This was for those folk who liked iTunes as a music management suite and didn't want to have to either manage two libraries OR get rid of iTunes completely.
I guess I don't understand. I have an ipod, an iphone and two no-name flash based mp3 players. I sync all of them with itunes. With the iStuff I check the playlists I want to synch. With the generic players I drag and drop what I want on them. Why would a Pre user have to get rid of iTunes?
I personally don't think that Apple have the balls (insert tasteless joke about radiotherapy and cancer here) to actually compete on a level playing field
you are kidding me right? This is the company that came late to the portable music player market and dominated it.
Then they came late to the cell phone market and revolutionized it.
They stuck around in the computer market when they were practically out of it and now are back in it.
I guess you are right - they don't like level playing fields - they like to the be distant underdog....
if you'd just delete all your music and buy it through iTunes you wouldn't have that problem;)
I personally like iTunes - well I like it now that I have all my music tagged correctly.
back to the OP, I have 6 main genres. Rock, Hard Rock, Jazz, Classical, Spoken and Comedy. There are a couple of others that could probably be grouped into a 'misc'. I have the years correct for most (but not all yet). I use the genres all the time - years not so much for playlists, but it's handy having them there to answer stupid trivia questions. It's amazing how many events in my past can be correlated to a certain song, video or album (ie when did we go to ? I can't remember, but was just released and we listened to it non-stop).
QoS isn't a bad thing, but the user should be in control of it
Exactly! That way MY packets (not some of them, ALL OF THEM) need to be prioritized.
Kind of reminds me of the good old days when I had access to print queue priorities. No-one ever understood why my printouts always came out first...I maintained I was just lucky.
Hmmm...as a recent convert from Linux to OS X, I have to comment here.
I like iPhoto. I like the app-centric database. I like the simplicity of time machine. I never noticed anything wrong with the red-eye tool. It is more than good enough for the casual photographer.
I never told anyone that I wanted this. I didn't even know I wanted it until I tried it.
As far as I am concerned, when I started needing to get stuff done, instead of 'messing around on the computer' is when the shift from Linux to OS X happened for my home computer use. At work I am still forced into using windows and still use Linux for the server functions.
You really shouldn't use the word theoretically in this case....
It is perhaps 'practically' impossible but in 'theory' I could simply guess the correct key on my first attempt. Or my second. It might be really really close to impossible, but not quite impossible.
and its easy enough to carry around 3 devices, phone, camera, mp3 player
it's exactly 3 times harder than carrying around 1 device.
That might not be worth 2 or 3 hundred bucks a year (or 14 months) to you but it is to me...easily. And it doesn't matter if it's an iPhone or another device - whatever gets the job done.
I was going to respond to this post indicating that it is not the same experience. The hardware itself, totally outside of specs is much nicer on a MBP than any HP. Then I was going relate my experiences of loading OSX on HP laptops (among others)...hunting for drivers, manually editing files to allow the latest hardware to be recognized bythe existing drivers, not using auto-updates because they screw up those drivers and cause kernel panics after reboots.
and then a thought about this statement for a bit...
That doesn't mean jack. I can find an HP laptop with the EXACT hardware specs of any Apple laptop,
and decided that this statement in response to that comment would sum it up:
You are right - you cannot buy a $400 (new) macbook.
You also cannot buy a $20000 (new) Ferrari.
What's your point?
I believe the article shows that for similarly spec'd machines, the cost between an Apple and an HP/Dell/Lenovo is comparable.
Just because Apple doesn't offer a very low end laptop doens't necessarily mean their stuff is overpriced. And according to the article, it is not, with regards to the systems that were compared.
O2 has confirmed that the iPhone is the company's fastest selling device it has ever had in the UK, however stopped short of saying actually how many it sold in the first month and half on sale.
I prefer most of my purchases to be with good, old fashioned cash. I can keep up with my spending better that way...it isn't abstracting money from value, say like how casino chips make you forget you're really playing for real money.
