im so near sighted i cant read my monitor, some 30cm away, without my glasses. arent reading glasses just going to make it appear futher away? (assumption based on far sighted people putting stuff they want to read on the floor when they dont have their glasses)
well, that would depend if youre a diehard pc fan (or dont play anything but rts/fps) or just someone who wants the best fun per dollar spent. personally i hate rts and I'm over most fps (how many times can you play the same storyless "shoot the bad guy, yuo teh win" type of game without getting tired of it). console gaming saves me cash AND cuts the last need for windows on my pc.
There are some musical genres that cannot very well be performed live, as they rely on heavy digital manipulation of sound. (I mean "electronic" music genres, not pitch-correcting pop stars' voices.) im not sure exactly what genre's youre trying to get at, but ive seen live techno, trance, breaks and psy-trance, and its all been fucking fantastic. no, i dont mean some knob playing records, i mean the original artists playing all their stuff straight off the samplers. please enlighten me what electronic genre is so forigen it cannot be played live
i take it you dont have to fix many friends PCs? there was a long period (before i considered firefox "ready" for the average user, and hence wasnt pushing friends to use it) where i could not visit someone without having to uninstall a crapload of adware/ie-toolbar/malware shit for them, shit they never wanted in the first place. perhaps you dont consider that a serious exploit; but personally, shit being installed without user intervention is a huge flaw in my opinion
i used to do heaps of porn surfing (before i got a girlfriend) and i never got any adware. i think the sentance you were looking for is "Of course the second of the two pcs was infected so damn badly (Spybot found over 3 thousand items) due to porn surfing with IE"
well i bet you $10,000 you could make person X tell you the pin number for person Y's ATM card. heck, i bet that after you tried it and it didn't work you could make person X tell you another pin for person Y's ATM card. doesnt mean its any fucking use or even halfway true. people will tell you anything if you torture them, anything they think might make you stop.
so in closing, for torture to even possibly (still not definitely, extremists willing to die for their cause aren't going to crack as easily as a normal soldier with a wife and kids who'd actually like to return home alive) work the victim must actually know what you're trying to get out of them, and if you know that they know, they why dont you already know whatever you're trying to get out of them?
i didnt look through all the software but AmaroK looks sexy, apart from the "bubble" highlighting the now playing song which looks pretty ugly compared to the rest of the interface (from the 1.4 screenshot). know if anyone has done a build that will work on OS X + X11? i wouldnt mind having a play with it
what about america's drinking laws? (which by the way are higher than most other countries in the world? 21? you have to be kidding me) wouldnt they be against the same amendment?
I think the problem was a combination of bad timing and over-hype. With the PSP lurking, it just couldn't compare. the PSP lurking? what are you smoking? the thing came out 2 full years before the psp, thats hardly lurking... its pretty much half the average life of a console. ngage failed for many reasons but the psp lurking could hardly be considered one of them
dont do anything. nothing at all. let the numbers drop to insignificant figures. then 3-5 years from now when there is a shortage of IT people again those who chose the field out of passion, rather than false hopes of richess, will be rewarded by doing something they love and earning a mint for it.
im sickened by the number of people studying IT/Comp Sci who i hear say "oh, I hate programming" or "These illogical engineering subjects are crap, why can we do something logical like management" (oh the irony). they're exactly the type of people who should push off and go do an arts degree, they have no place in this field so why do you want to encourage them?
yeah, the only time ive heard of people getting decent service from dell is through threats.
Customer: We were planning on upgrading the office with a bunch of new Dells, but if this ones borked and you wont fix it I guess we'll give HP a shot. Dell: In that case we'll fix it right away!
Well, "consistant" spelling is function, too, ah, you can always spot the loser (or should i throw in looser just for fun) of an arguement when they start to pick on spelling.
*shit, my arguement has more holes that swiss cheese, better find something else to score points with... ah, spelling, that'll do*
Sure, it's subjective, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of serious computer users would agree that the menu-for-each-window scheme works better the vast majority of computer users choose windows, do you really want to associate majority with best?
This is exactly what I meant by "nearly flat"
yeah, 4 levels is definately near flat. Apple should definately come up with some retarded way to manage your music so theres no less than 100 levels of hierarchy cause that would obviously be simpler to navigate
It would sure be nice to have a breakdown by first letter,
smart playlist -> artist -> begins with -> a
now repeat for b-z and you have your wish
Apple would never do that because it doesn't fit their aesthetic apple would never do it cause they have a scroll wheel, purpose of which is to scroll through massive lists quickly. your idea is just adding more work to finding what youre looking for
No iTunes for me since I'm on Linux.
now things are getting much clearer. without itunes, an ipod would be just like every other bog-standard mp3 player around. if you're not planning on using it with itunes, then i'd strongly recommend against an ipod. you're paying big dollars for features you can never use.
