That can't possibly be legal. Nobody can be detained indefinitely for minor traffic violations. Any first year law student would have a field day with this one...
There's a similar place in my town. Speed limit is 60 and drops to 35 rapidly, then goes back up. Four lane divided freeway. No reason for the drop - no schools, no uncontrolled intersections, really just no reason for it. And nobody follows it - people blow through there at 60.
Well, I got a ticket there about a year ago for doing 45. Still well under what everyone else was doing. Cops were parked behind a mobile home on a sales lot next to the freeway and didn't even get out of their cars. Just walked into the middle of the freeway and motioned a whole line of cars into the parking lot, then made us wait while they wrote us all tickets.
Now I set the cruise at 35 when I get there. People honk, swear, yell insults, flip me off, etc. I've had people come up on me at full speed and nearly nail me, then swerve around me as fast as they can. What's more safe here - the speed limit or going with the flow of traffic? Not a hard one to figure out, but if the authorities are going to take money away from me, I'll just have to be unsafe.
If someone is getting frustrated by lights hitting red, they're going to speed up between the intersections to beat the red.
We have a "bypass" freeway here that wraps traffic around the town @ 55mph out to the major employment centers in the area. The problem, this freeway that once had a single controlled intersection now has a dozen traffic lights in just a few miles. By the time you hit 55mph, it's time to start hitting the brakes for the next light. The whole idea of a bypass is to route traffic AROUND all of the lights on the main stretches of city road!
At any rate, the lights are timed so if you hit one that is green, and you are moving at the speed limit, they'll all be green. In theory this is how it's supposed to work. In practice, vehicles from side streets disrupt this flow, and the timing isn't right, so the opposite is also true: If you hit one red light, especially during the evening commute, they'll ALL be red for you. This turns what is normally a 5-10 minute drive on that particular stretch of road into a 20-30 minute drive.
The solution? When you hit one red light, travel at 70-80mph to the next one. You'll hit it right in the middle of it's green cycle. You can then slow back down to 55 and the rest of the lights will be green. This tactic rarely fails, and a lot of people around here employ it.
Instead of fixing the problem, the police setup speed traps on a regular basis. It's all about the money.
When you're talking on the playground, the other kids don't care whether you're articulate, mature, or intellectually advanced. In fact, if you try to make a mature, well thought out argument with most of the other kids, they'll think you're some kind of loony.
Not when the other kids are also homeschooled.
Besides, that isn't the point. The parent was claiming that homeschooled kids lack social skills. You back it up by saying, "Yeah, if a kid is mature, other kids will tease him." Other kids teasing the homeschooled child does not mean he lacks social skills. If anything it means those doing the teasing lack them.
My homeschooled daughter, now seven, can walk into a room with anyone - adults, older kids, kids her age, even young toddlers - and immediately make friends. Most of the homeschooled children she hangs out with exhibit similar characteristics. These kids are very socialized. The only thing they lack are the cruel and heartless social "skills" a large number of "normal" children have.
Socializing with parents alone won't cut it.
So it's preferred that children learn social skills from less mature children who are quick to label people as loonies?
The social skills learned on a typical playground are not good for children. The anti-homeschooling crowd acts like they're a necessary part of life. I'm sorry, but I fail to see how learning to treat people who are different like dirt, to tease others, and to learn disgusting and inappropriate jokes about bathrooms could possibly be considered "necessary socialization."
My daughter has never called names, judged or refused to play with someone who was different. She's never once exhibited any behavior that would hurt another person (emotionally or physically). She doesn't tell inappropriate jokes or use any inappropriate language whatsoever. It's not because we sat her down and taught these things: We never have. It's because she isn't exposed on a daily basis to children who act this way. She's exposed primarily to adults and to other children who are also exposed primarily to adults, and these children therefore pick up on our traits and exhibit our behaviors and social skills. This is a good thing.
