If you want more storage, then buy a bigger iPod. You are paying more than you would for the MG-25, but you are getting a much wider feature set. Good design of hardware and software, visual representation of anything you can do on your iPod (selecting music, changing your playlist, changing your language, changing your time/time zone, changing anything else this thing does), and good sound.
Why did I buy an iPod nano (2GB)? I will never be listening to over 500 songs, and if I would have time to do that, then I would have my laptop with me. The weight and size are amazing qualities to me, with the inclusion of simple navigation, full featured screen, and a rechargeable, long lasting battery. I bought the arm band for the iPod nano (which admittedly was a little pricier than I would have liked), but it is all I feel. I do not feel that I have a music player on my arm while I run, bike, and work out. It is so tiny that it is amazing. Honestly, I expected it to be bigger.
I used to have a Creative MuVo 256 MB (the best one, I forget the little acronyms at the end). I did like it, mostly because it acted just like a USB key, allowing you to just drag and drop music onto it. However, I sent that off to my brother serving in Iraq and never bought a replacement for myself because I was not so impressed by a few other features. Getting to a song that I wanted to find was not easy (well, not fast--clicking over every song to skip it). The display sucked, and the battery life was weak. Also, the head phones really sucked (I did buy a nice pair of Sony ear bud head phones that I found to be EXTREMELY comfortable).
The iPod nano covered every single issue there, except the ability to simply drag and drop music, but iTunes makes that very simple. I got 8 times the space for $50 more, with much better features in every other department. The MuVo had good sound quality, but not this good. Plus, the click wheel took a few minutes to get used too, but the quality of it and the speed of it make it extremely nice and enjoyable to use (and well worth the short learning curve) from changing a setting, cycling through songs, or the volume.
My friend is already going to buy one just from seeing how much I enjoy it.
I have never owned another iPod and I was adamant about never buying one, until I saw the iPod nano. Why? Excluding the iPod Shuffle, which has no screen and I particularly do not like, the iPod and iPod mini use HDD, which I have an usual fear about breaking while I run and bike, or even while I work out. I do each one at a pace that I believe makes the fear feasiblely legitimate (I'm in good shape). However, I cannot break a Flash drive, not unless I smash it against the ground or a wall, or something that can break anything, and that comfort, combined with the quality of an iPod sold me. Not to mention, I was even happier to find out just how small the iPod nano really is in person.
I do not own another Apple product, and have never owned an iPod before.
I could hardly understand your post, which I was going to give you on the basis that I figured you were French (English not being your first language), but then you misspelled the United States in French?
Les Etats-Unis. It really is not difficult. I learned that in our "free" public education system in French I.
Also, free beer is not paid for by your taxes. Free college is. Saying college is free is like saying public education in the U.S. is free, and we pay less taxes.
Now: Loyal and great ally, participating in war games with Russia and China, while disputing anything pro-American.
Since WW2 (WW1, really), they have been more of a pain in the ass, with leaders running against US policy to win their elections. Anyone remember why we got into Vietnam? I know the poster does not.
So, what is your definition of loyal and great? France does not come anywhere close to mine. England does, and so does Australia.
Someone please remind the poster that the world changes.
This problem is just as likely to surface without us using a nuke on a foreign nation other than Japan (or even Japan again).
The only difference is that if we did nuke someone, the nuclear response would be "to show America that they are not the only ones with such power," versus the current situation where we would be, "powerless to stop the actions of [insert bombers here]."
Collectively, no one has more nukes than the U.S. This may change in the years to come, as the U.S. destroys parts of its own stock pile, but it currently is not the case. Also, it may stay the same as the U.S. updates its nukes and Russia destroys its own stock pile at the same time.
A hard drive, even a small one, is more likely to break than a flash card. Unless I needed the space, I would always go for a flash drive. I avoided the original iPod and the iPod mini because they had hard drives. I ordered an iPod nano on Thursday though and I am looking forward to receiving it this Thursday (ya... free shipping and it shipped from China).
I am looking forward to affordable, high density flash drives for my laptops. Not only are they usually faster, but they are more durable and reliable (plus smaller, I believe). All we need is affordable. When they start to get around 20 GB, which is all the more space I need on a laptop, then I hope they start stuffing them into laptops.
Cost has to come down, and as they grow in size, just as HDD's did, they will come down in price.
Seeing as $ stands for money, and Safari utilizes native features at IE does not have access to, wouldn't it make sense to pull out when they know they will stop making money?
Heh, there was a secret agreement in the non-aggression pact involving Poland between Germany and Russia, which was made so that Russia could have roughly half of it. This was to disorganize the Russian army (short notice) so that Germany could more easily defeat it.
