You may have to configure a couple things, you just don't need to learn vi to do it:)
That said, if the pervious hint doesn't do what you want, you might also want to check out something like USB Overdrive, or even just your mouse manufacturers software.
Here the "militia" is mentioned again. If the "militia" is just a bunch of guys with guns (individuals) why would the Fifth Amendment group them with "land and naval forces"? Seems to me it's closer to a military group set up by the states, such as the National Guard.
Because the millitia was to be able to be called upon by congress and the states to take up arms and defend the country, hence the rest of that phrase being "when in actual service in time of War or public danger". Note that originally, there was to be no standing army.
Nice troll. Voice Recorder and FM tuner don't matter? Get real. They don't matter to you because Apple doesn't suppy them. If the new ipods have them built in, you'll be raving about how great they are.
Not really. The last time I used FM radio was sometime arround 5 years ago. There's nothing good on. And even if there was, why would I bother with a $100 player when I can get an FM radio for $2 and a box of cereal?
As for voice recording, every electronic device I own can do that, and yet, there's no need for it.
The people who actually want and need voice recording aren't spending their money on a san disk or iPod MP3 player, they're spending it on a real recording device.
Apple's international pricing has been well-documented. Feel free to google it, or search Slashdot's archives. They bump their prices far past what the exchange rates would dictate. Related News: Apple screws international itunes customers on every song they buy.
Let's see, using today's current exchange rate, the 12 inch powerbook before VAT would be 832.27£. Apple store UK says 892£ before VAT and 1049£ after. It's obvious to me, that you know nothing of how exchange rates change over time compared to a static price.
For comparison, Dell offers a dimension 3000 for $438 here in the US. And 329£ in the UK store after VAT Now before VAT, using today's exchange rates the computer should be 243.19£ and after VAT should be: 284.31£.
So the dell should cost 284.31 after VAT, and the Apple should cost 973.76. So looking at the prices, Dell takes their UK customers for an additional 15%, and Apple takes them for an additional 7%.
Remind me again who's screwing the international customers? Just because people don't already bitch about dell doesn't mean dell doesn't screw people.
Oh horrors, $10 more? You're the one who was complaining about price in your first post. But when it comes to Apple being more expensive, you seem to think it's okey-dokey. Do you really not understand that you're dealing from a position of bias towards Apple? It's evident to everybody else.... When the other guy's cheaper, price doesn't matter: When Apple's cheaper, the other guy's not even a consideration for you. YOU ARE BIASED. Wake up, man.
Hardly. A difference in $10 doesn't matter in most purchases and especially those over $100. However, the 1 gig San Disk costs $180 vs $150 for the 1 gig shuffle. That is a huge difference in prices for such a device. We're talking a 20% difference in price here, compared to a 6% difference if it were $10 more. I wouldn't have cared if the san disk was $10 more but it wasn't.
You can't honestly think that a forward and back button is actually an efficient way to find a specific song you're looking for? Gimme a break, lying zealot. Of course, I know you'd never admit the other guy's better at anything than your precious Apple.
It worked for years for tape players and CD players, I fail to see how this is any worse.
BM was already getting screwed by Apple on the G5's, selling them at breakeven just to make their name as a chipmaker. It didn't make sense for them to accept Jobs' FURTHER DEMANDED PRICE CUTS when Apple failed in getting sales up to a level which would make further development profitable. If Apple's only going to sell a few dozen units a year, they've got to pay more per unit for development than if they sold 100 million. You don't seem to understand basic economics the way you understand Mac Zealotry and salesmanship.
See heres the thing. IBM knew what Apple's sales were like going into the deal. Apple's sales have gone up in recent years, and yet IBM still finds themselves in an unprofitable situation, and so they decide to just stop playing in the deal. Now, IBM promised 3 ghz and low power low heat chips, they didn't deliver, and because of their miscalculations they want more money from Apple. Sorry, economics do
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How did I make it less free for someone else? Can they no longer access the same GPL code that I did?
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With the exception that the GPL takes away my freedom to use code which is availible to me in a way which the original author does not approve. The GPL in this way is fundamentaly no different from any other EULA. It takes away your freedom to do anything and everything with what you have been given and in it's place leaves you with the freedom to do author approved things to the code.
