if Apple/TiVo would get it together and let me use my music on the gear I already own.
Preach it brother! It's like those jerks at Subaru. My Outback won't take diesel, which is the fuel I prefer. I mean, I bought into their car, but who the hell are they to say how I use it? Sheesh. They need to get it together with the fuel companies and let me use the historically cheapest, and in my opinion (I drank the diesel), best fuel on the gear I already own.
You're right that Apple owes me nothing (actually they do as I've purchased many of their products, but that wasn't your point), but likewise I don't owe them allegience.
No, they don't owe you anything. Get over yourself. You have the free speech to criticize, but getting mad when they (any company) ignore it for real world things like actually technological and market limitations is laughable.
If I don't like their actions or their products, I will criticize them as I see fit.
Ah, then you've obviously submitted your opinions to Apple.
Or just bought a competitor that already does what you want.Or something...anything more productive than getting mad a company for not making what you, node 3, desire.
Your comparison is faulty.
Good job. You spotted the sarcasm.
Unfortunately, it appears that you insist on thinking markets are driven by wishing and whining. Markets are driven by people who spend money, not the ones who say what it would take to make them buy things.
How hard would it have been to put a freakin CF card reader in it? How hard would it have been to enable movie playback in at least ONE format?
I've got a pretty decent camera. It doesn't use CF. How many readers you gonna pack in and keep the form factor desirable?
As for video, if you've got a battery fashioned out of pixie dust and dreams that can power video for a reasonable amount of time (and keep the form factor down), I'm sure Apple would love to hear from you.
Everybody wants, wants, wants. "Won't but one until it has _____!". There are other options or devices out there (including waiting for technology to catch up). Criticizing people or companies who owe you nothing is such a habit of this board, that I don't think a lot of people step back to look at how absurd it is when they get bent out of shape because _____ isn't catering to their specific checklist of desires.
And to your point, if the fact people are doing it means that 'demand' demands it, then Apple must be way behind on adding LEDs and neon ground effects shit to their cases. Or adding wheels to the bottom. Or adding rubber cases to the iPod. Or...
Seeing as how the official campaign website is not accessible by the rest of the world, I posit that we build an interconnected information distribution system. A "web" if you will, where people could use computers to distribute information, political being one form of it, through many, many channels.
It'll be a big hit. I promise.
I'm actually a little concerned reading the comments thus far. If this many people are relying on either of the campaign websites for real information, we're all collectively dumber than I thought.
When I think of photo capabilities, I think of something take can _take_ photos.
Yes, because what the world is waiting for is a device that can store tens of thousands of shitty photos. Leave the image capture to the proper equipment. The portability is what's cool for sharing the pics, not taking them.
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They again, were entertainers...no one really goes and studies the "music" of Sinatra like one would go and study up on Miles Davis..
I think you're drawing a distinction that isn't there. It's not musicality vs. entertainment. It's all entertaining. It's not hard to find it as entertaining to watch someone do something skillful (Jimmy Page) as it is to watch someone who's ideas are the entertainment (Dylan was a lousy singer and a pretty bad musician).
Music as an art form can be appreciated from different aspects (musicianship, ideas, showmanship, etc) but I think you're creating a false high-falutin' category if you claim that entertainment is the red-headed step child to musicianship. It's all entertainment. Bach might not make your booty shake like KRS-One, but as far as entertainment value, it's there for the taking in both.
The only real separator I can see is taste. I'm not saying you have to like everything. I certainly don't. But I think the entertainment is there and it's inherent to all music.
However, most of the rejected stories you listed have nothing to do with technology
Fair enough, and I agree with you, but take a look at the politics.slashdot.org page and tell me that most of the accepted stories do deal with tech.
I just checked and 5 out of 10 deal with technology in politics. Half. The rest is arguably 100% political news. Granted, I go elsewhere for that too, but the fact is that those rejected stories are nowhere off the norm for the Politics page.
OK, aside from setting me up as some moron who hates the voting process...no, no I have never volunteered to help with elections. I have, however, never missed an election since I was 18 (28 now) but, no, I have never volunteered.
And since I started my premise with 'anecdotal', I shall stick to that and say "look around you when you go to vote." Whatever the reasons and whoever needs to get a guilt trip, the fact remains that polling places are, by and large, staffed with senior citizens. Sorry if I missed you out there, Captain America (have you ever staffed a polling place? I'll shut up if you have and are not a senior).
Really. I'd love to see more youth staffing the places, and I'd love to think I'd have the motivation to do so, myself. Maybe your post will chide me to do so. But spare me the guilt trip and take a friggin look around. My point stands as, as it is, our elder citizens are the ones with the time and motivation and whatever it takes to serve the citizenry. I apologize if this or my original post comes off as negative to elders, but I have four grandparents, and I know I would be a little queasy trusting them with a computer that could wipe election results. I've seen them crash a computer with solitaire and call for help.
But Black Box Voting on Wednesday demonstrated two quick ways that "an unscrupulous person with no computer skills whatsoever" could sabotage vote totals, according to Associate Director Andy Stephenson.
Judging by the fact that most people with the time to volunteer for poll work are our 'seasoned citizens' who, let's be honest, aren't, as a group, too computer savvy, I'd be more worried about the scrupulous people with no computer skills whatsoever messing things up.
I know this makes me an ageist asshat, but how in the heck are all these people going to get up to speed on computers enough to ensure a little 'whoops' doesn't toss a whole county or something?
Far, far from it. Unless pure hatred of Bush has descended into satire. I'd doubt even they would agree with that classification. They're all business about getting Dubya defeated.