History is fun... not the most reliable source, but a source nonetheless. I do not have time to find a better one.
And the GW output of modern nuclear reactors is much better than 4 gigawatts:)... working in the Nuclear Industry. I believe there is a current design to have 20 GW output from the company I work for, but that is not my department.
The private industry fighting the government for dominance and first-to-do-something rights. It will probably lead to some pretty sweet new technologies.
The iPod nano solves two problems that the iPod and iPod Shuffle solve only one of each.
The iPod nano is very light (less than 1/10 lb... 1.5 ounces = 3 / 32 lbs), which the Shuffle has, but the iPod nano also lets you see what you are selecting/doing and modify things on the fly, which the iPod solves.
I am not sure what the difference between the nano and the mini is, but I am guessing it must have been weight. My friend had an iPod Mini and his brother had an iPod, and I honestly could not feel a difference.
Basically, I resisted buying an iPod because I knew eventually I would break the little hard drive inside and I did not like the Shuffle because I could not see what I was playing (unlike my existing Shuffle size player). I only really use an MP3 player when I bike, run, or work out and I like to do them all often.
For those curious, I had this: Creative MuVo TX FM before I gave it to my brother in Iraq (USMC). It worked GREAT before then, but I never really wanted to buy another one (did not really impress me that much). It weighs about 0.4 ounces less than the iPod nano (1.13 oz versus 1.5 oz) and the maximum size is 1 GB ($150) versus the 4 GB ($250) on the iPod nano for $100 more. 2 GB iPod nano is $200. All in all, without ever having touched an iPod nano (but having touched plenty of iPod's/iPod Mini's) I would say the nano is a much better drive since it uses flash memory too. The MuVo also took AAA batteries and I remember going through 2 of them relatively quickly. I actually might have just talked myself into buying an iPod nano (the arm band is $29 though!).
I do tend to agree that comparing humans to anything other than humans can tend to lead to bad examples. After all, alphamale dogs hump legs, but when we do it we can tend to get in trouble (outside some awkward privacy of your own house?).
He does NOT need to order FEMA to prepare to assist in disasters. He CAN, but he does not and, more importantly, should NOT have too.
Having the president micromanage everything (including the military!) is rediculous. Yes, he should not be allowing the military to decide to invade places, et al, but he should not be telling the commanders, "Hey, uh, let's take Squad 3 from USMC Force Recon Unit 2 to this sector of Iraq." No, that's not his job. It's also not his job to be in the planning stage of a FEMA disaster assistance plan. Their JOB is to plan to assist in the wake of such problems as the hurricane, but not PREVENT them. They got into the town as quickly as they felt feasible. I'm surprised you did not bring up that they and, more importantly, Bush are racist and wanted to not help.
The biggest people to drop the ball here are the local authorities of NO. They knew this could happen, and they even had some basic evacuation guide lines that they did not even follow. Use school buses to evacuate those that cannot transport themselves? Never happened. Imagine how many people could have escaped if that had happened?
It is interesting how you blame him for the "Utter destruction of a major American [port] city." Can you please name the president that can prevent natural disasters from having their effect? Blame him for a late response all you want, but how you can sit there and blame him for the destruction is beyond me.
Another thing about the law and order involves the LOCAL police force abandoning their posts (and in some cases, looting for themselves). I do not care how good or bad your plan is, but it will fail if a large percentage of your man power is gone.
... Chew on a shotgun, aren't you anti-gun? I mean, you listen to Air America...
Because he does not kill babies? I see no correlation between a mother predetermined to kill its competitions babies (since, as humans have shown, even two "bad" people can have a great child) and a "jerk" trying to take his company where it needs to go.
As for the original question, WoW has little or nothing to do with the revenue streams flowing into other game developers.
Before WoW, I was buying a game every month, or at LEAST every other month. I have not bought a game since December, which is when I got WoW.
The game is not the best thing since sliced bread, but it is pretty good and paying $15 for a consistently good experience over the span of a month (with a lot of time invested) versus $50-60 for a few days of fun really interests me. I can afford the other games, but what is the point? Not to mention the time investment I put into WoW would get cut into by these games (and yes, I do take days off from playing). The only game I will be getting for the PC in the near future will be FEAR and I will be buying an Xbox 360 plus a few games.
The only thing about WoW is that sometimes it feels like it is getting old, but then after a short break I can come back and just change what I was doing. I know from a TON of experience that no other (non-MMO) game has done this.