Be thankful you were born rich enough to get "online" at will
I'm online because I've worked my ass off since I was legally old enough to hold a job. Hence I make money and can afford nice things like computers. Funny, that's how most of us got to where we are today: Hard work, good choices and dedication. Don't presume to think anyone was born with a silver spoons in his mouth.
If you are 22 that does not classify you as being one of the ones in power forcing their moral beliefs on the rest of the country.
Forcing what moral beliefs? Nobody is forcing anything on you, me, or anybody else. It's a consumer product, for crying out loud. I assure you, the Christian Gestapo is not going to break down your door and install one of these in your living room.
Home schooling causes a very large number of social problems if not done properly.
The hell it does. You have no idea what home schooling "causes".
It is very important for a child to be around many children his or her own age.
No it isn't. It is very important for a child to play with children his own age, yes. To "be around many"? There's no importance whatsoever in that.
Homeschooled children spend most of their time with adults. As a result, they are more mature and intellectually advanced than their peers, and very articulate in their words and their thoughts. You can hold an adult conversation with a homeschooled child. They ask pointed questions and respond with common sense thought processes. That social "problem" you talk of doesn't exist, except in the minds of anti-homeschoolers and homes with terrible parent-teachers. By and large the majority of homeschooled children are much more socially-oriented than others, and are more successful earlier in life because of it.
You assume homeschoolers are locked away in a closet, never to speak to another human. Social skills are learned through interacting with other people, not from interacting with large numbers of people your age. Homeschooled children interact mostly with adults and is where they learn their social skills. Is it any surprise they are therefore capable of holding high level conversations and exhibiting adult level social behaviors at an early age? The need for these kids to play with other children their age has nothing to do with learning social skills, as they receive those from their parents. It simply has to do with them enjoying their childhood. Even though they act as little adults, you still have to let them be kids.
All of this positive homeschool talk assumes the parents are not complete idiots. Your stereotypical welfare mom with little smarts and no ambition would destroy a child. However, the parents themselves don't need book-smarts - that's what the teaching materials they purchase are for. They just need common sense, patience, and the ability to gently encourage a child. Everything else the child learns and does on his own.
I've added you to my foes list, because people like you are a cancer that needs to be eradicated
Don't worry. The coming rapture ensures you'll be rid of us pesky Christians soon enough. Of course, there's the 7 years of hell on Earth you'll get to endure. When the waters turn to blood and demons reign, few will survive. All will be judged accordingly.
I'll pray for your soul, Anonymous Coward. You are filled with deep hatred toward billions of people who have done you no harm. It is my prayer that you change your ways, for I would not wish an eternity in hell upon my worst enemies. When the day comes that you bow before the Lord - and you will - I pray that you do so as His friend.
For that matter, why do people love their children? They are lesser beings until they grow up, learn and mature. An infant can do nothing for itself and understands nothing. Yet we love them dearly.
Why? We created them. They are a part of us.
Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image.
You need to get out of that Middle Age's thinking about God. There's alot of us out here proclaiming the Good News and living our lives believing in God, educating ourselves, and working intelligently.
Damn straight. I've added you to my friends list. There's nothing more satisfying than running across a fellow geek who lives his life for Jesus Christ.
Don't sweat the other replies. They'll understand the truth some day. Unfortunately, it will be too late for most of them.
Romans 14:11: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
The/. writeup led me to believe this was for people with medical problems, but it looks like it was developed mostly for astronauts. Neat stuff. Only one thing, I'm a little disappointed by the size of the box and the need to hook all of those probes up to you. Shouldn't we have some of this crap woven right into space suits by now? I mean, it's 2004, and the best we can do is this big ugly box strapped to your chest?
I want a good AA replacement for the Energizer NiMH batteries I use now for my Wavebird controller. Maybe it's just the way I charge them, but I get 3-4 hours at a time
WTF? I have four Wavebirds. They saw almost daily use for several months. I've had to replace the batteries once. If I had to estimate, I got several dozen hours worth of play out of a set of AAs. I now play only a couple of hours a week and haven't changed the batteries in six months. Still going strong.
