enough* facts, but the tone of your entire post is insulting and for lack of a better term, soulless. There are 3 children out there who just lost their mother due to a competition noone would have expected could end in death and you see fit to call her stupid and issue glib remarks like "Lady 3 - Darwin 0". I'm sorry, but i find that a bit disgusting.
With regard to her supposed stupidity, the keyword is expected. It's not enough to know that you *could* die from something. I know i could die driving home today, even greater chance because the roads are snowy and icy. If someone veers out of control and hits me on the highway and i die, am i to be called stupid because i decided to drive today? I don't expect to, and neither do the hundreds of thousands of other people out driving.
It seems a lot of people, and me included, before today assumed that drinking a lot of water results in the side effect of needing to pee really bad.
Eating competitions are a widespread recognized sport these days, you don't see Kobayashi dying from eating 50 hot dogs, why should anyone *expect* to die from drinking a lot of water?
The symptoms afterwards were, as far as i know, a bad headache. Well hell, i'd go home and pop and asprin, the last thing i'd be thinking is i need to be hospitalized.
Just because you could give a rats ass doesn't mean other people can't have the discussion. Almost everyone is passionate about something. Two car nuts could sit around and talk about the finer points of two different automobiles until the cows came home, but in your world that's not right, they should really only care about whether the cars get you from point a to point b.
It's called discussion.
This is a topic of interest to many people, and this is slashdot. I don't even know why you're on here reading the forum if you can't handle a dicsussion about operating systems that might not necessarily be limited to whether or not they "do what you need them to do".
I'm not American, and i like football(soccer), but i have to disagree with you here. If "soccer" was as ingrained in the American psyche as it is in most other countries, the rest of the world would really be in trouble. There are a lot of phenomenal athletes in America, and even more importantly, a *lot* of money that goes into them. Americans aren't somehow inferior athletes, and if from the time he could walk, every boy over there learned to kick the ball, i really do think they would dominate the sport.
Look at the olympics, the americans dominate them almost every time. Imagine if some larger percentage of those athletes played soccer instead?
Lucky for us, that's not the case, and we get to enjoy the world cup without having to be annoyed at the americans dominating yet another precious thing in the world:)
Of course passion factors into a result, i'm willing to bet each and every player on any team in the world cup is passionate about football. I'd be very surprised if you excelled to that level of play without it. Passion simply describes how much you care about something, how much it means to you, it does not make you a "nut", as you say.
Brazilians on the whole happen to be more passionate about football, which(and i'm talking out of my ass to some extent here) may be a factor in that they have a larger pool of individuals in the country who grew up on the sport to choose from for their teams. There may be a thousand potential Pele's in Australia born in the last few years but chances are they may never be drawn towards the sport because it's just not quite as popular as it is in some other countries.
In any case, i don't think the poor score today says anything at all about the validity of the software in question. Perhaps without it they might have lost 3-0? Or maybe the same score but less scoring opportunities? Who knows, things like these are very subtle, *partial* elements to the overall skill of a team. If it helped in any way to get them to where they are now, more power to it. The coach and the team will be the judge of that, not us:)
First of all your presumption that low marketshare is the "only" reason OS X has been spared virii is probably not altogether true. I'm sure if you examine the inherent security of OS X and compare that with the various windows incarnations you might find that it may be somewhat easier to write a virus for Windows.
Personally i think it's about time they get off their collective asses at Apple and preach the current strengths of their OS. Even if it is a blatant invitation to virus writers(and i really think people are being overly melodramatic about this) they'll deal with that as it comes, the point is they have to take risks to increase marketshare and to increase marketshare people need reasons to switch. Most people don't know *anything* about macs, so i think these ads will go a long way towards fostering some curiosity in the general public.
That was the most insightful thing I've read on Slashdot all month. In the real world, when you subscribe to something you get something you can keep - like magazines or a CableTV feed you can record (by law, since it has to include firewire output).
