Sir, I don't see how, according to your requirements, the nano was "completely ill suited."
Must have large capacity: You buy a 2 gig nano? Will 4 gigs do? I think they have those.
Must have a display: ??? Last time I looked at mine, the nano has that.
Must be rugged: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3
I never said that capacity was a shortcoming of the iPod,.. I was just listing my requirements. The iPod met many of them - particularly in capacity and display, both of which were very nice. Despite your link, after one week of actually using the iPod, I wasn't convinced it was rugged enough. Sure, it may have survived a few drops - but then it would have messed up that pretty mirror-like back panel. Oddly, this probably wouldn't have bothered me if it didn't even have a mirror finish on the back panel. If you read on... my biggest problem with the nano was clearly the user-interface. I found that you could opperate it easily while standing still, or you could operate it while running and looking at it, but you couldn't realiably use it while running AND not looking at it, and that is my primary mode of operation.
Yes, something seems wrong here.
"I prefer to use windows media player...."
Hey, to each his own; but this smells fishy.
I've been using WMP for at least five years since I got over winamp. Why would it seem fishy that I would be more familiar with it than iTunes which has a completely different user interface, look and feel?
Also, your aversion to being seen as "too metrosexual" is interesting. Do you consider 70% (or is it 80% now?) of MP3-player owners frighteningly "stylish"?
No, just the men I saw at the gym with them. More to the point, I am simply not a "Style" kind of person, so it sort of bothered me that so much of the mystic of the iPod is its "sexiness/style". I certainly did have the opinion that "most iPod users" were like the "cattle" mentioned in the article. I have friends who rant and rave about their iPods - when asked what they like so much... they never could give an actual answer. I am not a part of that crowd. Again, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with iPods, just that it wasn't the best choice for me to take on a 15 mile run during which I will be hitting the play/pause button about 200 times.
As long as this will be a civil discourse, I'll chime in as to why, as an independent conservative who always votes republican, will continue to vote republican. First, I don't actually believe the claims of the left that the Patriot act or NSA surveillance has diminished the civil liberties of americans in any substantial way. I believe that the democrat's approach to foreign policy would put us further at risk. While the dems are keen to point out how spend-happy this repub congress is, I know that they would spend even more money on the very government programs they accuse the repubs of bloating - with the exception of the military (recall that their objection to prescription drug plan, NASA, no child left behind, and Katrina and 911 reliefs were that they were UNDER funded. I'm not trolling... And quite honestly I can't stand most of the personalities of our current gvt...Just trying to articulate that there are a lot of people like me who don't think things are so bad and/or believe the dems would just do worse.
It is a shame that the vast majority of the mp3 player market treats the consumers as if we all have precisely the same requirement... I was in the market for one a several months ago and I settled on a 2gb nano. I hated it as it was completely ill suited for my needs. Before I get castigated as a troll, let me explain. I use my mp3 player to listen to music while exercising, listen to language lessons, and listen to podcasts. The latter two drive a requirement to be able to frequently pause and resume, have a large capacity, and have a display (I can think of nothing more painful than to try to find a specific podcast on a shuffle). The exercise requirement dictated that it had to be rugged (I will drop it) or so cheap that I don't care about scratches. What.I founf was that the Ipod interface, while great for playing playlists while strapped to you arm, was very difficult to navigate with one hand while running and sweating on it. There is no tactile feedback to tell you thaqt you have your finger on the right button and presuming you want to do a lot of pausing and playing (language lessons) it can be awkward to hold. The player I ended up exchanging it for (iRiver) fit nicely in my hand and I can easily control playback and song selection without looking at it (and while running).
. Moreover, and this isn't flamebait, I prefer to use windows media player on my pc. I realize that this is not the norm, but I hated the itunes app. It took two updates and three restarts to install, forced me to dl quicktime, and of course was incompatible with my ogg and wma files. My nano had a smaller capacity than my collection, so itunes decided to just randomly select mp3s to synch and then I found it surprisingly non-intuitive to select music to be synched (keep in mind that I was more comfortable with WMP).
Finally, the image thing, looking around my gym I sort-of generated a stereotype for the type of person that used an ipod. It is a very stylish device, but I am not a stylish person... So it just felt too metrosexual for me. By no means is the iRiver perfect, I have lots of complaints... but they mostly fall under categories that are minor to me and it gets the important things right. Forgive typos... Blackberry.
I've personally called the police about 5 times in the last 2-3 years to report vehicles that I suspected were being driven by drunk drivers. By the way, I live in the county with the highest concentration of both DWIs and liquer stores (per capita) in my state. Most recently, I watched a guy spin out and get stuck on a median, I an another guy helped push his car off the median. After seeing the guy up close and having him almost run over me twice (he was reving the engine in a forward gear while we were trying to push his car backward off the median from the front) it became very apparent that he was completely wasted. Fortunately he blew his front two tires and we were able to push it off the road. I still called the police as I (a) had witnessed an accident and (b) strongly suspected that he was drunk enough that he might try to drive home anyway.