That's the point. He doesn't have a problem. He already has all the information he needs in the directory tree. The "problem" is the iPod refusing to use it and making him jump over hoops.
So download a batch tagger, run it once, and you're done. Or buy an iRiver and deal with it's annoyances (problems with too many characters in filenames, etc).
Me, I batch-tagged my files and went on with life.
I've already made it clear that re-tagging thousands of mp3s isn't an option. It would be too tedious
I'm not trying to rile you up, just sharing information that may help you. I retagged over 5,000 songs after I bought my iPod. Took me maybe half an hour, and most of that time was waiting for MP3 Tag Studio to do it's thing. If your filenames and directory structures are setup a certain way, you just tell MP3 Tag Studio what that method is and it will pull the information from the files/directories and import it into the id3 tags of the files. Watch:
My files are all: (Artist)-Title.mp3. Example: (Aurora)-Hear You Calling.mp3.
So in MP3 Tag Studio, I select the base level directory, turn recursion on, and put in: ()-.mp3. Couple of minutes later all of my music was tagged.
I also add the track number to my full albums and put them in their own directory. For example:/Full Albums/Newsboys/Step Up To The Microphone/(Newsboys)-03-Entertaining Angels.mp3. MP3 Tag Studio handles that as well:/()--.mp3
It's not tedious and it won't take days worth of manual typing. There are tools available that will do this for you. If you don't use Windows I'm sure someone wrote something similar for your platform. Or borrow a friend's Windows box for a minute and use MP3 Tag Studio.
I know - you don't feel like you should have to do this. Apple should just let you organize by directory. I agree, this should be an option, but after updating my id3 tags I enjoy it this way. I still sort by directory on my hard drive, but I batch-tag everything before adding it to my library so it's useful both in Winamp's media library and on my iPod.
I also use folders to make a custom nested format which separates songs by language, style, and year. You can't do that with playlists.
No, that's what id3 tags are for.
A final plus for me is that browsing by folder avoids using ID3 tags, many of which aren't present on the the thousands of foreign language mp3s I have. The original ipod firmware lists a lot of songs as Unknown for me - I have to play them to figure out what the songs are - how useful is that?
That's not Apple's fault. Tag your files. The filenames reflect the proper artist & title, do they not? Use MP3 Tag Studio or something similar to create id3 tags from the filenames. It takes all of 5 minutes. Real easy to do and your songs won't be unknown any longer.
Once you've done this you can use the same program to mass tag any other fields you wish and use those to help you sort it out on the iPod. Example, I have a "techno" folder with several thousand songs. When I initially transferred them to the iPod, a large number had "blues" as the genre. So I batch tagged that entire directory, giving every song the correct genre. Now when I want to play my techno directory on the iPod, I just browse -> genre -> techno. Done.
I'm replying rather than modding. Actually that's not so good for you, because I was going to mod you up. I disagree with the flamebait mod.
A month ago I was like you. I wanted an iPod but the song syncing business pissed me off. I just wanted to drop a folder and navigate like you suggest. This was the only issue keeping me away from the iPod; I almost bought the iRiver just because of this. In the end, the style, interface, and huge availability of accessories for the iPod won me over and I bought a 40G.
Here's what I've found: Transferring files via directory isn't as great as it seems. Once you fix your id3 tags up, things are sweet: Selecting songs, playlists, and albums by tags is a hell of a lot more convenient than by directory.
I used a little program called MP3 Tag Studio to clean things up. My singles are named (artist)-title.mp3, and my albums are named (artist)-track#-title.mp3. First I stripped the id3 tags from my files, leaving only genre intact. I then did a batch id3 tag-from-filename, one for the full albums and one for the singles. With artist, title, album name and track number tags properly filled in, the iPod sorts everything perfectly. Want to listen to a specific album? Just go to "albums", find it, and it's just like having the CD in front of you. All ordered and ready to play.
New and old? When I transfer a batch of new songs that I want to listen to I send a playlist with it. It's not a "per-song" playlist, it's a playlist of new songs. No biggie.