I don't understand what all the fuss is about with regard to the word subscription. There are *TWO* ideas of subscription in play here, and both are valid. The real world includes both of these, and neither are *bullshit*.
1. Subscription to recieve something that one owns on a regular basis, i.e. Magazines, Daily Show Episodes.
2. Subscription *to a service*, i.e. Napster.
I would group Cable TV under the latter category, not the former, as it really is a service. That you can choose to record the stream is sort of a side effect of technology, not necessarily a selling point for most people.
I can understand why they don't want any common garden variety PC to run their OS - opening it up to any OEM PC system would seriously impinge on their hardware sales. Still, if that was their big concern, perhaps they should have stuck to the PowerPC platform where it would be the non-issue it is now. It's quite obvious that within six months of OS X x86 coming out that there is going to be some kind of emulator for it, possible running as close to full speed that it would be viable to use it from a generic PC.
Yes and who will be running OS X on a PC with an emulator? You? Perhaps. Me? Sure, i'd consider giving it a try on my PC. Your parents? Probably not. A business relies on having legitimate hardware and software and might need support? Not a chance in hell.
So yeah, it will be hacked, and OS X will probably be running on PC clones but will it even remotely effect Apple's bottom line, so much so that they should have reconsidered staying on PowerPC regardless of all the other factors, known and unknown(to us) that led them to that decision? Nope.
I'll give you the one-button mouse, i don't necessarily agree that it makes things easier to use, but i do agree that it inspires easier-to-use interfaces, so if Apple wants to ship with one, whatever, i have my two-button mouse already:) But the scroll wheel? I have yet to here an argument or see evidence that the scroll wheel complicates things. In my experience it does nothing but save *a lot* of annoyance and speeds things like web browsing up considerably, and old n00bish types that i've come in contact with don't seem to have a problem with it either, in fact, many probably appreciate it more if they are not as adept as most at mousing around and doing click-drag type actions in small areas.
Only show relevant file types in open and save dialogs. I'm not sure what version of OS X he's using but it does that in a better way than he suggests. The user isn't left wondering "where did my file go". Things that are useable by that app are bold and things that are not useable by that app are dimmer and you can't even click on them
This actually drives me nuts on a regular basis and i've wanted this feature since i started using OS X. I don't yet understand why people have an issue with the author's suggestion. I used windows for many years before i switched and i never had a situation where i couldn't find a file. Bolding the file types that apply to the given app is pretty horrid when you have a folder with more files than fit into the browser, since you then have to scroll through a potentially long list of files being careful not to scroll to fast and potentially miss one of the bold items. Sure i can sort by kind but then i maybe still have to scroll and find the batch of items that correspond, and what if the document has more than one relevant file type?
I just think 99.9% of the time all of the things in the list except those with extensions the app cares about are all anyone needs to see in one of these dialogs, and as the author suggests, there would be a checkbox or option of some sort fo show all files regardless of type.
2. Save buttons on toolbars are up to the developers. And in all honesty, I think a lot more people use keyboard commands to save, instead of clicking on a tiny little button in a toolbar that not even every app has. This definitely is not an OS specific thing...they're available if you need it, but nobody's forcing anyone to use it..
Actually...it *could* be *sort of* an OS thing. There are quite a few things that come standard depending on which set of frameworks you use to build your app. I'm not familiar with Carbon, but in Cocoa when you set up a toolbar there are a set a standard Apple provided items that you have the option to include, i.e. the Customize button, the Print button, Show Fonts, etc... Were Apple to decide a Save button was a good idea to have in all or most apps, they could include it in this set, and developers would just naturally use it wherever it made sense. They obviously don't think it's necessary, and i would never use it(command-s is like an unconcious twitch for me now), but i can see it being a) good for the switchers, and b) good for the type of mouse oriented person who rarely learns keyboard shortcuts.
If you owned a mac you would know, if you buy cheap ram that isn't going to work well, the firmware disables it making it obvious that you need to return the ram and buy it from somewhere else. (And this keeps your computer from crashing because of it which is it's true purpose.)