The biggest problem I foresee for WoW is right now they are altering some classes and they are buffing them (all classes will eventually be effected), which will likely make the game partly unbalanced in my opinion. That's really what turns me off from MMOs because I do not mind the rest of the game, but class imbalance really gets to me.
Salary amount is MOOT unless you consider STANDARDS OF LIVING where you get the job.
$60,000 in DC is roughly equal to $35,000-40,000 where I was raised.
If it was not done by one of the most liberal states in the nation. I saw this coming years ago and once Arnold leaves Cali, it will probably happen there too.
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Why did I buy an iPod nano (2GB)? I will never be listening to over 500 songs, and if I would have time to do that, then I would have my laptop with me. The weight and size are amazing qualities to me, with the inclusion of simple navigation, full featured screen, and a rechargeable, long lasting battery. I bought the arm band for the iPod nano (which admittedly was a little pricier than I would have liked), but it is all I feel. I do not feel that I have a music player on my arm while I run, bike, and work out. It is so tiny that it is amazing. Honestly, I expected it to be bigger.
I used to have a Creative MuVo 256 MB (the best one, I forget the little acronyms at the end). I did like it, mostly because it acted just like a USB key, allowing you to just drag and drop music onto it. However, I sent that off to my brother serving in Iraq and never bought a replacement for myself because I was not so impressed by a few other features. Getting to a song that I wanted to find was not easy (well, not fast--clicking over every song to skip it). The display sucked, and the battery life was weak. Also, the head phones really sucked (I did buy a nice pair of Sony ear bud head phones that I found to be EXTREMELY comfortable).
The iPod nano covered every single issue there, except the ability to simply drag and drop music, but iTunes makes that very simple. I got 8 times the space for $50 more, with much better features in every other department. The MuVo had good sound quality, but not this good. Plus, the click wheel took a few minutes to get used too, but the quality of it and the speed of it make it extremely nice and enjoyable to use (and well worth the short learning curve) from changing a setting, cycling through songs, or the volume.
My friend is already going to buy one just from seeing how much I enjoy it.
I have never owned another iPod and I was adamant about never buying one, until I saw the iPod nano. Why? Excluding the iPod Shuffle, which has no screen and I particularly do not like, the iPod and iPod mini use HDD, which I have an usual fear about breaking while I run and bike, or even while I work out. I do each one at a pace that I believe makes the fear feasiblely legitimate (I'm in good shape). However, I cannot break a Flash drive, not unless I smash it against the ground or a wall, or something that can break anything, and that comfort, combined with the quality of an iPod sold me. Not to mention, I was even happier to find out just how small the iPod nano really is in person.
I do not own another Apple product, and have never owned an iPod before.
Les Etats-Unis. It really is not difficult. I learned that in our "free" public education system in French I.
Also, free beer is not paid for by your taxes. Free college is. Saying college is free is like saying public education in the U.S. is free, and we pay less taxes.
Please try again.
Everyone against you have something in common without bringing your own policy into consideration. They are against you.
Now: Loyal and great ally, participating in war games with Russia and China, while disputing anything pro-American.
Since WW2 (WW1, really), they have been more of a pain in the ass, with leaders running against US policy to win their elections. Anyone remember why we got into Vietnam? I know the poster does not.
So, what is your definition of loyal and great? France does not come anywhere close to mine. England does, and so does Australia.
Someone please remind the poster that the world changes.
The only difference is that if we did nuke someone, the nuclear response would be "to show America that they are not the only ones with such power," versus the current situation where we would be, "powerless to stop the actions of [insert bombers here]."
Collectively, no one has more nukes than the U.S. This may change in the years to come, as the U.S. destroys parts of its own stock pile, but it currently is not the case. Also, it may stay the same as the U.S. updates its nukes and Russia destroys its own stock pile at the same time.
A hard drive, even a small one, is more likely to break than a flash card. Unless I needed the space, I would always go for a flash drive. I avoided the original iPod and the iPod mini because they had hard drives. I ordered an iPod nano on Thursday though and I am looking forward to receiving it this Thursday (ya... free shipping and it shipped from China).
Cost has to come down, and as they grow in size, just as HDD's did, they will come down in price.
The business answer is yes.
Heh, there was a secret agreement in the non-aggression pact involving Poland between Germany and Russia, which was made so that Russia could have roughly half of it. This was to disorganize the Russian army (short notice) so that Germany could more easily defeat it. History is fun ... not the most reliable source, but a source nonetheless. I do not have time to find a better one.
What stops those people, other than there probably are not many people using it?
