OK, sure, most people can't (in computer terms) do much more than tie their own shoelaces.
In a thread asking whether "Anyone" prefers Rockbox to stock firmware, is it not reasonable to say "me, I'm a geek, I prefer to do things my own way and get a few capabilities that iTunes and iPod don't give me?"
Err, depends what you mean by ID, the current ID push seems to based almost entirely on creatiionism and driven by Christian Fundies that are trying to use it as a way to get creationism into schools and the public consciousness in general.
If there was another ID years ago, that's fine, but what most people seem to mean by ID these days is creationism with the word "god" removed.
They are an intuitive and useful way to relate data. Sorry if you don't get that. Personally the "everything is a database related by metadata" model seems to me to be overrated and overcomplicated.
"In real life, things are not hierarchical."
A lot of things are. And a lot of stuff breaks down quite naturally into heirarchies of folders. Categories and subcategories. Look at the whole goddamn tree of life!
So does my operating system. iTunes is redundant. Why do I need it?
"The only difference is that iTunes does it for you, automatically, as opposed to manually."
CDex dumps stuff into the right directories when you rip a disk too.
"Think of it this way: iTunes sorts the books, places them in the stack, creates the index, and then keeps the index sorted AND searchable."
Why would I care? My stuff is sorted and I can find what I want immediately, plus I'm not stuck with a system that wants to stay resident in memory, sell me stuff or mangle file and directory names when I load things onto a media player.
I want to drag and drop folders from my file system to my mp3 player. That is very non-Apple, the good thing is that it doesn't require ANY software other than the operating system.
"Otherwise you would have to manually sort books, place books, write indexes, etc, and that takes a lot of time and effort."
I know of a company that does this - employees get a very small percentage of licensing revenue for the patent, and every so often (annually?) get a payment from the company on those things.
The moment you give the voter the ability to check their vote afterwards you give their abusive husband a way to check they voted correctly. Or the employer that wants you to vote for his buddy. Or the local mob...
In 1991 the mission didn't include toppling the power structures and trying to enforce peace amongst the people in a democratic way.
It just involved spanking Saddam out of Kuwait, much easier task, much more defined results. The iraqi army were defeated in days the second time too, it's just that the objective was more sophisticated (and less well thought out) this time around.
Less experience there. But in general no, we Brits don't present ID at bars (unless they are bars specifically aimed at the just-over-18 crowd and you're only just over 18) and we don't have the requirement to carry any documents in our cars either. As another poster said, if the police stop you and are suspicious they can ask you to present your license and insurance at a station convenient to you within 7 days.
Do they card everyone in canada the same as they do in the US, if you look like you're not middle-aged or sometimes just everyone 'just because'?
'cos I've got a Debian Linksys NSLU2 running ushare and samba?
Very low power consumption and noise compared to an old PC. Not much processing power but it works for listening to my music from work or streaming audio/video to the Xbox360
I have visited and worked at semiconductor fabs worldwide. None(*) of them allow cell phones or recording devices into the plant, and this includes laptops in most locations, blank CDs and USB sticks. (Yes, that precludes iPods and internet access at these places.) Ditto on defense installations...
Sure, great, but they don't give a crap about cameras on a cellphone, they don't allow anything.
What I've not heard of over here is specifically phones with cameras being barred, yet anything else let through.
Industrial security is far from pointless. So is defense security.
RMFP. I said stopping camera phones but allowing all sorts of other devices is pointless.
That's great for you, however I'm happy with a music directory on my NAS that's arranged by band and by album, which I can then stream/play to anywhere, and select chunks of to synchronise with my player as and when.
That's good for me, I really don't need all the extra stuff and I don't want it.
On top of that, having mass storage based access to the player means it just shows up as a hard drive to wherever I plug it in, meaning I can use it to transport stuff around, commit minor acts of piracy (here, have a look at this, take a copy) etc etc, without having things either tied to one machine or having to use special software.
That's what works for me. I have a fairly large (~80GB) collection myself. I also tend to know what I want to listen to by artist and album at any one moment in time.
We're not actually as obsessed about alcohol as you americans.
In fact, compared to europe we're quite strict, but here in the UK once you get past 20 you don't get asked. None of this "You're clearly over 30 but I need to see ID for legal reasons" bullcrap you get in the US.
