Frankly, I am not a computer guru (by any stretch of the imagination), but don't you all find it pretty lame that Apple needs a 64 bit processor to come close to the speeds of a 32 bit Pentium?
Since you're not a computer guru, and since you obviously don't know what 64-bit means, why do you find it lame?
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that is not the fault of the OS that is the aplication developer
Most of the apps requiring 10.2 are the built-in ones (iChat, Safari, etc.)
Grow up: corrupting mailboxes isn't the same as pure evil, and saying that a Microsoft product has a specific bug in it isn't the same as FUD. Did you miss the bit where yroJJory slagged off all the other mail programs as well?
You haven't really told us anything about your lifestyle relevant to what you would need from a computer. Unless you're looking for gay porn? In which case I'd recommend a machine running Windows, which has access to more P2P networks, and you will have fewer problems with codecs. If you're just looking for the best generic computing experience, though, which happily goes hand in hand with the most stylish... get an Apple Mac running Mac OS X. Have a nice day!
Theft is what happens when I take something from you, in spite of the fact that I have no right to do so. Since I've taken it, you can't have it any more.
Methinks you must be a troll, madam.
"Theft," "sir," is what happens when record companies exploit artists.
What was it that the record companies took from the artists, in spite of the fact that they had no right to do so, such that since they've taken it, the artist can't have it any more?
"Theft" is also what recording companies do to the general public...
What was it that the record companies took from the general public, in spite of the fact that they had no right to do so, such that since they've taken it, the general public can't have it any more?
It's ridiculously one-sided contracts. It's rip-off prices. It's utterly immoral. Say any of those things, but, it is most certainly not theft.
Are you allowed to drive in Montana without having a device installed which physically limits the speed of your vehicle so that you CAN'T drive over the limit (without taking steps to circumvent that device)?
You can give someone a file and disown it (de-authorize your computer) and let them have it forever.
Nope. You have a fundamental misunderstanding. Each song you purchase is tied to your Apple ID. You can dissociate your Apple ID from a particular machine, but you can't dissociate your Apple ID from the AAC file itself. You may or may not be able to sell your whole collection of music by selling your Apple ID, but there's nothing akin to selling individual CDs.
Hmm? The music is digital, normally you would be able to send it anywhere you liked, as many times as you liked. Clearly iTMS stops you doing that, so it's DRM.
Your response is so wrong-headed I can scarcely begin to describe it. Try reading the sentence you're replying to again, paying careful attention to the difference between 'iTunes' and 'iTMS'. Then try emailing an AAC file to someone. Lo and behold! It works.
Some of your points are valid, but not quite so much in the way you mean them. For example, whether it was written down by eyewitnesses or not does not have much bearing on its validity. Either you believe the people who said so or you don't - whether they or their grandchildren actually wrote it down is somewhat irrelevant.
So you simply don't believe that a story communicated orally is any more susceptible to deliberate or accidental embellishment or amendment? Chinese whispers? And if the Bible had been passed in the oral tradition through to the 21st century, and only now did we come to write it down, it would be pretty much identical to the Bible as we know it?
In addition, the term "inspiration" has a number of different meanings [...] If you look at the Bible's own claims of authenticity (2 Timothy 3:16), you'll notice that it claims itself useful for the following activities: teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness
It is also claimed in the Bible that God will not allow the Word to be corrupted, is it not? That's what I understand by 'divine inspiration' - that whether or not it is directly breathed, it is nonetheless authored by God.
However, the point of the Bible is training in righteousness - something that the whole of the Bible does quite well.
That's a very unorthodox view of Christianity. Most Christians would say that the purpose of the Bible is to reveal the gospel of Jesus - not the bits about how to live your life, but that Jesus is the Son of God and that no man comes to the Father except through Him.
Some people say that the Bible is inconsistent. It depends on what you were expecting. Life is crazy enough that any self-consistent set of rules that are completely understandable are just plain wrong. Therefore, as Christians, we have faith that what God has been saying through His people is true, even though it's much muddier than we might like, and there aren't exact answers for everything (although there are for many things).