The most fee of all code is the code which has no license at all.
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You have no such freedom as the source is not in your posession. It is in my posession, and until such time as it is in your posession, you do not have that freedom.
which believe it or not, doesn't really matter when you're running.
And due to Apple's AWESOME SCREWING of their international customers, the Shuffle is only cheaper in the States! EXCELLENT! It's 10 bucks more than the SanDisk everywhere else! Way to go, Crapple!
Oh horrors, $10 more. How will we ever survive the evil Apple International Screw(TM)? So is SanDisk screwing american customers then?
"Hey, the iPod Shuffle doesn't have a screen, so let's just say 'Life Is Random' until it catches on! Not having any control is the new cool! Look at me, I'm an idiot who just bought an iPod Shuffle without looking at the options, because this one's from Apple and the other one's not! I'm Brand Loyal! I'm a mindless sheep! I'm finally COOL, ma!"
Yeah, no control, I mean, aside from those forward and back buttons. Oh and the play/pause button. And the volume control. Nope no control at all. Oh and did I forget to mention the shuffle/repeat/single play selector? Nope not a whit of control at all.
If you didn't read the New York Times article, the reason Apple switched (according to "those liars at IBM") is that Jobs demanded a cut in price that IBM was unwilling to shoulder. That's it. It has NOTHING to do with performance.
And yet here we are 2 years later and no 3Ghz G5s and nothing that can run cool enough to fit in a powerbook.
If you actually paid attention to the articles you would have noticed this:
I.B.M. executives said that without additional Apple investment they were unwilling to pursue the faster and lower-power chips he badly needs for his laptop business.
"Technical issues were secondary to the business issues," said an executive close to the I.B.M. side of the negotiations. Because the business was not profitable, I.B.M. "decided not to continue to go ahead with the product road map."
where it's obvious the concern is not price cuts but rather that Apple was unwilling to pay more for what they had been promised.
The G5's still kick ass and will continue to kick ass. Don't lie and say that all of a sudden the Pentiums are going to be better than IBM's chips.
Did I say they didn't kick ass, or that they wouldn't continue to in the future? No, but this must be some of that "BS and revisionist history" you seem to be an expert in.
Jobs simply wanted to cut his costs, while not cutting the price of his units ONE RED CENT. He wanted to take you idiots for more than he already is (Apple's markups are the HIGHEST in the computer industry -- at least they're Number One at something).
Hmm... less costs = more profit = good for share holders = more money for apple = more / better products = good for consumers. Being both a consumer of Apple products and a share holder, I guess that puts me in a win win situation.
Wait and see if the Intel Macs are as inexpensive as the similarly constructed Dells out there.
Having made my living servicing said Dells I should hope that:
1) The new macs are never constructed as such, lest missing or improperly installed heatsinks become the norm.
and
2) Apple never uses the parts that would make such a system so cheap.
Don't you even know that the guy's taking you? Are you actually that stupid? How can you not know that you're getting ripped off? Whatever. It's fine with me, if you people are stupid enough to overpay on everything, that's your bad judgment, not mine.
The key to being ripped off is not getting full utility for your dollar. This of course would imply that I would be in some way or another dissatisfied with the product I recieved for the price point and which I purchased it. Having spent 6 years building and maintaining and up
The pentium is still a POS. The difference is, people have a level of trust for steve jobs. He's made some damn batshit insane decisions over the years that have pissed off a lot of people, yet almost every decision has been a "Good Thing (TM)" for apple, therefore, people are holding off judgement until we see what happens. If steve jobs says that what's comming down Intel's pipeline is going to be better than what comes down IBMs pipeline, there's a fairly good chance that it's true. That doesn't mean the pentium doesn't suck still, it just means future ones don't.
Oh, and maybe the reason you don't hear about the Sandisk player is because it's heavier, bigger and costs more than the shuffle, and so no one gives a fuck.
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You're right. The laws exist to prevent you from infringing on someone elses freedoms. So remind me again what freedoms distributing a program without distributing the source infringes on?
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Aside from everything else that's wrong with your post, could you please explain how the GPL rewards the original author when you take their work?
