I own an iPod. I didn't buy the iPod because I saw other "cool" people using it. I didn't buy it because I saw commercials with dancing silhouettes sporting white earbuds.
I bought the iPod because I have a massive collection of music that I wanted to carry around with me.
What does Sandisk have to offer? 6GB max? I've got 30GB of space in my iPod. I have fit all of my all-time favourite pieces on it. It doesn't contain every mp3 I have, but I'm not too sad that "I've Got A Boner For You" by the Teen Angels didn't make it on there.
There's not even a price advantage for choosing Sandisk over Apple.
At Future Shop here in Canada, a 30GB iPod Video can be bought for $379.99.
I can't find the 6GB player in Future Shop's page, but a 4GB Sandisk Sansa e260 will set you back $299.99.
So, IMHO, your pricing is *WAY* off. Your storage capabilities are minimal, at least relative to my desires and compared to iPods. And to top it off you choose to insult me (and others) for choosing an iPod over your Sansa? I'll remember that when I'm looking for my next MP3 Player.
The dichotomy that we can at one moment be so attached to something like a video game character, a cat, a dog, a car, a robot, etc. yet still be such cold callous creatures to each other is one that always amazes me.
Humans are, in my opinion, capable of being the most violent and disgusting animal inhabiting Earth.
Genocide or borderline genocide is almost always going on in some part of the planet and the masses stand idly by.
Millions of babies die each year from starvation with relatively few doing anything to thwart it.
Yet invariablly we all become attached to non-sentient things such as our cars and computers. An odd creature we are from where I stand.
Admin rights are required in order to spellcheck your Office documents (in older Office versions).
Admin rights are required to run LiveUpdate.
It may be fixed now, but I remember a year or so ago reading that MS's own Media Center software couldn't be run under a limited user account and if you tried to get all wily on it and launch it with Run As... you'd still have limited functionality.
WEP sucks (as I understand it) not because its encryption isn't strong enough, but because it uses the same key for all communications. Generate new keys based on a given passphrase as data is transmitted and it become much more secure... WPA.
If that's wrong, help a brother out and clear that up.
Ah, yes. Perfect timing as I spent the better part of the morning fixing up about a dozen machines that had a certain application break as the result of a Windows update.
"Let me put it to you in Texan: If al-Qaeda is calling into the United States, we want to know." - Bush, Feb 01 2006
I think it's safe to infer that "calling into" the United States would be done from outside of the United States. So why does Bush not use Echelon? It seems that it was designed for this situation. It's purported to have been used to track Khalid Shaikh Mohammed down in Pakistan.
Seems Echelon was doing its job - monitoring foreign communications - just fine.
You can find it in the 2nd paragraph of Rumsfeld's answer to the third question asked.
Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center.
Rumsfeld didn't say those specific words, it is misleading for you to put them within quotes as though he had. And if you want to get into semantics, an airplane IS a missile: something thrown or otherwise propelled through the air.
Actually, it was pretty well paraphrased. What he said according the DOD's website (emphasis mine):
Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center.
And the getting into semantics about an airplane being a missile doesn't jive either since he specifically mentions the American Airlines flight directly. It would stand to reason that he wouldn't then refer to a plane as a missile in the next sentence.
I certainly don't subscribe to all of this conspiracy theory, but nor do I fully subscribe to the official version. There are some oddities. But to say that the previous poster was lying for his representation of Rumsfeld's words is false.
I sort of disagree. You won't see this story on TV news. Even if you did, it'd not matter. The masses are far too incurious to watch the news. For the general public at large, it'd have to be carried on ET or some other ridiculous entertainment news show.
Until then, count on the only people knowing about this being: Slashdot (and similar sites) readers and those who've been sued. You'd have to sue a lot of people for the sheep to catch on to what's happening.
Not EXACTLY a queue, but you can add songs to a playlist while listening to tunes by clicking the middle button and holding it. It will add that song to the playlist that you are currently listening to.
Linux will never replace Windows as long as people have this propensity for installing screensavers, screen buddies, random dynamic desktop images and whatever other garbage they can find that come loaded with spy/adware.
People seem to want to load their systems up with piles of shite software that really have nothing to offer but CPU/RAM usage.