There is a great deal of Christianity which is a lot less self-consistent than a number of alternative spiritual and/or moral philosophies. If you're interested in discussing this, reply to me here and I'll email you.
...just not quite as consistent as it should be if it were either divinely inspired, or based on eyewitness accounts of things which actually happened rather than verbal accounts of things which people merely claimed to have witnessed.
Seems a bit out of date now, though... Apache now includes mod_rendezvous_apple, and iTunes 4 takes care of streaming music between networked machines.
Of course Linux is the answer to everything.
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That's why I asked the question entirely in earnest.
I think I understand a little more now than I did when I last replied to you. Previously I was under the impression that you weren't fucking your own mother, now I see that I was wrong.
Have you actually DONE this? Have you actually burned an M4P to CD and then re-ripped it?
Yes. The re-rip sounds about as good as a 160Mbps MP3 - so, on a decent system, pure vocals have slightly metallic formants, and instruments like cymbals suffer clearly audible degradation.
ANYBODY who would keep data that he BOUGHT AND PAID FOR in a MAGNETIC FORMAT ONLY is a FUCKING IDIOT.
You must never have heard of tapestreamers? Or perhaps you are unaware of how they work? Actually I keep virtually all of my backups in a magnetic format, not on tape, but on multiple hard drives.
Yeah, and THROWING YOUR MONEY AWAY is cheaper than spending TWENTY FIVE FUCKING CENTS and FIVE FUCKING MINUTES to back up an album of M4P's. But that doesn't mean it's smart, or even acceptable. It's just fucking STUPID.
Oh, good point, well made. I see you either have less than twenty five cents to your name, or you can't do basic arithmetic. And you are obviously the king of keeping careful backups, I must be mad if I'd prefer to keep them on a hard drive rather than on 25 cent CDs, which never, ever fail.
Fuck off and die.
You'll be dead way before me. I take life a little more easily than you do.
I'm surprised your post got past the Slashdot lameness filter.
"You shouldn't do business with Apple because X might happen"
Point me to anywhere in my post which said, "You shouldn't do business with Apple". I was simply wondering about the implications of Apple's DRM, just like the previous poster.
I've got two of them, both first-generation 5 GB models. I bought one for myself and one for my girlfriend.
Aha... now we're getting to the root of the problem. Your girlfriend dumped you (hence you have two iPods, rather than one).
Oh, great.
Oh, great?! What on earth does that mean? "Oh, great... someone who thinks I have to explain when I say, 'You should', rather than just simply stating it."?
There's nothing cumbersome or outdated about CD's. Nothing at all.
Really? Show me the portable CD player which can fit into pockets as small as the iPod can. Now show me the number of CDs I have to carry for the equivalent number of hours of music on an iPod. Now eat your hat and shut up, you poor fool.
NO, I will NOT use the OBVIOUSLY CORRECT way to protect my audio investment, because that way is CUMBERSOME and RAPIDLY becoming OUTDATED!" Whatever, idiot.
That it is obviously correct to you is more a reflection of your idiocy than mine. See below.
If you buy music from ITMS, burn that music to CD. If you don't, you're just a fucking moron, first of all, and more importantly you have no right to complain if your hard drive goes poof or whatever and you can't get your tunes back. Okay?
Oh, dear. What you have failed to understand is that burning the music to CD is not a backup. Or at least, not in the way that you mean. Burning the AAC files to an ISO9660 CD constitutes some sort of backup, but that's not what you're talking about, because all the DRM issues still remain. But burning an audio CD is not a backup, because if I lose the originals, re-making them from the CD will cause a lot of degredation in the audio.
Do you get it yet? Or do you need a brain transplant?
In the absence of hard numbers, it's wrong to assume ANYTHING, particularly when what you're assuming serves no purpose other than to back up your FUCKING STUPID argument.