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what's the point in free software if you can turn it into a non-free product?
To have the freedom to do whatever you want with the code? Isn't that the ultimate freedom?
For most people it has I think. The only time I use bookmarks now are for pages I access regularly and it's only because they're in the quick link bar. Otherwise, if I want to visit a page I went o a few days ago, but don't remember the website, I plug it into google. Why bookmark when google's seach bar is right in my browser?
How would you do it if you didn't remember where you put it to begin with? You search, and if you can't find it in that search? All this is saying is searchis fast enough to can take out the first step.
And so what if you forget meta data. You know what it isn't, so you make a search that way. You know it's a text file so you want all text files. You know it wasn't HTML so you want not HTML. Every search you do that doesn't give you file you want is a search you can NOT.
I dunno. Every text file on my computer, totaling about 28,000 files took spotlight about 3 seconds to find. 5 seconds if it has to spin up my CD ROM. 2 seconds for every file ending with.txt (322 of them) Thats out of well over 200,000 files, and that list is dynamic and self updating and I can access any file in the list with a double click. Is the stored list really that much faster to access a file?
You can do it, you just have to do it with a Raw Querry (or at least I should say you can do OR searches, I"m not sure on the nesting part)
Now the easy way to make a folder with all the criteria you want, ignoring the fact that it does ANDs and save it. Then actualy drag the folder on to text edit or some other editor.
It will open an XML document and somewhere in there will be a raw querry string. Change that to whatever you really wanted and then copy it. Create one more smart folder, choose other for the critera and then Raw Querry and paste.
You can also add meta data fields via the command line but I'm not 100% sure on how to go about that.
Good asthetic design? Prevention of pieces going everywhere if you drop it? Saving space? So that they don't have users opening up an iPod and zapping the HDD because they aren't grounded and then bitching to Apple?
They've been stating the "obvious" for years. They said it way back when apple moved from 68k to ppc. They said it when apple had trouble getting the G3 past 500 Mhz. So far they've been wrong wrong and wrong. What makes anyone think they're right this time?
But rolling it out still doesn't solve the sales loss problem. Who's going to drop $6000+ on a full video editing workstation that's going to be unsupported in 2 years?
As for the move to power, when Apple moved to power, the PPC chips could very easily and reasonably emulate the older processor.
x86 can't. PearPC has come a long way, but it's still not even up to VPC on PPC standards, and I think VPC is painful.
If anything, I bet Apple brings Intel aboard to produce PPC chips. IBM does R&D and some production, and Intel acts as the main supplier.
But how will they do it? The moment they announce the switch, all hardware sales stop. That's it. Half or more of Apple's income immediately stops because no one wants to buy depreciated hardware.
Toys with non replaceable batteries? Have you been to a toys r us recently? All sorts of kids toys come with no replaceable batteries.
Furthermore, nothing in Apple's documentation (and I have it here) implies anything about >3 years of use out of your iPod. It explicitly says the battery is good for about 500 charges.
As far as warranty of mechantabillity, I don't think it means what you think it means. Here's the legal definition:
Now to me that says that someone sells you a product, and it will do what they told you it will do. No one is complaining their iPod doesn't do what it was designed to do. What people are complaining about is that their product, after the time period for which the manufacturer provides a waranty began to lose it's ability to hold a charge. They were then disapointed to find that that only Apple approved way to remedy this was to buy a new version of the product. Of course, what people seem to be forgetting is that there were and are third party batteries to be bought and use installed if they choose, and it doesn't matter if apple doesn't approve as you're no longer under waranty to begin with.
Besides, from the documentation, the battereis are rated for about 500 charges. From the complaints, it seems the people pissed off were annoyed because it happened about 18 months after they bought it.
18 months > 500 charges assuming 1 charge per day.
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Now the real question is, how often do access points get moved or shutdown?
You may have to configure a couple things, you just don't need to learn vi to do it :)
That said, if the pervious hint doesn't do what you want, you might also want to check out something like USB Overdrive, or even just your mouse manufacturers software.