About three months ago I was on a state route behind a guy that three times in a row travelled into the intersection at three successive stop lights - one of the times his rear wheels were fully in the intersection and in all three cases he was approaching a stale red light... it wasn't like this was a surprise. Between lights he managed to weave enough to get his wheels completely over the lane markers both to the left and to the right.
I realize that by calling the police I am at a minimum inconveniencing both the police and the other driver. But every time I read a news article about a family killed by a drunk driver, I can't help but think that surely someone must have seen that driver, possibly leaving a bar or driving erraticly prior to the accident. I don't ever want to be responsible for such a tragedy out of respect for someone else's "privacy". If that makes me an a-hole, sign me up - I'd rather be an a-hole than live with the guilt of inaction.
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If you are going to argue against _________, it is best if you do so after you become familiar with it so that you can argue fairly on its merits and deficiencies.
This is clearly a troll aimed at taking away one of our (Slashdot's) most charished traditions!
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Assuming that is correct... would it really be "wrong" for the buyer to utilize the contents of the drive to his choosing????
I think you are confusing legality with morality. Legal... of course. Moral... Maybe/maybe-not
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Admit it... You watched LOTR last night didn't you!
Considering they're apparently working with the NSA, it's amazing they were this sloppy.
Hmmm... could this be taken the other way? Their sloppiness/ineptitude being "proof" (or at least consistent with) the belief that they have no connection to the NSA?
Careful there young Surt... it's a very small step from your statement to claiming that the Sun might have something to do with global warming. I recommend you step back slowly.
I was labeled as being mentally ill when I was 18, and have taken between 8-10 different maintenance drugs to help me "manage" my condition. Well, between 6-8 of those drugs are documented for making me worse, which is what I said word for word the last time I saw my doctor. So, he gave me another handful of drugs, that I never took and I threw in the trash. I have altered my diet, and am taking quality (read, not Centrum or anything like that) vitamins, herbs, and supplements, and I'm essentially symptom free, and I have had friends and coworkers comment on how much better I seem.
Quite a rant about the state of pharmaceuticals... have you considered breaking out Occam's razor? Perhaps you're original diagnosis was wrong and you've been fine all this time? That would explain why the meds made you worse and also explain why something as simple as diet modification worked.
Well,.. I'll chime in with my $0.02. I have been exclusively using limited accounts under XP home for about two years and I think the outlook is good. Two years ago, there were indeed software that didn't like to run under limited user mode. These were mostly older titles - specificly games and in particular - childrens'/toddlers' games for some reason. To get around this, I installed them to a specific game directory that my 2-yr old's limited account had modify access to. (Note: you can give directory level access control to users in XP Home. Unfortunately, it is only via the command line CACLS command. Hopefully Vista will have better access control for their cheaper versions than XP Home does by I digress.)
This approach worked for most everything but I am happy to say that over the last couple years, software vendors have really attacked this problem. Virtually all software that I encounter works (and installs) fine - even when launched from an limited user account. That isn't to say that a limited user can install anything he wants, just that the installer correctly prompts the user for the admin password during the install. Older software you had to use "Run As:"...which reminds me... it is very easy to run a program in XP under a different user's credentials (similiar to *nix's "su"). Simply right-click and select "run as".
The other program that I never really got working well under a limited account was Palm's Hotsync manager. I know there is a way to do it but I actually don't sych my palm to that computer so I never bothered.
Software development has matured to the point that here, two years later, there is only one program on my computer that I have to use "run as" to use from a limited user account and that is a punkbuster enabled game (Enemy Territory) and then only when I want to play it with punkbuster activated (why wouldn't you?). Punkbuster requires admin privledges - presumably to check on all the active drivers to detect hacks.
One last bit of caution - in my experience it is nearly impossible to switch someone over to a limited account on a machine they are established on. They will "cheat" and log in to their old admin account to do things the way they used to. The best way to perform the switch is in conjunction with a reinstall.
The reason for this failure was giving too much priority for FX, and failure to give the viewer any frame of reference (maybe you should have shown the two people meeting instead of starting from the middle of their journey ?). This improved somewhat near end, but most of the movie was just too surreal to carry any recognizable meanings.
Now I'm confused,... are you talking about Elephant Dreams or the Star Wars prequels?
That sounds contradictory... I would think that already having a retirement would give retired military confidence to rock the boat, innovate, etc. They already have security. If on the other hand they were a bunch of military guys who were just short of their retirement, I might agree...
Wrong... the ATV (and HTV) are cargo vessels only - akin to Russia's Progress vessels. By cargo we are talking food, water and underwear - and in the case of the HTV a small quantity of external payload. Neither can come remotely close to carrying an ISS module. The Space Shuttle is the only spacecraft currently capable of this.