I feel exactly opposite to this - I use my credit card or debit card for absolutely everything I can (within reason) in order to keep track of my money. At the end of the month I can import my bill electronically into Quicken and see where all my money went. Even without Quicken at least there is a record. Contrast this with - crap, I just took $200 out of the ATM Monday and now I have 12 cents left in my pocket - where did it go?
I always pay my credit card off at the end of the month so there is no CC debt hell.
Now to get back on topic, sort of...
Paying with my iPhone would likely have similar advantages.
Don't even say "Dell" with Linux configurations... it's not available for any but very minimal machines, and only two or 3 models. If those aren't what you want, you're SOL. Go ahead, try to buy a laptop from Dell with Linux on it with a screen that isn't 14.1". Oh wait... you can't.
Well I suppose if you call a precision M4400 laptop with quad core processors and 8GB RAM a striped down machine I guess you are right. Assuming that this is not a stripped down machine (it does in fact have a screen that is larger than 14.1") then you are of course wrong.
I suppose you might argue that Apple couldn't make an MP3 player without a screen - I mean who would want an MP3 player that didn't display the song that was playing, or have an interface to select which song to play?
Well, I can't comment on where the code came from, but I can confirm that my recent experience with 64bit XP and 64 bit vista was far from satisfactory (with satisfactory being equivalent to windows xp 32bit).
dotnet wouldn't install, among many other glitches. And as it was the prerequisite for VMWare server, it left us dead in the water. After many reinstalls and unsuccessful googling, we ended up using Ubuntu 8.10 and that went rather smoothly.
When places like Walmart or Google decide to turn-off their authorization servers, and the music you purchased no longer works,
What exactly does google have to do with music authorization?
VCRs are now discontinued. No more taping TV and building a library.
Really? I can go to my local Costco and buy at least 2 different models. I'm sure there are more than two models at every big box electronics store.
You can also buy DVD recorders that work just like a VCR but use DVDs instead of tapes. Or if you own one of those newfangled computers you can use that to record TV just like a VCR.
- Audio cassettes can be used to defeat DRM, but they are near-dead too.
Not anywhere near 'near-dead'. Once again go down to costco and you can buy blank cassettes and recorder/players. Also the exact same thing (well not the EXACT same thing this way is much better) can be accomplished using the audio in jacks that are pretty much standard on every computer shipped in the last 10 years)
- Vista lets you burn CDs now, but who knows what the future holds? Just as VCRs and audio cassettes were phased-out, burning music CDs might become impossible unless the DRM says "it's okay" to the CPU.
Why would you assume the "ir-" means what you think it means?
I mean if you are incapable (not capable) of recognizing the futility of the english language, then you will probably pour something inflammable (not flammable) on a fire in order to extinguish (outside of inguish, used to be inguish?)
Of course Dr Nick would tell us that it would be a mistake to do so.
I'm just saying that if people are going to invent a new word they might as well invent the meaning of it as well.
The whole point of this article is the production of biofuel from WASTE.
You are correct if you need to grow something for fuel in lieu of food, but if you are taking something that simply goes to landfills and instead turn it into fuel, you avoid all those problems.
Seems like a good thing to do while we are working on better longer term solutions.
So why can't everything you have just described be done with a jailbreaked iPhone? Or any of the windows smarthphones? Or a cell phone tethered to a laptop?
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This was for those folk who liked iTunes as a music management suite and didn't want to have to either manage two libraries OR get rid of iTunes completely.
I guess I don't understand. I have an ipod, an iphone and two no-name flash based mp3 players. I sync all of them with itunes. With the iStuff I check the playlists I want to synch. With the generic players I drag and drop what I want on them. Why would a Pre user have to get rid of iTunes?
I personally don't think that Apple have the balls (insert tasteless joke about radiotherapy and cancer here) to actually compete on a level playing field
you are kidding me right? This is the company that came late to the portable music player market and dominated it.
Then they came late to the cell phone market and revolutionized it.
They stuck around in the computer market when they were practically out of it and now are back in it.
