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Bother to read much? It's not in some obscure EULA or liscence agreement, which I would be totally opposed to. It's on one of the main iTunes features web pages. In bold type. You want them to club you over the head with it?
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I'm not absolving Apple of anything. In fact if this was a different situation and it was not on their website, in bold type on one of the main pages, I'd be pretty miffed.
Privacy is very important, but it's up to the individual to protect their own. Your right, their are too many different things to read them all. But you can be sure that before I install something new I've never used before I read up on it. I do the same thing with everything I do because I don't want to have a problem that I have to have a lawyer solve for me.
Why do you expect someone else to protect your privacy for you?
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Uh, no. By my logic the sign would be big and in bold type (like on apples website) and hanging in the window. But my guess is people like you wouldn't read it anyway, and would whine when they got punched.
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Ugh, for the last time it's not spyware.
Let me give you the closest definition to what your using of spy (from dictionary.com)
3.One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.
Apple, nor iTunes is secretly keeping watch. They explicity state that they are watching your music as I've quoted above from their very public website. The section I quoted even happens to be in bold.
"People can't decide to quit using spyware until they discover it, now can they? That's the value of publicising this issue."
They should have discovered it after reading Apple's website. Does Apple need to call your house telling you that they use info gleaned from your habits to sell you stuff? Would that be going far enough for you? How about having a lawyer come to your house every time iTunes opens up just to give you a friendly little reminder?
I'm a Linux user as well, both at work and at home. I'll agree with your opinion about the freedom of it. But OSX and Windows and iTunes are not Open Source products, nor do they espouse Open Source ideals. They are consumer driven produts. They are there to make money and sell things. Hence, their features will most likely be features that benefit the user, but ultimatly make or help make money for the producer. The problem comes when they do it dis-honestly. They haven't. The problem is some people can't take 5 f*&king seconds from their life to read a website.
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"while you're browsing your own music, the MiniStore will automatically show you more music from your favorite artists that you can find at the iTunes Music Store."
"it's reasonable to assume they're gleaning this from your interactions with *their* website."
Appearently you're not reading enough into it. It clearly states, as you can see from my bolding above that it says "while you're browsing YOUR OWN MUSIC". It doesn't say "while your browsing the ITMS" or "while your browsing apple.com" it clearly states "YOUR OWN MUSIC". Maybe my reading comprehension isn't up to par, but when something says "YOUR OWN MUSIC" I'm assuming they mean my own music.
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If the user bothered to read the features list they would know it was there. You're absolving the end user from personal responsibility. The information was there, but the users were too lazy to bother reading anything about the product they were using. The American public is used to being spoon fed everything and it's led us to being fat and lazy. Personal responsibility folks. It's not that difficult of a concept.
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Right from www.apple.com/itunes "while you're browsing your own music, the MiniStore will automatically show you more music from your favorite artists that you can find at the iTunes Music Store." If you don't like it, don't use it. It's not being deceptive about what it does, which is why it's not spyware. You didn't bother reading what the software clearly states it does, and now your mad about it. How does that make sense.
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No. Absolutely not. Especially when they didn't ask my permission first.
I'd agree with you 100% accept for the fact that suggesting music you might like is part of what iTunes does. Now if iTunes was watching your browsing habits and searches and then used that info to suggest music, then that would be wrong.
But that's not what it's doing. It's not being deceptive, or lying about what it does. You've installed a piece of software and it states right there on www.apple.com/itunes that "while you're browsing your own music, the MiniStore will automatically show you more music from your favorite artists that you can find at the iTunes Music Store." If you didn't read what the software does your ignorance is your own fault. Blaming Apple because you failed to read a little bit is stupid.
It's the exact same thing as a sager or an alienware. I have one with nearly the exact same specs and the battery life doing normal windows tasks is about 1 hour.
Hrm, while I don't begrudge anyone their beliefs, you can't really call yourself a Christian if you don't hold to Christian tenets. I'm not going to argue all your points, but consider your point 8. If you look to Matthew 22 15-22 (KJV) is says right out: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
Now, I don't think the Bible is infalbl. Most things should be interprated in the contex they come in, but I think it's pretty cut and dry that Jesus doesn't think taxation is wrong. Following the teachings of Jesus is being a Christian. Anything else, is not.
I'm not sure I agree. I think the parent poster might have made a bad choice of phrase when he said "solutions looking for a problem" but it's really the easiest way to describe what google has done with many of it's products lately.
Before google maps I never really realized how much I hate mapquest or yahoo's map service. If someone would have asked me about google developing map software I would have said yahoo maps works well enough for me. The same goes for froogle, gmail, etc...
I really would have never considered any of these old technologies as needing rivals, because they worked well enough. I think honestly that this is the culture that Microsoft generates. I'm a Unix admin by trade, but my corporate enviroment and home enviroment are so permeated by Mircosoft that I find myself saying that things "work well enough". Google's solutions to problems that don't exist are really solutions to problems that have been solved, but solved poorly.