Aside: I installed MythTV the other day. The music player doesn't use any ID3 information, but it manages to be very functional with limited input devices (e.g. remote control) and not using much more display space than the iPod. It does this by having more levels of hierarchy! alright then, enlighten me as to what hierarchy they use that has your opinion of the ipod's so low
What the iPod's UI really, seriously lacks is the proper HIERARCHY. I mean, it's nearly flat, which forces you to scroll through sorted lists of sometimes thousands of items when you can only see ten or so on a single screen.
if its flat then you're doing it wrong. im able to select songs by:
1. genre->artist->album->song
2. artist->album->song
3. album->song
4. song (i guess this is the one you're refering to)
5. playlists
6. shuffle
perfectly good selection of hierarchies if you ask me
Menu bar at top of screen! what the fuck are you talking about? consistant UI is FUNCTION
just curious, what are your reasons for calling it previously unreliable? I've (previously 10.4.2... havent checked on x.3 yet) noticed certian pdfs fail to render properly when not viewed at 100%, but apart from that no problems. the pdf's are all powerpoint slides turned to pdf (i assume my lecturers used an adobe pdf printer or something... cant imagine them doing anything more complex) and where the slides should be i get black boxes, so i guess its something pretty specific since it doesnt happen to any other pdf files i view.
pass on this feedback to your gfs brother in law about the osx version of his software. it: a: doesnt need an installer b: doesnt need an installer that requires admin password c: doesnt need to be installed in its own folder in the root partition. whats wrong with just draging the.app into the applications folder like everything else
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im so near sighted i cant read my monitor, some 30cm away, without my glasses. arent reading glasses just going to make it appear futher away? (assumption based on far sighted people putting stuff they want to read on the floor when they dont have their glasses)
well, that would depend if youre a diehard pc fan (or dont play anything but rts/fps) or just someone who wants the best fun per dollar spent. personally i hate rts and I'm over most fps (how many times can you play the same storyless "shoot the bad guy, yuo teh win" type of game without getting tired of it). console gaming saves me cash AND cuts the last need for windows on my pc.
There are some musical genres that cannot very well be performed live, as they rely on heavy digital manipulation of sound. (I mean "electronic" music genres, not pitch-correcting pop stars' voices.)
im not sure exactly what genre's youre trying to get at, but ive seen live techno, trance, breaks and psy-trance, and its all been fucking fantastic. no, i dont mean some knob playing records, i mean the original artists playing all their stuff straight off the samplers. please enlighten me what electronic genre is so forigen it cannot be played live
i take it you dont have to fix many friends PCs? there was a long period (before i considered firefox "ready" for the average user, and hence wasnt pushing friends to use it) where i could not visit someone without having to uninstall a crapload of adware/ie-toolbar/malware shit for them, shit they never wanted in the first place. perhaps you dont consider that a serious exploit; but personally, shit being installed without user intervention is a huge flaw in my opinion
damn, did you just defend IE? i can't believe you did that, whats wrong with you?
i used to do heaps of porn surfing (before i got a girlfriend) and i never got any adware.
i think the sentance you were looking for is "Of course the second of the two pcs was infected so damn badly (Spybot found over 3 thousand items) due to porn surfing with IE"
well i bet you $10,000 you could make person X tell you the pin number for person Y's ATM card. heck, i bet that after you tried it and it didn't work you could make person X tell you another pin for person Y's ATM card. doesnt mean its any fucking use or even halfway true. people will tell you anything if you torture them, anything they think might make you stop.
so in closing, for torture to even possibly (still not definitely, extremists willing to die for their cause aren't going to crack as easily as a normal soldier with a wife and kids who'd actually like to return home alive) work the victim must actually know what you're trying to get out of them, and if you know that they know, they why dont you already know whatever you're trying to get out of them?
i didnt look through all the software but AmaroK looks sexy, apart from the "bubble" highlighting the now playing song which looks pretty ugly compared to the rest of the interface (from the 1.4 screenshot). know if anyone has done a build that will work on OS X + X11? i wouldnt mind having a play with it
what about america's drinking laws? (which by the way are higher than most other countries in the world? 21? you have to be kidding me) wouldnt they be against the same amendment?
