>> Users would be able to post information at a location, hanging in the air, ready to be browsed by people passing by. Imagine getting highly relevant messages, without even pressing a button, simply because you are in the vicinity and your preferences match the content of the post."
Right. This didn't even work when users were able to post information at a web site using invisible notes back in the 1990s. Remember that "revolution"? Users of a web site could discuss its contents with each other using software that interfaced with their web browser. End result? No one posted anything except the occasional juvenile comment.
Now I'm expected to believe that people are going to be walking around with a cellphone and eagerly texting messages and posts that others will be able to read when they enter the area.
Will we see a breathless story detailing the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by governments around the world supporting global warming proponents? Or how the Clinton and Blair governments actively try and silence those who dissent(ed) from the orthodoxy? Would there be a controversy if said governments actually allowed a real debate in the agencies which have made it their mission to impose the Kyoto Protocol?
But right, I forgot, big business is inherently evil.
How the fuck were you modded as insightful? Right, because on Slashdot an opinion is considered a fact.
Rupert Murdoch owns some of the most liberal and leftist newspapers on the planet, such as The Australian which is one of the most venomous anti-American newspapers in existence. But hey, he owns the New York Post and Fox News and therefore two mildly pro-conservative media outlets means that the entire Murdoch empire is crazy right-wing.
Meanwhile CNN, who you didn't bother to criticize, was owned by a globalist one-world government fanatic who fêtes and apologizes for brutal dictatorships like North Korea and Cuba and funds training camps for violent anti-capitalist protesters. A news channel which has a very long history of stumping for liberal causes and features several shows today that routinely trumpet DNC talking points.
But hey, Fox News is the evil organization. Keep watching CNN for the truth.
Bull. How many celebrities have testified in front of Congress on matters they have no experience in and then action is taken simply because John Q. Actor has agitated for change?
I still remember the fight over Alar and how Meryl Streep was considered an expert witness because she played an apple picker in a movie. And how many asshole actors/actresses do I have to listen to pontificating about climate change when they don't even understand the basics of climate science, a field that even climate scientists seem to be...ahem...in a fog.
Just because someone reports a positive Microsoft experience - - that cannot be right!! They must be a dupe, shill or paid off to be so stupid. Why the fuck isn't he rolling out Gentoo instead?
Welcome to the worst of the most recent of Slashdot themes, where anyone who disagrees with someone's point of view is obviously on the take from Microsoft. It's groupthink at its finest...I'm waiting for the Two Minutes Hate sessions to begin any day. I mean, we know who Emmanuel Goldstein is, right?
After weeks of near daily bashing of Microsoft, are we now to be treated with a week or two of glowing press (outside of that SEC story) about Apple?
My prediction? Apple will release new models of computers and digital audio players. Slashdot will rave about the company's greatness. Apple's desktop market share will once again remain static.
I'm not arguing your primary point, that the current generation of iPods is smaller than the Zune. I own a 5.5G 80GB iPod and when I had a chance to compare, it was smaller...but not so much that I wouldn't have switched to the Zune had I thought it had advantages that the iPod didn't.
And to be perfectly frank, the iPod's advantages are getting slimmer every day. Other than the wheel, I don't think it's head and shoulders above the Zune or Creative's offerings. But that's neither here nor there since we were talking about the size of the offerings.
The Zune is considerably bulkier, the video iPod is a much more comfortable size for pocket or belt clip, IMO.
Considerably larger? My God, everything up to the 3G iPods must have been cinder blocks then. The Zune is marginally larger than the new 5/5.5G iPods. If you notice a difference then you need to hit the gym my friend.
God, I wish this would die. The Zune is marginally larger and heavier than the latest iPods. If the Zune is a huge brick, that means every previous iPod was a monster as well.
And before someone resorts to that tired accusation of "shill", I own a 5.5G 80GB iPod and a Mac (along with two Windows XP machines).
Yeah, those Apple lawyers are very scary...to bloggers who love the company. Has Apple ever won a major lawsuit against a competitor over a real issue?
IIRC, gapless playback exists only on iPod's which accept the 1.2.1 firmware update (mostly the 5.5G units), something that was only released in the past few weeks. You make it sound like iPods have supported gapless for ages when in fact it was something that we iPod owners had agitated for years.
The worst of the recent changes at Slashdot is the addition of the word "shill" to people's vocabularies. No one can possibly disagree with someone else -- particularly if they rebut the orthodoxy -- without being accused of astroturfing or shilling.
It's a lame form of George W. Bush's "If you're not with us, you're against us" line.
Hey, that means Fox News is years ahead of the New York Times>/i> which apparently only believes in presenting one side of any debate.
That said, I would line all the motherfuckers against the wall...friends and foes alike.
Here. I'll match your meaningless single data point with another: I've never had to reinstall Windows XP -- I'm still running the original install I performed when it came out -- and I barely ever "tweak" it to improve performance.
The last Microsoft operating system to go "stale" on me on a semi-regular basis was Windows 98.
Ah, the "flamebait" moderation...when facts are too inconvenient to argue with, just mod 'em down!
The funny thing is that I have been an Apple customer for 20 years.
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Still monumentally more financially successful?
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money - Samuel Johnson
You mean the same masses who are breaking laws?
I'm no fan of the **AAs but leave the hyperbole for discussions about Gitmo or climate change.
Who shot first again?