What do you say to your detracters who say none of your experiments hold water because you don't hold to rigorous scientific practices such as having strict control and experimental groups?
I know many people in my circle of geek friends don't watch your show because they say it's nothing but junk science.
Bravo. I was wondering how long it would be until someone pointed this out. Honestly, it was because I couldn't think of a well-known word that was the amazonian equivelent.
Not knowing who someone isn't doesn't indicate IQ, nor a drop in IQ. Not knowing someone indicates ignorance on a subject. IQ is a measure of intellectual functioning. A pgymy living in the amazon might not know who the President of the US is, or what a computer is, but he/she could have the highest IQ ever recorded.
*Sigh* your post on the other hand, does indicate that the average./ IQ is dropping.
Seriously though, I don't really play anything else anymore. I'd really like to buy a PSP, but I know I won't play it enough right now to justify the cost. So in that sense I'd say WoW is hurting the market, but damn, Blizzard has to be doing really nice right about now.
Not perceived risk, actual risk. Lets say I'm a major share holder of company X, and the CIO decides he's going to deploy gentoo with the latest kernel, and keeps the kernel at the bleeding edge, and lo and belhold they discover a bug in the kernel. Said bug leads to down time. Down time leads to lost revenue. Guess who isn't going to have a job? Right! The CIO. And why? Because he didn't exercise due dillegence in performing his job.
On the other hand, if we have a field-proven install of a 2.4 kernel, or say Solaris 8, and there is a bug discovered, well thats just the cost of doing business.
This might not be the most interesting method, or the one that leads to the most innovation, but this is business, not a university research lab.
Um, I'm sitting here typing this on an Alienware Area 51m 7700. This particular one isn't Raided because I chose to install Linux on one disk and leave Windows on the other (frikin work making me use Remedy), however any of the 7700 can be RAID 0 or 1 provided you want to pay for it.
Now I realize that this isn't a Pentium M, it's a P4, but this new Centrino isn't going to suddenly be the first for "laptop raid".
Jeeze do you gloat over how Armstrong mispoke his "line" when he stepped on the moon? Of course he didn't mean he saw no evidence of humans, he meant he felt like he was all alone, with out human contact.
Simply because you can't be held to something or forced to do something thats non-constitutional or against the law because of what a contract says.
Silly example - You and I sign a contract saying that you'll kill me and I'll pay you $100. I pay you the $100 but you don't kill me, so I sue. The court would throw this out because killing someone is illegal.
Thus if non-competes are illegal in CA this could be throw out. However, the contract wasn't signed in CA, so I don't really see how this would be enforceable. But then again IANAL.
We're going to be seeing these "old" technologies for quite a while because their simple and effective in their jobs.
Keyboards will probably stay with us the longest. Even with pervasive and excellent voice recognition could you imagine having to "talk" a program instead of typing it? Simple words would be ok, but having to start a perl script by actually saying "hash bang slash u s r slash bin slash p e r l" would suck.
Monitors, which I'm defining as anything you look at that represents your computing enviroment via light output, will probably be the next longest lived. They'll change a good bit - holographic displays, foldable thin displays, etc... Eventually I imagine we'll get to the point that were inputting signals directly to the optical nerve at which point monitors would be moot.
Mice will probably be the first to go once eye tracking systems become cheap and easily used. Brainwaves could also be a contender, although from what I've seen so far they have a long way to go till I can play UT:2004 using them.
Honestly, if being called a nerd offends you you need to grow up.
If your so insecure in your "nerdom" that someone calling you a name can make you cry you have deeper issues to worry about than wondering "when it became ok".
I'm a TOTAL geek. I have no problem being called one. One could also make the argument that I'm a nerd, although having a girlfriend and not being socially inept would probably preclude me from the nerd label, I don't mind it when my gf or friends call me a physics nerd, or a star wars nerd or anything else. Some big dumb jock could do the same and I wouldn't cry about it either.
If your a nerd, be proud of what you are. If your not and some one calls you a nerd, f*ck them, who cares what someone else thinks.
It appearently lacks in the audiophile dept. I think 90% of the comments I've read all amount to "overkill" comments.
Is this a good solution for the average consumer?
No.
But then again neither are 10k a piece stero speakers. But for your audiophile, they are to die for. Audiophiles yearn for -perfect- sound, or as close as possilbe. Where it sounds like you're no longer in your house, but at Carnagie Hall. Or in the Deathstar watching light sabers clash first hand.
It's an enthusists product. Like a new top of the line vid card or a supercharged v8. Get over it and quit knocking it.
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Bother to read much? It's not in some obscure EULA or liscence agreement, which I would be totally opposed to. It's on one of the main iTunes features web pages. In bold type. You want them to club you over the head with it?