It's about whether the person wants to use the computer for function or fun. If your parents are gamers, obviously Linux won't work out so well for you.
If you can get a Linux box running for someone who simply wants to surf the net, IM and send emails, then they'll be fine with it. I know because that's what I've done for my parents.
I gave them my old system. I put Ubuntu on it created "quick launch" buttons for them in the panel for each of the apps my mom/dad wanted (or ever) used. Gaim, Firefox, Thunderbird and OOo's Calc and Writer.
When I got the computer to their place, I set up their printer. Done.
They've not had *a single* problem. I can't tell you how many calls I got from my parents about their Windows crashing, running slow and weird spooler problems.
Let's face it; Most Windows users can't do shit themselves and a) a friend who fixes/maintains their system for them when it starts to shit itself or b) take their broken machine into futureshop or some other computer repair business only to get raped.
So to me, it depends on how such a person wishes to use their system that would determine whether Linux could be an alternative. For my parents, it's been a fantastic alternative.
I said before I found work in the *IT* field. That was what I was referring to when I made the unemployed statement. I didn't consider temp work to be employed. It was shit money for shit jobs but (mostly) paid the bills.
I did temp work in factories, in offices, in wherever work could be found and money made.
I had a feeling that the lay off was coming and had started firing resumes off well before it actually happened.
I'm not dumb or lazy. I work my ass off and I'm damn good at what I do. The fact of the matter was that there were very few positions in my area and many other unemployed people in my position who likely had more experience than I.
I hate to call someone I don't know an asshole, but your entire reply was flip and condescending without even a hint of thought that someone could legitimately just fall into some bad luck at some point in their life.
Please, consider yourself lucky to have (obviously) never been in such a situation and may you never find yourself in it.
Several years back I was employed as a webmaster (I hate that job title, too) at an ad agency here. I quit a decent job that paid an hourly wage for this new job that was salary and almost double the pay. It seemed a no-brainer.
The company had been around for 20some years and had had contracts with some of Canada's biggest banks and agricultural companies.
Well, about 3 months into my job I discovered that things weren't going so well for this company. To be honest, I'm not even sure why they hired for this position if that was the case, but that's neither here nor there.
In a nutshell, 8 months later I was laid off (rightsized, downsized -- whatever they want to call it) and didn't really think much of it.
Then a few months passed. Then it was half a year. Not a single reply from any of the resumes sent out. Then it was a year.
It was three years before I was employed in the tech field again. I was unemployed for over a year at which point I went back to school and was lucky enough to snag a really nice job right out of the program.
So just quitting the job might be great if you live in a large urban center where jobs are aplenty (even there it's tough to get work), but in anything short of that finding a job that remunerates at a level that you can continue your mortgage payments and kids' needs is damn hard.
First off, Microsoft gained their monopoly through questionable and illegal means. They've locked customers into using their products (not just their products, but their LATEST products).
If a company has 5,000 users and untold TB of.doc and.xls files the company is pretty much stuck with using Office for the rest of time. OO.o is great, but it doesn't exactly render.docs flawlessly.
Linux is, by its very nature, incapable of enforcing such a thing is it not? It's open source, uses open standards (documents, protocols, software). If one day Ubuntu was running with 95% of Linux users all of a sudden broke itself and disappeared off of the face of the planet its users could simply install any other flavour and freely work with their files.
No one should ever be LOCKED IN to a Linux distro like they are Microsoft, and should a given distro reach Microsoft's dominance, it's more than likely that they did it by offering a vastly superior alternative to all other distros and not through shady dealings.
With all of that said, I'm a n00b in the Linux realms so I could be way off.
I'm willing to bet that there have been far more children abused and forever scarred by their parish priests than have been through MySpace and other social forums. Fucking ridiculous.
I've refused to answer any questions of a personal nature if I am called. I said that I would call back the number I have on my bank card and discuss the matter with whomever picks up my call.
The person who made the original call has always been completely understanding of my choice to do so.
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I own an iPod. I didn't buy the iPod because I saw other "cool" people using it. I didn't buy it because I saw commercials with dancing silhouettes sporting white earbuds.
I bought the iPod because I have a massive collection of music that I wanted to carry around with me.
