The REAL problem with the iPod is that the battery is crap and replacing it is a huge nuisance.
"For more than a year, Casey Neistat was thrilled with the performance of his Apple iPod. A loyal fan of Apple computers, he loved using his iPod MP3 player. It looked cool, sounded great and he could listen to eight hours of music on a single charge.
Gradually he noticed the iPod's battery didn't last as long. He had to charge it more and more often, until the iPod could barely pump out 30 minutes of music.
Neistat called Apple's customer support line to find out what he should do. An Apple rep gave Neistat the bad news: those lithium-ion batteries don't last forever. And Apple wouldn't replace the battery for free.
"It's past its year [warranty] which basically means there will be a charge of $255 plus a mailing fee to send it to us to . . . correct it," said an Apple customer service rep on the recording. "But at that price, you know, you might as well go get a new one.""
I grounded my daughter for a month when she bought a cellphone. I immediately tossed it into the sink and turned the garbage disposal unit on. I will not have my daughter die of cancer or suffer severe memory loss due to increased EMF around the brain cell areas.
If ANY of you use wireless or cellphones or 802.11, PREPARE to pay the price for your "convenience" a couple decades down the road.
Almost everyone who has a copy (legit or not) of Microsoft Office should have some version of FrontPage installed.
It seems like your parents simply need a way to add text and images to a Web page. For such a small simple task, even Microsoft can handle it. I doubt they need user accounts or backend query processors for a fuckin' family site, ya know?
If worse comes to worse, you could even show them how to save Microsoft Word documents as HTML files and drag-and-drop them over to the Web server.
Whatever works, man. It's about content these days, not about what's running the backend ass of your Web site. No one cares -- they just want to see pics of you and read your blog and shit.
Good luck, and again, please don't shoot me for recommending a Microsoft product (Microsoft > Inherited from GE > Manufactured weapons for NAZIs in World War II > Evil!)
The hack attack from last week (as cited in the write-up) could have grave effects on Linux servers worldwide if you don't check the MD5 sumations against your downloaded packages.
The big thing about this new number portability feature (now it's not really a free feature, mind you -- we pay for it with a small fee on each montly phone bill -- but anyway, I digress) is that it will benefit enterprises who want to switch phone services easily.
No longer are enterprises locked into a bad contract for several years at a time. We are all now free to roam (pun intended, bitches!) across various telecoms and contracts and services. And that's a Good Thing(TM) for J. Foxy Consumer.
Read more about it at InfoWorld in this article URL
Listen up nig, that's like sayin that hackers who exploit networks shouldn't be blamed because the NY Times or whoever didn't patch their bug-ridden copies of the Secured SHell (SSH) daemons. And admit it -- that's a wack idea, bitch.
Should we blame America just because Iraq hid their WMDs on Iranian ships and others that are currently circling in the ocean right now? Should we blame Ford because Firestone tires don't perform well? Should we blame YOUR PARENTS becauase you don't have good critical thinking skills?
Get real. I hate Microsoft, I hate liars, and I hate you.
I recently found an open wireless network (i.e. no WEP activation) near the campus where I teach.
In order to allow my students to harness the Internet, and because our IT budget is small and hence we don't have 802.11g in classrooms, I was forced to, along with several students, carry out an activity in the middle of the pitch black night in the name of education.
That's right -- myself and several students built an amplifier and directional antenna from the source of the wireless network (a business nearby) and directed it to my third floor office/teaching area.
The students can now freely enjoy wireless networking, and I for one won't budge. This is not theft, it's done all in the name of education.
I dare somebody to sue me. Oh, and by the way... we run Linux.
Robert Stallman recently published a treatise entitled "The X Window's Trap" on his GNU.org personal homepage.
Basically, we as a community trusted them, but then in their last year, the X Consortium made a plan to restrict the forthcoming X11R6.4 release so that it will not be free software. They decided to start saying no to proprietary coders and basically gave the middle finger (a rude gesture in which the middle finger of one's hand is placed upright while others are not) to the community as well.
