I now have two iPods (my old Mini has a defunct battery, so it remains plugged into the socket in the car, leaving me with a "good" excuse to buy a 160GB classic model), but I have never, EVER had a problem with the firmware crashing, even when I was using it with gtkpod.
Maybe you should take it up with Apple or whoever you bought the gadget from.
I have a Motorola Razr2 V9 and I have no problem charging it via USB. The connector is a form of micro-USB, but the phone came with a compact micro-to-mini USB adaptor, so I only have to carry around one cable that works for for camera, bluetooth headset and phone. Pity about the iPod, but at least it's USB.
I share the parent's aversion to proprietary chargers. It is just not possible to keep them from making a mess, no matter how carefully you label them.
Next, these researchers will discover a bizarre new breed of Australian cows that like to point south.
Actually, this afternoon the cows just outside the building I'm sitting in (in south-western Australia) are facing due east. So much for that.
Yeah, I guess they don't like the sun in their eyes, but cows are quite smart. They are certainly smart enough to realise that it's OK to face west in the morning and east in the afternoon if that's what makes them comfortable.
If information is freely flying through the air, without encryption, does that mean he is doing something wrong?
No, I didn't say that, though whoever modded my post as troll might appear to to think so. The point I was making is that there is no legitimate reason to be casually sniffing packets in an internet cafe.
...to mention is that the whole point of a lot of those online forms (such as competitions etc) is to provide an opt-in to any kind of marketing dreck the the site owner (or any of his mates) cares to send you.
The best way to keep your personal information private is to not hand it out. I know that should be obvious, but the fact seems to escape people when they appear to be being offered free ponies (or whatever).
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Well done. I'm glad somebody brought this up. I guess it's just so easy for some of us to forget that these ancient cities and cultures are at the wellspring of the sciences, as well as the bible.
Islam came a lot later, but from any number of things I've read, it has become increasingly difficult for the layman to establish the differences between what the prophet said and modern usage of the resulting customs.
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Last I read, Israel has been on the defensive in every war
Either you have a very flexible definition of "war", or your reading is very selective. Israel has conducted countless offensive attacks, killing off women and children with abandon. In fact, Israel has increasingly become the agressor in more recent conflicts.
And, for the record, I am not a partisan of either side, simply stating things as they are.
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...though I know it's a solecism to reply to myself, I should mention that I will always defend the right to arm bears...;-)
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The rate of gun crime in England didn't exactly go down when the legal guns were taken away.
What are you talking about? Civilians never had the right to go around carrying guns (the police don't either, excep for select groups), so from which orifice are you pulling your statistics?
As for criminals, they will be criminals and the rest of society has no control over them. The whole point of being a criminal is to set yourself aside (outcast yourself, if you will) from the common aspirations of the community.
If you tried basing your suppositions upon the original documents, rather than Wikipedia's potted versions, you might arrive at different conclusions.
Wikipedia is great for lots of things, and in general I applaud it, but it does tend to encourage sloppy thinking.
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Communism in it's true form is more akin to anarchism[sic] - it's never been seen to work because it's never really been tried...
Indeed, well said. This is why, although I've always been a "leftie", I've never called myself a Marxist.
In my experience, the only people who call themselves Marzists are those who have never actually read any Marx, and thus I am excluded. But anarchy would be an attractive alternative to our current situation if we could find a way to keep the big corporations from barging in and filling the gaps vacated by governments. Now that would be really ugly...
I can see a flamewar starting here, so I should mention that my ruminations are largely a product of imagination and thought experiments, so keep it civil if you don't mind...
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If this doesn't make the world take the notice, nothing will. I mean *40 times*, that's probably as many as 40 people. Downloading an album from iTunes. Now *that's* solidarity !
Sure. And I'm absolutely certain that if I were an iTunes-using Chinaman, no longer able to access the site, I'd be really appreciative of these guys' efforts on behalf of the Tibetans.
I.e. NOT.
These athletes might have had their sympathy in the right place, but they could have saddled up their brains before charging off on their little crusade. But then again, athletes aren't generally best known for their perspicacity...
There is nothing that sounds good through those Radio Shack earbuds that Apple supplies for their iPods. Trouble is (as I've found) that investing in something better results in an inevitable dissatisfaction with the compression algorithms when faced with a storage space to sound quality ratio.
The fortunate thing with iPods is that one (or I, at least) can arrive at a compromise where the signal is more optimal than the ambient noise, given that the whole point of the iPod is that it is typically used in situations where there is a high level of background noise.
This situation gets more tricky if one attaches better-quality circumaural headphones, especially since one is likely to run into the issue of headset impedance affecting battery usage. So I guess there is a take-home message for the iPod owner: get the best street headset that happens to suit your ears and lifestyle, and be a bit careful how you pick your bitrate for your compressed files.