What does Sandisk have to offer? 6GB max? I've got 30GB of space in my iPod. I have fit all of my all-time favourite pieces on it. It doesn't contain every mp3 I have, but I'm not too sad that "I've Got A Boner For You" by the Teen Angels didn't make it on there.
There's not even a price advantage for choosing Sandisk over Apple.
At Future Shop here in Canada, a 30GB iPod Video can be bought for $379.99.
I can't find the 6GB player in Future Shop's page, but a 4GB Sandisk Sansa e260 will set you back $299.99.
So, IMHO, your pricing is *WAY* off. Your storage capabilities are minimal, at least relative to my desires and compared to iPods. And to top it off you choose to insult me (and others) for choosing an iPod over your Sansa? I'll remember that when I'm looking for my next MP3 Player.
One could argue that point... if one were Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al.
The fact is there's been a sharp rise in global terrorism.
Things are going so well that the State Department has ceased publishing terrorist statistics as they're legally mandated to do.
U.S. ports are extremely vulnerable. Airports are still vulnerable.
I'd say you should be counting yourself lucky, not well-protected.
Thank you. I will certainly check that out.
The dichotomy that we can at one moment be so attached to something like a video game character, a cat, a dog, a car, a robot, etc. yet still be such cold callous creatures to each other is one that always amazes me.
Humans are, in my opinion, capable of being the most violent and disgusting animal inhabiting Earth.
Genocide or borderline genocide is almost always going on in some part of the planet and the masses stand idly by.
Millions of babies die each year from starvation with relatively few doing anything to thwart it.
Yet invariablly we all become attached to non-sentient things such as our cars and computers. An odd creature we are from where I stand.
Sorry for the downer.
Admin rights are required in order to spellcheck your Office documents (in older Office versions).
Admin rights are required to run LiveUpdate.
It may be fixed now, but I remember a year or so ago reading that MS's own Media Center software couldn't be run under a limited user account and if you tried to get all wily on it and launch it with Run As... you'd still have limited functionality.
It's just horrifically implemented.
WEP sucks (as I understand it) not because its encryption isn't strong enough, but because it uses the same key for all communications. Generate new keys based on a given passphrase as data is transmitted and it become much more secure... WPA.
If that's wrong, help a brother out and clear that up.
Ah, yes. Perfect timing as I spent the better part of the morning fixing up about a dozen machines that had a certain application break as the result of a Windows update.
Thanks for that reliability and dependability.
...I'm pretty sure that's what the monkeys are thinking.
Dubya!
I think it's safe to infer that "calling into" the United States would be done from outside of the United States. So why does Bush not use Echelon? It seems that it was designed for this situation. It's purported to have been used to track Khalid Shaikh Mohammed down in Pakistan.
Seems Echelon was doing its job - monitoring foreign communications - just fine.
Would you stop aiding the terrorists already! You know if they answer that, the terrorists will have won.
You can find it in the 2nd paragraph of Rumsfeld's answer to the third question asked.
Actually, it was pretty well paraphrased. What he said according the DOD's website (emphasis mine):
And the getting into semantics about an airplane being a missile doesn't jive either since he specifically mentions the American Airlines flight directly. It would stand to reason that he wouldn't then refer to a plane as a missile in the next sentence.
I certainly don't subscribe to all of this conspiracy theory, but nor do I fully subscribe to the official version. There are some oddities. But to say that the previous poster was lying for his representation of Rumsfeld's words is false.
I sort of disagree. You won't see this story on TV news. Even if you did, it'd not matter. The masses are far too incurious to watch the news. For the general public at large, it'd have to be carried on ET or some other ridiculous entertainment news show.
Until then, count on the only people knowing about this being: Slashdot (and similar sites) readers and those who've been sued. You'd have to sue a lot of people for the sheep to catch on to what's happening.
Not EXACTLY a queue, but you can add songs to a playlist while listening to tunes by clicking the middle button and holding it. It will add that song to the playlist that you are currently listening to.
When you start getting in street fights with protective mothers, people like you a lot less and they will shoot you! Come on, bears! It's common sense!
Linux will never replace Windows as long as people have this propensity for installing screensavers, screen buddies, random dynamic desktop images and whatever other garbage they can find that come loaded with spy/adware.
People seem to want to load their systems up with piles of shite software that really have nothing to offer but CPU/RAM usage.