I'm not absolving Apple of anything. In fact if this was a different situation and it was not on their website, in bold type on one of the main pages, I'd be pretty miffed.
Privacy is very important, but it's up to the individual to protect their own. Your right, their are too many different things to read them all. But you can be sure that before I install something new I've never used before I read up on it. I do the same thing with everything I do because I don't want to have a problem that I have to have a lawyer solve for me.
Why do you expect someone else to protect your privacy for you?
Uh, no. By my logic the sign would be big and in bold type (like on apples website) and hanging in the window. But my guess is people like you wouldn't read it anyway, and would whine when they got punched.
It's not hidden at all. Take a look at http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists/
First paragraph. In bold! Last sentence.
Ugh, for the last time it's not spyware.
Let me give you the closest definition to what your using of spy (from dictionary.com)
3.One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.
Apple, nor iTunes is secretly keeping watch. They explicity state that they are watching your music as I've quoted above from their very public website. The section I quoted even happens to be in bold.
"People can't decide to quit using spyware until they discover it, now can they? That's the value of publicising this issue."
They should have discovered it after reading Apple's website. Does Apple need to call your house telling you that they use info gleaned from your habits to sell you stuff? Would that be going far enough for you? How about having a lawyer come to your house every time iTunes opens up just to give you a friendly little reminder?
I'm a Linux user as well, both at work and at home. I'll agree with your opinion about the freedom of it. But OSX and Windows and iTunes are not Open Source products, nor do they espouse Open Source ideals. They are consumer driven produts. They are there to make money and sell things. Hence, their features will most likely be features that benefit the user, but ultimatly make or help make money for the producer. The problem comes when they do it dis-honestly. They haven't. The problem is some people can't take 5 f*&king seconds from their life to read a website.
"while you're browsing your own music, the MiniStore will automatically show you more music from your favorite artists that you can find at the iTunes Music Store."
"it's reasonable to assume they're gleaning this from your interactions with *their* website."
Appearently you're not reading enough into it. It clearly states, as you can see from my bolding above that it says "while you're browsing YOUR OWN MUSIC". It doesn't say "while your browsing the ITMS" or "while your browsing apple.com" it clearly states "YOUR OWN MUSIC". Maybe my reading comprehension isn't up to par, but when something says "YOUR OWN MUSIC" I'm assuming they mean my own music.
If the user bothered to read the features list they would know it was there. You're absolving the end user from personal responsibility. The information was there, but the users were too lazy to bother reading anything about the product they were using. The American public is used to being spoon fed everything and it's led us to being fat and lazy. Personal responsibility folks. It's not that difficult of a concept.
Right from www.apple.com/itunes "while you're browsing your own music, the MiniStore will automatically show you more music from your favorite artists that you can find at the iTunes Music Store." If you don't like it, don't use it. It's not being deceptive about what it does, which is why it's not spyware. You didn't bother reading what the software clearly states it does, and now your mad about it. How does that make sense.
No. Absolutely not. Especially when they didn't ask my permission first.
I'd agree with you 100% accept for the fact that suggesting music you might like is part of what iTunes does. Now if iTunes was watching your browsing habits and searches and then used that info to suggest music, then that would be wrong.
But that's not what it's doing. It's not being deceptive, or lying about what it does. You've installed a piece of software and it states right there on www.apple.com/itunes that "while you're browsing your own music, the MiniStore will automatically show you more music from your favorite artists that you can find at the iTunes Music Store." If you didn't read what the software does your ignorance is your own fault. Blaming Apple because you failed to read a little bit is stupid.
It's the exact same thing as a sager or an alienware. I have one with nearly the exact same specs and the battery life doing normal windows tasks is about 1 hour.
Hrm, while I don't begrudge anyone their beliefs, you can't really call yourself a Christian if you don't hold to Christian tenets. I'm not going to argue all your points, but consider your point 8. If you look to Matthew 22 15-22 (KJV) is says right out: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
Now, I don't think the Bible is infalbl. Most things should be interprated in the contex they come in, but I think it's pretty cut and dry that Jesus doesn't think taxation is wrong. Following the teachings of Jesus is being a Christian. Anything else, is not.
I'm not sure I agree. I think the parent poster might have made a bad choice of phrase when he said "solutions looking for a problem" but it's really the easiest way to describe what google has done with many of it's products lately.
Before google maps I never really realized how much I hate mapquest or yahoo's map service. If someone would have asked me about google developing map software I would have said yahoo maps works well enough for me. The same goes for froogle, gmail, etc...
I really would have never considered any of these old technologies as needing rivals, because they worked well enough. I think honestly that this is the culture that Microsoft generates. I'm a Unix admin by trade, but my corporate enviroment and home enviroment are so permeated by Mircosoft that I find myself saying that things "work well enough". Google's solutions to problems that don't exist are really solutions to problems that have been solved, but solved poorly.
