I tried using Ubuntu and just ended up hating the default install, and the themes, and the package manager. In the end I switched back to using YellowDogLinux and FreeBSD.
Now I don't see what the big deal about Ubuntu is.
I suppose the install is prettier since you load it up as a LiveCD and then run the installer program, but in the end you end up with less, imho. And the installer just runs more sluggish.
And if the PC manufacturers offer Zune as extra, you can probably bet that they didn't have as much choice in the matter as they'd have you believe.
Even if they just stick a Zune advertisement somewhere or make some MP3 syncing software icon like a Zune or refer to "Zune, or other MP3 players..." or put some link on the desktop to "Get a Zune now!" or "Visit the Zune music store!"... then that'd irritate me, anyway.
I don't like it when the corporations think they can get you to buy something you don't want. They think if they nag you enough you'll finally see things their way.
My point wasn't that integration benefits the user at all. Actually I was trying to say the opposite. It's a way for them to force the Zune down our throats.
I'd say the only thing about the Zune that should scare Apple is that the Zune can be integrated very tightly with the most popular operating system on the planet.
I doubt the user experience will be better than the iPod though... so hopefully the quality of the iPod set up will win out over the coercion behind the Zune.
Of course this doesn't affect those of us who don't use Windows.
I'm sure his 18 to early or mid 20s will be full of just as much life experience and all that... it just won't be entirely in a university setting. He's still doing grad school, and I'm sure he has friends his age.
In fact, with a job, more free time, and actual money, his early 20s might be full of a lot more experiences than most students. If I were him, I'd take time to travel the world.
And he has something nifty to say about himself for the rest of his life.
I had Spanish teachers in school from various places (Spain, Mexico, and Benin come to mind) and I do remember the year I had the Spain teache (or maybe she just studied in Spain), I ended up putting "sh" in a lot of my words... so "hacer" would be more like "hah-shair"... and another teacher had me saying something like "hah-thair" and another had it like i originally thought ("hah-sair").
My mind has a hard time accepting that's true just because it seems so weird, but I see the logic in it.
It reminds me of the difference between Mexican and Castilian Spanish. In Mexican, they spell things with an X which is how Castilian used to be, but now all those X's turned to J's in Castilian. So in Mexico it's "Quixote" and "Ximenez" but in Spain it's "Quijote" and "Jimenez".... And Spain might be the country who is thought to be the authority on the Spanish language and Mexico is butchering the language (just as UK is thought to be the authority on English and Americans butcher the language), but if you consider tradition to be the deciding factor on the true language, then actually Mexico (and America) are preserving the older language conventions and could be said to be more correct. (Although, I think the pronunciation of "X" in Mexican has changed, even if the spelling hasn't.)
Everyone wants to be a language snob. It doesn't matter, I can understand UK/Australian/Indian English just fine, or plenty of other accents.
I'd imagine you hear a lot more of it. UK and Australia have a combined population of (60 + 20 =) 80 million whereas the USA is 300 million. I don't know where Canada's 30 million would fit into things, since they're pronunciation is sometimes in agreement with USA and sometimes with UK. Or other countries that speak (UK) English regularly, like parts of India.
I wonder if the English language is going to become more homogenized as time goes on or if local differences will become more exaggerated. In the USA, the settlement by English-speakers has been rapid and recent so there's only some vague accents people can pick out (Boston, "the South", rural Minnesota, "valley girl" Californian, urban, NYC, and the generic neutral-ish "tv broadcaster" accent of denver or phoenix) and so as time goes on, local areas should have time to develop a more distinctive, unique local accent. And on the other hand, there's globalization and the internet and all that communication going on which should decrease differences. It reminds me of something I read about Newfoundland French.
I pronounce latent as "lay-nh" with sort of an implied t in the middle and end there. (And then "pat-nh" with a hard actual t in the middle but the implied soft t at the end).
(Minnesotan from 1981-1996 and Arizonan 1996-present... for accent background)
The iPod is not uncool or unhip... the fad isn't over.
Look around, iPods are everywhere and everyone is happy.
If sales are declining it's just because we all already have one.
I personally have a 4th gen 20GB click-wheel iPod. The color screens, video, photos, nano sizes, &c. haven't been enough to make me set aside the iPod I have to get a new one for another few hundred dollars. My iPod works how I expect it to and I'm happy. I won't be upgrading probably until this iPod is either stolen or broken, which I hope won't even ever happen.
