True:^) And since growing a beard I seem to get my luggage checked more often. At least the chances of hijacking a flight int Belfast are pretty remote.
The dumbest airport on the planet is Heathrow though.
I hop between Northern Ireland and england a few time a year, so I'm in terminal 1 quite often and there's no such problem there. Plenty of shops in the check in area, along with places to sit and eat. Terminal 4 is kinda out on its own, from what i remember so I don't think they care about it quite as much. it might suck, but the rest of the airport doesn't.
No, Muslims believe they are worshipping the same God, as long as you don't cal Jesus or the Holy Spirit 'God'. However, Christians do call them the same God and have different ideas about the nature and character of God the Father, therefore the Christian stance would be that Muslims are not worshipping God.
Ah, I see what you're getting at. When you're talking about geographic identity, I think you have to define the scale you're looking at. On the question of Irish/British though, I would say that British would only apply on a scale that is rather unhelpful, being slightly larger than national, but smaller that anything else. I would therefore call myself Irish geographically, British by nationality and Northern Irish as an all-encompassing safe identity.
As someone form Northern Ireland I can confidently tell you that my nationality is British. Though I could claim an Irish passport if I so desired, because my grandfather was born before 1921. Although Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain, it is part of the UK, which means its citizens are British by default.
To avoid confusion though, I often call myself Northern Irish, as do quite a few people from back home.
The simple solution in iTunes is to rate all your songs then have a smart playlist that auto-updates with all your 4 star or 5 star songs and plays randomly. That way you have all your music, but can also have your 'mega-mix'. Not sure how well other jukebox software handles this.
Well you're in a thread discussing problems with Apple laptops, so you're vastly more likely to hear about problems than you normally would. Personally I have an iBook G3, as does my sister and both my parents have Powerbook G3s. They're all running great, with no problems other than my power cable wearing through, which is a genuine concern for Apple laptops. The only major problem aside from that is me putting a plug through the screen. It cracked, but still worked fine. The replacement seemed a wee bit brighter as well. Survived many a drop from tables and chairs and being run through the rain once while on. Not trying that again.
the result was that companies like powercomputing and umax gunned for the fat-margin at the top end and beat apple at their own game. apple nearly went bankrupt, yanked the deal with os 8, changed ceo's and had to kow tow to msft for a $150mil in emergency cash to avoid the chapter-11 reaper.
The clones were causing problems, but were far from being the sole reason for the cries of 'Apple is dying!' They were quite a while away from bankruptcy as well. The $150 million certainly didn't save them. It was a token gesture that was totally unnecessary for financial health. They still had billions in the bank.
When I bought my Recorder-20, it cost me $259 (U.S.) and the 20GB IPod was, last I checked, going for almost twice that amount.
$399 - about 50% more.
As for the ability of the IPod to be used as a regular old hard drive, my bad, I wasn't aware it had that capability. The proprietary comment came because I was under the impression that you had to use Apple's software to move music to the unit. Is that not correct? On my Archos I just drag and drop text playlists and whole directories to the unit via Winblows, Linux, whatever.
The official software is iTunes or MusicMatch. Though a few shareware/freeware programs also exist. You can't just drop music and playlists straight into folders, no, so if that's something you really need, then I guess it's a disadvantage. Personally I use iTunes to manage all my music and it syncs very nicely with the iPod so I guess I've never considered it a problem. Sure, it's a proprietary piece of software, but it's pretty good.
As for booting from the Archos... I haven't tried that, though I may have to now!:)
It's great being able to carry a backup OS and disk repair software. Used to boot from it to do a proper defrag of the main drive. Hope it works for you.
I'll admit that the IPOD is sexy looking, and the interface is nice from what I've seen... but why someone would pay twice as much for a proprietary system is beyond me
The iPod isn't twice the price of the Archos is it? And it plays mp3s fine, so in what way is it more proprietary?
The beauty of the ARCHOS is that it is just a hard drive with an interface. I can partition, format, etc and store music, data, whatever. Drivers are built in (for Winblows anyhow) and with USB 2 I can move data fairly painlessly.
And the iPod can be used in Firewire disk mode, allowing you to store data, connect to other computers as a Firewire hard drive, moves data faster than USB2.0 and can be used to boot your computer (which the Archos may be able to do. I'm not sure).
