This should be a NON-ISSUE because quite frankly, boobies GIVE LIFE to small children, they're a symbol of fertility in breeding age women, nothing more. I think teenagers can sort out what boobies are [even if they don't know how to manipulate them hehehehe] for.
This whole debate is nothing more than a class of inbred christ-fearing rightwing zealots imposing their illogical non-biological will on others.
I'm not saying NOBODY has depression. I'm saying a lot of people lead unproductive lives and are "depressed" because of it. It's also a fad thing to have some diesease or another. All the kids are ADD and allergic to peanuts apparently...
All I'm trying to say is there are a lot of hypochondriacs out there who are truly not sick and rob the rest of precious doctor time and medicine.
I don't think ALL depression is faked. I just think MOST depression stems from the fact people have really unimportant lives [even to themselves].
Same thing with ADD kids. I seriously doubt all of the kids have ADD. Most of them could just use sterner discipline. You can't look sideways at a kid today without getting a lawsuit up your ass. I remember getting kicked out of class, having to stay for detention, getting yelled at, etc when I was a shit disturber.
Nowadays kids get away with murder, and what's worse, we can't even fail them anymore, it might hurt their self-esteem!!!
I think western society really needs a kick in the ass, and this is comming from a 24 yr old, twice published, college graduate who likes nothing more than to hack code and play GTA:San Andreas....:-)
um, you only have to umount them. It's a logical thing not requirement. umounting them sync's the buffers and makes sure the fs is intact (in certain FSes it also sets bits indicating a clean umount)
For FSes like Reiser you can literally just do "sync" and pull the drive out. The FS is entirely atomic and the FS is always intact.
What it should do is only enable the buffering after [say] 15 seconds of playing. Chances are if you're going to skip a song it's well before the 15 second mark.
Why Apple didn't just use the filesystem for storing the songs is beyond me. Granted gnupod isn't impossible to use, but god help you if you screw up your XML listing... I had to hand edit mine [too lazy to write a perl script] to remove some dubious song listings...
Also if battery life was such a concern why does Apple do all of the decode in the cpu? From what I understand, there are no M4A or MP3 accelerators in it. While that may have added $5 bucks to the end cost [which is already at a premium anyways] it would have boosted battery life nicely. You can decode MPEG audio in hardware for WAY LESS power than you can in a processor.
Ok, the thing is I still have a point. If he *is* doing those cool and useful things, why aren't we hearing about it here? I'd much rather read about rich people doing actual good things [well I'd like to read about ANYONE doing good things] then just spending it foolishly.
Generally though, starting companies is NOT cool because they usually sell out any individual sense of spirit and purpose for the almighty buck fairly quickly.
Let's see him start companies which don't, for instance, run Windows or make products for Windows.:-)
As for the schooling, kudos, personally I'd rather give the money to students not professors, but that's just me.
I don't run Windows, and I'd never install iTunes even if I did.
And no, the comment about the battery is not stupid if you're sitting at an airport waiting for a 10 hour flight, you have to gauge whether you can listen to music while waiting for the flight or leave it for then....
Part of the problem with the battery life is the amount of buffering the thing does. It tries to read entire songs into memory and shut off the HD, FOR EVERY SONG YOU PLAY. Which is wasteful if you skip from one song to the next to find the perfect one for the time being....
The Ipoo interface does not allow playing when plugged in. And who says I use windows? My Linux box DOES NOT automount USB drives. So technically Linux would have seen it's a SCSI device [which is what USB disks are btw] and not done anything further.
I hook it up to the puter because after my commute to work I want to charge it. It would be nice to be able to listen at the same time.
I have OTHER mp3 players that can accomplish just that task. One of them is a Nintendo DS:-)
Didn't RTFA but just here to say stop being pansies people. EVERYONE gets depressed from time to time. The only thing that pulls you through is the desire, nay, the will to keep doing things [living, etc]. Whenever I get really upset/depressed I chill out, then remember that, at least for me, my software projects [public domain stuff] actually brings me joy and gives me purpose.
Stop taking the meds, stop being so obsessive and do something meaningful with your life? Is it any wonder that we have more and more shallow/vain/empty people and then coincidentally more depressed people? Spend your free time doing something you're passionate about. Donate to charity or the public domain, spend time with your kids [OMG NO WAI!], write a book, etc...
If all your life amounts to is sitting at home watching "deal or no deal" then chances are you can easily be depressed. The cure is not in a bottle, and certainly isn't in a group program.
It's annoying that I can't play my ipoo when it's hooked up to the puter... oh, they sell base stations? How lovely...
How about Apple fixes those bugs before adding new shit?
It would also help if the battery meter were in ANY WAY accurate. It jumps from 100% to 60% to 80% and around all throughout a 10 minute session. It might as well not be present...