Unfiltered and Validated? Same game. Use a playlist.
Fast stuff & slow? Tag them by genre.
If you want to listen to singles without mixing in your albums, tag all of the singles with an album of "singles". Then play the "singles" album on the iPod.
iPod relies heavily on the id3 tags. If your tags aren't organized, the iPod will be worthless to you. Thankfully there are tools like MP3 Tag Studio around that will clean up tags en masse with a few minutes worth of effort.
Would I like an option to play by directory? Yes. If the Linux/iPod firmware ever supports this and also keeps all of the current features, I'll use it. However, at this point it would just be an "extra", so to speak. Owning an iPod for the few weeks I've owned mine, I no longer consider this a requirement.
This is a story that starts with a sysadmin seeing a 419 scam, hearing that there was a black guy with a "suspicious" accent in his cafe, deciding that this must be our criminal, and deciding to read his e-mail to find out... Right?
Right. Every time a black man is arrested for breaking the law, it's not his fault. Some racist white bastard is to blame.
Tylena Martin, a junior, said the poster had been on the door to her homeroom class where she is the only black student. She said she felt hurt by the posters and the backlash that ensued.
Someone should tell little Tylena to grow the fuck up. Being a whiny little P.C. bitch isn't going to get her anywhere in life. The few celebrities that are both are the exception, not the rule.
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(Why am I even responding to an AC?)
Remember, you're upbringing and education were both privileges.
You're a fool. You know nothing about me. My education? LOL. I didn't even graduate high school, dipshit.
Payable before being allowed to leave the town.
That can't possibly be legal. Nobody can be detained indefinitely for minor traffic violations. Any first year law student would have a field day with this one...
There's a similar place in my town. Speed limit is 60 and drops to 35 rapidly, then goes back up. Four lane divided freeway. No reason for the drop - no schools, no uncontrolled intersections, really just no reason for it. And nobody follows it - people blow through there at 60.
Well, I got a ticket there about a year ago for doing 45. Still well under what everyone else was doing. Cops were parked behind a mobile home on a sales lot next to the freeway and didn't even get out of their cars. Just walked into the middle of the freeway and motioned a whole line of cars into the parking lot, then made us wait while they wrote us all tickets.
Now I set the cruise at 35 when I get there. People honk, swear, yell insults, flip me off, etc. I've had people come up on me at full speed and nearly nail me, then swerve around me as fast as they can. What's more safe here - the speed limit or going with the flow of traffic? Not a hard one to figure out, but if the authorities are going to take money away from me, I'll just have to be unsafe.
And I blame you, solely.
;)
You had to go and open your big mouth, so I had to see what all the fuss was about. Bastard.
If someone is getting frustrated by lights hitting red, they're going to speed up between the intersections to beat the red.
We have a "bypass" freeway here that wraps traffic around the town @ 55mph out to the major employment centers in the area. The problem, this freeway that once had a single controlled intersection now has a dozen traffic lights in just a few miles. By the time you hit 55mph, it's time to start hitting the brakes for the next light. The whole idea of a bypass is to route traffic AROUND all of the lights on the main stretches of city road!
At any rate, the lights are timed so if you hit one that is green, and you are moving at the speed limit, they'll all be green. In theory this is how it's supposed to work. In practice, vehicles from side streets disrupt this flow, and the timing isn't right, so the opposite is also true: If you hit one red light, especially during the evening commute, they'll ALL be red for you. This turns what is normally a 5-10 minute drive on that particular stretch of road into a 20-30 minute drive.
The solution? When you hit one red light, travel at 70-80mph to the next one. You'll hit it right in the middle of it's green cycle. You can then slow back down to 55 and the rest of the lights will be green. This tactic rarely fails, and a lot of people around here employ it.
Instead of fixing the problem, the police setup speed traps on a regular basis. It's all about the money.
When you're talking on the playground, the other kids don't care whether you're articulate, mature, or intellectually advanced. In fact, if you try to make a mature, well thought out argument with most of the other kids, they'll think you're some kind of loony.