Here the "militia" is mentioned again. If the "militia" is just a bunch of guys with guns (individuals) why would the Fifth Amendment group them with "land and naval forces"? Seems to me it's closer to a military group set up by the states, such as the National Guard.
Because the millitia was to be able to be called upon by congress and the states to take up arms and defend the country, hence the rest of that phrase being "when in actual service in time of War or public danger". Note that originally, there was to be no standing army.
Nice troll. Voice Recorder and FM tuner don't matter? Get real. They don't matter to you because Apple doesn't suppy them. If the new ipods have them built in, you'll be raving about how great they are.
Not really. The last time I used FM radio was sometime arround 5 years ago. There's nothing good on. And even if there was, why would I bother with a $100 player when I can get an FM radio for $2 and a box of cereal?
As for voice recording, every electronic device I own can do that, and yet, there's no need for it.
The people who actually want and need voice recording aren't spending their money on a san disk or iPod MP3 player, they're spending it on a real recording device.
Apple's international pricing has been well-documented. Feel free to google it, or search Slashdot's archives. They bump their prices far past what the exchange rates would dictate. Related News: Apple screws international itunes customers on every song they buy.
Let's see, using today's current exchange rate, the 12 inch powerbook before VAT would be 832.27£. Apple store UK says 892£ before VAT and 1049£ after. It's obvious to me, that you know nothing of how exchange rates change over time compared to a static price.
For comparison, Dell offers a dimension 3000 for $438 here in the US. And 329£ in the UK store after VAT Now before VAT, using today's exchange rates the computer should be 243.19£ and after VAT should be: 284.31£.
So the dell should cost 284.31 after VAT, and the Apple should cost 973.76. So looking at the prices, Dell takes their UK customers for an additional 15%, and Apple takes them for an additional 7%.
Remind me again who's screwing the international customers? Just because people don't already bitch about dell doesn't mean dell doesn't screw people.
Oh horrors, $10 more? You're the one who was complaining about price in your first post. But when it comes to Apple being more expensive, you seem to think it's okey-dokey. Do you really not understand that you're dealing from a position of bias towards Apple? It's evident to everybody else.... When the other guy's cheaper, price doesn't matter: When Apple's cheaper, the other guy's not even a consideration for you. YOU ARE BIASED. Wake up, man.
Hardly. A difference in $10 doesn't matter in most purchases and especially those over $100. However, the 1 gig San Disk costs $180 vs $150 for the 1 gig shuffle. That is a huge difference in prices for such a device. We're talking a 20% difference in price here, compared to a 6% difference if it were $10 more. I wouldn't have cared if the san disk was $10 more but it wasn't.
You can't honestly think that a forward and back button is actually an efficient way to find a specific song you're looking for? Gimme a break, lying zealot. Of course, I know you'd never admit the other guy's better at anything than your precious Apple.
It worked for years for tape players and CD players, I fail to see how this is any worse.
BM was already getting screwed by Apple on the G5's, selling them at breakeven just to make their name as a chipmaker. It didn't make sense for them to accept Jobs' FURTHER DEMANDED PRICE CUTS when Apple failed in getting sales up to a level which would make further development profitable. If Apple's only going to sell a few dozen units a year, they've got to pay more per unit for development than if they sold 100 million. You don't seem to understand basic economics the way you understand Mac Zealotry and salesmanship.
See heres the thing. IBM knew what Apple's sales were like going into the deal. Apple's sales have gone up in recent years, and yet IBM still finds themselves in an unprofitable situation, and so they decide to just stop playing in the deal. Now, IBM promised 3 ghz and low power low heat chips, they didn't deliver, and because of their miscalculations they want more money from Apple. Sorry, economics do
How did I make it less free for someone else? Can they no longer access the same GPL code that I did?
With the exception that the GPL takes away my freedom to use code which is availible to me in a way which the original author does not approve. The GPL in this way is fundamentaly no different from any other EULA. It takes away your freedom to do anything and everything with what you have been given and in it's place leaves you with the freedom to do author approved things to the code.
The most fee of all code is the code which has no license at all.
You have no such freedom as the source is not in your posession. It is in my posession, and until such time as it is in your posession, you do not have that freedom.