1. It's part of the creeping UK Police state 2. We had them during WWII and they were struck down as unlawful a few years after the war was over 3. It's not just the card, it's the massive unified database of everything you do that's going to be behind the card. Not only should the government not have that sort of power, but they are incompetent with data protection.
2. don't let your 13 year old use your credit card, it's not that tricky. 3. If the US hadn't driven out its own homegrown poker sites that wouldn't be much of an issue. It still isn't any more of an issue than buying stuff from overseas. If you order something from another country, will it arrive? 4. Sure, but why should they have to? If the kentuckians don't want it available it's their responsibility to stop their citizens from connecting to those servers, not vice versa. It's not like they connect to you and force you to play.
Sure it's a waste of money and you won't see me doing it, but this whole thing is backwards.
I should suspect that as soon as google open the source base there will be a solution to putting other apps in other languages onto android.
If you're going to be picky about exposed SDKs then you may as well say that various symbian phones shouldn't add to the symbian figure because they're mutually incompatible, through platform or lockdown.
I've never heard of it here in the UK. Frankly that's the least of anyone's worries when there is internet access and/or people bringing iPods to work. If there is a no camera rule outside of government/defence, it's most likely poorly thought out security theatre. Not that I'm saying that makes it unlikely, or that you're making it up, just that it's pointless.
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OK, sure, most people can't (in computer terms) do much more than tie their own shoelaces.
In a thread asking whether "Anyone" prefers Rockbox to stock firmware, is it not reasonable to say "me, I'm a geek, I prefer to do things my own way and get a few capabilities that iTunes and iPod don't give me?"
Err, depends what you mean by ID, the current ID push seems to based almost entirely on creatiionism and driven by Christian Fundies that are trying to use it as a way to get creationism into schools and the public consciousness in general.
If there was another ID years ago, that's fine, but what most people seem to mean by ID these days is creationism with the word "god" removed.
"Hierarchies are useless to me."
Good for you.
Artist/Album/Song suits me perfectly, thanks.
"I think they are pretty unnatural and retarded."
They are an intuitive and useful way to relate data. Sorry if you don't get that. Personally the "everything is a database related by metadata" model seems to me to be overrated and overcomplicated.
"In real life, things are not hierarchical."
A lot of things are. And a lot of stuff breaks down quite naturally into heirarchies of folders. Categories and subcategories. Look at the whole goddamn tree of life!
Look, in both your (similar) posts you mention iTunes can do (badly) the things I already do without it.
This really leaves me wondering why you would bother. It's not that I'm saying iTunes is bad, I just don't see a need for it to exist.
"Huh? But iTunes does file hierarchies."
So does my operating system. iTunes is redundant. Why do I need it?
"The only difference is that iTunes does it for you, automatically, as opposed to manually."
CDex dumps stuff into the right directories when you rip a disk too.
"Think of it this way:
iTunes sorts the books, places them in the stack, creates the index, and then keeps the index sorted AND searchable."
Why would I care? My stuff is sorted and I can find what I want immediately, plus I'm not stuck with a system that wants to stay resident in memory, sell me stuff or mangle file and directory names when I load things onto a media player.
I want to drag and drop folders from my file system to my mp3 player. That is very non-Apple, the good thing is that it doesn't require ANY software other than the operating system.
"Otherwise you would have to manually sort books, place books, write indexes, etc, and that takes a lot of time and effort."
No, it doesn't, in fact it takes zero effort.
It doesn't do sensible USB mass storage (i.e. names and file heirarchies get mangled on the iPod).
"iTunes sorts it by band/artist/album/genre"
OK, but so does CDex.
"iTunes can stream to any iTunes client on the same network (limit of 5 clients at once)"
So what? My linux machine can stream and share files on it's drive over whatever protocol and to as many people as I choose.
"iTunes allows you to sych by playlist, autofill, or drag-drop"
Search is not a requirement of mine. Nor, really, are playlists. I like albums.
"iPod classics (now up to 120GB) have been mass storage from day one"
It doesn't do sensible, straightforward USB mass storage (i.e. names and file heirarchies get mangled on the iPod).
Why the hell should I use iTunes when my operating system does all these things even better?
I know of a company that does this - employees get a very small percentage of licensing revenue for the patent, and every so often (annually?) get a payment from the company on those things.
No.
The moment you give the voter the ability to check their vote afterwards you give their abusive husband a way to check they voted correctly. Or the employer that wants you to vote for his buddy. Or the local mob...