I am curious why your grouped bullshit artists, political appointees and rednecks with retired military. I can see your issues with the previous... but what is wrong with retired military?
Where Saddam stopped, USA continued, and committing many war crimes as well. Why do you think that USA is so hated by the general population in the Middle-East?
I don't know how old you are but I have a very clear memory of the arab world hating America well before the US invaded Iraq and, wait for it,... even before Bush was elected.
This may surprise you but the majority of the middle-east is poorly educated and there is no semblance of what we would call a free press. Combine that with extremely strong fundamentalist religions beliefs and the people will believe whatever it is their religious and political leaders want them to believe. (story on conspiracy theories in middle east) No amount of US goodwill or aid can change the mind of common men if their religious leaders are telling them that US soldiers are raping muslim women - or flushing Korans down the toliet - or that not a single Jew was in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The governments of countries with rampant socio-economic and corruption problems have and will always blame others for their misfortune to draw attention away from their own missteps.
so in Europe there aren't discovery rules like in the US?
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My only complaint with Guitar Hero is that the song list is devoted half to the 80's, a little from the 70's and still a little less from 2000-present with one song from the 90's (by Helmet). If they're going to keep the same band (who did phenomenal work), they shouldn't do the same stuff. Why do we need more hair band metal when a good portion of the original IS hair band metal?
That's because the game is called Guitar Hero... not Grunge Frontman Hero. Through the 70's and 80's the guitarists were the cult sensations. As far as I can tell, beginning with Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder (yes, I know they both play guitar), the emphasis turned more toward the vocalist.
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Sorry I don't respond to AC's as I assume you have no intention of actually reading my response.
I never said that capacity was a shortcoming of the iPod,.. I was just listing my requirements. The iPod met many of them - particularly in capacity and display, both of which were very nice. Despite your link, after one week of actually using the iPod, I wasn't convinced it was rugged enough. Sure, it may have survived a few drops - but then it would have messed up that pretty mirror-like back panel. Oddly, this probably wouldn't have bothered me if it didn't even have a mirror finish on the back panel. If you read on... my biggest problem with the nano was clearly the user-interface. I found that you could opperate it easily while standing still, or you could operate it while running and looking at it, but you couldn't realiably use it while running AND not looking at it, and that is my primary mode of operation.
Yes, something seems wrong here. "I prefer to use windows media player...." Hey, to each his own; but this smells fishy.
I've been using WMP for at least five years since I got over winamp. Why would it seem fishy that I would be more familiar with it than iTunes which has a completely different user interface, look and feel?
Also, your aversion to being seen as "too metrosexual" is interesting. Do you consider 70% (or is it 80% now?) of MP3-player owners frighteningly "stylish"?
No, just the men I saw at the gym with them. More to the point, I am simply not a "Style" kind of person, so it sort of bothered me that so much of the mystic of the iPod is its "sexiness/style". I certainly did have the opinion that "most iPod users" were like the "cattle" mentioned in the article. I have friends who rant and rave about their iPods - when asked what they like so much... they never could give an actual answer. I am not a part of that crowd. Again, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with iPods, just that it wasn't the best choice for me to take on a 15 mile run during which I will be hitting the play/pause button about 200 times.
As long as this will be a civil discourse, I'll chime in as to why, as an independent conservative who always votes republican, will continue to vote republican. First, I don't actually believe the claims of the left that the Patriot act or NSA surveillance has diminished the civil liberties of americans in any substantial way. I believe that the democrat's approach to foreign policy would put us further at risk. While the dems are keen to point out how spend-happy this repub congress is, I know that they would spend even more money on the very government programs they accuse the repubs of bloating - with the exception of the military (recall that their objection to prescription drug plan, NASA, no child left behind, and Katrina and 911 reliefs were that they were UNDER funded. I'm not trolling... And quite honestly I can't stand most of the personalities of our current gvt...Just trying to articulate that there are a lot of people like me who don't think things are so bad and/or believe the dems would just do worse.
. Moreover, and this isn't flamebait, I prefer to use windows media player on my pc. I realize that this is not the norm, but I hated the itunes app. It took two updates and three restarts to install, forced me to dl quicktime, and of course was incompatible with my ogg and wma files. My nano had a smaller capacity than my collection, so itunes decided to just randomly select mp3s to synch and then I found it surprisingly non-intuitive to select music to be synched (keep in mind that I was more comfortable with WMP).
Finally, the image thing, looking around my gym I sort-of generated a stereotype for the type of person that used an ipod. It is a very stylish device, but I am not a stylish person... So it just felt too metrosexual for me. By no means is the iRiver perfect, I have lots of complaints... but they mostly fall under categories that are minor to me and it gets the important things right. Forgive typos... Blackberry.