I highly recommend that all of you, yes, ALL OF YOU, immediately consider what X-Windows is trying to do, and say no to their harmful and careless tactics. Uninstall X immediately and use something non-graphical (Blackbox Lite, NVM, et al.)
We can't say "Fuck Bill Gates" in one breath and then "I love X" in the other and remain morally sound and forthwith.
My students constantly complain and question why "windows" is in the name of a Unix graphical desktop program.
The phrase "windows," whether you choose to accept it or not, activates a subliminal correspondence to Microsoft's Windows operating system suit.
The X-Windows team should immediately begin to brainstorm possible new names for their project. Otherwise, it may never get off the ground entirely and could continue to falter as faster, real-time, 3-dimensional Open Source toolkits become commonplace (see KDE, Gnome, et al.)
I'm a self-proclaimed hippie as well, people. What self-respecting young man ISN'T in favor of independence and free love these days?
Anyway, what I really wanted to scribe here is that iRATE is an amazing new program. You can learn and meet new artists through their music, and it's entirely Free as in an STD (-;
I recently found that after being disappointed with MP3.com, and I must say that I love it so much that I had a dream about it last night that I would wake up and only have the damn OMNIMEDIA radio crap stations playing Pinkin Lark and crap like that (which encourages violence, mind you).
Again, please support iRATE -- it's SourceForge code, it's Open-Source (~95%), it's made by Americans and Europeans, and it's really cool and a great replacement for MP3.com.
The crap on MP3.com is hardly what I'd call "music," but I guess to be fair we should at least respect independent artists and their rights to create art.
For example, BIG POO GENERATOR will soon be destroyed courtesy of this terrible and massive "rm -rf" campaign against freedom of music, art, and love.
Please indicate, in a replied comment, your favorite MP3.com artists so as to show Vivendi and the Big Media companies that we love these people. It will take a grassroots effort, but by replying right now to this sllort, you can seriously help the Cause.
One thing I've learned from working on and encouraging students to use GPL programs is that they are largely much higher in quality than other standard programming code deliverables.
Therefore, I challenge the author of this article to state why Linux code would need to be debugged.
I mean, honestly -- have YOU ever seen a function or class or subroutine in Linux that WASN'T damn near perfectly coded?
Every day there's a new lawsuit. I can't see why people continue to steal music that they don't rightfully own just because they think that $8.99 is too much to pay for a compact disc.
The first prize was only $10,000. This means that 99.9% of all applicants spent at least a hundred hours of their own time for nothing -- no reward, no fame, etc.
One-hundred hours of my time is worth about $7,000 (100 hours * 70 dollars per hour salary).
I think it's obvious to see who the losers are in this deal -- the contestants who were conned by a company who should be doing their own R&D and not making fake contests that barely compensate for the time it takes to enter the contest.
Since that day, I deleted every music file on my computer, and there's no looking back.
I sincerely hope that all of you immediately take inventory of what illegal files are on your computers, and then remove them at once.
Save yourself now. If not, you will regret it. I'm doing this for your own good.
As a test, reply with a comment in which the subject is an integer value representing the number of illegal music files you currently have on your computer. This should be interesting to graph!
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The REAL problem with the iPod is that the battery is crap and replacing it is a huge nuisance.
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"For more than a year, Casey Neistat was thrilled with the performance of his Apple iPod. A loyal fan of Apple computers, he loved using his iPod MP3 player. It looked cool, sounded great and he could listen to eight hours of music on a single charge.
Gradually he noticed the iPod's battery didn't last as long. He had to charge it more and more often, until the iPod could barely pump out 30 minutes of music.
Neistat called Apple's customer support line to find out what he should do. An Apple rep gave Neistat the bad news: those lithium-ion batteries don't last forever. And Apple wouldn't replace the battery for free.
"It's past its year [warranty] which basically means there will be a charge of $255 plus a mailing fee to send it to us to . . . correct it," said an Apple customer service rep on the recording. "But at that price, you know, you might as well go get a new one.""
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Guys, there's a huge break between the 1st paragraph of text and the second.
Please remove a few P and BR tags to make the look & feel more consistent.