What do you say to your detracters who say none of your experiments hold water because you don't hold to rigorous scientific practices such as having strict control and experimental groups?
I know many people in my circle of geek friends don't watch your show because they say it's nothing but junk science.
Bravo. I was wondering how long it would be until someone pointed this out. Honestly, it was because I couldn't think of a well-known word that was the amazonian equivelent.
touche' ;-)
Not knowing who someone isn't doesn't indicate IQ, nor a drop in IQ. Not knowing someone indicates ignorance on a subject. IQ is a measure of intellectual functioning. A pgymy living in the amazon might not know who the President of the US is, or what a computer is, but he/she could have the highest IQ ever recorded.
./ IQ is dropping.
*Sigh* your post on the other hand, does indicate that the average
What are those? ;-)
Seriously though, I don't really play anything else anymore. I'd really like to buy a PSP, but I know I won't play it enough right now to justify the cost. So in that sense I'd say WoW is hurting the market, but damn, Blizzard has to be doing really nice right about now.
"due to perceived risk or some other nonsense"
Not perceived risk, actual risk. Lets say I'm a major share holder of company X, and the CIO decides he's going to deploy gentoo with the latest kernel, and keeps the kernel at the bleeding edge, and lo and belhold they discover a bug in the kernel. Said bug leads to down time. Down time leads to lost revenue. Guess who isn't going to have a job? Right! The CIO. And why? Because he didn't exercise due dillegence in performing his job.
On the other hand, if we have a field-proven install of a 2.4 kernel, or say Solaris 8, and there is a bug discovered, well thats just the cost of doing business.
This might not be the most interesting method, or the one that leads to the most innovation, but this is business, not a university research lab.
Um, I'm sitting here typing this on an Alienware Area 51m 7700. This particular one isn't Raided because I chose to install Linux on one disk and leave Windows on the other (frikin work making me use Remedy), however any of the 7700 can be RAID 0 or 1 provided you want to pay for it.
Now I realize that this isn't a Pentium M, it's a P4, but this new Centrino isn't going to suddenly be the first for "laptop raid".
Burger lord! How is it that this meat is so pure, so perfect?
What are you going to do about the horrible problem of melting faces?
Jeeze do you gloat over how Armstrong mispoke his "line" when he stepped on the moon? Of course he didn't mean he saw no evidence of humans, he meant he felt like he was all alone, with out human contact.
Go pick nits somewhere else.
Simply because you can't be held to something or forced to do something thats non-constitutional or against the law because of what a contract says.
Silly example - You and I sign a contract saying that you'll kill me and I'll pay you $100. I pay you the $100 but you don't kill me, so I sue. The court would throw this out because killing someone is illegal.
Thus if non-competes are illegal in CA this could be throw out. However, the contract wasn't signed in CA, so I don't really see how this would be enforceable. But then again IANAL.
We're going to be seeing these "old" technologies for quite a while because their simple and effective in their jobs.
Keyboards will probably stay with us the longest. Even with pervasive and excellent voice recognition could you imagine having to "talk" a program instead of typing it? Simple words would be ok, but having to start a perl script by actually saying "hash bang slash u s r slash bin slash p e r l" would suck.
Monitors, which I'm defining as anything you look at that represents your computing enviroment via light output, will probably be the next longest lived. They'll change a good bit - holographic displays, foldable thin displays, etc... Eventually I imagine we'll get to the point that were inputting signals directly to the optical nerve at which point monitors would be moot.
Mice will probably be the first to go once eye tracking systems become cheap and easily used. Brainwaves could also be a contender, although from what I've seen so far they have a long way to go till I can play UT:2004 using them.
Honestly, if being called a nerd offends you you need to grow up.
If your so insecure in your "nerdom" that someone calling you a name can make you cry you have deeper issues to worry about than wondering "when it became ok".
I'm a TOTAL geek. I have no problem being called one. One could also make the argument that I'm a nerd, although having a girlfriend and not being socially inept would probably preclude me from the nerd label, I don't mind it when my gf or friends call me a physics nerd, or a star wars nerd or anything else. Some big dumb jock could do the same and I wouldn't cry about it either.
If your a nerd, be proud of what you are. If your not and some one calls you a nerd, f*ck them, who cares what someone else thinks.
It appearently lacks in the audiophile dept. I think 90% of the comments I've read all amount to "overkill" comments.
Is this a good solution for the average consumer?
No.
But then again neither are 10k a piece stero speakers. But for your audiophile, they are to die for. Audiophiles yearn for -perfect- sound, or as close as possilbe. Where it sounds like you're no longer in your house, but at Carnagie Hall. Or in the Deathstar watching light sabers clash first hand.
It's an enthusists product. Like a new top of the line vid card or a supercharged v8. Get over it and quit knocking it.