I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Ohh, so how many product placed Apple TVs did you see?
In case you actually meant all product placement - the competition pays much more for very obvious product placement. If you haven't noticed them, Apple's Voice Over is highly praised aide to the blind.
What does any of our "real conversation I avoid" (that you didn't even mention before) have to do with the topic being discussed? I repeat: Get Treatment. You are obviously losing grip on reality with every post you make.
Maybe you should be worried more about your control on reality. And using Android ain't going to help.
And here I am being modded a troll because I'm offering my opinion on *not* using itunes. FYI: I've never had any problems, at all with my music collection because I choose to control my reality.
Of course you didn't - you just imagined that people had problems with their iPhones when they drove into a tunnel because you thought that using iTunes would do that. You need to get treatment, boy. Seriously.
Sure it can be hell if it isn't done right. I can't say I've ever used a mainstream window manager where I've thought "Gee there are just too many options for me here, I wish there were less". Sure it can become a clusterf-ck if not done right but it isn't really that hard.
And yet Windows manages just for the function of closing a window. Sometimes ctrl-w does it, sometimes Alt-F4, but almost never both, sometimes neither (e.g. the CMD window). The one that doesn't may actually do something else completely. Alt-Space C almost always works - unless your not on an English language system.
If Apple had done it properly, they would have built it so the same track could appear on multiple albums.
An album is not a property of a song, it's the other way around. So in order to keep my collection albums (i.e. "compilations" by a single artist) working, I am forced to have multiple copies of the same tracks, wasting space.
Yes, you are right - Apple should completely drop the silly ID3 tags that are not compatible with what you want.
It doesn't happen until you SELECT MULTIPLE SONGS.
I didn't have to do that unnecessary extra step in Winamp or AIMP2 - it's called a fucking ID3 tag, and if Apple had them done PROPERLY a "This is a compilation" checkbox wouldn't be fucking necessary.
So what is the fucking ID3 tag called "these files are part of one album"? Is this new in version 3? I remember when Apple actually did what you want them to do and everybody complained about the one big "Greatest Hits" album from dozens of artists. I guess your shitty little music library is too small to have two albums with the same name - or if it happened to you, you singlehandedly "managed" to add a space at the end of one of them.
If you were smart, you'd complain about the stupid way the ID3 tags are designed, instead you whine about Apple. So obviously you are not smart, but a whiner.
So it's not smart enough to realize that being in the same folder likely means it's on the same album.
As if it couldn't fucking scan the ID3 tag and learn this?
If it assumed that all files in one folder are on the same album, you'd complain about that instead. And iTunes does fucking scan the ID3 tag - they don't provide a sure way to determine what album a song belongs to, which you should fucking know if you actually manage your own music. Which means you are either a poser or a troll.
Don't know what the hell you are talking about. I have an iPhone and nothing is streamed. Any music I listen is stored on the device.
I don't use itunes so I wouldn't know how the music gets on the device, I thought it was streamed AAC, my mistake. I don't understand what the complaints are about however I do like to maintain control over my music collection.
So as long as you have an itunes to manage it, I don't think it is so easy to step out of the walled garden once you step into it.
Maybe you should be worried more about your control on reality. And using Android ain't going to help.
However, Apple has one thing at the consumer [1] level... and that is very good CS.
I've heard lots of stories that went both ways there. As someone who has owned a piece of Apple hardware with a known and admitted hardware bug which Apple closed wontfix and told people to buy more hardware to get around the problem, I have my own opinions about the value of Apple support.
Well, the you would be better off buying from one of many PC manufacturers - just make sure you pick one where you don't find several worse stories. Which will take you some time.
Huh? Are we talking about the same window manager which steals your input focus with modal windows? The one where I'm typing at a terminal and just when I'm about to hit return some warning message pops up and I don't even get a chance to read the message because the timing was just right for me to notice it flashing and think "fuck, what the hell I've done now again"?
User asked for a feature then get flamed for wanting the feature. Nobody should want features not in Apple software..
Until Apple puts in the feature, then it's the greatest since sliced bread.
Accepting the rather odd notion that "organizing files by hand" is a "feature" of a music management system (something that organizes your music for you) - yes, iTunes has that feature, for quite some time now. Complaining about something you don't actually know about because you hate Apple - that's the Slashdot way.
Don't know what the hell you are talking about. I have an iPhone and nothing is streamed. Any music I listen is stored on the device.
Well it seems he has actually met more people using Apple Music than anything else in the last couple of years he's riding the "train". Confirming Apple has won the Streaming War.
but are they available on the most popular Safari browser used, mobile Safari?
