i agree that the average consumer would have little or no use for the ethernet capabilities of a rio, i was just highlighting a nerdy nice to have...
my main point was in the link, suggesting that the "internal, non-replacable battery of an iPod has a lifetime of only a year and a half..." and before anyone asks, no, i cannot validate that claim, and i have not checked myself as to how true it is that the battery cannot be replaced...
but if that allegation is true, then that just sucks... and when the time comes for me to buy one of these players (and that time is soon with tax returns coming), that fact and that fact alone would dissuade me from even considering an iPod...
it is a great product at first glance, but if this is true then i will avoid it all the same...
plus a past reader had it right, for about the same price you can get a Rio with ethernet support and ability to be integrated with linux...not so with apple...
Overworked (voluntarily) + underpaid + no social life + having to deal with insatiable end users = disgrungtled OSS developer
underworked (intentionally) + overpaid + overtly excessive social life + having to deal with like minded stupid people = disgruntled state/federal workers
you're average box does indeed come with a programming environment: HTML and JavaScript (and any other web pluggable scripting)
they are even simpler than say, Python (although Python is definite a great first language) and they come bundled with your average browser...its also a good first lesson in platform dependencies, standards, and the do's and don'ts of implemeting those standards (no names will be mentioned here *cough* IE *cough*)
albeit they are narrow in scope and limited in features, but we're talking somthing to whet the newbies appetite right?
Well I botched that one...shoulda used the preview button I guess...
should have read:
Do Paraniod Androids Dream Of Electric [Feral Dogs] ?
read this sequel to Phillip K. Dick's masterpiece novel...in store's now!
i guess i lost that funny mod!
in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room...
funny all I could think of at the age of 11 sitting in the cabanna listing to pre-recorded stupid jokes told by the fakest of fake birds was a sick adaptation of alfred hitchcock's "The Birds."
Little child fleeing from thatch roofed cabana with tiki bird perched on shoulder: "Ahh, Mommy, Daddy, get this bird off me, and make him stop...make him stop saying the work 'tiki'..."
this must be a terrorist plot to give us geeks heart attacks! i get a grey hair every time i see a cd/dvd lying around face down on someones coffee table or car seat...
if i ever saw a 1.5 TB disk out of case...i might just die...
I completely agree...
but that's just not how this industry works...
they want us to keep switching formats to keep this capitalist machine going...
it would be less profitable for "them" to release such a higher capacity drive so that all we have to do is plug it into our raid array and let it rebuild rather than entice us to copy all our data to hard drive ->cd ->bigger hard drive -> dvd -> even bigger hd -> even bigger dvd -> and so on...
its all about the $$$$
Not so... They are simply a doomed monopoly... Which to me is even better, let them get bigger, because the old cliche is true, the bigger they are the harder they fall!
Some old hardcore lyrics for you: "I'm bringing it down, this hammer I've got, this ignorance has got to be stopped!" Judge, Bringin' It Down
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not gonna happen. period.
something to rid me of my girlfriend's lactose
intolerant farts...thank god!
i agree that the average consumer would have little or no use for the ethernet capabilities of a rio, i was just highlighting a nerdy nice to have...
my main point was in the link, suggesting that the "internal, non-replacable battery of an iPod has a lifetime of only a year and a half..."
and before anyone asks, no, i cannot validate that claim, and i have not checked myself as to how true it is that the battery cannot be replaced...
but if that allegation is true, then that just sucks... and when the time comes for me to buy one of these players (and that time is soon with tax returns coming), that fact and that fact alone would dissuade me from even considering an iPod...
(2 cents)
it is a great product at first glance, but if this is true then i will avoid it all the same...
plus a past reader had it right, for about the same price you can get a Rio with ethernet support and ability to be integrated with linux...not so with apple...
I'll just add this to my list of reasons for why I have Napolean's Complex...
well then check this out... http://www.opencroquet.org/
Two words:
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Overworked (voluntarily) + underpaid + no social life + having to deal with insatiable end users = disgrungtled OSS developer
underworked (intentionally) + overpaid + overtly excessive social life + having to deal with like minded stupid people = disgruntled state/federal workers
common denominator = PEOPLE!
get rid of them all! they are a miserable race!
score 1 for open source!
and the crowd goes wild !
HROOAAARHHHH!!
you're average box does indeed come with a programming environment:
HTML and JavaScript (and any other web pluggable scripting)
they are even simpler than say, Python (although Python is definite a great first language) and they come bundled with your average browser...its also a good first lesson in platform dependencies, standards, and the do's and don'ts of implemeting those standards (no names will be mentioned here *cough* IE *cough*)
albeit they are narrow in scope and limited in features, but we're talking somthing to whet the newbies appetite right?
Then get the kid a second car....jeeesh!
I've been wiring stereos and cleaning carbs since I was 12!
I put 3D-Homer back together in only 27 turns...this 4D bull should be no problem!
Well I botched that one...shoulda used the preview button I guess... should have read: Do Paraniod Androids Dream Of Electric [Feral Dogs] ? read this sequel to Phillip K. Dick's masterpiece novel...in store's now! i guess i lost that funny mod!
Do Paraniod Androids Dream Of Electric ?
read this sequel to Phillip K. Dick's masterpiece novel...in store's now!
the world wide web will browse YOU!
Is it me or is that picture of Jack Nicholson a bit disturbing for first thing in the morning?
Uhh...Professor, I don't have my assignment because my dog drank it...
boris and natasha are going to be pissed.
in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room...
funny all I could think of at the age of 11 sitting in the cabanna listing to pre-recorded stupid jokes told by the fakest of fake birds was a sick adaptation of alfred hitchcock's "The Birds."
Little child fleeing from thatch roofed cabana with tiki bird perched on shoulder: "Ahh, Mommy, Daddy, get this bird off me, and make him stop...make him stop saying the work 'tiki'..."
That's about all I have to say about that one.
MFC what!
this must be a terrorist plot to give us geeks heart attacks! i get a grey hair every time i see a cd/dvd lying around face down on someones coffee table or car seat... if i ever saw a 1.5 TB disk out of case...i might just die...
I completely agree... but that's just not how this industry works... they want us to keep switching formats to keep this capitalist machine going... it would be less profitable for "them" to release such a higher capacity drive so that all we have to do is plug it into our raid array and let it rebuild rather than entice us to copy all our data to hard drive ->cd ->bigger hard drive -> dvd -> even bigger hd -> even bigger dvd -> and so on... its all about the $$$$
must be lame...mine will be dragging me to see this movie
besides that, grow some balls and tell her you want to go see it, call some friends and go...
does she beat you when you forget to take out the trash too!
sheesh...
Not so...
They are simply a doomed monopoly...
Which to me is even better, let them get bigger,
because the old cliche is true, the bigger they
are the harder they fall!
Some old hardcore lyrics for you:
"I'm bringing it down, this hammer I've got, this ignorance has got to be stopped!"
Judge, Bringin' It Down