I think you missed the main point: "The FBI could not say Friday whether people are notified that their conversations were mistakenly intercepted or whether wrongly tapped telephone numbers were deleted from bureau records."
Bullshit. I doubt the mention of a small product fault is going to cause their shares to nosedive. What fucken fantasy land are you living in? If the drop was related to anything, it would more likely be iTunes "price fixing" issue.
Is a small, soft pouch really going to add that much bulk? Nobody said you have to buy a titanium case simply to protect it from scratches. Just find a small poutch that is designed not to scratch things, like one for sunglasses, or even an old G3 iPod bag. Apple should really have kept including them for all iPods. but if you already paid $200, is spending another $5 really that much of an ordeal?
Hey, you're right! I feel much better, now. I just wish the lameness filter would let me post in all-caps... I could really let loose then.
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I think that you would find only a small percentage of power users want video and music. Watching a video on an such a small screen is more of a novelty. And unless they increase the storage space, music is out of the question for most power users, too.
As for buying a PDA with Linux or Windows on it. I think you will be in a minority. PDAs and phones have a much different goal and require different interfaces to a desktop-like OS. Small laptops have been around for ages, but have never really made a dent against PDAs, and it's not becaue of their size.
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PalmOS was too simple? BS. I doubt anyone wants a more complex calander etc. And if they need it, there are 100's of 3rd party replacements for all the apps that come standard with PalmOS. I've use Windows Mobile, and their basic apps are pretty much the same deal. I think you are forgetting just how popular PalmOS once was.
I agree with many parts of the article, they seem much more likely than "too simple". The "too simple" idea is eventually what MS realised was nessesary for Windows Mobile.
Uh, no. The article was not trying to say that Apple has no original ideas. It was a humorous article on design, ideas, and innovation. And BTW, I own 2 iPods and an iBook. My next computer will be a PowerMac. Unlike you, however, I have good analytical skills and I'm level minded, so I can see the aricle for what it is. Goodnight.
Because they were both personal audio devices that became incredibly popular and chnaged the way we listen to music? Who said they were trying to bring down Apple a few notches?
Some have an odd obsession to take everything as an insult to Apple and a personal insult to themnselves.
Because Blockbuster, and not even the Mom & Pop stores carry the titles that I want? Hell, some things aren't even avalible on DVD. I'd download the 2nd season of Twin Peaks if I had the bandwidth for it. It was only released in the UK and importing it costs too much.
Same effect. I'm not sure what grit that eraser thing would be, but it would work the same way as sandpaper. It might be too hard for use on plastics since it's probably designed only for glass.
Either way, I doubt any other them would be very good for the issue at hand (only deep scratching). As logic would apply, the scratches probably go there by rubbing up against clothing material. Most clothing materials are less abrasive than sandpapers or polishing cloths, so using a liquid polish of some sort is probably the best solution. Most liquid polishes also act like sand paper, but at a much finer grit.
Why would something thrown from a car have more sratches on it than something constantly being rubbed by sitting inside a pocket? Sure, the scratches would be bigger, but I don't see why there would be more.
Would an iPod hit by a pick-axe have more scratches than an iPod gently rubbed with fine-grit sandpaper?
I wonder if the other iPods are coated lexan, or a different grade of lexan etc. If they thought they were using the exact same material, then I can see how they overlooked it.
I though he said it was made from a high-grade polymer.
Perhaps you misread "Nah, you don't really think that? It's made of the hardest polycarbonate..." as "Nah, you don't really think that it's made of the hardest polycarbonate..."
It has kept all the semantics, but removed some of the redundant code. What you have done is removed the whole point of using HTML and CSS together; to seperate content from style. You have removed the style, but also some of the content along with it.
I think someone did a test of hearing and environmental noise. They found that people in professions such as pilots and sound engineering, or others with a noisy (but not deafening) environment have very good hearing. I guess it's similar to what you expereienced; the brain learns to filter out noise. I guess if you can do that, then you don't need to turn your music up as loud, and therefore save your ears.
The other side to this is people like me. I used to work at a place with high security and about 400 people. I was a web developer, and their restrictions make my life hell; I couldn't use half the tools I needed, and you can forget basic things such as browser testing... I had to fight just to get a copy of Netscape installed. The only reason they did is because they keep a specially modified copy of NN.
Some of us users know what we're doing, and need felxability. Blanket wide policies, as many places have, can be a real problem sometimes.
Intelligent ideas on Slashdot? Well I suppose it does occur on occasions.