They are available on almost any other browser on iOS - which as somebody pointed out are basically Mobile Safari. Ohh, and with iOS 9 you'l get Content Blockers. You now have a couple of weeks to get used to losing that beloved piece of advocacy.
Right. Because the Macintosh was exactly like the Xerox Star, right down to the three-button Mouse and Smalltalk commands. Which Jobs licensed for a very agreeable amount
Apple didn't license anything from Xerox. In fact, Xerox sued Apple over the Lisa (and lost) for Apple's use of "their" technology, despite the fact that the mouse and windowing were created much earlier by Doug Engelbart.
Even if your whole narrative about Apple wasn't bunk, the fact that Douglas Engelbart's only relation with Xerox is that some co-workers basically took his work and moved over there is the icing on the dumb-cake that is your claim.
The question is: why do these stories gain traction on Slashdot? I have observed that many Slashdoters think that all technology is somehow inherently unsafe - with the sole exception of nuclear power.
If the person in question bypassed the barrier system (eg put a shim in place of a sensor so he could work near the operating robot) then there is no way a lawsuit should be brought against the manufacturer. If the device/installation was missing basic safety precautions then there may be a case for a lawsuit against the manufacturer, installer of the robot, or auto manufacturer. Depending on who neglected the safety precautions. Regardless this has nothing to do with pseudo-"laws" of robotics or anything else remotely related to artificial intelligence.
The problem here is that the person killed was in the process of installing the robot.
"Guys. I don't know what skynet is. And I wouldn't follow me - I tweet really boring stuff about unit wage costs and the like."
"Ugh, this is a bit uncomfortable. A person has actually died."
You actually think "You report on a guy being killed by a robot, and your name is almost like that of a character in a movie about a killer robot" is funny? Let alone a couple of hundred times over?
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I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Ohh, so how many product placed Apple TVs did you see?
In case you actually meant all product placement - the competition pays much more for very obvious product placement. If you haven't noticed them, Apple's Voice Over is highly praised aide to the blind.
What does any of our "real conversation I avoid" (that you didn't even mention before) have to do with the topic being discussed? I repeat: Get Treatment. You are obviously losing grip on reality with every post you make.
It's tattooed to your mom's ass.
So your name is Asshole McDumbass? She said she took the name from the Guinness Book of Records - under dumbest person ever.
Maybe you should be worried more about your control on reality. And using Android ain't going to help.
And here I am being modded a troll because I'm offering my opinion on *not* using itunes. FYI: I've never had any problems, at all with my music collection because I choose to control my reality.
Of course you didn't - you just imagined that people had problems with their iPhones when they drove into a tunnel because you thought that using iTunes would do that. You need to get treatment, boy. Seriously.
Confirming Apple has won the Streaming War.
But not the users or musicians. See that's the thing with the whole fanboi attitude - someone has to loose for their choice to win.
I was making a little joke about your diatribe - and you come up with something about "fanboi attitude" - Hateboi, heal thyself.
Sure it can be hell if it isn't done right. I can't say I've ever used a mainstream window manager where I've thought "Gee there are just too many options for me here, I wish there were less". Sure it can become a clusterf-ck if not done right but it isn't really that hard.
And yet Windows manages just for the function of closing a window. Sometimes ctrl-w does it, sometimes Alt-F4, but almost never both, sometimes neither (e.g. the CMD window). The one that doesn't may actually do something else completely. Alt-Space C almost always works - unless your not on an English language system.
If Apple had done it properly, they would have built it so the same track could appear on multiple albums.
An album is not a property of a song, it's the other way around. So in order to keep my collection albums (i.e. "compilations" by a single artist) working, I am forced to have multiple copies of the same tracks, wasting space.
Yes, you are right - Apple should completely drop the silly ID3 tags that are not compatible with what you want.
"Did the really, really obvious"
It doesn't happen until you SELECT MULTIPLE SONGS.
I didn't have to do that unnecessary extra step in Winamp or AIMP2 - it's called a fucking ID3 tag, and if Apple had them done PROPERLY a "This is a compilation" checkbox wouldn't be fucking necessary.
So what is the fucking ID3 tag called "these files are part of one album"? Is this new in version 3? I remember when Apple actually did what you want them to do and everybody complained about the one big "Greatest Hits" album from dozens of artists. I guess your shitty little music library is too small to have two albums with the same name - or if it happened to you, you singlehandedly "managed" to add a space at the end of one of them.
If you were smart, you'd complain about the stupid way the ID3 tags are designed, instead you whine about Apple. So obviously you are not smart, but a whiner.