If you want to hear something really dumb, look within yourself. It's wrong to assume anything?! Yes, you idiot, but that doesn't mean to say we don't make assumptions. Go and look up the word 'passive' if you still don't get it.
FUCKING DICKHEAD!!!!! CHRIST! 1. Buy music. 2. Download music. 3. Burn music to FUCKING CD GODDAMNIT!
"The Apple music store does not sell CDs," he said with a slight lisp and an unmistakable air of superiority.
FUCK YOU!
Eloquently put. But I don't think you'd need to swear so much if you were right and I were wrong.
Okay... what the FUCK is your "analogy" and I use that word VERY FUCKING LOOSELY supposed to have to DO WITH ANYTHING?
You're right, it was a bit optimistic to expect it to make anything clearer to someone such as yourself.
The pertinent part of the analogy was not bullets, or games. It was the absurdness of the assertion that if you choose not to burn your music to CD, that's YOUR problem. Similarly if you don't want to die, that's YOUR problem.
When something bad happens--you drop your hard drive, or Apple goes out of business, or whatthefuckever else you cocksuckers are whining about--you will have no one to blame but yourself.
When you drop your hard drive, and you make MP3s of the CDs you burned from AACs, and those MP3s sound terrible, you will have no-one to blame but yourself.
I, on the other hand, burned my music to CD. I got it (1) cheap, (2) fast, (3) conveniently, and (4) permanently. Anything else is just YOU being an IDIOT.
Heal thyself! Allow me to point out the obvious:
1. Cheap. Not buying blank CDs is cheaper than buy
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Frankly, I am not a computer guru (by any stretch of the imagination), but don't you all find it pretty lame that Apple needs a 64 bit processor to come close to the speeds of a 32 bit Pentium?
Since you're not a computer guru, and since you obviously don't know what 64-bit means, why do you find it lame?
Most of the apps requiring 10.2 are the built-in ones (iChat, Safari, etc.)
Grow up: corrupting mailboxes isn't the same as pure evil, and saying that a Microsoft product has a specific bug in it isn't the same as FUD. Did you miss the bit where yroJJory slagged off all the other mail programs as well?
...would such a comment as the parent of this be modded "interesting"!
A little birdie told me that actually, GIMP uses the GIMP Tool Kit.
Hmmm.
Ask your average punter about 'HTML', and they'll tell you it's something to do with Internet Explorer.
Should 'HTML' become a generic description for a class of HTML-like markup languages: W3C-HTML, MS-HTML, Mozilla-HTML, etc.?
I sure hope not.
You haven't really told us anything about your lifestyle relevant to what you would need from a computer. Unless you're looking for gay porn? In which case I'd recommend a machine running Windows, which has access to more P2P networks, and you will have fewer problems with codecs. If you're just looking for the best generic computing experience, though, which happily goes hand in hand with the most stylish... get an Apple Mac running Mac OS X. Have a nice day!
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Did you really not spot the other deliberate mistakes in the same sentence?
Theft is what happens when I take something from you, in spite of the fact that I have no right to do so. Since I've taken it, you can't have it any more.
Methinks you must be a troll, madam.
"Theft," "sir," is what happens when record companies exploit artists.
What was it that the record companies took from the artists, in spite of the fact that they had no right to do so, such that since they've taken it, the artist can't have it any more?
"Theft" is also what recording companies do to the general public...
What was it that the record companies took from the general public, in spite of the fact that they had no right to do so, such that since they've taken it, the general public can't have it any more?
It's ridiculously one-sided contracts. It's rip-off prices. It's utterly immoral. Say any of those things, but, it is most certainly not theft.
Are you being sarcastic? Do you even understand the difference between MP3 and AAC?
Are you allowed to drive in Montana without having a device installed which physically limits the speed of your vehicle so that you CAN'T drive over the limit (without taking steps to circumvent that device)?
You can give someone a file and disown it (de-authorize your computer) and let them have it forever.