And the SanDisk has a built in voice recorder
Which matters to all of 100 people.
an FM radio tuner
Which matters to even less.
and a SCREEN.
which believe it or not, doesn't really matter when you're running.
And due to Apple's AWESOME SCREWING of their international customers, the Shuffle is only cheaper in the States! EXCELLENT! It's 10 bucks more than the SanDisk everywhere else! Way to go, Crapple!
Oh horrors, $10 more. How will we ever survive the evil Apple International Screw(TM)? So is SanDisk screwing american customers then?
"Hey, the iPod Shuffle doesn't have a screen, so let's just say 'Life Is Random' until it catches on! Not having any control is the new cool! Look at me, I'm an idiot who just bought an iPod Shuffle without looking at the options, because this one's from Apple and the other one's not! I'm Brand Loyal! I'm a mindless sheep! I'm finally COOL, ma!"
Yeah, no control, I mean, aside from those forward and back buttons. Oh and the play/pause button. And the volume control. Nope no control at all. Oh and did I forget to mention the shuffle/repeat/single play selector? Nope not a whit of control at all.
If you didn't read the New York Times article, the reason Apple switched (according to "those liars at IBM") is that Jobs demanded a cut in price that IBM was unwilling to shoulder. That's it. It has NOTHING to do with performance.
And yet here we are 2 years later and no 3Ghz G5s and nothing that can run cool enough to fit in a powerbook.
If you actually paid attention to the articles you would have noticed this:
I.B.M. executives said that without additional Apple investment they were unwilling to pursue the faster and lower-power chips he badly needs for his laptop business.
"Technical issues were secondary to the business issues," said an executive close to the I.B.M. side of the negotiations. Because the business was not profitable, I.B.M. "decided not to continue to go ahead with the product road map."
where it's obvious the concern is not price cuts but rather that Apple was unwilling to pay more for what they had been promised.
The G5's still kick ass and will continue to kick ass. Don't lie and say that all of a sudden the Pentiums are going to be better than IBM's chips.
Did I say they didn't kick ass, or that they wouldn't continue to in the future? No, but this must be some of that "BS and revisionist history" you seem to be an expert in.
Jobs simply wanted to cut his costs, while not cutting the price of his units ONE RED CENT. He wanted to take you idiots for more than he already is (Apple's markups are the HIGHEST in the computer industry -- at least they're Number One at something).
Hmm... less costs = more profit = good for share holders = more money for apple = more / better products = good for consumers. Being both a consumer of Apple products and a share holder, I guess that puts me in a win win situation.
Wait and see if the Intel Macs are as inexpensive as the similarly constructed Dells out there.
Having made my living servicing said Dells I should hope that:
1) The new macs are never constructed as such, lest missing or improperly installed heatsinks become the norm.
and
2) Apple never uses the parts that would make such a system so cheap.
Don't you even know that the guy's taking you? Are you actually that stupid? How can you not know that you're getting ripped off? Whatever. It's fine with me, if you people are stupid enough to overpay on everything, that's your bad judgment, not mine.
The key to being ripped off is not getting full utility for your dollar. This of course would imply that I would be in some way or another dissatisfied with the product I recieved for the price point and which I purchased it. Having spent 6 years building and maintaining and up
The pentium is still a POS. The difference is, people have a level of trust for steve jobs. He's made some damn batshit insane decisions over the years that have pissed off a lot of people, yet almost every decision has been a "Good Thing (TM)" for apple, therefore, people are holding off judgement until we see what happens. If steve jobs says that what's comming down Intel's pipeline is going to be better than what comes down IBMs pipeline, there's a fairly good chance that it's true. That doesn't mean the pentium doesn't suck still, it just means future ones don't.
Oh, and maybe the reason you don't hear about the Sandisk player is because it's heavier, bigger and costs more than the shuffle, and so no one gives a fuck.
You're right. The laws exist to prevent you from infringing on someone elses freedoms. So remind me again what freedoms distributing a program without distributing the source infringes on?
Aside from everything else that's wrong with your post, could you please explain how the GPL rewards the original author when you take their work?
what's the point in free software if you can turn it into a non-free product?
To have the freedom to do whatever you want with the code? Isn't that the ultimate freedom?