I wish this were true. I decided to cheap out recently and got some suspiciously low priced RAM for my powerbook. Worked for the 2 minutes i played with it at the store, took it home, random system freezes plagued me every few minutes thereafter.
Returned it, ordered some kingston RAM and works smooth as silk now.
I should have known better, but sometimes it's hard to pass up a chance for a good deal!
Different technologies perhaps, but the important thing to note, given the parent's post is that to the *user* they are very similar. The only difference i can see, to the average user, is that dashboard layers on top rather than integrating with the desktop during normal use. It's even modifyable to the extent that if you put dashboard into devmode, you get the ability to drag widgets out from the dashboard to sit on your desktop and voila, if you showed a user widgets from both apps they would not be able to tell the difference!
SQLite uses a monolithic binary data store does it not?
CoreData uses SQLite, so it seems Apple is trying to encourage u sing these things as well.
They also use a single file for storing Address Book data, but it hooks into the spotlight engine by creating a small plist in the Caches directory for each entry.
Are these things going to crap out at 2 or 4 GB of data?
I'm sorry but this makes absolutely no sense. Not a single one of his complaints, when fixed, would be considered "innovative" in a music player. They are *at best* nice-to-have's. The iPod interface and iTunes integration, however, *is* innovative. And pandering to the majority is *exactly* how profit-based organizations innovate, where the hell else would they get the money? What would be the point in producing an mp3 player that most people *would not* be happy with?
- when you dock it (to a PC, dunno about a Mac), it loses track of what song was playing, and de facto the position in that song.
I don't tend to dock it more than once a day, usually at night when i get home if it needs charging or if i need to put new music on it. In either case by morning when i want to use it again i would have a) forgotten when i was listening to the day before,
b) be in a different mood and have something different in mind to play or
c) have put something new on the night before and want to listen to that instead
- while it's docked it can't play without firing up iTunes.
Not sure i understand why you'd want to do this, as iTunes is a more functional interface to play music anyways(besides which all the music that's on my ipod is also on my harddrive, plus more that doesn't fit on the iPod
- when you want to take it from the dock you have to stop it from your PC first, or it hangs.
Isn't this standard operating procedure for any peripheral device? I know in windows when you hook up a USB device you get that little thingie in the system tray that allows you to "safely remove hardware". I've always used that just by habit, i believe it is good practice, i may be wrong(i primarily use OS X, where it *is* good practice to "eject" devices before disconnecting them physically)
- cannot put it into your pocket/purse/whatever without protection in the form of a sleeve/iSkin/whatever.
It does come with the sleeve, which i lost awhile back. I don't use anything anymore, don't see any problem with that other than it might get a bit scratched up...personally i don't give a crap, but i will agree that it is more prone to scratches than your average device.
- when in the pocket/purse/whatever you need to put it on hold to guard against accidental operation.
Very true. I've had this problem with almost every portable music player i've owned since tape players went out of style. Not sure if the alternatives to the ipod have solved this or not?
- when it's on hold, you cannot control it. The remote control is only marginally useable, since functions to navigate artist/albums/playlists are simply not available.
The remote is satisfactorily useable for my purposes. If i wanted to browse with it it would have to have a screen, which is bound to be too small to actually see all the relevant information without waiting for it to scroll by. I'd rather just reach into my bag/pocket and browse with the kick ass scroll wheel. Quicker and much more functional than any reasonably sized remote could hope to be. Thus, it does exactly what i'd want, pause/play, next/previous track, volume.
- when a playlist is done, pressing play again starts playing the whole contents, not just the playlist.
Your most valid complaint yet. I totally agree and get annoyed with this oversight on a daily basis.
In short, daily using your iPod makes you walk through all sorts of compulsary behaviour just to make it tolerable.
1. Get iPod out of sleeve.
2. Unslide hold switch. Press play.
3. Slide hold switch. Put in earphones and listen.
4. Battery runs down. Before it's fully down, look at the display to remember what track was playing and the position in the track.