It's about whether the person wants to use the computer for function or fun. If your parents are gamers, obviously Linux won't work out so well for you.
If you can get a Linux box running for someone who simply wants to surf the net, IM and send emails, then they'll be fine with it. I know because that's what I've done for my parents.
I gave them my old system. I put Ubuntu on it created "quick launch" buttons for them in the panel for each of the apps my mom/dad wanted (or ever) used. Gaim, Firefox, Thunderbird and OOo's Calc and Writer.
When I got the computer to their place, I set up their printer. Done.
They've not had *a single* problem. I can't tell you how many calls I got from my parents about their Windows crashing, running slow and weird spooler problems.
Let's face it; Most Windows users can't do shit themselves and a) a friend who fixes/maintains their system for them when it starts to shit itself or b) take their broken machine into futureshop or some other computer repair business only to get raped.
So to me, it depends on how such a person wishes to use their system that would determine whether Linux could be an alternative. For my parents, it's been a fantastic alternative.
I said before I found work in the *IT* field. That was what I was referring to when I made the unemployed statement. I didn't consider temp work to be employed. It was shit money for shit jobs but (mostly) paid the bills.
I did temp work in factories, in offices, in wherever work could be found and money made.
I had a feeling that the lay off was coming and had started firing resumes off well before it actually happened.
I'm not dumb or lazy. I work my ass off and I'm damn good at what I do. The fact of the matter was that there were very few positions in my area and many other unemployed people in my position who likely had more experience than I.
I hate to call someone I don't know an asshole, but your entire reply was flip and condescending without even a hint of thought that someone could legitimately just fall into some bad luck at some point in their life.
Please, consider yourself lucky to have (obviously) never been in such a situation and may you never find yourself in it.
Oh how that statement rings true with me.
Several years back I was employed as a webmaster (I hate that job title, too) at an ad agency here. I quit a decent job that paid an hourly wage for this new job that was salary and almost double the pay. It seemed a no-brainer.
The company had been around for 20some years and had had contracts with some of Canada's biggest banks and agricultural companies.
Well, about 3 months into my job I discovered that things weren't going so well for this company. To be honest, I'm not even sure why they hired for this position if that was the case, but that's neither here nor there.
In a nutshell, 8 months later I was laid off (rightsized, downsized -- whatever they want to call it) and didn't really think much of it.
Then a few months passed. Then it was half a year. Not a single reply from any of the resumes sent out. Then it was a year.
It was three years before I was employed in the tech field again. I was unemployed for over a year at which point I went back to school and was lucky enough to snag a really nice job right out of the program.
So just quitting the job might be great if you live in a large urban center where jobs are aplenty (even there it's tough to get work), but in anything short of that finding a job that remunerates at a level that you can continue your mortgage payments and kids' needs is damn hard.
First off, Microsoft gained their monopoly through questionable and illegal means. They've locked customers into using their products (not just their products, but their LATEST products).
.doc and .xls files the company is pretty much stuck with using Office for the rest of time. OO.o is great, but it doesn't exactly render .docs flawlessly.
If a company has 5,000 users and untold TB of
Linux is, by its very nature, incapable of enforcing such a thing is it not? It's open source, uses open standards (documents, protocols, software). If one day Ubuntu was running with 95% of Linux users all of a sudden broke itself and disappeared off of the face of the planet its users could simply install any other flavour and freely work with their files.
No one should ever be LOCKED IN to a Linux distro like they are Microsoft, and should a given distro reach Microsoft's dominance, it's more than likely that they did it by offering a vastly superior alternative to all other distros and not through shady dealings.
With all of that said, I'm a n00b in the Linux realms so I could be way off.
I'm willing to bet that there have been far more children abused and forever scarred by their parish priests than have been through MySpace and other social forums. Fucking ridiculous.
...and the only people who give a shit about Canada are Canadians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N'kisi
This parrot has a claimed vocabulary of about 950 words. I work with people that would be jealous of that.
I've refused to answer any questions of a personal nature if I am called. I said that I would call back the number I have on my bank card and discuss the matter with whomever picks up my call. The person who made the original call has always been completely understanding of my choice to do so.
Wii-Wiis? Yeah. That sucks.