So now I want every brief from 1995-2000 in a folder, but don't you dare move them from their case folders.
Are you going to make individual links for each one of those?
Wouldn't it be so much better to have a smar folder that says:
Type: Brief, Dates: 1/1995 - 12/2000
and fills it all in for you?
For most people it has I think. The only time I use bookmarks now are for pages I access regularly and it's only because they're in the quick link bar. Otherwise, if I want to visit a page I went o a few days ago, but don't remember the website, I plug it into google. Why bookmark when google's seach bar is right in my browser?
How would you do it if you didn't remember where you put it to begin with? You search, and if you can't find it in that search? All this is saying is searchis fast enough to can take out the first step.
And so what if you forget meta data. You know what it isn't, so you make a search that way. You know it's a text file so you want all text files. You know it wasn't HTML so you want not HTML. Every search you do that doesn't give you file you want is a search you can NOT.
I dunno. Every text file on my computer, totaling about 28,000 files took spotlight about 3 seconds to find. 5 seconds if it has to spin up my CD ROM. 2 seconds for every file ending with .txt (322 of them) Thats out of well over 200,000 files, and that list is dynamic and self updating and I can access any file in the list with a double click. Is the stored list really that much faster to access a file?
You can do it, you just have to do it with a Raw Querry (or at least I should say you can do OR searches, I"m not sure on the nesting part)
Now the easy way to make a folder with all the criteria you want, ignoring the fact that it does ANDs and save it. Then actualy drag the folder on to text edit or some other editor.
It will open an XML document and somewhere in there will be a raw querry string. Change that to whatever you really wanted and then copy it. Create one more smart folder, choose other for the critera and then Raw Querry and paste.
You can also add meta data fields via the command line but I'm not 100% sure on how to go about that.
But don't you think Intel might be interested in access to PPC?
Good asthetic design? Prevention of pieces going everywhere if you drop it? Saving space? So that they don't have users opening up an iPod and zapping the HDD because they aren't grounded and then bitching to Apple?
Er... Have you ever walked into an Apple store and asked if they had any refurbs in stock?
You do realize that in replacing the battery they replace your iPod right?
They've been stating the "obvious" for years. They said it way back when apple moved from 68k to ppc. They said it when apple had trouble getting the G3 past 500 Mhz. So far they've been wrong wrong and wrong. What makes anyone think they're right this time?
But rolling it out still doesn't solve the sales loss problem. Who's going to drop $6000+ on a full video editing workstation that's going to be unsupported in 2 years?
As for the move to power, when Apple moved to power, the PPC chips could very easily and reasonably emulate the older processor.
x86 can't. PearPC has come a long way, but it's still not even up to VPC on PPC standards, and I think VPC is painful.
If anything, I bet Apple brings Intel aboard to produce PPC chips. IBM does R&D and some production, and Intel acts as the main supplier.
But how will they do it? The moment they announce the switch, all hardware sales stop. That's it. Half or more of Apple's income immediately stops because no one wants to buy depreciated hardware.
Toys with non replaceable batteries? Have you been to a toys r us recently? All sorts of kids toys come with no replaceable batteries.
Furthermore, nothing in Apple's documentation (and I have it here) implies anything about >3 years of use out of your iPod. It explicitly says the battery is good for about 500 charges.
As far as warranty of mechantabillity, I don't think it means what you think it means. Here's the legal definition:
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/i014.htm
Now to me that says that someone sells you a product, and it will do what they told you it will do. No one is complaining their iPod doesn't do what it was designed to do. What people are complaining about is that their product, after the time period for which the manufacturer provides a waranty began to lose it's ability to hold a charge. They were then disapointed to find that that only Apple approved way to remedy this was to buy a new version of the product. Of course, what people seem to be forgetting is that there were and are third party batteries to be bought and use installed if they choose, and it doesn't matter if apple doesn't approve as you're no longer under waranty to begin with.
Besides, from the documentation, the battereis are rated for about 500 charges. From the complaints, it seems the people pissed off were annoyed because it happened about 18 months after they bought it.
18 months > 500 charges assuming 1 charge per day.
Therefore, it seems they got their use out of it.