... if i want fresh music tunes, i will just tune on a good channel and listen.
What the... tuning into a radio station for fresh new tunes? Either you only listen to college radio, or you're living in some weird alternate universe.
I don't get it. At first, I thought it was something like a telephone jack on the phone, but that would be pretty slow. Then I thought it was access to the internet, and it clearly says over USB/Bluetooth, and upon reading the article, it's not very clear. So, uh, what's the big deal? Haven't we had phones that connect via USB (and beter yet - Bluetooth) to give a PDA/laptop/whatever internet access? As we move into 3G, doesn't it follow that we can access it the same way? Is this just 'big news' because it's the first 3G phone? If so, color me completely underwhelmed by the complete inevitability of such a device.
Um, most people don't go to college to learn how to do specific tasks. That's called a trade school. You go to college to learn theory and concepts (usually quite extensive in a good school) and then how to apply them to real world use. In other words, a college grad learns why a concept is valid and why a certain structure is better than another, while most self taught people (not all of course) just learn to know that something isn't 'as good', but not know why...
Why? I have a HUGE desk. It's about 8 feet long, and has a longer "L" corner. I have two flatscreens and a laptop on an iCurve. The PC is a shuttle. That thing is obnoxious sitting on the floor, and very nice sitting on the desk. Lots of people have PCs that are just a bit bigger than that. We don't all have mini towers you know.
Do you have any concrete examples? I did lots of NFS/SMB/AFP testing a few months back (with Debian no less as one of the machines), and SMB can out on top, followed by NFS and then AFP. Note that there wasn't a huge difference in any of them, especially netween NFS and AFP. SMB can be an annoying protocol. but for smaller subnets with only a few hosts, it's not that bad. Also, it's never been accused of being slow (unless configured wrong).
stfu? nice. In any case, read up on the old karma nubs falling off and breaking with hardly any usage.
As for the scroll wheel, you are clearly dillusional if you think the way you can use the wheel on the karma is terrible compared to the ipod - it accelerates far too fast (yes, you CAN scroll through an entire library instantly, but that's not what you need - you need quick precision) and if you go slow, it takes forever. Seriously. If you're going to rag on the iPod vs Karma, don't pick the scroll wheel. It's one of the things Apple really nailed correctly, and for some reason everyone else can't seem to get right (and it's not that copmlicated).
I'm glad you have had good experiences with your Karma. Unfortunately, you are one person, I am one person (who's gone through three karmas), and therefore, I have to rely on forums and the like for my decisions. There are plenty of ipod complaints, but just as many glowing endorsements. On the other hand, the karma forums are full of people saying "I liked my karma until..." etc etc. While I liked my karma, it ultimately was not as well built or designed as an ipod, and the forums support that.
Um, the Karma has plenty of problems with the hard drive. The drive actually gets stuck sometimes and requires a hard smack! This is from THEIR TECH SUPPORT! And yes, it's their fault. If you get a lot of problems with a drive manufacturer, you switch vendors. What do we get? A suggestion to smack the karma around (they never switched manufacturers).
You're crazy if you think the Karma is any faster than the iPod in lookups. First off, the wheel on the karma is not continuous since you have to use your thumb and then stop, move your thumb, then restart. Slow compared to using a manual up/down scroll button? No. But compared to the ipod where you can just spin your thumb around? Extremely slow. Who cares about sexiness? I bought a Karma for chrissakes, but it get is ass handed to it in the interface department by the iPod - that display has the worst fonts ever. And that little joystick nub was so fragile that it was a joke (and even worse for navigating than the "scroll wheel").
Man, I really loved my Rio Karma when I first purchased it years ago. Unfortunately, it had a mediocre to terrible interface, the software sucked (third party stuff helped tremendously in this regard), and the hard drive on three seperate units died without any abuse, which is apparently a common thing with the karma. Oh well. I've stuck with iPods and Apple Lossless since then...
Uh, yeah, that's what the grandparent linked to. Did you even CHECK the links by the difficult action of rolling over the link? Or even clicking on them?
Not to be pedantic or anything, but are you positive you're not an admin user? Just go to the User Accounts preference pane and look at your account settings. I can never copy anything into/Applications without getting prompted.
Your applications folder, or the system applications folder? I just tried copying anything into/Applications (via the finder's sidebar) and got the auth prompt. If it's under your ~ it's of course not going to ask you for it...