Steps 1-2 are about 5-10 seconds max of barely tolerable hoops to jump through. Step 2.5(conveniently omitted) is 5-10 hours of music playback before step 4(battery runs down), is this part barely tolerable as well? How about browsing for artist/album/playlist? Barely tolerable compared to other players out there? Personally i'd say the bulk of time spent using is above and beyond anything else that's available in terms of user experience, but that's just me.
I think the 80/20 rule applies here. You're pissed(and overl
You either didn't read my post, or like the post i responded to have decided to ignore my point in order to get your agenda across. My point is that the fact that it is illegal *is* irrelevant with regard to whether it gets attention on Slashdot or not. How exactly is that a nonsensical statement again? Do you want your news censored? That you believe it's wrong is a valid opinion, and in my opinion you're right, pirating *is* wrong, but again, that, and in fact your whole rant, has nothing to do with what i was trying to say.
Personally i've never heard the terms "gangs" or "asian swindlers" applied to software piracy. I think you're over-generalizing to prove a point which to be honest is misdirected anyways. Everyone knows it's illegal, and guess what...lots of people still do it. Since when did Slashdot claim to be a moral beacon? The story appears because there are a large number of people who a) use bittorrent and b) are interested in developments within the "community" regardless of whether or not they actually use it. So who cares? Quite a few people, and the fact that it's illegal is completely irrelevant.
Should you ever decide you'd like that cumbersome chip removed from your shoulder, let me know, i can get a few buddies together to come help with the heavy lifting.
I'm curious as to what qualifies as a *wanted* feature to you? I'm fairly sure in the business world a *wanted* feature is one where increased sales due to its introduction would outweigh the sacrifice of resources required to develop it. Can you say with some credibility that this is the case for ogg support?
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I think it behooves us to also look at the other side of it, impossible as it may be to properly quantify. How many lives have been saved by the use of Tasers? For instance, without a taser it may indeed be much more likely for cops to have to resort to guns and/or other less predictable violent means to protect themselves. Or, if using the traditional hand-to-hand or club route, there's a much more significant risk of the suspect outmaneuvering the cop and gaining the upper hand, thereby putting him/her in more danger.
I won't argue with the fact that tasers are painful, probably over-used and sometimes lethal, but that's not to say they should be banned. Perhaps more oversight on its use? Like guns (forgive me if i make assumptions here, TV is my only education in this matter), if they are discharged in the line of duty there should be some sort of hoopla, an investigation of some sort and severe punishment if it was found to be used as a first-resort, they would likely be used more cautiously.
Education is also an important factor, it's possible that the cops that have killed with them were not properly educated as to their lethality and would have exercised more caution if they were.
They already made it (and Cher is in it, woo hoo!): http://imdb.com/title/tt0089560/
You may be right, but Apple tends drop the prices of their high-end ipods as technology becomes cheaper and add value(i.e. bigger harddrive, video support), and there is currently already a key difference between the high-end ipod and the iPhone, which is that the iPhone is, as a music playing device, not much more than a glorified nano (currently $249 for the 8 gig model, and flash memory prices seem to be dropping every day). If you're a serious music geek, 8 gigs is nowhere near enough, though the 80 gig iPod is much more in line with my uses.
This is not to say your argument is wrong, i just think factors will change over time and as such a $300 dollar iPhone may materialize in a year or two with changes to the iPod line.
Because why would he even pose such an obvious question unless he was going to surprise the reader by giving the opposite answer.
The fact that there's virtually no gaming community on the mac is probably the biggest reason you don't see mac pros with neon lights. That and the average teenager is probably not going to be able to justify the money spent on a mac when he can get a PC for a hell of a lot cheaper *and* have more fun fiddling with it.
I use a mac now but i used to use PCs when i was younger and enjoyed the hell out of building my own system from parts, tweaking it, overclocking it, wringing the most possible performance out of it at the cheapest possible price. Now my job requires that i use a mac and even if it didn't, i'd still use one over a PC, but were i 10 years younger, i would definitely still be using a PC.