Nope. You have a fundamental misunderstanding. Each song you purchase is tied to your Apple ID. You can dissociate your Apple ID from a particular machine, but you can't dissociate your Apple ID from the AAC file itself. You may or may not be able to sell your whole collection of music by selling your Apple ID, but there's nothing akin to selling individual CDs.
Hmm? The music is digital, normally you would be able to send it anywhere you liked, as many times as you liked. Clearly iTMS stops you doing that, so it's DRM.
Your response is so wrong-headed I can scarcely begin to describe it. Try reading the sentence you're replying to again, paying careful attention to the difference between 'iTunes' and 'iTMS'. Then try emailing an AAC file to someone. Lo and behold! It works.
Why don't you take a leaf out of your own book and stop making yourself look like an absolute idiot?
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Then again, for most hackers, maybe pizza reminds us of the happy faces of our friends.
What do you mean? That geeks don't have enough exposure to soap and sunlight? Or that the only real people we ever see are pizza delivery guys?!
A PowerBook can get up to a million hours with all two hundred and fifty thousand batteries installed. What's your point?!
Some of your points are valid, but not quite so much in the way you mean them. For example, whether it was written down by eyewitnesses or not does not have much bearing on its validity. Either you believe the people who said so or you don't - whether they or their grandchildren actually wrote it down is somewhat irrelevant.
So you simply don't believe that a story communicated orally is any more susceptible to deliberate or accidental embellishment or amendment? Chinese whispers? And if the Bible had been passed in the oral tradition through to the 21st century, and only now did we come to write it down, it would be pretty much identical to the Bible as we know it?
In addition, the term "inspiration" has a number of different meanings [...] If you look at the Bible's own claims of authenticity (2 Timothy 3:16), you'll notice that it claims itself useful for the following activities: teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness
It is also claimed in the Bible that God will not allow the Word to be corrupted, is it not? That's what I understand by 'divine inspiration' - that whether or not it is directly breathed, it is nonetheless authored by God.
However, the point of the Bible is training in righteousness - something that the whole of the Bible does quite well.
That's a very unorthodox view of Christianity. Most Christians would say that the purpose of the Bible is to reveal the gospel of Jesus - not the bits about how to live your life, but that Jesus is the Son of God and that no man comes to the Father except through Him.
Some people say that the Bible is inconsistent. It depends on what you were expecting. Life is crazy enough that any self-consistent set of rules that are completely understandable are just plain wrong. Therefore, as Christians, we have faith that what God has been saying through His people is true, even though it's much muddier than we might like, and there aren't exact answers for everything (although there are for many things).
There is a great deal of Christianity which is a lot less self-consistent than a number of alternative spiritual and/or moral philosophies. If you're interested in discussing this, reply to me here and I'll email you.
BSD: GNU:
...in those days you had an enormous manual to teach you how to program the mechanics of 3D rendering, etc.
...just not quite as consistent as it should be if it were either divinely inspired, or based on eyewitness accounts of things which actually happened rather than verbal accounts of things which people merely claimed to have witnessed.
Seems a bit out of date now, though... Apache now includes mod_rendezvous_apple, and iTunes 4 takes care of streaming music between networked machines.
That's why I asked the question entirely in earnest.
How do you "sync iCal and the Address Book between multiple computers" by installing Linux?
I think I understand a little more now than I did when I last replied to you. Previously I was under the impression that you weren't fucking your own mother, now I see that I was wrong.
Have you actually DONE this? Have you actually burned an M4P to CD and then re-ripped it?
Yes. The re-rip sounds about as good as a 160Mbps MP3 - so, on a decent system, pure vocals have slightly metallic formants, and instruments like cymbals suffer clearly audible degradation.
ANYBODY who would keep data that he BOUGHT AND PAID FOR in a MAGNETIC FORMAT ONLY is a FUCKING IDIOT.
You must never have heard of tapestreamers? Or perhaps you are unaware of how they work? Actually I keep virtually all of my backups in a magnetic format, not on tape, but on multiple hard drives.