If Apple wants to make people buy a SECOND iPod even though their current iPod works fine, they're going to have to add some compelling new features. I'd buy an iPod phone probably. Not so much because I want my phone and MP3 player in one device (but it would be nice if done properly: one less thing to carry around), but my current Motorola phone is horrible and I have some confidence that Apple would actually make a great phone with a good user interface. Every user interface on every cell phone out there right now is pretty much horrible; Apple could do a lot in this area.
I might get some sort of cool iPod car stereo. (Currently, I connect my iPod using the headphone jack to the Aux. in on the back of my Sony car stereo using a cable I got from Radio Shack... I'm talking about a REAL iPod car stereo, like a car stereo with a hard drive and wireless so I can send songs to my car in the garage from my computer in the house.) Supposedly there may be a touch-screen iPod coming? A touch-screen alone won't get me to buy another.
But yeah, iPods are still cool. There is no backlash. All the other MP3 players still are lacking in one way or another. iTunes is still a great way to manage music on the computer. People are happy. Apple has done great.
No british humor is my favorite kind of humor (monty python, absolutely fabulous, black books, the office, peep show, little britain, spaced, count duckula, hitchhikers guide miniseries... I'm pretty familiar with a lot of it) but this was just annoying.
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I tried using Ubuntu and just ended up hating the default install, and the themes, and the package manager. In the end I switched back to using YellowDogLinux and FreeBSD.
Now I don't see what the big deal about Ubuntu is.
I suppose the install is prettier since you load it up as a LiveCD and then run the installer program, but in the end you end up with less, imho. And the installer just runs more sluggish.
Please don't tell me you have a prototype stillsuit in the works, to recycle your urine and feces.
That's one thing I would not want to beta test.
Just make sure that the processing parts of it still work when you're walking without rhythm.
Did anyone else see that SNL sketch about teaching adults to use MySpace where the entire class except one mom was made up of pedophiles?
oh geez...
This doesn't look like a fun place to put them if they were that dear to you.
I'm glad Wikipedia has an article on "Ghostbusters equipment".
Now it just needs to be edited with this new information about GeV acceleration! We finally know how it works!
And if the PC manufacturers offer Zune as extra, you can probably bet that they didn't have as much choice in the matter as they'd have you believe.
... then that'd irritate me, anyway.
Even if they just stick a Zune advertisement somewhere or make some MP3 syncing software icon like a Zune or refer to "Zune, or other MP3 players..." or put some link on the desktop to "Get a Zune now!" or "Visit the Zune music store!"
I don't like it when the corporations think they can get you to buy something you don't want. They think if they nag you enough you'll finally see things their way.
Well... works for some people I guess.
My point wasn't that integration benefits the user at all. Actually I was trying to say the opposite. It's a way for them to force the Zune down our throats.
I'd say the only thing about the Zune that should scare Apple is that the Zune can be integrated very tightly with the most popular operating system on the planet.
I doubt the user experience will be better than the iPod though... so hopefully the quality of the iPod set up will win out over the coercion behind the Zune.
Of course this doesn't affect those of us who don't use Windows.
I'm sure his 18 to early or mid 20s will be full of just as much life experience and all that... it just won't be entirely in a university setting. He's still doing grad school, and I'm sure he has friends his age.
In fact, with a job, more free time, and actual money, his early 20s might be full of a lot more experiences than most students. If I were him, I'd take time to travel the world.
And he has something nifty to say about himself for the rest of his life.
That could get expensive, though probably cheaper than tuition.
"features peach natural calf leather lining"
In my opinion the Louis Vuitton case is the worst... it's ugly as hell and they killed a baby cow.
Plus you just know only the most annoying people in the world would ever buy one.
I had Spanish teachers in school from various places (Spain, Mexico, and Benin come to mind) and I do remember the year I had the Spain teache (or maybe she just studied in Spain), I ended up putting "sh" in a lot of my words... so "hacer" would be more like "hah-shair"... and another teacher had me saying something like "hah-thair" and another had it like i originally thought ("hah-sair").
My mind has a hard time accepting that's true just because it seems so weird, but I see the logic in it.