I guess you are right - they don't like level playing fields - they like to the be distant underdog....
if you'd just delete all your music and buy it through iTunes you wouldn't have that problem;)
I personally like iTunes - well I like it now that I have all my music tagged correctly.
back to the OP, I have 6 main genres. Rock, Hard Rock, Jazz, Classical, Spoken and Comedy. There are a couple of others that could probably be grouped into a 'misc'. I have the years correct for most (but not all yet). I use the genres all the time - years not so much for playlists, but it's handy having them there to answer stupid trivia questions. It's amazing how many events in my past can be correlated to a certain song, video or album (ie when did we go to ? I can't remember, but was just released and we listened to it non-stop).
led to the realization that I can fit into my coveralls again... so I'm in about the best shape I ever have been, since childhood anyway
or at least the best shape since you bought the coveralls...
QoS isn't a bad thing, but the user should be in control of it
Exactly! That way MY packets (not some of them, ALL OF THEM) need to be prioritized.
Kind of reminds me of the good old days when I had access to print queue priorities. No-one ever understood why my printouts always came out first...I maintained I was just lucky.
Hmmm...as a recent convert from Linux to OS X, I have to comment here.
I like iPhoto. I like the app-centric database. I like the simplicity of time machine. I never noticed anything wrong with the red-eye tool. It is more than good enough for the casual photographer.
I never told anyone that I wanted this. I didn't even know I wanted it until I tried it.
As far as I am concerned, when I started needing to get stuff done, instead of 'messing around on the computer' is when the shift from Linux to OS X happened for my home computer use. At work I am still forced into using windows and still use Linux for the server functions.
you are obviously someone who hasn't witnessed the sheer beauty of a 24" iMac with an Apple bluetooth keyboard and a wireless mighty mouse.
PIN number
You mean a personal information number number?
Must be from the Department of Redundancy Department.
You really shouldn't use the word theoretically in this case....
It is perhaps 'practically' impossible but in 'theory' I could simply guess the correct key on my first attempt. Or my second. It might be really really close to impossible, but not quite impossible.
and its easy enough to carry around 3 devices, phone, camera, mp3 player
it's exactly 3 times harder than carrying around 1 device.
That might not be worth 2 or 3 hundred bucks a year (or 14 months) to you but it is to me...easily. And it doesn't matter if it's an iPhone or another device - whatever gets the job done.
heard?
Could you have heard could've instead of could of? They pretty much sound exactly the same.
It's when people write things down that the real meaning (or non-meaning) of what they are saying (or think they are saying) becomes apparent.
The ultra paranoids should watch the mythbusters episode where the water pressure prevented the manual windows from rolling down.
Curiously enough, they submerged a battery and a door and the power windows still worked underwater.
http://mythbustersresults.com/episode72
a direct comparison of my $999 17" HP DV9825 versus the $999 13" Macbook
How is that $700 cheaper?
I was going to respond to this post indicating that it is not the same experience. The hardware itself, totally outside of specs is much nicer on a MBP than any HP. Then I was going relate my experiences of loading OSX on HP laptops (among others)...hunting for drivers, manually editing files to allow the latest hardware to be recognized bythe existing drivers, not using auto-updates because they screw up those drivers and cause kernel panics after reboots.
and then a thought about this statement for a bit...
That doesn't mean jack. I can find an HP laptop with the EXACT hardware specs of any Apple laptop,
and decided that this statement in response to that comment would sum it up:
No you cannot.
You are right - you cannot buy a $400 (new) macbook.
You also cannot buy a $20000 (new) Ferrari.
What's your point?
I believe the article shows that for similarly spec'd machines, the cost between an Apple and an HP/Dell/Lenovo is comparable.
Just because Apple doesn't offer a very low end laptop doens't necessarily mean their stuff is overpriced. And according to the article, it is not, with regards to the systems that were compared.
This is from a year ago...but it seems to contradict the 'flop'...