For one, you're understating the sound quality issues with early cassettes. They were crap for sound quality, and and early cassette players were notorious for unreliability.
Not just early ones. Even later high quality machines, in my case used primarily with top of the range tapes, needed quite a lot of babying to maintain any kind of consistently good sound reproduction. The basic problem was that too many parts were in physical contact with the tape, where all of them were too inaccessible to be assured of proper cleanliness.
My in-dash Nakamachi TD-700 cassette player is, in my experience, sonically superior to any non-Nak CD car deck I've ever heard.
Which isn't saying much. Sorry.
I have lived through the entire cassette-tape era (suvh as it was), but I can't say I entirely regret its demise. It never really did stack up against vinyl. Now reel-to-reel is another matter, of course, but I never did see that on a car dash. That would probably have been very cool, though...;-)
If you've punched code out on 80 column punched cards, MAYBE you are old enough to be a graybeard.
You insensitive clod, I spent years punching cards on a Burroughs 029 machine, not one of those wimpy QWERTY gadgets. In fact, I still have one that gets used to hold doors open, since it weighs a bit more than the average brick.
You young whippersnappers just don't know what you're talking about. This PDP-11 Assembly Language is positively new-fangled. My first programming language was Burroughs B3700 assembly - and I don't see much in the way of Google hits even for that machine, let alone any documentation, but you can still obtain PDP-11 manuals.
Oh, and for the record, I don't wear a beard of any colour. Though I readily admit to being an old fart.:-)
...rather the postings are integrated into our overall consciousness as a background process.
This isn't my first/. UID, but in my case the posts are uploaded in batch mode via a COBOL routine to which the source is lost, so I have to patch the binary from time to time...;-)
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I now have two iPods (my old Mini has a defunct battery, so it remains plugged into the socket in the car, leaving me with a "good" excuse to buy a 160GB classic model), but I have never, EVER had a problem with the firmware crashing, even when I was using it with gtkpod.
Maybe you should take it up with Apple or whoever you bought the gadget from.
my Zune (gasp) has the best sound quality of anything I have
;-)
You bought the Zune? Far out, I wondered who it was...
I have a Motorola Razr2 V9 and I have no problem charging it via USB. The connector is a form of micro-USB, but the phone came with a compact micro-to-mini USB adaptor, so I only have to carry around one cable that works for for camera, bluetooth headset and phone. Pity about the iPod, but at least it's USB.
I share the parent's aversion to proprietary chargers. It is just not possible to keep them from making a mess, no matter how carefully you label them.
Next, these researchers will discover a bizarre new breed of Australian cows that like to point south.
Actually, this afternoon the cows just outside the building I'm sitting in (in south-western Australia) are facing due east. So much for that.
Yeah, I guess they don't like the sun in their eyes, but cows are quite smart. They are certainly smart enough to realise that it's OK to face west in the morning and east in the afternoon if that's what makes them comfortable.
If information is freely flying through the air, without encryption, does that mean he is doing something wrong?
No, I didn't say that, though whoever modded my post as troll might appear to to think so. The point I was making is that there is no legitimate reason to be casually sniffing packets in an internet cafe.
I run a copy of Wireshark whenever I'm at a coffee shop, airport lounge, or anywhere else there is a wireless hotspot.
In other words, you're part of the problem.
So what are you going to do with those packets you've sniffed?
...to mention is that the whole point of a lot of those online forms (such as competitions etc) is to provide an opt-in to any kind of marketing dreck the the site owner (or any of his mates) cares to send you.
The best way to keep your personal information private is to not hand it out. I know that should be obvious, but the fact seems to escape people when they appear to be being offered free ponies (or whatever).
Well done. I'm glad somebody brought this up. I guess it's just so easy for some of us to forget that these ancient cities and cultures are at the wellspring of the sciences, as well as the bible.
Islam came a lot later, but from any number of things I've read, it has become increasingly difficult for the layman to establish the differences between what the prophet said and modern usage of the resulting customs.
Last I read, Israel has been on the defensive in every war
Either you have a very flexible definition of "war", or your reading is very selective. Israel has conducted countless offensive attacks, killing off women and children with abandon. In fact, Israel has increasingly become the agressor in more recent conflicts.
And, for the record, I am not a partisan of either side, simply stating things as they are.
Please no comparing Tibet to Iraq here.
No danger of that. There's no oil in Tibet.
...though I know it's a solecism to reply to myself, I should mention that I will always defend the right to arm bears... ;-)
The rate of gun crime in England didn't exactly go down when the legal guns were taken away.