However, I was a little dissapointed by the price of the new iPod mini. At $250 (just $50 less than the (now) 15Gb iPod) I can't really see how it's worth it. I'll just pay another $50 and get an iPod that can hold my entire music library. Not sure what they were thinking with that price.
You're thinking about it wrong. The 15GB isn't simply $50 more than the 4GB; it's $100 more than than a CF player. If you're in the market for a small mp3 player, aiming for what would have been a 256MB CF player at $199, would you be tempted by 15GB for an extra $100? Not likely. But 4GB for an extra $50? Maybe. You don't keep saying 'only $50' more - you compare to what the original target was. The iPod does not compete with flash players. The miniipod does not compete with the iPod. But the mini does compete with the flash players.
You're thinking about it wrong. The 15GB isn't simply $50 more than the 4GB; it's $100 more than than a CF player. If you're in the market for a small mp3 player, aiming for what would have been a 256MB CF player at $199, would you be tempted by 15GB for an extra $100? Not likely. But 4GB for an extra $50? Maybe. You don't keep saying 'only $50' more - you compare to what the original target was. The iPod does not compete with flash players. The miniipod does not compete with the iPod. But the mini does compete with the flash players.
If you'd done some research, you'd know that there were plenty of rumours about a new iPod and it was well advertised that there was going to be a Macworld Expo on the 6th, when new products would be announced. Also, Apple haven't crippled th 10GB model. It's no worse a product than it was when you bought it. If it was good enough then, why isn't it now?
The iTunes site [..] doesn't sell songs in MP3 (or OGG). This pretty much negates any point of buying an iPod for me.
Actually, that's not a reason to not buy an iPod, because the iPod plays the songs from the iTunes store. And they're negotiating to get the store available in other countries.
There was a gap last time when the new versions were announced, but not downloadable. They'd make a lot of people mad if they didn't keep the basic 3 free. That said, we still have the older version installed, which work great and newer computers will get the new ones free, so it's not as if we're being ripped off anywhere. Except on the OS upgrades, which should be around $99. And the absence of an email-only.Mac option.
Considering that the iPod plays out of RAM, I'm a little sceptical of that. It might cause slow downs in loading another 25 minutes into the cache, but that's about it. I've gotten a skip once or twice from an iPod sitting on a table, as it loads another chunk into RAM, so maybe it's simply that and not the running.
You criticise Apple for pricing it too high when MS's product is a couple of times the price, bulky and aimed at a much smaller market - surely there are better ways to go after them?
It's flash based, not HDD based. You don't want to do serious exercise with an HDD or CD based play
According to Apple it's hard drive based. It does have 25 minutes skip protection, however, so the drive is very rarely spinning. I've shaken an iPod while it's loading fresh tracks in and it' been fine. I imagine that doing it too much would be A Bad Thing, however.
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Actually, the clones very selling very nicely... at Apple's expense. Which is a big part of the reason they were killed off.
True :^) And since growing a beard I seem to get my luggage checked more often. At least the chances of hijacking a flight int Belfast are pretty remote.
I hop between Northern Ireland and england a few time a year, so I'm in terminal 1 quite often and there's no such problem there. Plenty of shops in the check in area, along with places to sit and eat. Terminal 4 is kinda out on its own, from what i remember so I don't think they care about it quite as much. it might suck, but the rest of the airport doesn't.
You can't extrapolate Powerbook performance direct from an iBook due to architectural differences such as the bus and the ability to have more RAM.
No, Muslims believe they are worshipping the same God, as long as you don't cal Jesus or the Holy Spirit 'God'. However, Christians do call them the same God and have different ideas about the nature and character of God the Father, therefore the Christian stance would be that Muslims are not worshipping God.
I think you completely missed his point - it wasn't about the amount of RAM, but rather about the speed of it. Not that I agree with him either.
Ah, I see what you're getting at. When you're talking about geographic identity, I think you have to define the scale you're looking at. On the question of Irish/British though, I would say that British would only apply on a scale that is rather unhelpful, being slightly larger than national, but smaller that anything else. I would therefore call myself Irish geographically, British by nationality and Northern Irish as an all-encompassing safe identity.
As someone form Northern Ireland I can confidently tell you that my nationality is British. Though I could claim an Irish passport if I so desired, because my grandfather was born before 1921. Although Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain, it is part of the UK, which means its citizens are British by default.
To avoid confusion though, I often call myself Northern Irish, as do quite a few people from back home.
Looks like there are a few million other users that they should be suing as well. 99% of their user base in fact.