Bad plan.
In 1991 the mission didn't include toppling the power structures and trying to enforce peace amongst the people in a democratic way.
It just involved spanking Saddam out of Kuwait, much easier task, much more defined results. The iraqi army were defeated in days the second time too, it's just that the objective was more sophisticated (and less well thought out) this time around.
It's strange, but good ol' paper and a pencil seem to work fine for us in the UK.
Oh, Canada. Right.
Less experience there. But in general no, we Brits don't present ID at bars (unless they are bars specifically aimed at the just-over-18 crowd and you're only just over 18) and we don't have the requirement to carry any documents in our cars either. As another poster said, if the police stop you and are suspicious they can ask you to present your license and insurance at a station convenient to you within 7 days.
Do they card everyone in canada the same as they do in the US, if you look like you're not middle-aged or sometimes just everyone 'just because'?
Because that's really nuts.
"Notice how when a point is proven you just ignore and try to make a different one?"
1. No, that was my first post in this topic
2. I'm disputing that we have 'won' by any reasonable measure in either theatre.
'cos I've got a Debian Linksys NSLU2 running ushare and samba?
Very low power consumption and noise compared to an old PC. Not much processing power but it works for listening to my music from work or streaming audio/video to the Xbox360
I suppose we've 'won' Afghanistan too eh?
notice how that's all gone quiet? That's because it's not good news.
I have visited and worked at semiconductor fabs worldwide. None(*) of them allow cell phones or recording devices into the plant, and this includes laptops in most locations, blank CDs and USB sticks. (Yes, that precludes iPods and internet access at these places.) Ditto on defense installations...
Sure, great, but they don't give a crap about cameras on a cellphone, they don't allow anything.
What I've not heard of over here is specifically phones with cameras being barred, yet anything else let through.
Industrial security is far from pointless. So is defense security.
RMFP. I said stopping camera phones but allowing all sorts of other devices is pointless.
That's great for you, however I'm happy with a music directory on my NAS that's arranged by band and by album, which I can then stream/play to anywhere, and select chunks of to synchronise with my player as and when.
That's good for me, I really don't need all the extra stuff and I don't want it.
On top of that, having mass storage based access to the player means it just shows up as a hard drive to wherever I plug it in, meaning I can use it to transport stuff around, commit minor acts of piracy (here, have a look at this, take a copy) etc etc, without having things either tied to one machine or having to use special software.
That's what works for me. I have a fairly large (~80GB) collection myself. I also tend to know what I want to listen to by artist and album at any one moment in time.
Yet.
That is the key.
Plus the SDK is available, it could be put on other systems, surely?
We're not actually as obsessed about alcohol as you americans.
In fact, compared to europe we're quite strict, but here in the UK once you get past 20 you don't get asked. None of this "You're clearly over 30 but I need to see ID for legal reasons" bullcrap you get in the US.
Singapore is already effectively a police state. That's how.
1. It's part of the creeping UK Police state
2. We had them during WWII and they were struck down as unlawful a few years after the war was over
3. It's not just the card, it's the massive unified database of everything you do that's going to be behind the card. Not only should the government not have that sort of power, but they are incompetent with data protection.
Some of us don't like the whole audio library concept in the first place. File hierarchies are great, thanks.
2. don't let your 13 year old use your credit card, it's not that tricky.
3. If the US hadn't driven out its own homegrown poker sites that wouldn't be much of an issue. It still isn't any more of an issue than buying stuff from overseas. If you order something from another country, will it arrive?
4. Sure, but why should they have to? If the kentuckians don't want it available it's their responsibility to stop their citizens from connecting to those servers, not vice versa. It's not like they connect to you and force you to play.
Sure it's a waste of money and you won't see me doing it, but this whole thing is backwards.
Chicken, grease, salt!
I should suspect that as soon as google open the source base there will be a solution to putting other apps in other languages onto android.
If you're going to be picky about exposed SDKs then you may as well say that various symbian phones shouldn't add to the symbian figure because they're mutually incompatible, through platform or lockdown.
Where?
In the US?
I've never heard of it here in the UK. Frankly that's the least of anyone's worries when there is internet access and/or people bringing iPods to work. If there is a no camera rule outside of government/defence, it's most likely poorly thought out security theatre. Not that I'm saying that makes it unlikely, or that you're making it up, just that it's pointless.