yes, but only in america. via skype people from all over the world can drive up this dodgy fucks phone bill
I think the problem was a combination of bad timing and over-hype. With the PSP lurking, it just couldn't compare.
the PSP lurking? what are you smoking? the thing came out 2 full years before the psp, thats hardly lurking... its pretty much half the average life of a console. ngage failed for many reasons but the psp lurking could hardly be considered one of them
dont do anything. nothing at all. let the numbers drop to insignificant figures. then 3-5 years from now when there is a shortage of IT people again those who chose the field out of passion, rather than false hopes of richess, will be rewarded by doing something they love and earning a mint for it.
im sickened by the number of people studying IT/Comp Sci who i hear say "oh, I hate programming" or "These illogical engineering subjects are crap, why can we do something logical like management" (oh the irony). they're exactly the type of people who should push off and go do an arts degree, they have no place in this field so why do you want to encourage them?
a /.er on tesltra? and a lowish id one at that! what is the world coming to?
who else but a moderator of course
yeah, the only time ive heard of people getting decent service from dell is through threats.
Customer: We were planning on upgrading the office with a bunch of new Dells, but if this ones borked and you wont fix it I guess we'll give HP a shot.
Dell: In that case we'll fix it right away!
Well, "consistant" spelling is function, too,
ah, you can always spot the loser (or should i throw in looser just for fun) of an arguement when they start to pick on spelling.
*shit, my arguement has more holes that swiss cheese, better find something else to score points with... ah, spelling, that'll do*
Sure, it's subjective, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of serious computer users would agree that the menu-for-each-window scheme works better
the vast majority of computer users choose windows, do you really want to associate majority with best?
This is exactly what I meant by "nearly flat"
yeah, 4 levels is definately near flat. Apple should definately come up with some retarded way to manage your music so theres no less than 100 levels of hierarchy cause that would obviously be simpler to navigate
It would sure be nice to have a breakdown by first letter,
smart playlist -> artist -> begins with -> a
now repeat for b-z and you have your wish
Apple would never do that because it doesn't fit their aesthetic
apple would never do it cause they have a scroll wheel, purpose of which is to scroll through massive lists quickly. your idea is just adding more work to finding what youre looking for
No iTunes for me since I'm on Linux.
now things are getting much clearer. without itunes, an ipod would be just like every other bog-standard mp3 player around. if you're not planning on using it with itunes, then i'd strongly recommend against an ipod. you're paying big dollars for features you can never use.
Aside: I installed MythTV the other day. The music player doesn't use any ID3 information, but it manages to be very functional with limited input devices (e.g. remote control) and not using much more display space than the iPod. It does this by having more levels of hierarchy!
alright then, enlighten me as to what hierarchy they use that has your opinion of the ipod's so low
What the iPod's UI really, seriously lacks is the proper HIERARCHY. I mean, it's nearly flat, which forces you to scroll through sorted lists of sometimes thousands of items when you can only see ten or so on a single screen.
if its flat then you're doing it wrong. im able to select songs by:
1. genre->artist->album->song
2. artist->album->song
3. album->song
4. song (i guess this is the one you're refering to)
5. playlists
6. shuffle
perfectly good selection of hierarchies if you ask me
Menu bar at top of screen!
what the fuck are you talking about? consistant UI is FUNCTION
just curious, what are your reasons for calling it previously unreliable? I've (previously 10.4.2... havent checked on x.3 yet) noticed certian pdfs fail to render properly when not viewed at 100%, but apart from that no problems. the pdf's are all powerpoint slides turned to pdf (i assume my lecturers used an adobe pdf printer or something... cant imagine them doing anything more complex) and where the slides should be i get black boxes, so i guess its something pretty specific since it doesnt happen to any other pdf files i view.
It's a pitty you've been modded funny, i would have modded you insightful
so explain why i can order the physical cd from america without a problem?
pass on this feedback to your gfs brother in law about the osx version of his software. it: .app into the applications folder like everything else
a: doesnt need an installer
b: doesnt need an installer that requires admin password
c: doesnt need to be installed in its own folder in the root partition. whats wrong with just draging the
dude, take it back and get the new model
linux is not the solution, it is mearly one of many; none of which involve windows of course :)
ive lived in australia, the netherlands, england and scotland... all vhs. one case does not represent the whole world