What are you talking about? Civilians never had the right to go around carrying guns (the police don't either, excep for select groups), so from which orifice are you pulling your statistics?
As for criminals, they will be criminals and the rest of society has no control over them. The whole point of being a criminal is to set yourself aside (outcast yourself, if you will) from the common aspirations of the community.
That was funny? I thought it was scary from several perspectives.
:-(
Maybe my hilarity gland is atrophied...
If you tried basing your suppositions upon the original documents, rather than Wikipedia's potted versions, you might arrive at different conclusions.
Wikipedia is great for lots of things, and in general I applaud it, but it does tend to encourage sloppy thinking.
Communism in it's true form is more akin to anarchism[sic] - it's never been seen to work because it's never really been tried...
Indeed, well said. This is why, although I've always been a "leftie", I've never called myself a Marxist.
In my experience, the only people who call themselves Marzists are those who have never actually read any Marx, and thus I am excluded. But anarchy would be an attractive alternative to our current situation if we could find a way to keep the big corporations from barging in and filling the gaps vacated by governments. Now that would be really ugly...
I can see a flamewar starting here, so I should mention that my ruminations are largely a product of imagination and thought experiments, so keep it civil if you don't mind...
If this doesn't make the world take the notice, nothing will. I mean *40 times*, that's probably as many as 40 people. Downloading an album from iTunes. Now *that's* solidarity !
Sure. And I'm absolutely certain that if I were an iTunes-using Chinaman, no longer able to access the site, I'd be really appreciative of these guys' efforts on behalf of the Tibetans.
I.e. NOT.
These athletes might have had their sympathy in the right place, but they could have saddled up their brains before charging off on their little crusade. But then again, athletes aren't generally best known for their perspicacity...
Again: NO ONE CARES. (OK, technically, I guess I should say ALMOST no one cares.)
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Nice to know I'm not no-one but ALMOST no-one.
Clearly you are talking rubbish, though, otherwise Sennheiser wouldn't bother with their many product lines designed for precisely this purpose.
There is nothing that sounds good through those Radio Shack earbuds that Apple supplies for their iPods. Trouble is (as I've found) that investing in something better results in an inevitable dissatisfaction with the compression algorithms when faced with a storage space to sound quality ratio.
The fortunate thing with iPods is that one (or I, at least) can arrive at a compromise where the signal is more optimal than the ambient noise, given that the whole point of the iPod is that it is typically used in situations where there is a high level of background noise.
This situation gets more tricky if one attaches better-quality circumaural headphones, especially since one is likely to run into the issue of headset impedance affecting battery usage. So I guess there is a take-home message for the iPod owner: get the best street headset that happens to suit your ears and lifestyle, and be a bit careful how you pick your bitrate for your compressed files.
For one, you're understating the sound quality issues with early cassettes. They were crap for sound quality, and and early cassette players were notorious for unreliability.
Not just early ones. Even later high quality machines, in my case used primarily with top of the range tapes, needed quite a lot of babying to maintain any kind of consistently good sound reproduction. The basic problem was that too many parts were in physical contact with the tape, where all of them were too inaccessible to be assured of proper cleanliness.
My in-dash Nakamachi TD-700 cassette player is, in my experience, sonically superior to any non-Nak CD car deck I've ever heard.
;-)
Which isn't saying much. Sorry.
I have lived through the entire cassette-tape era (suvh as it was), but I can't say I entirely regret its demise. It never really did stack up against vinyl. Now reel-to-reel is another matter, of course, but I never did see that on a car dash. That would probably have been very cool, though...
I'm also 30, so that kinda messes up the scale.
And I'm 45, so I've messed it up even more.
If you've punched code out on 80 column punched cards, MAYBE you are old enough to be a graybeard.
You insensitive clod, I spent years punching cards on a Burroughs 029 machine, not one of those wimpy QWERTY gadgets. In fact, I still have one that gets used to hold doors open, since it weighs a bit more than the average brick.
And I'm not a greybeard, though I'm old enough...
Being the only Unix admin helps of course too.
So do you go around offering everybody a nickel to go get a better computer?
You young whippersnappers just don't know what you're talking about. This PDP-11 Assembly Language is positively new-fangled. My first programming language was Burroughs B3700 assembly - and I don't see much in the way of Google hits even for that machine, let alone any documentation, but you can still obtain PDP-11 manuals.
:-)
Oh, and for the record, I don't wear a beard of any colour. Though I readily admit to being an old fart.
...rather the postings are integrated into our overall consciousness as a background process.
/. UID, but in my case the posts are uploaded in batch mode via a COBOL routine to which the source is lost, so I have to patch the binary from time to time... ;-)
This isn't my first