Yeah, and THROWING YOUR MONEY AWAY is cheaper than spending TWENTY FIVE FUCKING CENTS and FIVE FUCKING MINUTES to back up an album of M4P's. But that doesn't mean it's smart, or even acceptable. It's just fucking STUPID.
Oh, good point, well made. I see you either have less than twenty five cents to your name, or you can't do basic arithmetic. And you are obviously the king of keeping careful backups, I must be mad if I'd prefer to keep them on a hard drive rather than on 25 cent CDs, which never, ever fail.
Fuck off and die.
You'll be dead way before me. I take life a little more easily than you do.
I'm surprised your post got past the Slashdot lameness filter.
"You shouldn't do business with Apple because X might happen"
Point me to anywhere in my post which said, "You shouldn't do business with Apple". I was simply wondering about the implications of Apple's DRM, just like the previous poster.
I've got two of them, both first-generation 5 GB models. I bought one for myself and one for my girlfriend.
Aha... now we're getting to the root of the problem. Your girlfriend dumped you (hence you have two iPods, rather than one).
Oh, great.
Oh, great?! What on earth does that mean? "Oh, great... someone who thinks I have to explain when I say, 'You should', rather than just simply stating it."?
There's nothing cumbersome or outdated about CD's. Nothing at all.
Really? Show me the portable CD player which can fit into pockets as small as the iPod can. Now show me the number of CDs I have to carry for the equivalent number of hours of music on an iPod. Now eat your hat and shut up, you poor fool.
NO, I will NOT use the OBVIOUSLY CORRECT way to protect my audio investment, because that way is CUMBERSOME and RAPIDLY becoming OUTDATED!" Whatever, idiot.
That it is obviously correct to you is more a reflection of your idiocy than mine. See below.
If you buy music from ITMS, burn that music to CD. If you don't, you're just a fucking moron, first of all, and more importantly you have no right to complain if your hard drive goes poof or whatever and you can't get your tunes back. Okay?
Oh, dear. What you have failed to understand is that burning the music to CD is not a backup. Or at least, not in the way that you mean. Burning the AAC files to an ISO9660 CD constitutes some sort of backup, but that's not what you're talking about, because all the DRM issues still remain. But burning an audio CD is not a backup, because if I lose the originals, re-making them from the CD will cause a lot of degredation in the audio.
Do you get it yet? Or do you need a brain transplant?
In the absence of hard numbers, it's wrong to assume ANYTHING, particularly when what you're assuming serves no purpose other than to back up your FUCKING STUPID argument.
If you want to hear something really dumb, look within yourself. It's wrong to assume anything?! Yes, you idiot, but that doesn't mean to say we don't make assumptions. Go and look up the word 'passive' if you still don't get it.
FUCKING DICKHEAD!!!!! CHRIST! 1. Buy music. 2. Download music. 3. Burn music to FUCKING CD GODDAMNIT!
"The Apple music store does not sell CDs," he said with a slight lisp and an unmistakable air of superiority.
FUCK YOU!
Eloquently put. But I don't think you'd need to swear so much if you were right and I were wrong.
Okay... what the FUCK is your "analogy" and I use that word VERY FUCKING LOOSELY supposed to have to DO WITH ANYTHING?
You're right, it was a bit optimistic to expect it to make anything clearer to someone such as yourself.
The pertinent part of the analogy was not bullets, or games. It was the absurdness of the assertion that if you choose not to burn your music to CD, that's YOUR problem. Similarly if you don't want to die, that's YOUR problem.
When something bad happens--you drop your hard drive, or Apple goes out of business, or whatthefuckever else you cocksuckers are whining about--you will have no one to blame but yourself.
When you drop your hard drive, and you make MP3s of the CDs you burned from AACs, and those MP3s sound terrible, you will have no-one to blame but yourself.
I, on the other hand, burned my music to CD. I got it (1) cheap, (2) fast, (3) conveniently, and (4) permanently. Anything else is just YOU being an IDIOT.
Heal thyself! Allow me to point out the obvious:
1. Cheap. Not buying blank CDs is cheaper than buy