And the GW output of modern nuclear reactors is much better than 4 gigawatts :) ... working in the Nuclear Industry. I believe there is a current design to have 20 GW output from the company I work for, but that is not my department.
The private industry fighting the government for dominance and first-to-do-something rights. It will probably lead to some pretty sweet new technologies.
Even though they have made it, the MS-XML standard is still open.
Wouldn't Russia have invaded Poland from the East due to the secret pact in the agreement?
The iPod nano is very light (less than 1/10 lb ... 1.5 ounces = 3 / 32 lbs), which the Shuffle has, but the iPod nano also lets you see what you are selecting/doing and modify things on the fly, which the iPod solves.
I am not sure what the difference between the nano and the mini is, but I am guessing it must have been weight. My friend had an iPod Mini and his brother had an iPod, and I honestly could not feel a difference.
Basically, I resisted buying an iPod because I knew eventually I would break the little hard drive inside and I did not like the Shuffle because I could not see what I was playing (unlike my existing Shuffle size player). I only really use an MP3 player when I bike, run, or work out and I like to do them all often.
For those curious, I had this: Creative MuVo TX FM before I gave it to my brother in Iraq (USMC). It worked GREAT before then, but I never really wanted to buy another one (did not really impress me that much). It weighs about 0.4 ounces less than the iPod nano (1.13 oz versus 1.5 oz) and the maximum size is 1 GB ($150) versus the 4 GB ($250) on the iPod nano for $100 more. 2 GB iPod nano is $200. All in all, without ever having touched an iPod nano (but having touched plenty of iPod's/iPod Mini's) I would say the nano is a much better drive since it uses flash memory too. The MuVo also took AAA batteries and I remember going through 2 of them relatively quickly. I actually might have just talked myself into buying an iPod nano (the arm band is $29 though!).
I do tend to agree that comparing humans to anything other than humans can tend to lead to bad examples. After all, alphamale dogs hump legs, but when we do it we can tend to get in trouble (outside some awkward privacy of your own house?).
Having the president micromanage everything (including the military!) is rediculous. Yes, he should not be allowing the military to decide to invade places, et al, but he should not be telling the commanders, "Hey, uh, let's take Squad 3 from USMC Force Recon Unit 2 to this sector of Iraq." No, that's not his job. It's also not his job to be in the planning stage of a FEMA disaster assistance plan. Their JOB is to plan to assist in the wake of such problems as the hurricane, but not PREVENT them. They got into the town as quickly as they felt feasible. I'm surprised you did not bring up that they and, more importantly, Bush are racist and wanted to not help.
The biggest people to drop the ball here are the local authorities of NO. They knew this could happen, and they even had some basic evacuation guide lines that they did not even follow. Use school buses to evacuate those that cannot transport themselves? Never happened. Imagine how many people could have escaped if that had happened?
It is interesting how you blame him for the "Utter destruction of a major American [port] city." Can you please name the president that can prevent natural disasters from having their effect? Blame him for a late response all you want, but how you can sit there and blame him for the destruction is beyond me.
Another thing about the law and order involves the LOCAL police force abandoning their posts (and in some cases, looting for themselves). I do not care how good or bad your plan is, but it will fail if a large percentage of your man power is gone.
Because he does not kill babies? I see no correlation between a mother predetermined to kill its competitions babies (since, as humans have shown, even two "bad" people can have a great child) and a "jerk" trying to take his company where it needs to go.
The game is not the best thing since sliced bread, but it is pretty good and paying $15 for a consistently good experience over the span of a month (with a lot of time invested) versus $50-60 for a few days of fun really interests me. I can afford the other games, but what is the point? Not to mention the time investment I put into WoW would get cut into by these games (and yes, I do take days off from playing). The only game I will be getting for the PC in the near future will be FEAR and I will be buying an Xbox 360 plus a few games.
The only thing about WoW is that sometimes it feels like it is getting old, but then after a short break I can come back and just change what I was doing. I know from a TON of experience that no other (non-MMO) game has done this.
The biggest problem I foresee for WoW is right now they are altering some classes and they are buffing them (all classes will eventually be effected), which will likely make the game partly unbalanced in my opinion. That's really what turns me off from MMOs because I do not mind the rest of the game, but class imbalance really gets to me.
Salary amount is MOOT unless you consider STANDARDS OF LIVING where you get the job. $60,000 in DC is roughly equal to $35,000-40,000 where I was raised.
I had modded it insightful.
That's what the person on the network you're using it for other purposes for was thinking, as he copies it.
If it was not done by one of the most liberal states in the nation. I saw this coming years ago and once Arnold leaves Cali, it will probably happen there too.