User: mbbac

Preloaded?

On: U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black

Are they really preloaded on the Ipod? Because, once you connect the Ipod to the computer, Itunes will ask you if you want to overwrite the library on the Ipod with the library in Itunes.

I'd imagine there is a disc in the box.

Re:Finally!

On: U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black

HP did that already. I think they call them tattoos. It's a printable skin you wrap around the Ipod and they provide artist related images for you to print on them.

Re:Black Ipod?

On: U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black

Will it come with black earbuds too? They're really the most identifing part of the Ipod listener.

Re:Beowulf writers

On: Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor

More precisely, it's a Beowulf novel transformed into a Dante novel by antiquity and the assimilation by the Dante circle and gatekeepers.

Doesn't the same go for Beowolf?

Re:Second Amendment

On: Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Is the second amendment. It doesn't say that the right to keep and bear arms is contingent on being part of a Militia. Nor does it set up the notion that a Militia is strictly in the realm of the government.

Re:Today's Theme: Enterprise

On: Apple Announces New iBooks

And he doesn't have to worry about managing two assets (computer & monitor), they can simplify things by managing one asset that they're able to automatically discover.

Re:Trackpoint anyone? Or maybe Slower processor?

On: Apple Announces New iBooks

This is reasonable. Macs have a logarithmic acceleration curve for the pointer and Windows has linear acceleration.

Re:Isn't that a bit cautious? :-)

On: Could IM Be The Next Step For Google?

Ichat already support the Jabber protocol for Rendezvous chat. The Tiger version of Ichat is supposed to support external Jabber servers.

Re:Way smaller?

On: Petite MP3 Player Boots PCs Into Linux

expertly

It's a word. It's in Webster's. Deal with it.

Re:*yawn*

On: U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species?

Try saying it is just a scare to the textile industry.

It's happening.

Bush & H-1B visas

On: U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species?

Bush is a big proponent of H-1B visas. With the huge number of un- or under- employeed American computer workers the H-1B visa program for computer workers should be drastically reduced.

Re:No thanks

On: IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill

*sigh* I'm talking about viruses and malware, not remote exploits - don't worry though, I'm used to people mixing the two up.

You must be forgetting the Code Red virus that attacked an exploit in IIS.

Re:No thanks

On: IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill

Root is disabled on Macintoshes.

Re:No thanks

On: IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill

Assuming you can get SP2 installed within 12 minutes. ;)

Re:No thanks

On: IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill

And Apache would be targeted sooner than IIS due to its marketshare. But it's IIS with the most exploits.

Re:Way smaller?

On: Petite MP3 Player Boots PCs Into Linux

Much more sturdier [sic] than iPod.

Prove it. The Ipod is very sturdy. Other people have already refuted your other claims expertly.

Way Smaller

On: Petite MP3 Player Boots PCs Into Linux

It's way smaller than an Ipod in more than one way! Its maximum capacity is 256MB while the minimum capacity offered by Apple is 4GB.

Re:So

On: U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft

I wasn't. The current idiot didn't start the War on Drugs. That was some previous idiot.

Re:So

On: U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft

No.

War on drugs? Check.

War on terrorism? Check.

War on third world countries that don't pose a threat? Check.

War on the UN? Check.

War on intellectual property infringement? Check.

War on its citizens? Check.

Re:HDDs can't take cell phone abuse...

On: Rumors of Next Generation of Ipods

I am capitalizing Ipod correctly. You're the one that is following the Apple marketing department's capitalization.

If I ran over my current cellphone with my bike, I think it would have zero chances of survival. It's a T610.

Re:HDDs can't take cell phone abuse...

On: Rumors of Next Generation of Ipods

I've taken my Ipod with me a couple of times mountain biking and it worked great.

$10 extra accounts

On: .Mac Storage Now 250MB

The $10 extra accounts were upped from 10 MB of mail space to 50 MB mail space. Unfortunately, the $10 users cannot partition this 50 MB between mail and iDisk. If they could, I would renew my account so that both my wife and myself would be able to enjoy iSync and the Web based Address Book and Bookmarks applications.

Re:England

On: Spysats Keeping Watch on the U.S.

I read recently that England spies on its own citizens the most. I tried to find the article with Google and I had no luck. Maybe they meant of all of the democratic nations. I have a hard time believing that England spies on its citizens more than China. Still, it isn't pleasing.

Good news

On: Spysats Keeping Watch on the U.S.

We're safe because the department is stupid.

"I don't think any of my people know enough to know an environmental crime," [agency official] Beaulieu said.

I feel so much better about it now.

England

On: Spysats Keeping Watch on the U.S.

Great, now we're turning into England. How long do you think it'll take before the United States surpases England as the country that spies the most on its own citizenry?