About three months ago I was on a state route behind a guy that three times in a row travelled into the intersection at three successive stop lights - one of the times his rear wheels were fully in the intersection and in all three cases he was approaching a stale red light... it wasn't like this was a surprise. Between lights he managed to weave enough to get his wheels completely over the lane markers both to the left and to the right.
I realize that by calling the police I am at a minimum inconveniencing both the police and the other driver. But every time I read a news article about a family killed by a drunk driver, I can't help but think that surely someone must have seen that driver, possibly leaving a bar or driving erraticly prior to the accident. I don't ever want to be responsible for such a tragedy out of respect for someone else's "privacy". If that makes me an a-hole, sign me up - I'd rather be an a-hole than live with the guilt of inaction.
Cool! When did the book come out?! ;)
If you are going to argue against _________, it is best if you do so after you become familiar with it so that you can argue fairly on its merits and deficiencies.
This is clearly a troll aimed at taking away one of our (Slashdot's) most charished traditions!
I think you are confusing legality with morality. Legal ... of course. Moral ... Maybe/maybe-not
Admit it... You watched LOTR last night didn't you!
Hmmm... could this be taken the other way? Their sloppiness/ineptitude being "proof" (or at least consistent with) the belief that they have no connection to the NSA?
Hey... that would make a great sci-fi plot. (well almost)
Careful there young Surt... it's a very small step from your statement to claiming that the Sun might have something to do with global warming. I recommend you step back slowly.
Quite a rant about the state of pharmaceuticals... have you considered breaking out Occam's razor? Perhaps you're original diagnosis was wrong and you've been fine all this time? That would explain why the meds made you worse and also explain why something as simple as diet modification worked.
This approach worked for most everything but I am happy to say that over the last couple years, software vendors have really attacked this problem. Virtually all software that I encounter works (and installs) fine - even when launched from an limited user account. That isn't to say that a limited user can install anything he wants, just that the installer correctly prompts the user for the admin password during the install. Older software you had to use "Run As:".. .which reminds me... it is very easy to run a program in XP under a different user's credentials (similiar to *nix's "su"). Simply right-click and select "run as".
The other program that I never really got working well under a limited account was Palm's Hotsync manager. I know there is a way to do it but I actually don't sych my palm to that computer so I never bothered.
Software development has matured to the point that here, two years later, there is only one program on my computer that I have to use "run as" to use from a limited user account and that is a punkbuster enabled game (Enemy Territory) and then only when I want to play it with punkbuster activated (why wouldn't you?). Punkbuster requires admin privledges - presumably to check on all the active drivers to detect hacks.
One last bit of caution - in my experience it is nearly impossible to switch someone over to a limited account on a machine they are established on. They will "cheat" and log in to their old admin account to do things the way they used to. The best way to perform the switch is in conjunction with a reinstall.
Now I'm confused,... are you talking about Elephant Dreams or the Star Wars prequels?
That sounds contradictory... I would think that already having a retirement would give retired military confidence to rock the boat, innovate, etc. They already have security. If on the other hand they were a bunch of military guys who were just short of their retirement, I might agree...
Wookies have ears? Is this one of those special edition things?
Wrong... the ATV (and HTV) are cargo vessels only - akin to Russia's Progress vessels. By cargo we are talking food, water and underwear - and in the case of the HTV a small quantity of external payload. Neither can come remotely close to carrying an ISS module. The Space Shuttle is the only spacecraft currently capable of this.
I am curious why your grouped bullshit artists, political appointees and rednecks with retired military. I can see your issues with the previous... but what is wrong with retired military?
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I'd like to point out that the correct and least ambigous choice here would be a semicolon...probably the most incorrectly used punctuation mark.
I don't know how old you are but I have a very clear memory of the arab world hating America well before the US invaded Iraq and, wait for it,... even before Bush was elected.
This may surprise you but the majority of the middle-east is poorly educated and there is no semblance of what we would call a free press. Combine that with extremely strong fundamentalist religions beliefs and the people will believe whatever it is their religious and political leaders want them to believe. (story on conspiracy theories in middle east) No amount of US goodwill or aid can change the mind of common men if their religious leaders are telling them that US soldiers are raping muslim women - or flushing Korans down the toliet - or that not a single Jew was in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The governments of countries with rampant socio-economic and corruption problems have and will always blame others for their misfortune to draw attention away from their own missteps.
Actually... if you ask me it is probably a typo and was supposed to be a semicolon. (Same meaning as your ii)
so in Europe there aren't discovery rules like in the US?
That's because the game is called Guitar Hero... not Grunge Frontman Hero. Through the 70's and 80's the guitarists were the cult sensations. As far as I can tell, beginning with Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder (yes, I know they both play guitar), the emphasis turned more toward the vocalist.