The simple solution in iTunes is to rate all your songs then have a smart playlist that auto-updates with all your 4 star or 5 star songs and plays randomly. That way you have all your music, but can also have your 'mega-mix'. Not sure how well other jukebox software handles this.
USB 2.0 has a higher peak speed than Firewire 400, but Firewire sustains higher speeds, so it works out to be faster at copying large amounts of data.
He singled Battlefield out as one of the games that gets it right.
Well you're in a thread discussing problems with Apple laptops, so you're vastly more likely to hear about problems than you normally would. Personally I have an iBook G3, as does my sister and both my parents have Powerbook G3s. They're all running great, with no problems other than my power cable wearing through, which is a genuine concern for Apple laptops. The only major problem aside from that is me putting a plug through the screen. It cracked, but still worked fine. The replacement seemed a wee bit brighter as well. Survived many a drop from tables and chairs and being run through the rain once while on. Not trying that again.
Do you honestly think that Apple wouldn't think of that when they're writing up the contracts?
The clones were causing problems, but were far from being the sole reason for the cries of 'Apple is dying!' They were quite a while away from bankruptcy as well. The $150 million certainly didn't save them. It was a token gesture that was totally unnecessary for financial health. They still had billions in the bank.
$399 - about 50% more.
The official software is iTunes or MusicMatch. Though a few shareware/freeware programs also exist. You can't just drop music and playlists straight into folders, no, so if that's something you really need, then I guess it's a disadvantage. Personally I use iTunes to manage all my music and it syncs very nicely with the iPod so I guess I've never considered it a problem. Sure, it's a proprietary piece of software, but it's pretty good.
It's great being able to carry a backup OS and disk repair software. Used to boot from it to do a proper defrag of the main drive. Hope it works for you.
The iPod isn't twice the price of the Archos is it? And it plays mp3s fine, so in what way is it more proprietary?
And the iPod can be used in Firewire disk mode, allowing you to store data, connect to other computers as a Firewire hard drive, moves data faster than USB2.0 and can be used to boot your computer (which the Archos may be able to do. I'm not sure).
You're thinking about it wrong. The 15GB isn't simply $50 more than the 4GB; it's $100 more than than a CF player. If you're in the market for a small mp3 player, aiming for what would have been a 256MB CF player at $199, would you be tempted by 15GB for an extra $100? Not likely. But 4GB for an extra $50? Maybe. You don't keep saying 'only $50' more - you compare to what the original target was. The iPod does not compete with flash players. The miniipod does not compete with the iPod. But the mini does compete with the flash players.
You're thinking about it wrong. The 15GB isn't simply $50 more than the 4GB; it's $100 more than than a CF player. If you're in the market for a small mp3 player, aiming for what would have been a 256MB CF player at $199, would you be tempted by 15GB for an extra $100? Not likely. But 4GB for an extra $50? Maybe. You don't keep saying 'only $50' more - you compare to what the original target was. The iPod does not compete with flash players. The miniipod does not compete with the iPod. But the mini does compete with the flash players.
If you'd done some research, you'd know that there were plenty of rumours about a new iPod and it was well advertised that there was going to be a Macworld Expo on the 6th, when new products would be announced. Also, Apple haven't crippled th 10GB model. It's no worse a product than it was when you bought it. If it was good enough then, why isn't it now?
Actually, that's not a reason to not buy an iPod, because the iPod plays the songs from the iTunes store. And they're negotiating to get the store available in other countries.
There was a gap last time when the new versions were announced, but not downloadable. They'd make a lot of people mad if they didn't keep the basic 3 free. That said, we still have the older version installed, which work great and newer computers will get the new ones free, so it's not as if we're being ripped off anywhere. Except on the OS upgrades, which should be around $99. And the absence of an email-only .Mac option.
Considering that the iPod plays out of RAM, I'm a little sceptical of that. It might cause slow downs in loading another 25 minutes into the cache, but that's about it. I've gotten a skip once or twice from an iPod sitting on a table, as it loads another chunk into RAM, so maybe it's simply that and not the running.
You criticise Apple for pricing it too high when MS's product is a couple of times the price, bulky and aimed at a much smaller market - surely there are better ways to go after them?
According to Apple it's hard drive based. It does have 25 minutes skip protection, however, so the drive is very rarely spinning. I've shaken an iPod while it's loading fresh tracks in and it' been fine. I imagine that doing it too much would be A Bad Thing, however.