Not only is it ridiculous to assume that she had *enough* facts, but the tone of your entire post is insulting and for lack of a better term, soulless.
There are 3 children out there who just lost their mother due to a competition noone would have expected could end in death and you see fit to call her stupid and issue glib remarks like "Lady 3 - Darwin 0". I'm sorry, but i find that a bit disgusting.
With regard to her supposed stupidity, the keyword is expected. It's not enough to know that you *could* die from something. I know i could die driving home today, even greater chance because the roads are snowy and icy. If someone veers out of control and hits me on the highway and i die, am i to be called stupid because i decided to drive today? I don't expect to, and neither do the hundreds of thousands of other people out driving.
It seems a lot of people, and me included, before today assumed that drinking a lot of water results in the side effect of needing to pee really bad.
Eating competitions are a widespread recognized sport these days, you don't see Kobayashi dying from eating 50 hot dogs, why should anyone *expect* to die from drinking a lot of water?
The symptoms afterwards were, as far as i know, a bad headache. Well hell, i'd go home and pop and asprin, the last thing i'd be thinking is i need to be hospitalized.
I guess i'm stupid too.
It's called being passionate about something.
Just because you could give a rats ass doesn't mean other people can't have the discussion. Almost everyone is passionate about something. Two car nuts could sit around and talk about the finer points of two different automobiles until the cows came home, but in your world that's not right, they should really only care about whether the cars get you from point a to point b.
It's called discussion.
This is a topic of interest to many people, and this is slashdot. I don't even know why you're on here reading the forum if you can't handle a dicsussion about operating systems that might not necessarily be limited to whether or not they "do what you need them to do".
I'm not American, and i like football(soccer), but i have to disagree with you here. If "soccer" was as ingrained in the American psyche as it is in most other countries, the rest of the world would really be in trouble. There are a lot of phenomenal athletes in America, and even more importantly, a *lot* of money that goes into them. Americans aren't somehow inferior athletes, and if from the time he could walk, every boy over there learned to kick the ball, i really do think they would dominate the sport.
:)
Look at the olympics, the americans dominate them almost every time. Imagine if some larger percentage of those athletes played soccer instead?
Lucky for us, that's not the case, and we get to enjoy the world cup without having to be annoyed at the americans dominating yet another precious thing in the world
The prevalence of flags flying out of cars here in Toronto and the surrounding area would beg to differ with you ;)
Canada is a very multicultural country, with many of its residents born in other countries, or one generation from it.
Of course passion factors into a result, i'm willing to bet each and every player on any team in the world cup is passionate about football. I'd be very surprised if you excelled to that level of play without it. Passion simply describes how much you care about something, how much it means to you, it does not make you a "nut", as you say.
:)
Brazilians on the whole happen to be more passionate about football, which(and i'm talking out of my ass to some extent here) may be a factor in that they have a larger pool of individuals in the country who grew up on the sport to choose from for their teams. There may be a thousand potential Pele's in Australia born in the last few years but chances are they may never be drawn towards the sport because it's just not quite as popular as it is in some other countries.
In any case, i don't think the poor score today says anything at all about the validity of the software in question. Perhaps without it they might have lost 3-0? Or maybe the same score but less scoring opportunities? Who knows, things like these are very subtle, *partial* elements to the overall skill of a team. If it helped in any way to get them to where they are now, more power to it. The coach and the team will be the judge of that, not us
First of all your presumption that low marketshare is the "only" reason OS X has been spared virii is probably not altogether true. I'm sure if you examine the inherent security of OS X and compare that with the various windows incarnations you might find that it may be somewhat easier to write a virus for Windows.
Personally i think it's about time they get off their collective asses at Apple and preach the current strengths of their OS. Even if it is a blatant invitation to virus writers(and i really think people are being overly melodramatic about this) they'll deal with that as it comes, the point is they have to take risks to increase marketshare and to increase marketshare people need reasons to switch. Most people don't know *anything* about macs, so i think these ads will go a long way towards fostering some curiosity in the general public.