Not when the other kids are also homeschooled.
Besides, that isn't the point. The parent was claiming that homeschooled kids lack social skills. You back it up by saying, "Yeah, if a kid is mature, other kids will tease him." Other kids teasing the homeschooled child does not mean he lacks social skills. If anything it means those doing the teasing lack them.
My homeschooled daughter, now seven, can walk into a room with anyone - adults, older kids, kids her age, even young toddlers - and immediately make friends. Most of the homeschooled children she hangs out with exhibit similar characteristics. These kids are very socialized. The only thing they lack are the cruel and heartless social "skills" a large number of "normal" children have.
Socializing with parents alone won't cut it.
So it's preferred that children learn social skills from less mature children who are quick to label people as loonies?
The social skills learned on a typical playground are not good for children. The anti-homeschooling crowd acts like they're a necessary part of life. I'm sorry, but I fail to see how learning to treat people who are different like dirt, to tease others, and to learn disgusting and inappropriate jokes about bathrooms could possibly be considered "necessary socialization."
My daughter has never called names, judged or refused to play with someone who was different. She's never once exhibited any behavior that would hurt another person (emotionally or physically). She doesn't tell inappropriate jokes or use any inappropriate language whatsoever. It's not because we sat her down and taught these things: We never have. It's because she isn't exposed on a daily basis to children who act this way. She's exposed primarily to adults and to other children who are also exposed primarily to adults, and these children therefore pick up on our traits and exhibit our behaviors and social skills. This is a good thing.
that is CLEARLY racist
There are just as many poor white people in housing projects as there are poor black people. The title has nothing to do with race.
Mod: This post was not funny.
No, it was retarded.
Be thankful you were born rich enough to get "online" at will
I'm online because I've worked my ass off since I was legally old enough to hold a job. Hence I make money and can afford nice things like computers. Funny, that's how most of us got to where we are today: Hard work, good choices and dedication. Don't presume to think anyone was born with a silver spoons in his mouth.
petty, demeaning, and vindictive point of view like yours?
Right, because praying that someone's heart would have the hatred removed from it is petty, demeaning, and vindictive.
All of the derogatory remarks about people who would rather not see explicit sexuality, or listen to profanity are uncalled for.
I absolutely agree. Thank you for posting that.
+friend.
Because someone else decides what is "objectionable" material and you submit blindly to their decisions.
/. moderation because of it's potential as a propaganda tool.
Gee, that sounds a lot like Slashdot. Or do you browse at -1?
I am made nervous by
If you are 22 that does not classify you as being one of the ones in power forcing their moral beliefs on the rest of the country.
Forcing what moral beliefs? Nobody is forcing anything on you, me, or anybody else. It's a consumer product, for crying out loud. I assure you, the Christian Gestapo is not going to break down your door and install one of these in your living room.
Talk about paranoia.
Home schooling causes a very large number of social problems if not done properly.
The hell it does. You have no idea what home schooling "causes".
It is very important for a child to be around many children his or her own age.
No it isn't. It is very important for a child to play with children his own age, yes. To "be around many"? There's no importance whatsoever in that.
Homeschooled children spend most of their time with adults. As a result, they are more mature and intellectually advanced than their peers, and very articulate in their words and their thoughts. You can hold an adult conversation with a homeschooled child. They ask pointed questions and respond with common sense thought processes. That social "problem" you talk of doesn't exist, except in the minds of anti-homeschoolers and homes with terrible parent-teachers. By and large the majority of homeschooled children are much more socially-oriented than others, and are more successful earlier in life because of it.
You assume homeschoolers are locked away in a closet, never to speak to another human. Social skills are learned through interacting with other people, not from interacting with large numbers of people your age. Homeschooled children interact mostly with adults and is where they learn their social skills. Is it any surprise they are therefore capable of holding high level conversations and exhibiting adult level social behaviors at an early age? The need for these kids to play with other children their age has nothing to do with learning social skills, as they receive those from their parents. It simply has to do with them enjoying their childhood. Even though they act as little adults, you still have to let them be kids.