I just did a search for each, and Kerry's was pretty much down the line (pos/neg), while "George Bush" yielded four hits out of ten in the first list just from dailyKos.com, a, by any standards, rampant Bush-bashing blog. Actually, I briefly scanned the articles and only 2 were neutral/positive for Bush.
Apparently, it falls the other way as well, but the very fact that a blog on either extreme of the spectrum is showing up that much is a little disconcerting.
Punditry of all stripes is great and I read a ton of them from both camps regularly, but I come to Google News for news, not the OpEd page.
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Preach it brother! It's like those jerks at Subaru. My Outback won't take diesel, which is the fuel I prefer. I mean, I bought into their car, but who the hell are they to say how I use it? Sheesh. They need to get it together with the fuel companies and let me use the historically cheapest, and in my opinion (I drank the diesel), best fuel on the gear I already own.
A little salt is just the thing to liven up a bowl of hot grits.
I'm sure there are people who need to look at that info more than we do.
See Martin Niemöller
Five words:
My living room. Natalie. Grits.
And the 'orbital orgy' just replaced Natalie Portman as bedtime fantasy for geeks everywhere...
Hey, most guys who write software aren't very active. Why should geeks be forced onto treadmills to keep their copyrights?
Don't forget
-Losing those nasty-ass disk drives. =)
Yes you did.
No, they don't owe you anything. Get over yourself. You have the free speech to criticize, but getting mad when they (any company) ignore it for real world things like actually technological and market limitations is laughable.
If I don't like their actions or their products, I will criticize them as I see fit.
Ah, then you've obviously submitted your opinions to Apple. Or just bought a competitor that already does what you want.Or something...anything more productive than getting mad a company for not making what you, node 3, desire.
Your comparison is faulty.
Good job. You spotted the sarcasm.
Unfortunately, it appears that you insist on thinking markets are driven by wishing and whining. Markets are driven by people who spend money, not the ones who say what it would take to make them buy things.
I've got a pretty decent camera. It doesn't use CF. How many readers you gonna pack in and keep the form factor desirable?
As for video, if you've got a battery fashioned out of pixie dust and dreams that can power video for a reasonable amount of time (and keep the form factor down), I'm sure Apple would love to hear from you.
Everybody wants, wants, wants. "Won't but one until it has _____!". There are other options or devices out there (including waiting for technology to catch up). Criticizing people or companies who owe you nothing is such a habit of this board, that I don't think a lot of people step back to look at how absurd it is when they get bent out of shape because _____ isn't catering to their specific checklist of desires.
And to your point, if the fact people are doing it means that 'demand' demands it, then Apple must be way behind on adding LEDs and neon ground effects shit to their cases. Or adding wheels to the bottom. Or adding rubber cases to the iPod. Or...
It'll be a big hit. I promise.
I'm actually a little concerned reading the comments thus far. If this many people are relying on either of the campaign websites for real information, we're all collectively dumber than I thought.
Yes, because what the world is waiting for is a device that can store tens of thousands of shitty photos. Leave the image capture to the proper equipment. The portability is what's cool for sharing the pics, not taking them.
I think you're drawing a distinction that isn't there. It's not musicality vs. entertainment. It's all entertaining. It's not hard to find it as entertaining to watch someone do something skillful (Jimmy Page) as it is to watch someone who's ideas are the entertainment (Dylan was a lousy singer and a pretty bad musician).
Music as an art form can be appreciated from different aspects (musicianship, ideas, showmanship, etc) but I think you're creating a false high-falutin' category if you claim that entertainment is the red-headed step child to musicianship. It's all entertainment. Bach might not make your booty shake like KRS-One, but as far as entertainment value, it's there for the taking in both.
The only real separator I can see is taste. I'm not saying you have to like everything. I certainly don't. But I think the entertainment is there and it's inherent to all music.
Perhaps time for a little trip to Pendelton or something?
Fair enough, and I agree with you, but take a look at the politics.slashdot.org page and tell me that most of the accepted stories do deal with tech.
I just checked and 5 out of 10 deal with technology in politics. Half. The rest is arguably 100% political news. Granted, I go elsewhere for that too, but the fact is that those rejected stories are nowhere off the norm for the Politics page.
And since I started my premise with 'anecdotal', I shall stick to that and say "look around you when you go to vote." Whatever the reasons and whoever needs to get a guilt trip, the fact remains that polling places are, by and large, staffed with senior citizens. Sorry if I missed you out there, Captain America (have you ever staffed a polling place? I'll shut up if you have and are not a senior).
Really. I'd love to see more youth staffing the places, and I'd love to think I'd have the motivation to do so, myself. Maybe your post will chide me to do so. But spare me the guilt trip and take a friggin look around. My point stands as, as it is, our elder citizens are the ones with the time and motivation and whatever it takes to serve the citizenry. I apologize if this or my original post comes off as negative to elders, but I have four grandparents, and I know I would be a little queasy trusting them with a computer that could wipe election results. I've seen them crash a computer with solitaire and call for help.
Judging by the fact that most people with the time to volunteer for poll work are our 'seasoned citizens' who, let's be honest, aren't, as a group, too computer savvy, I'd be more worried about the scrupulous people with no computer skills whatsoever messing things up.
I know this makes me an ageist asshat, but how in the heck are all these people going to get up to speed on computers enough to ensure a little 'whoops' doesn't toss a whole county or something?
Far, far from it. Unless pure hatred of Bush has descended into satire. I'd doubt even they would agree with that classification. They're all business about getting Dubya defeated.
Apparently, it falls the other way as well, but the very fact that a blog on either extreme of the spectrum is showing up that much is a little disconcerting.
Punditry of all stripes is great and I read a ton of them from both camps regularly, but I come to Google News for news, not the OpEd page.