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13104/14128/iphone-o2-sales-figures-success.phtml
O2 has confirmed that the iPhone is the company's fastest selling device it has ever had in the UK, however stopped short of saying actually how many it sold in the first month and half on sale.
I prefer most of my purchases to be with good, old fashioned cash. I can keep up with my spending better that way...it isn't abstracting money from value, say like how casino chips make you forget you're really playing for real money.
I feel exactly opposite to this - I use my credit card or debit card for absolutely everything I can (within reason) in order to keep track of my money. At the end of the month I can import my bill electronically into Quicken and see where all my money went. Even without Quicken at least there is a record. Contrast this with - crap, I just took $200 out of the ATM Monday and now I have 12 cents left in my pocket - where did it go?
I always pay my credit card off at the end of the month so there is no CC debt hell.
Now to get back on topic, sort of ...
Paying with my iPhone would likely have similar advantages.
Don't even say "Dell" with Linux configurations... it's not available for any but very minimal machines, and only two or 3 models. If those aren't what you want, you're SOL. Go ahead, try to buy a laptop from Dell with Linux on it with a screen that isn't 14.1". Oh wait... you can't.
Well I suppose if you call a precision M4400 laptop with quad core processors and 8GB RAM a striped down machine I guess you are right. Assuming that this is not a stripped down machine (it does in fact have a screen that is larger than 14.1") then you are of course wrong.
I'd like to be able to open an ssh client and use the on-screen keyboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_SSH
Add some kind of notepad software you can write notes quick and immediately send it out to another device/computer.
http://gmail.com/
And have other usable apps
http://docs.google.com/
I suppose you might argue that Apple couldn't make an MP3 player without a screen - I mean who would want an MP3 player that didn't display the song that was playing, or have an interface to select which song to play?
Of course they did do exactly that.
Well, I can't comment on where the code came from, but I can confirm that my recent experience with 64bit XP and 64 bit vista was far from satisfactory (with satisfactory being equivalent to windows
xp 32bit).
dotnet wouldn't install, among many other glitches. And as it was the prerequisite for VMWare server, it left us dead in the water. After many reinstalls and unsuccessful googling, we ended up using Ubuntu 8.10 and that went rather smoothly.
When places like Walmart or Google decide to turn-off their authorization servers, and the music you purchased no longer works,
What exactly does google have to do with music authorization?
VCRs are now discontinued. No more taping TV and building a library.
Really? I can go to my local Costco and buy at least 2 different models. I'm sure there are more than two models at every big box electronics store.
You can also buy DVD recorders that work just like a VCR but use DVDs instead of tapes. Or if you own one of those newfangled computers you can use that to record TV just like a VCR.
- Audio cassettes can be used to defeat DRM, but they are near-dead too.
Not anywhere near 'near-dead'. Once again go down to costco and you can buy blank cassettes and recorder/players. Also the exact same thing (well not the EXACT same thing this way is much better) can be accomplished using the audio in jacks that are pretty much standard on every computer shipped in the last 10 years)
- Vista lets you burn CDs now, but who knows what the future holds? Just as VCRs and audio cassettes were phased-out, burning music CDs might become impossible unless the DRM says "it's okay" to the CPU.
Is the sky really falling?
Why would you assume the "ir-" means what you think it means?
I mean if you are incapable (not capable) of recognizing the futility of the english language, then you will probably pour something inflammable (not flammable) on a fire in order to extinguish (outside of inguish, used to be inguish?)
Of course Dr Nick would tell us that it would be a mistake to do so.
I'm just saying that if people are going to invent a new word they might as well invent the meaning of it as well.
The whole point of this article is the production of biofuel from WASTE.
You are correct if you need to grow something for fuel in lieu of food, but if you are taking something that simply goes to landfills and instead turn it into fuel, you avoid all those problems.
Seems like a good thing to do while we are working on better longer term solutions.
So why can't everything you have just described be done with a jailbreaked iPhone? Or any of the windows smarthphones? Or a cell phone tethered to a laptop?