It reminds me of the difference between Mexican and Castilian Spanish. In Mexican, they spell things with an X which is how Castilian used to be, but now all those X's turned to J's in Castilian. So in Mexico it's "Quixote" and "Ximenez" but in Spain it's "Quijote" and "Jimenez".... And Spain might be the country who is thought to be the authority on the Spanish language and Mexico is butchering the language (just as UK is thought to be the authority on English and Americans butcher the language), but if you consider tradition to be the deciding factor on the true language, then actually Mexico (and America) are preserving the older language conventions and could be said to be more correct. (Although, I think the pronunciation of "X" in Mexican has changed, even if the spelling hasn't.)
Everyone wants to be a language snob. It doesn't matter, I can understand UK/Australian/Indian English just fine, or plenty of other accents.
I'd imagine you hear a lot more of it. UK and Australia have a combined population of (60 + 20 =) 80 million whereas the USA is 300 million. I don't know where Canada's 30 million would fit into things, since they're pronunciation is sometimes in agreement with USA and sometimes with UK. Or other countries that speak (UK) English regularly, like parts of India.
I wonder if the English language is going to become more homogenized as time goes on or if local differences will become more exaggerated. In the USA, the settlement by English-speakers has been rapid and recent so there's only some vague accents people can pick out (Boston, "the South", rural Minnesota, "valley girl" Californian, urban, NYC, and the generic neutral-ish "tv broadcaster" accent of denver or phoenix) and so as time goes on, local areas should have time to develop a more distinctive, unique local accent. And on the other hand, there's globalization and the internet and all that communication going on which should decrease differences. It reminds me of something I read about Newfoundland French.
I pronounce latent as "lay-nh" with sort of an implied t in the middle and end there. (And then "pat-nh" with a hard actual t in the middle but the implied soft t at the end).
(Minnesotan from 1981-1996 and Arizonan 1996-present... for accent background)
In addition, I wonder if there's an efficient way to skip products of any of the prime numbers already found.
A DVR/TiVo-type device is the H-U-G-E missing feature from iTV.
I can't believe it's not part of it. Maybe they'll add it later? But it would be such a huge value if this thing was also a DVR.
Wow that made me laugh, I hope you get modded up.
That's an amazing new theory.
Babies have important meetings to get to.
The wall street babies get Hummer prams.
When it comes to "Coolness Factor" I think it's safe to say that the Microsoft Zune is pretty much dead on arrival.
The iPod is not uncool or unhip... the fad isn't over.
Look around, iPods are everywhere and everyone is happy.
If sales are declining it's just because we all already have one.
I personally have a 4th gen 20GB click-wheel iPod. The color screens, video, photos, nano sizes, &c. haven't been enough to make me set aside the iPod I have to get a new one for another few hundred dollars. My iPod works how I expect it to and I'm happy. I won't be upgrading probably until this iPod is either stolen or broken, which I hope won't even ever happen.
If Apple wants to make people buy a SECOND iPod even though their current iPod works fine, they're going to have to add some compelling new features. I'd buy an iPod phone probably. Not so much because I want my phone and MP3 player in one device (but it would be nice if done properly: one less thing to carry around), but my current Motorola phone is horrible and I have some confidence that Apple would actually make a great phone with a good user interface. Every user interface on every cell phone out there right now is pretty much horrible; Apple could do a lot in this area.
I might get some sort of cool iPod car stereo. (Currently, I connect my iPod using the headphone jack to the Aux. in on the back of my Sony car stereo using a cable I got from Radio Shack... I'm talking about a REAL iPod car stereo, like a car stereo with a hard drive and wireless so I can send songs to my car in the garage from my computer in the house.) Supposedly there may be a touch-screen iPod coming? A touch-screen alone won't get me to buy another.
But yeah, iPods are still cool. There is no backlash. All the other MP3 players still are lacking in one way or another. iTunes is still a great way to manage music on the computer. People are happy. Apple has done great.
Did anyone else read that as "Robocrabs" and imagine some nasty STD of the future?
and oddly enough... i'm a marmite/vegemite lover, too.
No british humor is my favorite kind of humor (monty python, absolutely fabulous, black books, the office, peep show, little britain, spaced, count duckula, hitchhikers guide miniseries... I'm pretty familiar with a lot of it) but this was just annoying.
Wow that's annoying.