Thanks!
I grounded my daughter for a month when she bought a cellphone. I immediately tossed it into the sink and turned the garbage disposal unit on. I will not have my daughter die of cancer or suffer severe memory loss due to increased EMF around the brain cell areas.
If ANY of you use wireless or cellphones or 802.11, PREPARE to pay the price for your "convenience" a couple decades down the road.
Technology is DANGEROUS sometimes.
This is not right. It violates privacy, integrity, and it makes me feel non-human.
Stop treating us like MACHINES and maybe people will start acting nicely again. I AM NOT A MACHINE.
Almost everyone who has a copy (legit or not) of Microsoft Office should have some version of FrontPage installed.
It seems like your parents simply need a way to add text and images to a Web page. For such a small simple task, even Microsoft can handle it. I doubt they need user accounts or backend query processors for a fuckin' family site, ya know?
If worse comes to worse, you could even show them how to save Microsoft Word documents as HTML files and drag-and-drop them over to the Web server.
Whatever works, man. It's about content these days, not about what's running the backend ass of your Web site. No one cares -- they just want to see pics of you and read your blog and shit.
Good luck, and again, please don't shoot me for recommending a Microsoft product (Microsoft > Inherited from GE > Manufactured weapons for NAZIs in World War II > Evil!)
Hehe just kidding.
Please check these sites out immediately for more information. This field is GROWING CONSIDERABLY. If you WANT A JOB, study this stuff very closely!
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
- http://www.adobe.com/svg/main.html
- http://xml.apache.org/batik/
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/
- http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
Why should we trust a system whose design we cannot openly evaluate?
The hack attack from last week (as cited in the write-up) could have grave effects on Linux servers worldwide if you don't check the MD5 sumations against your downloaded packages.
The big thing about this new number portability feature (now it's not really a free feature, mind you -- we pay for it with a small fee on each montly phone bill -- but anyway, I digress) is that it will benefit enterprises who want to switch phone services easily.
No longer are enterprises locked into a bad contract for several years at a time. We are all now free to roam (pun intended, bitches!) across various telecoms and contracts and services. And that's a Good Thing(TM) for J. Foxy Consumer.
Read more about it at InfoWorld in this article URL
Listen up nig, that's like sayin that hackers who exploit networks shouldn't be blamed because the NY Times or whoever didn't patch their bug-ridden copies of the Secured SHell (SSH) daemons. And admit it -- that's a wack idea, bitch.
Should we blame America just because Iraq hid their WMDs on Iranian ships and others that are currently circling in the ocean right now? Should we blame Ford because Firestone tires don't perform well? Should we blame YOUR PARENTS becauase you don't have good critical thinking skills?
Get real. I hate Microsoft, I hate liars, and I hate you.
I recently found an open wireless network (i.e. no WEP activation) near the campus where I teach.
In order to allow my students to harness the Internet, and because our IT budget is small and hence we don't have 802.11g in classrooms, I was forced to, along with several students, carry out an activity in the middle of the pitch black night in the name of education.
That's right -- myself and several students built an amplifier and directional antenna from the source of the wireless network (a business nearby) and directed it to my third floor office/teaching area.
The students can now freely enjoy wireless networking, and I for one won't budge. This is not theft, it's done all in the name of education.
I dare somebody to sue me. Oh, and by the way... we run Linux.
Robert Stallman recently published a treatise entitled "The X Window's Trap" on his GNU.org personal homepage.
Basically, we as a community trusted them, but then in their last year, the X Consortium made a plan to restrict the forthcoming X11R6.4 release so that it will not be free software. They decided to start saying no to proprietary coders and basically gave the middle finger (a rude gesture in which the middle finger of one's hand is placed upright while others are not) to the community as well.
I highly recommend that all of you, yes, ALL OF YOU, immediately consider what X-Windows is trying to do, and say no to their harmful and careless tactics. Uninstall X immediately and use something non-graphical (Blackbox Lite, NVM, et al.)
We can't say "Fuck Bill Gates" in one breath and then "I love X" in the other and remain morally sound and forthwith.