If I install an application (ie, it wants to copy itself to/Applications), I definitely get an admin password prompt. Anytime I do anything that requires write access outside of my ~, I get the password prompt. Are you running as an administrator-level user?
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You can't make a blanket statement like 'video games suck' or 'tv sucks' without being just as ignorant as those that were allowed unabashed access to them. It's like everything else - all things should be enjoyed responsibly and in moderation. That's what my parents did and I'm no 'slave to advertisers'. In fact, my parents constantly told (and showed, much more important) the importance of seeing all sides of a picture and making a decision based on all the facts presented.
PENMENSHIP? My god, the best writers I know are the worst in the handwriting department, mostly because anyone who wants to communicate USES A KEYBOARD. Sure, it's nice to know if you can jot down a few column notes or annotate a print out, but test that, not their penmenship on an essay. Why? Because not only do most people never write anything down anymore, they compose letters, emails, and yes essays, ON COMPUTERS. You can go back, edit stuff, delete whole paragraphs, rewrite sentences, and generally get a better message across after you've completed a first pass.
Actually, the Dreamcast did a lot of things "special", like *really* original games (some of the DC games are shining examples of Sega when it's in the games-for-gamers mode). Unfortunately, it was all lost in the a) lack of marketing and b) PS2 hype.
Oh because Trauma Center could so easily be the same on any other platform. Or the non-annoyance of mapping now in Castlevania and the huge map allways available in Mario Kart... etc.
hat's also why the Dreamcast tanked; it was a better console but PS2 had better games.
Wha... what?!? It was the EXACT OPPOSITE my friend. The Dreamcast has been known to have one of the best libraries available, even if it didn't quite match the PS2 on the hardware level (though still held its own). In fact, the PS2 had one of the most terribly launch titles available - the really good stuff took awhile to come down the pipeline. Meanwhile, Sega was experiencing a creative zenith at the time (which, was unfortunately overshadowed by PS2 hype). I love my PS2, but don't try and pretend it killed the DC on games at the beginning.
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Clearly that entire comment was over your head.
You are the reason we get endless movies of overloaded eye candy and absolutely no plot.
I keep running across your uninformed anti-ipod comments, but this one just takes the cake.
... if i want fresh music tunes, i will just tune on a good channel and listen.
What the... tuning into a radio station for fresh new tunes? Either you only listen to college radio, or you're living in some weird alternate universe.
I think what you wrote was somewhat interesting, but I can't read it because of your excessive use of em tags.
I don't get it. At first, I thought it was something like a telephone jack on the phone, but that would be pretty slow. Then I thought it was access to the internet, and it clearly says over USB/Bluetooth, and upon reading the article, it's not very clear. So, uh, what's the big deal? Haven't we had phones that connect via USB (and beter yet - Bluetooth) to give a PDA/laptop/whatever internet access? As we move into 3G, doesn't it follow that we can access it the same way? Is this just 'big news' because it's the first 3G phone? If so, color me completely underwhelmed by the complete inevitability of such a device.
Um, most people don't go to college to learn how to do specific tasks. That's called a trade school. You go to college to learn theory and concepts (usually quite extensive in a good school) and then how to apply them to real world use. In other words, a college grad learns why a concept is valid and why a certain structure is better than another, while most self taught people (not all of course) just learn to know that something isn't 'as good', but not know why...
Finally, take the fucking thing off the desk
Why? I have a HUGE desk. It's about 8 feet long, and has a longer "L" corner. I have two flatscreens and a laptop on an iCurve. The PC is a shuttle. That thing is obnoxious sitting on the floor, and very nice sitting on the desk. Lots of people have PCs that are just a bit bigger than that. We don't all have mini towers you know.
Do you have any concrete examples? I did lots of NFS/SMB/AFP testing a few months back (with Debian no less as one of the machines), and SMB can out on top, followed by NFS and then AFP. Note that there wasn't a huge difference in any of them, especially netween NFS and AFP. SMB can be an annoying protocol. but for smaller subnets with only a few hosts, it's not that bad. Also, it's never been accused of being slow (unless configured wrong).
stfu? nice. In any case, read up on the old karma nubs falling off and breaking with hardly any usage.
As for the scroll wheel, you are clearly dillusional if you think the way you can use the wheel on the karma is terrible compared to the ipod - it accelerates far too fast (yes, you CAN scroll through an entire library instantly, but that's not what you need - you need quick precision) and if you go slow, it takes forever. Seriously. If you're going to rag on the iPod vs Karma, don't pick the scroll wheel. It's one of the things Apple really nailed correctly, and for some reason everyone else can't seem to get right (and it's not that copmlicated).