Funny thing is, if you brought this up in your average political discussion, you'd probably be told that it costs too much time and money to look at a person's background to get the full context of the situation/crime. But then they'd go back to complaining about how much money those bloody lawyers make, how much time and money the court wastes, and completely miss the connection; that doing it properly probably wouldn't cost that much more.
I could never get my head around how that was supposed to work. I think we ran Novell along with Lotus Notes on WinXP. I could never quite remember the crypic seqence in how to change a password successfully in one go. I usually had to log out, then back in again, and try entering the both old and new password into different password prompts (usually 3) that complained that it had the wrong password.
The system was supposed to be "one password for all" so you didn't have to do exactly what I just described, but it never went that smoothly when you used it. Why is is that they can't deliver something so simple as a user friendly way to change a password?
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I think you missed the main point: "The FBI could not say Friday whether people are notified that their conversations were mistakenly intercepted or whether wrongly tapped telephone numbers were deleted from bureau records."
Who says they have to use the "Apple" name?
Bullshit. I doubt the mention of a small product fault is going to cause their shares to nosedive. What fucken fantasy land are you living in? If the drop was related to anything, it would more likely be iTunes "price fixing" issue.
Is a small, soft pouch really going to add that much bulk? Nobody said you have to buy a titanium case simply to protect it from scratches. Just find a small poutch that is designed not to scratch things, like one for sunglasses, or even an old G3 iPod bag. Apple should really have kept including them for all iPods. but if you already paid $200, is spending another $5 really that much of an ordeal?
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Hey, you're right! I feel much better, now. I just wish the lameness filter would let me post in all-caps... I could really let loose then.
As for buying a PDA with Linux or Windows on it. I think you will be in a minority. PDAs and phones have a much different goal and require different interfaces to a desktop-like OS. Small laptops have been around for ages, but have never really made a dent against PDAs, and it's not becaue of their size.
I agree with many parts of the article, they seem much more likely than "too simple". The "too simple" idea is eventually what MS realised was nessesary for Windows Mobile.
Uh, no. The article was not trying to say that Apple has no original ideas. It was a humorous article on design, ideas, and innovation. And BTW, I own 2 iPods and an iBook. My next computer will be a PowerMac. Unlike you, however, I have good analytical skills and I'm level minded, so I can see the aricle for what it is. Goodnight.
Some have an odd obsession to take everything as an insult to Apple and a personal insult to themnselves.
Because Blockbuster, and not even the Mom & Pop stores carry the titles that I want? Hell, some things aren't even avalible on DVD. I'd download the 2nd season of Twin Peaks if I had the bandwidth for it. It was only released in the UK and importing it costs too much.
How long before someone guts an old TR-1 and fills it with the internals of an iPod?
Either way, I doubt any other them would be very good for the issue at hand (only deep scratching). As logic would apply, the scratches probably go there by rubbing up against clothing material. Most clothing materials are less abrasive than sandpapers or polishing cloths, so using a liquid polish of some sort is probably the best solution. Most liquid polishes also act like sand paper, but at a much finer grit.
Would an iPod hit by a pick-axe have more scratches than an iPod gently rubbed with fine-grit sandpaper?
More over-rated, half-assed thinking at Slashdot.
I wonder if the other iPods are coated lexan, or a different grade of lexan etc. If they thought they were using the exact same material, then I can see how they overlooked it.
Perhaps you misread "Nah, you don't really think that? It's made of the hardest polycarbonate..." as "Nah, you don't really think that it's made of the hardest polycarbonate..."
When did these two companies merge?
I think someone did a test of hearing and environmental noise. They found that people in professions such as pilots and sound engineering, or others with a noisy (but not deafening) environment have very good hearing. I guess it's similar to what you expereienced; the brain learns to filter out noise. I guess if you can do that, then you don't need to turn your music up as loud, and therefore save your ears.
Some of us users know what we're doing, and need felxability. Blanket wide policies, as many places have, can be a real problem sometimes.
Funny thing is, if you brought this up in your average political discussion, you'd probably be told that it costs too much time and money to look at a person's background to get the full context of the situation/crime. But then they'd go back to complaining about how much money those bloody lawyers make, how much time and money the court wastes, and completely miss the connection; that doing it properly probably wouldn't cost that much more.
Ours keep a database of our old scans, and complained if your new eyeballs were similar to anything that you had used in the past.
I currently have pink irises with a lime green and dark blue plaid pattern.
The system was supposed to be "one password for all" so you didn't have to do exactly what I just described, but it never went that smoothly when you used it. Why is is that they can't deliver something so simple as a user friendly way to change a password?
With a link to Ars Technica, which had a much better explaination of the situation, but it was rejected.
dont you noes that in this slashdot bad grammer 9and speling to) are way things is round here are done huh?