All of this positive homeschool talk assumes the parents are not complete idiots. Your stereotypical welfare mom with little smarts and no ambition would destroy a child. However, the parents themselves don't need book-smarts - that's what the teaching materials they purchase are for. They just need common sense, patience, and the ability to gently encourage a child. Everything else the child learns and does on his own.
I've added you to my foes list, because people like you are a cancer that needs to be eradicated
Don't worry. The coming rapture ensures you'll be rid of us pesky Christians soon enough. Of course, there's the 7 years of hell on Earth you'll get to endure. When the waters turn to blood and demons reign, few will survive. All will be judged accordingly.
I'll pray for your soul, Anonymous Coward. You are filled with deep hatred toward billions of people who have done you no harm. It is my prayer that you change your ways, for I would not wish an eternity in hell upon my worst enemies. When the day comes that you bow before the Lord - and you will - I pray that you do so as His friend.
For that matter, why do people love their children? They are lesser beings until they grow up, learn and mature. An infant can do nothing for itself and understands nothing. Yet we love them dearly.
Why? We created them. They are a part of us.
Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image.
why would a god love a lesser being?
Why do billions of people love their dogs?
You need to get out of that Middle Age's thinking about God. There's alot of us out here proclaiming the Good News and living our lives believing in God, educating ourselves, and working intelligently.
Damn straight. I've added you to my friends list. There's nothing more satisfying than running across a fellow geek who lives his life for Jesus Christ.
Don't sweat the other replies. They'll understand the truth some day. Unfortunately, it will be too late for most of them.
Romans 14:11: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
The /. writeup led me to believe this was for people with medical problems, but it looks like it was developed mostly for astronauts. Neat stuff. Only one thing, I'm a little disappointed by the size of the box and the need to hook all of those probes up to you. Shouldn't we have some of this crap woven right into space suits by now? I mean, it's 2004, and the best we can do is this big ugly box strapped to your chest?
Yeah, I know. I watch too much sci-fi.
I want a good AA replacement for the Energizer NiMH batteries I use now for my Wavebird controller. Maybe it's just the way I charge them, but I get 3-4 hours at a time
WTF? I have four Wavebirds. They saw almost daily use for several months. I've had to replace the batteries once. If I had to estimate, I got several dozen hours worth of play out of a set of AAs. I now play only a couple of hours a week and haven't changed the batteries in six months. Still going strong.
Something's wrong with your batteries.
That's the point. He doesn't have a problem. He already has all the information he needs in the directory tree. The "problem" is the iPod refusing to use it and making him jump over hoops.
So download a batch tagger, run it once, and you're done. Or buy an iRiver and deal with it's annoyances (problems with too many characters in filenames, etc).
Me, I batch-tagged my files and went on with life.
I've already made it clear that re-tagging thousands of mp3s isn't an option. It would be too tedious
/Full Albums/Newsboys/Step Up To The Microphone/(Newsboys)-03-Entertaining Angels.mp3. MP3 Tag Studio handles that as well: /()--.mp3
I'm not trying to rile you up, just sharing information that may help you. I retagged over 5,000 songs after I bought my iPod. Took me maybe half an hour, and most of that time was waiting for MP3 Tag Studio to do it's thing. If your filenames and directory structures are setup a certain way, you just tell MP3 Tag Studio what that method is and it will pull the information from the files/directories and import it into the id3 tags of the files. Watch:
My files are all: (Artist)-Title.mp3.
Example: (Aurora)-Hear You Calling.mp3.
So in MP3 Tag Studio, I select the base level directory, turn recursion on, and put in: ()-.mp3. Couple of minutes later all of my music was tagged.
I also add the track number to my full albums and put them in their own directory. For example:
It's not tedious and it won't take days worth of manual typing. There are tools available that will do this for you. If you don't use Windows I'm sure someone wrote something similar for your platform. Or borrow a friend's Windows box for a minute and use MP3 Tag Studio.
