Why doesn't TFA at least mention that Apple supports an open format that's also lossless, and also supported widely? Its a shame they don't sell it, but they do support it. Implying that they simply don't support lossless audio compression doesn't help sell FLAC as an option, it just makes you look like a liar.
I'm "part of the Slashdot crowd" and I think the iPad is fucking great. Oh, you mean the overly-vocal whiney douchebags that have infected this site in the past five years? Oh yeah, it's not for them. But then again, said crowd will be spewing off about whatever the easiest hate target is regardless, so really...who gives a rat's ass what they think? I mean, except them. They really really really care about what they think. We get it.
You know, when the iPad was released a year ago, one of these mindless idiots loudly proclaimed, on this very site, that it was a pointless and doomed product. I responded by asking if, in a year's time, the iPad was actually a huge success, would they at least admit how completely and utterly wrong they were? That dumbass probably has an iPad now.
Get over yourselves people. If you're really nerds, you have way better things to do than bellyaching about consumer products that you think it's "cool to hate on".
Ah, you've never driven a Prius. The shift knob and the ignition are both controls that appear to activate software functions. Neither is mechanical. Perhaps there is some kind of mechanical override possible, but I sure didn't see it the two times I was behind the wheel of a Prius.
GP isn't talking about Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. He's talking about the knee-jerk Slashtards that twist every discussion into an opportunity to bash whatever company they currently think is uncool. At it's best,/. *can* be a source for reasoned technical discussion and information. At it's worst,/. is a bunch of loser dorks stroking each other about how geeky and elite they are, and how everyone else are sheep and fashion victims. In a sea of that, it's always refreshing to see a calm, well-reasoned post.
Zuckey is bullshitting. Email is too slow? You set it up once, and you are auto-logged-in. You flip to your email, and you're in it. Really. Facebook is not any more convenient. Frankly, it's less convenient, because you have to wade through Facebook's muck and horrid interface. Nice try, Zuck, but no.
Apple did not make and "issue" out of this, Apple just quietly removed Flash from the default os install on the Air. The "issue" was created by the Apple-hater douchebags and tech tabloids who jump all over every single story that even tangentially mentions Apple, and try to twist it into evidence that "His Jobsness" is Satan himself.
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Why doesn't TFA at least mention that Apple supports an open format that's also lossless, and also supported widely? Its a shame they don't sell it, but they do support it. Implying that they simply don't support lossless audio compression doesn't help sell FLAC as an option, it just makes you look like a liar.
Shatner?
I'm "part of the Slashdot crowd" and I think the iPad is fucking great. Oh, you mean the overly-vocal whiney douchebags that have infected this site in the past five years? Oh yeah, it's not for them. But then again, said crowd will be spewing off about whatever the easiest hate target is regardless, so really...who gives a rat's ass what they think? I mean, except them. They really really really care about what they think. We get it.
You know, when the iPad was released a year ago, one of these mindless idiots loudly proclaimed, on this very site, that it was a pointless and doomed product. I responded by asking if, in a year's time, the iPad was actually a huge success, would they at least admit how completely and utterly wrong they were? That dumbass probably has an iPad now.
Get over yourselves people. If you're really nerds, you have way better things to do than bellyaching about consumer products that you think it's "cool to hate on".
You drag the songs out of iTunes and into the software that interfaces with the other device. Yeah, that's rocket science alright.
Or, for the reasonable among us, use iPads, iPhones, Android, OS X, Ubuntu, AND fucking Windows, and quit complaining constantly.
Ah, you've never driven a Prius. The shift knob and the ignition are both controls that appear to activate software functions. Neither is mechanical. Perhaps there is some kind of mechanical override possible, but I sure didn't see it the two times I was behind the wheel of a Prius.
Try liking change. It will make you feel young.
GP isn't talking about Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. He's talking about the knee-jerk Slashtards that twist every discussion into an opportunity to bash whatever company they currently think is uncool. At it's best, /. *can* be a source for reasoned technical discussion and information. At it's worst, /. is a bunch of loser dorks stroking each other about how geeky and elite they are, and how everyone else are sheep and fashion victims. In a sea of that, it's always refreshing to see a calm, well-reasoned post.
You Android fanboys are cute. The first thing that comes to mind for most people is the Android App Store???? L O fucking L.
iSSH and Touchterm on iOS do.
What'd you call me?
Maybe you should try Google instead of Baidu. I'd paste you a link, but Slashdot hasn't fixed their paste bug.
Peter Christopherson (of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil fame, and electronic music innovator) just died as well.
Dude, you're just digging yourself deeper. Hand in the card.
I shit into the cloud, and from the cloud cometh food.
Zuckey is bullshitting. Email is too slow? You set it up once, and you are auto-logged-in. You flip to your email, and you're in it. Really. Facebook is not any more convenient. Frankly, it's less convenient, because you have to wade through Facebook's muck and horrid interface. Nice try, Zuck, but no.
Jesus what a douche.
I have to agree, that is bloody awful. And I like a lot of different kinds of music.
Cool! Now can I get some new ears?
Cartman?
He's the kid from Some Kind Of Wonderful, not Breakfast Club: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000655/
You're confusing him with Anthony Michael Hall.
Well, perhaps that was the plan. We'll never know, will we?
Apple did not make and "issue" out of this, Apple just quietly removed Flash from the default os install on the Air. The "issue" was created by the Apple-hater douchebags and tech tabloids who jump all over every single story that even tangentially mentions Apple, and try to twist it into evidence that "His Jobsness" is Satan himself.
Fucking give it a rest already.
What's the Darwin kernel? Darwin is an open source operating system.
iPads are good for "special" kids? This is gonna be a giant troll circle jerk. Okay trolls, let's see who can shoot the furthest.
Not everyone here is an Apple-hate troll like you.