I don't understand what all the fuss is about with regard to the word subscription. There are *TWO* ideas of subscription in play here, and both are valid. The real world includes both of these, and neither are *bullshit*.
1. Subscription to recieve something that one owns on a regular basis, i.e. Magazines, Daily Show Episodes.
2. Subscription *to a service*, i.e. Napster.
I would group Cable TV under the latter category, not the former, as it really is a service. That you can choose to record the stream is sort of a side effect of technology, not necessarily a selling point for most people.
Yes and who will be running OS X on a PC with an emulator? You? Perhaps. Me? Sure, i'd consider giving it a try on my PC. Your parents? Probably not. A business relies on having legitimate hardware and software and might need support? Not a chance in hell.
So yeah, it will be hacked, and OS X will probably be running on PC clones but will it even remotely effect Apple's bottom line, so much so that they should have reconsidered staying on PowerPC regardless of all the other factors, known and unknown(to us) that led them to that decision? Nope.
I'll give you the one-button mouse, i don't necessarily agree that it makes things easier to use, but i do agree that it inspires easier-to-use interfaces, so if Apple wants to ship with one, whatever, i have my two-button mouse already :) But the scroll wheel? I have yet to here an argument or see evidence that the scroll wheel complicates things. In my experience it does nothing but save *a lot* of annoyance and speeds things like web browsing up considerably, and old n00bish types that i've come in contact with don't seem to have a problem with it either, in fact, many probably appreciate it more if they are not as adept as most at mousing around and doing click-drag type actions in small areas.
This actually drives me nuts on a regular basis and i've wanted this feature since i started using OS X.
I don't yet understand why people have an issue with the author's suggestion. I used windows for many years before i switched and i never had a situation where i couldn't find a file.
Bolding the file types that apply to the given app is pretty horrid when you have a folder with more files than fit into the browser, since you then have to scroll through a potentially long list of files being careful not to scroll to fast and potentially miss one of the bold items. Sure i can sort by kind but then i maybe still have to scroll and find the batch of items that correspond, and what if the document has more than one relevant file type?
I just think 99.9% of the time all of the things in the list except those with extensions the app cares about are all anyone needs to see in one of these dialogs, and as the author suggests, there would be a checkbox or option of some sort fo show all files regardless of type.
Actually...it *could* be *sort of* an OS thing. There are quite a few things that come standard depending on which set of frameworks you use to build your app. I'm not familiar with Carbon, but in Cocoa when you set up a toolbar there are a set a standard Apple provided items that you have the option to include, i.e. the Customize button, the Print button, Show Fonts, etc...
Were Apple to decide a Save button was a good idea to have in all or most apps, they could include it in this set, and developers would just naturally use it wherever it made sense. They obviously don't think it's necessary, and i would never use it(command-s is like an unconcious twitch for me now), but i can see it being a) good for the switchers, and b) good for the type of mouse oriented person who rarely learns keyboard shortcuts.
I wish this were true. I decided to cheap out recently and got some suspiciously low priced RAM for my powerbook. Worked for the 2 minutes i played with it at the store, took it home, random system freezes plagued me every few minutes thereafter.
Returned it, ordered some kingston RAM and works smooth as silk now.
I should have known better, but sometimes it's hard to pass up a chance for a good deal!
Care to let us in on what these four regulars are? I'm kind of curious to check out this podcasting thing...
Different technologies perhaps, but the important thing to note, given the parent's post is that to the *user* they are very similar. The only difference i can see, to the average user, is that dashboard layers on top rather than integrating with the desktop during normal use.
It's even modifyable to the extent that if you put dashboard into devmode, you get the ability to drag widgets out from the dashboard to sit on your desktop and voila, if you showed a user widgets from both apps they would not be able to tell the difference!
SQLite uses a monolithic binary data store does it not?