I know - you don't feel like you should have to do this. Apple should just let you organize by directory. I agree, this should be an option, but after updating my id3 tags I enjoy it this way. I still sort by directory on my hard drive, but I batch-tag everything before adding it to my library so it's useful both in Winamp's media library and on my iPod.
I also use folders to make a custom nested format which separates songs by language, style, and year. You can't do that with playlists.
No, that's what id3 tags are for.
A final plus for me is that browsing by folder avoids using ID3 tags, many of which aren't present on the the thousands of foreign language mp3s I have. The original ipod firmware lists a lot of songs as Unknown for me - I have to play them to figure out what the songs are - how useful is that?
That's not Apple's fault. Tag your files. The filenames reflect the proper artist & title, do they not? Use MP3 Tag Studio or something similar to create id3 tags from the filenames. It takes all of 5 minutes. Real easy to do and your songs won't be unknown any longer.
Once you've done this you can use the same program to mass tag any other fields you wish and use those to help you sort it out on the iPod. Example, I have a "techno" folder with several thousand songs. When I initially transferred them to the iPod, a large number had "blues" as the genre. So I batch tagged that entire directory, giving every song the correct genre. Now when I want to play my techno directory on the iPod, I just browse -> genre -> techno. Done.
I'm replying rather than modding. Actually that's not so good for you, because I was going to mod you up. I disagree with the flamebait mod.
A month ago I was like you. I wanted an iPod but the song syncing business pissed me off. I just wanted to drop a folder and navigate like you suggest. This was the only issue keeping me away from the iPod; I almost bought the iRiver just because of this. In the end, the style, interface, and huge availability of accessories for the iPod won me over and I bought a 40G.
Here's what I've found: Transferring files via directory isn't as great as it seems. Once you fix your id3 tags up, things are sweet: Selecting songs, playlists, and albums by tags is a hell of a lot more convenient than by directory.
I used a little program called MP3 Tag Studio to clean things up. My singles are named (artist)-title.mp3, and my albums are named (artist)-track#-title.mp3. First I stripped the id3 tags from my files, leaving only genre intact. I then did a batch id3 tag-from-filename, one for the full albums and one for the singles. With artist, title, album name and track number tags properly filled in, the iPod sorts everything perfectly. Want to listen to a specific album? Just go to "albums", find it, and it's just like having the CD in front of you. All ordered and ready to play.
New and old? When I transfer a batch of new songs that I want to listen to I send a playlist with it. It's not a "per-song" playlist, it's a playlist of new songs. No biggie.
Unfiltered and Validated? Same game. Use a playlist.
Fast stuff & slow? Tag them by genre.
If you want to listen to singles without mixing in your albums, tag all of the singles with an album of "singles". Then play the "singles" album on the iPod.
iPod relies heavily on the id3 tags. If your tags aren't organized, the iPod will be worthless to you. Thankfully there are tools like MP3 Tag Studio around that will clean up tags en masse with a few minutes worth of effort.
Would I like an option to play by directory? Yes. If the Linux/iPod firmware ever supports this and also keeps all of the current features, I'll use it. However, at this point it would just be an "extra", so to speak. Owning an iPod for the few weeks I've owned mine, I no longer consider this a requirement.
This is a story that starts with a sysadmin seeing a 419 scam, hearing that there was a black guy with a "suspicious" accent in his cafe, deciding that this must be our criminal, and deciding to read his e-mail to find out... Right?
Right. Every time a black man is arrested for breaking the law, it's not his fault. Some racist white bastard is to blame.
LOL!!
Tylena Martin, a junior, said the poster had been on the door to her homeroom class where she is the only black student. She said she felt hurt by the posters and the backlash that ensued.
Someone should tell little Tylena to grow the fuck up. Being a whiny little P.C. bitch isn't going to get her anywhere in life. The few celebrities that are both are the exception, not the rule.