I'm glad you have had good experiences with your Karma. Unfortunately, you are one person, I am one person (who's gone through three karmas), and therefore, I have to rely on forums and the like for my decisions. There are plenty of ipod complaints, but just as many glowing endorsements. On the other hand, the karma forums are full of people saying "I liked my karma until..." etc etc. While I liked my karma, it ultimately was not as well built or designed as an ipod, and the forums support that.
Um, the Karma has plenty of problems with the hard drive. The drive actually gets stuck sometimes and requires a hard smack! This is from THEIR TECH SUPPORT! And yes, it's their fault. If you get a lot of problems with a drive manufacturer, you switch vendors. What do we get? A suggestion to smack the karma around (they never switched manufacturers).
You're crazy if you think the Karma is any faster than the iPod in lookups. First off, the wheel on the karma is not continuous since you have to use your thumb and then stop, move your thumb, then restart. Slow compared to using a manual up/down scroll button? No. But compared to the ipod where you can just spin your thumb around? Extremely slow. Who cares about sexiness? I bought a Karma for chrissakes, but it get is ass handed to it in the interface department by the iPod - that display has the worst fonts ever. And that little joystick nub was so fragile that it was a joke (and even worse for navigating than the "scroll wheel").
Man, I really loved my Rio Karma when I first purchased it years ago. Unfortunately, it had a mediocre to terrible interface, the software sucked (third party stuff helped tremendously in this regard), and the hard drive on three seperate units died without any abuse, which is apparently a common thing with the karma. Oh well. I've stuck with iPods and Apple Lossless since then...
Uh, yeah, that's what the grandparent linked to. Did you even CHECK the links by the difficult action of rolling over the link? Or even clicking on them?
I know the difference, however the OP mentioned that installing an app doesn't require a password. It does if you're running as a normal user.
The default is an admin user. At least that's what I had to do (remove the admin checkbox on my default account).
Not to be pedantic or anything, but are you positive you're not an admin user? Just go to the User Accounts preference pane and look at your account settings. I can never copy anything into /Applications without getting prompted.
Your applications folder, or the system applications folder? I just tried copying anything into /Applications (via the finder's sidebar) and got the auth prompt. If it's under your ~ it's of course not going to ask you for it...
If I install an application (ie, it wants to copy itself to /Applications), I definitely get an admin password prompt. Anytime I do anything that requires write access outside of my ~, I get the password prompt. Are you running as an administrator-level user?
You can't make a blanket statement like 'video games suck' or 'tv sucks' without being just as ignorant as those that were allowed unabashed access to them. It's like everything else - all things should be enjoyed responsibly and in moderation. That's what my parents did and I'm no 'slave to advertisers'. In fact, my parents constantly told (and showed, much more important) the importance of seeing all sides of a picture and making a decision based on all the facts presented.
PENMENSHIP? My god, the best writers I know are the worst in the handwriting department, mostly because anyone who wants to communicate USES A KEYBOARD. Sure, it's nice to know if you can jot down a few column notes or annotate a print out, but test that, not their penmenship on an essay. Why? Because not only do most people never write anything down anymore, they compose letters, emails, and yes essays, ON COMPUTERS. You can go back, edit stuff, delete whole paragraphs, rewrite sentences, and generally get a better message across after you've completed a first pass.
I'm sure that helps when the box you're trying to fix needs to have its power supply replaced.
Actually, the Dreamcast did a lot of things "special", like *really* original games (some of the DC games are shining examples of Sega when it's in the games-for-gamers mode). Unfortunately, it was all lost in the a) lack of marketing and b) PS2 hype.
Oh because Trauma Center could so easily be the same on any other platform. Or the non-annoyance of mapping now in Castlevania and the huge map allways available in Mario Kart... etc.
hat's also why the Dreamcast tanked; it was a better console but PS2 had better games.
Wha... what?!? It was the EXACT OPPOSITE my friend. The Dreamcast has been known to have one of the best libraries available, even if it didn't quite match the PS2 on the hardware level (though still held its own). In fact, the PS2 had one of the most terribly launch titles available - the really good stuff took awhile to come down the pipeline. Meanwhile, Sega was experiencing a creative zenith at the time (which, was unfortunately overshadowed by PS2 hype). I love my PS2, but don't try and pretend it killed the DC on games at the beginning.