Insightful? The only insightful about this comment is that a TomTom is better for car navigation than a cell phone.
Obviously the poster hardly does any travelling at all. Ever been to a foreign city? I don't own a GPS enabled cellphone myself, but I can clearly see the benefits.
Funny that. I seem to have been downloading MP3s from Napster in the late nineties on my crappy old Mac IIsi, running 8.6.
No scratch that, nothing about your post was funny and the mods are just being ignorants the same way you are.
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Surely you are joking. The Commodore PET with it's sub-par graphic system and unusable chiclet keyboard was released in September 1977:
The 2001 was announced in 1977 and started deliveries around September. However they remained back-ordered for months, and to ease deliveries they eventually cancelled the 4 KiB version early the next year.
The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977.
The problem is that bands have deadlines like any other profession. The more hyped or popular a band is, the more pressure is on them to record and release an album. Album have contracts for a certain amount of tracks and or minutes. A good recent example is The Klaxons, which had written four killer tracks that got hyped to all heavens. As a result of this they were forced on tour until the album was to be released. With no time to write new material, they had to hastily write new songs WHILE RECORDING the album. That's why their album was sub-par (apart from the aforementioned good songs). One song is about ten minutes of incoherent noise just to make up for the requirements.
The music industry is a bitch. Next time anyone says they want to be in a band, slap them across the face and tell them to wake up.
My fiancé's in an up-and-coming band and they won't even give her a week off so she can get married to me.:(
There are however some things that override taste when it comes to UIs, and that's functionality. There can be elegance in functionality and even beauty. Aqua (especially in it's unified form) encompasses all of this. While Plastik (my opinion based on screenshots screams yet another windows wannabe) might look superficially good to your tastes, it is also (very eloquently put) just a skin. A skin to a mediocre user experience compared to Aqua that is.
I guess you all must be running a funky then. It looks gorgeous in Safari. (And in my Firefox, though I've heard that some people refuses to render the white background on which all the text is on).
And that comes from a web designer with more than a decade's experience.
So you like your wife's nano? Why not get an iPod then?
Seriously, I just don't get people's reason for not wanting an iPod. Is it because "everyone has one"? Well, guess what. There is actually a reason for that: They are the best players on the market. Period.
The G5 in your iMac probably runs at 2Ghz with a 667 MHz bus and the G4 in your iBook runs at probably 1.33 GHz with a 133Mhz cache. Add in differences in harddrive speed, RAM and cache and you'll get a lot more complex picture. Fun factoid: All other things equal, the G4 is faster Mhz for Mhz than a G5. People are quick to fall for the megahertz myth, but even quicker for the CPU-generation myth.
Well, spotlight isn't working for me either in Mail, Safari crashes now and again and I haven't really found a good use for Bonjour yet so I'd say that it's par for the course still.
They've talked to exactly 1 (one) company distributing adult films. Wow! And of how many exactly? Actually several have jumped on already - a mere week after the new iPod was shipped to users! This is a non-story of tabloid bullshit, but I would expect no less of Slashdot than to rehash it I'm sorry to say:(
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Security by obscurity is a fallacy. Shame on you and whoever modded you "insightful".
I have been a member there for 6 years and even I couldn't care less.
Insightful? The only insightful about this comment is that a TomTom is better for car navigation than a cell phone.
Obviously the poster hardly does any travelling at all. Ever been to a foreign city? I don't own a GPS enabled cellphone myself, but I can clearly see the benefits.
Probably the same way my post got modded Flamebait: some overzealous Commodore-fan. I had no idea they still existed.
Funny that. I seem to have been downloading MP3s from Napster in the late nineties on my crappy old Mac IIsi, running 8.6.
No scratch that, nothing about your post was funny and the mods are just being ignorants the same way you are.
The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977.
I think you have been huffing too much of the Commodore propaganda!
I was a huge Commodore fan in the eighties, but that doesn't necessarily make me a history revisionist.
The problem is that bands have deadlines like any other profession. The more hyped or popular a band is, the more pressure is on them to record and release an album. Album have contracts for a certain amount of tracks and or minutes. A good recent example is The Klaxons, which had written four killer tracks that got hyped to all heavens. As a result of this they were forced on tour until the album was to be released. With no time to write new material, they had to hastily write new songs WHILE RECORDING the album. That's why their album was sub-par (apart from the aforementioned good songs). One song is about ten minutes of incoherent noise just to make up for the requirements.
:(
The music industry is a bitch. Next time anyone says they want to be in a band, slap them across the face and tell them to wake up.
My fiancé's in an up-and-coming band and they won't even give her a week off so she can get married to me.
...except it - as has been pointed out a million times (RTFA) - wasn't.
You meant the Transporter movies weren't meant to be comedies? I was laughing all the way through-out.
TextEdit does plain text. It's right there in the menu: Format -> Make Plain Text. Duh.
Good thing you posted that, it's not like that wasn't the entire point of the article or anything.
How apt. The first and the last comment of the thread mentioned the same thing.
Who the hell modded this rambling incoherent mess "insightful"? Come on! I know you are out there!
There are however some things that override taste when it comes to UIs, and that's functionality. There can be elegance in functionality and even beauty. Aqua (especially in it's unified form) encompasses all of this. While Plastik (my opinion based on screenshots screams yet another windows wannabe) might look superficially good to your tastes, it is also (very eloquently put) just a skin. A skin to a mediocre user experience compared to Aqua that is.
I guess you all must be running a funky then. It looks gorgeous in Safari. (And in my Firefox, though I've heard that some people refuses to render the white background on which all the text is on).
And that comes from a web designer with more than a decade's experience.
So you like your wife's nano? Why not get an iPod then?
Seriously, I just don't get people's reason for not wanting an iPod. Is it because "everyone has one"? Well, guess what. There is actually a reason for that: They are the best players on the market. Period.
Oh dear oh dear. It's the _second_ link that's the story here. Read TFA! And that goes for moderators too!
Pretty useless to anyone not on Windows.
Huh? What the fuck are you talking about? Highly critical? Why didn't my highly vulnerable mac get attacked for the last five years?
It's for separating the player and the store. iTunes has been around for at least four years before they added a music store to it :p
from the something-to-think-about dept??
How about
from the tinfoil-hat dept.?
The G5 in your iMac probably runs at 2Ghz with a 667 MHz bus and the G4 in your iBook runs at probably 1.33 GHz with a 133Mhz cache. Add in differences in harddrive speed, RAM and cache and you'll get a lot more complex picture. Fun factoid: All other things equal, the G4 is faster Mhz for Mhz than a G5. People are quick to fall for the megahertz myth, but even quicker for the CPU-generation myth.
Well, spotlight isn't working for me either in Mail, Safari crashes now and again and I haven't really found a good use for Bonjour yet so I'd say that it's par for the course still.
Well, boo-frickin' hoo! At least there IS a video section compared to other international stores.
And severly cut back? There are 1000 music videos in the Australian store, and 2000 in the US one. Last time I checked 1000 is not "a few".
They've talked to exactly 1 (one) company distributing adult films. Wow! And of how many exactly? Actually several have jumped on already - a mere week after the new iPod was shipped to users! This is a non-story of tabloid bullshit, but I would expect no less of Slashdot than to rehash it I'm sorry to say :(