That said, who gives a flying shit about some billionaire honky in space? Personally I'd think of cooler things to do with my money. I'd arbitrarily make cool people "funded" so they could pursue research and fun projects. Just all spontaneous like. That's just for starters...
Spending it on the big houses, cars, boats, etc is just cliche and lame. Once you get past your 1st 12,000 sq ft mansion you really don't need a second:-)
Unless you are building that box in a lab which is ALREADY infected.
When I was in college we had our own removal hard drives and it wasn't that uncommon for the students to bring them home, get infected with EVERYTHING and then bring it to the lab.
Sometimes being secure out of the box, even for the box, is important.
Fairuse is the price people pay for copyright protection.
Without it, culture as we know it would really suck even more than it can at times already.
I'm against DRM because it removes our ability to control media. If I buy your DVD, I should be able to watch it in Linux, for instance. I should be able to transcode it and watch it on my Gameboy for all it matters. I bought private viewing rights to the movie when I bought the DVD.
I don't think you want to live in a world where DRM is totally rampant. Think about it. It means no more Tivo, no more on demand, no more paradies [Daily show would not exist], it means no more educational clips, it means no more backups, no more portable audio [without first buying a specialized portable copy of the audio], etc...
People are going to pirate shit no matter what you do. But for the majority rest of us who will pay for media, you impose your will on us unduly. It's the same thing with gun control and other random restrictions.
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And my point is who gives a flying fuck?
This should be a NON-ISSUE because quite frankly, boobies GIVE LIFE to small children, they're a symbol of fertility in breeding age women, nothing more. I think teenagers can sort out what boobies are [even if they don't know how to manipulate them hehehehe] for.
This whole debate is nothing more than a class of inbred christ-fearing rightwing zealots imposing their illogical non-biological will on others.
I say let the titties flow!
Tom
If seeing polyboobies is REALLY a significant problem for our children I think we screwed up long before then.
Sincerely,
Crying For Society....
I've pre-returned my copy already!
Tom
business.com, sales.com, hell.com, ...etc
These are novelties. In the age of google domain names are pointless.
Tom
read ... what ... I am writing!
I'm not saying NOBODY has depression. I'm saying a lot of people lead unproductive lives and are "depressed" because of it. It's also a fad thing to have some diesease or another. All the kids are ADD and allergic to peanuts apparently...
All I'm trying to say is there are a lot of hypochondriacs out there who are truly not sick and rob the rest of precious doctor time and medicine.
I don't think ALL depression is faked. I just think MOST depression stems from the fact people have really unimportant lives [even to themselves].
:-)
Same thing with ADD kids. I seriously doubt all of the kids have ADD. Most of them could just use sterner discipline. You can't look sideways at a kid today without getting a lawsuit up your ass. I remember getting kicked out of class, having to stay for detention, getting yelled at, etc when I was a shit disturber.
Nowadays kids get away with murder, and what's worse, we can't even fail them anymore, it might hurt their self-esteem!!!
I think western society really needs a kick in the ass, and this is comming from a 24 yr old, twice published, college graduate who likes nothing more than to hack code and play GTA:San Andreas....
Tom
um, you only have to umount them. It's a logical thing not requirement. umounting them sync's the buffers and makes sure the fs is intact (in certain FSes it also sets bits indicating a clean umount)
For FSes like Reiser you can literally just do "sync" and pull the drive out. The FS is entirely atomic and the FS is always intact.
Tom
Sometimes I don't know what I'm in the mood to hear until I hear it.
I guess I'm the only person on the entire planet who isn't a DJist about music and has to hear it to know the mood/tempo/etc.
Tom
You think you're funny... but there used to be a time that hardware came with schematics and memory maps.
So STFU you young ignorant little shit.
Tom
What it should do is only enable the buffering after [say] 15 seconds of playing. Chances are if you're going to skip a song it's well before the 15 second mark.
Why Apple didn't just use the filesystem for storing the songs is beyond me. Granted gnupod isn't impossible to use, but god help you if you screw up your XML listing... I had to hand edit mine [too lazy to write a perl script] to remove some dubious song listings...
Also if battery life was such a concern why does Apple do all of the decode in the cpu? From what I understand, there are no M4A or MP3 accelerators in it. While that may have added $5 bucks to the end cost [which is already at a premium anyways] it would have boosted battery life nicely. You can decode MPEG audio in hardware for WAY LESS power than you can in a processor.
Tom
ah, neato trick. It's not like Apple documents this....
Good to know.
Tom
Ok, the thing is I still have a point. If he *is* doing those cool and useful things, why aren't we hearing about it here? I'd much rather read about rich people doing actual good things [well I'd like to read about ANYONE doing good things] then just spending it foolishly.