>> Users would be able to post information at a location, hanging in the air, ready to be browsed by people passing by. Imagine getting highly relevant messages, without even pressing a button, simply because you are in the vicinity and your preferences match the content of the post."
Right. This didn't even work when users were able to post information at a web site using invisible notes back in the 1990s. Remember that "revolution"? Users of a web site could discuss its contents with each other using software that interfaced with their web browser. End result? No one posted anything except the occasional juvenile comment.
Now I'm expected to believe that people are going to be walking around with a cellphone and eagerly texting messages and posts that others will be able to read when they enter the area.
Good luck with that.
Will we see a breathless story detailing the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by governments around the world supporting global warming proponents? Or how the Clinton and Blair governments actively try and silence those who dissent(ed) from the orthodoxy? Would there be a controversy if said governments actually allowed a real debate in the agencies which have made it their mission to impose the Kyoto Protocol?
But right, I forgot, big business is inherently evil.
How the fuck were you modded as insightful? Right, because on Slashdot an opinion is considered a fact.
Rupert Murdoch owns some of the most liberal and leftist newspapers on the planet, such as The Australian which is one of the most venomous anti-American newspapers in existence. But hey, he owns the New York Post and Fox News and therefore two mildly pro-conservative media outlets means that the entire Murdoch empire is crazy right-wing.
Meanwhile CNN, who you didn't bother to criticize, was owned by a globalist one-world government fanatic who fêtes and apologizes for brutal dictatorships like North Korea and Cuba and funds training camps for violent anti-capitalist protesters. A news channel which has a very long history of stumping for liberal causes and features several shows today that routinely trumpet DNC talking points.
But hey, Fox News is the evil organization. Keep watching CNN for the truth.
Bull. How many celebrities have testified in front of Congress on matters they have no experience in and then action is taken simply because John Q. Actor has agitated for change?
I still remember the fight over Alar and how Meryl Streep was considered an expert witness because she played an apple picker in a movie. And how many asshole actors/actresses do I have to listen to pontificating about climate change when they don't even understand the basics of climate science, a field that even climate scientists seem to be...ahem...in a fog.
Welcome to the worst of the most recent of Slashdot themes, where anyone who disagrees with someone's point of view is obviously on the take from Microsoft. It's groupthink at its finest...I'm waiting for the Two Minutes Hate sessions to begin any day. I mean, we know who Emmanuel Goldstein is, right?
Well said.
After weeks of near daily bashing of Microsoft, are we now to be treated with a week or two of glowing press (outside of that SEC story) about Apple?
My prediction? Apple will release new models of computers and digital audio players. Slashdot will rave about the company's greatness. Apple's desktop market share will once again remain static.
I'm not arguing your primary point, that the current generation of iPods is smaller than the Zune. I own a 5.5G 80GB iPod and when I had a chance to compare, it was smaller...but not so much that I wouldn't have switched to the Zune had I thought it had advantages that the iPod didn't.
And to be perfectly frank, the iPod's advantages are getting slimmer every day. Other than the wheel, I don't think it's head and shoulders above the Zune or Creative's offerings. But that's neither here nor there since we were talking about the size of the offerings.
So your point is that you either need to spend money before you open an account or you must turn over your credit card information to open an account.
Hey, win win!
Another reason why I ditched iTunes and use a WinAmp plug-in for my iPod.
Considerably larger? My God, everything up to the 3G iPods must have been cinder blocks then. The Zune is marginally larger than the new 5/5.5G iPods. If you notice a difference then you need to hit the gym my friend.
- Proud iPod/Mac owner.
God, I wish this would die. The Zune is marginally larger and heavier than the latest iPods. If the Zune is a huge brick, that means every previous iPod was a monster as well.
And before someone resorts to that tired accusation of "shill", I own a 5.5G 80GB iPod and a Mac (along with two Windows XP machines).
Yeah, those Apple lawyers are very scary...to bloggers who love the company. Has Apple ever won a major lawsuit against a competitor over a real issue?
IIRC, gapless playback exists only on iPod's which accept the 1.2.1 firmware update (mostly the 5.5G units), something that was only released in the past few weeks. You make it sound like iPods have supported gapless for ages when in fact it was something that we iPod owners had agitated for years.
The worst of the recent changes at Slashdot is the addition of the word "shill" to people's vocabularies. No one can possibly disagree with someone else -- particularly if they rebut the orthodoxy -- without being accused of astroturfing or shilling.
It's a lame form of George W. Bush's "If you're not with us, you're against us" line.
Sigh...sorry about the inept HTML. Teaches me to hit preview before submit.
Hey, that means Fox News is years ahead of the New York Times>/i> which apparently only believes in presenting one side of any debate. That said, I would line all the motherfuckers against the wall...friends and foes alike.
Here. I'll match your meaningless single data point with another: I've never had to reinstall Windows XP -- I'm still running the original install I performed when it came out -- and I barely ever "tweak" it to improve performance. The last Microsoft operating system to go "stale" on me on a semi-regular basis was Windows 98.
Super Clock was kick ass....
Ah, the "flamebait" moderation...when facts are too inconvenient to argue with, just mod 'em down! The funny thing is that I have been an Apple customer for 20 years.
Someone dissed Apple! Lets post a rebuttal story as quickly as possible!!!1!
So does that mean, given the recent story history, we'll 20 consecutive stories praising Microsoft's Vista? Oh wait, right...