CoreData uses SQLite, so it seems Apple is trying to encourage u
sing these things as well.
They also use a single file for storing Address Book data, but it hooks into the spotlight engine by creating a small plist in the Caches directory for each entry.
Are these things going to crap out at 2 or 4 GB of data?
I'm sorry but this makes absolutely no sense. Not a single one of his complaints, when fixed, would be considered "innovative" in a music player. They are *at best* nice-to-have's.
The iPod interface and iTunes integration, however, *is* innovative.
And pandering to the majority is *exactly* how profit-based organizations innovate, where the hell else would they get the money? What would be the point in producing an mp3 player that most people *would not* be happy with?
I don't tend to dock it more than once a day, usually at night when i get home if it needs charging or if i need to put new music on it. In either case by morning when i want to use it again i would have a) forgotten when i was listening to the day before, b) be in a different mood and have something different in mind to play or c) have put something new on the night before and want to listen to that instead
Not sure i understand why you'd want to do this, as iTunes is a more functional interface to play music anyways(besides which all the music that's on my ipod is also on my harddrive, plus more that doesn't fit on the iPod
Isn't this standard operating procedure for any peripheral device? I know in windows when you hook up a USB device you get that little thingie in the system tray that allows you to "safely remove hardware". I've always used that just by habit, i believe it is good practice, i may be wrong(i primarily use OS X, where it *is* good practice to "eject" devices before disconnecting them physically)
It does come with the sleeve, which i lost awhile back. I don't use anything anymore, don't see any problem with that other than it might get a bit scratched up...personally i don't give a crap, but i will agree that it is more prone to scratches than your average device.
Very true. I've had this problem with almost every portable music player i've owned since tape players went out of style. Not sure if the alternatives to the ipod have solved this or not?
The remote is satisfactorily useable for my purposes. If i wanted to browse with it it would have to have a screen, which is bound to be too small to actually see all the relevant information without waiting for it to scroll by. I'd rather just reach into my bag/pocket and browse with the kick ass scroll wheel. Quicker and much more functional than any reasonably sized remote could hope to be. Thus, it does exactly what i'd want, pause/play, next/previous track, volume.
Your most valid complaint yet. I totally agree and get annoyed with this oversight on a daily basis.
Steps 1-2 are about 5-10 seconds max of barely tolerable hoops to jump through. Step 2.5(conveniently omitted) is 5-10 hours of music playback before step 4(battery runs down), is this part barely tolerable as well? How about browsing for artist/album/playlist? Barely tolerable compared to other players out there? Personally i'd say the bulk of time spent using is above and beyond anything else that's available in terms of user experience, but that's just me. I think the 80/20 rule applies here. You're pissed(and overl
You either didn't read my post, or like the post i responded to have decided to ignore my point in order to get your agenda across. My point is that the fact that it is illegal *is* irrelevant with regard to whether it gets attention on Slashdot or not. How exactly is that a nonsensical statement again? Do you want your news censored?
That you believe it's wrong is a valid opinion, and in my opinion you're right, pirating *is* wrong, but again, that, and in fact your whole rant, has nothing to do with what i was trying to say.
Personally i've never heard the terms "gangs" or "asian swindlers" applied to software piracy. I think you're over-generalizing to prove a point which to be honest is misdirected anyways. Everyone knows it's illegal, and guess what...lots of people still do it. Since when did Slashdot claim to be a moral beacon? The story appears because there are a large number of people who a) use bittorrent and b) are interested in developments within the "community" regardless of whether or not they actually use it. So who cares? Quite a few people, and the fact that it's illegal is completely irrelevant.
Should you ever decide you'd like that cumbersome chip removed from your shoulder, let me know, i can get a few buddies together to come help with the heavy lifting.
I'm curious as to what qualifies as a *wanted* feature to you? I'm fairly sure in the business world a *wanted* feature is one where increased sales due to its introduction would outweigh the sacrifice of resources required to develop it. Can you say with some credibility that this is the case for ogg support?