So it's not smart enough to realize that being in the same folder likely means it's on the same album.
As if it couldn't fucking scan the ID3 tag and learn this?
If it assumed that all files in one folder are on the same album, you'd complain about that instead. And iTunes does fucking scan the ID3 tag - they don't provide a sure way to determine what album a song belongs to, which you should fucking know if you actually manage your own music. Which means you are either a poser or a troll.
Don't know what the hell you are talking about. I have an iPhone and nothing is streamed. Any music I listen is stored on the device.
I don't use itunes so I wouldn't know how the music gets on the device, I thought it was streamed AAC, my mistake. I don't understand what the complaints are about however I do like to maintain control over my music collection.
So as long as you have an itunes to manage it, I don't think it is so easy to step out of the walled garden once you step into it.
Maybe you should be worried more about your control on reality. And using Android ain't going to help.
However, Apple has one thing at the consumer [1] level... and that is very good CS.
I've heard lots of stories that went both ways there. As someone who has owned a piece of Apple hardware with a known and admitted hardware bug which Apple closed wontfix and told people to buy more hardware to get around the problem, I have my own opinions about the value of Apple support.
Well, the you would be better off buying from one of many PC manufacturers - just make sure you pick one where you don't find several worse stories. Which will take you some time.
Huh? Are we talking about the same window manager which steals your input focus with modal windows? The one where I'm typing at a terminal and just when I'm about to hit return some warning message pops up and I don't even get a chance to read the message because the timing was just right for me to notice it flashing and think "fuck, what the hell I've done now again"?
Yeah, top notch fucking usability nightmare.
Yes, but we weren't talking about Windows.
That's the Apple way.
User asked for a feature then get flamed for wanting the feature. Nobody should want features not in Apple software.. Until Apple puts in the feature, then it's the greatest since sliced bread.
Accepting the rather odd notion that "organizing files by hand" is a "feature" of a music management system (something that organizes your music for you) - yes, iTunes has that feature, for quite some time now. Complaining about something you don't actually know about because you hate Apple - that's the Slashdot way.
Don't know what the hell you are talking about. I have an iPhone and nothing is streamed. Any music I listen is stored on the device.
Well it seems he has actually met more people using Apple Music than anything else in the last couple of years he's riding the "train". Confirming Apple has won the Streaming War.
but are they available on the most popular Safari browser used, mobile Safari?
They are available on almost any other browser on iOS - which as somebody pointed out are basically Mobile Safari. Ohh, and with iOS 9 you'l get Content Blockers. You now have a couple of weeks to get used to losing that beloved piece of advocacy.
In case you're wondering, I know why you don't get invited to parties...
Yes, because you are an asshole. Assholes know everything.
Apple didn't license anything from Xerox. In fact, Xerox sued Apple over the Lisa (and lost) for Apple's use of "their" technology, despite the fact that the mouse and windowing were created much earlier by Doug Engelbart.
Even if your whole narrative about Apple wasn't bunk, the fact that Douglas Engelbart's only relation with Xerox is that some co-workers basically took his work and moved over there is the icing on the dumb-cake that is your claim.
The question is: why do these stories gain traction on Slashdot? I have observed that many Slashdoters think that all technology is somehow inherently unsafe - with the sole exception of nuclear power.
A better title would be "Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By Industrial Machinery."
Considering it was a worker from an outside company installing the robot, no, not really.
Germany is western?
Yes - I believe it's somewhere between Dodge City and the Sierra Madre.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057687/
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West"; as contrasted with the Orient ...
If the person in question bypassed the barrier system (eg put a shim in place of a sensor so he could work near the operating robot) then there is no way a lawsuit should be brought against the manufacturer. If the device/installation was missing basic safety precautions then there may be a case for a lawsuit against the manufacturer, installer of the robot, or auto manufacturer. Depending on who neglected the safety precautions. Regardless this has nothing to do with pseudo-"laws" of robotics or anything else remotely related to artificial intelligence.
The problem here is that the person killed was in the process of installing the robot.
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2. Natalie Portman
3. ???
4. Profit!
That woman has absolutely zero sense of humour.
"Guys. I don't know what skynet is. And I wouldn't follow me - I tweet really boring stuff about unit wage costs and the like."
"Ugh, this is a bit uncomfortable. A person has actually died."
You actually think "You report on a guy being killed by a robot, and your name is almost like that of a character in a movie about a killer robot" is funny? Let alone a couple of hundred times over?
Have they sent Dr. Susan Calvin to speak with the robot yet?
Well, he said: "I was just waking up, trying to rub my eyes, then there was this idiot in the way of my arm, and bamm, I hit him."