My students constantly complain and question why "windows" is in the name of a Unix graphical desktop program.
The phrase "windows," whether you choose to accept it or not, activates a subliminal correspondence to Microsoft's Windows operating system suit.
The X-Windows team should immediately begin to brainstorm possible new names for their project. Otherwise, it may never get off the ground entirely and could continue to falter as faster, real-time, 3-dimensional Open Source toolkits become commonplace (see KDE, Gnome, et al.)
"Windows" are bad.
Anyone else think that they meant "carry" as in a woman carrying a human child in her placenta?
I'm a self-proclaimed hippie as well, people. What self-respecting young man ISN'T in favor of independence and free love these days?
Anyway, what I really wanted to scribe here is that iRATE is an amazing new program. You can learn and meet new artists through their music, and it's entirely Free as in an STD (-;
I recently found that after being disappointed with MP3.com, and I must say that I love it so much that I had a dream about it last night that I would wake up and only have the damn OMNIMEDIA radio crap stations playing Pinkin Lark and crap like that (which encourages violence, mind you).
Again, please support iRATE -- it's SourceForge code, it's Open-Source (~95%), it's made by Americans and Europeans, and it's really cool and a great replacement for MP3.com.
The crap on MP3.com is hardly what I'd call "music," but I guess to be fair we should at least respect independent artists and their rights to create art.
For example, BIG POO GENERATOR will soon be destroyed courtesy of this terrible and massive "rm -rf" campaign against freedom of music, art, and love.
Please indicate, in a replied comment, your favorite MP3.com artists so as to show Vivendi and the Big Media companies that we love these people. It will take a grassroots effort, but by replying right now to this sllort, you can seriously help the Cause.
One thing I've learned from working on and encouraging students to use GPL programs is that they are largely much higher in quality than other standard programming code deliverables.
Therefore, I challenge the author of this article to state why Linux code would need to be debugged.
I mean, honestly -- have YOU ever seen a function or class or subroutine in Linux that WASN'T damn near perfectly coded?
The Matrix film series are very popular but deep down very skimpy on plot and the other finer things that make good movies great.
Therefore, The Matrix is actually very much like Microsoft -- a staple in the science category that is very, very popular but overrated.
Linux is more like a wonderful independent film that has great devoted followers, but is not quite mainstream.
So, Mr. Gates, you and your henchmen are really just making fun of yourselves.
Reply if you agree with me, or if you don't, indicate why you think The Matrix is like Linux.
Thanks. I'll enjoy tabulating these results.
Every day there's a new lawsuit. I can't see why people continue to steal music that they don't rightfully own just because they think that $8.99 is too much to pay for a compact disc.
Two wrongs don't make a right, people.
The first prize was only $10,000. This means that 99.9% of all applicants spent at least a hundred hours of their own time for nothing -- no reward, no fame, etc.
One-hundred hours of my time is worth about $7,000 (100 hours * 70 dollars per hour salary).
I think it's obvious to see who the losers are in this deal -- the contestants who were conned by a company who should be doing their own R&D and not making fake contests that barely compensate for the time it takes to enter the contest.
Sorry, but you've been had people.
Does anyone have ideas on possible fixes for the afflicted iPods?
Drop it off a 5th story balcony.
I was nearly fired for sharing Phish mp3s.
Since that day, I deleted every music file on my computer, and there's no looking back.
I sincerely hope that all of you immediately take inventory of what illegal files are on your computers, and then remove them at once.
Save yourself now. If not, you will regret it. I'm doing this for your own good.
As a test, reply with a comment in which the subject is an integer value representing the number of illegal music files you currently have on your computer. This should be interesting to graph!
I would much rather have a widescreen PC notebook that's cheaper and faster (such as the Compaq x1000) than most Apple laptops, but half the price.
Anyone here actually happy that they own an Powerbook?
Much like Microsoft gulping up smaller companies, this kind of thing pisses me off.
Anyone else upset by this? I value freedom, open source/documentation, and honesty.
Is that what we're seeing here? I doubt it.