:-)
Generally though, starting companies is NOT cool because they usually sell out any individual sense of spirit and purpose for the almighty buck fairly quickly.
Let's see him start companies which don't, for instance, run Windows or make products for Windows.
As for the schooling, kudos, personally I'd rather give the money to students not professors, but that's just me.
Tom
Click what from what windows program?
I don't run Windows, and I'd never install iTunes even if I did.
And no, the comment about the battery is not stupid if you're sitting at an airport waiting for a 10 hour flight, you have to gauge whether you can listen to music while waiting for the flight or leave it for then....
Part of the problem with the battery life is the amount of buffering the thing does. It tries to read entire songs into memory and shut off the HD, FOR EVERY SONG YOU PLAY. Which is wasteful if you skip from one song to the next to find the perfect one for the time being....
Tom
The Ipoo interface does not allow playing when plugged in. And who says I use windows? My Linux box DOES NOT automount USB drives. So technically Linux would have seen it's a SCSI device [which is what USB disks are btw] and not done anything further.
:-)
I hook it up to the puter because after my commute to work I want to charge it. It would be nice to be able to listen at the same time.
I have OTHER mp3 players that can accomplish just that task. One of them is a Nintendo DS
Tom
Didn't RTFA but just here to say stop being pansies people. EVERYONE gets depressed from time to time. The only thing that pulls you through is the desire, nay, the will to keep doing things [living, etc]. Whenever I get really upset/depressed I chill out, then remember that, at least for me, my software projects [public domain stuff] actually brings me joy and gives me purpose.
Stop taking the meds, stop being so obsessive and do something meaningful with your life? Is it any wonder that we have more and more shallow/vain/empty people and then coincidentally more depressed people? Spend your free time doing something you're passionate about. Donate to charity or the public domain, spend time with your kids [OMG NO WAI!], write a book, etc...
If all your life amounts to is sitting at home watching "deal or no deal" then chances are you can easily be depressed. The cure is not in a bottle, and certainly isn't in a group program.
Tom
It's annoying that I can't play my ipoo when it's hooked up to the puter... oh, they sell base stations? How lovely...
How about Apple fixes those bugs before adding new shit?
It would also help if the battery meter were in ANY WAY accurate. It jumps from 100% to 60% to 80% and around all throughout a 10 minute session. It might as well not be present...
Tom
He's the one to blame for Word.... :-)
... in Word ...
:-)
Just finished my 2nd book
My 3rd book will be in LaTeX [like my first].
That said, who gives a flying shit about some billionaire honky in space? Personally I'd think of cooler things to do with my money. I'd arbitrarily make cool people "funded" so they could pursue research and fun projects. Just all spontaneous like. That's just for starters...
Spending it on the big houses, cars, boats, etc is just cliche and lame. Once you get past your 1st 12,000 sq ft mansion you really don't need a second
Tom
Someone who habitually steals or frauds others IS a danger to others. Even though their crimes are "non-violent".
On this note though, I think an injunction from using the internet at home, or running a server would be more fitting.
Tom
This is why I have editors. :-)
Thanks though....
Tom
Unless you are building that box in a lab which is ALREADY infected.
When I was in college we had our own removal hard drives and it wasn't that uncommon for the students to bring them home, get infected with EVERYTHING and then bring it to the lab.
Sometimes being secure out of the box, even for the box, is important.
Tom
This is coming from the people who stole DNS, and sell certificates for hundreds of dollars which take milliseconds to make....
Now we're supposed to get a more "trustworthy" cert and make our address bar green?
Fuck you Verisign.
Tom
It's not multiculturalism when all you do is displace the natural inhabitants.
I'm sure the aboriginal people didn't look to the europeans as plurialism....
Tom
Fairuse is the price people pay for copyright protection.
Without it, culture as we know it would really suck even more than it can at times already.
I'm against DRM because it removes our ability to control media. If I buy your DVD, I should be able to watch it in Linux, for instance. I should be able to transcode it and watch it on my Gameboy for all it matters. I bought private viewing rights to the movie when I bought the DVD.
I don't think you want to live in a world where DRM is totally rampant. Think about it. It means no more Tivo, no more on demand, no more paradies [Daily show would not exist], it means no more educational clips, it means no more backups, no more portable audio [without first buying a specialized portable copy of the audio], etc...
People are going to pirate shit no matter what you do. But for the majority rest of us who will pay for media, you impose your will on us unduly. It's the same thing with gun control and other random restrictions.
Tom
*golf clap*.
Honestly folk, count the f'int ballots by hand, stop throwing them out, etc.
We purport to have this great democracy yet we do all in our power to screw up the vote...
tom
you can't see it ... oh and the horrible burns it gives you... hehehe
...
I was just joking about my post, I understand condensation
Tom